The Demise of the Delta

NOTICE, PLEASE READ: Before you read this story, I want you to know that this is the first Creepypasta that I have ever written; hell, it's the first story I've written in a long time. But that doesn't mean I want you to go easy on the criticism. If you have the time, I would appreciate that you to give me your best, honest, constructive criticism that you can. I will try to avoid as many cliches as I can, but I can't get any better if I build off of a biased opinion. And, SOG, if you happen to read this and decide it warrents "Shitpasta" status, then go ahead and make a video of it. I'll take all the criticism I can get, good or bad. Thank you.

This is awful... How could anyone do a thing like this to an innocent game...? WHY would anyone do this? How?!

... I'm sorry. I'm getting too ahead of myself... My name is Zander. I've always been a big fan of Pokemon... The games are timeless to me, even the new ones. I'm not sure why, but they've always had this charm to them that I just couldn't pull myself away from... Sad thing is is that I only have the new consoles to play the games. A 3DS, and Pokemon Alpha Sapphire to be exact. The rest of the Pokemon games are on an emulator, but my favorite game by far as to be Pokemon Emerald. The story-line of it, all the different Pokemon... Everything about it is just fantastic. Despite this, I've tended to play Pokemon Alpha Sapphire more, mostly because it's more readily available to me.

About a week ago, I finally beat the Elite Four. After hours upon hours of trying and failing, I had finally done it. I felt my heart pounding with excitement, an almost childish glee as I walked through the double doors and into the Victor's Room. I saw all of the Pokemon in my team go by the screen, one by one. I only had three, but the three I had were as heavily trained as I could have gotten them. I had been lucky, getting starters over Wonder Trade, so of course the three I had were all of the Hoenn starters, fully evolved - Sceptile, Swampert and Blaziken - And then the credits rolled. The game had saved, and I was just about to close the game when a peculiar screen had shown through the black. "Pokemon: The Delta Episode" it read. I hadn't expected this, but then again I doubt anyone had when they bought the game. Curious, I opened the DS back up and played through what the short story line had to offer. I was a bit lost, so I decided I'd look up a walkthrough. It was much simpler than I thought - To to a cave, battle someone, get a meteor shard.. - But it was only when I got to Mossdeep City's space station when things started becoming more strange. The story line, from what I could tell by the walkthrough, is that there was a large meteorite, heading straight for their planet. Their plan was to use something called Infinity Energy in order to create a wormhole to send the meteor elsewhere, presumably to a different planet, to save their own. Zinnia, the woman who had battled me for the meteor shard in the cave from earlier, had taken the device that would open the wormhole. She was about to destroy it when an option box with the words "Yes", and "No", appeared on my screen, with the question "Take the device?" in the text box above. This was very strange... She was supposed to destroy the device. However, curiosity had gotten the better of me, as I selected "Yes". At that point, my character lunged at Zinnia, seizing the device from her. That's when she spoke. "Zander, that are you doing?! Don't you realize that if we might be in the process of destroying another planet with life on it, a life that doesn't have the same technology as our own?!" Zinnia exclaimed on the screen. It was then one of the scientists spoke up. "Look... Zinnia, was it? I understand your worries, but it is highly unlikely that anything of that sort will happen..."

Zinnia just stood there, about to say something before realizing it was futile. "... You're making a mistake..." The young woman said.

"Look, nothing will happen, we assure you." The scientist said. Zinnia looked back up in defeat. "... Fine... Go ahead and destroy the lives of a million others... I'm going to go and end it all..."

That last part make me flinch. 'End it all'? Why would something like that be in a kid's game? I suppose that Nintendo decided to make a darker version of the story for any adults that still played the game... After all, it does ask for your birthday and such when you set up the 3DS. I dismissed it, letting the dark message settle in the back of my mind before Zinnia had left the room. My character then handed the device over to the scientist, who then created the worm hole and sent the meteor elsewhere. There were screams of joy and an applause, much like the ones heard when in the Pokemon Contests. The game then automatically saved, and it was only then I noticed the little light on the side blinking red. Cursing, I reached for the power cord to plug in my DS, and just as I was about to plug it in, the device had died. Letting out a small, annoyed sigh, I closed the 3DS, setting it aside to let it charge. It was then when I laid back in my chair, staring up at the ceiling, wondering what I should do while waiting for my DS to charge. I then looked back down, looking at my laptop, only to see my emulator window open. That was.. Odd, to say the least. I hadn't remembered opening it before. Then again, I was in a rush to find out what to do during the Delta Episode, so it was possible that I had accidentally clicked it while trying to minimize my browser. Figuring I could kill some time playing Pokemon Emerald, I scrolled through my games until I found Pokemon Emerald, and opening it. The game started out as normal - Flashy intro sequence, my character riding his bike, Rayquaza on the title screen. I hit enter, and selected my profile, opening it. Nostalgia hit me once again when I saw the old 16-bit graphics on the screen. Seeing I was in the middle of a desert, I opened my menu, choosing the "Pokemon" option, and choosing Rayquaza. I flew to Mossdeep City, the area having been fresh in my mind, when the game cut to black, and faded into a cutscene. It showed my character, flying on the back of the Raquaza against a starry night sky. It was then a bright flash of white-blue light cracked the sky in two, showing a massive hole in space. And that's when it happened. A meteor. A meteor that was heading straight towards the planet. Straight towards my character.

It all happened to quick. The meteor, larger than life struck the earth like a bullet, a flash of orange-red fire and black ash covering the area. I could only watch in horror as my character and the Raquaza he rode upon were shot into space, and then... The game just crashed.

I didn't know what to say. I didn't know what to think... I opened the game again. There had to be more. There HAD to be...

The game didn't start up with it's same, flashy, colorful title sequence as it should have. It simply skipped to the start menu where Raquaza should have been, but instead was a small, orange sprite, in the middle of large chunks of rock, presumably the earth that the game had taken place at. I hesitantly hit enter on my keyboard, and selected my profile. The game opened, my character in the middle of nowhere. The scene was horrific, to say the least...

The sprite of my character was a pale, pale blue. His eyes were no longer in his sockets, and blood was frozen to the empty, black crevices. His mouth was agape and it looked like his chest had collapsed in on itself. Rayquaza didn't fair much better... The large beast of a Pokemon had his guts forced out of his mouth, his eyes too were nothing but black, bloody crevices. It looked surprisingly well done, in it's own disturbing way, for 16-bit graphics. It didn't even take a moment for me to realize that had happened... They were both stranded in space.

A small, orange sprite then floated towards the corpses, examining them, before to the front... Turning to me. It was Deoxys. The Pokemon that was inside the meteor. The meteor that I had redirected...

A text box appeared, scrolling slowly in the empty area. "You could have saved them. Instead, you were selfish. This. Is. Your. Fault."

The game then cut back to the title screen, the same orange sprite as before in the middle of the screen. I hesitantly started the game again, and it was the same scene. Same sprites, same blood, but no Deoxys... Instead, the game just showed the grotesque screen. Nothing else. Only a low, rumbling noise could be heard in the background. A text box showed again, this time the text in all caps, the text itself seeming to be a dark, dark shape of red, almost black. "LEAVE NOW." The box said. And then, once again, the game crashed. I put my face into my hands and started sobbing quietly. It was a game. It was nothing more than that. I knew this well. But the fact that I ended a million lives to save my own, even if it was only within a game had hurt me where it mattered most. It was my fault. I destroyed a world of innocents for my own selfish needs. I closed the laptop. I couldn't handle it. I threw myself into my bed, burying my face into my pillow, and sobbing quietly, thinking about what mistakes I have made and why I didn't just let my own world die for a world of innocents...