"Professor Hale! We've found something. A hidden chamber with new clues about the Unown!"

Flash!

Deep in a chamber within the ruins, the professor opened up a chest. Inside were hundreds of small, cookie-sized tablets decorated in a style similar to the letters of the English alphabet. Upon picking up some of them, several small black Pokemon that matched the letters appeared! Using Hidden Power, they banished him to the void…

Flash!

The professor's young daughter, Molly, looked through his research laptop. "Unown…" Then she noticed the treasure test. She opened it, pouring out the small tablets. Molly began to spell out her name and "Mama" and "Papa" with the letters. Suddenly, nearly a dozen Unown materialized! The floors of the giant mansion began to freeze over! In minutes, the entire estate was completely frozen over in a gruesome form.

Molly looked at a storybook about Legendary Pokemon and opened to a page her father had shown her the night before he had disappeared. It was of Entei, a Fire-like dog her father pretended to be when they played. "Papa…"

Suddenly, the fearsome imaged of Entei materialized! His thoughts were in a panic. What the hell?! Where am I?! Where's Suicune! How in the world did I get here?!

He noticed Molly. "Are you the one who has called me here?"

She turned around and looked at him in confusion and wonder. "Are you…?"

"I am Entei."

Molly gasped. "Papa! It's you! You look just like the Entei in the storybook, but it's really you! Papa!" She cried and hugged the confused Pokemon. "Papa…"

"Papa?" It seemed absurd. Maybe this is a dream. He thought. Or perhaps I am being tested by the gods…a test to prepare myself for the unborn child of Suicune's and mine. So be it. I will treat this child as I would my own. Entei responded to the girl he thought was a vision. "If that is what you wish."

Flash!

Ash Ketchum, Brock, Misty, and Ash's mother Delia stood on a hill overlooking the whole village of Greenfield. It was completely covered in a thick layer of ice. The frozen territory kept expanding and enlarging with each passing second.

Flash!

Molly saw a picture of her family. A picture featuring her parents and her. "…Papa? I want Mama too."

Entei thought about this for a moment. I doubt I can conjure up Suicune in a dream. So I'll simply find her a proper mother. "If that is what you wish." He rushed out of the mansion and ran across the frozen field straight for Ash and company!

"What are you doing here?!" Delia demanded.

"I have come for you." Entei's eyes glowed. "You are…Mama!"

Delia was put under a trance and fell onto Entei's back. He ran back to the mansion with her! Totally unprepared for such a sudden attack, Ash tried to catch up, but the Legendary Dog was much too fast. Cursing, he rushed across the field of ice in pursuit, with only his Pokemon in tow.

"Charizard! I choose you!" Ash and Pikachu rode on his back to the mansion. On the very top of the tallest icicle tower emerged Entei! "Darn, he's fast!" They flew up to battle him. "Give me back my mother!"

"She is Molly's mother now." Entei growled.

"What?!"

Before Ash could get an explanation, the flaming dog attacked! With his mighty paw, Entei struck Charizard in the head! "Flamethrower! Thunderbolt!" Ash ordered. Entei just barely dodged the assault. He responded with his own Flamethrower, which Charizard evaded!

"Megiddo Flame!" Entei shot a concentrated ball of fire! But in the air, Charizard was even faster. He caught flame and chucked it right down onto Entei! After the explosion, Ash waited for the dust to clear. To see that his foe had fainted.

"You are too slow." Charizard looked up just in time to see Entei pounce them from high up! Ash and Pikachu fell onto the tower's roof, but Entei smashed Charizard down! Slowly, his paw pressed down on Charizard's neck.

"Entei, don't!" Ash begged.

Too late. His neck had broken. Entei chomped on it, shook the dragon around, and tossed the limp Pokemon right onto Ash!

He began to charge up an even bigger Megiddo Flame aimed at the helplessly defeated trio. "This will end it!"

"Noooooo!!!!" Ash screamed.

KABOOM! Ash Ketchum, Pikachu, and Charizard were incinerated. Once the smoke cleared, Entei stepped on the massive pool of their blood. "No…something's wrong. This blood…it feels so……real." Then it hit him. "This is real! Not a dream! I've been…I've…What a fool I am! The Unown used me! To…to kill innocents…They'll pay!"

Entei blasted a whole in the tower and rushed down into the room of the Unown. "You…you freaks….YOU USED ME!!!"

The Unown simply kept rotating around. Furious, Entei blasted a Flamethrower into them! But a Psychic barrier stopped the attack! It was at that point he realized how dangerous this was. "The Unown…they've multiplied! They were barely a dozen before and now there's over a hundred! They're out of control! If I can't stop them, they could escape from this town and kill us all! Megiddo Flame!" He fired more and more fireballs, trying to break their shield.

In retaliation, the Unown shot a Psybeam at him! Entei's left paw was blasted off! Screaming in pain, he was assaulted by a powered-up Psybeam from each Unown! The great Legendary Pokemon soon became a bloody mess.

"This…is it for me…I can't take this…"

He decided to put his all into one last kamikaze attack. Every shred of power he had concentrated and charged. "OVERHEAT!!!" An incredibly explosion erupted, blasting the mansion and the entire fields of ice into oblivion!

Upon hearing of this catastrophe, Suicune and Raikou rushed onto the edge of the town. They looked on in horror as they observed the giant crater that was once Greenfield.

"This is horrible…" Raikou breathed.

Suicune realized what had happened. "That energy was Entei's…OH NOOO!" She wept while rubbing against Raikou for comfort.

"Oh god no…this can't be happening…" Entei was Raikou's best friend. Things would never be the same again.

Suddenly the Unown Cluster rose up! "They've evolved into one being!! Suicune, take your egg and run! Head for Cerulean cave for help!" Raikou ordered.

"But…it's forbidden!"

"So are the Unown! We don't have time for this! Only he can warn the others! Now, go!" As she ran off, Raikou glared at the swarm of letters. "Prepare yourselves, you Snorlax-serving-size bowl of Alphabet Soup! Thunder Barrier!!" A huge dome of electricity surrounded him and zapped the Unown!

But they began to resist with their own barrier! Struggling to keep generating his own, Raikou began to be crushed! "I have to hold them off…buy us some time…"

The fleeing Suicune felt the earth shake and roar as the area where Raikou was exploded. She began to run even harder. It was only a few minutes before she arrived at the outskirts of Cerulean City, on the east side of Mt. Moon.

Mewtwo teleported about 20 feet away from Suicune. "What the hell are you doing in my territory?!"

"The Unown…they killed Entei! And Raikou too!" She cried.

The Mega-Psychic Pokemon snorted. "Hmph. Preposterous. The Unown have been extinct for centuries! And they certainly aren't that powerful."

"My husband was killed! Use your powers; you can see it's true!"

Mewtwo scanned the world, searching for Entei and Raikou's energy signature. "…It cannot be…" When he found the Unown Cluster, his eyes widened. "No way…they really have returned! Damn it! They're too powerful as a group!"

"As a…group?" Suicune wondered.

"Yes. I'm younger than all of you and haven't seen the legends of old. But Moltres told me the Unown were weak by themselves. They are strong together because of Psychic energy bonds that combine and enhance their energy to the collective. But how could they have been awakened?"

He shook his head. "No, defeating them is not the most urgent thing right now." He opened a Psychic message to every Pokemon on Earth. Pokemon in the depths of the sea. Pokemon within caves and mountains. Pokemon in forests and fields. All of them needed to know.

"Pokemon of the world. My name is Mewtwo. I come to tell you of some disturbing news…and to warn you. The Legendary Dogs Entei and Raikou……are dead."

For a moment, the earth seemed to gasp. A brief silence to wonder how and why.

"Their end was the doing of the Unown, Psychic Pokemon long-sealed away by Celebi. For reasons not yet known, they have awakened. If you encounter them, you must flee for your life. The area between Goldenrod City, Violet City, and Azalea Town is in the greatest danger, especially near the Ruins of Alph and Greenfield Town. Be strong. You must survive. Thank you." He broke the transmission.

"So…Ho-oh and Lugia are in the greatest danger?" Suicune asked.

"Yes. But I fear our warning may be too late for them. The Unown were sealed in the Ruins of Alph, which is directly within Ho-oh's territory. But you also know there is the Ilex forest nearby."

"…And?"

"That's where the Unown banished Celebi to another dimension."

Johto – Ecruteak City – Tin Tower

Up on the old tower's roof, Ho-oh was roosted. He sensed the Unown Cluster approaching. "Hmph. So these creatures have invaded my territory. They shall not make it one step further!"

Ignoring Mewtwo's warning, Ho-oh swooped down and attacked the slow-moving Unown! "Flame wheel!" A small tornado scooped up the mass of Psychic letters and tried to burn through the barrier! They shot a blast of confusion, which Ho-oh easily avoided.

"Phoenix Feathers!" His wings glowed and shot a thousand blasts of energy at the Unown! They collided with the barrier, making little damage. The Unown began to swirl, combining energy and forming a large black ball of darkness. The Mega Shadow Ball shot forward and blew into Ho-oh!

"You'll never defeat me!" The mystic phoenix rose into the air. Golden beams of energy floated with him, charging his immense power. "SACRED FIRE!!!" The entire landscape burst into flames!

But the white Psychic barrier emerged unharmed. Like with Entei, the Unown began to fire off Psybeam after Psybeam. They shot Ho-oh out of the sky, sending him crashing into Ecruteak City…

Kanto – Outside Cerulean Cave

Mewtwo stood there, furious, as he watched the fellow Legendary Pokemon helplessly fall. "No! You idiot! I told you not to fight them! Grr…Damn it! You fool!" He remained silent as he felt Ho-oh's life force vanish. "Damn you…"

Then he sensed something else far away from Ho-oh's corpse. What's this?...No way. It can't be…Impossible!"

"What?" Suicune asked.

"His energy just popped up from nowhere. It was gone, but now it's back, though considerably fainter and weaker. Entei's alive."

Johto – Ilex Forest

Entei woke up. He looked around in confusion. "Am I…No, I'm sure I died. But what's going on? Where am I? Did I finish the Unown? And how did I get here?"

He slowly got up on all fours. "Odd…something seems different. I feel a lot lighter and smaller." Entei walked to the edge of a pond to get a drink…and froze. He blinked his eyes a few times, just to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He even dumped his head in the water to try and wake himself up. But nothing today was a dream.

Entei's body had changed radically. He was sure of it. Because in the reflection of the water, a Typhlosion looked back at him.