Warning: This story idea was originally made by Metroanime. All of the foundational work belongs to Metroanime and all of his contributors. The contents of the Crimson League, however, are not Metroanime's. This storyline should be considered separate, but of the same universe. Most data entries were created by me and are not to be taken as canon Metroanime. Other data entries were taken from the BE Pokegirl Addventure.

Again, this work is NOT by Metroanime. Any similarities are purely coincidental or an attempt at kissing Metroanime's ass. As for anyone who pops up here as well as in Metroanime's storyline... well, everyone's got a twin, right? Well, sometimes that twin has a similar life too. Beeeedah! ^_^

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QUICK CORRECTION: I made a mistake when writing up the rewards for the Bounties on the Widow, Aupair, Vampire, etc. Those prices are the equivalent in U.S. dollars. For the CL credit equivalent, add two zeroes to the end.

So, killing a widow would be 1,500,000 CL credits (equivalent: $15,000).

Wild Horses & Pokegirls - Crimson League
Chapter 23 - Plans Laid, Paths Followed

Ihrie looked at Ben preparing to leave with remorse. It was easier than when he'd first left, but when he was around, she always wondered how much more there was for her to learn from him. In a way, he was the big brother she'd always wanted, while Jyabil had felt like her father.

"Are you sure about this?" Ihrie inquired.

"I'm sorry, Ihrie, but I have to go. I know you want me to stay behind and join the Hunter's Guild, but I'd only get in your way and eventually, you'd start to feel overshadowed." Ben responded, before turning to her, "Besides, you've grown up fine enough without me."

"I'd never-" Ihrie began.

"I know you don't want to admit it, but I can tell that I'd be a pain, even if you wouldn't voice it aloud. I'd be in the limelight every single day, I'd get promoted over everyone else, people would challenge me or make false widow reports to get me to come and eventually, I'd unintentionally make everyone else look weak and pathetic without me. I can't and won't do that to you." Ben told her.

He zipped up his backpack and walked over to Ihrie, placing a hand on her should, "I'm going to join the Fighting league, so you won't lose track of me, and I'll be back too."

"At least take these." Ihrie said, handing Ben a number of small metallic gems.

"T2s?" Ben inquired.

"I want you to at least use these to record your techniques. If.... if anything happens, I don't want your techniques to vanish forever." Ihrie declared.

Ben gave Ihrie a lopsided grin as he took the T2s, "Getting pragmatic, are we?"

"It's practical enough." Ihrie defended herself haughtily, before softening, "Besides, I'd like something to hold on to."

"I'll use these to record the techniques I know." Ben acknowledged.

A few seconds later, Ben began scratching the back of his head, "Um, so... how do I use these again?"

Ihrie resisted facefaulting. Ben was, after all, lacking in 'intellectual' knowledge.

The room was filled with a powerful light. No shadow, no hint of darkness could exist in the room. Such was the intensity of the light.

As Madam Radiance entered, her shadow vanished.

For some reason, she was always nervous about meeting her predecessor. The former Madam Radiance had an aura of power around her so thick that one almost had to nick away at it with a pick axe to come within ten feet of her.

Of course, the former Madam Radiance had reverted to her previous name, just as Madam Yggdrasil had when she'd retired.

"Lady Athena, I-" Madam Radiance began.

"I know."

Radiance looked up. Lady Athena stood up from her seat, her long silvery hair swirling behind her. Her eyes were almost totally white and glowed with light. The blue mark of an eye on the woman's forehead, a shield emblem on the woman's right cheek and three diamond tattoos of varying length on her left cheek, all shined with an intense blue light for a few seconds, then faded.

"It would seem that there is still much that we have yet to learn. Return to your projects and concern yourself with this matter no more. I shall deal with it personally." Lady Athena responded, before reseating herself.

Madam Radiance nodded and teleported away. Athena waited a few seconds before the entire room seemed to flare with energy.

"How dare that mortal interfere with my divine plan! The fusion project should have gone just as Kakurine had predicted, yet something interfered!" Athena snarled, slamming an angry fist against her throne's armrest.

Athena calmed herself, then glanced to her right and raised a hand. A faded picture, covered in cloth in hopes of preserving it from further damage, appeared on the right wall. Ordinary visitors never saw it as the intense light of the room kept people from looking at the only non-lightfilled point, Athena herself.

The picture was of a woman of moderate beauty, shoulder-length brown hair and bright blue eyes.

"Artemis... how I long for you..." Athena moaned longingly as she looked at the picture, before a fierce snarl overtook her, "but don't worry, my love. I shall destroy the disgusting beasts that dared to take you from me! I will make certain that they all pay! The males will all die!"

"And another great job!" Leno snarled as their mech flew to the forest below the mighty city of Vale.

"Just dodge faster!" Mary snapped as arcs of lightning shot down from Vale.

"No one takes from the Vale Magic-User Society!" came the angry declaration of Seance, one of the primary guardians of the secret library that Mary and Leno had just stolen from.

The mech's shields managed to stop the lightning Seance was hurling relentlessly, but a quick glance at the engine temperature showed that the mech wasn't getting off as lightly as Leno had hoped.

"Dammit! Stop throwing lightning, you asshole!" Leno growled as the shields faltered.

"%Weaken%" Seance chanted, obliging Leno's request.

The legs of the mech creaked and gave way like they were spaghetti noodles holding up a mountain. Leno and Mary slammed hard into the roof of their cockpit and slumped forward against the controls.

Seance pulled a normal stone out of an extradimensional pocket, "%Amplify%".

With that, he tossed the rock at the mech's midsection. The mech's body practically exploded as the stone's kinetic force was magnified by the spell. Seance raised a hand, pulling both the stolen items and the two perpetrators out of the mech, before turning and heading back to Vale.

"Well, that proves it without a doubt." Gina said, looking through the spectral camera. It had taken the last two weeks, but they'd finally found the evidence needed.

"It's giving me a headache. Can you explain how this happened?" Washio requested.

Gina sighed. It would give her practice when she had to recite it to Miranda, "Fine. Basically, Mao was owned by a tamer/fisherman who went by the name Jean. When she was sixteen, Jean found his Recognition partner, an Elf named Nadia. However, some of the other people in town decided he had too many pokegirls, killed him with a pokegirl similar to Mao, then stole them. The two thugs responsible, Gargoyle and Goblin, faked an 'exchange of ownership' contract. After they filed that, they were trying to tame Mao and Nadia without restraints and were killed by Mao, who went into a frenzy at the smell of her master's blood."

"However, while Jean's murder was listed as the attack of a wild pokegirl, the deaths of Gargoyle and Goblin were listed as Mao's fault, which they were, but it should've been listed as a 4th Degree Murder instead of a 1st. The second charge listed under Mao's record, the theft of a boat, was actually claiming her master's property." Gina finished.

"4th Degree, that's Murder While Avenging Master, isn't it?" Washio asked.

Gina nodded, "Right. It was made up for pokegirls as a way of proving that they aren't rabid. It used to be 3rd degree, but murders of that class now refer to accidental murder. The punishment on 4th degree is a mindwipe. 3rd has the mindwipe and a special injection that mellows out pokegirls and renders the pokegirl useless for any sort of fighting outside of guarding any tamer that'll claim them."

"At least we're done." Washio responded.

"You got copies of those documents at City Hall?" Gina asked.

"It was hard checking all those boxes, but yes, I did." Washio answered.

"I guess we can pack up now. The final scene's ended..... NOW." Gina exclaimed, stopping the recording.

"I wonder how the Leagues'll take it." Washio inquired.

"I haven't the foggiest, but I think Miss Miranda has been thinking of a way to use this new evidence to push forward pokegirl rights." Gina answered.

Washio shrugged and began gathering up the equipment. She really didn't care that much. So long as she was in Jahana Co. hands, she was about as free as she wanted to be. Well, perhaps being able to go somewhere without another person to tag along would be okay, but she couldn't care less otherwise.

Rage had two gyms. The first was the Breast Dojo, known in the Sex Leagues and the breast-fetishiest circles, as a place one should definitely visit. The gym's leader, a young blonde girl named Yuna, was currently on a journey, so the second-in-command, a girl named Fatora, was in charge. However, Fatora had left for reasons and places unknown. Despite the fact that the only leader left was whoever could answer any challenges that came, the Breast Dojo was still a nice place to visit.

The second was the Fighting Dojo, mastered by a man known as the Meteor Man, Mike McGrull, who was reknowned for his powerful fighting style and Fire affinity blood gift. His gym was often the stumbling block for many unwary tamers, as he enforced the rule of the tamer fighting, whereas most other gym made it optional. Many a tamer had left with fewer teeth, a permanent hobble or on a stretcher.

Mike McGrull smiled as he felt three strong auras enter the gym. He wouldn't be disappointed with this batch, that was for sure. He hadn't felt so eager to fight as he did right now.

Out in the lobby, the male secretary was looking at his computer, "You're in luck, there are three open junior tamers on hand to take your challenge. Once you defeat a junior, you can challenge our gym leader, Mike McGrull."

Reimi groaned.

"More history?" Yuka inquired.

"No, I haven't met him face to face, but it's rather... inconvenient to be facing someone who's made it into the top four in the King of Fighters tournament six times in a row." Reimi responded.

"SIX times?" Yuka asked, astounded.

"Sounds intriguing." Ben replied, doing his best to hide a growing smile.

"Perhaps you don't know him. His Meteor style is acknowledged as one of the most powerful hand to hand styles developed by a human master. And _Mike_ is the one who developed it." Reimi responded.

Yuka whistled appreciatively. Ben was grinning in anticipation.

"We'll see." Ben commented.

Just as with any gym, the trio split up and headed for the arenas where the Junior trainers awaited.

Doctor Theodore Diggers examined the air closely. This would have brought curious looks from any passerby, but the improved invisibility spell he'd cast on himself prevented that.

One might have also been curious as to what he was looking at. After all, unless there was something tangibly foul in the air, air really wasn't anything to look at. However, Doctor Diggers was actually using a tracking spell to follow the trails of his two daughters and their respective pokeballs.

He could tell that one of his two daughters had been traded, because the two pokeballs went into separate rooms once he entered the Hunter's Guild Rage branch building. Once he was sure they'd left, he exited the building. The trails were very fresh, meaning he wasn't more than a few hours behind the two trainers.

As a father, he couldn't help but be insulted that one of his daughters had been traded away, but as a mage, he knew that there were more mitigating circumstances than just a hand off.

Or, at least, for the sake of whoever had each one, it had better not be.

He was a bit surprised when he walked past Lina and Luna crossing one street in Rage. He might have stopped to talk with them, but he knew that it hadn't been nearly long enough for Luna to have learned very much new magic. It would make him seem overbearing.

Besides, he couldn't allow himself to be distracted ot it would take him days, possibly even weeks to find both of his daughters.

Ben stared at the short sneering man across from him. Or rather, twerp. Ben got the distinct impression that he shouldn't respect the man across from him.

The man wore a lime green labcoat and had green hair that laid against his head like seaweed. The only thing not green on him were his eyes (which were blue), his button-up undershirt (which was white), his skin (obviously), and his sneakers (blue). The man's head resembled a ball that was being squeezed at the top and bottom, which, combined with his choice of outfit and his hair, made him especially unappealing to look at. In fact, Ben decided to not eat anything green for a while.

"My name is Weevil Underwood and I'm your opponent!" the man sneered.

Ben arched an eyebrow, "That's.... adequate. The name is Ben."

Weevil seemed to take offense that Ben didn't react with awe or fear, but got over it, "I see you don't know who I am! Well, once you face both me AND my pokegirls, you'll understand why I am one of the most powerful tamers in the Crimson League!"

[He must have read Baby's First Megalomaniac Moment or something.] Ben thought to himself, before looking at the arena. It seemed different from the usual arenas. Mostly because the ground was a hard plastic rather than dirt or concrete.

"What's up with this arena?" Ben asked.

"It's specially designed to rate fighting prowess." Weevil answered, "You see, our leader almost got removed as gym leader when a fight with a newbie got out of hand. The newbie was a rich boy, so he tried to sue Mike for a huge amount of cash. Our leader won, but to prevent him from getting into that kind of trouble again, he made challenge arenas like this."

"So he won't accidentally hurt a weakling." Ben acknowledged.

"To be fair, you may use up to four pokegirls." Weevil said, smiling confidently, though his tiny pupils and psychotic grin made him look more like a hysterical and sleep-deprived sociopath.

"Thanks, and to be fair, I'll be the only one fighting." Ben said, taking off his pokebelt. He paused and summoned Kei to hold the belt, giving her a kiss on the cheek before hopping down into the arena.

"Apparently, you don't know about my pokegirl's awesome powers, so I'll give you fair warning." Weevil sneered, "You don't stand a chance against her!"

"Hey, are you gonna talk or we gonna fight?" Ben asked.

"Go, SPIDER QUEEN!" Weevil cried, unleashing his first pokeball.

Out of his pokeball came a Spinnertit. The black-haired arachanid girl was definitely feral from her green skin and black eyes, but her six arms and her slender frame made any Spinnertit a worthy opponent.

"ATTACK!" Weevil commanded, grinning maliciously.

Ben's eyes narrowed as his aura flared. Both Weevil and Spider Queen recoiled at the crimson aura with the black flecks at it's edges.

"Spider Queen, BIND!" Weevil commanded.

Ben dodged to the side as the Spider Queen spat out a mess of webbing at the floor where he had just been standing.

"That's not a Bind attack." Ben commented, as he dodged three more sprays.

"Of course not! What kind of idiot would tell his pokegirl what to do when it lets his opponent know what he's planning?" Weevil asked rheotorically, "POISON STING!"

Ben dodged a headbutt attack and sighed. While Spider Queen did have a lot of arms, she wasn't them to her advantage, as she should. Weevil was obviously concentrating on throwing Ben offguard rather than having his Spider Queen attack at her best. He was thinking Ben to be a fool who was too confident about fighting pokegirls, and not as a serious challenge.

As Spider Queen leapt into the air, Ben leapt after her, surprising the spinnertit.

"You could've been a real opponent, but too bad." Ben commented, before spin-kicking the spinnertit out of the ring. She slammed heavily into the wall and collapsed outside of the white line of the edge of the ring.

"Ring out! I win." Ben declared, landing well inside the ring.

"There are no ring outs in the Fighting Dojo!" Weevil sneered.

Ben looked over at Spider Queen and shrugged, "Fine, I guess I win by knock out."

Weevil glanced over and gawked as he saw that his spinnertit was indeed unconscious. He snarled at Ben before recalling Spider Queen.

"Fine! This is on your fool head! GO DUELIST!" Weevil laughed, unleashing his second pokeball.

"Duelist?" Ben inquired, blinking. He'd never heard of that pokegirl type.

A girl appeared in front of Ben. She had long brown hair with a red stripe on both of her long bangs, blue eyes and wore a yellow sundress. The only thing that was unusual was that she wore a special black glove on her right hand.

"IT'S TIME TO DUEL!" the girl said, masking her nervousness almost well enough that someone as self-masturbatory as Weevil wouldn't notice. But both Ben and Kei could hear the fear in her voice rather well.

Suddenly, a theme song burst out from nowhere. Ben thought it sounded all right, but why it kept repeating "Your move!" and "Yu-Gi- OH!" over and over was beyond him.

"What the HAY-ELL was THAT?!" Ben asked when the song finished.

"Um, it's a theme song." Weevil answered, actually looking embarrassed for the first time.

"And why was it playing?" Ben inquired.

"We don't know. All we do know is that it always happens whenever I send her out." Weevil said, motioning to his Duelist.

"Uh....huh...." Ben responded slowly, "Whatever."

"I think you'll have a much harder time with my Duelist!" Weevil laughed.

The girl glanced at Weevil with disgust and restrained hatred, then produced a deck of cards.

"My NAME happens to be Serenity, jerk." the girl huffed.

She drew five cards from the deck of cards and held them in a style similar to a poker player. Ben had seen the game played. Jyabil used to play it on occasion to get extra money.

"Make your move." Ben said, shrugging indifferently. He didn't know what a Duelist could do, but a deck of cards didn't sound that dangerous. She drew an extra card.

"I call CURSE OF DRAGON!" the girl called out, placing a card face up on her glove, pointing at Ben. (ATK 2000/DEF 1500)

From the ground came a bizzare Zubutt-like yellow-skinned creature, but the thing looked like it had bones as a body. It was taller than two Minotauras combined and with a wing span almost double that. The head of the creature looked like a straw with horn attached at the end.

"WHAT THE HELL IS THAT THING?!" Ben asked, staring at the 'dragon'.

"It's a dragon! Curse of Dragon, ATTACK!" Weevil commanded.

Serenity glared at Weevil, but repeated his command. The creature leapt into the air and flew around for a few seconds, then dove straight at Ben.

[Dragon or no, it's probably no stronger than a Widow.] Ben thought to himself, flaring with his crimson-black aura as he summoned a ki blast.

Just as the spiritual attack struck the 'Curse of Dragon', the creature reeled and exploded. Serenity fell to her knees, clutching her head in agony.

"Wha-what just happened?!" Weevil demanded.

"Duh, I blew it up." Ben responded, rolling his eyes.

Weevil looked like he was about to have a stroke, a heart attack and die of high blood pressure all at the same time, "YOU CAN'T JUST KILL CURSE OF DRAGON!! IT'S TOO POWERFUL!"

Ben glared at him, "Look, bright eyes, it dove at me, I attacked it. It went bye-bye. How hard is that to figure out?"

Weevil turned his attention to Serenity, "DUELIST! I COMMAND YOU TO SUMMON ANOTHER MONSTER! SMEAR THIS INSOLENT FOOL!"

Serenity was still panting, her face was covered in sweat. She was trembling as she tried to return to her feet. She looked at Ben with fear and terror as she drew another card.

"Hey, take it easy. I'll let you conjure up another monster. Just don't hurt yourself." Ben told her.

"I... I play Mystical Elf in defense mode." Serenity said, placing another card on her glove, though this time it was across her hand. (ATK 800 / DEF 2000)

A blue-skinned elf appeared in front of Serenity wearing a white- collared blue dress. She had long flat blondish-brown hair and wore a golden crown.

"Um, okay." Ben responded, still trying to figure out how the Duelist was making things appear. He didn't know much about summoning magic, but she seemed in pain from when he smeared the 'dragon'.

"I SAID ATTACK!" Weevil snarled angrily.

"Hey, dillweed, she's not running away, so just piss off! Unless YOU want to come down here and face me yourself!" Ben growled at him.

Weevil was taken aback, then angrily retorted, "YOU SHUT YOUR MOUTH! I OWN HER AND SHE'LL DO AS I SAY!"

"Ignore that moron. You do as you see fit." Ben told her.

Serenity looked at Ben, and after a long look, she smiled and nodded, before drawing another card.

"First, I'll play this card face down," Serenity said, placing another card on her glove, "and then I'll play Axe Raider!" (ATK 1700 / DEF 1150)

A massive mountain of a man appeared. He had a strange face with massive nostrils that could fit a child's hand. He wore a spiked helmet, shoulder guards and held a massive double-bladed axe in his right hand.

"Axe Raider! Attack!" Serenity commanded before placing another card down on her card. A clear bottle with a red liquid appeared above her and poured down on her, relieving some of the pain from losing her Curse of Dragon.

Ben lunged forward, punching the 'axe raider' in the stomach. The massive man exploded into dust that faded. Serenity screamed and collapsed to her knees again, this time, she was trembling fiercely.

Ben scratched the back of his head, unsure of what had transpired. Apparently, attacking the creatures that Serenity formed had injured the girl, but he wasn't sure how that was happening. Especially when he wasn't even really doing much damage to the creatures she'd summoned.

Serenity drew another card and hastily placed it onto her hand. A beautiful winged woman appeared above her briefly. Sighing as a look of relief came to her face, Serenity returned to her feet. She looked ragged, but willing to fight.

"I... I play..." Serenity looked over the cards in her hand, obviously desperate to come up with a strategy.

"Look, why not just go through your deck and pick out the strongest card? I don't think you're going to win any other way." Ben told her.

Serenity gave Ben a look that rivaled the one she'd given Weevil when he'd tried to command her Curse of Dragon.

"I may not win, but I will NOT cheat!" Serenity said.

"Okay, okay! Sorry. I'll let you do what you want." Ben responded.

Serenity's look softened in appreciation, before returning to her cards. She glanced at him, then drew another card.

"I play Needle Worm in defense mode!" Serenity called, placing another card on her hand. (ATK 750 / DEF 600)

A long purplish creature appeared with a large horn striking out of it's front. Ben sighed and shrugged, before flaring his aura and charging. If she didn't have anything stronger than her elf and her worm, he might as well finish the fight.

Serenity smiled as he neared the Needle Worm, "TRAP CARD, ACTIVATE! MIRROR FORCE!"

As Ben swung a ki-enforced fist at the worm, a mirror appeared in front of him. His fist slammed into the mirror and he felt his own power twisting back at him. Snarling, he focused on controlling the direction of his attack.

Lightning crackled around the edges of the mirror to the corners of the room while energy sparks flew from where his fist met the mirror. His aura darkened considerably as he increased the power he was using, focusing it all on one spot. The mirror cracked slightly for a few seconds, then the cracks lengthened and seconds later, he drove his fist through the mirror to slam into the back of the worm, which exploded.

Serenity and her summoned elf both gawked in terror at the sight.

"No... no way... that's impossible! Nothing has ever defeated Mirror Force!" Serenity whimpered, backing away.

Ben wiped his face with his shirt. It was the first time in a while that he'd felt spiritually exhuasted. Whatever that mirror had been, it had been VERY difficult to break. He got the impression that if he hadn't mastered his power a long time ago, he would've have been laid out on the ground instead of victorious.

He glanced over at Serenity and her elf, both of whom recoiled.

"He... he's got to be weak after that...." Serenity said, "um, please Mystical Elf! You're my only hope!"

Her elf looked between her mistress and the man who'd broken a trap card that had NEVER failed to defeat it's victim before. The man DID look exhuasted.

The mystical elf drew in all of her magical power and fired a magical bolt at Ben, who leapt over it. He landed in front of the elf and swept her feet out from underneath her. He'd planned to continue the attack, but the elf vanished into dust, just like the worm, dragon and axe raider before her.

Serenity looked over her cards, trying desperately to think of something that could defend her, but as she drew her next card, her stomach fell. All she had were magic cards and one of the weakest monsters possible. Then, as she looked at her remaining cards, the ones she'd held onto because she hadn't had a chance to play them, she got an idea as Ben flared his aura again.

"Unhappy Maiden! Shield and Sword! Black Pendant! Horn of the Unicorn!" Serenity called out, using every card she had left. Her Unhappy Maiden went from the weakest she had (ATK 0 / DEF 100) to fairly strong (1300 / 700).

The sad-looking red-haired girl wearing a dirty and torn light tan dress had a unicorn horn sticking from her head (+700/+700) and a black pendant around her neck (+500/+0). She charged Ben.

Ben, however, had managed to get a second wind and kicked at the charging girl.

Even though she was amped up far more than she normal was, the Unhappy Maiden was no match for the Widow Slayer. She exploded and Serenity fainted.

"USELESS! Now I know why that punk wanted to trade for my A- bra!" Weevil snarled.

Ben's attention returned to Weevil, "Listen, you moron. If you don't want her, I'll take her."

Weevil snorted as he recalled Serenity to her pokeball, "Even if I don't want her, I'm not just going to hand her over!"

"Then I guess I'll challenge you for her. You say you traded an A-bra for her. I've got a Drow Zee that I'm willing to wager if I lose, but if I WIN, I get that Duelist." Ben declared.

Weevil's confident sneer returned, "You haven't got a chance in hell, but I guess I'll accept."

With that, Weevil's eyes glowed blue and he floated down to the ring. Ben didn't even blink. He'd figured that for someone like Weevil, two powerful pokegirls wouldn't be the only reason to have extreme over-confidence in himself. Weevil had to have a talent that backed up his words, or else he wouldn't be in Rage's Fighting Dojo.

"Prepared to lose?" Weevil asked, "I can sense your fear! And you have much reason to fear!"

"The only thing I fear is that you'll turn out to be a chump without any real skill." Ben answered.

Weevil's eyes glowed as he concentrated his psychic energy at Ben. Ben knew that dodging a psychic attack was very difficult. Too difficult for him at the moment. However, blocking one was much easier. Ben winced heavily as he began marching towards Weevil, his face was a mask of hatred.

Weevil's psychic power was intense and forced Ben to slow down numerous times, but as Weevil's confidence began to waver, so did the psychic power. Weevil's confidence dropped significantly when Ben was half a foot from striking distance.

Ben charged forward at that instant, refusing to allow Weevil a chance to bolster his confidence enough to use his mental powers, and punched Weevil hard across the face. Weevil dropped to the ground.

Ben sighed heavily in relief. Weevil had been a wuss after all. No doubt he'd never faced an opponent who was able to resist psychic energy. Ben placed his hands on his knees as he did his best to recover from the strain. Using spiritual energy to counter psychic energy was very exhuasting, less so than breaking that mirror that Serenity had called, but still tiring.

Had he been at full spiritual strength, he doubted he would have taken so long to beat up Weevil. He plucked Serenity's pokeball from Weevil's hand, "A deal is a deal. Chump."

With that, he walked back over to Kei and handed her Serenity's pokeball, "Guess we'll have another face around bedtime."

Kei smiled and nodded.

"Well, let's go find a hotel. I'm too pooped to take on the gym leader today." Ben answered.

Placing his arm around Kei, Ben exited the room, hobbling a bit. He felt very weak. There was no way he was going to challenge the gym leader at his current level of strength.

(Nod to Imurill Dee, who came up with the Spinnertit portfolio)
SPINNERTIT, the spider Pokegirl
TYPE: Anthropomorph, Humanoid
ELEMENT: Bug
FREQUENCY: Uncommon
DIET: Human style foods, bugs, plants
ROLE: Their ability to cling to sheer surfaces makes them ideal for window washers and similar tasks, while many police agencies in Johto have Spinnertit on their SWAT teams. Spinnertits are also used in Johto to manufacture silk.
LIBIDO: Normal
STRONG VS: Plant, Bug, Flying
WEAK VS: Poison, Fire
SPECIAL WEAKNESSES: Similar low pleasure threshold to Titmice. Inability to lactate.
ATTACKS: Tackle, Web, Poison Sting, Wrestle, Bind
ENHANCEMENTS: Eight limbed human spider anthropomorph, poison injecters are a hollow cartilege tube under the fingernails, webbing spinnerets in breasts.
DISADVANTAGES: Spinnertits all suffer from a problem with their lung capacity, resulting in tiring quickly from sustained exertion and vulnerability to certain attacks.
EVOLVES: Arachnae (Venom Stone)
EVOLVES FROM: None
HEIGHT: 4'6"

Spinnertit is a short slender pokegirl despite having six arms with a pair of small breasts between each. Despite their tiny size, Spinnertit are capable of fighters, those of Johto often using the ancient bondage art known as shibari on their victims. Spinnertit venom induces feelings of lethargy.

(* Nod to Ranko, who came up with the Duelist idea on the Pokewomon Forum)
Duellist: The Dark Card Wielder
Type: Very Near Human
Element: Dark
Frequency: Rare
Diet: Human style food
Role: Card fighter, Strategist
Strong Vs: Dark, Ghost, Psychic
Weak Vs: Bug, Fighting
Libido: Average
Attacks: Draw, Summon, Taunt, Mind Crush, Heart of the Cards
Enhancements: Youthful, Confidence
Disadvantages: Weak
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Cardcaptor (Battle stress)

The Duellist is one of the more recently discovered Pokegirl types. They were first discovered by accident, when a Tamer was attacked by a swarm of Buzzbreasts. He sent his Pokegirls out to defend him, but they were quickly defeated, save for a single Cardcaptor who refused to surrender. With her Tamer’s life on the line, and her own powers insufficient, she Evolved to Duellist and using her increased powers, managed to drive off the swarm.

Duellists tend to look like normal teenage girls, save for the fact that they always have black hair with red highlights and violet eyes. Duellists prefer to wear dark colours, and can usually be found with a duelling glove, a customized gauntlet which holds their deck.

The Deck itself is the Duellists most prized possession, and she would rather go without food or clothing than be without it. So important is the deck to the Duellist that she rarely lets it out of her possession, and even her Tamer rarely has the privilege of holding it. Each deck is customized by the Duellist herself, (though no one is quite sure where they get the cards from), and so no two decks are exactly the same.

The Duellist has three types of cards, Monster, Magic and Trap. Monster cards are used for combat and when played, summon a magical creature into existance to fight in the Duellist's place. These creatures can also be placed defencivly, either to give the Duellist time to prepare a stategy, or to escape. Magic cards have effects usually revolving around status modifiers and protective fields, however they also include armours and weapons that can be used by the Duellist or members of her Tamer's Harem. Trap cards are the most difficult to use successfully, but can weaken or even defeat unwary opponants.

The Duellist is very weak physically, and has little combat ability, thus, a Duellist will almost always use Draw as her first move in combat, bringing out a hand of five cards to use in combat. As long as she has cards in her hand, she can then use the technique, Summon, to call on the effects of one of these cards. These cards have varied abilities, and can be used to summon monsters, cast magical spells or even lay traps, and unlike the cards of the Cardcaptor, the Duellist cards are used exclusively for battle. The drawback of this combat strategy is that each card she summons uses her own mental energy, and the destruction of one of her summoned creatures can easily cause her to collapse.

Duellist’s are very useful in a Tamer’s harem, both in and out of combat, due to the fact that they are very skilled strategists, and can often come up with plans that other people or Pokegirls wouldn’t have considered. Duellist’s are also good leaders, able to inspire confidence in even the most timid Pokegirl. They aren’t skilled lovers however, so they may have difficulty satisfying Pokegirls with a high libido.

Thanks to their Confidence enhancement, Duellists always seem to be in control, no matter how bad the situation may seem, and they exude an aura that calms their allies and frightens their enemies. This makes it a good strategy to keep a Duellist out of her pokeball, even when she isn’t directly involved in combat, since her presence can turn a battle to your advantage, and she can often provide helpful suggestions if a battle isn’t going your way.

In the Wild, a Duellist can be very difficult to capture. They’ll usually summon one of their defensive monsters, then retreat from battle, leaving the creature to fight for them. Once they’ve travelled more than fifty metres away, the monster will cease to exist, and the unlucky tamer will have little chance of catching her. The Tamer’s best chance is to defeat this creature quickly, and hopefully knock the Pokegirl out by proxy, leaving her easy prey.

A final thing to note is that when two Duellists come into contact, they will often challenge each other to battle. This battle is not the same as a standard Pokegirl battle, as the two will fight one on one, using only their cards and refuse the assistance of their Tamers, seeing it as a matter of personal honour and of their own skill as Deck builders.

Techniques:
Draw – (EFT - Normal) This technique is exclusive to the Duellist. When used at the beginning of combat, five cards are drawn and prepared for use. If used at any other time, only a single card is drawn. The Cards drawn are always random.
Heart of the Cards – (EFT - Normal) Another technique exclusive to the Duellist, this focuses the spirit of the Duellist, allowing her to call any card she wishes from her deck the next time she uses the Draw technique. A Duellist can only use this Technique when she has a kind and caring master.
Mind Crush – (ATK 80 + EFT - Dark) Directly attacks an opponents mind, causing damage as well as having a small chance of stunning her for a round. Psychic types are especially vulnerable to this attack, due to their reliance on their mental powers, and will almost surely faint if stuck by this attack.
Taunt – (EFT - Normal) Has a high probability of making the opponent attack recklessly, cutting their accuracy in half and making them use a random technique the next turn. This technique is most effective against Wild Pokegirls, since a good Tamer can often help their Pokegirl keep control.
Summon - (Varied - Normal) This technique is exclusive to the Duellist, and allows her to call into action one of the cards in her hand.
Drive to Win - (EFT) Much like Heart of the Cards, Drive to Win relies on two things: The desire for victory and the player's knowledge of their deck. Even when disillusioned or unable to consciously come up with a solution to a seemingly impossible situation, Drive to Win allows the Duelist's subconscious (or unconscious) to use Heart of the Cards to pick the right card from their deck (or side deck). There are two requirements for this ability, though: the Duelist must still have a card that could aid them in their deck (or in their side deck) and, more importantly, must have a passionate reason to win.
*CL Modification - Not all Duelists have purple eyes, black hair or red hair stripes, but they will usually have one of the three. Also, the instant a Duelist announces the start of a duel, the Yu-Gi- Oh! opening theme song starts up. This usually startles / confuses most fighters and lets the Duelist draw their starting cards. Duelists also do not feel their overwhelming confidence when their tamer is one that they do not like or respect.
*Special Note: The Dueling Glove of a Duelist is black while the Synth Gloves are all made Grey. This is intentional to make sure no one confuses a real Dueling Glove for a fake.

Chapter 24 - Time To Duel

A girl with shoulder-length blonde hair looked into the aquarium and smiled, her red eyes focused on a single white rose inside of it. A blue lightning bolt tattoo, starting at her right eye and ending at her jaw, flared briefly, causing the girl a tingle of pleasure.

"Amazing how quickly this project has taken off, ne, Phacia?" the girl asked, looking up at a girl who stood across from her. Phacia had very long light grey hair and the same red eyes as the girl looking at her.

"....." Phacia responded noncommitedly.

"What's wrong?" the first girl inquired, a worried look on her face.

"I'm not sure we're doing the right thing, Royce." Phacia replied quietly.

"But we have to have our revenge, Phacia. We were helpless when he abandoned us. If Lady Athena hadn't saved us and brought us in, we'd still be..." Royce began, pausing as she shuddered, "...in that warehouse."

"...... I know. But I still feel like we're blaming the wrong person for what happened." Phacia responded.

"We're going to do this, dear sister," a third girl interjected, her eyes also red, as she stepped out of the shadows, "because it's what he deserves for abandoning us."

"Then I want no part of it. I will remain in our bedroom." Phacia declared, exiting the room.

"Do you think she might betray us, Xenobia?" Royce asked, looking quite concerned.

"No. She loves us dearly, but she still thinks well of him. She will simply stay out of the way." Xenobia responded, "But in any case, now is not the time. We need to collect our little test subject."

"It's a good thing Chigusa came up with this, ne?" Royce inquired.

"Yes, it is." Xenobia agreed.

Smiling, Xenobia turned and exited.

Mike was sick and tired of listening to Weevil's whining. He turned to the shorter green-haired boy and gave him a look that silenced him instantly.

"I saw the tapes of your battle with him, Weevil. There has been no foul committed. He can keep your Duelist." Mike told the whining little brat.

"B-but, I was caught offguard!" Weevil whimpered pathetically.

"Weevil, you remember what I did to that rich little punk who sued me?" Mike asked, waiting for Weevil to nod, "Do you want me to do that to you?" Weevil shook his head rapidly in a 'No' fashion, "THEN DON'T BOTHER ME WITH SUCH PETTY COMPLAINTS AGAIN!"

Weevil yelped and ran away. Mike snorted. It was the last time he allowed anyone to simply join the Fighting Dojo without testing them himself.

Mike had looked at the battle footage briefly, only the last part where Weevil had been challenged by the newcomer, Ben, for his Duelist. The rest of the battle was not of his concern. After all, what point was there in seeing an opponent's moves if it was one's goal to be challenged.

The ratings were far more important to Mike. Ben was the first person to ever rank a 'S' rating. Reimi and Yuka had both ranked 'A' status, which was typical of any tamer who knew how to fight decently. It was nothing to sneeze at and there was a decent chance that they hadn't been pushed to their limits, but the 'S' rank was the same that he himself had.

Mike grinned. For the first time since that annoying rich boy had entered his dojo, Mike McGrull was going to be allowed a serious fight.

The trio of tamers sat around a table at a diner the next morning.

Yuka blinked, "You didn't face Mike either?"

"Nope. The junior tamer I fought was a total loser named Weevil, but one of his pokegirls exhuasted me." Ben answered.

"My opponent was pretty tough as well. Some girl named Jam. She had this Cardian named Amaterasu that was a real pain to beat. Kept using beam attacks. Luckily, Kaori managed to beat her." Reimi joined in.

"Man, and here I thought I'd had trouble with that Karin Kanzaki, and her Tyamazon Sakura and her Amazonlee Elena." Yuka answered.

"Of course, I got this Duelist out of the fight." Ben said, holding up Serenity's pokeball.

"A Duelist?" Yuka asked.

Reimi blinked, "Wait, a Duelist? How did you get that out of a gym battle?"

"The guy wasn't being nice to her, so I challenged him for her after I'd beaten her. I won that fight too." Ben responded, "She's got real potential with those card attacks of hers..."

"Card attacks?" Yuka inquired.

"Have you ever heard of Cardcaptor or a Clow Mystic?" Reimi asked.

Yuka stared at her.

"I guess not. Cardcaptors have a strange ability to summon magical monsters to fight for them or use certain skills temporarily. The Duelists are evolved from them, but instead of granting themselves skills or anything like that, they rely entirely on their cards to do their fighting for them. If I recall, their types are Dark, but they use with psychic energy or magic to use their cards." Reimi explained, "But if I recall, beating any of their 'monsters' backlashes the damage back to the Duelist."

"That explains the weird way she kept clutching her head when I beat up her monsters." Ben commented.

"How does it work?" Yuka asked Ben.

"Well, her monsters seemed pretty tough and might've been a challenge for most people to fight, but I kicked their butts." Ben responded.

"Hardly surprising, considering who you are." Reimi told him.

"You think?" Ben asked.

Reimi nodded, "If I recall, a lot of their monsters have numbers that indicate how powerful they are. If someone or something stronger than that attacks it, the monster is automatically beaten. It's the only other real weakness to their power."

Ben considered that. It _was_ a large flaw, but still, the girl had more potential than what Weevil saw.

"What kind of monsters did she use?" Yuka inquired.

"She said a lot of weird names, but let's see... there was this big weird faced-man she called an 'Axe Raider', an elf, a really sad- looking red-haired girl, a 'Needle Worm' thingy and something called a Dragon. Only thing I've ever heard being a Dragon type was the Bratini and it's evolutions, but this thing didn't look ANYTHING like them." Ben answered.

"Well, actually, Pre-Sukebe culture had numerous types of dragons and none of them were even remotely like the Bratini." Reimi explained.

"Really?" Ben asked.

"Oh yes. Some were enormous and hideous, breathing fire and devouring people left and right. Often times, the townsfolk needed professional dragon slayers, knights or Angels to kill them." Reimi told them.

"They really must've been powerful." Ben acknowledged.

"I think 'powerful' is an underestimation, but yes." Reimi responded.

"So, what's her name?" Yuka inquired.

"Serenity. I haven't really had time to talk to her yet, but I did have her healed at the local pokecenter. She used this one mirror thingy that almost reflected my power back at me, and even though I beat it, it was REALLY exhuasting." Ben replied.

"Well, I hope you're up to handling her." Reimi noted.

"At the very least, I'm going to be a thousand times better than Weevil was. He was a total jerk to her." Ben responded, then changed the subject, "We should probably see who's going to fight Mike first. We can't all fight him right after another one of us beats him up."

"You have no appreciation for how powerful he really is." Reimi commented.

"True. He has to earn my respect." Ben answered.

"Oh?" Reimi asked.

"He lost it when he let a wuss like Weevil into his dojo." Ben explained.

"Well, we could play paper-rock-scissors." Yuka interupted, hoping to keep an argument from starting.

The first game wound up with Ben having rock, Yuka having scissors and Reimi having paper. It was going to be a long session.

Serenity Wheeler hadn't truly seen many things in her life. The honest truth was that she'd been blind from birth. She knew many things, though, thanks to her older brother Joey. When she'd begun undergoing threshold, the doctors had been amazed that she'd begun regaining her eyesight. However, she had only begun color association when one of the many Team Rocket clones, Team Spruce Goose, had attacked the hospital, kidnapping all of the girls who were going through threshold.

When she'd finished going through threshold in Spruce Goose's hideout, her newfound vision did not give her a very pleasant sight to behold. Spruce Goose had captured over two hundred pokegirls and were trading them via an underground network operative called The Pit Lord.

Serenity had only begun her new life as a Cardcaptor when she was pokeballed.

Then, the nightmare truly began. Cardcaptors were weak, so the Pit Lord had an excellent idea to make a better profit off of them. He had a device constructed from an idea in an old comic book. He called it the Pleasure Wheel. The machine looked like a giant teacup ride, with the only difference being that the teacups were occassionally fun to ride on.

The Pleasure Wheel had numerous motorized dildos on the seat of every 'tea cup'. The victim was strapped in, had a dildo inserted and the 'ride' began. By adding the irregular spinning motion to sexual intercourse, the Pleasure Wheel was surprisingly high effective at forcing pokegirls to evolve.

The only real relief that had come from her time in the Pit Lord's hands was that her first time was not with a man that she despised, even though technically, her first time hadn't been with a living entity.

Serenity's pokeball swapped hands numerous times and she was thankful of the fact that when she finally had wound up in Weevil's hands, it was his spinnertit that had forced herself on Serenity and not Weevil himself.

For some reason, she simply could not bring herself to accept a cruel man as her lover.

Ben was not cruel. He had asked her if she needed to be tamed. She hadn't needed it, but the sheer fact that he'd ASKED had put him much higher than most of her former owners. He didn't sic his pokegirls on her, he didn't force himself on her, he'd even asked if she wanted to return to her pokeball or not. He'd let all of his pokegirls out to relax or play in his hotel room.

For the first time since becoming a duelist, Serenity felt the confidence of a real duelist flow into her. She wasn't with an arrogant bastard, a pompous windbag or an irritating jerk. She shuffled her cards and drew the card on top. The Happy Lover. She would definitely be happy where she was.

Her eyes flickered back to Ben. He was simply enjoying a moment alone watching all of his pokegirls play. Curiosity filled her. Just how powerful was he? He'd broken her Mirror Force trap and killed her Curse of Dragon, neither of which were usually possible by non- pokegirls.

Then, she got an idea. If she could get some blank cards, then she could find out just how powerful he was. It was definitely worth a shot.

"Um, Ben?" Serenity asked.

Ben looked away from Tifa and Bambi arm-wrestling to see Serenity next him, "Yo?"

Serenity broke away from her internal commentary on how relaxed he was, and spoke up, "I was wondering if you could take me shopping. I'd like to buy some things, if you wouldn't mind."

Ben nodded, "Sure thing."

The brown-haired girl smiled, "Thank you."

Ben smiled back.

"NOOKIE!" Kei cried, interupting the moment by pouncing on Ben.

"NO FAIR! I haven't had him _all_ week!" Nine protested.

Kei looked at Nine as if the Umbrea was looking for something that was in her hands, before patting the other side of Ben, "You play too."

Nine frowned, clearly not happy that she would have to share again, but decided that the chances of her getting Ben alone were low anyway.

Ihadurca shook her head as she watched the room degenerate into an orgy, save for herself and Serenity.

[I hope he decides he wants to be my master. I'm getting kind of lonely.] Ihadurca thought to herself.

Weevil Underwood brooded. He was NOT happy with losing his chosen pokegirl's playmate and he was even less happy with the threat he'd gotten from Mike McGrull. Unfortunately, Mike had proven that he possessed the same degree of resistance to psychic powers that the bastard who'd beaten him had shown. Perhaps greater.

He'd left the Fighting Dojo of his own choice, but he know found himself minus free room and board. He had no choice, though. He couldn't stand the mocking looks he got from everyone. Two pokegirls and he himself beaten by some kid off the streets. None of the battles had taken very long either.

Spider Queen, his only remaining pokegirl, sighed, wondering why he'd even considered accepting that battle. Now, she had to find a new pet to traumatize.

"I HATE HIM!" Weevil snarled.

"Want revenge?" came a curious voice from behind him.

Weevil spun around, panicked that someone had managed to sneak up on him, to see a gorgeous woman with long blonde hair, wearing a tastefully placed strips of white silk over her breasts, a black dress that was open on the front of the torso and draped itself under each arm. Had he been able to see magic, he would have noticed the intricate magical tattoos that covered most of her body. The thing that captured his attention were her red eyes.

"So, what's your name?" Weevil inquired, feeling an intense feeling of awe and respect.

"My name is Xenobia. Do you want revenge?" she answered.

He shook his head, wondering why he'd felt so threatened by her earlier, then nodded eagerly, "Of course! He deserves to die!"

"Then come with me." Xenobia told him, heading towards a nearby building.

Weevil followed her without hesitation, turning back only to bark, "COME ON!"

Spider Queen followed reluctantly, getting an intense 'bad, bad, scary thing!' feeling. She wondered if her victimized lovers had felt that way just before Weevil, growing impatient, returned her to her pokeball before catching up to the gorgeous blonde, who had just entered the office building.

Inside the building, Weevil followed her to the elevator. No sooner did the doors close than a flash of light blinded him as he felt a mild tug, like something had caught his coat briefly. He rubbed his eyes, trying to regain some focus. The flash had been amplified by his glasses, so it took him a few minutes.

He noticed Xenobia was already standing in the middle of dark room. Around them was a deep red ash that seemed to have solidified into rock.

"Where.... where are we?" Weevil inquired, looking around the room and getting a very bad feeling. It felt like a graveyard he'd visited, only a thousand times worse.

"Deep underneath Mount Gulga." Xenobia replied.

Weevil's eyes narrowed, "That's impossible! Mount Gulga was flattened along with the Legendary Kary when she used..."

Weevil's retort was cut short. Red ash only existed on the western coast of Maycia. Six years after Kary's death, where Mount Gulga had been had erupted, covering much of the region in red ash. Red ash covered literally hundred of acres of land, rendered largely unuseable. Vale had made efforts to restore the land to normal, but it remained the only place one could find red ash.

As realization crossed the boy's face, Xenobia smiled, "Of course, it's only a location. The truth is, Weevil Underwood, you've been selected to carry out our vengence against the Widow Slayer. You will challenge him and his Duelist pokegirl to a Death Duel. It matters not who wins."

"Like hell! I'm not THAT stupid!" Weevil snapped.

"You have no choice." Xenobia declared, giving Weevil a wicked smile.

Weevil began backing away when he felt another person behind him. Royce whispered into his ear as she held a white long-stem rose out in front of him, "You've been chosen by our white rose... and I give this rose to you..."

"What are-" Weevil began as Royce's hand clenched the stem.

Weevil could only scream as the stem pierced his chest.

Lina Inverse hadn't ever really gotten interested in shopping like most of the normal girls she'd met. For the most part, she had no use for most of the things she saw, and besides, for an adventurer, carrying twenty pairs of shoes just wasn't practical. The only things that regularly got her attention (outside of resturaunts and hotels) were pawn shops (where she could sell rare treasures), magic shops and bakeries.

Lina LOVED the smell of baked bread. It had a wonderful mouth- watering flavor that almost always got her belly rumbling. It was probably due to the fact that she grew up poor in Zephilia with only her older sister to watch out for her. If it weren't for her big sister's job as a waitress for a restaraunt, she doubted they would have been able to stay off the streets.

Since bread was the cheapest thing that Luna could regularly bring to the table, Lina had grown up with a strong appreciation for the simple meal that a warm loaf of bread could provide. Little did she know that her train of thought on the subject of food was eerily similar to that of one Genma Saotome, who's philosophy was "Eat all you can, then eat some more, you may not get another chance."

Having satisfied her bread-lust, Lina and her sister's dimensional counterpart, Luna, were window-shopping at a magic shop. As Luna explained, magic items had grown mildly in popularity, but since many of them were usually combat-related, only tamers saw any use for most of the items Vale made.

As they entered, Lina caught sight of a brown-haired boy and a girl who had long brown hair with a red stripe on both of her long bangs. The boy was looking at the packages of cards the girl was presenting him. There were a number of loose cards as well.

"Are you sure these are good, Serenity? I mean, I don't mind buying them..." the boy began.

"Of course they are, Ben. See, this one is the Red-Eye Black Dragon. He can fuse with a number of other monsters..." Serenity began before she saw the blank look on Ben's face, "That's good."

"And these blanks?" Ben asked as Lina and Luna began browsing.

"These are so I can add you and the rest of your harem to my deck. You're all very powerful, and I know my deck would benefit..." Serenity began again, before once against seeing that blank look in Ben's eyes, "It'll improve our chances of victory."

Ben nodded, now comprehending that whatever Serenity was talking about was a good thing.

"Actually, with your permission, I think we might be able to buy a Synth Dueling Glove cheap." Pirotess interjected as she appeared next to Serenity, holding a grey glove that looked like Serenity's black Dueling Glove.

"Look, this stuff's a bit beyond me. I'll buy whatever you two think is worth it. So long as I can afford it." Ben told the two.

"How many credits do you have?" Serenity asked.

"......................... you know, I've never looked that up." Ben commented, opening his pokedex. He clicked through it until he found "Credit Account Balance". He opened it.

"Uh, says here I've got about 235,225,593,397 CL credits." Ben answered. (Equivalent: $2,352,255,933.97)

Pirotess and Serenity twitched, a lot, staring in disbelief.

"Is that a lot?" Ben inquired. He didn't really pay attention to how much credits were worth.

"HOW THE-" Serenity began.

Pirotess had an inkling that Ben had gotten money attributed to his account ever since he'd met with his friend Ihrie. The likelyhood that his friend would at least have the credits earned by him properly placed had been extremely high, but-

"Huh, it just rose to 310,497,783,280 CL credits." Ben commented idly. (Equivalent: $3,104,977,832.80)

"......." was all the two pokegirls could say.

Ben clicked around, "Huh.... Wonder why it says that under 'Savings Account' and there's another thing over here... Rewards due 182,906,275... Researcher Grant? 5,328,060... Huh... wonder what all this means?"

Pirotess gently plucked the pokedex out of Ben's hands and began clicking through it. She shuddered with post-orgasmic glee as she realized her 'penniless' master was one of the RICHEST TAMERS IN THE LEAGUE.

"Ben, you realize that you were due a lot of credit for those infestations you destroyed in the past, correct?" Pirotess asked gently.

"Well, yeah, but I already knew I was famous." Ben responded.

Pirotess shook her head, "No, not that kind of credit. You get money for getting rid of or containing various unpleasant pokegirls. A bounty, if you will, for services rendered. Well, the Crimson League has a 1.32 percent interest rate on bounties that aren't collected immediately..."

"Pirotess, I ain't gotta clue as to what you just said." Ben declared honestly.

"You are incredibly rich." Pirotess explained.

"HUH?!" Ben inquired, "How'd that happen?"

"Largely from a saving accounts and three CDs that your parents made for you at a bank. The CDs had a high interest rate and it's been roughly sixteen years since the accounts were started..." Pirotess began.

"My parents?! I have some?!" Ben asked, staring at Pirotess with wide eyes.

"....you used to. According to this, they passed on and their accounts were split between yours and your sister's accounts, as per the standard inheritance law in Crimson League." Pirotess explained.

"Sister?!" Ben inquired, "I have a sister?! Is she still alive?!"

"Maybe we should go back to the hotel... after we buy this stuff." Pirotess began, glancing at Serenity, who had grabbed every rare card off the wall, picking up an armful of booster packs and blank card packs, and was half-way to the counter, giggling giddily like a kid at a candy store when they were told it was all free.

Ben nodded absently, his mind focused on the idea that he actually had a sister, one who might still be alive.

Reimi stared across the field from Mike McGrull. It had come down to this. A three versus three battle. Reimi had won once and Mike had as well, making the final decision their own battle.

Reimi wondered why her stomach was knotted up as she and Mike, the tall black-haired gym leader, stared each other down, mentally prepping their bodies for the fight. She had never felt so uncertain about a battle in her life.

Mike's scale of power felt like Ben's. And if he was even close to Ben in terms of power, that meant she might measure up to Ben if she won this fight.

For some reason, that idea both scared and excited her.

She wondered why she was scared. The idea of being able to match the legendary Widow Slayer had been a dream of hers ever since he'd become famous nine years ago. Besides that, the only serious dream she'd had was becoming Yuka's lover.

As Mike charged, Reimi focused on the battle, but she couldn't prevent the train of thought from running in the back of her head. She blocked Mike's punches and drove him back with a sidekick.

Perhaps it was because she learned what he'd had to go through to learn it. Losing someone precious to her wasn't an option, but Ben had said that there were ways to learn without that. It was simply the fastest method.

She ducked Mike's spin kick and flipped backwards to dodge a descending axe kick. Mike began flaring with his famous fiery aura, and charged again, this time much faster than he had at the beginning of the fight. Reimi rolled out of the path of his Blazing Charge attack, and built up her own aura.

But it nagged at her. Almost as if she didn't have a right to the power unless she'd lost someone. She had lost her father, but she had been so young, she could only recall what he looked like and a few of the times they'd spent together.

She raised her aura barrier as Mike increased his attack from his Blazing Charge to the Meteoric Slam. As Mike's aura burned against her rose-shaped barrier, Reimi felt something rise in her.

She'd lost her father. Wasn't that enough? Did she have to lose someone more precious before she was considered Ben's equal? Yuka had made love to Ben without a second thought, but Reimi herself only had gotten a 'maybe later'. Reimi's detached logical mind took a backseat to the sudden affront on the people she considered important. Her rational mind knew that Ben hadn't meant any insult, but that didn't reach the more active irrational part of her mind.

Mike McGrull stepped back a few paces, wondering why Reimi was simply glowing brighter and brighter while clenching and unclenching her hands, her face contorted into a mask of anger and rage as tears began forming in her eyes.

Then, he sensed something. He could feel that she was likely on the verge of a spiritual evolution, much like the one he himself had experienced, and anyone who interfered would likely suffer a rather savage beating. As a precaution, he raised his own higher aura, a bright yellow barrier that would, hopefully, block her attack when she finished.

Suddenly, Reimi threw back her head and roared, her aura turning a deep indigo, before she lunged at Mike, a savage claw-like attack burning against his own aura. He winced in agony as he struggled to maintain his barrier while Reimi began tearing it open, her eyes ablaze with purple energy.

Mike dropped his barrier and raised his arms just Reimi pushed her way through and slammed a fist into the gym leader's crossed arms, sending him hurtling backwards to skid along the ground before finally rolling to a stop.

"STOP!" Mike yelled as Reimi began advancing.

Reimi stopped as ordered, panting as she recovered from her roar. She began trembling as she began fighting herself. She had to calm down. Whatever she had just done was good, but she had to calm down or she would simply burn herself out.

She felt to her knees, hugging herself and trembled as she managed to reaffirm her control over her own body and spirit.

"I have to say, it's the first time anyone did THAT during a Gym Battle against me." Mike admitted as he walked over to Reimi and presented her with a badge in the shape of a flame.

"But... the fight..." Reimi protested weakly. She had no real desire to continue, as she felt like she'd just lost her virginity again. Only this time, it left her even more scared and uncomfortable.

"I've been through this myself and right now, you need to calm down and get an idea of what you just did. If you don't, one of us will wind up in VERY bad shape. And I've had enough of the Press for a while." Mike responded, forcing her to take the badge.

Reimi looked at it. She was actually grateful for a fight to be over. The only thought she wanted to focus on was [How the hell did I do that?!]

Sasami Kawai fidgeted. She was uncertain why, but blimps always made her nervous. For some reason, she always expected them to explode into flames while reporters screamed, "OH THE HUMANITY!"

She didn't know why, either. Blimps had never had a reported error or explosion in history (largely because they were techically slow planes with balloons strapped to the top in the modern era and the records of incidents like the Hindenburg were destroyed or covered up).

But, she was on her way to Blowmetropolis' interleague airport. Once there, she would take a hydro-bus to the outskirts of the Vale, where she anticipated meeting Misao's tamer and challenging her to a duel for Misao. She'd wanted to go directly to Vale, but the prices and flight time were MUCH higher, not to mention, the security sweeps alone would end up taking longer than if she went to Blowmetropolis.

She ran over the plan in her head over a hundred times, wondering if there were any places that needed improvement or further planning. Unfortunately, she had little information on who Misao's trainer actually was. Only that her name was 'Lina Inverse', she had long red hair and was only about as tall as Misao.

Sasami looked down at the clouds again and fidgeted. If only she were on something faster than a blimp...

Ben watched at Serenity. Ever since she'd made those cards of him and the rest of his harem, she'd been skipping along, humming a happy tune. Her cheerful demeanor rised his thoughts from the quagmire they had been in since that afternoon. It was close to midnight when Serenity had asked to go on a private walk with him. Seeing as everyone else had already gone to sleep, he'd accepted.

He had a last name now, Valentine. It was strange to hear it, like it had always been on the tip of his tongue, but he'd never been able to say it. Pirotess had been doing research on his family, but he understood that such things took time, even with Ihadurca, Nine, Tifa, Setsuna, Brittany, Miko and Roll doing the research in the local library.

His parents were dead. Somehow, he'd already known that, even before Pirotess told him. But his sister was another matter entirely. There was still hope that she might be alive. And he didn't want that hope crushed by a cold and emotionless paper.

"Isn't the lake romantic?" Serenity inquired.

Ben snapped out of his thoughts and looked at the lake. With the light of the full moon sparkling off the lake, covering the trees and grass in a soft light, it did look rather beautiful.

"It's wonderful." Ben commented.

For several minutes, they simply took in the breath-taking view.

[.... should I? He's a tamer, but... will I just be another girl to him? He's been so supportive, though...and I get the feeling that even if he doesn't use me in battle, he will always care for me...] Serenity's mind warred back and forth.

Ben noticed Serenity tilting her head back and forth about the seventh time she did it. He briefly wondered what she might be thinking, until she turned to face him.

"..... Ben?" Serenity asked.

"Yeah?" Ben inquired, turning his attention fully to her.

She approached him until they were face to face. Despite the fact that her face was backlit by the moon, he could tell she was blushing. Reflexively, he reached out and cupped her hips, pulling her gently to him.

She cupped his face, leaned in and kissed him. His left arm rose to wrap around her back, pulling her closer. Her heart pounded faster inside her chest. Her knees grew weak from the flood of passion flowing through her. Strangely, she felt as though she'd always known him, as if she were a part of him.

"How cute." came an annoying voice from behind Ben.

Ben and Serenity's lips parted, the mood soured as both easily recognized the person the voice belonged to. Ben half-turned to face the green-haired boy, "Weevil, is there something you want me to break? Because if it's your face, I'll gladly oblige."

"Sorry to interupt the moment, Widow Slayer," Weevil sneered, "I do apologize sincerely, because that will be the last romantice moment you ever share with any of your pokegirls!"

"Puh-lease. Your psychic attacks are about all you've got going for you and they aren't enough to beat me." Ben responded, snorting at the pumpkin-headed fool.

"I'm not here to fight you face to face. I know I'd lose in that kind of battle." Weevil admitted, before smiling evilly "I have someone here that I think your friend wants to fight..."

Out of the shadows behind Weevil came a tall busty girl with glazed eyes. She was sweaty and naked, her hair was short, following the angle of her jaw. She stopped next to Weevil and raised a hand to show the same black Dueling Glove that Serenity wore.

"This is Faye, another Duelist." Weevil declared, before reaching over and fondling one of the tall girl's breasts.

"Yeah? And?" Ben inquired.

"...I want to fight her." Serenity said, feeling the urge to test herself against the other girl, to test the might of her deck, and to show Ben how powerful she really could be.

"Okay, go ahead." Ben acknowledged.

This time, Faye spoke, but in a flat monotone voice that all but spat neon lights saying 'Drugged beyond rational thought', "This will be a Death Duel."

Serenity gasped, "A.... a Death Duel?"

"Serenity?" Ben inquired.

Serenity trembled, "It's a battle where each duelist offers up the life of a willing participant as an ante.... whoever loses... their participant dies."

"Then we won't play." Ben responded.

Lightning arced off the ground and struck Ben, pumping thousands of volts through him in the span of twenty seconds before stopping just as abruptly as it had begun, allowing him to fall to his knees. As he recovered his senses, he coughed a few times, managing to choke back bile, feeling incredibly weak and ill at the same time.

"Fool! By telling your duelist that they could fight, you accepted the duel! Since we were 'challenged', we got to choose the venue!" Weevil laughed maniacally.

"Shut up, Weevil!" Ben spat, his aura rising.

"Don't!" Serenity told him, "You'll only cause us to forfeit!"

"Do you think you can win?" Ben inquired.

".... my deck is much better, I have someone I respect as my master and I have the desire to win. I think I can do it." Serenity responded.

"Okay... it's up to you, then." Ben replied.

"It's time to Duel, Faye." Serenity declared.

Ben and Weevil expected the theme song to play, but either it had a sense of tact or something about two duelists battle canceled it out. A quick game of Jan-Ken-Pon, with Faye winning, decided who would go first. Serenity and Faye drew their first hands. Faye then drew another card.

Serenity looked at her cards and smiled. She had her master's card, as well as the Nine, both in the first draw. If she could get them onto the field, she would have the game locked. As it was, she had Nine's card as well, a 1900/1200 card, which she could play to start.

"I lay three cards face down." Faye announced.

Three rather large cards appeared in front of Faye. Two were close to Faye, indicating traps or spells, but one was a monster card in defense mode.

Serenity considered her options as she drew another card. She was going to play Nine's card, but she also had Monster Reborn in her hand. She laid that face down, then announced, "I play Nine in attack mode! Nine, destroy her face-down card!"

The faux-Umbrea extended a hand forward and black tendrils speared the face-down monster card.

"Activating Morphing Jar." Faye replied, as a black jar with an eye and wide-grinning mouth appeared in front of her.

"WHAT?!" Serenity panicked.

Ben was about to ask if that was bad when both Nine and the jar- creature exploded and vanished, as did the cards in both Faye and Serenity's hands.

Both drew fresh hands. Serenity laid four monsters on the field. Ben saw a black dragon-thingy that looked like the Curse of Dragon (Red-Eyes Black Dragon) (2400/2000), Brittany (2600/800), Kei (2000/900) and Roll (1200/2800) appear on the field. And Serenity had five new cards in her hand.

"That seemed like a dumb move." Ben commented, before noticing four monster appear in front of Faye. Two were large blue scaley creatures that had bodies similar to the Curse of Dragon, but these creatures had arms and legs, and their heads seemed a bit better proportioned. Of course, Ben didn't know that these two strange creatures were the most powerful creatures currently in existance, the Blue-Eyes White Dragon (3000/2500). The other two were ignored, the black-skinned man [Karate Master (1000/1000)] and a tanned girl who wore the same outfit as the Mystic Elf [Dark Elf (2000/800)].

"No....way...." Serenity whispered, trembling, "There's no way you could have two Blue-Eyes White Dragons!"

"You're right. She has THREE Blue-Eyes White Dragons." Weevil replied, his smile so wide that Ben was certain that the top of his head would fall off if he opened his mouth wide enough.

Serenity examined her cards. Save for Ben's card, which she could revive, there was nothing in her hand or on the field that could currently hurt the Blue-Eyes White Dragons. If she could protect herself, she could revive his card, but she wasn't sure what the other two cards on Faye's field were. She looked at her hand and used the one card that could buy her some time, "I play Swords of Light, shift Roll to Defense Mode and end my turn."

Large crucifix-like spears of light surrounded Faye and Weevil, and pinned all of Faye's monsters in place. Faye didn't look concerned, but Weevil looked a bit shaked at the sudden appearance of the light blades that almost skewered him. Ben snapped his fingers, wish that one sword had been a foot to the left.

Faye drew a card, then motioned to her Dark Elf and Karate Master. Both closed their eyes and were swallowed up by the earth. Ben wondered what might be happening when a third Blue-Eyes White Dragon appeared where the Dark Elf had been standing.

Serenity drew another card. It was her Premature Burial. By sacrificing 800 life points, she could revive a monster already sent to the graveyard. That meant, she might be able to win if she used her master's card to destroy two of the Blue Eyes.

"I play Premature Burial!" Serenity declared, while Ben felt a strong chill run up his back (-800 Life Points), "Come back, Widow Slayer!"

Ben watched in mild dismay as a faux-him tore free from the ground and dusted himself off, before leveling his gaze at Weevil, managing to convey the same amount of venom and contempt for Weevil as Ben himself had.

"I activate Trap Card, Call of the Grave." Faye answered.

The Widow Slayer clutched his chest, then fell over, vanishing before he hit the ground.

Serenity panicked. She'd figured Faye had some sort of trap, but she had been hoping it wouldn't stop her resurrection attempt. Faye simply drew a card, then motioned to Serenity that it was her turn again.

Serenity wasn't sure if there was anything left she could do. She now had Mirror Force, but that was only good once. She knew she could beat at least two of the dragons, but there wasn't anything else in her deck nearly as strong. Maybe if she had a boosting item, but she was so shaken by the sudden arrival of the White Dragons that she wasn't sure she could beat that last dragon.

She decided not to think about it and simply do her best. She laid her Mirror Force on the field.

"One more time! Widow Slayer, return from the grave!" Serenity declared, activating Monster Reborn.

The Widow Slayer appeared, this time fading back into reality, as if he'd simply turned invisible for a few seconds, long enough to stand back up.

"Destroy one of Faye's Blue-Eyes White Dragons!" Serenity commanded.

The Widow Slayer dashed forward as one of the blue eyed dragons opened it's mouth. The dragon spat lightning at the Widow Slayer just as the Widow Slayer threw a black sphere at the dragon. Both exploded.

"Playing Harpie's Feather Duster and activating Monster Reborn." Faye announced.

Serenity's stomach fell as the dragon that just died rose again. She'd played the best that she could with what she had, but it simply wasn't enough.

Faye then drew another card and laid it face down. From it's position, Serenity knew it wasn't a monster card, but that was of no help.

"Serenity," Ben spoke up, catching Serenity's attention. He looked into her eyes, "I don't know much about this game, but I do believe in your judgement. And you haven't lost this match yet."

Serenity looked into his eyes, speechless. He was right. She'd been so focused on using her master's card to win when she had ignored her other cards, all of which were fairly good. With the right boost card, they could all take on the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

She drew her next card. Pot of Greed. She played it and drew two new cards. Serenity stared at the two cards. One was a Magician of Faith and the other was her Master's Dark Card. She played her Magician of Faith (300/400) face down and then activated the Dark Card (Continuous, +500/+500 to Warrior, Dark and Spellcasters in play).

With Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2900/2500), Brittany (3100/1300), Kei (2500/1400), Roll (1700/3300 (in defense mode)) and her Magician of Faith (800/900), the chances of victory were better. She glanced at the cards in her hand. She had Negate Attack, giving her an extra turn. She laid it face down.

"Brittany, destroy one of the Blue-Eyes!" Serenity instructed. Brittany charged and struck the middle Blue-Eyes thousands of times before zipping back to her starting point. The dragon twitched and exploded. Faye drew her next card.

"Activating Premature Burial." Faye announced, causing Weevil to shudder (-800 Life Points). Serenity groaned as the dragon returned. Faye continued, though, "Activating Polymerization."

Ben didn't know what exactly was going on, but from the look of horror on Serenity's face, it wasn't good. The bodies of the three dragons fused into one larger body with three heads.

"The Blue-Eyes Ultimate White Dragon! There's nothing I have that can beat that..." Serenity whispered.

"That's right. The Blue-Eyes Ultimate White Dragon has an attack power of 4500! ULTIMATE WHITE DRAGON! NEUTRON BLAST!" Weevil sneered.

The Blue-Eyes Ultimate White Dragon opened all three of it's mouths and spat forth a neutron blast, something Ben was grateful he wasn't facing directly. It destroyed Kei and sapped 2000 more life points from Ben, making him wonder who'd poured a bucket of ice-water down his back.

[What do I do? What do I do?! What do I do?! WHAT DO I DO?!?] Serenity asked herself. Even if she managed to revive her Widow Slayer, he would be a full 1000 attack points too weak. All she could do was hope that she had something else in her deck that could boost the Widow Slayer when she revived him. She'd panicked so much that she'd even forgotten about her Negate Attack trap card.

She drew another Pot of Greed. She activated that immediately and drew two more cards: the Polymerization card and the Rage card, the other one that had formed when she'd made her master's card. She blinked and pondered the possibility. She had the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, one of the most adaptable dragons in the game. If she fused it with the Widow Slayer AND played the Rage card... it might work.

She flipped over her Magician of Faith, took back her Monster Reborn and restored her Widow Slayer. She then played the Rage Card (Continuous, +500/+500 to all Warrior, Beast and Dark monsters in play).

[Polymerization, please work...] Serenity prayed as she activated the final step in the last plan she could think of.

Clouds began pooling overhead, swirling angrily as lightning began arcing down to the ground outside of the battle. Darkness engulfed all of Serenity's monsters, causing her to panic. She hadn't told the Polymerization card to take ALL her monsters.

"Is that supposed to happen?" Ben inquired, recalling that all of Faye's monsters had fused together when the other duelist had used the Polymerization card. Of course, he didn't recall lightning or the storm gathering before.

Lightning continued to rain down further and further away from the duel, but also seemed to glow much brighter as the darkness began swallowing up the entire field. Once the field and players were engulfed, the darkness shrank down to a large dark man-like figure.

The figure stood over ten feet tall, wore dark purple plate mail armor, Only two glowing blue eyes in the stylized helmet gave any indication that it wasn't just an empty suit of armor. A large sweeping red cape appeared behind the armor.

The armored man reached forward, gripping two of the heads of the Blue-Eyes Ultimate White Dragon and summarily crushed their necks. Weevil immediately dropped to the ground, quite dead.

"Uh......umm.....what the hell is that?" Ben asked.

As all of the projections faded away, Serenity held the newly created card in her hands, "It's... the Dark Emperor God Card."

"God Card?" Ben inquired, before Serenity suddenly clutched his shoulder.

"....I think I just came in my pants....." Serenity told him.

"Oh....kay.......let's go get Faye and Weevil's other pokegirl." Ben answered, deciding if she was orgasming just holding a card, it must be one of those important things he would never understand.

Whassat? Can't quite figure out why Weevil dropped dead after one attack?

The Dark Emperor gains the Attack and Defense ratings of all monsters sacrificed to it (which is every monster currently alive and under the player's control). Once you have a grasp on that, it's simply math.

Red-Eyes Black Dragon: 2400/2000 + 1000 (2x500) = 3400/3000
Brittany: 2600/800 + 1000 (2x500) = 3600/1800
Roll: 1200/2800 + 1000 (2x500) = 2200/3800
Widow Slayer: 3000/2500 + 1000 (2x500) = 4000/3500
Magician of Faith: 300/400 + 500 = 800/900
3400 + 3600 + 2200 + 4000 + 800 = 14000
3000 + 1800 + 3800 + 3500 + 900 = 13000
So, Dark Emperor's stats were 14000/13000

Weevil's Life Points: 9200
Blue-Eye Ultimate Dragon: 4500/3800
9200 + 4500 = 13700
13700 - 14000 = -300
Weevil was dead by 300 points.

New Techniques:

Song
Last Dance With Mary Jane - (EFT) Using this melody, the singer causes those effected by it to relive (or create, then mentally live through) the saddest day of their lives. They will stop whatever they are doing and weep over it for 1-12 turns. This melody can affect friend and enemy alike (it can even effect the singer) and is thus, reserved for desperate situations. It is _NEVER_ to be used lightly and a singer may refuse to sing it if they feel the situation does not warrant it.

Bug - While these are listed under Bug, many pokegirls can LEARN these techniques.
Honey - (EFT) This technique, although embarrassing to use, allows the pokegirl to create a thin syrup that can heal minor wounds (up to 1/8th max HP), by masturbating. This technique and it's higher versions can be used by any pokegirl, though they were originally used by Bug-type pokegirls (thus, why they are classified as such).
Sweet Honey - A strong version of Honey, this can heal moderate wounds (up to 1/2 max HP).
Royal Honey - This version of the Honey technique allows minor regeneration (such a finger) and can heal most large wounds (up to 3/4ths Max HP)
Honey Syrup - This is currently one of the only techniques that can restore 1 PP to every technique and/or up to 2 spells for a magic-user. Even more embarrassing that the Honey techniques, this one requires the pokegirl to experience orgasm. This technique and it's higher versions can be used by any pokegirl.
Maple Syrup - This technique can restore upwards of 5 PP to every technique or up to 8 spells for a magic-user.
Royal Syrup - This technique can completely restore all techniques and/or spells, but can only be used once a week.

Dark
Shadow Dash - (ATK + EFT) The pokegirl disappears for a second and reappears in the opponent's shadow, hitting the opponent automatically with damage equal to a critical hit with the user's strongest attack, even if phased. However, this technique does not guarantee damage if the opponent uses Shadow or any similar technique that can only be bypassed by using a specific elemental attack; nor does it prevent a technique, such as Reflect or Dark Shield, from lessening the damage dealt.

(*Nod to The Fallen One, who came up with this idea on the Pokewomon forum)
Hand Maid (aka Cyber-Doll) - The 1/6th Scale Maid
Type: Very Near Human
Element: Electric/Magic
Frequency: Uncommon (Mountian League), Unknown Others
Diet: Human Style Food, Milk
Role: Housekeeper, Maid
Libido: Low
Strong Vs: None
Weak Vs: Electric, Water, most Types
Attacks: Smile, Thunder Shock, Thunder Wave, Cheer, Kawaii Look, Slap, Jolt, Whip*
Enhancements: Aura of Cute, Enhanced Agility, Empathy
Evolves From: Doll, Maid Yvette
Evolves To: Unknown

Hand Maids are unusual Pokegirls. In appearance, they look exactly like a human maid ora Maid Yvette, but there is one noticeable difference...they are only 1/6 the size of normal Pokegirls. Unlike other Magic-type Pokegirls that can shrink or enlarge themselves at will, HandMaids remain at their doll-like size. Their bodies are 100% perfect scale, and everything’s fully functional.

One of the reasons Tamers do not like having a Hand Maid in their Harem is the thought of how to go about Taming. Since they are 1/6 their size, Taming the natural way is out of the question, and trying to use other “toys” to complete the job they fear injuring them. This always amuses Hand Maids, since many enjoy seeing their Tamers get frustrated trying to figure out how to Tame them. Hand Maids do not require a lot of Taming sessions to keep them from going Feral. It has been noted that sometimes just being able to make their Tamer’s happy keeps a Hand Maid from going Feral. Hand Maids can wear down their energy supply very quickly, and since they are also an Electric-Type, they can recover this energy by plugging themselves into a Computer/Pokedex via an USB cable, though they tend to want to connect the cable to themselves alone.

Hand Maids always try their hardest to keep their Tamers happy, even if they nearly exhaust themselves doing so. Imagine trying to cook or clean for someone 6 times your size, using their things? Be warned, Hand Maids can easily get sad if they believe that their hard work doesn’t make their Tamers happy. They tend to be always cheerful, polite and helpful, and just being with them for a few minutes can almost make anyone smile.

Due to their size, and usefulness in battle, some Leagues (Like the Mountian League), do not count Hand Maids towards a Tamer’s Harem Limit, since they don’t need to be carried around in a Pokeball when a pocket will do. Most Hand Maids can be seen in Pokecenters or Laboratories helping out, and cleaning what they can.

*Whip Attack - Using their USB Re-charge cable, a Hand Maid can utilize it as a whip, much like a Domina does, but 1/6 the scale and damage.

*CL Notation: Many lab researchers have taken pity on the Hand Maids, famed researcher Washu Hakubi especially, and allow them to work in their labs. Washu has been researching devices to allow the Hand Maids to 'grow' to normal proportions, but she understands that some Hand Maids will not desire to 'grow' and that the chances of the Hand Maids ever learning a technique to enlarge themselves naturally is minimal.

**Extra CL Notation: One high-level Hand Maid has been observed using her USB cable to fire a micro-sized Hyper Beam at a Team Rocket clone group, but fainted immediately after. This brave act has increased the proposed usefulness of the Hand Maid in lab defense, especially if they can develop the reserves necessary to fire multiple shots.

***Extra EXTRA CL Notation: In a bizarre turn of events, Washu has found that the enlarged Hand Maids seemed to have a higher reproduction rate than their unenlarged counterparts, all of them bearing five to ten children, instead of the usually one to two of their normal-sized counterparts.

DRACASS
Type: Very Near Human Metamorph
Element: Human Form: Fighting
Dragon Form: Dragon
Frequency: Rare
Diet: human food with a preference for meat
Role: heavy artillery
Libido: Low
Strong Vs: Human Form: Bug, Dark, Ice, Normal, Rock, Steel
Dragon Form: Dragon, Electric, Fire, Plant, Water
Weak Vs: Human Form: Flying, Psychic
Dragon Form: Ice
Attacks: Human Form: Aura of Cute, Punch, Kick, Quick Attack
Dragon Form: Slash, Roar, Tail Slap, Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam
Enhancements: Human Form: Youthful, Enhanced Strength (x2), Enhanced Agility (x2)
Dragon Form: Youthful, Enhanced Strength (x10), Armoured, Enhanced Senses (x8), Flight
Evolves: Dronza (hatred of humanity)
Evolves From: None

Created near the end of Sukebe`s Revenge, the Dracasses were intended as heavy assault platforms to assist in the defence of Sukebe`s more important installations, while at the same time not being a heavy drain on increasingly limited resources.

Unfortunately, by the time the Dracasses were sent out into the field, the war was almost over. In a desperate, last ditch attempt to save their creator, the small numbers of Dracasses already created attempted to breach the enemies line in their human forms and destroy their headquarters, hopefully buying enough time for their master to escape.

The plan couldn’t have gone more wrong. The Dracasses were ambushed before they ever made it to the enemy HQ, and ninety percent of this Pokegirl breed was wiped out. With this success in one hand, the attack on Sukebe`s lair went ahead of schedule, catching the mage/scientist unaware. The few Dracasses remaining fought as hard as any other Pokegirls on the field, but weren’t enough to turn the tide of battle.

Normally remaining in their human form, they are nearly indistinguishable from pure blood humans, save that physical aging stops somewhere in the teen years, usually immediately after puberty. While this lack of physical aging keeps a Dracass in her prime combat condition, it comes with a steep price, as no Dracass has ever been recorded as becoming a pokewomon, and thus never having had children outside of parthenogenesis.

While considered to be Fighting-types, Dracasses are not very powerful when compared to other Fighting-type Pokegirls. They are, generally speaking, not as fast, strong or durable as other Fighting- types.

In their Dragon forms, Dracasses gain a foot in height, and grow a layer of armoured scales over their previously soft flesh. Wings sprout from the Dracass`s back, enabling her to fly, though she must be trained, preferably by a Flying-type, before she can fly effectively. In addition, the Dracass gains a long tail, three quarters as long as she is tall, tipped either with a solid bone bludgeon, or a spear like point.

The Dracass can maintain this Draconic form for only a short time, usually measured in minutes when the Pokegirl is still young, but increasing as she gets more experience.

It is rare for a girl to Threshold to Dracass, although it is not completely unknown. A Threshold Dracass will likely be a danger to those around her however, as it takes some time before she will be skilled enough to control her Draconic half without losing control and destroying everything around her.

Despite an inherent desire to help those weaker than her, a Dracass does have a bit of a problem with authority figures, especially Tamers. While she won’t go out of her way to refuse a Tamers orders, a Dracass is likely to take the easy way out, at least until her Tamer has proven that he actually cares for her in some way. This has caused Dracasses to be regarded as more trouble than they’re worth by many researchers and Tamers alike, but, once a Dracass`s respect has been earned, they are without a doubt, one of the most loyal Pokegirls to have.

DRONZA, the Dark Dracass
Type: Very Near Human Metamorphic
Element: Human Form: Poison
Dragon Form: Dragon
Frequency: Extremely Rare
Diet: human food with a preference for meat
Role: destroyer of humanity
Libido: High
Strong Vs: Human Form: Bug, Fighting, Plant, Poison
Dragon Form: Dragon, Electric, Fire, Plant, Water
Weak Vs: Human Form: Ground, Psychic, celestial Pokegirls
Dragon Form: Ice, celestial Pokegirls
Attacks: Human Form: Aura of Fear, Poison, Punch, Kick
Dragon Form: Aura of Fear, Slash, Roar, Drain, Tail Slap, Dragon Rage, Hyper Beam
Enhancements: Human Form: Youthful, Enhanced Strength (x2)
Dragon Form: Youthful, Enhanced Strength (x12), Armoured, Enhanced Senses (x8), Flight
Evolves: None
Evolves From: Dracass (hatred of humanity)

There is a dark side to the Dracass.

During Mao’s Rebellion, most Dracasses sided with humanity, fighting against those who would kill their human masters. However, a few choose to side with Mao, and this cast a dark shadow over the entire Dracass breed. The Tamers who had Dracasses often mistreated them, and it wasn’t unknown for a Dracass to be killed by humans who feared her.

The Dracasses were oppressed, like many Pokegirls of the time, but still they fought for the humans. It was shortly after the battle of Pine Ridge that one Dracass finally snapped. Mistreated by her Tamer, scorned by the humans around her, beaten, insulted and nearly killed, she decided that Humans were not worth saving.

A dark evolution took place, and she became a Dronza.

Little is known about what actually happened, but authorities that later found the sight reported that no human or Pokegirl still lived. Most had been slaughtered in a brutal and sadistic fashion. These reports were quickly buried by the Leagues, lest humans decide that all Dracasses were evil, and wipe the breed out.

Dronza are, by their very essence, everything that a Dracass is not. Filled with hatred, anger and disgust, they strike out at any who so much as look at them the wrong way.

Dronza see the Dracass`s failure of Sukebe to be the ultimate disgrace, and they see the Tamed and domesticated Pokegirls to be little more than traitors. Proclaiming themselves as the true path of Pokegirls, they continue to hunt humans and their Pokegirls in an attempt to wipe clean the smear of failure, and bring Sukebe to his rightful place as the leader of humanity. They don’t seem to care that everyone claims he’s dead.

These Pokegirls spend most of their time in Draconic form, loathing the thought that they may have anything in common with a human. In this form, their scales are either black, or a very dark grey, and their eyes glow a bright red, distinguishable even in a brightly lit area. They will take their human forms only if they need to interact with a human, usually when coercing a Taming out of him.

Once a Dracass has made the transition to Dronza, she loses all respect for the human race, and much of her respect for other Pokegirl types, especially those who are members of a Tamer’s Harems. There is no reasoning with a Dronza, and they will, as likely as not, kill any human who crosses their path. Capturing a Dronza is almost impossible, and no Tamer has ever claimed to have been able to keep one in his Harem. However, many reports have been made of Dronza tricking Tamers into Taming them, or even forcing the act if they wish, to keep themselves from going Feral. In some cased, the Dronza even allows the unlucky Tamer to live.

Tamers are advised, not, under any circumstances, to set a Dracass against a Dronza. This battle will be unstoppable, as the two breeds have a hatred for the other that defies all logical thought, and the two will fight until one is dead.

Dronza are considered a threat by all Leagues, and a bounty of 10,000 credits has been set for the confirmed extermination of a Dronza.

See who I planned for five of the original Limbec Pirate Groups! Obviously, I'm not using these anymore.

Madam Iron - Yayaoi of NightWalker (Iron Maiden)
Madam Radiance - Belldandy of Ah! Megami-sama (Megami)
Madam Magma - Kaolinite of Sailor Moon (Magmary)
Madam Arctica - Yasha of Cutey Honey (Ice Princess)
Madam Phantom - Morrigan (Succubus)

Current Pokedex

Ben (Tamer, Level 45) -
Kei (Growltit, Level 26)
Bambi (Milkmouse, Level 20)
Pirotess (Drow Zee, Level 37)
Lita (Joltina, Level 23)
Tifa (Chocoboob, Level 15)
Nine (Umbrea, Level 15)
In Storage: Setsuna (Heroine, Level 25)
In Storage: Brittany (Cheetah, Level 15)
In Storage: Ihadurca (Dominatrix, Level 30)
In Storage: Miko (Kunoichi, Level 20)
In Storage: Succubus (Succubus, Level 1)
In Storage: Roll (Iron Maiden, Level 35)
In Storage: Serenity (Duelist, Level 17)
In Storage: Faye (Duelist, Level 15)
In Storage: Spider Queen (Spinnertit, Level 24)

Yuka (Amachoke/Demi-War Esper, Level 41) -
Satomi (Flarea, Level 30)
Jun (Ria, Level 34)
Elena (Milktit, Level 28)
Hiyori (Vaporita, Level 20)
Tamao (Pidgerseat, Level 19)
Inez (A-bra, Level 5)
In Storage: Brianna (Cheetah, Level 15)

Junpei (Tamer, Level 40) - Airi (Ditto, Level 20)
Celcia (Elf, Level 31)
Ritsuko (Charamanda, Level 24)
Mike (Youma, Level 12)
Rapier (Amazonlee, Level 20)
In Storage: #388 (Ice Nymph, Level 10)
In Storage: #239 (Flamasaur?, Level 15)

Reimi (Tamer/Demi War-Esper, Level 49) -
Chiho (Kunoichi, Level 31)
Maya (Dragonfair, Level 24)
Lilica (Merrrowl, Level 24)
Nanvil (Drow Zee, Level 27)
Kaori (Amazonlee, Level 39)
Kiyone (Kitten, Level 5)
In Storage: Fubuki (Kunoichi, Level 10)

Yuji (Retired Tamer, Level 16) - Rio (Jigglyslut, Level 23)

Sara (Drow Zee, Level 60)
Arshes Nei (Drow Zee, Level 73)
Eris (Sorceress, Level 30)

Madam Arctica (Ice Maiden, Level 50)
Madam Magma (Magmary, Level 80)
Madam Phantom (Succubus, Level 35)
Madam Iron (Iron Maiden, Level 65)
Madam Radiance (Megami, Level 55)
Madam Darkness (Drow Zee, Level ??)
Madam Thunder (????, Level 50)
Temp Madam Venom (Spinnertit, Level 20)
Madam Yggdrasil (VenusBloom, Level 99)

Professor Fujisawa (Professor) - Miz (Naiad, Level 23)

Jinnai (Citizen) - Diva (Buzzbreast, Level 30)

Fatora (Tamer, Level 4) - Alliele (SexyCute, Level 5)
Qawool (Naiad, Level 15)
Kalia (Drow Zee, Level 1)
Gilda (Iron Maiden, Level 5)

Makoto (Tamer, Level 4) - Shayla Shayla (Growlie, Level 5)
Nanami (Merrrowl, Level 5)
Afura (Djinn, Level 5)
Rune (Mousewife, Level 5)

Lina (Tamer, Level 5) - Misao (Loner, Level 5)
Sylphiel (ShieldMaiden, Level 10)
Misa (Naga, Level 15)
Amelia (Amazonchan, Level 28)
Gracia (Sorceress, Level 20)
Guest: Luna (Sorceress, Level 34)

Sasami (Tamer, Level 3) - Mirei (Cheshire, Level 2)
Mizuki (Succubus, Level 2)
Hikari (ShieldMaiden, Level 2)

Ihrie (Hunter's Guild Commander) -
Rasha (Sorceress, Level 30)

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