Experimenting Fear is a Pokémon fanfic that details a 10-year-old Nando being kidnapped by a deranged Mad Scientist who tortures people using their worst fears. Said kidnapping is the least frightening thing that happens in this story: The poor kid is stripped down to his underwear, chained to a toilet and tortured with high-pitched sound frequencies, then is made deaf by the scientist firing a gun right next to his head.
- By the time he sees said gun, he's been through so much torture that he ends up wishing it would be used to kill him. Let us repeat, a ten-year-old boy had been put through so much torture that he wanted to die!
- A line from the original story that has since been removed had the scientist threaten Nando with various other torture methods if he refused to tell him what his worst fear was, including being violated with a pipe or forced to swallow glass.
- Even worse: By the end, the scientist still hasn't been caught, even though it's been about 10 years and Nando is now an adult. If he's still alive, he's probably still out there torturing and murdering innocent people... and if he wanted to hunt down Nando again and possibly finish what he started, nothing's stopping him.
- And if that wasn't enough, Nando also has a deranged grandmother who abuses him horribly, beating him with a cane, telling him he'd be better off dead and that his parents should have gotten rid of him when he was little. He avoids telling his parents what she does and says to him, afraid they won't believe him (a common behavior exhibited by abuse victims in Real Life). Even after Nando is tortured and mutilated by the scientist, she tells him that it serves him right and things would be so much easier if he were dead. Thankfully, Nando's mother overhears her and finally throws her out.
