Too Bad
This needed to be done.
Description: Grace meets an odd trainer wearing a black cloak that obscures her facial features. Despite how strange the Trainer appears, Grace still requests an intense battle from her. But by the time the Mystery Trainer sends her first Pokemon out, some weird things begin happening at a rapid pace. This story is about just what kind of weird things occurred.
Extra information: this story is based on a (utterly failed/messed up) ZZAZZ Glitch I did with the Mew Glitch without even meaning to, and it was, needless to say, VERY horrifying. The part in the story where everything goes black in Grace's vision when the ZZAZZ Glitch Trainer Grace sends out her blocky unknown Glitch Pokemon, is based on where my game tried to load our sprites as the same thing, (I assume it was kind of like where our sprites were loading up the same image, because, ya know, the ZZAZZ Trainer has the sprite of you for the most part), but it instead ended up with us becoming two glitchy-looking block things outlined in black. Freaky. Then, the part where Grace gets teleported to the Cable Club and ZZAZZ Trainer forces her to trade her Pokemon team for all level 153 Bulbasaurs was based on the aftermath of the game making us both blocks: it completely bugged the heck out of the universe, and it sent me to a Trading section, like the one in the Cable Club room. My name was ZZAZZ, and I had all Bulbasaurs in my party. The other fake "trader" had an 'M, and some more crazy Glitch Pokemon. Scary as heck, I know. It is also based on how the ZZAZZ Glitch can change your whole Pokemon team, except for the first and sixth slots, into disobedient level 153 Bulbasaurs that all know Explosion 3 times, due to the Special Stat needed to use the ZZAZZ Glitch being #153, the same exact number as Bulbasaurs data. The Explosion move being used in 3 slots is based on the number of the data for Explosion. Guess what number it was. You're right: it's #153. Also... Need I explain the level 153 part? The part where my ZZAZZ Glitch Trainer mocks the real, in-game Grace with a sly "Too bad..." is based on what the game said when it bugged out to space and beyond: "Too bad! The trade was canceled!" *shivers intensely* SO SCARY!
As soon as she sent her first Pokemon out, I knew she wasn't normal. Heck, for all I know, her Pokemon possibly wasn't even normal. With that being said, *is* a glitchy-looking orange square-shaped pixelated block even an *actual 'Pokemon'*? I didn't have the actual time to think about it, because just as I tried to do so, everything around me turned black, but the Trainer was still there, her dark cloak blending in with the intense blackness perfectly. This was strange... Suddenly, a huge light obscured my vision and I covered my eyes to shield them from the light. I opened them up again after a while, and then... I found myself in the Cable Club room out of nowhere. What had just happened? No, more accurately, what was happening *now*?! I I looked up, and saw my Pokemon on the screen. This was what shocked me: They were all six of them the same.. but my name was different now. My name on screen was now no longer Grace. It was instead ZZAZZ. The other trader was named Grace, like me, but Grace was no longer my name in the game anymore, apparently. Suddenly, I realized something: I was in here all alone. But then, if I was all alone... who was the other trader? Suddenly, I felt myself begin to move the mouse over towards the Trade icon. I didn't want to even trade anything to this invisible trader. But I was pressing buttons and doing things all on my own, even though both my body and mind didn't want to do it. Was someone, perhaps... controlling my body? I hovered over the icon representing my Mewtwo and pressed A. Oh, gosh, no. I was right. This wasn't normal, not at all... "You will trade your 'M for 's BULBASAUR." I kind of wondering why the name was blank when earlier it had said Grace on screen. I also wondered why, instead of MEWTWO, it said 'M. And yet, I could no longer control my body. Against my own will of what I knew to be right and wrong, I pressed YES. Then, "we" traded. I was met with a Bulbasaur on screen, and the trade finally ended. And then... and then... another screen popped up. This time it wasn't a trading screen. It was a blank black screen with a white text box that offered me a question: "You will trade your 6 for 6's BULBASAUR." My 'six'? But I thought that was just one single number... Was 'six' even a Pokemon? My controlled body again went against my brain as I quickly tapped on the only option that was available to me, the "YES" icon. I gulped nervously. Just *what* had I done..??
I awoke with a start, my face heaving and red and my body perspiring with an immense cold sweat. After a few minutes of waking up, I just laughed. It had only been a dream. Why was I so frightened? Without any worries at all, I took my brown bag with my PokeBalls inside of it and headed for the nearest Route closest to me, Route 104, trying not to think of the frightening dream I had just had. As soon as I had gotten to the Route, I pulled out a PokeBall. "Alright, let's see you Fly in battle, Bird!" I threw the PokeBall down, and a bright light emerged from it, slowing forming over time into something bigger by the minute as I shielded my eyes away from the bright light. Finally, after a while, I opened them, knowing the light had finally faded from view. But, what I saw as I opened my eyes shocked me completely: my Pidgey named Bird had turned into a Bulbasaur. Now deathly scared and curious, I sent all my six (now five) Pokemon out at one time. And, there was no doubt about it: All my six Pokemon were now clearly turned into Bulbasaurs. I picked up the Pokedex and tried to scan all of them, hoping some sort of Ghost-type was just pulling a horrid prank on me. But as it whirred and scanned all the Bulbsaurs, the Pokédex just beeped, played a laggy, messed-up, high-pitched noise that was clearly out of tune, and crashed immediately. I frown uneasily. That definitely wasn't normal... With that unsettling event having occurred, I forcefully returned all my now-Bulbasaur Pokemon to their PokeBalls. But I was rather surprised when one of them popped back out of its PokeBall, followed by the rest of them! As they did, they just looked at me with an immense fear in their eyes. I frowned. Did they not recognize me? They were my Pokemon... Suddenly, I realized it: They *used* to be my Pokemon. But then the unknown trader, presumably the unknown Mystery Trainer I had encountered, came and took them away with her when I agreed to trade, taking their memories of me away as a lasting result. I had traded them against my will. She had been the one that was controlling my body, I now knew. And also, that odd message: "You will trade your 6 for 6's BULBASAUR"? She was trading all my six Pokemon to her, so that way they would turn into Bulbasaurs, and they would no longer know anything of me. This way, I would no longer be "Grace", and I would instead be "ZZAZZ". Suddenly, out of the corner of my eye, I saw that the Bulbasaurs were running away from me: they were scared of me. They didn't know of me... "Hey! Come back!" I shouted, but that only caused all of them to become afraid and scurry faster away from me. Soon, they had all left my presence. They would probably never come back again... All my Pokemon were gone. All my trust in my Pokemon was gone. I am no longer a Trainer. I may as well just give up. Suddenly, out of nowhere, I heard a mocking female voice seemingly out of thin air: "Too bad..." It said. And that was when I lost all my sanity and I finally started to cry and scream.