Chapter Seventeen - News, News, And More News!

Story by Dallas Adoraslash on SoFurry

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#17 of Part Three - A Journey Through The Unknown


I stared down at her and once again dragged my tongue out around my muzzle as I felt the last of his tail squeeze into my stomach, closing my eyes and purring softly to the feeling of his struggling. It was bad enough that I had eaten him in the first place, but on top of that my instincts were pushing me to actually enjoy what I'd just done.

Electra growled as she leaned over the rock and grabbed my front paws, pulling them out from underneath me and hopping back as I fell forward onto my belly, grunting softly as I opened my eyes just as she placed her paws on the sides of my face.

"I fucking defend you, get in a huge argument about how I know you'll do the right thing and about how you know not to eat the colony members and I come out here to see you wolfing another one down!"

"Electra it's not what it looks like." I said as I licked around my mouth again, instinctively trying to remove and swallow the bits of yellow fur that were stuck to the rough surface of my tongue.

"Then what is it? Because someone in here was yelling a moment ago about how a cat was trying to eat him and I run in to see you swallowing something and that guy is nowhere in sight. So please, tell me what it is if it's not what it looks like."

"Okay okay it's exactly what it looked like then but... I had a reason this time other than hunger!"

"It better have been a really good reason then." She said as she let go of my face. "How many did you eat? Was he the only one? How many others were there Dallas?"

"Relax he was the only one." I said as I pulled myself back up into a sitting position. "I told everyone that was in here that we were going to have a meeting and that they should do the flashy sparks because I can't and they all started doing it but this one guy stayed."

"So you figured since everyone else was out of the room you could just eat him and no one would find out?" She asked. "I can't believe you right now! I defended you!"

"NO!" I yelled. "He started telling me about how he saw what I did outside and that he was going to flash danger sparks and tell everyone about what happened. I tried to explain to him what happened but he ran, so I had to stop him. I held him down gently and tried to explain but he started yelling down the tunnels about how I was trying to round up all of the colony members so I could eat them and how I was trying to crush him and things. I heard someone coming down the tunnel and I didn't want them to hear it all and start a huge problem in the colony over nothing."

"So you ate him." She said, sighing as she shook her head.

"Well I didn't know it was you that was coming! I thought it was someone else that was going to spread the word that I was trying to kill everyone or something."

"We'll talk about this later." She said as she turned around, watching as the colony members began to gather in the room. "Sure avoiding that particular outcome was a good idea but you didn't have to go about doing it that way."

"Doing what what way? What's with the Purrloin?" someone asked as they walked over to us.

"Nothing, drop it." Electra said as she turned around and looked at him. "We're talking about the meeting topic, none of your business yet. Get out of here."

I watched as people entered the room and just stared at me for a moment, a lot of them hesitating at the entrances for a few moments before finally coming inside. The Raichu reacted more cautiously than even the Pichu, which took me by surprise, because they were supposed to be the toughest of the colony members. Maybe they weren't being cautious, maybe they were confused that a good chunk of the colony was rounded up in the main room with a huge Purrloin.

"I think if I wasn't standing here none of the members would even come in." Electra mumbled as she hopped up onto the rock and stood up next to me. "Arceus Dallas do you have to be so huge?"

"I don't know what you're talking about. I choose a Pokémon, I don't choose the size." I said as I looked down at her. "I always sit when I do meetings I think. Besides the leader is supposed to be the biggest."

"Well yeah but you're huge." She said as she pushed against my side. "Jeez move over."

"Why don't you just stand in front of me?" I asked as I stood my ground, not bothering to move at all as I looked around the room.

"Actually that seems like a better idea." Electra said as she hopped down off of the rock, walking over to the center and hopping back up. She turned around and sat down between my forelegs, looking out over the room again before looking up at me.

"Holy crap Dallas if you weren't Purple I'd feel like I was sitting underneath Zeke."

"Well think of it as a purple Zeke then?" I asked.

"The point is to not think of it as Zeke at all." She said as she looked forward again.

I watched as the Raichu began pouring in and making their way to the front of the room, and I couldn't help but realize how big the colony was.

"Uh..." I said as I blinked a few times, looking at everyone in the room. "Is it just me or did the colony get... bigger. Despite everything that has been going on."

"No, it got bigger." Someone in the middle said. "I think one or two of the colonies that were targeted by the Eevee things wound up merging with us when they heard we took them down."

"Yeah you guys are really strong we wanted to join!"

"Well that answers my first question." I mumbled as I looked down at Electra.

"Yeah well I have one." Someone shouted. "Why is this colony run by a cat? Are you like, some sort of dictator that lets the members live as long as they follow your rules and get you things?"

"What? That's Dallas and he's a Mew!" someone yelled. "He would never do that!"

"I uh... what he said." I said as I nodded my head toward the Pikachu that spoke. "I'm a Mew."

"Why are you a big Purrloin in here though? I mean out of all the things. I almost didn't come in because I thought you were going to attack us but I saw others in here and Electra so I came in."

"I don't know, being a Purrloin just... Well it appeals to me for some reason." I said. "How I first became one is a long story but once I did it just felt well, right."

"But don't you think you can be a Pikachu or a Raichu for the colony and not scare us?"

"You're all already in here, you all know who I am, you aren't afraid anymore, I don't see a need to change, no."

"But it would make us more comfortable." Someone else said.

"Yeah well not me." I said, shrugging as I lowered my head down and nudged the top of Electra's.

"He has a point though. You're all here, you know he's him, the shock of seeing him in here is over, just move on." She said. "I'm not even sure what this meeting is even about."

"Just to catch up on things." I said. "So like, tell me what's been going on. Who did we lose, who did we gain, have things gone back to normal yet, you know."

"Well for one I can see we have many new Raichu and a lot of the ones that used to always be here are gone." Electra said.

"Yeah a lot of us got eaten. We didn't really have enough left to have a proper functioning colony and were going to abandon it and look for another we could join up with but they came to us instead."

"We all had that same problem." One of the Raichu said as he looked up at me. "We figured that the stronger colony, the one that took down the Eeveelutions, you guys, would stay where you were and not bother joining another because you guys were plenty strong enough. So instead of playing a waiting game and sitting there all vulnerable we decided to just go and find the stronger colony and merge with it."

"Yeah we didn't know you guys were low on members too." Another Raichu said. "We just figured exactly what their colony figured."

"Alright, well that makes things much simpler." I said. "Have you all been like, briefed on how things work around here?"

"I think it's universal." One of the Raichu said. "All colonies work the same, all you need to know are where the rooms are and just go from there."

"Yeah I think we all do the same things. It's just finding your way around the new place that's the hardest part."

"Yeah the hardest part is finding your way around."

"It's not like we're just wandering Pikachu and Raichu from around the area that you're recruiting. We all came from our own colonies, we know how things work already."

"Alright then." Electra said. "That makes my job easier."

"And mine." Thunder said as he stepped up to the rock. I gazed down at him and he stared me in the eye. It made me feel a little uncomfortable so I narrowed mine a little and held my gaze until Electra coughed softly and he looked away.

"Speaking of easy jobs." Thunder said as he turned around and looked around the room. "It seems like I'm one of the few Raichu that originated from this colony that are left."

"What's that got to do with easy jobs?" Electra asked.

"Because I already know what my job is, I don't have to go looking for something." He said.

"That still doesn't have anything to do with easy jobs." She said back.

"Anyway." I said as he nudged the top of Electra's head again. "I assume everything is in order then? You all are taking up the roles you took up in your own colony?"

"Yeah it would be best if we just kept the same jobs we had over there and did them over here." Someone said. "We know how to do them and we know what to do so like, you know."

"Yeah I know, that sounds fine to me." I said, shrugging as I stood up on all fours.

"If nothing comes to mind that you guys want to talk about then you're welcome to leave. I had a few other things to announce but I forgot what they were. And if I forgot then surely they weren't critical."

I watched as several Pikachu immediately began making their way out, and I waited there until Electra hopped down before I myself stepped down off of the rock.

"I don't really want to keep Kevin and them wai-" I started, stopping mid-sentence as someone grabbed my tail and pulled on it.

"Idiot." Electra said as I turned around just in time to see her smack Thunder's paw off of my tail.

"Go on guys, I'll be in in a moment." Thunder said, nodding his head toward one of the tunnels. The other Raichu nodded and quickly made their way out, and I just stared at him blankly as I pulled my tail back behind me.

"Is there a reason you just did that or do you enjoy annoying me?" I asked as I narrowed my eyes at him. "And what was with that staredown in the middle of the meeting?"

"Cut the crap Dallas, I know what you did. I don't know how I didn't see it when you came out but I know what you did."

"Know what I did what?" I asked as I sat down in front of him. "I've done a lot of things."

"You ate one of the colony members." He said as he folded his arms.

"Okay. So what." I said as I shrugged. "And so has Electra."

"Exactly my point." He said. "Both of you have done it."

"Okay?" I said, shrugging again. "Yeah, I did, yeah she did, anything else?"

"If it happens again you're out." He said.

Electra groaned softly and slapped her paws over her face.

"Well for one, it already did happen again, and two, are you going to be the one enforcing that?" I asked as I tilted my head, lifting my right paw and pushing against his belly gently before placing it back down on the ground.

"If I have to, yes." He said.

"You couldn't even defeat Rice." I said as I frowned a little. "How are you going to drive us out?"

"That's the thing. You were the one that was supposed to take Rice out. And then you were supposed to get out of here." He said.

"What?" I asked as I tilted my head to the other side. "What are you talking about?"

"When we turned you from a human." He said. "You somehow became a Mew in the form of a Pikachu. You were supposed to originally just be a normal Pikachu, but then we figured you'd wind up sticking around because you would find a bunch of your own kind and try to learn things off us like how to survive and crap, and we knew that we had to make you strong enough to defeat Rice and if we did that you'd wind up our leader if you were a Pikachu, and we didn't want some stranger leading us." He said.

"What did I tell you." Electra said as she turned around and lunged at Thunder. I quickly swiped my right paw out and turned it sideways so that the pads on the bottom of my paw were facing me. I let her bump into the soft pads and quickly turned it back around so it was facing normally as she fell down onto her belly just as Thunder jumped back a little. I placed my paw down ontop of her and stared at Thunder, who was staring at Electra. She squirmed underneath my paw and tried to get up on all fours, but as soon as I felt my paw lifting up I pressed down and pushed her back down onto her belly.

"I swear to fuck Dallas get OFF of me!" She yelled.

"No." I said as I closed my eyes, wiggling the paw as I focused on the feeling of her squirming underneath it. "I want to hear this."

"I swear to fuck Dallas if you're thinking about eating me I will KILL YOU!" She yelled.

"Stop... wiggling around then." Thunder laughed. "You should know that struggling underneath a feline's paw is going to-"

"I am NOT thinking about eating Electra." I interrupted. "I would never."

"Yeah and you said the same about the colony members too." She said as she went still, growling as she glared at Thunder.

"I don't think I did." I said, shrugging as I pressed down on her a little harder. "What are you talking about, changed from a human?"

"Don't you dare say a word." Electra growled.

"Like you're in any position to stop me." Thunder said as he looked from her up to me, then sighed softly. "If you don't remember then fine, but either way you have a right to know how you were brought into this world." He said. "For some reason your mate wants to hide from you the fact that you used to be human."

"That makes no sense." I said as Electra growled loudly. "How could I be human?"

"You aren't going to remember it but you were." He said. "We were sick of Rice's crap and needed someone that could take him out for us. As I said before you came along and we figured it would be perfect to just use you instead of finding some other random human, as it would make everything easier if we just did it then so we could get Rice out sooner, though we didn't want a powerful Pikachu around here because then the rules of becoming the leader once you defeat them would apply to you, and everyone wanted me to be the leader."

"Wait so I was just some human before?" I asked. "And you changed me?"

"Well we agreed that some random Pikachu that didn't even know how to attack leading us was a bad idea, so we went for the next best thing and agreed to make you something that could defeat Rice and have the leader rule not apply to you. Specifically a Pokémon that wasn't in the 'Chu family."

"So you made me... a Pikachu anyway." I said as I stared blankly at him as Electra mumbled something that even I couldn't make out properly.

"No, we agreed to make you a cat. And the only cats around here, though rare, are Purrloin. So we figured we make you a Purrloin and lure you to us by well... giving you the weakest colony members."

"By what I don't get what you mean."

"We knew you'd have no idea how to attack or defend yourself, so we made you big. Big enough that no one would bother messing with you. Though no one bothers to mess with a normal size Purrloin anyway, devious little bastards, we wanted to make sure we didn't blow this chance. Better safe than sorry you know? We knew since you didn't know any moves that you would wind up having to teach them to yourself, which would take a while. And while you were learning how to use your moves and listen to your instincts and other crap you would get hungry and not be able to catch anything, or even know what to catch. So we were going to send out our weakest members one by one, maybe one every day, for you to catch and eat. You would snatch them up, easy weak targets, and figure all Pikachu were like that and go searching for more. Eventually you would find the colony, and then we were going to lure Rice out saying there was a huge cat out there and we were all afraid of being killed and blah blah and knowing him he'd try and show us up and go out there alone to kill you. But by then we figured you'd have gotten down the basic hunting instincts and as soon as he went out there he'd be history. Then we'd go out and chase you off and that would be it."

"Whoa whoa whoa hold on here a minute." Electra said. "You're knee deep up my ass for eating colony members yet your plan was to willingly give them to him? You're such a hypocrite!"

"Yeah well the difference is I didn't actually do it." He said.

"But you PLANNED TO!" She yelled. "That's just as bad! If things had gone right you would have followed through with it!"

"Yeah Thunder that's... just as bad." I said, pinning my ears back as I lifted my paw up off of Electra, placing it down on the ground next to her and leaning my weight on it properly. "Don't - whatever you were going to do before... to him." I said, frowning.

"Well back then times were tough, you had to do what you had to do. I admit it was wrong to go with that plan but come on, you don't even know who you're eating you're just picking them off."

"If they were strong members they would have fought." I said. "Neither of them did they kind of just sat there and whined. I don't even think the first one said anything really and the second guy was a mess."

"OKAY ANYWAY." Electra yelled. "I'm curious now, what happened?"

"Yeah what... happened?"

"I don't even know. I originally thought we just fucked up bigtime but now that I see you like this it makes me think we did it perfectly the way we'd planned. That's why you're so comfortable being a Purrloin, you were designed to be one in the first place. Though I have no idea how you wound up a Pikachu, or even a Mew."

"Maybe Stryder or someone wanted something extra?" Electra asked.

"I still can't believe the part where I used to be human." I said. "I mean sure it was brought up many different times but like, Electra always... Why DID you always stop them from telling me?" I asked as I looked down at her.

"I don't know, I thought it would hurt you or something." She said, shrugging.

"Anyway, back to the original topic, you aren't even supposed to be here in the first place. Sure what happened happened, and yeah you saved us a couple times, and maybe we might not be here if it wasn't for you taking out the Eeveelutions, but I can't have you staying here and... eating our members." He said. "I'm not even trying to be mean about it, I'm just being honest. The colony would freak out if they found out their leader wanted to eat then."

"Which is why you're not going to say anything." Electra said as she looked around the room, narrowing her eyes as she stared at a Raichu that was just standing there against a wall staring at us.

"I won't I won't. Honestly I don't even know how you became as powerful as you are. We didn't add any power after we agreed on the Purrloin, because you would have been plenty powerful just being well, a huge Purrloin you know?"

"So then all the power I have is... is mine? And it wasn't given to me?"

"Yeah." He said.

"Well that makes me feel better actually." I said as I perked my ears back up. "At least now I know that the most important part of me wasn't bred into me. Feels nice knowing my power is actually mine."

"Yeah I know, just look at how Mewtwo reacted when he realized he was given all of his power and everything. It sucks knowing you were created in a test tube, that's for sure. We created your Pokémon self, everything else was all you. Though can you just you know, cool it on the whole eating our members thing? I know instincts might get in the way sometimes but like, go after that Rattata and Raticate colony or something. They just squeak and chew things."

"Get over here." Electra said as she waved her paw.

"What?" I asked as I turned my head and looked in the direction she was looking. "What are you- oh."

"When did he get there?" Thunder asked as he squinted at the Raichu in the distance. "I can barely even see him."

"I can see him just fine." I said. "I just thought they all left."

"Yeah well you have cat eyes." Thunder said as he waved his paw. "Who are you? Come here."

"He's eating the members and you're just going to let it go? What kind of leader are you?" He asked as he made his way over to us.

"Actually I'm only the leader when he's not here. He's the leader of the colony and Electra here is his mate. That's Dallas." Thunder said.

"Okay well just because that's Dallas doesn't mean you can just let him gobble up our members whenever he feels hungry. A cat his size can put away four or five Pikachu easy! That's like twenty five a day!"

"Oh come on." I said, lowering my ears as I stared down at him. "I don't do it on purpose."

"Well sure if all he ate was Pikachu then yeah we'd be screwed over pretty fast, but he doesn't, and he knows not to eat the colony members." Electra said. "Sure he might not eat mainly berries and seeds and apples and whatever else we eat normally, but like Thunder said there's a whole huge colony of rats not too far away for him to eat. Not to mention we have our own human nest with all the food we could ever want."

"You're just going to let it go? He ate two members and you're not going to inform the colony that they should be cautious of him?"

"No, I'm not. Because he knows what's right and what's wrong." Thunder said.

"That's not even my job, don't look at me." Electra said as she shrugged.

"Are YOU going to tell them?" I asked as I dropped onto all fours and lowered myself down into a crawling position so that I was eye level with him.

"If neither of you two are going to tell them that they should at least be cautious then I have no choice but to tell them all myself. Now if you'll excuse me I have some lives t-"

"It is sooooo important to your future that you do not finish that sentence." Electra said as she folded her arms.

"I have nothing to do with this." Thunder said as he took a step back.

"I wonder if Dallas can swallow a Raichu whole. I'd like to see that." She said as she looked from me to the Raichu.

"Whoa whoa, I'm trying NOT to eat colony members here, come on!" I said as I shook my head no. "You do it."

"I already know that I can, I want to know if you can." She said as she grabbed his tail and pulled him closer just as he turned around to run off. "Here, sniff it. Mmmm it smells delicious doesn't it?" She asked as she rubbed the yellow part of his tail against my nose. "Eat him Dallas."

"Electra stop it." Thunder laughed. "You're not helping."

"Electra." I said softly as I sniffed at the tail. "I'm not going to-" I started, stopping and pinning my ears to the back of my head as she pushed the tail into my mouth and I instinctively closed it tightly around it just as she pulled her paw out, holding the yellow end of the tail firmly between my teeth just gentle enough that I didn't bite into it.

"There you go." She laughed. "Now suck it in and swallow it."

"Holy shit let me go!" He yelled as he pulled on his tail. "Fucking hell Thunder stop them!"

"Thunder?" Electra asked as she turned to him, grinning as she walked over to me and pointed to him, then patted my side. I flicked my ears back to the feeling of her patting me, and plopped down flat onto my belly.

"Sorry bud, you're on your own." Thunder laughed. "I guess I can let this one slide. He's going to go start a riot with his crap anyway, it's for the best."

"Well if that's the way you feel then the second guy he ate was perfectly reasonable." She said, laughing softly. "You came off as a little hostile before, but now I kind of understand your reasoning behind it all. I wouldn't kill ya." She laughed as she walked over and patted his right arm.

"Then why did you just gesture from me to--"

"I was kidding." She laughed as she grabbed the Raichu's tail and began feeding it into my mouth as if she were pulling on some kind of rope. "Eat! I want to see if you can do this."

I sighed softly as I watched the flailing Raichu get dragged across the floor. This time I didn't want to eat him. I wasn't hungry, and I knew that eating the members was bad but two of the highest ranked members were quite literally shoving him down my throat.

"Holy fuck don't do this I won't tell a soul I swear just LET ME GO!" He yelled as he clawed at the ground.

"Too late." Electra said as she grabbed him around the middle and dug her claws into his sides, lifting him up and pressing his hind end against my face. "Opennnn."

I stared blankly at her as I began to drool around the mouthful of Raichu tail that I had stuffed in my mouth. It dripped into the dirt underneath my face as I glanced over at Thunder, who sighed softly as he began to approach.

"Electra." He said as he walked over to the other side of the Raichu. "He's yelling really loudly, you might want to muzzle him." He said as he walked to the front of him and pressed both paws against his face, one holding his mouth shut while the other helped Electra push him toward me. "Come on Dallas the sooner we get this over with the sooner we can forget about all this and start fresh. Besides this dude it's even a member of OUR colony. I don't recognize him at all. So you know, you aren't really eating a colony member."

"Oh come on Dallas just a few minutes ago you were wolfing down a Pikachu while I was trying to pull it out. Now I'm trying to push one in and you won't eat it?"

I groaned softly as I reluctantly opened my mouth. Electra and Thunder both pushed as soon as I had it open wide enough, and I dug my claws into the dirt as the lower half of the Raichu was forced into my mouth. The tail was tickling the top of my throat as it lay there all bunched up and flicking around. I knew at this point backing out was not an option, and I felt my resistance melting away as his flavor rubbed off all over the inside of my mouth with all of his kicking and squirming. It wasn't until I finally gave in and swallowed down his bunched up tail that I finally gave in fully and just accepted it.

"He's... doing it." Thunder said as I stood up on all fours and kept myself in the crawling position I was in earlier. The Raichu began to yell and thrash when his tail was swallowed, and it wasn't until then that I began actually participating in this weird feeding.

"Look, he's going into cat mode." Electra said as I narrowed my eyes and pushed forward against their pushing. I took a little baby step forward and swallowed hard, growling softly around the Raichu as his hind legs were sucked down into my throat.

"Cat mode?" Thunder laughed nervously. "It's his instincts. Once you get a good taste of rodent, hungry or not, you're going to wind up giving in and eating it."

"How do you even know that?" Electra asked as I swallowed hard, pulling about half of the Raichu into my throat at this point and tugging the rest of him into my mouth. Electra quickly let go and stepped back, but Thunder didn't seem to be paying attention and continued to push against his face as he stared at Electra.

"I've seen my fair share of this in my lifetime. Though not with a Raichu." He said. "You forget that I know that other Mew. He taught me a thing or two about what the instincts of other Pokémon are like."

"Yeah move." She said as she pulled him away from me just as I closed my mouth around the last of the Raichu. His yelling went from muffled noise to a full out cry for help for a split second between when the paw left his mouth and when I closed mine, only to return to being nothing but muffled noise as I shut it tightly around him.

"Beautiful." Electra chuckled as she walked to the side of me and gently rubbed both paws through the fur on my right side. "So majestic."

"What is wrong with you?" Thunder asked as he stared right at me, just as I closed my eyes and swallowed hard, sending the last of the Raichu down into my throat. Though it had been a full mouthful, it wasn't unlike swallowing a mouthful of Pikachu, and with half of him already down and no tail hanging out it was real easy to finish him off.

"This..." Thunder said as I opened my eyes and looked right at him, my tongue flicking out and dragging around my muzzle as I stared him in the eye. "Is what I was afraid of."

"What you think he's going to stay in cat mode and eat us too?" She asked as I pulled myself up into a sitting position, once again closing my eyes as I swallowed hard a few times to actually get the Raichu down.

"This is going to fucking haunt me in my dreams forever." Thunder said as he shivered visibly, staring at the lumps in my throat as they were pushed slowly downwards.

"Just think that could have been you if he didn't stand on me." Electra laughed. "You got lucky."

"Yeah that makes me feel a LOT better." He said as he rolled his eyes.

"What I don't understand is - and it's the same exact thing when I eat Pokémon too - why don't they try harder to keep themselves from being eaten? They don't attack, they don't bite, they don't do anything but squirm and yell. I thought it was only the ones I ate but apparently it's all of them."

"Mew explained that one to me too. Something about being eaten triggers some survival instinct inside you that well, focuses on struggling, and if you get free, running to safety. You literally forget your whole moveset and focus solely on trying to pull yourself free and run away. Only the strongest and bravest Pokémon remember how to attack in such a situation. I don't know why but that's how it is."

"Purrr..." I mumbled as I licked around my muzzle again, opening my eyes and blinking a few times as I dropped back down onto all fours into my crawling position. I looked from Electra to Thunder, who took a step back and held both paws up in front of him.

"Gooood kitty." He said as he shook his head no. "Good... Full kitty. Yes?"

I turned my head to Electra and gave her a quick wink before leaping forward and pouncing on Thunder. I smacked him in the belly with my right paw and immediately pressed it down on him, meowing very softly as I lowered my head and gave his face an extremely slow lick with all of my tongue. Tasting him like this wasn't the best idea, as I was still partially in hunting mode from what had just happened, however I was in control enough to stop myself and just watch as he pushed all four paws up against my chest area and tried to push me off.

"ELECTRA I TOLD YOU THIS WAS A BAD IDEA!" He yelled as he thrashed around underneath me. "GET HIM OFF ME!"

"Sorry Thunder." She said as she turned away, probably to hide the huge grin on her face.

"ELECTRA!" he yelled as I lowered my head toward him with my mouth wide open. I exhaled directly onto his face as I pushed down harder on his belly with my paw, however when I was finally close enough, instead of taking his head into my mouth I moved to the side a little and moved my mouth toward his ear.

"Gotcha." I whispered softly into it, before quickly lifting my paw off of him and stepping to the side.

He just lay there flat on the ground for what seemed like a solid minute, until finally he rolled over and got to his feet. He turned around to look at us as Electra burst into laughter, and I couldn't help but chuckle a little myself as I stared at the blank expression on his face.

"What, was mentioning the fact that watching something my size just disappear into you scared me to death not enough for you? You had to... to... AGH!" He yelled as he threw his paws into the air. "If you weren't so big I'd... I'd wrestle you or something!" He said as Electra pulled herself to her feet. "I'm never going to have a good night sleep again!"

"Sorry Thunder, I had to." I laughed softly as I brought my right paw up to my mouth and began grooming the fur. "I couldn't resist."

"Ohhh I'm going to get you back somehow. I don't know how but... But I will." He laughed as he turned around and began walking toward one of the tunnels. "I have something I actually need to go do right now. Holy shit you scared me to death."

"Alright." Electra said as she wiped a tear from her right eye. "We'll see you around."

"Yeah..." He said as he waved a paw at us. "And remember, no more colony members!"

"Right!" I said, laughing softly as I watched him shiver as he ran into the tunnel.

"Well he left in a hurry." Electra laughed.

"I would too if I thought I was going to be eaten." I said, frowning as I looked down at her, placing my paw back down on the ground.

"True, true." She laughed. "Well you know, now what?" She asked.

"Well like I was saying before I don't want to keep Kevin waiting." I said as I shrugged.

"Oh shit you're right I forgot all about that!" She shouted as she grabbed my tail in both paws. "Take us to the park!"

I nodded as I blinked at her a few times, before quickly teleporting us out to the park area in the middle of the field in front of the Pokémon Center. She dropped my tail and continued to just stare at me, then shivered and dropped down onto all fours, shaking herself off.

"Holy crap that teleporting thing really makes you dizzy sometimes." She laughed. "I can't believe you swallowed a whole Raichu."

"I can't believe you swallow half the things you swallow." Cammy said as she walked up alongside Electra. "You ate a Raichu? Kevin is taking us to a restaurant Dallas. I'm not even going to ask where the Raichu came from I'd rather not know."

"And two Pikachu." I said as I looked down at the grass. "But I'll still eat uh. Whatever he brings us to."

"And I'm not going to ask where you came from." Electra said as she nudged Cammy gently.

"Well I knew you'd turn up somewhere in this area so I just waited here for you. Zeke is over there chasing-"

"DALLAS!" Zeke yelled as he ran right at me, however I quickly stepped to the side as he tackled Cammy instead of me for some reason, though with her right in front of me he would have wound up knocking into me anyway.

"HOLY HELL ZEKE!" Cammy yelled as she rolled around in the grass a few times before finally managing to dig her claws into the ground and stop herself, quickly jumping to her feet and shaking herself off. "You yelled Dallas and then did a fucking battle grade tackle on ME!"

"Hehe, sorry Cammy. I knew you wouldn't mind if I tackled you instead." He laughed.

"You... big goofball." She laughed as she jumped up onto his back, rubbing the top of his head with both paws. "Jeez Dallas you're fucking huge."

"Yeah I know." I laughed. "Did I uh... really used to be a human?"

"Uh... yes." Cammy said as she frowned at me, then looked over at Electra, who shrugged. "Yeah, you did."

"Kevin wants to see you two and so does Cameron!" Zeke said. "They're in the Pokémon Center and there's something on the TV they want you to see."

"Something on the TV?" I asked as I tilted my head. "What's that mean?"

"You'll know what a TV is when you see it." Cammy said. "They're playing something about Mewthree suddenly showing up again or something. I thought you said Electra killed him."

"I did." She mumbled as she began walking toward the Pokémon Center. "I bit down and he crunched."

"Well that's one way to describe it." Cammy laughed as she ruffled Zeke's fur between his ears.

"Come on Dallas you have to see it." Zeke said as he began making his way to the Pokémon Center behind Electra. "He wants Electra specifically!"

"Oh well that's lovely." I mumbled as I stood up on all fours and walked alongside Zeke. "For what? Is it bad?"

"No idea." Cammy said. "I walked out as soon as I heard the names Mewthree and Electra in the same sentence."

"Maybe he wants to shake my paw for defeating him in battle." Electra shrugged as we made our way to the doors.

"If that's what it is I'm going to laugh." Zeke said as he walked up to the doors and they slid open.

"I don't think that's what he wants." I laughed as I walked inside alongside Zeke and Cammy.

"Oh hey you two, look at this!" Kevin said as he pointed up at the TV that was mounted to the wall. "There's something you need to see. I hope you don't mind being picked up Dallas." He said as he grabbed me around the middle and lifted me up.

"Whoa, you're a heavy one." He laughed. "And uh... chunky." He said as he sat down on one of the waiting room sofas and squished my belly with his left hand as he sat me down in his lap. "What'd you, swallow a Wailord?"

"Yeah something like that." I said as I looked up at the TV.

--END Chapter Seventeen.--