From: ~Xus: I peed my pants at Disney Land~ (iha1979@mmcable.com) Subject: [PW!]The Harvest Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2000/04/08 "OK, sir, you can file your complaint now." In the highest deck of the SS Anne Shikaku stood in line with his katana up his sleeve. He was very disgruntled- recently he found that his pokemon had been stolen. "OK, next.." the man at the front desk seemed like he had been working for hours. "Yeah, I have a complaint. My pokemon were stolen and I want them back." Shikaku glared at him. "Whoa, you're a lively one aren't you? Too bad, I can't help you there, not like I'd want to. You're on your own, we don't exactly take care of stolen property, big guy." The man at the counter laughed before signaling for the next person to come. Shikaku let his katana blade lose and slit the man's throat as he walked by. "WELLCOME TO THE SS ANNE CASINOOOOOO!!!" A corny Tom Jones style band greeted everyone who was walking in. Shikaku had heard that you could get Pokemon here. There was NO way he was going to get his old Pokemon back- especially since there were at least 5,000 people on the ship. His best bet was to buy himself some coins and go exchange them in for the pokemon he replaced. He walked up to the counter. "Hello, how may I help you?" "Give me some coins." Shikaku threw down a pile of money. The man looked at him strangely and started to count the money. "OK, it looks like you have enough for 400 coins." The man smiled and waited for Shikaku to open his coin case. "Uh, sir? Do you have a coin case?" Shikaku shook his head. "I'm sorry, you'll have to get one before you can take these coins!" The man smiled at him and proceeded to put the coins away. He looked up and saw a gun pointing at his face. "Look, I've had a very bad day. I didn't exactly wake up on the right side of the bed this morning. So do me a favor. Give me the coins, and I won't kill you, got it?" The man pulled out the coins and handed them to Shikaku. He walked away and put the gun up. People were watching strangely as Shikaku was jamming coins into the automated prize machine. He put all 400 coins in about 2 minutes. A small menu came up "LIST OF PRIZES------EJECT COINS------CHECK COIN AMMOUNT" He frantically pressed the List of Prizes button. The word 'ABRA' appeared. "What? An Abra for 400 coins!? That's insane!!" Shikaku kicked the machine. "I'm getting my coins back!!" The machine then said, 'Abra has been selected' aloud to Shikaku. He kicked the machine harder. A pokeball fell to the ground, releasing Abra. He kicked the machine more. The pokeball returned to the machine. After he realized that everyone was staring at him, he picked up Abra and ran out of the casino. He sighed and looked at Abra. "So, you're all I get, huh? I guess you'll do." Abra looked up at him, yawned, and fell asleep. "This thing is going to be useless." He picked Abra up by the leg and carried it over his shoulder. (Anyone can feel free to jump in at this point)