From: Dryad (dryad48@aol.commoner)
Subject: [PW!] Black Hole Sun, Please Don't Come
Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon
Date: 2000/06/02
> "I hope that this plan works," said Alistar ", this is my first
>mission in which I wasn't only observing." The rookie grinned and
>glanced at BH. "Keep your guard up. If all goes well as planned we'll be
>out of here soon enough." Alistar returned to his watch, but the two
>didn't have any idea what they were getting into...
>
Part III: ATR Salvation
[PW!] Black Hole Sun, Please Don't Come
Written by: Dryad
"So..... why are we here?" Raven glanced around the main control
room, 'Raven's Nest', his eyes searched for Tank, whom was not to be seen. In
fact, all the ATR scientists had unfamiliar faces. It was awfully quiet, and
the arriving officers felt sore in their stomaches from the echoing melancholy
of the room.
Everyone began whispering, as if they didn't want a feasting
silverfish hanging from the lights to overhear the conversation. "These new
guys are wierd.." muttered James.
While the two parties were still split standing in two groups on
their sides of the room, the scientists's eyes became blood red, darker, and
fixated with a stressing and sinning glare on the officers. Gohan shrugged and
backed away slowly. 'These new recruits must be dead serious or something..' he
thought to himself. "Well.. um, I guess I need to go to the bathroom.."
Gohan left the room in slow, confident strides, with his head down to
hide the fear. When he was a few yards beyond the Raven's Nest, he made a mad
dash towards the bathroom as his stomache squirmed. Making sure all locks were
up, he stood before the sink and washed his face out. The damping solid water
slided through the crevices of his face and he placed his hand on the mirror to
wipe off the dust. "Aa...!" he gasped silently as he clutched his hand towards
his chest and looked down in pain.
A stretching, slender slit in his palm was oozing with blood and he
grabbed relentlessly for the roll of paper towels, running them through water
quickly. Gohan glared and squinted at the glass until he realized it was
shattered, and jagged pieces seemingly go unnoticed like the thorns of a rose.
Gohan walked towards the trashcan and stopped in his tracks. In its place lay a
drying and scattered puddle of dark red.
"So, guys," Dai spoke and pointed to some recruits when Gohan rushed
out. "Why are you dressed in scientist uniforms. Shouldn't you be in the labs
rather than the control rooms?"
"Yes..." one of them answered slowly as if english was his second
language. His eyes searched his brain to find the right words. "We would, but
we need the leader in the Sciences Unit with us.. yeah..."
Everybody looked at Derrick. He got nervous because he didn't like
large groups of people staring at him. "When was this? I'm a Sciences Leader?"
"Yeah, it was decided a while back," Saber replied.
"When? I don't remember.."
"When you weren't here."
"Okay then...."
"Anyway," the scientist interrupted. "Please follow us... Derrick."
He said nothing and walked on with two other scientists trailing behind.
Derrick sighed and had no choice but to follow. Derek followed too.
"No, stay here Derek," Raven commanded.
"Fine," both replied and came back.
"No, you," Raven pointed to Derrick. "You will be Derrick One, now
go." He turned to Derek. "you will be Derek Two."
"Why am I number two?"
"Because I said so."
"Ok.."
The circling, pale room Derrick walked into had that smell like it
hadn't been used in ages. There was a sink filled with muddy water, a few
viles, a few more glass containers, and many many many locked up metal shelves
and freezers.
Derrick turned slowly back towards the scientists. "So why are we ....
here." He found a gun pressed on his forehead. The man was about ready to shoot
when the other scientist held him back.
"Not yet, He'll hear.""Then what do we do?""I have an idea." The other
scientists took out what appeared to be just a plain old metal bar and held it
in his hands. Then he thrust it across Derrick's face. Then there was a black
hole in the light Derrick could see.....
"So which one of you is the leader of this place?" A scientist asked
the remaining group of Raven, Fox, Dai, James, Saber, and Derek. "You guys keep
no pictures around here!"
"Well....." Raven pointed out, "I was considering the guy who just
left, but," Raven pointed to James. "This guy would be more like the best
leader."
"I understand then..." The man smiled wryly.
To Be Continued
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