You've played Pokemon, right? It all seems like an adventure with a tiny, pixelated person. But beyond the screen, it's a whole new world. It's all real, not pixel world, from our point of view. As in "our", I mean the player characters. Me, I'm one of the many Lyras in one of the many Heart Gold Pokemon games. But enough about me. Our Pokegears have a small slot in them, where we put the Pokemon games we want to enter into. So, for example, I have Heart Gold in at the time, since this game is a lot more fun to be in. But let's say I decide to take it out and put in Pokemon Platinum. I'll become Dawn, the player character on that game, and I'll be in the Sinnoh region with the team of Pokemon I had on that game. Get it? But I'll need to buy a whole different device to put in other games, like Red, Blue, Yellow... games like that. But there were other games not known in this world that could work with our Pokegears, and that's right where my story begins.
Lyra was walking along the streets of Goldenrod city, her Dowsing Machine held in her hands in front of her. She had no luck so far, not even a dropped Pokedollar. She decided to try Goldenrod City, since that huge city always had people coming through. To her surprise, it began to pick up something. Lyra followed where the Dowsing Machine was taking her, as the beeping began to heighten in pitch. Soon enough, it claimed the item was right in front of her. Lyra tucked the machine into her bag and gazed down. Sure enough, there was an item in front of her. But it was nothing she'd ever seen before. It was a black game, it would fit perfectly into her Pokegear. It also had a larger slot on top, as if another game could fit in there. She quickly snatched it from the ground and examined it. "It's not a Rare Candy," Lyra stated. "oh well. It seems interesting enough." With those words, she shoved it into her bag left the city. When she got to the next Route, something about that item made her pull it out of her bag again. Without the towering buildings blocking the light, she was able to see a label attached to the front, like all games. "Action Replay...?" Lyra read aloud, slightly confused. Out of curiosity, she plucked her Heart Gold game out of her Pokegear and slipped the Action Replay into it's place. Everything around her turned to black, and only a list of games showed up on her Pokegear's screen. She was slightly disappointed at the game not working, so she decided to take it out and put her Heart Gold back in. But when she grabbed the Action Replay, she remembered the slot on top. Lyra held her game in her hand, worried about putting it in the slot.
But what could go wrong?
The thought passed through her mind, forcing her to push the game into the slot. On her Pokegear, the screen read "Pokemon Heart Gold" along with a selection of "Codes" and "Options" Options are pretty useless as of now, so she selected "Codes". Up popped a grey screen with the only option of "Add new code" Lyra was pretty confused as of now. What codes could work for this? No other game she had needed codes. She then looked up and realized that the world around her reverted back to Johto. Out of curiosity, she ran back into Goldenrod City and into the department store. Lyra walked up to the clerk and questioned "Do you know what an action replay does?"
He gave her a confused expression and answered "No... I haven't heard of it." Somewhat disappointed, she walked out of the department store and pulled out a Pokeball. She tossed it out, revealing an Altaria. "Let's go to New Bark Town," She commanded, hopping on to it's back. With a happy cry, it dashed through the air and towards Lyra's hometown. When she got there, she dashed into her house and up to her room, right to her PC. It showed she got a letter from Ethan, but she ignored it and went straight to the Internet.
"Action Replay codes..." Lyra said to herself while typing it in. Instantly, many links popped up, and she clicked on the first one that had "Pokemon Heart Gold" in it. Lyra stopped what she was doing as she saw many different codes pop onto the PC screen. She flipped open her Pokegear to see that "Add new code" Was still the only option. She clicked it, and followed the instructions to typing in codes. But when it came to what the codes did, Lyra couldn't tell. None of the codes were labeled, so what they did was another mystery to add to this "Action Replay". But on the Pokegear screen, "Add new code" wasn't the only option. Now, the codes she typed in were selectable, so out of curiosity, she selected them and booted the game, like the instructions said. But when everything loaded, nothing changed. Lyra sighed, thinking that the Action Replay was just a piece of junk, but she still held onto it. She walked out of her house, deciding she was going to walk back to Goldenrod. The wind felt to nice to fly away from. But when she got to Route 29, that's when things got weird. Out of nowhere, a wild Pichu popped up in front of Lyra. She was pretty surprised; you don't find Pichus in these places. She just ignored it and continued, but she was shocked to find a Zubat next, not to mention a Shiny one. She was about to pull out a Pokeball to catch it, but a giant shadow began casting over her, catching her attention. Looking up, her jaw dropped in awe as a black Rayquaza swiftly flew overhead. When she looked around, Pokemon of all kinds were scattered around, along with all of them Shiny. That's when it hit her. The Action Replay was doing this. She glanced down at her Pokegear, shocked.
What can this thing really do...!?