From: Continue (continue2@mindspring.com) Subject: Re: [PW!] Steal ideal Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/08/05 RobfromVoid wrote: >Adrian Tymes wrote: >>It was not a pistol that Minax fired. She had heard the same quote >>too, once; thus it was no surprise to her when the empty pokeball she >>had palmed registered the 'Jenny' as a pokemon and sucked her inside. >>With a cruel smile, she turned to the other 'Jenny'. "Doppler's brother, >>huh? Give my regards to Giovanni, Mimic." A second red beam left >>her free of captors... >> >>"MEOWTH!" >> >>...and then she was holding her slashed wrist, grimacing, while >>Memuyo pushed the buttons on the still-rocking balls. >> >>Only to have the buttons fall off. >> >>"For once, I'm glad I bought the cheap ones." Minax stared daggers at >>the feline, while reaching for her favorite blade with her injured >>hands. Idly, she noted that the balls were still moving after ten back- >>and-forth rocks; the buttons must have made escape efforts difficult, >>though the balls were apparently not going to subdue their captives >>any time soon. > >Still covering her otherwise exposed bosoms and simultaneously >holding her infant Chansey with a single arm, while clutching her knife >in the hand on her other arm, Minax starts to limp down the beach, >followed by Memuyo the Meowth. While slowly escaping towards the >forests around Porta Vista, Minax shakes her head, "I don't think my >ankle's the only thing slowing me down. I need to work out more often. >It feels like I haven't even moved in a few weeks." > >Memuyo keeps chasing Minax until he finds a coconut on the ground >next to a tree. His Pokemon instincts overtake his desire to stop the >now helpless lady who harassed his master and all the other Meowths >in his alleyway back home in Celadon City. He starts to bat the coconut >around, giving Minax enough time to find a good hiding place within >the forest. After getting bored with that, he races back to where his >friends were trapped inside Pokeballs, to find that they broke free. > >Minax sits down behind a tropical palm tree after slicing one of the >tree's fronds off and fashioning it into a top, sighing as she digs her >knife into the ground and sets her angelic Chansey on the ground. She >leans back against the tree and glances forward towards her aching >ankle, "I think it's time for a vacation. I doubt the Boss will appreciate >what happened back there at the contest. I didn't even manage to steal a >Pokemon, but maybe if I lay low for a while, work out in Porta Vista >for a few weeks, and steal a great deal of beach-going Pokemon, he'll >overlook my little mistake." Still retaining his cloaked form, Drake makes his way out of the backstage area and over to where he had left Aerie and Mimic with Minax. He quickly notices something missing from the scene that he was expecting to see when he gets there. He quickly asks the assembled trio "You didn?t bury her, did you?" "No. That witch sucked us into a pair of pokeballs! And cheap ones at that!" The "Officer Jenny" that answers looks as if she were about to explode. Fortunately, without any Electrodes nearby, it doesn?t occur to her to transform and do just that. Drake?s hood turns to each of the pair of Jenny duplicates "So where is she now?" As two heads adorned with police caps turn, a dark hood joins them in looking down at the single feline pokemon among them. It looks back hesitantly and replies to the unanswered question "Meowth?" "What do you mean you lost her?!" Both the "Jenny" that had spoken before and the cloaked form exclaim at the same time. Memuyo launches into an extended narrative. The Meowth punctuates this telling by acting out the scene of a titanic struggle followed by a frenzied chase. The tale ends with the feline returning after losing track of his prey due to having to avoid the grenade that she threw at him. While there was no face to express it, the sarcasm in Drake?s voice could be heard quite plainly as he said "And I suppose the reason you couldn?t pick up where she went after that was because of the rockets exploding all around you from the helicopter gunships." An explosion stopped Memuyo from responding. Right after that the "Jenny" who hadn?t yet spoken regarded the cloaked figure and said "Drake want egg sunny-side up or scrambled after scraping it off face?" Several more faint explosions quickly followed. "It?s coming from the Anne!" exclaimed one "Jenny" as she turned to look. "It looks like the few people that are on it are getting off." "This not how Anne usually goes down. Somebody might not be expecting this. Mimic think we should see if we can help over there." The "Jenny" that spoke followed this by transforming into an Aerodactyl. A sigh is heard coming from within the hood of the cloaked figure. "I hope I don?t end up regretting this?" Dan and his army of Kirbys wrote: >"It looks like we have a singer on stage, folks!" said Slate. > As if that was his cue, Jigglypuff began singing his song of sleep... > "Oh...*yawn*...no..." Dan said, sleepily. "Alaka-*yawn*-zam...block >the song..." > Alakazam nodded, and formed a psychic shield to try to block the >sleep effect. Unfortunately, the effect only reached as far as himself, >Pidgeot, and Dan. Everyone else dozed off to sleep... One man next to the stage valiantly fought the effects of the sleep- inducing song. After seeing everyone else falling unconscious he managed to get a walkie-talkie activated. "Every?one?s?out. Send?Sand?shrewww." With his duty done, the man finally succumbs to the song and hit the sand snoring. Marco262 wrote: > Simeon looked up at them crowd of sleeping people. He had >disactivated his hearing temporarily and had to rely on his sight to tell >him when he could turn it back on. > > "This is going to be a REALLY long beauty contest." In the time that it takes to revive people, neither Dan nor Simeon notice the disappearances. With every minute that passes, a hold appears in the sand. In each case a pokeball is swallowed up and the hole quickly fills in. Aerie, Drake, and Mimic awaken from their slumber after only a few minutes. However, Drake is the first one to check the docks. "I don?t think we need to rescue anyone. The Anne looks like she?s finished sinking for now." The scene that is presented to the trio is a little bit unusual. While the ship appears to have broken up into several pieces, the smokestacks and the top two decks appear to still be above the water. "Any idea on how that happened?" "Jenny" asked at she looked at the others. "Harbor not as deep as open ocean. Ship as big as Anne hit bottom before finished sinking." Mimic, in his current form of an Aerodactyl, shrugged. "Should make excellent artificial reef and provide comfortable home for many water pokemon." "With that out of the way, did anybody happen to plant a radio transmitter on Minax before she got away?" In response to Drake?s question three completely different heads shake out a negative response. ""Then she could be anywhere on the island at this point and we wouldn?t have too much chance of finding her if she decides to blend in. With that being the case, should we see if we win anything in the contest?" The others nod in agreement. "Sounds good." Mimic says before transforming into Maria. After seeing Mimic change, Aerie also takes up the role as a duplicate of Maria. After that, the group makes its way to the backstage area to wait with the rest of the remaining contestants. "I hope everyone had a nice siesta, because now we get down to the hard part of the contest." Slate?s voice had been as energetic as it had been throughout most of the contest, but it takes on a more solemn tone for the next part of his announcement. "Due to breaking the rules, I?m going to have to disqualify some of the participants, but after that?" His tone quickly returns to its previous enthusiasm for his conclusion. "We get to see the best again as she comes out to claim her prize!" Cheers come out of the crowd for this last part and Slate reaches over to pick up a clipboard. He squints even more than he normally does as he reads what he has written there. "As much as I?d like to give them first place, any of those that showed us more than they were supposed to are out. The rules say we can?t violate the public indecency laws." Sounds of general disappointment come from most of the males in the audience. "Also disqualified is Minnie. Attacking the audience is definitely against the rules." Following this announcement from Slate, most of the audience cheers. Not more than fifty feet away from Slate, the man with the walkie-talkie is fully awake and once again using the device. "This disqualification list is practically a listing of when we were able to grab the most pokes. Distractions like that make it too easy. By the way, I?m thinking Minax should be put in for a bonus after going in above and beyond to get us that opportunity." A voice responds to him from the walkie-talkie. "Yeah, I think the boss?ll agree to that. We cleaned up pretty well. When we told the boss how many we were getting he said it was even good enough to let the prize be paid out." "That makes my day a whole lot easier. I can just relax and watch the rest of the contest, then." Slate continues with his list. "It looks like the last one here is Drake. According to the rules it?s supposed to be an entrant with her pokemon. Pokemon aren?t eligible to win by themselves. We all enjoyed the show, though." A dark shadow falls over Slate. He looks over to find a dark cloaked figure that stands a little over seven feet tall looming over him. "No one told me that when I signed up." Issues from within the hood of the cloak. Slate shrugs "I didn?t make the rules. That?s just how it is. Without a trainer, you?re not in the running." "Actually, he?s my pokemon, he just doesn?t like to admit it." the voice comes from behind and to the side of Drake. He and Slate turn to see two Marias standing there. One of them says "Just count him with us." Slate looks at Drake expectantly. "Like the lady said, I?m with them." "I think you made a good choice, I always do what the beautiful ladies say." Slate then turns back to his microphone as the other head backstage again. "Now that the disqualifications are out of the way, let?s get to what everybody?s been waiting for?the winners!" Some howls are heard from the crowd before Slate continues. "With so many entrants disqualified, the field has been narrowed down alot. Normally these contest end with one winner, but a refreshing nap cleared up my head enough to let me look at the rules. Since there?s nothing saying I can?t, I?m going to give first place to two of the entries. And the winners of the contest are?" Slate pauses for get some extra anticipation from the crowd. "AMY AND THE MARIA TWINS!" The crowd cheers wildly once Slate makes his announcement. "Come on back onto the runway with your pokemon, so everybody can see the winners!" The cheering continues as Amy comes out with her Jigglypuff, followed by both Marias, Memuyo, and the cloaked form of Drake. Upon reaching the end of the runway, the assembled winners wave to the cheering and hooting crowd. <TBC?> Jeff Hauser* *Sig Sold Seperately