From: <lordlocke@my-deja.com> Subject: Re: [PW!][League] Water Field Rumble! Mike VS Gads Date: Saturday, December 04, 1999 6:24 PM > "Where could he be?" Mike asked. Then he saw Gads suddenly in the > water. "Oh, there he is. Not the most triumphant entrance in Pokemon > League history." Mike said. "I heard that dragon, water, and flying > Pokemon have the best advantage on this field. First up will be > Dragonair, then Kabutops if Dragonair faints, and then I'll slice him > up with Scyther." Mike said to himself. Gads was preparing his first > Pokemon. "I refuse to lose so here's my clue: Dragonair, I choose > you!" Mike shouts in his battle statement. > "BEGIN!" Dragonair suddenly appears upon one of the platforms, while Dow jumps down from the green tower onto another one. "SLAM IT, DRAGONAIR" "DOW! HYPNOSIS!" The Dragonair coiled up from it's platform, then sprang out, sending itself soaring at the Drowzee. Dow, panicked, simply ducked. However, since the Dragoinair had been aiming for his head, it went soaring over him and landed with a splash in the water. "NOW DOW!" Dow, who realized that he had been spared, whirled around and began to chant. "Drowzee... drowzee..." Dragonair whirled around for another lunge... but instead getting an eyefull of the hypnotic waves. "DRAgon... a i r..." It fell asleep, floating in the water. "WAKE UP DRAGONAIR!" Mike started trying to make as much noise as possible. Gads smiled. Dow wasn't going to screw around this time! "NOW! Dream Eater!" Instead, Dow cracked his knuckles, and issued a command to the Dragonair. "Drow, zee zee!" The Dragonair's eyes opened half-way, and it moved over to a platform. Both trainers looked confused. Then, it began. "Dragonair! Dra-gon-air! Drrr-aaaaa-goneair!" A crowd-wide facefault occured. "Folks, it seems that Dragonair is attempting to do a variation of Jigglypuff's Sing attack! Not a very good one at that..." Mike glared at the Drowzee. "He's playing with me..." Gads also glared at Dow. "DAMN IT! STOP GOOFING OFF AND NAIL HIM!" Dow wasn't listening to them though. He was listening to the crowd, who were collapsing in laughing fits. Or cringing at the terrible singing... "ZEE! Dro! DRO!" The Dragonair coiled up, it's tail sticking out the back. It hissed at Dow and shook it's tail. "And now, it's an Ekans! Is this a Pokemon fight, or a Magic Act?" Mike got an idea. "EKANS! WRAP ATTACK!" "AIR!" "Drow?" Suddenly, the Dragonair lunged at the Drowzee, and wrapped himself around it, squeezing it. "ZEE! ZEE! ZEE!" Not used to being attacks, Dow had no clue to break itself out of the crushing grip. "Come on DOW! You have control of him! Tell him to be something else!" Gads was shaking his head. He KNEW this would happen. Mike had other ideas. "DON'T GIVE HIM THAT CHANCE! Lets see... what do Ekans know... I know! BITE ATTACK!" "AIR!" *Chomp* Dow began to run around on the platform, Dragonair firmly attached to his head. "ZEE! ZEE!" It didn't take long for Dow to run into the water, where he began splashing around. The panic in Dow broke the Hypnosis on Dragonair, who releaced his bite. "Air?" He looked over at Mike. "SURF! SURF!" "Drag!" Suddenly, the water in the pool began to swell on one side, and a giant wave came crashing towards Dow, and carried him with it. *WHAM!* The end result was Dow being thrown out of the pool and embedded in the Green Tower. He fell onto the nearby platform, out cold. "Drowzee is inable to fight. Dragonair is the winner." Gads recalled Dow. "That was embarrasing..." Gads clutched the Pokeball containing Vinal. "You're up! GO VINAL!" The Tangela appeared on the platform. "LA LA!" It looked at the Dragonair on the platform across it, and looked at Gads. "Tan?" "Don't get cocky. It defeated Dow." Vinal nodded. "Gel." It then fired out six vines at the Dragonair. "Dodge! Avoid! GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Mike started yelling orders at the Dragonair. It dodged one, two, three, four, five vines. However, the sixth hit it's mark. "Tan... gel...A!" Vinal wrapped four more vines around it, then dragged it into the water, holding it there. After a few moments, no motion came from below the water. Gads and Mike just stared. Vinal, however, looked confused for some reason, and started looking around. Mike noticed something in the water. "Did he... slip out?" "AIR!" One wet, short of breath, and very ANGRY Dragonair shot out from the water. He didn't need any commands. He didn't WANT any commands. He KNEW what he was going to do. He shot out one large, POWERFUL beam of pure energy at the shell-shocked Tangela. Another series of cracks appeared in the tower as the Tangela found himself slammed into the area just before his Drowzee buddy before him. "Tangela is inable to fight. Dragonair is the winner!" "WAY TO GO DRAGONAIR!" Mike cheered on. Only one more to go... "Damn... well, M-C, you're up." The Mankey prepared to leap down... but was interrupted by a glow of red light emerging from Gads pocket. It shot down to the platform... and took shape of a Jigglypuff. "NO! NO NO NO! NOT NOW, SKETCH!" "Jiggly?" Sketch sat down, and looked over at the Dragonair. "JIGGLY!" It began to draw it on the platform with it's red crayon. Dragonair big-sweatted. The annoucner took a pause from laughing to make commentary. "It appears that this Jigglypuff's a lover, not a fighter." Mike smiled. "Ok. This one's easy. Give it a taste of your RAGE!" The Dragonair opened it's mouth, and gave off a mighty cry. "AIR!" This was followed with a HUGE blast of fire in the direction of the Jigglypuff. "Puff? PUFF!" Sketch went wide-eyed and ran for another platform. It, however, accidentally dropped it's crayon. When she looked back, it was engulfed in flames. Sketch watched in horror as her most-prized posession was engulfed in flames. "Ji... ji... JIGGLYPUFF!" Sketch flashed white for one moment, then opened it's mouth, shooting out a huge blast of fire at the Dragonair, who wasn't able to dodge in time. "What the..." Gads pulled out his Pokedex, and pointed it at the Jigglypuff. "Mimic. While no Pokemon learns this attack naturally, nearly all of them can learn it through TM. When used in battle, the pokemon will copy the attack last used against it." "No wonder. All this time, I tried to command Sketch through normal Jigglypuff attacks... it's obvious that someone's TM'ed her up!" Sketch leaped back to her starting platform, and looked at the waxy smear that used to be her crayon. She glared at the Dragonair, who was floating motionless in the pool, and pulled out a red marker out of nowhere. She sat down and crossed a big red "X" over the picture of the Dragonair she drew earlier. "Dragonair is inable to fight! Jigglypuff is the winner!" 'I though I'd NEVER be able to say that line...' Gads was going over the TM list in the Pokedex. "I gotta figure out what else Sketch knows." Mike looked at the Jigglypuff, the recalled his Dragonair. "Go, KABUTOPS!" The bladed Kabutops appeared on one platform. Sketch looked over, waved to the Kabutops, then began drawing it. Once again, Mike's current Pokemon big-sweatted. He turned back to his trainer. "Kabu?" "You had best take it seriously. It KO'ed Dragonair." "TOPS!" The Kabutops turned back to the Jigglypuff, preparing to pop the balloon Pokemon. It lunged towards Sketch, who was still busy with her portrait of the bladed Pokemon. "LOOK OUT SKETCH!" Sketch looked up to see her model lunging at her. "Jiggly?" "SLASH IT, KABUTOPS!" Gads glanced down at the list of TMs. 'One of these has GOTTA work...' "Sketch! MEGA PUNCH, RAZOR WIND, SWORD DANCE, MEGA KICK, SUBMISSION, BODY SLAM, TAKE DOWN..." The Jigglypuff's ears perked up as it heard the name of an attack it knew. She quickly put the finishing touches on it's drawing of the Kabutops, then executed her Take Down technique. Unprepared from retaliation of any sort from the puffball, Kabutops took it head-on, and was sent into the water. Gads began taking notes. "Mimic... Take Down... what else?" Mike looked on. "I don't believe this. I can take out a Drowzee... I can take out a Tangela, but I'm having problems with a JIGGLYPUFF? KABUTOPS, HYDRO PUMP!" The Kabutops began to circle for a moment to gain some speed... "GA!" Gads scanned the list for some TM's that might help against the massive water attack. "Come on, there's gotta be a technique to use against this... REFLECT, THUNDER WAVE, SOFTBOILED, DOUBLE TEAM..." Once again, Sketch perked her ears up as it heard a technique she knew. Her form began to shimmer... as one became three. As Kabutops shot out of the water, high into the sky, it looked down at it's target... and saw three. Shocked by the change, the Hydro Pump was executed towards one of them, which easily dodged. "MIMIC IT!" All three Jigglypuffs opened wide, and shot out MASSIVE streams of water at the Kabutops, who was in the middle of decent. The three streams were enough to heft it back up. It went up, up... up some more. After a few moments, the trio of Jigglypuffs stopped, and Kabutops began coming down... down... and down some more, right onto the platform, with a sicking *THUD* "Kabu..." Despite the fall, Kabutops stood up, swung it's blade a couple of times, then lunged at the Jigglypuffs, bent on popping all three. "Mimic!" The two cloned Jigglys pulled red markers out of nowhere, and all three began slashing at the Kabutops with them, dodging the blades to avoid a grisly fate. Kabutops, confused with the large number of suprisingly-fast opponents, failed to land oven one claw on the Jigglypuffs. When the exchange ended, Kabutops collapes, exausted, and covered with drawings of Jigglypuffs, Kabutops, and smiley faces. After a moment, the referee raised the green flag. "Kabutops is inable to fight. Jigglypuff *snicker* is the winner." Mike glared at the giggling Referee. The announcer, who was on his feet, began to comment again. "Well folks, those of you here today are witnissing a legendary event. A Jigglypuff is threatening to make a rout of this match. Mike had better choose his last Pokemon wisely, because that Jigglypuff has been making patchwork of his team." All three versions of Sketch glared at the downed Kabutops, and puffed up to her maximum size. "PUFF!" They then shimmered back into one Sketch. She hopped over to her Kabutops drawing, and once again, ran a big, red "X" through it. Mike looked at the Pokeball of his Scyther, then releaced the flying, bladed Pokemon. "It's up to you, Scyther." The Scyther looked at his opponent, who had happily began drawing it's new buddy. "Scyther?" It began shaking it's head. "Scy scy..." "Whadda ya mean, not worth your time? It defeated Dragonair AND Kabutops." "SCYTHER!" It looked again at the Jigglypuff, who waved. "Scyther!" "Way. Take it seriously, or you'll fall to it too." Scyther brought up an image of the Jigglypuff standing victorious over it's falled body. It then shook it's head. "SCYTHE!" "Heh, I didn't think you'd like that. Now, QUICK ATTACK!" The Scyther dive-bombed the Jigglypuff, knocking it over. Thankfully, it was a headbutt and not a blade-pierce. "JIIIGGGGLLLYYY!" Sketch tumbled into the pool, and floated on the top. It looked at the Scyther, and gave it the EVILIST stare possibly from a Jigglypuff. "GAH! Ok, one more move... THUNDER! FIRE BLAST! ICE BEAM! THUDERBOLT! WATER GUN! SEISMIC TOSS! METRONOME!" "Jiggly..." Sketch agreed whole-heartedly. It began wiggling back and forth in the water... "SCYTHER!" It began to lunge again, this time with a blade out, at the floating Sketch. Sketch just continued wiggling... "SCYTHER!" Almost there... but suddenly, Sketch began to glow... "JIGGLYPUFF!" A LARGE symbol,made entrely of fire, was shot out at the Scyther. Inable to pull away, it took it head on, and fell like a rock into the water. "Metronome..." Gads took note of Sketch's fourth attack. "Ok... so Take Down, Double Team, Mimic, and Metronome." "SCYTHER!" The Scyther shot out of the water. Since it fell into the pool after getting tagged by the Fire Blast, it took only minimal damage from it. "DOUBLE TEAM, NOW!" Both trainers looked at each other. They had issued the same command. Suddenly, three Jigglypuffs looked at three Scythers. Neither had any clue what came next. "SLASH THEM!" "MIMIC THEM!" Six pokemon began dodging, weaving, diving, and slashing at each other across the entire arena. The Scythers spent as much time in the sky as possible, while the Jigglypuffs stood their ground until dive-bombed. As the Jigglypuffs isolated one Scyther, the croud began to chant... "JIGGLYPUFF! JIGGLYPUFF! JIGGLYPUFF!" And with a series of furious marker-slashes, one Scyther was removed from combat. *POP!* *POP!* The other two Scythers, though, dive-bombed from behind and tagged their Jigglypuff counterparts. Sketch looked at her two opponents. Gads paled. "Not good... METRONOME!" Sketch began to wiggle side to side again, as the two Scythers looped back for more. However, instead of glowing, Sketch began to vibrate. Violently. "What the..." Gads looked on. The Scythers were almost there... *KABOOM!* Jigglypuff metronomed a perfect Explosion attack. After the smoke cleared, one Jigglypuff and one Scyther laid there. The Referee prepared to raise both flags and declare a draw... "SCYTHER!" A cry came from above as one of the Scythers slowly floated down. "Jigglypuff is inable to fight! Scyther is the winner!" A roar came over the croud. A large number of cheers, and a small amount of boos roared up. Mike lept off the red tower, and jumped from platform over to platform to his Scyther. "You did it!" "Scy... ther." Mike and Scyther both looked down at the Jigglypuff. "Yeah..." Gads jumpmed over to Sketch. "You ok?" "Jiggly..." "Good job. Ya got two, and almost three!" "Jig..." Sketch drifted off to sleep. "Return, Sketch." The Jigglypuff returned to her Pokeball. As Gads lept out of the pool, Mara greeted him on the side. "Wow." "I can't believe it." "What? That you lost?" "No... that I almost won, and all thanks to Sketch." Gads looked at the Pokeball. "I guess she'll be seeing a lot more action now..." "You'd better go get Monk-chan... he's still on the Green Tower..." "K." Gads climbed up the green tower. "Monk-chan, come on!" "Mankey..." "Listen, I'm sorry I didn't use you, but Sketch came out on her own for some reason. I probably kept her in her ball too long... I gotta watch out for doing that to the others." "Man..." "Of COURSE I'll use you next time. Now come on, Andrew's waitin' for us at the cabins." Monk-chan smiled, then lept upon his trainer's head. Inside the Water Field Lobby... "Hey guys!" Andrew waved from a booth. "I saw the end of the match. Man, that's a MEAN Jigglypuff." "Heh, thanks. Almost..." Gads then looked at what Andrew was wearing... "What the..." "Oh, this?" He gestured at his shirt. It had a picture of Sketch, in her puffed-up pose, with the words "Don't Mess With The Puff" on it. "It's being sold everywhere. Right after Sketch defeated that Kabutops, merchandice featuring her started appearing EVERYWHERE! She's very, VERY popular with the crowd! Here, look at this!" Andrew handed Gads a package. Gads looked at it. "An action figure? Sketch has an ACTION figure?" "Yeah! The marker even can draw!" Mara looked around. "Uh... Gads..." "What?" "Look around..." Gads did so. "Holy..." They were surrounded by booths, all devoted to selling Sketch merchandice. "What in blazes..." Andrew just smirked. "Told you. Sketch is POPULAR! Here, I got ya a hat" Andrew handed Gads a custom-made "Trainer of Sketch" hat. "Some guy wanted me to give this to ya to wear during the games..." Gads put on the hat, while several people watched. "How'd they get all this stuff so fast..." "Who knows. Ya know, though, they're going to expect to see her again." Gads smirked this time. "Well, I'm not gonna argue with that." "Hey, there's Sketch's trainer! Can I have an autograph! From both of you?" Suddenly, a mob of Sketch-a-holics dashed over to the trio. *Sigh* "It's gonna be a long night..." Gads shook his head. TBC? (OOC: Who says that losers never win? ^_^) From your friendly, neighborhood LORDLOCKE Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/ Before you buy.