From: Continue (continue2@mindspring.com) Subject: [PW!] Just another day at the beach? Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/05/08 He had soared through the skies many times before, but something was different this time. He tried to put his finger (or claw in this case) on it. "Ahhh, that?s it," Drake thought to himself "There?s a Meowth digging it?s claws into the back of my neck." The Dragonite turned his head just enough to catch the Meowth digging into him out of the corner of his eye. He shouted back to his passenger. "If you anchor in any deeper you could kill me and we?ll both end up in a watery grave." "<I don?t like this, I don?t like this, I don?t like this?>" The response coming from the Meowth was almost like a mantra that it was chanting. "What?s wrong? I thought cats liked high places." When he found the answer to his question to be no different to what the Meowth was already saying, Drake decided to try something else. "Listen, Memuyo, flying is pretty much the fastest way to get to the beach, so calm down." Memuyo continued to chant and Drake figured something else was needed. He looked down and to his side, catching sight of the beach. It was already well-populated without alot of open spaces. Some spaces had opened up because people had started to congregate around the stage. He saw what looked like a prime spot over by an isolated telephone booth. "Hey, if you want us to get to solid ground as quick as possible, open up Shellder?s pokeball." This seemed to be what the Meowth wanted to hear. It released its front claws and moved off the pokeball that it had been pinning onto the Dragonite?s neck. It quickly slapped a paw on the button on front of the sphere. The ball opened and a white glow shot out. A Shellder materialized out of the glow, a little in front of and above the Dragonite?s shoulder. It fell into the Dragonite?s waiting hand (or at least the closest he had to it). Drake looked at the Shellder for only the second time ever. It seemed attentive enough as it stared out with its big, round eyes. It also seemed like a drooling vegetable with its tongue hanging out and flapping in the breeze. He truly hoped that the former was more of the case, so that it would understand what he was about to say. "Okay Shellder, do you see that open area of the beach near the phone booth?" He turned the bivalve so it would be looking directly at that spot, pointing with his other hand just to make sure. There was no discernible response, but he was hoping that the water pokemon was just making a verbal response that was being ripped away by the wind. He decided that it would be best not to wait to find out since he was starting to cast a huge shadow on the beach. He wasn?t looking to terrorize some tourists and cause problems for himself. "Shellder, teleport us there now!" Anyone looking up to see the source of the massive shadow that started to sweep across the beach, caught sight of the dragon shape just as it disappeared into the sun. On the beach itself, a tourist was knocked cold as the door to a phone booth slammed open. A costumed Persian that leaped out caught everyone?s attention so that they didn?t notice the flash of light that signaled the abrupt arrival of other pokemon to the beach. A pair of wings flapped powerfully and legs dug into the sand to halt the momentum that Drake still had. Out of the corner of his eye he saw a flash of lightning that he figured was a powerful electrical attack. It was accompanied by the ambient music on the beach suddenly momentarily shifting to something resembling a dramatic theme song. "Siiian!" rang out and a streak of cream and black shot by, kicking up a cloud of sand in its wake. The Dragonite coughed at the sand that had just been kicked up in his face. On his shoulder, the Shellder began to spit to in an attempt to get the sand removed from its tongue. It finally gave up and just used a Water Gun to clean off the only thing that it had that resembled a limb. "What was that?" someone asked from nearby. Drake had much the same sentiment. He quickly recalled Shellder and made sure that Memuyo was comfortably on the sandy beach instead of attached to something that it could draw blood from. With the Meowth following, the Dragonite chased after the receding sand cloud. <TBC?> Jeff Hauser* *Sig Sold Seperately