From: continue <continue@my-dejanews.com> Subject: RE: [PW!] Shopping in Celadon Date: Friday, May 14, 1999 9:17 PM [NS] Last time on PokeWars!… >Between having a dragonite along and a Magnemite circling somebody’s >head, the normally crowded streets of Celadon seemed much less so as >people tried to avoid being too close to the group as they walked by. >The group made it through the ultra-modern metropolis with ease. >Within ten minutes they had arrived at the Pokemon Center. The Pokemon Center looked pretty much the same as before. The spacious interior had a few more trainers than earlier that day, but they appeared to be waiting to have their pokemon healed. Jon told Damian “I’ll be over in front of the TV. Fill me in after you talk to Nurse Joy, ok?” Damian nodded his head in acknowledgement “No problem.” After this, he and Drake proceeded up to the counter to wait for Nurse Joy. After a few minutes of staring at the walls and waiting, both Damian and Drake started to become bored. While Damian started to look around and see if there was something interesting to look at while he waited. Drake, however, decided to amuse himself with the situation at hand. The dragonite carefully watched the Magnemite circling Damian’s head for a minute. Then he shoved his head right into the path of the Magnemite. Unfortunately, Damian had taken that exact moment to turn in Drake’s direction. All he saw was something moving at his face rapidly. “YAH!” Damian fell back against the counter by reflex. The Magnemite managed to keep a perfect orbit around Damian’s head as he fell back and as he righted himself. “What was that for?” Damian demanded with a hint of indignation in his voice. The dragonite grinned and shrugged. “Yeah, well I realize that this is boring, but –“ Damian was cut off as Drake once again shoved his face right up to Damian and quickly pulled back, just in time for the Magnemite to fly by. “Wh-” Damian was yet again interrupted as Drake pushed his face in and pulled back just before the Magnemite finished his orbit. This became a regular pattern and finally Damian said “I’m sure this is really amusing for you, but could you cut it out?” Drake complied , but stopped as he was still up close to Damian. “Thanks, but could you move your-” This time Damian didn’t stop because something had just shot towards his face. Instead he was looking at Drake and noticed that the dragonite was not looking at him, but at the small magnetic pokemon. It had shifted its orbit to accommodate the object in its path, namely Drake’s head. “I’ve got an idea. When I say so, move back. Got it?” Drake slowly nodded his response to Damian. Four eyes carefully watched the orbiting metallic pokemon for several moments until finally Damian shouted “Now!” Drake pulled his head back just as the Magnemite was flying behind it. The smaller pokemon fell back into its normal orbiting pattern around the larger pokemon’s head. “Yes!” Damian raised an arm in triumph, but it only stayed firmly raised as such for a second before there were two rapid-fire flashes of light. When the flashes of light faded, Damian once again started to experience a periodic loss of vision. “I guess I wasn’t imagining that teleport thing in the electronics store.” He groaned. A few seconds later Nurse Joy came out from the back and called over one of the trainers that had been waiting for their pokemon. After she had given some pokeballs to the young girl she turned towards Damian “Can I help-, oh no, don’t tell me that’s in style again!” Damian asked “In style? What do you mean?” Nurse Joy’s expression became much less so. “Every so often our city gets Pokemon fashion trends. Some are just ways that people make up their pokemon, others are times when it becomes fashionable for people to own certain pokemon and have them perform popular tricks. I still remember the first one.” Damian’s t-shirt read: “Not that! Not the tour! Anything but that!” Whether it was what had just appeared on his t-shirt or the look of boredom that instantly appeared on Damian’s face as Nurse Joy began to recount the pokemon fashion trends of Celadon City, it could not be determined. However, whatever the reason Nurse Joy stopped and came to something relevant. “The Magnemite trend was the last one that I’ve seen. Some of the people who felt that they had to be fashionable started having these pokemon circle their heads, using the pokemon like jewelry. Some of these people made their fashion statement useful by teaching them teleport, but even that wasn’t enough to keep the trend going for long. After a while these people started to notice that no matter how long they had a pokemon circling their head, it was still annoying.” Damian interrupted Nurse Joy with a much-needed, at least he felt, “No kidding!” “After that,” she continued “most of the Magnemites were abandoned. It seems like you picked one of them up. Let’s see if there’s an owner registered to this one.” She reached under the counter and pulled out a wand-like device. She aimed it at Damian and commanded him “Hold still.” Damian did as commanded and Nurse Joy typed a few keys on the computer that the wand was attached to. After a moment the computer emitted an audible beep. Nurse Joy proceeded to lay out the situation “This Magnemite is currently unregistered. If you don’t want to keep it, we can try to capture it, but even if we do there can be a problem. If this one decides it wants to stay with you, then it could end up tracking you down by your magnetic pattern and start circling your head again. In the alternative, if you decide to keep it, it could decide that it doesn’t need to try as hard to please its master since it will already feel accepted. Once it does that, it will probably stop circling your head.” It didn’t take long for Damian to decide. “I could either have the possibility of having a Magnemite circling my head for the rest of my life or have a loyal electric pokemon who’ll stop circling my head. I’ll go with the getting a new pokemon option.” Joy smiled “Do you have a name in mind to register it as?” “No, but I’ll think of one.” Damian replied. “I’m going to need your Pokedex. I’ll change the information in my computer so you’re recognized as this Magnemite’s trainer. I can transfer the record to your Pokedex, so no one else can capture it in a pokeball. Your ‘dex will broadcast a signal that will keep it from being captured by anyone else’s pokeball as long as your Magnemite is nearby. You’ll still have to get it into a pokeball before other pokedexes will recognize it as your, though.” He passed his pokedex to Nurse Joy and it was returned to him within a minute. After that Damian walked over to Jon with Drake in tow and his newly registered personal satellite. TBC… Jeff Hauser* *Sig Sold Seperately --== Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ ==-- ---Share what you know. Learn what you don't.---