From: Yoda <yoda325344@aol.com.jedi> Subject: [PW!] The Training. Date: Friday, July 02, 1999 8:45 AM (Previously, Gohan and Fox were told by the Psychics in Saffron City to stay here for training to earn the other halves of their Marsh badges. Meanwhile, Karen has undergone training elsewheres in the gym. Steve, on the other hand, traveled to the nearby Fighting Dojo to train his newfound Pokemon, Jynx.) Gohan and Fox stared at the middle-aged psychic they had just bested in battle. He was levitating, but just enough to have his feet not touching the ground at all. "Destructor", the Mr. Mime beside him, was doing the same, with that stone-like face of his. "What the hell are you guys doing?!" Fox demanded, bewildered. The psychic's eyes flew open, and stared. "Lesson one, kid. NEVER talk while meditating. EVER." Gohan and Fox both sweat-dropped. "Release your Pokemon. NOW. Training has begun." Instantly, there was an Ekans, Gyarados, Sandshrew, Bulbasaur, Fearow, Onix, Jolteon, Growlithe, Ivysaur, Dratini, and Pigeot on the floor. Lucky the room was so big; Onix and Gyarados would have been pretty cramped if it wasn't. The psychic began to speak, taking the role of an instructor. "Your Pokemon, and yourself must heighten your abilities, mental and physical. Look at my Mr. Mime: silent, cunning, and focused. You must all learn to meditate, and let your inner-mind and being take control in battle." All the Pokemon in the room lay down and shut their eyes. "Good." This went on, and on. The psychic shouted orders, and they all obeyed. They went from meditating to anticipating attacks, to battling each other in false environments, created by the psychic himself. Finally, the psychic nodded, and ordered that the Pokemon be recalled. "You have done well, young ones. Sabrina is satisfied. You have earned the rest of your badges, and my respect." Gohan looked down at his ˝ badge, finding it to be a whole now. Fox did the same. "Now go. I sense that your friends are coming to meet you outside. It has been a pleasure." With that, the two found themselves in the corvette, sitting. > "Hiya Karen, where is everyone?" he asked. > > "In the car," said Karen as she held her Jolteon in her arms. > > "How did he and your sandshrew do?" Steve asked. > > "Great," Karen replied. "Jolteon's starting to master his electrical attacks. > I think I'll call him A.C." > > "Great name," Steve told her as the two of them walked outside and into the > car and saw Fox and Gohan. "I hear that there's a technician who works nearby > by the name of Mark who works for Silph Co. I could ask him a few questions > and get my car upgraded. Interested?" Gohan spoke. "I'm all done here. Fox and I earned the other halves of our badges, finally. Anyway, I trust you two have undergone training of your own. Silph sounds alright to me." Fox nodded in agreement. "Well then," Steve said, "let's get outta here!" he started up the car, and drove… TBC! -- Yoda < http://yoda.pagehub.com > < ICQ: 31178519 > "That...was really disturbing." "Very good, young grasshopper." "Let's Turn Up The Heat!" "Macs Rule, period. What else is there to say?" <Yoda325344@aol.com> <Gohan325@hotmail.com>