Rival Blue P.2

This is a sequel to Rival Blue, please read that first.

So it had been 3 weeks since i had played the cursed Pokémon blue cartridge and then sold it. I had JUST finally gotten everything to stop telling me to “accept my fate”. I’m not gonna go too much in depth on that, because shortly afterward, I received a package in the mail, and inside was a single copy of Pokémon silver. The package was addressed to “Specter” which was what I had named myself on the hacked blue cartridge. I had not ordered this game in any way, so i called my friends and neighbors to see if any of them had ordered it and it got sent to my address instead. They had not ordered anything either.

So I thought I might as well see what this little piece of crap had in store.

When the game booted up, there was no “new game” option, only a “continue” button. The player stats displayed, it stated that i had 251 registered Pokémon in the pokedex, 50 hours of play time, and yet only 8 out of 16 badges. The player character’s name was GOLD.

Upon fully loading the file, I was in vermillion city, as if I just got off the ferry. Upon checking my party I discovered I had a level 100 Meganium, and the 5 legendaries available in this game: Entei, Suicune, Raikou, Lugia, and Ho-Oh, all at level 80.

It wasn’t immediately clear what the game wanted me to do, but then i remembered i only had 8 badges, so i went ahead and went through the gyms in kanto, tearing through them with my overleveled team.

The only difference was that Blue was not in the viridian city gym. Instead there was Professor Oak, who used one of his unused teams from Red/Blue, the one with the Blastoise. Upon defeating him, he congratulated me, gave me the badge, and left the building without another word.

Naturally my instinct was to head to mount silver, since that was the only place I hadn't been yet.

When I got to the peak of the mountain, Blue was sitting there, with his charizard next to him. After saving, I pressed the A button to speak to him.

Blue: So, you’re here…

Blue: Do you know how it feels...

Blue: To be the cause of... *sob*

Blue: ...the cause of something...

Blue: ...terrible.

Blue: …

Blue: you’re here to battle, i know it.

Blue: but, i don’t want you to end up like HIM…

Blue: so i tell you now, get off this mountain...

Blue: ...before i MAKE you.

The dialogue ended there, and I was free to move again. I couldn’t open my menu for some reason though. After very careful thinking, I spoke to Blue again.

Blue: I was denied the title of champion of kanto for a reason.

Blue: …

Blue: that reason is because of what I did to earn the title.

Blue: …

Blue: I tell you once more, leave. Now.

->Yes	   No

Upon answering “yes” i was free to move around again, but still not able to open the menu. Upon trying to leave the room, i was greeted with this message:

GOLD: i can’t leave yet, i have one more challenge to face.

Upon interacting with Blue for the 3rd Time, he repeated his second dialogue up until the Yes/no option. this time i answered no.

Blue: …

Blue: you’re just like him, you know?

Blue: never turning down a challenge…

Blue: sigh…

Blue: let’s get this over with.

The game then started playing The champion battle music from gen 1, but in the gen 2 style, as the battle screen came into view. The first thing I noticed was Blue’s sprite. His hair cast a shadow upon his face, which made the top half impossible to see. Meanwhile, his usual confident smirk was nowhere to be seen, replaced with just an emotionless straight line.

The text at the bottom also disturbed me, as it read “You are challenged by MURDERER Blue”

He sent out his first and only Pokémon, his charizard. At level 100 this thing was quite terrifying, and I quickly realized my meganium was up front in my party. I quickly had my meganium, which was somehow faster, use sleep powder. While the charizard was asleep I switched meganium out for Raikou, since the charizard was part flying type. However charizard woke up at the same time I did this, which meant that odds were 50/50, considering a level 100 charizard and a level 85 raikou would be almost evenly matched.

Foe Charizard used Flamethrower!

But it missed…

Raikou used THUNDER!

But it missed…

No matter what happened, neither pokemon’s attacks would hit unless it was a status move. Eventually charizard ran out of Power Points (aka PP, a measurement of how much you can use a move) for his moves and started using struggle, which did hit, and it hit HARD - one-shotting almost everything in my party except meganium, which tanked just enough hits for charizard to knock itself out.

Player GOLD defeated MURDERER Blue!

Blue: …

Blue: that meganium of yours…

Blue: bah, forget it.

Blue: Charizard, let’s get out of here.

Blue: Charizard…?

Blue: …!

The screen then faded to white, and the game crashed. Upon turning my GBA back on, a text box appeared.

You finally have your revenge.

The game then booted to the title screen, with no option but a new game. Upon selecting it, it acted as a normal copy of Pokémon silver. I played through the whole game to see if there was any hint to what had happened, but nothing. Red was back on mount silver, Blue was back in the viridian gym, etc.

I keep the cartridge in my desk drawer, I've been trying to track the whereabouts of the original blue cartridge, hoping it would give me the answer, but no luck, the guy I sold it to sold it to someone else, who’s dog had apparently eaten it.

Regardless, This cartridge has a special value, and I'm not just talking about the fact that it's worth hundreds as a mint-condition Pokémon Silver Cartridge.

Published for TheSpecter500