Pokemon Repeat Blue

[Inspired by Pokemon Creepypasta "Glitchy Red".]

Have you ever dreamed of collecting something in your childhood? I believe some people would say "YES" without thinking. I'm also one of those people Maybe because I love to collect some things made me became a Pokemon player, or maybe in reverse order. Anyway, I don't remember the origin very much.

When I was 9 years old, I came into contact with the first generation of Pokemon games. At that time, they had been on sale for a long time. I first bought the blue version, followed by the red version, Pikachu version and green version After all, there are so many versions of a game that I always have to buy it back When I saw that the four versions were almost the same except Pikachu, I felt cheated. But the game can only keep one save, so I completed all four versions.

After beat em' all, like other children, I began to study various "rumored" glitches and link trades. because I thought I couldn't collect 151 pokemons by a single version. Finally, when I was 11 years old, I collected all the Pokemons of the first generation then stored them in my Pikachu version.

Time flies by Over the years, my four cards have come to an end. My red version, because I haven't touched it for a long time and I don't think I'll touch it again, I agreed to let my parents give it to others. The green version was accidentally lost when I moved. I've kept the Pikachu edition very well, There's no big problem so far. The blue version is not so lucky, I always thought it was lost when I moved, until I found it in a sundry box not long ago.

To be honest, the process of finding it sounds ridiculous, but it touches my heart a little. After all, this is the first Pokemon game I bought in my childhood, and it's the first one I beaten. I still remember those tense memories when I didn't understand what's types and played hard. So I decided to embark on a "nostalgic journey". And this was the bad beginning.

I took the well preserved Gameboy, installed new batteries, and then put the blue card to run it. I skipped the animation of Jigglypuff versus Gengar and went directly to the title screen. Fortunately, my original save wasn't lost, so I chose it without thinking.

My file is saved in Viridain City for a reason. Because I used to line trades with other versions in Pokemon Center. I checked the team, all of my main pokemons have been taken away. There are only L70 Venusaur, L64 Pidgeot, the rest part is the pokemon with only a several levels. But something went wrong when I controlled the character back to Pallet Town. Once my character entered Pallet town, my game shut down by itself.

This sudden power failure is not a good thing for the old games, it may cause serious problem. I think my file may no longer exist, and so it is. When I restarted Pokemon blue, there are only new games left on the screen.

But this didn't stop me from walking on the road of nostalgia. I selected new game. If it was just file lost, I could play them back again. I named my character "RED", just like I did on the other three cards. But this "RED" may be because the game is powered off, some chaotic pixels appear beside him, but his body haven't been damaged at least so far.

I know that some people who are very familiar with Pokemon crepypasta will think of the story of "Glitchy Red", In my opinion, the two stories are highly similar, but they have differences.

Skipping the opening introduction and naming, this version damaged by power failure also has some problems in music. For example, most of the music has lost a track, which leads to the silence of the background music before it is finished, and then it plays again after a period of time. Some of the individual tones are elongated and played in a loop, which even sounds a little creepy. But anyway, I have chosen the Charmander.

After winning the first battle with rival, my Charmander began to upgrade, although it was very strange. Its level rose from level 5 to level 18 in an instant, and the chaotic electronic noise plays from the beginning of the battle, even when the battle was over. But when I left the lab, switching the background music, It turning back to normal. This phenomenon is also reflected in the later of the game, so I won't always repeat it here.

The text box in the game is also completely disordered. The dialog pop-up by NPC or interactive objects is either blank, or incomprehensible content composed of many words, or it may be a complete mess of code. Even if I don't do anything just walking on the road, a text box will pop up. If you can't understand what I said, just take a look at these "readable words" I copied from the game.

When I use the box: "seseselelected ssleedselect havevehave been enbeenselected selected, selected, selected, selected, selected, please saveaveaveing sgameving gamesave."

When I saving: "NO, NO, would you saving to to to to savinglike savingsaing YES, NO, YES, NO, YES, NO save NO, NO, NO, RED close close close NO close NO NO NO save the RED!"

It is worth mentioning that after restarting, the capture system in the game is also completely mad now. I bought some kinds of Pokemon balls, but the probability that they can catch Pokemon is 100%, although some Pokemon will changing to MissingNo. after catching. I had to to release them.

I must say, I'm kinda admire my perseverance. I spent some time gathering 8 badges under the great pressure of a lot of noise and unreadable dialogs. At this time, my Charizard has inexplicably risen to level 117, but the remaining Pokemons' levels are very low. Even if the Charizard has a large level advantage over Elite Four and BLUE, I don't think it can stick to the end So I'm going to change my chaotic team by using the capture glitch.

It went well. After changing my team, I rose them for a while then defeated the Elite four. I would like to say that this last moment is still full of a large number of glitches, so there is no enjoyment at all.

It's time to fight with BLUE. His team is not worth mentioning in front of my new Pokemons. He said the same completely unrecognizable sentence before the battle, but when I defeated him, his text box suddenly appeared with readable words. There are still problems in the text box, but his words are almost complete sentences.

"..."

He was silent for a long time and then said these.

"Its over, RED. you won ththe mean ing less battte."

"Congratssssssssssss-"

His words were so abrupt compared with the previous things of unknown significance that I couldn't adapt for the moment. I don't understand the meaning of his words. Why did he call this last battle a "meaningless battle"? But then I comforted myself that it must be a coincidence that he said these words.

The game played STAFF. But after a while, the background music stuck again and pulled up a long tone. It was useless for me to press any button, so I had to restart the game. My file are not lost and the data is completely normal.

I re-entered the game and my character appeared on the second floor of Pallet Town. But when I went downstairs, the images suddenly wrecked.

What caught my eye was a completely wrong tiles. Some objects that could have blocked the player are now like flat ground. Outside the house is also the same chaos, everything looks the same as the "Glitch City". I didn't try to communicate with any NPC because what they would say is basically meaningless, and I've seen enough.

I let my L134 Pidgeot used fly to Cerulean City because I remembered Mewtwo for no reason. My goal is to catch Mewtwo so that my game journey can end perfectly. On the way to Cerulean Cave, I need to pass the bridge with five trainers standing on it. To my surprise, I have defeated them once, but when I passed by, they will still have exclamation marks on their heads and say confused sentences with me, but I won't enter the battle with them.

-"Welcome to             !"

-"go."

-"Your pokemon your poke has broken."

-"Let's fight! I, I, I, I, I, I-"

-"You're the last RED..."

Anyway, I finally entered the Cerulean Cave. As I said before, some objects blocking me become completely useless, so I can act arbitrarily in it. I will not be tortured by the maze that has plagued me for a long time. Maybe this is also the convenience brought by the glitch...?

I reached Mewtwo and pressed the A button against it Mewtwo gave the wrong cry, and then I entered the battle.

"Wild            appeared!" Opposite the battle screen is a blank. I opened the item, selected the master ball and tried to capture the "air Mewtwo".

"Congratulations! Mewtwo got ca-" the game made monotonous noise again. Yeah, the game just got freezed again. I felt a little annoyed, so I began to press the button randomly. Until I accidentally pressed the start button, and then the game turned black.

"..."

"Mewtwo isn't here. you've already caught it years ago."

The game suddenly pops up these words, and then the screen lights up. RED stands in the glitchy Cerulean Cave, with his back to the screen. I first thought about who would say this, because after thinking about it, I thought there could be no other person in Cerulean Cave. Then I thought that these words might be RED talking to himself. None of these conversations can be skipped, so I can only watch them quietly.

"I think I've seen these things. Every glitch comes from a dark corner of the game. They have never been used, like babies who die early."

"Forcing running them will only make them mechanically repeat what they should have done while they were still alive."

"Till totally meltdown..."

"That's what I am. I'm RED. I always feel that everything is so familiar on this journey, and I must have experienced it before. But I don't care about this, because I'm 'set to' can't have emotion."

"If you were the one who made me lose everything again and again, I wouldn't resent a little. Because those things aren't mine. I'm your shell in the game. I don't have my own emotions."

"... Am I dead? I don't know. I mechanically repeat what I should have done, just like reading datas, and everything is over. Whether I catch Mewtwo or not, it's over."

"..."

"I BROKEN DIDN'T I DIDN'T BROKEN, I ENDED ALL END, END, END MY JOURNEY, EVERYTHING, BEFORE BEEN DESTROYED, DESTROYED, DESTORYED."

"I'm tired. tired. tired. tired. I wanttt waaaant to rest... I, I, I, I, I, I, ... DATA DATA DATATATATA DATA EndDDD, OVER END oooVER endnnnnEEEEnd EN... end."

The background music of the game stopped, but the moving tiles still didn't stop. Pressing the D-pad doesn't work. Restarting and loading the file doesn't work either. I can open the menu, but I can't save. Just then I remembered what five NPCs on the bridge said, one of them said my "POKE" was broken. I don't know what that means, but when I open the trainer card, I understand everything.

Red's body tiles is fragmented due to serious glitches, His head was completely transformed into large black squares. He has completely collapsed, just after the final process.

I turned off the trainer card and then found that RED's sprite, which had been facing away from the screen, had disappeared. The game is completely frozen.

Yes, he's different with Glitchy Red. In that story, after RED knew that all this was not true, he started resistance against the player. But he didn't. He seems to have understood everything since the game was made. He has never tried even a little resistance from the past to the present. He gradually deviated from the normal operation in repeated startup and shutdown, until now. I think the only thing that can be regarded as "resistance" is that he asked for a rest at the end of the game.

He has his own consciousness, but he is not endowed with emotion. He knew he was going to repeat the journey again and again, but he might never get tired of it. He uttered the word "resent" to me, But he didn't understand the meaning. Similarly, he can't understand what "love" is.

Is RED dead? Yes, I think it is. After countless repetitions, his life came to an end. He died at my hands, but he "won't hate me". I always destroy the files, arbitrarily take away his Pokemon, his treasure and dream, and force him to win and start again and again. I unknowingly destroyed him OVER AND OVER, He's disintegrated.

He has never lived, but at this last moment I feel that he is so vivid... How could he not feel tired after all this? All I can do is wish him rest in peace, even though I'm still too late...

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