Disclaimer: The story is fiction. The fic is a parody of the Christmas Carol. The idea itself came from the author Persona, who I have taken the project over for him. The ideas in here are not only mine but of the people in the Pokegirl forum and the Pokegirls themselves come from a parody of Poke’mon a trademark by Game Freaks. I am not making money off this so please don’t sue me.

Linda’s Tale Side Story
A Poke’ Carol
By The Sax 
Idea by Persona

A lone console blinks in a dark lab. Suddenly two figures open the door and enter into the room, as they do the room comes alive with the fluorescent lights above. One of the figures, an Growlie walks over to the console that was blinking and pressed the illuminated button.

In front of her a hiss sounded as a tube opened slowly. A man lies inside the tube sleeping. In moments he awakens and stretches his arms around.

“Well, well, Linda, is it that time of the century again?”

“Yes Master, it is now 200AS January 1st. 200 years after your “death”.”

“Good, now to see how those humans are scrambling to get a grip on themselves.”

“Before you do that master, I have a visitor for you.”

“Who can it be? A mindless letch who wandered in or some explorer?”

“Neither, she is a Megami.”

“Well then, that changes things show her in!”

“She already has Mr. Sukebe.”

Sukebe looked around his shoulder to see a Megami had snuck behind him. She stood a little taller than him and wore a black leather bikini with tan leather straps. She did a small bow to Sukebe.

“My name is Peorth, and I am here to cure you of your sickness.”

“Humph I am not sick, My health has been fine and will be as long as I live with the stasis machine.”

“Not a sickness in your body, but one in your soul, one that can’t be fixed by being in stasis.”

“Humph, how so, I think I’m quite fine. Now if you’ll excuse me I would like to check my progress on the world.”

“Mr. Sukebe, please you need to stop! Even Linda your faithful servant thinks so.”

Sukebe looked over at Linda, she nodded her head slightly. Sukebe growled.

“Fine do what you want for now, but I’ll make you pay if you do anything that seems odd.”

Peorth relaxed a bit as she walked Sukebe over to a chair. She sat him down and she stood in front of him. She put her hands up to his head and concentrated for powers. A bright light surrounded the two as Linda watched in wonder of the holy light.

Peorth kept her concentration high as, Sukebe and her mind saw flashes of lights in many different colors. The fast transition came to an abrupt stop as the two came to existence in a dark and dreary room.

“Where am I!?” Sukebe shouted at Peorth.

“This is your mind Sukebe, this ruined and tattered room is what consists of your mind. Now do you believe me? That you are as sick as can be in your psyche.”

“No this is a trick!”

“Say what you want, but this is your psyche. I will now leave for a moment and summon my sisters.”

With that Peorth disappeared from the room and Sukebe was left in the cold and dark room. He Looked around and saw amidst the rubble only a bed and a bedroom drawer was in the room. He lied down on the bed and stared up at the ceiling, he saw a dark cloudy sky above a large hole in the ceiling above where he lay. It started to rain.

Meanwhile in the real world...

Peorth leaves her trance state and walks over to Linda. She pats her shoulder and smiles at her.

“He’ll be all right.”

Then Peorth took a small phone and dialed a number, she waited patiently as it rang.

“Hello, Urd? This is Peorth, is Belldandy and Skuld ready too, good then come here now, he’s ready. Yeah just come down from Yggdrasil and we’ll get to work.”

A moment later two Megami came through their respective portals. Urd came first through one of the video screens as Belldandy shortly after came through a small mirror. The three waited for Skuld to come. A minute later Skuld came bursting through the doors. 

“Next time ready some water in the room will ya!? I had to come out of a toilet!”

Back in Sukebe’s psyche...

Sukebe groaned to himself as rain pelts on him through the holes. Suddenly the Megami Flash into existence on the plane. Sukebe looks at them and sighs in relief.

“Get me out of here, now!”

“Can’t do that, after all this is your own head we’re in, if you want out you have to kill yourself.”

“What!?”

The rain turns into a full hurricane as slab of ceiling crumbles down on to the ground. 

“Look we’re going to help you so let us just do what we wanted to do.” Peorth begged.

“Fine make it quick.”

With that Urd came up to him and took his hand.

“First why don’t we look at the past?”

Urd and Sukebe disappear out of the room leaving the three Megami to dawdle.

“I’m bored!” Skuld said.

“Anyone up for a game of Old Poke Maid?” Peorth said taking out a deck of cards.

“Sure.”

The three sit down to play.

The past...

Sukebe and Urd land softly on the ground. Sukebe looks around and sees his old home town in Michigan. 

“Where is this?”

“This is your hometown in 1982.” Urd said pointing to a kid walking down the street with an over sized backpack and coke bottle glasses.

“Hey that’s me in sophomore year! Damn I looked geeky.”

“Let’s follow him.” Urd said pulling his arm.

Jim walked down main street to get back home from school. School had ended for the rest f the week before for Christmas and he was happy for that. He walked down his home’s street and came to his house. He went inside and saw a surprise, his entire family had come to his house for the holidays early.

“Welcome home Jim!” Everyone cried.

“Hey everyone’s here, wow, well I’ll go wash up now.”

“Wait one second young man.” his mother started, “There is someone else here too.”

“Who?” He asked looking around.

A hand clamped on his eyes, “Guess!”

“Jackie!” He exclaimed.

Sukebe looked at his younger self and girl, 

“It’s Jackie my old girlfriend from high school!”

Sukebe rushed over to her to embrace her, he went right through her and crashed in to a wall.

“Ow...”

“If you’re such an evil genius, you should have figured out by now that you don’t exist on this plane and that to them you don’t exist yet.” Urd said rubbing her temples.

“Right, so why show me this.”

“To show you how happy you and most others felt.”

The scene suddenly blurred out and refocused on another scene. Sukebe’s home was still standing but just barely, everything seemed destroyed.

Sukebe looked around in horror, as he tried to go through the rubble, as he pried off a chunk of fallen wall he saw a hand he kept digging to find his mother, dead.

Just then a scream came from the outside, Sukebe ran outside with Urd to see Jackie running for her life as a Merrowl chased her down and tackled her down. She was then knocked out and carried off.

“No more of this! I don’t want to see any of this.”

“Do you know what, millions of other people saw or had that happen to them, they felt the same pain.”

Sukebe simply shook in fear as shock over came him of what he had done.

“Do you know what day it is? It is Dec 25 1999, Christmas day, ironic isn’t it?”

The world fizzled away as Sukebe’s psyche room returned. The three Megami put down their cards and smiled.

“Congratulations Mr. Sukebe, you have started on the road to recovery.” Belldandy told him.

The room seemed less dark and damaged as he left it. Belldandy snapped Sukebe’s attention to the drawer in his room. On the drawer a photo lay propped up. On the photo it showed Sukebe as a young teenager and Jackie smiling together. Along with a few other photos of family and friends.

“I’ll take you next.” Belldandy says as she takes Sukebe’s hand and whisks him off. The two land out in a forest nearby the lab. Sukebe looks around to inspect the area, Sukebe and Belldandy shiver at the cold air as they look around.

“There’s nothing here, why come here?” he asked

“Well, look over there in that clearing.” Belldandy said as she walked over to a clearing.

Sukebe and Belldandy walk out into the clearing, they approach a lonely tent in the middle of the clearing. The camp fire had gone out and the night sky shone brightly above in the sky. The two peer into the tent. Inside two figures lay together shivering in the sheer cold of the January night. One of them was a tamer holding the other figure tightly. The other figure a Boobisaur shook in the cold as it tried to get as much warmth from her tamer as she could. The tamer woke up slowly as he felt his Boobisaur shake more and more.

“Julia? Are you okay?”

“Yeah Dave, I’m as fine as  a house plant in an cold and bitter night can be.” she said weakly.

“Don’t worry I’ll try and keep you warm. I’m sorry that your pokeball had to break like that when we fell from that small ledge. But don’t worry we can make it to a Pokecenter. It should only be about three more miles or so.”

“It’s okay Dave, don’t blame yourself, that rocky outcrop could have come down if a Pia had walked over it.”

The two embrace each other even tighter as they try to go back to sleep in the cold.

Sukebe and Belldandy go outside the tent and look back at it. Sukebe looks with some sort of sorrow in his heart as he starts to walk away.

Belldandy stops him and turns him around.

“This is not the only thing plaguing the people, your destruction has brought in a whole new dark age.”

“Well history does repeat itself.” Sukebe said pushing back any sorrow he had.

“But you have nearly killed off the entire human race, Pokegirls after all need humans.”

“Then let Pokegirls rule the masses!”

“Please, you have to see through this. There is no joy of being alive here, except for love, there is no hope for these people.”

“Then all they need to do is love.”

“But love alone can’t save people unless it is realized and celebrated!”

“And if these humans can even comprehend it then they can save themselves.” Sukebe turned back around to walk away.

“Think of Julia, that Boobisaur, she’s going to die because of these conditions.”

“Die?” he flinched

“Do you know what happens to them after this? I had Skuld look in on there fates at this current moment, they’re going to die.” Sukebe stopped in his tracks. “Julia there is going to freeze to death in this cold the next morning at about 7:00 and Dave who is anguished by his alpha’s death jumps into a nearby river and drowns.”

Sukebe stopped and thought,

“Is there anyway to save them?”

“Well all she needs is a working empty pokeball and a healing machine.”

“Can I save her? Is there time?”

“It all depends on how you act.”

The scene once again warps out and comes back into focus in Sukebe’s psyche. Peorth and Skuld had shed most of there clothing and sat there playing cards with Urd.

“Come on ladies take it off I won fair and square!” Urd said with a smile.

“Urd! What are you doing!”

“Just playing poker...”

Belldandy just rubs her forehead and just tells Sukebe to sit down and wait while they got dressed again. Sukebe looked around the room and saw that the walls and ceiling, though cracked, was now all intact. A fire now burned brightly in the room as a new fireplace had been placed in a corner of the room that had been a pile of rubble.

Peorth came up to Sukebe with Skuld, they both pulled on they’re clothing as they came up.

“So, what do you think you did when you unleashed us pokegirls on the earth?”

“I simply created them to create a new culture, one that can show the fools how they’re idea in creating peace is impossible without weaponry is absurd by making them all pay. Pokegirls are proof that people can’t live with simple shoot first and ask later policies. Even if people are lost daily because of the hardships of life, it was the same back then. I do feel guilt and pain for those who had to die for no reason and as much as I want to save them all, some sacrifices need to be made.”

“So you don’t care what happens if you don’t do anything?” Skuld asked.

“Why? Should I?”

“Because if nothing brings help or a glimmer of hope the world will ultimately decline.”

Skuld takes Sukebe’s hand and pulls him into the future.

They land on the ground of the same forest Belldandy had taken Sukebe. The trees now looked older and the air seemed warmer. Sukebe looked around and smelled the air, there was an odd fragerence in the air. Sukebe and Skuld walk around the forest and come to a small clearing. An old near eroded away lump of stone had been placed on the ground.

“It’s that girl Julia and her tamers grave, someone found the body of Julia and later found Dave washed up on a river bank close by. They were buried together and their girls were transported to a nearby ranch where they got level 5 programming.”

Sukebe stared out into space and thought. His attention snapped when he heard a branch snap. He looked over to where the sound came from, a young youth ran out into the opening and threw every pokegirl out of their balls.

“Everyone, GO!”

The team of girls that came out were anything but fit to fight. They all seemed worn and near exhausted  from battle, as they came out and weakly entered a fighting stance numerous eyes came out of the shadows. The eyes advanced revealing an large pack of many pokegirls. They all converged on the pokegirls that had come out to fight. They were beaten to a pulp as they soon were dragged off into the shadows. The tamer worn and tired simply gave out and dropped on his knees and waited for the killing blow. A Slicer slowly came up and beheaded him. The rest of the carnivorous pokegirls dive in to consume their dinner.

Sukebe and Skuld flinched at the sight and the sound of sinew cracking and meat ripping away from the hot flesh that had once been a tamer. They looked away and headed toward the way where the girls that had been with the tamer had been dragged off to. They continued on and went out of the forest. Outside the forest a long stretch of road led down a street filled with rubble and crumbling buildings. 

Sukebe and Skuld looked around the deserted city. The sound of pure ecstasy could be heard. Sukebe curious by the sounds looked inside a crumbled old house. Inside the pokegirls who had just been pulled away in panic and fear were enjoying a good taming by their captors. The girls seemed as if their master was a far away memory that never existed as they enjoyed each others taming. The captors themselves seemed to be very content with each other.

“Sukebe, do you know why these girls are enjoying their rape? Even if they know that their beloved master is now the blue plate special?” Skuld looked at him sternly. “Because there are no more humans, all the humans are gone except for a few that survive only to dwindle faster and faster. The loyal girls love their master but with constant fear and running the girls themselves are half feral, the girls all would become a slave to anyone who tames them.”

Sukebe kept staring at the girls.

“Stop staring!” Skuld yelled hitting his head with the a hammer.

“Sorry” Sukebe said rubbing his head.

“Anyways, this is what will happen to the world after years and years of decline. The world will ultimately decimate it self when the humans give up on pokegirl rights and not care for everything in the big picture. When the pokegirls become fed up with this, the world you had created for them, they’ll rebel. The world you see here was created from the rebellion, all the humans dead with a mass of pokegirls slowly going feral because the balance of nature was knocked off it’s feet.”

The scene shifted back to Sukebe’s psyche. Sukebe sat down and stared off into the wall. The room seemed new with uncracked walls and warm insides. Sukebe simply stared around the room. The other Megami approached him and looked at him.

“So how do you feel?” Peorth asked.

“Changed.” Sukebe replied sifting his attention to her.

“Good.” She said as the room blurred out of Sukebe’s vision.

Sukebe snapped back to reality, he looked around and saw nobody was around except for Linda. He looked  at her and looked down his hands.

“What had I been doing? How can I get so far astray from my original goal. All this time was plotting the destruction of mankind, I only wanted to give them a one two punch, but I’ve dealt a death blow. Linda!” Linda stood up at attention. “Where are the Megami?”

“They left right before you woke up master, all of them, they just walked out telling me that you’re now okay.”

“What time is it?”

“It’s a few minutes before 6 in the morning, Jan. 2.”

“Good there’s time.”

Sukebe rushed out of the room grabbing a pokeball from the counter and a jacket from the coat rack. Linda looked at her master in wonder of what had become of him this time and followed him out of the door and out to the cold morning air out side.

Sukebe ran around the forest trying to remember where it was, he ran as fast as he could skimming his sight around, he bust out into a clearing and ran towards the tent. Sukebe bust through the opening and captured Julia who seemed to be shacking even more violently. David sprang up when her body went missing and looked up at Sukebe.

“Who are you?”

“No time to explain your pokegirl is in need of immediate medical attention! I got her in this pokeball and she’ll be all right now, but we still need to hurry.”

Nodding David got up and ran back towards the lab, Linda met them half way with a puzzled look and turned around and headed back to the lab.

Back at the lab Sukebe got Julia out of the  pokeball and into a incubated cell. He went over to a computer console and typed in some codes and the room filled with a strange mist.

“What are you doing?!” David asked looking at his girl.

“I am warming her near frozen body and giving her some medicine that would help her recover faster.”

“Oh, but this doesn’t seem like a regular pokecenter.”

“Of course not, this is a lab, I ‘m rescuing your girl from death but in return I want something from you.”

“What”

“I want you to spread an idea I have, make it your own if you like but there is an old tradition that happens on the 25th of December. It is called Christmas, a day where families come together and celebrate peace and joy.  Friends and family give each other gifts and have a whole day just spending time together. I want you to spread that idea.”

“Where did you get an crazy idea like that?”

“In the old pre-Sukebe times the same holiday existed, but was lost, I want you to give birth to that tradition once again.”

“Anything, I shall then start spreading the word. Is there anything else that would help in recreating the festivities.”

“Yes; there are also Christmas trees, where a tree is decorated with lots of tinsel and ornaments, a feast with everyone close to you, and the giving of presents to each other to show love. And remember pokegirls also have to be included in this too, it is a holiday emphasizing on everyone not just humans.”

David nodded and continued to watch his Boobisaur heal.

One year later...

It was Christmas day and Sukebe walked into the lab scratching his head, he had spent the last year working on a way to improve the lives of pokegirls and was tired from all the work. His best achievement the anti-feral serum was about completed and he was tired. He entered the lab to find Linda and the other girls he has waiting for him in Santa hats, JUST Santa hats. Sukebe looked in surprise as he went up to them and smiled asking what the occasion was.

“Well it’s Christmas.” Linda said.

“And you said you wanted Christmas back on this plane.” Smiled Melanie.

Sukebe smiled and looked around, since all of his girls were all alive back before the war they had done a splendid job in decorating the lab. Linda walked over to Sukebe and pulled him to the monitor screen on one of the consoles. On it were various videos of areas around the world, the ideas had spread around the world as David had told tamer after tamer of his plans. Towns and cities alike all were decorated in red and green. A large tree in the center of Riven was decorated as people stood around it and watched the tree with awe. Sukebe went through the different scenes and stopped at one, David sat with all his girls and his family in his home about to eat a feast. He seemed very content as he received a hug from his alpha Julia who now was an venuswhore, she wore ribbons all over her flowered plant and seemed content in her master’s arms.

Sukebe sighed and looked back around to his girls. They all smiled and pulled him out of the seat and took him outside. Outside a large fur tree was decorated with even more tinsel and small trinkets of all sizes. Sukebe, smiled and looked up at the snowing sky. He wondered were the Megami were.

Meanwhile in Yggdrasil...

All the Megami looked down on the earth and smiled at what the world was striding forward to.

The End

Now for some explanations. This story was first thought of by the people of the Pokewomon Forum http://disc.server.com/Indices/169881.html. The Christmas Carol story was then thought of by Persona who decided he just couldn’t write this without Metro’s consent. So I decided to take on the project and write it up. So the references I have made for this fic were to Metro’s ideas on how Sukebe regains his sanity and to ancient Norn myths for the standpoints of the three Megami.

The Megami appear in the Wild Horses fics but as Urd, Bell, and Skuld. So as a way of explanation, the Megami mentioned here are not the same ones mentioned here. The Megami in this fic are actually the grand mothers of the famous Megami that belong to Morisato.

And that is all.

The Sax