Random Encounters with Missingno: Chapter 23

Chapter 23- A Random Reconciliation

“YEAH!” Cassandra and Weedy jump in the air.

“Wow! You’re too much! You can have the Cascadebadge to show you beat me!” Misty hands her the badge and TM 11. “Not sure if you can use this, but Bubblebeam is a great mid-ranged move.”

Cassandra hands it over her shoulder, where Missingno grabs it with his teeth and eats it whole.

Cassandra bows. “Thank you for the opportunity.”

They leave, but the town is still on fire.

“I thought for sure that it would work.”

“Why? Because Misty was acting like a human and not a machine? This isn’t completely the game.”

Near the Poke Mart, a Rhydon, on fire, turns to them and cries out. “Slowbro!”

“... Okay, so it is still kind of the game. But the glitch wasn’t with Misty.”

“So, where is it?”

“My money's still on the Lawyer.” He stares at the Lawyer standing by the Pokecenter. “Why don’t I go stab him to make sure.”

“Woah, woah, woah. That is NOT a good idea.” She holds him back as much as possible.

“Excuse me.” An old lady walks up to them. In one hand she holds a handpurse, and in the other is a bag of groceries. She smiles softly. “Is everything okay?”

Cassandra returns her smile. “Um, I know you don’t understand, but the town is on fire, and we are trying to fix it.”

“Yeah, I’m going to try and kill that Lawyer.”

“NO, you are NOT!”

The old woman looks at them. “Why?”

Cassandra sighs. “Please, don’t encourage him. Killing someone that we don’t-”

The woman shakes her head and looks at Missingno. “Why would you do that?”

Missingno’s eyebrows raise. “Oh. Well, he is a lawyer, so something like lighting everything on fire seems right up his alley.”

The old woman hits him with her purse.

“What was that for?!”

“Don’t be stereotypical. You think that just because the Lawyer is a lawyer, that he is a horrible person?”

“What if he is?”

“Then he is both a bad person and a lawyer.” As the old woman talks, Missingno looks down and bites his lip . “You need to understand that not everyone is the same, so to put a label on someone you don’t know is unacceptable.”

Or putting one on someone you do know.

“Old Narrator, is that you?! Hey, I’m sorry for what I said earlier.” Missingno hangs his head. “If you like Twilight, that’s fine with me.”

Oh my helix fossil, does that mean that you will read it? And New Moon? I have all the movies, we can have an epic marathon and-

Missingno puts up a hand. “Don’t push it.”

Sorry.

“That’s ok. It’s just good to have you back. Your replacement was so boring, that I had to be the smart one, and I didn’t even feel like messing around with Cassandra’s battle.”

Yeah, that was very unlike you.

Cassandra calls out to Missingno. “Hey, this nice lady said we can stay the night at her place.”

“Perfect. Let me just take care of this.” He turns to the side. “Hey, remember how you talked about explosions, like, 8 chapters ago? And you said it would happen, eventually?”

Yeah, why do you… ooooh.

The Lawyer explodes. When the smoke clears, he is gone along with all the fire. Missingno smirks and puffs out his chest.

Cassandra punches him in his puffed out chest. “I thought we said to leave him alone!” She surveys the town. “Wait, was he the glitch?”

“Of course.” He cringes at her glare. “But not because he was a lawyer, but because he was a Lawyer.”

“... What am I missing?”

“If you could see the capitalization, it would be easier.” He smiles. “There isn’t any Lawyer trainer class, duh.” He skips up to the old woman, takes her outstretched hand, and waits for Cassandra to shake off the confusion and follow.