268 – Storytelling Cums Naturally
Everyone had their orders, and while Brandy hated to say it, her role was to lie down and catch her breath after the Mega Sharpedo's Psychic Fang bite. She'd be vital once they flushed Blahaj out from the depths, but until then, she had to relax and get ready.
So, as she lay sprawled out on the raft floor, Brandy told the others the story about the first Mega Pokémon.
"Fenny must have been about my age when Perrier, a true ladykiller Drapion from Sinnoh, blew the news up by becoming the first-ever Mega."
"Heard of her!" Sparky said as she cast small Electro Balls into the water with all four arms. It left a glittering trail of yellow dots behind them, a few of them exploding with loud pops as something below brushed against them. "Tall, muscled, super hot. Think of a Coalossal but with sick striped twin pigtails, claws, and a crushing 'step on you' attitude. Big fan."
Calcine shook her head as she knelt beside Sparky, her hands in the water. Flames rushed from her fingertips and exploded into the water, shooting their raft forward with haphazard bursts of speed. Sparky patted her on the head, and Calcine leaned into her sparkling fingers, to Sparky's delight.
"Being tall is cool if I get to do this. So what happened with Perrier?"
"It had been an exciting time, especially for Pokémon that didn't have an evolutionary line." Brandy continued, enjoying the splash of cool water on her face blown back by Calcine's Flame Charge makeshift engine. "Plenty of Pokémon felt they could give more, and Perrier had confirmed that you could push yourself beyond the end of their line and become something truly special."
"Harper got a little obsessed about it for a month," Morgan grinned from the center of the raft as she used her wings to steer them forward. Her Hurricane wind was in full force around them, and she was using it to swerve them back on course with every push. They needed to overcome the Mega Sharpedo's whirlpool for the plan's first stage and escape its suction to the center. They were throwing a ton of power at it to get it done. "She wanted to be so big she could carry the whole team on her back. She gave up pretty quick when we all kept demanding piggybacks."
Brandy shook her head. It was good to know that other teams could be as dopey as hers sometimes.
"It had everyone aflutter," Brandy continued. "Perrier quickly became as famous as any Legendary Pokémon; everyone wanted a piece of the Dark and Poison type. It should have been easy to get too! Perrier was infamous for latching onto women who wanted something and pushing them to get it before moving on. She should have been absolutely feasting on the attention, but it quickly turned out that the ladykiller had been collared. Literally. Sporting a spiked diamond collar she'd got for her wedding promise."
"Like my choker!" Sparky said as a ripple of electrical explosions went off in the water behind them. That great golden-striped fin surfaced from the water, and Sparky threw line after line of Electroweb at it. Several stuck fast, anchoring their raft to the Mega. It slowed them down a bit, but they didn't cut the lines. This was part of the plan, too. "Well, okay, it's a magnet, not diamonds, but still, I told you! Perrier's cool, she's got style."
"Does that still fit?" Calcine asked as she swept her flaming hands through the water, steam billowing behind them. "You're a foot taller now. Thicker neck."
"It's a squeeze," Sparky grinned. "But when have I ever said no to one of those? It'll hold. You've stretched my neck out much further than this."
Brandy smiled. They used to be so embarrassed about fucking each other, but now Sparky was so proud of it that she ended up telling everyone. Her bug had come so far.
"People wanted answers," Brandy continued, "And eventually, after a bit of hounding, Perrier talked with journalists about a woman she'd met. She didn't want anything except for Perrier to smile. A feedback loop that'd left the pair of them almost deliriously happy, the pair of them crashing into people's lives, fixing their problems, causing a few more, and then moving on hand in hand."
"Was she a Joyce?" Morgan asked. "That attitude sounds very familiar to me. Are we all going to become Megas?"
"No!" Brandy blushed. "It wasn't that part that did it. Humans wanting to make Pokémon happy is something millions have done before. Humans and Pokémon falling deeply in love is how the world has worked for a long ass time. If that's all it took to become a Mega Pokémon, then Perrier wouldn't have been the first."
"Makes sense. Humans should be lining up to adore me." Morgan nodded. "I am majestic."
"Modest too," Calcine grinned.
"So modest. I'd win a modesty competition."
There was a moment this could work, the briefest of windows, and if they fucked it up, they'd all be in the water. Brandy's eyes were aching from trying to focus on every little thing, and the churning waters around the fin began to rise as the Mega Sharpedo began to rise. The gold stripe across those baleful red eyes and the smug look of victory on her face as she opened her jaws to bite.
"Now!"
Morgan snapped her wings forward, and the world turned white as the hurricane drilled into the water and became a raging typhoon. The raft floated in the air, and looking back, the Mega Sharpedo was left hanging in the air, too. There was a shocked look in her eyes as she realized they'd very briefly stolen away her waters. She just hung in the air, her heavy chest rising and falling with exertion and tail lashing at nothing behind her. She was at the whims of gravity and the wind for just a moment.
Brandy had bigger ambitions than that.
Calcine grabbed the webs Sparky had been using to tow the Mega Sharpedo behind her, and the Sharpedo's eyes narrowed to two tiny red points as she realized the trap she'd fallen into.
"Oh, you are kidding me," she spat, and her tail flicked, trying to turn her body around to bite the lines attaching her to Sparky. "Not happening!"
"Calcine," Brandy said with malicious glee, "We're reaching the edge. Rapid Spin."
Calcine threw herself backward and spun like a top, dragging the Sharpedo along the web lines. The angry roar that followed was so sweet on the ears.
There was more to the plan, but Brandy wasn't going to waste the perfect moment to try to spot where this Sharpedo's Mega Accessory was. They'd end her transformation early if they could get it off her. They already knew they could overpower a regular Sharpedo. Blahaj would be screwed.
Fingers? No rings. Tail? Nothing but a slapping fin. Neck? Bare and biteable. Breasts? No piercings there, even if Brandy did study the nipples a little just to be sure.
It was no good; the Sharpedo was naked in the air and easy on the eyes, but she was completely unadorned. Not a single bit of accessory in sight. Where was it?
The Sharpedo bit at the webs and snapped them with a powerful bite, but Sparky already had more latched onto her back and tail; she wasn't getting away. She spat them out with a furious growl, and for just a moment, Brandy saw a glittering flash between those teeth.
A glittering swirl of blue and yellow was fixed right in the middle of a large, wet pink muscle.
A Tongue Stud.
Fuck. Hot, but getting to that would not be easy. Brandy was going to have to put herself right in the biting range of those powerful, sexy jaws.
She was going to get mauled. Chewed up. Absolutely bit down and made to squirm.
Yeah. Okay. She could do that. If she had to. Take one for the team.
Brandy was ready to become a chew toy for a big, buff shark lady. It was part of the plan now.
The best plan ever.