“Maybe it’s damaged,” said the OfficerJenny though she sounded puzzled. Shaking her head, she handed Ranma back the PokéDex. “I’ll get the paperwork started. Just fill out the section of Dex that deals with your current pokégirls.”
Ranma glanced at Asrial, remembered Sparkplug, (though he didn’t care for that name for some reason) and put down the required information... or would have if he knew how to fill out such things. “Hey, how do I do this?”
Looking up from her desk, Officer Jolie told him, “You have it on speaker.”
Blinking his eyes once, twice the pigtailed martial artist asked, “What?”
“It means you set your Dex to talk to you and require minimal vocal input,” the Jenny explained as she was typing out certain information she had concerning the return of a formerly missing Tamer. “Just talk to your PokéDex. It will recognize your voice and apply its memory to interpret your requests as best it can.”
“Oh... kay...” the heir of the Saotome School of Anything Goes Martial arts replied as he held up the red mechanical doohickey that was the size of a large band-aid box. He looked over the device for some sort of microphone attachment before noticing a little slit right on the center hinge between the two panels that had ‘MIC’ engraved on the right. Bringing it close to his face, he asked, “Hello?”
A yellow light-bulb blinked at the left-hand corner of the screen on the red device, with an audible ka-bleep as the little speaker replied, “PokéDex Model zero-eight-zero-zero-one-three-five-six: ‘Dexter’ responding. What does registered Tamer Ranma Saotome of Phallus Town require?”
Blinking his eyes at hearing that, Ranma had to ask, “Phallus Town?”
Ka-bleep. Phallus Town: The Indigo League’s southernmost city on the Mainland, Phallus Town is a quiet and peaceful place to visit, the sort of sleepy hamlet one might consider choosing to raise a family in. Phallus Town is right against the sea so there’s a nice beach and ships that come in to dock with goods often enough. The highly esteemed Professor Alphonse Mahogany Stroak has his home and research facility just past the northern edge of Phallus town; atop a hill where it overlooks the area. While not open to the public normally, Professor Stroak’s home and laboratory are a beautiful sight to behold. His facility is truly best described as ‘cutting-edge’. All of his equipment is modernized and runs on its own stand-alone system. He even has a windmill on his building to generate electricity for his facility rather than depend on Electric-type pokégirls or the local ‘poké-power’ source.”
Her ears perking up, a thoughtful expression crossed Asrial’s face at hearing that. This Professor Stroak sounded like he might have the knowledge if not technical gear she might need to survive in this world. She’d need to look into him and the area some more before making a possible plan with the others to make a visit to Phallus. Perhaps he might even have more information on this Team Rocket than the locals were less than willing to share outside of the general ‘pokégirl thief’ statements..
Ranma blinked his eyes. That did sound like a rather nice place, even if it revolved around some old man. “All right...” he said slowly. “So, Dexter?” He asked curiously.
Ka-bleep. “Dexter is online. Require direct input.”
“All right then,” Ranma spoke up, sounding more confident this time. “Dexter! I need to put in info on my current pokégirls.”
Ka-bleep. “Acknowledged. Please release pokégirls for scanning procedures to apply data to memory storage of harem registry. Please speak name of pokégirl and, if applicable, Alpha/Beta titles into mic, aim at applicable pokégirl and then click blue button on input pad.”
Nodding his head, Ranma handed the PokéDex to Asrial for a moment. Taking the two PokéBalls off his belt, the pigtailed martial artist turned Pokégirl Tamer held them up before he called out, “Alice! Cyan! I Screw You!” He winced internally. Kami, he hated that call. Sounded way too perverted for his taste and he was pretty sure when Akane heard him say it, she was going to give him a piece of her mind... and fist... and mallet... and any nearby objects of blunt trauma.
With his activation code spoke, the lenses in the centers of both red and white spheres shone with a red light which shot out as a beam. The beam of digital data collocated in place where the beam hit the floor, the probable mass of light growing and taking shape before finally releasing all the contained data of the pokégirls the balls were linked to, revealing a rather sexy pair of feline females.
At the sight of the two Cat-type pokégirls, Sparkplug squeaked in surprise and promptly ducked behind Asrial.
Looking around at her surrounds, the Shadowcat took notice that they were inside of a police station. Looking at her master with a curious expression, Alice asked, “Master?”
Taking his PokéDex from Asrial Ranma gave the black-furred feline a reassuring smile. Holding the red device to his face, the pigtailed man spoke out as clearly as he could manage. “Alice!” He then pointed the Tamer’s tool at the pokégirl before clicking the button.
Ka-bleep. “Harem registry acknowledges Shadowcat: designated Alice. Psychic/Dark-type pokégirl of very rare frequency, Level 18.”
“Okay, I think I got this...” Ranma said with a bit more confidence. Bringing the PokéDex to his face once more, he told the device in a firm voice, “Cyan!” He aimed the hand-held Computer/Tamer’s License at the spotted Cat-type and clicked the button.
Ka-bleep. “Harem registry acknowledges Cheetit: designated Cyan. Normal/Fighting-type pokégirl of very rare frequency, Level 41.”
“What!?” Alice gasped as she turned to Cyan. “You’re a higher level than me?” She asked in shock. “But I was in Gary’s harem longer than you!”
Tilting her head, the Cheetit told her harem-sister, “Yes, but I’m also older than you and have been in a number of harems before we ended up with Ranma.” She then smirked at Ranma. “And frankly, I prefer him to our last master.”
Trying to ignore how both Cat-types were looking at him with hungry eyes, Ranma aimed the PokéDex at Sparkplug for a moment...
And then stopped. He frowned as he considered her name. ‘Sparkplug’ wasn’t something he considered to be a name for a person. It was the name of a piece of equipment for crying out loud! The pigtailed martial artist felt it was degrading and just drove home the concept that pokégirls were things and not people. Well, he wasn’t going to stand for that! He was going to see to it that she got a name she could be proud of!
But what the heck was be going to call her? Admittedly, he wasn’t as bad with names as Akane, (nothing could be lamer than ‘P-Chan’) but it wasn’t something he tried to come up with on the fly. “This could take a bit...” he thought as he looked over the little mouse-girl who was peeking past Asrial and tried to think of what to name her. She was cute, petite, electrical, yellow...
Blinking his eyes once, twice... Ranma smirked as inspiration hit him. “Hey!” He called out to where the two were standing. When both the skunk-like alien and the pokégirl were looking at him, he asked the Salusian Princess, “Could you move aside, Asrial?” When she did as he asked, he spoke into the red device. “Kiiro!” He told the PokéDex before he pointed it at the mouse-like pokégirl and clicked the blue button.
Ka-bleep. “Harem registry acknowledges Peekabu: designated Kiiro. Electric-type pokégirl of uncommon frequency, Level 35.”
Her black eyes going wide, the newly christened Kiiro smiled widely. “I got a new name?” She asked happily. While she wasn’t sure what it meant, (as she wasn’t that fluent in Edo) she was still happy with it. It sounded rather exotic to her and most importantly, it was a hell of a lot better than Sparkplug!
Smiling as he saw how happy the little yellow mousegirl was, Ranma felt himself puff up with pride. “Okay, now for the last one...” he said as he turned to Asrial. “You’re gonna be the ‘Alpha’, right?”
Nodding her head, Asrial told him, “Of course!” Apparently the Alpha pokégirl of a Tamer’s harem was the only one really allowed to be out almost anywhere; it was almost expected. Naturally, she’d take the easiest course of action... even if it felt degrading to her, despite the very real use it had in this world. She turned to face Ranma fully as she stood at attention. “I’m ready.”
Nodding his head at the seriousness the Salusian of imperial birth displayed, Ranma brought the red electronics device to his face and spoke in a loud, clear voice. “Asrial! Alpha!” He then pointed the Tamer’s tool at the royal Salusian before clicking the button once more.
Ka-bleep. “Pokégirl type unrecognized.”
“Aww...” Ranma groaned in annoyance. “Not this again!” He shook the thing in front of himself. Shaking it roughly, he had to ask, “Can’t it acknowledge a Salusian?”
Ka-bleep. Bleep. Bleep. Boop-boop. Bleep.
Blinking his eyes once, twice, Ranma had to mumble, “That can’t be good...”
With the sounds coming from his computer station, Professor Stroak raised an eyebrow. Twice within the span of a half-hour? Either anomalies were popping up more frequently or perhaps someone else had managed to scan that same pokégirl.
Information Upload.
PokéDex Model: #08001356
Tamer: Ranma Saotome
Location: Pewtit Police Station, Pewtit City (Indigo)
Processing information...
Looking at that bit of information, the good Professor leaned over the desk, looking at the given information. It didn’t take long for an upload to complete itself with the information it could gather, and presented itself neatly in a format Stroak could understand.
SALUSIAN, the *Title To Be Determined* Pokégirl
Type: Near Human Anthopomorthic Skunk
Element: to be determined
Frequency: Unique
Diet: Approx.: human style food, (to be determined)
Role: to be determined
Libido: Approx.: Low, (to be determined)
Strong Vs: Approx.: Bug, Plant, Fighting, (to be determined)
Weak Vs: Approx.: Electric, Ghost, Steel, (to be determined)
Attacks: Headbutt, Kick, Tackle, Throw, Flamethrower, (to be determined)
Enhancements: Enhanced Strength (x10), Enhanced Intelligence (x3), (to be determined)
Evolves: Unknown
Evolves From: Unknown
“Curiouser and curiouser...” the Pokégirl Researcher said with interest. A girl with so much uniqueness and new aspects to her physiology that she was tentatively ranked as her own pokégirl breed. And that it was Saotome’s PokéDex that brought this information to the fore was more than enough to let the Professor realized that he owned said ‘pokégirl’.
And yet, that didn’t explain other questions he had.
Ka-bleep. “Harem registry acknowledges Alpha Pokégirl Salusian: designated Asrial. Currently unknown elemental-type pokégirl of unique status, approximately Level 20.”
Ranma blinked his eyes once, twice. He then looked at Asrial and chuckled nervously. “Uh... so should I still call you a Skunkette, or...?”
Trying to comprehend what she’d just heard, Asrial wondered what the possible implications of this could be. The damned thing listed her as a pokégirl all right, and a Salusian atop of that!”
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