Pokemon Black, White, and Crimson

While I loved many classic games, I normally could only play games like

Genesis, Super Nintendo, NES, or N64, though emulators and roms. This also meant

that I came across a fe hacks in my time. I'm not much of a modern gamer, and

due to the lack of consoles, I consider myself a PC gamer. But then comes the

issue of money, where I don't have much, I'm kind of a pirate when it comes to

games. Well, to the point, a few years ago, my Dad had got an N64 for me and my

brother. The first games we had for it, were Toy Story 2, Aidyn's Chronicles,

Pokemon Stadium 2, and Star Wars Rouge Squadron. Now he said the only reason

that he got the system, is because Star Wars Rouge Squadron, was the only game

you couldn't play correctly on an emulator. It took about 2 years, until I got

Super Mario 64 and some kind of racing Star Wars game...you can tell me and my

Dad were Star Wars fans pretty much, so what? Anyways, to the point. That's just

the start of everything. Back to Pokemon Stadium 2, this game wasn't the best,

but all it really was, was a game that allowed you to battle. Sure there were

the mini-games, but whatever. A few weeks later, my Dad got Pokemon Silver, and

that thing that allows you to plug Gameboy Cartridges into the Save Card slot. I

loved this game on an emulator, but I never finished it due to me never getting

surf in the game. Whatever, well my Dad tried it out, and it worked! But the

thing is, the game didn't start where you would expect it to.

Ash, I think the character's name was in the profile, was apparently

going to Union Cave in the game. My Dad questioned the fact that the last owner

got by the first gym leader, with a Cyndaquil that didn't evolve. He just erased

the file, played the game, then I came into the picture. Now, we will find out

about my experience.

My Dad hadn't finished the game yet, and I came in, fought the 8th Gym

Leader, Clair, then she told me to go behind the gym into the Dragon's Den. I

didn't really care, and did as she said. I don't know why I felt strange about

beating Clair though, maybe it's because I was using my Dad's file? Still, I

wasn't sure for some reason. I went into the Dragon's Den, and this is when it

seemed to go wrong. All the color disappeared from the game...it looked like I

was playing this on a normal gameboy, I didn't know what to do, and it's just

shocking to see this. I looked in my items, they were all gone. So were my

Pokemon. I even looked at my profile, and it seemed as if I didn't have any

badges. I was stunned, I wasn't sure what had happened, and knew this wasn't

normal, even without playing the game all the way without my Dad's help, this

was insane! I decided to keep going, walked around, and found myself walking on

water. All Jesus jokes aside, this was serious! I wasn't sure how this happened,

but as I kept walking, I saw a man. I walked up to him, and he told me that I

wasn't ready to fight the Elite Four. He just knew, or he noticed that I had no

badges or Pokemon, but he just knew something. He didn't say anything, the

screen flashed, and everything seemed normal again. I was in a Poke`Center, and

I checked everything again. I had my badges back, all of my items, but the only

thing I was missing, was my Pokemon. I walked over to the PC, looked at Bill's

PC, and checked to see my Pokemon, they were all there, seemingly safe. I tried

to select them, but all I got was a message stating,"They won't come near you.

They want to stay in the PC." Once again shocked, I decided to just sit there,

thinking. "Maybe if I reset the N64, and check my game, everything will go back

to normal...", yeah, and after all the stories I've read, I thought that was a

good idea. I took it into thought that just in case, I should probably save

before reseting, hoping that it doesn't save my lack of Pokemon. That was kind

of dumb on my part...

I saved, reset, and then...nothing. I turned the console off, got the

cartridges, both Pokemon Stadium 2 and Pokemon Silver, and blew into them. I put

them back into there respective slots, started to play again, and to my suprise,

everything was normal...if you count a giant creepy Pikachu dancing on the

screen normal. Nothing else appeared, and I even tried to press every button,

even move the D-Pad around. I don't know what was going on, and I just turned

around to see my Dad walking by the room and looking at the screen, "What the

fuck happened?", he asks, as I give him the appropriate answer of, "I don't

know!" He sat down on my bed, next to me, and looked at the screen with me. Then

the music from Pallet Town played, and it seemed kind of happy again, but still

pretty screwed up. As the music played, the dancing Pikachu faded, and turned

into me at the Poke`center again. My Dad, not knowing what was going on, just

leaves in confusion. I finally find the time to look at my surroundings. While

the Pallet Town music is still playing, I see no other NPC character in sight. I

walk out of the Poke`Center, and find myself in Goldenrod City, with the Pallet

Town music now fading. I look at my menu to see if my Pokemon are there, and

they were, amazingly. Once again, no other NPC in sight, so I just used a flying

Pokemon, not even caring which, to get out of Goldenrod. I flew to New Bark, and

I realize that I can swim in the water now! I walked over to swim, not thinking

about the lack of NPCs in New Bark, which I didn't care about, and I swam to

Kanto. This was the first time that I knew of this, or at least I think so. This

actually was the most normal thing that has happened so far, and this is the

first NPC I saw in a while, so I guess it would make sense. I walk around, go to

Pallet Town, and I hear the Lavender Town theme. How did I know this would

happen...

As I walked around, I kept going up, seeing the lack of NPCs again, and

I walked constantly, until I reached the first gym leader of Kanto, Brock. No

trainers were in the Gym, and all I saw was Brock. I walked up to Brock, and the

closer I got to Brock, the more color seemed to be lost in the area. Once I

reached him, he disappeared, and my character seemed to fly by himself. He flied

to an area I had never been too, the Indigo Plateu, he walked up to the

entrance, and I smiled strangely. I don't know why, but I did...

As he walked up the plateu, once again lacking in NPCs, he just didn't

stop. He kept going, screen still black and white. He reached water, and for

some reason, disappeared, as the screen moved. In the trail of where he was

going, the water seemed to be tracing a grey line. The screen got to the other

side, and the character appeared again. Was he swimming in the water himself? He

kept walking until he finally reached a sprite after walking through another

door. I was finally in control again, and walked over to the NPC, as the screen

grew dark. That NPC disappeared again. The Lavender Town music still playing,

now fading. I kept moving, and went into the next three rooms, as the screen got

darker and darker, and the music got quiter and quiter...by the final room, it

had gotten so dark, I couldn't see anything. No matter where I went, I heard the

character walking into a wall, I stopped moving, thinking of turning the console

off, when I heard the sound of what seemed like a knife cutting into something.

The screen filled brightens again, as the colors are back. The character is

supposedly on the ground, near the water again, as I see the true color of what

was originally completely grey traces in the water. Instead, now that everything

was colored again, the traces became crimson, and as if the color itself were

solid, the character crawled by itself. The 8-bit sprite had a depressing

feeling to it's looks, as if it were crying, as if it were alive, and crying. As

the character crawled, it's crawling began to slow down even further. Music

began playing lightly in the background, as if a slower form of the Pallet Town

theme was playing. It began to lower in pitch as the game began to lag, seeing

the water animation slow down even more. The water began to change to multiple

colors, as the character was once tile away from getting off the crimson

platform. It soon disappeared beneath the character, as he falls under the

water, somehow not thinking of grabbing the ledge.

The water acted like a whirl pool, as he was pulled in to the middle,

spinning. The screen moved up, as the text message appeared, telling me, "I told

you, that you weren't ready!" The water began to change completely crimson, as

the screen fades to darkness. My character is in a room, facing up...or face on

the floor, I don't know. My Dad walked by the room again, and we read the text

together, as it appeared, "Daniel, are you there? Did you leave me?", my father

just shook his head. I tried walking out of the bedroom, handing my controller

to my father, he told me to stop. Another textbox appeared saying,"Forget your

son! Play with me.", my Dad put down the controller, looked at me, and I felt

like he wanted me to walk forward, for some reason. I picked up the controller,

and another message appeared,"You are not Daniel! You do not deserve to play the

game! You took his file! You tried to beat the Elite Four, on his file! You must

die!" I put down the controller. I looked at Dad, and he walked up, and talked

to the screen,"Whoever you are, show yourself!", he picked up the controller,

and the screen showed another message,"No. If I am to show myself, Josh must be

destroyed.", I looked at my Dad, as he stares at me. We both hear the backdoor

open slowly, and hear a voice from the kitchen, as the text box states something

as well. The voice was a horrible, scratchy, sickly sounding voice, speeking in

a dark and depressing tone, "Come out, come out, where ever you are!" Dad told

me to hide in my brothers bed, as he goes out to check. He walks forward, and I

don't see him, while I hear my brother scream, and the sound of liquid dropping

on the soft carpet. My Dad comes back to the bedroom, opens up the window, and

tells me to jump out and save myself, I do so, and run. Not wanting to go back,

I only look back to where I'm leaving, as I see a man with a crystal mask,

silver robes, and gold hands running after me. He trips over his strange

clothing, as he falls, and shatters his masks, crystals going everywhere. Now a

greedy, insane person would go back after it, and pick the crystals up, but I

was running for my life. I only see a glimpse of him, as he gets up, and see his

grey eyes, and the charred skin of his face. I kept running, but tired quickly,

after running for so long, and trying my best to run, my body wasn't up to it,

and I fell down, and tired out.

I woke up, not sure what had happened. I looked around, and the TV was

on, my Dad was there, I was back at the house. I heard my brother scream again,

but it wasn't as blood curdling as before, and I realized that on the screen,

the character got up, and looked around on his own. Another text box appeared

stating that Dan, the character, had fainted. The character himself, fainted.

Yet the sprite looked as good as before the problem started. I got the character

to move, as the screen began to brighten. The area the character in, resembles

my house. Where my brother is in real-life, sitting near a computer, is where a

sprite is, sitting near a PC. The sprite for him, looked like a kid in the game,

as if to say he was a mere child. My father looked like a normal character

sprite resembling a man, and behind my brother's sprite, was the rival

character's sprite for Silver. In my place, was Dan. I couldn't move him, but it

looked like he was on a bed like I was, facing the screen, with the sprite of a

game console and TV in front of him. I got up, and so did Dan get off the bed. I

moved to the dresser, he moved toward his shelf. I walked over to my Dad and

asked a question, and I had realized text appeared on screen,"What's going on?

Where am I?" My Dad in both the game, and in real-life did not answer, and I

walked passed him, and looked at my brother. The creepy man just stared at me,

until he said something,"You are now in your own world of Pokemon...just like

you are the playable character, you have no brother anymore, soon your father

will be gone, and all you will be left with is your mother. This is your own

personal hell...to live the events in the game, and I mean exactly!", he tells

me, as he jumped toward me, grabs onto me, and cuts my tounge. "And now...let

the games begin!"

Everything fades, as all I can see is a clock, and all I can hear is a voice

asking me if the time is right. I try and say yes. The area flashes white, as I

see an old man. He tells me of the world of Pokemon, and asks for my name. I

write it down for him, Josh. I am now in a room, I walk downstairs to find my

mother, who gets me ready for my big day. I walk over to a giant building, and

find what looks like a girl, looking at the building on the other side. I go to

try and at least interact with her. I knew who she was...but I did it anyway.