Chapter 2 - Erika

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As with most of this story, the events of this chapter are heavily inspired by several works commissioned by DRaB and illustrated by Oo_Sebastian_oO. For this chapter specifically, the depicted characters, battle, and sex scene all take queues from this image.

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"Um..."

Faust wasn't sure how to approach the situation. He had finally penetrated the haven of tall trees within the gym's inside garden to finally reach its leader, Erika. The problem was, Erika didn't seem to be taking notice of him, much less accepting his challenge for a battle, because she was slumped up against a tree, fast asleep. Faust looked all around the area, wondering what to do. It was bad enough that he had spent so long hacking his way through the tall foliage and been subjected to all manner of aromas from the assorted flower beds that populated the gym - though it definitely beat digging through garbage cans in Vermillion City, he had to admit - he wasn't going to let it all be for nothing. Finally he held his arms out in defeat, and asked aloud, "So what the fuck am I supposed to do?"

The trees, unsurprisingly, offered no answer.

Faust sighed, and walked closer to Erika to try to wake her up. As he did so, he got a better look at her. In comparison to Misty, she was...more traditionally beautiful. Her yellow kimono with red haori left a lot more to the imagination than Misty's swimsuit had, but there was an advantage to that - it made him all the more eager to tear it all off. Faust crouched down in front of Erika, and from this distance, he could barely hear her quiet snores. Given her sleeping state, it was amazing how dignified she looked - her head was tilted only slightly downward, so her bangs still perfectly framed her pale face. As far as Faust could tell, she wasn't even drooling. He stared hard at the brim of her kimono - he could just barely see the slightest amount of flesh between her chest and neck, and it frustrated the hell out of him every time his eyes wandered downward and were only met by cloth, still a good six inches from showing any cleavage.

Faust blinked, and again scanned the area. Nobody else in sight. He grinned to himself, and hesitantly, quietly, leaned forward, cautiously extending a hand towards Erika. He gripped the top of her kimono, and slowly began to peel it open. It was slow going, considering how the thing was tied, but with a bit of persistence, he managed to get it just loose enough to pull down a few centimeters. Immediately, Faust's face fell. There was a second layer to the kimono, a white item that covered just as much of her chest as the layer above. No wonder she had fallen asleep, considering how warm and comfortable she must be. "Shit," he hissed.

"Hm?" Finally, Erika started to stir.

Faust whipped his hand away as the Gym Leader regained consciousness. She hid a yawn with her sleeve, and her eyes fluttered open. "Mmn..." she murmured, her gaze falling upon Faust, who stood up and backed away, trying not to look too guilty. "Hello...Lovely weather, isn't it? It's so pleasant..." she paused, blinking her eyes heavily, "Oh dear...I must have dozed off." She smiled serenely at Faust, and all at once, he drowsiness was gone, replaced by pure elegance. She got to her feet in a manner he had never seen anyone stand up before, seeming to merely flow upward from a sitting position. In a proper, dignified voice, she said, "Welcome. My name is Erika. I am the Leader of Celadon Gym. I am a student of the art of flower arranging. My ​=13pxPokémon are solely of the Grass type."

"Yeah, I uh, kind of knew that already," Faust said, taking out a Pokéball, "there's always some guy at the front of these Gyms who tells people that stuff. You'd think all the, you know, grass all over the place would be a bit of a giveaway, too. Name's Faust, an' I'm here to beat you down!"

Erika blinked slowly at him, and for a brief moment Faust wondered if she was half-out on her feet, as her eyes grew vacant and distant. Eventually, however, she snapped back to her regal, attentive manner, though he got the impression she hadn't heard exactly everything he'd said. "...Oh, I had no idea that you wished to challenge me," her gaze hardened slightly. Now Faust was certain that she was actually, completely awake and focused. "Very well, but I shall not lose." She waved her arm, and a Pokéball fell out of the sleeve of her kimono into her waiting hand before she tossed it forward to begin their battle. "Go, Victreebel!"

Faust was already calling out his own Pokémon by the time the monstrous yellow plant fully appeared. "Go, Skarmory!" To challenge Erika's plants, Faust had chosen the perfect counter - a metallic bird Pokémon, which shrieked loudly as it appeared, spreading its red, bladed wings.

"Oh dear, a Steel-type Pokémon?" Erika noted, briefly veiling her mouth with a sleeve. "So it will be immune to my Pokémon's Poison attacks. That limits my choices somewhat..." Unperturbed, she pointed at the Skarmory, commanding her Pokémon into action. "Victreebel, stop it dead with Stun Spore!" Victreebel let out a shriek of acknowledgement, and from its maw a burst of yellow spores came flying out towards Faust's Pokémon.

"Dodge it, Skarmory!" Faust commanded, but his bird Pokémon had almost already taken evasive action, taking to the air and swooping over the paralyzing particles. "Now hit it with Steel Wing!" Skarmory's red wings began to glow with power, flaring white for a brief moment as they temporarily hardened, and it dove into Victreebl, slamming its wings into the plant.

"Hold on, Victreebel!" Erika pleaded, willing her stunned Pokémon to continue the fight. "Just keep on the attack, don't let its speed confuse you!"

"Circle around and finish it off, Skarmory!" Faust shouted, and Skarmory acknowledged his commands with another loud shriek before divebombing right back into the Victreebel.

"Quick Victreebel, now!" Erika reacted, and Victreebel loyally answered its trainer's command, unleashing another blast of Stun Spore right before Skarmory struck it down. The bird was left shrieking in dismay as the it was completely coated in the paralyzing substance, even as its opponent collapsed in defeat.

"Damn!" Faust exclaimed as he observed the results of the exchange. "You used the opening from my attack to catch Skarmory while it couldn't dodge...Pretty good strategy, babe."

"I am a Gym Leader, after all," Erika said with a calm smile, taking the compliment in stride while letting his use of a pet name pass. "Good job, Victreebel," Erika congratulated, recalling the plant, "you've laid the foundation for your friends to achieve victory...Now go, Tangela!" Her next Pokémon, a bizarre mass of vines propped up on a pair of comical-looking feet, shambled out to take on the stunned Skarmory. Before the bird could take much action, several of Tangela's vines snapped forward, grabbing onto its wings and feet. "That's right, use Constrict, Tangela! Slow it down as much as you can, and just wear it down!"

"Come on Skarmory, fight back!" Faust shouted, but his bird had already been caught. Its speed could do it no good now, and as tough as its metal frame was, Tangela was slowly but surely beginning to squeeze the life out of it.

"Skarmory can't get away now, Tangela," Erika encouraged, "now halt its movements completely! Constrict!" Tangela nodded briefly, and even more of its vines wound their way around Skarmory, pinning it down while it shrieked in frustration.

"Got ya now," Faust said with a smirk, "Now, Skarmory! Steel Wing!" Skarmory's eyes snapped open, and its wings glowed white-hot again before suddenly snapping to their full spread, ripping straight through Tangela's vines. The plant creature had just enough time to wail in surprise and pain before Skarmory bashed its in the face, sending it skidding along the ground at Erika's feet.

"You-! You let Tangela grab it like that!" Erika realized, looking down at her fallen Pokémon. "Just so that you could get a critical hit and a decisive blow!"

"Got that right, babe," Faust said with a smirk, and this time Erika did seem to acknowledge the comment, flushing very slightly in embarrassment from being dubbed as such. "It was the easiest way to get through the thing."

"Well, I'm afraid your fortunes are about to change," Erika warned, taking her third and final Pokéball out of her kimono sleeve. "Skarmory's been slowed down so much that it's ready to be finished off. Strike the final blow, Vileplume!" Tangela was replaced by Erika's ace Pokémon, a purple plant-shaped creature that seemed to spew bizarre spores from the flower on its head with every slight movement. "Use Giga Drain!" Immediately, a small spark of green energy traced out from Vileplume and landed on Skarmory's chest. On impact, the connection immediately reversed, pulling a swarm of green spheres of energy directly out of Skarmory's body and feeding them into Vileplume, which began to glow with excessive energy. "Even if Skarmory's type advantage lowers the effectiveness of Giga Drain, the damage will quickly start to add up," Erika promised, "and even if it does manage to build up the momentum to land another Steel Wing, Giga Drain will just replenish Vileplume's lost health!"

"Yeah, you got a point," Faust admitted, his expression losing not a single ounce of confidence. "If we just sit here without doing anything about the speed disadvantage, Skarmory's roast chicken. So now, it's time Skarmory!" Skarmory squawked once in reply, and all at once its entire body began to glow white as its wings had before.

"What's going on!?" Erika asked in surprise, as suddenly several of Skarmory's scales began to shed from its form, landing heavily on the ground.

"Skarmory's using Automotize!" Faust explained, as his Pokémon beat its suddenly lighter wings and took to the air, looking just as speedy as before, if not more so. "By shedding weight, Skarmory sharply increases his speed, and that's not all!"

Erika caught on before Faust even needed to finish. "The shed scales...it's actually shed off the Stun Spore!"

"Damn right! Now show them your speed, Skarmory!" Skarmory let out a proud battle cry and darted through the air, soaring in a circle above Vileplume's head. Vileplume continued to try to reach out with its Giga Drain, but Skarmory was too fast to catch now. "Keep on strafing while you use Metal Sound!" At Faust's command, Skarmory's shrieks were replaced by a strange, warbling noise, similar to the sound made by waving a thin flap of metal over and over again. The soundwaves rocked Vileplume, disorienting it and lowering one of its defenses.

"Vileplume, you have to paralyze it again!" Erika insisted, "Spray Stun Spore wherever you can!" Vileplume immediately went into action, letting out a huge cloud of Stun Spore that was swept up in Skarmory's tailwind as it continued to circle its foe.

"Alright, now Skarmory!" Faust cried, "Break off and use Air Cutter!" Swifter than it seemed a being of metal could be capable of, Skarmory immediately twisted completely around, then beat its wings directly at the trail of Stun Spore that was coming towards it. The motion sent a blade of wind straight back to the spore cloud's source, carrying the harmful cloud away from Skarmory and striking Vileplume hard. Weakened from Metal Sound, Vileplume couldn't hope to withstand the attack, and it was sent hurtling through the air until it crashed into a nearby tree. Erika, meanwhile, shrieked in surprise as the Stun Spore was left to blast straight into her, knocking her off her feet as well as Skarmory posed in mid-air, shrieking triumphantly.

"Oh!" Erika said after a little while, staggering to her feet. She looked visibly shaken now, clearly affected by the errant spray of paralzying agents. Faust walked up and caught her by the shoulders as she teetered, and Erika smiled gratefully at the gesture. "I concede defeat. You are remarkably strong. I must confer on you the Rainbow Badge." The named badge appeared in her hand, and she offered it to Faust, nearly dropping it on accident as she did so. Fortunately, Faust caught it before it fell to the ground, and added it to the other three pined in his wallet. "I think I'm going to have to sleep this off, now," Erika said, her eyes starting to grow heavy again, "sorry, but it's even more difficult to stay awake when my limbs feel so heavy...just set me back down where was be...fore...?"

Hearing Erika threatening to fall back asleep drove Faust into action. Doing it while she was passed out wouldn't even be half as fun. Opening up her kimono was considerably easier when he didn't care if she noticed, and Erika gaped in shock as he haphazardly pulled the clothing open, first one layer and then the next, exposing her torso completely save for a set of breast binds. "Wait!" Erika cried out ineffectively, trying to push Faust away, but her arms barely responded to her will anymore, and the only reason she could even stand now was because he was holding her up. "Stop! STOP IT!" He took his hands off her shoulders in order to completely pull the kimono off, and she fell with a grunt to the ground. "No, please stop!"

"Man, how do you even take these off?" Faust asked aloud, digging his fingers into Erika's bindings ineffectively as he ignored her cries. "Can't even find the end of this...shit. Skarmory, tear this open real quick." Erika briefly shrieked in terror as the Steel bird nipped at her chest, but Skarmory was deceptively precise and gentle with her, shredding just a few strips of the bindings, which quickly began to fall away with Faust's assistance. Erika gasped as her chest was exposed, expanding out slightly from its tight confinement. Faust whistled appreciatively and palmed one of Erika's breasts, making her grunt in disapproval. "Man, what the fuck are you doing hiding these tits away like that?" he questioned, flicking his thumb across her nipple, "you had me fooled. I thought you were flat as a board!"

"I don't care to dress in a manner to please disgusting men like you!" Erika spat out, tears starting to spill down her pale cheeks, which were reddening with rage and embarassment. "Please stop this, immediately! You- you don't have to do this!"

"Not a matter of having to, babe," Faust assured, pulling off Erika's sandals and socks. That was done easily enough, but when he reached up to work on removing Erika's haori, he paused, confused. "How the hell do you even start to undo this thing?" he asked, tugging at her belt. She glowered at him in response, and he rolled his eyes. "Yeah, whatever," he said, and pulled at her hip, rolling her over onto her stomach to try to approach the obstacle at a different angle. He shifted and rolled her around several times, his frustration mounting as he did so. Several times he very nearly ordered Skarmory to snap at the belt, but the longer he waited to do so, the more he wanted to accomplish the matter himself, making it into a self-imposed challenge. Inevitably, the damned thing came loose, and he chuckled triumphantly, pulling Erika's haori and panties together down her pale legs. He then stood up, tossing the garments on top of the rest of the Gym Leader's discarded clothing and admiring Erika's fully nude form. Well, not fully nude - he left her the pink headband that held her bangs back, liking the way that they framed her face, even as she ruined her complexion with her crying. The fact that he'd been able to see so little of her body when she was clothed made her seem all the more desirable now, and his hard-on was actually starting to hurt now. "Damn, you are fine," Faust said, turning Erika over twice so as to get a full view of her front and back sides, "especially that ass! Makes me want to just grab you by the hair and- whoa!"

Unexpectedly, from her position on the ground, Erika had swung her leg up, very nearly managing to kick him in the groin. As Faust took a few steps back, she began to twitch on the ground, starting to regain feeling in her extremities. Her paralysis was gradually starting to fade.

"You little..." Faust snarled, and picked Erika up off the ground by her elbow before raising his free hand threateningly. She glared defiantly up at him, daring him to strike her. After a tense few seconds, he twisted her forward, bending her over his knee, and struck her once across her right butt-cheek. Erika let out a chirp of pain, but mostly of surprise, and then Faust shoved her, sending her rolling a short distance away, where she landed face-down at the edge of a bed of pink flowers. "Guess I took too long on your weird-ass pants," he muttered, starting to unbuckle his belt, "okay, I'll pick it up now. Just sit tight for a second."

"No, wait!" Erika called out, and Faust noticed an extra note of fear in her voice as he stripped down. She flailed uselessly on the ground, trying to move, but she didn't manage to gain enough leverage even to turn herself over. In seconds, Faust was as naked as she, and he hunched down behind her.

"Okay," he said, getting a grip on Erika's hips, which she unsuccessfully tried to jerk away from his hands. He hefted her up slightly, then grabbed her legs to pull them more beneath her, getting her up on one knee and then the other. He ignored Erika's increasingly desperate cries as he did so, and slid in behind her, tracing her opening with the tip of his cock. "Now let's get down to-......" he stopped in mid-sentence, rather confused. He pulled away from Erika, and glanced down between her legs. Realizing what he had noticed, Erika began to sob. Just to confirm what he was seeing, Faust reached out to Erika's vagina, pressing his fingers up to it, and wiping up a long trail of arousal that was dripping down Erika's leg. "Holy shit, you are some kind of-"

"It's the flowers!" Erika claimed through sobs. "Their pollen's an aphrodisiac if inhaled in large doses, and I've been sitting here for several minutes, and...and please just let me go."

Faust laughed through Erika's explanation, What incredible luck he was having today - Erika's own Pokémon and now her own Gym were making this easier than he could ever have expected. Deciding that Erika was plenty ready for him without foreplay - not that he would've bothered with it anyway - he pressed himself into her, making the Gym Leader grit her teeth and clench her hands in the grass. Faust set a deliberate pace, determined to fully enjoy the experience before Erika could regain her mobility. The wet noise of sex filled the normally serene garden of the Celadon City Gym, accompanied by Erika's pitiful, weakening cries. Through her clenched jaw, Faust occasionally heard her continue to beg, weakly, for him to stop, but for the most part, his focus was on taking in the sight of her body reacting to him. It was distracting whenever one of her limbs would flail uselessly in a worthless attempt to dislodge him, but for the most part his gaze stayed locked on Erika's abdomen. The impact of his hips colliding with hers sent ripples through her flesh, making her ass jiggle with each thrust. He took great delight in experimenting with his thrusts, testing how different rhythms and levels of force caused her buttocks to react differently. As an added bonus, each time he did so, it took Erika by surprise, and her verbal reaction was similarly different each time. He liked it most when he managed to get her to moan or squeak in the middle of begging him to stop, cutting her off completely.

To Erika's credit, she refused to give up easily. In time, her limbs regained more of their strength, and while it was not enough to even attempt to physically fight Faust off - she doubted she could do so, even if her body weren't refusing to listen to her and her head wasn't hazy from the effects of the pollens she was still being forced to inhale - she was at least doing all she could to get away. It took Faust by surprise when she suddenly began pulling herself along the ground, away from her rapist, but he thought little of it, simply readjusting his position and continuing to pound away at her. His hubris made Erika glare over her shoulder at him, and he smirked at her. He knew damned well that he could stop her attempts to escape with just a little bit of physical force, but he simply found it more amusing to watch her struggle feebly, making light of her attempts by following after her. Just to add further insult, he slapped her ass again, this time more playfully and thus more embarrassingly for Erika.

Erika grit her teeth and clawed her way across the ground with renewed vigor, and she took satisfaction in the fact that Faust momentarily had trouble continuing their coitus as he had to focus on awkwardly following her around. The problem was, surrounded as they were by trees, she had nowhere to escape to. If this went on, she would simply crawl in circles around the garden while her captor continued to fuck her, and if anything, that would simply encourage Faust. More than getting away, she would simply be willingly parading herself around for him. Continuing down that path of thought, Erika concluded that more than anything right now, she wanted to get up off of her hands and knees. She needed to try to regain her dignity, to let this man know that even as he violated her, she retained her pride, and there was worth in her efforts to resist him. Her hands seized on a thick root that lay in her path, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw her fallen Vileplume and Faust's victorious Skarmory. An idea formed in her head. Vileplume might not have the will to battle any longer, but if she could get her Pokémon to muster up the strength to unleash a noxious cloud while she held her breath, then she would have her opportunity to escape while Faust was disoriented. Setting her focus on that plan, she raised her hand, getting a grip further up on the trunk of the tree, and with all the strength she could muster, she heaved herself up, leaning the weight of her upper body against the tree. With her other hand, she did the same, and pulled herself up, her knees starting to leave the ground as she did so.

"Oh?" Faust said, observing Erika's movements. "Getting a little tired of being down on the ground huh?" He slowed his thrusts as he shifted his position to remain connected to Erika, still remaining on his own knees as his height advantage over her allowed their hips to momentarily stay level. As she continued to clamber up, however, he slowly got to his feet as well, carefully remaining inside of her and making only the smallest of thrusts while he held firmly to her hips, keeping her close to him. "You want me to help you turn around, huh?" Faust asked, as both their legs straightened, first Erika's and then his, eventually allowing to increase the force of his thrusts again. "Pin your back up against this tree, so you can wrap your legs around me? Or do you prefer me doing you from behind like this?"

Erika tried to ignore him, concentrating on flexing the muscles in her legs to test their strength. She still had to lean against the tree for support, and from this position she knew it would be difficult to stand up straight - she had fully extended her arms to reach the trunk in the first place, and now that she was up on her feet, she was bent over fully at the waist in order to maintain her grip on the bark. Unsteadily, she took a step forward, and then another, allowing her to lean more comfortably against the tree. She glanced down at Vileplume to check its condition - it was staring blearily up at the two trainers in confusion. That should be enough, Erika thought. She took a few more small steps to test the strength in her legs - they weren't completely awake yet, but she felt that she could probably stand and at least walk on her own power. She took a few deep breaths, getting ready to make a run for it. She opened her mouth, and inhaled, getting ready to give the command.

"Oh yeah, there we go, thanks babe," Faust said, and after he did so, Erika grunted a few times in surprise. Unexpectedly, he had begun to penetrate her in a way that was considerably smoother, less awkward, and, to her dismay, pleasurable than before.

"W-what?" Erika asked aloud.

Faust answered her, even though she hadn't exactly been directing the question at him. "Thanks for lifting your ass up. It's way easier for me now that I'm not hunched over,"  and indeed, he was now standing at his full height, hammering away with more speed and precision than he had been able to muster ever since Erika had started to recover from her paralysis.

Erika huffed angrily, and opened her mouth to object. Her retort died in her throat, however, when she realized that Faust was absolutely right - looking down, she could confirm that the reason Faust was able to take such a position behind her was entirely her doing. Subconsciously, it seemed, she had raised herself up on her tiptoes, flexing her legs so that her opening was presented to Faust at the optimum height for him to penetrate her. "But...but I didn't mean...!" she stuttered, and she wished she was still wearing at least a portion of her kimono, so that she could hide her face behind her sleeve in embarrassment. All at once, she came to a realization - she had taken so long regaining her mobility, and concentrating on moving, that she hadn't fully taken into account just how much of the aphrodisiac pollen she had been inhaling. How many minutes had she spent with her face in those flowers as Faust had his way with her? The Stun Spore might have almost worn off, but an entirely new ailment was just beginning to take its toll on her.

When she began to subtly move back against Faust in time with his thrusts, Erika thought she would simply die right there. Her tears, which had momentarily stopped when she had taken steps to escape, began to fall anew, and her cries of displeasure grew louder and more sorrowful than ever. Faust said some things that she was sure were distasteful, but she didn't hear him anymore, she simply continued to spiral downward in torment as her body betrayed her will, pressing against the tree that she had originally latched onto in a desperate bid for escape to now instead use it as leverage to bump back against him. She barely noticed when Faust's pace suddenly became harder, more desperate, but she was shocked out of her thoughts when she felt warm fluids suddenly burst inside her. Her hair whipped around as she snapped her head back to look at Faust, and his grin was all that was necessary to confirm that he had completed inside her. "Oh dear..." she said, completely unaware of how weak and bizarre her choice of words was, "Please don't..." And then, just to cap everything off, her body tensed up completely, and she answered Faust's climax with an orgasm of her own, shuddering around him, and all at once she lost her feet again. She was unconscious before she hit the ground.

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Fully clothed again, Faust peered down at the bed of pink flowers that had prompted Erika's reaction. "Aphrodisiac, huh?" he asked aloud, looking over his shoulder at the defeated Gym Leader, wrapped haphazardly in her kimono and lying sprawled against the tree next to her Vileplume. Exactly as he found her, as far as he was concerned. "...Could come in handy later," Faust decided, plucking a few of the flowers. Even if they didn't, they might serve as a fun memento. In the meantime, he had places to be. "Come on, Skarmory," he called, and his Pokémon quickly joined him. "I hear there's a path ahead you need a bike to access. Let's go rob that asshole con artist in Cerulean."