Pokémon Red, Blue, and Yellow: The Truth Behind Ash

<p><em>Pokémon Sun <&sol;em>and <em>Moon<&sol;em> are now in the hands of Nintendo fans&comma; and I can&&num;8217&semi;t help but remember my first gaming experience with <em>Pokémon<&sol;em>&period; About five years ago I decided to finally play through <em>Pokémon Red<&sol;em> to take that title off my gaming bucket list&period; I had a hard time at first with the maps and whatnot&comma; but I loved catching all the classic Pokémon&comma; meeting Brock and Misty in their gyms&comma; and utterly destroying Gary Oak&period; Gary is&comma; of course&comma; your rival since you were babies&period; Throughout the entire game&comma; you &lpar;Ash&rpar; and Gary battle to become the very best&comma; like no one ever was&period; As Ash you get to travel all over&comma; from Pallet Town&comma; where you have lived your whole life&comma; all the way to Cinnabar Island&comma; battling it out to make sure that you are the very best Pokémon trainer ever&period; It only took me a little over 32 hours to be the very best&comma; and I loved every minute of it&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;115362" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-115362" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-115362 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;16222550&sol;010&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Pokemon Red - Nintendo&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"480" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-115362" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Pokémon Red<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Nintendo&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>The first hint of your absolute evilness is given when you see Gary in Lavender Town&&num;8212&semi;this is of course after you&&num;8217&semi;ve battled him on the S&period;S&period; Annie&period; For those who haven&&num;8217&semi;t played&comma; or who&&num;8217&semi;s memory is fuzzy&comma; Lavender Town is the spooky town that is an entire graveyard for Pokémon&period; What you don&&num;8217&semi;t realize&comma; until you battle Gary later in the game&comma; is that he is there to lay his Raticate to rest&period; Ash&&num;8217&semi;s Pokémon dealt a fatal blow to Gary&&num;8217&semi;s Raticate&comma; and due to the crowds and commotion aboard the ship&comma; he couldn&&num;8217&semi;t make it to a PokéCenter in time&period; Ash killed Gary&&num;8217&semi;s favorite Pokémon and doesn&&num;8217&semi;t even send flowers to him&semi; he just carries on his journey while a poor&comma; young man mourns&period; When you finally battle Gary once more&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ll notice that Raticate is no longer a valuable Pokémon to him&period; Many people missed that on their playthrough and continued thinking that Ash was the perfect hero&period; He wasn&&num;8217&semi;t&comma; he&&num;8217&semi;s a Pokémon murderer&comma; and should be tried as such&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This murder of the innocent Raticate is what drove Gary Oak to be the very best Pokémon trainer and to finally destroy Ash&period; For some reason Gary never actually tells Ash that he is the cause for all this sudden sorrow in his life&period; Instead&comma; he decided to turn his mourning into a mission&comma; a resolve to blast his way through every gym&comma; and even become the Indigo League Champion for a short amount of time&period; Gary took on all of the gyms and bested them in record time&&num;8212&semi;he even beats Ash through all of them to become the Indigo League Championship&period; As Ash&comma; you follow just behind Gary in the entire game&comma; and you always show up just after he&&num;8217&semi;s beaten a gym and even after he&&num;8217&semi;s won the Championship&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;115455" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-115455" style&equals;"width&colon; 640px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"wp-image-115455 size-full" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;cdn&period;bagogames&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2016&sol;11&sol;18150110&sol;pokemon&lowbar;1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"&lpar;Pokemon - Getty Images&rpar;" width&equals;"640" height&equals;"430" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-115455" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">&lpar;<em>Pokémon<&sol;em> &&num;8211&semi; Getty Images&rpar;<&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;<p>Gary Oak finally accomplishes his dream by becoming the Indigo League Champion&comma; and he beams with pride while standing by his grandfather&&num;8217&semi;s side&period; Gary finally makes his grandfather proud&comma; the grandfather that raised him and pushed him to become a Pokémon Master&period; As the two stand side by side&comma; guess who busts through the door to ruin the moment&quest; Ash&period; The final battle ensues with Gary trying as hard as he can to compete without his precious Raticate&period; But he simply cannot stand up against the onslaught of Pokémon being thrown at him&period; Soon Ash stands over a defeated Gary&comma; stealing his dream and ultimately his grandfather&&num;8217&semi;s love&period; You have stolen Gary&&num;8217&semi;s dream&comma; Gary&&num;8217&semi;s Pokémon&comma; and even Gary&&num;8217&semi;s familial love&period; What a horrible being you must be to stomp on someone&&num;8217&semi;s dream so viciously&excl; It&&num;8217&semi;s just a terrible thing&period; How can you live with yourself anymore&quest; My God&comma; you were all terrible children&period; Let&&num;8217&semi;s hope that <em>Sun<&sol;em> and <em>Moon<&sol;em> don&&num;8217&semi;t try and make heroes out of any villainous main characters&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;