Chapter 4 - Origin
"I'm sorry, daifu, I can't." Mitsuko said, "Mew is just too creepy."
Hotaka paused for thought for a moment, "Ok, Mitsuko-chan, I won't make you. But maybe if you knew the origins of the glitches, you might not be so scared of them. There's only one person who knows the whole story, and that's Bill."
"How come he's the one that knows?" she frowned.
"It's better that you hear it from him." He replied, "Now go on, the quicker you find out how this all started, the quicker we can find the Missingnos."
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When Mitsuko arrived at Bill's house, it was empty, apart from a male Nidoran that looked rather annoyed. She turned to leave, when the Nidoran spoke.
"Are you going to help me or not?" he said, which made her jump out of her skin.
Then she remembered the first time she'd met Bill, and said, "It happened again, didn't it?"
"I can't help it if I still haven't got the hang of reversing it." he snapped, wandering into the machine at the back of the room, "You remember what to do, right?"
She nodded, "I don't forget that sort of thing."
After a few buttons being pressed and a quick flash, Bill wandered out of the machine, "I hate it when that happens, I hardly get any visitors so I end up being stuck like that for ages."
"Well, don't do that, and you won't get that problem." she said, as if it was the obvious solution, "Anyway, I have something to ask you."
"What?" He responded, a little distracted by his tinkering with his computer.
"I'd like to know the origin of the Glitch Mew and the four Missingnos." she asked.
He froze, staying silent for a minute, before finally saying, "I see you've been talking to Kimura-san."
She nodded for the second time in the space of a few minutes, "Daifu passed the duty of finding the glitches to me. I've already captured the Glitch Mew, but it creeps me out, so he suggested I find out the origins of the glitches from you."
"I didn't mean for it to happen, I was unaware there was a problem until it was too late." Bill explained, sighing, "Years ago, when I first started up the PC system, there was a slight problem (apart from the fact that Flying types were registered as Bird type). I couldn't have found it before, but there was a certain pokemon it couldn't handle: Mew. When a trainer, I forget who it was, deposited Mew into the system, it immediately released all the pokemon in that box: a Pidgeot, a Gastly, an Aerodactyl, and a Kabuto. Not only were those pokemon released, but strange clones of them were created. The Glitch Mew wasn't too much different from the original, in fact, it's near impossible to tell the difference, but the other clones weren't so similar. The four different clones are the four Missingnos that roam near Cinnabar Coast, and they appear in other locations. Most trainers run from them, scared, but if someone were to capture them, then I might be able to figure out how to convert them back to normal Pokemon."
Mitsuko nodded, "I understand. Don't worry Bill, I'll capture the Missingnos and bring them back here. But I'll have to show daifu first. It'd make him really happy to see them up close."
"Be careful, though. They have strange effects on PC data, like your Hall of Fame. There's no known way to rectifying this problem." He said, "And they can have odd effects on the environment around you. No worries though, I have a theory that once the Missingnos have been converted into normal Pokemon, the glitches will right themselves."
"Right, I'll keep that in mind." She smiled, and turned to leave.
"Wait." He said, and she turned, "Give me the Glitch Mew, and I can turn it into a real one."
She paused for a moment, then handed over the Pokeball contained the Glitch Mew, "I'll have it back when I bring you the four Missingnos."