After taking the rest of the day to just relax and recover from our last week of night time activities we made our way to the kitchen to have a meal, today had been really good to just re centre ourselves. I had been having a feeling that something was going to change or happen soon, I have no idea where that came from but it was just there, waiting in the background. It had me a little on edge and I wanted to make sure that we were ready in the best condition before heading out.

It was not long after filling our stomachs when we started getting our stuff together, I made sure that my disguise was good to go and I had Cinder’s pokeball ready. Waiting at the front door for him to make his way over I recalled him as soon as he came up and made my way outside.

Wanting to mix it up a bit I made my way towards some of the bridges connecting to lower Manhattan as I had no covered this area before. The night continued like always quiet apart from the incessant traffic and night life of the surrounds. Surprisingly as we made our way to the first bridge we came across not one, not two but three different muggings, it seems like the city is busy tonight.

We did things like we had been doing so far, Cinder using ‘growl’ initially to disorient the perpetrators and then following up with a scratch after wards if needed. But mixing it up after the first encounter I decided to become a bit more involved, talking it over beforehand I instructed Cinder that if there was more than one criminal to aim for one make the move a bit wider than normal to catch the other individual in it, when he is disoriented I will move in and subdue him myself. Seeing the concern in his eyes but giving me a hesitant nod we moved on and fairly quickly encountered the second mugging of the night.

Having a look at the situation before jumping out, we could see two large men bearing down on a middle aged individual in a suit and tie. They had him at knife point with one of the men standing back to keep an eye out.

“Ok aim for the man at the back and spread the area of effect a bit wider than normal, once you’re done I’ll move in and subdue the other man and you keep an eye out incase your guy tries to sneak up on me.” Getting a nod I move into position.

‘GROWL!!”, it never ceases to amaze me seeing that in action, making my way forward I run at the man holding the knife as he turns in shock at what happened to his partner. Coming in low I take his legs out at the knees and he hits the ground, head impacting the floor and his eyes lose focus. I move in with a quick blow to the temple and knock him unconscious, rolling him onto his front, zip tying his hands behind his back.

“ARGH!!!” I whirl around hearing the cry to see the second man lying on his back with Cinder standing over him with fire engulfing his mouth.

“CINDER!”, looking up he makes eye contact with me and somehow, I just know that he isn’t going to do anything stupid,

“If you don’t want to be set on fire by my friend here, I would advise you to roll over and put your arms behind your back.”, seeing him nodding to me response and quickly complying I move over to tie him up as well. Moving to Cinder and bending over I rub his head. “Good job buddy, got worried for a while there, but it seems like it was unnecessary, sorry Cinder.”

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Huffing in annoyance, “Char” he moves away looking upset.

“Hey I said I was sorry, what else can I do to make it up to you? I can make some of that spicy curry when we get home?”. Hearing my response, I see him turn back around with a cheeky grin on his face.

“Oh, you little shit, get back here.” Running after him with a laughing Cinder dodging my attempts to catch him. Finally ending my chase bent over getting my breath back I turn back to the alley to find the man being mugged having disappeared, “woops looks like we got a bit distracted there.” Sheepishly rubbing the back of my head.

Well then lets see how we went and if getting involved increased my experience.

STATUS

NAME: SAMUEL FARTHING

AGE: 21

LEVEL: 0/??

EXP: 4.5/500

JOB: N/A

BOND: CHARMANDER (79%)

DRAW CHANCES: 2

POKEMON: 1/∞

POKEMON STORAGE: 0/∞

ABILITIES/ PERKS: Mental Fortitude(MAX), Genetic Anomaly, Inventory, Inspect (MAX), Aura (Beginner), Psychic (Beginner)

Well then look at that, seems like I possibly gain an experience point with each person I take down, well then that’s a lot of people I’ll have to fight. Maybe I should look at taking some martial arts classes or watch some online tutorials.

CHARMANDER (Cinder)

LVL 5 (22/25)

GENDER: MALE

ABILITY: BLAZE

BOND: 79%

HEALTH: 100%

STAMINA: 100%

MOVES: Scratch(Intermediate), Growl (Intermediate), Ember (Beginner)

NOTE: A bond of less than 40% will cause Pokémon to ignore some commands

Yep and Cinder gets 2 points for everyone he takes down, glad to figure that out at least. This is going to help down the line for any planning for our future team members. I wonder if it changes when they get too powerful trying to combat weaker people. Moving on and putting the event behind us we continued on our path to the bridge coming across one other mugging on the way making it three for the night.

It was relatively boring and nothing too crazy, I didn’t even have to get involved as one growl from Cinder knocked both individuals out being in a narrower alley so even after narrowing the area of effect it connected to both of them.

Moving along until we reached the bridge, we didn’t come across much else at all, it was pretty quiet and getting to our target for the night I decided to start heading back. Making it to the first alley with Cinder we were about to enter it when we stopped. Siren’s, we could hear a significant number of sirens coming along the bridge, and they were coming fast.