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Just gonna put the Creppypasta from the competition here - Don't want them deleted when the Section goes away. If by any needs we don't finish judging before it's deleted I'll be VMing the winners and I'll post the results here
ENTRIES
Hybrid Trainer
Pokemon ZKhan
dragonite149
The Annoying Orange, Shinx, Houndour And Starly In The Tower Of Blood
One day, The Annoying Orange was sitting in the kitchen, when he heard a noise. It was a squeak at first, but it turned into a scream. "What was that?" The Annoying Orange stuttered, shivering in fright.
"Don't worry..." the scream, now a voice said, but in a normal tone."My name is, well, I cannot tell my name, but I have a quest for you. Your quest is to go up the Tower Of Blood and get me a marshmallow called Steve, who is sitting on the steeple. But, you will need some bodyguards. I have arranged for a Shinx and a Houndour to meet you at the base of the tower. Well, off you go!" the voice continued.
But, there was no way to get all the way to the Tower Of Blood. Or was there...? The Annoying Orange rolled about on the grass outside, and waited. Soon, a Starly picked up the Annoying Orange.
"Starly, could you take me to the Tower Of Blood?" The Annoying Orange asked the Starly.
"Of course," the Starly said, in English.
"Did you really just speak English?" Orange said to the Starly.
"Well duh, didn't you just hear me?" replied the Starly.
'This Starly could speak human language! Freaky or what!' thought Orange.
Soon, they arrived at the Tower Of Blood. It was near Sanyou City. Just like the voice had said, there was a Shinx and a Houndour at the gate.
"Thanks a lot for the ride, Starly! Me and my bodyguards should be going inside now," Orange said to Starly.
"You're welcome, but please may I come with you?" replied Starly.
"OK! I need as much help as I can get!" Orange replied.
They began the trek up the dark, tall, cold Tower Of Blood.
"This is taller than I thought. And where did it get it's name?" said Houndour.
A Koromori sliced Houndour's nose with it's wing, causing blood to leak out!
"Does that answer your question?" replied Shinx, before getting sliced on her nose, too.
"Well, I've got a gun," Orange boldly said, before shooting down all of the, now bloodstained, nearby Koromori. Then, the team continued their quest to the top. Just as they were about to climb the first set of steps of four, yet another Koromori sliced Starly's wing, causing lots of blood to leak out.
"I can't fly anymore!" wailed Starly.
Houndour and Shinx carried Starly up the first set of steps, followed by Orange. Houndour and Shinx continued to carry Starly, while getting sliced by endless Koromori. When the team reached the second set of steps, they had a fair bit of blood on them. They climbed up the steps, with a fair bit of blood on them.
When they entered the third floor, a Misdreavus used Perish Song. Shinx, Houndour and Orange ran as fast as they could to the next set of steps. Along the way, Starly died. Shinx, Houndour and Orange were depressed at this outcome,but they continued to travel. By the time they climbed the third set of steps, they were completely bloodstained. They had escaped the Perish Song by the skin of their teeth, but they were covered in dark red blood. The third set of steps creepily warped them to the steeple. There was no place for the bloodstained team of three to gain balance, but Orange grabbed the marshmallow, who was called Steve, sitting there. Then, they creepily teleported back to Orange's home. Then, a Zoroa snatched Steve off Orange and ran away.
"Oh No!" the voice said,"Go get Steve back!"
Just before Zoroa was out of sight, Orange shot Zoroa and Shinx ran off to get Steve back.
The voice revealed itself to be a...Pikachu that spoke English! Orange handed Steve to the Pikachu, who used it's tail to cut Steve into many tiny pieces.
"We went to the top of the Tower Of Blood to retrieve a marshmallow, watching the death of a friend and risking our lifes along the way, just for you to cut it up?!?!" Orange, Shinx and Houndour angrily boomed.
"Well, I just hate marshmallows called Steve, and I wanna destroy them all!" came the Pikachu's angry reply.
Team Fail
Red's Revenge
VulpixKid
560cool.
Today' Adventure (PMD Adventrure)
[FONT="]After reading up all those creepy stories about Pokemon on the internet, I've decided to hunt down fake cartridges and see if any of them are "creepy" and hacked. I came across a curious Pokémon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Darkness copy, which looked obviously fake. Taking the opportunity, I clicked Buy. It was only 5$ ; very eBay like.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The next day, it arrived in mail. It was wrapped in black paper, which is weird, since I ordered many games from the internet and they were all in another color. Even weirder, it was only the cartridge, without the game's pack.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It took me a while to boot it up, since my DS wouldn't load it. When it finally began, I was astonished.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The old intro wasn't there and I got skipped to a cut scene. It was a human, Ranger-like, surrounded by three Pokémon. They were a Wigglytuff, Chatot and Skuntank. They were actually talking to that human, which I assumed was me. The eerie background (the one from the dreams in PMD 1) had a purple background color and moved really slow. The three Pokémon said :[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Skuntank: Maybe… should I take him into my team?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Wigglytuff : NO ! He's only mine. You have absolutely no right to take him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Chatot : Master, please, stop arguing with your best fr…[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank : WE'RE NOT FRIENDS AT ALL ! Take this, fluffy loser."[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank threw a weird ball which made a smokescreen animation, then the screen turned white and warped to the guild. It was when I first stepped on the grid from above the guild. Then, it started a lot of talking (by the way, it was a Bulbasaur there…) :[/FONT]
[FONT="]"What ? [/FONT]
[FONT="]I'm remembering something about me ! I remember being surrounded by three Pokémon…[/FONT]
[FONT="]It feels like a dream, though. It doesn't seem real… at all.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One of them… he's a Wigglytuff ![/FONT]
[FONT="]One is a flying type… and the other one…[/FONT]
[FONT="]………………………………..I can't figure it out."[/FONT]
[FONT="]It got me thinking if it was backstory on how I turned into a human. At this point, I knew it was one of those hack made by a poorfag with no life. But, I decided to push on…[/FONT]
[FONT="]It continued normally, and I quite enjoyed playing through my favorite PMD game. What entirely bugged me was that every time I beat Pokémon, they would never join me. At first I thought the RNG was just messing around, but arriving at the expedition chapter without a Pokémon in my team was absolutely odd.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Then, at the scene where Wigglytuff beats Skuntank and his sidekicks, I get pushed in there as well…[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank tells me I am a human and I was turned into one just for the poor amusement of Wigglytuff and Chatot. They no longer knew who I was because of Skuntank erasing their memory. He was the only one who still knew something about me and my past. He then took me into a portal, and I warped in an 8-bit Goldenrod ! [/FONT]
[FONT="]A woman came out of the Gym. She appeared to be an older Whitney. Skuntank was claiming she was my mother, who lost me. She wanted me to return, but there was no way to do so. He also told me normal Pokémon could sense I was a human, so they never came close to me. Only my partner was behaving normally…[/FONT]
[FONT="]From that place until the Dialga chapter, it all ran smoothly, except for the bugging thing about getting Pokémon. Then, right after I scored a win on Dialga, I got warped into that 8-bit Goldenrod again…[/FONT]
[FONT="]This time, Whitney was at a funeral. The main street of Goldenrod was occupied by it. Hundreds of people were moving slowly and singing weird songs about me and my life. Then, from the coffin they were carrying, there rose a big ghost of me…[/FONT]
[FONT="]"This, my friend, is the future." He said. "Take your pick : live, or die."[/FONT]
[FONT="]Then, the Yes/No window appeared, but with Live/Die instead. I picked Die, thinking I would get to play more adventures. Then, a long hand rose from the DS and grabbed me of my neck. It started shaking, and I started feeling an acute burn across my whole body. I punched my DS Lite with all my power and the mysterious, undead and white hand vanished. Seconds later, I was destroying the cartridge with the biggest hammer my dad owns. I took the rests and threw them on the window.[/FONT]
[FONT="]My DS Lite got a cracked screen and everytime I open it, a white hand appears on the screen and the following words come out of the DS's speakers : "Only a little bit more time until you'll be mine… just waiting for you to die… if you picked that…".[/FONT]
[FONT="]I get scared, but I keep repeating in my mind : "It's just a game.". [/FONT]
[FONT="]Really ? Is it just a game ?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I never thought much on the PMD backstory, but now I don't want to do this so much as I used to. Mostly because I get scared easily, but sometimes it's also because my experience...[/FONT]
mervyn797
Mines of Oreburgh
Rucario
Goldenrod Silence
Flame
Aerkhan
aguinn99
Pokemon of Death
GaXeL
Hallucinations
pieguy259
Monkey God Shrine
Game developers are a mischievous bunch. They'll often put hidden easter eggs or pranks into their games, just because they can.
Someone presumably got fired over this one.
This only happens in Japanese copies of Black and White. Well, alright, English ones haven't been made yet, but somebody's bound to take it out before they're released, otherwise there could well be quite a lot of traumatised children.
Take a party of four to the Site of Dreams, and put Musharna in the first slot. Mine was called STEVE, but I think any name starting with S will work. Make sure the other three have initials that spell out A-R-U in that order. S-A-R-U, "monkey", you see?
Now, this next part might get a bit tricky, because you have to know Cut and not have any elemental monkeys. The grinding will take a while. Once you have the Tri Badge and the HM, go back to the Site and start poking around. Might need to employ a walk-through-walls cheat, I couldn't get where I needed to go without it. Don't talk to the monkey girl. She'll come up to you when you find the right spot. The girl will speak to you in Japanese. I dunno, I never translated it, but there's bound to be some otaku out there who has. Whatever.
She'll lead you into a part of the Site of Dreams that I'm fairly certain nobody was, strictly speaking, meant to access. Reason being that it looks, well, kinda sinister, to be honest. There'll be a set of stairs leading down into the ground, and statues of the monkeys on the three non-accessible sides. (Incidentally, I tried getting to the stairs with walk-through-walls, but no luck. It has to be the girl who brings you here.)
Go down the stairs. It seems like a choice, but the girl will take you down anyway. Scripted event, I think. You'll be in a large stone hall, lit by torches. Creepy place. The location card will say "Sarugami Jinja", which I'm fairly certain means "Monkey God Shrine". She'll lead you forward and ask you another question in Japanese, presumably "Do you want to continue?" Answer no and you'll black out and wake up in the Sanyou Pokémon Center. The game will be normal after that, but the event won't be triggered again.
Answer yes and she'll lead you to the end of the room. There'll be a huge statue of a monkey there. It'll be the most hideous monkey you've ever seen, a hulking, monstrous thing, and under it will be a seven-figure stone counter. It might tick down while you're watching it. If it does, someone else has done what you're about to do. No idea how they did that – it even happens if you're nowhere near wi-fi.
Anyway. The girl will go forward and let out her three monkeys onto three stone pedestals in front of the monkey statue. Then the three Gym Leaders will come in. Dent, Pod and Corn, that's their names. They'll each say something in Japanese, then let out the evolved forms of their monkeys.
Now that I think of it, this whole thing seems a lot like a cult.
The monkeys will start dancing on their pedestals. A weird, twirly jumpy sort of dance. I can't really describe it here, my brain goes all wobbly when I try to remember what it looked like. When they're done, the whole room will tremble. Bits will fall from the ceiling. The music will escalate, growing high-pitched and annoying. Orange light will flash across the screen.
The monkey statue will turn from grey to silver. As you watch, the music will suddenly stop entirely, and the statue will let out a screech and leap upwards through the ceiling, leaving behind you, the leaders, the girl and the other monkeys. As you watch, they'll turn to stone, and the counter will tick down by one. When I last tried it, it was at 641,592.
After that, the game will play relatively normally. There'll be a few differences, though – for one thing, everyone in Sanyou City will be dead, as if torn apart by a ravenous beast. You'll never find any elemental monkeys in the wild. In addition, you'll occasionally see the mutilated corpses of Trainers you were meant to face, with a silver blur escaping off to the side. Makes grinding hell, let me tell you, though at least it's never Gym Leaders.
In fact, when I looked it up, it seemed like all the dead Trainers were ones with their own elemental monkeys. Like the Monkey God was taking his revenge on those who enslaved his servants. At least that's my theory.
On the surface of it, it seems like just a nasty little prank by some game developer. But it does make you wonder. How does that counter know how many times the Monkey God has been awakened? And what happens when it reaches zero? What will the Monkey God do then?
And what of all those players who don't bother with the easter egg – who just accept the girl's generous "gift" of an elemental monkey, and go merrily on their way…?
Mizan de la Plume Kuro
The Best
I was good, yes. I was the very best, no doubt. Well, at least, that's what I liked to think I was. No, no, let me finish. Excuse my pompous behaviour; I don't get to brag too often. Where was I? Oh yes, how marvellous I was, was it? I'm going to assume that that gesture means yes. Anyway, like every other Pokémon trainer in the world, I once aspired to reach the Pokémon League. The only difference between me and the rest of those wannabes was that I was the best. Have I said that? Sorry. I'll continue, and I'll try not to deviate too much. Time is precious, no? Ahem, to reach the Pokémon League, battle the elite four, and subsequently defeat the reigning champion was a dream shared by many trainers, young and old. Of course, reaching the League, requiring months of journeying and gym- battling in the process, was no easy task. Beating the elite four, even harder. And the champion? Well, count for yourself how many champions there've been in the past hundred years since the league was established. Am I going off on a tangent? By that look you're giving me, I think I am. I'll try to condense it.
So to get to the top, there was one sure fire way to victory. That is to say Pokémon training. Yes, training. Did you think I was going to tell you an easy way to get there? It's all hard work my boy. Hard work, blood, and guts. Blood especially, if I might add. Even I myself, a sprightly young trainer back in the day, trained excessively to be the very best. Sure my methods were a tad, how shall we say, unorthodox, but I got there in the end didn't I? Sacrifice was essential and there was to be full dedication towards my goal. Dedication, of course, is not a word to be treated lightly. I still remember the first loss of my campaign towards victory. It was my starter. And no, it wasn't one of those rare starters you kids get nowadays from those research labs. We got our Pokémon the old fashion way. We went out and caught them ourselves, trained and reared them by hand. My starter, for one, was a simple Ralts. Yes, she was my Ralts, my first ever Pokémon. My first ever, true friend. Sadly, however, she was also my first ever loss. By the time she left me, she wasn't a Ralts anymore of course. She was a fully-grown, beautiful Gardevoir.
I still remember the look on her face as she passed on. The nurse told me that fatigue had pushed her over the edge. Fatigue and the rough training regime I had created. But how was I to know? She had never complained. Yes, I know Pokémon can't talk, but ours was a bond like no other. I could practically tell when she was hungry, when she was tired, and when she felt down. That's why it was odd when one day, during our practice session following a particularly violent battle, she just up and collapsed in the middle of the field. She never told me she was hurting. She never told me she was tired. She just pushed herself to the edge. I guess she also shared my dedication. I know because right before she passed on, she looked me in the eye. It wasn't anger, nor was it fear for her slave driver. No, it was a burning desire to go on. Death was not something she found could dampen her resolve. She had sacrificed herself towards my cause!
I wept afterwards. Yes, I wept like I had never wept before. Not even when word reached me of the death of my father did I weep as much. She was a friend, almost a platonic lover! My Gardevoir! My beautiful, special, beloved!
…
But that's all in the past. Guilt has a way of following you around for your whole life. I don't deny that it was I that had caused her death, but I have moved on.
Regardless, I pushed forward. Time passed, and I began to realise something. Through my constant fraternization with our Pokémon brethren, I found that, essentially, I was able to befriend them quite easily. Any Pokémon that I caught, immediately warmed up to me as though I were a long lost friend. They were all loyal to me; never once did any of them find the need to desert me. There, you see. That's definitive proof I was the best. What other trainer could claim to have shared the connection I shared with my Pokémon? What trainer? Tell me!
I did feel guilty, though. It was this same special connection that drove some of my Pokémon to their deaths. All of them, loyal to the very end. Their persistence would have brought tears to my eyes if it were not for the fact that I had hardened myself to their charms. They loved me, I could tell. I tried not to love them back. I failed. I locked away my love deep within my heart and swore to never get too attached. That failed too. The tears that fell as, one by one, my original team expired, rocked me to my very core. I could not keep losing my dear friends this way. There had to be a way. I increased the levels of intensity of my training regimen. I was cold. I was callous. I was ruthless. I wanted them to hate me. I wanted them to be my tools towards the domination of the league and nothing more. Friends? I could do without them if it meant saving the lives of those I held dear to me.
But still, despite my cruelty, they drew closer, wanting to find the inner me. I think they sensed how, deep down, my intense love for them was present. Mutual, as was theirs. After that, I could never let them stop. They rushed forward into the thick of battle in droves, eager to prove themselves worthy of my affection. Was it a gift or curse that I had? I could not tell. To be loved is a delightful thing, but if it meant that they would gladly die en masse just to satisfy my desire of becoming champion… that was something else. It was sad.
Why didn't I consider quitting? Surely that was a logical escape to my predicament. There is, however, a simple reason. The spirit of my Gardevoir wanted me to push forward. I could feel her by my side on those lonely nights after a burial, pushing me forwards, strengthening my resolve. I had to win for the sake of those that had fallen! I could not let the memory of those noble ones who had died in my name be shamed by my cowardice! Never!
In the end, however, I suppose that it was this very attitude that led me to the seventy-four deaths that tarnished my trainer years. Seventy-four deaths, my boy. All of them on my conscience. All of them wanted me to win. They wanted me to be the best! The best that there ever was! The best in the world!
In the end, I proved it to them. I became the champion. All my Pokémon continued to shower me with love and I continued my training. It was not enough to just be the best. I had to stay the best. What would the spirits of the seventy-four fallen say if I had been beaten by some new trainer who just happened to be better than me? I would be shamed. Their memory would be shamed. I could never let that happen!
Yes, even after becoming champion, the deaths still began to pile up. I could not stop training. My Pokémon could not stop pushing themselves for my sake. It was a vicious cycle. If only the world was static and trainers would not grow stronger with each passing generation. Then I would not have to train. You may think that it is out of disrespect that I do not include those fallen after my victory into the seventy-four noble ones. That is not so. I have lost count. The years have not been kind to me. I found that I was beginning to lose my edge. I was getting weaker and the trainers, stronger. I have said this. But no, I would not step down. A hundred or more have possibly fallen to my ambition. I felt every one of those deaths as a personal blow to my psyche and an encouragement to never lose. To no one would I fall!
Do you see that there in the corner? Of course you don't. The bond between me and my Gardevoir is still strong even after all these years. I can still feel my Gardevoir's presence. No, that isn't entirely correct. It's not just her. I can feel all of them with me right now. The hundred or so who have fallen are with me right now. Not in flesh, but in spirit. They are right behind me encouraging me to stay the champion. They whisper words of encouragement to me even now.
So you see, that is why I have to do this. The ropes are a courtesy, my boy. Would you rather my other Pokémon pin you down? The gag, so you do not scream. I have told you my story, and that was kind of me. Now you won't feel so bad about going the way of my beloved Gardevoir. I promise, it will be painless, mostly. I have sharpened the knife to a point especially in case this ever happened. I told you, my boy, I cannot lose.
If only you hadn't won.
Hybrid Trainer
Pokemon ZKhan
Spoiler:
[FONT="]I always read about people finding games or some weird glitch happening that mentally or physically scared some random kid for life. But I always thought that they were just stories. That they were all just made up. Little did I know that I would be writing one of my own some day.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I guess I should start from the very beginning shall I.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I guess this all really started two years ago when I first met him. We didn't really speak much until we both had a mutual friend. But the way I acted was like I'd known him for years. I don't know if it was just him being manipulative or if it was just something about him but I would have done anything for him. And I guess I kind of did.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It was getting towards the end of our high school years and he was getting really behind on his coursework, I couldn't just sit there and watch one of my best mates fail because we had a incompetent teacher. So I did what any good friend would do. I stayed behind for 2-3 hours every day, I stayed back 2-3 hours on top of the hour and a half bus ride I had on top of that. We were inseparable until the end of school. It was then when things went a little bit weird.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He began to call me out, it wasn't unusual as we did used to meet up a bit outside of school but after a while he stopped showing up. Now usually I would think the worse because of my paranoid nature but the was he kept on calling me out help those thoughts at bay. But stupidly I obeyed and ended up being left to walk 10 miles home. I told him I was sick of him, nobody that has done as much as I had should be treated like that. This is things went from weird to creepy. Oh how I wish I had realised sooner.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This next bit I'm not too proud of. But I was sick of people always walking all over me! I started to spread rumours about him, sending malicious text messages and emails. After about a month every had heard about him. All his friends had heard there own deep dark secrets from someone else, which I had cleverly woven back to him. Even his family were paying the price as I'd, through the actions of his brother, persuaded them that he was in fact gay. Him being of the Muslim faith they didn't take it very well. However this turned out to be true so I guess it wasn't all bad. But on top of all that I completely ruined any chance of him making new friends because if the last rumour the secret, which had nothing to do with me, came out that he tried to kiss me. At that point in time though I was all for sticking to that rumour. I can safely say this completely ruined him. After that I never heard from him again, I think on some level he knew it was me. But I guess I'll never know.[/FONT]
[FONT="]About two months had passed since then and I'd completely forget about him and what happened. I wouldn't have connected it but it was now that I received a message from him. It was through facebook so I completely ignored its content and sent a message back. The message basically said that he should **** off and leave me alone like I told him to. Him being the annoying type I was expecting a message back, but after two whole days and no reply I decided to go and check out what it was that broke our silence.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The message. Nothing but a URL, not even a title. I was about to click delete when I noticed where the URL lead too. It was a URL to my own site, a URL to a part of the site I was not aware existed. The URL read https://6thfloor.cz.cc/zkhan.NDS. Go check that URL leads nowhere. The guy could barley use Microsoft word so there is no way he could hack a file into my server. So how is it when I clicked on it something happened...[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen went white, the page was blank. I was expecting to get a 404 error and be done with it but boy was I shocked when a download started. It was a .NDS file.[/FONT]
[FONT="]By now I was thinking of the most obvious reasons of how this was happening. The most reasonable thing I could think of was that he had befriended someone with extraordinary hacking abilities and asked them to do a favour, Sound familiar?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I set the download to start and it downloaded fairly quickly when compared to the normal speed of my server. Once it had finished I plugged in my MicroSD card into my adapter and set it to copy so I could see what it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I booted up my flashcard and started the game, guess what I found? The name and the icon said that it was Pokémon Black! And it was in English! Could this be a random act of kindness from a once good friend? Or was it just a meaningless attempt to use up our limited server space? Either way I had an English version of Pokémon Black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I booted up the game and got a black screen. Nothing unusual, just an antipiracy feature I though. I was a little disappointed that Nintendo hadn't been a little more creative like that Zelda Spirit Tracks game.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I put the game down and went to Google an antipiracy patch for the game and I literally jumped when the sound of the bells from the HGSS into chimed. I swiftly ran across the room to get my DS. I immediately saw that it wasn't Pokémon Black. The screen had gone from being completely black to a big white box being in the middle, The box had the word 'START' written in big black clock letters right in the middle of the box. It was obvious what the game wanted me to do so why not do it?[/FONT]
[FONT="]My jaw immediately hit the floor as my name flashed upon the screen. He must have met a really dedicated hacker if he can make something as advance as this.[/FONT]
[FONT="]After a goof few minutes of staring at my own name I came to the conclusion that I had to do something to make it progress. I pressed a but nothing happened. Mashing the other buttons I found out that the game progresses using only the B button. The game continued and text started to scroll up the touch screen. It wasn't much but it sent chills up my spine.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"David, I know that you were annoyed at what happened to you and that the main culprit was me but what you did to me was unacceptable. I know that it looked like I was messing with you but that was no excuse for someone to do what you did. And for this I hope you will pay. Because you went to far, too far David..."[/FONT]
[FONT="]An animation sequence started then. The camera was panning from left to right over the screen showing a messy bed room, the average bedroom of any teenage boy. A strange sensation of Déjà vu struck me as the camera stopped in the middle of the room. A silhouette appeared in the middle of the screen and once again my eyes almost lurched out of my head when I saw what it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It was a trainer sprite of him, the detail was amazing. It looked exactly like him from the odd shaped head to the exact thing he wore last time I saw him. The only fault I could see was that the picture seemed to be discoloured slightly just below his right eye running down his cheek.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Next thing I know was that the sprite began to shrink like it does in all Pokémon games and became an overworld sprite. Was this going to be like any other game?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Unfortunately the answer was no. as the sprite appeared in plan view of the previous image I mashed at the D-Pad but the small bundle of pixels ignored my commands. So I sat there wondering what could happen next.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A loud beeping noise was the next thing to play with my heightened tension. It was strange as I don't remember having my volume on but I was too scared to notice that at the time.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sprite made a small shuffling animation and it had a small object in its hand. A text box popped up. It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm here now. I swear if you leave me standing here on my won again I won't be responsible for what I might do!"[/FONT]
[FONT="]My heart sank as I reached for my phone. I opened my sent box and there it was. In plain black and white there were those exact words I had sent him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The text box disappeared without me having to press anything so I quickly dropped my phone and paid attention to the game. A large sprite appeared on the screen. It was a mug shot sprite just like the ones that are used for the C-Gear in the game.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Slowly the face contorted into an expression full of worry and guilt. Slowly the screen faded to black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A weird white mist was hovered around the edge of the screen and making it harder to see. A text box appeared just above this white smoke. It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Several hours before"[/FONT]
[FONT="]We were now in a hallway. It was small and wasn't very cluttered like the last one. The same sprite came running up from out of the white fog and came to a sudden halt at what looked like a door. A new sprite text box appeared now but this one had something completely different in it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It said:[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں باہر جا رہا ہوں اب چپ[/FONT]
[FONT="]This roughly translated to:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm going out now mum"[/FONT]
[FONT="]I immediately pulled out my phone and began taking pictures of the text. I could send them to a friend who knew what this language was. If it was what I thought it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]However while I was concentrating on the picture quality I seemed to have missed something and next time I looked at the screen there was another sprite on the screen. Yet another text box appeared this time from the other sprite.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This time it read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]آپ کی نہیں ، تمہارے پاس کام ارے نہیں کرنا[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Oh no your not, you've got work to do"[/FONT]
[FONT="]From this point onwards my camera flash could have given me a seizure because the next thing that happened on screen happened so fast I could barely keep up.[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں تجھ سے بیزار مجھے حکم کے ارد گرد ہوں[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm sick of you ordering me around"[/FONT]
[FONT="]کیا تم نے ابھی مجھ سے کیا کہا؟[/FONT]
[FONT="]What did you just say to me?[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں نے کہا... میں نے کہا کہ میں نے ہر وقت اپنے تمام کام کر کے تنگ آ گیا ہوں[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I said... I said I'm sick of doing all your work all the time"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Everything stopped.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The flow of the text seemed to seize., the fog around the screen seemed to pull back slightly in shock. The sprites seemed to stop breathing even though they weren't breathing moving in the first place. The other mother sprite seemed to shuffle slightly only a pixel either side.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A pokéball appeared next to her. I know I shouldn't be shocked by this but it didn't seem in place in this game. The Pokéball opened revealing a Clefable next to the mother. His sprite stepped back in shock as a pokéball appeared next to him too. This one opened to release a Hitmonchan.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen distorted as it changed to the battle screen. But instead there weren't any Pokémon trainers, nor was there any introduction text. [/FONT]
[FONT="]All it said was:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Clefable used Double Slap"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Next the animation played and Hitmonchan's health decreased.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now came something I've never seen before. The trainer's backsprite appeared and the camera span round.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera was now behind Clefable.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera zoomed into the trainer sprite and his eyes seemed to sink into the back of his head leaving behind only two anger filled red pupils.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera shot back to normal view behind Clefable as the Hitmonchan shook rapidly from side to side as if doing some sort of speed attack. Without any warning text a series of punch animations played whittling down the Clefable's health bit by bit till it reached zero.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen went black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No overworld.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Just black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A loud beeping noise was the next thing to escape from this games the whole screen turned white. A block of text began to appear on screen.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Just don't speak to me anymore. Don't text, don't call, don't inbox. I'm sick of it. After everything I did for you. This how it ends."[/FONT]
[FONT="]The game went deathly silent. The white text screen faded away revealing the bedroom that I had previously seen. Only this time it seemed to be darker, almost monochrome but, Except for the untouched sprite of the creator. Another text box appeared.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"What have I done?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Why have I done this?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Why?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I've messed up.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Beyond Repair.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing left for me.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Only one thing to do now.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thing that you only barely escaped from[/FONT]
[FONT="]It's going to get me"[/FONT]
[FONT="]My face froze. My hands constricted my DS stress marks stretched across it. The sprite walked across the room and stopped at a rough pokéball.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Found Rope"[/FONT]
[FONT="]I now had tears streaming down my cheeks begging that he had made a slight error when he was typing. But as much as I pleaded with the game I didn't get what I hoped for. The next text box read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Used Rope"[/FONT]
[FONT="]An image of his chest appeared on top of the overworld and slowly slid across the screen. It reached the edge of the screen and with a sharp snap the sprite shot down revealing a rope wrapped tightly around his neck.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The blood slowly trickled down his chin and soaked the rope as it became a deep red. The screen faded to black. I closed the lid on my screen. And I walked out the room.[/FONT]
[FONT="]~[/FONT]
[FONT="]The story you have read was based on a true story.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I have since been contacted by his older brother. He informed me that a note was found. I've been invited to the funeral by him, I guess I can finally put everything to rest now.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I guess I should start from the very beginning shall I.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I guess this all really started two years ago when I first met him. We didn't really speak much until we both had a mutual friend. But the way I acted was like I'd known him for years. I don't know if it was just him being manipulative or if it was just something about him but I would have done anything for him. And I guess I kind of did.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It was getting towards the end of our high school years and he was getting really behind on his coursework, I couldn't just sit there and watch one of my best mates fail because we had a incompetent teacher. So I did what any good friend would do. I stayed behind for 2-3 hours every day, I stayed back 2-3 hours on top of the hour and a half bus ride I had on top of that. We were inseparable until the end of school. It was then when things went a little bit weird.[/FONT]
[FONT="]He began to call me out, it wasn't unusual as we did used to meet up a bit outside of school but after a while he stopped showing up. Now usually I would think the worse because of my paranoid nature but the was he kept on calling me out help those thoughts at bay. But stupidly I obeyed and ended up being left to walk 10 miles home. I told him I was sick of him, nobody that has done as much as I had should be treated like that. This is things went from weird to creepy. Oh how I wish I had realised sooner.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This next bit I'm not too proud of. But I was sick of people always walking all over me! I started to spread rumours about him, sending malicious text messages and emails. After about a month every had heard about him. All his friends had heard there own deep dark secrets from someone else, which I had cleverly woven back to him. Even his family were paying the price as I'd, through the actions of his brother, persuaded them that he was in fact gay. Him being of the Muslim faith they didn't take it very well. However this turned out to be true so I guess it wasn't all bad. But on top of all that I completely ruined any chance of him making new friends because if the last rumour the secret, which had nothing to do with me, came out that he tried to kiss me. At that point in time though I was all for sticking to that rumour. I can safely say this completely ruined him. After that I never heard from him again, I think on some level he knew it was me. But I guess I'll never know.[/FONT]
[FONT="]About two months had passed since then and I'd completely forget about him and what happened. I wouldn't have connected it but it was now that I received a message from him. It was through facebook so I completely ignored its content and sent a message back. The message basically said that he should **** off and leave me alone like I told him to. Him being the annoying type I was expecting a message back, but after two whole days and no reply I decided to go and check out what it was that broke our silence.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The message. Nothing but a URL, not even a title. I was about to click delete when I noticed where the URL lead too. It was a URL to my own site, a URL to a part of the site I was not aware existed. The URL read https://6thfloor.cz.cc/zkhan.NDS. Go check that URL leads nowhere. The guy could barley use Microsoft word so there is no way he could hack a file into my server. So how is it when I clicked on it something happened...[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen went white, the page was blank. I was expecting to get a 404 error and be done with it but boy was I shocked when a download started. It was a .NDS file.[/FONT]
[FONT="]By now I was thinking of the most obvious reasons of how this was happening. The most reasonable thing I could think of was that he had befriended someone with extraordinary hacking abilities and asked them to do a favour, Sound familiar?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I set the download to start and it downloaded fairly quickly when compared to the normal speed of my server. Once it had finished I plugged in my MicroSD card into my adapter and set it to copy so I could see what it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I booted up my flashcard and started the game, guess what I found? The name and the icon said that it was Pokémon Black! And it was in English! Could this be a random act of kindness from a once good friend? Or was it just a meaningless attempt to use up our limited server space? Either way I had an English version of Pokémon Black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I booted up the game and got a black screen. Nothing unusual, just an antipiracy feature I though. I was a little disappointed that Nintendo hadn't been a little more creative like that Zelda Spirit Tracks game.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I put the game down and went to Google an antipiracy patch for the game and I literally jumped when the sound of the bells from the HGSS into chimed. I swiftly ran across the room to get my DS. I immediately saw that it wasn't Pokémon Black. The screen had gone from being completely black to a big white box being in the middle, The box had the word 'START' written in big black clock letters right in the middle of the box. It was obvious what the game wanted me to do so why not do it?[/FONT]
[FONT="]My jaw immediately hit the floor as my name flashed upon the screen. He must have met a really dedicated hacker if he can make something as advance as this.[/FONT]
[FONT="]After a goof few minutes of staring at my own name I came to the conclusion that I had to do something to make it progress. I pressed a but nothing happened. Mashing the other buttons I found out that the game progresses using only the B button. The game continued and text started to scroll up the touch screen. It wasn't much but it sent chills up my spine.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"David, I know that you were annoyed at what happened to you and that the main culprit was me but what you did to me was unacceptable. I know that it looked like I was messing with you but that was no excuse for someone to do what you did. And for this I hope you will pay. Because you went to far, too far David..."[/FONT]
[FONT="]An animation sequence started then. The camera was panning from left to right over the screen showing a messy bed room, the average bedroom of any teenage boy. A strange sensation of Déjà vu struck me as the camera stopped in the middle of the room. A silhouette appeared in the middle of the screen and once again my eyes almost lurched out of my head when I saw what it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It was a trainer sprite of him, the detail was amazing. It looked exactly like him from the odd shaped head to the exact thing he wore last time I saw him. The only fault I could see was that the picture seemed to be discoloured slightly just below his right eye running down his cheek.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Next thing I know was that the sprite began to shrink like it does in all Pokémon games and became an overworld sprite. Was this going to be like any other game?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Unfortunately the answer was no. as the sprite appeared in plan view of the previous image I mashed at the D-Pad but the small bundle of pixels ignored my commands. So I sat there wondering what could happen next.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A loud beeping noise was the next thing to play with my heightened tension. It was strange as I don't remember having my volume on but I was too scared to notice that at the time.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The sprite made a small shuffling animation and it had a small object in its hand. A text box popped up. It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm here now. I swear if you leave me standing here on my won again I won't be responsible for what I might do!"[/FONT]
[FONT="]My heart sank as I reached for my phone. I opened my sent box and there it was. In plain black and white there were those exact words I had sent him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The text box disappeared without me having to press anything so I quickly dropped my phone and paid attention to the game. A large sprite appeared on the screen. It was a mug shot sprite just like the ones that are used for the C-Gear in the game.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Slowly the face contorted into an expression full of worry and guilt. Slowly the screen faded to black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A weird white mist was hovered around the edge of the screen and making it harder to see. A text box appeared just above this white smoke. It read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Several hours before"[/FONT]
[FONT="]We were now in a hallway. It was small and wasn't very cluttered like the last one. The same sprite came running up from out of the white fog and came to a sudden halt at what looked like a door. A new sprite text box appeared now but this one had something completely different in it.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It said:[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں باہر جا رہا ہوں اب چپ[/FONT]
[FONT="]This roughly translated to:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm going out now mum"[/FONT]
[FONT="]I immediately pulled out my phone and began taking pictures of the text. I could send them to a friend who knew what this language was. If it was what I thought it was.[/FONT]
[FONT="]However while I was concentrating on the picture quality I seemed to have missed something and next time I looked at the screen there was another sprite on the screen. Yet another text box appeared this time from the other sprite.[/FONT]
[FONT="]This time it read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]آپ کی نہیں ، تمہارے پاس کام ارے نہیں کرنا[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Oh no your not, you've got work to do"[/FONT]
[FONT="]From this point onwards my camera flash could have given me a seizure because the next thing that happened on screen happened so fast I could barely keep up.[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں تجھ سے بیزار مجھے حکم کے ارد گرد ہوں[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I'm sick of you ordering me around"[/FONT]
[FONT="]کیا تم نے ابھی مجھ سے کیا کہا؟[/FONT]
[FONT="]What did you just say to me?[/FONT]
[FONT="]میں نے کہا... میں نے کہا کہ میں نے ہر وقت اپنے تمام کام کر کے تنگ آ گیا ہوں[/FONT]
[FONT="]"I said... I said I'm sick of doing all your work all the time"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Everything stopped.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The flow of the text seemed to seize., the fog around the screen seemed to pull back slightly in shock. The sprites seemed to stop breathing even though they weren't breathing moving in the first place. The other mother sprite seemed to shuffle slightly only a pixel either side.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A pokéball appeared next to her. I know I shouldn't be shocked by this but it didn't seem in place in this game. The Pokéball opened revealing a Clefable next to the mother. His sprite stepped back in shock as a pokéball appeared next to him too. This one opened to release a Hitmonchan.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen distorted as it changed to the battle screen. But instead there weren't any Pokémon trainers, nor was there any introduction text. [/FONT]
[FONT="]All it said was:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Clefable used Double Slap"[/FONT]
[FONT="]Next the animation played and Hitmonchan's health decreased.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Now came something I've never seen before. The trainer's backsprite appeared and the camera span round.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera was now behind Clefable.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera zoomed into the trainer sprite and his eyes seemed to sink into the back of his head leaving behind only two anger filled red pupils.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The camera shot back to normal view behind Clefable as the Hitmonchan shook rapidly from side to side as if doing some sort of speed attack. Without any warning text a series of punch animations played whittling down the Clefable's health bit by bit till it reached zero.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The screen went black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]No overworld.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Just black.[/FONT]
[FONT="]A loud beeping noise was the next thing to escape from this games the whole screen turned white. A block of text began to appear on screen.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Just don't speak to me anymore. Don't text, don't call, don't inbox. I'm sick of it. After everything I did for you. This how it ends."[/FONT]
[FONT="]The game went deathly silent. The white text screen faded away revealing the bedroom that I had previously seen. Only this time it seemed to be darker, almost monochrome but, Except for the untouched sprite of the creator. Another text box appeared.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"What have I done?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Why have I done this?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Why?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I've messed up.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Beyond Repair.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Nothing left for me.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Only one thing to do now.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The thing that you only barely escaped from[/FONT]
[FONT="]It's going to get me"[/FONT]
[FONT="]My face froze. My hands constricted my DS stress marks stretched across it. The sprite walked across the room and stopped at a rough pokéball.[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Found Rope"[/FONT]
[FONT="]I now had tears streaming down my cheeks begging that he had made a slight error when he was typing. But as much as I pleaded with the game I didn't get what I hoped for. The next text box read:[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Used Rope"[/FONT]
[FONT="]An image of his chest appeared on top of the overworld and slowly slid across the screen. It reached the edge of the screen and with a sharp snap the sprite shot down revealing a rope wrapped tightly around his neck.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The blood slowly trickled down his chin and soaked the rope as it became a deep red. The screen faded to black. I closed the lid on my screen. And I walked out the room.[/FONT]
[FONT="]~[/FONT]
[FONT="]The story you have read was based on a true story.[/FONT]
[FONT="]I have since been contacted by his older brother. He informed me that a note was found. I've been invited to the funeral by him, I guess I can finally put everything to rest now.[/FONT]
dragonite149
The Annoying Orange, Shinx, Houndour And Starly In The Tower Of Blood
Spoiler:
One day, The Annoying Orange was sitting in the kitchen, when he heard a noise. It was a squeak at first, but it turned into a scream. "What was that?" The Annoying Orange stuttered, shivering in fright.
"Don't worry..." the scream, now a voice said, but in a normal tone."My name is, well, I cannot tell my name, but I have a quest for you. Your quest is to go up the Tower Of Blood and get me a marshmallow called Steve, who is sitting on the steeple. But, you will need some bodyguards. I have arranged for a Shinx and a Houndour to meet you at the base of the tower. Well, off you go!" the voice continued.
But, there was no way to get all the way to the Tower Of Blood. Or was there...? The Annoying Orange rolled about on the grass outside, and waited. Soon, a Starly picked up the Annoying Orange.
"Starly, could you take me to the Tower Of Blood?" The Annoying Orange asked the Starly.
"Of course," the Starly said, in English.
"Did you really just speak English?" Orange said to the Starly.
"Well duh, didn't you just hear me?" replied the Starly.
'This Starly could speak human language! Freaky or what!' thought Orange.
Soon, they arrived at the Tower Of Blood. It was near Sanyou City. Just like the voice had said, there was a Shinx and a Houndour at the gate.
"Thanks a lot for the ride, Starly! Me and my bodyguards should be going inside now," Orange said to Starly.
"You're welcome, but please may I come with you?" replied Starly.
"OK! I need as much help as I can get!" Orange replied.
They began the trek up the dark, tall, cold Tower Of Blood.
"This is taller than I thought. And where did it get it's name?" said Houndour.
A Koromori sliced Houndour's nose with it's wing, causing blood to leak out!
"Does that answer your question?" replied Shinx, before getting sliced on her nose, too.
"Well, I've got a gun," Orange boldly said, before shooting down all of the, now bloodstained, nearby Koromori. Then, the team continued their quest to the top. Just as they were about to climb the first set of steps of four, yet another Koromori sliced Starly's wing, causing lots of blood to leak out.
"I can't fly anymore!" wailed Starly.
Houndour and Shinx carried Starly up the first set of steps, followed by Orange. Houndour and Shinx continued to carry Starly, while getting sliced by endless Koromori. When the team reached the second set of steps, they had a fair bit of blood on them. They climbed up the steps, with a fair bit of blood on them.
When they entered the third floor, a Misdreavus used Perish Song. Shinx, Houndour and Orange ran as fast as they could to the next set of steps. Along the way, Starly died. Shinx, Houndour and Orange were depressed at this outcome,but they continued to travel. By the time they climbed the third set of steps, they were completely bloodstained. They had escaped the Perish Song by the skin of their teeth, but they were covered in dark red blood. The third set of steps creepily warped them to the steeple. There was no place for the bloodstained team of three to gain balance, but Orange grabbed the marshmallow, who was called Steve, sitting there. Then, they creepily teleported back to Orange's home. Then, a Zoroa snatched Steve off Orange and ran away.
"Oh No!" the voice said,"Go get Steve back!"
Just before Zoroa was out of sight, Orange shot Zoroa and Shinx ran off to get Steve back.
The voice revealed itself to be a...Pikachu that spoke English! Orange handed Steve to the Pikachu, who used it's tail to cut Steve into many tiny pieces.
"We went to the top of the Tower Of Blood to retrieve a marshmallow, watching the death of a friend and risking our lifes along the way, just for you to cut it up?!?!" Orange, Shinx and Houndour angrily boomed.
"Well, I just hate marshmallows called Steve, and I wanna destroy them all!" came the Pikachu's angry reply.
Team Fail
Red's Revenge
Spoiler:
A year or so ago, when Pokemon Heart Gold was only out in the Eastern Countries (You know, Japan... Korea...) I wanted a copy. On Christmas Eve, I won a bid on Ebay for a Japanese copy of the game. I waited in the mail for it to arrive, and missed the Enigma Stone event. Oh well. I opened the box as soon as I got it, and began playing. It was the game I couldn't put down. I played it constantly- Pokewalker and all. I had it at school, the market, roadtrips, you name it, I had it.
It was in Feburary that I was playing my beloved game one fine afternoon. I had finally reached Mt. Silver. I found my way to the top to challenge Red. I was sure my Lv. 97 Typhlosion and Lv. 95 Kyogre could beat him. Everyone else were HM slaves. :P Anyways, when I reached the snowy summit of the mountain, HE WASN'T THERE!!! I was bewildered. I knew he was there for the first time you get there to face him. So, I shrugged it off.probably a programming error. I kept playing and made my Team even stonger. I then decided to go to mom to get some money for the stat-boosting items (Carbos...). I went to the house. Instead of what I normally see, Mom sitting at the table, she was on a chair beside Red. He was holding a pistol. I knew there was no turning back now. He walked up to me slowly, and commanded me to let all of my Pokemon out of their Pokeballs. I did so, without a Yes/No question. They then followed him to where my mother was. He then started a speech:
"So... YOU... You are the reason I cannot win. I have trained MY WHOLE LIFE for this, and you go and wipe them with your pathetic Pokemon. Pfft. Such a pathetic Trainer." He then raised the pistol and shot Typhlosion. It was graphic. He then continued, "I have been a trainer ever since I was 11. I wanted to face the Pokemon League, but YOU. You simply waltz in and beat them ALL. Without breaking a sweat, Even Proffesor Oak acknowledged you and wanted to interview you on his radio show!" He raised the pistol again. He shot Kyogre. Then, my HM slave, Gyrados was next to take a bullet. He then turned to my mother. "I have thought this out for a long time. Many weeks in the days you have become a new household name. I have decided on this for so long and so much, my mind hurts. I'm glad I don't have to think of this anymore." It was getting hard to watch at this point. "And now, I can deal with my problems. Hehehe..." He then shot my mother. It was as graphic, if not more, than the Pokemon. The game then went to a cutscene. Red held the rifle up to my player's head. "This was the cause of all my problems, and now, I have a solution. Enjoy this, you will never see the light of day again. Goodbye." As Red pulled the trigger, the screen went black. You heard a gunshot, then a thud on the floor. It then said, "You are dead. Erasing game..." I let it do that. After it did, I took a hammer to it and broke it into a bunch of pieces. I then flushed it down the toilet. I will never buy from Ebay again.
It was in Feburary that I was playing my beloved game one fine afternoon. I had finally reached Mt. Silver. I found my way to the top to challenge Red. I was sure my Lv. 97 Typhlosion and Lv. 95 Kyogre could beat him. Everyone else were HM slaves. :P Anyways, when I reached the snowy summit of the mountain, HE WASN'T THERE!!! I was bewildered. I knew he was there for the first time you get there to face him. So, I shrugged it off.probably a programming error. I kept playing and made my Team even stonger. I then decided to go to mom to get some money for the stat-boosting items (Carbos...). I went to the house. Instead of what I normally see, Mom sitting at the table, she was on a chair beside Red. He was holding a pistol. I knew there was no turning back now. He walked up to me slowly, and commanded me to let all of my Pokemon out of their Pokeballs. I did so, without a Yes/No question. They then followed him to where my mother was. He then started a speech:
"So... YOU... You are the reason I cannot win. I have trained MY WHOLE LIFE for this, and you go and wipe them with your pathetic Pokemon. Pfft. Such a pathetic Trainer." He then raised the pistol and shot Typhlosion. It was graphic. He then continued, "I have been a trainer ever since I was 11. I wanted to face the Pokemon League, but YOU. You simply waltz in and beat them ALL. Without breaking a sweat, Even Proffesor Oak acknowledged you and wanted to interview you on his radio show!" He raised the pistol again. He shot Kyogre. Then, my HM slave, Gyrados was next to take a bullet. He then turned to my mother. "I have thought this out for a long time. Many weeks in the days you have become a new household name. I have decided on this for so long and so much, my mind hurts. I'm glad I don't have to think of this anymore." It was getting hard to watch at this point. "And now, I can deal with my problems. Hehehe..." He then shot my mother. It was as graphic, if not more, than the Pokemon. The game then went to a cutscene. Red held the rifle up to my player's head. "This was the cause of all my problems, and now, I have a solution. Enjoy this, you will never see the light of day again. Goodbye." As Red pulled the trigger, the screen went black. You heard a gunshot, then a thud on the floor. It then said, "You are dead. Erasing game..." I let it do that. After it did, I took a hammer to it and broke it into a bunch of pieces. I then flushed it down the toilet. I will never buy from Ebay again.
VulpixKid
Spoiler:
Pikachu sat at the edge of the branch sleeping. He heard a noise and then perked it's ears up in suprise. It was a Glaceon and it was climbing up the tree that Pikachu was sleeping on. Pikachu Gasped and jumped down off of the tree and ran off, a bit scared. Pikachu had seen the Glaceon's eyes, they where jet black. Suddenly he heard a noise from the bushes and then the same glaceon appeared. It's eyes scaring Pikachu, made pikachu run for his life. Then he reached a dead end. He saw lots of glaceons coming towards him. They all had black eyes and two sharp teeth. They all charged towards him, he was trapped..
560cool.
Today' Adventure (PMD Adventrure)
Spoiler:
[FONT="]After reading up all those creepy stories about Pokemon on the internet, I've decided to hunt down fake cartridges and see if any of them are "creepy" and hacked. I came across a curious Pokémon Mystery Dungeon : Explorers of Darkness copy, which looked obviously fake. Taking the opportunity, I clicked Buy. It was only 5$ ; very eBay like.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The next day, it arrived in mail. It was wrapped in black paper, which is weird, since I ordered many games from the internet and they were all in another color. Even weirder, it was only the cartridge, without the game's pack.[/FONT]
[FONT="]It took me a while to boot it up, since my DS wouldn't load it. When it finally began, I was astonished.[/FONT]
[FONT="]The old intro wasn't there and I got skipped to a cut scene. It was a human, Ranger-like, surrounded by three Pokémon. They were a Wigglytuff, Chatot and Skuntank. They were actually talking to that human, which I assumed was me. The eerie background (the one from the dreams in PMD 1) had a purple background color and moved really slow. The three Pokémon said :[/FONT]
[FONT="]"Skuntank: Maybe… should I take him into my team?[/FONT]
[FONT="]Wigglytuff : NO ! He's only mine. You have absolutely no right to take him.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Chatot : Master, please, stop arguing with your best fr…[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank : WE'RE NOT FRIENDS AT ALL ! Take this, fluffy loser."[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank threw a weird ball which made a smokescreen animation, then the screen turned white and warped to the guild. It was when I first stepped on the grid from above the guild. Then, it started a lot of talking (by the way, it was a Bulbasaur there…) :[/FONT]
[FONT="]"What ? [/FONT]
[FONT="]I'm remembering something about me ! I remember being surrounded by three Pokémon…[/FONT]
[FONT="]It feels like a dream, though. It doesn't seem real… at all.[/FONT]
[FONT="]One of them… he's a Wigglytuff ![/FONT]
[FONT="]One is a flying type… and the other one…[/FONT]
[FONT="]………………………………..I can't figure it out."[/FONT]
[FONT="]It got me thinking if it was backstory on how I turned into a human. At this point, I knew it was one of those hack made by a poorfag with no life. But, I decided to push on…[/FONT]
[FONT="]It continued normally, and I quite enjoyed playing through my favorite PMD game. What entirely bugged me was that every time I beat Pokémon, they would never join me. At first I thought the RNG was just messing around, but arriving at the expedition chapter without a Pokémon in my team was absolutely odd.[/FONT]
[FONT="]Then, at the scene where Wigglytuff beats Skuntank and his sidekicks, I get pushed in there as well…[/FONT]
[FONT="]Skuntank tells me I am a human and I was turned into one just for the poor amusement of Wigglytuff and Chatot. They no longer knew who I was because of Skuntank erasing their memory. He was the only one who still knew something about me and my past. He then took me into a portal, and I warped in an 8-bit Goldenrod ! [/FONT]
[FONT="]A woman came out of the Gym. She appeared to be an older Whitney. Skuntank was claiming she was my mother, who lost me. She wanted me to return, but there was no way to do so. He also told me normal Pokémon could sense I was a human, so they never came close to me. Only my partner was behaving normally…[/FONT]
[FONT="]From that place until the Dialga chapter, it all ran smoothly, except for the bugging thing about getting Pokémon. Then, right after I scored a win on Dialga, I got warped into that 8-bit Goldenrod again…[/FONT]
[FONT="]This time, Whitney was at a funeral. The main street of Goldenrod was occupied by it. Hundreds of people were moving slowly and singing weird songs about me and my life. Then, from the coffin they were carrying, there rose a big ghost of me…[/FONT]
[FONT="]"This, my friend, is the future." He said. "Take your pick : live, or die."[/FONT]
[FONT="]Then, the Yes/No window appeared, but with Live/Die instead. I picked Die, thinking I would get to play more adventures. Then, a long hand rose from the DS and grabbed me of my neck. It started shaking, and I started feeling an acute burn across my whole body. I punched my DS Lite with all my power and the mysterious, undead and white hand vanished. Seconds later, I was destroying the cartridge with the biggest hammer my dad owns. I took the rests and threw them on the window.[/FONT]
[FONT="]My DS Lite got a cracked screen and everytime I open it, a white hand appears on the screen and the following words come out of the DS's speakers : "Only a little bit more time until you'll be mine… just waiting for you to die… if you picked that…".[/FONT]
[FONT="]I get scared, but I keep repeating in my mind : "It's just a game.". [/FONT]
[FONT="]Really ? Is it just a game ?[/FONT]
[FONT="]I never thought much on the PMD backstory, but now I don't want to do this so much as I used to. Mostly because I get scared easily, but sometimes it's also because my experience...[/FONT]
mervyn797
Mines of Oreburgh
Spoiler:
It was bright and sunny that day, in true sense, it was unusually sunny. But that didn't affect Ash and his faithful companion Pikachu, who were travelling alone in the Sinnoh. The emptiness was killing them from the inside, the reason being that Brock and Dawn were both missing as his fellow companions. The very thought of that incident makes them shiver even now, ten months after what had happened in the abandoned coal mines of Oreburgh....
It was yet another normal day for Ash, Dawn and Brock who were walking enthusiastically towards the Oreburg gym in anticipation for Ash's first gym battle in Sinnoh. But disappointment met Ash as he entered the gym. "Roark isn't here, young trainer!" said the old man sitting in the corner of the gym. He wore a black cloak which added to his strange appearance. There was an unusual and mysterious glow on his face. But Ash took no notice of it. "Where is he?" "At the Oreburgh coal mines!", the old man replied with a small, wicked smile, which spoke a lot more than it seems to a person at the first thought. Without a second thought, Ash ran out of the gym at a speed which even Pikachu found hard to catch up with. "Wait for us, Ash!!" said Dawn and both of them paced out as well. The old man gave out an evil laughter, "Three kids and some Pokemon.... Cute little victims we've got today!"
Night was approaching; it had begun to drizzle as well. An unsuspecting Ash rushed into the mysterious and ghastly coal mines of Oreburgh. Dawn, Brock and Pikachu finally caught up with Ash, panting hard. "Why on earth did you run like that Ash!?", came the words from Brock. "I just want to meet Roark and have a gym battle with him!" "I know that you are excited Ash, but please don't do something like that again", said Dawn. "Alright, I won't!" "Let's go find Roark now!"
As they went a little deeper into the mines, eerie sounds, like the shrieking of some lost soul, could be heard louder and louder. "This is a little weird. Am I imaging this or can I really see shadows in the distance?", said Dawn. "There are some people out there!", came a voice from the distance. Soon, they could see two figures running towards them. "Who are you guys?", asked Ash. We just work over here as miners", said one of them, the expression of fear was quite evident on their very faces. "You guys look tensed. Is everything alright? And where is Roark?, inquired Ash. "Hey kids.. let me advice you all, don't go any further." "But why?", asked Brock. "I'm sure you guys won't believe me", said the miner, "But we can assure you that there is something terribly wrong out there." Ash paid no heed to what they said, "I must go find Roark! I want my gym badge!" "Go on...", said the miner. "I've done my job; I warned you" as Ash and his friends disappeared into the darkness.
Back in Oreburgh city, Officer Jenny and the other police officials storm into the city. Officer Jenny rams the door of the gym to find the old man still sitting there. "Who are you!?" enquired Officer Jenny. The old man didn't speak a word. "Who are you and where is Roark?!" The old man raised his head and smiled. Then suddenly, within a fraction of a second, he ran at the speed of light out of the gym. As the bewildered officials stormed the gym they discovered a body, chopped beyond recognition. Blood flowed like a river from the gym.
"What on earth happened here?", came the words from Brock who watched with terror the hundred of human bones and skulls which lay before them. "I'm scared now Ash", said Dawn, we should get out of here!" "You are right, lets head back!", came the timid reply from Ash. "Pika! Pi-Pikachu!!", came the terrified sound from Pikachu. "What happened?" "Oh my God! What the hell is that?!" "Oh, it's just the old man from the gym.", said Brock. "I can honestly say that I'm glad to see you", said Ash. "There is something terribly wro--" Suddenly the old man drew his sword and charged towards them. "Pikachu!! Use thunderbolt, now!" It was too late; the old man struck his sword right into Brock's abdomen. "Arrrrrggghh!!", came a cry from Brock who fell on the ground, blood flowed... "Brock!!!", came the shriek from both Ash and Dawn. But soon enough, they heard the loud footsteps of someone running towards them. The old man, alerted by this noise, stepped back in a defensive position. It was Sir Aaron! He held the old man by his throat, and banged his head against the walls of the cave. "Tell me!! Why are you here, Oak?", asked Sir Aaron with all brutality. "Professor Oak?! How can this be?", asked a bewildered Ash. "This isn't time for old tales kid.", said Sir Aaron. "Go! Celebi! Heal the wounds of the young man!" "Not so fast, Aaron!",said Oak as broke free and attempted to charge with his sword. Both of them engaged in a duel. Sir Aaron chopped off Oak's head. Brock too was healed to perfection by now, thanks to Celebi. "Is it over now?", asked Dawn shivering with fear. "He was just a messenger... I'm afraid that this is just the beginning....", said Sir Aaron."But I want to end this right now!, he said as he marched ahead into the darkness. "We should get out of here before something happens again", said Dawn. "Go two can go, but I'm going to help Sir Aaron out there!" But before Dawn could reply, Ash had also disappeared into the darkness. "God save him...", said Brock who looked quite pale himself.
"Foolish little kid... Why do you want to get yourself killed?", asked Sir Aaron. "I want to help you!", said Ash. "Look out!!" A group of Gengars encircled them. They soon heard a conversation in the near distance... "Oh look who we've got. Sir Aaron and some kid..."came a voice. "That kid is the chosen one, sir." "Ahh! Very well! We get to kill the both of them at one go!" A tall figure appeared in front of them. "I heard you killed my trusted servant, Oak.. Is it true? Well, you must have, Aaron; quite amusing though.." Sir Aaron charged towards him which the mysterious figure evaded with ease. "How amusing.. You have the nerve to do that?" "Do not underestimate me N!" said Sir Aaron leaping towards N for another failed attempt to strike. With a change of positions, Sir Aaron soon found his neck at the edge of N's sword. Suddenly an explosion took place and Ranger X's Kadabras stormed the place, effectively blocking N's Gengars moves and knocking them out. "You, Ranger boy! Trying to be a hero? Take him into custody, guards!" Talking advantage of situation, Sir Aaron chopped off N's head. But to everyone's astonishment, N's head began regenerating! "You can't really think of killing homunculus, can you? I would have been glad to kill off this very moment, but an old friend of yours wants to do the honours...!" Meet Oak or Professor Oak!" "This can't possibly be true!", exclaimed Sir Aaron "I just killed him a while ago!" "I think you are smart enough to figure that out, Aaron. And enough with this blabber! Finish him off Oak! We will take care of this kid and the ranger later!" With his lightning fast speed, Oak finished off Sir Aaron. All that left was a puddle of blood with flesh and bones in the middle.
"Not so fast, N!" came the voice from the background. It was Dawn and Brock. "Seems like we've got some visitors! Show them how we treat our guests!" Next it was Brock and Dawn's turn...Both if them suffered the same fate. Ash saw them bleed to death. Ranger X somehow escaped, and dragged Ash along. It was quite evident that they wouldn't have been able to get out from there if they didn't take advantage of the situation, with N's huge zombie army near. "We got to get out of here quickly", said Ranger X. "I can't possibly leave without my friends behind!", remarked Ash, quite astonished with what he heard. "Sometimes you care about yourself kid, and leave others to their fate" Ranger X commanded his Onix to block the entrance to the mine, burying all those inside.
And today as Ash sights the Victory Road in the distance, memories of the past come back to him. He can't help but blame himself for what happened in the mines of Oreburgh.
It was yet another normal day for Ash, Dawn and Brock who were walking enthusiastically towards the Oreburg gym in anticipation for Ash's first gym battle in Sinnoh. But disappointment met Ash as he entered the gym. "Roark isn't here, young trainer!" said the old man sitting in the corner of the gym. He wore a black cloak which added to his strange appearance. There was an unusual and mysterious glow on his face. But Ash took no notice of it. "Where is he?" "At the Oreburgh coal mines!", the old man replied with a small, wicked smile, which spoke a lot more than it seems to a person at the first thought. Without a second thought, Ash ran out of the gym at a speed which even Pikachu found hard to catch up with. "Wait for us, Ash!!" said Dawn and both of them paced out as well. The old man gave out an evil laughter, "Three kids and some Pokemon.... Cute little victims we've got today!"
Night was approaching; it had begun to drizzle as well. An unsuspecting Ash rushed into the mysterious and ghastly coal mines of Oreburgh. Dawn, Brock and Pikachu finally caught up with Ash, panting hard. "Why on earth did you run like that Ash!?", came the words from Brock. "I just want to meet Roark and have a gym battle with him!" "I know that you are excited Ash, but please don't do something like that again", said Dawn. "Alright, I won't!" "Let's go find Roark now!"
As they went a little deeper into the mines, eerie sounds, like the shrieking of some lost soul, could be heard louder and louder. "This is a little weird. Am I imaging this or can I really see shadows in the distance?", said Dawn. "There are some people out there!", came a voice from the distance. Soon, they could see two figures running towards them. "Who are you guys?", asked Ash. We just work over here as miners", said one of them, the expression of fear was quite evident on their very faces. "You guys look tensed. Is everything alright? And where is Roark?, inquired Ash. "Hey kids.. let me advice you all, don't go any further." "But why?", asked Brock. "I'm sure you guys won't believe me", said the miner, "But we can assure you that there is something terribly wrong out there." Ash paid no heed to what they said, "I must go find Roark! I want my gym badge!" "Go on...", said the miner. "I've done my job; I warned you" as Ash and his friends disappeared into the darkness.
Back in Oreburgh city, Officer Jenny and the other police officials storm into the city. Officer Jenny rams the door of the gym to find the old man still sitting there. "Who are you!?" enquired Officer Jenny. The old man didn't speak a word. "Who are you and where is Roark?!" The old man raised his head and smiled. Then suddenly, within a fraction of a second, he ran at the speed of light out of the gym. As the bewildered officials stormed the gym they discovered a body, chopped beyond recognition. Blood flowed like a river from the gym.
"What on earth happened here?", came the words from Brock who watched with terror the hundred of human bones and skulls which lay before them. "I'm scared now Ash", said Dawn, we should get out of here!" "You are right, lets head back!", came the timid reply from Ash. "Pika! Pi-Pikachu!!", came the terrified sound from Pikachu. "What happened?" "Oh my God! What the hell is that?!" "Oh, it's just the old man from the gym.", said Brock. "I can honestly say that I'm glad to see you", said Ash. "There is something terribly wro--" Suddenly the old man drew his sword and charged towards them. "Pikachu!! Use thunderbolt, now!" It was too late; the old man struck his sword right into Brock's abdomen. "Arrrrrggghh!!", came a cry from Brock who fell on the ground, blood flowed... "Brock!!!", came the shriek from both Ash and Dawn. But soon enough, they heard the loud footsteps of someone running towards them. The old man, alerted by this noise, stepped back in a defensive position. It was Sir Aaron! He held the old man by his throat, and banged his head against the walls of the cave. "Tell me!! Why are you here, Oak?", asked Sir Aaron with all brutality. "Professor Oak?! How can this be?", asked a bewildered Ash. "This isn't time for old tales kid.", said Sir Aaron. "Go! Celebi! Heal the wounds of the young man!" "Not so fast, Aaron!",said Oak as broke free and attempted to charge with his sword. Both of them engaged in a duel. Sir Aaron chopped off Oak's head. Brock too was healed to perfection by now, thanks to Celebi. "Is it over now?", asked Dawn shivering with fear. "He was just a messenger... I'm afraid that this is just the beginning....", said Sir Aaron."But I want to end this right now!, he said as he marched ahead into the darkness. "We should get out of here before something happens again", said Dawn. "Go two can go, but I'm going to help Sir Aaron out there!" But before Dawn could reply, Ash had also disappeared into the darkness. "God save him...", said Brock who looked quite pale himself.
"Foolish little kid... Why do you want to get yourself killed?", asked Sir Aaron. "I want to help you!", said Ash. "Look out!!" A group of Gengars encircled them. They soon heard a conversation in the near distance... "Oh look who we've got. Sir Aaron and some kid..."came a voice. "That kid is the chosen one, sir." "Ahh! Very well! We get to kill the both of them at one go!" A tall figure appeared in front of them. "I heard you killed my trusted servant, Oak.. Is it true? Well, you must have, Aaron; quite amusing though.." Sir Aaron charged towards him which the mysterious figure evaded with ease. "How amusing.. You have the nerve to do that?" "Do not underestimate me N!" said Sir Aaron leaping towards N for another failed attempt to strike. With a change of positions, Sir Aaron soon found his neck at the edge of N's sword. Suddenly an explosion took place and Ranger X's Kadabras stormed the place, effectively blocking N's Gengars moves and knocking them out. "You, Ranger boy! Trying to be a hero? Take him into custody, guards!" Talking advantage of situation, Sir Aaron chopped off N's head. But to everyone's astonishment, N's head began regenerating! "You can't really think of killing homunculus, can you? I would have been glad to kill off this very moment, but an old friend of yours wants to do the honours...!" Meet Oak or Professor Oak!" "This can't possibly be true!", exclaimed Sir Aaron "I just killed him a while ago!" "I think you are smart enough to figure that out, Aaron. And enough with this blabber! Finish him off Oak! We will take care of this kid and the ranger later!" With his lightning fast speed, Oak finished off Sir Aaron. All that left was a puddle of blood with flesh and bones in the middle.
"Not so fast, N!" came the voice from the background. It was Dawn and Brock. "Seems like we've got some visitors! Show them how we treat our guests!" Next it was Brock and Dawn's turn...Both if them suffered the same fate. Ash saw them bleed to death. Ranger X somehow escaped, and dragged Ash along. It was quite evident that they wouldn't have been able to get out from there if they didn't take advantage of the situation, with N's huge zombie army near. "We got to get out of here quickly", said Ranger X. "I can't possibly leave without my friends behind!", remarked Ash, quite astonished with what he heard. "Sometimes you care about yourself kid, and leave others to their fate" Ranger X commanded his Onix to block the entrance to the mine, burying all those inside.
And today as Ash sights the Victory Road in the distance, memories of the past come back to him. He can't help but blame himself for what happened in the mines of Oreburgh.
Rucario
Goldenrod Silence
Spoiler:
I had been a fan of Pokemon since the beginning, but none of them kept me occupied for long. I had played Red for so long and I had a Charizard that was a level 46, and then after I had lost to the Champion Blue and forgot to save, I threw my game to the ground and sobbed for months. Once I got over it, Gold and Silver had been released. I had read stories of people getting pirated Pokemon games or hacked Gameboy cartridges such as Pokemon Diamond for the Gameboy Color. I had never heard of them as a child, but when I got older, the stories began popping up very frequently. The stories were amazing and opened up more possibilities to me, good and bad. I had received games from my friends that were pirated that they had bought on Ebay, but I had never tested them. One day my friend, Michael, had handed me a DS cartridge that had a white label sticker in the place of where the logo might have been that said "Pkmn SoulSvr" in black Sharpie Marker. He had approached me after handing it to me and said in a strong voice that sounded as if he was holding back tears.
"You can't... can't.. can't defeat me...."
I laughed in his face and walked back to my house from his. It seemed as if it were a big joke. Michael was notorious for playing practical jokes on people. This was just another one. When I got back to my home, everything was normal; my mother in the kitchen cooking dinner, father in the den watching the news program, and my 16 year old brother on the floor in his room playing Xbox. I walked upstairs to my room where my DS was. I popped the game in and watched the opening screen. It was normal: Lugia soaring underwater as the logo pops up. I clicked the name that read "me" in lowercase letters. I laughed at it. Michael was doing a pretty good job so far. When I opened it up, I was standing in Goldenrod City with a Blastoise at my side. I checked the Pokemon tab and saw that Blastoise was the only Pokemon on the team. The Blastoise's name was Warturtle and it was a female, which is uncommon. It's rare to ever find a female Squirtle, so this one was rare. Everything seemed normal so far. I walked into the Pokemon Center, which wasn't normal. It was dark and the only light was the light above the nurse and it flickered. I walked over to the nurse to see what she would say. A small icon appeared on the screen of the nurse with an angry expression on her face and the little speech bubble popped at the bottom that was representing what the Nurse was saying.
"What do you want? Your Pokemon is already at full health! Get out of this building!"
When I pressed "A" to get out of it, I appeared in a mirrored Goldenrod City. It was dark out now, but my clock was accurate and it was still day time. It appeared that it was night time, but the trainer's characters were different and had a scared, bleak expression on their face. I walked over to one of the many trainers and pressed the "A" button. The trainer turned and an exclamation point appeared above their head.
"Get.. get out... now! He's coming... he's coming for your Pokemon... he's here for all of us...... go......."
I laughed at this and went to the Goldenrod City Gym where I was waiting for Whitney to tell me to get out as well. When I walked in, I saw a man that had a taller sprite than everyone else and he seemed to have been arguing with Whitney. I automatically walk closer to the arguing trainers.
"I am here for you.... Tell me where he is.." the tall man said in a somewhat desperate voice.
"It doesn't matter, because I'm not going down without a fight." Whitney said with a Pokeball in her hand. She sounded frantic and panicked, but I couldn't blame her. I tried to exit the gym, but I was unable too.
An icon like the nurse's appeared on the screen, but this one was the man. A large mask was over his face and he had a Pokeball in his hand. The music changed from the normal Goldenrod music to the music from Lavender Town and the speechbox appeared at the bottom once again.
"... You can't defeat me...." The man said.
There was something about him that was familiar. The man tossed a Pokeball and a Haunter appeared. It reminded me of the Haunter I had on my team at the time of my loss to the Champion. The Haunter wrapped around Whitney and her sprite fell to the ground face-first. The man turned around and knocked my character to the ground. When I walked back out to Goldenrod City, the Lavender Town music was still playing and people were running frantically around the city. The man was now with a Charizard and had burnt down several buildings. A large amount of rubble from a destroyed building had sat at the left side of my screen and I had noticed that there were piles of trainers that were laying down in a pile. Children as well. The sprites of Lyra and Whitney were in a separate Pile. I was now afraid and regretted laughing at Michael. I quickly pulled the button that would turn the DS off, but it didn't work. I panicked and threw my DS against the wall, but it was still working. I was beginning to panic and I just had to go along with it. The Champion Blue appeared with his Rhydon to try and stop the madness that the man had caused. The Charizard became enraged and shot flames from his mouth at Rhydon and then used Slash on him it seemed. Blood leaked from the side of Rhydon as it fell to the ground. An exclamation point appeared about Blue's head as he was being pinned to the ground by Charizard. Charizard used a strong fire attack on Blue, killing him. It was now clear to me now on who it was: it was my character from my Red game. Blue's body was now on the ground, dead. The same could be said about his Rhydon. The man had walked over to my character and stood for a while. The speechbox at the bottom appeared and only said a few words that brought tears of fear and sorrow over me.
".... I'm sorry....."
I pressed "A" as he ordered his Charizard to kill him. It fired uncertain blasts of flames from its mouth that sent him to the ground. The Pokemon flew off and was never seen again. I sat there for a while as the city burnt down to the ground. I sat there for quite some time. The direction pad didn't work for some reason. The screen slowly faded to black as the normal credits appeared on the screen. I then took the game out of my DS and slipped it into my pocket. I walked down the stairs, the world still the same it should be. When I exited my house, I walked to my shed and got a hammer and went out into the street with tears streaking down my face. It was hard, because I know that my character from Red was the same character that I had so much fun with in my youth, but it was the right thing to do. I walked to the street and set the hammer down on the cartridge with all of my might and destroyed it. I then did the same with all of my other pirated and hacked games so that others don't have to find the same games and experience the terrible things that I went through in the first time I flicked the game in.
"You can't... can't.. can't defeat me...."
I laughed in his face and walked back to my house from his. It seemed as if it were a big joke. Michael was notorious for playing practical jokes on people. This was just another one. When I got back to my home, everything was normal; my mother in the kitchen cooking dinner, father in the den watching the news program, and my 16 year old brother on the floor in his room playing Xbox. I walked upstairs to my room where my DS was. I popped the game in and watched the opening screen. It was normal: Lugia soaring underwater as the logo pops up. I clicked the name that read "me" in lowercase letters. I laughed at it. Michael was doing a pretty good job so far. When I opened it up, I was standing in Goldenrod City with a Blastoise at my side. I checked the Pokemon tab and saw that Blastoise was the only Pokemon on the team. The Blastoise's name was Warturtle and it was a female, which is uncommon. It's rare to ever find a female Squirtle, so this one was rare. Everything seemed normal so far. I walked into the Pokemon Center, which wasn't normal. It was dark and the only light was the light above the nurse and it flickered. I walked over to the nurse to see what she would say. A small icon appeared on the screen of the nurse with an angry expression on her face and the little speech bubble popped at the bottom that was representing what the Nurse was saying.
"What do you want? Your Pokemon is already at full health! Get out of this building!"
When I pressed "A" to get out of it, I appeared in a mirrored Goldenrod City. It was dark out now, but my clock was accurate and it was still day time. It appeared that it was night time, but the trainer's characters were different and had a scared, bleak expression on their face. I walked over to one of the many trainers and pressed the "A" button. The trainer turned and an exclamation point appeared above their head.
"Get.. get out... now! He's coming... he's coming for your Pokemon... he's here for all of us...... go......."
I laughed at this and went to the Goldenrod City Gym where I was waiting for Whitney to tell me to get out as well. When I walked in, I saw a man that had a taller sprite than everyone else and he seemed to have been arguing with Whitney. I automatically walk closer to the arguing trainers.
"I am here for you.... Tell me where he is.." the tall man said in a somewhat desperate voice.
"It doesn't matter, because I'm not going down without a fight." Whitney said with a Pokeball in her hand. She sounded frantic and panicked, but I couldn't blame her. I tried to exit the gym, but I was unable too.
An icon like the nurse's appeared on the screen, but this one was the man. A large mask was over his face and he had a Pokeball in his hand. The music changed from the normal Goldenrod music to the music from Lavender Town and the speechbox appeared at the bottom once again.
"... You can't defeat me...." The man said.
There was something about him that was familiar. The man tossed a Pokeball and a Haunter appeared. It reminded me of the Haunter I had on my team at the time of my loss to the Champion. The Haunter wrapped around Whitney and her sprite fell to the ground face-first. The man turned around and knocked my character to the ground. When I walked back out to Goldenrod City, the Lavender Town music was still playing and people were running frantically around the city. The man was now with a Charizard and had burnt down several buildings. A large amount of rubble from a destroyed building had sat at the left side of my screen and I had noticed that there were piles of trainers that were laying down in a pile. Children as well. The sprites of Lyra and Whitney were in a separate Pile. I was now afraid and regretted laughing at Michael. I quickly pulled the button that would turn the DS off, but it didn't work. I panicked and threw my DS against the wall, but it was still working. I was beginning to panic and I just had to go along with it. The Champion Blue appeared with his Rhydon to try and stop the madness that the man had caused. The Charizard became enraged and shot flames from his mouth at Rhydon and then used Slash on him it seemed. Blood leaked from the side of Rhydon as it fell to the ground. An exclamation point appeared about Blue's head as he was being pinned to the ground by Charizard. Charizard used a strong fire attack on Blue, killing him. It was now clear to me now on who it was: it was my character from my Red game. Blue's body was now on the ground, dead. The same could be said about his Rhydon. The man had walked over to my character and stood for a while. The speechbox at the bottom appeared and only said a few words that brought tears of fear and sorrow over me.
".... I'm sorry....."
I pressed "A" as he ordered his Charizard to kill him. It fired uncertain blasts of flames from its mouth that sent him to the ground. The Pokemon flew off and was never seen again. I sat there for a while as the city burnt down to the ground. I sat there for quite some time. The direction pad didn't work for some reason. The screen slowly faded to black as the normal credits appeared on the screen. I then took the game out of my DS and slipped it into my pocket. I walked down the stairs, the world still the same it should be. When I exited my house, I walked to my shed and got a hammer and went out into the street with tears streaking down my face. It was hard, because I know that my character from Red was the same character that I had so much fun with in my youth, but it was the right thing to do. I walked to the street and set the hammer down on the cartridge with all of my might and destroyed it. I then did the same with all of my other pirated and hacked games so that others don't have to find the same games and experience the terrible things that I went through in the first time I flicked the game in.
Flame
Spoiler:
I was a big pokemon lover. I collected almost every Pokemon game. When mom did take me to the flea market, i saw weird Pokemon game for GBA. It was all green and has written on the sticker - Pokemon Chaos Emerald. I was thinking that it is some hack that was based on Sonic... But i wanted to see how this is made. When we came back to the home, i started to play this right away. It has another title screen than original Emerald. There was Rayquaza, Groudon and Kyogre. Rayquaza looked like it is being already killed and Groudon and Kyogre have got pale skin and scary red eyes. I did continue. There was no save file, so i started New Game. Everyone seems to be normal, but the Azurill that Birch take out from the Pokeball, looked like it's bones! Bones were full in blood... It was a little strange to me, but i didn't got freaked out. And there was not gender choosing, it was another thing that was weird to me. Ok, the ol' shaking truck animation... But there was no boxes... There was... Coffins! Pretty creepy, yeah. And when i got out the "truck" i didn't been in Littleroot. I was in Mt. Pyre. There was alot people and the old woman came to me and tell...
"We're doomed! We cannot escape the Groudon and Kyogre's wrath! Only death awaits us."
When i came to the place where should be orbs. They were put in but the Emerald Orb was totally crushed. There was blood coming from it... Then the old man came to me and told me that our only hope, Rayquaza was killed. Then the egg hatching animation was on... The "egg" hatched into Bad EGG... The game got freezed. I was about to turn it off, but then the Mt. Pyre turned into Giygas from Earthbound! I couldn't control my character. It was slowly coming to the monsters. Then the Trainer Card automatically showed up. It was showing Brendan with bleeding eyes and mouth. Then the 8-bit Lavender Tower started playing. Everyone has got pale skin. I was thinking they changed into zombies... Then automatically battle against a trainer who got left hand blue, right hand red and green head sent out Groudon. I've got only Bag EGG so i sent it out. There was only one option. Run. When i choosed it, the textbox said that Bad EGG was loafing around... I was laughing to it. Then chosed it again and the textbox said...
"Bad EGG started hatching!"
It was weird... When i pressed A, it showed the Substitue monster, that knew only OHKO moves. It was "Fissure, Sheer Cold and Guillnote". I used Sheer Cold and defeated Groudon. The screen goes black and i hear the slowed down Rayquaza cry. It SERIOUSLY freaked me out, but i wanted to see what happens next. Background changed into volcano like place and the trainer got horns... It was hell. Trainer send out Kyogre, but it fainted without a fight.... There was no "Foe's GROUDON fainted!". Instead of "fainted" it meant "dies"... Then the trainer did got wings and devil tail... It was a Devil... He send out the third Pokemon. Rayquaza. It was all covered in blood. The textbox said...
"This POKEMON doesn't want to fight!"
So i just tried to use Sheer Cold... But it missed! There was another textbox...
"Show me your rage, my tool of destruction!"
It was a little sad... Rayquaza used Frustration that missed, then used Outrage that almost defeated my "Pokemon". There was 1 HP left. The textbox said again...
"You're useless! Die!"
The Rayquaza started losing HP, and after every hit, i heard Rayquaza cry... In every hit it has got lower pitch, then Rayquaza's HP got to 0... But it didn't faintend. Textbox said...
"Rayquaza used Tears!"
The screen goes black... And there was dialogue...
"Brendan is trapped in the hell!
The world is destroyed.
There's no hope.
We're... doomed."
Then the game showed Rayquaza sprite. Speechbox said - "Rayquaza used Perish Song!" Then the glitchy sound started to play... Then the 8-bit Mt. Pyre theme started to play for 1 minute...
The game turned off itself. It didn't wanted to turn on again... I did take my dad's hammer and i did go to the street. I destroyed it and threw off to the trash can... I dediced to not buy the hacked games again...
"We're doomed! We cannot escape the Groudon and Kyogre's wrath! Only death awaits us."
When i came to the place where should be orbs. They were put in but the Emerald Orb was totally crushed. There was blood coming from it... Then the old man came to me and told me that our only hope, Rayquaza was killed. Then the egg hatching animation was on... The "egg" hatched into Bad EGG... The game got freezed. I was about to turn it off, but then the Mt. Pyre turned into Giygas from Earthbound! I couldn't control my character. It was slowly coming to the monsters. Then the Trainer Card automatically showed up. It was showing Brendan with bleeding eyes and mouth. Then the 8-bit Lavender Tower started playing. Everyone has got pale skin. I was thinking they changed into zombies... Then automatically battle against a trainer who got left hand blue, right hand red and green head sent out Groudon. I've got only Bag EGG so i sent it out. There was only one option. Run. When i choosed it, the textbox said that Bad EGG was loafing around... I was laughing to it. Then chosed it again and the textbox said...
"Bad EGG started hatching!"
It was weird... When i pressed A, it showed the Substitue monster, that knew only OHKO moves. It was "Fissure, Sheer Cold and Guillnote". I used Sheer Cold and defeated Groudon. The screen goes black and i hear the slowed down Rayquaza cry. It SERIOUSLY freaked me out, but i wanted to see what happens next. Background changed into volcano like place and the trainer got horns... It was hell. Trainer send out Kyogre, but it fainted without a fight.... There was no "Foe's GROUDON fainted!". Instead of "fainted" it meant "dies"... Then the trainer did got wings and devil tail... It was a Devil... He send out the third Pokemon. Rayquaza. It was all covered in blood. The textbox said...
"This POKEMON doesn't want to fight!"
So i just tried to use Sheer Cold... But it missed! There was another textbox...
"Show me your rage, my tool of destruction!"
It was a little sad... Rayquaza used Frustration that missed, then used Outrage that almost defeated my "Pokemon". There was 1 HP left. The textbox said again...
"You're useless! Die!"
The Rayquaza started losing HP, and after every hit, i heard Rayquaza cry... In every hit it has got lower pitch, then Rayquaza's HP got to 0... But it didn't faintend. Textbox said...
"Rayquaza used Tears!"
The screen goes black... And there was dialogue...
"Brendan is trapped in the hell!
The world is destroyed.
There's no hope.
We're... doomed."
Then the game showed Rayquaza sprite. Speechbox said - "Rayquaza used Perish Song!" Then the glitchy sound started to play... Then the 8-bit Mt. Pyre theme started to play for 1 minute...
The game turned off itself. It didn't wanted to turn on again... I did take my dad's hammer and i did go to the street. I destroyed it and threw off to the trash can... I dediced to not buy the hacked games again...
Aerkhan
Spoiler:
When i first played Pokemon, i played Emerald.
I started out with Torchic, wich turned out to be shiny! Never did i know until i discovered Serebii and looking at Blaziken's shiny sprite, asking around its forum. I charged through the game like a madman, being the idiot i was, having Blaziken at Level 100, with a few HM slaves at 20, and DESTROYED the league and BF.
A long time ago i transferred my Blaziken to SoulSilver, raping Kanto with it, then Red. After transferring, i lost my copy, but i never thought much of it. Until a week ago, when i found it. I booted it up, but i never thought this could be true.
I chose my save, and ended up before Wallace, i talked to him.
"Did you come back? You abadonned us, and now you just 'want to check it out again'? How pathetic. Time to die." He said, i shat my pants.
My party was only a Shiny Blaziken, the same one started out with, it seemed, level hundred. His Party? Level 100 Arceus-Water. "How? What? It's Gen III!" i thought. It used Judgement once, and Blaziken fainted.
My screen went black, and it said:
"Choose." A Yes/No option appeared, but with Blaziken/Arceus.
I did not know what this ment, but i chose Blaziken, thinking it was who will win the match. I was wrong. A voice said to me "Always relying on Blaziken. Always. Always...." I blacked out, and heard Blaziken's cry (talk about Blaziken Fanboyism).
I woke up, and it was all a dream.
THE END.
I started out with Torchic, wich turned out to be shiny! Never did i know until i discovered Serebii and looking at Blaziken's shiny sprite, asking around its forum. I charged through the game like a madman, being the idiot i was, having Blaziken at Level 100, with a few HM slaves at 20, and DESTROYED the league and BF.
A long time ago i transferred my Blaziken to SoulSilver, raping Kanto with it, then Red. After transferring, i lost my copy, but i never thought much of it. Until a week ago, when i found it. I booted it up, but i never thought this could be true.
I chose my save, and ended up before Wallace, i talked to him.
"Did you come back? You abadonned us, and now you just 'want to check it out again'? How pathetic. Time to die." He said, i shat my pants.
My party was only a Shiny Blaziken, the same one started out with, it seemed, level hundred. His Party? Level 100 Arceus-Water. "How? What? It's Gen III!" i thought. It used Judgement once, and Blaziken fainted.
My screen went black, and it said:
"Choose." A Yes/No option appeared, but with Blaziken/Arceus.
I did not know what this ment, but i chose Blaziken, thinking it was who will win the match. I was wrong. A voice said to me "Always relying on Blaziken. Always. Always...." I blacked out, and heard Blaziken's cry (talk about Blaziken Fanboyism).
I woke up, and it was all a dream.
THE END.
aguinn99
Pokemon of Death
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when I first played pokemon,I had platinum.I had not gotten very far, until...I was in tall grass,it was black grass, and there where fearful screams echoing in the distance.there was a sound, it sounded like zombies moaning.In my pokemon team was my only pokemon,a level 45 turtwig.I started walking,and heard the loudest,creepiest scream ever. I saw the battle screen.my enemy was a zombie. zombie used zombie! it was a level 100! I new I was in trouble.then I remembered. five years ago my friend died and left his my platinum game after he died,and now I new why he died. this.He left it for me.I attacked the zombie. then the games turned off,and I died.I never used it again.but to this day I left it in my bedroom somewhere. and I sometimes get creeped out in the night now remembering that.
GaXeL
Hallucinations
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ahhhh, another Saturday! Going home hanging out with friends... We decided to go to the mall when we saw, we saw a new shop. It was like a hut, all purple and had a golden rope tied around it. We decided to walk inside, however my friends decided not to. I went inside and it was all pokemon dolls! I looked around and saw a pokemon emerald cart, however there was duct tape around the front sticker and on the sticker it wrote "Pokemon Legends" it was written in pen and was very sloppy.
I got home and my house had a small shake, like a mini earthquake, I asked my mom if she just felt that, she said I was crazy. I decided I was just tired... I went upstairs to my room and turned on my gameboy advanced sp, with the cart I got from the hut inside. After the menu, I felt a sudden electrical shock. IT HURT. I thought it was probably the carpeting's static. After that, the menu popped up, no "press start" menu. There was only one option, "new game" well, I clicked it. I was thinking this was gonna be a great hack! A white screen was up for 5 seconds when I felt a gust of wind that threw me off my bed. Oh my god creepy... I closed my sp so I can come back to it later, after I thought this through.
After a while of boredom and basketball, I opened up the screen... A shady character with strange marks on his face and no face was there instead of birch, hiding a bloody knife was there... "birch isn't here right now... Please come back later" after that I was at my house, no moving van, then my hands started having a burning sensation, I went to go wash them so I can relieve them when I fell down the stairs. For a split second I swear I thought I saw a very large bird with blue spikes around him. I was hallucinating. I was alone at home. I made it to the bathroom, I started washing my hands when I saw another large bird.it was red with some type of mowhawk golden hair. I had a unbeatable urge to play that game, I picked ot up and pressed on... In the game, I was in the character's room. I marched downstairs and his mom wasn't there. I walked outside. Complete chaos. I was in rustboro, the towers were destroyed. They were literally ripped in half. I ran around the place when a freezing breeze winded me while I was playing. I kept running. The tracks just never ended. When, I found all of the legendaries in one place.
Arceus was the one in front all of them. The stranger I saw at the start was there "you know, it's not good to steal." I shuddered. All the legendaries started using teleport and disappeared from the screen. The game boy was so over heated I dropped it in shock. I turned around and saw a no faced man faced my direction. He disappeared after I fainted.
I woke up to the sound of my mom yelling "wake up!". I woke up and the game boy was burnt to a crisp. I acted nonchalantly as my mom walked out. I stole my dad's hammer and smashed the remains of my game. From this day, I still have terrible nightmares and hallucinations of giant abnormal animals watching over me. I thought I was ok after 20 years, but that was when I was stabbed through my kidney. They still haven't found the person. I shall remain here in the hospital until my body gives out, or the pokemon come after me again to finish me off. After writing this documentary, I just need to tell you one thing and tha
--Nicolas Farlo deceased of cardiac arrest, April 5th 2032
I got home and my house had a small shake, like a mini earthquake, I asked my mom if she just felt that, she said I was crazy. I decided I was just tired... I went upstairs to my room and turned on my gameboy advanced sp, with the cart I got from the hut inside. After the menu, I felt a sudden electrical shock. IT HURT. I thought it was probably the carpeting's static. After that, the menu popped up, no "press start" menu. There was only one option, "new game" well, I clicked it. I was thinking this was gonna be a great hack! A white screen was up for 5 seconds when I felt a gust of wind that threw me off my bed. Oh my god creepy... I closed my sp so I can come back to it later, after I thought this through.
After a while of boredom and basketball, I opened up the screen... A shady character with strange marks on his face and no face was there instead of birch, hiding a bloody knife was there... "birch isn't here right now... Please come back later" after that I was at my house, no moving van, then my hands started having a burning sensation, I went to go wash them so I can relieve them when I fell down the stairs. For a split second I swear I thought I saw a very large bird with blue spikes around him. I was hallucinating. I was alone at home. I made it to the bathroom, I started washing my hands when I saw another large bird.it was red with some type of mowhawk golden hair. I had a unbeatable urge to play that game, I picked ot up and pressed on... In the game, I was in the character's room. I marched downstairs and his mom wasn't there. I walked outside. Complete chaos. I was in rustboro, the towers were destroyed. They were literally ripped in half. I ran around the place when a freezing breeze winded me while I was playing. I kept running. The tracks just never ended. When, I found all of the legendaries in one place.
Arceus was the one in front all of them. The stranger I saw at the start was there "you know, it's not good to steal." I shuddered. All the legendaries started using teleport and disappeared from the screen. The game boy was so over heated I dropped it in shock. I turned around and saw a no faced man faced my direction. He disappeared after I fainted.
I woke up to the sound of my mom yelling "wake up!". I woke up and the game boy was burnt to a crisp. I acted nonchalantly as my mom walked out. I stole my dad's hammer and smashed the remains of my game. From this day, I still have terrible nightmares and hallucinations of giant abnormal animals watching over me. I thought I was ok after 20 years, but that was when I was stabbed through my kidney. They still haven't found the person. I shall remain here in the hospital until my body gives out, or the pokemon come after me again to finish me off. After writing this documentary, I just need to tell you one thing and tha
--Nicolas Farlo deceased of cardiac arrest, April 5th 2032
pieguy259
Monkey God Shrine
Spoiler:
Game developers are a mischievous bunch. They'll often put hidden easter eggs or pranks into their games, just because they can.
Someone presumably got fired over this one.
This only happens in Japanese copies of Black and White. Well, alright, English ones haven't been made yet, but somebody's bound to take it out before they're released, otherwise there could well be quite a lot of traumatised children.
Take a party of four to the Site of Dreams, and put Musharna in the first slot. Mine was called STEVE, but I think any name starting with S will work. Make sure the other three have initials that spell out A-R-U in that order. S-A-R-U, "monkey", you see?
Now, this next part might get a bit tricky, because you have to know Cut and not have any elemental monkeys. The grinding will take a while. Once you have the Tri Badge and the HM, go back to the Site and start poking around. Might need to employ a walk-through-walls cheat, I couldn't get where I needed to go without it. Don't talk to the monkey girl. She'll come up to you when you find the right spot. The girl will speak to you in Japanese. I dunno, I never translated it, but there's bound to be some otaku out there who has. Whatever.
She'll lead you into a part of the Site of Dreams that I'm fairly certain nobody was, strictly speaking, meant to access. Reason being that it looks, well, kinda sinister, to be honest. There'll be a set of stairs leading down into the ground, and statues of the monkeys on the three non-accessible sides. (Incidentally, I tried getting to the stairs with walk-through-walls, but no luck. It has to be the girl who brings you here.)
Go down the stairs. It seems like a choice, but the girl will take you down anyway. Scripted event, I think. You'll be in a large stone hall, lit by torches. Creepy place. The location card will say "Sarugami Jinja", which I'm fairly certain means "Monkey God Shrine". She'll lead you forward and ask you another question in Japanese, presumably "Do you want to continue?" Answer no and you'll black out and wake up in the Sanyou Pokémon Center. The game will be normal after that, but the event won't be triggered again.
Answer yes and she'll lead you to the end of the room. There'll be a huge statue of a monkey there. It'll be the most hideous monkey you've ever seen, a hulking, monstrous thing, and under it will be a seven-figure stone counter. It might tick down while you're watching it. If it does, someone else has done what you're about to do. No idea how they did that – it even happens if you're nowhere near wi-fi.
Anyway. The girl will go forward and let out her three monkeys onto three stone pedestals in front of the monkey statue. Then the three Gym Leaders will come in. Dent, Pod and Corn, that's their names. They'll each say something in Japanese, then let out the evolved forms of their monkeys.
Now that I think of it, this whole thing seems a lot like a cult.
The monkeys will start dancing on their pedestals. A weird, twirly jumpy sort of dance. I can't really describe it here, my brain goes all wobbly when I try to remember what it looked like. When they're done, the whole room will tremble. Bits will fall from the ceiling. The music will escalate, growing high-pitched and annoying. Orange light will flash across the screen.
The monkey statue will turn from grey to silver. As you watch, the music will suddenly stop entirely, and the statue will let out a screech and leap upwards through the ceiling, leaving behind you, the leaders, the girl and the other monkeys. As you watch, they'll turn to stone, and the counter will tick down by one. When I last tried it, it was at 641,592.
After that, the game will play relatively normally. There'll be a few differences, though – for one thing, everyone in Sanyou City will be dead, as if torn apart by a ravenous beast. You'll never find any elemental monkeys in the wild. In addition, you'll occasionally see the mutilated corpses of Trainers you were meant to face, with a silver blur escaping off to the side. Makes grinding hell, let me tell you, though at least it's never Gym Leaders.
In fact, when I looked it up, it seemed like all the dead Trainers were ones with their own elemental monkeys. Like the Monkey God was taking his revenge on those who enslaved his servants. At least that's my theory.
On the surface of it, it seems like just a nasty little prank by some game developer. But it does make you wonder. How does that counter know how many times the Monkey God has been awakened? And what happens when it reaches zero? What will the Monkey God do then?
And what of all those players who don't bother with the easter egg – who just accept the girl's generous "gift" of an elemental monkey, and go merrily on their way…?
Mizan de la Plume Kuro
The Best
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I was good, yes. I was the very best, no doubt. Well, at least, that's what I liked to think I was. No, no, let me finish. Excuse my pompous behaviour; I don't get to brag too often. Where was I? Oh yes, how marvellous I was, was it? I'm going to assume that that gesture means yes. Anyway, like every other Pokémon trainer in the world, I once aspired to reach the Pokémon League. The only difference between me and the rest of those wannabes was that I was the best. Have I said that? Sorry. I'll continue, and I'll try not to deviate too much. Time is precious, no? Ahem, to reach the Pokémon League, battle the elite four, and subsequently defeat the reigning champion was a dream shared by many trainers, young and old. Of course, reaching the League, requiring months of journeying and gym- battling in the process, was no easy task. Beating the elite four, even harder. And the champion? Well, count for yourself how many champions there've been in the past hundred years since the league was established. Am I going off on a tangent? By that look you're giving me, I think I am. I'll try to condense it.
So to get to the top, there was one sure fire way to victory. That is to say Pokémon training. Yes, training. Did you think I was going to tell you an easy way to get there? It's all hard work my boy. Hard work, blood, and guts. Blood especially, if I might add. Even I myself, a sprightly young trainer back in the day, trained excessively to be the very best. Sure my methods were a tad, how shall we say, unorthodox, but I got there in the end didn't I? Sacrifice was essential and there was to be full dedication towards my goal. Dedication, of course, is not a word to be treated lightly. I still remember the first loss of my campaign towards victory. It was my starter. And no, it wasn't one of those rare starters you kids get nowadays from those research labs. We got our Pokémon the old fashion way. We went out and caught them ourselves, trained and reared them by hand. My starter, for one, was a simple Ralts. Yes, she was my Ralts, my first ever Pokémon. My first ever, true friend. Sadly, however, she was also my first ever loss. By the time she left me, she wasn't a Ralts anymore of course. She was a fully-grown, beautiful Gardevoir.
I still remember the look on her face as she passed on. The nurse told me that fatigue had pushed her over the edge. Fatigue and the rough training regime I had created. But how was I to know? She had never complained. Yes, I know Pokémon can't talk, but ours was a bond like no other. I could practically tell when she was hungry, when she was tired, and when she felt down. That's why it was odd when one day, during our practice session following a particularly violent battle, she just up and collapsed in the middle of the field. She never told me she was hurting. She never told me she was tired. She just pushed herself to the edge. I guess she also shared my dedication. I know because right before she passed on, she looked me in the eye. It wasn't anger, nor was it fear for her slave driver. No, it was a burning desire to go on. Death was not something she found could dampen her resolve. She had sacrificed herself towards my cause!
I wept afterwards. Yes, I wept like I had never wept before. Not even when word reached me of the death of my father did I weep as much. She was a friend, almost a platonic lover! My Gardevoir! My beautiful, special, beloved!
…
But that's all in the past. Guilt has a way of following you around for your whole life. I don't deny that it was I that had caused her death, but I have moved on.
Regardless, I pushed forward. Time passed, and I began to realise something. Through my constant fraternization with our Pokémon brethren, I found that, essentially, I was able to befriend them quite easily. Any Pokémon that I caught, immediately warmed up to me as though I were a long lost friend. They were all loyal to me; never once did any of them find the need to desert me. There, you see. That's definitive proof I was the best. What other trainer could claim to have shared the connection I shared with my Pokémon? What trainer? Tell me!
I did feel guilty, though. It was this same special connection that drove some of my Pokémon to their deaths. All of them, loyal to the very end. Their persistence would have brought tears to my eyes if it were not for the fact that I had hardened myself to their charms. They loved me, I could tell. I tried not to love them back. I failed. I locked away my love deep within my heart and swore to never get too attached. That failed too. The tears that fell as, one by one, my original team expired, rocked me to my very core. I could not keep losing my dear friends this way. There had to be a way. I increased the levels of intensity of my training regimen. I was cold. I was callous. I was ruthless. I wanted them to hate me. I wanted them to be my tools towards the domination of the league and nothing more. Friends? I could do without them if it meant saving the lives of those I held dear to me.
But still, despite my cruelty, they drew closer, wanting to find the inner me. I think they sensed how, deep down, my intense love for them was present. Mutual, as was theirs. After that, I could never let them stop. They rushed forward into the thick of battle in droves, eager to prove themselves worthy of my affection. Was it a gift or curse that I had? I could not tell. To be loved is a delightful thing, but if it meant that they would gladly die en masse just to satisfy my desire of becoming champion… that was something else. It was sad.
Why didn't I consider quitting? Surely that was a logical escape to my predicament. There is, however, a simple reason. The spirit of my Gardevoir wanted me to push forward. I could feel her by my side on those lonely nights after a burial, pushing me forwards, strengthening my resolve. I had to win for the sake of those that had fallen! I could not let the memory of those noble ones who had died in my name be shamed by my cowardice! Never!
In the end, however, I suppose that it was this very attitude that led me to the seventy-four deaths that tarnished my trainer years. Seventy-four deaths, my boy. All of them on my conscience. All of them wanted me to win. They wanted me to be the best! The best that there ever was! The best in the world!
In the end, I proved it to them. I became the champion. All my Pokémon continued to shower me with love and I continued my training. It was not enough to just be the best. I had to stay the best. What would the spirits of the seventy-four fallen say if I had been beaten by some new trainer who just happened to be better than me? I would be shamed. Their memory would be shamed. I could never let that happen!
Yes, even after becoming champion, the deaths still began to pile up. I could not stop training. My Pokémon could not stop pushing themselves for my sake. It was a vicious cycle. If only the world was static and trainers would not grow stronger with each passing generation. Then I would not have to train. You may think that it is out of disrespect that I do not include those fallen after my victory into the seventy-four noble ones. That is not so. I have lost count. The years have not been kind to me. I found that I was beginning to lose my edge. I was getting weaker and the trainers, stronger. I have said this. But no, I would not step down. A hundred or more have possibly fallen to my ambition. I felt every one of those deaths as a personal blow to my psyche and an encouragement to never lose. To no one would I fall!
Do you see that there in the corner? Of course you don't. The bond between me and my Gardevoir is still strong even after all these years. I can still feel my Gardevoir's presence. No, that isn't entirely correct. It's not just her. I can feel all of them with me right now. The hundred or so who have fallen are with me right now. Not in flesh, but in spirit. They are right behind me encouraging me to stay the champion. They whisper words of encouragement to me even now.
So you see, that is why I have to do this. The ropes are a courtesy, my boy. Would you rather my other Pokémon pin you down? The gag, so you do not scream. I have told you my story, and that was kind of me. Now you won't feel so bad about going the way of my beloved Gardevoir. I promise, it will be painless, mostly. I have sharpened the knife to a point especially in case this ever happened. I told you, my boy, I cannot lose.
If only you hadn't won.
