“Oh yes, there is one other thing,” replied Sasuke. The retainer to the house of Kuno opened the man’s backpack and handed him his PokéDex. “There is a message for you from Gym Leader Gendo Giovanni regarding a favor owed. The message said to call him back right away.”
Shaking his head, Kuno sighed in annoyance. “Obviously Mr. Giovanni is going to request a number of our rarer Stones. Shiny Stone, Oil Stone, Dusk Stone, Dawn Stone...” he sighed as he accepted his PokéDex from his manservant. He was about to turn it on when he suddenly stopped. Turning his head, he looked down at the man on the floor and told him, “You need to leave no, Charadin. I have an important call I need to talk.”
The man whose origins were of the Noir League sat up as he rubbed his aching posterior. “Can’t I at least have some breakfast? We were at it all night!” More to the point, Kuno was at him all night. By the thousand gods, was his ass sore!
“Perhaps another time,” was the scion of the Stone Town Kuno’s reply. “You can go back to your Ranch and your Ice-types and get food there. I am going to be busy for awhile.” Anything concerning Mr. Giovanni
Huffing, Picolet Chardin got up from off the floor and held one of the sheets around him. His noise pointing up into the air, the owners of the Golden Pair Ranch stomped out of the room, annoyed with the antics of his current lover.
When the door to his room closed, Kuno shook his head. “I am not surprised by his action. It is rare, the few that can stand up to the mighty sword of the Blue Balls of Stone Town. Like so many others, my maleness tore apart the petals of his rosebud with fierce prejudice. Truly, it takes a manly man to be a satisfactory sheath for my greatness.”
Feeling really uncomfortable at the moment, (oh how he hated when his master soliloquized) Sasuke coughed into his hand to get the attention of the man he served, (only as hired help, thank the thousand gods)! “Master Kuno? I believe it’s imperative to not leave Gym Leader Giovanni waiting. You know how busy a man he is and his time is very valuable.” It was known that to Gendo time wasn’t only about money but it was a ticking clock that counted down doomsday for the dwindling purity of the human race.
Nodding his head in agreement with his manservant, Tatewaki replied, “Your words ring of bitter truth, Sasuke... for lo, respect yourself and others shall respect you. If I don’t properly address the man on time, it shows poorly on my part and thus the man will think poorly of me.” And only never wanted SEELE #02 pissed with them. Gendo was high up on their chain of command and could cause trouble for the Kunos if he wanted.
A sweat-drop trickling down the side of his head, Sasuke asked, “So shouldn’t you...”
Blinking his eyes once, twice Kuno was quick to answer, “Right, right. Of course.” Sitting up straight on his bed, the Tamer and heir of the Kuno monopoly over the Western Evolution Trade he started to fiddle with a few buttons and attachments on his PokéDex. With the speaker set for two way and the little camera lens aimed at him, Tatewaki pressed the button. The screen of the Dex went black for a moment, followed by a series of rings every few second.
Within half a minute, the screen flashed to life, revealing the visage of a man. Middle aged with character lines on his face which conveyed a stern gaze behind the dark-tinted lenses of his glasses. With the trademarked goatee and his Viridick Gym Badge pinned on the lapel of his jacket, Kuno recognized him immediately. “I bid thee good morrow, Gym Leader Giovanni,” he greeted the man on the screen. “I’ve gotten your message that you wish to call in a favor so I got back as soon as I could.” A smug look coming over his face, he told the man, “Just send a list of what types and number of Evolution Stones you need and I’ll see to it the order is filled and delivered, no questions asked.”
“Tatewaki Kuno,” Gendo spoke slowly and with purposeful clarity. He didn’t want the young heir of the Stone Town Kunos to get off-track like he was prone to do and to hear what the Gym Leader had to tell him. “That is not what this call is about.”
Raising an eyebrow, Kuno had to ask, “What? But your message said you were calling about a favor. What else could you want besides very rare Evolution Stones, something I’m more than willing to provide in return for the security measures you supplied for my family’s mines?” Evolution Stones were the life-blood of the Kuno family; something they were able to harvest in great quantities easily thanks to the family’s Stone Finder Blood Gift. That someone would pass over the chance to gain such precious elementally-powered stones was a foreign concept to Tatewaki.
Staring straight at Kuno, Gendo answered him in a serious business-like tone. “I need you to spy on a certain Tamer and his group for me. I want you to meet up with him or at least follow him and his progress; the information is very valuable to us.” His gaze became harsh as he reiterated, “Very valuable.”
Snorting, the scion of the house of Kuno asked, “That’s it? You want me to meet up with some Pokégirl Tamer? What could be so important that you need to send me out to do some menial task which you could easily have some Team Rocket grunt handle?” Honestly, one of his magnificence need not get his hands dirty in such an aspect. It was an insult to the Stone Town Kunos!
“A simple two-fold answer, Mr. Kuno,” Gendo spoke seriously. “Because Team Rocket members are seen as criminals by the Leagues at large,” although truthfully a number were, “So I cannot send them into towns and follow them into certain area where the influence of SEELE may not be as strong as to allow them safety on the streets, let alone free access to certain city areas.” His facial lines increased as he frowned deeper. “And that is the case right now. They are in Pewtit City, a place neither the influences of SEELE or myself has yet to penetrate. However, a legitimate businessman such as yourself can enter, especially when one considers how close Stone Town is to Pewtit City. You could make it in mere days while it would take my forces a week to reach Pewtit from Viridick. Time is of the essence here; we cannot lose track of them.”
Considering that, Kuno nodded his head. It was true. Stone Town was right off of Routes 3 and 16 and it connected into Route 3 at the halfway mark. It would take mere days on foot to reach Pewtit. With a proper vehicle the time was easily halved if not more. Considering this for a moment, the young heir of the Stone Town Kunos sighed in relent. “Very well, Giovanni. I accept the conditions of this favor.” Trying to relax, he asked the man, “Now tell me. Who is my primary target and who is with him that I should be worried about or keep an eye out for as well?”
“A Tamer that’s recently resurfaced after nearly two years missing,” Gendo told him seriously. “Ranma Saotome of Phallus Town.”
Sitting up, Kuno’s interest was piqued. “Saotome? As in, Ranma Saotome of the Indicriminate Taming School?” He asked rather excitedly. He hadn’t seen the pigtailed man since that night they shared at Resort Gorgeous. Now THAT was a manly man if he’d ever fucked one! He had been devastated at the news of Ranma’s disappearance around the Jusenkyo Spell Dumps... to hear that he was still alive was a dream come true! “Are you absolutely certain?”
“We are,” Gendo told him. “Furthermore, Saotome is now ‘pure’. In becoming such, he has become useful to us.”
Raising an eyebrow, the Kendoish Pokégirl Tamer asked, “What do you mean pure?” They better not have been hoping to take Saotome’s innocence. That was for the Scion of the house of Kuno and for him alone! Growling, he shouted at Gendo, “You better not think of doing anything funny to him! Ranma’s ass is mine!”
His eyes narrowing, the Gym Leader of Viridick told him, “That is something you don’t need further explained nor is your attitude appropriate for this conversation.” Taking a deep breath, he then shouted at the Evolution Stone tradesman, “Now take your head out of your ass and listen carefully as I brief you.”
“But I prefer boxers...” Kuno told him straight-faced.
The image on the PokéDex screened showed Gendo raising a hand to his face, slipping a pair of fingers behind his glasses to rub his eyes in annoyance. Lowering his hand, he told them, “What I mean is to give you information on your mission.”
“Oh!” Tatewaki shouted as he sat up. “Proceed then. Who else will be with Saotome.”
“The one you really need to look out for besides Ranma Saotome is a human woman naked Nabiki Tendo. She has currently been infected with an aggressive strain of BuzzBreast viral DNA. Ranma is going to be assisting her in finding a Megami to purge her of such before it can turn her into another useless, mindless BuzzBreast. We need to see to it she manages such; the information that could be obtained from such an event would be of much use to us,” as he explained, the seriousness in his voice never wavered.
Nodding his head, it made much more sense to Kuno now. SEELE was all about purifying the human race and eradicating pokégirls once and for all. To get full data on a human woman having pokégirl DNA purged from her body completely would have been priceless to the organization.
Yet something bothered him about that. Since when was Nabiki Tendo human? Last he knew, the girl was a Kitten. Very curious...
Gendo continued. “The others are negligible but you must be careful of them,” he told Kuno seriously. “First is a starting Tamer from Phallus Town named Ash Sexum, while rather inexperienced did save the group from a BuzzBreast swarm; seventy-four of the Bug/Poison-types. His harem must be powerful to have handled a swarm all by himself.”
Yawning, Kuno shrugged it off. “A beginning Tamer is still a beginning Tamer. He must have gotten lucky or the report was exaggerated.” Only a Kuno could manage such magnificence. Obviously that Ash must have been living in his own dream world to report that he defeated over seventy BuzzBreasts with just his own harem. That ass...
“The others are the sisters of Nabiki Tendo who had become pokégirls,” the leader of the Indigo-branch of SEELE started to finish. “A Ka-D-Bra named Kasumi Tendo and a Tomboy named Akane-”
“AKANE TENDO!?” Kuno asked excitedly, his eyes flashing with interest. “The dear robust, manly pokégirl that is the youngest daughter of Soun Tendo? The flattest, gruffest, most uncultured and unfeminine Tomboy that ever existed in the history of existence?” He was gripping his PokéDex with both hands as he held the screen close to his face. “THAT Akane Tendo!?”
Raising an eyebrow, Gendo was curious as to the absurd behavior of the heir of the Kuno fortune. He was surprised that the youth knew so much about ‘Akane’ but perhaps he could use that energy to his advantage. “Yes.”
Eyes going wide at the answer, Kuno started to laugh manically. At last! After a year of the Tomboy disappearing off the face of the planet, she would finally be his! He would have a proper pokégirl for a samurai such as himself! “Giovanni! I’ll do it!”
Sasuke sighed as he heard that. It looked like his master was going to send them on another moronic quest once more. “I’ll go ready the transport, Master Kuno. Which one do you wish to take?”
Considering the question for a moment, Kuno was quick to reply, “Get the Class C Trail Blazer RV! It a transport as manly as they come and is the perfect tool to portray the might of the Blue Balls of Stone Town!” His chest puffed up with pride. “And wait until they see all the luxuries I have in it! It’s filled with more features and add-ons than a Bus Conversion!” Saotome and Akane were sure to come into his arms with such!
Sasuke considered his master’s demand. It was a decent choice for protection. The Trail Blazer series was a recreational vehicle based on HVSS equipped M4A1s Sherman tank that featured a large single boom crane, (as opposed to the A-Frame of the M32) and large spades at the front and rear of the vehicle to assist in lifting the armored rig had the distinctive cab-over profile. The cab-over contained the bed or “entertainment” section as Kuno liked to call it...
Still, it was a very dependable vehicle. Built upon not only a truck chassis for the housing, but with a main battle tank, (MBT) chassis in front for vehicle motion, the whole of the RV was set on a two sets of armored treads rather than tires. With such force, it was all-terrain and could tow up to seventy-two tons!
Of course with treads, all the armored plating and the numerous luxuries such as the hot-tub/jacuzzi and the huge satellite dish on the roof it was also one of the slowest transports available! A trip that could take a week would easily be expanded into a week!
Sighing, Sasuke thought if they were lucky enough they’d be lucky to catch up to Saotome and his group somewhere around the Pewtit half of Route 3.
Looking at the newly ‘Thresholded’ pokégirl that had once been a man floating in the respirometry metabolic tube, the Technician told the assisting NurseJoy, “She’s lucky the transformation DNA cocktails took. Not many men can take being turned into pokégirls through artificial means.” Over half would end up destabilizing on a cellular level and becoming a dense liquid similar to amniotic fluid in composition. Turning towards the nursing pokégirl whom was standing by one of the consoles, he asked, “What was his crime again?”
Not taking her eyes off the Acrylic, Bubble, and Mass flow meters, the NurseJoy responded, “He was an accessory in getting two human girls Love Balled and then tried to rape a third.”
Whistling, the Technician had to shout, “Man! And here I thought pulling that bullshit got one executed on the spot.” He looked at the pokégirl floating in the tube with an air-mask around the lower half of her face. “I admit she makes one beautiful Steel-type but by the thousand gods, this one should’ve been a bloody stain on the pavement.”
“The pokégirl Galia was formerly Tamer Gary Stroak, grandson of the great Pokégirl Researcher Professor Mahogany Stroak,” the NurseJoy told her superior as if it explained every thing.
And it did. “Ah, so the old man actually threw his weight around for once.” The man sighed in annoyance. “Well, makes sense. The guy’s done a lot and doesn’t ask for much from the League. So when he actually wants a favor done, I’m sure he had more than a few favor to call in.” He smirked at the tube and shouted, “Not like he could get you off though, could he you little bastard!?”
Rolling her eyes, the NurseJoy told the human, “Don’t waste your breath. She can’t hear you.” Finally turning to look at the male in the room, she added, “She’s not even conscious.”
“I know...” the Technician replied. Staring at the girl floating in the large upright tube filled with a blue-tinted liquid, he asked, “So what happens to her after this? Are they going to put her through a Level 5 Taming Cycle and put her ass up for League auction?” He had to admit, if that was the case he might try bidding on her. She was rather pretty, very feminine.
“No,” the NurseJoy was quick to reply. “She’s getting a Level 4 Taming Cycle and being given to a pre-determined Tamer chosen by Professor Stroak.”
“Lucky bastard,” the Technician responded. “She’s quite a hottie but... besides seeing she’s become a Steel-type, I’m curious.” Turning to the NurseJoy with a curious look, he asked, “What breed of pokégirl is she anyway?”
“What is she becoming?” The NurseJoy responded with a question of her own. “Why, she’s turning into a...”
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