From: <lordlocke@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: [PW!] Of Mewtwo and Plans Date: Saturday, September 25, 1999 4:50 PM Back in Celadon City... Still early in the morning, Gads was, for the first time in days, sleeping peacefully. Of course, it couldn't last "WAKE UP GADS! YOU HAVE GOT TO SEE THIS!" Gads shot up, glancing around for anything resembling a threat. All he saw was Monk-chan giving an angry glare at Mara, who was in the doorway. "What's up? Celadon under attack again? I'm going back to sleep." Gads went to lay back down. "It's Propti... protoci..." "Protopticon?" "YEAH! Replicus has issued a rematch to it!" "WHAT!?!" Gads, Monk-chan close behind, was out of the room in moments, catching the tail end of the news flash. "...to avoid potential harm to bystanders that, he says, 'forced me to pull my punches,' the rematch will happen equidistant from Mount Moon, Cerulean City, and the Rocket Bottle..." Gads just looked on in shock. No way could either Doppler or Silly Putty be at 100%... and there's no telling what tricks Proteus and his Dino-buddy have in store. 'I don't know why those two are doing this, but this is basically signing a death warrent for themselves. Last thing I remember hearing from those two before I blacked out was something about a 'master', which means Proteus and Panopticon are not the only ones that were effected by Replicus's victory...' "Mankey..." Monk-chan sat there, wondering what his master was thinking. They had just fought that thing. He remembered the vicious kick that had left him paralyzed. For all his courage and bravery, the Mankey did NOT want to go through that again, especially so soon. "Gads..." Mara knew exactly what Gads was thinking, and she didn't like it at all. They couldn't... "Looks like we're delaying out trip home, Mara. We're off to Cerulean City to find this mystery 'battle zone.' Mara shook her head. This wasn't just a fight, but an impossible fight. Was Gads suicidal? "But what can you do? Protopticon's a super-powered MONSTER! I can see that Replicus you talked about being able to fight it, but us? What can we do?" "... I don't know. But I do know that I don't want to think about what will happen if Replicus fails to win. So we're going to make sure THAT doesn't happen. Don't worry, we won't become involved if we don't have to. I don't WANT to fight that... thing again, but it may come down to it. Besides, it's better for me to go after it then to wait for IT to come after ME!" Gads dashed out of the Pokemon Center for the nearest Pigeot Airlines, all thoughts of anything besides what was to come in the near future pushed aside. He didn't know how much time he had, therefore he didn't have a second to waste. Monk-chan and Mara ran closely behind, trying to keep up. And back at the Pokemon Center, a familar-looking shadowy figure entered the door. It had an important phone call to make... TBC? From your friendly, neighborhood LORDLOCKE Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.