Subject: [PW!] [WC] Deep Ditto Diving For Unown Date: Sat, 14 Dec 2002 02:26:17 GMT From: Rob <robfrompw@yahoo.com> Organization: AT&T Worldnet Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Marvin's walking towards the Scarlet City Coliseum some time after noon on the third day of the Whirl Cup Competition, having just woken up moments ago. He was eliminated on day one mere minutes after the competition began, and he wanted to head home the day after that, but the Whirl Cup Guards posted at both the dock in Transit Town and the dock in Scarlet City informed him that it would be rude for him to leave early because he was required to stand in a barge during the Closing Ceremonies. The magician, wearing his golden tuxedo, silver bowtie, and crystalline top hat as usual, looks down at the purple Ditto he's holding in his hands and pleads, "Pleeeease Teleport me to Goldenrod City, Xerox! I'm not so sure Famifax will do a good job promoting my upcoming show... She'll probably start hitting on guys while disguised at me instead of saying what I told her to!" The purple Ditto shakes her wobbly head, "No, master, the Guards posted at both of Red Rock Isle's docks made it clear that you are not to leave the island until the Whirl Cup Competition has ended." Marvin groans, "But why can't you Teleport me to Goldenrod City, Teleport back here, and then Transform into me for the Closing Ceremonies?" Xerox narrows her already tiny black eyes and states, "You very well know that I do not approve of pretending to be someone that I am not." "You're a Ditto!" Marvin reminds the Pokemon in his arms. "Yes, and that is precisely why I must have such a strict ethical code." Xerox argues, a little annoyed at Marvin, "Just look at how my sister uses her ability to Transform - it is downright deplorable. Doppler destroyed Celadon City in a moment of rage! Why, even Mimic... Mimic?" Marvin, who's still looking down at his Ditto, asks, "What about Mimic? He seems like a nice enough..." "Mimic!" Xerox hops out of Marvin's arms and races away from him, towards the Pokemon Rental Center across the street. Adrian Tymes wrote: > If Roxie noticed Oldman's door slam into anything, she > gave no hint of it as she stepped out, holding Eff. > "You're pathetic! Even the rental shop owner knew > you'd only ever have that one move. What a wimp!" > "GiVe..." > Roxie froze. Even one as inured to the dark side of > humanity as she was could still sense inhuman > wrongness, or perhaps the hairs were just standing up > on the back of her head because she knew so much evil > and subconsciously felt more behind her. > "GiVe Us ThAt...WiMp." > Slowly, Roxie turned around, to see a shambling mass > that looked like a partially melted human with diffuse > flashlights for eyes stumble towards her. > "PlEaSe." The moment Eff the F-shaped Unown senses that You the U-shaped Unown, its fellow evil-doer and former ring-leader, is within the melting body, apparently controlling it with the assistance of some of its comrades, Eff zips out of Roxie's arms. Before it can make contact with Mimic, Roxie grabs one of its shiny green prongs and pulls it away, "Ohhh, no you don't! You may be worthless on your own, but once I find your 25 shiny pals, I'll be able to sell you as a set for a fortune." "So it was not a dream, after all..." Xerox frowns as she gets closer to Mimic when she sees the sorry state her friend is in due to the Unown trapped within his body, "Do not worry, Mimic - I will attempt to assist you yet again." "What seems to be the problem?" Marvin asks, having followed his Ditto over to the Rental Center's storefront. When he notices the melting body that has flashlights for eyes, he cringes and says, "Ewww! How can you tell that's Mimic, Xerox?" "I just know. A number of shiny Unown are residing within him, controlling his actions. If the Unown that girl is holding enters his body, he might lose himself entirely. I am going to attempt to break through to him." Xerox the Ditto oozes over to the body and places one of her pseudopods on it, "Mimic, can you hear me?" "BeGoNe!" One of Mimic's melting arms slams into Xerox, knocking her away, "We MuSt AbSoRb EfF... EfF HaS ThE AbIlItY To FiNd OuR CoMrAdEs!" Mimic starts oozing towards Roxie, the Unown Collective within him projecting intense, horrific mental images into the green-haired girl's mind so that she faints, but she isn't fazed by the psychic trick because her life has been so harsh that she's desensitized to violence. Xerox stands up and heads over to where Marvin's standing, "Do you have any empty Pokeballs with you, master?" "I think I've got one." Marvin searches his tuxedo's pockets for a moment, then produces a shrunken Pokeball. He tosses it in front of Xerox, who picks up the Pokemon container with one of her pseudopods and carefully sneaks up behind Mimic, keeping her mental defenses high so that the Unown Collective within him doesn't spot her. Roxie the tough biker girl, ignoring the flashes of pain and misery in her mind, starts walking to her motorcycle, which is parked outside the Pokemon Center across the street. The F-shaped Unown in Roxie's hand is literally Struggling to break free of her grasp. It has wasted all of its Hidden Power PP and Roxie hasn't bothered to heal it at any of the Pokemon Centers she's gone to in the past few weeks. "ReLeAsE..." Mimic's order to Roxie is cut short when Xerox merges with Mimic, "YoU AgAiN?!" Xerox concentrates as she swims through the translucent purplish-pink goo that makes up Mimic, careful not to come in contact with any of his neurons, remembering what happened to Mimic the last time that she did that. Soon enough, she sees five small shiny Unown slowly spinning around in the plasma-like matter. She oozes up to the one nearest to her, a C-shaped Unown, and taps it with the Pokeball she's holding... but the Unown doesn't get sucked in. "It must have already been caught..." Xerox thinks to herself just as she's mentally attacked by the five psychic Unown, much the same way Roxie was being attacked. She shrinks away from the Unown, painful memories resurfacing in her mind. Outside of Mimic, Eff finally breaks free of Roxie's grasp as she's mounting her motorcycle. It starts flying towards Mimic to join You, the most evil of all the shiny Unown, as well as its other comrades who are helping You with their abilities. Marvin remembers what Xerox said moments ago - that Mimic might lose total control of his body if Eff merges with him - so he pulls out a Pokeball from his tuxedo jacket without seeing which one it is and throws it at the shiny F-shaped Unown, hoping the Pokeball will knock it off course. The Pokeball Marvin happens to throw is the Park Ball containing the shiny N-shaped Unown he caught at the National Park. The green Park Ball does knock Eff off course before returning to Marvin's hand, but it also releases Enn, the Unown within it. Enn immediately senses You's evil presence, but instead of being happy about it like Eff was, its horrified. Enn's a peaceful shiny Unown and it knows that some of its comrades, most notably You, plan to destroy all people and Pokemon in the world except Unown so that Unown can rule it. Noticing that once Eff recovers from being hit by the Park Ball, Marvin calls out, "Fire Wand, use your crowd-pleasing fire-spitting trick on that F-shaped Unown!" Enn uses its Hidden Power on Eff, shooting a fireball in the F-shaped Unown's direction. The F-shaped Unown, weak since Roxie hasn't been training it, faints from the attack. Roxie recalls her Unown into its Fast Ball. She takes a long look at Marvin to remember what he looks like so that she can steal his N-shaped Unown from him while he's sleeping, then she hops on her motorcycle and drives off. Back inside Mimic, Xerox uses some mental relaxation tricks she learned during her Internet research to ignore the mental image of Mimic dying due to her interference. She opens one of her eyes, sees that the J-shaped Unown within Mimic is swimming right next to her, and hits it with the Pokeball she's holding. This Unown is sucked into the Pokeball in a flash of red light and as the sphere wobbles in her pseudopod, Xerox swims away from the remaining four Unown. The purple Ditto leaps out of the melting blob that is Mimic just as the Pokeball announces "Ding!" Now lacking Jay's Joining Ability, which allowed the four malicious Unown within Mimic to combine their psychic abilities and override Mimic's mind, Mimic's body starts to recompose. As Mimic starts Transforming back into his standard blue-haired human form, he says, "YoU HaVeN'T HeArD ThE LaUn NoWn Nown unown... no." Mimic blinks twice and looks around, "...hi, Xerox. Uh... world not destroy while Mimic out, right?" "We came THIS close." Xerox holds her pseudopods next to each other, "It is great to see you again, Mimic!" She exclaims with a smile on her face. She hands Marvin the Pokeball she's holding for safe keeping, leaps onto Mimic's lap, and hugs him with her two pseudopods. Just then, Mimic sees a shiny N-shaped Unown float up to Marvin. He calls out, "Look out, Marvin!" Right after Mimic issues his warning, the N-shaped Unown Nuzzles up against its Trainer, who stashes his Park Ball and the Pokeball containing the J-shaped Unown in tuxedo's pockets. "Don't worry, Mimic..." Marvin smiles, petting his shiny N-shaped Unown, "Fire Wand's not one of those creepy Bug Pokemon. It's been my friend ever since I caught it at the National Park. This cute little critter even allows me to use it as a wand during my magic shows!" He scratches one of the green prongs of the shiny N-shaped Unown he still thinks is a Bug, albeit a Fire-breathing Bug, "Fire Wand loves helping me, doesn't he? Yes he does! Yes he does!" Both Mimic and Xerox sweatdrop at how Marvin treats his pet Pokemon as Marvin coddles it in his arms. -Marvin