From: Dryad <dryad48@aol.commoner> Subject: [PW!] Counter Earth: League Match Date: Tuesday, December 21, 1999 1:22 AM >Koga smiled at Saber. "Im getting tired of this. Your stupid to come out here." >"Oh really?" Saber said. "We will see soon." Koga grinned as he sent out a slimy, filthy, stinky, vile, gringy, ugly pile of muk known as the pokemon called Muk. Saber was about to send out his own, when the doors suddenly burst open and in walked three people. One guy in the center had a quick beige suit, and wore a quick beige smile. He held a dark coloured suitcase on one hand. A man on his side was dusting off the tiny white specks from the suit. To the right, a woman was combing his hair and fastening his tie. The quick beige smile quickly faded into anger as the man spun around and shouted to the 'minions.' "Stop it! Stop it! Stop it! Leave me alone for a second!" He glared at the two as they backed down. Raven squinted to the sight of this stranger, then his eyes widened. "Derrick, is that you?" The man turned to him calm again. "Yeah, it is..." He turned his head away and walked on. "How could you turn your back on ATR and just walk away!" Raven shouted. "One day you're there, the next, you are on a plane to Saffron." "What I do does not concern you at all, now move aside." "Excuse me?" "You heard me. There is only one important person in my life and that is me! Why should I waste my time on you fools. I knew ages ago that ATR would be destroyed. All that I ever needed from you fools, I took then." Derrick turned away, but Raven spoke up again, but silently. "So we were useless crap to you.." "Not exactly," Derrick grinned. "If it weren't for Sulph knowing about my relations, I wouldn't have been offered a useful position. Now move aside, I'm late for an appointment." Raven didn't budge, his eyes were on fire. "Fool, the only thing I will ever give you is pity. I pity you when you lie in the streets. I pity you when you sleep in your so called cotts. I pity your foolishness and poor choices in life. Never should you have made that alliance with Team Rocket." Raven mercily charged towards Derrick, but with fast reflexes, Derrick sent out Arcanine, who knocked Raven back to the wall. "Never try that again, or I will assure that you will not be able to live to regret it." Saber knew not to lay a finger on Raven, who could explode with anger any minute and attempt to break the closest person's neck. He carried on with the battle against Koga. "It's you!" Icy stuttered as Derrick approached him. "What the hell do you want?" He nevously snatched the paper Derrick handed to him and mumbly read it to himself. "Sir, I must imform you personally, that the offer I have made for your forest will expire soon." He placed the pen in Icy's hand and crossed his arms. Icy dropped the pen purposefully. "I have told you too often, NO. I never will give up my home! Never!" He handed the contract back to Derrick. "Sigh," Derrick handed the contract back to Icy. "Twenty million dollars is a lot of money, it can easily buy you into retirement, Icy.. and maybe a perfect cure.." "My cure IS perfect!" Icy shouted back. "I will never hand anything over into your corrupt company, and that's final. This forest has flourished beatifully for many years, and will flourish beatifully for many more. I will never live to see the day you tear it down, nor will my children and my children's children!" "I don't know.." Derrick turned away. "The waters have been becoming a little bit dry this year.. that means there's a higher chance for a forest fire." He stared straight at Icy as he spoke his next words. "Wouldn't we all hate to see this forest burnt down?" "Is that a threat?" Icy startled to the wall a little, but still stood his ground. Derrick wryly grinned and spoke, "I don't think it would be a good idea to find out...." He slowly placed the contract back into Icy's hands while Icy just stared at it. "How much of the forest will you cut?" "Eighty percent." "......." Icy spoke no words, but clearly had had a million bad ones to give to Derrick. He sighed as he lifted the pen, then brought it down onto the paper. Then, he brought the pen back up and into Derrick's face. "No." Derrick grabbed his eye in pain and motioned for the two minions. They each sent out a Magneton and they flung themselves towards Icy and pinned him against the wall. Next, he motioned for his Ninetails and Arcanine who ran outside preparing to scorch the land. "I wish you would reconsider..." Suddenly, Icy began to give a faint glow and slowly shrunk down lower and lower until he was flopping around on the ground. Derrick just stared at the flopping Magikarp on the ground and gave an evil laugh as did the minions and Magneton. Icy angrily flopped away and ran into Erika. "Oh my Goddish," she spoke. "Of all places, here's a, heh, Magikarp!" Icy became even angrier. "The weakest of all pokemon!" Erika proclaimed. Icy became furious. "The reject of all pokemon, the one who cannot do ANY harm." Erika laughed as she poked Icy. Right then, Icy snapped. He began glowing again, and this time, he was attempting to strangle Erika with his psychic powers. She fell to the ground wrapping her hands around her neck and gasping for breath. Icy however, couldn't hold out much longer himself and plopped back down. He lazily relaxed on the ground and sighed. His eyes slowly closed until Erika's burning shadow hovered over him, then his eyes widened quickly. With one swift movement of her leg, Erika sent Icy flying across the room, throught the pokeball racks, past the minions running for cover, past the very startled Derrick, into both Magnetons, and against the cold, hard wall making a very deep crevice between the cracks. "I believe my work here is just about done." Derrick recalled Magneton and crumbled the contract. "You were a fool to not accept my deal, and fools never go very far in life. I wll promise that you would have wished to have accepted the deal." Derrick was about to leave when he stopped. "Oh my," he said plainly, "I forgot all about Ninetails and Arcanine. They must be out on the forest somewhere. They just love to play with fire." Icy's eyes widened again and he raced the the emergency phone. It was too high for his little body though. He spoke psychically to one of the close people. "Send in the Staryu Squad!" To Be Continued _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ~Dryad48: Weekly Quote: "We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools." -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. "Hide people from bad things, and you've made them weaker." -Me