The Land of Handheld Gaming/Transcript

Narrator: The day began like any other normal day, the sun was bright in the sky, there was a slight breeze in the air and nothing seemed wrong in the world. Our friends, Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie were taking a break from their journey and had decided to pay Serena's mom a visit. With her mother busy in the kitchen, Serena had gone into her old bedroom, marveling in how it was the exact same condition as when she had left so many months ago. This was when Serena found something that changed everything, but we are getting ahead of ourselves, so let's start this adventure off at the beginning.

(Serena, Ash, Clemont and Bonnie walked up the stone pathway, each step bringing them closer to Serena's house, they could see the tiled roof creeping closer. Towards them, Serena squealed in excitement as it had been a long time since she had been so see her mom, Braixen ran alongside her trainer as Serena ran up the rest of the steps. Serena knocked on the door as the others ran up behind her, Bonnie jumped around everyone in excited giggling. Serena's mom opened the door and gave her daughter a huge hug and smiled)

Serena's Mom: I am so glad that you are home Serena!

(Serena smiled back and introduced her mom to all of her friends)

Serena: Hi, mom! This is Ash Ketchum, this is Clemont, and this is Bonnie.

Ash, Clemont and Bonnie: Hello, Serena's mom.

(Serena's mom opens the door further and gestured everybody to come in.)

Serena's Mom: I have just finished baking cookies!

(Everyone walks in)

Serena's Mom: They are warm and fresh, please help yourselves.

(The cookies were sitting on the kitchen counter, everyone grabbed one and ate them.)

Clemont: These cookies are amazing.

(Clemont readjusted his glasses as they began to slip down the bridge of his nose)

Bonnie: Can I have another cookie please' Bonnie asked,

Serena's mom smiled at her

of course she could.

Serena sat down beside Ash and Pikachu on the sofa,

'your house is so nice Serena' he said,

'thank you!' Serena said pleased,

'what did you used to do here, when you were younger?' Ash asked,


 * Serena: I used to play outside a lot with the wild Pokémon, but when it was raining or cold outside then I would sit down and play my portable gaming system.

'A portable gaming system? I haven't played one of them in ages!' Ash said,

'would you like to play with mine?' Serena asked,

(Bonnie and Clemont nod excitedly. Serena excitedly ran upstairs to her room, when she opened her door, she was amazed to see that nothing had changed, her mom still came in everyday to clean her room, but everything was still in its place. She spent a little bit of time walking around and looking at all of her soft toys before looking for something specific. After she rummaged around in her room for a bit she found what she was looking for, her old pink portable gaming system, there was a small crack in the screen, but it worked just fine when she tried to turn it on, before it could fully load she closed it again and ran back downstairs to show everybody)

Serena: I've got it!

(Serena waves her portable gaming system in the air, everybody cheered, they all sat together on the sofa and Serena opened up her portable gaming system again, the loading screen came on with its familiar music and they were all looking forward to playing the games that Serena had. Suddenly the portable gaming system screen went blank, Serena shook it lightly to try and make it come back on.)

Bonnie: Maybe the batteries have ran out?

Clemont: It doesn't use batteries.

(Clemont readjusted his glasses and as he reached out his hand to take the portable gaming system from Serena, a blinding light exploded from the portable gaming system screen, everyone yelled and covered their eyes to protect them as the light got brighter and brighter.)

(They yelled in fear as they could feel the world around them)

Serena: It's an earthquake!

Clemont: But we don't get-

(Clemont was interrupted as they were all thrown from the sofa and landed on the floor, still with their eyes closed. Suddenly the light was gone, carefully, everyone uncovered their eyes, and stared in shock at the world around them. Serena still held the portable gaming system, but the blank screen had a huge crack across it and the whole thing itself had nearly split in half, the stylus had broken as well, only a small stub remaining in Serena's hand. But that is not what they were all looking at, they were looking all around and at each other)

'oh my godness. Ash, you are all pixelated!'

'So are you!' Ash said, pointing back at her.

'Pika!'

(Pikachu looked at himself and saw that he was pixelated as well)

Clemont: So are we!

(Clemont looks at Bonnie and at his own hands, which were instead pixelated)

'What on earth happened!' Bonnie shouted,

(Bonnie stamping her foot in fear, causing small pixelated particles of dust to float gently around her feet. Clemont took his glasses off to both clean them and give him something to do as he too was scared.)

Clemont: It appears that we have been sucked into Serena's portable gaming system.

'sucked into my portable gaming system?'

(Serena looked down at the broken console in dismay)

Ash: Well, what do we do? We have to get back to our world somehow!

(Clemont thought for a moment)

Clemont: Well, we probably have to beat the game that was last in the portable gaming system, Serena, can you remember what game this was?'

Serena thought for a moment

Serena: Oh I can't! I am so sorry guys, but I can't remember!

Clemont: No matter. Let's just start walking, we'll come to something that will jog your memory.'

(And so they started walking, it was strange to be walking as pixelated characters, their legs didn't move as smoothyly as they should have done and everytime they looked around then they would move in strange jolty movements. As they walked, they were all deep in thought, each of them wanted to get back home, but they couldn't work out how they were going to be able to do this, as they did not know what game they had been sucked into and therefore no idea how to beat it. Serena put the portable gaming system in her pocket, not sure why she had decided to keep it as it was broken, but she didn't want to let it go either, just in case they needed it later.)

Clemont: Hey! Look there!

(They had reached the end of the road, a bright white circle had started to glow at their feet and ahead of them stretched a huge cavern, in the very far distance they could just about see the other end of the road, above them floated random yellow blocks, too high to reach.)

Bonnie: (voice echoing across the cavern) Well, how on earth are we meant to get across this?

Ash: Maybe we can jump it?

Clemont: Don't be silly Ash, there is no way you can jump that far.

Ash: Well, there is only one way to find out!

(Before anyone could do anything to stop him, Ash took Pikachu from his shoulders, put him on the ground and then took a running leap towards the cavern, and he fell straight down into it. Serena screamed as Ash disappeared from their view, his own screams echoing quietly as he fell down. Bonnie burst into tears and even Clemont had no idea what to do. Pikachu had run to the edge of the cavern and was looking down, his cheeks sparking a little to show how upset he was. Suddenly pixels started floating up from the white circle on the ground, they watched in awe as the pixels gathered together to form Ash. Ash looked at his friends in confusion and his friends look at Ash in confusion.)

Pikachu: Pika! (jumps into Ash's arms)

Ash: What just happened?

(Ash steps out of the white circle, holding Pikachu tight. Clemont bent down to get a closer and better look at it.)

Clemont: It appears that we have reached a checkpoint, a point in a game which saves our progress.

Bonnie: (under her breath) We know what a checkpoint is, Clemont.

(Serena points to the space right above Ash's head)

Serena: Ash! Look! Above your head!

(Three hearts floated above Ash's head, two of them were red and one was white. They suddenly realised that they all had hearts floating above their heads, but unlike Ash's, everyone else had three red hearts.)

Clemont: (slowly) We have three lives. Well, except you Ash, you just used one of yours up jumping into the cavern.

Serena: Okay, so we have to be much more careful. (looks at each of her friends in turn) Now, the next question is, how are you going to get across this cavern without us all losing all of our lives?

(Bonnie points to one of the floating blocks above their heads)

Bonnie: These are glowing, what if they give us special boosts, like being able to jump really far or super speed or flying or something like that?

(Clemont thinks for a moment)

Clemont: Hmm, that is a very good point Bonnie, but they are too high for us to reach. How can we get to them?

'Maybe we can hit them with something'

(Bonnie picked up a small pixelated rock and threw it high into the sky, but she didn't throw hard enough and it missed the floating box by a long way, the group all yelled as the stone started to fall back to earth toward them and they ran it stop it hitting them on the head.)

Serena: Okay, no one is going to throw anything! (picked herself up from the floor, dusting herself down she took out a pokeball) Braixen, I choose you!

(Braixen emerged from the Pokeball, it did not seem shocked to find herself pixelated)

Serena: Braixen, think you can help us get that? (pointing upwards to the floating block)

Braixen: Braix!

(Braixen jumps into the air, it took its twig from its tail and sent a stream of Ember fire towards the block, it enveloped it and shattered it, as the block broke the item hidden inside fell to the ground, Bonnie ran forward and caught it)

Clemont: What is it? (looking at what his little sister had caught)

Bonnie: I don't know.

she looked down at the small flat disc, it had a picture of a cloud on it,

'What do we do with it?' Serena asked,

(Ash took it from Bonnie and looked at it as well, even PIkachu had a sniff at it but noone could work out what to do with it)

'Do we eat it?' Bonnie asked,

'No Bonnie you should never eat strange things' Clemont explained.

'Maybe we break it?' Ash suggested,

(with no one having any better idea, he snapped the disc in half, as soon as he did the air around them started to thicken as clouds formed around them, Braixen lit some flames in its hand for light as the whole group were picked up in a very thick and fluffy cloud and carried across the cavern)

'Woah look big brother it is as if we are flying!' Bonnie yelled in delight,

''(Bonnie looks over the edge of the cloud as they travel quite fast over the huge gaping cavern, Clemont shakes his head, keeping his eyes tightly closed, he looks a bit pale. After a few seconds they started to slow down as they reached the other end of the cavern, the cloud started to float back down and as soon as they reached the ground again it started to fade away, the broken disc in Ash's hand faded to grey, the cloud image gone. he threw the broken pieces on the ground, them having no use for them anymore, Serena returned Braixen to its Pokeball and the group continued to travel. The road led them deeper into the trees, and although no one in the gang said anything, they all felt a bit scared as the trees started to block out the light. Just as it was getting so dark that they were starting to struggle to see ahead of them, Dedenne dug its way out of Bonnie's bag and started to spark its cheeks, the electricity gave the gang a little bit of light to see by, Pikachu followed Dedenne's example and also started sparking its cheeks. Together the two Pokemon created enough light that Ash, Bonnie, Clemont and Serena started to relax again)''

Clemont: Hey I think the trees are starting to spread out again!

(Clemont pushes his glasses up the bridge of his nose Clemont was wrong, the trees were not starting to thin out, instead the four of them had come to a small clearing, in the middle of which was a small tree stump, blackened by its age. Bonnie decided that it would be a good idea to jump up onto this stump)

Bonnie: Where look at me!

(Bonnie runstowards it. As soon as her feet touched the stump, the whole area beneath them gave way, everyone screamed in terror as dirt and grass tumbled out from under their feet and they all fell on top of each other in a large pile.)

Serena: What do we do now?

(Serena looks up. They were very deep down in the whole and none of them had any Pokemone which would be good at either digging them out or large enough to fly them out. None of them knew what to do, as they brushed dirt out of their eyes and hair, they all sat in silence and thought for a few moments.)

Clemont: I might have some rope in my bag. Maybe I can design a kind of pulley system and that can help get us up there.

(However, the gang had forgotten that they were still all pixelated and Clemonts's backpack did not open, but he pulled and pulled at the fake zip until eventually he gave up with a sigh.)

Bonnie: Well, that is not going to work

(Bonnie stamps her foot and causing more dirt particles to float up.)

Clemont: Open sesame! Alohomora! Abracadabra!! Please open!

(Clemont yelled one after each and nothing got the bag to open. Suddenly, they saw some shadows fall across them, the gang looked up and saw Team Rocket staring down at them. Immediately everyone started yelling at each other.)

Ash: Let us out of here!

'Pikachu: (sparking his cheeks)'' Pika pika!

Bonnie: (who had climbed onto Clemont's back)'' Let us out!

(Serena wasn't shouting, but she was giving Team Rocket a very stern look) James: We didn't set this trap!' James said

Jessie: (shaking her pixelated hair back and forth) We have no idea how we even got here!

Meowth: Meowth Meowth!

Clemont: Okay everybody stop shouting this isn't helping anything!

(But it got everyone else to stop)

Clemont: Team Rocket, if you didn't set this trap, why don't you help us get out of it?

(Team rocket looked at each other, thinking for a minute)

James: What do we get if we help you?'

Clemont: If you help us, we'll help you get out of this game and get home?

Jessie: Deal. James, Meowth, get these twerps out of the hole.

(Jessie went to go sit down while everyone else did the hard work. Clemont lifted Bonnie on his shoulders, while Meowth grabbed her arms and pulled her out, then James and Bonnie helped to get each of the others out, Pikachu hangs onto Ash's backpack as they were the last to get out of the hole)

James: Say, why do you only have two hearts above your head?

Ash: Because I tried to jump across a cavern and fell into it, then I lost a life.

(Ash looking worrying up at his two hearts.)

Jessie: Wait we CAN DIE HERE?! (jumping up from where she had been sitting.)

Bonnie: Yes, now be quiet.

(Everyone brushed the dirt off of themselves and continued on the only path any of them could see. By this time, the sun had begun to set and everyone was feeling hungry.)

James: Look here! We can roast these mushrooms!

(he found some red and white mushrooms, though as he went to grab one, he yelled, drawing his hand back.)

James: It bit me! The mushroom bit me!

(They all stayed away from the biting mushrooms after that. Eventually the moon rose high in the sky, and everyone started to get very tired. Clemont suggested they have a rest, and everyone gratefully sat down on the floor. Meowth and Pikachu went with some of the other Pokémon to find some safe plants to eat, while Ash and James worked together to build a fire. They all admired the fiery pixels as it warmed them up)

Clemont: (to Serena) So where are we?

Serena: Have we figured it out yet? (Serena thought for a minute) I think we are in a game about two brothers, who go to save a princess.

Bonnie: Yuck! Why doesn't the princess save the brothers?

Serena: (shrugs) Don't know, its just the way the game is'

Clemont: Well we need to get out of here as soon as possible, so how do we win?

Ash: Well, I don't know, I think if we continue on this past, we'll eventually go past where the gameplay is, then hopefully we can find a way out.

(After that, they all slept for a short while, waking up early as the sun rose high in the sky the following morning. They were all hungry, but no one was complaining about it this time. They had been walking a short way, all in silence, when the tress finally began to break, and they reached a grassy plain stretching as far as the eye could see)

Ash: Well, it's quite quiet here.

''(Ash looks around. It was true, there was no sound at all to be heard. No wind rustling the tree leaves, no birds singing. It was completely silent. They started to walk across the plain. Looking around them as they went.

Bonnie: What's that?

(Bonnie points to the far right of them all. In the distance, a small black speck could be seen. As the gang watched, the black speck grew larger, and larger)

Ash: It looks like... a bullet... with a face!

(And it was, speeding towards them at light speed, was a huge black bullet with a grinning face. The gang all began screaming and running as fast as they could.)

But they couldn't outrun the bullet, and as it sped towards them

Ash: DUCK!

(They all dove to the ground, flattening themselves on the grassy floor. The bullet whizzed past them lightning speed and disappeared into thin air)

Panting heavily, they all sat up, ‘Meowth?' James said, looking around him, but Meowth was nowhere to be seen. ‘Where is Meowth? He was just here!' James shouted, running around, and starting to look for his friend.

Jessie: What did you do to him?

Ash: Nothing! (holding his hand up in surrender)

Suddenly they were al distracted by Pikachu sniffing the ground, ‘Pika Pika!' Pikachu said, darting back towards where they have slept the night previously.

Without question, the gang all chased after Pikachu, until they had reached the place, they had spent the night, and there, they found Meowth, looking a little dazed, but unharmed, although he now only had two hearts above his head, just like Ash.

‘Meowth!' James and Jessie said in glee, hugging him tightly.

Clemont: So sleeping creates another checkpoint, interesting.

(A rustling in the trees distracted them, and everyone turned to look as a small green dinosaur looking creature came out. ‘I have never seen a Pokemon like that before' Ash said, getting his Pokedex out of his pocket and scanning the creature)

Pokédex: Pokemon, unknown.

Ash: Hurray! I have discovered a new Pokemon! I'LL BE FAMOUS!

(Jessie jumped up and down)

Serena: Of course its not a new Pokemon!' Serena said, ‘It's a character out of the game!, hey, can you help us?'

(She addressed the last bit to the character. Who tilted his head, made a strange sound the gang didn't understand and pointed to a different path that had been hidden by the undergrowth. The gang looked at each other, decided to trust the creature. Said thank you and started on this new path. They came across a new clearing, and this time there was a door hidden in a tree, when Ash tried to open the handle, they found it was locked)

Jessie: Well, this is stupid. We should never have trusted that strange looking Pokémon.

Serena: For the last time, it wasn't a Pokémon! (sighs) Anyway, look, we are only missing a key, if we find that then we can get home!

Ash: But where is the key?

Bonnie: Maybe it is in one of the strange blocks that are floating everywhere?

Clemont: That is actually a very good idea Bonnie, let's try and get as many as we can!

(The gang split up and they all try and get as many of the yellow blocks as possible. They jump at the lower ones, climb trees for the higher ones, They ask their Pokémon to help them, and they throw rocks and sticks, being careful not to hit each other and risk losing anymore hearts. All sorts of things come out of the blocks, most of it money, which Team Rocket keep. But finally...)

Ash: I've got it!

''(he and Pikachu finally get a block that was floating above a large lake, they are both wet as they had fallen in it multiple times, but on their last attempt they managed to get it and out popped a key that was as rusty as the door in the tree. The gang get back together, watch as Ash puts the key into the lock, and twists it. It moves smoothly.

Ash: Ready?

(Everyone notes and holds heir breath as he starts to open the door. Just like before, a blinding white light shines at them, and the whole world turns them upside down and inside out)

Bonnie: It's another earthquake!

(Eventually, everything settled, and the strong smell of freshly baked cookies reached their noses.)

Serena: Oh my gosh, we're home!

(Throwing her portable gaming system, which now had a crack across the screen, onto the sofa.)

Serena's Mom: Of course you are home where did you think you were? (laughing)

Ash: But we left...

Serena's Mom: No, you didn't dear, you were always right here, with me.

(Handing him a cookie. As they looked around, the gang noticed that team rocket had also disappeared.)

Serena: (quietly) Where do you think they have gone?

as her mother returned to the kitchen. Clemont shrugged

Clemont: Must be back to wherever they were before they got sucked into the game.

(Bonnie looked out the window as though she expected Team Rocket to be sitting outside in the warm sun, but they were nowhere to be seen. The gang spent the rest of the day with Serena's mom, being careful not to touch the portable gaming system in case it sucked them back into the game again, then left in the evening.)

Ash: What a strange day.

Clemont: You can say that again.

Ash: What a strange day.

(Bonnie giggles)

(Episode ends)