From: Karnivax <karnivax@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: [PW!] [LEAGUE] The Electric Slyde Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 5:04 PM > "Slash that bottom-feeder to shreds!!!" Enzo roared. Halberd let > out a furious quack and dashed toward Seaclamp at full speed, which > was not particularly fast at all. Seaclamp grinned, as the first Spike > Cannon shot had put enough distance between him and Halberd that he had > time to strike from afar. Seaclamp simply hammered Halberd with > another Spike Cannon blast and sent the Farfetch'd flying clear out of > the arena. > > "Halberd is disqualified!" the referee announced. One of the red > lights underneath Enzo's picture on the scoreboard went out. > > Enzo grudgingly recalled Halberd and selected his second > Pokéball. Despite Halberd's loss, Enzo grinned confidently as he > released his second Pokémon. An audible gasp came from the crowd as > the Pokéball opened and released its contents. > > "It's Slyde, Vincenzo's Jolteon!" the commentator > announced. "Slyde fought in the first four rounds of last year's > tournament, and went undefeated through all four! I don't normally > take sides, but I'd say that Enzo probably has this match all wrapped > up!" > > "Dy-no-*mite*!!!" --THE ELECTRIC SLYDE-- Part 2 by Karnivax "Seaclamp, Ice Beam!" Kyle shouted. Seaclamp, who was scared half to death by the appearance of an electric Pokémon, refused to comply. He hid inside his shell once again in hope that he would be able to wait out the storm. "Pin Missile!" Enzo commanded. "Jolt!" Like an anatomically impossible porcupine, Slyde launched a volley of needles from his spiny fur. Seaclamp's shell did not save him this time. The flying needles pierced his cracked shell effortlessly. "Now, Double Kick!" Enzo continued. "Jolt jolt jolt eon!" Slyde jumpkicked Seaclamp with one hind leg, and punched a large hole right through the Cloyster's outer shell. Slyde backed away, then charged and jumpkicked Seaclamp a second time, widening the first hole and breaking right through Seaclamp's inner shell. A bit of Seaclamp's core/head was exposed to daylight. "Cloys?" Seaclamp turned toward the source of the light that was shining through his shell and found Slyde staring back at him. "Ssster!!!" "He's sitting *right* there!" a frustrated Kyle shouted. "Ice Beam him, damn you!" Seaclamp paid no attention. Moments later Slyde filled Seaclamp's whole shell with lightning. The audience watched in awe as blinding rays of light, followed by an explosion and a few dense clouds of black smoke, erupted from the cracks in Seaclamp's shell. Seaclamp fell to one side. "Cloyster is unable to fight!" the ref bellowed. He held up the red flag, and one of the green lights on the scoreboard went out. "And Slyde just tore Cloyster apart there!" the commentator remarked. "Kyle had better have a ground Pokémon up his sleeve..." Kyle withdrew Seaclamp and wondered what to use next. Moments later, Enzo recalled his Pokémon, seemingly for no reason. "Enzo has withdrawn Slyde! What will he call forth now?" Enzo tossed down his third Pokéball without even waiting for Kyle to choose his challenger. From Enzo's Pokéball came a gargantuan carapaced reptile... "It's a Blastoise!" shouted the commentator. "And if I didn't know better, I'd say those water cannons are cybernetically augmented!" The referee carefully headed out on to the field and inspected Gamera the Blastoise's water cannons. The cannons were cybernetically enhanced to be pressure-adjustable...which was not tournament-legal. With the illegal augments, Gamera could generate nearly twice the water pressure that an average Blastoise could. After inspecting the cannons, the referee went back to his place on the sidelines. "I'll allow it!" he shouted. The crowd roared with delight. "This is B.S. is what it is," Kyle growled to no one in particular. Finally he decided on his next Pokémon. He released Thanatos. "Kyle has sent out a Gengar! Clearly he's going for the mobility advantage here..." Thanatos reached skyward and snapped his fingers, and his ghostly guitar appeared out of nowhere. "The Gengar has...brought a guitar with him for some reason..." "I'll allow it!" the ref cried. Again the crowd went wild. "Thanatos, whatever you do, stay in close quarters!" Kyle ordered. He reasoned that Blastoise cannons were like tank cannons...useless at very close range. But as Thanatos discovered, much to Kyle's chagrin, Gamera's cannons had a far better range of motion than any tank's. As the black Gengar floated toward Gamera, he found that Gamera's cannons were trained on him no matter where he went. "Gamera, Hydro Pump that gas-bag outta th' field!" Vincenzo shouted. Gamera sneered as he turned the pressure on his cannons up to full blast. Having never seen a Blastoise before today, Thanatos did not know quite what to expect. He stopped floating in front of Gamera and started spinning his phantasmal guitar in front of himself like a shield. Gamera jammed his claws into the ice to brace himself, then launched twin water blasts from his shoulder cannons at about seventy miles per hour. In the split-second he had to react, Thanatos split himself in half. The water blasts passed harmlessly between the two halves. Thanatos reformed moments later. "Gen...gar," he taunted. "Gen...gar..." "An excellent evasion by Gengar!" the commentator noted. "Psychic!" Kyle yelled. Right away Thanatos broke into a frenzied rendition of "Long Way Down." A purple aura surrounded Gamera as he slowly started to float into the air. Gaseous beads of sweat formed on Thanatos's face, as Gamera was almost too heavy for his telekinesis to lift. Once Gamera was about twenty feet in the air, Thanatos dropped him. The Blastoise landed on his plastron with a stadium-shaking THUD. The icy battlefield cracked, but did not fall through. Thanatos fell to his nearly nonexistent knees and panted profusely. The lumbering Blastoise got to his feet and slowly stomped toward the recovering Gengar. "Bubblebeam!" came Enzo's next order. Gamera snapped his fingers, and his water cannons suddenly changed shape. The barrels extended, and their diameter decreased. A transparent red eyepiece swung down and covered Gamera's left eye, and before long the tired Thanatos realized that a red light was shining on his forehead. Seconds later, Gamera's cannons unleashed a barrage of bullet-sized bubbles at a rate comparable to machinegun fire. Thanatos rumbled uncontrollably and slid toward the edge of the arena as the explosive bubbles pummelled his gaseous form at a speed even faster than the Hydro Pump attack had traveled. Thanatos was almost disqualified when Gamera ran out of bubble formula. His cannons let out pathetic puffs of mist. "Blaaastoiiise!" he bellowed angrily. He snapped his fingers, and his cannons returned to their default configuration. "Hypnosis!" Kyle shouted. Thanatos got back to his feet, but he did not act in time to avoid Gamera's next offensive. Gamera reached down, broke a tremendous chunk of ice off from the field and heaved the chunk at Thanatos. The icy boulder shattered into hundreds of pieces and kicked up a thin cloud of mist. "Blastoise just dumped a mountain of ice on Gengar!" the frenzied commentator exclaimed. No matter *what* dimension you're from, that's got to hurt!!!" "Gengar is unable to -" The ref was interrupted when "Enter Sandman" reverberated throughout the stadium. Thanatos materialized floating right above Gamera and playing the nether-guitar. Gamera made an attempt to swat Thanatos out of the air, but the tortoise's hands passed harmlessly through the specter. Gamera then proceeded to fire water blast after water blast up at Thanatos, but the Gengar floated out of the way of each shot. Enzo noticed Gamera's eyelids starting to lower as the hypnotic powers of Thanatos's guitar slowly took effect. "Use Ice Beam! An' hurry it up, ya slow piece o' crap!" Enzo bellowed. Fighting to stay awake, Gamera hit a switch on his shell to prepare for his Ice Beam attack. The water energy that was stored inside Gamera's shell quickly dropped to a frigid temperature. Cold mist could be seen rising from Gamera's carapace. Seeing the mist, an idea came to Kyle. "Thanatos, dump water on him!" "Gen? Gar..." Thanatos shrugged, then telekinetically lifted a large blob of icy water out from the hole Gamera had made in the layer of ice. Thanatos tossed the blob of water at the half-asleep Blastoise...and the temperature of Gamera's shell was so low at that point that his shell - along with his water cannons - completely froze over when the water hit it. Gamera woke up out of surprise alone. The Ice Beam had been in the middle of expulsion...and with Gamera's cannons frozen over, the beam could not escape Gamera's shell. Internal pressure started to build up. Gamera knew what was inevitably coming. He feebly shut his eyes and covered his tympana. KAAABOOOOOMMM!!! The force generated by the explosion of Gamera's entire carapace launched Gamera like a Team Rocket member out of the Ice Field. He crashed with an earthshaking WHAM into the nosebleed section of the stadium...but thankfully, since next to no one was sitting in the nosebleed section, no spectators were injured. "Dy-no-*mite*!!!" came J.J.'s usual insightful commentary. The referee raised the green flag. "Blastoise is disqualified!" Another red light went out on the scoreboard. Enzo angrily recalled Gamera from about a hundred feet away. "I still got my ace in th' hole," he snarled. The smile returned to Enzo's face...but this time it was more like a diabolical sneer. "Enzo has only Slyde left!" the commentator pointed out. "Slyde has the odds stacked against him now...can he defeat two Pokémon in a row?" Out came Slyde the Jolteon. "Pin Missile again!" Enzo ordered. "Jolt eon! Jolt!" Slyde lined himself up with Thanatos, who was once again using his guitar like a shield. Slyde fired one large needle from his fur which split into five needles as it flew. The needles struck Thanatos's twirling nether-guitar...and popped it like a balloon. Tears streamed from Thanatos's red eyes as his beloved guitar faded away in a puff of smoke. "It would seem that Gengar has lost the will to fight!" the commentator noted. "Maybe...but jus' to make sure...Pin Missile one more time!" Enzo yelled. Slyde fired off another volley of needles that literally ripped partial poison Pokémon Thanatos apart. Thanatos pulled himself together with difficulty, and looked angry enough to tear someone's head off upon doing so...but mere seconds after reforming, he keeled over and fainted. The ref raised the red flag. Another green light went out. "Both competitors are down to their last Pokémon! What will Kyle choose to combat the undefeated Slyde now?" _Ground Pokémon would give a round of stomp-ass to that mutant hedgehog,_ Kyle thought. _If I send out one of the ground Pokémon I got from David Bradley, they'd probably pulverize me into a liquid state...which means my only hope is...oh, Goddish, this can't be happening..._ Kyle tossed down his third Pokéball. "Kyle has unleashed...a Nidoking?" Upon emerging from his Pokéball, Daggoth the Nidoking glanced at Slyde, who was snickering evilly. "A soldier from a rival Brood threatens the hive!" Daggoth roared in his burbling voice. "Daggoth, King of Nido, shall annihilate the offender in the name of the Nido Brood!" Kyle covered his eyes, praying to Goddish for the best. "Slyde, Pin Missile th' freak back to whatever planet he came from!" Enzo boomed. "Jolt!" Slyde rifled off yet another salvo of needles. Before Slyde had even fired, Daggoth had pulled a large chunk of ice up from the field to protect himself with. The needles slammed harmlessly into the ice boulder. Daggoth then brought the chunk of ice back and rolled it like a giant bowling ball at Slyde. Slyde lived up to his name and slid out of the way. Without even waiting for another order, Slyde charged Daggoth in the blink of an eye and started Double Kicking the dinosaur frenetically. However, poison Pokémon had a tendency to resist fighting-type attacks. "Fool!" Daggoth heartily laughed. "Pain is a friend of Daggoth's! Allow Daggoth to introduce you to it!" Daggoth stood his ground and watched for an opportunity to strike as Slyde kicked him from every angle. It took Daggoth about fifteen seconds to finally see an opening. As Slyde went to kick Daggoth in the face, the Nidoking landed a quick Mega Punch that knocked Slyde head over heels. Before Slyde could flip over and get back up, Daggoth stomped the Jolteon right through the cracked ice and into the water beneath. Kyle re-opened his eyes. _Jeez...Daggoth's kicking ass! What the hell happened between now and Cinnabar?!_ The chilled Jolteon burst up from the water and fired off another round of Pin Missiles in midair. Daggoth casually slapped the needles aside with his tail. As Slyde went for another string of Double Kicks, Daggoth grabbed hold of the Jolteon's left hind leg and threw Slyde face-first to the ground. "...And Nidoking just dumped Slyde on his head!" the surprised commentator noted. "Daggoth knows your weakness, spiny one!" the Nidoking snarled at the half-conscious Jolteon, who was struggling to stand. "If you survive your pitiful attempt to assassinate Daggoth, be sure to tell your Hivelord that Earth belongs to Daggoth, and Daggoth *alone*!!!" Daggoth backed off to prepare for his Earthquake attack. "Thunderbolt!" Enzo roared. Slyde quickly summoned up his remaining power and launched a tremendous ball of blue lightning at Daggoth. Daggoth caught the electric spheroid in one hand and tossed it away. "Imbecile! Electricity has *no* effect on Daggoth!" As Daggoth jumped high into the air, he shouted, "Let Purgatory serve as time for you to think on your failure!" Daggoth slammed the ice with his feet, and sent a shockwave barreling toward Slyde that would have been invisible were it not for the fact that it was tearing right through the very battlefield. The ice gave way and Daggoth fell into the icy water; but that was like a mere mosquito bite compared to the agony Slyde experienced. When the shockwave struck Slyde, it drove him straight out of the Ice Field and into the stadium wall. The ref raised the green flag. "Jolteon is disqualified! Green competitor is the winner!" The last red light on the scoreboard went out. Enzo let out a shout of rage as he recalled Slyde. "And Vincenzo Larufa, round five participant in last year's tournament, has just suffered a stunning upset in the first round!!!" the commentator cried, as the platforms on which the trainers stood lowered to the ground once again. Kyle grinned very casually at Vincenzo. "Sucks to be you, Enzo," Kyle said as he withdrew Daggoth. Enzo responded with a loud stream of expletives that basically said "this is not over." He released Nightmare the black Rapidash, jumped on to the fire horse's back, and rode toward the exit. Kyle stepped down from his platform and headed for the in-stadium Pokécenter while the crowd cheered madly. Kyle took one last glance at Enzo before the rivals were out of each other's sight. Kyle quietly sung a Queen tune. "Na na na na...na na na na...hey hey hey...goodbye..." Then Enzo was gone. Damn...I don't think round two's going to be able to top this. O_o; --K * A * R * N * I * V * A * X-- "Our wretched society is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road." --Voltaire Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.