Roko

**Roko** is a major character in *A Dark Warrior.* He helps Yoru see that there are good people in the world when she's convinced that there is nothing but evil. He is also a captain of the Pokémon Guild before its disbandment.

## General Information

### Ability(s)

Volt AbsorbPrism Armor (while fused with Necrozma)

## Powers

### Signature Abilities

Levitation, enhanced senses, strength, speed, and endurance, electrokinesis, psychic powers

## **Physical Appearance**

### **Normal Form**

Roko is larger than the average of his species and his body and limbs are more muscular and physically fit. His "ponytail" is much longer and spikier in appearance, and the end portion is black with green stripes. His fingers are also black and he has viciously long, sharp claws, even longer than Yoru's. There is a narrow light green line between the zigzagging stripes on his forearms. He has bold, piercing green eyes, and his paw pads, claws, nose, whiskers, chest markings, and the tuft of fur on his head are all a lighter green. His ears are black and he possesses zigzagging green stripes on his entire midsection, lower legs, and upper arms as well as the lower half of his face. He wears a green bandana around his neck. He gets a large scar over his right eye during his fight with Yoru. When he was a captain in the Pokémon Guild, he wore a red vest and a silver bracelet with an Electrium Z on his right wrist, which he later discarded after the Guild was disbanded.

### **Prism Form**

It is revealed in the story that Roko fights with and fatally wounds an unnamed male Necrozma, but not before the latter forces him to absorb some of his power in the process. As a result, Roko gains a set of Prism Armor. In this form, he has a large, upside-down, V-shaped chest plate, along with smaller, segmented armor inside it protecting his stomach. A sharp, white crystal that darkens toward the tip juts out of the back of each hand. He has medium-sized diamond-shaped pieces of armor on his knees, shoulders, elbows, and ankles. The shoulder armor now has spikes protruding from the back. A much larger plate completely covers his back, but leaves a hole for his "ponytail", the end of which is now enveloped in spiky, segmented armor. Like Yoru, he wears a triangular helmet with the Necrozma's brain prism prominently displayed on the forehead. His own eyes now glow bright green and gain white irises with black pupils. His armor is noticeably thinner than Yoru's, but can still pack a deadly punch.

## ***A Dark Warrior***

### **Chapter 8: The Skirmish**

When Calvin smashes a plate over Yoru's head, the Lucario sees a few captains turn their heads. Roko, though not mentioned by name, demands what's going on. While the two rookies fight, Ronan, Emma, Ariana, and Roko all run toward them, with Ariana yelling for them to stop. However, Yoru continues fighting Calvin and quickly defeats him, sending him into a wall. Emma and Ronan stand between Yoru and Calvin while Roko and Ariana rush to the Breloom's side, with the latter reporting that he's unconscious. Roko watches as Dr. Morris arrives on the scene with an Audino assistant and looks at Yoru when Emma reveals she beat up Calvin after he provoked her. Morris understands, and Roko and the others watch as he leaves with the unconscious Calvin while Emma and Hotaru escort Yoru to her dorm.

### **Chapter 19: Recovery**

While secretly recovering in the Guild hospital after Ronan murdered her, Yoru looks out from behind the curtain hiding her bed and sees Roko, wearing a lab coat, gloves, and a mask, talking to Dr. Morris. She listens to their conversation and learns that Brandon has become terminally ill with prostate cancer; he only has four months to live as a result. She hears Roko explaining that since then, Ronan rarely ever left his trainer's side and began acting and thinking irrationally. Yoru processes this information and realizes that once she fully recovers, she'll be able to avenge herself on both Ronan and Brandon. Suddenly, Roko glances in her direction, causing her to panic. She hides herself by quietly pulling her blanket over her head; thankfully, however, she hears no footsteps approaching. After listening to a lengthy discussion between Roko and Dr. Morris, the former leaves, prompting Yoru to sigh in relief.

### **Chapter 21: The Attack**

Shortly after the Guild disbands, a male Necrozma enters the world from an Ultra Wormhole and attacks the base. Yoru, while escaping with the vast majority of the other Pokémon, notices him and several of the other captains battling the Legendary in the sky. She climbs a nearby tree to watch the fight and gasps in horror as all the captains who stayed behind, save for Roko, are quickly struck down. Roko is fast enough to dodge all of Necrozma's attacks, but his attacks have very little effect on the Prism Pokémon. After a few minutes of dodging Necrozma's lasers and claws, Roko, noticing that his opponent is becoming tired, takes up a Ghostium Z and manages to summon enough Z-Power to perform the Z-Move Never-Ending Nightmare combined with his own Dark-type attack Dark Pulse. Yoru watches as the Necrozma groans, falls, and crashes onto the Guild's training grounds, prompting Roko to follow. She descends the tree and climbs up onto one of the buildings near the ground.

There, she sees Roko standing on top of Necrozma, who is apparently motionless. However, as Roko is about to get off, the Necrozma suddenly grabs hold of him with one of his massive hands, which glows with a bright light. Roko struggles to free himself, but fails since the Necrozma's grip is extremely tight, prompting Yoru to note that even in his weakened state, the Necrozma is still insanely strong. While she watches in shock, Roko screams in agony as the light from the Necrozma's hand enters his body and causes him to glow completely white. Yoru, through her strong aura, feels a fiery hot, burning sensation through her own body and realizes she's feeling Roko's pain. After a while, the Lucario notices that the light emanating from Roko's body begins to fade, which causes both their pain to subside. Roko, now in shock, asks the Necrozma what he just did. The Legendary replies via telepathy that he made Roko a monster like him, and that other monsters will come after him. He looks at Yoru, implying that she too will become a monster. Yoru ducks down as Roko follows his opponent's gaze. She then feels something dark lurking within Roko and dares to take a peek. She is horrified upon seeing that Roko, now free, is clad in Prism Armor. The Lucario also notices some pieces missing from the Necrozma and concludes that he intentionally forced Roko to absorb some of his power by fusing with him. She realizes he did it by breaking off crystal chunks from his own body and placing them on the Zeraora to form a set of Prism Armor, dominating both his body and mind. Through her aura, Yoru senses Roko's feeling of helplessness as the Necrozma uses Psychic to hold him in place. She also senses the immense hatred emanating from the Necrozma as he then telekinetically removes a piece of his brain prism, places it into the front of another chunk of his own body, and finally places the whole item onto Roko's head. Almost immediately, Roko's eyes glow bright green and a glowing white aura surrounds him. Yoru watches as Roko flies up off the Necrozma and gasps as he looks straight at her before preparing to use Prismatic Laser on her, presumably since the Necrozma is controlling his actions through the Prism Armor. Rooted to the spot in horror, Yoru hunkers down, thinking she's going to die again, and closes her eyes to prepare for the death blow.

However, nothing happens. Yoru, confused, looks up again. Roko is facing the Necrozma once more, causing the Lucario to sense that the Zeraora's consciousness has returned. He raises his right fist and readies a Shadow Punch, which shocks the Necrozma. Yoru watches as Roko dives down at the wounded Legendary and delivers the blow, killing him. After the Necrozma dies, Roko's Prism Armor disappears. He looks up at a horrified Yoru and asks who she is. Yoru, who realizes that Roko doesn't recognize her since he thought she'd died, turns and flees.

### **Chapter 23: Ruined Wolf Hunt**

While living on her own again, Yoru comes across the entrance to a large pine grove and smells Roko's scent mixed with two others she can't identify. Hearing approaching footfalls, she turns and sees Roko approaching the den. Flashbacking to his demonic transformation after the Necrozma's attack, she becomes scared of him and flees. Roko notices her and runs toward her, asking who she is, and Yoru again realizes he thinks she's supposed to be dead. Not wanting to be near him, she keeps running and eventually manages to lose him.

However, during a wolf hunt a short time later, Yoru is hunting with a pack of seven feral Lucario to take down a wounded Bouffalant when Roko suddenly intervenes. He fends off Daichi, the nearest Lucario, and throws him aside. Yoru and the other Lucario watch in horror as Daichi crashes through the wall of a nearby store, and the red Lucario notices the shocked look on Roko's face. However, Roko becomes fierce again and prepares to face off the remaining seven Lucario. Yoru watches as he tells the Lucario not to hunt in the city or they'll destroy people's property. This gives the Bouffalant a chance to escape predation, and the other Lucario yell angrily at Roko for costing them their meal. Daxos, one of the other Lucario, approaches Roko and prepares to spring at him, snarling. Yoru looks on in horror as the other pack members do the same and realizes a fight will break out. She fearfully barks for the others not to attack. Confused, Daxos asks why, to which Yoru replies that she knows Roko. She tells them about his monstrous strength and that he'll kill anyone who gets in his way. The others gasp as they realize that Roko could've killed Daichi, and look at the Zeraora fearfully as Yoru cries for them to stay away from him as he's dangerous. Daxos tells the others that Yoru's right, and the whole pack retreats after retrieving the unconscious Daichi.

### **Chapter 40: Common Enemies**

Sometime after Mega Evolving, a starving Yoru is striking out on her own yet again when she is attacked by a blue Tyrantrum while walking in the woods. While she fends the Pokémon off, she catches a whiff of Roko's scent on her attacker and wonders about a possible connection between the two. The Pokémon snarls at her and she retreats, knowing she's in no condition to fight such a large opponent.

A few days later, Yoru is searching for food when she comes across the large pine grove she found earlier. Smelling meat and hearing mewls, she sneaks in to find two young Zeraora gorging themselves on a large hunk of Dragonite meat. However, she also finds a larger Zeraora, presumably one of their parents, also present and in a deep sleep a little way from them. Yoru notes how the adult resembles Roko, but then recognizes him from the scent and aura and shudders. When he doesn't stir, Yoru, on all fours, creeps up to where his two children are eating, and utters a deep, low growl while showing her teeth at them to scare them off so she can get the meat. However, they scream in horror loud enough to wake Roko, who sees Yoru and glares at her. She returns it as he asks who she is and what she's doing here. Yoru stands up bipedally and growls at him while his offspring rush over to him for protection. Before either of them do anything else, though, a light blue Tyrantrum bursts into Roko's home and charges straight at him, ignoring Yoru, who jumps aside to avoid it stepping on her. The Pokémon opens its jaws and snaps at Roko, who hides his children in one of the small trees while he fights it off.

Suddenly, a second Tyrantrum arrives and shoves the first one aside before heading for the pile of meat. Roko claws at its eye as it grabs the meat in its mouth. Yoru switches to her true form and lunges at the Tyrantrum, knocking it to the ground and causing it to drop the meat. She snarls that it's her meat and is about to grab it when two more Tyrantrum burst onto the scene, one of them knocking the tree where Roko's kids are hiding. They fall out and cry in pain; both the first and third Tyrantrum hear them and go for them, seeing them as easy prey. However, Roko attacks them with Plasma Fists and snarls at them to stay away from his children. The two Despot Pokémon soon recover from the attack and charge again, with their packmates joining them seconds later. Standing next to the meat and surrounded on all sides by hungry predators, Roko stands his ground while his children cower and whimper in fear.

However, Yoru, for the sake of her own meal, decides to take on the predators herself. She tackles the Tyrantrum closest to her and knocks it to the ground while Roko, his kids, and the other Tyrantrum all watch in shock. Roko tells his kids to hunker down while he fends off the other three. While fighting her opponent, Yoru watches as Roko slashes open one Tyrantrum's throat with Metal Claw, killing it. The other Tyrantrum charge to headbutt him, but he dodges, and they ram into each other instead. Yoru is impressed as she watches him fight them; she quickly kills her victim by biting down on its throat with Crunch, then rushes to help Roko with the rest of the pack. She switches back to her disguised form and slashes another Tyrantrum in the face with Metal Claw before viciously breaking its right leg with Rock Smash. She sees Roko watching her in complete shock; however, his attention is grabbed by the other remaining Tyrantrum who is trying to eat his children. The kids run away as the predator tries to grab and crush them in its mouth, and Roko interferes by electrocuting the Pokémon with Thunderbolt, killing it in the process. He stands over its corpse, panting with exhaustion, then watches with his kids as Yoru fights the remaining Tyrantrum and later kills it before starting on the hunk of Dragonite meat. Roko's children, Lenny and Susie, beg their father to let Yoru have the meat since she helped eviscerate their assailants, adding that they now have even more food because of her. Roko reluctantly agrees and watches as Yoru eats.

After Yoru wolfs down her meal, she is about to leave when Lenny and Susie run up to her and thank her repeatedly for saving them. Confused at first, Yoru looks at Roko, who nods at her in gratitude, and the Lucario realizes he might not be so monstrous after all. She sees him smiling as Lenny and Susie ask her what moves she used and if she could teach them. Roko walks up to Yoru and thanks her for helping to save his kids. Yoru tells him not to worry about it, feeling joy as Lenny and Susie hug her tight. She warmly reciprocates the gestures by petting them, being careful not to scratch their soft skin with her sharp metal claws.

Soon after, however, the tender moment is cut short when the massive blue Tyrantrum Yoru scuffled with earlier shows up, having smelled the blood of its offspring. Lenny and Susie run away as the Despot Pokémon charges at them and knocks Yoru, who's been caught unawares, aside with a swing of its head. Yoru lands sprawled on the ground, hitting her head on impact, and watches, winded, as Roko attacks the Tyrantrum. However, it knocks him away with Dragon Tail, sending him crashing into a tree. As he struggles to get back on his feet, he hears Lenny and Susie crying for help. A still-winded Yoru notices his look of horror; she looks over to the Tyrantrum and sees his children cornered. Roko tries to rush over to save them, but trips over a tree root and falls again. He recovers in time to witness the Tyrantrum tossing Lenny and Susie up into the air, giving them only a moment to cry out in horror before they fall into its mouth and are subsequently crushed and swallowed.

Roko lets out a roar of grief and rage before rushing at his children's killer to avenge them. Yoru recovers from her blow and stops him before he can attack the Tyrantrum head-on. Roko snarls at her to get out of the way. Yoru refuses, telling him that despite Lenny and Susie's deaths, he needs to keep a clear head if he's going to avenge his children. She asks him if he remembers what he taught her and the other rookies when they were in the Guild, to which he says yes. He asks her how she knows him, and Yoru, realizing he doesn't recognize her, says there's no time for that right now as they still have the Tyrantrum to deal with. Roko agrees and realizes he needs to team up with her. He jumps into the air and switches to his Prism form while Yoru switches back to her true form; both then approach their adversary. Roko flies around the Tyrantrum, firing lasers at it. While it dodges Roko's lasers in fright, Yoru runs up behind it and barrels into it. She grapples with the Pokémon before succeeding in holding it down. She uses Hydropump on it, severely weakening it, and Roko flies down to the predator. He glares at it as it widens its eyes in fear. Roko tells the Pokémon that what he's about to do is for his children, and fires a Prismatic Laser through its head, killing it instantly. Knowing the Tyrantrum is now dead, Yoru lets go of the corpse and reverts to her disguised form again, relieved the fight is over. Roko, on the other hand, is left devastated over the loss of his children. He reverts to his normal form and somberly walks over to the place where he last saw his children alive. Not knowing how to console him, Yoru quietly leaves him alone to mourn.

Sometime later, as an exhausted Yoru is trekking through a forest, she senses Roko's presence behind her and sees him walking towards her. She eyes him coldly and asks him what he wants. He says that he wants her company and he can help her, referring to her head wound she got from the Tyrantrum fight. Yoru asks him why he should help her since she's a monster. Roko replies that he owes her for helping to save his children before their untimely deaths, and says he wouldn't call that deed monstrous, even if it was for a meal. He adds that he can help her recover from her starvation and that she reminds him of Lenny and Susie due to her young age. Yoru, fearing where things might head if she joins him, coldly declines and keeps walking. However, Roko follows her, insisting that she needs help due to her emaciation and grabs her shoulder, telling her she needs to rest. This angers Yoru, who lashes out at Roko with a clawed hand. The movement drains the last of the Lucario's energy, and she sees Roko looking on in shock as she passes out from exhaustion.

## **Known Moves**

### **Electric-type**

**Plasma Fists:** The user attacks with electrically charged fists. This move changes Normal-type moves to Electric-type moves.

**Thunder Fang:** The user bites with electrified fangs. This may also make the target flinch or paralyze it.

**Thunder Punch:** The user punches the target with an electrified fist. This may also paralyze the target.

**Electro Ball:** The user hurls an electric orb at the target. The faster the user is than the target, the greater the move's power.

**Charge Beam:** The user attacks with an electric charge. The user may use any remaining electricity to raise its Sp. Atk stat.

**Electric Terrain:** The user electrifies the ground for five turns, powering up Electric-type moves. Pokémon on the ground no longer fall asleep.

**Thunderbolt:**

### **Fighting-type**

**Power-Up Punch:** Striking opponents over and over makes the user's fists harder. Hitting a target raises the Attack stat.

**Close Combat:** The user fights the target up close without guarding itself. This also lowers the user's Defense and Sp. Def stats.

**Brick Break:** The user attacks with a swift chop. It can also break barriers, such as Light Screen and Reflect.

**Force Palm:** The user attacks the target with a shock wave. This may also leave paralyze the target.

## **Stats**

HP: 200

Attack: 175

Defense: 135

Special Attack: 150

Special Defense: 125

Speed: 210