From: Zagro <zagro@att.net> Subject: [PW!] Pokenap! Date: Friday, June 18, 1999 4:51 PM [OOC: I haven't written PW! in over a month... anybody recognize me?] "Caterpie?" A soft nudge awoke Zagro. Half awake, the first thing he noticed was that his belt seemed much lighter. "Where's my Pokeballs? I've been robbed!" "Caterpie..." The bug crawled over to a hole partially covered by the underbrush. It was freshly dug. "Puffers and Fuzz are down there? Were the pokenapped?" A nod. "How did you escape?" Caterpie shrugged as best he could. "That's not important. We'll have to go down there too." Zagro climbed in, only to have a gate close behind him. It was a trap! A woman and a man walked over to the prison, the man carrying a Jigglypuff and a Clefairy, both tied and gagged. They paused there for a moment, the woman grinning maliciously, the man looked confused. He grinned sheepishly at the woman. "I forgot my line." She sighed. "That's okay, the motto is not important. Fool kid, I must thank you on behalf of Team Rocket for your Pokemon. You fell perfectly for the Caterpie-bot trick!" "Why do you want my Pokemon? I'm sure there are better ones available!" Puffers and Fuzz gave a muffled shout as the woman continued. "Team Rocket is running out of Clefairy to sell at Game Corner. And the Jigglypuff we're going to sell to a major gaming company, as a model for some new game. 'Mega Crunch Brothers', or something. Your Pokemon will fetch good prices." Then the duo let a resounding MUA-HA-HAAA, and left. As they were leaving, the real Caterpie crawled out of the woman's backpack unnoticed. He crawled up a tree, and using thousands of strands of silky string, he fashioned a primitive crane, and lifted the gate off Zagro's prison. "Thank you, Caterpie! You saved me!" "Caterpie..." The bug sulked, miffed that he was the least wanted by Team Rocket. "Oh, don't worry. I think your String Shot is cool! Now, let's see. They went east." He pulled out his map. "To... Cerulean. Let's go, Caterpie! To the rescue!"