Subject: Re: [PW!] [NC] Halloween Murder Mystery In The Sprout Tower of Terror Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2001 09:43:16 GMT From: Rob <robfrompw@yahoo.com> Organization: EarthLink Inc. -- http://www.EarthLink.net Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Andrusi- Apprentice of Kopaka wrote: > Enimuram turned to Andy. "Is this true? Did you do it?" > > Andy blinked. "...Wha? What's that?" > > More facefaulting. "While you present a good case for that barrette being used, Electabuzz," Marcia comments, now strutting slowly over towards Nori, "I doubt either of the 'Bomb Ball Bashers' are clever enough to pull off a stunt like this." Enimuram narrows his eyes, "... not clever enough?" Cyclonus shrugs, "Normally I'd agree with you, lady, but I still think Andy did it..." "...and I think that Nori did it!" Marcia points a single accusing finger at the girl, "You couldn't take it that Brotlov's a Rocket Executive Elite Class, could you? You wanted him out, and you wanted to take his place in Team Rocket. I know the feeling - when I actually gave a damn about my rank in Team Rocket, I was usually pissed that Dreadite was Giovanni's right hand man and that even Butch and Cassidy were higher up on the roster than I. But they weren't bumbling idiots I could easily incriminate in a serious crime that would certainly land them in a high security prison that even Team Rocket couldn't infiltrate. Perhaps that wasn't even your true goal, Nori - perhaps you actually wanted Ted to be killed by one of those insane Doppler cultists. Whatever the reason is, I'm sure you're guilty." After Marcia's speech, Andy realizes something and fumes, "HEY! You insulted us! Take that back! Did you hear what she said, Enimuram? ...Enimuram?" "Not CLEVER enough?!" Enimuram grinds his teeth. Of all the people gathered in center of the room since Marcia split them up, everyone's been accused, except for him - Ted, Travis, Becky, Splash, Cyclonus, Andy, and Nori have been implicated by others, and Tetsuo has accused himself. Someone suggested that Marcia did it, another that Mimic did it... someone even thought that Doppler committed suicide. But no one has thought about the possibility that Enimuram was responsible. Part of Enimuram feels that this is great, but another part of him is angry. He asks, frustration apparent in his tone, "Why doesn't anyone think I did it?" Ted and Cyclonus laugh, then Marcia chuckles and tells him, "You're too boring to do something like this. I only put you up there since no one had vouched for you." "To be fair, Enimuram has been rational about this whole thing." Drake comments from his place in the corner, "He even defended his worst enemy. Then again, I guess that's what you mean by boring, since you're such a passionate person by comparison. Enimuram seems like more like a fact checker than a murderer." Jutta nods, "I know of not any girl, or guy for matter, who ever would think that guy passion full." Others near Jutta pause to figure out what she just said, then agree. "That's so true. He's so un-Murasaki-like, despite that he's dressed like her." Splash comments, then goes back to kissing the corpse he thinks looks like Murasaki. Travis glances at Enimuram, who's becoming increasingly enraged, and says, "I'm pretty laid back most of the time, but this guy's just a complete square." "He isn't even close to being extreme, that's for sure." Smasher says, then his Houndoom adds, "It's true, amigos. Take it from a hot latin lover, this muchacho's a cold Magikarp. He couldn't matar a Tauros, let alone such a macho Ditto." Quite a few people in the room chuckle at the Houndoom's remarks. "THAT'S IT!!!" Flames appear on Enimuram's pupils as he throws his arms up and shouts, "I DID IT! I WAS THE ONE WHO TRIED TO KILL DOPPLER!" People gathered on the fourth floor of the Sprout Tower, the scene of the crime, stop chuckling and blink in unison. Marcia's the first one to speak, "Yeah right." "YEAH RIGHT?!" Enimuram reaches into his pockets and throws a pair of Mr. Mime gloves at Marcia, "I used these gloves I found on the third floor to make sure my prints didn't get on the can. I spilt some of that Ditto-B-Gone liquid onto them when I opened the can on the fourth floor, seconds before throwing the stuff onto Doppler's back in the dark, so you have positive proof right there that I was the mastermind behind this entire plot to assassinate Doppler and frame Ted Brotlov!" "That liquid could be anything." Marcia sniffs at the colored water on the gloves, "For all I know, you just pissed your pants and some of it got on the gloves." "Doesn't *anyone* believe that I did it?" Enimuram looks up to see many people shaking their heads, and others just blinking at him, so he continues his rant, "I was on the third floor with Andy when I overheard someone say that he was 'Doppler, Destroyer of Cities' just as I found the Mr. Mime gloves there and the can of Ditto-B-Gone that Mimic planted for the person who had threatened to kill Doppler before the party started, which wasn't me by the way. Noticing Ted Brotlov nearby, I put on the gloves, picked up the can of Ditto-B-Gone and asked in a fake voice for him to hold it, knowing he would do so without asking any questions since he's such a predictable idiot. Yes, he's the idiot, not me. Him! I took the can back just as Doppler's daughter convinced him to walk upstairs. Right after Yolei and Yuki came down, I went upstairs, saw Aerie run towards Marcia, opened the can, hurled its contents onto Doppler, dropped the can, and ran downstairs." Mimic finishes the story by saying, "That split second, Mimic pull Doppler away and drop fun fizzling purple goo special effect to make trick more fun!" Aerie stops hugging the Sprout Tower's central beam for a moment to put her hands on her hips and frown at Mimic, "Next time let me in on the trick, uncle Mimic! You obviously let mommy in on it, since she looked like she was actually happy that daddy was killed, so you could've let me in on it too!" Mimic sweatdrops, "Sorry." Marcia still isn't convinced that Enimuram was the one who attacked Doppler, "...and you did all this just because you wanted Ted Brotlov to stop trailing you?" "That was part of it. But none of you are appreciating just how elaborate my plan was..." Enimuram says, glad to finally be telling someone about his scheme, "So many teams out there have such high notoriety... everyone knows who Team Rocket is, who ATR was, and even Team Wartortle and the Squirtle Squad are much more renown than the Bomb Ball Bashers. Once this was all over and Ted was in jail, I'd tell people that I was the one who killed Doppler, and soon enough, I'd be one of those 'power players' Travis was talking about earlier, the Bomb Ball Bashers would so famous that almost everyone would know who we were, and I wouldn't be put in jail since the truth would just be shrugged off as rumors. I'd become President of the Bomb Ball Bashers due to my popularity, I'd demote Andy and Andrew to lower sectors, I'd make the sexiest Magneton-loving recruit my Secretary, and I'd live the good life. Plus, I wouldn't feel the least bit guilty, knowing that I had done it all truthfully - I defended Ted Brotlov, saying that I didn't think he did it, and I had actually killed Doppler, the most murderous Ditto of all time!" Andy raises an eyebrow, "Didn't you want the Bomb Ball Bashers to keep a low profile?" Enimuram replies, "Originally, yes, but after Andrew joined, I realized that we could destroy all those Voltorb and Electrode out there so much faster if our group was as large as Silph Co. or Team Rocket. And my plan would've worked, too, if it wasn't for that lousy prankster brother of Doppler's. None of you accused me, just as I had planned, but I couldn't take it when all of you were saying that I couldn't have done it - I was too proud of my elaborate scheme to keep it a secret." "Now you can tell everyone the story over and over..." The Elder Sage pulls a pair of handcuffs out and snaps them onto Enimuram's wrists, "...in jail." He drags Enimuram downstairs, leaving those on the fourth floor in stunned silence at not just Enimuram's confession, but also how cliché the sage's parting words were. Cyclonus grins, happy that the sage hasn't dragged him or Ted off the jail for being members of Team Rocket. Knowing Ted's likely to cluelessly stick around until the sage returns, the Electabuzz grabs his partner by his wrist and drags him downstairs in a hurry, as Ted complains, "What're you doing? We were innocent!" Nori, remembering that Marcia also revealed the fact that she was a Rocket to everyone in the room, runs downstairs herself before anyone arrests her. Drake teams up with Yuki, Yolei, and Lynkeru again, and transforms back into his normal Dragonite self and says, "It's been quite a tiring night. Let's rest up then continue our quest to find those shiny Unown, or else next year, everyone's Halloween costume is going to consist of shorts." They head off downstairs together. Splash pauses to examine the corpse he's hugging by lifting its eyelids, "Hey, wait a minute. You're not Murasaki. Her eyes are green, not blue. Oh well, I guess Murasaki's not here tonight. I'd better go look for her elsewhere." He stands up, dusts himself off, then runs downstairs, hoping to find Murasaki. Travis, Becky, and Tetsuo quickly huddle and Travis releases Pop Up the Abra, all three of the human trainers wanting to leave the Sprout Tower as soon as possible. In a flash of light, the Abra and the three humans are gone. Jutta stretches out her arms and yawns, "Finaly I can go down castle for sleep." Those cryptic words spoken, the blue Dragonite from Atlantis heads downstairs. Kitsu checks her Pokegear, "Oh great, Keaton, there's going to be a full moon the night after Halloween." Keaton sighs, "Bummer. Let's go tie ourselves down at the Pokemon Center so we don't hurt anyone... or each other, for that matter." The brother and sister duo walk down the stairs together. "This party wasn't AS extreme as I had anticipated," Smasher comments to his Pokemon, "...but maybe my extremeness standards have become too high in the past few years." As him and his Pokemon head downstairs, he asks, "Hey, Shuriken, wanna go board down the Magnet Train tracks all the way to Goldenrod?" Mimic walks over to the central beam and pats it, "Hang there, Dee. Almost dawn. Bellsprouter be back soon. Mimic take Aerie out for ice cream. Make up for not tell her about trick." Aerie grins, happy that she can spend time with her favorite uncle, then chases Mimic down the stairs. Andy blinks for a moment, then grins, "Hey, Andrew, you know what this means?" Andrew shrugs, "What?" Andy exclaims, "I'm the boss now! Not just co-boss, but top Mewtwo of the Bomb Ball Bashers." Andrew pats him on the back, "Congratulations. Can I be your VP?" Andy nods, "Sure! What does VP stand for?" The remaining Bomb Ball Bashers head downstairs, not really minding the absence of their bossy partner who was would get angry at them whenever they spoke. Marcia dusts her hands off as if the case has come to an end, but then remembers something strange that Enimuram said, "Wait, if Enimuram wasn't the one who came to the party with the intention of killing Doppler, then who was?" PK Ball the Pokeball hovers in front of the central beam of the Sprout Tower and declares, "Next time, Doppler. NEXT TIME!" The End. -Marcia