Chapter 26- A Random Bridge
"This is Nugget Bridge! Beat us 5 trainers and win a fabulous prize! Think you got what it takes? Go, Caterpie!" The Bug Catcher yells for effect.
Missingno scratches his chin. "What kind of prize do you think it will be? Since this is Nugget Bridge, I'm hoping for a chicken nugget."
Cassandra rolls her eyes. "Go, Weedy." She begins another Pokemon battle.
Weedy used Poison Sting!
Critical Hit!
It's super-effective!
Enemy Caterpie fainted!
"... That was easy."
That was overkill.
"And he is still only level 15." Missingno fistbumps/headbutts Weedy as they trade places. He points at the opponent's Weedle with his bloody hand. "Let's do this before I realize that this is painful."
Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "Wait, did he say level 15?"
What? Weedy is evolving!
He flashes back and forth, overlapping each other. It ends as his new form takes hold.
Weedy evolved into Kakuna!
Weedy giddily rocks back and forth.
"Aw, man. I'm gonna miss his old form." Missingno is lying on the ground, his head in his arms.
"I'm just confused on how it took this long. I heard that Bug type Pokemon evolve quickly, so I just assumed Weedy would just stay like that because of the glitch."
"No, I've just been spamming the B button for a while. I forgot to do that while I was fighting, though."
Cassandra looks at the aftermath of the battle. A large circle of the bridge in front of the Bug Catcher is destroyed, water and pieces of wood are scattered everywhere, and his Weedle is floating in the water, fainted. "What did you do?"
"I couldn't be outdone by Weedy. I needed to OHKO it… so I used Splash."
"... I'm not even going to start." She looks at her Pokemon. "I need to change your name again."
Too bad she can't do that until Lavender Town.
"That hasn't stopped her before."
Cassandra scrunches her face. "What about… Koons?"
"Seriously. What is with your naming sense? Did you forget it at home?"
She rolls her eyes. As she tries to walk away, Missingno drags her back towards town. "What are you doing?"
"There was something I forgot to show you." He turns around and stands straight before taking a step farther back up the bridge. Halfway through his step, he reaches forward and yells. "Start!"
"... What was supposed to happen?"
"That." He points to the opposite bank upstream. Standing there is the kid they had just defeated. He is standing half on land, and half in the water. Yet he seems unfazed about any of it. "Start!"
After Missingno yells again, the kid disappears and returns to his previous placement.
"How?..."
"Pretty cool, right?"
Cassandra shakes her head. "Come on, Koons."
Missingno watches as she walks off to fight the other trainers. As she fights a Lass, he stoops down.
He places his hand on the bridge. It feels cool and rough.
"Which is not what it is supposed to feel like." He stands up and looks around. "This is not good. Not good at all."
He runs to catch up with Cassandra. She has just finished with her battle, and both she and Koons are out of breath.
He snaps, and her bag glows brightly. When the light diminishes, her bag is now a small messenger bag with a large 'M' on the flap.
She looks at her bag, then at Missingno, back to the bag, then glares at him. "Missingno!"
"What? I said a smaller bag would be better."
"And how are we supposed to carry all the stuff we need?"
"I just turned it into the magical kind of bag like in the game. It can mysteriously hold enormous amounts of stuff, despite it's size. Check it out."
Inside the flap, a bright yellow hue glows. She reaches through it, and sure enough, she can pull out anything she previously had in her bag. It even has her tent, which is physically too big for the bag's new size.
"Wow, thanks." She smiles at him. "Sorry that I doubted you."
"Don't worry about it. I thought I should give you something to make it easier to let you know that I fought the other three trainers."
"What?" Her smile drops as she looks behind her. Pokemon and evidence of fighting was all along the bridge.
"MISSINGNO!"