#000 – MissingNo.
The End of Sanity
Red had beaten the Elite Four and become Champion. Now he was taking a bit of time off from training and relaxing at Cinnabar Island's beach. The last year had been so wild, so full of memories. It honestly did feel a bit surreal to be acknowledged as Kanto's number one trainer. Especially since most civilians didn't even recognise him. In fact, shortly before he came to Cinnabar, an old man had pulled him aside to teach him how to catch a weedle. That was forgivable, if slightly irksome. After all, he was still just some kid. Nevertheless, today was a good day.
Somewhere at the other end of the beach, there was a strange flicker of purple in the water. Red stood up off his towel to get a better look. The flickering persisted, but Red still couldn't quite see what it was. He suspected two possibilities; either it was a Ditto that was drowning and it needed help, or else… no, surely not. There was a journal in the nearby mansion that had writings of a legendary Pokémon. A legendary Pokémon said to be the progenitor to all other Pokémon. But why would it be here, of all places? Red hopped onto his Lapras and surfed up the coastline. What he found in the water was not quite like anything he had ever seen. An unworldly mass of two dimensional purple, black and orange specks rose above the water and went still. Any other trainer would have booked it there and then. But not Red. He reached for a Poké Ball.
Before Red could throw the ball, his backpack ripped itself apart and an ever-growing pile of max repels fell into the water. Red's Poké Ball also fell into the water as he lost his balance and clung to Lapras' neck. He ordered Lapras to use Surf. The attack didn't seem to do anything. Then the entity shot into the air and came down on Lapras, knocking her out instantly. Not one to give up, Red grabbed the next Poké Ball his hand could find. Out came Ditto, who only knew one attack. Was Red going to regret his next order?
DITTO used TRANSFORM!
Ditto rapidly twisted itself into different nonsensical shapes and ejected the skeletons of ancient Pokémon into the water. Then it exploded and pink goo went everywhere. All that was left of it afterwards was GHOST. But the fun didn't end there. The seawater began to pack itself up across the shoreline, lightning sparked out from nowhere and the sky itself cracked open like an egg. Red got the message that something was terribly wrong with that… thing and tried to run. But two jets of water struck Red and he died. The entity started to grow. It grew to the size of Cinnabar Island and then encrypted the land. Meanwhile, a flood of Ultra Beasts migrated through the crack in the sky. Buzzswole tried to engage the entity but it was quickly converted into garbage data. The other Ultra Beasts went away to ravage other cities.
Arceus noticed what was happening and came over to sort it out. It used Perish Song on the entity. It grew spastic and developed blocky purple tentacles that flashed in and out of existence. Arceus summoned a swarm of Unown to counter these tentacles. But when they tried to use Hidden Power, they became a part of the entity. It aimed its Unown tentacles at Arceus and fired a barrage of Water Guns. Arceus dodged this attack and used Earth Power to try and reduce this thing's power. But Cinnabar Island was encrypted, so the attack hit Pallet Town instead. The entity let go of the island to use Sky Attack. Arceus did not dodge this attack and a piece of the entity stuck to it. Arceus changed colour to purple and orange and it became bird type.
The entity quivered more energetically than ever. The Perish Song from before hit it hard and it began to diffuse. It lost most of its power and returned to its original size. However, Perish Song alone was not enough to defeat it. Arceus used its final attack, Judgement. Rays of holy light rained onto the entity and space wrapped itself around it as it ceased to be. As it had come, so it had gone. But not without severe repercussions. Mewtwo and Deoxys had arrived just a little bit too late, for a part of the entity had already infected the mind of Arceus. It used its Thousand Arms of creation to force the souls of the deceased back into their corporeal forms. It merged timelines together and cloned landmasses. Then it added exceptions to the fundamental laws of the Universe to allow for greater chaos. Mewtwo and Deoxys looked at each other, shrugged their shoulders and went off to grab some jelly doughnuts and go bowling.
