Random Encounters with Missingno: Chapter 42

Chapter 42- A Random Zombie

As the crescent moon yields a faint light, about a dozen Pokemon zombies shamble around the few buildings of Lavender Town. The few townsfolk still out pass by the creatures, and although they walk around any zombies in their way, they don’t even give them the slightest glance.

Cassandra gasps. “A glitch.”

“Well, duh.” Missingno appears next to her. “But I’m surprised that no one has been hurt yet.”

A yellow, duck-like zombie Pokemon… ‘lunges’ at a passerby. The person simply keeps the same speed, and the Psyduck zombie just grabs air.

Missingno rubs his chin. “I guess the real problem in a zombie apocalypse is the humans.”

“So, it’s a good thing that no one pays attention to them?”

“More or less. For now. But we should take care of this soon.”

“Is it really that serious?”

Missingno stares up at the tower, his smile gone. “I have a feeling that it is.”

“...” Cassandra stares at his expression, but he soon turns to smile at her.

“Now, then!” He points at the tower’s entrance. “It has been a long day, and the time to sleep is near, but are you two ready for one more fight today?!”

Cassandra cheers as she and Driller raise a fist/spike at Missingno’s statement.

They approach the entrance carved into the rock under the tower, but a zombie Squirtle drags its partially curled tail as it lumbers towards them. The shell that cover the back of this turtle-like Pokemon is damaged in places, and a good portion of its blue skin is peeling off, especially around its face.

“Don’t worry, it may be really creepy, but it is also incredibly slow. If we walk swiftly around it, we should be fine.” He looks at the foot tall creature, slowly making its way the last couple of feet.

And he punts it in the face.

“What happened to ‘just walk around it’?”

“That was the plan, but did you see how creepy it used to be?”

“Used to?”

The zombie, laying on its stomach, looks up at them with a normal Squirtle face. It doesn’t have the strength to get up, so it reaches out with its decaying arm and opens its still decaying mouth….

Missingno jumps back. “I thought that would make it less creepy! I was wrong! I was horribly wrong!” He cries as he runs away.

Cassandra takes one last look at it, shudders, and follows him. They walk inside the tower, where five human skeletons are standing at the back of a large room. They grab their heads and turn them towards the entrance.

Cassandra raises an eyebrow. “Did they have to do that themselves, or are they just being creepy?”

“Technically, they don’t have muscles or tendons, so it would make sense for it to be hard to-”

The skeletons turn around, their heads staying in place, and run at them.

Missingno glares at them. “... Yeah, they’re just being creepy.” He looks to his left. “Cassandra!”

She looks to her left. “Driller!”

He looks to his left… and then back at the other two. “...” He tilts his head.

Cassandra sighs and jabs a thumb at the incoming enemies. “Twineedle.”

“Twi Needle.”

“Yeah, whatever.”

Driller salutes with one spear, and points the other at the skeletons. From it erupts many green stingers that fly at the enemy. After a few seconds of continual fire, the skeletons fall over. They glitch out for a second and change into humans.

Missingno puffs out his chest. “This tower will be easier than I-”

Before he can finish his thought, purple orbs of light fall from above. They land on the humans, and they turn into skeletons again.

“... You were saying.”

“There is no time to talk about that!”

Cassandra smiles and points at him. “There is always time to talk about your rash assumptions.”

He points back. “Ooo, payback for the naming thing earlier? Nice.”

“Yeah.” Her face becomes sullen. “But seriously, we should go.”

The skeletons stand up and resume running.

“Right.” They head for the stairs along the wall. The skeletons follow after them, but stop at the first step.

Cassandra wipes her brow as they climb. “I’m glad that’s over with, but are all the levels going to be like that?”

“Nah. The first level just had random people, and they weren’t supposed to be possessed like on the other levels. From here on, the problem is the maze of gravestones. It can be annoying at times.”

“Alright, but will you hurry up?” Cassandra struggles to pull Missingno up the stairs with her.

Missingno takes each step with a groan. “Stairs. Why’d it have to be stairs?”

Cassandra gives up, and runs to the top of the staircase and into a large room like the first. The only thing around is a single skeleton standing by the opposite stairs.

“Uuuh, what maze?”

Missingno trudges up. “Weird, I could have sworn there were-Oh my gosh, there’s a skeleton!”

“Uh, yeah. Did you already forget the five we met on the first level?”

“We’re already on the second level?!”

Cassandra sighs. “Try and keep up, please.”

Missingno used Quick Attack!

In a split second, he flies at the skeleton in a small rotating ball. He hits it and flies back to Cassandra.

“Did I keep up enough?”