I HAD written a story for this round, except "it didn't meet the requirements"....
:tongue: Nah, that's my own fault. However, since it's short, I can post it here (it isn't big enough for a new thread...)
Crossed Wires
Running, panting, I couldn't stop. If I looked over my shoulder, I would slow down and it would catch me. Fire had burned away my tail, leaving a stump where is should have been, and claws had run down one side of my face, permanently shutting one eye. A fireball exploded onto a rock in front of me, causing me to swerve out of the way; they were still after me. And for what, a couple of berries weren't worth this. No, some Pokémon were cruel and loved to inflict pain, no matter what anyone says otherwise.
We were reaching the top of Mount Cornet now, and then it would all be over. Would it be better to jump off, or would it be better to turn and fight. Half blind and tail-less, it would be suicide to turn and fight, but the other option was too. Dashing out of the cave an onto the plateau, I ran into a young girl holding a deck of cards and sent her tumbling down from her place at top of the mountain; that would hurt when she landed, eliminate her from the competition of humans, so to speak.
Running into that girl had slowed me down, but I had to decide soon anyway. Deciding that I'd rather fight, I jumped onto a rock and re-bounded off of it, intent on sending an Iron Tail into the face of his attacker. However my attack fell far short due to my tail having been burned away, so I was only waving a glowing stump into the face of my attacker.
Gulping, I looked up into the face of his pursuer, knowing that death would shortly follow. But instead of death, I found myself being sucked into a giant pink diamond that had appeared a short distance behind him. I wasn't at all sure of what would be in that diamond, or what would be on the other side, but anywhere would be better than here. My attacker struggled to escape the pull of the diamond, which was good; if he came after me it would ruin my escape. There was a flash of pink light, a roar that sounded as though it was coming from everywhere at once, even from inside of me, and then there was nothing.
When I awoke, I found myself in a new world where nothing was what it seemed. For one thing, there was a maniac in red hopping onto innocent, green shelled Squirtles who seemed to be unable to shoot out water. And then, as if that wasn't enough, the same maniac was eating red and white mushrooms and growing bigger! After that, he confronted a green shelled Blastoise who didn't have cannons and spat fire, jumped onto a switch that destroyed the ground from under the turtle's feet and released what looked like a cross between a Jynx and a Blissey from a cage above him.
Well I wasn't going to stand for turtle abuse, not even from someone whose head was as big as my entire body. I noticed for the first time that there were white Gastlys floating around, apparently invisible to everyone else, but I didn't care. Curling myself into a ball, I launched myself at the maniac and the Jynx-Blissey creature, electrifying myself as I did so. Pleasure swept through me as they dropped into the abyss that the green Blastoise had after I hit them, they had deserved that. I was content as the pink diamond overtook me again, I wouldn't mind going back now, even if I would die. Before I was spit back out onto Mount Cornet, a voice spoke to me.
"Don't meddle in games that aren't yours, even if you were both created by the same company."
