From: SwordianMaster <spooncheese@msn.com> Subject: [PW!] [Lanna] A return to the roots of emulation... Date: Tuesday, June 29, 1999 5:23 PM Lanna looked at the road to Bill's Lighthouse in despair... She had heard that Bill had completely lost it within the past few days, but if she wanted to start a pokémon journey, it was the lighthouse or Professor Oak's Laboratory in Pallet...and really, she wanted to get back to Vermillion fairly soon for a Thunder Badge before she set out for the others... Lanna's thoughts were, as seemed unfortunately common for her, interruped by an odd noise. Lanna was starting to get quite used to it, but what she saw this time actually startled her... she looked into the trees and saw an exact replica of herself... as if she was looking in a mirror. Lanna stepped back and gasped in shock, and not surprisingly, the thing did the same thing. However, there seemed to be a "di...." sound accompanying it. Hmm, Lanna thought. If this is what I think it is, then it would be nice to have... "Bahamut..." Lanna commanded in a sharp whisper, "Go in front of me and distract the... uh.. other me." "Char?! Char char man char der!" "Don't ask! Just distract!" Lanna demanded, as she slipped in the trees behind the doppleganger.. <<ooc: How many of you know what this is yet? *sees all the PW regs raise their hands* Thought so.>> "Char!" Bahamut was doing a little... well, a fire dance would be the best thing to call it, and, just as Lanna expected, the thing, which she now confirmed to be a Ditto, was in the form of a Charmander, doing the same thing. "Pokéball! Go!" The ditto turned around just quick enough to notice the pokéball flying towards it and to belt out a quick "Damntto!" before it was sucked up by the pokéball. <<ooc: Yes, I'm giving the Ditto fairly articulate speech, with the exception of adding "tto" to every sentence.. makes it more realistic IMO.. ;-)>> The pokéball squirmed, jumped, and did several acrobatic feats in an attempt for the Ditto to escape, but, it was no use, as eventually the action in the ball died down and the red "caution" light slowly faded. Lanna went over to the pokéball, picked it up, and muttered "I think I will call you... Zophar." She then proceeded to shrink the pokéball back to it's smaller size and hang it once more from her neclace. From the looks of it now, she might just be able to beat Lt. Surge and get herself a Thunderbadge with just this! She may have lost a house, but things were, once more, starting to look up. And if all else failed, once she got into the Elite Four, she would be able to extract revenge on Team Rocket... oh yes, they would pay. TBC... <<What'd ya think? I know I went overboard with the OOCs, but still. I know getting a level 16 Ditto is a little munchkiny of her, but I doubt she'll be able to control it until she gets to Cerulean.. until then... heh heh heh. Also, the Ditto idea was inspired by the thread about there not being any "plain vanilla" Dittos out there. And the name Zophar was inspired by Zophar's Domain, the first website I think of when I think of "emulation"... something Dittos are, in their own way, very good at. Sorry for rambling here. Ta ta!>> -- ~~SwordianMaster Bryann ~Sigglypuff Launcher v. 1.7 ~~Siggyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy*squelch* Bryann: *sigh* Back to the drawing board...