Random Encounters with Missingno: Chapter 46

Chapter 46- A Random MISSINGNO

Several loud thumps echo through the house. Cassandra and Driller jolt up and scramble to figure out the origin.

They find the culprits outside the window. A bunch of Pokemon zombies are banging against the house in long, slow arcs. Cassandra smiles as she approaches to look outside. That smile drops as she sees the rest of the zombies.

There are now hundreds of them. They slowly shove at each other as they strive to swarm Mr. Fuji’s house. They haven’t broken through yet, but who knows how long that will take.

Cassandra looks at the button along the east wall. She remembers Missingno’s warning, but the banging continues.

She presses the button to the secret room. “Missingno! You have to-” She runs into the room, but doesn’t get very far before she freezes…

And looks up.

In front of her is… she is not even sure what to call it. It kind of looks like a giant backwards ‘L’ with a strange blocky coloring. It sits on the ground, but it’s only a couple inches short of the tall ceiling.

As a strange cactus throwing mud floats through her vision, she finally notices the events happening in the room. Some things are fuzzing between all sorts of random items, while other item’s shapes are shifting. From mini cows to giant plastic dinosaurs, everything is going crazy.

She notices the floating object, now a mud throwing cactus, heading back in her direction. She holds up a hand to stop it, but notices that it has become solid rock. She lifts her other hand to grab it, but it fuzzes and turns into a duck. It gives a small quack before she-

“AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!”

Yeah, that.

As she screams, everything in the room stops. All the glitched things slowly return to normal, and the large creature shrinks and changes into a humanoid shape. In a flash of light, it becomes Missingno.

“I told you not to come in here! Are you okay?!” Missingno runs up to check on her.

She grips at her arms. “What was that?”

“I told you, a glitch’s form can hold a lot of power. That… is my real form. But when I’m in that form, I have a hard time controlling what I do and don’t glitch.”

Cassandra raises an eyebrow and looks at him. “Then the ‘you’ right now is…”

“A form that holds my glitch powers back, in exchange for draining a lot of my power.” Missingno stretches his arms. “Anyways, why did you run in?”

Cassandra points out the window at the hoard of zombies.

“Right, let’s take care of that.”

“Are you going to fight all of them?”

“Ha! There’s no way you could call it a fight.” He reaches down to pick up the Poke Flute. “I was holding back a lot, but I still worked a bunch on this baby.”

“Worked? Did you change what it does?”

“Yeah, but it was worthless anyways. They say that it can wake up any Pokemon, but you can’t use it in battle.”

“Oh.”

“So as I said, let’s take care of this.” Missingno throws open the door. Every zombie looks right at him and starts to attack.

As Missingno blows hard into the Poke Flute, the hundreds of Pokemon zombies burst into dust. As the ashes blow away, the spirits of the Pokemon rise away with smiling faces.

“Much better this time.” Missingno waves to a departing Squirtle spirit.

Cassandra walks after him as they head towards the tower. “And no more zombies are going to show up, right?”

“Yeah, the Granite Throne used everything it had to make all those zombies at once, so it is out of power for now.”

“The what?”

“You know… the throne… cause it’s a bunch of gravestones welded together… maybe welded together by Aegon’s Dragonite… a play on Game of… nevermind.” Missingno waves off her confused gaze. “The main point is that glitch won’t be anymore trouble, unlike the other one.”

“Are they two glitches?”

“Yeah, Lavender Town and the Pokemon Tower are two separate points on the Town Map, so they have two different glitches. Although the Tower King somehow dragged it up to be his seat.”

“So the Tower King is still going to be a problem?”

“Just a little.” He points into the tower, where skeletons swarm the first floor. There are many times more now, just like the zombies, and many screams can be heard from the levels above. They bang against an invisible barrier that keeps them from entering the town.

“Can we fight all of them?” She looks at Driller, who just shrugs.

Missingno walks up to the barrier. “I was thinking of using the energy to give you something, but I guess I’ll have to use it instead. Return Driller for me, will you?”

Cassandra raises an eyebrow, but she does it as he starts his plan. He throws the Poke Flute into the tower. As the skeletons follow and swarm it, Missingno picks Cassandra up by supporting under her knees and back. Before she can say anything, he steps inside the Pokemon Tower and a blast of force causes her to close her eyes.

Missingno used ExtremeSpeed!!!!!!!!!

Missingno begins to run faster than the human eye can see. So fast, that a blue sphere of air pressure surrounds them, shattering the skeletons as he runs through them. And not just some of them, Missingno crisscrosses until he has destroyed every single one. Finally, after 0.1 seconds, he moves up the stairs to the next level. He repeats the process with every level, making sure not a single one is left. 0.57 seconds after starting, Missingno destroys the skeletons on the sixth floor and stops near the stairs, where Cassandra is finally able to open her eyes again.

“W-what was that?”

Missingno lets her down. “You’ll… understand when we get to gen 2.” He ignores her confused gaze and moves on. “Sorry it took so long. I wanted to make sure I took care of them all.” Behind him, shards of bone are piled all across the floor. “The possession is much stronger this time, so I guess we’ll just have to take care of the King.” Missingno steps forward dramatically towards the stairs.

And is whacked by the Marowak spirit.