She came to as she skid along the rocky cavern floor, coming to a rolling stop just before she could impact the wall. Her lungs hurt, and her shell felt like it was on the verge of caving in from that hit, but her father didn’t relent.
“Hit me again!” His commanding voice sent shivers up her spine, the intonation which gave no room for arguments, his vocabulary, which seemingly only consisted of either insults or the words needed to form a challenge.
Her father was a Tyrant, a true tyrannical existence in the mountain they had made their home in. He was a cruel and oppressive force that bore down on the entire population of the mountain and beyond. Pokemon rued the day they came into contact with him, as he held the absolute highest power in the area.
Rising with a growl of contention, she readied herself for another clash between the two of them. As his daughter, she couldn’t show weakness, it was her fault after all that he couldn’t have a male heir. As he’d said before, “She’d have to do.”
Like a rocket, she shot towards her father, the jets of high-pressure air from her back propelling her hard-shelled body forward in a bout of aerial acrobatics. Normal-TE coated her body as she propelled herself towards her father, readying a Thrash. On impact, her body rebounded off her father like a ricocheting bullet spinning into a wall, destroying it in the process. The jet-like air propulsion from her back hadn’t stopped yet, though, as the sheer force of air from her back rebounded her a second time, she pulled at the air, directing some to her right, and she turned in the air like a rocketship.
Pupitar impacted her father like a rocket, the hit sticking this time instead of ricocheting her off into a cavern wall again, impacting him just a bit behind and below the shoulder. “Grrrn…” Her father grunted and growled in exertion at the hit, before pulling out of the way. The air propulsion went crazy, spinning her in the air like a balloon that wasn’t tied up correctly. She closed the channels of high-pressure air on her back and fell back down onto the cavern floor with a loud CRASH! as she spun like a top.
Tyranitar stomped on her body angrily, stopping her spin but also forcing the air out of her lungs once again. She squeaked out a fearful, “A-Awake!” If she hadn’t, he might’ve hit her until she did so. He growled out a summary of their exchange, “Better.”
Before she could begin celebrating, though, he had to slash her ambitions in half, “But not good! Weak!” His foot lifted off her body, and he returned to his spot in the middle of the cave. “Hit me again!”
Once again…with heaving breaths and injuries marring her entire body, she rose. A thought came into her mind, ‘I’ll change this…’
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Tyranitars' foot stomped down on her father's chest as he heaved in exhaustion. The Tyrant had been getting older, and her evolution was the final nail in the coffin for him. She had become far stronger due to her evolution, and her father's aging body had begun to show cracks.
“You…” He began with laborious breaths as her sandstorm receded. His body was scuffed with hundreds of marks, and one of his canine teeth had chipped off when he’d tried to bite her. She had pierced one of his eyes with a rock she’d launched, and that had been the hit that had marked the battle as won.
Her breathing was heavy as well, not from any exhaustion, but sheer rage and anger at her father figure, whom she could finally enact her revenge against. “I-”
“You fought…well.” Her father cut her off, speaking through ragged breaths from underneath her foot, “I…trained you well…”
She almost instinctively said a “Thank you!”, but held herself back, releasing a growl in anger at the sheer idea instead. Sneering down at her father figure, she spoke resolutely, “Your rule is over.”
“OVER MY DEAD BODY!” Her father, bleeding and scuffed all over, lunged up from underneath her foot with all of his latent strength, and she released a Stone Edge underneath his body in response.
Before the dream could explode into the most gruesome details of how her father's rule ended, she awoke.
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Two humans stood in front of a pristinely white wall in front of her, looking over a glowing rectangle on the wall as they spoke, “Her vitals are back to normal, but she shouldn’t be this strong yet…”
“She is an Alpha, so she’d be bound to heal better than the average Tyranitar.” The other one countered, “Also, we’re kind of missing data points here, you know?”
“Fair,” The other one concluded, “But we should start contacting people now, we don’t know when she’ll wake up.”
Her deep, guttural growl from behind them on the examination table broke the silence, ‘Humans…’ she spat in her mind as she rose from the table she’d been laid down on.
The humans turned, the fear of death clear in their eyes as they cowered inward. Her growl only grew louder as her situation became clear to her. In front of two humans, in a house, clearly made by humans. The last thing she remembered came to her mind a second later, the fight against the legendary Pokemon. And finally, her child's safety.
“Where is he?” She growled as she came down onto the ground, with a loud BOOM! Her sheer weight shook the entire room in response, and only made the humans cower even deeper into each other.
“DID YOU TAKE ANOTHER FROM ME?! WHERE IS HE!” Tyranitar screamed, a single stomp from her brought cracks onto the pristine walls of the room as the humans began screaming in panic.
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“Arceus…Why did I run in here…” Valerie chastised herself as she followed behind Larvitar. She looked at a dangerous crack running along the ceiling with clear suspicion, “This just doesn’t look safe…Michelle is going to be sooo mad…”
They were bound to get to the place where his mother was quite quickly, but Valerie wasn’t as enthused about being inside a collapsing hospital as she was when inside Mt. Silver. Valerie was working out a plan to keep herself safe, while Larry might be able to survive the hospital collapsing in on him, even if just barely, Valerie and Natu wouldn’t be as fortunate.
Patting the Flying-Type on her shoulder, she began, “You keep an eye or two out, Natu. I’ll stay as far back as we can.”
Larry turned to her and made a pose for Valerie to keep her distance, “Yes. Away. Away.”
Valerie nodded, getting the clue immediately, “Oh, don’t worry, Larvitar, I’ll stay as far away as I can if this gets serious, I don’t really want to get crushed.”
BOOM. BOOM.
Loud footstomps came from the distance, and everyone quieted immediately, recognizing the owner of the steps as Larry's mother.
Larry sped around the corner and saw her dust filter through the long hallway. The loud, growling voice of his mother could be heard as well, muttering in a guttural and insane tone of voice.
“Where is he? Where- Did they?” She rambled on from one of the rooms on the side of the hallway.
Larry closed in with all the speed he could muster, “Mom! I’m here!”
His mother spun around. She looked heavily injured, with cracks still covering almost her entire body, and the burnt flesh beneath peeking out on the particularly flexed parts of her body. When she saw her child standing in the doorway of her room, tears began to flow.
“Larry! A-Are you? Real?” She began, taking in every detail of his body for confirmation. She pulled him up into a carry to inspect him all over, “You’re real?”
As she did so, Larry got his first look at the insides of the examination room she’d been kept inside, which looked more akin to a hospital in a warzone than anything else. The entire room and all the upper floors had somehow caved in, and the debris lay strewn around.
“Of course I’m real! Mom! I’m so glad you’re alive!” Larry didn’t even need to turn up the charm this time around, he was simply happy to finally reunite with his mom as he hugged himself close to her. She did the same in turn, nuzzling her head close to him with something akin to a purr or growl of affection, something she’d never done before.
“Me too…” She spoke in a wavering voice as she wiped at her teary-eyed expression, “What happened?”
‘Oh god, how am I going to explain this whole mess to her?’ Larry thought to himself, his mom was terribly behind on information. ‘If I tell her I was caught by a human, she’s probably going to go crazy, isn’t she?’
An idea came to Larry’s mind, ‘What if I frame the humans in a good light? Valerie did kind of save me by catching me after all. The same is true for her in a way, if she didn’t get treatment, she would’ve died.’ It wasn’t so much telling a lie as it was obfuscating the truth. ‘The whole staying with a trainer mess of a situation can be cleared up when she’s all caught up on what has happened.’
“The legendary bird Pokemon ran away after your fight…” Larry began slowly, choosing his words very carefully, “It fled from the caves and flew off into the sunset.”
“It thought it had killed me.” His mother concluded.
“I thought so too…” Larry commented in a low voice, only for his mom to put a hand on his head lovingly.
“Yet it didn’t.” She spoke with a loving smile.
“Yeah…”
His mother turned away from him, towards the hospital room around them, “Where am I?”
“That’s the more complicated answer,” Larry began again, choosing words even more carefully than before this time, “The short answer is, the humans saved us.”
A growl escaped his mother involuntarily as her loving face turned into a deep, hateful sneer at the sheer mention, “Explain.”
“W-Well…I couldn’t escape the fight completely and was caught in a vein of groundwater which was opened due to the fight. I was swept along with it until I passed out while underwater…” Larry went silent for a second as he readied himself, ‘This next part is going to be hard to sell…’
“A-And, well…When I woke up, it was in what the humans call a Pokemon Center. A place where Pokemon go to for healing and recuperation. The same one we’re in right now.”
His mother stared at him with slight confusion and anger still clearly evident on her face, she nodded for him to continue.
“A-As it turns out, a human saw me float down the river outside the mountain and caught me using a Pokeball and brought me here to get me healed up,” Larry spoke, slightly more confident at actually being heard out.
“A human caught you.” His mother spoke the statement clearly as she looked at him. Larry nodded back before she repeated herself, her voice far heavier with the implications of the statement, “A human. Caught you?”
“Yes.” He nodded back for effect again, “Her name is Valerie, and she saved my life. I wouldn’t be alive anymore if it weren’t for her.”
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Valerie stood outside in the hallway, Natu sat on top of her shoulder, keeping an eye out all around her for protection. Crossing her arms, she tapped a finger on her upper arm in restlessness. She was getting antsy at how long their reunion was taking, ‘Ugh, I know Larvitar told me to keep away…But from the growls and noises I’m getting out here, it doesn’t sound like it's going badly.’
“Natu, how about we take a quick peek at their reunion? His mom should be calm by now, right?” She tested the waters with the Pokemon on her shoulders.
“Naa-Tu.” It nodded back at her, more than happy to accompany her into the “Pyroars den,” so to speak. She smiled back at her bird Pokemon, “Alright, but just a quick peek from the door to gauge how it's looking, ok?”
Sneaking over, Natu hopped up on her head for a better view before she leaned into the doorway of the examination room. Destruction stared back at her. The entire room was in ruins and looked more akin to a warzone. In the middle of the room was quite a heartwarming scene, where an injured Tyranitar held her young Larvitar in her arms lovingly, purring and growling affectionately as the two talked to each other in a series of growls and squeaks.
“Aww!” Valerie whispered, ‘Adorable! I wish I could hold Larvitar like that!’
Unfortunately for Valerie, though, the eyes of both the mother and son fell on her at her quiet whispers. The Tyranitar's eyes went crazy at the sight of her, but Larvitar stopped her, urging her away from the frame of the door and into the room as it excitedly squeaked at its mother.
She obliged, unsure of what to say except for an introduction, “Um…Hello, I’m Valerie.”
When her name was revealed, Tyranitar's eyes rolled into the back of its head, and she dropped down, unconscious.
