Subject: [PW!] Cabin Fever (One Year Anniversary & Comeback Special!)
Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 22:58:52 -0400
From: RobfromVoid <RobfromVoid@prodigy.net>
Newsgroups: alt.games.nintendo.pokemon
"I'm surprised we're still sailing around and we haven't found land yet,
Xerox..." A middle-aged man wearing a tuxedo resting in his green bean
bag chair voices this thought to the purple Ditto sitting on the bed in
the cabin of his ship.
Xerox the Ditto sighs then replies, "I'm surprised that our ship's
captain has been able to sail the ship so long without crashing into
anything. Then again, I suppose Bozo can't crash into any landmasses
since the Mr. Mime cannot seem to locate any landmasses! We had better
find some place to dock the ship soon, since we're running low on food.
I can survive without eating for quite while, but I know that you
require nutrition, master. Although my sister doesn't require food every
day much like I do not, I am sure she would be unbearable if she did not
get her daily dosage of sugar. Moreso, I mean."
"Being out at sea for so long seems to have made you bitter, Xerox!"
Marvin stands up, swinging his arms as he talks, "Bozo's trying his best
to sail this ship and Famifax's enjoying herself out at sea... You're
the only one who's become unbearable!"
Xerox narrows her tiny eyes at her master, "Listen, before you turned
this place into a cabin that I am forced to stay in, I would get to
enjoy time alone in this room when you and Famifax would go out to have
your ridiculous adventures, but now I am forced to constantly hear your
incessant babbling on ridiculous issues that have no importance in the
universal scheme of things! The problem is not just your nonsense - do
you know how difficult it is to concentrate on reading when I hear my
sister's obnoxious high pitched whining at all times?! Did it ever occur
to you that I need my space? Did it, MARVIN?!"
Marvin gasps and backs away from Xerox, "I haven't heard you use my name
when addressing me for over a year!"
"No, not OVER a year, Marvin... exactly one year, unless you count Leap
Day as a day - I just consider it a correctional unpleasantness - one
that I had to spend being disgusted by Famifax's attraction to that
human, Darian McCain, the same fellow we met the same day I stopped
calling you Marvin. Do you know why I started calling you 'master'? I'll
tell you why. I was making a point - a point that flew completely over
your head. You treat me like your Pokemon and Famifax like your
daughter... The only difference between myself and your Lickitung is
that I don't get the sweet release of being allowed in a Pokeball. Not
since Mimic let me be inside him have I felt that intense gratification,
Marvin."
"So... what you're saying..." Marvin reaches into his tuxedo's coat
pocket, "...is that you want me to put you in a Pokeball?"
Xerox is enfuriated, but she just releases it with a frustrated sigh,
"Once again, you miss the point completely. Just forget it. Forget I
said anything. Go on living your self-centered life, ignoring anyone but
the attention whore that is my sister."
"Hey!" Marvin glances out the window to see an innocent teenage blonde
girl in a sailor suit glancing out at the sea, "You can call me all
those horrible things if you want to, you grumpy Ditto, but don't call
Famifax names! She hasn't done anything!"
"She hasn't?! That..." Xerox pauses, takes a deep breath, and in a quiet
voice says, "Very well, master. I'll do as you wish."
Awkward silence ensues...
...but it is broken when the cute sailor gal on the ship's deck runs
into the cabin door! After she stands up from having run into the door,
she opens it, and heads into the room, rubbing her forehead, "Ouchie!
Thas smarts! Why dids I wantsta come ins here?! Oh yah! Now I remembers!
Sillyme! I saws a big big grass place with trees and junk an it was
totally not water, sos I had ta comes in here and sayso cuz ya wansta
land on land, an I weally thinks thisis land! Fersure!"
Marvin glances at Xerox, who is silently frowning, then looks at
Famifax, "I think we should leave Xerox behind this time. She needs some
quiet time to cool down. We'll bring whatever food we find on the
island, okay, Xerox?" Marvin waits for a response, but when Xerox
doesn't give one, he grabs Famifax's hand and steps outside, locking the
cabin door. On the ship's deck, he can see the large jungle-ridden
Island not too far from the ship. Marvin calls out to Bozo the Mr. Mime,
the ship's captain, "Dock the Magical Marvel on this island! Famifax and
I are going to go exploring! Want to come, Bozo?"
Bozo looks back at Marvin and holds his captain's hat steady while
shakes his head. The silent captain then turns back to the ship's helm,
turning the wheel, steering the ship towards the large island full of
wild Pokemon.
As the ship sails closer to the island's beach, Marvin uses the hand
he's not using to hold Famifax's hand to block the sun out of his eyes
as he surveys the beach, trying to see if he can find any young girls in
swimsuits or Pokemon. Though there aren't any humans in sight, male or
female, he does see some odd Pokemon. There's a purple Krabby, a black
Shellder, and a green Staryu resting on the beach. He can even see red
and orange fuzzballs swinging from trees in the island's jungle,
presumably oddly colored Mankey or Primeape. Marvin scratches the side
of his head, "I've heard of this place..."
"Whas is it?!" Famifax asks, squinting her green eyes towards the shore,
"Crazy weirdo mix-up Pokemon place island?"
"You could say that." Marvin smirks, "They call this place... Pokemon
Island! It's a reserve for unique Pokemon. If I remember correctly from
the brochure I once saw, this island's way south of Cinnabar Island, but
not too far from the Orange Islands... So if we keep sailing south,
we'll eventually get to the Orange Islands and I'll be able to enter the
Pokemon League there! But for now, let's explore this island. Oh boy!
The adventure, the excitement, the unknown - I feel younger already!"
Famifax examines Marvin through squinted eyes, then giggles, "Ya sure
don' look younger, Marvy-man! But thas okays, I still lovesya!"
-Marvin
