{"sf1_id":659578,"sf2_id":null,"title":"Defenders of Evodusai Part 10","author":"Mizucharoshi","words":1733,"posted_at":"2014-01-30T19:09:00.000Z","tags":["Zangoose","charmander","dragonite","pokemon","totodile"],"url":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/659578-defenders-of-evodusai-part-10","original_url":"https://sofurry.com/view/659578","image_url":"https://www.sofurryfiles.com/std/thumb?page=659578\u0026ext=.jpg","description":"","content":"\n Going through the lobby of\nIntelligence Central again, I saw a couple of pokemon who were\nwhispering to one another and pointing at us. It reminded me of our\nfirst day here which irritated me for a moment. \"Is it always like\nthis around here?\" I whispered to Truce. He just gave a shrug and a\nnod before leading us up a couple of stairs. When we climbed up to\nthe fifth and final floor, he turned and whispered back to me. \"This\nplace basically runs on intel. Once word got out that the captain\nactually wanted to see you, the pokemon around here start to theorize\nand rumors begin to circulate around. So to answer your question:\nyes, it's always like that around here.\" We soon reached a very large\ndoor made of what appeared to be stone. \"Hey Liru, I don't think\nyou'll be able to bust on through this door,\" I joked. She made a\nface and stuck out her tongue before preparing to give the door a\nkick. Seeing this, Truce quickly grabbed at the totodile to stop her\nand after getting munched on succeeded in preventing the destruction\nof the property. \"It's not real stone,\" he said rubbing his\nbitten arm. Giving a couple knocks with his uninjured paw, the sound\nthat the door made was actually quite hollow. The clicking of locks\nfrom the other side of the door was heard and to my surprise, I found\nmyself looking at a familiar face. \"Plena?\" I wondered aloud.\nTruce also looked at him confused, but the alakazam just smiled and\nwaved us in. Following Truce and Liru inside,\nwe found ourselves surrounded by a couple of pokemon scattered around\nthe room. Looking around, I noticed someone who I haven't seen in a\nwhile. Waving to him, the litleo that we saved smiled and ran over.\n\"Hiya char girl!\" he beamed adorably. \"I just wanted to thank\nyou for fighting that tauros with me.\" I gave him a playful pat on\nhis head. \"Yea, it's no problem. Say, what are you doing here?\"\nHe jumped around to face the direction of an even larger fire cat and\na slaking talking to one another. \"My dad came over here to talk\nwith the leader of this place. Since he's the king, I guess he wanted\nto thank your organization personally for finding and sending me\nhome.\" Before I could voice my surprise\nat finding out the leader was that slaking, the feeling of someone\ntapping my shoulder caused me to turn around. My eyes bulged out in\nshock from seeing someone so huge up close to me. I clamped my muzzle\ntogether to avoid screaming out. \"Oh, I apologize for frightening\nyou,\" the enormous dragonite said sincerely. He then tried to hide\na mischievous grin from me. \"Not the expected outcome that I had\nhoped for, but regardless I still enjoyed your reaction. Anyways,\nI've heard many a great things about you little one and wanted meet\nyou for myself.\" Calming down but now a bit peeved off, I realized\nthat this must have been the captain. \"Where are my manners?\" he\ngasped. \"Lets redo this meeting, alright?\"\n He then preceded to turn around\nin circles a couple of times before extending his right paw forward.\n\"Hello Winta! My name's Haless and it's so good to finally meet\nyou. From what I heard, there are many things about you that makes\nyou such an interesting pokemon.\" The entire situation was just\nweirding me out and I the only thing I could do was accept his paw\n(well, one of his fingers because he was so huge) and shake. \"Quite\na grip you got there missy. Let's just go over there to make this\nconversation a tad more private, hmm?\" Going along with him, I told\nLiru where I was headed and asked her to say here and keep watch.\nNearing the corner of the room, the dragonite sat down and rested his\nback on the two walls. \"I just knew something was\nspecial about you when I first saw you in the lobby,\" he began.\n\"Being an 'inexperienced newbie', you've already beaten an outlaw\nwho almost reached the C-rank, gave amazing orders to your teammate\nto overcome an uneven battle, and even defeated someone in your\ndivision who specializes in taking down foes. What's more is that\nboth Souna and Plena confirmed that some kind of battle between two\npersonae had occurred inside you and that they may have merged\ntogether. That's so freaking cool!\" I stood in silence while\nthinking back to those moments. We're they really that great? \"Hey\nHaless!\" somebody shouted in a feminine voice. \"The meeting is\nabout to start so get off your bum and come here.\" Groaning, the\ndragonite struggled to stand. After rolling off his back and onto his\nknees, he got on his feet and pouted. \"I'm afraid that you'll have\nto give me all the details later. When duty calls, I have to go and\nanswer it.\"\n His face suddenly brightened up\nas an idea rose up from the top of his head. \"Say, why don't you\nand your friend stay and watch? Recruits rarely get the chance to see\nhow these meeting go, but I'll make an exception for you two. I'm\nsure Truce would agree with me since he has to attend the meeting\ntoo.\" We went over to Liru and together as a group walked towards\nthe crowd of pokemon that had gathered around a large circular table.\nOther than Truce, I recognized Olein and Plena, who both gave me a\nnod of acknowledgment. Upon seeing us, many of the other pokemon were\nnot amused. \"Haless,\" a salamance angrily grunted, \"What are\nthose two doing here? Don't you know that we're going to have an\nimportant discussion?\" Laughing sheepishly, he waved off her\nintimidation like it was nothing. \"Come on, Landus. Every month we\ncome together like this to give out a status report and voice our\nconcerns. It really isn't that important and our friends here can\nlearn a bit more about the way we run things around here. You\nwouldn't want to deny our youth the chance to become more educated\nabout our organization, do you?\" Some of the pokemon snickered\nwhile others took his words seriously. Looking around the table, the\nsalamance gave in to the pressure. \"Alright fine,\" she grumbled.\n\"I hate it when you guilt trip me like that. You two go sit over\nthere by the wall and listen. Now let's hurry up and get on with this\nmeeting.\" Waving her paws in the air, Olein took the floor. \"I\nguess I'll start. Over the course of the month, my division has\nhealed 109 members and 23 clients. I would have loved to yell at you\nall to tell your subordinates to stop being so reckless in the field,\nbut I'll hold my tongue since the numbers had actually decreased from\nthe previous mouth. The only concern that I have is in regards to\nwhat had happened this morning involving the chief of recon.\" Truce\nstepped up and looked at her apologetically. \"She didn't mean to\nhurt that patient. She was just very worried about her friend's\nhealth.\" Liru got up and bowed her head in respect. \"I'm so sorry\nfor my actions this morning. Please don't blame Truce for what I\ndid.\" Olein pondered for a moment and finally came up with a\ndecision. \"I'll forgive you this time, but do anything else in my\narea and you'll regret it.\" The rest of the meeting followed\nthe same pattern of giving a report before bringing up a concern.\nWhen it was Plena's turn to say something, he just pointed to me.\n\"Now many of you know that those two over there are our newest\nmembers. We have seen Liru around here many times, learning from the\nchief of recon in the hopes of following in his footsteps. Now that\nshe actually made it in, I have high hopes for her success. As for\nWinta, well it would be shocking if you haven't heard of her. After\nwitnessing firsthand the amount of potential within her, I would like\nto ask if she could somehow be transferred over to Intelligence\nCentral.\" Stomping the floor, the salamance roared with rage. \"Why\nwould you even suggest such a thing? Someone like her is destined to\nbecome a savage fighter well respected in our ranks.\" Plena raised\na palm. \"Normally, I would have agreed with you captain. Watching\nher fight, it seems that she could have become a top tier fighter in\nour division. But when she suddenly stopped attacking, I sensed\nsomething wrong within her. In the blink of an eye, her lust for\nbattle shifted and a flood of mental processes overwhelmed her. All\nthe raw emotions and strings of information that raced through her\nwas too much for me to bare so I forced her into a deep slumber to\nstop it. It is because of this that I have requested for her\ntransfer.\" \"I expected you to say that,\nbut here's an even better idea,\" Haless smirked. \"With the way\nthings are now, I feel that we have all become divided. Each division\ndoes their own separate thing and it's getting in the way of our main\nobjective: to forge a path towards a peaceful era. Competition is\nfine but when it gets destructive like the recent traditional fight\nthat happened in the special attack division, then what's the point?\nLooking at the plaza's fountain for inspiration, what I propose are\nteams made up of pokemon from different groups. Imagine the\nunbreakable bonds that we can forge with one another. Think about how\nsuccessful missions would become once we have teams with a variety of\nskills and abilities to utilize. Of course this is all just theory\nright now but with someone like Winta to test this out, I'm positive\nthat this would work!\" A loud clapping echoed\nthroughout the room. \"Wonderful as always Haless,\" rumbled the\nslaking who was casually laying on his side. \"Once this meeting is\nover, I would like to have a word with you and Winta to plan out this\nnew team system of yours. If it does work, then we would all be one\nstep closer to the peace that we seek.\"\n\n*End\nof Act I*","previous":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/658855-defenders-of-evodusai-part-9.json","next":"https://fse.anthro.fr/stories/672277-defenders-of-evodusai-part-11.json"}