[P][Sf][Fu]Get Out Alive (Warning: Will contain a LOT of violence)[J]

[Hitmonchu]

I decide to try some Raticate. It's pretty good and tastes like fried Arbok, which I had at a Kanto restaurant with my uncle before he died. Its teeth are a problem, so I break them off with a Power-up Punch and store them in my bag.

I spot an abandoned Poke Mart across the street.
"Guys, I'm gonna go get some Potions, Antidotes, and the like. Be right back!" I yell as I leave the dusty boutique.

The door is boarded shut. A good Focus Blast warmed up with a Swords Dance should take care of that.
Seconds later, the door is shattered and I scream. A decomposing human is on the floor in front of me. I step over it and walk over to the counter.

Many things are scattered behind the counter. I manage to take two Great Balls, a Premier Ball, three Nest Balls, a Master Ball, five Potions, two Antidotes, and seventeen Paralyze Heals. I stuff them into my bulging bag and head for the door, only to be met with a gruesome surprise.

The human's head bursts open to reveal a D-day Politoed who had been feasting on the human's blood and brains. I shoot at it and miss, hitting the human corpse. The Politoed grabs a bit of brain and flings it at me. It hits me between the eyes. Mildly disgusting, but not deadly. I shoot at it again and hit, killing it in one shot. I grab it by the foot and pull it out of the human's head, and clean the brains off my face with my blue cloth.

Minutes later, I am in the boutique again. After seeing that Helioptile roast some Raticate, I am inclined to ask her if she will roast us some Politoed for dinner.
"Um, excuse me," I ask, "but do you think you could roast this for me?" I hand her the Politoed.

[SirBlaziken]

((Yeah, due to my internet connection, you won't see me post as much now. Also, hitmonchu, i'm not sure if that's the way it works.))

Ryu finally calms down after ditto went from goop to juice. He sighs.

//My anger has gotten the best on me again...//

Ryu sits down and closes his eyes to enter a meditative stance. He hears rustling and just simply aura spheres whatever's in that direction, friend or foe. Hopefully foe. Ryu focuses his anger and tries to dispel it, and he fails. Then, the lucario is just sitting there, looking pretty weird. Ryu is left thinking back to his past, the root of his anger.

[Wolstenholme]

"Roast it?" Sunny replied. "Okay but just this once, I'm not a cook, I'm pretty sure a fire type would be better at this."
Sunny takes a couple of steps back and focuses. The Politoed is bigger than the  Raticate and will need more power. She used Charge to help her and then once she felt ready, she used Thunder Shock again to fry the Politoed.
Once the static died down she looked at the meat. Burnt to a crisp. "I guess that's okay if you like that sort of thing. I'm sorry I don't really have the hang of this..."

[Hitmonchu]

"Oh, that's alright. I like them extra crispy. Would you like some?" I ask, breaking off a leg and holding it out to her. "By the way, I never got your name. What is it?"

[Wolstenholme]

Sunny sniffed the leg and drew back, repulsed. Cannibalism? No way. "My name is Sunny, and I'd rather wait until I find something less... savage to eat. Berries or something."
The Hitmonlee seemed greedy, to Sunny. He had eaten lots of Doomsday Pokemon but Sunny just couldn't bring herself to eat one of her own kind. It was wrong.
She slipped over to one of the shop windows and looked out of it at the street. There were tall trees on the street with berries in them. Luckily. All she needed now was a way to reach them.

[Danatales]

((haha dang my second semester started today and I got slammed with work. Hopefully tomorrow'll be a lil easier for me to get on and post lU))

Dana was spending a lot of her time sniffing about the abandoned boutique, picking up smells of dead and decaying matters, when she heard the Lucario (she couldn't for the life of her remember his name. She'd ask Jaime later, he probably knew) call to her.
"Yo, what? Fire?" She asked, trotting over. She quickly realized the young Vulpix Keira had been injured, and apparently her flame was needed to help bring a boost back into her step, "Oohh, yeah, one sec!" Dana grinned and spit a light curl of flame at the pre-evolution of herself, cloaking the Vulpix in a healing flame, "This'll get her up and running right away, if she's like me." She shook out her fur, feeling her inner fire warming her up nicely in contrast to the rain outside. Glancing around, she spied her young friend Sunny and grinned a bit at the fact she was okay.
Jaime watched their young Helioptile looking out the window, and walked over slowly. He knelt down beside her, looking out as well, "Do you see something out there?" He asked gently, smiling.

[Hitmonchu]

The Helioptile politely rejects the Politoed leg. I don't blame her, since I was a little grossed out at the idea of eating zombies when we started the adventure.
Oh, well. I bring the Politoed, along with my bag of stolen goods, over to a table. I dust it off with my blue cloth and set down the food and goods.

I eat the leg of Politoed myself, and put the rest in the middle of the table.
"Guys, dinner's ready," I shout and wipe my lips.

[SirBlaziken]

Ryu is left meditating, more like remembering, the past.

Reject. Murderer. Outcast.

He was all these things. It all started out with his brother. Ryu and this other Riolu were playing by the stream. Ryu threw a rock into the stream. A d-day gyrados jumped out of the stream. He was about to be bit, but Ryu's brother pushed him out of the way, took the bite. Ryu slayed the beast and carries his brother's body back up to his village. No one believed him when he said that a gyrados killed him. Ryu was exiled.

Ryu sheds a tear.

Next, he finds another village, after evolving, and everyone had heard of the alleged murder. No one accepted him, save one. A horde of d-day pokemon took the only one that believed him. Ryu was almost killed in that battle, and was then exiled again.

Ryu's freakish flashback journey takes him back to his village, where he was passing through to get to the mountains. The villagers still didn't believe him, and threw torches, stones, and knives to try to kill him. Then another horde wiped or turned everyone but Ryu. He was trapped in combat. His family, former friends, ones who he looked up to, all trying to end him.

Ryu sheds another tear.

Everyone, trying to take his life. Ryu, was the only one who he had left to trust. A house collapsed on him and Ryu goes underground. Safe for now. He himself is the only one left to trust. No one. Betrayal and rejection, over and over again. That's all Ryu knew now. There's no goodness left in the world.

Ryu opens his eyes and looks down to Keira, who was going to live.

Keira. The one who taught him that there was goodness in this life again. Keira, the one who renewed his faith in pokemon kind.

Ryu closes his eyes.

He jumps above ground again and he's surrounded. Ryu can't kill any of them, they were his friends and family. He was backed into a corner when a ninetales burst forth and said, "Come with me if you want to live." Ryu, asked in the flashback, "How do I know that I can even trust you?" but the ninetales used hypnosis on him. ((More in the next post))

Ryu opens his eyes, walks back over to Keira, and closes his eyes again, trying to find answers to this. Why has everything happened to him? Why was Keira dragged into this? Why must it all happen to her?

[Wolstenholme]

"There's some berries in the trees out there" Sunny replied, gesturing to the trees on the Lumoise street and then looking up at Jaime. He was smiling at her and she smiled back. "I'd collect them myself but I can't reach. They sure beat cannibalism."

[SirBlaziken]

Ryu hears the young electric type and goes ninja. He ES's ((extremespeed's)) his way outside and throws his knives rapid fire at the tree until it falls. Ryu picks some for himself and ES's back inside.

He loses 2 knives due to breaking from the wood.

Ryu closes his eyes and continues his flashback journey.

"Are you alive?" Someone asks. He opens his eyes, 2 ninetales' and a vulpix are in the room with him

//Huh? Where am I?//

"Well looks like she found you in time." says one ninetales. Obviously, this one was male, and his savior was female. Ryu tries to stand up, but his injuries are too great, and he topples over. Ryu passes out again.

He wakes up to hissing. A d-day primeape is in his face. Ryu screams. The young vulpix is the only one there. It rams into the monkey, then uses hypnosis, knocking it out. A ninetales comes in and uses psychic to finish it. Ryu turns his head to them, but the vulpix uses hypnosis on him, knocking him out cold.

Ryu wakes up to the vulpix standing over him, "He's awake!" it says, and the other 2 come out.

The flashback zooms forward to a field, where a beedrill has him pinned. The vulpix, he has now identified by now as Keira, uses ember and burns the bee to a crisp. Keira runs over and starts to haul him back to the dwelling where she lived with her parents, the two ninetales. On the way, a weavile jumps out and slashes Keira. "Oh, hell no!" says Ryu, jumping up and fighting the enemy with fighting type attacks. After the vulpix saved him, Ryu decided that she and her family could be trusted.

Weavile goes down and Ryu picks Keira up. He runs back to the dwelling and the foxes come out. "All of you, i've known nothing but rejection and betrayal in my life. I thought there was no hope for any of us. But, you've shown me the way. You accepted me as I was, not for my past, not from what you've heard. You've given me a home. Something I haven't had for years. Finally, a home....." Ryu says all this, then falls over, too injured to say anything else.

[Hitmonchu]

The Politoed is getting cold. Nobody seems to be hungry right now besides that Helioptile who wants some berries.
I sit down under the table, looking at my items again. I wonder if these PokeBalls will come in handy, I think to myself.
A large crunching sound gets my attention. It couldn't be the tree, because that had fallen a few minutes ago. I hear it again.
But my wonder all stops when the roof of the boutique is smashed in by a D-day Pangoro! I fire a round of shots at it, but they seem to have no effect. It sends a ruthless claw through the wall, shattering a mirror and somehow starting a fire.
I fire another round. One of the shots hits the Pangoro in the eye, but the rest do nothing.
Having a bullet enter its eye only further enrages the Pangoro. It throws a fist down. I jump away, but it's too late. The fist nearly shatters the bones in my leg. I am too injured and scared to get up, but suddenly I remember my Pokeballs.
I throw a Great Ball at the Pangoro. The Pangoro is sucked into the small blue ball. It shakes once, twice... three times...and the Pangoro is caught!
Now I have worse things to worry about, like my leg. I grab the blue cloth from the Honedge and get it wet with a bit of Potion. I dab the wet cloth on my leg and the Potion does its stuff.
Now I need to rest. The leg should heal in about an hour, thanks to the potion. I wrap the cloth around my leg, sit in an old rocking chair, and doze off.

[SirBlaziken]

((Yeah, I don't think pokeballs work that way. More like traps to stall if anything))

The final stop on Ryu's flashback tour is the fight that got them all here.

"Keira, run!" Ryu heard someone say. A ninetales runs out with a vulpix, Keira, on its back. Ryu walks in and the body of a ninetales is on the ground, with a bunch of d-day pokemon around it. He's enraged.

"If you think you all can waltz on in an kill on of those I love, that's a deadly mistake on your part!" Ryu says, flying into battle. He takes a sharp rock and throws it to take out a vivillion, the same that bit Keira's father. "For Niku!" ((Keira's mother)) Ryu shouts and he charges into battle.

After 5 minutes of explosions, screaming, and general chaos, Ryu finishes off a noivern, ending the fight. He's left panting and alone with the corpse of Niku. Ryu picks up the dead ninetales and buries her, then places a black rose on the grave.

Ryu sheds a tear in the actual world.

He follows Keira and Niko ((Keira's father)) from afar. Then Niko collapses, says his final words and exits this life. Keira is screaming and crying, upset at today's events. In both worlds, Ryu sheds a few tears. It broke his heart to see this happen to someone so young. After the last fox moved on, Ryu buried Niko and leaves a black rose on his grave.

Ryu follows Keira when she suddenly collapses. He's about to leap out and help when an azumarill, seemingly healthy, sees Keira and picks her up.

Flashback end.


Ryu opens his eyes, which are misty. He's on the verge of crying from remembering what took everything away from him. Everything except Keira. She's lost everything too, except, they have each other. Ryu kneels down to the young fox, not caring about the flames about to burn him and composes himself. Ryu stands up, feeling empowered and stands guard over Keira, proud.

Proud that he had someone to love. Someone who relied on him. Someone he could rely on. Someone who loves him.  Proud.

Proud that he had a reason to live on. Keira. She is the reason he lives, to see that her life was better than his. And Ryu would make sure that her life would be better, until death were to take him.

[Danatales]

Jaime looked out and spied the berry trees, "Oh, those things? Gimme one sec, then!" He stood up, shook out his scaly body, and shoved himself out of the boutique. Rain was still dripping down onto his head, but he paid it no heed as he padded to the berry trees and stretched up, their fruit filled branches much closer to his snout than they would've been to Sunny's. Gently grabbing some fruit he plucked them off the tree, trying not to pierce the berry's skin with his sharp teeth and crush the small fruits.
Pleased with the selection, he turned and hurried back towards the shop shelter. However, before he could reach it, a snarling Doomsday Liepard lunged out of a shadowy building, pouncing right for him. Jaime snorted, whipped around, and slammed a vicious Dragon Claw down out of instinct, crushing his sharp claw into the feline Pokemon's skull and sending it crumpled to the ground. He huffed out, stared down at it, and quickly stepped on the infected body once for good measure.
Hurrying back inside, he approached Sunny, and dropped the berries at her feet. They were intact, if a little smooshed from his jaw tensing from stress.
"Hope these'll do you good!" he said, smiling at the little one.

Dana eyed Ryu and Keira from a few paces away, pondering. She couldn't quite figure that Lucario out, but he seemed to be boned quite tightly to the kid. Intriguing. Glancing around again, her ears pricked up. She thought she could hear crashing and clattering around wherever that Hitmonlee had gone, but an investigation only revealed Knuckle sleeping in a chair by a rather smashed in part of roof. Huh.
Those other survivors outghta be lookin for us by now, she thought, and snorted.

[Wolstenholme]

Sunny watched Jaime run into the rain to fetch the berries and then his struggle with the Liepard as he re-entered the boutique, she was about to walk out and help him take down the Liepard but he'd got it covered. He dropped a cluster of berries at her feet. "Thank you very much!" Sunny exclaimed loudly and  wrapped her arms around his leg for a brief moment. She wanted to show that she appreciated him. Then she let go and tucked into her meal of berries. They tasted so fresh, it was like nothing she had eaten for at least a month. She ate quickly and when she finished she smiled sheepishly at Jaime.

[SirBlaziken]

((And 2 of my knives are wasted for no reason.....))

Ryu hears noises. He whips out his pistols and a talonflame flies into the window. Ryu gulps.

//Oh boy, here we go.//

Ryu and the talonflame circle each other like in a fight circle. The lucario motions for the bird to come. "Huh the only thing missing is dramatic or epic battle music." says Ryu. The bird is coated in flames and hurtles towards Ryu, who is barely able to put protect up in time. The lucario decides that the pistols won't work right now and brings out his knives. He then notices that the blades can come off and assemble on top of each other.

Ryu does this to make a mini-katana of sorts.

//Interesting.//

Suddenly, argh! Ryu is hit in the back with a brave bird and goes down. The katana slides away and a sylveon comes out of the shadows to join the fire bird. Ryu is in huge trouble.