Theoretically, if Arbok venom was a neurotoxin, it would cause paralysis, right? I figure it'd be more hemotoxic, but Arbok's a cobra sorta, so I went with the Neurotoxin xD;
“Hun?” The male glanced dimly over his shoulder, blinking in surprise and rushing to the van at the sight of the purple mass writhing on the ground. “Hah! What’ve we got here? Good boy, Arbok!” the Rocket operative sneered at the sight of the entangled interloper being crushed in the snake’s grip.
Molly struggled to breathe against the pokemon’s crushing grasp, breath coming in short, panicked gasps as the Arbok wound itself tighter in response. “You never give Arbok enough credit,” Ed chastised in the other’s direction. “Alright, so he can’t put anything to sleep, but you tell him to guard the van, he sure guards the van.”
Kelly pushed herself languidly to her feet with a heavy sigh, picking her way through the long grass towards a stirring Kangaskhan Molly recognized instantly as M-12. “Last one, then we get out of here,” she called back, lifting the baby from the pouch with an enraged shriek as it fell with a thump to the ground.
“N-no!” Molly squealed, leaving her mouth as a kind of choking whimper. The arbok flared it’s hood and hissed at her.
“Ugh, damnit Ed, these little things weigh a ton. What are you standing around for? Give me a hand.”
M-12 groaned in her sleep at the sound of it’s baby’s distressed cries, and though the two Team Rocket members flinched, and cowered for a moment, she did not wake and they resumed the dragging distance to the van.
“What do we do about the nerd?” The man asked between panted breaths, glancing in her direction as a sickly cracking sound accompanied the Arbok’s constrictions.
“Get rid of her,” the woman suggested with a shrug as they dumped the mewling baby into the trunk. “‘S your Arbok. You do it.”
“Fine, fine,” he sighed, and wearily gave the order. Struggling against the crushing coils and her cracked rib, Molly tried to squirm her way free, but the Arbok hissed, reared it’s head, and struck, burying long, curved fangs into the flesh of her shoulder.
***
It was with a spring in his step that Liam made his way towards the check in kiosk, humming contentedly under his breath as he clutched the package of prefect pink poffins securely in his arms.
“E-excuse me...?” Liam called as he pushed open the cabin door, and made his way into the office only to be glared at immediately by a much older man behind the front desk.
“Park’s closed, son,” he intoned almost- no, very– menacingly, hand trailing to what Li realized with a squeak appeared to be a firearm. “Go home.”
“Easy,” Li muttered, backing away against the wall. “I don’t mean any trouble, honest. I just wanna deliver this to Miss Cedar. Well... her Doduo, at least.” The man eyed him warily, but said nothing, and so Liam crept forward, and set the poffins down on the desk, sliding them timidly towards the Warden.
“You a.... friend of hers, kid?”
Liam nodded emphatically. “You could say that sir.”
“Cedar’s not here right now.”
“What?”
The warden, eyes still narrowed, scratched at the back of his grey haired head, with a shrug of his shoulders. “Left this morning, never came back. There are always lab-types here, they’re a funny bunch. She probably just found some parasects to stare at, I don’t know.”
Li furrowed his brow, and nodded, slowly backing away from the armed warden, who’d thrown open the box of poffins and was prodding at them suspiciously. “T-thank you, sir.”
The cold night’s air was a shock after being inside the heated cabin, and he shivered despite himself. What if Miss Cedar was out cleaning up his mess at the campsite? He thought he’d done well enough tidying, but she had certainly seemed preoccupied with the park’s well being... He gazed guiltily at the expanse of sleeping grassland, and made a face. The grimace, however, turned into stunned silence as something began to move in the distance, a growing ball of something whizzing towards him and against his better judgement, the trainer ran to meet it.
As he’d hoped, it was indeed the redhead’s Doduo sprinting towards him, but as he drew nearer, Li could see that something was very wrong. It’s feathers were fluffed in distress, and he was alone, screeching to a stereo-honking halt before the vaguely familiar human face. “Woah, woah, easy, big fella... Where’s Mary?” The pokemon screeched emphatically at him from both long throats, nipping and insistently at his clothing with both beaks. Liam’s stomach churned uneasily. “Something’s wrong, ain’t it?” The doduo crouched, and nipped at his feet until the man got the hint, and clambered hesitantly onto his back, grasping desperately at the thick brown plumage as it took off at top speed, leaping and flapping to glide short distances rather than fly. Li was a bit too big for the bird, but it’s powerful legs carried them swiftly none the less as he held on for dear life.
Something like a strangled scream met his ears, and he risked opening his eyes only as the Doduo began to grind to halt, bursting through a path of trees and shrubs. Li clattered to the ground, rolling a few paces after an ungraceful fall that knocked the wind from his lungs and left him coughing and gasping for breath. The doduo shrieked, and cleared him in one powerful jump, lashing out at something with it’s taloned feet and beaks.
“Miss Cedar!” The man pushed himself to his feet, and took in the scene before him in a terrible instant. The doduo had successfully pried off or distracted the Arbok that had been ensnaring Mary, but the patch of blood seeping through her lab coat warned him that she was not out of danger yet. “Miss Cedar,” He repeated breathlessly as he knelt beside her trembling form, eyeing her injured shoulder anxiously. “Don’t move!” he stammered when she attempted to sit up. “At least, I don’t think you should....” He narrowed his eyes at the poachers, drawing the appropriate pokeballs from his belt, and letting them fly. With hastily barked orders and their own intuition, the onix curled itself protectively around the van while the machoke set to hurling rocks at the venonat.
“L...Liam? Is that you?” She squinted at him, trying to force the swimming patch of blurred colours before her eyes into some recognizable form.
“Yes!” he said, with less than absolute certainty. “I’m going to get you help, Miss Cedar, don’t you worry...”
“The kangaskhan...”
She could make out the motion as he nodded emphatically. “What do I need to do to help you, miss?”
“Arbok venom is a neurotoxin...” she mumbled, head lolling to the side, leaving Li confounded. He wasn’t sure what that meant exactly, but it didn’t sound good and he would be sure to tell the hospital once he got her there. She continued to murmur under her breath, and he caught something that sounded like his name and worry, but her speech was growing clumsy, and he had no intention of running away. “You’re not going to get away with this,” he snarled at the other two humans, who exchanged a glance and laughed.
“Yeah,” the woman said, “like we’ve never heard that one before.” She snickered as the Doduo was sent scuttling away from the hissing snake frantically; however, the machoke quickly stepped in, grappling with and effectively pinning the wriggling serpent. The onix filled in for it’s preoccupied teammate, a flick of it’s massive tail knocking the moth from the air. Both pokemon retreated hastily to the safety of their pokeballs, leaving both criminals wide eyed and uneasy.
“As for you two...” Liam pushed himself to his feet, and turned his body sideways in a well practiced motion. “I’ve never been the type of coward who’d sick him pokemon on a human who can’t fight back,” he grit his teeth, and swung his body into a solid fighting stance, meeting Ed’s eyes unwaveringly. “So I’m just gonna have to deal with you myself. Leave now.”
“H-he...He’s kidding, right?” Ed set to chuckling nervously, glancing back at his partner, and then without warning, he was blinking at the starry sky overhead, the wind knocked forcefully from his lungs as he hit the ground. “Oww...” he groaned, thrashing against the solid hold pinning him to the ground, before sighing and planting his face in the dirt in defeat. “Kelly, do something!” came the muffled cry.
“Uh....” The tiny woman grit her teeth, and ran at Liam, lashing out at his face with the heel of her shoe, which he caught easily in a large, strong hand. Kelly hopped backwards pulling her foot from the boot, and growling at him. “Just get out of our way, dunderhead! Those Kangaskhan are ours, we stole them fair and square.” She teetered uneasily on the one remaining heel, and ripped that boot off to match, hurling it at the blackbelt’s head.
Li ducked the incoming footwear, rolling away from the pinned poacher, and the makeshift projectile whizzed over his head, striking a Kangaskhan squarely between the eyes. Dead silence fell immediately as all eyes turned slowly, and horror stricken, towards the pokemon, who stirred. A roar shook the clearing, as the angry pokemon’s eyes flew open in earnest.
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