Pokemon The First Movie: Director's Cut

Lets go back to 1998, shall we?

I was a big fan of the film Pokémon the First Movie, since I was a Pokémon fan back then and I still am today. The film caused a lot of buzz and out of all the Pokémon films this one was by far the best. However, there is an unreleased Director's Cut version of the film.

It all started some time in 2007, when I went on Facebook. My friends who were Pokémon die hard fans like me were explaining about an unreleased Director's Cut and I asked them about it. They said that it was a rumor someone heard about and I instantly got interested.

I tried contacting the people who made the film by email, phone call, Skype and other means necessary. but nothing worked. My last resort was to contact Kunihiko Yuyama (the director of the film). I managed to contact him on Skype and I pretended it was like an interview of his work. Then I mentioned the Pokémon The First Movie Director's Cut. He said "I don't think you should look for it." The call instantly ended from there. The next day, I tried to email him about the Director's Cut and about 2 hours later he responded with "I'm nervous about giving you the Director's Cut, though I'll let you have it. But beware, you might be creeped out for the rest of your life, just give me the address and I will mail it to you."

It came in the mail 5 days later and I opened the package. It was the Director's Cut DVD, though it looked like the original DVD cover. I put that disc in my DVD player and the film started. Boy I wished could've took that moment back. The opening scene started normally with Mewtwo in the tank at the lab, but when he broke the tank everything froze except for a loud buzzing sound which went on for 5 minutes. Then it cut to the scene where Team Rocket had cloned some of the Pokémon from Ash's Team, wow this was pretty late in the film. Then it cut to static for a bit but I could make out some hidden video clip in the static. The video was of Ash standing on top of Brock and Ash started eating his intestines in which Misty, Pikachu and some other Pokémon also joined in, I vomited instantly. Then it cut to Ash and the gang battling Mewtwo but there was no sound, then it cut to static, thankfully there was no hidden video clip just regular static that you would see on a tv. Then it cut to Ash and the team walking away from Mewtwo however this scene went longer then I expected, he sighs before shooting himself in the head. This affected me emotionally since Mewtwo is one of my favorite characters. Then it cut to Pikachu and Mewtwo's final blow however the disturbing thing is this scene just keeps going thus I thought Mewtwo killed himself. Eventually Mewtwo actually manages to kill Pikachu by beheading him and realistic blood is splattered everywhere. Mewtwo then killed Ash, Misty, and Brock by shooting them with a gun.

There were no credits rolling instead there was bloody text in Ukrainian that translated into "Abandon hope and thy god, the new dawn will rise , and you're the next to die. Hail Satan." In the background was a dead Pikachu covered in blood. Then it cut to black.

I could not take it anymore. I screamed and destroyed the disk as soon as it was ejected. I bought the original Pokémon The First Movie DVD to recover from the nightmare 2 weeks later. As I sat there for 25 seconds I heard a whisper behind me.

"Lets watch it in private, shall we?"

Behind me was a Pikachu doll with red eyes smiling. I threw that doll out the window and I watched it fall into a nearby trash can.

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