From: RobfromVoid <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net> Subject: [PW!] The Shot Heard 'Round the World Date: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 9:05 PM Bandraptor wrote: > Minax let out a grunt of disgust, annoyed that she had to spell > everything out. > "One of you, grab that Aerodactyl, and try not to drop it, like that > idiot > Wartortle did." She gestured to the gunny sack, which was lying on the > ground. > "And one of you, pack up those worthless Nidorans. We may not be able > to turn > them in at Headquarters, but we'll still need to bring them with us, > lest they > run off and warn their trainer." > > Neither Oz nor Nori were particularly anxious to advance on the > snarling poison > pins. They seemed hard-pressed to decide what to do next, but in > truth, it all > depended on one thing -- Which was more intimidating: an angry > Nidoran, or an > angry Minax? As if to solve the dilemma present in both Oz's and Nori's minds, Minax reaches into her holster and pulls out a shiny silver pistol. Much to Oz's relief, she doesn't point the gun at anyone - he'd hate the Nidoran to be killed because of him, and he'd especially hate to have to die himself for a cause he really didn't believe in. Instead of aiming her gun at the Nidoran or the humans, Minax holds her pistol loosely in her hand, gazing no where in particular. She tosses her red hair, cups her free hand behind her ear, and tilts her head so that her ear faces the sky, "We have company. A trained Fearow is hovering above." Rubix the Wartortle rolls his eyes and scoffs, "...do you think you're a Zubat or something? You liar. There ain't no Fearow up there. You just want us all to run away so that you can have Gwythaint all for your..." Splat. "What the hell?! Did the whore kill me?! I see a white light before my eyes... Hey, I got into heaven! Wicked! Maybe I can kill Nori from up here..." Nori shakes her head in disgust even though Rubix can't see her, "Rubix, the only white thing before your eyes is Fearow crap." "WHAT?!" Rubix spits water into his hands and rubs the white substance from his eyes. Once his face is clean, he shakes his fist at the sky, "Let me at 'im! He defaced my beautiful face by defecating on it! I'll kill the bastard!" "She's already way ahead of you." Nori points to the dirty wall of the building that makes up the eastern side of the alleyway. Rubix spins around and looks up to see Minax racing up the fire escapes on the side of the very tall building, towards the top, "D'oh. Well, at least she ain't gonna make it to the roof... the fire escapes don't go that far. What a dumb..." "...asss long as you're not busy, Nori..." Oz interrupts Rubix's insult, "Minax sort of ordered us to pack up those Nidoran, and I don't think that I can do it alone... Please help me out here. After all this hard work, it would be a shame not to join Team Rocket because I couldn't sack some Nidoran." Oz's Sandshrew boggles at his trainer's statement and falls over! Rubix snickers, "Part of Team Rocket's initiation is to make love to Nidoran? I always knew they were kinda queer, which is why Nori joined them, I'm sure..." Nori narrows her eyes at her Wartortle, "You can't leave anything to the imagination, can you?" The Wartortle retorts, "When you've got a trainer who's got no brain, you need to make things loud and clear!" Deciding that Nori and Rubix aren't going to be much help, Oz dives towards Spunky, the male Nidoran. In self defense, the purple Pokemon bites Oz on the hand. Oz sighs, "Here we go again. GETITOFF!!! GETITOFF!!! GETITOFF!!!" When Minax finally reaches the highest fire escape, the roof of the building is still about a ten foot jump away. She places her gun back in its holster, bends downward slightly, then springs upward in a high jump... but her jump isn't high enough. She reaches for her bag to find something useful. When she opens her sack, Omelette the Chansey peeks outside, sees the huge drop to the ground, and hides, trembling from fear. Minax looks at her belt, "Oh yeah, there's that Bellsprout I caught..." Minax snaps her Pokeball off her belt and points the Pokeball at the floor, pushing the release button with her thumb. A Bellsprout emerges, peeks over the edge of the fire escape, and much like Omelette starts trembling, which looks rather silly when one's body is the width of a thin piece of string. He hugs a pole with his leaf arms, "Bell Sprout! Bell Sprout!" "You can advertise phone companies later, Bellsprout." Minax points to the roof of the building she is trying to scale, "Right now, I need you to use your Vine Whip and grab onto something up there." When the Bellsprout doesn't budge from his secure place, Minax brandishes her long skinning knife, "Perhaps I wasn't making myself clear?" Minax's Bellsprout recognizes the lethal blade. He saw humans use similar blades to cut down trees, and he doesn't want to meet the same fate. Two vines, much thicker than the Bellsprout's body, somehow emerge from his body, and extend upward. He feels around with his vines until he finds something to hold onto, then his vines become taut. Minax slides her skinning knife back into its sheath and grabs hold of both vines. She uses them to climb up to the top of the building, where she vaults onto the roof. She grabs her Bellsprout's vines and pulls him up by them, forcing the poor coward to join her on the roof. When the Bellsprout pulls his vines back into the nothingness from whence they came, he points up at the sky with one of his leaves and shivers, "Sprout!" "FEAROW!" Bombadier, Sarah Jane's Fearow, is the current cause of Bellsprout's worries. The majestic Flying Pokemon dives down to the roof of the building and circles Minax's head, trying to figure out if this is the red haired man that Sarah Jane was talking about. Minax sure doesn't look like a man, but she does have red hair... Bombadier perches on the side of the building and addresses Minax cordially, in an attempt to find out where Cuddles and Spunky are, "FEAR... Fearow Fear?!" "You're looking for something, aren't you?" Minax grins at the Fearow, "I can sense it in your tone of voice. You're looking for stolen Pokemon. Yes, and the fact that you can't find them enrages you, since you don't want to disappoint your trainer. You're looking for two Nidoran and an Aerodactyl. Well, you won't find any of them here. Do you know what you *will* find?" "Fear?" Bombadier asks, while tilting his head to the side. "That's a good guess, but the fear will only be temporary." Minax removes her silver pistol from it's holster and aims it at Bombadier's red feathery chest, "The correct answer is death. Death that will last forever." Minax pulls the trigger. Oz is tying the string on the bag that he finally managed to get the Nidoran and Pteryx back into, when he hears a loud gunshot that makes him fumble the bag, causing the three Pokemon to spill out! The bruised teenager sighs, "Here we go again again..." Rubix's ears twitch, "What the hell was that noise?" Thud. The corpse of a Fearow lands in the alleyway, wings spread out. A puddle of blood starts oozing away from the dead body. Nori, Oz, Rubix, and the Nidoran twins all stare in disbelief. Rubix is the first to break out of the trance, trying to keep his tough guy image, "I told you I was gonna kill him for crapping on me, and there ya go! Let that be a lesson to you, Nori!" "Nido..." Cuddles turns away from the Fearow's corpse, recognizing that he is Bombadier. She starts weeping... Spunky places one of his paws on his sister's arm, trying to comfort her, trying to keep back his own tears, "Nido... Nidoran ran..." Oz and Nori keep staring at the Fearow's body, expecting something further to happen. Something further does. From the sky, two black leather boots with Minax in them crash onto Bombadier's corpse. When this happens, the Fearow's body acts like a ketchup bottle that has just been squeezed, sending a red liquid splattering onto everyone there- but that liquid is not ketchup. Despite this fact, Minax raises her blood-stained hand to her mouth and licks it, "Mmm! Tastes like red rum!" -Minax