Chapter 45- A Random Rest
Floating down after the old man, Cassandra lands safely in Lavender Town. After the parachute returns into the hammer, she heads over to check on the old man. He is still unconscious, so she sits him up against the Pokecenter. She turns around, and almost runs into a zombie. She jumps back, but it doesn't move at all. She looks around at the zombies standing completely still, slumped over. When she is sure that the zombies aren't noticing them, she heads to where Missingno has landed.
When Driller got close enough, he dropped Missingno a foot or two. Missingno landed, creating a shallow crater in the ground. He fell to one knee, and remained in that position until Cassandra approaches.
Cassandra walks up to him as he struggles to his feet. "Are you okay?"
"Fine… ish. How is Mr. Fuji doing?"
"The old man? He is fine, but still knocked out."
He holds up another small spray bottle. "Also my only Awakening. People need to drop more medicines in random places. Please wake him up."
She takes the spray and uses it on Mr. Fuji. He slowly wakes up and scratches at his whiting eyebrow, the only hair on his head.
"What is happening? Is the Cubone's mother all right?"
Missingno places his hand on Mr. Fuji's shoulder. "... Sure."
Cassandra glares at him. "Liar."
Missingno waves her off. "Yeah, yeah. I'll take care of it sooner or later, though."
Mr. Fuji smiles warmly. "I must thank you for your kind concern. Follow me to my home, Pokemon House, at the foot of the tower."
"Thank you." Missingno helps him to his feet. They follow the old man to his house just a small ways south of the Pokecenter. Inside is a room extremely similar to Grandma's. Mr. Fuji nods to a young man and pats the head of a little girl as he moves to the Town Map hanging on the back wall. He pulls it back to reveal a hidden storage. From the items inside, he removes a large flute with a Pokeball shape in the middle.
Mr. Fuji turns toward Cassandra and presents the flute to her. "I think this might help your quest."
Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "How do you know about what we are doing?"
Missingno takes the flute. "He doesn't. That is just part of what he is supposed to say."
"Upon hearing Poke Flute, sleeping Pokemon will spring awake. It works on all sleeping Pokemon."
"That too." He rubs his eye as he turns back to Mr. Fuji. "Do you mind if I use your room so I can sleep?"
"Go ahead."
Missingno moves to the east wall. With a push of a button, a secret door reveals another small room. "This house isn't as big as Grandma's, but the size is still wrong. Fortunately, the ceiling is about 10 and a half feet up, which is perfect."
Inside is a bedroom with a tall ceiling, and 151 different Pokemon dolls lining shelves all along the walls.
"Man, and I thought the PFC Chairman was bad. I'm sure he won't miss just one." Missingno reaches for a stuffed Pokemon doll.
"Missingno!" Cassandra glares at him.
He pauses to look back at her. He then resumes to slowly reach for it without breaking eye contact.
"Missingno!"
"Fine. I need to sleep anyways." He tries to close the door, but Cassandra stops it.
"Explain. Now."
"Right. I did say I would." He opens the door again and looks straight at her. "I explained how my power works, right?"
"Yeah."
"Well, that's not the whole explanation. You have to put a charge in a battery from someplace else. By being funny, I can convert my internal energy into usable glitching energy. I slowly recharge that internal energy through the day, and even more when I sleep. But never enough to make up for what I lose. And especially not after today."
Yeah. 13 chapters, 3 glitches taken down, and a LOT of random.
"Not only that, but the Tower King's pupil apparently combined with an old shadow of mine. The invincible ghosts were all over the place, and he must have absorbed those. So he has a lot of strength, but I'm running on empty."
"So you need to sleep."
"Actually, I need more than that. While sleeping, I am going to do something to fully recharge." He starts to push the door closed. "For the next six hours, the glitches won't be able to do anything. During that time, you CANNOT enter this room. Do you understand? Not even once."
"Okay, okay. I got it."
Missingno yawns again. "Alright. I'll see you later. Remember, no entering."
"I got it!"
"Oh, and get some sleep yourself. We finish this tomorrow." He closes the door, and the wall seals up as if the room was never there to begin with.
Cassandra looks around the room. Now that Mr. Fuji sent the other two home, there is plenty of space. Mr. Fuji moves some bookcases to reveal a hidden kitchen. While he makes up a late dinner for them, and she notices that the adrenaline from the escape is wearing off, and a wave of fatigue starts to hit her. Once the dishes are cleaned and put away, she unrolls a sleeping bag on the floor. She calls Driller to her side, takes one last look at the wall, and falls asleep.