Author Note:

Well…uh here's the second chapter. We'll have switch in POV for the first time, so yeah. And uh… I'm not sure what else to say, since this is my second chapter update. Um… enjoy I guess sounds right. :P

Chapter 2

Forever Found

Pallet Town: Red's House

6:00 a.m.

I sat on my bed, eyes closed, allowing my ears to take over my senses. Waiting for a particular call, message, or sign… Assuming that it will be showing up anytime soon! I open my eyes and peer over to my clock. "I thought he told me, Six o'clock a.m.?" I recalled yesterday over the phone. "Or maybe he said Seven o'clock a.m.?" I reckoned. Looking back again at the clock, "Then there's still one hour left … Oh what the heck." I declared aloud and stretched out on the bed.

Just staring up at the ceiling, I contemplated what I did ever since I left Professor Oak's lab two nights ago. After the long drowsy conversation the three of us had (Me, Green, and Oak), I of course went straight back home. Then I practically crawled under my bed covers and fell into a deep slumber. That tremendously kept me knocked out throughout most of the entire day; which sort of makes me worry about whether this would ruin my sleeping habits all together. This would mean I had awakened from my state of dormancy at around 9:30 p.m. with no sunlight to refresh myself. Miserably, my body was terribly sore from the long scuffle with Green, so I had no other choice but to let the pain put me back to sleep. Several hours later during the middle of the night, I literally popped like a popcorn kernel when I had just remembered to pack up for the trip, and after that I just quietly awaited for Green to come over and pick me up, so we could head off together. I know that sounds pretty weird, right? Me and Green, hardly know each other, just heading off on a journey to some geek's house, where we'll need to pass by cities, forests, we've never been too.

But the only real problem right now is… "Where in the world is Green!" I demanded. "And it's already Seven o'clock now!" Fed up with waiting, I had to get to the bottom of this. Flinging my backpack over my back, I marched downstairs and thundered my way towards Oak's House of Residence.

Pallet Town: Oak's House of Residence (Green's House)

7:20 a.m.

Thankfully the location of the home was only about a mile away from my house, so my legs didn't have too much trouble stomping its way down the dirt road. The house itself was two-stories and was just as big as mine, or maybe a little bit larger. There was an assortment of different flowers in the front, which made the house look much less than what I had in mind for Green.

Advancing to the front portal, I kicked down the front door taking a step inside. Gathering all attention with a cigar in mouth, I give my shotgun a good pump, and then declare, "'merica!"

Okay, I know that is not how it all went down, but I sort of wish it did… Because before I could even ring the doorbell, a nice lady (who frighteningly looks like an older female version of Green) opens the door, and completely puts me on the spot; asking me who I might be. She patiently stares at me with kind, gentle eyes. This made me feel lost for words. At least 10 minutes had to have already passed and she still awaits my answer, but all I could clumsily give her was an, "uhhhhh…"

Keeping a smile upon her face, she tilts her head and kindly suggests, "Are you one of Green's friends?"

I didn't really consider us "friends", but I thought it was just a good idea to agree, so I nodded with a stiff face, "Uh huh."

Suddenly her whole face lit up with excitement and her eyes began to sparkle, "Oh this is so exciting! I have always wanted to meet my little brother's new friend!" Little brother? I processed. Is she talking about Green? I observed her overall appearance in hopes that my mind was just playing tricks on me, but this was real, she resembled him… a lot. Besides being older and a female…she was even wearing the same clothing attire, except instead of brown boots, they were just slippers (because she's inside the house of course). "My name's Daisy Oak," she introduced.

"R-Red," I choked. Not sure why I did though, because usually people describe me more of an outgoing kind of kid. But guessing because Daisy looks so much like Green in-a-way, that it reminds me of my long, terrible ordeal with him; makes me feel as though he sprayed some magic-growth hair product, grew a good foot in height overnight, and flipped his personality upside down.

"Please come in," she gestured inside.

"Um, thank you," I said nervously. Walking inside, the interior of house was much neater than what I saw back at the lab. I was lead to a dining room table, and signaled to take a seat.

Then completely out of nowhere she started to giggle, "I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to startle you outside." She apologized. "It's just when Green was younger, he never went outside to play with the other kids. And this made me worried he wouldn't be able to make any friends. No surprise there. So it's just funny, because you came here this morning, and it's like a miracle had shown up knocking on the door."

"Oh yeah, we're awesome friends," I agreed, hiding the very thought of our first encounter. Daisy smiled happily at me and disappeared into the kitchen. I took this opportunity to consider some more thoughts. First off, it wasn't much of a surprise to me that Green was never been able to make any friends, probably because he always seems so serious. I'm not very sure if I can even stand to be friends with someone like him. And that's saying something, considering my sociability with others. I then put into account how happy Daisy was. But she was very cheerful about me being his friend; I know I'm not mean enough to take that away. I turned to the positives. Maybe I should give Green a chance? Daisy came back in, setting down a glass of warm hot chocolate, but I just stared thoughtfully at my brown reflection in it. After all, it was all just a big misunderstanding when we met each other, I smiled.

"So Red, what brought you here in the first place?" she asked. "Weren't you two supposed to travel all the way to Cerulean Cape?"

"Oh yeah, I came here to check on Green." I glanced around the room as if he were standing around quietly in it. "Where is he anyways?" I questioned.

"Green?" she raised. "My little brother left early this morning." She pointed out. "I believe around 2:50 a.m."

"You gotta be kidding me!" I jumped up out of my seat. He actually left without me! After my period of madness, I thanked Daisy for letting me in, and that it was nice meeting her; all the while making a dash for the door.

"Wait Red!" she yelled out. I halted and turned around. Daisy came thrusting some type of scroll into my hand. "Here, it's the town map." She stated. "I gave one to Green before he left this morning, and still had one extra, so I want to give it to you."

"Thank you, Daisy!" I said with gratitude. I put the map into my backpack and ran off to the bus station outside of town. I can't believe it, now I'm the one chasing him.

Viridian City: Bus Stop

11:10 a.m.

I walked down the bus aisle to get out, and luckily for me the bus driver was different this time; wouldn't want him to ask me if I'm alright, since this would be my third ride to Viridian City. Stepping out of the large vehicle, I jumped at the sound of Green, who was leaning against the bus sign. "You're late."

"How could I be late, if you never told me anything about meeting here," I argued.

"I did." He said in disapproval. "I told you over the phone. We were to meet here at exactly 6:00 a.m."

"Oh, well… at least I listened to the 6:00 a.m. part." I threw out, but Green just stared back at me as if he expected me to fail. And before I could say anything else, my body had collapsed onto the ground.

"What are you doing?" he questioned.

"Need food…" I mumbled with exhaustion. Green sighed.

Viridian City: Some random Pancake House…

11:30 a.m.

POV: Green

I tossed Red onto a restaurant seat, and situated myself across from him. Ever since he collapsed at the bus stop, Red kept on mumbling about food. And even though I could have picked him onto my back, preferably decided to drag him on the cement ground, which was a drag all in itself. What was grandpa thinking, when he told me to take him along as well. I could've already been on my way to Pewter City without this dead weight. A waitress came and introduced herself as Betty. She started with pouring us some orange juice (which she stated was free), and began to take our orders, but I waved her off when she looked at me first.

Red was still outstretched on the restaurant chair. "ols-zu-kaan-nete-ankakes…" I heard him mumble. I turned my attention away when Betty was trying to translate his foreign language.

As Red was lying in wait for his food to come, I was able to pass the time by consistently replaying the battle I had with Red in my mind, which irritated me a lot. Just why could I have lost to him? Sure the battle had seemed like it was about to end in a draw, but if not for that wave, I would have lost. I stared down at Red, even though I could only see apart of him. Did Grandpa really send him along, because he is stronger than me? Was my training all for nothing? My fist clenched at these inner thoughts.

I had regained my composure when Betty came back with a heaping plate of pancakes, "All-You-Can-Eat..."

Red instantly shot up from his seat yelling, "Pancakes!" And for the next 30 minutes, I had to endure the revolting sounds come out of Red's mouth. From what felt like hours of him slurping and scarfing down plate-by-plate buttermilk pancakes, topped with an ice cream scoop of butter, and drenched with pure maple syrup. Disgusting… "Are you sure you don't want any pancakes Green," he shoved a sliced over my face that caused me to jump back.

"I'd rather take no part in your… flapjack massacre," I told him. At least he's using silverware... I then witnessed Red fold a single cake then pierced it with his fork, and shoved it all into the black hole you would identify as his mouth. Or weaponry…

"Okay then Gween if you inshist," he said with his mouth full. He then forced the whole piece to slide down his throat. "But I guess this is what happens when you haven't eaten in two days straight. And these taste way better than the mix I buy for home."

"Red I need to discuss with you, our plans for travel." I said reaching into my sack for the town map I got from my sister, Daisy.

But then Betty came back smiling, "More pancakes." And I just froze and thought to myself.

Betty= :)… Red= :D… Me= :(

I let go of the scroll, "Never mind, I'll just talk it over. Wouldn't want my town map to get all sticky," I felt like throwing that part out. Red responded with an "mmph" sound."Yes, onto business, our first destination will be Pewter City. In order for us to get there, we'll need to walk through Viridian Forest."

Red swallowed, "Walk? Why don't we just take a bus there?"

"Because there are no buses that can drive through the forest, since the trees cause the forest to be too dense," I answered. "So we'll have to walk our way through; which should take us about four days."

"Four days!" Red cried.

"Yes, give or take a few." I added. "It all depends on whether or not we'll get lost through its winding maze."

"Well good then," he said. "Because now I'm full of energy (pancakes) and ready to roll."

"Your bill, kids," said Betty handing me a slip of paper. I took a look at the numbers and slid it towards Red.

"Hey!" he whined.

"What? I didn't eat." I pointed at the wall of 5x3 stacked plates organized horizontally across the table.

12:20 p.m.

POV: Red

We were moving our way out of the city, when suddenly I met a face I thought I'd never see again. "You!" I pointed.

It was the "double shot of espresso" coffee-begging old man. "Oh! If it isn't the whippersnapper."

"Old man, what are you doing here?" I said with suspicion. "You're not doing what I think you're doing, are you?"

"What would you mean by that?" he asked innocently.

"You know what I mean!" I yelled. "So don't try to hide it."

"Hide what?" he lied.

"Your little scam to get kids to buy you coffee," I said.

"That was no scam my boy, I was really in real need of my coffee," he defended himself.

"Then answer my question, what are you doing here?" I raised an eyebrow. "And is the little girl with you too?" Exemplifying her height with my hand.

"Well since I've already had my double shot of espresso for today I'll gladly answer your question." He considered. "Why, the reason I'm out here today is because I was waiting for you."

I was confused. "You were waiting for me?"

"Indeed. I want you to have this gift, as a token of my gratitude." He held out a little present box.

"Cool." And I reached out for it, but my hand was smacked away by Green.

"Hold up." He said with a serious demeanor. "I'm not sure we could trust this guy."

"What are you saying, it's just a gift?"

"Just hear me out okay." He tried to reason with me. "From the looks of it, you met this guy only two days ago, correct?"

"Yeah, I did meet him two days ago, but what does that ha-…" I trailed off when Green concentrated hard on me, as though he were trying to send something to my mind. Then it hit me, Two days ago was when, a group of suspicious people were wandering around Viridian City. Is this old man really a part of that group?

Unexpectedly, a huge outburst came from the old geezer. "You youngsters crack my sides up so much with your youthful seriousness. I don't particularly know what you two kids are talking about, but I can assure that I have no suspicious intentions." He guiltlessly protested. "In fact, it was because of the young child I've awaited your arrival."

"It is?" I said casually.

"Of course my boy, you see she told me all about your attempts to gather my coffee, but I already figured her out and knew that you were the one to cause such a sweet little girl to say such lies." I felt a bit of guilt. "Luckily for you though, the girl began to cry in your defense, trying to explain how you were trying to give all the good credit to the little tike. And that had really touched me, so I want you to have this." He held the present closer to me.

I looked over to Green, who looked away and replied, "It's your choice."

Gratefully I took the gift, "Thanks old man." He smiled back as I uncovered the tiny box. I was very excited to see what lied inside the container, it even made Green curiously peer at the corner of his eyes; the object I held up to the sunlight left me staring at it in awe. An oval-shaped jewel held by a metallic chain, the stone itself had shined bright like a flame when held up to the sun.

"That stone symbolizes a new beginning, I it will bring good luck to those who set out on a new path ahead of them," the old man indicates. "Now it belongs to you, Red."

I showed him gratitude, "Cool! Thanks old man." I wrapped the good-luck charm around my neck, then snickered at Green, "You jelly?"

Green walked away from us, "Let's just go already, we're losing daylight." I thanked the old man and hurried my way to my jelly friend.

Viridian Forest

2:10 p.m.

POV: Green

"Green, we're lost. I tell you." Red argued.

"We are not lost."

"Then do you know where we are, because everywhere I look there are only nothing but trees!"

"We are not lost," I said again.

To summarize what is happening at the moment, Red and I have been fighting about our precise location ever since we stepped foot into the forest. In actuality it was more like thirty minutes in, because Red kept on staring in awe at his rock, with that pathetic look on his face.

"Why don't you just use the towns map you got from your sister then?" he asked.

"There's no point in that." I claimed. "We won't be able to find our precise location. And besides, I'm the one who is keeping track of the trees we're passing; to make sure we go in the same direction."

"Okay then." He said. "But it doesn't really matter, because I got this lucky stone." He said rubbing it against his cheek. I attempted to ignore his last words, but then he changed the subject. "Say Green, how did you do that?" he asked seriously.

"Do what?" I questioned angrily.

"During our fight, how did you produce electricity, without your batteries?" He cleared. I thought about what he meant at first, but then realized what he was asking. We stopped walking and Red continued some more, "It was before you and I were soaked by Misty's wave. You tossed at me your last battery piece, yet afterwards you were still able to use electricity."

I was hesitant at first, but decided to enlighten him, "You mean like this?" I pulled out a pair of batteries and dropped them onto the ground, and did a money-like gesture with my fingers in one hand, which sparked electricity.

Red got all excited, "Yeah, exactly like that!" He then went into a thinking pose. "But doesn't that make you a Level 2 Esper?"

"Not exactly." I stopped the electricity. "It's true that I can produce it, but I can't release the electricity from my hand at anyone without the help of batteries."

"So then you're more like a Level 1.5 Esper."

I sighed at his lame statement, "Sure, if that's what makes you happy." I started walking again.

Red continued forward as well, "So that's why you had to charge directly at the water, huh?" Why does he keep on talking? "Maybe now with my lucky stone, I can already be a Level 2 Esper." This is going to be a very long delivery trip.

4:10 p.m.

POV: Red

Another two hours have passed, and I had stopped talking to Green at some point during that time. Even though there wasn't anything to look at but trees, the forest itself did intrigue both me and Green. I kept on looking at all the bugs and animals we wandered by, and Green…well he kept on looking at the trees. Comparably, the forest was much more peaceful compared to the city it was named after; very much serene as Pallet Town.

The huge of ecosystem helped me pass the time for the most part, but I wasn't sure how it will last me for the four days we will be in here for. Becoming less and less amused, I then realized a tragic flaw in our travel. "Green," I grabbed his shoulder. "I just realized we're going the wrong way."

"What are you talking about?" he brushed my hand off of him.

"Remember, when I asked you earlier about your electric abilities?" I reminded him.

"Yeah, what about it?"

"You turned to show me how your powers worked, and then you walk right passed me."

"Red, I'm not as stupid as you to do something like that." He insulted me and went on walking.

"Green I'm serious; we need to move this way." I pointed in another direction. Green just shrugged. We both continued arguing for at least five minutes back and forth about this. "Fine then Green, I'll just go my way and will just have to wait for you in Pewter City."

"What, is that supposed to be another challenge?" he assumed.

"For you, yes. But for me, no." I gained confidence. "After all… I'm going the right way and I got this lucky stone." I insulted him.

"We'll see about that." Green accepted. And we both separated paths.

After running for a while, I stopped to let out some steam. "That Green he makes me so mad just thinking about him makes me angry." I started to drag my feet on the dirt floor. "He keeps on acting like he's better than me, and does nothing more but ignore my opinions on the situation." I then noticed a large round rock in front of me, and decided to kick in hope of cooling down. With a quick step forward, I unleashed all my anger into one single. The huge rock went flying farther than I had expected, Wow I'm much stronger than I thought, and it then hit a tree and split into pieces. "Bzzzzz", I heard. "Um, buzzing sounds do not come from a broken rock," I said backing away quickly. Out from the shattered pieces came a swarming cloud of bees. Still backing away I reached into my pocket to pull out my zippo lighter, but suddenly tripped on my feet and fell down.

Unfortunately I was moving down a hill, and once I hit the bottom, I was covered in all sorts of bruises and scrapes. My landing took me close to a stream, where I crawled over to, in order for me to wash myself off. "At least those bees stopped chasing me," I said thinking on the positives. The pain came out pretty bad; in a more annoying type of way. But it's kind of humorous, I thought, because if this were to have happened to Green, he would probably be thinking the same thing too. "But then again…" I recalled. 'Red, I'm not as stupid as you to do something like that.' I stared at my wavy reflection in the stream, hoping it would give me a sign on what I should do. Don't ask me why I would do that, I see it happen all the time on television.

Suddenly I heard a growl nearby, and turned to the sound of it. A baby bear not too far from where I had fallen was stuck inside a log. I got up and decided to help the creature from its little situation. Grabbed the bear from its hind quarters and pulled; the log made a pluck sound as the bear popped right out. It looked at me with curiosity, and I stared back in the same way. I wonder where this little guy's mother may be.

Meanwhile on his own path…

POV: Green

"Tch…Red…He thinks that just because of his lucky win, he has enough brains to tell which way to go." I continued walking my own direction. "Doesn't that idiot know my grandpa assigned me with the task to lead this mission? So that means I have the most authority to guide the way, my thoughts are the ones that count the most." Thoughts of Red continued to irritate me. "And all of the opinions I have for that stupid stone of his. He's such a child…good luck…is nothing more of a reliance to keep fools thinking their safe. But I know that only serious training can keep a person protected from harm's way."

ROAR!

I looked up to find a grizzly bear towering before me. This grizzly bear strangely reminded me of Red, so arrogant that just because it may confidently stand over me, it has a chance at winning. "Well I'll show you true results from training!" I charged keeping my batteries in my pocket. If I want to get stronger…I'll need to not rely on other sources of power.

The bear swiped with a claw. I expected that kind of attack coming, simple-minded creature…stupidly predictable… like Red… and rolled around the beast, flicking my hands onto an area behind the animal's knees. Jolts were sent to hit the tendon located there, causing the muscles to contract thus leading to cramping in the legs.

On the ground the grizzly cried out in pain. "Red…you just don't seem to understand the results of my training," I spoke to the paralyzed beast. "Your just like this blind bear, you just can't grasp the sight of superior beings standing before you." I began to recite an old lesson, "Always know what your limitations are. If you don't, then you're only beating on yourself." Charging bolts into my hand, I prepare to execute the creature lying before me. "Don't forget that…"

"Hey Green! Over here!" I heard a voice shout. I turned to see the red-eyes boy running over to me with something brown following behind him, a baby cub. Panting in front of me Red gasped, "Awesome job Green, you found the mother grizzly." I turned my eyes to the baby cub comforting the mother bear. "The bear must've been waiting for its child the whole time." He smiled.

I watched as the parent regained strength thanks to its baby. Large amounts of thoughts raced in my head that gave me a headache, "I'm going to go stand over here for a moment." I put some distance between me and the mother-child bonding.

I could hear Red laughing as he was being licked by the cub, and before long he was waving goodbye to them. After they disappeared from view, Red made his way over to me, "So then what do we do now?"

"I thought you had your own way to go." I said back hiding anger under my tongue.

"Well I did, but I sort of lost track of which way to go." He putted out. "So I guess that means you really did know which way you were going." Red laughed.

Still keeping my view away from him I said, "Yeah, well I might be wrong too."

"Then I hope we find our way out soon,"

"HEY! ARE YOU GUYS ALRIGHT!" we snapped to a sudden call. "I'm over here!" Me and Red looked up a nearby slope, and saw the teen with spiky dark brown hair and chocolate-colored skin who was calling out to us.

"Yeah we're alright!" Red called back.

"Where are you guys headed!" he asked. "If it's to Pewter City… I can give you two a lift!"

"Did you hear that Green…we got ourselves a ride!" He exclaimed before turning back towards the offer. "Yes please, that will be helpful!" He then started making his way up the slope over to the dude. But in the corner of my eye I saw Red once again caressing against his cheek a certain distasteful object and hear him praise, "Oh lucky stone…you really do work."

I sighed and did a facepalm.

A View of the Town Map:

Kanto's Geography:

The Kanto region has a very temperate climate and little notable landscape features, though this is possibly due to the further increasing technological advances of the region.

The majority of the Kanto region is forests and plains. Many of the major Kanto cities are in the center of the region, with close access to virtually every environment such as the sea, mountains, forests, etc. Kanto is mostly dominated by land, but has a large bay in the middle which opens to a sea in the southwest. Kanto has a contrast between urban cities and rural towns. Cinnabar Island is unique in a way that it is built on top of a mountain. The rest of Kanto's cities and towns are generic. Kanto has several mountain ranges, which are mostly in northern and western Kanto. Indigo Plateau and Victory Road mountain range divides Kanto from the neighboring Johto region.

Author Note:

I thought this chapter was pretty amusing. The reason why I used Betty for the waitress's name is because that's how I imagine most waitresses' names are. Sorry if you had a job as a waitress and your name wasn't Betty. And yeah I'm trying to get the hang of this character switching thing, and how they're personalities are like. But with more reviews and with the more chapters that go by, I'm sure I will be able to get better at it.

Oh, and as for a little copyright issue, the "Kanto's Geography" was mostly taken from bulbapedia (unfortunately I can't post the whole address). Just with a little minor tweaks, and that the purpose was to mainly remind you guys where you all were. (Just don't get lost like Red) :P

P.S. My apologize for putting in text symbols; I know it's not very professional, but I just had to put it in for the purpose of humor.

Cast Commentary:

[Red and Green are sitting in the back seat of an off-road vehicle, getting driven through Viridian Forest. In the driver's seat was a rotund man; while in the passenger was the young character from before.]

Red: So then Green. I guess this means you and I are one city closer to Cerulean Cape.

[Green is silent.]

Red: What's wrong? You don't get carsick do you?

Green: No Red I don't. This just means I'll have to deal with you for another whole route.

Teen in Passenger Seat: Actually that would be two routes…and not to mention Mt. Moon in between.

[Green sighs and lays his head back onto the seat.]

Teen in Passenger Seat: Since it's going to be a long trip I suggest staying a while in Pewter City before you guys go.

Red: Sounds good enough to me, let's do it! [Throws fist into the air]

Red and Green: Next time: "Moon Crash!"

Red: Everything is going to be okay Green. We're going to have an awesome adventure on our way to Bill's, and besides there's always the trip back…

[Green puts on devastated face.]