From: RobfromVoid <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net> Subject: [PW!] Puppy Love Date: Sunday, December 19, 1999 10:22 PM Marvin rounds the corner of a building on Cinnabar Island with an eyeglass in his hand. Bozo, the Mr. Mime, stands next to him wearing a small trenchcoat and a Humphrey Bogart Hat, which is actually a certain purple Ditto in disguise. Marvin the magician looks at the crowd of tourists walking on the sidewalk, trying to find Famifax, his other Ditto. "Ahhh-ha!" He points to a blonde teenage girl whose skimpy clothes are on way too tight. Marvin runs up to her and examines her bulbous bosoms with his eyeglass, "Those can't be real!" He looks up at her bright brown eyes and smiles, "Oh, Famifax, I've been looking all over..." SLAP! The girl's hand knocks Marvin's smile right off his face and onto the Mr. Mime standing next to him, who starts chuckling silently. The teenage girl grabs Marvin by his bow tie, looks him in the eye, and asks, "Do you know who I am? I'm Britney Spearow, the cutest teen pop star ever! I came to Cinnabar Island to avoid the heat and what do I get? Another perverted old man telling me my boobs are fake! How many times to I have to say that they're real?!" At that moment, one of the spherical blobs of flesh hiding behind her tight pink shirt cries out a muffled, "Jiggly!" Britney hits it and sweatdrops. "Oh, I'm so sorry, miss, I thought you were someone else!" Marvin rubs his cheek, "You say you're a teen pop star? That's wonderful! My name's Marvin. I'm a magician! Maybe you could volunteer in my next illusion and bring in a crowd of kids?! It seems that after kids turn ten, magicians suddenly aren't cool anymore. Nooo, they want a POKEMON birthday party, not a magician birthday party... But if you're there, I'm sure you will draw in a crowd of young kids who like your music and older kids who like your... ahem..." Before Marvin can figure out how to say his statement politely, Britney Spearow gets annoyed and stomps away... Marvin chases after her, "Hey! Come back here!" He loses her in the crowd. Bozo walks up to Marvin. The hat on Bozo's head turns into a purple Ditto, "Master, concern yourself with the task at hand: locating my sister." "Yeah, I know, Xerox..." Marvin adjusts his top hat and gets a determined look in his eyes, "It feels like it's been two weeks since we lost her! How can I even think about performing a magic show while Famifax is missing? Bozo, any leads?" The trenchcoat-clad Mr. Mime places his hands on the sides of his head, tries to find Famifax's mind, but shakes his head when he can't. Bozo points to his head and shrugs. The hat on Bozo's head says, "It would be easier to find a needle in a haystack than my sister's mind among the minds of all these tourists." Marvin crosses his arms and looks down at Xerox, who rests on Bozo's head, "Are you saying that Famifax is stupid?" "No, master." Xerox declares unemotionally, "That would be mean, something which I recently discovered that I cannot be." The Ditto thinks back to the document she discovered in the ruined laboratory where she was created and shudders. Marvin notices the sadness in Xerox's dot eyes and decides to go back to talking about Famifax, "Where could Famifax be? We checked just about every inn, the Pokemon Center, the Pokemart, the Gym, the souvenir booths, the ice cream shops, and even the Volcano! Where else could she have run off to?" Marvin sighs from frustration and leans against a sign to take a break. Bozo's eyes go wide and he frantically points at the sign where Marvin is leaning on. Marvin furrows his brow, "Are you trying to tell me something through charades? Okay... First word... Point? Fury Attack? Sign?" Bozo nods. Marvin raises an eyebrow, "Sign yes? Sign nod? Sign bob head? Bobbing head sign? Those little football players who bob their heads!" Bozo falls over! He grabs Marvin's eyeglass and uses it to read what is on the sign. "You want me to burn bugs?" Marvin scratches the side of his head, "Oh! Wait, I know! You want me to read the sign?" Bozo claps his hands, then touches his face where his nose should be. Marvin reads the sign, "Pokemon Lab? Oh no, we're back at this awful place!" He looks up to the structure in front of the sign, expecting to face an abandoned building, but finds that it isn't abandoned at all, "Wow, they sure renovated quickly..." Xerox, from her place on Bozo's head, says, "This is not the building where my sister and I were genetically altered, an action that would drastically change our behavioral patterns forever. This is a different laboratory, master. If I remember correctly from reading brochures for Cinnabar Island, this laboratory specializes in resurrecting ancient Pokemon from fossils, though that is not the extent of their studies. I once read a story about two Scyther being 'created' here, but it might have been fiction." "Sounds pretty eerie..." When he thinks about what Xerox just said, Marvin's overactive imagination takes over, "Uh oh, maybe some evil scientist saw Famifax Transform when we left her alone outside the abandoned lab and he kidnapped her in order to use her in weird experiments involving extinct Pokemon and were-Scyther! We have to rescue Famifax from Dr. Demento's evil clutches!" Marvin bursts into the Laboratory and shouts, "I know what you're up to, you evil scientist!" One of the glasses-wearing scientists in the room freaks out and leaps out an unopened window! Crash! "Give me back my Ditto! GIVE ME BACK MY DITTO!!!" Marvin shouts and falls to his knees, remembering another movie he once saw, "SHOW ME THE DITTO! I LOVE PINK POKEMON! SHOW ME THE DITTO!!!" Bozo calmly walks into the laboratory, embarrassed by Marvin's actions. The Mr. Mime suddenly feels a free spirited giggly aura coming from one of the rooms inside the lab. The aura is easily recognized as Famifax's. Bozo grabs Marvin's sleeve and drags him to the room that he can sense that Famifax is in. He kicks open the door with his clown shoe and points an imaginary gun at the man who is standing in the room - Professor Richter. Marvin sees his pink Ditto on the floor and exclaims, "The jig is up, Dr. Demento!" Bozo whips out a pair of imaginary handcuffs and proceeds to put them on Professor Richter's wrists. Famifax, the pink Ditto on the floor, asks, "Uhh, Bozo, whass ya doins to Profster Richie Rich?! He's supa cool! Fersure!" She then looks up and sees Marvin, "MARVY-MAN! Heya, sorry fer runnin' off, but I mets the greatest guy in the worlds! He's sooo cute, and a sooo hot... and soooo warm and fuzzy! Heehee!" Famifax breaks into giggles over her new-found romance. Marvin scratches his head, "Hmm, he doesn't look like your type. In fact, he doesn't look like *anyone's* type! No offense, sir, of course..." Marvin sweatdrops and loosens his collar. "The name's Marvin the Magnificent. I'm a magician..." He offers his hand for a handshake. "Professor Richter", the Professor declares as he dubiously shakes Marvin's sweaty palm. When the Professor pulls his hand away, a purple handkerchief is stuck to his index finger. Marvin chuckles and pulls the handkerchief, not only causing a fake flatulent noise, but also taking Professor Richter's index finger along with it... "Ooops, I hate it when that happens." Marvin pulls the Professor's finger off the handkerchief, and magically reattaches it to the man's hand. Professor Richter examines his finger and wonders for a moment how Marvin performed the trick. He then faces Marvin with an eye squinted in both surprise and suspicion, "Hello, Marvin... Is Famifax your Pokemon? She didn't mention she had an owner, and since she has such a free spirited attitude, I assumed that she had none, so I didn't bother to ask." Just as the Professor says this, a computer console in the corner starts beeping. Richter murmurs, "Excuse me for a moment..." He walks to the corner and pushes some buttons on the console, which is a cyber-storage machine. While the Professor does this, Marvin crouches next to Famifax and says, "So you're in love again, huh?" "Again? Whas you tawkin bout, Marvy?" Famifax's struggles with the notion of a previous romance. Xerox hops off of Bozo's head and lands next to Famifax. Her excellent memory allows her to list Famifax's recent affairs, "You fell in love with that young man called Darian McCain, whom you performed with in Pewter City. Then you fell in love with the obnoxious green Ditto named Silly Putty. You even had a brief crush on a man named Darius, who was ki..." Xerox remembers that she decided to keep that horrible tragedy from Marvin, "...kind enough to be our master's assistant in Celadon City. Also, the way that you fondled that Anti-Team Rocket in Fuschia City did not leave much to the imagination." Famifax only has a few memories of those names, but when she looks up, she sees her most recent love standing there, and huffs, "Sowhat if I hads alla those loves?! This one's fer-real! Fersure! Now I'm gonna golicks my hero! Weeee!" Famifax squeals and turns into a Growlithe, then runs over to where Professor Richter is standing, "C'mere for a kissie, hot stuffs!" Marvin scratches his head again, trying to figure out what Famifax could possibly see in Professor Richter. He turns to where the Professor is standing, expecting to see a Growlithe trying to lick the respected man's crotch, but is surprised to see that the Growlithe is no where near the Professor. Famifax is licking the bleeding wounds of an unconscious Arcanine, which has just been sent to the Professor for healing by Kyle Richter to make room for the trainer's newest Pokemon - Jessica Sullivan. Professor Richter looks down at the Arcanine with a concerned look on his face, "Poor Fenris. The Pokemon Centers in the League Village must be overcrowded. I hope that Kyle has enough healthy Pokemon to face his third round opponent." The Professor sighs, then looks up to see Marvin staring at with a confused look on his face. Richter explains, "My son, Kyle Richter, is in the League Games, and he called Fenris here to help him in his match with Jeanette." Marvin raises one eyebrow while lowering the other one, "...and this has to do with you kidnapping my Ditto because...?" "I didn't kidnap Famifax..." The Professor chuckles and glances down at the Growlithe licking Fenris' wounds, "I was walking Fenris the other morning and he had a sudden urge to answer nature's call. So he walked up to the first fire hydrant he saw, which just happened to be Famifax in disguise. Oddly enough, when Fenris claimed Famifax has his territory, Famifax saw this as the ultimate declaration of love and followed me to the lab. When Kyle called Fenris for his match with Jeanette, I turned on the television to see the League Games on the TV, and Famifax watched as Fenris defeated Jeanette's Beedrill and Bellsprout. Ever since she saw this, she's been calling him 'her hero', and awaiting his return... that's when you burst in." Famifax swoons over the fainted Arcanine and defends her love for Fenris, "Hey! Iss not juss cuz he pee'd on me... He's a hottie, too, and he gots a great pokemonality! Fersure! We gotsta go heals him, Profster Richie Rich! We juss gotsta!" "Now, Famifax, I'm sure Professor Richter is very busy..." Marvin reaches down and pulls Famifax the Growlithe off the floor and into his arms, "He'll take him to the Pokemon Center when he has time to. We have to go back to the caravan now. While I was looking for you, I saw posters about a Christmas celebration in Celadon City. We have to take a ship there as soon as possible! Imagine the size of the audience!" Marvin's eyes grow watery, and Famifax's do too, but for a different reason. Famifax starts wailing, "...but we gotsta heal Fenwis, Marvy-man! I'm not goin' anywhere until he's okie dokie!" Professor Richter places his hand on his chin, "Hmm, fortunately for Famifax, I do have one Revive potion I can use. That should be enough to keep him healthy for a while until I find some time to fully heal him at the Pokemon Center." The Professor searches around his desk and finds the potion he's looking for. He opens the bottle and pours some of it into the fainted Arcanine's mouth. Fenris' eyes blink open, and he spews a small flame, then coughs, "Arc... arc... canine..." Famifax leaps out of Marvin's arms and goes to lick Fenris on the nose, "Hey, Fenwis, Marvy came to takes me back home... I'd asks ya to come with me, but I knows you gotsta helps yer Kylie Richie Rich like I helps my Marvy-man..." The Arcanine feels her love and returns it by licking Famifax's Growlithe face before closing his eyes to take a nap. Famifax cries a little and says, "Seeya, Fenwis... I'll... I'll neva forgets ya! Not in a ka-billion years!" She looks up at Marvin, "I'll be awight." Marvin lifts Famifax into his arms again, and she reverts to her pink Ditto form. Xerox, the purple Ditto, climbs back onto Bozo's head. Marvin smiles at Professor Richter, "I'm glad that Famifax was staying with you, and not some evil scientist. Thanks for taking care of her. I hope your son wins the Pokemon League... Be sure to catch my performance sometime! Farewell..." Marvin leaves, followed by Bozo, as Professor Richter turns on the TV to see Kyle's next match. Once outside, Xerox glances at Famifax from her place on Bozo's head, "Do you really believe that Fenris is your soul mate?" "Uh, who?" Famifax asks absentmindedly as she Transforms into a cute blonde teenager that she sees across the street. When the tourists on the street see Marvin holding Britney Spearow in his arms, the magician is flocked by a horde of prepubescent children, who have something other than seeing Marvin perform a magic trick on their mind! -Marvin