Ed's Game Room

The Eds Play Pokémon Blue Version [Part One]

"Hoppip, I Choose––Wait What?" (#4)

Written by thebestkindofstupid/Reginald Konga

Author's Notes: I have a lot of author's notes here. I believe I'm posting this story on the 5-year anniversary of the Great Clement playing Sonic games on YouTube. I have nothing else to add to that.

The Eds' playthrough of Super Mario Galaxy (which is on hiatus) can be found on my profile here on fan fiction dot net, but it's not as good as this story, in my opinion. I thought it was necessary to split these playthroughs up into their own stories for several reasons. If you are trying to read them in the proper order, you can go by the number in parenthese, so the "(#4)" in the title of this chapter means that this is the fourth chapter.

This is where I've hopefully improved the story. I've ditched script formatting. I'm also going to allow all three Eds to play, but that won't take full effect until the game really starts. By which, I mean, you'll to wait until the Eds conquer the Pewter City gym. Then, things get different. I might also being doing the gyms out of order because I'd like to do a Red Version walkthrough for my own purposes, and I'd like to do the gyms in that game in the proper order.

I've also discovered that Team Omicron is an original Pokémon Rom Hack that looks awesome. Too bad I'll never get around to fixing up my Windows, so I can play it (the Mac version is likely inferior). I'm so fascinated by the idea of Team Asgard and Team Olympus that I wish I had created it.

Onward, enjoy this story. It was a lot of work.

Story thus far: After discovering the concept of playing video games on the Internet to make ad revenue, the Eds decided to play Super Mario Galaxy 2. After giving up on that, they decided to play Pokémon.

"Hello, pigeons," Eddy said to his YouTube audience, "this is your good-lookin' host Eddy. Joining me today are Double D…"

"Salutations, YouTubers," Double D said to the camera.

Eddy continued, "…and Ed."

"My name is Ed!" Ed yelled into the camera.

"Hi," said another individual, "My name is Dave. I don't know how I got on this channel, but I can't complain."

Eddy then said, "So, Dave, tell the nice people at home what game we'll be playing today."

Dave explained, "Well, Nintendo released this thing called a Game Boy Player, which can be attached to the bottom of a Nintendo Game Cube to play Game Boy, Game Boy Color, and Game Boy Advanced games. Now, I was originally going to have to guys play through Pokémon Yellow Version, where Pikachu is your starter Pokémon, but that would require me erasing my save file, and I just can't do that. However, I bought Pokémon Blue Version a few months back, and didn't get very far, so that's what we'll be playing today. I've also gotten to the third gym in Pokémon Red Version, and––"

"Sheesh," Eddy said, "What a mouth-full!"

"Hey!" Dave uttered after feeling somewhat insulted.

"So, if you guys and gals at home want us to tackle Pokémon Yellow, donate to the Kickstarter project below. There are even chances to get fabulous prizes, like one of Ed's gym socks."

"Actually," Dave said, "I think I'd rather have a Kickstarter for you guys to do the original Pokémon Sapphire Version without my having to erase my current save file. I feel people would be more likely to donate to that."

"Okay," Eddy said, "we'll edit this later." He cleared his voice and said, "So, you if want us to do Pokémon Sapphire Version, just donate to the Kickstarter in the description box below."

"Shall I start the game, Eddy?" Double D asked.

"Sure, why not?" Eddy answered. The video footage of the Eds was now in the lower-right corner of the screen, taking up roughly 10% of the said screen. Another larger example of footage was in the upper-left corner, and that was the footage of the game. The GameCube start-up screen came on.

"Ah, yes, the GameCube. I love the GameCube," Dave said.

The GameCube then gave a "game disc could not be read" error message.

"Oh, shoot, I forgot to tell you: The disc that goes with the Game Boy Player that I have is scratched up, so I have to keep turning off and turning on the Game Cube."

A short while later, the Game Boy start-up screen appeared on the television and then left, meaning the game could be played. "Here we go," Dave said.

After the Game Freak logo and a copyright screen left the screen, the Eds and Dave saw the opening sequence where Gengar fights a Jigglypuff. Eddy commented, "Woah, I'm actually impressed. I thought the graphics were going to be really bad like the NES."

"Just FYI, Gengar is fighting a Nidoran in Red Version," Dave added.

"Why are there three copyright dates," Double D asked.

"I'm glad you asked, Double D," Dave explained. picking up a magazine with the Squirtle Evolutionary line on the cover. "According this retro Gamer magazine, Pokémon Red and Green didn't do so well in Japan when they were first released in February 1996. They didn't peak in popularity until the summer of 1997. Then, they came to American in '98. As for 1995, that's likely when they got the patent for the name Pokémon because Capsule Monsters was too difficult to trademark."

Double D said, "You certainly seem to know your stuff, sir."

Eddy then pressed start. "If you guys are done blabbin', we've got a game to play."

"Don't click the continue op––Oh, great, now we've gotta restart."

After resetting the GameCube several more times, the Eds were able to start the real game. Prof. Oak started to introduce the player to the world of Pokémon.

"Does this guy say anything important?" Eddy asked, impatiently.

"No, but he does introduce the player to Pokémon," said Dave. Professor Oak then asks the player what his name is. Eddy enters in his name in all caps. "Wait, dude, you should probably not enter your name in all caps…" Dave said. "Wait… Double D, was Professor Oak speaking in all caps?"

Double D shrugged his shoulders.

"Eh, it doesn't matter," Eddy said. He then finalized his name into the computer.

Professor Oak then said, "Ah, so your name is EDDY."

"I told you so," Dave said.

"Shut up," Eddy commanded.

Professor Oak then started to introduce the player's rival. Dave misquoted him in a speedy voice, "This is my grandson. He's been your rival since you were a baby. Erm, what was his name again?"

"Wait, what?" Eddy asked.

"Didn't I tell you?" Dave wondered. "You get to name your rival whatever you want."

"Cool!" Double D and Eddy said.

"Just for your information, he's referred to as Blue by the Internet and game developers for clarity's sake. Plus, he's a jerk, so most people name him after someone they hate."

Double D said, "Well, obviously, we'll be naming him Kevin. I mean, we could beat around the bush all day, but it won't change the fact that we're inevitably going to name him Kevin."

Eddy started typing in the K and the E in all caps. "You should probably press B and switch to lower case," Dave reminded him.

"ERRGH," Eddy grunted before doing so. "There, your majesty, it's in lower case."

"Thank you," Dave said sincerely.

Professor Oak then said, "I remember now! His name is Kevin." Professor Oak then tells the player that their very own Pokémon adventure is about to begin.

"What does the trainer do first on his Pokémon adventure? He plays Super Mario World, of course," Dave mocked.

"Is there anything to do in this room?" Eddy asked.

"Go over to the PC and get your free potion," Dave said.

"Why would he have a potion in his PC anyway?" Double D commented. "It's not like he was a Pokémon trainer before this."

"A potion in his PC?" Eddy asked.

"Oh, I guess I should clarify. The player's PC stores items you don't want cluttering your inventory. These items are things like Potions, which restore your health, Pokéballs which let you capture Pokémon with a certain percentile catch rate, and a repel, which keeps weak Pokémon away. Another Someone's PC stores Pokémon because you can only have 6 Pokémon in you party, but you'll see."

Ed then said, "That was a great exposition dump, Dave!"

"Um," Dave said confusedly, "thank you?"

"You're welcome," said Ed.

For clarity's sake, the player's character in Pokémon Blue Version shall henceforth be referred to as Red, and the rival in this game will be referred to as Blue.

Red's mother tells her son that all boys leave home someday because "It said so on T.V."

Dave mocked the game, "I love how she's letting her only child leave home because of something she saw on T.V."

"Wow, seriously?!" Eddy asked.

"Yeah, that's what it says," said Dave.

Red starts watching Television. "You know," said Dave, "I wonder what movie they're referencing here. Boys on train tracks…"

"Isn't it obvious?" Ed said.

"What?" Dave asked.

"Oop, I forgot. What happens at Gravy Con stays at Gravy Con."

"You're a moron, Ed!" Eddy complained.

Red walks outside. He makes his way to the house to the right of his and reads the sign. "Kevin's House" it says.

Dave said, "I can't believe they put a sign next to the house, and they only specified the name of the child who lives there, not the adult who pays for the house."

"Wait, what?" Eddy said. Red read the sign again. I didn't mean for that sentence to come out that way.

"See? It says Kevin's house," Dave said.

"Wow, is it like that for Red's house?" Double D asked.

"Yeah, man," Dave said.

Red looked at the sign next to his house. "Well, I'll be," Eddy said. "Maybe that's how it is in Japan."

Double then started to say, "Eddy, I sincerely doubt––"

"I knew it was wrong as soon as I said it," Eddy interrupted his friend.

Red walked into Blue's house and talks to Blue's sister.

"You know what?" Dave said, "This is heavily implied to be his sister, and his mother is nowhere to be seen. That means the senile Professor Oak must have custody of his grandson and granddaughter."

"Where's the girl trainer?" Ed asked.

"Uhh, I don't know how, uhh, to answer that, Ed," Dave stuttered.

Red goes to Professor Oak's lab and meets up with Blue, who says that "Gramps isn't here." Red then goes to Professor Oak's PC and starts reading an e-mail from the Indigo Plateau.

Dave then said, "Barges into people's homes… steals people's belongings… reads other people's e-mails… our protagonist, ladies and gentlemen!"

"What's the Indigo Plateau, exactly?" asked Double D.

"That's the end game. It houses the Elite Four, where you must beat four people who are essentially gym leaders without a single trip to the Pokémon Center. It's rough, but experts make it sound too easy because they're…"

Suddenly, the audio was replaced with a random Internet video. Eddy then said, "Woah, man, you can't say that."

"You're right. We should probably edit that out. Folks, I didn't say anything dirty. It just was kind of offensive."

If one were to scroll down, one would see a comment from Dave which read, "I like how you left out the part where I referred to Pokémon experts as Code Lyoko fanboys."

Red then leaves Professor Oak's lab and heads north. "Where do I go to get my Pokémon."

"You seriously don't know?!" Dave asked.

"No," Eddy said, "I don't."

"You really should better prepare for this game," Dave said.

"Double D," Eddy addressed his friend, "how do you prepare for these playthroughs?"

Angrily, Double D replied, "By doing hours of pain-staking research. I was once up all night reading about EV Training."

"Do you understand EV Training?" Dave asked.

"No," Double D replied.

"Neither do I…" Dave said.

"Okay," Eddy said, "so where do I go?"

"Go north of here. When you enter the tall grass, Professor Oak will come by and say,…" Dave then sang, "'It's dangerous to go alone; take one of these!" to the tune of that Star Bomb song with Egoraptor.

Red walks into the grass (the only exit in Pallet Town that doesn't involve swimming or surfing), but Professor Oak stops him, just as Dave had explained. Oak states that it is dangerous to walk into tall grass because wild Pokémon might appear. He goes on to say that Red needs his own. He walks Red back to the lab.

When Red arrives back in the lab, Blue says that he's fed up with waiting for a Pokémon. Professor Oak states that in his youth he was a great Pokémon Trainer, but now, he has three left. He's going to give Red and Blue one Pokémon each. "Choose wisely," Oak said.

Author's Notes: Join us in Part Two, where the Eds actually choose their starter Pokémon. Look, I know that's a tease, but… Well, there is no "but." I'm not at all a nice person when it comes to storytelling.

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