Sunday, December 13, 2009

Pokémon: The Golden Apocalypse, Chapter Two

Red stepped back from the cage and watched intently. For what felt like an eternity nothing happened. Red took a tentative step forward. Nothing happened. He poked the cage with his shoe. Again, there was no sign of life. He bent down to look in the cage. He saw nothing in the darkness. He was debating whether he should reach into it or attempt to dump out its contents when he heard a moist slapping noise from within. He leaped to his feet and moved back. The sound came again. Seconds passed. It came once more. Red could only imagine what horror lurked within, slowly moving forward on a thousand tentacled feet, moving them with the deliberate slowness of a predator that none can hide from, each sucker being pulled from the wall before reattaching inches ahead. The noise came again, closer to the entrance. This time it was less distorted by the cage. It sounded less like a tentacle and more like wet sponge dropping to the ground. Red waited a little longer, and then a sad little round creature hopped into the light. It was small. Far smaller than most pokémon Red had ever seen, save newly hatched magikarp and perhaps some caterpie. It was a slimy blue, similar to that of a blue algae he had once seen when one of the wells was contaminated. Its nose was the pink of pecha berries, and it was below two large eyes that together filled most of the sphere. Its stomach was translucent, and Red could see the spiraling intestinal tract within. What made the beast so miserable - what made Red despair - were its limbs. It had no arms, and it's legs were small and weak. The thing could barely support its own weight, and seemed to have difficulty walking. It had a tail, much like a tadpole's, that seemed to do nothing but trip the creature as it waddled around Red cheerfully. He looked back at the shining Lab, with its glorious Guardian perched above, and wondered how he could ever hope to achieve anything with this, this, abomination at his feet. Blissfully ignorant, the pokémon tripped over Red's foot and, looking up at him in apparent surprise, happily gurgled "Poliwag!"

13 comments:

Met said...

Classic pokemon at it's finest. I love it.

Elphaba said...

That little thing sounds cute!

Reogan said...

I'd like to thank Bulbapedia for providing every ounce of reference material I need.

Elphaba said...

What on earth is "Bulbapedia"? Is that, like, Wikipedia for Pokemon or what?

Reogan said...

How can it possibly be easier to wait an indefinite length of time for an answer, rather than simply type 'Bulbapedia' into a search bar?

Elphaba said...

I'm not really all that interested. More importantly, you explain things in a more entertaining way than Google or Yahoo does.

Reogan said...

True...


Bulbapedia is a compendium of all things pokémon.




Still, I would think taking five (ten with a slow computer) seconds to just pull it up is far easier. Your approach seems so elaborately lazy that it's difficult.

Elphaba said...

Yeah, but I only Google things if I'm interested and need to know at that moment in time. Neither of those conditions apply here.

Reogan said...

You have at your fingertips, a device capable of bringing you most any knowledge in the world in seconds - seconds mind you - and you don't utilize it to assist in comprehension. I refuse to be a crutch any longer! I know the interwebz(tm) are scary, but even so you should use them.

Elphaba said...

You're not a crutch, but you are a person who knows a lot of references that I don't get; so I ask you. Plus I didn't think to Google it then. :P

Reogan said...

Now you know that you should, and I will never have to explain myself again.

Elphaba said...

Most of the things you say even Google can't explain.

Reogan said...

Conceded.