From: <lordlocke@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: [PW!][LEAGUE] Grass Field Gauntlet: Dernam VS. Gads Date: Wednesday, December 15, 1999 5:19 PM > "Umm, Sketch, Metronome!" Gads had decided luck might hold out, and > the entire crowd sat on edge to see what would happen. Sketch twitched > it's fingers, puffing up for extra effect. Suddenly, it is magically > lifted off the ground, and flies up, up, nd then down, down, down, feet > first at Shadow.... and flies right through, smacking into the > unforgiving ground, rolling, and finally stopping, with cute little > swirls for eyes. > > "Gas ah ah ah ah ah!" > > "Unbelievable, Tom, Sketch's luck finally runs out as it Metronomes HI > JUMP KICK! Doh! Sorry Sketch!" > > "Sketch, return." The crowd boos and hisses as Sketch is carted off > the field by a red energy beam. "Go.....Dow!" > > With a click, a flash, and a ping! sound, a Drowzee appears. "Well, > Bob, will Drowzee get the best of Gastly? It looks likely, but right > now, it's up to Mr. Locke! Take it away!" > "Drow... zee" Dow looked a little tired... Gads mentally smacked himself. "D'oh! I forgot to heal Dow after that killer of a training session... blast it..." Dernam, on the other hand, smirked. "Heh, for a moment there, that thing looked dangerous. Shadow, CONFUSE RAY!" Once again,the ray of pure confusing energy homed in on Shadow's opponent, turning it from a tried Drowzee to a tired, confused Drowzee. "Zee!" Dow decided that it was as good as any other time to use his psychic powers, and focused a Confusion attack of his own... on himself. "D'OW!" "Come on, Dow, snap out of it! HYPNOSIS!" Dow did Hypnosis all right... while spinning merrily in a circle. All around the arena, waves of hypnotic energy was sent. "Well, it looks like Dow's just hitting anything he can! What do you think, Tom?" "Zzzzz..." Tom was currently asleep, the victim of Dow's Hypnosis. "WOW! That's some Hypnosis! It's effecting my co-announcer all the way up in the booth!" Indeed, what was left of the audience was amazed. As the other half of it was asleep. On their respective towers, Gads and Dernam both opened their eyes. "Holy..." "Oh my..." Both of them took a good look at the damage Dow had done. "Zee... zee... zee..." Dow was shaking his head, the effects of the double-confusion wearing off. He looked over at his opponent, then just gazed, puzzled at what had happened. Like some of the audience, Shadow hadn't closed his eyes in time, and was currently taking an impromptu nap. Gads also noticed this. "DOW! DREAM EATER!" For once, Dow didn't waste any time in executing his finishing move, and happily began feasting on the nightmarish dreams of the Gastly. "D'ow zee!" A happy look on his face appeared as the energy streamed from the Gastly to himself. When all was said and done, Shadow was still out, but this time, it was out cold. "Gastly is inable to fight! Drowzee is the winner!" Dow, finished with his meal, finally looked around to see many, MANY people under his hypnosis. After a moment, he grinned. "Zee..." Dernam shrugged. "Well, let's play field advantage. Bug and Flying both have advantages here... so here goes... SCYTHER!" "SCYTHER!" Scyther appeared on the ground in front of the red tower. It swiped it's claws once, twice, three times, then took a good look at her opponent... ... who was busy playing with the audience. "Zee! Zee!" The hypnotized members of the audience responded by bobbing back and forth, fingers outstreached. "Clefairy! Clefairy!" In the announcing booth, Bob started to chuckle. "It looks like Drowzee would prefer to play with the crowd rather then fight his new opponent. What do you think, Tom?" "Clefairy! Clefairy!" Bob slumped over. "You said it..." Gads groaned. "DOW! CONFUSION!" Dow simply waved him off. "Zee!" Gads's eyebrow twitched. "I was wrong. I wasn't hard enough on him in training. DOW! RETURN!" As the Drowzee was returned to his Pokeball, the audience came out of it's trance. Suddenly, formerly bobbing audience members suddenly reddened in embarrasment as those who hadn't been under the influance of Hypnosis laughed at them. "Tom, I think I know what I'm giving you for Christmas this year." Tom looked confused. "You do?" "Yeah. A moon stone." Tom, as well as a good portion of the audience, face-faulted. Gads consitered his options. "Sketch and Dow are out... It's be foolish to send Vinal out against a bladed opponent... I'm not sure Gnawer'd do well against an airborne opponent... A-bomb, though..." Gads fingered the Electrode's Pokeball... Suddenly, an image appeared in Gads's head of the Electrode, as soon as it's releaced, Exploding, nowhere near the enemy Scyther. It replayed once again, this time with A-bomb taking the Green Tower with him. "Nope. Not A-bomb. He's too fond of exploding, no matter WHERE the enemy is, and no matter where I AM... that leaves..." Gads looked up at his Mankey. "Yeah. That'll do the trick. MONK-CHAN! YOU'RE UP!" "MANKEY!" Monk-chan catapaulted himself off Gads's head, right into the field. Monk-chan started pounding the gound in anticipation, then tapped his brow three times in the Scyther's general direction. "MAN! KEY! KEY!" "SCYTHER!" Once again, the Scyther slashed three times. "It appears that the two opponents are sizing each other up, Bob." "Yeah, Tom. However, I'm not sure how much that Mankey's gonna do. The flying Scyther's got both Field and Type advantage here." "Don't underestimate the Mankey. They're notirious for NOT using attacks of their natural type, not to mention Fighting ANYTHING from the a Dojo member's gonna be a tough one to beat." Both Dernam and Gads tired of the waiting. "SCYTHER, SLASH!" "MONK-CHAN, FURY SWIPES!" Mankey and Scyther both sped towards each other, meeting in the middle of the field. As the Scyther slashed at the Mankey, he lept over the claws and Fury Swiped her three times in the face. "TAKE DOWN!" "KARATE CHOP!" As the Scyther lunged her body at the Mankey, it Karate-chopped her head, then lept out of range. Dernam got an idea. "STOP BRAWLING WITH THE MANKEY! MAKE DIVES AT IT! FLY!" The Scyther took to the skies. "NOW! TAKE DOWN!" The Scyther lunged at the Mankey again. She swooped down to the ground, then did a flying rush towards Monk-Chan. "MONK-CHAN! COUNTER IT WITH A LOW KICK!" Once again, the Scyther's assault failed as the Mankey hit her dead-on with a Low Kick to the head while she was in mid-Pass, sending Scyther tumbling towards the Red Tower. "DON'T GIVE UP, SCYTHER! SAFTEY IN NUMBERS! DOUBLE TEAM!" "Scyther..." Suddenly, the Scyther's image shimmered, and where there was once one, now was three. "MONK-CHAN! KARATE CHOP!" The Mankey lunged at the closest Scyther, but was intercepted by the other two. Both Slashed at the Mankey, who lept up in time to avoid becoming a skewer. "LOW KICK!" The Mankey came down, a foot extended... but instead, was rammed by two Scythers, executing Take-Down attacks. Monk-chan flew up into the sky, then came crashing down into the center of the field. Gads cringed, then looked at the Scythers, all who were closing in on the crater that Monk-chan had made. "Not again... I lost to a Scyther last time... they're countering the attacks, now that there are three instead of one... there's gotta be some trick... GOT IT!" As the Mankey climbed out of the crater, Gads cried out. "WAIT!" Monk-chan looked over at his trainer, a confused look on his face. Gads grinned. "Trust me..." Dernam was grinning too. He was gonna win another one. "SCYTHER! SLASH!" All three Scyther's lunged at the Mankey, one after the other. Gads waited a moment, the issued his command. "NOW! SEISMIC TOSS!" Monk-chan dodged the first Scyther, then grabbed her leg. Swinging it around, he used her to clothesline the other two Scythers, knocking them back. Then, Monk-chan threw the Scyther into the other two. "NOW! Finish them off with FURY SWIPES!" The Mankey lept at the three Scythers. None of them able to counter the Swipes this time, the Mankey started to work on the weakened trio, a cloud of dust rising. When the cloud lifted, there was only one Scyther, who was in no condition to keep fighting. "Scyther is inable to fight! Green Trainer is the Winner!" "And there you have it! In an upset, Mankey is the winner of the final bout. And with all the antics today, one has gotta wonder: Is Gads Trisan the new showman of the Pokemon League?" "All you gotta do is look down at the field to see the answer to that question, Tom." Bob covered his microphone. "And how about my ten bucks..." Tom, covering his mike, began to grumble. "I can't believe the Mankey won..." Back on the field, Gads was talking to the musicboy... "GOT IT!" The musicboy ran off towards his booth, as Gads released Dow from his Pokeball. "Ready?" Gads looked, Monk-chan to his left, Dow to his right, and Sketch next to Dow. Suddenly, the music blared up. "EVERYBODY'S KUNG-FU FIGHTING..." In unison, Gads and his Pokemon punched out into the air. "...THOSE KICKS WERE FAST AS LIGHTNING..." Once again in unison, all four executed a side kick. Meenwhile, Dernam, 6 and Scyther watched on. "Well, it was a close one..." Dernam then noticed Gads motioning to him. "Yeah?" Gads signaled to Dernam between phrases. "Care to join in?" Dernam thought about it for a moment, then shrugged. "Eh, why not." Dernam, 6, and Scyther took places next to Monk-chan, then after a moment, joined in as well as they could without knowing the routine, 6 improvising for the punching motions. "Well, it looks like the name of good sportsmanship, everyone's getting into the act." "I just gotta wonder Tom, how does a Drowzee do a heel-drop kick?" "I was thinking more about how that Jigglypuff pulled off a Splits Kick..." Both laughed at the scene down below. "The fight may be over, but the show's still going strong. For Tom, I'm Bob, good night everybody!" From your friendly, neighborhood LORDLOCKE Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.