It's a normal day spent playing Hey You! Pikachu: Vicki's manning the controls while I sit here on my laptop, writing down the latest mishaps. Vicki's watching Pikachu out in the garden while I'm finishing up.
"Julie…the game says Pikachu is up there." I look up to see the player character staring at the sky. I notice that the game was currently in "Pikachu Mode," which is a camera mode that makes the camera focus on Pikachu. Except we're looking at the sky, just past the edge of the roof, and there is definitely nothing there.
"…Did it die?" I asked. There's that old belief that when you die you go somewhere in the sky, after all. Besides, with all of the stupid things Pikachu does, its death would not come as a shock. We would probably be the responsible party.
Vicki doesn't answer me, just backs up from the side of the house to see where exactly the camera is pointing.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" we both scream in unison. And while not a particularly normal reaction, it's completely justified, because Pikachu is on the roof. I don't know how the stupid thing got up there, but Pikachu is on the freaking roof.
"Pikachu!" Vicki screams into the microphone. Pikachu chirps its name excitedly and looks at us.
Just then, my other sister Rachel wanders down the stairs. She happily starts to explain, "This sounds like something I need to watch." She notices where Pikachu is and stares at the TV screen. "What the heck?"
"Pikachu, like, levitated onto the roof," I explain. Rachel cracks up and there's a long pause while we wait for her to take a picture of the scene with her cell phone.
"Come here!" Vicki calls to Pikachu. Pikachu shakes its tail at us. "Over here!" Pikachu stares at us. "Over here!" Pikachu laughs loudly. After five more attempts to get Pikachu to come down, it ever so calmly walks to the edge of the roof. It steps off, falls, lands on its feet, and continues on its merry way.
"…In real life, that would have been suicide," I comment. "That's kind of traumatic."
"Yeah…," Vicki agrees. She's still in shock.
I watch Pikachu go off to smell the onions. "Pikachu just tried to kill itself. And this game is rated something like ten and under." I sighed. "Poor children! God dammit, Pikachu."