From: Rob (robfrompw@yahoo.com)
Subject: [PW!] Whitney's Amazing Miltank
Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon
Date: 2001-08-30 18:02:19 PST


"Th-thanks for... helpin' me f-find this p-place..." Sarah is talking to
Bob Raiser, the boy who is now sitting on the bench outside the
Goldenrod City Gym where she sat while he earned his Plain Badge. She
glances over for a moment to say, "Y-you m-may leave... if you w-want. I
m-may take a while..."

Barbie, obscuring herself from Bob's view by standing next to Sarah,
believes that he should leave so she encourages him to by saying,
"Reep!" She scurries into the Gym, temporarily forgetting that the past
Gyms she's been in have been battlegrounds. Sarah waves to Bob and
follows Barbie into the Gym, surprised that Barbie's so eager to enter
since the Mareep's normally afraid that she's going to have to battle
other Pokemon. The only thing Barbie was thinking of while running into
the Gym, however, was getting away from Bob and his Mareep, Zapper, both
of whom she considered very suspicious characters. The sight of the
Arena and the pink-haired girl standing at one end of it jog Barbie's
memory regarding what occurs in Gyms. Her eyes widen and she squeaks,
"Eep."

"Ha! What a cute Mareep!" Whitney calls out, her hands at the sides of
her mouth, "Perceptive, too - she can tell I'm a good trainer, so she's
scared of fighting me!"

Not wanting to kill Whitney's buzz by revealing that Barbie's scared of
just about everything, Sarah just lowers her head and says, in a voice
quiet enough to not be considered yelling but loud enough so that
Whitney, who's standing a few meters away, can hear her, "I... I'm here
to w-win a... Badge."

"You too?" Whitney grins, glad that her Gym is popular, "Someone was
just here for the same reason. He won a Plain Badge, but I went easy on
him - I used one of my uncle's Miltank instead of the one I raised
myself. Since I'm going to use my Miltank this time, you're gonna see
just how right your Mareep was to be scared!" She doesn't hear the
gulping noises that Sarah and Barbie make from their place across the
Arena floor. Whitney pulls a Pokeball out of her pocket, "But first, I
want to see a pretty new pretty Pokemon I've been training in action!
We'll have a two-on-two battle. I choose Cleffa!" She tosses her
Pokeball.

A cute little Cleffa appears on the Arena floor, an innocent smile on
her face, her tiny arms stretching out. She's happy to be outside of the
Pokeball, "Cleffa!"

"How cuuute!" An open smile appears on Sarah's face when she sees the
baby Pokemon. She glances up at Whitney, "Wh-where'd you find such a
cute Pokemon?"

Whitney smiles and shakes her head, "I didn't find her. Since my Clefairy
doesn't like fighting too much and would sometimes forefit matches when
she got scared, I decided to mate her with a Jigglypuff one of the
trainers in my Gym caught. I've been training Cleffa here ever since she
was born. Who will you choose?"

Sarah giggles, thinking that she's finally found a Pokemon who Barbie
won't be afraid to battle. However, when she glances down, she sees her
Mareep trembling in fear. "Oh well... Blazer probably wants to come
outta his Fast Ball anyhow." She pulls the Fast Ball out of her satchel
and drops it, "Go, Blazer!" When Blazer the Cyndaquil appears on the
Arena's floor wearing his stylish new Charcoal jacket, he looks happier
than Cleffa did to be free of his Fast Ball. Sarah points at the Cleffa
standing in front of her Cyndaquil, "Blazer, I don't want you to
seriously hurt Cleffa 'cuz she's so cute... just shoot out a little
Ember."

Whitney shouts, "Cleffa, use the Metronome you inherited!"

Blazer's a bit hesitant to attack a baby Pokemon so Cleffa sways her
little arms side to side, rhythmically chanting "Clef-fa, Clef-fa,
Clef-fa..." until a basketball-sized orb of fire appears directly above
her, simulating a Sunny Day. Never having seen the attack and thinking
that he's about to be seriously burned, Blazer turns around and launches
flames out of his back - his flames are then intensified, not only by
the Charcoal jacket he's wearing but also by the fiery orb floating
directly above Cleffa. A normally harmless attack ends up scorching
Cleffa, fainting her in just one blow! Blazer, who is sad that he hurt
the Cleffa despite using a weak Ember attack, is surprised to see that
the fiery orb remains in place above the Arena, even after Whitney
recalls her fainted Pokemon into a Pokeball.

Sarah begins to apologize, "I... I didn't mean... I'm sorry that..."

"Oh, don't worry, Cleffa will be fine. I just hope I can say the same
about your Cyndaquil after..." Whitney pulls out another Pokeball, "...I
choose you, Miltank!" She hurls the Pokeball and in a flash of red
light, a large Miltank appears, standing on her hind legs. The pink
black-spotted Pokemon moos, "Miru, miru!"

"Miru?" Sarah asks, "Sh-shouldn't she say 'mil' or 'tank'?"

Whitney chuckles, shaking her head, "Well, most Miltank do, but my
Miltank speaks Japanese. She's even taught my Clefairy a little bit of
Japanese - sometimes Clefairy says 'pippi' instead of 'fairy' when using
her Metronome!" Her Miltank nods, "Miru!" Whitney stomps one foot and
shouts, "Miltank, Stomp!"

Sarah gasps, "Blazer, release a Smokescreen!"

Blazer, recalling how his back hurt when Sarah stepped on him in
Professor Elm's Lab, dodges the Miltank's hoof when she tries to Stomp
him, then immediately releases a Smokescreen from his back, the fumes
squeezing through the spaces between his intertwined Charcoal jacket.
Even though there's a cloud of smoke surrounding him completely, Blazer
hears a muffled cry coming from Whitney through the screen - the word
"Rollout." He does hear another muffled cry, this one coming from Sarah
- the word "Ember" - but before he can release his flames, Whitney's
rolling Miltank breaks through his Smokescreen and hits him with a
Rollout attack! Blazer faints on impact and his unconscious body is
knocked out of the ring. He crashes onto Sarah's beige skirt and falls
to the floor.

"Ouch." Sarah looks down at the fainted Cyndaquil at her feet, recalls
the Fire Pokemon back into his Fast Ball, and drops it in her satchel.
She doesn't even bother to look at Barbie, who's flat on the floor,
whimpering, her front legs covering her face. Sarah pulls out her Lure
Ball and hurls it into the arena, releasing the Slowpoke within it.
Before enough seconds pass for Luthor to make some kind of insane
remark, Whitney cries out, "Keep using Rollout," and Luthor is hit by a
more powerful Rollout attack than the one that caused Blazer to faint.
He gets knocked back a few feet, then shouts, "How DARE anyone treat the
soon-to-be crowned Emperor of the entire Multiverse in this manner?!
Such insolence will not be tolerated. Luthor shall get his revenge!"

Sarah looks relieved that her Slowpoke was able to survive the attack
and glad that he's so confident that he'll win, "Luthor, what can you do
other than Teleport?"

"Confuse my enemies with my superior psychic mind, Disable their ability
to continue using an attack, and..." Luthor starts to list out his
moveset, but Sarah, who is watching Miltank roll around, picking up
speed, interrupts him by shouting, "Then use the Disable attack! Hurry!"
Luthor, surprised to hear Sarah shouting, doesn't want to anger the girl
he believes is Supergirl, lest she use the eyebeams he imagines her to
have to hurt him, so he tries his best to obey her order, even though
it's difficult for Slowpoke to hurry. Seconds before Whitney's Miltank
collides with Luthor, she glows blue and freezes in her tracks, her
Rollout Disabled.

The Disabled Miltank, wondering why she suddenly stopped rolling,
uncoils her body and looks down at the Slowpoke before her, who's trying
to figure out what comic book character she represents in this world.
She examines the blue aura around her body, then shrugs and looks back
at her trainer.

Whitney calls out, "Miltank, use Attract!"

Sarah shouts out, "Luthor, Confuse her!"

"Now who could this hideous, smelly, disgusting..." Luthor says this
while staring up at the Miltank before him, trying to figure out her
comic book equivalent, when the Miltank puts her front hooves on her
hips and uses her Attract attack by pouting seductively and thrusting
her pelvis forward. Luthor's maw drops, suddenly noticing Miltank's
luscious udder, and his usual scowl melts into a dopey Slowpoke grin as
he continues, "...sexy, wonderful, amazingly brilliant supervillain be?"
It finally registers in Luthor's mind that Sarah wants him to use his
Confusion attack. He looks up at the Miltank who he now considers to be
one of the most beautiful creatures in the world and concentrates. He
focuses for about ten seconds, then releases purple waves from his
eyes... but at the last moment, he realizes that they're about to hit
the object of his affection, so he redirects the Confusion attack in
mid-air, pulling the waves back towards himself! He's hit by his own
attack and faints.

Whitney comments, "Miltank didn't even have to drink her Moomoo Milk
that time! Oh, and for future reference, the attack's called 'Confusion'
- maybe that's why he..." She stops talking when she hears Sarah
sobbing. Whitney walks across the arena and pats Sarah on the back, "Oh,
you shouldn't cry like that just because you lost a Gym match! Believe
me, I used to do it all the time when I was younger and people started
calling me 'Whiny' instead of Whitney. You can always come back after
training your Pokemon more to try again. Now go to the Pokemon Center to
get your Pokemon healed. I may even drop by later!"

Sarah sniffs and looks up at Whitney. She nods and says, "Th-thanks..."
The shepherdess recalls her fainted Slowpoke into his Lure Ball, puts it
away, then leads her trembling Mareep out of the Goldenrod City Gym,
wanting to find the local Pokemon Center so she can heal both Luthor and
Blazer.

-Sarah