Red the Conqueror 29

Elesa hadn't been at the gym... but thanks to the gym personnel, they found her rather quickly, just outside Vermillion, getting some training done by cleaning up the immediate surroundings of Vermillion City from the threat of wild pokémon.

"Ya~hooo!!" Skyla cried as she ran towards her blonde more-than-a-friend. "Elesa~ It's me!"

"Skyla?!" the blonde shouted, turning around and catching Skyla's diving hug just in time, catching her and spinning around to bleed off momentum, eventually separating, the two future gym leaders linking their hands, intertwining their fingers and pressing their palms against one another.

"Oh wow, I can't believe you came all the way here to see me!" Elesa gushed.

"Weeeeell I was over in Johto for some training and I figured, I can pop on a train and come around for a quickie, err, I mean a quick visit!" Skyla said, her cheeks dusted pink, "and thanks to my new friends," she let go of one of Elesa's hands and gestured behind her.

Red and Blue approached behind her at a much more sedate pace.

"Hi!" Blue called, a bright smile and an energetic wave.

Red raised his hand and waved just once, directing his own, much smaller, smile towards the blonde.

"You guys! I didn't think we'd meet again so soon," Elesa said, "so you met Elesa, huh?"

"Yep! She was just as lost as you were, birds of a feather huh?" Blue joked.

Red nodded, gesturing northeast, past Saffron, where they had found Skyla in the first place.

"Well, I could talk about how SOMEONE greeted me with a powerful attack to the face you know!" Skyla accused, pointing a hand at Blue. "That was really dangerous!"

"Eheh, still sorry about that, have I said I'm sorry? because I'm really sorry about that," Blue said, her voice sounding a little shaky.

"Look it's fine, I'm fine, you're fine, my ego is bruised but," she said, turning around and smacking her not at all ignorable butt, making the tan cheek jiggle a little, "as you can see I'm in tip top shape!" she said with a wink.

"I'm sorry what," Elesa said.

"Yeah turns out I forgot the flight restrictions on people riding Pokémon are for our safety, not governmental convenience," Skyla said, scratching the back of her head and sticking her tongue out, then mimicking rapping her knuckles against her head. "But it's good, all good," she said.

The tall grasses around them shifted slightly, and then with a loud shuffling noise and a high pitched, adorable cry, Elesa's Emolga emerged from the grasses, followed behind by her Blitzle, which was covered in mud and looked incredibly pissed.

Elesa winced. "It didn't go well huh," she said. "Good thing I sent you guys in a pair."

"Oh, that looks like a nasty mud shot," Blue commented. "Are you okay on healing items? I've got some water you can use to clean up," she called, digging in her travel bag and pulling out a spray bottle, shaking it, "potions?"

"Yes, please," Elesa said, "I've only got Supers on me right now and this doesn't look that bad... I'll trade you three for one?"

Three potions for a super?

"How about two?" Blue asked. "I don't feel right taking that much," she said, "at least not from a friend. If you were some fat old dude though..."

"I feel like that's a liiiittle discriminatory, what if he's nice?" Skyla asked.

Red shook his head, then he dug into his own bag and pulled out a bottle of mineral water, throwing it at Elesa, who grabbed it out of the air, looking a little confused. "What's this for?"

Red pointed at her, then gestured at his face, and placed his fingers against his throat, mimicking a massage.

"Oh- oh, I am feeling a little parched actually, how could you tell?" Elesa asked, uncapping the bottle and taking a big drink, "oh, that's refreshing, thank you," she said.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I know just how he learned what your voice sounds like when you're straining it," Blue said, wagging her eyebrows.

Immediately, Elesa began choking, almost dropping the bottle of water, swallowing and coughing as some of the water she drank went down the wrong hole. "T-That is- I-"

"Relax, relax," Blue said, "I'm not telling Skyla anything she doesn't already know," Blue added.

At that point, Skyla grabbed Elesa's free hand with both of hers, bringing the model's hand up to her face, and looking deeply into her eyes. "I heard all about how you guys had fun together," Skyla explained, big eyes looking even more deeply into Elesa's own soul, connecting them on an emotional level, "and I want in!"

"I-er- you want, what?" Elesa blinked. "I... guess it makes sense? I mean I'm not your owner, or your dad, or, or your g-girlfriend," she said, "S-so, I don't, get to decide who you have sex with, right? So if you want to do it with, with-"

"Oh no silly, I want us two to do it together," Skyla said, pulling Elesa into a hug, "I actually tried some things out and, I think I really like... well, not guys, but dicks," she said, "I like dicks, but I like you the most," she added hurriedly.

Blue giggled. "Well, you like tongues and fingers too," she said, smirking at her newest friends, then sharing a look with Red. "What do you guys think we take this to a more..." she hummed, "secluded location?"

"Ohh, maybe we can go to your place?" Skyla asked, turning to Elesa.

The blonde shook her head. "No, I can't do that at the gym!" she chastised, "besides my room there's really small," she said, playing with the long wire coming off of the headphones she always wore, "I, uh, I'm not really all that up on places around Vermillion," she admitted.

"That's fine, I know a couple of places we can have a little bit of privacy in," Blue said.

"You know love hotels in Vermillion?" Elesa asked, flatly.

Red, too, turned to her, raising an eyebrow questioningly.

"What?" she asked. "They're in the pamphlet you get at the city gates," she said, digging into her bag to pull out said pamphlet, opening it up and revealing that, indeed, the transitory hotels, motels and other such places, clearly meant to house sailors on short stays and which were mostly used by couples illicit and not, were all marked in the city map included in the pamphlet.

"Oh, I thought- you know, nevermind," Elesa said.

"You thought what?" Blue asked.

Skyla giggled. "Heheh, let's talk about something else!" she interrupted.

"No really what?" Blue insisted.

"You know it really doesn't matter," Elesa said, raising her hands and trying to wave the problem away. "I just, I figured, since, you know... You know these places very well and all, and... you're very experienced, so..."

"Oooh, oh, right, I get it, you guys think- no, I didn't use these places, I couldn't afford it, before I met Red I used to be a thief and I might've sucked a dick or two to get out of trouble," she said, "but I never actually worked in these districts or anything, those women actually make money out of it and I wouldn't want to step on their toes, good way to get shanked," she explained.

"Oh, I, didn't think it'd be that serious," Elesa admitted. "Sorry about that, I guess I've got my mind in a dirty place," she said.

Red rubbed his chin, clearly thinking about something, closing his eys and tilting his head, then looking at Blue, up and down, then he walked around her, humming thoughtfully as he did.

"Anything on me?" Blue asked.

Red nodded, then he stepped back and pointed at her, then he made a circular gesture, reaching for his own body and grabbing onto his black shirt, pulling it up and mimicking taking it off.

"Oh, you want me to change?" Blue asked. "I... guess I could, but change into what?"

Red brought his finger to his chest, and drew an R there.

"Oh! The Rocket uniform- I guess I still have it, it's in my luggage somewhere," she said, then she looked at Skyla and Elesa. "But I only have one," she said. "If there were a Team Rocket operation nearby, we could hit it for some more uniforms!" she said.

There was a moment's pause.

"I am very confused right now, are you guys discussing something about dressing like... Team Rocket?" Skyla asked. "Is that a stunt team?"

"No, they're a group of criminals," Elesa explained, "they're local to Kanto," she explained, "organized criminals that steal Pokémon and use them for evil."

"Oh! I get it now," Skyla said, "but why would you want to dress like them?"

"It's because the female grunts' uniform is really sexy," Blue explained, "and Red, I think, wants to try out some cosplay sex," she added. "We kinda invaded a Team Rocket base once, we were doing a thing for the Celadon Gym Leader but," she shook her head, "that's not important, what's important is that you two would look amazing in a cute uniform," she said.

"Excuse me, my Elesa would look amazing in anything!" Skyla said.

"So would you," Elesa quipped, "I told you if you just learn to walk we can get you on the catwalk in no time, designers would fight each other just to get you to wear their stuff," the blonde corrected.

"Aww, you really think so?" Skyla asked, taking Elesa's hand again, their gazes meeting and holding onto each other, as they lost themselves in their own little world.

Red and Blue looked at each other, then Blue giggled and Red exhaled out of his nose in amusement, shaking his head as he did.

"It's so sweet that I think I might need a strong, bitter black coffee to balance it out," Blue said, crossing her arms and looking on with a smile as Elesa and Skyla continued to babble compliments onto each other, the duo's emotional moment eventually being ruined when Blitzle neighed and reminded everyone that they were in the middle of the wilderness, and that Elesa's pokémon were still waiting to get some care.

"Oh, oh my- I'm so sorry," Elesa said, "I'll heal you in a moment," she said.

"Here," Blue said, stepping up and passing Elesa the spray bottle.

"C'mon, I'll help," Skyla said, as the three started to clean up and heal Blitzle.

At the same time, Red extended his hand with his palm up, giving Emolga a place to jump to. The flying squirrel rushed up Red's arm and then onto his shoulder, turning around demonstrating remarkable agility and dexterity, sitting comfortably on Red's shoulder, luckily Red's pursuit of enhancing his manlines had given him slightly wider and bigger shoulders than his otherwise small frame would suggest, so Emolga could sit without issue.

Red went through his bag and picked up a few biscuits, some snacks meant for Pokémon, and began feeding the eager flying/electric rodent while the three girls went about cleaning the electric zebra, Blitzle, and treating the wounds it had gotten from tanking a Ground type attack.

It took a good few minutes, but eventually, Blitzle was clean and ready to go, no worries nor issues about its eyes either, since only a little bit of mud got in them and a little potion spray and some rest quickly got Blitzle's irritated eyes back into perfect working order.

As the trio finished, Elesa kissed the top of Blitzle's head. "You did really good today," she said, "you've earned your rest," she said, reaching for one of her Pokéballs and returning Blitzle to it. "Alright, Emolga, you too," she continued, storing her Pokéball and then pulling out a new one, enlarging it, pointing it at Emolga, and then returning it to its pokéball as well, directly from Red's shoulder.

"Alright, we can go back to Vermillion for now... if we're going to do this, we should go to a hotel, if you guys can go ahead and set up, I'll drop by the gym first and tell Uncle Surge I'll be spending the night hanging out with some friends," she said. "As long as I'm back by gym opening time he won't mind, I'm sure. He's always been more about taking responsibility for your choices than preventing people from making bad decisions in the first place."

"Well, I guess that works out? You're supposed to be able to make your own decisions as a gym leader, Falkner told me that I should always be ready to take responsibility for my screw ups, especially if I want to build my Gym the way I want it!"

"Are you seriously going to insist on the Health and Safety nightmare of the turbines!?" Elesa asked, glaring at her.

"Oh don't give me that, your predecessor spent tens of thousands on the magnetic gondolas!" Skyla responded, putting her hands on her hips.

Red suddenly turned and tossed a Pokéball, out came his Charizard, and before anyone could ask what was going on, Red's hand moved forward and as if intuition alone drove Charizard to follow its master's order, a Flamethrower erupted from Charizard's mighty jaws and struck an incoming Pokémon, revealing the burnt corpse of an Ekans once the attack ceased.

But it was only the first, because more and more Pokémon began to appear, and it soon became obvious that they were being actually running from something, yet at the same time, they were being unusually aggressive, attacking furiously the moment they stumbled into the little clearing, even though it soon became obvious nothing could make it past Red's Charizard, the onslaught continued for several minutes, and the others even deployed their own Pokémon to help as the horde ran towards the south west, passing well away from the roads that would take them on their way to Vermillion.

It all became quiet again, and all thoughts of joyful merrymaking and wild, awesome sex passed from all four trainers' minds.

They all knew what needed to be done.

"So we're heading North East, right?" Blue asked. "That's where the horde was coming from, and Pokémon don't usually travel in multi species herds," or in cases of Ekans and Arbok, they didn't travel in herds at all. Plus, there were a few Mankeys who are terrible at cooperating even with their won species.

"Maybe one of us should rush to Vermillion and tell them just in case?" Skyla asked, looking around.

Elesa shook her head. "A horde that big? No way it wasn't noticed already, we should get a read on the situation so that if and when the Gym trainers drop by, we'll be able to assess them on what's going on," she said, "we're not just some random grunts, we're both working to become Gym Leaders, taking charge of such situations is what we should be doing."

"I guess you've got a point," Skyla agreed.

"Well, maybe you two could go back early? Me 'n Red, we're not in your chain of command so it's not like you guys can tell us what to do, you can just say we refused to comply?"

"No, no way," Elesa said, shaking her head, "keeping people safe at all times is our duty," she said, clenching her fist and then pointing a finger towards the North East, "I'll take charge of this operation and assume responsibility for whatever happens," she said. "Stick with me," she said, "we're finding out what's happening before it becomes a huge problem!"

The other three nodded in response, and the two future Gym Leaders joined by the league challengers all set out towards the origin of the stampede.