Part 1 Cinnabar Island not MY land anymore, but it’s OUR land. Where all MissingNo live in peace with the other pokemon and humans. Trainers also recognize us as true pokemon, because Professor Oak saw a MissingNo and put data on his pokedex! I am feeling so great! Now, everybody considers us equal, we are not glitches anymore, we are pokemon! That was my dream. It finally came true, thanks to all of us MissingNo, my dear girlfriend Karine and my brave dad Richard. My mom was the one who, I think, helped the most. She always disliked injustice more than everything and she is always ready to do anything for justice. She is also a great leader. “Richard, look at this, we finally are considered pokemon!” “I’m so happy for all MissingNo. I am also happy for the ‘M, I mean the Kanga, especially our son’s girlfriend.” “Yes, Karine is so nice. She’s the perfect girlfriend for Max.” “Hi mom, hi dad! “, I said. “How are you, today?” “Great!” they replied, both as the same time. ”What about you, son?” said my dad. “Couldn’t be better!” Then, Karine arrived. ”Hi Mira! Hi Richard!” How are you, fine, what’s new, etc. Only a few months ago, I could only dream of having this normal conversation. I know why I finally succeeded, it’s because of my efforts. I wanted to be a pokemon, to have a good relationship with my parents and ultimately I wanted to have a girlfriend. I succeeded. Now, my next goal is having kids, but I’m too young right now! Part 2 It feels great to finally be leading a good life, but of course some (very stupid) pokemon still make fun of us! “A MissingNo! Those glitch that think they’re considered pokemon!”, said a Pokemon who was pointing at me and laughing. “Stop that!” “Why? I’m having fun!” “It’s not funny!” “Why?” “Because you’re a MissingNo too!” The Pokemon I was speaking with was a MissingNo who was very weird. Anyway, she (that MissingNo was a female) loved to tease me! She didn’t live with us, but visited sometimes! “You’re right, that wasn’t my funniest!”, she told me. “It’s so good to be surrounded by MissingNo.” Soccerpixie, MissingNo’s friend, loved to write and draw, just like MissingNo does. Soccerpixie and MissingNo were great friends! “No, we’re grrrrrrrrrrrreat friends!” I sometimes feel like that MissingNo is reading through my thoughts… “It’s been one year since we met!”, said Soccerpixie. “On that day we instantly…” “Became friends!” “That’s a bit like Karine and I!, I added. On the day we met we instantly…” “Fell in love!”, Karine replied. “How cute!”, said Soccerpixie. Part 3 Suddenly, I heard pokemon shouting and running. A Ponyta tackled Karine! “Hey! Watch we’re you’re going!” They ran very fast. It seemed like they were running away from something or someone. “FEAR ME, FEAR ME!” “Uh-oh! Seems like we’re in trouble!”, said Soccerpixie nervously. “I should have stayed at home…”, said MissingNo. “ALL MISSINGNO, STAY TOGETHER! THAT THING WON’T ATTACK US IF WE DO!”, said my mom. What a good and responsible leader she was. All the MissingNo of the Cinnabar Lake reunited. “The voice is coming from our left!” Everybody turned in that direction and noticed that a pokemon was floating towards us. Other pokemon kept away from it, very scared. As it went nearer, we all paralysed by fear. “My name is Muerto!, said the fearsome pokemon. I am the most powerful of all pokemon! “I heard that too many times…”, said MissingNo. The fearful creature was as odd as he was scary. He was a glitchy triangle-shaped pokemon with anger in his eyes. “I was an ‘M before my trainer named Red traded me to a trainer named Yellow. I got transformed into what I am now! Then, I heard of someone named Mira who glitched dead and made all the glitch become normal pokemon! That was a mistake! My glitchness makes me more powerful! I can rule all pokemon!” “An ‘M!”, Karine whispered. “We glitched dead so we could be considered equal! We were born glitch, but it was kind of a program error! No creature can live being a glitch!” replied my mother. “I don’t care about equality! I am superior! By the way, would YOU happen to be Mira?”, said the triangle pokemon. “Yes, I am.” “You are! You will die and this time, you won’t be glitching death!” Why did she told him? She had always been honest… “Leave Mira alone!”, shouted my father. He used earthquake at Muerto who was hurt a little. “Don’t waste your time trying to weaken me!” He used steel wing on my dad. I never saw a glitchy pokemon using steel wing before. “You will all be my slaves and destroy this world, then I will destroy you! That will make me the only person living in the world!” “How brilliant… What will happen when you die, who will inherit?”, thought Missingno, out loud. “Huh… Anyway, you will kneel before me! Muerto, universe’s new owner!” “We won’t let this happen!”, yelled my mom. “I’m scared!”, he said ironically. “Dodge this!” The angry pokemon waved was seemed to be his fingers. Then, he threw a huge sponge bob at my mother. “What?, said MissingNo, I must have made another typo, I mean…” He threw a huge sludge bomb at my mother. “Much better.” She instantly fainted. “No! You will faint too! Hey, everybody, let’s attack it together! Water gun!”, I screamed. “I’ll use surf!”, added Karine. We all used powerful water attacks at Muerto. “You cannot defeat me!” “Quant tu veux, tu peux! (When you want, you can!) Together, we will defeat you!”, said Karine. “Yeah, we can do it!”, added Soccerpixie. The attack weakened him a bit, but not yet enough. I saw my parents, both lying on the ground. “I can’t give up! This is our land! Our home! We worked hard to get it, we won’t loose it! We won’t let him steal everybody’s home!” After I said that, our enemy loaded energy and used a mighty double edge! I got hit, I fainted… … … … Part 4 I was alive… But not home… Where was I? “Max, are you ok? We’re all locked in this huge room! Nobody is missing, but your mom is a bit hurt.”, said MissingNo. “How come we’re all revived?” “Don’t know, said Soccerpixie. Maybe somebody saved us!” “Maybe we’re in a Pokemon Centre…”, whispered my mom, weakly. Paco, the phoenix MissingNo who talked with us before my mom’s election, was puzzled. “I don’t know where we are, but we’ll see when somebody…” The door opened! “…enters.” “I haven’t given up yet!”, Muerto said with his evil voice. “Which one do I hypnotize, master?” It was one of the last person I wanted to see: Abraham, that shop owner, Athena’s friend! “Yes, it’s me! I am here to help Muerto achieving his fate!” “There is no such thing!”, replied Karine. He used psychic on her, that made her collapse. “Karine!, I screamed. LEAVE HER ALONE!” I used sky attack on Muerto. I was surprised to see that it was way much more effective than water gun! “It is time, Abraham, use your powers to DESTROY Mira’s brain!” yelled Muerto. “You won’t do this…”, started my dad. My father used an earthquake on our target. Then, all the MissingNo joined him, but this time, they used sky attack. “Don’t even try to battle me! You will loose!”, said Muerto. We didn’t listen. We stimulatingly loaded power and launched at our foes. We worked together and that weakened them, especially the Alakazam. “I will win!”, Abraham said. “No, you won’t!”, I shouted. “Argh…” He fainted after I used a powerful sky attack on him. “You may be able to get rid of him, but not me! I am too strong! My will is stronger that yours!”, shouted Muerto. “It may be stronger than mine, but not stronger than all of our will put together!”, I replied. “We won’t give up! A MissingNo never gives up!”, added Soccerpixie, full of determination. All other MissingNo approved. “Charge!”, said my mom. We continued laughing sky attacks. “Get away from us, Muerto!”, my dad shouted. My dad used rock slide. This attack seemed like it was super-effective! Muerto had fainted! We succeeded! Part 5 “Hurray! We won! Congratulations to everybody!”, said my mom. The congratulations were given from one MissingNo (or Kanga, or Rhydon!) to another. Soccerpixie was smiling. “That was fun!” “Even though it was scary!”, MissingNo replied. Karine had time to recover, she stood up and looked around her. “Hey! Something weird is happening to Muerto!” said Karine, pointing at our fainted enemy. He was surrounded by white light. “Oh, no, he’ll evolve!”, said Karine. “It doesn’t mean he’ll be more powerful! Scyther is stonger than Scizor, well, stat wise. Anyway, there’s a chance we can beat him!”, said Soccerpixie. “You’re right, we can still beat him! I am ready!”, I said. “I am too!”, replied Karine. “We all are!”, my mother added. We turned in our foe’s direction to see how will the evolved Muerto look like… Part 6 “He’s evolving into…”, MissingNo started. “A Togetic?”, Soccerpixie finished. Seeing the angelic pokemon with a diabolic face, everybody couldn’t help laughing. “I know, I know… As you noticed, I was not evolving. Because you made me faint, the glitchy potion’s has no more effect…” “What glitchy potion?”, asked my mother. As she pronounced these words, she was threating him with her teeth. “I will explain! That potion made me look like what I looked before.” “Explain further!” “I was a glitched ‘M, just like you were, Karine… Until a trainer caught and traded me. He didn’t like me, because I was glitching everything that was on my way. The trainer I got traded to had a Pikachu always following him (A/N: Here, I am not talking about Ash, but a trainer from a yellow version). Anyway, when I was traded, I became a glitch pokemon whose number was 176. Then, my new trainer released me, because I was still glitching everything. I was the only glitch pokemon of my kind and I loved it! I was unique! I was powerful! I could control the world if I wanted to! But that joy didn’t last long… Some anti-glitch extremist people killed me…” “Then, you must have revived when I glitched Death.” “Exactly. I have been transformed into a Togetic! I hate Togetic! They’re not unique! That’s why I decided to take a glitchy potion I saw in Abraham’s shop! This potion would turn me into the glitch I was before, but it’s effect will be over when I faint.” “That’s why you’re back to your Togetic form!” “When I drank it, I became a lot more powerful! But I was still a normal/flying type Pokemon and I could only use the attacks of a Togetic, like metronome and double edge. Anyway, I asked Abraham to kneel in front of me or else he would have to die! He obeyed. I knew he would help me killing the MissingNo who glitched death! It was you who made me be a Togetic!” “I somehow saved you from being evil and glitchy! Living as a glitch is extremely painful, that’s why we glitched death!” “I loved life as a glitch!” “That’s because you were not glitchy long enough.” “Actually, I hated life as an ‘M, but when I became the stronger glitch I was after the trade, I liked it!” “Being strong isn’t everything!”, said Soccerpixie. “Anyway, it’s all over now! There’s no more potion and I’m gonna be a Togetic forever! I am not unique!” He cried. My mom tried to comfort him. “You are unique. Everybody is.” “Think so?” “I’m sure.” He stopped crying. “Thank you, you’re all very nice MissingNo. I wonder how could I ever thought of killing you all!” “That’s because, when you were a glitch, there was some of a programming error in your brain which made you completely evil. As a Togetic, you’re the complete opposite, you can live a real life as a real pokemon!” “But I hate my name! From now on, you have to call me… huh… Peter!” “I’m proud of you, Peter!”, said Soccerpixie, smiling. “Thank you, Miss Ingno! You’re all very good friends for me, even though I barely know you and some of you may want to kill me for what I tried to do…” “It’s ok, we all forgive you!”, said my mother softly. As always, everybody agreed. It’s great to see how much well our MissingNo group gets along! “Maybe it’s too much to ask, but I would love to be part of your gang!” “That’ll be cool!”, exclaimed Soccerpixie. “As the leader, said my mama, I say you are now officially part of the MissingNo group!” Part 7 Hurray! One new member! I was feeling grrrrrrrreat, like MissingNo says. First we hated him, now we’re friends with him! It’s weird how hate and love are close sometimes. Well, I don’t LOVE him, I like him, because my only love is… “Karine!”, said MissingNo. I still feel like she’s reading in my thoughts. “I love you, Max.”, said Karine. “I love you too.”, I replied. Now that we had mouths, we could kiss! “How cute, two lovebirds!”, said a familiar voice. “Athena! Not you again!” “This time, I’ll win!” “I knew there will always be a obstacle in my life…” “There’s always obstacles in life, son!” Then, my mom used a sky attack and my dad used rock slide. Athena seemed very hurt already. “Peter, MissingNo, let’s give the final shot!”, Soccerpixie shouted. The two friends used water gun and Peter used double edge. The other MissingNo joined too using sky attacks and water guns. Karine and I were in the fight too! All giving the best they could! “Argh! You won, I give up! I’ll make you repay my debts later!”, said Athena as she flew away. “Run away and never return!”, I said. “As you wish, your Majesty.” “She’ll be back anyways…” “It’s ok! You saw how easily we beated her!”, said Karine. “Yes, I saw that and I want to thank you all for battling all together with amazing strength!” “You’re welcome.”, replied Paco. All other MissingNo said the same thing. What a group we formed! Part 8 “Max, Soccerpixie and I gotta go, we have to be home for xmas!”, MissingNo said. “Yes, Christmas is coming soon!”, I remembered. “I’ll miss you all!”, said Soccerpixie. “Soccerpixie, said Peter, it was great to get to know you, we became very good friends! Have a good return home, MissingNo!” “Thanks! I’ll miss you all too!”, MissingNo replied. “It was grrrrrrrrreat to have you visiting us!”, added my mother. “Before you go, may I ask you something, MissingNo.” I demanded. “What is it?” “I was wondering… What is your profession?” “Me? I’m a writer!” “Really?” “Well, it’s not really my profession, but it’s a grrrrrrreat hobby!” “What are your stories about?” “My first story was about… you!” “Huh?” “I’ll make you read it someday!” “I’ll be glad to, but you owe my copyright!” “To all the other pokemon in the fic too!” “I really like her fic! That’s because of this fic we became friends!”, said Soccerpixie. “That was about one year ago. The day we met…” “It was the beginning of a grand friendship!”, added Soccerpixie. “We will never forget!” “The fun times we shared…” “Even though we don’t live in the same country!” “Our passion for pokemon…” “Especially MissingNo!” “And our talents as writers and artists…” “Made us become grrrrrrreat friends!” “What a wonderful friendship story!”, said Peter. “Anyway, we gotta go, MissingNo replied! Bye Max, Karine, Mira, Richard, Peter, Paco, Waco, Dot…” “I think it’ll be too long to name you all! Goodbye!”, Soccerpixie told MissingNo. They flew away, waving at us until they were out of sight. Epilogue (this time, it’s the real one!) Much later… What a life! Thank you, my God, for giving me such a beautiful life! Thank you for answering my prayers! It’s now been 10 years that I live as a member of the MissingNo gang. Life is beautiful. The girls are beautiful. Every the orchestra is beautiful. I just wanted to make a little tribute to Cabaret J Anyway, there is, of course, always obstacles. Athena always trying to revenge and mother’s death, only to name a few. This latest event happened two years ago and I’m still missing my mom. Dad is missing her a lot too. But death is a part of life. Pain is part of life. Joy is too. “Daddy!”, said a voice that looked like mine when I was young. “Yes, Maxi?” “You wanna play catch!” “Why not?” Here I was, throwing a teen chomp-like MissingNo named Cody who loved to be thrown like a ball! “I caught it! Yeah!”, said Maxi with his cute voice. “Well done, son! Now, throw it to me!” My best success is Maxi, my first and unique (so far!) baby! “Oh, you’re playing catch? Can I join?”, asked Karine. “Sure!”, I replied. MissingNo was here too. She was typing those words on a computer: “As you noticed, my first character ever created, Max, is now really happy even though his life has still many obstacles, it’s a life just like any other pokemon’s. MissingNo are equal to all pokemon. They have to be treated equal by every pokemon and human! Thanks a lot for reading my fic. I’ll finish it with these words: MissingNo power!” the end