ShugoMon – Day Two: Pokemon Propaganda

Utua was not the type of person to get up early for school, nor was she the type to ever go out of the way for something. However, this particular day was no exception and she found herself along with her friends Saaya and Lulu storming into the principles office to complain about the situation. She place a hand over her heart while the eye of the principle twitched. "Why is it that I did not get a Pokemon? I mean... I am very upset that Amu, Nadeshiko and Yaya ended up getting starters, but why am I not allowed to even have one?"

"I'm not in the mood to go over this with you Utua."

"Well... I'll take this a step further. I should have the Charmander, Saaya the Squirtle and Lulu the Bulbasaur. Why though is it that I can not have the pokemon? I mean, I expect a rather nice explination for this, because there is no way that new girl got a high score when she doesn't know anything about Pokemon. I should have aced the test and gotten all the questions right."

"Besides Amu you were the only one to get all the answers right."

"Then she must have cheated on the test."

"The test isn't to surmise whether or not you get the answers right but to surmise if you know the answers or are able to guess through deductive reasoning. And besides the point, you failed the second half of the test. Pokemon are not tools and yet you continued to act like they were tools."

"But I should..."

"We don't give Pokemon to people who happen to think that they are simply tools. Amu gave the best answer out of everyone, which is why she got the highest score among the girls."

"But on the comprehensive part I should have scored better! There is no way that she could have known those answers."

"There is a reason the questions are not multiple choice and the types are listed at the very beginning. The point of the test is to test how one comes to conclusions, so while getting the answers right is a good thing deducing why they work the way they do is even better. Even if you had scored in the top, which you did not the fact remains that you can not get a Pokemon based on your attitude."

"I'll sue."

"Go ahead."

"I'll take this to my fans!"

"It won't work. Everything has been already finalized. We can't make a sudden change, not when the Pokemon have already been asigned identification numbers pertaining to the particular people who are going to be getting them. Fact of the matter is I can't have you going around misrepresenting this school and if you do I am warning that you'll find yourself suspended or worse yet expelled. So please... don't push my buttons."

"You don't know what you're talking about!" The girl stormed out of the room, her two friends hot on her heels. "We'll see what we can do about this!" The girl headed out the door and to her music studio where she sat down to record a song,

Adults don't know What they're talking about
They talk about a lot of things
But can never latch onto the truth
I've had it up to here
With their bitter, bitter hypocrisy
So dance with me
Sing with me

There is a girl at my school
She is so completely uncool
She takes away everything
But doesn't even try anything
She simply gets things
Because she's the teachers pet
But look at all the hard work I put in
It always goes unrewarded

So please tell me why I can't have a pokemon
Because she's so much better then me?
I think not
She's a stick in the mud
Who doesn't care about others feelings
She walks all over their hard work
And cheats her way to the success she doesn't deserve

Oh please, please tell me
Why can't I have my pokemon
I just want my one and only pokemon
It's because they fell
For this new girls charm
And let her dance right over me
But they don't even begin to see
How evil she happens to be

No pokemon for me
The school has set me up to fail
So why can't I have a poemon please
I asked so very nicely, oh please please
I keep saying pretty please
But they tell me that I failed the test
While this nobody comes and gets
The highest score of all

Seriously, please tell tell me
Why this is at all fair
I simply want my pokemon
And the adults can't let me have
What I have rightfully earned
So now my fans will cry with me
As I cry about the loss that I have
That I see no way to fill

I want a pokemon
But they say I can't have one
This song is coming to an end
But I want people to know
How cheated I fill
That the adults won't do anything

So please now that you've heard
Give me a pokemon please

Utua stopped singing. "So please. Go ahead and post that. My fans were looking forward to the album I was going to put together about my Pokemon journey, but they'll have just found out that I won't be able to go on one because of that. We should be able to have our Pokemon as soon as the others begin to throw an uproar."

"The handing out of the Pokemon is in an hour though. Will they be able to interfere in time?" Saaya frowned.

Lulu folded her arms across her chest. "Well... they certainly can take the Pokemon away, or give us our own set. Utua's fans are really good at voicing their dislike of the establishment when the establishment doesn't serve it's purpose. So we'll be fine. More then fine. We'll get our Pokemon and those girls will learn a vital lesson of not messing with us."

"Yeah... but..."

"Don't Lulu. Saaya isn't very bright, so she tends not to get things."