Chapter 49- A Random Betrayal

The Porygon on the screen looks down at Missingno. "Present your offering."

Missingno holds up Cassandra's side bag. "Look, it's… pretty cool. It's got… some Antidotes." He pulls out some spray bottles. "There's uh… like, 7 more in here. Wait! I want to see which one Cassandra is going to comment on first."

Cassandra looks at her bag, then to where her bag used to be, then at the computer screen. She leers at Missingno. "I'm still on the fact that you joined these guys."

The Porygon scoffs. "I gave him an offer he couldn't refuse."

"It sent out an Ekans."

Cassandra continues to leer. "Still not an offer."

Missingno grins. "And it used Conversion. So I became converted."

I don't think that is how that move works.

The Porygon coughs. "New recruit, do you think this is enough to rise in rank?"

"Oh, come on! I stole Cassandra's bag."

"I don't care about it."

"Well, I robbed that one place."

"You robbed the Game Corner."

"I even tied up Driller."

Cassandra looks over at her Pokemon, who is tied up in a yarn ball.

"Now all we need is a cat. Or, like… actually, I don't think there is a joke to play off of that. Maybe a strange dog that grew up around a bunch of cats?"

You're slipping.

"Hey! You try doing this for 49 whole chapters!"

"Despite the weird talking to yourself, you have shown some real promise. Fine, by the power vested in me, by me and this voice program that allows me to talk, I make you a Rocket Launcher member. Now you can enjoy the perks that come with it. Besides being able to visit the beach resort we have, we also have the RL store, where I have decreed any Pokemon can be bought if you have enough money. Even other member's Pokemon. Although, most of these idiots still choose Rattatas and Zubats for some reason."

Missingno runs past the computer and up to the counter. He smiles at the woman in charge of the list as he scrolls through the available targets. "Cool, you have every single Pokemon here for sale."

The Porygon shrugs. "Yeah, the legendaries aren't the real ones. I found some cheat codes online."

"I know exactly which Pokemon I want to buy." He points at the computer. "I want to buy that Porygon."

The Porygon looks around the room. "WHAT?! You can't buy me!"

The woman behind the desk addresses him. "Boss, you did say any Pokemon."

"Well, in that case, I cost 2,550,000 Pokedollars. Do you have the money for that?!"

Missingno pulls out a handful of Antidotes from Cassandra's bag. "We don't really need these. I'll just toss them." He throws them over his shoulder. He then turns it over and shakes it. From the sparkling portal, 510 Nuggets tumble out. "Do you take payment in Nuggets?"

The woman looks at the pile. "How many is this?"

"Didn't you just see what it said… right, you can't read descriptions. Five hundred and ten."

Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "Where did you get all those?!"

"Well, it plays off an old trick that starts when you meet me. Your sixth Item is increased by 128 duplicates. You bought those Potions and Antidotes, I put in some Revives, and then you picked up that Helix Fossil. You had that TM, which I replaced with the Max Revive, and then the Nugget made six. The glitch only works if you have 127 copies or less, so I had to get rid of two. I threw one to the Werechamps, then I took another one out and tricked you into thinking it was one that was tossed. And after I gave another to some guy, I could introduce myself again and add another 128."

The Porygon laughs dryly. "That's only 255."

"And that is where it got dangerous. When you toss all the copies of an Item before the set of 255, the game gets confused, and creates a second copy of 255. But then the last Item in your bag becomes the new Cancel button. So I had to make sure the last item was something insignificant. Like an Escape Rope."

Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "Wait, I'm still confused. I'm still stuck on some part about adding 128 copies, is that what you said?"

He sighs. "Nevermind."

The woman behind the counter smiles at him. "I'm sorry. Nuggets are only transferable if you have a RL store gift card to transfer the points to."

The Porygon does a flip on the screen. "HA! Take that!"

Missingno holds up the card he got on the Nugget Bridge.

"Alright, sir. The Porygon is all yours." The woman hands him a Pokeball.

Missingno looks at the Pokemon. "I'm going to name you Bye. Return! Bye!"

A red beam shoots into the computer, pulling the Porygon into the ball prison. Despite being separated, the computer still talks for it.

"Really? Bye? That's my nickname?! I am a creature that found its way through cyberspace to the Team Rocket homepage. I changed the name of this organization, and switched the leader to myself. I set up better defences for our base here and our operation in Mt. Moon. I couldn't contact our people in the Pokemon Tower, but I have changed the rest of this organization into a wonder. Unlike the last leader, I stay in this hotel in order to not be associated with it in case of a police raid. I have done all that, and you think you can control me?!"

"Nah, I'm just gonna put you into the PC and release you."

"Ha! By the time you take me all the way to the Pokecenter, I'll have hacked this Pokeball and gained my freedom!"

Missingno walks over to the east wall of the hotel. Halfway down the wall, he stands facing towards the counter. He pushes the air like he would a button.

Missingno turned on the PC.

"What?!" At the small ding of the PC turning on, both the Porygon and Cassandra jump.

"Yeah, this hotel uses the Pokecenter map. And while they took the sprite out, they forgot to unprogram the PC feature here, so there is an invisible one you can activate."

Missingno enters Bill's PC and deposits Bye. He then moves to the release feature and selects the glitched Pokemon.

Bye was released outside. Bye, Bye!

"It was a good Bye."

Enough with the puns.