From: "Adrian Tymes" <wingcat@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: [PW!] Insert Clever, Amusing Title Here Date: Tuesday, August 31, 2004 6:58 PM Andrusi wrote: > "Ouch," PK said as he floated back into the air. "Ouch," he said > again as Dash's Castform slammed into him, sending him flying off to > parts unknown. > > "Pika pika?" Stupid asked the Castform, hoping to follow his > "trainer". > > "Form," the Castform replied, promptly using Weather Ball to send the > Pikachu flying off to roughly the same parts unknown. It was not too many days later that PK saw what would be firmly etched into his nightmares for quite some time. He had stumbled, it seemed on first glance, upon a pokemon trainers' training camp. Although PK was too far away to understand the words at first, and thought it a bit odd that most of the trainees were themselves pokemon, he recognized his fellow pokeballs as each trainee took one in a hand, paw, beak, or whatever, and as a few of the pokemon trainees were carefully instructed to point the balls away from themselves just in case. And then... "GO!" The lack of screams bothered him the most. He knew it was because he bretheren were tightly enclosed by what held them. Very tightly. Very, *very* tightly. He was utterly paralyzed from the moment he heard the first crack until the last piece of the last mangled pokeball corpse hit the ground. Only then did he even begin to tremble in anger. They...these barbarians...no, even barbarians at least had a little respect for life. From listening to the instructor's lecture, it became quite clear that the subject was the complete and total genocide of all pokeballs. The instructor preached that their mere existance was a threat to the organization's ideals. He even claimed that one had almost taken his daughter's life! The absurdity of it galled PK - when had a pokeball ever killed? How could one? It simply was not physically possible! Which was about as far as he got before his extreme anger, having alerted and acted as a homing beacon for a certain claydol, got him picked up for questioning. Although he was securely locked away like a weapon, winding up in his own miniature cage after resisting, for some reason the guards thought Stupid was their target and interrogated him for hours and hours. PK was grateful in odd moments; the way Stupid walked when back in his jail cell between sessions, it looked like it had hurt. Besides, time alone in solitary just gave PK more time to plan his revenge against Doppler and his Pokemon Rebellion. TBC?