From: Adrian Tymes <wingcat@soca.com> Subject: Re: [PW!] SCREW DIS! (Re: Just another day) Date: Wednesday, May 26, 1999 9:34 PM AzNPiKaPi wrote: > She took her gun and put the last few bullets in. Grabbing the handle her > hands shaking it she put the gun in her mouth... "Has life really abandoned you that much, that death would honestly be preferable?" Wind opened her eyes. No one had been around that she had seen. "Come, lost one. Let me show you how to make it better." #Screw this.# Wind squeezed the trigger... ...only to have the gun fall apart in her hand. Only when it fell away, did she see the Scyther blade that had sliced it up lightning-quick. "Now, now. It is quite obvious your old life has nothing to offer you. But, come with me, and I can give you a new purpose, a new hope. Maybe I can even help you get back at whoever hurt you so." "You can't bring back my Butterfree." A slight pause, then... "Can't I?" Something fluttered towards her hand, still holding the pistol's stock... Wind's eyes widened. "Im...possible..." Her Butterfree...or, at least, a perfect replica thereof...flapped down onto her hand, landing gently. "*Nothing* is impossible, for me." It was the Butterfree...or, at least, Wind's ears told her that the source of the voice was very near to it, and she saw nothing else that could speak. "And I grant boons to those who serve me well, young one. All I ask in return, is that you serve me without fail - simple competence and obedience. You grieve for the loss of your pet...that is wrong. Grieve, instead, for your friend, for while I will not revive a mere pet, I may be able to return your *friend* to you." Doppler gauged Wind's reactions, moment by moment. He needed to work on his recruiting pitches, and this was a perfect chance: if he failed, this one would kill herself, and tell no one of his slip-up. Of course, Doppler did not bother to burrow into Wind's mind enough to find out who killed Butterfree; if he had, he would not have thought, #Practice...I merely need *practice* to convince Minax to serve me.# TBC?