Chapter 33- A Random Horse

Cassandra keeps running. At the end of the hallway is a stairway facing the other way and after a quick turn, she bolts up it, two stairs at a time. Once she reaches the top, she slows down but still keeps a nice pace, just to be safe. At the end of a small hallway, she came to a choice. She could either turn down the hallway on her left, or head up more stairs. The last stairs had been a better experience than the hallways, so she heads up the stairs again.

It is only a small flight of stairs, and when she reaches the top, she sees a door at the end of another hallway. She walks to the door, and finds herself on a balcony outside.

"Missingno!"

"Yes?" He pops his head out of her bag.

She grabs his collar and pulls him out. She gives him a glare. "Is this your doing?"

"What?"

"I went up two short flight of stairs, but somehow, we are on the shoulder of this thing!"

Missingno looks over the side and down the arm. "Hm, so we are." He walks back to the door. "You should know by now that glitches can change reality. We should actually be glad for this one." As they walk back inside and down the hall, he continues. "Instead of walking up 197 feet of stairs, the S.S. Anne's map allows us to get all the way up here with just two flights."

Suddenly, the grind of gears comes from all sides. As the sound grows louder, the walls start to move in.

"What now?!"

Apparently, the map is trying to change fully into Voltron's.

"That's not so bad."

Um… Voltron is just a robot… with no hallways… just solid metal…

"Ooooooh. Cassandra, we need to act fast." He pulls out a long metal pole and sets it between the closing walls. The walls stop, but the grind only grows more strained. "This should hold it. They did it in Star Wars, and it totally worked."

No it didn't.

The grinding sound grows louder and the pole starts to bend.

Missingno quickly places several more poles to secure it. "New plan, I'll hold these in order to keep the map steady. You need to go down these stairs, across the hallway you didn't pass through earlier, around the corner and up those stairs. The main glitch should be there."

"You want me to take care of the glitch myself?"

"Don't worry, I left you a present along the way to help. Now, go!"

Cassandra hesitates, but she follows his instructions. As she runs down the hall, the walls slowly inch closer. As she turns the corner, she sees Missingno's gift. It is a small sledgehammer with a green handle.

She picks it up with all her might… and almost falls backwards. It looks heavy, but she finds that she can swing it with ease. The closing walls bring her back, and she bolts up the stairs.

She enters the room moments before the walls close shut. Apparently this room is not closing. She looks around to find what looks like an office being taken over by machinery. On the back wall is two eye shaped windows, and in the middle of the room is a giant glowing sphere... and a Rapidash.

The Rapidash shakes its fire mane and calls to her in a deep, gruff voice. "Yo."

"Oh, you're a guy."

His pointed ears twitch. "Of course I am. Why would you think otherwise?"

The Rapidash is covered in accessories. Blue bows, blue beads, blue eyeliner. "... No reason."

"Just to let you know, this was all my trainer. Ever since he became the chairman of the PFC, he has gone crazy in dressing me up. And it's not like I can take them off myself, even if I didn't have these on." He holds up a foot to show the boot on it. It ties at the top to keep it on, and of course, it is blue. "Seriously, what is wrong with him?"

"I'm really sorry about that, but I do need to stop you."

"Really? I've been working at this for a couple days now…" He nudges at a keyboard right at his feet. "and I'm just getting it to do what I want." He tries to tap some keys with the edge of his foot.

A robotic voice comes from above. "Opening Netflix."

He shakes his head, tossing the red flames that make up his mane. "Stop doing that! What even is 'Netflix'?" He stomps on the keys some more.

"Firing lasers."

"There we go." The Rapidash grins.

Small guns emerge from the walls and shoot at Cassandra. She dodges with all her might to not be hit by any. She steps back, spins around and throws the hammer at him.

He raises up on his back legs and brings his front legs down on it.

Rapidash used Stomp!

"Ha! You thought that I would dodge, and then your hammer would fly past me and hit the energy core, but I planned for that!"

She points at his feet, where he destroyed the keyboard by stomping the hammer into it.

"So your plan was to force me to destroy the robot myself!"

"No, knowing Missingno, I just needed to distract you while he would probably head out through the balcony, make his way to the head, break through the eye and smash the core with a giant mace."

… At this point, I WAS planning to tell you how Missingno had escaped and made a surprise attack, but SOMEONE beat me to it. So yeah. Missingno smashes it.

Missingno fist pumps. "Ha! Hacked it!"