From: Chet Weaver - Burn Up and Go! (nichirasu@hotmail.com) Subject: [PW!][SC][R2M2] Dude, Where's My Larvitar? Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2003-12-12 14:28:38 PST "C'mon... Pick up... Answer already..." Smasher hung up his PokeGear in frustration. He had been trying to call Amber for a while now, but all he got was the sound of her PokeGear's phone card ringing on the other end. Now he just paced around his room at the Pokemon Center. "I don't get it," Smasher said. "How could she not answer the phone?" "Maybe she left it somewhere," Rush the Arcanine replied. "Maybe Heidi knows where she is?" "I tried that," Smasher answered. "She didn't know anything." "Is there anyone else we could call?" "I guess. It's kinda a long shot, though." Regardless, Smasher dialed another number on his PokeGear. Meanwhile, Big Time the Larvitar stared at the full moon from his perch on an open window's sill. Sensing the little rock-type's loneliness, Shuriken the skateboarding Starmie hovered up along side him. Big Time glanced at Shuriken and a moment later softly said, "Lar larvitar, lar." Shuriken could tell were Larvitar was coming from. We've all been down that road before. Below that window sill, hiding in the bushes, Nori released Set, her Natu, and set him on her shoulder. "It's time to free another Dark-type Pokemon from the oppressive yolk of human slavery, Set," Nori said. "But we'll have to make this quick. When I grab the Larvitar, you teleport us out of there. Got it?" #Verily!# Set replied. #At long last, the liberation of the darkside is at hand! Ye, we shall lead them to victory against their simian oppressors, and we'll choke the rivers with their dead. Especially those heathen brothers of mine! Oh, they'll get such a slaughtering!# Or, as Nori heard it, "Natu." "Damn straight," Nori said. "Oh, hey, it's me," Smasher said into his PokeGear. "Have you heard from Amber recently? Really? Do you know where she is? Oh. Okay. I understand. ... Me? Oh, I'm fine, I guess. Have you been watching the Pokemon League lately? ... Really? They took the TiVo, too? Bummer..." Unnoticed by Smasher, a pair of hands sprung up from the other side of the window and grabbed one of his Pokemon. A Psychic flash later, Shuriken was put back on the sill in exchange Big Time. Smasher only noticed it through his psychic link with Shuriken and by the time he could react the Larvitar was gone. "Hey!" Smasher shouted. He ran to the window, but could see nothing. "Hey! Come back here! Shuriken, did you see who took Big Time?" Indeed, Shuriken had. "Tsunade!" Smasher cursed. He bolted from the window and opened the door. There was Nori, patiently waiting outside someone else's door. "Tsunade!" "Huh?" Nori replied, genuinely surprised to see Smasher. She glanced at the door she was standing in front of and then at Smasher. "I thought you were... I mean, what can this humble practicioner of Snail Magic assist you with this evening?" "Don't you hand me that baloney," Smasher roared. "What did you do with Big Time?" "I don't know anything about your Larvitar," Nori lied. "I was in the lobby when I heard the commontion down the hall." Smasher slammed a fist into the door beside Nori's head. "Shuriken saw you," he said. "You can't fool me. I can't read your mind, but your aura's pretty damn clear. I don't know who you really are, but your name isn't Tsunade and you don't know the first thing about Snail Magic. Am I warm?" "That's some imagination you've got there," Nori chuckled nervously. "Look, I'm having a bad night tonight," Smasher said more calmly. "And Big Time is important to me. So, reasonably, I'm a little ticked off. Now, why don't you just tell me where he is before I FEED YOU TO MY ARCANINE!?" "You can't kill me, or else you'll be disqualified from the tournament," Nori replied, not really knowing if that was true or not. "Besides, even if I did know, not that I'm saying I did it since we Snail Magic practicioners are forbidding from stealing, I wouldn't tell you anyway. Now why don't you go off and find another poor, innocent creature to subjugate, skater boy?" Before Smasher could reply, the door opened with the room's occupant on the other side. "Is everything alright out here?" the occupant said. "Yeah, it's cool," Smasher said. "We were just talkin' that's all." "We?" It was then Smasher noticed that Nori had disappeared. Smasher swore to himself and went back into his room. He knew where he would find the theif. At the arena the next morning, Smasher was rested up and thinking a little more clearly, but he still was still angry. As the Ice Field locked into place, Smasher had a proposition for his opponent. "Let's say we make this a little more interesting," Smasher said. "If I win, you'll have to tell me where Big Time is." "All right, but what if I win?" Nori inquired. "You can name your own prize," Smasher replied. "I don't care what you ask for as long as I get Big Time back." "Fine," Nori said. "If I win, you have to show me how you taught your Skarmory that 'Red Baron Supreme' or whatever you called it." "You're on," Smasher said with a smirk. "Now make your move." "Anubis, I choose you!" "Let's get Big Time back, Ice!" "Tsunade has sent out a Houndour and Smasher has chosen a Marowak!" the announcer proclaimed. "Ice, Bonemerang!" Smasher commanded. Ice flung his Bone Club at Anubis. The pup playfully leapt up, caught the bone in his mouth, and trotted off the court to chew on his new prize. "Houndour is out of bounds," the referee reported. "The winner is Marowak!" "Anubis, return," Nori commanded with a disappointed sigh. She readied another PokeBall and tossed it out. "Go, Set!" "Sorry, Ice, but you'll have to sit this one out," Smasher said, recalling the Marowak into his PokeBall. "I'll need you at full power later. Shuriken, let's go!" Shuriken docked his skateboard onto his back and hovered out the middle of the field. Once there, he glowed with Hidden Power and rapidly spun in a sparkler effect, much to the audience's delight. This annoyed Set to no end. How dare this subpar excuse for a Psychic-type upstage him!? Set swore to use his superior mental talents to show that Starshape what for! As soon as Shuriken stopped sparkling, Set slammed into him from behind and knocked him on his gem. "And the Natu has stolen the Starmie's skateboard!" the announcer announced. Shuriken felt the area where his skateboard should've been. He flipped over and saw Set with it on his back. The Tiny Bird spun around a couple times in mockery of Shuriken's silly antics. Shuriken's gem glowed with irritation and steam rose from the ice around him. He zoomed from his prone position in an attempt to Rapid Spin attack his opponent, but Set teleported into the air. Shuriken then swerved for another collision course only to be smacked in the face with his own skateboard. "The Pokemon aren't even waiting for commands from their trainer!" the announcer narrated. "Stop messing around!" Smasher demanded. "Use your Hidden Power!" Energy pulsed from Shuriken's gem and gathered in spheres at the end of his legs. When the spheres reached capacity, the all flew towards one vector. Set teleported away before the blasts could strike him. Unfortunately for Shuriken, Set was originally a few inches away from him when this occured. The explosion from the balls colliding knocked him into one of the walls around the field. "Starmie is out of bounds," the referee said. "Natu is the winner!" To be continued...? -- AIM: PanGatomon MSN/E-mail: Nichirasu@hotmail.com Yahoo! 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