From: Rob (robfrompw@yahoo.com) Subject: [PW!] Parting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2003-11-20 21:04:44 PST "Wake up! Wake up!" Marcia is suddenly awoken by the words shouted by Nurse Joy, who's presently knocking on the locked door of Marcia's room in the Violet City Pokemon Center. Marcia slips one arm out from under her bedsheet and slaps the middle head of the Dodrio-shaped alarm clock on the night stand next to her bed. The beak on the animatronic clock's head squawks, "9:04 AM!" Marcia sighs - she's used to sleeping until 10 AM but she can't this morning since her ship leaves the Olivine City Port at noon and she needs to start getting dressed to be on time. Nurse Joy yells, "If you don't wake up now, you're going to be..." "LATE! I KNOW!" Nurse Marcia rubs her eyes as she calls out to her co-worker, "I'll be ready in a few minutes! Aren't there some Pokemon in the back room who need healing or something?" When she hears Joy's footsteps moving away from her door, Marcia says to herself, "I wish I never had to see her face again. Maybe the Nurse Joy in Slateport City's Pokemon Center is an illegitimate daughter and looks nothing like the others. One can only hope." Wearing a light blue nightgown that ends just above her knees, Marcia steps out of her bed and looks at herself in the tall mirror she had put into the room. She combs down her presently frizzy long blue hair with her fingernails, unsuccessfully trying to get the kinks out of it. She smirks at her image in the mirror and comments, "Geeze, Marcia - sometimes you're just too kinky for your own good." She then turns her attention to the small belly that's developed below her large breasts. She shakes her head, "I've been stuck sitting in this Pokemon Center for way too long. Bicycling to Olivine will do me good." Turning away from the mirror, Marcia opens a drawer in a nearby dresser and rummages around it, "What to wear? What to wear? I hope my fashion sense hasn't atrophied since I've been wearing plain white nurse's uniforms for the past two years. Ah ha! This'll do just fine as a top." She pulls a sleeveless white shirt with a V-neck out of the drawer as well as matching white undergarments. She then opens another drawer on the dresser to withdraw light blue jeans that look too small to accommodate her ample posterior. Slinging the clothes over her forearm, she marches into her bathroom to answer nature's call and shower. Almost an hour later, Marcia steps out of the bathroom wearing the white shirt and light blue jeans, her face covered with foundation, concealer, lipstick, liquid eyeliner, mascara, and just a hint of blush. She's holding a blow-dryer in one hand and a brush in the other, using them both to straighten her recently-washed hair. A big fan of multi-tasking, she grabs the rims of knee-high black leather boots on the floor with her toes and tosses them over to the bed. Still combing her hair, she sits down on the bed and commences to slide her feet into the boots. When she's done, she sets down the brush and dryer on the counter in the bathroom and walks back to the full-length mirror in her room. The first thing she notices after spinning is how large her buttocks has gotten in the past two years. Since she had spent so much time in loose nurse skirts, she hadn't noticed its expansion until now. "I wish Dee were here so he could tell me if these jeans make my butt look big." Marcia shrugs, sliding a few stray strands of blue hair behind her ears with her fingers. "It doesn't matter. These are my loosest jeans anyway, and I'm not going to ride a bike wearing a skirt." After deciding she's not going to change her pants, she grabs the black leather utility belt on the nearby dresser and straps it on. Sufficiently satisfied with her current look, Marcia leaves her room at 10:01 AM. When Nurse Joy, who's sitting at the Pokemon Center's front desk, sees Marcia enter the lobby, she comments, "Wow, Marcia - you look great! You'll make an excellent first impression today when you meet my third cousin twice removed." "I always look great." Marcia remarks with a smirk on her face, "By the way, there's some clothes left in my drawer. Many of the outfits don't..." She's about to say "fit", but feigning a higher sense of vanity than she actually has, she instead says, "...suit me anymore. They're out of style. You can keep them or donate them to the charity drive at the Sprout Tower. If you donate them, they'll either go to girls who need clothes or those monks will get off smelling my clothing. Either way, I'd feel like I'm doing a service to the community. Did the bike I rented from that Goldenrod City Bike Shop get here yet?" "Yes, about two hours ago. It's waiting for you outside." At this point, Nurse Joy stands up and walks over to Marcia, arms apart. Marcia takes a step back, "What are you doing?" "Giving you a farewell hug!" Nurse Joy reveals as she wraps her arms around Marcia. While Joy embraces Marcia, she says, "I don't know how long they'll need you in Slateport. They might even want you to stay there if you do a good job. If that happens, I may never see you again and I wanted to let you know that despite all the times we've fought, you've been a wonderful employee!" Seeing Omelette the Blissey enter the Lobby from the back room carrying Marcia's suitcase with her small arms, Nurse Joy adds, "You too, Omelette! You've both been simply marvelous to work with and I'm going to miss you both so much if your transfer becomes permanent!" "You're not so bad yourself." Marcia pats Nurse Joy on the back, hoping the woman will stop hugging her so she can get going, "Well, it's time for us to head out. Farewell." After Omelette sets the suitcase at her feet and hugs Nurse Joy, Marcia grabs one of the two Pokeballs attached to her belt, points it at her Blissey, and a red beam of light pulls Omelette into her Pokeball. Marcia attaches the Pokeball to her belt, pulls her suitcase off the floor, and walks out of the Pokemon Center. Marcia places her suitcase in a huge basket on the blue bicycle waiting for her outside the Center. She climbs onto the bike and starts pedaling. She pedals past Sprout Tower, past Falkner's Gym, past an oversized Sudowoodo fruitlessly demanding she pay a toll, past a large Skarmory's nest, past Morty's Gym, past the Burned Tower, past a swarm of pink Snubbull, and past the Olivine City Pokemon Center. She pedals all the way to Olivine City's Port, where she climbs off the bicycle and delivers it to a man standing at the entrance to the Port. She pulls a Ticket out of her suitcase, shows it to the man, and once she gets an approving nod from him, Marcia carries her suitcase onto the Fast-ship S. S. Aqua, ready to set sail to the Hoenn region. -Marcia