MissingNo

**MissingNo** is a creature that was created from the remnants of The Old Timeline. He exists outside the linear time-stream of the rebooted universe and thrives on the despair and suffering of those within it. He also seems to have some precognitive abilities. Beyond screwing with Ash, MissingNo's goals are currently unclear. It has the ability to manifest inside dreams and can take whatever form it pleases.

## History

*Due to MissingNo living outside of time for the Resetverse, all entries to his History will be in publishing order.*

MissingNo first revealed himself to Ash Ketchum and his Pokémon shortly after they left Rota. He told Ash of his origins being tied to The Old Timeline, and that he was responsible for Ash and all of his traveling companions being capable of reaching their greatest dreams. This ability was in exchange for something dear to each of them.

MissingNo made himself known next to Ash when the boy was captured and petrified by Hunter J. He challenged Ash to act the hero of the story as he had done in The Old Timeline.

During one Christmas, MissingNo battled Santa Claus in Mina's dreamscape.

MissingNo then approached Ash in his dreams after the Gringy City incident. He was surprised that the youth could dream such weird dreams without his influence. Before MissingNo could see if he could make things weirder Ash was awoken by John Archer's Gardevoir.

During the Fuchsia Tag Tournament, MissingNo appeared in Ash's dream once again. Here he shows Ash a vision of what at one point was the definite future, but has since been changed. This future is apocalyptic and when a group of survivors mentions a pair of twins named Frax and Velvet Lono, MissingNo pops them into existence for Ash to see. He does this a little too well and the twins were aware of what was happening. After the three notice their similarities he pops them back out. As the ongoing conversation of the other characters of the dream mentions a Bloodliner War, MissingNo draws a picture for Ash to see. This picture is of Ash and his friends along with both people and Pokémon he is familiar with and others he is not, battling against a shadowy figure with a large crown and red eyes who stands over his own army of figures, in the background their are various legendary Pokémon in forms Ash does not recognize. MissingNo then allows the dream to play out a bit more before releasing Ash and allowing him to wake up.

MissingNo then took control of a drug induced dream that Wicke was having. In the dream Wicke was experiencing an alternate version of a rave that happened seventeen years prior. Then MissingNo confronted her and commented on her dream and then allowed the dream to continue on its own.

The Dude was the next person to be visited by MissingNo. MissingNo used the Dude as someone he could bounce his complaints of Ash off of. He complained that Ash's journey was taking too long to happen and even when he tried to show the boy a dream, Ash just rolled with the punches instead of reacting in his opinion appropriately. He also complained that while some nobodies got to have wild adventures, the universe was not what he wanted, with unending miseries. The Dude responded that anyone was deserving of adventures and that MissingNo should just stop being such a jerk. MissingNo was amazed with The Dude's ability to handle his obstinance and agreed he could focus more on the "side characters" instead of Ash.

The first side character that MissingNo investigated was the Bloodliner Hunter. When looking at his history, MissingNo was surprised to see a whole story involving Cyrus. After it reached a slowing down point, MissingNo appeared before the then priest William Stronger and helped give him the motivation to take up the hunt for Bloodliners.

MissingNo then tried to guide Sir Aaron into some ruins with remnants of time interlaced in them. Celebi appeared and put a stop to this before it could get anywhere significant though.

On another Christmas MissingNo once again encountered the Dude. When the Dude insulted MissingNo, he retaliated by mass cloning the Poké Balls in the Dude's bag before vanishing. The Dude was able to utilize all of the balls to MissingNo's surprise. MissingNo then left to try to find someone having a miserable Christmas.

MissingNo then made it a mission of his to create a cult to worship him throughout time. However time and time again a legion of Pokémon stood in his way, and instead of worshiping him they worshiped the Pokémon under the religion of Helixism.

MissingNo was then confronted by a glitch caused by his own travels through the timelines, ZZAZZ. ZZAZZ attempted to take over the Resetverse in order to remake it in its own image, but MissingNo would not accept his play things being taken from him. MissingNo split ZZAZZ apart into shards and threw them across time. When it became apparent that ZZAZZ was trying to change things even in this form, MissingNo had to travel to different points in time to influence others to destroy the gemstones holding ZZAZZ shards. When all the shards had been eliminated except one, MissingNo froze an isolated small section of the world containing that shard from time and place it somewhere else along the timeline so that it would wind up in a split timeline where nearly all of life had been wiped out. He then buried the shard beneath the earth after its one chance of being found by Wes, prior to his trip through time, passed it by.

## Alleged Alterations to Character Histories

* Brock finally found love at the cost of losing his parents, who were never around to begin with.
* Misty became able to become the world's greatest water trainer at the cost of a relationship with her family.
* Ash became capable of becoming a Pokémon Master at the cost of not having a loving father.
* Something would have happened to May, but Norman managed to prevent it.
* Cilan lost a relationship with his brothers.
* Dawn became able to win a Grand Festival at the cost of something horrific.

## Trivia

* MissingNo was originally so poorly received in **"Truth, both good and bad"** that Crossoverpairinglover cut him out completely until **"Approaching the Hunter's trap"**.
* Image created by acpeters.

## Links

1. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/acpeters/art/Reset-Bloodlines-MissingNo-Design-985630256