Chapter 62- A Random Time
Koga just kneels there, surrounded by a slowly dispersing cloud of smoke. He sees that parts of him begin to fuzz, and his eyebrows raise high. They then scrunch close together, and the number of fuzzing increases. His eyes dart quickly around, and even more show up. His arms tremble, he begins to mutter incoherent words, and the fuzzing even spreads to the area around him.
By the time the smoke clears, and the protagonists see the scene, the fuzzing is intense and out of control.
Cassandra, Koja, and Driller jump back, ready for one last fight.
But Missingno sighs. "There is no point in fighting him right now." He walks up to Koga and squats down.
Koga stops muttering and leers at Missingno. "Please. Don't make me go back."
"... What are you running from?"
Koga stares even more as his eyebrows scrunch further together.
"Come on. You're running from something. You want some sort of change, right?"
Koga sneers. "What would you know?! I have to take care of the village. I have to protect my people, even as the world tries to invade and take over our lives! I HAVE to be the one with all the answers!"
"..."
"... I just… I just want to stop. I want to live my own life. But to do that, I need someone else to be there."
He jabs a thumb over his shoulder. "So you created this kid to take your place. To fight your battles. To be what you need so that you can leave."
"Is that so bad?!"
He shakes his head. "But you are doing it all wrong."
Koga's eyebrows relax as he stares at Missingno.
"You think I don't know anything about having a huge responsibility on my shoulders? I am here, risking my life to save others. I would much rather sit around in a corner of time and space. I would rather be safe, sound, and bored than out here. But others need me, so here I am."
Missingno stands up, glaring at him. "You are lucky. You can find someone who wants to learn and prepare them to take over for you. Trust me, you will have the chance to move on from this position. That is the wonderful thing about life, that nothing has to last forever. Work hard for now, and it will all work out." He turns and walks away with a small wave.
Koga looks at his hands, where the fuzzing is slowing down. After a while, he takes a deep breath, lets it out…
And disappears.
Cassandra raises an eyebrow. "That's it? I was sure that it would have to be at least five times more random."
Koja nods. "I would have bet money on it being at least ten times."
Missingno laughs. "That would be true if I needed to beat him into submission." He looks around at his friends. "There are times that helping others is better than forcing them to return back."
So, is this how it will always be?
"Nah, most people aren't determined enough to hold onto their glitch like that."
Cassandra shakes her head. "And, there's the randomness. Can we get out of here?" She looks around the randomly formed landscape. "Is there a door or something that will take us back?"
"No, there is only two ways to get out of Glitch City. Since we don't have Teleport…"
He grabs Cassandra and Koja. "Driller, now!"
As Koja scrunches his eyebrows, but Cassandra turns as white as a sheet.
"Oh, no."
"Wonder glitches powers activate!"
Driller used FlyAroundReallyFast!
A jetpack appears on Driller's back. He flies up and around, crashing into the group.
"Form of… a generic bird sprite!"
They combine together and turn into a large bird with grey feathers along the head and wings.
The bird takes off, soaring over the glitched, random landscape. As it flies, the ground morphs into Fuschia City. The bird lands by the PokeCenter, and divides back into the 4 characters.
Missingno scrunches up his face. "We really need to fix that move name."
As Koja looks back and forth between Missingno and his arms. Cassandra shrugs.
"I hate him too, but you either get used to it or go crazy."
They look at the Gym next door. No longer in ruins, it brings its shining radiance onto the village.
"Well, that's good at least." Missingno smiles.
And pulls them into the alleyway.
"What is-!"
Missingno shushes Cassandra and looks around.
She glares and begins to whisper. "What is going on?"
"Well, the thing about Glitch City is that it has time dilation properties."
Like one week in there is one day out here? Cool. What is the ratio?
"It is so low that 1 minute in there is -2 minutes out here."
… I don't think that is how time dilation works.
"So, we can't interfere with events that have already happened, otherwise you can break the space-time continuum. Unless you're a speedster, then you can break whatever rule of time, reason and logic and get away with it.
They peer out the alleyway to see themselves walk up to the Gym and gasp. After a bit of talking, they head past the PokeCenter and towards the Safari Zone.
Wait, so if the glitch is fixed, then why do you still run into Glitch City to go after it? And won't the glitch not be there anymore? What about the repercus-
Missingno disappears and arrives back instantly with a Lemonade.
Nevermind. Logic says we can move on now.