From: Ben (ben@spam.net) Subject: Re: [PW!] Taken for Granite Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2003-10-28 09:56:03 PST Ben wrote: > "Do I really deserve this?" Ben shivered as he spoke, despite being > covered in many blankets. His swampert was not a very strong swimmer and > it being his first visit to Hoenn, he didn't know that the water outside > slateport was very tidal. In other words, he was now in dewford with > nothing but six pokemon, no money and a few potions. He jumped when the > nurse spoke to him, "I'm locking up now, so do you want to stay here for > the night?" He reclined and strolled off into the night, towards a dark > cave entrance. On walking into the cave, he shivered and immediately > sent out Nails, a hulky agron. Walking together, ben sudenly heard a > noise and stopped. Out of the dim light sudenly leaped a huge, manacing, > 2' tall...mawile. Nails smirked before skiding down and covering the > tiny pokemon in a mud slap. "Nice work Nails! Pokeball go!" The pokeball > closed the mawile in a beam of red light...rocking once...rocking > twice...but then it burst out and before pokemon or trainer could do a > thing mawile clamped it's huge jaws down on bens leg. This was obviously > quite painful...OOOOWW-WWHHWW-WHHAHH-WWWWAAA! Nails tried, > unsuccesfully, to kick the tiny pokemon off, but was just buffeted by a > powerful faint attack. Knocked by suprise the pokemon fell backwards, > dragging himself, ben and mawile down into a crack in the floor. > Realising he could do nothing in the complete darkness, ben eventually > got to sleep, despite a throbbing pain in his leg. Ben was woken up by a friendly pokemon ranger, insisting that he was taken to the pokemon center, but when he was told why - he fainted. When he woke up, he was lying in bed, staring into space. It was then he overheard a nurse speaking, "...we can't remove it..." He then realised that the mawile was still attached to his leg. "HEY, GET IN HERE! I DON'T WANT TO BECOME THE NEXT BANJO KAZOOIE! The nervous nurse came into the room carrying a rucksack that looked strangely familiar (probabily because it belonged to him) and a belt with six pokeballs set into it. "I think we are going to have to keep you in..." She faltered. She was talking to an empty bed. The doors of the gym flew open, nearly coming off their hinges. "IS THE LEADER IN" Ben yelled, his voice echoing round the dark hall. He was, but he didn't look in a good mood. "He" was brawly, the fighting gym leader, and one who was rather young but well built. "The ranger said you quite talkative, are you toungue tide? Ben smurfed at his own joke. "Dude, lets just say, its not my day for battles, right?" "Well that makes two of us. Are we gonna start or what?" Brawly glanced at the suspiciously mawile-shaped bump under the young trainers baggy trousers, but looking at his expression, said nothing about it. "You may use two pokemon, no time limit - LET THE BATTLE BEGIN!" Two smart taps on a bell signed the start. Ben started with his chubby swampert while brawly commenced with a Makuhita, that immidiately smashed into swampy chin with a powerful arm thrust. Before ben could say a thing another arm thrust floored his pokemon. "COMON, SWAMPY! Mud slap, NOW!" Swampy jumped up and showered the smaller pokemon with mud. Makuhita flew at Swampy in rage, but unfortunately, a wall got in the way. "ROUND ONE TO CHALLENGER" Brawly's second pokemon was a mean, green Breloom. "You've always got the right one for the job havn't you," Ben said as breloom sapped swampy to knockout. "But can you beat this? Go Blade!" A large Aggron came out and immidiately beat breloom into the back wall with his hefty iron tail. "BATTLE AND MATCH TO THE CHALLENGER!" Brawly gruddingly gave ben the Gym badge and a genorous amount of prize money. "It really is not my day," he sighed. After a quick visit to the pokemon center, carefully avoiding the nurse, ben dished some money out to a man on the quay. Then he (and mawile) chugged back towards Johto across the sea. Johto and Mt. Silver - every trainer knew about the silver conference.