HtH141 – The Great Illegal Pokemon Debacle
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: Minara brings an illegal pxkemxn. House saves the exhibition match.
"... and you can see here! The lineups for both teams, GOJIRAAA vs Minara is a go---"
PWEEET!!! The moment the lineup displays lit up on the translucent display panels, a shrill whistle rang out in the middle of the court! "Illegal team! That's an illegal team!" Piaccta shakes her head cutely, holding up a red card with whistle in her mouth! Soft murmurs rise up from the bleachers, the guests whispering to each other, while Minara looks completely confused, not knowing what went wrong! Then, someone from the bleachers gasps, and points at the lead pokemon atop of Minara's lineup...
"What the... that's a Hxunter isn't it?! This ain't Little Cup! What's a Hxunter doing in here!" "Perhaps friend Minara has it confused with a different species. For our audience sitting at home, the rules state that 'only fully evolved mons are allowed to participate in this tournament'." Mistrál reads out the lines written in small font at the bottom of the advertisement poster with a clear voice, such that everyone in the basement stadium can hear.
That includes the bewildered girl in the middle of the battle court. Between all eyes being on her, and Piaccta trying to explain to her something that flew past her mind, the girl was becoming even more spirally-eyed, her eyes darting around for a solution. She looks towards the announce table, the audience, somewhere for help...
"Right now, according to the rules, the match should end in a forfeit, shouldn't it? It is a shame, but friend Minara will not be able to continue..." "Sufferin' succatosh...!" House tears off the headset on her ears, and vaults right over the announce table! "I'm not about to let the opening match go to waste!"
The moment House steps onto the rampway, she begins walking briskly in a wide-legged strut, swinging her arms around while accompanied by the low hum of an electric guitar! When she reaches the elevated ring, she looks around bewildered by the lack of ring ropes, and rolls herself onto the ring floor!
When she pops up between GOJIRA-Hikari and Minara, she is already inexplicably holding a microphone in her hands!
"Ahem! Ahem! Well if it isn't the greatest crowd that has gathered here tonight, MY people from all OVER the New Continent...!" The crowd, which was still murmuring a moment ago, exploded into cheers, having their sense of pride stoked! Continuing on, House speaks into the microphone, spinning around in a circle for the audience, "Now tonight, we promised everyone a good show. Don'tcha guys want to see a good show?!" There are cheers of assent from the crowd, but now mixed with apprehension. The integrity of the match was being called into question!
However, House airpats the doubts down, "Normally, this would be ground for an instant DQ~!"
Piaccta nods her head rapidly at the side, wagging an adamant finger in the air.
"The teams are locked! Minara cannot change her team!"
"That's right, our ref here has it right!
But with one neat trick...
we can make the whole thing nice and legal!
Let me clear it with the ref first... Psst psst psst..."
"What?!"
The word explodes out of Minara's mouth at the same time it does for the audience.
Minara cannot think of any way to run out of this situation.
Surely House won't amend the rules just for her, right?
Also, with the teams are locked, so loaning a new partner...
... was out of the question!
What is House up to?
Even GOJIRA-Hikari, who had been playing claw to the crowd stops to look at the center of the ring!
When House comes out of Piaccta's ear, the girl closes her eyes for a bit, arms in a thinker's pose...
Then, eyes lighting up, she slaps her palm with a fist,
"Doable! It's doable!"
"There we go! Alright Minara, hand over the Hxunter!"
Minara looks right at the white-gloved hand in front of her, "Erm... I think I would rather not. My friend here has sentimental..."
"Do I look like I have a gigantic 'R' on my chest?! Here, I'll give you something in return too!"
House pulls out...
... a dark blue ball with net-like black etchings over the upper half.
Minara hesitates of course, rather ashamed that the tournament organizer was going out of her way to bend the rules for her.
With great reluctance, she places her own ball in House's hands...
"Hey House, I still can't compete by loaning yours you know..."
"Who said anything about loaning you anything?! This isn't even MY Scxther!"
House raises both balls in the air, to show the audience the difference between the two balls...
Then...
She crosses her arms, so that the balls slowly swapped sides!
"Alright, you better not have pulled a Mindy on moi'! Give the ol' Net Ball a touch!"
Minara is confused. When she reaches out to poke at the net ball...
... House swaps her hands back to their original position once more!
Huh? What just happened?
Somehow, people in the crowd grew loud once more, except...
Instead of dissension, there was excitement!
Some people in the audience had recognized what House had done!
"Aaaaand... My job here is done!"
Minara is about to ask what exactly was done, when the ball in her hand started to glow brightly!
We are trying something different! This is a simul-posting at the same time as the Scribblehub release! Go check out the entire series at this link!
