From: Dryad48 <dryad48@aol.commoner> Subject: [PW!] Rotting Cheese Date: Saturday, August 28, 1999 3:09 PM "I've decided to go to Viridian City," Derrick announced weeks ago in the Ivory Island base. "What? Why?" Tank asked. "We kinda need you here to fix up things." "Well, I'm gonna try for the Earth Badge." "Are you crazy?! You gotta face Giovanni!" "and...?" "And he's the leader of Team Rocket. He'll have you killed." "That's why I have to leave now, before he knows I'm a new member of ATR. This is probably the only chance I'll get." "What a fool," Tank said to himself when Derrick left the room. [PW!] Rotting Cheese by Dryad48 Staring: Derrick Tamarack Appearances by: Nurse Joy, Officer Jenny, Cheese (once an AGNPer) sort of, and the guy from Unsolved Mysteries. Derrick had just finished walking past the sandy, rugged shores of Pallet and arrived in the lively part of town. Well, not really. "Where is everyone?" The streets were empty and most of the buildings were closed. An old woman in a walker happened to walk by VERY slowly. The wrinkles on her face looked like the Rockies seen from above. It appeared as though she was hiding a few tennis balls in the back of her sweater. He held his breath and approached her. "What's going on here?" "There's been a homicide at the cliffs. Practically everyone in town is there." "Except you?" "I'm on my way, I started heading out this morning." She pointed to a house across the street. "Okay....." Derrick set out for the cliffs. "Wait," she shouted, "I was wondering if you could take me there." But her voice was to low to be heard, even in the silence. ----- At the cliffs of Pallet Town ----- Derrick pushed his way through the crowds. "People please!" Officer Jenny shouted. "There's nothing to see here! Go home!" "Whattaya mean nothing to see here? Who's body is it?" a man asked. "Yeah!" the crowd argued. Another man with a camera was up in front. "If you know any information about this case, please contact us at.." Suddenly, Nurse Joy rushed in. "I have important information regarding the victim." All the newsreporters dashed her way. "Um, apparantly, the body has been lying there for quite some time. He suffered from fierce cut wounds from a sharp object of some sort." "This is nonsense!" a doctor shouted out loud. "This was a freak accident! You people are only looking for someone else to blame besides yourselves." Everyone ignored the doctor and turned back to Joy, except for Derrick. "Can't you see that the cuts are from the jagged rocks? The flood last year washed away all the stains!" "Do you know who it is?" one reporter asked. "uhh, yeah.." All the hanging microphones closed in on her. "Oww! hey! Aieeh! Meeh! Back up people, you're hitting me!" Everyone moved back. "Okay, it is the body of someone who has been missing for quite some time. He is the son of the S.S. Anne Captain." "What's his name?" "Let me check.." Joy searched through the documents. "Ah, the name is......" She stopped reading. "Well?" "Um, well, I think there's been a mistake. I mean, what kinda idiot would call his son Cheese?" Derrick froze. He seemed to remember meeting a pokemon trainer by the name of Cheese. ----- Flashback ----- "Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah." Cheese kept babbling on and on for hours that night and was giving Derrick a headache. "I gotta find some way to lose this guy," Derrick thought to himself. "So, you get what I'm saying?" "Um, yeah. Hey, I have an idea. Why don't we race back to Pallet Town? Loser pays for dinner." "Yeah! Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah!" "Ready! Set! Go!" Cheese ran as fast as he could. Derrick ran as fast as he could also, in the opposite direction, and jumped into the bushes. ----- Reality ----- "He must have stupidly fallen off the cliff," Derrick said to himself. "This boy's pokemon could still be alive!" Joy announced. "They could be very ill, but still be reliable witnesses." They loaded the body into an ambulance and left. "Ok, NOW there's nothing to see, goodbye! Everyone slowly walked back." Derrick stood at the cliffs watching the sun set that evening. Millions of thoughts rushed through his head. "If I just withstood that annoyance for a few more minutes...." Derrick sighed. "Excuse me?" The old woman with the creaky walker came up to him. "Am I too late?" Derrick ignored her and walked back to town. "Hey wait! Wait! O geez, now I have to walk back to my house." Once he got back, Derrick rented a room in a crummy motel and slept right away. He slept soundly until.. Bam! The door burst open and some cops entered the room. "Whwhat's going on?" "Are you Derrick Tamarack?" "Yes." "You're under arrest for murder of Cheese." "What? Now it's a crime to eat dairy products?" "No, the dead guy from the cliffs." "Ooooohhhhh. Hey, I didn't kill him!" "You have the right to remain silent, anything you say can, and will be used against you in the court of law." Derrick woke up and jumped out of bed breathing heavily. Knock, knock, knock. "What do you want?!" "Geez, I guess you ain't getting ya sheets cleaned mister!" Derrick looked at his watch. "It's four in the morning!" "Hey, I wan't to get this shitass routine done with as soon as possible, you're the only customer here." Derrick opened the door. "That's no way to treat your customers." "Yeah, whattaya know you murderer." Derrick froze. "You think I didn't see it?" Derrick backed up and the maid picked up a dead cockroach from the ground. "Look what he did, my pretties!" She showed the squished bug to a cage of cockroaches under the bucket of dirty mops. "Uh, I'm outta here." Derrick left the motel and passed the old woman on her way home, STILL. "Viridian City better not have something going on too," Derrick said to himself as he left the city limits. "Ughh," The old woman placed her key into the door. Suddenly, a crowd of women ran by her. "What's going on?" "They're having a big sale at Pacy's!" a girl shreiked with delight. "Everything is 50% off starting at five o'clock. "Well I better mosey on down there.." To Be Continued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~Dryad48 "The harvest is nigh, but the well has gone dry." "Though fortunes rise and fall, it's no concern at all." "And everyone here hates everyone here for doing just like they do."