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The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 4 by foxgamer01 (critique requested)

The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 4

Ch. 4 Growing Anxiety

Maya moaned as she opened her eyes, her vision blurry and her body sore. Seconds passed, and her vision became apparent, with her sensing a figure kneeling down next to her. The colors blended into each other, the outline fuzzy, and the figure moving around while applying something on her. And yet, there was something familiar about this bipedal Pokémon, with a white and yellow body. Not to mention a black and purple face.

“You are finally awake,” the figure said, and Maya felt him wrapping something around her back and stomach. “Given your injuries, you’re lucky that you’re alive. Good, since you haven’t completed my demands.”

“Kyle?” Maya asked, her voice weak even as her vision cleared up enough that the blurry figure turned into a Lucario. He was altered much like Maya, with spikes on his tail and appendages on his head. However, the purple face was a mask shaped like a Ninetales with his eyes seeing through the openings even as he pressed herbs against an injury and wrapped it around with bandages. “How did you find me?”

“When I rebuilt your illusion device, I placed a tracker that allowed me to know your location,” Kyle answered as he yanked open her mouth and force-fed her bitter herbs and Oran berries. “All so that I’ll come when you called and fulfilled my mission. But I saw that you traveled faster than a Swellow’s flight before coming to a hard stop without any more movements an hour ago.”

Maya gagged, laying down within a crater far more prominent than her body, with dirt and grass flown all around. She twitched her leg, and pain returned as a response, with her grunting. A dark chuckle came next to her before she winched, feeling more herbs pressing against her leg and wrappings around it.

“Though I must say, you’re having so much trouble fighting against a Pokémon that should be weak against you,” Kyle said, and she felt a rough poke against her shoulder.

Maya grunted before she glared. “I was ambushed just when I caught Faith. I even prevented that Flareon, Adrian—” She yelped as the poke became a grip, which tightened even as his knuckles cracked. “What was that all about!?”

“Flareon.” Kyle’s voice became low and dark, with sparks emitting from his body. “I guess he hasn’t learned after all.”

“Huh?”

Kyle sighed. “Just talking to myself. You said that you were ambushed?”

“Yes, by that more massive Absol!”

“An Absol?” Kyle stood up, his ears flicking. “Was there any other Pokémon?”

“Now that you mentioned it,” Maya twitched her tail, “a Ninetales was leading the two over to Kucheat Town, I think. That’s the only town in their direction.”

“Ninetales. Massive Absol.” Kyle walked away for a few seconds, with him reaching up to his appendages and pulling out a long ash-grey device with a single green button. “Tell me, does this Ninetales have a green A on his back?”

“How did you—” Maya coughed, and she nodded. “Yes. I heard that’s why he’s called A-Ninetales in the first place. Something that Faith mentioned.”

“Very good. In any case,” Kyle said as he spun back, lifting up the device, “I will call upon my savior for his aid!”

He pressed the button, and a purple light emitted upwards to the sky. Both Pokémon turned upwards as though expecting a winged being to fall from the sky and landing before them. The minutes passed, and Kyle grunted, pressing the button again, with the purple light piercing the sky once more. But nothing happened. Maya couldn’t help but chuckle, and her chest was squeezed in response.

“It seems that he is busy doing other things,” Kyle said after removing his right foot-paw from her chest and grunted. “Guess I’ll have to do it alone.”

“Getting Faith?”

“That is what I want. However, what he wants,” Kyle placed the device back into his appendages, “is A-Ninetales, and I will capture him. There’s no time to waste. Can you move?”

“Er.” Maya twisted his legs, and pain shook through her body, with her grunting. Though Oran berries and herbs work fast on Pokémon if applied on time, her body still felt like her bones were nothing more than dust. “No.”

“Tch,” Kyle said as his red eyes glowed and his spiky appendages floated. His body emitted electricity, burning through the ground, even as he grew in size. The earth shook and cracked against his feet-paws, though they remained still, with the spikes on his appendages retreating inwards. Soon, he towered over at a hundred and fifty feet tall. “Guess I’ll have to carry you.”

He gave out a dark grin at the jaw-dropped Maya before lifting her up and setting her on his muzzle. She lay still, her tail pressing against her back leg even as the teal on it shined. Then, without word or warning, Kyle sprinted away, with Maya clinging on and boulder-sized dirt flew in every direction.

#

The sun crawled down the horizon as the two giant Pokémon headed southwards to Kucheat Town, the hundred fifty-eight miles distance becoming nothing more than a day’s walk for the two. Even so, they still tried to entertain Faith, Adrian, and David riding on them by answering what questions they chose to ask. Even so, Faith’s head still rang as she did her best to understand what they were saying.

The most that she understood was that A-Ninetales and Saria were not from this world or, as they put it, not from this universe. They were from another one, and, in fact, Saria came from a separate one from A-Ninetales. They explained that the multiverse, as they put it, was separated by a ‘thick darkness’ which should prevent travels between universes. But it was discovered that they could open up temporary pathways between universes by using a piercing light.

“So, what was your original universe?” David asked, laying on Saria’s head with his legs bending upwards.

A-Ninetales’s eyes shifted a bit. “Very different from this one. It’s been a long time since I saw my original home.”

David squinted. “Surely you can answer better than that.”

“Truth be told,” A-Ninetales said, not looking at David, “I don’t like giving out too much about myself. It’s dangerous to myself and to others to know too much about me. It’s why I can’t go home after all.”

David, with questions still burning within himself, opened his mouth, only to feel a slight hop from Saria, and he stopped.

Saria, for her part, was more willing to give out her past with A-Ninetales and herself. They met a long time ago, when Saria was a standard Absol height at 3’11”, with her laying on a tree sleeping when A-Ninetales walked past and knocked her off. She was angry at first until she caught a glimpse of him, and any anger was replaced with curiosity and desire. They met again by a river, with her not knowing it was him since he wasn’t as huge until she saw the green A on his back, and they became inseparable since.

“That sounded like fate,” Faith said, leaning next to A-Ninetales ear, and Saria giggled.

“It does, doesn’t it,” Saria said with a slow nod. “I had no idea that Pokémon could be giant then either, so I hunted a way to find out how to make myself big.”

“Sounds like a success to me,” Faith said before she tilted her head. “Though, how did you gain your macro powers? It can’t be because of Flash Fire or some modified ability.”

“Nah. My ability is Super Luck, but that isn’t why I became huge.” Saria, for a second, pressed against her chest. “The truth is that I found a temple in a separate universe, one that apparently worshipped huge Absol, and at the heart of it is an Absolite. That’s a Mega Stone, by the way,” Saria added when she saw Faith’s confusion, “which we used to Mega Evolve.”

“Mega Evolve, eh?” David said while holding up a yellow orb with an orange spiral within. “I never heard of a stone that can cause Pokémon to Mega Evolve. But we do use Awakening Seeds.”

“That’s just one of the differences between the universes,” Saria said. “I knew what an Absolite is, which is why I tried to approach it. It fused itself with me and caused me to grow to my now base height of twenty feet tall.”

“So that’s why you became so big,” Faith said, lights coming from her eyes. “That just sounds amazing.”

“Indeed, though it has its limits,” Saria said with a shrug. “For starters, I can’t grow beyond 50,000 feet without Mega Evolving, and I can’t grow beyond 1.2 billion miles even as a Mega Absol—”

“2.4 BILLION MILES?!” David rolled up even as he dropped the orb, with it rolling down the side. Saria’s paw landed on it, digging it into the ground, and she walked on, with her not leaving a scratch on it. “Do you know just how big you’ll be!?”

“I gave out a number, yes?” Saria said with a giggle. “And yes, that meant that this world wouldn’t be even a single speck of dust on me, but don’t worry. I can’t remain that big for so long. Might be about a minute at that size.” She rubbed A-Ninetales’s side. “Of course, I’ll do my best to make myself bigger for you.”

A-Ninetales sighed. “You know you don’t have to, my dear. I get worried about your health.”

At that point, A-Ninetales explained how he gained his macro powers as well. While a traveler of universes, he soon encountered worlds where Pokémon grew or shrank in sizes, and he became curious about it. He mentioned his interests in a few hub worlds, which he explained are universes where folks used to hop or meet with each other outside of their own, and that caught his friend’s attention.

“Let me get this straight,” David said, leaning against Saria’s horn. “You said that this friend of yours, a ‘poolplush’ fox named Trask, came to you and offered to update your ability for you? And this ‘poolplush’ did it by jabbing your chest with a massive needle and changing it with ‘magic’?”

“Pretty much, though that’s the form my friend appeared as at the time,” A-Ninetales answered as his ears flicked. “These days, Trask appeared as a winged pony or gryphon.”

“Eh, sorry. I know what magic is. In fact, it’s what fuels such badges such as your own.” David pointed at the Explorer’s badge A-Ninetales wore. “But I have never heard of magic that can modify an Ability like that. Change it, but not modified like it.”

“It depends on the universe on how the rules of magic are set up, though they usually follow a similar pattern.” A-Ninetales paused at a wide river, with him looking from side to side. “This world and similar other worlds have creatures such as us that are innately magical but are structured in a way where we can still be understood by science to a degree. Other worlds have magic users that can see into the very fabric of the universe and even warped it to a degree.”

“That doesn’t sound safe,” Adrian said, sitting next to David as he tilted his head.

“It isn’t. In fact, Trask destroyed a few universes by accident.” A-Ninetales chuckled when David slipped off from Saria’s horn, even as both he and Adrian stared at him with wide eyes. “I should point out that my friend also repaired them back to normal—”

“How can that somehow undo the fact that this monster DESTROYED a few universes?!” David leaned over against Saria, fangs bared.

“That’s a fair point,” Faith said, with her leaning over A-Ninetales’s brow.

“OK. Normally, a magic-user shouldn’t be able to do that,” A-Ninetales gave out a sheepish grin even as he shrugged and stepped into the river itself. “After all, the most a magic-user should be able to warp is at a world-scale like this. But Trask is different. You see, my friend is a deity.”

“A deity?” Faith blinked a bit. “You mean like Arceus, Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina? That level?”

“Indeed. And I see meaner deities during my travels,” A-Ninetales said, getting to the other side along with Saria. “At least Trask has the decency to fix up the universes as they were rather than reshape it into a world populated by toys every time.”

David sighed while shaking his head before sitting down. “If you say so. Of course, it’s difficult for bad karma to reach such beings anyways.”

A-Ninetales nodded, and he and Saria walked onwards even as the blue sky had a yellow tinge.

#

As the day soon gave into twilight, the group soon saw the reflective shine from Kucheat Town. At that point, both A-Ninetales and Saria paused on their trek before turning to each other. Soon, they nodded before they carried their passengers off of them, and they shrunk in size, with the badge on A-Ninetales glowing green. Saria became twenty feet while A-Ninetales became three foot seven, with the green A on the badge blinking red a few times before remaining green.

Kucheat Town, though more like a city at this point, was founded eight centuries by a family of Mawile, once roamers, that used remaining anthro tech to grow up to two hundred and fifty feet tall. They soon settled down and founded Kucheat Town and used the anthro tech to build it up and protect it, even after the tech used for growing broke down after two centuries of use.

What made Kucheat Town unusual to most settled places was how advanced it was, from electrical lighting and heating to using refined steel to help build their buildings. Part of that was because the majority of the Pokémon population was Steel-type and Electric-type, but another part was their treasure trove of anthro techs. Among them is a database and blueprints of many other anthro techs that can be built. As such, it became a desirable location to live in as the decades went by and the citizens found out more secrets.

“Here we are near our destination,” A-Ninetales said, the lights in the far-off buildings lighting up one by one. “Of course, we can’t travel all the way as massive Pokémon. Even with the filters being active, we cannot guarantee that we won’t be spotted.”

“A shame too,” David said as he rolled his arms behind his head. “After all, I rather try to avoid all the paperwork we’ll have to do just to enter this city.”

A-Ninetales nodded. “Indeed. All the same, it’ll be even more troublesome without doing the paperwork.”

David nodded even as Faith poked his leg for a moment.

“Excuse me,” Faith said even as her head turned red for a moment. “I don’t know much about Kucheat Town. Care to explain what you two mean?”

David sighed and shook his head as he lowered his arms. “As you know, Kucheat Town has a monopoly on anthro tech here on this continent. They can produce and replicate them to the point that Pokémon, who studied remaining anthro techs, couldn’t tell the differences. And hundreds of places wanted to know their secrets. But here’s the hard truth: the leadership of that town doesn’t want to share their secrets to the rest of the world.”

“Oh? Why not?” Faith tilted her head a bit.

“They give out excuses like ‘protecting the environment,’ ‘too dangerous at this stage,’ and ‘afraid of misuse,’ which are fair points since it can pollute the area to levels that even Poison-types found to be bothersome to them. But they don’t want to limit their output even as they force others to do the same. Because what they really want is to make sure there’s no equal.” David pressed his claws between his eyes for a moment. “As such, they vetted Pokémo who comes and goes to make sure they don’t carry blueprints or, if they’re super intelligent with photographic memories, a chance to see the blueprints. Not because of concern, but because of power.”

Faith shivered a bit. “Your words scared me. To think that there are some Pokémon that are selfish enough to prevent us from knowing more about anthros and their techs.”

David nodded even as A-Ninetales stepped forward. “While I do get your passion, David, we need to get to Kucheat Town for us to sleep in. Though I’m afraid that you’ll have to stay out here for the night, my dear.”

“It’s no issue,” Saria said with a nod. “Even though at this size, the cold doesn’t bother me as much, I still enjoy being with it.”

A-Ninetales’s tails wagged in satisfaction as he smiled and turned, facing the far-off buildings. Faith smiled as her idol walked past her, and she turned to follow. David shrugged and turned, giving Adrian a pat on the head. However, Adrian remained seated, with his green eyes shifting.

“What is it?” David asked, and A-Ninetales and Faith paused mid-step as they turned back.

“I wish to stay so that Saria doesn’t feel lonely,” Adrian explained, and Faith blinked.

“I doubt that she’ll be needing companions for the night.” Faith turned back.

Adrian’s paws wiggled, grabbing onto the much looser ground. “Even so, I still wish to stay.”

“But—”

“It’s no problem with me,” Saria said as she winked at A-Ninetales and Faith. “Besides, my fur is much better than any bed any of you sleep on.”

A-Ninetales laughed. “That part is true. Just as true as you wishing to tower over me.” Saria blushed even as David squinted at Adrian. “It’s fine with me as well. Come along, Faith and David.”

David squinted for a few seconds more before sighing and turning around, rubbing his chin as he went past Faith. Faith’s tails drooped with her ears folding downwards even as Adrian faced away. She felt something breaking in her chest before she nodded and turned, following David and A-Ninetales.

Adrian gave a heavy sigh before craning his head upwards to Saria, her yellow eyes aimed at his green eyes. She lay down and curled up, never looking away even as Adrian climbed on one of her paws. He soon lay on it, and he tensed up a bit.

“Now that we’re alone,” Saria said in a soft voice, “perhaps you should explain why you really wanted to talk with me.”

Adrian nodded even as his cheeks fluffed up. “It’s about Faith and I.”

The Pokémon Prometheus 2 Ch. 4 (critique requested)

foxgamer01

Here is the fourth chapter. Enjoy.


Growing Anxiety

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