From: Mushboom <garrett.green@home.com> Subject: [PW!] The Pikachu Platoon Date: Thursday, October 28, 1999 9:49 PM Keith sat back down at the table with his chocolate cone. The female blue-eyed Pikachu happily lapped a strawberry cone while the male Pikachu watched over her. 8-Ball had a smear of caramel across his mouth and an empty sundae cup sat in front of him. The young boy smiled and looked at the male Pikachu, "So do you guys have names?" "Pi," the bandana-wearing Pikachu shook its head. "Do you want names?" The dominant Pikachu looked at the female and they exchanged words. He turned to look at Keith again and nodded. "Well, let's see here. I'll run off some names and you can tell me if you like them or not." Keith rubbed his chin, "You're a male, right? So how about... Um... Merc?" Keith thought back to an old MechWarrior game he had once played. The male Pikachu accepted the name silently, making Keith smirk. The boy turned to the female who still licked her ice cream. "What about Rachel?" "Chu," the female lifted her nose in the air, snubbing the name. "Er... What do you think of Monica?" she snubbed it, "Phoebe?" She snubbed that too, "Okay, no 'Friends' names... How's about Jolt?" Keith spotted a familiar black and red can with a lightning bolt on it. The female Pikachu looked at Keith from behind her ice cream. "Pi chu!" she said excitedly, she liked her new name. Keith grinned broadly and lapped at his cone some more. Just then, he spotted something out of his peripheral vision. A large black and orange poster was taped up to the side of the ice cream parlor. Keith read it, aloud, from a distance, "Halloween Party; Fuschia City, All Weekend Long!; Everybody's Invited!; Costumes Optional." "Shrew!" 8-Ball had always loved Halloween. "Pi pika!" Jolt chimed in, she was just as excited as 8-Ball. Merc either had no interest in Halloween or he hid it real well. "Fuschia... Fuschia... That's not too far from here! Let's go book us a boat ride!" "Pi chu!" Jolt agreed, she dropped her cone and scampered off the table. 8-Ball took off after Jolt, as did Merc who was closely followed by Keith. When they got to the marina, Keith approached a phony-looking sea captain. "Arrrrrr! What kin I do for ye?" the captain said in a lousy pirate voice. "Um... Can we get a ride to Fuschia?" "Fer th'big Allo-een bash? Aye, matey, I'll take ye thar! All aboard, ye scurvy landlubbers!" Keith sighed and boarded the long boat, with all three Pokemon at his heels. He mumbled under his breath, "This has long trip written all over it." TBC....? -MB ::Contacts:: E-mail: garrett.green@home.com delitahgral@hotmail.com ICQ: 38179649 AIM: Mushboom99/Mushzilla Website(that I work for): http://www.pokemonfactory.com ::Quotes:: "When you look this good, you don't have to know anything." -Fry "We're not retreating, we're advancing in another direction." -General A. MacAurthur Alkaline44: i loved whacking that plant around -AIM Chat "...the only danger in space is if we land on the terrible Planet of the Apes...wait a minute. Statue of Liberty... THAT WAS OUR PLANET! YOU MANIACS! YOU BLEW IT UP! DAMN YOU! DAMN YOU ALL TO HELL!" [starts sobbing uncontrollably] -Homer "You just beat the stuffins' outta your Uncle Raditz." -Raditz, talking to Gohan "Oh, excuse me, has anyone seen my arm? You can't miss it; it's green!" -Raditz, talking about Piccolo's missing arm ::Titles:: =-One of the Unkown AGNPers-= Hater of Jar Jar Binks and Pikachu Eater of pie and cheese