Mr. Poké-Man!

[Azriel's view]

After being gilded to the basement door, I opened it and headed down the stairs. This place had never been here during the game, so I really wasn't sure what to expect, but I had a feeling what it was going to be like.

What I found was just sad, and it was what my feelings had suggested. The entire basement was just cells like a prison made from bars that ran vertically, but they looked to me like normal metal that was ever rusted in a few places.

I first said the dim fire from Sherry's tail at the far end of the prison block. I was also able to make out Sammie, who was in the cell standing over the bed that was in the room.

Starmie seemed to be watching over what seemed to be a sleeping Cherry, but she turned from the bed and walked out of the cell at the sound of my footsteps. Sammy gave me a warm smile as I came over to her, and I gave her a gentle kiss on the cheek that made her blush as I pulled away.

"How is she doing?" I asked Sammy, and she shrugged with a sad look on her face.

"I am sure that you can guess that Cherry isn't the person that she is supposed to be right now, but she does want to get off the Gloom Juice. The thing is that she wants to do it on her own and not with your help," Sammy explained to me, and I raised my eyebrow at her.

It was not that I thought that every one of the girls I met was going to sleep with me; that wasn't it. I just had assumed that the Charizard would have wanted to get back to her usual self.

"Well, if that is what she wants, but I would like to talk to her. I am not going to force her to do anything that she doesn't want to, but I would like to see if there is anything that I can do to help her recover," I told Sammy, and she nodded with a smile.

"Yes, she is only resting her eyes right now, and it is safe for you to go in there," Sammy said, but then leaned into me to whisper, "I don't think that she would even be a danger to Aemii at this point."

I hugged and thanked Starmie again, and then she went over to a desk that was not inside one of the cells. She started to go through pages, and move stuff around the desk, obviously trying to look busy.

I sighed and then walked over to the open cell where Cherry the Charizard was laying, looking as thin as I last saw her. She had her burning tail hanging off the bed, and just looking at her made my heartache.

"Thank you for saving me and for doing what I couldn't," a small and feminine voice said to me.

Cherry had her head turned away from me, and it was strange to hear such a small voice come out of a large and robust woman.

"Not a problem; I just wished I could have gotten here soon. I am sorry that you had to go through all of this, but you don't have to anymore. I plan on changing the way that things are being done around here," I said as I walked over to the edge of the bed.

Cherry's face was turned away from me, and she had her wings wrapped around her lean body. She still looked great, but Cherry would be a radiant beauty once she was clean from this Gloom Juice stuff.

"So, Sammy tells me that you want to get clean on your own? Are you sure that is what you want to do? I don't know how much you know about me and my powers, but I have the ability to make you better," I said, getting ready to defend myself and explain how we didn't need to actually have sex, but Cherry cut me off.

"Yes, Sammy told me about it, and I was tempted, but I think that I need to do this on my own, or I am always going to be scared. If I am always scared, then I will never be of any help when you need me," Cherry explained, and I understood.

I remembered how scared Cherry had been when I had asked her to Kill the Professor and this made sense.

I sat down slowly on the bed and placed an arm over the beautiful anthro Charizard's shoulder, making her flinch slightly. I didn't move my hand at first, but right away, her body relaxed, and I started to gently rub her shoulder.

"I get it, and I understand. You went through a lot, and it will take time to recover, and you can have as much as you need for now. In the future, I will need your help, but for now, you can take your time to recover, "I explained to Cherry, and she moved one of her clawed orange four-fingered hands over mine.

"Thank you. I don't think I will ever be able to say this enough times or ever repay what you have done for me, but I will try," Cherry said resolutely, and I smiled to myself.

"The best thing that you can do right now is to get better. After that, we can decide what we are going to do," I explained to Cherry, and she squeezed my hand on her shoulder.

Right then, I heard the door at the top of the stairs bang open, and there was stomping coming down the stairs. There were also yells from Misty and Gallia for Jackie to wait upstairs until I was down, but that seemed to be having no effect.

"Mr. Poké-Man! I have decided that I am going to fuck you!" Jackie called over to me the moment she got to the bottom of the stairs and locked eyes on me.

"Oof! Looks like you just encountered a wild Thot!" Dirty Harry cackled from my pocket.