From: RobfromVoid <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net> Subject: [PW!] Is Nothing Hallow on Halloween? Date: Thursday, November 04, 1999 10:00 PM It is midnight on Halloween. Marvin the magician is headed back to his caravan, wearing a Pokemon League hat, a spiky black hair wig, a black shirt, blue jeans, and a blue vest. He is as an overweight version of Ash Ketchum, the Pokemon Master. Marvin is staring into a large orange bag with a Jack-O-Lantern painted on the side of it which is full of candy, "We got a great haul this Halloween, Famifax! Since there's so many old people in Fuschia City, they all had tons of candy for kids... even overgrown kids like me!" Marvin chuckles. He doesn't feel like he's almost forty years old. Famifax is dressed in a yellow shirt, red suspenders, blue shorts, and red sneakers. She is wearing a realistic Misty mask, which moves rather naturally as she speaks, but is still clearly just a mask, "Fersure, Marvy, but it woulda been so totally cooler if I knews how to Transforms into Misty, but I never done it before so I dunno hows! Toobad! Sosad!" "Actually, if you had Transformed into Misty, everyone would've thought you were the real Misty! It's good that you don't look *exactly* like her." Marvin glances downward and smiles, "For instance, our Brock looks nothing like the real one, but people sure did like him. I think he got the most candy tonight!" Bozo, the squinting Mr. Mime in the orange shirt, green vest, and brown pants, seems disoriented since he's been seeing the word through squinted eyes the entire night. He shakes his full candy bag, which makes much noise, and he grins. "It's too bad that Xerox didn't want to join us." Marvin sighs, "She could've been Pikachu!" Famifax frowns, though her Misty mask continues to smile, "Why didno sis wanna come?" Marvin shrugs, "She said that she didn't want to ruin my Halloween with her problems. I didn't want to go out after that, but she insisted... and you seemed so eager to dress up! You'd think a Ditto would get bored of disguises after a while." Famifax giggles, "Disguises are fun fun silly willy! You totally knows howmuch I likes my costumes in my rack! Fersure!" Marvin tries to find some innuendo behind Famifax's statement, but shakes his head when he realizes he's being such a pervert. He doesn't say anything else until he reaches his caravan door. "Here we are!" He unlocks the caravan and walks inside. Xerox, the purple Ditto, is sitting on Marvin's bed, reading a large novel called 'Jurassic Pokemon.' She doesn't even look up from her reading when Marvin enters, not because she doesn't hear him, but because she's still angry. "Ooo, I gotsta gets outta these tight clothes and inta somethin more comfy womfy!" Famifax makes a dash for the costume racks, pulling off her Misty mask, yanking off her suspenders, and kicking off her sneakers as she runs. Bozo sits down in the corner of the room. He spills the candy in his bag onto the floor, opens up his eyes, blinks, and starts sorting through the candy, making sure that there is no poisoned food. After inspecting a piece of candy, he shoves it into his mouth, and swallows it whole. He rubs his tummy and his gleeful eyes show how tasty the candy is! While Famifax sorts through her clothing and Bozo sorts through his candy, Marvin sits down next to Xerox on his bed. He pulls off his Pokemon League hat and wig and tosses them aside, "So, Xerox, is there something you want to say?" Xerox uses one of her psuedopods to turn a page in the novel she's reading. Marvin tries to recall recent events in his life, in order to figure out why Xerox is acting the way she is, "Did I do something wrong during the Guillotine illusion? I didn't nick you with the blade, did I? If I did, I'm sorry..." "You did do something wrong during the Guillotine illusion." Xerox coldly states, her small Ditto eyes turning away from the novel to face Marvin's eyes, "You used Hypnosis to alter someone's beliefs! Hypnosis is only to be used to help someone find out a problem or maybe to briefly get a laugh out of someone. What you did is wrong. Horribly wrong." "Wrong?" Marvin stands up off the bed and shakes his head, "Maria was a Rocket! Team Rocket steals Pokemon and even worse! I used Hypnosis so that she'd join Anti-Team Rocket, a good organization. I could be an Honorary ATR for my efforts in advancing their movement, which is righteous and good! How is what I did wrong, Xerox?" "You are not a judge, master. Besides, how can you be sure that she was really a Rocket? ATR might not be righteous, after all." Xerox looks downward, "You used Hypnosis irresponsibly. You did not take her out of the trance, and she is still out there, unsure of who she really is. She is being controlled by those strange psychopaths against her will. The ATR members are now the authors, and she's merely a character for them to manipulate into their stories." Marvin isn't sure of how to respond. He scratches his thinning brown and silver hair, "I don't know what to say. Even though you don't think so, I'm convinced that what I did was right. It's not like I used the Guillotine to kill her! I could've." "Perhaps that would have been better than what you did do." Xerox leaps off of the bed and oozes over towards her favorite corner of the caravan, opposite where Bozo is eating candy. She closes her eyes, "Goodnight, master." "Goodnight..." Marvin lets out a deep sigh, hoping that Xerox will be feeling better soon. He could go out, find Maria, and snap her out of her trance... but he's certain that he was right in Hypnotizing to join ATR her since it was for good, not evil. Marvin pulls off his vest and tosses it aside. He lies down on his bed, but finds it hard to go to sleep despite the fact it's midnight because of what Xerox told him. Bozo and Famifax both go to sleep before Marvin finally does. -Marvin