Chapter 8

Story by Kynexn on SoFurry

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#8 of Started with a Rock: Arc 2 - The Reunion

Delay due to Pokémon X! Hope you can forgive me heh....


"Well, I don't know where you went, but you did arrive before us apparently." Kyn commented. "Their main hideout is in another building, but still in Castelia city. I think the ceilings are large enough for you to comfortably walk in. Oh and... pay no mind to the humans, if you can. They're all mostly so busy in this city that they'll not give you a second thought. Though I suppose a 'Hoenn' native Pokémon being here is a bit of a treat for some of the tourists. You'll have to watch out for those. Also, this conversation just turned quite comedic in my head. Anyway.... follow me please." Kyn said.

Her earfins stretched out, full of membrane in pleasure, she had won~. She dropped to the ground, and followed, or rather, with the way she worked, walked a little to the side and behind; which still put her scarf in easy reach of his fingers. "A place that humans can't survive in without a portable oxygen tank." She answered. "No prey up there either." She added offhandedly.

"Hmm... an oxygen tank or... possibly him. I don't know. So, it appears as if I have... a sort of Dragon entourage here... This is definitely going to attract a bit more attention than I thought. There aren't as many people here today... Normally it wouldn't be a problem." Kyn said, stroking his facial hair.

"You're well known, I would think it wouldn't be a problem to be noticed...if you'd like, I'm sure it might make things less noticeable if I fell back to hide in the White One's fluff, either under his tail or on his back...I'm sure I'm not THAT heavy in comparison to what he can stand." She paused. "Though...I am rather glad that there's not as many people here as normal..." to her credit, she didn't balk at the crowd, but it was clear in her voice that she didn't like so many around her.

"Hmm... I suppose it won't be necessary. Heh. Can't be any worse than being worshiped by those Dragon lovers eh?" Kyn let out a hearty chuckle and hoped Serena would take it in the same way he did.

"....You would fall under that category too, if you meant that in the way I think you did." She nudged him, probably making him misstep, unless he had gotten so used to her that he was counting on her doing it. "Now, anyway...and...probably not, In any other context."

"Serena... Chronologically you're around my age but... what... what stage are you in your growth Dragon maturity wise? It has been a while since I have studied that."

"...In who's calendar, are you around 75 years of age? Honestly Kyn, did you forget that I'm two years from my third heat, and what hell that will be when it does get here." She sighed. "I'm considered a young adult here, emphasis on young. Another 127 years and I'll start verging on the full fledged adult years...and then I'll have another 300 to even be considered an Elder..."

"Yes Serena, I did forget. However... that does remind me... If the time dilation is set so that it is the way it was when I first met you... then in twenty-two years time here, around 130 years would have passed there."

"Yes...I knew the hell Striker went through when there was not even a visit for my heat...as I've said before; but I was still too hard on the old bug I think." she paused. "Two years passed here, and twenty-three passed there....that is quite a difference, yes."

"Seems the distortion... was a little distorted. Now, this system that I'll be putting into place... will probably fix that." Kyn said, referring to the dimensional portal project.

"Haa, that's funny, distortion being distorted...talk about a Spacial anomaly." She chuckled at her own pun.

"Ah! We're here. Ha, I should make a sign here that says 'Dragons eat free', and then hold it up when you are near." Kyn thought she'd get the reference that he made, and if not, then he'd probably explain it to her.

She snorted at him, understandably. "No, no they don't, because you're not going to let me kill their Pokémon, because it's not their fault that their owners are idiots...though the owners themselves.....well, that might make a big to do, too."

"Uh... well. You didn't catch the reference... I'll explain later, if I remember. Now let's see... where did I leave those two...?" Kyn went over to where he THOUGHT he left the Two executives, only to find that they weren't there.

"Typical..." She muttered. "You left them unattended...and they ran." She tapped her claws, which she was standing on, against the surface of the ground. "Well...what now?"

"Serena... this was different. They were... taken. I'll bet this is Colress' doing. I'm probably on their shit list now. There's a... good chance that they'll want to come after me." Kyn said with a devilish grin, but with a fake worried voice.

"...Bad acting." Serena said shortly. "Another name, another person...hmmm, too bad we don't have any rope...wait, I'm talking to Kynexn, of course we have rope." She snorted with laughter.

"Uh... not sure what you're thinking of Serena. Care to share with the rest of the class?" Kyn said, in one of his classic lines.

"Shish-kebabs." One word, yet it spoke volumes. "One version or another."

"Well, I do have rope. I'll just be messing around with their computer a bit, maybe see if he's willing to chat a bit." Kyn said, heading towards the elevator.

"And you'd like us to stay here?" She inquired, not sure if she cared for this idea. Sure, he had Tensa with him, and Heji too...at least, she thought that he did.

"You can come too if you want, but, you'll have to... rather squeeze your way through the stairs. Also, I'd sort of prefer it if you came, since... well, it'd make me feel like I was treating you like a guard Dragon." Kyn said, pointing to the direction of the stairs. Tenshi had already decided that he was going to wait on the roof, and be a lookout for SOMETHING, plus, he just liked high places anyway.

Serena looked at the very human sized stairs, well, at least she was vaguely human sized. She tilted her head, "Floor number?"

"Tenth floor. There will be a hallway, take the second door on your left. It will be different for me since I'll be entering from a different angle." Kyn said, drawing a mental map again and double checking it. 'Yeah."

She started up the stairs without another word, taking them four at a time, and only having a slight bit of trouble rounding the corners (Dog on tile syndrome WHYYY?!) leaving dents with parts of her tail in the wall, she was sure that she would have a slight bruise to go with the scuffing of scales she received. If she met anyone on the way, they either got out of the way, or were whipped with her tail, sometimes both, either way, she made it to the top of the tenth floor within ten minutes, it proved to be the other door that threatened to not let her wide stance through, and she had to stand like a Charizard to get through it, bumping her horns against the next floor's ceiling.

Dropping down she turned to her left. Hallway...second door on the left....one...two. If the door was open, she'd slip, annoyingly in on her hind legs, if not, she'd open it then enter. "Doorways, bloody stupid doorways."

"It's too bad they don't have a freight elevator in this building. Otherwise you'd have been able to take that." Kyn had left the door open since it was only logical. He didn't want to force Serena to have to do it herself, either that or her possibly getting frustrated and breaking the door down, but he doubted that the latter would happen.

"Mmph..." She settled herself into the far corner to watch the door, she wasn't really that big, in the scale of things, her neck made her a bit taller than Tensa, why did she feel ginormous in this building? "Stairs aren't the problem, doorways are annoying, vaguely sure that I left dents in the wall on the way up...tight corners and moving quickly, not a good combo."

"Bah, it doesn't matter. This is a Team Plasma building anyway. When the original owners get it back, I'll pay for some of it if you really feel like you did noticeable damage."

"As if I don't have enough gold to take care of it myself." She blinked at the words 'Team Plasma.' "So...I suppose it was a good thing that I knocked a few of them out on the stairwell. Huh..." She laid her head down on her claws, doing her self proclaimed job of protecting HER human. "So, the reference?"

"Bah, you could. But that's not the point. Besides, the conversion rate is a bit different now. Now, this time it isn't a movie reference but the punchline of a cartoon. Er... Serena, I've forgotten if I've explained to you whether or not we've covered this before. You do have a much better memory than I for certain things, it seems. Actually... for most things it seems."

"We've covered movies, and what cartoons are, yes." she paused. "I suppose saying 'next time just let me use the window' would be out of bounds then...since it would take out all of the windows on one wall, and part of that wall too."

"Sort of yeah... Alright. It's from a cartoon, where basically a whole bunch of crazy stuff happened and, at the end, the waiters just give up and put out a sign that says Dragons eat free. In the cartoon, they didn't very much show meat getting eaten and so it wasn't implied that they did."

"Either that, or they were vegetarians...." She trailed off. "How would I get the reference of something like that?" Seeing as her ears would notify her of someone coming before her eyes, she raised her head up and did put it in his lap, just across his legs like a dog might do, but the message was there. 'MINE'.

"Dammit Colress you fricking weird haired... ... weirdo. Pick up your damn phone!" Kyn sighed. He didn't spin the chair around due to the fact that Serena was currently in his lap, and also because of the fact that he figured... that socially it'd just be awkward to still do that. "Well, you wouldn't. Unless you dug around in my head."

She looked up at him over her horns, her earfins relaxed. "Mmm...maybe he's screening his calls...and I have been known to do that, yes, just, not without permission lately, if you haven't noticed." She picked her head up at a noise down the hall. "You did say that this building is deserted except for Team Plasma and us, right?"

"...It... should be, yes. I don't like the sound of that. In the movies... that usually means someone is coming..." Kyn turned his head around.

"You have seen too many movies." She pulled her head from his lap, stepping towards the doorway, and then immediately pulled her head back as a rather strange Pokéball clicked on the floor a little ways where her head had been. "Who in their right mind..." She started, and crushed the ball with the M on it. The next time she stuck her head out, she was prepared and fired a stream of fire in the direction of the assailant. "Right, right, I know, Team Plasma equals not in their right mind."

"Serena... you just crushed a Master Ball... and dear lord, you're lucky that you didn't accidentally touch the button... I mean I know you know about the button but, there's always a risk you could miss." Kyn said, getting up and preparing Tensa and Liru's Poké Balls.

"A What?" She backed back out of the doorway, she was too big for this shit, still she fried more balls as they came towards her, turning them into their liquid components as she did. "I never miss." She huffed, finally back out of the doorway completely. "How the fuck would someone know I was a wild anyway?"

"A Master Ball... is something that... goes against everything that you and I know. It is what the fools call, 'The Ultimate Poké Ball'. Once a Pokémon is caught inside, no matter what, it can never break via anything other than what you just did, and they cannot escape at all unless released."

"And_who_ in the bloody monkey knuckle fuck, decided to invent something like that?" From the way her eye twitched, she was not happy about this revelation at all. "Who would have access to some shit like this, Here, in this region?" She was being more specific. With her out of the doorway, the roar of laughter at her withdrawal made her snarl. "Kyn...Is blood on that list of things that we would have to pay for to have cleaned up? I think this just turned into an 'all you can eat buffet', if not, that is."

"...It is a remnant from the Team Rocket Era. A company called Silph, in tandem with Team Rocket. They are, as of right now, illegal everywhere. Only researchers have access to.... Oh you mother fucker!" Kyn cursed everything about Colress at that very moment. "No Serena, blood is not on the list of things for us to have to pay for..." Kyn was barely able to say. He wasn't as angry as Serena was, but he came a decent third. It was also possible that some of her emotion was bleeding over into him.

She snarled. "I think I'm about to break the laws of this world here, excuse me for fifteen seconds...you might want to close the door, if you can." She didn't bother to struggle through the door, she broke the door jam as the made for the wider portion of the rooms, before she would turn to face them, of course, more balls flew at her, and she blasted them with another wave of fire, but this one didn't just emanate from her mouth, but from her entire body---Heat wave. Being as they were forced to funnel through, and she had essentially a clear shot, she spread her wings, not for balance, but as several glowing balls of green light began to form in them, some of those around looked frightened. Each one behaved like a homing missile, either at a ball that was being thrown, a Pokémon being released, or a trainer themselves, and it was painfully obvious that she was doing her best not to damage the area around them. Her body practically glowed with the energy of her typing, only at the feet did it change to something much darker, giving her an Intimidating look that would likely haunt anyone who managed to survive--which if she had her way, was no one.

Several attacks later, a gory scene lay before her, Pokémon, humans, technology, all of them lay on the ground in pieces. "I am_really_ starting to hate humans, Kyn." She wiped blood off of her cheek, or at least tried; and tested her claws against what was probably a grunt, to make sure he was indeed dead, before going back to the doorway, which between the attacks she had cast, and those that they had tried, was stained black with soot, and red with blood.

"Feel free to hate specific types of humans, but I've got to compile a list of humans for you to meet, so that you don't get exposed to the ones like that one Trainer and these idiots. All I can say is, they were fools to follow Ghetsis." Kyn was not phased by Serena being so stained with blood, as he could understand some of what she was feeling. "I suppose I'll just have to let them know who exactly it was that was responsible for sending them into this massacre. If that does not deter them, then well... I'm not going to take responsibility for anything that happens to them."

"...If there's any more of these guys using those things, the moment I see them, they're going to be dead, just no. People who use that have no right to live. That's something you can spread around...I'm not even going to lick this stuff off, nearest bathroom is....?" She shook, as if the walls weren't painted with enough blood. "Actually...lets make sure that no one is left in the building...watch your ears." She gave him time to plug them, then roared out her challenge, which she was sure sounded quite similar to her full species name to those who couldn't understand her, followed by her message. "BE YOU BRAVE ENOUGH TO FACE ME, FIND ME, I WILL SLAUGHTER YOU OR DIE TRYING!" She was still seeing red, but that could have been because of the practically coated in blood flygoggles. She ticked her head off to the side, waiting for...something, anything, and when none came, she finally let her guard down; even then beneath the blood, was still the residual glow.

"...You_are_ alright, aren't you?"

"Not... not exactly, Serena. I'm certain that no amount of ear plugging could have protected me from that. It was like a frigging sonic boom at close range, god I didn't think a Pokémon's voice could be that powerful. By those things... you mean Master Balls or... Poké Balls in general...?" Kyn removed his fingers from his ears, and shook his body.

"Do not be ridiculous." Was her answer to the second question, she had a habit of doing that. "Poké Balls...are not on the same level of Master balls, and I will not shun anyone who uses just the basics, even though I still do not like the typical way that humans use them....that is a general practice...but they have a fighting chance, it is more honorable than that..." She would have nudged him, but with the blood, she merely looked concerned and spoke the words "Sorry...when the glow goes away I'll be back to normal. I think someone once defined it as my Moxie was showing? Hmph..."

Kyn waited until the glow did go away before beginning again. "There should not be... more than five Master Balls in the world, well, not counting that one. The... reason for that, is because... I have one." He'd hoped that Serena wouldn't demand that he turn the Master Ball over to her, so that she could destroy it, or severely interrogate him about why he had one.

Serena did snort, and focus her eye on him for a moment, which then closed. "Directions. Bathroom. Now. Please." The fact that she trusted him; this was showing to him now. That was the reason that she had killed these men. "I saw a lot more purple, than just five, they're melted on the floor here, if you care to try to count them."

"To the right of the elevator, opposite of this room on the other side of the building. Of course you're gonna be leaving a trail to it. I think I'll go with you and just lead you. Also, I feel the sudden urge to murder Colress. He better have a damn good reason for betraying me like this. Not that there's really a good reason for betraying anyone other than for being a double agent forced not to blow their cover." Kyn said.

She let herself be led, sighing. "Your disconnection with your own species...Most I think, would be sick seeing the scene that we just left behind us." Her claws gripped the tile as her feet threatened to slip out from under her, eventually her eyes came almost to a close again. "Why...do you even have one of those wretched things? Clearly, you do not plan on using it." She nudged the door open, leaving bloody footprints on the tile, they were the first thing she cleaned off when she reached the sinks, dropping her goggles and scarf into the other one and letting them soak. She picked the lock on the paper towel dispenser, tore, soaked, wiped, and repeated until the blood was gone from her scales entirely.

"Serena, in order to be able to get along with Pokémon so well... I suppose something had to be given up, or sacrificed. Besides, as you said, they deserved it. Anyway, the reason why I have it is, is so that nobody else could use it, but obviously that didn't work out. It was a gift from Professor Juniper. She gave it as a gift even though she knew I hated it, instead turning it into an odd token of... friendship I guess? I don't think she really understood the connotations." Kyn sighed, and looked at the sink slowly draining all the red. "So, then, how are you going to dispose of that bloody paper?"

"Roof. Fire." She grunted, wringing out her scarf and drying her goggles on a paper towel again. "They are just paper after all..." As she spoke, she cleaned up the mess she had made, for being a mass murderer, she was fairly clean. "I know how it feels to be alone..." She answered, kneeling down in a way that would mean that she didn't want him too far from her, and that he should get on her back. "I want to know how they knew I was a wild..."

"That I do as well. Serena, by any chance, would you mind temporarily being marked again? This would be pretty inconvenient for us if you were literally swarmed by them."

Serena tied the plastic bag between her teeth and her claws before answering, and even that was hesitant. "Alright...since they're using things that I have very little chance to beat...well, when caught off guard." She pulled her nose to him, waiting for the cold press of the button to her nose. "And only because you belong to me."

"Of course, it's going to be another Luxury Ball." He took one of the unused ones that he had, and held it up to her. "Y'know you can just sorta, squeeze the button in your claws lightly. You don't have to push it the way you usually do. Also, just for your information... I never replaced that one. I don't think I will yet, unless of course, you see a reason why I should."

She snorted at him. "You do it, the last time I wasn't registered to you, this is your world; and I'm giving myself to you this time, I'm not proving something to myself." She wasn't sure she had a reason to respond to the second part of it, and so she just breathed her hot breath over his face and hair. "Don't argue with me on this one please."

"Fine. I will do it. There shall be no argument on this one." Kyn said, and then he touched the Ball to her head.

She gave what might have been a smile before the button clicked in assignment turning red for a moment, and then back to the normal color. "Thank you, Kyn; for protecting me in the only way you know how." She licked his cheek, a very odd thing to do, considering her breath still smelled like she had been hunting.