Mutations
Posted by The Muffin Lucario on Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Today was the first day of the Bark Out Zoroark Wi-Fi event for Japanese Black and White games. As soon as I could, I downloaded my Zoroark in Black, since Zoroark's one of my favorite Pokemon and I was really looking forward to getting one. It was a dude, but that's okay. His children would receive the rare Bark Out move, and I could always breed for a female Zorua with a Ditto, if I happened to want one.
I couldn't wait to test my new Zoroark out. I stuck him in the front of my party, and ran into a patch of grass. Some random Pokemon appeared, and my character sent out Ryx, my Archeops. For a second, I was like wtf? Then, I remembered Zoroark's Illusion ability: It would appear as the last Pokemon in my party, unless it took damage. And Ryx just happened to be the last Pokemon in my party. I was relieved; I thought my game was glitching for a moment, or it was going to start acting like a game in a creepypasta.
So I had an idea; if I didn't remember what Illusion did off the top of my head, chances were Jo wouldn't either. I bred my new Zoroark for a Zorua, who I affectionately named Wisp after a short-lived roleplay character and star of a short story I never cared to finish. I placed my Zekrom in the back of my party, and initiated a double battle. Jo was flipping out. She was like, "How the heck did you get a level 30 Zekrom?" I told her it was a mutant. Of course she didn't believe me. I held the screen away from her when one of the fake Zekrom was hit, and morphed back into the Zorua it was supposed to be. It makes a strange sound when Zorua and Zoroark revert back to normal-- I told Jo that was the sound of them mutating. She said she 'knew' they were Ditto. Of course, Ditto could only copy opponents or allies in double battles, and under normal circumstances you do not run into wild Zekrom randomly, and my Zekrom was level 90 rather than 50 or 30. I told her I swore to Arceus they were not Ditto, and she's all like, "Arceus isn't real, nyaaah." So I'm like, "Well, God's not real, yet people swear to him all the time. Same thing." And we started arguing and crap. In the end, I eventually explained Illusion to her, and she was all weirded out.
I couldn't wait to test my new Zoroark out. I stuck him in the front of my party, and ran into a patch of grass. Some random Pokemon appeared, and my character sent out Ryx, my Archeops. For a second, I was like wtf? Then, I remembered Zoroark's Illusion ability: It would appear as the last Pokemon in my party, unless it took damage. And Ryx just happened to be the last Pokemon in my party. I was relieved; I thought my game was glitching for a moment, or it was going to start acting like a game in a creepypasta.
So I had an idea; if I didn't remember what Illusion did off the top of my head, chances were Jo wouldn't either. I bred my new Zoroark for a Zorua, who I affectionately named Wisp after a short-lived roleplay character and star of a short story I never cared to finish. I placed my Zekrom in the back of my party, and initiated a double battle. Jo was flipping out. She was like, "How the heck did you get a level 30 Zekrom?" I told her it was a mutant. Of course she didn't believe me. I held the screen away from her when one of the fake Zekrom was hit, and morphed back into the Zorua it was supposed to be. It makes a strange sound when Zorua and Zoroark revert back to normal-- I told Jo that was the sound of them mutating. She said she 'knew' they were Ditto. Of course, Ditto could only copy opponents or allies in double battles, and under normal circumstances you do not run into wild Zekrom randomly, and my Zekrom was level 90 rather than 50 or 30. I told her I swore to Arceus they were not Ditto, and she's all like, "Arceus isn't real, nyaaah." So I'm like, "Well, God's not real, yet people swear to him all the time. Same thing." And we started arguing and crap. In the end, I eventually explained Illusion to her, and she was all weirded out.
The Jo Chronicles blog features the various misadventures of my eight year old sister, Jo (formerly known as Musk Ox). If you're wondering why this blog is second on the list, it's because Jo begged me :/
