From: Karnivax <karnivax@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: [PW!] Full Circle Date: Friday, October 01, 1999 5:15 PM > "..." Gads reached into his pocket. He HATED these things, but > maybe they could work as artifical courage for Mara. Gads pulled out a > steel case. He opened it, produced a pair of 18-inch hand claws, and > handed them to Mara. > > "Make use of these, then. You're better with your punching and > open-handed attacks anyways, right?" > > "Yeah, but..." > > "And you're a better martial artist then I am, right?" > > "RIGHT!" Mara began to look a little braver at that. > > "And these claws are SHARP. They'd have little trouble cutting down a > decent-sized tree. That monster's little more than an oversized > Thanksgiving Turkey. I'm more that certain you can carve yourself more > than a drumstick with those things." > > "... thanks..." Mara inserted her hands, with a little trouble, into > the claws and wrapped her fist around the grip. "They're a little > tight..." > > "Well, that's because those were made for me when I was 11. They're a > little tight on me, too. Don't worry about holding back. I'm certain > that he'd kill us in a second. If we somehow MANAGE to kill THAT thing, > it'd be a small loss indeed." > > "But what'll you use?" > > "My Pokemon, my fists, my feet, and my brain. What else?" > > "But..." > > "NO buts! Don't worry, I'll be fine. I WON'T attack Vorge by myself, > I promise. Besides, if his 'little buddy' wants to get involved, I have > a bone to pick with it. If I make such a damn good prize, let it come > and try to take me then. I CAN deal with it, if worse comes to worse. > I'm more then ready for our little rematch. That'll remove one > uber-monster from the fight. Hopefully, you and everyone else can deal > with Vorge." Gads's look offered no arguements. Even his tail was > thrashing about. > > "Ready Monk-chan?" The Mankey looked up, then forced a fierce > expression onto its face. > > "All right. Then let's get moving! We're still a short distance > away, so we have some ground to cover. Make sure NOT to get spotted by > either that towering monstrosity OR his minion." Gads, pulling his > other occupied Pokeballs out of his pocket, began to make his way to > give a helping hand to Doppler and his allies, approaching from behind > their enemies, and trying his best to avoid detection from either Vorge > or Protopticon while doing so. After a moment, Mara and Monk-chan began > to follow. > [OOC: Mwaha! You grossly underestimate Vorge!] "Protopticon...deal with the more passive of the two Ditto," the vaguely twenty foot-tall Nidoking boomed. "He must not be allowed to fuse with Doppler!" "Understood," replied Protopticon, as it psi-blasted away the dense strands of Caterpie string. As Silly Putty finally came back down to earth with a resounding SPLAT, Protopticon lunged at the green Ditto with all four wrist-blades raised. The attack came before Proteus's telepathy could even detect Gads. "Not today!" Gads shouted, as he burst out from his hiding spot and jumpkicked Protopticon in the back of the head. For the split second that Protopticon recoiled from the blow, Monk-chan leapt at him and gave him a mighty Karate Chop to the side of the muzzle. "Interesting," Protopticon commented, hardly fazed by the sudden strike. "I will say this for you humans...you have more courage than sense!" Using the partial shapeshifting properties granted to it by Proteus, Protopticon spun its head around one hundred and eighty degrees so it was looking straight behind itself at Gads, then it shellacked Gads with a bright red eyebeam. Gads blunted the blast by putting his arms up to block, but he wound up with considerable laser burns on his forearms. _Seems I don't know my own strength,_ Gads thought, marveling at how little damage he had taken. When Protopticon fired a plasma blast out of its tail, Gads just barely sidestepped it. Monk-chan landed another Karate Chop on Protopticon's head, but was unable to hit the nanite ruby on the saurian's forehead. While this was happening, Silly Putty covertly slithered past Protopticon and went after Doppler. Gads grabbed hold of Protopticon's tail and tried to break loose the tail-mounted plasma cannon, which was firing wildly. However, Proteus formed metallic spikes on the plasma cannon and effectively punched a small bloody hole in Gads's left hand. "Agh! Damn it!!!" Gads shouted, as he took a few steps back. Protopticon charged up for a Psybeam while Gads was reeling. Vorge stopped chasing Doppler when he noticed something interfering with Protopticon's task. The Psybeam turned out to be unnecessary. Seconds later, Gads heard Mara shout "Gads, look out!" Before Gads could act, he was blasted clear out of the battlefield by a scaly purple fist the size of a Volkswagen. Mara gave up her stalking of Vorge and ran to help Gads, only to be knocked flat on her face by a low tailwhip from Protopticon. Monk-chan was the only representative of his team still standing, and Protopticon rectified that rapidly...by hammering the Mankey with the Psybeam it had charged up for. "These humans are simply remarkable in their ignorance," Vorge commented. "They may be able to escape my sight...but they can never escape my mind." Vorge's eyes appeared to be burning with psi. Once they had scattered a safe distance away from Vorge, Doppler and Silly Putty once again discussed fusing together. Silly Putty had scarcely said three words before Vorge effortlessly teleported to his location and squashed the green Ditto into a puddle with one foot. "Open fire!" roared Doppler, as he quickly teleported just out of Vorge's long reach. His men turned around and unloaded countless incendiaries, throwing weapons, String Shots, and exploding Wigglytuff upon the mighty Nidoking. Vorge chuckled a bit as the blasts only succeeded in blanketing him with pink goo. He telekinetically flung the pink jelly in every direction, blinding several of Doppler's sycophants. "Weapons? Has it come to that?" Vorge scoffed. "Weapons only beget more weapons..." With that Vorge created a gigantic sword made completely out of SimPsi, and held the illusionary blade in front of him. "See? This is precisely what I am talking about." Vorge then upended a little under half of Doppler's infantry with a tremendous slash from the seven foot-long psi-blade. The attack hit with such force that one unfortunate Slowbro - gray robe, Shellder, and all - was blown clear over the horizon. Protopticon went and stood by its master, the pleasant scent of victory already assailing Protopticon's reptilian nares. Doppler's remaining warriors attempted to bring Vorge down with a salvo of psionic blasts, but it was like trying to raze a skyscraper by throwing pebbles. Vorge took the full brunt of every single blast and was no worse for wear. "I will give you two options," Vorge bellowed at the broken strike force that stood before him. "You will surrender now upon either reaching the surmise that my power is infinite...or letting your deaths serve as testament!" He brought back his massive psi-sword, no doubt planning to eradicate the rest of Doppler's soldiers in one fell swoop. Muwahahaha! Vorge laughs at other ridiculously omni bad guys! --K * A * R * N * I * V * A * X-- "Only two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.