From: <lordlocke@my-deja.com> Subject: [PW!] The Big P Pokemon Race! Interlude: Mankey's New Ability Date: Wednesday, September 01, 1999 8:59 PM > "Don't worry, it ain't serious. Just a small annoyance. Where's the > signup sheet. John signed up, then looked around. There was quite a crew > this time. Trainers riding on Slowbros, Jolteons (ouch), Tauros, a baby > Kanhaskahn was learning the ropes and one guy was doing his best to make > his Mankey ride a Tangela instead of beat it up. John sweatdropped. > "Race entries get wierder and wierder...Tara! Stop that!" The Dodrio was > literally running circles around the Slowbro and its trainer, who looked > around John's age. John apologized for Tara's behaivour, then saddeled > up and started practicing. Meanwhile, a short distance away... Gads was rapidly loosing his legendary cheerfulness in place of the increasingly-common dispair, which always came out where Monk-chan and Vinal were involved. Ten minuites and two potions later, Monk-chan had only seemed to master the art of making Vinal mad. So the Tangela would Wrap it, since it was at point blank. Once the Mankey broke free, it'd Fury Swipe in retaliation. Not to mention the fact that while they WERE cooperating, Dario, on top of his Dudrio, decided to have some fun before the race at his expence, and was running around the pair, feint-pecking the duo, causing them to faulter. And naturally, they would each blame the accident on the other. Gads began to bang his head into a nearby rock. "Why won't they work together? I've tried EVERYHTING, and they still won't work as a team! I'd better at least calm Monk-chan down so it doesn't kill Vinal during the race. MONK-CHAN! COME HERE!" The Mankey halted in the middle of another set of Fury Swipes, much to Vinal's releif, and went over it's trainer. "Monk-chan, I know that you want Tangela to go faster, but Fury-Swiping it isn't the answer." "MANKEY MAN!" "I know it needs to speed up, but it's getting better an Constricting the ground and obsticles in front of it, then pulling itself up. Why don't you try helping it rather then attacking?" "MANKEY... mank." "Would you rather ride Dow? He's slower then Vinal, and I doubt HE'LL tolerate your behavior." "Man Man." "Good. Now, let's see some teamwork." "MANK!" Monk-chan got back on top of Vinal, putting noticible effort into avoiding the now-reflex action of smashing the Tangela into the ground. "Now, let's try the Constrict-pull again!" While running at top speed, Vinal whipped out four of it's vines, then sank them into the ground, then pulled forward. It's speed was nearly doubled, but Monk-chan still didn't seem happy. "Good job Vinal! That'll keep you up with the Jolteon and Tarous. I'm not sure about the Dudrios or Rapidash, however. They're really fast. Maybe I didn't think this all the way through..." "You got that right!" Dario approached Gads, still mounted on his Dudrio. "How a clown like you ever got into the Pokemon races is beyond me. Heck, even the Slowbro's gonna beat your distaterful duo." That was the last straw. Gads whilrled around on the Dudrio breeder, doing an damn-good imitation of Mankey's Leer attack. "You're one to talk! I've heard that you've entered this race ever since you were elegable, and you've never gotten better than SECOND! One would think that you'd have given up by now..." Monk-chan, overhearing the words spouted by the cocky Dudrio breeder, then decided to try something it had never quite gotten right. It latched it hands into the Tangela's mass of vines, then moved it's arms in an upward-motion, and held on tight. The result was that Monk-chan and Vinal were catapaulted about one-hundrend meters in an arc, covering the distance in a matter of seconds. The feuding trainers both looked stunned. "What the..." "... WAY TO GO YOU MONK-CHAN!!" Gads ran over to the Mankey, who was in middle of celebration. Both started up a standard Gads victory dance, much to the amusement and emberrasment of the onlooking trainers. "YEAH! You finally learned Seismic Toss. I knew if you kept working at it you'd get it down! And you even learned it time of the race to use it on..." Gads then realized exactly HOW the Mankey learned the attack, and the dancing stopped. "... why did you use it on Vinal..." "Mank mank, mankey man, key key man!" "I don't care if it DID cover distance." Gads them turned his attention to the Tangela. "Are you ok Vinal?" "Tangel la la. La la la!" "You're... ok with it? You're not even hurt? Are you alright with Monk-chan using this tatic in the race?" "La Tangela! LA LA LA!" "You wanna beat Dario that badly, huh? Well, ok. But only as a last resort, if you've falling too far behind, ok? I wanna beat Dario too, but I'd rather keep you guys healthy. I don't want to win the race and lose my Pokemon." "Mank ank key!" "La tan la!" "Maybe it isn't so hopeless for us after all... it's good to see you two are finally working with each-other." The Mankey and the Tangela looked each other in the eye, smiling at each other(well, as much as a Tangela could). They're going to do all they could to win this one, even if it ment working as a team. Dario wouldn't get away with his comments to their trainer, either. "The race is going to start soon. We'd better get to the starting area." Gads, Monk-chan, and Tangela approached the starting line, now ready to start the race. The shadowy figure nodded in approval. Maybe there was hope yet. It was time to report in... after the race. From your friendly, neighborhood LORDLOCKE Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Share what you know. Learn what you don't.