In the dark rooms and corridors of Cerulean City's abandoned power plant, things had taken a turn for the worse in the lives of the local Pokemon. Survival had always been a challenge - there were natural disasters, food shortages, and territory squabbles - but one danger rose above all others, and that danger was human beings. After fifteen years nestled in the safety of the mountains and forgotten by the inhabitants of Cerulean City, humans had come again.

	Hidden from sight within the walls, the Pokemon watched as strange lights bobbed in the darkness. One of them opened her mouth to speak, but her sister clapped a hand over her mouth and shook her head. They waited, barely daring to breathe, as the intruders finished their business and talked among themselves.

	"Man, don't you think it's kind of creepy in here?"

	A heavyset technician swung his flashlight beam from wall to wall and saw nothing to explain the uneasy feeling creeping over him. The control room, full of silent machinery and blank screens, seemed to have survived abandonment mostly intact. Serpentine trails of cabling could be seen through a crack in one wall that split it open from floor to ceiling and he let his beam linger there, daring any of the eyes he'd felt burning into the back of his head to show themselves.

	"... Bob?" he asked, not daring to look away. "You still with me, buddy?"

	"Huh?" Bob grunted. "I'm trying to get these computers running again."

	"I said, don't you think it's kind of creepy in here?"

	"Nope. Don't believe in ghosts."

	"Not ghosts," he said. "What about wild Pokemon? They could be dangerous. Shouldn't the boss have given us a briefing on how to handle them?"

	The beam swung over to illuminate the second technician hunched over the command center. Bob raised a hand to his face with a scowl, and the flashlight was turned away.

	"Prolly are," Bob stated over the clacking of keys. "Don't worry about 'em, though. Got a Graveler and a Weepinbell right here with me. Think that's the last of it..."

	The silence was broken by a steady hum. The lights flickered and returned to life, and the full extent of the building's ruin became visible. Claw marks marred one wall and electrical damage another, the scars of a particularly ferocious battle between Pokemon. With restrictions barring trainers and collectors from hunting in the ruins, and one could only guess at what had taken place here in humanity's absence.

	"Yeah." Bob rose and cracked his back. "That's all we need to do here. Let's go, and watch your step. Wild Pokemon can get real nasty about their territory."

	Their feet thudded into the hallway, and the Pokemon held their breath as they waited for their voices to fade.

	"You, uh, you'll let me borrow one of those Pokemon, won't you? Just in case?"

	The door closed on Bob's answer.

	One by one, they squirmed out of hiding and stood, blinking and rubbing their eyes in the light of fluorescent bulbs. A medley of smells out of place in the wild lingered in the air, like human sweat, mens' cologne, and lunch meat not quite old and not quite fresh.

	"Ugh!" Flaaffy voiced. "Humans are so weird. Why do they even come here? Hey - !"

	She fell back as an Electrike shouldered past. He jumped for the handle on the door and grasped it in his teeth, twisting and turning as he worked to open it.

	"Don't, Tosen," Mareep bleated. "Just wait for someone to come for us. You'll get caught."

	Tosen dropped to the floor and chuckled.

	"Caught?" he said. "I've fought humans before and I won. You can't always wait for the elder Pokemon to come save you. What if they're the ones who get caught?"

	"Y-you don't think that's what's happened, do you? Why they're taking so long?" 

	The Mareep began to quiver and hid herself against the wool of her sisters, all nine of them suddenly on alert. They whispered among themselves and cast furtive glances at the door.

	"Knock it off, Tosen." A Pikachu pushed past the gathering crowd. "You're freaking everyone out."

	The air turned tense as he planted himself between Tosen and the terrified Pokemon. Of all the quarrels that took place in the power plant between evolutionary lines seeking more and better food or space for their growing families, those who fought the most fiercely were the Raichu and the Manectric. The reasons had long since turned to rumor and hearsay, but emotions were rarely reasonable.

	"I'm just telling it like it is." Tosen shrugged. "Cheri, why don't you stay here and take care of everyone?"

	"Huh? Stay here?"

	"I mean..." he started. "It's not like your family has anything better to do. Let me and mine check it out. We'll find any new territory that's been cleared quick as a Kricketot."

	The crowd looked to Cheri still standing protectively between them. Any other Pokemon might have taken the bait, fighting back with a Thunderbolt or at least a snappy response, but Cheri had heard it all before and today there was too much at stake.

	He took a deep breath and let it out slowly.

	"Go ahead, Tosen," he said. "I'm not your mother, and I'm not going to stop you if you insist on going out. We have more important - augh!"

	A shower of sparks was Tosen's answer, and as Cheri stumbled backwards the hands of his friends caught him and pushed him forward with a chorus of cheers. Whether they meant to goad the two of them on or not he wasn't sure, but it had to stop.

	"N-no! Wait," Cheri stammered, raising his hands. "Just let it go, you guys, it's okay."

	"When'd you get so soft, Cheri?" Tosen snorted. "You won't even stand up for yourself anymore."

	"It's not about that. It's about playing it safe. Making the smart decision. There might still be humans out there."

	"That's exactly what I'm talking about."

	"What's that supposed to mean?"

	With a jump and a twist, Tosen opened the door to the hallway. The crowd pulled together as if expecting danger to come bursting through, but there was silence except for the flickering of an old light bulb that couldn't quite light and the low sigh of air circulating through the ventilation.

	Tosen stood on the border between the known and the unknown and looked back at Cheri.

	"You used to be brave," he said sourly.

	Then he was gone, and everyone waited for the sounds of fighting. None came.

	Used to be brave... ? Cheri stepped forward and peered outside. What's that supposed to mean?

	There wasn't a human in sight. It seemed peaceful enough, but any wild Pokemon who lived free for long near civilization learned to be wary. One of their earliest lessons had been caution, which Tosen and most of his line had apparently slept through.

	"Cheri," Flaaffy said thoughtfully. 

	"Yeah? What's up?"

	"He's right, you know."

	"About what?" Cheri looked back at her. "The humans catching everyone? Don't worry about that. He just wants to look tough."

	"No, I mean there might be something worth checking out. The humans must know how to open their own doors, even the biggest ones. You're faster than Tosen, and if you claimed it first he'd have to stop bragging so much."

	"That's true... but it doesn't matter. There are more important things to worry about."

	Flaaffy merely shrugged and peeked out into the hallway herself, ears perked at the distant cry of an Ampharos. She called back and went to rally her sisters, and by the time their family arrived they were ready to leave behind the strange sounds and strange lights for the familiar comforts of the den.

	The littlest Mareep, trailing behind her sisters, stopped to look back at Cheri still standing in the doorway.

	"Aren't you coming, Cheri? They can protect you, too."

	"I, uh..."

	"Oh, I see." She nodded sagely. "You're worried about Tosen. You two used to be such good friends, so I'm sure he'll appreciate you going to keep him company."

	"I am not, and Tosen only likes his own company." Cheri crossed his arms. "I was just thinking that your sister might have a point, and what a shame it would be if he did discover something. He'd never shut up about it."

	That was all, wasn't it? Tosen could hold his own in a fight and spent more time training than anyone else their age, practicing Thunder Fang or Roar while everyone else helped out around the den or relaxed in the company of their friends. That's what the Manectric line did, and while it was easy for the Electrike to think only of himself during times of crisis Cheri was an eldest child with siblings and friends who needed him. A big family required a big heart.

	Someday he might be leading everyone to safety, and the idea of Tosen taunting him for putting others first even now made his blood boil - as if that of all things made him a coward. Where had the respect gone over the years?

	"Cheri?"

	"You go on guys." Cheri tried to smile at her. "I'm going to check it out, after all."

	He waved to the flock until the last bobbing tail disappeared around the corner. Then he was alone, and there was a sinking feeling in his stomach warning him that he was going to regret this.

	The worst part about the empty corridors and abandoned rooms wasn't the quiet, as Cheri discovered after the first few turns, it was that they were full of eerie noises and unfamiliar sensations in the atmosphere. To his eyes, everything was the same as it had always been, but to all other senses it was an alien landscape that seemed to press in on him from all sides as if attempting to smother him as he ran. The power plant thrummed, rumbled, and made noises he didn't even have a name more, and he felt it in his electric sacs as well as beneath his feet.

	I shouldn't have come... Cheri leaned against a wall and tried to slow his breathing. I don't care what anyone says, this was a terrible idea. What do I need to prove myself for, anyway? And to him?

	That Tosen might get his way yet again was infuriating, but he was right: Cheri wasn't brave. Cheri was a worrier and a mediator, and had been since they were both just children. 

	Sinking to the floor, he'd almost resigned himself to turning back when something clattered in the next room.

	Humans? He recoiled. Oh, no...

	What came around the corner wasn't the tall, gangly shape of a human, but the familiar green and yellow of an Electrike. Tosen stared back at Cheri, looking as shocked as he felt.

	"What are you doing back here?" Cheri asked. "I thought you were exploring?"

	"I am," Tosen replied. "That route's still closed off. I'm surprised you came. I thought for sure you were just going to go home."

	Cheri pushed himself to his feet, incensed at the comments he should have known were coming. Why should he expect Tosen's attitude to change just because he'd come all this way?

	"I'm tired of you taking shots at me all the time," he growled. "When did you become such an asshole?"

	"It's called tough love. You never take chances, and you never have."

	"There's no such thing as tough love," Cheri shot back. "That's just an excuse. You know what I really think? I think you're overcompensating because the Manectrics would rather win than make friends. You don't trust anyone, so you just push others away, and you push, and you push -"

	Tosen was on him before he could finish, and the two went rolling. Cheri was surprised to have struck a nerve so easily, but he wasn't surprised when he lost and wound up pinned beneath Tosen.

	What did surprise him was the way he felt staring up at the Electrike's stern and stricken face above him. It was as if all the fight in him had evaporated at the naked emotion in his eyes, and instead of angry he just felt fragile and naked. The last time he had felt like this was years ago, back when Cheri was maturing faster than any of his friends instead of hanging back during a fight. He'd always let Tosen win and wound up pinned because...

	Because he didn't want to hurt him? Because he didn't really enjoy sparring? Because he liked it when Tosen was close to him? He'd never quite figured it out, and when friendship turned to rivalry there had been more important things to think about.

	Tosen must have seen something in his face, because he backed off and refused to meet Cheri's gaze.

	"You barely put up a fight," he chastised. "You spend too much time babysitting, and you won't be able to defend yourself if you do meet humans... or anything else. That's all I wanted to say."

	"At least I look out for my own," Cheri said. "You don't care about anyone but yourself. I shouldn't have come. I'm surprised I got as far as I did."

	"Hmph. That's not true."

	"What, the caring? Who do you care about, then?"

	"Don't change the subject, Cheri."

	"This is the subject."

	Tosen wasn't listening. The Electrike had wandered to the far end of the corridor and was standing on alert, his nose quivering at something in the air.

	"Something's out there. I thought I felt it before, but now I definitely can. Can't you feel it?"

	"Hmm?" Cheri stood and smoothed his fur.  "What now?"

	Something new was buzzing in the atmosphere, rising above the noise and chaos of the power plant. A tantalizing crackle coming from something that, even at a distance, was unmistakably alive. Cheri had thought he'd felt it before, beneath the racket of the eyesores and oddities that had come back to life, but he hadn't been certain.

	"The generator?" he wondered. "So they really are coming back after all this time. I only know what mom and dad told me about it."

	"That's where I'm going," Tosen stated. "We'll take it back before the humans can!"

	He took off, deaf to Cheri's shouts of "That's  exactly where the humans are going to be, you idiot!"

	What a guy, Cheri fumed. How can he just brush me off like that? I thought for sure we could at least talk...

	A tiny flicker of hope had been growing in his chest, but he quashed it and reminded himself of the reality of the situation. Tosen wasn't the type to worry himself over the past, and right now they were both in danger from something far worse than unrequited feelings. 

	"Tosen!" Cheri called, poking his head into a room at the end of a hall. "Where'd you go?"

	As soon as the words left him he clapped his hands over his mouth. His eyes darted around the empty chamber with its impossibly high, domed ceiling until they fell on Tosen standing transfixed in front of a device. 

	To the naked eye it looked still and cold, a great cylindrical thing with more parts than he could count, but what he felt defied what he saw. There was something about it that was... alluring. Terrifyingly so. Inching towards Tosen, Cheri wasn't sure if what was creeping through him was dread or excitement.

	"Tosen," Cheri hissed, reaching out. "Don't touch that."

	The Electrike snapped out of his haze and snorted. "You snooze, you lose." Then he leaped for the generator.

	Cheri stumbled forward in one last, desperate grab, and both of the Pokemon's paws touched down on the generator's surface and were thrown back in a flash of light.

	He came to his senses on the cold, hard floor with sweat beading off his forehead and the sensation of deflating. There had light so intense it made his head ache and the dizzying feeling of expanding far beyond his own body as more electricity than he'd ever contained surged through him, making his consciousness as vast as a storm cloud and as strong as a thunderclap. It felt like an eternity, but Cheri knew it couldn't have lasted more than a few seconds.

	Tosen lay beside him looking equally out of sorts. Sparks leapt from his fur in flurries, and Cheri belatedly realized that the same thing was happening to his electric sacs. Standing up, he gingerly pressed his paws to his cheeks and winced. He'd heard cautionary tales against the dangers of becoming supercharged, and the effects were always said to be somewhere between unpredictable and disastrous. Electric-types were only meant to contain so much.

	"C-Cheri?" Tosen asked, struggling to his feet.

	"You... You idiot! Why'd you go and do that?"

	Cheri reached out to shove the Electrike away from him and received another shock that left him with his knees quaking.

	W-what was that? Cheri stared down at his paws, afraid to move. And what's with my body? I'm throbbing everywhere. Everything feels so intense.

	"You're pinning this on me?" Tosen whined. "Nobody made you come along. You usually just give up and go home in these situations."

	"You still don't get it, do you?" Cheri exploded. "All you care about is yourself."

	With a growl, Tosen dove for him.

	Cheri was on his back, pinned beneath his rival's strong legs and squirming against the flurry of supercharged sparks leaping off him, before he'd realized what was happening. To his horror, he didn't just like it this time - he moaned. It was a faint, quavering sound and he was wishing for sweet, sweet death to whisk him away from the embarrassment of the situation before it was done. Tosen went stiff above him.

	Oh, now you've gone and done it, Cheri chastised himself.

	Staring into those chestnut eyes he'd once been so familiar with, Cheri realized there was something that may have been sadness roiling beneath the surface as Tosen spoke.

	"I see what this is about now," he said. "It's always been that way, hasn't it?"

	Cheri's immediate response was to deny it, but Tosen only shook his head.

	"Please. I'm not blind. You never moved on."

	Cheri's mouth opened and closed wordlessly. What was there to say? What could he possibly respond with that wouldn't make him look even more like a fool?

	Trapped as he was, he couldn't escape how the contact made him feel or the way stray sparks from his rival's fur danced and tingled across his own. He couldn't just turn away from the alluring intensity of his stare or the appeal of tracing his eyes down Tosen's lean muscles and stout, powerful legs, the result of long years training in solitude while other Pokemon lived simple, peaceful lives.

	This was the beginning of countless fantasies at night when he thought no one could hear him, paws furiously pounding against his thighs for release. And now, Tosen knew.

	Tosen's face was so close that he could feel the warmth of his breath. Cheri opened his mouth to say the only thing he could think of, a desperate apology of some sort or other, and Tosen's mouth pressed down against his own. His rival's tongue drove itself into him, and he could think of nothing else as heat washed over him.

	His body was reacting more than it should have been - of course it was - and his arms trembled as they reached up to Tosen's face.

	At Cheri's touch, the Electrike pulled away.

	"Tosen," Cheri gasped, "I don't know if you know what you're doing."

	"What? Oh..." Tosen hesitated. "I always just thought you were fun to argue with, but I guess... I'm open to more if you're going to keep following me around, anyway? It's not like I'm in love with you or anything."

	Cheri was tempted to roll his eyes, but that would surely end in another argument and he had something else in mind while Tosen was still talking.

	"Sure. I'm not in love with you, either," Cheri said. "So... what are you going to do about it?"

	"Huh?"

	"I asked, what are you going to do about it?" Cheri baited, lowering his voice.

	This had been the lead-in to how he'd always imagined being taken by Tosen, if only he could get it through the Electrike's thick skull. A fantasy come true. Some small, critical voice in the back of his mind, unaffected by the supercharge and the feelings now coursing through him, could hardly believe who he was suggesting this to, but that transcendent feeling was still coursing through him and setting his nerves on fire. He had to have him.

	"Ah... oh!" Tosen perked up.

	Cheri smiled as Tosen's lips found his again. He shifted, and his growing erection brushed against the other's stiff, bristly fur, eliciting a gasp from him and a lecherous grin from the Electrike.

	Cheri had a frantic thought as Tosen's lips left his and ventured downwards: what did sex entail, anyway?

	Tosen' muzzle trailed down to his belly just above his groin. His eyes darted up to Cheri's and, apparently seeing what he wanted there, his head dipped down and his muzzle opened to engulf Cheri's cock. 

	This time he didn't bother holding back the moan that slipped out. With his muzzle pressed firmly into the fur of Cheri's crotch, Tosen held nothing back. Slowly dragging his tongue from bottom to top and letting it linger there to massage the head as eagerly as if he were slurping juice from an Oran berry, he was able to draw sound after sound out of the squirming Pikachu.

	I... I need you, Cheri gritted his teeth against the wanton urges of his body. Tosen, you don't know how much... or even why...

	Something in Cheri's control slipped and his hips began to thrust against Tosen's mouth. Then a paw was on his hip - a subtle "knock it off, Cheri" - and he closed his eyes as the Electrike continued, resigned to whatever pace his new lover deemed fitting.

	He wasn't going to last long, though, and he knew it. Masturbation had always been a quick affair, and he'd only ever had fantasies up until this point.

	Cheri cracked one eye open just to watch Tosen's head bobbing against his groin, the pink of his cock now disappearing and reappearing below his muzzle. Over the electric humming in the air and the crackling of sparks from the two impassioned Electric-types he could hear faint, rhythmic slurping as he worked. He hadn't known Tosen harbored such a love for oral, but his eyes were closed and he was clearly enjoying himself, needing neither instruction nor encouragement to bring Cheri closer and closer to the edge.

	"Um, Tosen," Cheri started. "This is really... you're really..."

	Tosen cracked one eye open and, seeing the look on his face, nodded his understanding. Cheri's cock fell from his mouth with a wet pop, and the Electrike got to his feet.

	Cheri sighed, but Tosen wasn't finished. Twice his height, Tosen could easily stand over him and let his package hang out in full view. Looking up, Cheri found himself face to face with a fully-erect cock, standing proudly at attention between the Electrike's legs and throbbing with anticipation. From above, he flashed him a grin that said "Your turn."

	How would he even start? Cheri hesitated.

	He'd never touched anyone this way before, as loathe as he would be to admit it. There hadn't been time to explore, and there hadn't been anyone he'd wanted quite like he'd always wanted Tosen. He knew the mechanics of sex - what went where and so forth - but to actually pleasure someone else was another thing entirely.

	Start small, Cheri, he encouraged himself. Just try something. Do what you'd normally do.

	Reaching out, he wrapped a hand around Tosen's cock and found that his fingers couldn't quite close around it. Proportionally Tosen wasn't  that much bigger than he was, but he supposed there were perks to being a larger Pokemon or to having one as a lover. He gave it a few tentative tugs and, emboldened, leaned in. 

	His lips met the head and he drew it into his mouth, wrapping his lips around it and beginning to suckle. The Electrike shifted above him, and a barely detectable tremor shook his legs as he fought to keep his hips from jerking and stuffing himself into Cheri's mouth all at once. He was just glad he was beneath Tosen where he couldn't be seen blushing at the sensation of a cock rubbing across his tongue for the first time. 

	This was something he'd never thought to fantasize about on those long, lonely nights, but he mentally filed away every twitch and every sigh for later. The reactions he was getting from Tosen as he fought to keep his hips still for Cheri's explorations were priceless. Cheri's own excitement worked in his favor as his licks and slurps started to become more adventurous, and he took the Electrike in until the tip of his tapered cock touched the back of his throat. There he had to stop with his lips wrapped around it and his eyes wide, blushing and holding back a gag while his new lover groaned his approval. 

	Cheri just wasn't sure  how he was going to repay the favor when Tosen was as big as he was and he'd never had any sex, let alone oral. With every bob of his head he found his mouth stuffed and his gag reflex starting to protest before he'd taken him in halfway.

	Tosen must have caught on, because he pulled back after a particularly intense twitch and left Cheri gasping. 

	"Don't worry about it," he said with a reassuring smile.

	"I thought I was doing okay." Cheri pouted, wiping his mouth. "You're bigger, is all. Don't smirk."

	Tosen smirked, anyway. Reaching up, he cupped Cheri's cheek in his paw and turned his head so that their eyes met.

	"I'll try to be careful."

	"Huh? Ah..."

	Cheri flushed as Tosen slipped a finger in his mouth. He wondered if his new lover intended to coach him in oral techniques, but the paw, slick with saliva, left his mouth and wandered down between his thighs to press into him.

	What now? He winced. Is this going to hurt? The last time I tried this with myself...

	Just to test the waters, Cheri had once slipped two fingers into himself and regretted it immediately. It had been a sort of raw, uncomfortable feeling, but with Tosen pressed against him it took on a new context. Having Tosen in him what was he wanted - what he needed - even if it...

	"Relax," Tosen said. "If you're tense or squirm around it's going to hurt more."

	After a moment the finger slipped in with a satisfying twang of sensation that Cheri's lust-addled brain could only interpret as twisted pleasure. The Electrike's face was drawn as he watched his little lover gasp and squirm on his back as he worked, slowly thrusting as Cheri's body worked to adjust to first one modestly-lubed digit, then two. 

	This was how he was going to get back at him, Cheri realized as his hips began to move of their own accord. This was something he had to keep up, and if being mounted by Tosen was anything like this he might have more trouble keeping quiet than keeping it up.

	It was only after Tosen's body began to rock in rhythm with Cheri's that he snapped out of his haze. 

	"Roll over," he said simply.

	Cheri complied and rolled over onto his stomach with Tosen out of sight behind him. The unknown element was tantalizing as he lay with his bare ass in the air, not quite knowing what to expect. He could be taken slow or he could be taken fast, and he could be taken hard or he could be taken gently as Tosen had promised. It was all up to him, and after years of arguing and bickering that one thing went uncontested.

	Tosen's arms wrapped around Cheri's waist and squeezed him against his chest. Cheri's hips were lifted off the floor and he felt the tip of his new lover's cock prodding against his ass, slowly teasing him open. Tosen's hips began to buck against him, and when the tip jabbed in one one thrust past the loosened, saliva-slicked ring of muscle he cried out softly. Even the head was much bigger than he'd expected, and he doubted that had been even a third of what was to come.

	H-how much...? Cheri wondered as he was spread wider with every delicate thrust. How big is he? Damn... 

	Cheri tried to follow Tosen's advice and relax as his body struggled to adjust. The weight of Tosen on his back riding him as he patiently accepted all he had to give and the sounds of ragged breath above him were making it impossible, and he felt like his both mind and body were on fire. He was on fire and only Tosen could put him out, but first he had to make it worse.

	More... More... Please, Tosen. Electricity began to spark from his cheeks as he fought to contain himself. Keep going...

	Cheri didn't realize he'd been saying it out loud as a mantra until Tosen moaned and bit down on his ear.

	"Ah, Cheri, you little tease," Tosen panted. "I'll give you more, all right."

	Cheri fought to maintain his footing as Tosen's hips slammed against him and the Electrike buried himself balls-deep in the Pikachu's ass. If there had been any humans around his cry would have drawn them in, but it was still just them. Panting, Tosen planted his paws on Cheri's soft, plump cheeks and began to rock his hips against him.

	"Mmh," Tosen grunted. "That better?"

	Cheri didn't have an answer for that, so Tosen decided to coax one out of him. The excitement of mounting Cheri, who always seemed to have something to argue about, had pushed him towards the edge quicker than he'd expected and his knot was already swelling. If he didn't push the Pikachu overboard first, he was going to tie him and blow his load before the other Pokemon had a chance to finish.

	With a tug, Tosen had dislodged his half-inflated knot and elicited a gasp that turned into a whimper as he teased himself back in. Just the idea of tying with Cheri and feeling the Pikachu pull and squirm under him was making him hot, and his lover's reactions weren't helping him to keep his cool. 

	Cheri was stroking himself towards release now, one paw beneath him furiously working his own cock while Tosen worked his knot in and out of his ass. Leaning back, Tosen was able to watch his trembling and gasping as he inched closer and closer with smug satisfaction. Not all of his partners enjoyed his knot, viewing it as too painful or too strange if it wasn't natural to their evolutionary line, but he was delighted to see that Cheri seemed to be taking to it.

	Beneath his insistence on playing nice, Cheri was a glutton for punishment and Tosen was all too happy to keep dishing it out.

	Tosen's bulging knot was tugged out of Cheri's tender ass one final time, and his cry of release as it popped free echoed in the chamber. All Cheri could think about was the sensation of being roughly teased open again and again by the brassy Electrike as his orgasm rocketed through him. When he came to his head was spinning and long, sticky ropes of his seed were strewn across the floor beneath him or seeping into his own fur.

	He was exhausted, and he realized that not only had he... came, all over himself, but he'd given off a massive electrical discharge that still tingled in the atmosphere around them. His electric sacs were throbbing almost as much as his sore flesh still wrapped firmly around his lover's cock.

	That was Tosen's queue. 

	Cheri gasped as strong arms wrapped around his waist again and held him tight while Tosen mercilessly worked himself back towards orgasm with short, sharp thrusts. A few husky grunts and sighs later he'd buried himself in Cheri once more, and this time he stayed lodged inside.

	Coming down from the high of his own orgasm, he was fully conscious of Tosen's as he emptied himself with a guttural groan. The air was humming with electrical discharge, and Cheri could feel every squeeze from the strong arms around his waist and every twist of Tosen's knot wedged in his abdomen as he continued to pump him until, panting with exertion, the Electrike released him and struggled to stand.

	"Ah, careful!" Cheri yelped. "Don't pull, you're still stuck."

	"Sorry. Just didn't want to crush you under me." 

	"You don't sound sorry."

	Cheri peeped over his shoulder at Tosen standing above him, bliss written on his face and his tongue lolling out of his mouth. It was a much better look for him than anger, and he'd almost forgotten what he looked like when he was at peace. Things would be better between them now, even if Tosen had grown up true to the Manectric line.

	"Hold still," Tosen said. "We should get out of here before anyone shows up. I can't fight when I'm... you know..."

	Tosen tugged, and his rapidly-deflating knot popped free. Cheri rose shakily to his feet and pressed a hand to his sore backside.

	"You really don't hold back, do you?" he said.

	"I tried. I guess I got a little carried away. Come on."

	"Wait - !"

	Tosen stopped in the doorway to look back. Cheri waddled over and leaned against the frame.

	"So, we're really done with the fighting?" he asked. "I don't know what my family would think if they knew about us, but we can at least stop meaning it when everyone's at each other's throats."

	"Not unless you want to fight," Tosen replied. "There's no way you'll keep your mouth shut for long, though. It's kind of cute how much you like to argue, really."

	Cheri gave him a playful shove, and something fell to the floor. It rolled out into the dark, empty hallway as an ominous silence fell.

	"Hm? What's that?"

	Cheri went to retrieve it as Tosen stammered "That's... that's not mine!"

	"Yarn?" Cheri wondered. "What do you need this for?"

	"Nothing. It's personal. Just give it back."

	Cheri complied, unwilling to spoil the good mood. It was only after they'd parted ways that he could finally put a name to the strange object that Tosen had been carrying with him: Destiny Knot.

A long, thin, bright-red string to be held by a Pokémon. If the holder becomes infatuated, the opposing Pokémon will be, too.