The Origins of a Certain Pokemon





Allow me to tell you some things about myself. I used to work for a little company called Nintendo.

You’ve probably heard of it. I wanted to be a doctor but money was always an issue. There is not much to say about my current job however. I enjoy it and I’ve been a big contribution to the company. I worked on many classic games that you know of like Pokemon Blue, Zelda Wind Waker, and Metroid Prime. I sit at a desk most of the day. One day, I had a big rush of papers to fill out and file. I fell asleep out of boredom. I woke up, and looked around to make sure nobody saw this. I left my office for some coffee. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:21px;">When I walked out into the hallway, I felt strange. Like something in the hall was off. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I passed by Victor’s office and asked him if something was done to the hallway. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He said that he did not think so and that he did not have time to chat. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">He was shaking, like he was freaking out about something. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Heck it was none of my business though. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I walked back out and kept going down the hallway out into the break room, however, once again something was off. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I could have sworn that the vending machine was red before, and now it was black. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I took out my wallet to get a dollar for the vending machine. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“Wow!” I thought. Where did I get so much money? I had been broke for quite some time now trying to pay off my home and what not. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I looked around and then noticed a sort of motivational poster that said “You're my slave. You’ll do as I say." <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">What was thi <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">s doing here? Did somebody put this on the wall as a joke? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I poked my head out the door and looked out into the hall again...it was quiet. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">There did not seem to be anybody around but Victor. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I went back to his office and asked “Where is everybody?” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Victor was facing away from me...and he did not respond. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Out of nowhere, the light in his office went off. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I stepped out into the hallway...I stared into Victor’s office and said that the light bulb must have burnt out. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Victor did not respond. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I could not see very much inside. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Just a black silhouette of him sitting in his chair. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The chair slowly turned to face me. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">He was now facing me. I still could not see him very well though. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“Is there...something wrong?” I asked. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Just silence. I stood there, and I began to get a little scared. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Because I was so confused as to what was happening I slowly just backed away from his office. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I started to hear little giggling laughter. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I all of a sudden felt a wave of relief. “Oh he’s just messing with me” i thought. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I walked back to his office to show him that he’d got me. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">But...he was gone. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">At that moment his light bulb clicked back on. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I began to panic, I did not know what to think. I just said out loud “Whatever! If this is joke then congratulations you got me. But screw you I’m not dealing with this, I’m leaving if you don’t answer me because I’m getting pissed off now. I have work to get back to. Could you just tell me where everyone is?” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I began to hear footsteps at the end of the hallway coming from around the corner. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Instinctively I backed into my own office and locked the door. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I did not even think about it. Something inside me told me that something bad was about to happen. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I looked out my office window at the direction of the footsteps. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I shivered in horror of what I saw. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">There was a creature of some sort. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">This thing….it was strange looking. Almost liked like it was CGI or something. It looked familiar. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I felt like I could not close my mouth. My mouth was wide open. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">This thing was tall and thin as a twig. It had blades for hands and a diamond shaped head. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It was dragging a wheeling cart behind it. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">On the cart was a bunch of large cases. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It popped one of the cases open and pulled out a piece of electronic equipment. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The creature tapped the top of it. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">At that moment, a message began to play in the sound of my boss’s voice. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It said “Is somebody here?.......helloooo?........” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I stood in absolute silence. It was so quiet I felt like I could hear my heart beating. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The light in my office then went out. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">My chair turned toward me then in a few seconds a flash of light hit me. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I then heard footsteps from d <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">own the hall coming my direction. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I started freaking out. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“What the fuck is happening? Am I going insane? Am I asleep?” <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The footsteps stopped at my door. The creature could not see into my office because my blinds were closed. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I heard the sound of my boss’s voice again saying “ummm….could you please open your door? I have big news.” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It was a trap. This thing wanted me to open the door. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I kept quiet. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The voice spoke again. It said “.....I know you're in there……...don’t make me do something I don’t want to.” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I began to panic, I did not care anymore, I quickly grabbed my phone. I started to dial a number when a flash of light hit me in the room again. This light began to flicker over and over. Like a strobe light. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">“911 I have a serious emergency!” I yelled. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The other line did not say anything for a few seconds. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Then when I began to talk again the door started pounding. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I screamed! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The door busted open! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The creature walked in toward me. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I began to feel cold and lifeless, as If I were blacking out. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The creature lifted me up by my shoulders, held my face up to his, and said…”GET BACK TO WORK!” and slashed it’s blade at my chest! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I then lifted my head off my desk in  <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">a scream! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;">I had been asleep. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I was filled with disbelief. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Everything seemed so real. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I looked at my computer and It looked like I had just finished my work. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I quickly left my office and headed out to the break room. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">….oh no…. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The strange poster was still on the wall. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I went out into the hall and saw Victor’s light go out again. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I started hearing the footsteps around the corner like last time. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Was I still asleep? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">All I knew was that I was not going back to my office again. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I stayed in the break room this time. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I waited until the creature played the messages and passed by my office. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I made a break for the back door! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It would not open. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“NO NO NO NO!” I yelled <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“WHAT IS GOING ON?!” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I then heard the footsteps coming back down the hall, but very fast. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">When I saw the creature again the same feeling as last time rushed over me. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">I could not move. I was stunned in fear. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">However, I realized where I’d seen this creature before! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It was a pokemon. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">One that I had a big part in creating named “Kabutops”,b <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">ut it was more detailed and was REAL! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It picked me up again but this time said “ONE MORE TIME AND YOU’RE FIRED!” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I arose from my sleep again! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I had no idea what was real anymore. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I looked out my window <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I opened it up and looked down. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">“10 stories up…I’m 10 stories up.” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I stood there in silence. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Maybe I should jump. If this is a dream I’ll wake up... <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">and well...if it’s not….then I suppose I don’t wanna see that Pokemon again either. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I contemplated the idea. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I began to climb out the window when I took one last glance at my office. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">The computer!….it had the work from this morning on it…”I was awake!” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I climbed back into my office and ran out the door with happiness that it was all over. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I turned around the corner and bumped right into...The Kabutops. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It dropped it’s electronic device this time and it shattered into pieces. The creature started screaming in my face. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I started running! A fast as possible! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">When  I passed through the break room once again I then noticed that the poster was gone and the vending machine was red again. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I was awake…but the creature was still there. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">If this story is getting repetitive, it should be. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Once more, the creature grabbed me by the shoulders and yelled “YOU’RE FIRED!” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I grabbed a nearby kitchen knife and slashed the thing’s throat with one quick swing! <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The Kabutops fell to th <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">e ground. <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">It stopped moving and blood pooled around it’s body. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">It was then that all of my coworkers started running out of their office and out the door screaming at what I’d done. I looked down and the creature’s body was gone but in it’s place lied my boss. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">I thought to myself “oh no…..what did I do? What’s wrong with me?! Was this all in my head?! They’re going to give me the death penalty!” <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">The dead body then sat up...then looked at me! It was Kabutops again! <span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">This creature was written to have a mysterious backstory behind it. So I had no Idea what it was capable of doing. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Hell! What am I even saying? I made the thing up! It can’t be real….can it? <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;white-space:pre-wrap;line-height:1.15;">Once again stunned in fear, I could not move, or call for help. <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;font-size:15px;line-height:1.15;white-space:pre-wrap;">It then picked me up….and did what it was written to do…...again...again…..and again.