PMD Explorers E-Beyond side story for M1

Story by delete341 on SoFurry

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#6 of PMD-E-of-Beyond

Two stories down; three to go

This was to flesh out some memories and it is loosely based on the great war/ the first world war. More to this new subplot will be posted when ready.


Drake was on watch during a horrible war he was enlisted into. He looked at a new soldier, and they wanted Drake to lite a cigarette for them. Drake looked like he wanted something in return as an older solder pulled out a second cigarette and Drake lit two for the older solder as he gave Drake one to smoke. The new solder was confused as the old soldier said, "That ninetales likes to smoke and unless you give him one, he will not lite yours'. He has a pack on him and cannot get to it easily." Drake was in a dark green uniform covered in mud, a helmet, and some medical gear. It was the night watch and Drake was smelling a new soldier pokémon in the ranks. He looked and it was a young jolteon scared as night flying pokémon were scanning the skies. Some snipers took their time and fired on them. With a pile of feathers that fell in the trench Drake was in he grabbed it and plucked out all the feathers to cook it with a metal pipe. Some soldiers waited and cut a piece off for a warm meal, for once. Bullets and explosions rocked the ground as the wet season was starting. Drake was relaxed and full now. He had a good meal and started to look at the jolteon shaking in fear. Drake said, "So Amon is it, I can read your name tag you are scared out of your mind. Relax and do what I say when I say it and you might survive your first month." Amon was having a hard time sleeping as Drake was on watch. Soon a whirling sound was Drake pushed down Amon as a shell hit yards away. Amon was shacking like a leaf as Drake smelled him and was interested. Drake said to Amon, "You smell female but have a male body so, we are in the same unit and we get a week off next week. Let's have some stress relief shall we?" Amon veered his eyes and said, "There was a farming accident and let's say that I lost them in a fight." Drake replied, "One, you are lying on both counts and two, you have no bone there. So, after all the body checks and you still got in, how? You know that I fire blanks for mortals right?" Amon whispered in his ear, "They killed my family and mutated me down there. I never got basic training and took this uniform from a dead enlistee on the side of the road. Shrapnel had gone through his eye and the blood never hit the helmet as he took it off." Drake was giving a creepy smile and told 'her', "I will keep this a secret from the others if we have some real fun on our off week and in private. I want a 'fun time' and you will love it. I can make the best treats and meals if you wish." "If I refuse?" She replied. Drakes' eye's turned pitch black and he said to her in a quiet tone, "I will tell the higher ups and you will be considered a spy and tortured to get you to speak or confess." "Then I get to eat. You do not know what it is like to starve as most of the remaining food goes to the soldiers and you go hungry. I was starving and you look fat. How fair is that?" She told him under her breath. Drake looked around and said, "I am undead so I rarely eat and if you looked around here the one's who are fighting are starving as well. I have not had a good blood meal in weeks and we are taking food from the bodies of the enemy. We are almost out for ammunition and food and we are losing the war. Eight years and now this, we wait to surrender and peace. I am cold and hungry and you think I want sex, no I want to feel normal and enjoy the company of a female in private so later we can mate or not." She was perplexed at his statement and he got off her to look out over the trench with a mirror. The shelling stopped and all the seasoned fighters were ready to fight as a new machine of war came to them. It was iron and slow as bullets had no effect or fire attacks. This metal beast turned and fired back with a canon. Many soldiers fled in fear and Drake was shocked and froze in place as the enemy charged and Amon bit him in his privates to get him alert and he held her down and looked at the machine. It was dark and Drake waited as the green soldiers charged out of the trench just to mowed down with machine guns. Drake told Amon, "I hope you were trying to seduce me or next time I will kill you. I want to know how that machine works and I am scared of it. But, at the same time, fascinated by it." The enemy was pushed back as the new machine withdrew back into their own lines. Amon chocked and told the truth, "There are no young males to replace solders that are of age. I am an experiment as everyone is starving now and the businesses have almost gone under and revolution is threatened. The public wants this war to end and the politicians want to keep it going." Drake was thinking and replied, "So, what you are telling me is that you are a real soldier and the government is about to fall. Strange and news from home is getting bad now. Oh well, I have many females I have taken and you are pretty but, I am not that into you as a female." She was confused as other female pokémon started to fight and they looked female now. Some were stretched bearers or nurses and others were flying as airplanes were now using armor piercing and incendiary bullets that took out any steel type or plane. This was toward the end of the war as both sides were running out of soldiers and material to fight. The leaders were arguing at the peace table as the war was raging. Food and arms were scarce now and reusing shell casings and bullet casings were the only way to get more ammunition. The troops were on their last legs as the relief troops came for Drakes unit and miles from the front Drake found something rare, fresh game and he cooked as Amon was sitting at a table and they were both out of uniform. It was a stew and Drake wanted a female companion to join him in a makeshift evening dinner to a peace time family. She was freaked out as two eevee's and a vulpix corpse filled in for pups. She was thinking, "Drake must have lost his mind and the smell of the bodies is horrid." The food was served as Drake looked at Amon and said to her, "These young boys died on their first day in battle two days ago and I felt lonely. I have been here for seven years and what do I see but, death in my afterlife. The smell does not bother me anymore but, I am lonely." She replied, "You're mad and not the basket cases' outside. You are sick and you need some perspective. I love that you have real food but all the bodies that come here and you act like they are alive. Why are you acting like this?"

Drake took a bite and replied, "As a vampire you see the dead talk and move around all the time. To me death is a stage and I have seen it all. Being undead is more a curse than a gift and my mind is so full of memories that soon I will run out of space and lose some in about a hundred years time. I want this memory to be one of the last to go, that is all." His tone was of depression and grief. He had lost so much in his life he lost all sense of reality. The week off was making him feel the urges of breeding season for vulpix and ninetales. He was fighting to say focused on the fighting and not the female next to him hauling telephone cable.

The jolteon was the power supply for the phone to give the adjustments to the artillery from the observer. Later that night Amon was guiding Drake to secret location and he noticed she was scared and he looked to see eggs, her eggs. His mind raced as she said, "I was on patrol when an enemy sylveon male jumped me and did things I do not want to remember. I did not know I was old enough to have eggs and at this rate I might die and with the food shortages, I am afraid they will be eaten. (Her eye's wandered as her face was lower and her ears were down.) If I do not make it, can you please raise them for me? I know it is tough to ask but, I need this to be our secret. I hate this war as my father, brothers, and uncles are fighting or dead. I heard my older brother defected to the other side and is a kill on site. I do not want to have war orphans on my account and you, are undead so, please just in case?" Drake looked confused and replied, "No promises, but I can try." Drake could not keep any word as the stalemate was ending and his side was losing and out of bullets, food, and resources to fight. Civil unrest was starting and the central government was more reckless since the start of the war eight years to the day. The country was in major debt and other nations were not extending payments any longer as the nations credit was worthless now. Drake had some savings and they would not buy a loaf of bread. Drake looked like he was in despair and he was, he said, "I was an orphan alone in the world, starving might be the worst thing, I understand the loss of family more than you could know." Amon was given some phone cable and Drake was her protector when they were at the front. The plan changed as the order to go over top was given and they charged into the barbed wire and mines. In a muddy shell hole Amon and Drake landed and he smelled poison gas and heard the warnings as he put her mask one first, then his was almost on when she jumped out and was hit in the head with a bullet. Her brains were on the ground and he panicked, hoping that turning her might save her life and it was too late. He wanted to bury her in a private grave and not in the mass graves of the battle field. He ran and picked up her body to throw it over his side of the trench and he was fallowed by the enemy. He used flamethrower to drive them off and use his teeth and fangs to fight. The enemy retreated and he picked Amon up fast and before anyone would think of eating her body. "I'm sorry Amon." He said quietly as he found her nest spot destroyed from a shell and partially developed pups in the eggs. He was depressed and pulled a bag out of a crate to put what was left. He guarded her body and at night he snuck into a farmhouse to see the house almost gone and he began to dig a hole to let her rest forever. Her eggs were by her side and he covered her fast and barely pushed part of a wall to cover the dirt. He came back to hear cheering and the word of an armistice and he felt ashamed that Amon was not living to see this. She was his friend and soon he was depressed and pulled out some smokes to have one. He took his time and sat there as the glee from before had died and they had lost the war. He came to the hiding spot and found one egg intact and he put it in his bag to take home. He was walking back and the egg hatched to an eevee male. Drake put him on the ground as the others looked at him now. Drake told him, "Your mother would be happy that you were born and I made a promise to raise you, Anubis." The pup did not understand at all and wanted to sleep as Drake carried him to his house with some humans that looked beaten and half dead. The war was hard and Drake wanted Anubis to not suffer the fate of the war orphans.

Copyrights -pokémon belong to Nintendo, Game Freak

-The character and ideas are mine Delete341(Myself)

-BBC(, Toby Whithouse, Rob Pursey, Touchpaper Television, and Eleanor Moran, for BBC Cymru Wales)-Anyone I do not know that created the NPC's

-PMD-E-of-Beyond is on DA