Subject: [PW!] Enju Dig It? Date: 6 Nov 2001 15:18:21 -0800 From: bandraptor@yahoo.com (Bandraptor) Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon ((OOC--To all those involved in the previous thread, I apologize for my complete lack of participation. October was just insanely hectic for me--not only did I have midterms to deal with, my employer scheduled me for overtime 4 weeks in a row, AND my car died, meaning that all of what would have been my free time was spent looking for transportation. But now it's November, the semester's winding down, we've hired for season, I'm closing the deal on a vehicle, and ZOIDS is on Toonami. All is right with the world.)) Nori is staring in the direction that Benji, Sarah, and the Ledian took off in, with a sort of depressed annoyance. She still hasn't decided whether Splash was a lovelorn psychopath, or a Rocket assassin sent to kill her, but she's disturbed by the fact that she wasn't able to do more to stop him. She can't help thinking about the last time she was so totally overpowered by an opponent, and she reflexively rubs the side of her head, which still smarts at the memory. Nori frowns, "That time was understandable. Of course I couldn't beat a trained Fighting-type. But this guy was just a street thug..." She flexes a fist downward, and bitterly mumbles, "What good am I to Giovanni, if I can't even defeat some lousy--" "Nori! Nori! Hey, earth to Nori!" Nori's reverie is truncated when Andrew waves his hand in front of her face. "Have you been daydreaming this whole time? We've been discussing our travel plans. Andy was hoping you could get us to Ecruteak by sunset, so we wouldn't have to camp out for the night." Andrew squints, as he follows Nori's gaze out towards the horizon, "What do you see over there? I hope it isn't more trouble..." Andrew sighs, because it seems like that's all he's run into since leaving Kanto. "Yes, tell us. What IS out there?" Enimuram glares suspiciously at Nori, "I guess you'd be the first to know if there were any Rockets tailing us, wouldn't you Nori--or should I say, Murasaki?" Nori rolls her eyes, "Come off it." Enimuram gets right up in her face as he says, "I have you just about figured out, so you might as well come clean. Are you a Team Rocket member named 'Murasaki'?" Nori stares defiantly back at him, folding her arms as if annoyed by the absurdity of his claim, "For one thing, if my name *was* 'Murasaki,' and I was trying to come up with an alias, I don't think that 'Nori' would be my first choice." "Hmm, fair enough." Enimuram nods, approving of this explanation; then he once again hardens his glare, "Are you a Team Rocket member named 'Nori'?" Nori chuckles nervously, "Once you have an idea in your head..." Enimuram hisses back, "Maybe I'm just a suspicious person. Or maybe this has something to do with the fact that the Rocket who was just here, the one who was trying to kill my best friend, seemed to know you intimately! Or maybe it's because you've dropped a couple of names, AND you're wearing a jacket from a gym that's known to have been a Rocket base, AND you're evil as I'll let on..." Enimuram ticks off the counts on his fingers. "Hey. All I care about is getting you guys to where you're going. It's not my fault that every Rocket in Johto wants a piece of you. Frankly, I'm just as annoyed about that as you are." Nori pauses long enough to snap her fingers at Anubis, who is beginning to sniff at the fainted Sudowoodo. "But you know what strikes me as weird? Not that we've been attacked by every animal or vegetable-mineral that we've come across thus far; but that every single human we've encountered has known about your group, and has wanted something very specific to do with it...almost as if they were guided towards you by some sort of invisible hand. Everyone we've run into today has either attacked you or joined up with you; and assuming the pattern persists, I'm really curious about what's gonna happen with that guy over there." She gestures to Bob Raiser, who has been preparing to leave, and who's trying to look as inconspicuous as possible, because he doesn't want to get drawn into the Bashers' argument. Enimuram considers this..."YOU!" Enimuram nearly knocks Nori over in his haste to approach Bob. He points an accusing finger at the boy's nose, "Are you interested in joining, destroying, or even remotely familiar with the Bomb Ball Bashers?" Bob stares at him blankly, "Uh, what's a Bomb Ball Basher?" Enimuram wraps his arms around Bob's neck, and begins to sob, grateful that he won't have to deal with yet another person who knows all about their plans, "Thank you...thank you, Magnallah..." "There...there..." a somewhat perplexed Bob responds. "You've never heard of BBB?" Andy approaches Bob, wide-eyed. "We're an organization dedicated to eradicating the Voltifist threat using Magnemites! Why, right now we're on our way to Olivine, to see if Jasmine will help us defeat the Power Plant Electrodes back in Kanto--" Enimuram whips around and bellows, "ANDY, JUST HOW STUPID CAN YOU GET?!?!?" "I'm not sure. I'll have to think about it." Enimuram groans, "Don't." Raffy the Girafarig, who had been hanging back until now due to his fear of Nori, suddenly becomes bold, and trots over to his trainer with an amused smirk on both of his faces. <<Heh, Bob, who's your new friend?>> <<Don't even start...>> Bob psychically projects, pushing away from Eni. He takes another look at the people gathered around him, and muses, <<I hope Sarah's okay. The boy she left with seemed even less stable than the rest of these guys.>> <<So...what? Are we going to follow her?>> Raffy taps his hoof impatiently. Bob ignores the Girafarig's sarcastic tone, <<I don't think she'd want that.>> He shakes his head, <<Let's just get out of here ourselves, before we run into any more weirdos.>> As if on cue, a purple-haired girl wearing a T-shirt that depicts a Dunsparce curled into the shape of the letter "D," comes charging out of the bushes on the back of a Meganium, waving a banner over her head, and screaming, "Azalea won the Series! The Dunsparces beat the Mankeys! Go, D-Sparce! Yahoo!" The Meganium screeches to a halt in front of Bob, and the girl explains, "It's too bad the Electabuzzes didn't make it to the finals this year, but at least the game was won by another team with a Stripy Yellow Pokémon for a mascot!" That said, she nudges her Meganium in the ribs with her heel, and the pair pushes on into the underbrush. There they continue their shouting, and accidentally trample a telepathic Pineco, who seriously considers using Explosion as a means of retaliation--adding as an addendum that he should Transform into something with a very high Attack rating beforehand. TBC? --Beth