From: Roberto Perez-Vila <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net> Subject: Re: [PW!] Celadon City Goes Crazy Date: Thursday, July 22, 1999 12:35 AM Nendil wrote: > A loud screech from microphone feedback got their attention, as well as > everybody else's in the vicinity with a wince. Another band was getting ready > to perform on one of the many stages set up in the city streets. "Gaaahhhhh!" Robert screeches out, clenching his ears in pain, "I *hate* that noise! Not to mention loud noises in general. Wait a minute, I just did mention it after all!" He slowly removes his hands from his ears. Mithril-rama groans at another one of Robert's lame attempts at humor, "Well, I doubt we can find any quiet places in Celadon for you to take a break in. Should we just go to the Bike Route now?" "Most excellent idea, my sweet!" Robert smiles, takes Mithril-rama's hand, and starts heading westward. The trek through the large city proves very difficult, since the duo have to push and shove their way through hordes of people. Once they are finally on the opposite side of the giant mosh pit, Robert and Rilli both let out a sigh of relief. This quasi-tranquil moment is soon shattered like many others, this time by some shouting, "Honey Baby! Honey Baby! Wait a minute!" The voice is a sweet sounding female voice. Robert turns towards the source and finds a barefoot and pregnant strawberry blonde girl about his age smiling at him, "I'm carrying your Baby, you look sexy!" Mithril-rama opens her mouth wide and looks up at Robert, "You have some explaining to do, Robert!" Robert immediately sweatdrops and blushes, "I don't know what you're talking about, miss!" "What about some sweet love, Robert?" The pregnant woman presses herself onto a very bashful Robert, smothering him with kisses on the neck, since she's too short to reach his face, "Free love is most excellent, sweet Honey Baby!" The moment Robert gently removes the pregnant woman from his grasp, he realizes what is going on. Her skin is a little too rubbery to be human. Robert shakes his head, "No... I left you back at the Viridian Forest..." "So you *do* know her!" Mithril-rama huffs, looking very annoyed with Robert at the moment. Robert places his hand on Mithril-rama shoulder, "It's not what you think, Rilli... I think she's actually that Ditto that has been following us around since our last trip to Fuschia City!" Robert looks back to the pregnant woman at the very moment that she shrinks back down into the purplish-pink blob that is her true identity. "Ditto! Ditto!" The Pokemon on the ground laughs out, pleased with the trick it has just played on Robert. Something is slightly different about the Ditto... It looks a little fatter than usual. In fact, it looks pregnant. Robert is taken aback by the sight, "It looks like... like it's pregnant! But... no, it couldn't have been..." Even though he really doesn't want to, Robert remembers when that very Ditto turned into a female Tauros and his own Tauros got a little too excited about it and carried out his primal instincts, "No way..." Mithril-rama is about as frightened by the small Ditto on the ground as Robert is of every other Pokemon in existence, "Pregnant or not, get it away from us before it tries to do something nasty to us!" "But, I can't hurt a pregnant Pokemon..." Robert bites his lower lip, wondering how to prevent the bothersome Ditto from following them towards the Bike Route, "I know! I'll put it to sleep... I'd call Haunter to use his Hypnosis, but he might pull out a mallet. Hmm, if I remember correctly..." Robert reaches for his belt and pulls the fourth Pokeball from it, "This Pokeball should contain..." He extends it forward, and a rather large flower Pokemon emerges, saying, "Vileplume!" The Ditto blinks at Robert's Vileplume and within moments, becomes an almost exact replica. The only difference is that the other Vileplume is just a little more pudgy than Robert's, "Vileplume!" "Okay, Vileplume..." Robert commands from a distance, "Use Sleep Pow..." Robert's order is interrupted by a disgruntled looking man wearing a tie-dye T-shirt running up, "Whoaaa, dude, two Vileplumes! Heyyyy man, I gotta get those petals, dude! I just neeed them!" He rather clumsily grabs both of the Vileplume, and starts to get away, not really caring that what he is doing constitutes stealing. Robert chases after the man and yells out, "Vileplume, I changed my mind, use Acid!" Robert's Vileplume squirts some Acid from the top of her head onto the man and the pregnant Ditto does the same! The hippie falls to the floor, releasing both Vileplume, and he squirms around in pain. Robert smirks at the guy, "That's what I call an Acid Trip!" Mithril-rama overhears this, chuckles a little, and walks over towards where Robert is, "Is he going to be okay?" "I think so..." Robert looks down at the man and at his smiling Vileplume, "But it serves him right to try to steal my Vileplume and the Ditto... Oh yeah, that's right, Vileplume, use Sleep Powder on that Ditto!" Robert's Vileplume obeys, a blue powder is ejected from her head, and within moments, the fake Vileplume is resting alongside the hurt hippie. "Vileplume, return!" Robert calls her back into her Pokeball, "And now, we run!" Robert and Mithril-rama enjoy a brisk jog to escape Pokestock '99, and they soon find themselves in the peaceful area west of Celadon, which leads to the Bike Route to Fuschia City. There, they enjoy the silence, and approach the Snorlax blocking the narrow path to the Bike Rentals booth. Mithril-rama is shocked, "It's still asleep with all that noise going on just over there in Celadon City?! I'm starting to think that Pokeflute might not work..." Robert reaches into his pocket, where he stashed the Pokeflute that Mr. Fuji gave him earlier that day, and retrieves the musical instrument that has a tiny Pokeball on it, "Let's hope it does." He raises the instrument up to his mouth and begins blowing into it... horribly... The noise produced by Robert's playing of the Pokeflute is so hideous, it could probably wake a mummy up from the dead. The Snorlax before them begins to stir. "It's working!" Mithril-rama cheers, "I can't believe I'm saying this, but *keep* playing the Pokeflute!" Robert continues playing the instrument horrifically, and the Snorlax bellows out in a strange voice. The creature struggles to stand up. Once it does, Robert spits the Pokeflute out, shocked by the sight before him. The Snorlax is even more huge standing up... and there's something more strange about it, "Oh my gosh! That Snorlax is choking on two giant watermelons!" Mithril-rama looks up at the creature in front of her and sweatdrops, "Uhh, Robert, that's not it... I think it's female. In fact, I'm pretty sure of it. In fact, again, I think she's a *hungry* female... and I'm afraid we look like appetizers to her!" "Is that so?" Robert backs away slowly from the Snorlax as Mithril-rama runs away. He slides his backpack off his shoulder and quickly rummages through it. He pulls out a Pokeball and throws it at the Snorlax. It bounces off her giant belly! "Okay..." Robert then grabs the blue Great Ball his mother gave him for his birthday, "Take this!" He hurls the Great Ball at the Snorlax with all his might, and it also bounces off her belly! "Okay then, you asked for it!" He rummages through his belongings just as the Snorlax gets close enough to bite his head off. He removes the shiny golden Ultra Ball and closes his eyes as he throws it at the massive Pokemon in front of him... Noticing that his head is still attached to his body, Robert opens his eyes, to see the Ultra Ball shaking violently on the ground and no Snorlax in sight, "Whew..." The Ultra Ball snaps open, releasing an incredible amount of energy, which reforms into the Snorlax, "Of course, I have to weaken her, first... Want to help, Rilli?" Mithril-rama shouts out from a distance, "Nope, but I'm right behind you, Robert!" "Okay... I have to handle this myself." Robert looks up at the imposing, gargantuan female Pokemon looming over him. He reaches for his first Pokeball and throws it out, "Haunter, one more time!" The zany purple ghost Pokemon laughs as he emerges, but his laughing quickly fades when he sees the living, breathing building before him, "Haunt?" "Haunter, you're the best Pokemon I have... You can do it!" Robert calls out excitedly, plucks his Ultra Ball from the ground, and runs to where Mithril-rama is standing, far away from the action, "Use Confuse Ray, Haunter!" Haunter flies up into the air in front of the Snorlax and narrows his evil-looking eyes, "Haunt, Haunt, Haunter!" A beam is shot out towards the Normal Pokemon, and she looks confused. The Snorlax begins to claw at herself with her arms, which though huge, look small in comparison to her larger body. Haunter laughs at the sight, "HAW HAW HAW!" Robert laughs as well, since it does look rather silly, "Now use Night Shade, followed by Hypnosis!" "Hypnosis?" Mithril-rama asks as Haunter goes in to attack the confused Snorlax with the dark matter that emits from his detached hands, "We just woke Ms. Cranky up! If you put her back to sleep, the Ultra Ball will just bounce off of her like it did last time you used it!" "No it won't, Rilli!" Robert chuckles intelligently, "The Pokepedia said that the Snorlax's belly becomes soft when sleeping *naturally.* This move *induces* sleep, *thus* it should make my chances of catching her greater!" Mithril-rama looks a little shocked at Robert's response, "You're right... How did you know that?" "I learned it from you, of course!" Robert laughs, then goes back to watching his Haunter. The Ghost Pokemon is laughing at the fact that the Snorlax is trying to Head Butt him. Every time her head phases right through his ghostly body, he lets out another wild cackle! Robert gets tired of it and yells, "I told you to use Hypnosis, Haunter!" "Haunt..." Haunter narrows his eyes at his trainer, then goes back at the task at hand. He waves his arms in front of the Snorlax. Her tense eyes relax as she slowly falls back into her dream state. "Haunt, Haunter! Haunt?" "No, *don't* use Dream Eater this time!" Robert responds to his Pokemon, as he readies the golden Ultra Ball once again, "That might make her faint, and I can't catch her if she's fainted. I learned that from when I tried to catch Psyducks at Bill's Lighthouse." He runs over to the sleeping Snorlax and throws his Ultra Ball straight at her belly! In a blinding flash of red light, the huge Pokemon gets sucked into the Ultra Ball shakes, less violently... Once, twice, three times... It stays still. Robert cracks a smile, which bursts out into all out cheering, "I caught another Pokemon! I caught a Snorlax! She can probably beat any Pokemon by just sitting on it! YES! WOO HOO!" He runs over to pick up the Ultra Ball, but the moment it makes contact with his hand, it disappears into thin air. "Rilli, remind me to change Pokemon when we get to Fuschia City..." Robert looks at the sun, which is approaching the horizon, "Which should be as evening falls." The narrow path to the Bike Rental shop is now cleared, and Mithril-rama takes the lead. -Robert