From: Rob (robfrompw@yahoo.com) Subject: Re: [PW!] Tower Trouble (WAS: Re: [PW!] Opportunism Meets Delusion) Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2001-07-11 21:06:22 PST Nick -New and Improved- wrote: > >[And in an effort to be totally devoid of any significance save > >foreshadowing something that may or may not happen... ^_-] > > [Yep, no signigicance ^_^] [ NS: Oh, really? We'll just see about that. ] > "Murasaki!" Splash cried out as he jumped down the hole in the floor to where > Marcia was sleeping, a line of blood dripping from her forehead. > > "Murasaki!" Splash cried out, slapping her on the face. "Wake up!" > > "S... Splash!" Marcia cried out, waking up. "What are you doing?" Jumping up, > she ran past Splash and down the stairs of the tower, Splash chasing her all > the while. Marcia's legs run faster than she imagines they can as she sprints down the stairs leading to the first floor, leaving Splash way behind her. She smiles when she sees that there's nothing blocking the exit to the Sprout Tower any longer, and bolts through it while Splash is still on the second floor. Panting deeply, what little energy Marcia had left from last night's dinner has been exhausted, so she stops running for a moment, puts her hands on her knees, and bows her head down. Sprawled half-dead on the front porch of the Sprout Tower is a paralyzed blue Rattata. Marcia's stomach rumbles and she looks at the skinning knife in her hand... By the time Splash reaches the Sprout Tower's porch, both Marcia and the Rattata are gone, and all that's left is a tiny pool of blood. He shouts, "MURASAKI!!!" "That's good eatin'! Tastes like Magmar..." Marcia rips the fresh meat off her skinning knife with her teeth and chews some more of her much anticipated lunch. She's sitting in the one place she hopes Splash will not look, the Violet City Police Station. She's sitting across from two Officer Jennys. One of the identical officers makes a face to show her disgust and says, "You know, we could give you a fork..." "That's okay, Officer Jenny, a police uniform is all I'm asking for." Marcia tears the last piece of meat from her knife, swallows it, and says, "I figure the only way that psychopath's not going to confuse me for Murasaki is if he confuses me for an Officer Jenny, and I have to get to the Pokemon Center fast to heal that Rattata." The wounded Rattata is layed out on his back and his legs spasm. His fangs are chattering, "T-t-t-t-t..." "By the way, thanks for the chicken. It was delicious!" Marcia licks her lips, glad she was given something to eat. She had actually contemplated eating the Rattata, but then remembered how disgusted the people on the reality TV show "Outliver" were when they had to eat Rattata, so she decided against it. A third Officer Jenny walks into the cafeteria, carrying a police uniform. She hands it to Nurse Marcia, "Here you go! A standard issue Officer Jenny uniform!" The officer sits down with her fellow officers to eat doughnuts with them and watches as Marcia thanks them and heads over to the nearby bathroom to change. Suddenly, one of the female officers spits some food from her mouth into a napkin, "Eww, someone put a riceball in the doughnut box." "Must've been Jenny. She's quite the practical joker." The officer sitting next to her comments, "I mean, I doubt anyone could confuse a riceball for a doughnut." Out of the bathroom walks Marcia, who has styled her hair to match the style worn by all the officers sitting at the table. She is dressed like an Officer Jenny from the cop hat on her head to the black high-heeled shoes on her feet. Marcia has some trouble walking over to the cafeteria table, not just because she's not used to wearing high heels, but also because the shoes she's wearing are two sizes too small. When she picks up her Rattata, she asks, "Don't you have any size 9 shoes?" All three Officer Jennys reply simultaneously, "We're all size sevens." "Figures. Well, thanks for the meal and the costume. Remember to keep a look out for Splash." Marcia stumbles out of the Police Station, hoping she doesn't bump into Splash. While she slowly and carefully walks to the nearby Pokemon Center where she works, she hears Splash yelling Murasaki's name all over the city, but she manages to enter the Pokemon Center before the crazy young man can see her. When Nurse Joy looks at Nurse Marcia quizzically, Marcia bluntly states, "Don't ask." She ignores all the other people present in the Pokemon Center and marches straight into the back room to treat the hurt Rattata. "Blissey?" Omelette, Marcia's Blissey, eyes her partner with a strange look on her face as she tries to figure out why Marcia's dressed like a police officer, but when she notices the paralyzed Rattata Marcia's holding, her demeanor changes to one of concern. She walks up to the Rattata, puts her short arms on the Rattata, and uses Softboiled in order to bring the hurt Pokemon back to full health, then follows Marcia, who places him, belly-up, on an white stretcher, "Bliss blissey bliss?" "I don't know. Let's see." Marcia pulls open a nearby drawer and rummages around inside it. She grabs a small bottle filled with Paralyzecure Berry extracts mixed with Full Heal and pours the liquid into the Rattata's mouth. She gently rubs the Rattata's neck, hoping to guide the liquid into the Rattata's system. "Bliss!" Omelette exclaims happily when she sees the Rattata kick his hind legs in the air and turn his head. "Don't celebrate just yet." Marcia puts her hand on Omelette's head and explains, "It might just be a involuntary muscle spasm." She watches for a few more seconds, as the Rattata struggles to stand on his legs, and a smile appears on her face when the weak Pokemon manages to do so, "I think he'll be all right." -Marcia