“I’ll go with that one then,” Ranma mumbled as he brought the pointer up to a smaller list that followed right after the list of available pokégirls.
| Evolution Stone: | Fire | Evolution Stone: | Water | Evolution Stone: | Leaf | Evolution Stone: | Thunder | Evolution Stone: | Diamond |
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Blinking her eyes once, twice, Officer Amanda had to admit this was a good choice. Him getting something to evolve his Tomboy to make her a more viable fighter or to even boost the powers and skills of the Eva when she arrived was a rather smart idea. “I must admit, Tamer Saotome this would probably be the best venue for you to pursue in this transaction. Obviously a man after my own heart: quality over quantity. I’m sure one of your pokégirls will appreciate the chance to evolve.”
At that comment, Ranma had to go, “Eh?” Honestly, he thought to go with one of the available Evolution Stones because it would cut down on the number of girls he would have to deal with at the moment. Getting rid of one pokégirl and receiving what he thought was a harmless trinket in return sounded good to him but these things were useful? They could make the girls ‘evolve’?
Although he considered that was a possibility as to why they’d be called Evolution Stones...
Wanting to ask the police pokégirl what she meant, Ranma turned his head to look over his shoulder. Realizing his face was pressed against the woman’s chest, the pigtailed martial artist quickly turned his head the other way, his torso turning in turn not only to help him get a better look at the OfficerJenny but to try and break contact with her. Man, did that woman have quite a rack! So big and soft, she’d make Shampoo bawl with envy.
Keeping the look of disappointment off her face at the broken contact, the OfficerJenny politely asked, “Is something wrong, Tamer Saotome?” She didn’t think her sly advances would be too forward for the poor, dimensionally-misplaced youth. Oh, the Jenny sincerely hoped he wasn’t turned off by police girls. Even for someone from another dimension, he was, admittedly one of the more attractive men to have come through her jurisdiction in a long while. She would much prefer to have him take care of her oncoming ‘itch’ than the chief again. Bastard would always make her beg, and she could without another pock-mark on her ass, thank you very much!
Yes, as she considered his blush... he was obviously attracted to her. Odd that he would react like that, but it was rather endearing. He seemed rather innocent, actually.
Seeing as how the pokégirl was studying him in ways that reminded him of a number of the ‘fiancée brigade’, Ranma coughed into his hand to get the woman’s attention. “Uh... Officer?” He asked softly. “Officer?”
Blinking her eyes once, twice, the OfficerJenny finally started to process that the man was talking to her after a few more moments. Cursing herself under her breath for her inattentiveness in that regard, the police pokégirl shook her head before standing at attention. “Yes, Tamer Saotome. How may I be of service?” She wanted to add, ‘or how may I service?’ but she was still on the clock for another hour. After she was punched out of her shift though...
“Well, Officer... Amanda, was it?” Ranma asked hesitantly.
Hearing that made the police pokégirl perk up considerably. It was always nice to see someone try to call her by name rather than just give her the generic greeting/referral of ‘Jenny’. “Yes,” she answered. “It’s Officer Amanda.”
Nodding his head, Ranma said, “All right...” taking a deep breath, the pigtailed martial artist asked, “Officer Amanda? How do these stones help a pokégirl evolve?” At the look she gave him, he tried to explain, “Well, they’re called Evolution Stones. What do I gotta do to use ‘em and make the girls... you know, evolve?” He let off a mental sigh of relief as the policewoman nodded her head in acceptance of that. No need to let her know he didn’t know jack shit about what was going on or that he’d even wanted to make such a trade without knowing what he was getting. When in doubt, feign understanding and all that; one of the few useful things his father taught him.
Although she was keeping a straight face, internally the OfficerJenny was laughing her head off. He might have been from another world, but he definitely reminded her of a few overconfident Tamers that were too stubborn to ask for help. But, realizing he’d need to know this, the woman tried to answer him as well as give him the information to what she knew he really wanted to know. “The main theory is that they had originally been stones or mineral deposits that had been affected by the large amounts of energy and magic being used around the world during the time of the war of revenge. These stones retained special energies and subsequently transformed into special shapes and granted special abilities. These stones’ main purpose was to normally induce evolution in pokégirl of a similar element, such as Fire stones normally evolving Fire-types although they are known to help certain pokégirls become other elemental types. When a stone is touched to a pokégirl, anywhere on her exposed skin, she evolves and the stone used to evolve her is absorbed by the transformation, lost forever.”
Ranma nodded his head. That was definitely useful to know. “All right. So I can at least do something to help one of the girls I got now, evolve them as it were and make them stronger and better.” He nodded his head. “Anything else I should know?”
With that question, the OfficerJenny frowned deeply. She looked back at the table where the Love Ball containing the girl being transformed into a Tomboy still sat, still trembling. It was obvious the girl inside there was fighting against the forced Threshold tooth and nail. “Often These stones are also the bases of the illegal mod-chips in some PokéBalls to force a human woman to undergo Threshold.”
Gawking, Ranma just stared at the PokéBall that held his still struggling fiancée. “They can be used for THAT!?”
Nodding her head firmly, Officer Amanda replied, “Definitely. Evolution Stones are not toys. In fact, sometimes they can change the pokégirl into something far, far worse! Mana Crystals can turn innocent, albeit annoying Harlequins into Psychotic Jokettes, Diamonds Stones can not only turn Boobfins into the ravenous eating machines known as Sharptits but they also turn Giant Trollops into Giantesses! And please, for the love of the Thousand Gods! Never ever, EVER give an Eva an Angel Stone!”
Blinking his eyes, Ranma quietly asked, “Why?” It was more out of curiosity than anything. The woman was getting really worked up.
Looking over his shoulder and at the screen, the OfficerJenny responded with a question of her own, “You see how it lists Tamer Lumis as being from the Orange Islands?”
Turning back to the screen, Ranma caught the text at the top left corner. Turning back to look at the police pokégirl, the pigtailed martial artist replied, “Yeah. What about it?”
“It used to be the Orange Continent until a Tamer named Lilith applied an Angel Stone to her Eva,” Officer Amanda replied seriously. “Now it’s the Orange Islands.”
Blinking his eyes once, twice Ranma slowly processed that little tidbit of information. “Woah...”
Giving a single nod of her head, the OfficerJenny told him, “Exactly. It’s been made an inter-league law that people can’t even possess an Eva in their on-hand harem and have an Angel Stone in their possession at the same time. Doing so is considered a capital crime with punishment of execution.” She looked at him seriously. “So please, as long as you have that Eva on hand, I’d suggest you stay away from Angel Stones. Clear?”
Nodding his head, Ranma answered, “Crystal.”
“Good!” Officer Amanda said before she let a small smile grace her features, “Now Tamer Ranma Satotome, I would like to ask a question of my own.”
Staring up at the Officer Jenny, Ranma told her, “Sure. What do you want to know?”
“What Evolution Stone are you going to request to get for trade her your Titacruel?” The police pokégirl asked seriously. “It’s a serious choice and you should really think on it. May I suggest consulting your PokéDex?”
Blinking his eyes once, twice Ranma groaned as he slumped forward. Damn it! Getting to know this world was worse than being in school. He never studied this hard to understand things at Furinkan!
Ash Sexum was noted as being a caring and valiant Tamer, albeit one that was often confident enough in his own ability at times that he was bordering on arrogance and was known for being stubborn at times. He also had quite the reckless streak, which had led him to troublesome situations, some of which had almost gotten him killed! But when in the heat of a difficult PokéGirl Battle, his highly competitive nature would shine through and he could portray a tremendous presence of mind, taking advantage of the battlefield as well as the nature of his and the opponent pokégirls to claim victory after victory, even though he had lost a few battles from time to time.
It was all of these traits and more which had brought Professor Stroak to his room at the PokéCenter to personally deliver a request face-to-face.
He wasn’t taking it well.
“You want me to do what?” The youth asked as he just stared at his sponsor, the man that helped him get started on his Taming Journey. He felt a personal level of honor to help the Professor whenever he could, such as running parcels or helping him fill in a PokéDex by just attaining/capturing pokégirls. But this was of a whole new level!
Sighing, Professor Alpohonse Mahogany Stroak repeated for the third time, “I want you to take Gary as your pokégirl.”
Blinking his eyes once twice, again Ash’s mind shut down and rebooted. “You want me to do what?”
Frustration finally hitting him, Stroak shouted, “Come on Ash, you’re not five! We’ve been over this already!” At the look of confusion on the young man’s face, the older man sighed and wondered if there was any hope for the future. This generaton of Tamers were the dregs at the bottom of the barrel! “I want you to become Gary’s Tamer once his inevitable punishment takes place!”
Blinking his eyes once more, the teenager whom would be the next great Harem Master asked, “What?”
Slapping himself on the face, the older male took deep breaths to calm himself. He knew the boy had problems but he didn’t think he was this bad!
Fortunately for him, his pokégirl was more on the up-and-up as it were. A Domesticate Tigress, Tanya had benefitted from her previous experience at the Ranch where she’d been Parthenogenesized and raised, as well as the number of Harems she’d been a part of before she’d ended up in the hands of the caring, albeit naďve Tamer. “It’s what the League decided your grandson’s fate would be for what he did to those human girls, isn’t it?”
Finally starting to catch on, Ash asked, “You mean the ones we got caught up with yesterday?”
“Exactly...” Stroak said. “I’ve managed to pull a few strings to keep him from being imprisoned for life, or worse, executed but that was the best I could do. As punishment Gary is going to be turned into a pokégirl himself, and then he’s going to be run through a Level 4 Taming Cycle.”
At hearing that, Ash winced. That was the stage just below totally mind-wiping a pokégirl completely. “Isn’t that a little... harsh?” He asked. Not that he liked Gary, but he was rather upset about the fact that the Professor wanted him to be his grandson’s Tamer. Even if he’d be turned into a pokégirl, Gary was a GUY!
Sighing, Professor Stroak explained, “Like I said, it was the best I could do. While not a complete memory wipe like the Level 5 Taming Cycle, Level 4 is extremely strong. As it is normally used, it is needed here to ‘correct’ the pokégirl in question who will be lesbian in taste so that she will either be bisexual or heterosexual. You choice really, as the machine has either setting, though I must tell you that its default control is set to heterosexual with mild bisexual tendencies.”
Fidgeting in his seat, Ash was really unsure about all this. “I don’t know,” he said honestly. Looking up to meet the older man’s gaze, Ash told him, “You of all people know the history between me and Gary. There is no way that he, rather she, is going to allow me to be her master; she will just bully me again. And with fangs, claws, talons, elemental powers or whatever she’s going to get as a pokégirl, it will make it all that much easier for her to take control and make my life a living hell.” He trembled lightly. “I went through Jr. High once! I don’t feel like repeating a similar routine!” He practically shrieked.
Although he was surprised at the young man showing some backbone, the Professor couldn’t fault the youth. “Listen Ash,” the Pokégirl Researcher spoke in a soft, calming voice. “You really don’t have to worry about it. You should realize that Gary, or rather, Galia will be easy to handle for you, at least initially. A pokégirl run through a Level 4 Taming Cycle will be dazed for days on end afterwards, having trouble thinking clearly and following complex instructions. She will be almost mechanical in disposition until about a week afterwards.”
Listening to that, Ash had to ask, “So what you’re saying is...?”
“Galia will be easy enough to handle for that first week,” Professor Stroak told him seriously. “Be strict, but fair, make sure she knows her place and as soon as her memory starts to return and she becomes more like herself rather than a recent Threshold girl, she’ll hopefully be malleable enough to become a contributing member to your harem.”
Silence reigned between the two for a moment. “Can’t I just put her into storage?”
“NO!”
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