The coast of Cinnabar Island, 6:00 PM
The trainer was hunched awkwardly against a rock, Super rod in hand.
He had been like this for almost three hours, waiting for a bite, waiting to catch something, anything, to show off back home… like a Seaking… or, if luck favored him, a Gyrados… But he was so tired…
His grip on the hi-tech rod weakened and he drifted into a dreamless sleep.
He was abruptly awakened by a loud splash.
The creature that he saw before him made him rub his eyes, unsure of whether this was a dream or not.
It slowly rose from the edge of the water, revealing more and more of it's hideous body. It was the shape of an inverted L, and was covered from top to bottom with tiny squares that varied in colour from pinkish white to grey. Its mass was seemingly two dimensional, and it carried a purple aura around it.
Still slightly dazed, he began to wonder whether this was one of those convoluted Unova Pokémon, or if this was a pokemon at all.
The anomaly levitated higher and higher, and emitted an ear grating screech, a cry akin to a bird Pokémon he had seen in the nearby power plant recently… Zapdos? Hurriedly, he pulled his pokedex out of his bag, and pointed it towards the two-dimensional entity.
"Rhydon, the drill Pokémon. Its horn gives it…"
Puzzled, he reset the pokedex and pointed it at the being again, only to hear the pokedex drawl the entry for rhydon again in its tinny, monotonous voice. The anomaly seemed to respond to this noise, and drifted towards the trainer ominously.
The trainer reached for his belt ,pulled out a great ball, and threw it. He had to catch this Pokémon, but first, He had to weaken it.
The ball exploded in a flash of sparks and light. It dissipated to reveal the trainer's prized possession, His Swampert, which he had brought all the way from Hoenn. At the sight of this powerful blue axolotl, the ghostlike creature seemed to hesitate.
"Zuzu, use Mud Shot!"
The Swampert opened it's massive cavern-like mouth and spat basketball-sized globs of mud directly at the entity in quick succession. However, each of these projectiles were shrugged off. Evidently angered, it swooped down towards the Swampert.
As it descended, it expanded in size, and landed on the Swampert, obscuring the Pokémon from the trainer's view. There was a bright flash of white light, and the trainer fell to the ground, blinded.
He heard his beloved Pokémon cry out in pain.
"Zuzu! No!"
He half-opened his eyes, only to find the monstrosity in place of where his beloved Pokémon once was. Once again, it floated towards him. He struggled to his feet, and took to his heels…
…Only to find it in front of him. It became bigger and bigger until the tiny black and white squares that were imprinted on it's body were the only things he saw.
There was no corpse. No blood. Only a bag now filled with ultra balls.
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Authors note- Some of these occurrences are based on fact, atleast according to the game. Missingno does randomly morph into rhydon/is identified as rhydon and has the cry of zapdos. It's flying type so mud shot wouldn't affect it. Also, it clones the sixth item in your bag. As for it's method of killing... ah i dunno, maybe a variant of sky attack? Pardon Swampert's strange name, though. If you've read the pokemon adventures manga for Gen 3, you might know who the trainer is... But i'll leave that for the next chapter.