This is the idea my friend came up with a few night's ago. He posted it on another forum and got good reviews. So I bring it here, to the Lounge, for your judgement.
If you played the Pokemon games as a kid, you'll probably enjoy this.
Quote:
there are quite a few typos because this was written when I was half asleep.
The main character would start his adventure from Pallet Town, along with his rival. But as he progresses, he starts hearing voices in his head and keeps suffering from hallucinations where he's trapped inside a black space "outside of his house's walls" and can't move. He meets up with a girl from Pewter City who caught a Paras in Mt. Moon and wants to train it so it evolves into a Parasect, so she can have a shot at beating Brock and Misty. He decides to team up with her and the two become traveling companions for a while, until she starts experiences voices in her head and and hallucinations as well. The voices tell her the secret of Paras's existence, that her forcing it to evolve to become stronger resulted in the Pokemon to die and its dead husk to be controlled by the parasitic mushroom on its back. It tells her all about the horrors of the world, all the things that adults gloss over to keep children from knowing how terrifying the world they live in really is. She can't take it, so she beats the Parasect to death until it's a mess of cracked shells and insect fluids, and goes catatonic.
The main character carries her to the nearby Pokemon center, leaving her there, and eventually resuming his journey, not knowing why the girl went insane.
Throughout his traveling, he's been fighting his rival time and time again, but this childhood friend has become increasingly hostile, sometimes not even speaking to him - just engaging in battle and leaving upon defeat.
The main character makes it to Cerulean City, defeats Misty, and visits Bill. Bill shows him his marvelous new invention, a device capable of transforming a human being into a Pokemon. He offers to let the main character try it out to see what it's like. He accepts. He's turned into a Magikarp. Bill reveals that he's a trafficker who turns individuals into Pokemon and sells them off. The main character gets trapped inside a Pokeball and handed over to sadists who derive pleasure from inflicting pain upon Pokemon.
He is trapped in a basement, released from his Pokeball, but not into water. Suffocating out of water, the main character is forced to witness his "owner" kill and butcher a Mr. Mime and eat its body parts. He tries to Splash, but it has no effect. He can't do anything. The sadist watches with amusement as he flails around out of water, until he suffocates to death.
Dead, the voices and hallucinations still persist. This time, however, the source identifies itself. The voice emanates from someplace dark and cold. It's trapped inside there - its name is Mewtwo. It is the only psychic Pokemon in the world powerful enough to exert its influence from any distance, to the living or the dead. It explains everything.
The world of Pokemon is a world of status quo. All the infrastructure of the world was constructed by the Elite Four, Team Rocket, and the Gym Leaders. They keep everyone complacent by their system of Gym Battles, Pokemon Trainers, and Pokemon Masters. Children cease education at the age of 10 to keep them ignorant of the ways of the world. They go through the motions of "catching them all" and becoming the best, but it's just a ruse. It's all meaningless, just an endless cycle.
Those in power are able to maintain it by a seemingly endless pool of resources - on the coast of Cinnabar Island, a strange anomaly exists. Missingno. By utilizing this discovered phenomenon, those in power are able to generate resources to keep their system lasting indefinitely. Everyone in the world is uneducated, having been Pokemon Trainers since childhood. There are no workers, no factories, no development. Pokeballs are not manufactured; they are duplicated by the anomaly called Missingno. Pokemon are captured in the wild and fed Rare Candies to make them stronger in certain regions than others, ensuring that the same progression occurs every time: only children born in Pallet Town have a chance at becoming Pokemon Masters, those born elsewhere face far too difficult Pokemon in their surrounding environments to ever get off to a good start.
But awakening the power of Missingno. is starting to pay its price. The very fabric of the world itself is destabilizing. The status quo will never hold up; it cannot. The world will inevitably be damaged beyond repair by this incomprehensible force known as Missingno.
Mewtwo tells all of this to the main character, who is now dead. All of the voices and hallucinations have been fed to him by design. His very death was part of Mewtwo's design. The main character was transformed into a Pokemon, but is now dead. That makes him a ghost. A Ghastly. The hallucinations the main character experienced of being trapped in a solid black space, inside his house but outside of its walls, is a phenomenon that was bound to occur eventually due to Missingno.'s influence. The only way to be able to escape is to have no corporeal form - to be a ghost. To pass through the solid wall. Therefore, Mewtwo forced him along a path that would ensure his ability to escape.
As a Ghastly, the main character regains consciousness in Lavender Town's tower. There, he observes a Gengar devour a Marowak's soul in its sleep, leaving its Cubone child defenseless. He watches as the child prods the carcass of its mother, getting no response. He watches it for days as it sleeps by his mother's body, not eating. Eventually, something occurs in the Cubone's mind. It takes its mother's skull and dons it as a helmet, her femur as a club. He watches the innocence drain from its eyes. It has become ferocious now, wielding a weapon to fight and to defend. Gengar... They are human creations, mutations caused by trading machines. This Cubone's loss of innocence is the fault of humans.
In Lavender town, he finds a house for mediums and exorcists. Children who have had their souls eaten by Gengar are found there. Laying on a bed, unconscious, he finds a recognizable figure: the girl from Pewter City. The girl who had lost her mind. She never woke up. Her mind is vacant; her consciousness is locked deep away.
This, too, was part of Mewtwo's design. The main character, being a ghost, possesses the body of the girl and occupies it as his own. Mewtwo telepathically informs him of the course of action that must be taken.
By making the main character suffer from the horrors of the truth of this world, Mewtwo has freed him from the systemic cycle. He can act independently, conscious of his actions and their consequences. Therefore, he must go forth and defeat every Gym Leader, claim every badge, and defeat the Elite Four. Not for the empty promise of the title of "Pokemon Master" - but to unlock Mewtwo from his cage. Only by becoming the Champion will he be able to gain access to Mewtwo's cave. Only there can he catch him and use the abilities of a Pokemon Trainer to unlock Mewtwo's full potential. Then, they will be unstoppable.
They'd be able to wipe out all of humanity. Destroy the system of the Elite Four, end all the atrocities enacted by humans. Their lust for power threatens the very fabric of existence; if they are all erased, then no one will be around to utilize Missingno. The damage has already been done, but perhaps it can be alleviated.
The main character agrees to the plan. Using the girl's possessed body, he resumes his journey, steadily gaining gym badges. All the while, he continuously gets into encounters with his Rival.
It makes no sense. He's in a new body, why should his Rival be seeking him out now, recognizing him? He doesn't even speak any more. He just stares, unblinkingly, and battles. And leaves. But the encounters are getting more and more frequent. He gets this impression... That his Rival is obsessed.
He makes it to the Elite Four. Defeats each one. None of them realize that he is aware of their system, except Agatha. She realizes that the girl is possessed. But she lets it go - she is old, she will soon die. Even Missingno. cannot save her from death. The main character defeats Lance. All that's left
is his Rival. He's cocky, and he doesn't recognize the girl. He just wants to battle and get it out of the way - he's the Champion, after all. He doesn't realize that he's just a tool. No - on the contrary, he's embraced it. He is the epitome. Everything about his existence has been cultured to take this position of Pokemon Champion. It is his raison d'etre. Born in Pallet Town, younger brother to an older sister, grandchild of the local Professor, a Rival. He has defeated every gym leader, defeated the Elite Four. He is the Champion. This is the culmination of his existence. Now he is faced with a stranger who wishes to take his title, but he knows he cannot lose. Not to a stranger.
But he does.
This is not right. This is not right. His existence as a Rival - it means to hold the title of Champion, to defeat every challenger, except one. The other child from Pallet Town. His Rival. That is the only person who is supposed to take the title away from him. But this stranger, this girl has defeated him. Now she is the Champion. It is not right. It is not right. It drives him mad. How can she? How dare she? Do you know who I am? I'm
Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival.
Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Rival. Missingno.
All this time, all of those wordless battles against me, it has been Missingno. This is how Missingno. operates. The existence of the Rival is such that, when he appears in proximity to the other child from Pallet Town, he will engage in battle. Missingno.'s increased instability is responsible, spontaneously generating the Rival in hopes of preventing the main character from proceeding. But it didn't work.
No. In fact, now the main character is the Champion. He can enact Mewtwo's plan. But it's too late. Missigno. has emerged enough to wreak havoc on the integrity of existence.
Level 130 Pokemon begin washing up from the shores. Golducks, Ponyta, Machokes, they all wash up from the sea. They are far too powerful to be held back.
The main character quickly makes his way to the cave just outside Cerulean City. He enters. Mewtwo allows himself to be captured without resistance. But the cave is filled with water. Impossibly high level Pokemon emerge from the murky depths. Mewtwo is able to defeat them all. He levels up with each battle. In rapid succession. Soon, he is at his maximum potential.
Immediately, thoughtlessly, blindly, the two teleport from city to city, all of which are now in ablaze from the onset of Missingno.-generated Pokemon. The main character challenges each gym leader to a battle. Even in the midst of the apocalypse, they do not falter in upholding their appearances. They all refuse, noting that he already has won their badge. Instead of battling, Mewtwo simply kills them all. He kills every Team Rocket member, he kills Giovanni, and he kills every Elite Four member.
Now, it is time for his coupe de grace. Amidst the blazes, the burning buildings and legions of Missingno.-spawned Pokemon, there is one person who is resolute, unmoving. Veridian City. There, there is an Old Man. Mewtwo teleports the main character there to talk to him. Oblivious of his surroundings, the old man teaches him the basics of catching Pokemon. This old man... He probably doesn't actually exist. He mustn't be a real person. He is simply an occurrence created by Missingno. from who-knows-how-long-ago, planted in Veridian City, Giovanni's headquarters, to eventually lure him into discovering Missingno.'s existence. Perhaps Missingno. was how Giovanni found Mew's DNA... And how Mewtwo came into being.
Having talked to the Old Man, Mewtwo teleports the main character to Cinnabar Island. It is in ruins. They head to the sea shore, battling an endless wave of level 130+ Pokemon. Finally, they see it. One of the physical manifestations of Missingno. 23 feet tall and 880 lbs, Missingno. floats above the water like an obelisk foretelling doom. Its shape is incomprehensible, its appearance illogical. It is a monster. This sort of thing should not exist.
Mewtwo uses its weakest attack, Swift. Anything else would destroy this manifestation. Swift merely weakens it. Perfect. The main character uses a Pokeball and captures it.
They rush to the Pokemon Center. It's on fire. There's no time to waste. The main character runs in. He can't feel pain; he is merely possessing another person's body. But the body itself --- it begins screaming. On its own. The girl from Pewter City awakens from the horrible pain. She claws at her own skin, screaming, aflame. Her mind is no longer free to control. She keeps screaming, and mentally she is screaming, Let me leave! Let me leave! It hurts so much! It's burning! It's burning! Let me leave!
The main character wrestles control over the body, struggling to take her to the PC in the corner of the Pokemon Center. He takes out the Pokeball containing Missingno. He loads it into storage.
They've succeeded.
Everything goes black. An infinite expanse of black.
The girl's body cannot move at all. This infinite field of nothingness is a solid object that has engulfed them. Mewtwo is trapped within his Pokeball. The main character leaves the body of the girl, able to move freely as a Ghastly. No, he's a Haunter now. The girl is no longer in pain. Fire cannot exist inside of a completely solid space. Somehow, she does not need nourishment. She is able to merely exist. And so she does, and so does he.
For two years. They spend two years inside an infinite expanse of nothingness. Unable to move. Unable to speak. He is able to possess her and share each other's thoughts, but that is the extent of it. They merely exist in the form of two independent patterns of thought, capable of communicating with each other. This is how they exist for two years.
Until, suddenly, inexplicably
Hello there! Welcome to the world of Pokémon!
My name is Oak! People call me the Pokémon Prof!
This world is inhabited by creatures called Pokémon! For some people, Pokémon are pets. Others use them for fights.
Myself...I study Pokémon as a profession.
He wakes up in his own bed. In his room. In his body. Downstairs, his mother is waiting for him. He's late. Today's his big day. He's turned 10, and that means he's off for a Pokemon Adventure!
He heads to Professor Oak's lab. There is no choice.
This time, there's only one Pokeball. It's Pikachu.
First off, how dare you take such a pure and integral part of my childhood and twist it in unspeakable ways?
Secondly, what the ****... that is indeed some cynical, sadistic story-telling. I'd recommend your friend to a psychiatrist.
