Screensaver Problems Part 1

Welcome, one and all! This is a fic by yours truly, PokeDigiManiac The Magnificent! *fireworks go off* Thank you, thank you very much. I have some crap I have to go through before I start.

This fic is dedicated to Ash and Misty. Good luck, you two. Have a great life.

I also do not own Pokemon or any other copyrighted items in this fic. Someday I'll own Nintendo and force them to stop showing reruns! MWAHAHAHA! But until then, I have no wish to get sued, so I'll write a stupid disclaimer.

I use "emoticons" in this story, so I'll translate the harder ones for you now.

^_^  means happy.  ^_^*  is the famous anime sweatdrop.  -_^  is an eyebrow raised as in "Interesting..." or "That's weird..."  ~_~x  is one of my own design, the anime "popping a vein." O_O is "surprised/scared."

All actions are in *asterisks.* All thoughts are in {vases.} Mew's thoughtspeech is in these. This story will be mostly in first-person mode. Also, in the interludes between chapters, I use script mode, with abbreviations for some names: "PDM:" stands for "PokeDigiManiac:" and "M:" stands for "Mew:"

Mew is my muse-pokemon. A muse is someone or someTHING

Mew: I heard that!

that an author uses for ideas or comic relief when he writes. I just decided to choose a Mew, (An extremely rare psychic pokemon that has DNA from all species. It is believed to be extinct. Yeah, right.) because I'm crazy about them, (see my email address!) but out of all the Mews, I had to capture one with a smart mouth!

Mew: What do you mean, a mouth? I don't talk, I communicate through my psychic powers!

See what I mean?

This story really can be classified as an AAMRN, but while it has a good amount of that, it has lots of other things as well, so you decide... (Definition for AAMRN: Ash And Misty Romance Novel)

One Last Thing!!!!

Main Character Ages (In Order of Appearance) Are As Follows:

Chris: 13 (for real!)

Ash: 13

Misty: 13

Brock: 14

Jessie: 19

James: 19

Meowth: who cares?

Duplica: 13

Suzie: 14

Gary: 14 (if he's only 11 in the TV show, then how the hell did he get his driver's license for that car? That's why I got rid of it here!)

Cassidy: 20

Butch: 21

Okay, on to the story! *sighs and puts on writer's beret*

"Screensaver Problems"

by PokeDigiManiac

One fine day, I was snoozing as usual in History. When my teacher asked me a question, I jumped up and shouted: "The square root of 4 is 2!"

"Chris, math is your next period," sighed the teacher.

"Well, do I at least get extra credit for knowing that one?" I asked.

His face was hint enough that I should just sit back down and wait for the inevitable Apocalypse of the vice-principal. But, amazingly enough, he just sighed and went back to the discussion. I felt like cheering. I decided that I should look for a new Pokemon screensaver to commemorate the occasion. Now, that is a big thing for me. I hardly ever change my screensaver because I get too attached to them, but that's another story.

When the final bell rang, I ran for home, completely ignoring the outraged cries of the science teacher who I had just run over in my haste to escape. Once I reached home with a minimum of assaults and unwilling fights, I booted up my laptop. This laptop was my most precious possession in the whole world. It was the latest one with the best 3-D cards and all the new software and advanced memory. Once it was booted up and ready, I connected to the Internet and started my foray into the world of Pokejunk.

Before I go any further, I think I should tell a little more about myself. I'm Chris, an 8th grader. I'm also a registered and certified Pokemaniac. Everything about Pokemon conceivable is either on my shelves or tacked to the walls of my room. Even my computer had a stenciled Alakazam on the cover. I especially like psychic Pokemon, and most of all, the Abra-Alakazam evolutions. I also am a technofreak. You name it about computers, and I know it.

I'm also very philosophical. Even about the Pokemon anime, which I watch every weekend. Like my views on the anime sweatdrop- I think it's funny how if the anime sweatdrop were real, I'd use it a lot. My life is like that. Now back to the Internet...

I had spent an hour searching and had still not found any screensavers good enough until I got to the very last one on my Google.com searchlist. "New Screensaver!" it said. "Gives You the Ultimate Pokemon Experience!" My curiosity piqued, I decided to check it out.

The webpage had a strange address that was a long string of numbers and random letters. I bookmarked it so if the screensaver crashed my computer, I could find the site again and flame them. I scrolled down to look at the descriptions. They said what the summary had said and more: "Feels Just Like You're In the Anime World of Pokemon! (Kanto Only.)" "You Might Even Run Into Ash and His Friends!" "Gives You the Full Experience!" "Uses New Technology to Make It As Lifelike as Possible!"

"Sure sounds good..." I muttered. I scrolled down some more until I came to two hyperlinks. Above them, it had a weird poem:

A few inches below,

There are two choices,

Yes or no.

One will change your life,

The other will leave you wondering what could have been,

But both will cause much strife.

Choose wisely, young child,

Pokemaniac you may be,

But compared to the World of Pokemon, your experiences are mild.

Under all that, the two hyperlinks said:

"Go on to your destiny" and

"Leave this place forever"

I was a little weirded out by that poem, because after all, what could it mean by changing your life? But I've never been a coward, so I clicked on "Go on to your destiny." It brought up a picture of a Pokeball and a note under it:

"This Pokeball contains all your hopes, dreams, sorrows, and terrors. Do you wish to open it?"

"Okay, this is getting really weird!" I said to myself as I clicked on the Pokeball. It initiated a download that said it was 0.5 of a byte, and yet it took nearly five minutes to download. "How could something that tiny be even possible, let alone take five minutes?" I wondered out loud.

"DOWNLOAD COMPLETE. DO YOU WISH TO CONFIGURE THE SCREEN SAVER NOW?" popped up with a Yes/No choice. I had time to kill, so I picked Yes.

That brought up a large screen with a giant amount of choices to make. Some were like: "What is your favorite type of Pokemon?" "Choose a starting Pokemon from this list." "What is your favorite color?" and on and on.

Essentially, I told the thing that I loved Psychic pokemon, I wanted to start with Abra, my name was Chris, I was 13 years old, I had liked Pokemon since Red/Blue came out, my favorite color was red, and on and on, countless crazy questions. And the weird thing was, there was absolutely no temptation to lie. Not that I normally do, but it was like all thoughts about lying had been erased from my head.

I wanted to see the screensaver, so I set it to go on after one minute, and waited expectantly.

In a minute, the computer went absolutely black. Then, suddenly, streaks of color began appearing from the sides of the screen and converging in the center, forming an ever-increasing ball of light. {This is cool, but it's not a Pokemon screensaver.} I thought, about to move the mouse and cut it off. But then something scary happened.

When I tried to move the mouse, it was locked securely in place. When I tried clicking the keys, they were stiff and immovable. The same went for the power switch and the plug. It was like the computer had been frozen in a serious way. While I cursed the thing and tried to fix it, the ball of light had become larger. Suddenly, I felt a compelling desire to watch it for a few seconds, at least to see what kind of crappy screensaver I had been loaded down with.

The ball was now as large as the screen, and was starting to take on some color as the streaks of light faded. Its top half started to turn red, and its bottom half white. I didn't realize what it was until the button appeared on the front. "It's a pokeball!" I thought. But apparently the screensaver wasn't done. The pokeball began to shake and quiver, as if there was something inside struggling to get out. I leaned forward, eager to find out what was inside it.

Suddenly, in a blur of motion, the ball snapped open and a bright white light started to shine out from it onto me. I felt my bottom leaving the chair as the ball became larger and larger until it filled my vision. Then everything became black. Although I wasn't around to see it, my computer displayed the words

ILLEGAL ACTION DETECTED before it shut itself down and disappeared, too.

When my sister walked into my room a few minutes later to annoy me, all she saw was an empty room with no teenager or computer...

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PDM: So, do you like it so far? I decided after I wrote near to 48 pages of this stuff that I should divide it up into parts, so there's more!

M: Heaven help us.

PDM: Please give me as much feedback as possible! I really want to hear from you guys!

Now... READ ON!