And it was a whole lotta chaos.
All around him, Ranma could see numerous beaten-down Mouse-like pokégirls and little scraps of fighting going on here and there between the Mouse-types and his and Stryyp’s pokégirls.
Oh, and speaking of Stryyp’s pokégirls, there was Archon and Tanya coming towards him, the remains of his backpack in tow.
“My Sextome,” Archon spoke up as she held the backpack to him. “We managed to collect all of your items we could find.”
“Yeah,” Tanya spoke up. “It was a little difficult, but I think we found them all.”
Smiling, Ranma took the backpack from the Megami. Noticing some of the scraps of cloth and Kevlar tied to keep it closed, he lifted the backpack up and down experimentally. “Hey, you two did an okay job. Thanks.”
Tanya smirked. “You’re welcome,” She said honestly. For some reason it made her feel good to have helped this man. It could have been she wanted to get even with him for how he saved her, but, then again...
Smiling at the Enchantress and the Megami, Ranma looked out over the battlefield. “Damn, what a mess.” Even now he could see the mice-type pokégirls struggling to get back to their feet. Frowning, Ranma couldn't believe that they’d keep trying to fight, even after being beaten down like that. “Okay, something is definitely wrong here.”
Both Archon and Tanya nodded their heads. The mice-types were still trying to fight, despite the fact that they shouldn't be able to get back up.
Looking over at her Alpha pokégirl, Tanya mumbled, “Hey, Archon! You’re a Megami. Can’t you divine why they’re like this, or anything?”
Nodding her head, Archon stepped towards the mouse-girls. “Yes, now I can. Before, they were too close to being Feral, not to mention that they were mostly intent on fighting. Now that their guard is down, I should be able to scan their minds.”
Tanya nodded her head. This was one of the things Archon could do that the Enchantress couldn't, and why Tanya was glad she was around. Of course, she wouldn’t tell the Megami tat to her face.
Kneeling by a Titmouse that was badly cut up, Archon closed her eyes and touched the poor Pokegirl on the forehead. “Shhh... I’m not going to hurt you.” She whispered when the Titmouse tensed up and started to whimper. When Archon felt that the Titmouse wasn’t going to calm down any, she cast a low-level Calming effect technique. It would only calm the Titmouse down for a few moments, but that was all that she needed to find out what was wrong with her.
Ranma blinked and watched as both the Megami and the Titmouse started glowing a light purple. Tanya just stood back and waited.
As Archon felt the Titmice's mind, she saw many images...
A town that was overpopulated... Little food to be had for pokégirls without owners... Little to no recognition given to them.
And then the Parasytes. The horrible pokégirls had destroyed their home.
All Archon could feel from the Titmouse was a sense of hopelessness and want for a new home. “My God...” She whispered, horrified by the images. “No wonder you were so desperate.” She turned to look at Ranma and Tanya. “Mr. Sextome. The Titmice... They need help.”
Blinking his eyes a bit. Ranma walked over to her slowly. “What do you mean?”
“Say what?” Tanya asked, thoroughly confused as Ranma.
Archon nodded her head and turned to the battlefield. “Yes. These Titmice... They’ve had a very hard life.” She shuddered a bit. “They wouldn’t have even come here like this if it wasn’t for the Parasytes that attacked their home.”
Ranma blinked at that. “Parasytes?” What the heck was a Parasyte?
Shuddering, Tanya mumbled, “Parasytes are a horrible man-made pokégirl species. They basically lay waste to anything they touch. They never seem to be fully snuffed out no matter how hard League Officials try.”
Ranma winced at that. “Damn. Sounds like those Locusts I mentioned the other day.”
Archon nodded, remembering what he said, even if she didn’t understand it herself. “You mean creatures that eat and destroy everything they come across?”
“Yeah,” Ranma answered with a nod. “Get a swarm of them and they can wipe a field of food clean in only an hour... But they’re smaller than the palm of my hand.”
Tanya blinked. “Sounds a lot like Parasyte pokégirls. They’re really small, but if even a tiny fraction gets in contact with another pokégirl, that pokégirl will become that Parasyte.”
“Well... Locusts aren’t THAT bad,” Ranma muttered. “Still... We got to do something to get these mouse-girls to stop without hurting them.”
Archon nodded. “I can agree to that. But what? Not many of us have an area-affect attack that can put down a lot of opponents at once.”
Tanya shrugged. “Yeah. Archon here has ‘Psychic’, but you saw what that did when she used it earlier!”
Ranma winced. “Well, that won’t work. Hmm... Damn, don’t really know how to blunt that attack and make it widespread either... Besides, it might kill them,” He muttered to himself while remembering what Ryuu Kumon had done during their fight. When he actually sent a ‘shotgun’ version of the Kijin Raishu Dan at him. “Hmm... I think a Hiryuu Shoten Ha would work... Maybe...” He muttered out-loud. Of course, Ranma knew if he did it now, it might practically destroy everything; doing worse damage than the Megami’s ‘Psychic’ attack. He had to find someway to do it without it causing too much damage.
Archon frowned a bit, picking up those thoughts. Being psychic was a drag at times. “I don’t know if anyone here could do... That...” She blinked as an idea formed in her head. “Mr. Sextome?”
Ranma shook his head. “Yeah? What is it, Archon?"
“How do you do a Hiryuu Shoten Ha?” Archon asked seriously.
Smiking, Tanya jabbed, “Why don’t you read his mind again?”
Frowning, Archon looked at Tanya. “You know as well as I do that I don’t read people’s minds without them saying it’s okay.”
Ranma blinked. He wasn’t sure about how a Megami used her power, but this sounded okay enough. “Well, the Hiryuu Shoten Ha really needs two things. Extreme heat and extreme cold. The clash in a circular pattern makes a rather large tornado.”
Archon nodded at that. “Interesting... Hmm... Not a lot of ice moves that I can do.... Even if the Vesta HAVE created enough heat for the attack.”
“Master...” Came a voice from behind Ranma.
Ranma blinked and turned around. He saw his cute-as-a-button G-Splice standing there. “Yeah, Grave?”
Grave smiled at him a bit. “Sheila and I can do it for you,” Though, she WAS a bit upset that her master told the other pokégirls and not her and Sheila about this earlier. But, she didn’t hold it against him, after all, talking about what he could do probably made him a bit nervous.
Ranma blinked. “Really?”
Grave nodded. “Uh huh... Just leave it to us... Um... About the circular pattern though, how does that work?”
The Enchantress and the Megami blinked. This little Cheetit could do it? Well, she was a Cheetit. So maybe she could?
Ranma nodded his head approvingly. “Make it a little wider and it’ll work fine!”
Grave smiled. “Okay... Um, circular pattern...” She blinked. “OH! A tornado! Spiral!” She wasn’t stupid and she had seen a natural tornado before when Tirant was her master.
Ranma smiled. “Right, Grave!”
She snapped her fingers. “Got it!” Grave turned and ran towards Sheila, muttering that she hoped that she could pull it off.
Archon blinked. “I hope that she can pull it off without hurting someone.”
Smiling, Ranma said, “I think she can do it.”
“Well, at least someone thinks so,” Tanya grumbled, not too impressed.
Meanwhile Grave met up with Sheila and explained everything. “So all you have to do is...” She whispered into the Shaguar’s right ear. “Okay?”
Sheila nodded. “Sure thing, Grave!” Sheila looked a little fearful. “I’ll try not to freeze you too much.”
Grave smiled. “Don’t worry, I know you won’t. By the way... How did you know that Hiryuu Shoten Ha means Dragon Ascension Blast?”
Sheila shook her head. “No.”
Grave blinked. “Hmm... Oh well...” She took off and began their plan.
Sheila was already concentrating her Ice elemental powers about the little G-Splice.
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Holding a pair of binoculars, Ichikoo blinked as she looked through them. “Hey, Lendo...”
“Yeah? What is it?” The leader of Team Rocket Rivalsan asked the Kunoichi.
“Check it out,” The Kunoichi stated. “There’s some pokégirl down there spinning.” Ichikoo blinked her eyes. “Looks like an under-developed Cheetit.”
Blinking, Lendo took the binoculars and looked down as well. “Hmm... Rather short... But her build seems to be on the average for a Cheetit. Can’t see much else.” He frowned as the girl started running faster and faster while circling the Titmice and Vesta. “What IS she doing?”
The Kunoichi was silent for a moment. “You know what...” Ichikoo started. “I have no idea.”
“MERRRROWL! That's right!" The Merrowl interjected.
Lendo slapped the Merrowl on the back of the head lightly, cuasing her to hit the guard-rail and fall in the basket. “That gets annoying after a bit.” He blinked as he noticed something. “Hey, the Cheetit’s circles are getting a bit smaller.”
Indeed they were. Lendo could see that Grave was getting closer and closer to the center of her spiral as several of the Vesta were chasing after her now.
Ichikoo smirked, “If she doesn’t do something soon, those pokégirls will corner her.”
Lendo nodded, frowning lightly as something seemed off. “But... Why is she running in circles like that... She's not even TRYING to fight back against the Vestas, or stopping to try and scare them.”
“MERRRROWL! That’s right!” The Merrowl with the band-aid over her nose interjected, until Lendo raised his fist, smashing her with the back of his hand.
(------)
Back on the ground, Grave was starting to pant lightly as she got closer and closer to the center of the spiral she was trying to complete.
The Vesta squeaked and took quick scratches at her. Of course they were all missing, but there were trying their hardest to hit Grave.
Grimacing at the taste of the Lactic Acid that escaped her stomach and got to her throat, Grave picked up her pace a little more. Just three more completions to go.
Sheila was nervous, but continued to feed her Harem-sister as much cold energy as she could without freezing the G-Splice.
Shivering lightly, she completed another lap. “Two more to go,” She thought to herself as she had to move slightly to avoid another slash from another Vesta. “One more...”
Then numerous Vesta were upon her!
And Grave just punched upwards... “Pretty Little Kitty Dragon Blast Punch Attack!” She cried out, hoping beyond hope that it would work.
The Vesta were surprised. They didn’t have time to squeak as they were lifted up in the air.
Ranma blinked. “Pretty Little Kitty Dragon Blast Punch Attack?”
Everyone who didn’t know what to expect were surprised as the air itself started spiraling, picking up in intensity in a split-second, going from a gentle spiraling breeze, to a gust, and then to a full-blown tornado. Thankfully, Grave had run it wide enough that it wasn’t going to do a ton of damage. But it looked like a Hurricane Gust attack from a Pidgette.
Watching as the Tornado ripped upwards, all Lendo could ask was, “Since when do CHEETITS use WIND attacks!?”
“I have no clue!” Ichikoo cried. She then whimpered. “And it’s heading this way!!!”
“MERRRROWL! That’s right!” The Merrowl with the black eye and a band-aid over her nose interjected.
Lendo gulped and smacked the Merrowl. “Well, this sucks.” He said as the tornado hit their balloon and well... Blew them away.
“TEAM RIVALSAN’S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!” The three Pokégirl Thieves cried as their hot-air balloon was blown off into the sunset, er, sunrise.
Archon blinked as she looked up. “Did someone hear something?”
Tanya and Ranma shook their heads.
“Hmm... Must have just been my imagination... Oh wow! Look!” Archon pointed to where Grave was on one knee in a depression, breathing heavily. Of course, she wasn’t there long as Sheila ran up to her. The area around her looked like it had been cultivated by Littletits and Boobtrios many times over. Off to the side, numerous Vesta and Titmice were laying on the ground, groaning, but not too hurt and unable to fight anymore.
Ranma smiled brightly. “They did it!"
Archon nodded at that. “Uh huh... Wow! Who would have thought that ice could actually beat fire?”
Tanya nodded her head. “Yeah... This is like, breaking the rules...” She blinked. “Then again, it DID make a Flying technique.”
Ranma blinked. “Huh?”
Looking at Ranma, Tanya said, “That was one hell of a Gust attack.”
“Oh?” Ranma asked, feeling stupid.
Archon smiled. “It’s okay. Actually, I think that it’s better than a Gust attack. When was the last time a Gust attack beat a Fire-type pokégirl?”
Tanya blinked. “True enough. This was like a step between Gust and Whirlwind. The power of a Whirlwind, but the effect of a Gust attack.”
Archon nodded. “Well, let’s make sure that they’re all right. Looks like the Cheetit is leaning on your Shaguar, Mr. Sextome.”
Ranma nodded. “Not surprised. That attack takes a bit out of the wielder.”
The three made their way over to the two petite titty kitties as the two walked to them. “Master...” Grave said, a bit sleepily. “That was tiring.”
Sheila nodded. “Poor Grave needs a Healing Cycle.”
Smiling tiredly, Grave nuzzled Sheila’s shoulder. “Mmm... Sleep... Need sleep.”
Ranma smiled. “Well, you girls did really well.” His smiling widened. “I think you both earned a Taming... But I’ll let you rest first,” Ranma added quickly.
Grave nodded, sleepily. "Mmmm... Taming sounds good...” She said as she started to drift off to sleep while Sheila held her.
Smiling, Ranma walked over to his two petite titty-kitty pokégirls and hugged them to him tightly.
Grave was already asleep, but she cuddled to her master anyway.
Sheila smiled and purred, happy that she did a good enough job for her master. “Mew, thank you.”
Behind them, the Enchantress and the Megami smiled at the scene. It made them both feel good about everything.
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