Chapter 463. Midnight Menace 1

Once Alex received information on Team Bones from Team Umbraline, costing him a few hundred million Pokédollars, he was finally able to see their distribution throughout Alola laid out on a heat map. Ula’ula Island burned the deepest crimson, the overwhelming majority of Team Bones’ forces concentrated there like a festering wound across the region. Akala Island held the second-largest presence, its major settlements marked with scattered orange clusters that hinted at entrenched influence and active operations.

Melemele Island, by comparison, was relatively clean. Outside of Hau’oli City, a glaring hotspot glowing bright against the otherwise cool colors of the island, Team Bones had little meaningful presence. Poni Island showed even less activity, the heat map reduced to only a few isolated marks tied to several prominent families that quietly maintained influence from the shadows.

Reading further, Alex was able to determine that each group carried a specific alignment indicating the extent of their criminal activity. Red marked the worst offenders, groups regularly involved in human trafficking and other severe crimes, while green represented factions that opposed breaking the law altogether but were still part of the organization.

Akala had two red spots that Alex had recently taken down, meaning the information was somewhat outdated. Hau’oli City was mostly marked orange, indicating activity that was less severe, likely extortion, harassment, and theft. Poni Island was entirely green, showing virtually no criminal activity anywhere on the island, whereas Ula’ula was littered with red mixed alongside green. There were no doubt constant struggles for dominance there, likely disguised as ordinary trainer battles. It warranted a visit to ensure Team Bones was pushed toward a more peaceful path.

For now, however, there was one red spot in Hau’oli that needed to be cleared, and it just so happened to belong to the backer behind the young man who had recently been arrested alongside his goons thanks to Alvera. They weren’t the only ones who warranted a visit, however, as Hau’oli City was a hotbed of criminal activity. The only reason Team Bones wasn’t more prominent there was because of the stronger competition operating within the area.

In the end, Alex divided his objectives into three groups. Those who were largely neutral but had underlings that needed a spanking would be given strongly worded letters. Those who had begun ramping up their criminal activity, with subordinates testing the waters against the police, deserved to be knocked back to square one. Finally, there were those who were simply irredeemable, people who deserved death and to have their territory confiscated.

“I know that look,” Nyx said as she watched Alex stare at his computer. “Who are we going to fuck up?”

“Quite a lot of places,” Alex replied.

“Oh! Oh! Can I help?” Rhea asked excitedly. “Shopping is nice and all, but a girl needs her explosions every once in a while.”

“Can I participate as well?” Clarissa offered.

As Alex was only one person and they were on a lovely vacation, the girls took turns having sex with him whenever they had access to a private room. As such, they would often designate nights to sleep with him on rotation, and tonight just so happened to be these girls’ turn.

“Sure,” Alex said. “I could use some help with stealing inventory and destroying bases.”

“Yey!” Rhea cheered.

“What’s the plan?” Nyx asked.

“I need a strongly worded letter sent to these people, and I want you to call the police and tell them to bring down these locations since they won’t have a leader anymore,” Alex said, sending over two lists to Nyx’s phone.

“Got it!” Nyx said.

“Next, I need these bases emptied of their inventory before their buildings are demolished,” Alex said, sending a list of addresses to Rhea. “Clarissa, go with Rhea on this one since you don’t have your Pokémon with you. Rhea, give her your spare exosuit with stealth capabilities.”

“Okie pokie!” Rhea said as she ran to her bag to grab the spare stealth exosuit.

“These are bad guys, right?” Clarissa asked.

“Murder, black mail, extortion, drug trade—” Alex answered before being interrupted.

“I got it. I got it. They deserve everything coming to them,” Clarissa said quickly.

Rhea came running back, fully equipped in all-black metal armor, before slapping a vambrace onto Clarissa’s arm. With a press of a button, the vambrace expanded to fully cover her and integrate into a full all-black metal suit.

“This is pretty nifty, although it seems to be limiting my strength,” Clarissa commented as she stretched and threw a few punches.

“Oh right!” Rhea exclaimed before pressing another button and disabling the power-assist function. “I forgot you were stronger than the suit.”

Immediately, Clarissa’s movements felt more responsive as the armor stopped resisting her. Her punches became faster, and her movements were less restrained.

“That’s much better,” Clarissa said with a small smile. “I don’t suppose there’s a Champion ranked version?”

“There is, but it’s pretty big, about 5 meters tall with the latest update,” Rhea said. “I can’t make it any smaller because of material constraints.”

“Oh… no thanks, I prefer this sleek one instead.”

“Are you girls ready?” Alex asked as he released Gardevoir.

“Ready!” they both replied in unison before Gardevoir teleported them out.

“I’m off as well,” Alex said as the light of teleportation enveloped him. “Take care of the letter for me.”

“You got it,” Nyx said with a mischievous smile.

Once the teleportation completed, Alex felt somewhat concerned about how Nyx would word the letter. He wanted a serious one that would scare the criminals into avoiding the natural escalating progression of criminal activity, but given her mischievous smile, he felt slightly concerned.

“Whatever. I’m sure Nyx can come up with something that will have the intended effect,” Alex said as he concentrated on his surroundings and gave the order. “Begin.”

Gardevoir, Gothitelle, and Espeon immediately scattered and began causing chaos. Patrolling guards and their Pokémon started dropping left and right, with those who had committed crimes dying outright while those who were innocent were spared. Alarms blared, Pokémon were scattered, and more henchmen awoke only to be brought down by a powerful psychic jolt that judged them before dialing its intensity accordingly.

Alex, meanwhile, strolled toward the main building, cloaked in Dark type energy. He leapt to the balcony of a five-story building before forcing his way inside and straight into the leader’s room. The man was scrambling to put on his pants, surrounded by his Pokémon, while a few women panicked on the bed. He was literally caught with his pants down.

“Who are you?” the man exclaimed as his Elite ranked Pokémon began surrounding him defensively.

Not one to waste words on a dead man, Alex simply charged forward. The Pokémon lunged and fired powerful single-target moves his way, but he easily dodged with a trick of deception. He created a copy of himself with a boosted aura and sent it forward while suppressing his own presence. He then jumped to the ceiling before dropping back down, slipping between their attacks. The strikes tore through his shadowed decoy, giving him the opening he needed to reach his target. In one swift motion, he twisted the man’s neck, killing him instantly.

This little trick was a natural result of Alex’s expertise with Dark type energy and Aura blooming. Dark type energy had a naturally mischievous, deceptive quality that responded well to trickery, so he had figured using it as a construct to hold and mask his own Aura would work well, and it did. It allowed him to create a shadow clone that functioned as a decoy, although it wasn’t useful for much beyond that.

Its one downside was that it consumed a large amount of Dark type energy, so he couldn’t use it freely. Hopefully, with greater practice, he could push it beyond just a few uses per day.

As the Elite ranked Pokémon began to rampage, Alex reached the table near his target and began storing the furious Pokémon one after another. Then he collected their Poké Balls, jumped back out the window, and disappeared into the chaos, leaving the women to continue panicking.

Suddenly, two of them dropped dead from a psychic jolt, judged by Alex’s Pokémon to be worthy of death. It seemed they weren’t all completely innocent women blindly supporting their man, as the two who died were active conspirators. As for the rest, they were given a second chance at life, hopefully one that wasn’t surrounded by crime.

Once Alex’s Pokémon finished the operation, leaving buildings fully intact, corpses and fainted henchmen scattered everywhere, and inventories untouched, he teleported to the next destination to repeat the process. There weren’t many serious criminals in this city given the threat of the Tapu, but there were enough to justify a few massacres. It would leave the police busy handling the aftermath, but they would at least be funded by everything that was left behind.

Although, the same couldn’t be said of Rhea and Clarissa’s operation.

BOOM!!!

“Nyahahaha~ Burn, motherfuckers, burn!” Rhea shouted with glee, watching an empty warehouse burn to the ground while Clarissa stood to the side, shaking her head.