From: "Rob" <robfrompw@yahoo.com> Subject: [PW!] Fallarbor Fallout Date: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:49 PM A twelve year-old girl with long black hair merrily skips out of Fallarbor's Pokemon Center, having just last night found out from the Center's nurse that she missed the Cable Car to Lavaridge Town quite a few miles ago in her journey. A shiny Zigzagoon bounces after the girl in the black dress as she heads east, bracing himself for the volcano fallout he'll be inhaling as soon as they leave the town limits. Just west of the Pokemon Center, a teenage biker girl with long green hair crouches behind some artificial shrubbery decorating the path to the building, preparing to ambush the girl heading east. An angry Smoochum next to the leather-clad biker glares at the girl in the black dress, planning on reclaiming her Magcargo from the child. Just east of the Pokemon Center, a middle-aged magician with thinning brown hair hides behind one of the building's walls, also planning to ambush the girl heading east. A Mawile next to the tuxedo-clad magician opens her maw wide, ready to Bite the girl in the black dress since she wants to help the magician take back the shiny Unown the girl stole from him. Just south of the Pokemon Center, a group of travelers in search of a young man named Smasher are on their way out of the town, wanting to regroup in Mauville with the rest of the people that make up their party. From their perspective, they can see all three people near the Pokemon Center, as well as all three of their Pokemon. The only one who actually does see them, however, is a half-human half-Ditto hybrid, who turned her attention towards the Pokemon Center the moment she sensed very strong psychic activity coming from the girl - or better put, from within some of the girl's Pokeballs. "Kitsu, wait!" "Mawile, Bite!" "Ziggy, Sand - Attack!" "Diva, Ice Beam!" "Is something wrong, Aerie?" asks Kitsu, the half-Ninetales hybrid of the search party, addressing the half-Ditto girl she's carrying. "Aaaaaaw!" Marvin the Magician's Mawile declares with her steel maw wide open as she leaps towards the girl in the black dress. "ZigzaaGOOON!" cries Ziggy, the Zigzagoon belonging to Terri, the girl about to be attacked, as he kicks dirt into Mawile's eyes. "I don't KNOW Ice Beam," complains Diva, the Smoochum captured by Roxie, the biker. "You really should know that by now." When Aerie points at the Pokemon Center, each member the search party in Fallarbor Town reacts accordingly. Kitsu is the first one to look in that direction, and she's followed by Keaton. Cassandra Gale turns her attention to the Pokemon Center next. Derek Fisher's Medicham looks towards the Center before his Trainer does, since Derek is still glancing back at the Magma Base they left behind, still thoroughly disturbed by their walking away from it but still not sure why. When Derek turns his head, he notices everyone else is looking at the Pokemon Center, so he follows their gaze to see a middle-aged man confronting a little girl. "You said SAND attack, not DIRT attack," Marvin informs Terri when he sees Real Tears coming from the eyes of his Mawile, "Your Zigzagoon doesn't fight fair! My poor Mawile might need eye surgery now!" "You're the one who's not fair - you are," Terri tells Marvin as she withdraws a Pokeball from a straw basket that's dangling from one of her arms. "Sneaking up on a poor little girl like me like that - how rude!" "What DO you know?" Roxie asks Diva since she has no idea what attacks the Smoochum knows. "Look, forget it. I don't care. You're an Ice Pokemon - freeze the little bitch so we can get our Pokemon back." "That's it. It's nap time, little girl!" Marvin takes a Pokeball out of one of his sapphire blue tuxedo's pockets and throws it at the ground, releasing an Exeggutor. The middle-aged man commands, "Exeggutor, put this little girl and her Zigzagoon to sleep using Hypnosis!" "Not so fast - slow down! Now it's my turn - I'm up!" Terri drops the Pokeball she removed from her basket, releasing a Magcargo. The twelve year-old girl calls out, "Magcargo, hit the Exeggutor with Flamethrower - then Mawile!" "Good. She sent out your Magcargo." Roxie pushes Diva out from behind the bushes. "You have nothing to fear, so get your ass out there and freeze her already!" The two more obedient heads of Marvin's Exeggutor start concentrating on putting Terri's Zigzagoon to sleep, but the disobedient ones ignore Marvin's command to put Terri to sleep. None of the heads attempt Hypnotizing the Magcargo that has just been released however, since Marvin didn't instruct them to, so mere seconds after Ziggy starts snoring, Exeggutor is engulfed by a Flamethrower attack that causes the Palm Tree Pokemon to fall over, unconscious. Before Marvin can recall the Exeggutor or send out another Pokemon, the Magcargo spits another Flamethrower attack at Marvin's Mawile, knocking her out as well. Out of left field, Diva the Smoochum leaps onto her Magcargo's back and slaps his Rock Shell, determined to gallop off into the sunset on her loyal steed. Five seconds later, the Magcargo takes one step forward. "DIVA?! What are YOU doing here?!" Marvin asks, surprised to see his rival from Johto in Fallarbor Town. He hadn't seen the Smoochum since the day he left Goldenrod City. "Terri's Magcargo is YOUR Magcargo? Just how many Goldenrod City citizens did this little girl steal from?!" "Leave me alone, you hack magician," snarls Diva, slapping her Magcargo's Rock Shell repeatedly, "Can't you see I'm making my getaway? It might be going a bit slow, but I'm okay with that. MOVE, YOU STUPID MAGCARGO, MOVE!" "You like things slow - do you?" Terri asks Diva with a mischievous smirk on her face, pulling four shrunken Pokeballs out of her basket with one hand, "How about I stop you in your tracks all together - how's that?" Realizing that her escape plan isn't going as well as she had hoped it would, Diva decides to follow Roxie's advice instead. "How about I stop YOU in your tracks? Time for some Powder Snow!" Diva blows a gust of snow through her lips, which covers Terri's black dress with a layer of white snow but doesn't freeze her. "You idiot," Roxie complains, stepping out from behind the bushes, "Powder Snow has a minimal chance of freezing opponents! Use a stronger Ice attack!" Diva pouts her lips, temporarily ceasing the rampant slapping of her Fire Pokemon to admit, "I... I don't know any stronger Ice attacks." After wiping a single tear from her right eye, she goes back to furiously beating her Magcargo's Rock Shell, "Hyah! Hyah! Speed me away from the insensitive jerk who doesn't know anything about me even though she captured me months ago!" "Whoa, wait a minute," Marvin says, surprised to see the biker girl he met in the Fiery Path, "Diva - you're ROXIE'S Pokemon? Since when?" "Enough with the catching up already - I'm bored," Terri declares, enlarging the four Pokeballs she pulled out of her basket, "I'm gonna freeze you all - that's fun!" The young black-haired girl drops all four Pokeballs onto the ground in front of Fallarbor's Pokemon Center, releasing four shiny Unown - Eff, Jay, Ehl, and Ehn. All four shiny Unown start circling Terri. "Fire Wand! Tickler! Blower!" Marvin calls out to three of the shiny Unown by the nicknames he gave them - Ehn, Ehl, and Jay, respectively. When the shiny Unown continue to fly around Terri, not reacting to Marvin at all, the middle-aged man asks, "Don't you recognize me? It's me, Marvin - your friend!" "They're MY friends now - good friends!" Terri giggles, happy to be flanked by such powerful Pokemon. "They listen to me - just watch!" She points at Diva with one hand and at Roxie with the other, then she demands, "Freeze these two in time - right now!" Two of the four shiny Unown fly over to Diva and the Smoochum is frozen in place, one hand a mere inch from her Magcargo's Rock Shell. The other two shiny Unown freeze Roxie just as she reaches for her Weezing's Pokeball. Their tasks complete, the four shiny Unown fly back to Terri and continue circling her. Eff allows itself a mental chuckle. Not only has the malicious shiny Unown taken control of the weak-willed Unown that the girl stole from the middle-aged man and convinced them to add their power to its own, but now it has frozen its past master, who tried to sell it instead of help it, in time. Suddenly, Eff senses another shiny Unown in the vicinity due to its psychic ability to Find others. Eff turns its eye to the group of travelers approaching from the south, ready to freeze every one of them in time if need be and take the shiny Unown that one of the female members of the group is carrying. Marvin, meanwhile, has no idea why his peaceful shiny Unown friends haven't rushed to his side to play with him. He's convinced that they would never freeze him in time, however, so he stands his ground and keeps trying to get them to come to their senses, "Fire Wand, Tickler, Blower - listen to me! That girl is a mean little thief! You shouldn't do what she tells you to do! Come back to me, you guys! If you want, your shiny new friend can join us too..." Eff glares at the magician with its one eye and telepathically commands the three shiny Unown flying around it to freeze Marvin in time. When Ehn, Ehl, and Jay start floating towards Marvin, the middle-aged man smiles. His smile turns into a frown, however, when he notices the evil look in each shiny Unown's eye. He holds the palms of his hands up and backs away slowly, asking, "I don't suppose you're all planning on nuzzling up against me?" -Marvin