//------------------------------// // The Fight Continues // Story: A New World, A New Conflict // by Evowizard25 //------------------------------// Char had faced many opponents in his life. Moreso than most, especially at his age. Living in the world of pokemon had pretty much senses to the strange and weird. So fighting a giant anthro-Mightyena wanna be covered from head to toe with makeshift armor with a pair of flaming swords honestly didn’t feel so ridiculous. Heck, he’s fought giant robots before in worse conditions. He still had to be careful though. It may not be a pokemon, but it could easily crush him with that mace or even its own paw if it managed to land a hit. Char had to end this quickly before it was given that chance. The Dog charged, swinging its mace about willy nilly. There was no strategy in that monster’s mind. Just the urge to kill. Char could use that thoughtlessness. As the pair of them closed up, he jumped and rolled between the dog’s legs. As he rolled, he span to the side slicing through the dog’s ankle with his swords. The dog howled in pain and stumbled. Char came to a stop as another dog was about to bring their axe on him. A simple ‘Dragon Rage’ attack sent the dog hurdling into the fiery wreck of the train. Char didn’t have any time to say a quip as he jumped backwards out of the way of a large fist smashing into the sand. ‘I didn’t cut deep enough it seems.’ He would make sure he didn’t make that mistake again. His somersaulted twice, narrowly avoiding the mace’s swing. “You swing like a brain dead oaf,” Char said calmly. He had given himself enough distance from the brute for him to safely talk. “If you had an inkling of intelligence, maybe then you could land a strike. Repent and perhaps I can educate you in the ways of the holy. Continue and I will show you how to die. Your choice.” “How’z ‘bout I cut ya up instead,” the dog growled. “Death it is then,” Char grinned. Fire licked his lips before he shot a powerful ‘Flamethrower’ into the dog’s chest. It scorched the parts of the dog’s body that weren’t protected, causing the dog to cry out in pain. Of course, the dog just charged straight through it. Char had to give the dog credit for that. He cut off the flamethrower and readied himself. Truthfully, he was hoping the flamethrower would have knocked the beast back, maybe melt the armor. It seemed these Hyena Dogs were made of sterner stuff. He stood his ground and the beast tried to smash him with the mace. Char jumped to the side at the last second and cut three fingers clean off with the falling of his swords. The mace fell out of the dog’s almost fingerless hand. Instead of crying out in pain, it seemed the dog decided to yell in anger. ‘I would wager that it’s already in so much pain that it can’t be phased.’ Char found out too late that these dogs were quicker than he gave them credit. The dog had snatched him up with his free hand, clamping down on his lower half. It thrashed him about so hard that he lost his grip on his swords. He’d make this dog pay for that. “Puny dragon,” the dog stopped and looked like he was about to take a bite out of him. Thinking fast, he fired a Will-O-Wisp out of his fist. The blue ball of flame smashed into the dog’s left eye. The dog seemed to have at least a little nerve left there for he started screaming in pain. Char smirked. With ‘Strength’ overtaking him, he pulled the fingers off of him and jumped. He kept ahold of the fingers and brought the dog to the ground. He took a glimpse to his side, where his swords lay. He’d have to end this quickly, before the dog had a second chance. Grabbing them up, he ran over to the dog’s back. The Hyena Dog was starting to get up, but Char jumped onto his back, pinning him to the sand. He quickly ran over and thrust the two flaming swords into the base of the Hyena Dog’s skull. The beast quivered for a while, before going still. “I’m not a dragon,” Char hissed, pulling his swords free. “YEEHAH!” Char looked over to see Rio smashing into a bunch of average sized Hyena Dogs with a combination of Extreme Speed and Power-Up Punch. Either they were sent tumbling across the sand, or straight to the ground with a hole in their chest or headless. The Lucario laughed as he brought his foot down hard enough to crush a dog’s windpipe. “Haven’t had this much fun since Raziel’s raid last month.” “Yes, it is fun to wipe the world clean of filth.” Char snickered. “Just leave enough for the rest of us.” “Can’t promise ya that,” Rio said, before whistling. He idly ‘Force Palmed’ a dog attacking him from the side. “Seems like ya’ve been havin’ enough fun already.” “A trivial challenge,” Char jumped off the Hyena Dog’s back. “It’s best that we get moving and regroup. These Dog’s are quite skilled in digging.” “Cowards ah tell’s ya,” Rio snorted. The two of them watched a dog go flying between them. “NOBODY SMASHES ME WHISKEY!” Maw shouted, shaking his little fist in anger. “That’s the spirit, Maw.” Rio smiled. The Hyena Dogs started howling. The three of them made a little circle, watching out for the dog’s movements. What struck them as odd was how the dogs were running away. “Guess we showed th-” Rio started to say, before the sand around him exploded. Out from the ground shot a giant worm like creature. The beast had clamped its jaws around Rio and rushed back into the sand below. “RIO!” Maw shouted in anguish. Char just stared at the ground numbly. It had happened too fast. One moment they were fighting dogs, then a giant worm ate Rio. ‘Why does that seem normal?’ Of course, he didn’t have much time to think on that as the worm resurfaced. Falling to the ground, its mouth opened and out stepped Rio covered in slime. He turned back to the worm. “No, bad worm.” The worm grumbled in pain. “Should’ve known that’d happen,” Maw chuckled. ___________________________________________________________________ “And that’s for not filing your taxes,” Felicia slammed her large briefcase into a dog’s face, knocking the dog out cold. “What the hay are you talking about?” Trot asked as he slashed a dog across the throat with his sword. “I’m a lawyer, silly~” Felicia giggled. “It’s my job to spout a bunch of law terms and all that. I don’t get to do it that often, since I mostly just beat people up in Checkmate. I’m not a fan of doing it all the time, but Weiss was happy.” “Well LOOK OUT!” Trot shouted. The king was too far away to help her that second, which gave the charging Hyena Dog time enough to smash into Felicia while she was distracted. The two of them rolled on the ground for a bit, thanks in some part to her gooey body. As they came to a stop, the dog brought its axe down. To which Felicia used the only thing she had on herself to block it: Her briefcase. She gasped. “My briefcase!” The Hyena Dog just growled and pulled herself off of the Goodra, shaking her axe to get the thing off of it. Felicia was glowering at her. She didn’t often feel hatred, but given how these were the same being that had kidnapped Lia, she wasn’t going to hide it from them. “That was a present from WEISS!” She roared, her body glowing red and pulsed with energy the energy. One could even say it seemed to shoot up into the air, flowing around her like fire. ‘Outrage’ was the name of the attack and it was an apt description. She ran forward and started to pound the dog silly, landing blow after blow that easily broke through armor and bone. Her fists moved faster and you could hear her saying “YATATATATATATA!” As she smashed the dog about. With one final thrust of her fist, she sent the dead dog flying straight through another group of dogs, throwing them about like pins. She then glanced at a second group and pointed at them. “You are already dead.” Meanwhile, Sev was doing his best not to be crushed by Alpha Dog Zebby. The was massive, easily legendary sized. One swing of his fist could pummel him and he wasn’t going to tempt fate like he had done with Groudon. Something told him it would be exactly the same result. So he slithered around the attacks. As he did, he slashed at open skin with a ‘Poison Tail’. It didn’t do much against the dog. “Stand still snakey thing,” Zebby growled as he swung his fists. “It’ll only last a second.” “And in that second,” Sev quipped, dodging and overhead swing. “Your brains would be splattered all over that wall.’ “Big talk comin’ from da likez of youz,” Zebby snorted. “Ya ain’t fightin’ propa.” “There is no such thing as a proper fight,” Sev grinned, energy building up within him. He opened his mouth and swirling dark energy shot out in a perfect ‘Dark Pulse’. The attack struck Zebby in the nose, causing him to cry out. From the blood dripping down, Sev could tell he ripped something. Hopefully, he broke the dog’s nose. A few of the flying types tried to get at his face, distracting the beast from the fight. Sev wasn’t one to stand idly by as his enemies checked their injuries. He was a mon of action. He needed to show these dogs that he was the true master here, starting with decapitating a smaller dog with his bladed tail. He slithered through the enemy group with ease. Something his master had taught him well. He struck without mercy, slicing and dicing limbs and throats. One of the faster and lithe dogs grinned as she watched her pack mates keep the snake-thing busy. She chuckled and started to move in to cut him to pieces. It was only too late did she noticed the flying kick headed straight for her head. “HI-YA!” Lightning Dust shouted as she smashed her hindhoof into the dog’s head. The went flying right into another. She grinned. She really wanted to make these dogs pay for trying to make her a slave. ‘And no one beats Sev, but me.’ She had brought a large saddlebag with her, custom made from Equestria. She took out a cloud and bucked it. The lightning arked into a large dog’s chest, shocking the beast into unconsciousness. “Don’t mess with the best.” She flapped out of the way of a dog’s axe and bucked the cloud again, hitting the dog. She came from a weather family, so this came naturally to her. Well, that and her fighting urge. Smashing a hoof into a dog’s face brought a little satisfaction. King Trotankhamun threw his sword into a large dog’s head and jumped. Jumping over the falling beast, he pulled the sword out and flipped over with ease. He had been trained by pegasi in acrobatics, so it came with ease. As he came down, the blade’s arc caught a dog in the should and sliced the dog in two diagonally. The surviving group stared at the zebra in shock. They didn’t have the time to do anything as his sword cut through the armored gut of one of the dogs. The dog cried out in pain and the rest tried to jump the zebra. Of course, they missed and just cut the wounded dog several new holes. “Tisk, tisk.” He shook his head, smirking. “Watch where you swing those things. You can take someone’s eye out.” The dogs roared and charged. The young king rolled right underneath the dogs and cut through the lower spine as he came back up. He jumped to his feet, nearly bumping into Sev. “Having fun, my king?” Sev grinned as he wrapped his tail around a dog’s arm and threw it overhead. “A blast,” King Trot grinned in return, parrying a dog’s sword and smashing the hilt into its lower jaw, breaking it. “I have to say. You really know how to liven up a place.” “I try,” Sev chuckled. “Yo,” Lightning landed on top of a dog charging up behind them. “Don’t forget about me.” “How could I forget something so beautiful?” Sev quirked an eyebrow, smashing his tail-blade into a dog’s face. Lightning blushed, glaring at the snake. “S-shut up, stupid. I’m not beautiful.” “Then they need to invent a word that means something more than,” Sev chuckled once more. “Beautiful does not do you justice and I shall come up with a word befitting of you.” “Cut it out, you lovebirds.” Trot laughed. “We have dogs to kill and people to save.” “Just another day in the life of Commander Sev,” Sev smirked. The trio saw a shadow looming over them for a split second, before they jumped. Zebby’s giant fist smacked into the ground, creating a crater deep enough to bury the three of them easily enough and shaking the whole chamber. “I’z kill ya all! Ya gits can’t best Alpha Zebby Skulltaka. I’z kill youz and take yer skulls fer my pointy stiks.” “Over my dead body,” Sev answered. “That’s kind of his intention,” Trot pointed out, before the dog swinged his fist. The Alpha Dog growled as a Pidgeot tried to claw his eyes out. He was quicker then he looked. With one quick thrust, he grabbed the mon in his claws and squeezed it into a bloody pulp, except for the head. He grinned and held it up. “One down, morez to go.” “You...YOU KILLED MY SOLDIER!” Sev roared in rage. “I’z been doin’ that already,” Zebby deadpanned, before snarling. “Yer next, snakey-thing.” “No you!” Sev pointed his tail-blade at the beast. Of course, before he could do anything, a large armored dog smashed its shoulder into Sev in a rush and collided with the wall. The wall crumbled, making a hole large enough to fit three Zebby Skulltakas. Sev smashed his tail into the dog and sent it flying. A normal Seviper couldn’t have sent the hulking beast, which could look down at an Aggron, flying, but he was Sev. He had trained to be that strong. Of course, he was lucky that wasn’t the Alpha Dog. That wouldn’t have worked. Looking around the new room he found himself in, he blinked in confusion. It was a lavish room, like a dog’s version of an elite guest room. There were several griffins, zebras, mon, ponies and all sorts of creatures about. Sev decided a diplomatic solution was in order. He looked to the nearest griffin, which was a hulking eight foot tall powerhouse soldier, wielding a wicked blade and thick black armor. It just screamed ‘death’. He smiled. “Hello, I think this is the perfect time to sit down, talk about the situation and HAIL ARCEUS!” He “Flamethrowered” the griffin, knocking it off it’s feet. Then everything became more complicated.