Saturday Showdown
Chances are you are familiar with Pokémon Go by now, and
chances are you are also very familiar with the screen that informs you that
the servers are down. Regardless, the game became the number 1 downloaded app
of all time in less than 5 hours of being released in Australia, New Zealand,
and The United States (best country in the world!). The other big event that
has been taking the world by storm and breaking its own records is Finding
Dory, crushing Zootopia at the box office and continuing to rise. In commemoration
of these two amazing franchises taking over the world, I think it’s time for
Saturday showdown:
Dory V. Magikarp
STATS
Dory:
Base of operations- well, the poor fish has been all over
the ocean. I guess currently we will say she lives next door to Marlin in the
reef.
Magikarp:
Species: fish. I’m assume that it’s a carp
Base of Operations: according to Pokémon go, Magikarp can be
pretty much anywhere, this includes glasses of water, rivers, lakes and your
kitchen frying pan.
Special Skills- not much…
The Battle:
The
Ocean is a large place. Few understand how large it really is. For centuries,
humans have been trying to find a way to traverse the whole thing, only to be
left with more questions than answers. There are, however, a couple of fish
that have traveled a large expanse of the ocean- Dory and Marlin. These two
heroes have seen it all and yet our story isn’t going to begin with a wild
undersea adventure, it simply starts with dropping Marlins son, Nemo, at
school.
“Dad,
you can stop hugging me now. I gotta go..”
“OH! Sorry”
reacted Marlin. Nemo smiled and turned around towards Mr. Ray, the School
Teacher.
“Now go
have an adventure!” shouts Marlin towards his growing Son
“Bye
Fabio!” shouts Dory from behind Marlin. Dory has gotten Nemo’s name wrong
plenty of times, but Marlin always patiently corrects him
“Dory, its
nemo”
“BYE
NEMO!” shouted Dory, unshaken by the correction. Marlin and Dory then turn to
go back to their respective homes in their neighborhood reef. As they swim towards
the trench, a floating speck catches Dory’s Gaze.
“oooooh. I want to touch it!” Dory’s fin moves towards the
floating speck, knocking it to her left side. Dory continues to chase the speck
until UMPH!
Dory opens her eyes and rubs her head. As she does so she
sees in front of her a new fish she has never seen before.
“Well Hi there!” greeted Dory. The fish in front of her just
stared blankly into nothing.
“Are you alright?” asked Dory. More silence from the
Magikarp fish.
“Well, I assume you would be all right, you haven’t said otherwise…”
chuckled Dory. Magikarp said nothing in return.
“So, do you live around here? I haven’t seen you before…
-Gasp- are you lost? If you are, I mean, don’t worry. I don’t mean to brag, but
I’m pretty good and finding things. Like my friends kid Hosea.”
Magikarp said nothing.
“Well, ok. If you aren’t lost I’ll just leave you alone”
said Dory as she turned around and swam away, that’s when the same speck
appeared.
“Heyyy, I’ve seen you before!” again, Dory goes to touch it
and gets turned around, facing Magicarp once again.
“Well hi there!” greeted Dory. “What’s your name?”
Magikarp said nothing. Dory’s name was shouted from behind
her. Marlin was swimming up to her fanatically.
“Dory! I was scared you got lost! I didn’t see you make it
home and….. Who’s this?”
“This is my new friend!” shouted Dory cheerfully!
“Hmmm. I’ve seen this guy before…” pondered Marlin.
“He is kind of the strong silent type.” Explained Dory.
“I see….. Dory, I think It’s time to go back home…” said
Marlin as he grabbed Dory’s fin to walk her home.
“NO. I will not leave until I make sure this fish feels
welcome.” Dory then planted herself firmly. In front of the Magikarp. Magikarp
did nothing.
Marlin knew how this would end. Dory would stare at the fish
for hours, maybe even days. Thing is though, Marlin also had a lot of
experience. He knew what to do in this situation.
“Dory Look! Something shiny!”
“Where?!?!?!” shouted Dory excitedly
“ooh, it just turned invisible… WAIT, I can see it! Follow me!”
“Ok!”
And with that, Dory and Marlin left to go home.
Winner: Magikarp!
Agree? Disagree? Let’s fight about it in the comments! Let me
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Let’s also take a moment to remember the people and police
officer of Dallas at this time. Let’s keep them in our thoughts and prayers as
they go through this difficult time.
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