Pokemon Virus Version

by WeS RoYaL

Join Protagonist Seth and his underdog Chikorita as they journey through Johto in a rebellion against a reborn evil organization on a journey of their own to rise to power. As you read, you'll find that some people in this organization aren't so evil, and that Seth isn't at all heroic. It's up to travel companions Yumi, Chapel & Rose to change Seth's cold character for the better.

53. Chapter 53: Nostalgia

Pokemon Virus Version Chapter 53: Nostalgia

Alright, so at long last, the next chapter is here. And all I have to say is pretty soon I will be posting on consecutive days to make up for the lack of updates. I mean, what can I say? I've been playing Pokémon Omega Ruby Version, and I've also just bought a copy of Pokémon X version because I recently lost my Poekmon Y Version and I can't seem to find it. And also, please let me know if there are too many spelling errors please. I have been typing all my work using only WordPad, and I believe spelling is an area I need to improve on, in case I start slipping up on my double checking. Please enjoy!

Location: Virutal Oblivion

Chapel's POV

"You users are lucky," PC Missingno said.

"Lucky?" I questioned. "How so?"

"You users have not yet been infected by the virus that keeps you bound to this virutal oblivion." The PC replied. "Nor has that Eevee of yours."

"Wait, so we still have a chance to return to the real world?" I asked.

"Hmph. Not so." The PC answered. "I plan on having you users imprisoned until you've become infected by the virus. You'll all glow the pale blue color that is uniformed here. And you'll all be trapped here for eternity, like me."

I was still thinking about how we could return to the real world. 'We' includes my Missingno. THAT gave me an idea.

"Missingno, I think I have an idea on how to free you from the virtual oblivion." I started. "Think about it. You and my Missingno are only two halves of a whole being. If we reunite you with your other half, maybe, just MAYBE the being you two become won't be infected by the virus that keeps you here. MY Missingno already has a virus of his own, so I doubt the virus of Virutal Oblivion would affect him."

"A chance to return to the real world..." PC Missingno said to itself before giving me an anwers. "We must find my other half! Servants!" That was the PC's cue for the Porygon to back off of us.

"Wiiile! Wile!" Having finally been freed from the Porygon, Mawile ran up to me and held on to my leg, glad to be out of the clutches of the PC.

"Ewee vee!" Eevee was also happy to have her friend in Mawile back.

"Glad to have you back, Mawile." I said as I gave Mawile a single pat on her Maw.

"Back? I never said that you and your user friends were free to go." The PC said.

"Wile- Ma-a!" Mawile was caught off guard by the fast approaching PC.

"You shall provide these other users incentive!" The PC said as it started to glow a white aura.

"A-aa!"

"What the?!" I yelled in confusion as PC Missingno just phased through Mawile.

"Wile..."Mawile started wincing as her pale yellow skin started to turn pale blue. Her eyes went from ruby to a sapphire color, and a transparent question mark started floating above her head.

"Chime?" Chime moved just an inch closer to the pale blue Mawile who was still holding on to myleg.

"Mawile? Missingno?" The body of Mawile and the color of Missingno...What just happened?

"Vee? Vee?" The grey furred Eevee tried to nudge Mawile out of it's own worry.

"Ile..." As soon as Eevee touched Mawile, the pale blue Deceiver pokemon fell to the ground, and didn't get back up.

"Mawile!" I yelled as I immediately picked up Mawile in an attempt to wake up and comfort her. "Mawile! Mawile! Open your eyes!"

Without word, Mawile's sapphire eyes shot wide open, startling us all and causing me to drop Mawile. Luckily, she was able to land on her feet slowly and calmly.

"Mawile?"

"I am no longer your Mawile..." Her stare into my eyes were firm, but the words that came from the Deceiver pokemon's mouth were not those of Mawile's voice.

"Chime?"

"Mawile? You're, talking?" I asked.

"I am no longer Mawile." The Deceiver pokemon started. "I am the PC, also known as Missingno, and I have expectations for you if you ever wish to see your friend again. It is simple: Find the other Missingo, and we'll all be free to return to the real world. However, if you fail, you users will all be imprisoned for eternity, and this Mawile will forever be my new vessel."

"Why are you doing this I asked." I asked.

"Like I said, it is incentive for you users." The PC answered as it started walking.

"Wait! Where are you-" Where else would the PC go? I guessed that the possessed Mawile was starting toward my Missingno was. "Oh..." Was all I said after the thought as Eevee, Chime, the blue Porygon, and I all started to follow the possessed Mawile.

With the possessed Mawile in front of Chime, Eevee, and I, and with the two Porygon right behind us, it felt more like we were being forcibly escorted by the PC. Through streets, alleys, and even an urban neighborhood, we followed a leader that was subtly allowing zero degrees of seperation between itself and us users. Will we get our Mawile back? Only if we find Missingno.

"Um, do you even know where our Missingno is?" I asked.

The Mawile just kept walking until suddenly, it stopped just as it reached the final edge of the dark city. Over the edge, down there...was another black sky? No. This sky looked like the one above, that's because it WAS the sky above.

The PC then turned to us and gave a reply to my question. "We'll just have to keep looking..." It said as it spread out it's Mawile arm and allowed itself to just fall off the final edge.

"Vee." Eevee jumped jumped off the final edge as well, following the possessed Mawile. While Chime simply started floating down.

"H-hey! What about me?!" I yelled at the three over the edge. "We don't know what exactly is down there! We could die, or-"

Those blue Porygon didn't even let me finish what I was saying as they pushed me off the edge.

"H-hey!"

"In case you didn't know, that was your cue to shut your mouth. Wanna be know-it-alls like you talk much, AND you ask too many questions." The PC said.

"Oh, well..." Do I really talk THAT much? Well, compared to Yumi, I'm quite tame. Icould see Eevee and Chime both trying to hold back laughing at me.

Now exiting Box 2...

Yes, it was the possessed Mawile saying that to herself...or itself.

After leaving the dark city of Box 2, we were all falling into what seemed to be an endless abyss of blackness. Falling and falling...until a single white light that was in our path was visible. And as we continued to fall, the white light grew bigger and bigger, until every inch of blackness that surrounded us was gone.

Now enterring Box 3...

When we were finally stationed on a floor of sand, I quickly scanned our surroundings. The island we were on had a...nostalgic feel to it. The sand, the sea, and the city behind were all 16-bit. And there was even...background music? This wasn't just any background music though, this was a tune I knew, and it went perfectly with the nostalgic feeling I had. I remember years back when my mother Chiyo was still alive, and I had not a care in the worldas a child. Everyday I would play my old Gamboy Color with Pokemon Red Version inserted. I remember always wanting to capture an Eevee. Eevee was my favorite pokemon after Chimecho of course, but I was too young and noobish back then to know how I could actually get one. Training only my starter pokemon and leaving the rest of my party to 'die'...Ah, those were the days.

"This box used to be nothing but a lifeless, sand desert." The possessed Mawile started. "But I myself personally changed it into a nostalgic version of Cinnabar Island for my own preferences."

"Cinnabar Island?" I said confused as my eyes went wide open, then narrowed as I looked at the possessed Mawile. "This is Cinnarbar Island of Kanto?"

"Follow me." The PC digressed as it started walking.

"Vee."

it wasn't too long before Missingno stopped at the edge of Cinnabar as it stared at the black and blue sea. While Eevee, Chime, and I lined up beside the possessed Mawile.

"...This was where I was first captured." The PC said. "You should've seen me. I was all gitched up and incomplete back then. It all began here, and endless life of solitude. And for what? Being different? Why me? Why did I have to be captured in the first palace? It's not like I ever did anything wrong, yet thsse humans wanted to erase my existence as if I have. Now I'm right here." The possessed Mawile said as it turned to me. "The only person who can ever truely understand you is yourself. I understand myself, even if my other half is not with me. Your Missingno might just be here. Becuase I know that Cinnabar Island is where I'd be."

"You think so?" I asked.

"My other half lies somewhere within Cinnabar's eastern sea." PC Missingno said. "Luckily, Box 3 is only the 16-bit version of Cinnabar, so looking for Missingno won't take as long as it would in the real world."

"Like it'll matter. We can't even breathe underwater." I said.

"You can't, but I can." The possessed Mawile started. "And with that Chimecho of yours able to float, we can also cover our search from above the sea."

Chime and I have never really been separated, but that wasn't going to stop us from finding the other part of our 'family' in Misssingno. Chime and I faced each other, then we hugged each other in what was expected to be a short temporary goodbye.

"You and Eevee will remain here on the island just in case my other half just so happens to show up." The possessed Mawile said.

I gave a single nod in agreement as the pale blue skinned Mawile then started into the eastern sea, diving deep while searching for my Missingno. Chime started floating away from Eevee and I, and gave me one last look before truely proceeding away. I guessed my moody tendencies seem to have rubbed off on him.

...

I knew we were still on the lookout for my Missingno, but I couldn't but just lie down on Cinnabar's edge, Eevee right beside me.

"It's been a long time since I did this. Sitting around doing nothing. I suppose that's just the life of the Pokemon Rnager in me. Or maybe the Pokemon Cooordinator in Yumi. How about the Pokemon Trainer, or Pokemon Rebel in Seth?"

"Vee..." The silver furred Eevee was resting in my lap as we both stared at the 16-bit eastern sea.

"You know," I started as I began petting Eevee, "I've always wanted an Eevee, ever since I was little. And I never said it out loud, but I was a little jealous of Yumi when I first saw that she had an Eevee."

"Vee?" Eevee questioned.

"Oh, Yumi is this girl who used to travel with me. But I think she might be back soon. I wouldn't be surprised if she came back just for a chance to see Seth. I mean, it's pretty obvious she likes him, she just tries to deny it now. But if you ask me, she's probably just waiting for Seth..." I then digressed. "I wish you could somehow come with us to the real world, Eevee. Are viruses like you really trapped within within Virtual Oblivion?"

This world and our world actually had something in common when I thought about it. Living in the world a Pokremon changed by the virus Missingno. I call it the Pokemon world's virus version.

"Vee!" Eevee hopped off my lap and looked into my eyes with an intense expression.

"Your eyes? What about them?" I asked.

It took some time staring into Eevee's eyes to realize-

"-Oh! Your eyes!." I repeated. "They're not the that pale blue color that all of the infected pokemon have. Does that mean?"

This Eevee wasn't infected? If so, then why is the silver furred Eevee a different color than normal brown furred Eevee? Could this be one of the pokemon Ethan stored into the new Pokemon Storage System? Bill's journal DID mention a few pokemon stored specifically in Ecruteak's PC.

"You're just an Eevee of a different color!"

"Vee!" Eevee cheered and nodded in agreement.

"So if you're not infected, you can return with us to the real world!" I exclaimed. "Oooh!"

I was squealing like a little girl.

"Eevee, you can come with me on my journey to save the entire world!" I exclaimed as I was becoming more and more excited.

"Vee?" Eevee gave me a 'how embarrassing' facial expression.

"This could be the beginning of a friendship that'll last forever..." I got on one knee, and held out my hand. "Come on, Eevee. What reason do you have to say no?"

Eevee really didn't know how to respond. My offer was so sudden, and I wasn't surprised at all.

"Vee..."

"Well, you might not know much about me, but you'll at least have your friend in Mawile to tell you all about us. And it's better than living an endless life forever in Virtual Oblivion."

Eevee was still staring at my hand with an unsure expression. As told by Bill, Eevee had already belonged to Ethan, but it really felt as it Eevee had been unintentionally left behind.

"Ee." Eevee slowly reached it's paw toward my hand with hesitation. After what felt like minutes, my hand and Eevee's paw were touching.

So...did I just get a new pokemon in Eevee?

Hmm. This Eevee felt very soft. I'm guessing this Eevee was a female, unlike Yumi's.

Eevee and I stared at each other with smiling faces once more. It took awhile, but Eevee amd I eventually warmed up to each other, and I was holding her in my arms by the time thepossessed Mawile returned to Cinnabar.

"Any luck?" I asked the possessed Mawile.

PC Missingno answered with a single shake of it's head. "What about you?"

"We've searched along Cinnabar's eastern border, but we haven't found Missingno." I replied.

"Colud my other half be in anotehr box?" The possessed Mawile asked itself before looking at Eevee and I. "It's pretty rare to find a pokemon of a different color."

"The two of us are good friends now, and I promised that I'd return her to the real world along with you AND Mawile." I said.

"...So saving this Mawile isn't the only reason you're helping me?" Missingno asked.

"You're kidding?" I questioned. "You're kidding! I've made it obvious that I would've helped you even if Mawile's life wasn't at stake. Do you still not trust."

"No." The PC gave me a blunt reply.

"-Chiiime! Chime Chiiiime!"

"Huh?" I could hear a familiar cry coming from the distance. It was Chime rushing towrd Mawile, Eevee and I with an excited expression on his face.

"That Chimecho?" The possessed Mawile question.

"Chime!" I said as Chime had closed in on us. "What is it?"

I don't know why, but Chime was panting despite that fact that he couldn't run because he didn't have legs.

"Chimecho! Chime?" My Chimecho was trying to explain something to us. We all looked at him very confused before he turned and pointed in a specific direction, northeast of Cinnabar, to be exact.

"What? Where are you pointing to?" I asked.

"Northeast of Cinnabar...Seafoam Island!" The possessed Mawile said. "The other Missingno must be at Seafoam Island."

"But how do Eevee and I get there?" I asked.

PC Missingno thought about before it's face lit up, giving us all an expression that it had an idea.

"There are some infected pokemon who reside in this box..." Upon sayingthat, the possessed Mawile's sapphire eyes flashed for a split second. "Some assistance for you, human."

"Huh?" Looking back at the sea, I saw a sapphire colored Lapras swimming toward us. This was obviously the PC's 'assistance for the human in me.'

"Lapras, please transport this human to the Seafoam Island." PC Missingno commanded as it then took another dive into the water and started toward Seafoam Island.

After the possessed Mawile was out of sight, Eevee, Chime, and I were greeted by the Lapras. Of course, I looked back at the Lapras with a warm smile I force on my face. I couldn't help but worry about my Missingno. Is Missingno okay? Was Missingno imprisioned? There was only one way to find out.

"Missingno, I'm on my way." Before saving the world and those around me, I must save those that are close to me first. And so it starts here, the road to becoming a hero. For Missingno. For Chiyo. For Chime, and Seth and his sister. For Johto. And most of all, for Chapel.

From deep within the caverns of Seafoam...

"Eever since I was transported to within the PC of Ecruteak City, I've been slowly regaining the memories of what exactly I was before being derezzed those years ago, and before I met Chapel...I don't know why, but I feel disdain toward Chapel now. Why? Becuase Chapel is just another human. Humans... All humans are the same! Bill, Red, they've never even stopped to think about how I would feel about being derezzed! I was never given a chance to begin with...and I probably never will as long as I am trapped here. Will it even matter if my fate was to wander this virtual oblivion for the rest of eternity? Where? Where is my other half"

It is time, the first of the mysteries of Missingno will be solved...

To Be Continued...

Another unceremonious cliffhanger...Well that's what keeps readers tuned in. Oh, and before I forget, I hope you guys have seen the next new cover art for Pokémon Virus Version. This time, I've redesigned Seth's rival Noah, using features from various characters, including two hair colors, just like Seth, Yumi, Commander 04 Yuna, and Zero. Speaking of two hair colors, we might be seeing more of these designs down the road. I know they're unnecessary, but I like to do my own thing.