Subject: [PW!] Attack of the L.5 Pokébrats! Date: 12 Jul 1999 10:38:06 GMT From: bandraptor@aol.com (Bandraptor) Organization: AOL http://www.aol.com Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon POTPW! Blizzard finally got her lunch! Blizzard finished her meal, and took a quick look around. Taco had taken Lickitung over his knee, and was busy tanning its rear. Depth Charge was strung up from a flagpole, shouting obscenities at the bemused onlookers. This seemed like a good time to duck out. * * * Not too far away, a girl named Moro had stopped to eat her lunch. Moro was what one might call a bit of a braggart. She liked to tell people about how she'd captured all 151 Pokémon, but had mysteriously lost them all, two weeks and three days ago. (Which, oddly enough, was two days prior to the date that her trainer's license had been issued.) According to Moro, Mewtwo was a malicious creature, bent on destroying all life on Earth. However, his weakness was his lack of intelligence, which is why she always defeated him in battle. She'd had two sets of parents, one of which had been killed by Team Rocket, the other by Anti-Team Rocket. Her grandparents had been eaten by a clan of evil Mew; and her third cousin, twice removed, had been turned into a doll by Sabrina. She'd sworn to avenge them all, and her goal was to destroy Team Rocket, ATR, the Mew, and the Pokémon League. For some reason, Moro didn't have many friends, which is why she was eating her lunch alone. Her Rattata, Berserker, sat nearby, chewing on the crusts from her sandwich. Her Pidgey, Airhammer, was perched on her soldier. Sting, her Weedle, was curled up in a ball at her feet. Inobukari and Hephaestes, her Pikachu and Charmander, were playing tag, and laying on enough saccharine, to give a Clefairy a toothache. Everyone froze, as the leaves of a nearby bush began to rustle. A large white cat stepped out from the underbrush, and pranced over to the picnicking group. "Purr?" Blizzard asked. She was pretty sure that the girl had some cheesecake in her lunchbox. "Wow..." Moro thought. "A *white* Persian! Nobody else has one of those! Having an off-color Pokémon, is sure to make me stand out, amongst all the other trainers!" She turned to the Rattata. "Berserker, go!" "Why do *I* have to go?" the Rat whined. "Because I said so." "Oh." "So will you go?" "No." "Pretty please?" "No." "Pretty, pretty please?" "Okay." "I'm so glad we worked that out!" Moro exclaimed, giving Berserker a hug. "Me too." Berserker replied, wiping a tear away. "I'll never disobey you again!" Berserker walked up to Blizzard, and Tackled her. Blizzard yawned, and flicked him out of the way. "DAMN YOU, BASTARD, YOU KILLED BERSERKER!" the girl screamed. "AIRHAMMER, GET IN THERE, AND MAKE HIM SLAGGED!" The Pidgey used its Gust attack on Blizzard. Blizzard, outranking it by a good 30 or so levels, took in a deep breath, and blew Airhammer into a tree. "DAMN IT! IKOBUNORI, GO!" Inobukari shuffled over to Blizzard. "Pika?" "Shan?" "Pika pika..." "Shiian..." Moro's newfound ability to understand Pokéspeak, told her that they were discussing the merits of Man or Astroman's newest CD. Blizzard felt that the harmonies counterweighed the melody perfectly, but Inobukari thought the bass was overpowering. Unfortunately, Moro had no idea what *that* meant. "CRAP! KOBUNABU CAN'T WIN! I'D BETTER DO SOMETHING!" Moro reached into her knapsack, and pulled out a Thunder Stone. "KARINABU! CATCH!" "Chu?" The Thunderstone hit Inobukari squarely on the head, knocking her unconscious. "DAMN IT! THIS THING CAN'T BE BEATEN! ...GO, CHARMANDER!" Hephaestes sauntered over to Blizzard, and used it's hideous Growl attack. Blizzard rolled her eyes, and backhanded the Charmander. It flew backwards, and landed at Moro's feet. "OH NO! CHARMANDER'S BEATED!" Moro cried. Hephaestes' cringed, and struggled to get to its feet. "Char..." "CHARMANDER!" Moro cried. "Char..." it responded, weakly. "CHARMANDER!!!!" "Char..." "CHARMANDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!~" "CHAR!" Suddenly, Charmander began to glow! It's body, silhouetted in white light, started to grow larger. It's stubby fingers hardened into fierce talons, and bat-like wings sprouted from its shoulders. "WOW!" Moro cried, "CHARMANDER evolved into CHARIZARD!" "Per...sian?" Blizzard facefaulted. "YEAH, CHARIZARD! FIRE BLAST HIS ARSE!" "Charr!" The monster grumbled, firing off the most powerful flame attack known to man. Blizzard tried to escape, but of course, she was no match for the inexperienced trainer, and her newly evolved Pokémon. Moro threw out the experimental pokéball, that had been given to her by a robot in a judge's wig, and the Persian was sucked inside. TBC... -Beth "Ii kanji!" http://members.aol.com/bandraptor