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Chapter 2
Misty's perspective
Misty slowly backed away even further, her eyes wide.
"What…who…how…"
The statue chuckled. "You seem confused. It is not the statue that is speaking to you. It is me. I am speaking to you through the statue."
Misty breathed a sigh of relief. The idea of some creepy pikachu statue talking was just too much for her to handle.
"Wait a minute," she said, "who are you?"
"You can just call me Steve. No last name. None of that 'Mister' crap. Just Steve."
"Wait…" Misty had just thought of something. "Where are my pokémon!?!"
"Oh, don't, worry, they are very safe here with me. Well, except one."
"What do you mean?"
"You'll see."
"Where am I?"
"You are underground. Nobody will be able to find you here."
"What do you-"
"Don't ask so many questions, Misty. You will get your answers as you go along. Like I said, I want to play a little game. Actually, it's more like a bunch of games. I trust your stay here has been comfortable?"
"Comfortable? How comfortable would you be if you were kidnapped?"
"Very, if I was in here. I spared no expense to make this room as comfortable as could be."
"But if you kidnapped me, why would you want me comfortable?"
"Well, you didn't really think I would lock you up in some dark, dank cell now did you?"
"Uh…yeah."
"Oh. Well, I didn't, and you should be grateful for that. I wanted to make sure you had all the energy you could for the game. Of course, I have been watching you this whole time."
"Watching me?"
"Oh, yes. I'm watching you right now. Of course, you can't see the cameras, they're very well hidden. For example, the nose of this pikachu is in fact a camera."
"Wait…" Misty looked around the room.
"Don't bother looking for them. Even if you find the cameras, they're hard to get out."
"Were you even watching me when I was taking baths!?!" Misty said.
"Why, yes, I was. I must say, you are quite thin. And your breasts are definitely big for a girl of your age."
"What-"
"But enough about that," Steve said. "Like I've said twice now, I want to play a little game."
"Okay, how do I play?" Misty said.
"Well, there are only three rules you have to follow.
"Rule number one: do not try to escape.
"Rule number two: do not try to find me.
"And rule number three: win. At all costs.
"The penalty for breaking any one of these rules is death."
"So, if I don't win…"
"You die. Exactly."
Misty gulped.
"Now, as for how to play, it's really very simple. All you need to do is survive a number of challenges I have set up for you. If you don't die, you win, and you will be sent back home, with all of your pokémon. It's as simple as that. However, you will soon discover that there is a big difference between simple and easy. For example, it is incredibly complicated for you to die in these games-but it's also incredibly easy."
"So what's my first challenge?" Misty said. She wasn't going to let this freak scare her. She was strong. She wasn't some girly girl. She was a tomboy-and proud of it. If he wanted to freak people out, he chose the wrong person. Misty liked games.
Bring it on.
Steve chuckled. It was as if he knew what Misty was thinking. "Very well. First go look in the cabinet under the sink."
Misty walked over the cabinet. As she did, Steve continued to speak.
"What you find in there will be your only tool throughout this game, and your only companion."
Misty opened the cabinet and found a pokeball. She took it and stood up.
"Inside there is a pokémon that was taken from another one of the playmates. Yes, there are others."
"Playmates?" Misty said.
"Well, that's what I like to call you people who play my games. You are my playmates. I mean, sure, I'm not actually playing the games, but that is only because I am the one in charge of running them, and making sure people don't cheat."
"In other words, you're in charge of killing people."
"Oh, no, Misty. I do not kill my victims. They only die because they can't make it through the games. It's their own fault that they're dead. No, no, I'm not a murderer. I've never killed anybody."
"Whatever," Misty said.
"Don't open that just yet. You'll want to save the little guy's energy until you really need him. Just put that ball in your pocket for now."
Misty did as Steve said.
"Good girl. Now, you see that fridge over there?"
"Yes…"
"Open it."
Misty walked over to the fridge. It was a mini-fridge, so she had to kneel down. She opened it to find a slice of chocolate cake on a saucer, with a fork next to it. Misty took the cake and fork out of the fridge.
"Eat the cake-but not too quickly. You don't want to be stuck playing a game like this when you have the hiccups."
Misty slowly ate the cake. It was very good. Then she came across the thought that it might be poisoned. But it was too late if it was, so she ate the rest of it. Then, she found something. She picked it up. It was small, black rectangular device about an inch wide and an inch and a half long. In the middle was small, round, red button.
"Every time you win one of these games, you will be given a slice of cake," Steve explained through the pikachu statue. "Inside each slice of cake will be a remote like that one. If you win the game, there will be not just a single slice, but an entire cake. Press the button."
Misty
pressed the button. A sound came from the fridge. Misty knelt down
and saw that the back of it was gone, and there were no more small
shelves. Instead, it was now a tunnel to another room that Misty
couldn't make out at all, seeing as there was absolutely no light
coming from it.
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Ash's perspective
A/N: This is all happening while Misty still doesn't know anything about Steve.
Ash pressed the button on the remote and turned around to see a trapdoor on the ceiling open and a ladder fall down.
"You see," Steve said through the chimchar statue, "each of those remotes will open some sort of passageway to the next game."
Ash walked over and looked up the ladder. It seemed to go up into darkness. He couldn't see anything past the ceiling.
"Go ahead," Steve said. "Climb up that ladder. Quickly, now. One of the other playmates seems to have fallen asleep, and I don't want them getting too comfortable."
Ash looked at the chimchar statue one last time.
"If you want to scare me, it's not working," he said before climbing up the ladder. He wasn't lying, either. He thought he heard Steve chuckle before he climbed up. When he crawled onto the ground, the ladder retracted and the trapdoor closed. Ash stood up. He was now in total darkness. Suddenly, he heard the pokeball open without his permission.
"What the-?"
"Psy?"
"Psyduck?"
"Psyduck!"
"Hey, you're Misty's psyduck, aren't you? Yeah, you are! No other psyduck sounds that stupid!"
"Psyyy…"
Ash heard a click and saw the mouth of another statue lighting up in front of him. He couldn't tell what pokémon it was, but that didn't matter.
"So, you know our friend Misty, do you? Well, this should make the games much more interesting, shouldn't it? Hee hee hee…
"Wait-Misty's here too!?!" Ash said. Now he was scared.
"Yes, and once you begin this game I will proceed to wake her up, so let's make this quick.
"Welcome to the first game. Your task couldn't be simpler. Find the fridge where your next slice of cake is being kept. However, that will be harder than you'd think. First off, the only source of light in this room is a helmet with a light on it-you know, like the ones people wear in caves-and currently, it is turned off.
"You need to find that helmet, then find the fridge. Now, I know this sounds way too easy. Well, I'm not finished yet! To make the game more interesting, there are large square pits all over the place that you must avoid. Now, these pits are not deep enough to kill you if you fall into one of them, but they will probably break one or two of your bones. There are ladders on the sides of each of these pits, so you will be able to climb out.
"However, there is also a time limit, and once that time has gone down halfway, the pits will begin to fill with sulfuric acid. Once that happens, you'll have more to worry about than a broken leg if you fall in.
"So that's it. Just my kind of game. Simple, yet difficult. Easy to understand, yet extremely hard to actually do. I will not tell you the time limit, or when it has reached halfway. Good luck. The game will begin in 3…2…1…
"Playtime."
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Misty's perspective
Misty crawled through the hole and it shut behind her. She stood up. She was now in complete darkness. She couldn't even see her hands.
Misty heard the click of a statue's eyes opening and saw a mouth lighting up a few feet in front of her. She couldn't make out what pokémon it was a statue of, but she didn't really care about that right now.
"Good news, Misty," came Steve's creepy voice. "That pokémon you have with you just happens to belong to a friend of yours. Tell me, do you know of anyone named Ash Ketchum?"
"What!?!" Misty said, horror-struck. "Ash is here!?!"
"Why, yes, as a matter of fact, he is, and he is just beginning his first game. He doesn't seem to be doing very well, but then again, it is a difficult game, as is yours.
"You see, like all of these games, this one is simple, yet difficult. You simply need to get to the fridge where you next slice of cake is being kept. However, this is where the difficult part comes in. There is a maze that you must find your way through. If that weren't enough, you can't even see the walls, but trust me, they are there, and you don't want to run into them.
"There is also a time limit. I will not tell it to you, so you'll just have to try to make it through as fast as you can. However, a horn will sound once the time is halfway gone.
"Oh, yes, and you won't be playing this in the dark, no no no…you'll get plenty of light."
Suddenly, Misty was surrounded with incredibly bright light. She was almost positive that everything in the room was white. She had to shield her eyes, and even when she did, it hurt.
"Game on," came Steve's voice. "Good luck, Misty."
Misty could tell from what Steve had said that it would be a bad idea to move until she was used to the light, which took almost 30 seconds. Once she was able to look around, she saw that the huge room she was in was shaped like a pyramid, and sure enough, it was all white. She also saw that the statue was of a squirtle.
Then she saw the fridge. It was on the left of one of the walls. She took a step forward…
And immediately jumped back. A 6-foot tall, white metal spike had just shot out of the ground, almost killing Misty. She took a step back, and another spike rose up.
The walls of the maze were spikes, and they only rose up when Misty stepped near them.
This
was no corn
maze.
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