From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net) Subject: Re: [PW!] The Darkness Comes! (Was re: [PW] The Trouble With Tribbles, I Mean Nincada) Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon Date: 2003-08-30 23:10:08 PST YCBY (Chet Weaver) wrote: > 'Let go, you dumb bugs,' Smasher growled to himself. With a grunt, he > metaphysically pulled harder on the spirits. They began to trickle out from the > Shedinjas and into the orb Smasher created. Soon the trickle became a pouring > and then a deluge of spirits escaping their prisons into the safety of Smasher's > hands. Smasher strained to keep the orb focused. There were far more spirits > here than he anticipated. Eventually, the flow stopped and Smasher was left > holding a sphere the size of a Golem. > > "That's all of them," Smasher said. "Quick, get Kitsu and Keaton's spirits out > while I can still hold on!" "Right." Aerie snapped back to her normal self, leapt off the slowly dispersing pile of shedinja, and looked at the sphere. She put a hand on one hip, smirked, and ran her free hand through her hair, tagging that pose to her thought broadcast into the sphere: #Hey, there, sexy. Been looking for you.# As she filtered through the replies, she dismissed the unsurprising astonishment and generic moral offense. Kids coming on to adults like that was not normal for human society, which meant that any replies of that nature came from normal humans and could be ignored. Her smirk deepened at the surprisingly large number of generally receptive replies - their eagerness only served to identify them as not her quarry, thus defeating what the lechers sought - though she could not help but feel a little dirty after receiving them. Then she found it. A spark of irritation, combined with definite recognition of the sender. That had to be Kitsu. Reaching in with her mind, she pulled out the soul with that spark and examined it; sure enough, it was Kitsu, and she had Keaton in tow. Sucking in air was more symbolic than anything else, but it did prompt the two souls to enter her... #AERIE!!!# Kitsu mentally yelled the instant her soul was in contact with the half-ditto's. #(Defend/defuse.) Kidding. ^_^ I had to find you somehow.# #...# #(Verify secondary objective.) Hey, Keaton, you in here too?# #Yeah, I'm here. What's left of me.# #Don't worry, I'll have you back where you belong soon enough. (Potential for privacy breach. Diplomatic solution available.) In the mean time, don't pry too deeply into my fantasies about your sister, okay?# Kitsu's #...# was a very angry #...# just then. #(Humor backfiring. Fall back to seriousness.) Save it for the enemy, Kitsu. You may need that anger.# "Okay, got 'em. Now do what you're going to do with those other souls and let's go." TBC?