Ash, sometimes known as Red, had been an idiot in some ways but when there was a crunch going on things seemed to connect a little faster in that head of his.
"Master?" Tanya asked as Ash came in. "It's been six hours."
"Statements, psi-probes," said Ash, dragging himself towards a bunk and looking like he'd just gone on a marathon Taming session. "Truth spells. Lawyers."
"That bad?" Tanya asked. She had known it would be bad, just not that bad.
"REAL bad," said Ash, thumping onto the mattress. "How's everyone?"
"Stable," said Tanya. "It looks like Gary might pull through despite the blood loss. He's going to be out for awhile though - the face was only part of the damage and he did lose a lot of blood."
"Good," said Ash. "What about..."
"The total was seventy-four Buzzbreast," said Tanya. "One of the biggest swarms on record. Twenty survived and will be divvied out to different Tamers. They're still looking for the Hive."
"Everyone else okay?" mumbled Ash.
"Yes, though that boy was more weird than just Feral," said Tanya. "He'll pull through though. They're just keeping him unconscious until they figure out what kind of psychic attack or magic was used on him. They're trying to unravel some nasty spells on him..."
Tanya noticed that Ash had already fallen asleep. Not too surprising, she knew that psychic probes or attacks could really wear you out.
She pulled the sheet up to cover her Master and clucked a little at how he hadn't even thought to ask about the Salvage Laws.
It also looked like she'd have to go a little while between Tamings, so he wasn't the only one suffering.
"Pure human? Are you sure? That's a shame," said the Nursejoy.
"They didn't inject the boy with anything more than paralysis drugs," said the Sorceress. "Buzzbreast who encounter a particularly strong or noteworthy Tamer usually paralyze them to return to their Hive and service the Hivequeen. Weak males or females usually get recruited right away, then taken back to the hive to be coccooned and the transformation to run its course."
"So she's becoming a Buzzbreast?" asked one of the three Nurse Joy, looking over the girl floating in the tank.
"No, not any more," said the Sorceress, making a couple of sweeping gestures that left sigils glowing in the air. "I've placed a block on that transformation. It won't hold forever, the viral DNA would need to be purged from her system. Alpha level magic like a Megami would be needed for that, it's way outside my power level."
The ranking Officer Jenny cleared her throat. "It's been decided that Gary and the two others were guilty of illegal activity regarding a pureblood human female, which is pretty serious due to their Protected status. The Feral boy-"
"He's not Feral," stated the Sorceress firmly as she glanced towards the Espea. The silvery psychic pokegirl nodded in return. "He's a human under a curse, with a partial spirit possession that can be triggered to dominance. Due to his having come from another universe, there may eventually be physical manifestations of that."
The Officer Jenny frowned as she had been interrupted, but curiosity won out. "Other universe? Curse?"
"Once I discovered a magical taint, I explored further. I'm guessing about the other universe, because in some ways he registers as being slightly off-phase the way a magical construct summoned into our world would. Not my field of expertise, I'm afraid. The rest is more along my fields of study. Water based transformation curse," said the Sorceress. "I tried to unravel it but the best I could do was eliminate the 'trigger magnet' portion that would cause him to turn into a girl at the worst times for him. The spirit possession is trickier, coming under various laws that prohibit me from even trying to cure it. I'd suggest making him a Tamer in the official databases with a unique Blood Curse."
"That much I've already done," said another Nurse Joy. "Though I had thought he was just from another League and his paperwork had gotten misfiled. He's listed as having the Blood Curse of Berserker with a Blood Gift of Combat Mimicry."
"That'll work," said Officer Jenny, making the appropriate notations on her own stylus. Both conditions were so rare to be almost unheard of, but something that could be accessed through the datanet.
"What of the distribution of the pokegirls? Did the old men come to a decision?" asked the Nurse Joy.
"Yeah, their decision was mainly following salvage laws," said the Officer Jenny, consulting her notes though she didn't really need to. "The condensed version is that:
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