From: "Saint Paul" <saint84_98@yahoo.com> Subject: Re: [PW!] [SST] Boredom Sets In Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2004 4:04 PM > John picked up the rod. "Hey Kid! You forgot your - Whoa!" John was > almost thrown overboard when the line tugged violently. Something had > been hooked! John tugged and fought with the line, hoping to reel the > stubborn creature in, though he wasn't quite sure why he was doing > this. What was he going to do with it when -if- he finally got it onto > the deck. Capture it? > > Well, he supposed that depended on what "it" was. and now the continuation... because I pressed the post button by mistake >_< well, he supposed that depended on what "it" was. He had wrestled with the mysterious creature for no more than five or ten minutes when with a mighty heave and a splash of water he pulled whatever it was onto the deck. "Poliwhirl!" The purple-blue frog creature growled it's stomach swirling madly. It leaped at John and began to visciously Double Slap his face. It got a few good hits on the trainer before John was able to shove the thing away. "Wow." John marveled. "It's definitly got a fighting spirit. I have to catch it. Savage! Come on OUT!" There was a flash of red energy as the Primeape's atoms reconfigured themselves into a solid form. "Primeape!" Savage growled as he squared off with his opponent. The Poliwhirl started things off by launching large bubbles from it's midsection, striking Savage and knocking him back a few paces. "Savage! Get up and use Submission!" The monkey pokemon leaped into the air, knocking into Poliwhirl and pinning both it's arms behind it's back. "Poilwhirl!" The water type growled out in frustration. It aimed a Water Gun attack onto the deck, which sent them both flying backwards into the wall behind them. Savage taking the brunt of the blow. He let go and the two adversaries rolled away from each other, getting to their feet and circling warily. "Savage, try using cross chop" John called to his pokemon. Savage leaped into the air and brought both fists down on each of the aquatic pokemon's shoulders, just a plit second before a water gun hit him full force, sending him flying into the air... and over the side of the ship. "Savage!" Thinking quickly, John took Savage's pokeball and pressed the recall button. Savage's body erupted into a stream of red data just as it touched the surface of the water. As soon as the energy had collected into the pokeball, John released the Primeape once again. Savage stood on the deck, no worse for wear, but understandably annoyed. Savage charged once again at his opponent. Before the Primeape could get there, however Poliwhirl beat both it's hands on it's chest then launched into a viscious Double Slap. John wasn't sure but it looked like some of it's energy had been sapped away, unfortunatly, it also dealt Savage a, well, savage blow. "Ah. Of course! Belly Drum!" That was the attack poliwhirl had used, raising it's attack power at the cost of it's own energy. "That means it should be weak enough to capture." He reached into the pocket of his jeans only to find them all empty. Oh no, I haven't got any pokeballs! John thought to himself. What am I going to do now? Above the battle, but hidden, the shiny Unown Ehm watched the young trainer battle and knew of his current difficulty. It decided it would be a fun game to try and help him out. So, leaving John to his battle Ehm floated unseen through the ship, ducking behind objects whenever passengers neared. It flew over to a nearby souvenir shop and, after Freezing Time, it went inside. Inside of the shop it found exactly what it was looking for: A plastic toy pokeball that was blue and white and had a miniture SS Tidal inside. Using it's telekinetic powers Ehm took the pokeball, as well as a wristwatch and a few other electronic gizmos and left the shop, as soon as he was out of sight Time unfroze and no one was the wiser. As soon as Ehm was safely hidden behind some crates it used it's Make ability to jury-rig the various gizmos and novelties into a fully functioning pokeball. Leaving the remains of the toys behind he took his new invention back to where John and Savage were battling the Poliwhirl. "Focus Energy, Savage!" John called out to his pokemon, hoping to keep the battle going, though for what purpose he wasn't sure. He didn't have a way of catching the frog-pokemon, after all. Just then there was a small thud and John looked down at his feet, he couldn't believe it. There was a pokeball, it's design was unfamiliar, but it was definitly a pokeball. He picked it up and held it in his hands. "Unown!" John looked up and saw floatng serenely above him was a sparkling Unown in the shape of an Ehm. "Amazing!" He gasped. "Maybe I should catch it instead." John was just about to call Savage away from wrestling the Poliwrath, when he blinked and the unown was gone. "Oh well." John shrugged. "Easy come easy go, I suppose." He hefted the newly given pokeball and chucked it at the Poliwhirl. The ball struck and the Poliwhirl erupted into a mass of blue energy which was then pulled into the pokeball. The ball hopped around for a few seconds as Poliwhirl tried to escape it's grasp, then it abruptly stopped and the pokeball let out a chime, signaling that the capture was successful. "Yes!" John shouted, pumping a fist into the air. "I caught it!" He recalled Savage into his own pokeball, the bent to retrieve the blue pokeball" from the ground. "Okay, he needs a name." John muttered to himself, turning the pokeball over in his hands, until he saw the word "Tidal" printed in large letters on the top of the ball - left over from it's former existance as a souvenir. "Hmm. Tidal..." John considered the name. "Well, I suppose it's appropriate... and it is as good a name as any. ...Yeah. I'll call him Tidal!" TBC