Subject: [PW!] Into The Unown Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 23:22:06 GMT From: Rob <robfrompw@yahoo.com> Organization: AT&T Worldnet Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Adrian Tymes wrote: >8:50 AM found Aerie sprawled, sound asleep, on the counter, while >Omelette was curled up on the desk's chair. Nurse Joy smiled and shook >her head at how cute they looked before noticing some program running on >the desk's computer. It currently showed "The End" over a fairy tale >crystal castle, which shined slightly different colors in response to >Omelette's snores into the microphone in her hands. Shrugging, Joy >stowed the instrument, along with the loose game controller, and reset >the computer for the day's work. >Unseen, overhead, the A, B, C, D, E, F, and G shiny unown circled >just under the pokemon center's high roof, freed by the succesful >conclusion of the game and debating whether to stick around to speak to >the blissey who freed them. "Ring ring ring! Ring ring ring! Wake up! Wake up!" The aural message of the alarm clock in Nurse Marcia's room in the Violet City Pokemon Center is just as annoying as the one programmed into the Center's phones. Marcia's eyes remain closed as she reaches over to the nightstand next to her bed and feels around until she locates the Voltorb-shaped alarm clock with her hand. She makes a fist and smacks the clock, successfully getting it to shut up. She's about to fall back into a subconscious state when she remembers that Nurse Joy wanted her to report to work early for a lesson with a doctor named Foster. Marcia's eyes dart open. She climbs out her bed, walks up to a mirror she had installed in the room, and looks at the image staring back at her. Her dark brown eyes have darkened bags under them, her shoulder-length blue hair is tangled into knots, and the only thing she's wearing is her pinkish white dress, which is currently full of wrinkles. Marcia winks at herself and smiles, "I look so hot." She then sniffs at herself and frowns, "...but I'll take a shower and put on a new outfit anyhow." Marcia walks out of her room, into the Pokemon Center's main hallway, and as she approaches one of the Center's bathrooms, she hears a loud psychic voice in her mind say, #I am known as Dee.# She grumbles, "It's too early in the morning for this." She marches straight towards the Pokemon Center's lobby, shouting out, "All right, Doppler, show yourself! What, do you want to see me taking my shower? Is that..." Her mouth falls open when she sees seven shiny Unown floating around in the lobby. Omelette the Blissey is standing directly below the circle of floating Unown, looking up at them in awe, "Blissey bliss?" #I am also known as the Director.# The psychic voice resonates throughout the Pokemon Center once again, this time waking up Aerie, who is stirring from her place at the front desk. Nurse Joy and her Chansey both drop what they're doing in the Pokemon Center's back room and together walk back into the lobby to see the Unown floating around. The two nurses, their Pokemon, and Aerie all stare at the shiny Unown, admiring in awed silence the sparkling beings from the past. The voice speaks once again, #I Direct the Collective when we are united. It is the Director's task to Direct the ultimate mission. Flank!# Marcia only now realizes that the psychic voice is not coming from Doppler, her primary suspect for all ominous telepathic communications, but from one of the Unown in the room. She figures that the Unown who is using telepathy will be revealed now that it ordered the others to flank it. The shiny Unown shaped like the letters A, B, and C line up to the left of the D-shaped one, and the shiny Unown shaped like the letters E, F, and G line up on its other side. The D-shaped Unown floats one step forward. #Thank you for freeing us, Blissey. We were all imprisoned by a malevolent human shortly after our release from the Ruins of Alph. We must now continue our search for our comrades. They are essential to the mission. Eff, I Direct you to Find the nearest of our comrades.# Aerie yawns, then says, "That dumb voice doesn't let me sleep. Which one of you's making it so I can kill you?" Marcia hears this and scolds, "Aerie, no! Mommy wants these Unown alive." Aerie frowns, slumps down in her chair, and sighs, "Fine." "Unown!" The shiny F-shaped Unown stares intently at the lobby's walls, one by one, as if its looking through them. After spending a couple of seconds staring at the wall that connects the Pokemon Center's lobby with its back room, the Unown exclaims, "Nown!" It flies through the door leading to the back room and the shiny C-shaped Unown instinctively starts to follow its fellow Unown. Before the C-shaped Unown goes through the door, the D-shaped Unown's psychic voice is heard by all in the Center again, #I know it is your task to Chase, Sea, but do not. Allow Eff to patrol the area before Chasing Eff. Learn a lesson from Eae - Eae has overcome Eae's natural instinct to Engage others, and likewise you should overcome your instinct to Chase others. Save it for our mission.# "Un?" Sea, the C-shaped Unown, turns to eye Eae, the E-shaped Unown, and notices how perfectly still Eae is floating - it appears that Eae has nerves of steel. Suddenly, Eff, the F-shaped Unown, floats back and says, "Nown own no nown unown nown." Upon hearing this, Eae squeals "NOOOOWN!" in a voice that seems to mix the emotions of delight, relief, and concern into just one emotion. Eae zips into the back room. Sea pauses, then in order to obey the Director's command to learn a lesson from Eae, it mimics Eae's moves exactly - Sea squeals "NOOOOWN!" and zips into the back room, chasing after Eae. "...what the hell was that?" Marcia scratches her head, wondering if she's still asleep and just dreaming what is happening since everything going on seems so surreal. #Eff just informed us that Eff Found Ehx wounded in the other chamber. Ehx is one of Eae's two mates, so Eae is concerned for Ehx's well-being.# Dee, the D-shaped Unown stares at Marcia with its one eye, #Have human beings lost the ability to understand emotion?# "You can't take the one you call Ehx from this building." Marcia steps up to stare down the shiny D-shaped Unown, "It's hurt so it has to stay here for a long, long..." Marcia's interrupted by Nurse Joy, who starts saying, "Actually, it only has to stay..." But Nurse Joy's interrupted by Aerie, who knows what her mommy's up to and tackles Nurse Joy. Marcia crosses her arms and declares, "Since you can't take Ehx with you, I suggest you leave some of your 'comrades' to take care of it." #Understood. Aay, I Direct you to stay here with Ehx and Eae.# This psychic command spoken, Aay, the shiny A-shaped Unown, complains, "NO! UNOWN NO NOWN NONONO!!! UNOWN NOWN NO NOWN?!" #While your Angry task will be extremely valuable to the Collective once we are reunited, it is currently not useful to us.# The A-shaped Unown mutters, "Nono unown no nono..." Nurse Joy, now on the floor with her hat knocked off, speaks up, "Actually, none of you..." Aerie launches her small fingers into Joy's armpits and wiggles them around, tickling her. Nurse Joy starts giggling so much that she can't say anything! Marcia notices how annoyed the A-shaped Unown is and grins, "To answer your earlier question, Dee, humans do still understand emotion, and I can tell Aay doesn't want to stay here. Why don't you leave Eff with Ehx, instead? Aren't they good friends?" "NO!" The D-shaped Unown shouts, then projects, #Eff despises Ehx almost as much as Eff despises Eye. Ehx is one of the most useless members of the Collective, along with Ehl and Ehn. Ehx's task is to be unconscious. Eff is crucial. Without Ess, Eae's other mate, on our side to Search for our comrades and Ach to Help Ess do so, Eff is the only one who can help us Find our comrades.# Marcia reaches for her sack to pull out an empty Pokeball, hoping that if she catches Dee the other Unown will obey her every command, but then remembers that she took off her sack to go to bed and didn't put it back on when she woke up, "Hey, could you come with me to my room, Dee? I want to show you something." "No." The D-shaped Unown replies, then its psychic voice is sent throughout the Center once more, this time more loudly than ever before, #We must be going now. Aay and Eae - I Direct you to stay with Ehx. Bee, Sea, Eff, and Gee - I Direct you to follow me. Once again, thank you for releasing us, Blissey. Your kindness is appreciated.# That last psychic thought voiced, the C-shaped Unown flies out of the back room as the A-shaped Unown bitterly floats into it, then the D-shaped Unown heads out of the Violet City Pokemon Center, followed by the B-shaped one, the C-shaped one, the F-shaped one, and the G-shaped one. Marcia walks over to Nurse Joy, who's still giggling uncontrollably from being tickled by Aerie, and the blue-haired nurse comments to the tickler, "At least now we know how that Shorts Kid found so many Unown so quickly." "Huh? We do? I wasn't paying attention." Aerie looks up at her mommy and grins widely, "I was too busy tickling Nurse Joy!" She continues to wiggle her fingers up and down Nurse Joy's sides, "Hmm, I wonder where else she's ticklish..." "Right behind her ears." A male voice declares from the entrance of the Pokemon Center. Marcia and Aerie turn to see a tall man in a lab coat who has spiky black hair smile nervously, "...er, she told me once... while we were discussing reactions Pokemon have to certain kinds of stimuli." The scientist sweatdrops as he continues, "Did you know that Bulbasaur's Vine Whip can double as a Tickle attack when used in a certain way? Well, uh, it can... So, uh, anyway, where's that shiny Unown?" Marcia sniffs out a laugh, "You just missed a swarm of them, Foster." "A swarm?!" Foster is taken aback, knowing how powerful regular Unown can get when they swarm and fearing that shiny Unown could get even more powerful when all twenty-six combine, "How many?! Were there less than twenty six?" "Oh yeah, a whole lot less than twenty-six, but they were looking for more." Marcia starts walking towards the back room, "I managed to convince the one that was acting like the leader of the pack to leave two of the Unown with us here. Follow me." Aerie hops away from Nurse Joy, who only stops giggling quite a few seconds after Aerie stops tickling her. Aerie skips over to Foster and as he follows Marcia into the back room, Aerie tugs on his lab coat and asks him various questions, starting with, "Have you ever dissected an Unown?" Nurse Joy puts nurse's her hat back on her head, stands up, straightens out her nurse's uniform, then follows Aerie and Foster, figuring Aerie was only playing with her when she tickled her. Omelette the Blissey and Nurse Joy's Chansey station themselves at the front desk, figuring that the humans might be busy for a while. Marcia is surprised when she enters the room. The bandaged X-shaped Unown is hovering above its stretcher, flanked at its right side by the A-shaped Unown and at the other side by the E-shaped Unown. Marcia touches her neck when she reads that the Unown spell "AXE" and comments, "I hope they're not trying to tell us something." She glances over at Foster, who hasn't even looked at the three shiny Unown yet since he's busy explaining something to Aerie, and snaps her fingers to call his attention, "Foster, can you tell us all you know about shiny Pokemon and Unown? Nurse Joy's always raving about how smart you are." -Marcia