Shielded Memories

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I love Pokémon, especially Eevee and its many evolutions. I greatly like Umbreon over the other Eeveelutions. I never actually got one, I personally don’t like friendship evolutions as they take forever, but my friend encouraged me to try nonetheless. I turned on my Switch and opened Pokémon Shield.

I soon caught an Eevee and wondered what to name it. I looked at my Umbreon plush on my bed, then typed in:

"M-I-K-E-Y".

I had another friend who gave me that plush, though one day he moved away, and thus I never saw him again. That plush was the last thing he gave me before he moved.

Continuing on with Pokémon Shield, I moved Mikey from the PC box and into my party and started to train him. A few minutes later Mikey had evolved into an Umbreon! I was so happy.

The next day I called my friend to tell him his Eevee-self evolved, but when I called him he didn’t answer. I thought he was busy so I texted him and hoped he’d respond when he had time. Another day passed and I called him again; no response. I left him a voicemail and waited and while doing so, I was talking to the Umbreon plush like I was talking to Mikey, both Mikeys; the plush and the game model.

I don’t know how but I could’ve sworn I heard Mikey’s voice out of the plush saying “died”. I glanced over at the plush, noticing it had a stain on it. I don’t know where it came from as the stain was never there before... the plush never leaves my room... maybe it’s just collecting dust?

A few minutes later I booted up Shield and went into camp. When I did I was greeted with a zoomed-in Umbreon face. This was normal--sometimes that can happen when you set up camp with one of your Pokemon. I smiled when I saw Mikey, but then I noticed the stain on him, the same stain I found on my plush. I look nervously at my plush. It was just sitting there, doing nothing.

I heard a notification noise from my phone and looking at it I got a text from Mikey, well not exactly from him...

“This is Mikey’s father, I’m sorry to say but Mikey has been killed.”

...I had to read that like 5 times. I tried to deny it.

“Oh ha-ha, Mikey... nice prank.” I texted back.

“Turn on the news,” the message urged me. I quickly turned on the news and dropped my phone in shock and despair, feeling tears well up in my eyes. Mikey’s picture was there, along with the headline, “LOCAL 16-YEAR OLD MURDERED”, I read on the screen. The news anchor elaborated that he was stabbed in the chest. I couldn't believe it...

*

A few days later, I found myself talking to the plush.

“I miss you, more than ever now, knowing you’re gone forever...” I said to it in tears, then after I hugged it, I booted up Pokemon Shield, thinking maybe Umbreon Mikey could cheer me up. I opened up Pokémon camp, but Mikey wasn’t there. Confused, I exited out and checked my party where Mikey wasn’t there either. I lastly checked my boxes and the only Umbreon that I could find was the hidden ability one I got out of a max raid.

With a sigh, I exited the menu and flew to the nearest town so I can check my Pokéjobs. I was greeted by Hop when I got there, who said, “Hey, are you coming or what?” which prompted a YES or NO box to come up. I hit YES, curious to see where Hop was talking about... maybe to the Slumbering Weald? Instead, I was brought to Hammerlocke Stadium in the Energy plant, which was Mikey's favourite place in the game.

“He’s waiting,” Hop said to me then ran out. I took the elevator to the roof where there was a grave. When I interacted with it, a battle started and strangely, an Umbreon appeared with that familiar stain on its chest.

“Mikey?” I muttered softly in shock and immediately dropped my Switch and quickly leaned in to put it in sleep mode. I snarled at it, "I'm not getting haunted tonight!"

Though I was quickly knocked down by something. I turned around to see the Umbreon plush, where a detached voice spoke; "You can join me. Join me and we’ll be together again...”

“I want to see you again, but not like this.” I replied, and without hesitation, the plush then tried to choke me. “...then I’ll make you!” The plush laughed, then quickly stopped, and it lowered its ears.

“No, I can never kill you, ...that’ll make me no better than the man who murdered me."

I then heard a noise from my switch. It was still on sleep mode but a text box appeared;

“Do you accept me?”

A YES or NO box appeared above it and I hit YES as quickly as I could. The plush looked at me and I smiled back at it.

Another textbox:

“Will you take MIKEY wherever you go?”

I look at the plush, knowing it'd be hard to but I still hit YES.

''“Liar. We both know you won’t keep that promise. There’s one place where we can be together forever...”''

I blacked out and woke up in a room I've had never seen before. I walked out of the room and an Umbreon was there.

"Welcome to the Pokémon world,” it said with a smirk.