Chapter 25- A Random Officer

After a wonderful breakfast prepared by Grandma, the gang gets ready to head out again. Missingno, Cassandra and Weedy stand outside the house as they say a last goodbye.

"I will miss you." Grandma struggles to keep her smile from breaking.

Cassandra gives her a final hug… again. "We'll miss you too."

Grandma hands her a large, spiky crystal. "Don't tell Steve, but I stole this from his stash. It's a going away present."

"Can I hold onto it?" Missingno pulls out sparkling eye stickers and slaps them on as he looks at them beggingly.

"Sure." Grandma smiles and turns back to Cassandra. "Make sure he doesn't eat it, okay?"

"Unfortunately, I'm not sure I can guarantee that."

Missingno doesn't hear her as he stares at his new crystal. "Come on, Cassandra. We need to start moving."

"If you try to rush us, we will stab you." She glares at him.

"That would hurt!"

Grandma laughs. "Oh, you'll be fine."

Cassandra smiles at her. "I wish we could stay."

Grandma shakes her head. "You have an extremely important job to do, right? Go, before I change my mind."

"What are you gonna do? Lock us up in your basement until we are brainwashed?" He laughs.

"Don't tempt me."

"... Right, tell Steve we say goodbye, and good luck with the Pokemon trading."

They wave as they walk away, Weedy struggling to keep up with his short crawl span. Grandma wipes away a tear and waves back. "Goodbye. Take care. Listen to your older sister."

Cassandra raises an eyebrow, but they are heading up some stairs and out of her sight. She thinks about what Grandma just said. Missingno may act like a toddler, but physically he looks maybe 1 or 2 years older than her. To be mistaken as the older one seems weird.

Missingno stops by the river to wave at the man on the other bank. "Hello Super Afro Guy!" The man has a ridiculously tall afro, and waves back at them.

"Who is that?"

"He looks cool, right? Too bad once you beat the Elite Four, he cuts it all off. Oh, and a cave appears with no connection to the last thing."

"Sure." With all the talk of hair, she looks at Missingno's grey hair. As a breeze passes through, she notices that both lighter and darker shades spackle throughout… it…

"WAIT!" Her outburst startles him. "What happened to your hair?!"

"What do you mean?"

"It used to be… light brown?" She scrunches up her face, struggling to remember.

"Yeah, but in Pewter City, I decided to be more myself. So after I melted, I changed my hair."

"I never noticed." She scrunches up even more. "Why didn't I notice? Are you affecting my memories too?"

Missingno shrugs. "Have we really not mentioned that anytime in the last 13 chapters?"

Yeah, I just looked over them, and she didn't notice, so there was no good place we could slip it in.

She glares at him. "What else have you made me think?"

He chuckles and holds up a pokedollar. "I don't know, do you believe this is real money?"

"Yes…. No?... I don't know anymore." She throws her hands and walks away. "Where are we going, anyway?"

"Well, the people of this town let a tree grow in the only exit, and the plot won't let us jump over the fence, so we have to find another way."

"What other way?"

"Well, we utilize a ruined house." He breaks into a full on sprint. Straight ahead is a police officer standing in front of a door. Missingno runs into him without moving him an inch.

Missingno used Strength!

After some struggled grunting from Missingno, the officer notices him.

"What are you doing?"

"I need to get in. You are in the way."

"Excuse me?!"

"I'm not afraid of you! I have no reason to be. I never break any laws, EVER.… because I am deathly afraid of the 5 total cops in Kanto." He ends up squirming at the end. "The others aren't here, are they?"

Cassandra pulls him back by his collar. "I'm really sorry about him." She drags him away a few steps. "What do you think you are doing?"

"I'm fighting THE MAN, man."

Are you talking about the government, or just this particular guy?

"Yes."

Respect.

Cassandra shakes her head. "Let's just go. Look, there is a fence we can jump over. Simple, easy, and we'll be on our way."

"You're right."

A man walks up to them. "You should buy a bike."

"You're right."

"No. No you shouldn't. We should leave."

"You're right."

Missingno, the plot says you can't do that yet.

"You're right." He picks up Weedy, who had finally caught up, and walks away. "To Nugget Bridge!"

"Wait. Missingno! It's right here. We can move on. MISSINGNO!" She runs after them.