From: Dryad48 <dryad48@aol.commoner> Subject: [PW!] Crying in the Rain Date: Sunday, October 03, 1999 7:43 PM Neo smiled as he looked up at the words "Pewter City." Rigel smiled too. I mean, COME ON! After being attacked by Beedrills wouldn't you be happy? Needless to say, it was getting dark. Rigel looked up, "Wow....it's getting dark." Neo looked up too, "Yeah, let's go to sleep." -Morning- Rigel woke up to the sound of a Dodrio calling in the air. She didn't wake up but slept smiling at the sound. Then her eyes smashed open as she heard another Dodrio come and start attacking the other one. She got up as both Dodrios squawked and dropped dead. Neo got up and rubbed his back, "What's wrong?" asked Rigel. Neo groaned, "You want a bad night?" he picked up a small ball, "Try sleeping on one of these." the ball unrolled into a Sandshrew and Rigel squealed. "Oo! I want it!" Neo groaned, "Now come on there are many perfectly fine HUMAN boys out there....." Rigel punched him, "No! I want to catch it!" Neo groaned, "Oooh." Rigel threw the ball, it caught Sandshrew and she yelled out, "YES!!!!!" Neo groaned, "Ow......" Neo and Rigel walked up to the Pewter City Gym. "Well, this is it, my first badge. . . . " Rigel sighed and entered while Neo awaited outside. [PW!] Crying in the Rain by Dryad48 Starring: Rigel, Neo, Derrick Co-Starring: Simon, Laura Dark, Brock -=Inside Brock's Gym=- It was reaching high noon and Neo was still outside waiting for Rigel. "What IS taking so long?" he grumbled to himself as he lookded down to his watch. "Eleven forty two?" Neo stood up on his feet. "It's getting too hot." He slowly edged to the door and peered inside. It slid open and Neo fell on his face to see Rigel and Brock STILL battling it out. Aparantly, Onix was trying to whip it's tail and Sanshrew just kept dodging. There were cracks everywhere in the arena. "Onix! Focus more!" Onix kept it's eyes on the evading Sandshrew and once more, brought down it's rock hard tail. "Now!" Sandshrew once again, dodged it. Both pokemon seemed very active still, but Brock and Rigel stood, wobbling with half-closed eyes. "What is taking so long?" Neo yawned as well. "Onix is too hard to hit." "Didn't you know Sandshrew had Earthquake?" ". . . . . . . . Earthquake attack!" Sandshrew flung itself into the air, then came crashing down causing a huge rambling throughout the place. "Sandshrew has THIS much power?" Neo nodded. Onix lost it's balance and accidentaly smashed it's head into the ceiling, then it came crashing down, knocked out. Rigel, Brock, and Neo just gawked. They had wasted all those hours for nothing when Sandshrew could have taken Onix out with just one fast, easy attack. "How? Eh? Hm? Wha? He? Oo? Ga? . . . .man. . . ." Brock returned the sleepy Onix and sent out Graveler. "THIS time it won't take so long, Graveler will knock Sandshrew way." Sandshrew smiled. *You will be defeated easily.* *Oh really?* Graveler grinned evily. *Yes re. . . .* Sandshrew fell to the ground snoozing away. "Um, return Sandshrew. Rigel turned to Neo. "Who do I use." "Why not Staryu?" "Ok, I call out Staryu!" "Eh? YOU had Staryu? He coulda killed my Onix and you didn't send him out?" "Why are you giving me tips, Brock?" "Well...." Brock pointed to the sign. It read 381 losses in a row. "I might as well give you the badge. I'm surprised they didn't kick me out of my 'respected' position." ". . . .Staryu, Tackle!" "Bad move." Neo whispered. When Staryu rammed into Graveler, it fell back to the ground, only knocking off a few chips. Grinning, Graveler picked up Staryu by the legs and started flinging it across the room like a discus. Rigel started jumping up and down, overeacting. Staryu received a new bruise everytime Graveler threw it against the wall. *Ooops.* Graveler picked up Staryu again and flung it to the other side, hitting it against the wall again. "Fight Staryu, fight!" They couldn't tell whether or not Staryu was awake. Graveler took another step towards it, but Staryu suddenly shot out some water at Graveler, who backed up. "Yeah Go! Go! Go!" Staryu glid into the air. *Payback time.* He kept shooting out more water, drenching Graveler, who was helplessly backing up more and more. *Take that! And that! And that!* Graveler backed up until he stood in front of Brock. Staryu splashed a little more water on Graveler, whose eyes were not closed. Graveler started leaning over until, it fell to the ground. "I win! wooooooo! It's a good thing Brock broke Graveler's fall." "Mfff mfffhhhhhh!" Graveler glowed red, then dissapeared into the pokeball held by a very flattened gym leader. "Take it!" Brock sighed and tossed the Boulder Badge at Rigel. "Sigh," he looked up to the sign which changed to 382 losses in a row. Rigel returned Staryu, picked up the badge, and skipped out, cheering with Neo. "Finally, they are gone." Brock reached under his chair cushion and pulled out a picture he took of Officer Jenny and started drooling. "Wasn't that fun?" Rigel looked back and ran right into Derrick. "Derrick? What are you doing here?" -=We'll Be Back After These Messages=- ::Jenny walks up to Joy:: "Joy, I've been snooping around in your cabinet." ::Joy looks up:: "And?" ::Jenny pulls out tube:: "You switched toothpaste!" ::Joy smiles:: "This one is great, not only does it whitten your teeth, it helps fight tartar build up!" ::Jenny puts her hands on her cheeks:: "WOW!" ::small, unreadable print appears at the bottom of the screen:: ::Destroyed buildings appear:: "ATR needs your help more than ever." "Call 1-800-ATR-LIFE." "Donate money we so desperately need." ::Close up on the cute pitiful girl in ragged clothing:: "Or call 1-800-ATR-JOIN." "Learn how you can become a member yourself." ::Raven, James, Saber, Sirius, and Gohan are shown:: "This is a great deal! You can't miss it." "That's right, call now to order Saber's very own autographed clickety pen!" "Or, you can order this special edition Foon, autographed by Agent 0007." "OMIGOD! Each one is a great deal! Call 1-800-PWCRAP to order each one for only FIVE, count'em FIVE hundred dollars." "WOW! This is such a deal! I'm telling ya, you can't find this anywhere else!" "ONLY FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS!" "Yes, call now, and we'll throw in the Holy Libel, autographed by Cat-Gonk himself!" "WE'RE TELLING YOU, YOU WON'T REGRET IT." "YEAH, A. . " ::They get cut off:: If you want something advertised, e-mail me at: Dryad48@aol.com -=Now, Back To Our Show=- "What happened?" Neo asked. "Huh?" "You abandoned us back at the gym," Rigel pointed out. "Um, no, you abandoned me." "What?" "Nevermind." The sky was getting a little more cloudy, Derrick looked up and saw the beautiful transformations in colours. He dared not to speak to Neo or Rigel about what had happened to him since he had gone into the hive. "Let us just go find a place to stay. The three set off to find a hotel to stay in. "Ugh." Derrick grabbed his head and fell to the ground holding it in pain. "Derrick?" Neo asked. "What's going on?" Rigel panicked. "I'm fi. . . . . " Derrick fainted. "Wha? Wha? AAAAAAAAAAEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIII!" *Paras?* It came out of it's pokeball. *Derrick!* Paras released some of Derrick's pokemon *Beedrill! Butterfree! Derrick died again!* *Died?* Beedrill was very confused. *Wh...wh... what's going on?* He was hospitalized in the time the whole events had occured. He knew nothing of Derrick's fate, nor the fate of himself. Butterfree grabbed Beedrill and brought him on a rock. They started talking. Neo and Rigel just stood, not knowing what was going on. The clouds didn't depart anymore and started mourning. *What are we supposed to do?* Weepinbell asked. Paras turned around. *We can't go back to Pewter City.* *Why not?* *If we do, they'd burry Derrick, or worse.* They watched Butterfree trying to explain the means and the fates and the saddness to an unaware Beedrill. Beedrill looked down to the ground closer each time more horrible details were revealed. They were soaked, and there were no clearings in the skies. No dazzling holes of light to guide the way. The rainbows were battered away by darkness and grew too afraid to fight back. "What do we do, listen to this pokemon gossip which we can't understand? Let's get Derrick to the hospital!" Neo reached down. *NO!* Paras leaped on him and slashed his arm. He motioned for Butterfree and Beedrill. *We must seek shelter from the rain.* Butterfree turned to Pewter. *NO! We must also seek shelter from those who don't know Derrick, from civilization.* Beedrill had to lift up Derrick along with Butterfree as they carried him off into the wilderness ever so slowly. Neo and Rigel were speechless. Having no choice but to follow, Neo and Rigel did so. Walking along the lonely dirt paths, millions of thoughts caught up with Neo, Rigel, and Beedrill. These thoughts were already used repeatedly by Paras, Weepinbell, and the others. They were used in the forest, which sheltered them from the cold, mucky rain. The forest which sheltered them from light, as well as darkness. After many hours of deliberation between Paras and Weepinbell, they had spoted a cave to the left of them. *This would be a perfect rest spot for us, Derrick, and those two peeps following us,* Paras pointed out. *The perfect resting spot was back in Pewter,* Weepinebll said. The others just grumbled. They were tired, hungry, tired, wet, tired, weakening, tired, mournful, tired, unappealed, tired, sad, tired, cranky, and tired. *What better place could there be to . . .rest . . . .ZzZzZ. . .* ". . . " Rigel picked up the poor fool and walked on until they reached the cave. Managing to find some dry sticks, Neo started a fire. Paras and the others went to sleep aside Derrick. Rigel stared at the pokemon. Neo stared at Rigel staring at the pokemon. Derrick stared at Neo staring at Rigel, staring at the pokemon. He walked over and closed Derrick's eyelids. "He sat down next to Rigel again and they started making small talk. They tried to keep their mind off of only one thing. Wondering. They had experienced enough of it for now. It was midnight. The fire was dying. The rain was dying. The wind was dying. The clouds were dying. Neo and Rigel were still up. The warmth was dying. They were still wondering, and the small talk was dead. The sun rose, the air was fresh, it was a new day. Paras awoke first and poked Neo and Rigel awake. they got up and returned Derrick's pokemon. "Huh?" Rigel could hear a noise and saw the shadows of five strage people. -=Outside Mount Moon Cave=- The mission report Giovanni had sent to Laura said something to the extent of a saboteur infiltrating the TR base in Mt. Moon. That the infiltrator crashed one of the Manouevres vehicles into the side of the mountain, and had been sneaking around collecting information as a Rocket themselves. Laura's Team Rocket objective was to find that man, using her psychic powers (woo hoo) and arrest him and make him talk about ATR. But Simon and Laura's real objective was to meet up with Steak, the ATR agent Team Rocket had been looking for. "Steak?" Laura asked. "Where do you dig up these people?" "Steak's the best there is, I'm sure he located the stolen TMs by now." "We'll see." Laura said. "Don't worry, I'm sure Steak is somewhere around here posing as a Rocket." From farther down the cave, some lighting blasts and mild earthquakes occurred. A soft singing fairy voice, and more yelling. "Who are you! What's your clearance pass!" A TR yelled. About 5 TR had pokemon ready and some people cornered. The group of people didn't look frightened at all, but Simon could see them getting ready for battles themselves. To Be Continued Today's Story Included Music From: Limp Bizkit "You make believe that everybody is the same. I don't believe that everybody is the same." _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~Dryad48: Weekly Quote: "Fall seven times, stand up eight." -Japanese Proverb "Hide people from bad things, and you've made them weaker." -Me