From: Rob (robfrompw@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: [PW!] Opportunism Meets Delusion Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-06-30 Nick -New and Improved- wrote: >"Murasaki... Will... Uh..." Splash was having trouble saying what he wanted to >say. His face lit up bright red, still visible under the darkness of the >restaurant. "Uh... Uh... Murasaki..." >Still having trouble getting his question out, Splash punched himself in the >face. Instantly, the red in his face vanished and he was able to ask his >question. "Murasaki... Will you marry me?" "Ohhhh... K-" Marcia is about to say 'Kay' to express how disturbed she is by Splash's dementia, but decides against it when she realizes that this would mean that she does agree to marry Splash. She thinks about her phrasing to not hurt him, "Give me some time to think about this, Splash. I need to go make a phone call." "Wait! Don't go! I have something here for you!" Splash starts searching his pockets... Worried that Splash is looking for a gun, possibly even the one Minax once owned if he fished it out of the sea where Drake the Dragonite threw it into five years ago, Marcia leaps out of her chair, grabs Omelette the Blissey by the hand, and runs out of the Starview Cafe. Once outside, she tells her large pink Pokemon, "Omelette, go back to the Pokemon Center and help Nurse Joy. I'll meet you later." The Blissey nods, hugs Marcia's legs, then waddles away, towards the nearby Pokemon Center, while Marcia looks around the city for a hiding place that she call annonymously call the police from, hoping that Splash is too insane to follow her. Splash finds what he was looking for, then looks up from his pockets to find that the woman he proposed to is missing. He gasps and runs outside, where he sees a great deal of women and men who look like Murasaki to him. He chases after one dressed in a nurse outfit, quite sure that she's the Murasaki he was sitting with. Marcia races as fast as she can down the streets of Violet City, surprised that she can still run quickly despite not having worked out much in the past year. She's not about to be murdered by Splash. Thinking she'll find a public telephone in or near the Bellsprout Tower, the city's most visited tourist attraction, she bolts for it, unaware that Splash is following her at a distance, running slower than she is. Once she's entered the Bellsprout Tower, she leans back against the wooden wall next to the entrance, panting and still quite hungry. She could sure go for some Pokemon right now. Perhaps a Seaking filet, a Tauros burger, or perhaps... "A Krabby!" Splash hops in front of Marcia, startling her by holding an enlarged Pokeball up to her face, "I got a Krabby as a wedding gift for you, Murasaki! She's called Murasako. Isn't that name perfect? Well, actually, it's almost perfect... only your name is perfect! Now will you marry me? Please say yes, Murasaki! Please!" "Splash, I have something to tell you..." Marcia is about to tell him that she's not Murasaki, but decides against it since it might crush him and that might lead him to crush her in a literal way if the rumors about Splash being a murderer are true, so she decides to stall until someone shows up, "Can I see the Krabby?" Wondering why he hasn't heard the word "yes" yet, Splash isn't about to disappoint this woman now, so he releases Murasako the Krabby, who appears on the floor of the Bellsprout Tower. She immediately starts swinging her claws around, snapping them, and she clasps onto Splash's right leg and Marcia's left leg. "Ouch!" Marcia instinctively grasps the hilt of her long skinning knife and pulls it out, wanting to cut up Murasaki's gift so that she can cook it and eat it, but knowing that she shouldn't do so - after all, she's not Minax anymore. She holds the knife up where Splash can grab it if he wants to, wondering if he'll kill Murasako for attacking the one he believes is Murasaki, already planning to turn the Krabby into her brunch if he does kill her, "This Krabby's attaking us, Splash! Do something!" -Marcia