Chapter 12- A Random Chapter After The Random Chapter Where Missingno Is Not Actually Random
"Now… How do I kill him?" Missingno asks with a blank stare.
"Don't ask me! Don't you have some sort of plan?" Cassandra raises an eyebrow.
"Me? A plan? HA! I laugh at your insolence."
"Whatever, just get him."
"Yes, ma'am!" Missingno salutes in a soldier's uniform. He takes his bat and cocks it like a shotgun.
The Aerodactyl(?) rushes at Missingno. He points the bat and pulls a trigger. A boxing glove on a spring erupts from the end. It hits the Aerodactyl(?) straight in the face. He pulls the trigger again and again, hitting it in the face repeatedly. It finally grabs the end and roars at Missingno.
He smiles and pushes a button. The glove pulls back into the bat, pulling the Aerodactyl(?) in with it. Missingno walks over to a metal barrel and throws the bat in. He pulls out a match and throws it in too. The flames rise high as the Aerodactyl(?) tries to escape.
Missingno smiles and laughs. "Silly glitch." His face becomes sullen. "Trixs are for kids." He raises a sword above his head. He expertly swings it down, cutting clean through it.
He sighs as he finally relaxes. The sight of the last of the bones melting away is comforting. He turns to Cassandra and smiles. "And that's that."
She gave a small smile back. "Okay, let me just get Weedy…" She reaches down to let him crawl up her arm. He looks at his limbs which returned to normal and his head droops.
She snickers. "We can go now." She turns back, but Missingno is no longer there.
She starts to leave, but stops by the Jr Trainer first. He is kneeling with his Sandshrew. She puts a hand on his shoulder. "I'm sorry."
He looks at her, then glances to each side before answering. "For… what?"
"For… your Sandshrew of course." She looked at him puzzlingly.
"Oh, yeah. Well, you know." He shrugs.
"... You don't care? Wasn't he a special friend?"
"Of course. He was my first pokemon. My dad gave me him." He stared at her as if everything was normal.
She notices that Brock is currently speaking to her.
"-gifted as a Pokémon trainer! Go to the Gym in Cerulean and test your abilities!"
"Huh?" She looks at the badge in his hand. "Oh, right. Forgot about that. Guess we technically beat 'Onix'." She grabs the badge and heads out.
Outside the Gym, she finds Missingno sitting against a fence. He watches the trees rustle softly. She has seen him with many crazy expressions, but this one is a first. It almost seems like he is… contemplating.
"Strange for me, I know." Missingno smiles at her.
She sits down along the fence. "So, what was with everything in there?"
"I've lived through that kind of scene before, I got… emotional… It's… extremely complicated. More than I can really explain."
"What CAN you explain?" They sit in silence. "If I'm gonna stick with you, I at least need to know that."
"... It is… was a type of… shadow I once had. Which made this glitch very powerful."
"I see it gained your humbleness."
Missingno smirks. "For a glitch, what form you take affects your strength. Simply by taking that old form of mine, a new glitch like that could gain enough power to…"
"That kid, he acted so indifferent, so uncaring."
"As I said, glitches are extremely dangerous."
"And you are the only one who can defeat them. So, we move on. New city, new glitches, and knowing you, more craziness."
"Yeah." He smiles. "But maybe not right now. Today has been plenty… random enough." He stands up. "You know my favorite part of this not being a game?"
"What?" She raises an eyebrow.
He jumps the fence. "You don't have to go all the way around the back of the gym."
Cassandra smiles. Many things still confuse her, but Missingno is back again. For now, that's good enough.