??!/? : the fanfic

Last time on ??!/? : the fanfic! He met Man With Many Names again. MWMN was named Spweeze that day. Mankey attacked Spweeze's scalp before he disappeared and Mich missed a teleporter.

Mich is still on his way to Old Pewter. It is five days after we left him last and he is feeling really stupid

"Dufus," a similarly sized kid said walking up behind Mich.

"Not you..." Mich said as he turned around but only to see his green-haired nemesis... the Man With Many Names!

"YES, ME!!! I AM THE ALMIGHTY FRDLHVEN!"

"??!/?" Mich was awestruck. No one had the ability to compete with anything FRDLHVEN (for the ignorant, "Furdulhäven"... inside joke...).

"WHO DARES IMITATE THE MIGHTY FRDLHVEN?" a voice boomed from the east-west-diagonal.

"NO! I AM NOT!!!" MWMN's shouted, but he was too late. An orb of pure FRDLHVEN energy flew into him and launched him far, far away.

"Wow. Thank you FRDLHVEN! I do not deny thy whims!" Mich said.

"Yeah, right... they all say that."

"I MEAN IT!!!"

"No, you don't."

"YES I DO!!!"

"Really?"

"YES!"

"Bzrzr, wrong answer!"

"Fine."

"Yep." And the conversation was over. Mich continued on what remains of his journey to Old Pewter, with a deranged smile on his face. Mankey quickly followed.

"WOAH! WUZZAT? A WILD... uh... I think it's a... er... Pokémon! YEAH!! Mankey do something!!! Attack it!!! WHATEVER IT IS!!!" And Mankey obeyed. He shot out a mauve-ish beam at the unknown Pokémon and trapped it in an orb. Then he proceeded to create small circle above the Pokémon that focused the sunlight into a powerful laser, easily devastating the opponent. Mich whipped out his Pokéwhap (He renamed the good old identifying device) and opened its lid. He pushed a button and there was a low rumbling noise emitting from the Pokéwhap.

Suddenly a classic version Pokéball appeared in Mich's hand and the Pokéwhap stated "Thank you for using a Pokéball transfer service. Your account has been billed." Mich lifted the Pokéball up in the air and threw it, though swervingly, at the Pokémon without thinking of using his Pokéwhap to identify it.

The Pokéball connected and cracked slightly. I emitted a thin red beam that hit the Pokémon and pulled it into the cramped, yet mysteriously comfortable (house-ish), sphere. The ball fell to the ground and stated, "Capture secure in three..." The suspense built as Mich waited and watched the ball jiggle slightly.

"Two..."

"One..." Mich could barely handle the excitement, but he had to wait anyway.

"Capture secure! Thank you for using a Pokéball Classic and I hope you enjoy your new Pokémon!"

"WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEfun!" Mich shouted as he threw Mankey up in the air with glee. Mankey hit him in the head, because he didn't like this situation.

"AGHHH!!! GET HIM OFF!!! GET HIM OFF!!!" Mich shouted at the top of his lungs while he ran around flailing his arms. Mankey was relentless. He was thrashing wildly with unmatched joy. But what was this new Pokémon? Wait... this doesn't go here... OK... fixed... Mankey leapt off of Mich's head and stared shooting beams of light into the now-night sky. "Ooooooo laser show.... Cool..."

They began to return to their journey to Old Pewter. To make this quick, I'll summarize the next few days. They meet MWMN two more times, eat Jell-O, and jump off a cliff. Mich remembers that he has a bike, so they hop on and ride the rest of the way to Old Pewter. But first! A STAR CONTROL II QUOTE!!! "What are those little glowy bits?" -your character to the Slylandro (Play the game. You'll understand... BTW, Beta Corvi IV near Vega in the upper-left of Hyperspace.)

What is this new Pokémon? Exactly HOW MUCH can Mankey do? FRDLHVEN? Can I go to bed now? Have you ever played Star Control II? Why did Mich name his Pokédex Pokéwhap? FRDLHVEN? Maybe we'll find out next time on... ??!/? : the fanfic

To be continued...