Blue Prologue
Blue Oak approached the grave he had visited every year for the past 17 years. He was alone in the room where his Raticate was laid to rest. Somehow, Blue felt Raticate's presence, but even then, he felt alone. It was a gloomy, rainy day. The residents of Lavender Town were all inside their homes, the Pokémon Center, the Mart, or the Tower like him, either visiting their lost Pokémon, or sheltering themselves from the rain.
He remembered when he first visited this grave, how his eyes were wet with tears as he lowered his poor Pokémon into the ground. He could've saved him. He shouldn't have pushed him so hard to attack Red's Pokémon! If only he had ran faster off that damned boat! Maybe then Raticate would've survived...
Blue looked back on the old days, when he had become a bully, when he had stopped playing with Red, when things weren't so good, when he was alone. Back then, his grandfather was always trying to get him to be the best, he was still upset about the loss of his parents, he had no Leaf, nor did he have a friend in Red.
The gravestone had begun broken down over the years, it wasn't as shiny as it once was. Blue thought about when they first put it down, how he was happy that his precious Pokémon had a nice surrounding. The stone had broken down over the years, from the people bumping into it, the occasional leak in the roof bringing rain down onto it, and nature itself. Now, it was a crumbling grey mess, Blue could barely make out the message he wanted to have been written 17 years ago: "My dear Raticate, Red won't get away this. I'll beat him to the Pokémon League and make my grandfather proud, for you". Below that read: "Blue Oak's Raticate, Birth unknown, died January 19th, 1996.
Blue kneeled down, and, placing the flowers he had brought in front of the grave (lavenders, appropriately), he felt a single tear form in his eye. The tear dropped from his eye and fell onto the flowers, like the rain falling into a field. Blue looked back on that wonderful and yet horrible morning in 1996...