Pokemon - Evil Reborn

Chapter 21 - Meet the Minx

“What's this girl supposed to do?” Giovanni scoffed.

“You brought someone like her along?” Quagmire shook his head.

“I'd watch your mouth if I were you.” Tobi untied the Ryuusei Blade from his side as he sat down.

Neira stood by the chair, with her arms crossed, looking stern, but scared too. “She's the reason I'm here now.”

“Don't say that. You know you could've done it on your own.” Giovanni snapped. Tobi stood from the chair and whacked the man in the face. He stumbled back onto the ground, clasping his bleeding nose.

“Anyway...” Blayde turned to Neira. “What skills do you have that will help us? Do you know any hand-to-hand combat techniques?”

“I was trained in self-defence for two years.” Neira nodded.

“Quagmire. Punch her.”

“W-what?” He swallowed.

“Do it!” Tobi barked, sitting back down, amused.

The man obeyed, running forward and swinging his fist towards the new girl. Neira leant back and the punch soared past her chest, where she grabbed hold of Quagmire's arm. She swept her foot into his ankles, knocking him down to the ground. He lay there, with his arm still in her grip as she stood above him.

“Impressive.” Blayde nodded. “They way you have him pinned, you could break his arm in one twist.”

Neira let go of the arm and smiled. “You also seem to be quite flexible.” He continued.

“I used to be an acrobat.” She told him.

“Good.” Tobi nodded, opening the pouch on his lap to look at the Soul Emeralds. “Hopefully you can use that against those fools.”

“I'm going to meet them soon?”

“Very soon.” Tobi nodded. Neira examined his face, in particular, his left cheek. The four scratch marks on his face were distinct and looked painful.

“One of them did that to you, didn't they...?” She pointed.

“Oh? Yes. Yes, they did.” Tobi slowly ran his finger over his face.

“Whoever it was...” Neira frowned, her eyes becoming cold and serious.”They're mine...”

*

The next day, I was walking past Darragh's work shed, when I heard strange noise coming from it. Or rather, strange noises. I walked up to the large facility and slowly opened the door. Darragh, Janus, Alfred, Megan and Xene were inside, all working. Xene, Megan and Alfred were gathered around a computer, with an abundance of tools spread out before them on a table. Meanwhile, Darragh and Janus were at the other end of the room, working on a blade. Darragh's own laser-sword was hanging on the wall, and now the pair were crafting a darkened silver blade, that might even have been black in colour.