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I didn’tdidn't want this. Nobody did. Everything that happened, everyone who was destroyed…itdestroyed...it was all his fault. I can still hear their ringing words…words..."YOU LEFT US THERE TO ROT. IT’SIT'S ALL YOUR FAULT."

"What’sWhat's up?" I texted back.

"Oh, God. It’sIt's been there for weeks, hasn’thasn't it? And you’reyou're now telling me? Sigh. I’mI'm not allowed to leave the house unless for school, so can you bring it over?"

"I’llI'll see you around," said Max.

There was one thing that was a bit off. The time read ’999'999:999’999'. From what I had remembered, I had not been playing Sun for that long. I had just gotten the game two months ago. I just shrugged it off and clicked continue.

In the grass of Wela Volcano Park. That’sThat's where I was, but, thinking back, it had been a long time since I cleared Kiawe’sKiawe's trial.

Suddenly, everything about my past gameplay flooded back to me. I remembered that I had already caught Solgaleo (except it wasn’twasn't in my party), and was about to enter the Pokémon league, so, why would I be here, of all places?

exited that screen and begun wandering aimlessly through Wela Volcano Park. I had no Pokémon that knew fly (I mean, Decidueye ''could ''learn it, but I didn’tdidn't want to give up any of his powerful moves for a move I would only use once, until I got to a Pokémon center and got my Toucannon, Fruity). After about a minute or so of walking through dead, dry grass, I encountered a Pokémon. Or so I thought I did.

any game. It seemed to have no face, no limbs, not even a noticeable torso. It was all colorful, static-like glitch blocks. Its name was an absolute mess. "üÓ¥‐‼a4M?" is what it read. I don’tdon't have the foggiest idea how to pronounce it, so let’slet's just call it ‘Glitch’'Glitch' for now.

Glitch’sGlitch's cry seemed to be a slowed-down version of a Lunala’sLunala's cry (my cousin had traded me his once for a Bewear. He said that he needed to trade with an NPC for a Talonflame, and I let him. From then, I knew what a Lunala’sLunala's crysounded like). It was level one and had no gender.

Unsure of what exactly I could do, I had Dusky use Fury Swipes. It didn’tdidn't do much damage to Glitch, despite it being at level one.

Night Shade did a reasonable amount of damage to Dusky. She only had a sliver of health left. How? That…that…That...that...''thing'' was only at level one.

sighed and chose Dusky’sDusky's next attack.

‘Moongeist'Moongeist Beam’Beam'? That was a new one.

battle. I tried to press ‘Flee’'Flee', but all that came up was a text box typing out slowly. "There is nowhere to run."

Wait, what? Didn’tDidn't it usually say something along the lines of: "You can’tcan't escape!" or "Can’tCan't escape!"?

"Summer feels anxious…anxious..." Is what the text box read.

I chose Summer’sSummer's attack. Petal Blizzard.

How could that be? All of my Pokémon fainted. Why wasn’twasn't I at the Pokémon Center?

The usual red blocks that would appear by a Pokémon’sPokémon's HP bar when it fainted didn’tdidn't

read ‘Fainted’'Fainted' anymore but instead read ‘Gone’'Gone'. However, that wasn’twasn't the worst part.

When I checked each one’sone's sprites, I saw that, first off, Dusky had small glitch blocks on her face, torso, flanks, and legs. She was frozen in place. No movement. Not even her cry played. This was the same with all of them.

Rocky’sRocky's tail was one large glitch block, along with his front and back paws. He had no eyes, and minor exposed organs in the middle of his torso.

Summer’sSummer's eyes were large glitch circles made up of smaller glitch blocks. Her scythes

Decidueye’sDecidueye's head was infested with glitch blocks, and half of his left wing seemed to be torn off, as if an animal bit it and ripped half of it off.  Blood coated the section around the tears of his wing.

Salazzle’sSalazzle's snout was glitchy along

Jangles entire torso was covered in small glitch blocks, like tiny bugs infesting a rotting animal carcass. Half of Jangles’Jangles' tail was torn off, and the end was a bloody stump. Like the others, her eyes were empty, deep, soulless black pits.

I felt sick from what I saw, so I exited out. I tried to walk around and leave Wela Volcano Park because I couldn’tcouldn't do anything else. I didn’tdidn't want to turn the game off just yet. I wanted to know what was causing my Pokémon to look sickeningly glitched and bloody.

''He didn’tdidn't like us.''

''…...''

''Did you want this to happen…happen...?''

''….....''

''…...''

''….....''

''………..........''

''…………….................''

''IT’SIT'S ALL YOUR FAULT. ''

Just then, everything froze. I couldn’tcouldn't move my character. The silence finally broke, but it became a high-pitched, screeching buzz.

The inside of the cartridge was rotted. I can’tcan't entirely describe it, except for the board looking like it was covered in mold. I didn’tdidn't want to touch it. So, I closed it, picked it up quickly, and clutched it in my palm as I ran out through the front door.

I ran as fast as I could over to the woods behind my house. I ran deep into the woods until I couldn’tcouldn't see the entrance anymore. I chose a section on the ground and began digging through the snow and dirt with my bare hands. Once I thought the hole was deep enough, I literally threw the game cartridge into the hole and covered it back up.

That night, I asked Max if he knew anything about my game being ‘destroyed’'destroyed'. He told me that he had mistaken my game for his game (we both own Pokemon Sun), and wanted to test out a hack he found online to find a wild Lunala in the game. The hack made the game buggy and a bit glitchy. Once Max had found his actual game, he tried to rid the game of the hack. He thought that he did, so he told me that I left my game at his home, not mentioning the hack to me.

I’mI'm not exactly sure how he couldn’tcouldn't see that the Pokémon weren’tweren't his or that the character wasn’twasn't his. Maybe he thought that was part of the hack. I don’tdon't know. Maybe I will never know.

I’mI'm just glad that it is over.