Subject: Re: [PW!] Rendevous point: on the road Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 13:21:51 GMT From: Nuh@uh.dummy (Worry) Organization: RoadRunner - Triad Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon In article <3CA8D34F.9060004@pacbell.net>, Adrian Tymes <wingcat@pacbell.net> wrote: >Travis blinked. "Just a moment. Everyone else, huddle?" Once the >others present were assembled - minus Barbie, who had to be warned off >of eavesdropping - Travis queried in a whisper, "What's her problem?" > >Mimic shrugged. "Lacks self-confidence. Mimic pretty sure carry over >to pokemon team performance, at least for main pokemon Barbie. No >concentrate on fight during fight, usually concentrate on being scared. >But maybe Travis, Becky can fix just by journeying with, provide >significant other and role model." > >TBC? > "....And we have big news from Violet City!" the ultra cheerful voice of Mary came from Becky's pokegear. "All you female trainers out there will be glad to hear this juicy bit of gossip. it seems that Falkner, Gym Leader of the Violet City Gym has finally found himself a girlfriend! it seems the Flying type's heart is soaring these days as he paints the town red with young Pokefan Irene!" "T-t-thank goodness for t-t-that!" Sarah stated. "Maybe now he wont be stalking me when i go through town!" "Stalking you?" Becky asked, interested "Y-y-yes, every time I have been to his Gym, h-h-he asks m-m-m-me to go on a d-d-date with him." Sarah explained. "He w-was downright r-rude the last time, w-when i defeated h-him for the Zephyr badge!" Sarah had discovered the badge when she went to remove the Hive badge from her satchel to show her fellow trainers. She had felt very silly that winning it had slipped her mind, especially since it was that battle that allowed Barbie enough experience and confidence to evolve. "Yeah, he does that with all the female trainers." Drake supplied. "The league was about to step in and censure him because of it. I guess he is lucky he found a girlfriend." "At any rate, we shouldn't be in town long enough to cross his path." Travis said. "At least not on this trip. I can't battle him until I become registered. We should only be in Violet long enough to stop by the pokemart and re supply. The it is off to see nurse joy in New Bark and get me official." "A-are you g-g-going to v-visit Professor E-elm?" Sarah asked. Travis appeared slightly surprised by the question. "We can if you would like to." He answered. "Do you have some business with him?" He asked "N-no, i m-mean so y-you can g-get your official s-starter p-p-pokemon." Sarah answered. "Although it w-w-ould be n-nice to see h-him again." "You know, i hadn't thought about that." Travis replied. "I may not be eligible for a pokemon from him considering that I already have a fairly full team. Not to mention that i already got Hoofer as an egg from Professor Ivy when i started my pokemon journey in the Orange islands." "You started your journey with an egg?" Drake asked surprised. 'Yep." Travis answered. "It took months for Hoofer to hatch. I never knew what pokemon was going to hatch from the egg, but I couldn't have asked for a better starter pokemon than Hoofer. He was a little Ponyta when he first came to the world, but he has grown strong and well." "How did you handle wild pokemon?" Drake asked "Well, I didn't at first." Travis answered. "Mostly i avoided everything until I found Rapid. She called out to me in my mind. Her former trainer had staked her out to die because she doesn't want to evolve. "Travis expression grew dark at the memory of the Slowpoke tied to a rock in the blazing island sunlight, half dead of hunger and thirst before he had found her. "I freed her, and she joined me. But she refuses to battle. Instead she helps me out as a translate and helps me identify pokemon with moves in the wild that they normally don't know. "Why Slowpoke not want to evolve?" Mimic asked. "She has this idea in her head that if she evolves she wont be the same person she is now." Travis explained. "I keep trying to convince her that it is the experience and memory that makes up the person, or pokemon, but she aint buying it." "So you had a pokemon egg and a Slowpoke that refused to battle." Drake said dragging the conversation back. "Yeah." Travis went on. "About a week after finding Rapid, we were down at a beach. I had taken Rapid to a pokemon center for treatment, and Nurse Joy healed her up, but suggested that some time in the ocean would complete the healing process. While there, a Tentacool came up on the beach after a Corsola. Rapid told me that the Tentacool knew Reflect, and I saw that in action when the Tentacool used the move to counter the Spikes attack that Corsola tried to defend itself with. The Tentacool won the battle and had the Corsola for lunch. I tried to catch the Tentacool in a pokeball, but she was to strong and broke out. "Not having a pokemon to battle the Tentacool, but determined to have her, I had to stalk her for weeks until she lost a battle in the wild." Travis continued. "Finally she fought a Mantine who wanted to do to her what she did to the Corsola, but at the last second, i captured her in the pokeball. She had been sufficiently weakened so that the pokeball held her. I was very lucky that she fought the Mantine close enough to shore so that I could make the catch. Of course, the Mantine wasn't very happy about it, and I had to run like heck after i got my pokeball back. i took her to the pokecenter to get healed after her fight with the Mantine, and Tendril was the first pokemon i had captured." "And she was so grateful that she immediately took to you for saving her." Drake supplied with an edge to his voice that was totally lost on Travis . "Oh no!" Travis answered. "She didn't like me very much. She never saw it as me saving her from being eaten, just that i had been opportunistic. Tendril would battle for me, but she often disobeyed my orders, even losing because of it. it wasn't until after Hoofer hatched and she saw me with him that she began to warm up to me. Now, though, she is a great pokemon, and one I am honored to call a friend. 'I-i feel sorry for that C-c-corsola." Sarah stated sadly "Yeah, i did too." Travis replied. "Plus a Corsola with Spikes is very rare too, so i wanted to capture it, but Tendril was to fast for me. Still it was fascinating to see nature in action. I still let tendril out to hunt what she would like when we are near water." Sarah was going to make a reply, but was forestalled as Mimic pointed out that they had arrived at Violet. Becky took out their list for needed supplies as the group made their way to the poke mart.... TBC? Worry's first SIG sig file ------------------------------------------------------------------ *"It takes a Worried man to sing a Worried song..." Kingston Trio* *And the award for the funniest line in a cartoon goes to Superman who remarked "Don't look at me, I just catch 'em!" after stopping a crane thrown by Bizzaro from crushing a wedding party.* Proud owner of 300 fake code points