From: "Rob" <robfrompw@yahoo.com> Subject: [PW!] [SST] All Aboard, All In Olivine Port! Date: Thursday, January 15, 2004 11:13 PM A short, chubby middle-aged man with blue eyes and thinning brown hair walks over to the railing on the main deck of the S.S. Tidal, wearing only blue swimming trunks with small white stars on them. Shortly after he boarded the ship two days ago, he bought the trunks to replace his torn up dirty golden tuxedo in one of the many shops on a lower deck of the ship. The pockets on the trunks have ample room for his two Pokeballs, his Safari Ball, his Pokenav, and his new Pokeblock Case, but the rest of his belongings, including his card decks, his flash paper, his wands, and even his Hoenn League Guidebook, have been left behind in his cabin. A short Mawile with a huge jaw walks up to where the man is standing, despite her inability to gaze out towards the city the ship she's on is presently docking at. She uses her long yellow fingers to tug at the man's shorts, wanting to catch his attention, "Mawile maw maw mawile?" Not sure what the Mawile said, but figuring she wants to know where the ship is docking, he says, "It seems that Captain Briney wasn't kidding when he made that announcement over the loudspeakers - we ARE docking in Olivine City. And here I hoped he was just messing with us, like he used to mess with me when we were hanging out together in Dewford Town. 'I'm going to kill you, Marvin', he used to say. One time he joked, 'You might've been a magician, but there's no way you'll escape the death trap I'm going to set for you'. Ha-ha! I hope we run into him during the cruise so you can meet him, Mawile - he's a very funny man!" "Maaaaw..." The Mawile boggles at Marvin's reaction to what Captain Briney said to him, wondering why he would find such threats humorous. "Well, I heard there's going to be a Captain's Gala at some point during the cruise," Marvin tells his companion, "Maybe by then I'll have made enough money beating Trainers from Hoenn in Pokemon battles to buy a new tuxedo for me and a tiny dress for you and we'll be able to chat with him!" A horn blares out, signifying to the people and Pokemon waiting in Olivine Port that the ship is now docked and that boarding will commence soon. "Hey, Mawile, want to go do some people watching?" Marvin asks his newest Pokemon, looking down at her before revealing with a grin on his face, "I, for one, want to get a sneak peek at all the pretty girls that will be wearing skimpy swimsuits soon enough!" Mawile shrugs, not particularly excited about people watching but not against it either, "Ile." "Excellent!" Marvin rubs his hands together in anticipation and walks down the main deck towards the elevators, followed by his Mawile. On the way to the room where the elevators are, he passes a large swimming pool surrounded by plastic reclining chairs where guys and girls are tanning. Marvin's hairy, flabby body disgusts many people who happen to see it, particularly the young women he smiles at as he passes, but Marvin doesn't appear to care. When he enters the room with the elevators, he pushes a down button and studies the directory posted just above the button panel. "Hmm, we're on Deck 7, the Main Deck," Marvin comments to his Mawile as he waits for an elevator door to open, "Below us is the Casino Deck... considering what happened to me the last time I visisted Celadon City, I'd better stay away from there. Then Deck 5 is where the restaurants are, Deck 4 is where I got these stylish new swimming trunks, and Deck 3 is the Lobby, where we're headed. There's nothing but cabins on Decks 1 and 2 and it looks like Deck Zero just has a doctor's office, unless someone who actually works on the ship scribbled in the words 'Pokemon Center' and not some punk kid." Ding! One of the four elevator doors in the room opens up. Marvin and his Mawile enter the elevator and Marvin pushes the button for the third deck. Soft music plays as the elevator approaches its destination. When the elevator arrives at the lobby and its door opens up, a synthetic voice says, "Deck 3 - Lobby". Marvin exits the elevator and plops himself down on one of the many couches set up in the elegant lobby, his exposed hairy back sticking to the comfortable seat. He combs his thinning brown hair over to the side with his fingers and puts his hands behind his head, staring directly at the entrance to the ship. The Mawile who followed Marvin hops up into the couch, her giant steel maw still touching the floor of the lobby when she sits on the couch. "Here they come," says Marvin, thinking of all the pretty women that will be boarding the ship soon. The middle-aged man smirks, keeping a lewd thought that entered his mind mere moments after he said that to himself. -Marvin