Subject: [PW] [WC] No Need For Quagsire Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 09:55:18 -0800 From: "Chet Weaver Roasting On an Open Fire, Jack Frost Nipping At Your Toes..." <nichirasu@hotmail.com> Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon "I'm gonna miss you, Psyduck," Yolei said as she placed the ducky Pokemon on the counter of Oldman's Rental Center. "You really came through for me, despite losing in the previous round." "Psy psy," Psyduck said sadly. "Oh, and I got you a present," Yolei added, handing over a slurpee which the Psyduck happily took and began drinking. "Now don't drink it too fast unless you plan on hurting someone." "Psy?" Psyduck replied, not getting the joke. "I believe you also rented a Chinchou," Oldman said. "Oh, yeah," Yolei said, producing a PokeBall. "I almost forgot. I didn't get to use this guy at all. So much for wishful thinking. I bet he was real weak, though, but with my luck he was probably level 100." "Do you want to know the level?" Oldman asked. Yolei pondered the question for a second before replying, "Nah, it's probably better I don't know." "So you gave back the Pokemon, eh?" Lynkeru noted outside the Rental Center. "Yep," Yolei answered. "I better start training my other Pokemon now. I need to make up for lost time from ... Rink! Oh, no!" "Chet Weaver Roasting On an Open Fire, Jack Frost Nipping At Your Toes..." <nichirasu@hotmail.com> wrote in message news:atre55$210kk$1@ID-151984.news.dfncis.de... > "Psy?" The warning came too late, as Squirtle's Water Guns and Hydro > Pumps finally cracked through the column, sending Psyduck into the > water. Psyduck splashed around frantically until Yolei recalled it. > > "Cute. But there's no way your squirtle will get back to the surface in > time. Rink, GO!" Almost as soon as her quagsire finished > materializing, Yolei continued, "Quick, use Earthquake like we > practiced!" > > Rink scooted over to the waterline on Yolei's platform, observed the > water, then began pounding away in carefully measured slams. > > In the stands, Blizzard flattened her ears. That sounded more like > Supersonic than Earthquake. > > Aerie covered her ears. "What IS that?" > > Yolei hmphed. "Glad you asked! Rink's turning this entire coliseum > into a giant tuning fork. Anyone in the water is going to sleep! > Maybe your Squirtle could put up with it for a second or so, but by > the time it can get up here, it'll be out cold." > > "Grrr..." Aerie's eyes glowed. > > Yolei's pokegear beeped urgently, causing her to take it out. It was > still in the unown radar mode, and it was now detecting several powerful > unown signals coming from Aerie's position. Once again, Yolei tried to > see any unown on Aerie, but none were to be seen. "Hmm. Well, no harm > trying." She took out an empty pokeball and chucked it across the > arena, where it promptly locked onto Aerie. > > Had she been human, the ball would have bounced off. Had she been > ditto, she would have been sucked inside with little fuss, unown and > all. As it was, the ball locked onto approximately half her body mass > and tried to turn it into energy. The result was arcs of red energy > flying all over Aerie as her body faded partway to translucent red. Her > face contorted into a scream, but with her lungs not working, no sound > came out save the crackling of the pokeball's energies. > > Yolei blinked. This was not supposed to happen. Desparately, she typed > into her pokegear, trying to access the ball to shut it off, teleport it > away, *anything* to stop- > > A shot rang out. The pokeball shattered, its fading eminations > returning Aerie to her previous state. Aerie collapsed onto all fours, > breathing heavily. > > "YOU BITCH!!!" Aerie levitated from her platform and raced across the > water, eyes no longer glowing but body surrounded by an aura of her own > power. Ironically, the unown were now completely silent, drowned out by > Aerie's pure rage. > > The next thing Yolei knew, one of the guards dragged her back into the > trainer preparation area while a dragonite appeared in Aerie's path. > Aerie punched it into the sky, but this slowed her down enough that > another of the guards' dragonites nailed her to the wall with a hyper > beam, which in turn stopped her long enough for a guard to jam some > headphones on her and push Play on his walkmon. Ignoring this, Aerie > whirled on Yolei and marched towards her, teeth gritted and hair gently > blowing about. "You...are going to...suff...er..." Aerie collapsed at > Yolei's feet, gently snoring. > > The guard was especially grateful he had picked up that underground, > unauthorized recording of Sketch's Greatest Lullabies. > "I left Rink at the Stadium!" Yolei exclaimed. "I forgot all about him after Aerie started getting sucked into my PokeBall! I have to find him!" "Wait up!" Lynkeru called out, chasing her friend. It would be an hour before the Semi-Final matches began. Yolei convinced the guard to let her and Lynkeru to search the Stadium. They searched high and low, even checking the bottom of the pool, but Rink was no where to be found. "Where could he be!?" Yolei hysterically exclaimed. "The poor thing must've wandered off after the match and spent all night on the cold streets looking for me!" Yolei immediately imagined Rink waddling down the lamp-lit streets, getting splashed by cars as they drove inconsiderately through puddles, and calling out his species name in a pathetic attempt to find her. "I have to find him!" Yolei cried before dashing out of the Stadium. "Wait!" Lynkeru called out. Yolei had already narrowly avoided being run over by a truck and had proceeded to sprint halfway down the street. "How can such a scrawny girl run so fast?" Indi remarked. "I haven't told her that she's in danger yet!" Lynkeru exclaimed. "If Trent finds her before we do and if he thinks she still has the Unown..." "Well, don't just stand there explaining it to the readers!" Indi interrupted. "Get out there and catch her already!" To be continued...? -- Chet "Tech" Weaver's Revised Basic Sig Desperado Coyote! http://desperadocoyote.keenspace.com "No ride is complete without a clown in an electric chair." -- My brother "That depends on what you mean. If by 'ready' you mean 'superior to you in each and every way,' then, yes, I am." -- Vegito, DragonBall Z ("Meet Vegito")