From: Dryad48 <dryad48@aol.com> Subject: [PW!] Trial at the Pokemon Courthouse Date: Saturday, June 26, 1999 3:46 PM "I. Will be going now." Dern got up and walked at little. He turned back to see she was gone. He heard a door slam shut and ran to it. He then looked up to realize he was in front of the Pokemon Courthouse all that time. Dern slowly strided in. "Are you ready?" "Huh?" Dern turned to see her. "Today, we testify in a later to be broadcasted courtroom." "Gulp." <<<<After changing into acceptional clothes>>>> Dern took the entire paper towel roll and wiped off the sweat emanating from his forehead in the bathroom. "Tweny minutes left," he spoke to himself. Dern couldn't stay in place. If he sat down, his legs shook as if he had Parkinson's disease. If he stood up, his stomach ached. If he walked about, he would eventually trip over his foot. "Dern, it's time to come in," a police woman (not jenny) said. She tossed him a head phone set. "Finally." Dern put on the head phones and started walking to the door, but tripped over both his feet and stumbled into another courtroom. CRASH. "Gasp!" Dern looked up to see a court audience talking to each other in a whisper-like manner. He had never seen so many pokemon obedient in one place. he saw about half the audience consisted of pokemon. The lawyers were pokemon. The defendant was a Machamp. The prosecutor was for a bruised Jynx. "ORDER! ORDER IN THE COURT!" Everyone retained their state of silence. Dern looked up to see that the judge was a huge Kingler banging his claw on the counter. Bang! Bang! Bang! "ORDER!" "I can.... understand you?" Dern asked. "You are completely clueless, aren't you?" the judge asked in a furious tone, waving his gigantic claws. "Eeeek!" Dern speed out of the courtroom as fast as crumbling legs could take him and bumped into the officer. "Wh wh what's going on?" "What do you mean?" "I could understand what those pokemon could say." "Well, you should know that the head phone device allows you and the pokemon to understand the variety of different languages you speak." ".....huh?" "Well, let me put it this way. When you spoke to judge Clawdaddy, the toughest judge in this building, what you said in English came out in in the Krabby/ Kingler language. When he spoke in his language, it came out as English too you. Also, what you say comes out in other languages at the same time to the prosecutor, defendant, lawyer, jury, audience, everybody." "That.... seems pretty impossible." "Not for the scientists at the Silph Company. The prices for these devices are lowered, courtesy of them. Thery normally cost over one thousand dollars a piece." She looked at the clock. "My goodness, I've wasted your time!" She shoved him into the courtroom and apointed him an empty seat near the back. Dern's legs started shaking nervously and his mind started to drift off into "happy land." Another police officer stood up and spoke. "All rise for the honorable Judge Osseous." Everybody stood up, everybody except Dern who was still daydreaming in lala land. Halfway to his seat, a Marowak in a black cloak thing that judges wear noticed him. He moved out of place and walked towards Dern. Meanwhile, in Dern's head he was daydreaming about a group of Clefairies dancing about in the clouds. ::lalalalalalalaaaa lalalalalalalaaaa:: they sang. Marowak was now right in front of the boy glaring. "Did you hear what Officer Penny said? All rise for ME! Judge Osseous!" Dern was now dancing with the Clefairies in his head. ::lalalalalalalaa lalalalala lalalala lalalalala la lala la laaaaaa:: BONK! "Huh?" Dern woke up from his dream. Judge Osseous's red eyes were all he could see. "lalalalalalala?" Dern was confused. Where were the cute cuddly Clefairy? "HAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHA!" everyone hysterically laughed. The judge hurried to his seat and pulled out a, larger than normal, bone. He banged it on the ounter repeatedly. "ORDER! ORDER!" And then there was silence. "Call on your first witness! ANYBODY! One more foolish antic like that, and you're outta here. "Hmmmm." Dern did want out. "Don't forget that this WILL be BROADCASTED on NATIONAL television." Dern invisioned Sirius watching the news and laughing his face off. "Call on your first witness." "Very well." Three lawyers, a Hypno, Meowth, and Electabuzz, stood up. "They are among the best lawyers around," a person whispered. "Gulp." Dern took his first good look at the jury. Derrick was right, it consisted of a pokemon of each type. They were Clefable, Vulpix, Wartortle, Raichu, Tangela, Jynx, Hitmonlee, Nidoqueen, Sandshrew, Farfetch'd, Mr. Mime, Pinsir, Geodude, Gengar, and Dratini. "We call upon Kathy Menasor to take the stand." "WHAT?" "Shhhhhh!" "How could she betray me and my beloved Muk?" Dern thought to himself. "Raise your right hand," said Officer Penny. "State your name." "Kathy J. Menasor." "Do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help you Goddish." "I do." "Ms. Menasor, tell us what you saw on the day the pokemon gangs fought brutally in Cerulean City." "Well, I was walking outside with Derrick an.." "Who's Derrick?" "Just... somebody I know." "Does he take the same position in this case?" "Absolutely." "THAT'S A LIE!" Dern shouted. BAM! Judge Osseous banged his bone on the counter, again. "Mr.... whatever your name is! Sit down and shut up!" "Hahahaha!" Kathy burst out. "I said quiet!" Dern smiled for the first time since he entered the court room. "Resume." "Anyway, we saw the a big group of pokemon." "And what was the Muk doing?" "Ohmigod, he was hurting everyone very baddly, he did all the bad stuff. He hurt the poor innocent pokemon and sent the trainers too the hospital." Kathy started bursting in tears. "Faaaaake.." Dern grumbled to himself. "What about the Muk's owner?" Hypno asked. "He... didn't care. In fact, he let the Grimer Gang influence the the Muk. he looked pretty psychotic to me." "Objection your honor!" Magikarp shouted. "This is irrelevant." "Objection denied." "My client had NO control over the Grimer Gang!" "Mr. Karp!" Magikarp flopped out of his tank towards Kathy. "Did you or did you not actually see Muk's owner durring the fight?" "Control yourself!" Osseous shouted. Kathy looked at Hypno nervously. "NO! I DID NOT SEE A DAMN THING! I ONLY WITNESSED POKEMON BLOODSHED." Kathy shouted. Meowth gawked. kathy pointed to him. "He told me to lie for the money." "Meowth, is this true?" "I. I. I. I." "I've heard enough, this court is ajourned." BAM. Reporters burst through the room and chased Kathy, and Meowth. Dern slipped through the crowd. "I guess Magikarp is a better lawyer than I thought." To Be Continued [Don't Complain, I don't know jack about the law] [Dern, write the next one and don't make it small. I'll give you details later.] Pokemon of Story: Marowak aka Judge Osseous _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~Dryad48 "If there's a key, then there must be a door. And I intend to find it." "Once again, we are running for our lives, but from our sanity..." "Good comes from bad. Bad comes from good."