I have a story I would like to tell you /v/. It is a long
story, but for you faggots who would go TL;DR - this story is not for you,
so
fuck off.
You see, I am a simple college student living alone in an
apartment. I was very enthusiastic about the release of HeartGold/SoulSilver
on
the states. I have purposely locked myself out of all media and the
internet
aside for school purposes. That means no 4chan, no /v/, no
Bulbapedia, etc.
As I was busy with the school year and being a poorfag at the
time, I wasn't able to buy SoulSilver on launch date. After my school year
ended, I ordered SoulSilver on Amazon (sorry, I rather be a poorfag than a faggy
pirate). However, it would take a week for it to arrive. I decided
that during
that time, I replay my Crystal version on my Gameboy Color.
However, I realized that long ago, my mom threw it away
because I told her the save went dead, and I was very upset about it then.
She
also threw away my Silver version, so all I have is my Gameboy Color. As
such, I
set out to Gamestop and bought a used Silver version, as it's the
only Pokemon
game left that they have for the GBC. Ten dollars - fairly
cheap despite it
being Gamestop (FUCKING GAMESTOP!).
I went home and started it up for a nostalgia trip. However,
that's where things started getting bizarre, and most likely the reason why
you
read this.
-----
The Gamefreak logo started up as normal, but it just froze
there. I thought the cart was just errored or something, so I turned it off
and
on. The same thing happened. I tried pressing A and Start over and over,
and all
of the buttons. Eventually, the logo vanished and there was a black
screen for
about five seconds. Suddenly, rather than going to the
usual menu screen,
I was already in the game in a previous saved file, which
was odd as I was
expecting all of these carts to have been wiped by the poor
battery. Either way,
I wasn't complaining, as I would have chosen the
"Continue" option to see what
the previous guy did anyways.
First off, I checked his trainer information. His name was
just "..." - He didn't have much originality. I checked his profile and
apparently he had 999:59 hours put into the game, with all 16 badges, 999999
Pokedollars and all 251 Pokemon on the Pokedex. Since he must had Mew and
Celebi
logged also, I am guessing he either used a Game Genie or is a really
hardcore
Pokemon player back then.
I checked his Pokemon to see what badass team he has. To my
surprise, I saw 5 Unowns and a sixth Pokemon named "HURRY". I'm thinking
that
this must be some cruel joke by the person who last played this game,
but I
decided to check the profiles of those Pokemon anyways. As
expected, they
were different letters of Unown, all Level 5. I was a bit
shaky with my Unown
alphabet at the time, but I identified the word spelled
out to be "LEAVE".
As for the sixth Pokemon, it turned out to be a Cyndaquil
(mind you, this is before there were individualized Pokemon icons). The
Cyndaquil looked normal, but it was Level 5 with only 1 HP left with only
two
attacks: "Leer" and "Flash". I don't know why they named him "HURRY",
but at the
time, I just disregarded it. The most eerie thing was that,
despite my volume
being at max, none of the Pokemon he had said their usual
cries. Just pure
silence.
-----
Having enough of the team, I closed it. I was parked at
what appears to be a room inside Bellsprout Tower. However, for some reason,
there were no NPCs around. Even more eerie was that the "pillar" in the
middle
didn't move at all, as if just leaning on its side. There was no
music at all,
and there was no exit or ladder, or least I thought there
wasn't.
I walked around for a few minutes but can't seem to find a
way out. This was certainly not a room I've seen in the Bellsprout Tower
before.
I've tried checking my items for an Escape Rope, but the bag was
completely
empty. There wasn't any Wild Pokemon either.
Finally, I've managed to find a ladder, which turned out to be
behind the "pillar". The screen turned black and the music finally started
playing. I had a sudden chill, as I recognize that melody I heard to
be
the theme you hear when you listened to the radio at the Alph Ruins where
the
Unown are at.
I immediately realize that it wasn't a loading transition, but
rather I was in a dark room and would need Flash. Before I took care of that
though, I immediately checked my Pokegear to change the radio to something
more
pleasant, but it turns out that there was no Radio card, or even a
Phone nor
Time cards. There was only a Map card in which Gold ("..." from
earlier, and I
will call him Gold from now on) was just walking in a midst
of black.
-----
I recall that Cyndaquil has Flash, so I turned off my Pokegear
and made Cyndaquil use Flash. I didn't see any message saying "HURRY
has
used Flash!" or anything like that. The room just became lit just like
that, and
I soon regretted it. The room was a chilling blood-red with a
linear gray path
heading south. The ladder I used to go up/down was not
there at all.
I had no choice but to head south. The screen became darker
every 20 steps I made, until I finally made it to the end, which appears to
be a
sign. I read the sign, which said "TURN BACK NOW".
Suddenly, I was asked to answer YES/NO, but there was no
question asked. I chose YES as I do not know what it was asking, and the
screen
went black again, making a "ladder climbed" sound. The Unown Radio
music
stopped, and in a few seconds was replaced with the not-as-creepy Poke
Flute
radio music.
I was in another dark room, but I held my breath and used
Flash again. Suddenly, it said that "HURRY has fainted!" which was odd
since I recall that there was no status conditions like Poison on Cyndaquil,
and
I clearly wasn't in a battle. I checked my Pokemon quickly and suddenly
he's no
longer in my party. In fact, after a bit of investigating, none of
my Pokemon
before were there, but instead were all replaced with Level 10
Unown. I did the
same thing as before and spelled out the Unown. My then
team of Unown spelled
"HEDIED".
-----
Either way, after that creepy change, the room was lit to
reveal myself in a very small room that appears to be only four squares big.
The
walls of that room were gray bricks, as if I was inside something that
was
hollowed out. Outside that room appears to be a bunch of graves
similar to
the ones in Pokemon Red/Blue's Lavendar Town. I've walked around
that small room
and pressed A but nothing happened.
I've already concluded at this point that this was clearly a
hacked game and some sadistic fuck sold it to Gamestop to troll whoever buys
it.
However, my curiosity kept me going. I checked the trainer profile of
"..."
again only to find out that the sprite of Gold was missing his arms.
He also
seems to appear less smug, but rather seems more sad and empty in a
way that I
do not know how to describe. For some reason, it also now
said that he has
24 badges, which was clearly impossible given that there
were only two regions
in the game.
After a few minutes of aimless wondering, my character
suddenly spun and did the Escape Rope spinning animation. Instead of flying
up
though, my character spun downwards slowly, as if sinking.
After that screen, the music stopped. After finally
landing, the overworld sprite of Gold is coloured differently now.
Instead
of the usual red colour he dons, he appears completely white now,
including his
skin. It's as if he came straight from the colorless
Game Boy games placed
into a colored background of the Gameboy Color.
The only exception to this
is that his eyes are red now, which reminded me
of Mother 3's hidden boss, if
you know about it. I checked his profile, and
now, while now is as white as his
overworld sprite, he lost his legs and has
what appears to be bloody tears from
his eyes. It also says he now has
32 badges, which now starts to disturb
me as this change of number seems to
represent something important.
-----
I also checked my Pokemon, which this time contains 5 Unowns
and a Level 100 Celebi without a nickname. The Unown are this time
Leveled
15 and spelled out "DYING". I checked the Celebi's
profile. It was a
shiny Celebi, except there's only half of the
sprite. One leg, one arm,
one eye. It only has one attack:
"Perish Song".
The area I was in itself was the Sprout Tower with the
immobile pillar as before, except everything in the room is apparently
shaded
red now. I walked north for what felt like forever. Eventually, I
finally
encountered some generic men and women NPC. They were all
lined up to the
side just facing the long slantish pillar in the middle.
They were also white,
and nothing happens when I try to speak to them.
I kept on going north
until eventually the pillar finally appears chopped
off, with a transparent Red
in that spot (note that this the Pokemon Trainer
Red who Ash Ketchum is based
off of, for those not familiar with the
game). I went up to Red and
without even pressing A, I was suddenly
engaged and finally in a battle.
The music starts again, which it sounds like the Unown Radio
music again, but played in reverse. Gold's battle backsprite matches his
front
one with the bloody eyes, white skin, and lack of arms, while Red's
sprite was
the same as before in GSC except transparent/colorless. The
text simply
said "wants to battle!" as if he has no name, and both of us
only have one
Pokemon each, which is weird as I swear I had six with the
Unowns. My
shiny Celebi came out, conveniently with half-a-sprite for
the back sprite
also. The "Shiny" noise and animation was different,
as the sounds it made
sound like multiple "Screech" attacks used
consecutively. Red sent out a
seemingly normal male Pikachu, except he
is at an extreme Level 255 and his
sprite seems sad and has tears in his
eyes.
-----
Rather than the usual "FIGHT/ITEM/PKMN/RUN" menu, I was only
given the option to use the Attacks. Since Celebi only has one (Perish
Song), I chose it. Naturally, since Pikachu was Level 255 and is
generally
fast, he went first.
"PIKACHU used CURSE!", lowering his Speed and increasing his
other Stats. I'm not even sure if Pikachu could even use Curse.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!" In three turns, both Pokemon
get KO'd - not like I have a choice.
At this point, it didn't even go back to the Fight menu, as
the battle just continued without me. Also note that there was no
animations at all for some reason.
"PIKACHU used FLAIL!", which didn't do much damage despite his
Level and boost as his health was maxed.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!" Nothing happens as it was
already used.
"PIKACHU used FRUSTRATION!", which did a shitton of damage,
knocking Celebi down to less than 10 HP.
"CELEBI used PAIN SPLIT!", which surprised me as Celebi didn't
even have that attack in the first place. Now Celebi and Pikachu have
about 150 HP.
"PIKACHU used MEAN LOOK!" Not like that did anything
given I only have one Pokemon, but now I'm certain that Pikachu can't learn
that.
"CELEBI used PERISH SONG!", yet another pointless Perish Song
was used.
As expected, due to the effects of Perish Song, my Celebi
fainted. Except in the text, it said "CELEBI has died!" and instead of the
ordinary drop off the screen animation, the Celebi backsprite just
vanished. For some reason, the Pikachu was still up even with Perish
Song
and it didn't count as my lost. Pikachu used one more different
attack
beyond the 5 attack limit:
"PIKACHU used DESTINY BOND!"
Afterwards, it said "PIKACHU has died!", with a slow fade-out
animation. Apparently, I was the winner, as the transparent Red Sprite
showed up and said ".........."
-----
At that point, I freaked out, as transparent Red's head
suddenly vanished, leaving nothing but his transparent body. The
battle
then ended at that point and faded out along with the music.
I'm back in the overworld, with another change to the Gold
sprite - he's now as transparent as Red's overworld sprite. I quickly
checked Gold's profile, where this time the only thing remains of him is his
head, with a transparent skin. The head was zoomed in a bit, showing a
black void in his eyes. It now stated that he now has 40 badges.
I
then backed out and checked my Pokemon. They were all Level 20
Unown,
which when spelled out, read "NOMORE".
I was at what I now know is next to the end. There was
apparently no music playing, but for some reason I still felt like something
was
there that could be heard. I was back in my room in New Bark Town. Maybe
finally
I get to play this game properly, but who am I kidding. I knew that
sadistic
fuck must have done something. I "walked" around my room to
interact with
things, as I'm a bit afraid to go down the stairs to see what
was awaiting down
there. Note I said "walked", as just like those ghosts you
see in Diamond/Pearl,
Gold was not moving his transparent limbs at all as he
walked. Instead, he
just floating around as the background moves with
him.
-----
As expected, the radio, computer, and TV did not work, so I
had no choice but to go down the stairs. I ended up in the same lower level
room
of my house. Everything appears normal, except mom isn't home.
After
failing to interact with anything in this room, I decided to go
outside. To my
surprised, that door leading outside at the south didn't
work, and instead I
just walk straight through it to a void. I continued
moving south to see what
the fuck was going on. My house vanishes as I head
south into the void. It was
creepy as when I entered the void, the outline
on Gold's transparent sprite
turned white to contrast with the pitch black.
Eventually, I reached a white
area and Gold's sprite turned black and
transparent again. I continued south
without thinking of stopping at
all.
After a long trek south, I finally encountered something. It
was Gold's regular sprite. I talked to it. He said "Good bye forever
...."
(notably with a space inbetween the forever and ....), and vanished.
As that
happened, it said "??? used NIGHTMARE" which at that point, I would
not deny
would be impossible to do. Gold did another Escape Rope animation
spinning
slowly downwards like before.
I'm now back into that small hollowed-out room surrounded by
graves earlier. Or at least I say I was back there, as there's no sprite
anymore. I tried to walk around but nothing moved - not even wall bumping
noise. I checked my trainer profile with absolutely no Gold sprite
left. It said I have 0 badges and all the faces of the Johto Gym
Leaders
on the next page of the profile were replaced with skulls.
I checked my Pokemon, which were all Level 25 Unown. As
expected, it spelled out a phrase that I dared to read. "IMDEAD"
-----
As soon as I went back to the overworld, the room I supposedly
was in was then covered with the same blocks as the walls. I then
figured
out what exactly that room was when the final text was said: "R.I.P.
..."
That room was a big grave, surrounded by other grave. Gold has
already been dead. He died presumably a few years after he defeated Red.
He was a young trainer who, despite his efforts in collecting
so many badges and attempts at becoming a Pokemon master, was still unable
to
avoid the inevitable fate of death, and his efforts were eventually
forgotten by
the next generation. His beloved Pokemon he worked so hard to
raise has perished
with him without a trace. This fate happened to his
predecessor Red, and
Gold has joined him.
I was unable to escape from that text no matter what I
pressed. I tried resetting the game, and the same thing happened, at which I
then finally decided to give up on that horrible nightmare.
-----
After that experience, I will never look at the "gimmick
Pokemon" Unown the same way again. They say that only the first generation
have
folk tales and legends, but the second generation have shown me how
unpleasant
the truth can be. I eventually enjoyed SoulSilver
immensely, but I still
can't unthink what that rigged game have told
me. It even made me choose
Totodile just so I cannot possibly
encounter Cyndaquil in that game.
For now, I don't know what I was thinking, but I still kept
the cartridge, which is locked away in my apartment. I probably should
rethink what to do with it...
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