From: bean (bean@nospammeitmakesmecry.org) Subject: [PW!F] Oh, another one. (aka, Bean begins.) Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-03-27 11:43:56 PST Stuff in these things ~ are internal monologue. *************** Oh, 'tis a beautiful day in New Bark Town. The sun is shining, the breeze is gentle, and everything's perfect. Wheee. Well, not quite yet. As of now, it's 5 am, and Bean is up early, arising before the supreme golden sun has awakened. He's quiet to slip on his shorts and teeshirt. He looks for a moment at his shoes, and thinks. Then, he shoves them into his backpack. ~Just in case,~ he says to himself. He grabs a rasta hat, rolls his hair up into it, and puts the rest of his massive collection of hats (67 in total) into his backpack, which he puts on his back. He looks around. "Giz..." he whispers. No sound. "Giz!" he whispers, more urgently this time. No sound. Bean shrugs, and turns around to leave his bedroom, not noticing the giggling black and yellow furball on his back. *,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-* After saying his goodbyes to his family, Bean is off at 11 (now it's a beautiful day). He waves goodbye to the local professor, and travels west with his faithful Pichu, Gizmo. Bean can feel the soft grass beneathe his feet. Sometimes when he was younger, he'd come down to this area. Route 29 was not a foreign place to Bean, but today, for some reason, it was new, it was fresh; it was exciting. He moved at a moderate pace, careful to be alert of his surroundings. He paused for a moment. He could hear something shuffling in the grass. He turned his head, slowly from side to side. Gizmo sniffed the air, and indicated Bean to the right. He saw a fat Sentrent, eating a nut. Bean looked at Gizmo. Gizmo was petrified. "Go." Bean said, quietly. Gizmo looked at Bean. "Go." Bean said, a little more aggresively. Gizmo frowned. "Go..." Bean said, but nicely, smiling. "Please?" Gizmo paused for a moment. Paused. And then she pounced that little Sentrent thing with everything she had! "Yeah Giz, charm him, then move in!" Bean shouted. Gizmo did just that. She slithered seductively around the Sentrent, who became dazed. Then, she shocked him. The end. "You won!" Bean exclaimed, as Gizmo jumped into his arms. ~Gee whiz,~ Bean thought, ~We won.~ *,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-* And so it goes. The two rarely lost a battle while travelling through Route 29, and Gizmo was fairly strong when they reached Cherrygrove city. Bean walked into the Pokémon Center to give Gizmo some rest, and while he waited for her to be ready he dropped by the PokéMart. "Um, I'll have 5 PokéBall thingies, a Potion shmageggy, and, uh, a...nevermind. Just the PokéBalls and the Potion." "Will that be all?" the woman behind the desk asked. Bean shook his head. "Dumbass..." Bean heard someone say behind him. He turned around. It was a boy maybe his age, and he looked rather worried that Bean had heard his comment. "No, actually I'm Bean." Bean said, with a little hostility in his voice. Then he grinned his sly grin, and said in a menacing tone, "Or am I wrong, and Dumbass is your name?" "...." the boy was almost shaking. "Um um um ah uh uh I...yeah." Bean laughed, trying to get the boy to get his joke. He handed the money to the cash register woman, took his supplies, and turned to the boy. Politely, he said, "Have a nice day." The boy looked on, angry with Bean, angry with himself. *,-*,-*,-*,-* L a t e r that d a y *,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-* "Aight Gizmo, we're gonna catch us a Pokémon. I heard there were some pretty good Bellsprouts here," Bean said of Route 30, "Try to sniff on out." Gizmo didn't have to, however, because one attacked. A very imposing one indeed. Maybe this one was a level 2! Gizmo yawned, and looked at Bean. Bean made a "bzzzz" sound, and Gizmo turned back to the Bellsprout. There was a _big_ "bzzz" sound this time. Bean threw a PokéBall at the fried Bellsprout, and checked his PokéDex to make sure its data was entered properly once it was caught. When he was done, Bean happily picked up Gizmo, and headed towards Violet City. *,-*,-*,-*,-*,-* To be c o n t i n u e d dot dot dot*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-*,-* **************************************************************************** ****************************************** (: <--{~ bean ~}--> :)