From: otaku (animeotaku@mindspring.com) Subject: [PW!] Splice and Dice Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/03/26 Tenchi groaned as Trent ran off, and two security guards helped him to his feet. "Are you ok sir?" Tenchi nodded, making his way back to the bar, and taking a seat on a one of the bar stools. Before he could even begin to count his wounds however, Natasha showed up, Puffy, Grimlock, and Rodimus in tow. "You just had to go straight to the bar, didn't you?" She huffed, grabbing him by the ear. Without waiting for a response, she literally dragged her husband back to their cabin, muttering about him sleeping on the couch until he was 60. When they got back to the cabin room, Natasha immediately slipped a "Do not disturb" sign on the door. "Now you listen to me, Tenchi Alouitious Inverse!" He groaned when he heard his middle name. Tails and Sarafina hid under the bed, and Tenchi's three Pokemon practically jumped back into their Pokeballs. "I am sick and tired of you-" A loud knock came from outside the door. "Housekeeping. You want sheets changed?" "No thank you." Natasha called out sweetly. "As i was saying,-" Another knock. "Housekeeping. You want pillows?" Natasha's left eye twitched ever so slightly. "No...that's ok. We don't need anything." Sighing in frustration, she turned back to Tenchi. "Now then,-" A third knock. Natasha clenched her fists and opened the door. "Housekeeping. You want mint?" The man gulped when she saw Natasha holding a large golf club. "You want golf club where the sun don't shine?!" The man backed away, dropping a large pile of mints, pillows, and bed sheets on the floor. Natasha slammed the door shut, satisfied. "Now then. I am sick of every time we go on a vacation, you have to go and get drunk! Damnit Tenchi, what is wrong with you?" Tenchi tried to get up and say something, but Natasha forced him back. "Oh no you don't. You're going to lay in bed and that's it." She spun away from him and into the small bathroom, grabbing the bandages and Bactine. "Sometimes I wonder what I was thinking..." Her voice traveled down the corridor. Tenchi groaned, and managed to push himself up on his elbows. "Then why'd you marry me?" He snarled. Natasha gasped, and dropped everything in her hands on the floor. Tears welled up in her eyes and she fell to the floor, wracked with sobs. Tails and Sarafina crawled out from under the bed, comforting their master. "Oh....Natasha honey, I didn't mean it." Tenchi stood up with some effort, and walked towards her. "...Get out," She said, her voice barely a whisper. "But Natasha..., look, you know I didn't mean it. I, I was just upset." "Get out." She stared intently at the floor, now soaked with tears. Tenchi reached out with one hand, but Sarafina hissed and slashed at him. Tails was baring his teeth, whipping his two tales back and forth angrily. Tenchi sighed, and walked out the door. As she heard the door click shut, Natasha fumbled for Charizard's Pokeball. Releasing her from it, Natasha hugged tightly, sobbing into her wings. Charizard growled, feeling her master's sadness. Outside, Tenchi was standing on the deck, feeling generally cruddy. In the back of his head, he could feel the immense pain. But he didn't care. Nothing really mattered now. "How could I have been so dumb..." He muttered to himself. "Easy. You're an idiotic moron who's life should've ended back at Seafoam." Tenchi gasped, and turned around. "What the-?" Before him, a large creature, in a trenchcoat. Underneath the coat, the body of a Dragonair squirmed where his right arm should have been, and a Machamps muscular arm had replaced his left one.Tenchi could make out the scaly feet of a Venasaur and a Dragonite. A large purple horn protruded from his head, gleaming in the moonlight. As Kaganigdo threw off his trenchcoat, Tenchi saw his body was shaped like a human's, but covered with stones like a Golem. "Hiya bro. Miss me?" "Kaganigdo?" "Once, that was my name. Before you tossed me to the cold waters, and left me to die. But Team Rocket's scientists have given me new life. Oh, and by the way, the name isn't Kaganigdo anymore. You can call me Splice." TBC -AnimeOtaku, TR Ninja on AIM