Pokemon World Online
Chapter 2: n00bs and b00bs
Disclaimer: I don't own pokemon or anything else like that. Here's part two of my computer game fic. I hope you enjoy my sense of humor. R&R please.
Chapter updated! Enjoy sparkly new-ness and less oldness
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Twilmer stretched with a grunt as she stood up. She had idled in the field while she slept. "Ugh, my shoulders are so stiff," she yawned as she rolled her shoulders and did a few morning exercises. Toe touches became extremely easy as a Pichu. Helium had said that he'd login early to help her find a party, and she wanted to be in top shape so she wouldn't have to ride on his shoulder again. She couldn't bear the embaressment again.
She finished her exercises and sat on a large rock as she waited. Ten minutes later, Twilmer grew impatient. "That's it, I'm sick of waiting. He can find me on his map if he wants to be on my party so badly," Twilmer grumped, jumping off the rock and storming off angrily. She didn't really know her way around Cobalt feild. She never stayed there long when she passed through it in her earlier levels and never bothered to return as there was nothing of interest there for the Grace Master class. It was mostly a place for tamers and herbalists to gain fast levels and gather data on pokemon and plants, respectively. Grace masters usually perferred mountain ranges where they could push themselves by climbing or rivers where they could jump from rock to rock to push themselves and their pokemon partners. Cobalt feild was completely boring compaired to the places Twilmer trained. Where was the excitement in a flat field?
She hadn't gone far when an ear-peircing shreik made her cringe and fall over. "OMIGOD OMIGOD OHEMGEE! Itsa Pichu!" Twilmer saw a girl in what appeared to be a Bunneary suit running towards her. The girl then picked her up and squeezed her in a bear hug.
"Bones...crushed...HP...lowering..." Twilmer coughed, struggling in the girl's arms. Twilmer growled and let out a discharge of static electricity, which caused the rabid fangirl to drop her in surprise. "Just what do you think you're doing, crushing an admin with those arms of death? I should up your warning level for that!" Twilmer scolded, glaring at the Bunneary-suit clad gamer.
"Aww, a talking Pichu that thinks it's an admin; that's a game feature that I've never seen before. Lol!" The girl moved to hug Twilmer again, but she used a quick attack to dodge her.
"I should send a request to headquarters to model a boss after you. I am an administrator for Pokemon World Online. I am the great Twilmer, as I'm sure you've heard of me, and I will not be spoken to with such noobish speech. I just look like a Pichu because of a glitch that attacked my character data," Twilmer explained, quite irritated at the whole situation.
"Sure you are Miss Pichu. I bet I'll be the first tamer ever to tame a talking pokemon! Come on, Bunneary, we've got some work to do!" The girl motioned to her partner, a young female Bunneary. She bounced over and the two got on opposite ends of Twilmer.
"This is not going to end well," Twilmer's ears drooped. She could take the two on as a grace master with Victoria--her Sneasel partner--quite easily, but by herself and as a Pichu, it was quite a hopeless situation.
"Twilmer, is that you?" Helium's voice came from her right. "I'm not familliar with what party members look like on the map. I think you're this yellow dot." Twilmer's ear perked up at the sound of his voice.
"Help me! I'm about to be man-handled by some crazy noob!" Twilmer shouted. Helium ran over and laughed at the sight.
"Oh, you must be a tamer. I think I've seen you in the fields while I was training. I'm Helium and I'm an herbalist. This is Gloom," Helium introduced himself and his partner. "This is Twilmer and she's an administrator that was turned into a Pichu." Helium motioned at the angry Pichu.
"So she was telling the truth. How embarressing," the tamer laughed with a blush. "I'm Emily23 and I'm the best tamer in all of Cobalt. I've already tamed all the basic pokemon in this area and have distrubuted most of them, thanks to my handy game guide. This is my partner, Bunneary and my favorite Pokemon. As you may be able to tell, I got the 4th generation booster pack bundle with the basic game for my birthday and I'm now able to use 4th generation pokemon and items, hence my garb." Emily23 turned, showcasing her outfit. "It only cost me 2000 poke, which is a steal!"
"Only 2000? I should talk to the higher-ups about raising prices on ridiculous outfits such as this," Twilmer pondered with a paw to her chin.
"What did you say?" Emily23 glared at Twilmer and brushed a floppy ear out of her face. "This happens to be high fashion nowadays!"
"She didn't mean anything by it," Helium got between the two before the situation could get worse as Twilmer was sparking dangerously, though she was probably doing more damage to herslf due to Pichu's tendancy to also shock itself with its electricity. "She's just a bit testy after being transformed into a Pichu."
"You know, that's so odd, really. I've never heard of a glitch doing something like this, and nothing like this is in my guidebook." Emily23 looked thoughtful.
"Yes, and now she's forming a party to help her solve the mystery of this glitch and return her to her former self." Helium explained.
"I can talk for myself," Twilmer grumbled.
"I see! In that case, I would be happy to join your party. If the glitch is turning players into pokemon, then I want to be there to see it. I just love pokemon and it's why I became a tamer." Emily23 smiled at the two.
"I don't want you on our party. I barely want him on my party. You can't just invite yourself along." Twilmer turned.
"Oh come on, she might be useful." Helium offered.
"Yeah, she'll be useful if we ever need a n00b to admin translator," Twilmer sighed to herself. She just wanted numbers for now. She could be picky about who joined later. "Fine, whatever, just no hugging," she warned as they continued on their way.
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"Some party we are," Twilmer complained as they entered a nearby town. "A tamer, an herbalist, and a grace master turned Pichu; if any glitch or danger appears here, our party is toast."
"Well, we may not be able to attack, but we can tame it if it's a wild pokemon, or we could give an enemy a status condition while we escape with my herbs and powder." Helium smiled, trying to get Twilmer to look on the bright side. She just looked up at him with a glare that told him keeping his mouth shut was a good option.
"At least we're in a city now. There's bound to be some people here who would be willing to join our party. Now that I have you two with me, I won't be as likely to get trampled. You're sort of like my own personal body guards," Twilmer laughed to herself as she toddled ahead of the two.
"That's big talk coming from such a little gamer," a snide, feminine voice remarked in amusement. The group turned to see a well endowed gamer standing near them.
"Elra!" Twilmer glared up at the woman, who was several more times her height. "I remember you. Before I was an admin, you used to always challenge me to matches and then you would cheat and beat me." Twilmer growled, sparks coming out of her cheeks.
"I didn't cheat, I just simply used my items. It's not my fault that your hands would get so sore from holding the controller that your attacks would become sluggish. You really spend way too much time online. Rumor has it that you haven't logged off in several months. Too bad your profile is set to private or else you could end those rumors." Elra smirked. "Personally I believe the rumors. The rumors of you being turned into a Pichu were right, so this must be as well."
"Don't believe everything you hear," Twilmer said angrily. "I should've known we'd find you in a city as badly programmed as this one. Come on, we don't want any party members from this city anyways." Twilmer began bustling away.
"You actually found yourself a party?" Elra asked, motioning at Emily23 and Helium.
"Hello, I'm Helium." Helium waved meekly.
"I am Emily23 and this is my Bunneary. I am the best tamer this game has ever seen. In just a weeks time, I tamed all the wild pokemon of Cobalt feild." Emily23 twirled; Bunneary twirling right beside her.
"Em, there aren't many differant kinds of pokemon that live in Cobalt, and most of them are bug or basic grass pokemon like Caterpie and Oddish. That's nothing to brag about," Twilmer shook her head. Emily23 lost her composure as she lost gripof her controller in real life.
"So? I'm a beginer! Cut me some slack! Besides, I'm very gifted for someone who's only been playing as long as I have, you must admit," Emily23 looked closely at Twilmer, waiting for some kind of agreeing emote, but she just stared back.
"Haha, how did I know that your party would be like this; a tamer and an herbalist, both low level at that and new to the game, with no attacker?." Elra laughed.
"I'm the attacker for this party. I'm a grace master, remember? Also I'm not that one that allowed Emily23 to join our party. That was laughing gas boy over there," Twilmer pointed at Helium, who shrugged it off.
"The attacker? You couldn't harm a Magikarp with that static of yours."
"Elra, I challenge you to a battle right here and right now! Grace master versus grace master," Twilmer stood in a fighting position with as much of a look of determination as a Pichu could get.
"Twilmer, don't! You're just a Pichu," Helium looked at her, "and Pichu are infamous for doing more damage to themselves that their enemy."
"Listen to your little boyfriend there. He speaks wisdom," Elra glanced down at Twilmer. "I won't battle you like this. As rivals, I want a fair match and I'm sorry, but a match against you at this moment wouldn't be fair." Elra turned and started to walk away.
"Elra, you come back here and fight me like a man...woman...whatever. For all I know you could be a man playing a woman." Twilmer called after Elra's departing figure. Twilmer tried to run after Elra, but Elra warped away. "I forgot she had a warp staff." The staff was the weapon of choice for the grace master job class and they came in many different varieties with different looks and abilities. Each class had a weapon only for them.
"Come on, Twilmer, we can find some other people to join our party that aren't such party poopers. Maybe we can find some hot men here!" Emily23 gushed.
"Hot men? You do know people make their appearances here look however they want. Didn't your mother tell you to never online date? Are you listening?" Twilmer shouted at Emily23, who obviously wasn't. Her attention was caught on some dropped money on the ground someone had forgotten to pick up.
"Ooh, with this I might be able to buy the new Bunneary taming pole. It's shaped like a bunneary on the flat end." Tamers used poles to tame pokemon with. The poles had two ends, one was flattened and used for guiding a wild pokemon and the other end was a blunt spear that was used for blocking and tiring wild pokemon and, in extreme cases, hitting them. "You guys wait here while I see if any of the local shops have it!" With that, she ran off.
"Like we even had a choice," Twilmer blinked.
"Hey, Twilmer," Helium looked down at her.
"Yeah?" Twilmer asked in a bored tone.
"Is what Elra said true? Have you not logged out in several months?"
"There's a reason why I keep my profile private. I'm sick of people making rumors from what information I had up on it." Twilmer grumbled and then cleared her throat, "Of course I log out every night at a reasonable hour and eat ample and healthy food while getting adequite exercise." Twilmer rolled her eyes. "I may spend more time online than many other gamers, but come on, this place is great. Pokemon World Online is much better than real life. Besides, I have a paid position here and it's my job." Twilmer shruged the question away. Helium sighed and nodded.
After several minutes has passed, the group was still minus Emily23. "What do you want to bet that the noob got lost?"
"Well, considering that she has yet to leave the Cobalt feild area since she began the game, I'd say it's not as likely, but she has been gone awhile. Do you want to look for her?"
"Might as well. It's not like we have anything better to do. Until we get some better jobs and gamers on this party, we'll need her." Twilmer and Helium set off to find Emily23, who had indeed gotten lost.
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Part updated on July 6, 2009