Chapter 32- A Random Ship

"Hurray! We are going to check out the S.S. Anne this morning!"

Cassandra jumps back. "What? Says who?"

"Says the chapter heading."

"Once again, what?"

"Besides, even if it is easy to slip between the trees to get to the Gym, the S.S. Anne is important to the plot, so there is probably a glitch there."

"Now that is a good reason."

"And that is where we get the Cut HM."

"Another good reason."

"And I can sift through the trash to look for Great Balls."

She shakes her head and walks back into Vermilion City. They went back to Route 6 the night before in order to camp out. Set up and take down was easy with Cassandra's new magic bag.

As they enter the 'city', they notice a large figure hovering above the water just south of the Harbor. It looks like a Voltron robot, but with unicorns instead of lions.

"... How did we not notice that last night?" They both say at the same time.

Cassandra looks at Missingno. "... So, is that a glitch?"

"Oh, that is most definitely a glitch."

They head down the pier, but are stopped by a sailor.

"Excuse me, do you have a ticket? You need a ticket. You don't look like the type to have a ticket. Only really important people have a-"

"Ticket?" Missingno flashes a piece of paper.

"Great! Welcome to the S.S. Anne!"

Cassandra follows Missingno towards the robot. "Where did you get that?"

"At Bill's place. Inside his desk."

"You stole it?"

"I wouldn't necessarily say 'steal'. Just… 'took with asking and not really caring'."

"That pretty much is the definition of 'steal'."

"Not when he was going to give it to us anyways."

"You don't know that!"

He holds up a strategy guide. "Yes I do. More importantly, we have to get inside this robot."

"And how are we going to do that?"

Missingno cracks his fingers and pulls out a keyboard. "Let's see if I can't hack it."

He throws the keyboard at the mouth of one of the feet. It opens just enough for them to slip through. "There we go."

Cassandra shakes her head again.

Once inside, the mouth closes, trapping them in darkness. Missingno finds a row of flashlights, and turns them all on. He grabs one and swallows it, light still emitting from his mouth.

"Uh, Missingno?"

"Yeah?"

"Where is Koons? He usually is hanging on my back, but he isn't there."

"Yeah, he went to get a pedicure. He really needed one, and I figured we didn't really need him, and- Oh my helix fossil, what is that?" He points his light at a door.

Cassandra glares at him but still opens the door, flooding the room with light. Missingno's shoulders slump. "Of course the hallways are lit. Not like I really wanted to be the Human TORCH or anything." He snickers for a second before slumping again.

As they travel the hallways, they find them lined with statues of unicorns running, jumping, stomping flowers, stabbing birds.

"Wow, this is pretty morbid. Good thing they are just statues."

As Missingno speaks, all the statues turn to look at him.

"... Missingno, did the statues just move?"

The statues get off their pedestals and slowly walk towards them.

"Cassandra."

"Yes?"

"We have two choices here. We can either stay and fight, possibly be stabbed by really creepy statues and maybe die. Plus, there is no guarantee that more statues won't show up, causing us infinite despair and making us just give up…. Or we could run."

"I like running."

Missingno dodges a jab from one, and backhands another out of the way. "Are you sure, because I happen to know the move Splash, so-" He turns around, but Cassandra is gone. Halfway down the hallway, she is dodging between statues. "Cassandraaaaaaaaa!" He reaches out as the statues pile on top of him.