From: Rob (robfrompw@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: [PW!] Into the Horrors of Daytime TV and Splash awakes! Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-08-14 21:18:01 PST Nick -New and Improved- wrote: > "I'm not Murasaki, Splash," Marcia sighed as she walked over to him. She then > proceeded to do the only thing she knew how to do to make him recognize who he > was. > > "Minax!" Splash cried out, leaning over on the cot he was on and squeezing her > in a tight hug. "I missed you! Can you use the Murasaki Finder to tell me where > she is?" "I told you to call me Marcia..." Nurse Marcia changes the subject, not wanting to hurt Splash's demented feelings by telling him that the device that once was able to locate Murasaki now just a Pokegear. She reaches into the bag attached to her belt and pulls out the rectangular machine Splash calls "the Murasaki Finder." Splash releases his tight grip on Marcia and beams when he sees her holding her device, "Oh, Minax, you're so kind! Turn the Murasaki Finder on!" Marcia decides to oblige Splash so she flips open her Communicator and pushes a button on it. When Professor Oak's Pokemon Talk radio show begins to play, Marcia is relieved. Surely Splash will get the hint own that her radio can no longer locate Murasaki. She listens in with Splash as Professor Oak's voice, probably prerecorded, tells listeners, "VULPIX may be seen around ROUTE 36." The voice of Mary, the Johto radio star, adds, "VULPIX's ooh, so sensually guarded." Marcia looks up at Splash, whose looks like he's trying to figure out what's going on, and says, "Don't you get it, Splash? Isn't it obvious?" "Of course!" Splash snaps his fingers, apparently having figured something out, "The Rocket Scientists who made the Murasaki Finder gave Murasaki the code name VULPIX! It's the only reasonable explanation. After all, Murasaki IS sensually guarded... by that other Rocket called Kiniro. I have to go to Route 36! Thanks, Minax!" Splash runs out of the back room of the Violet City Pokemon Center, followed by Marcia, who doesn't want him to escape in his current condition. Nurse Marcia calls out to Splash from the front desk, "Wait!" But Splash has already run outside. Marcia can't leave the Violet City Pokemon Center lest she'd get fired if Nurse Joy woke up. She sighs and slumps down on her swivel chair. Omelette the Blissey comes out from the back room and asks, "Blissey Bliss?" "Yeah. He's gone." Marcia faces her Blissey and sighs, "But maybe he'll come back to ask me where Route 36 is?" A ten year-old Bug Catcher enters the Center, carrying a fainted Ledyba in his net. He steps up to the front desk and asks, "Hey, nurse, do you have any idea why some guy who just came running outta this place asked me to point him to Route 36 while yelling at me to stop trying to look like some lady called Murasaki?" "Guess not." Marcia tells Omelette, in response to her own earlier question, then swivels to face the Bug Catcher, "Unless... Did you tell him where Route 36 is?" The young boy looks confused as he says, "Uh, I don't see what the fact that I told him has to do with you having any idea why he was yelling at me like that." "To make a long story short - he's insane." Nurse Marcia shakes her head, hoping Splash doesn't confuse any angry people for Murasaki, fearing he'd get seriously hurt. Figuring the best way to not dwell on Splash's possible dangers and Doppler's possible coming is to busy herself with work, she motions for the Bug Catcher to place his fainted Ledyba on her desk. Once the boy does this, Marcia examines the Ledyba, plucks a Revive potion off her belt, and pours the liquid within the vial into the Ledyba's mouth. The Bug Pokemon's wings slowly begin to flap, but Nurse Marcia calms him down, "Easy... wait until you're fully healed..." She picks up the Bug Catcher's Ledyba and hands him to Omelette, who leaves into the Pokemon Center's back room to fully treat the weak Pokemon. Meanwhile, Nori and Andrew O'Reilly are facing a huge toll collecting Sudowoodo, unaware that a much more disturbing character is quickly approaching them. -Marcia