Even though they weren't able to catch Suicune, Entei, or Raikou, Gold and Red left the Burned Tower in high spirits, now that they had an ally in Brendan. However, those feelings were gone in about half a second when they saw Blue standing outside, waiting for them. He was tapping his foot in impatience. "Well, thank you SO much for ditching me back there," He said sarcastically. "Yeah, like I'd want my jerk rival to help me defeat my other jerk rival." Red huffed.

Blue rolled his eyes. "Ah, whatever. I had something else to tell you, ya know." Gold tilted his head in confusion. "You... did?" Blue nodded. "Yeah, apparently gramps wanted to talk to you about something." He looked at Gold and Brendan. "And bring those two with you." With that, Blue turned and walked away, making a "loser" sign with his left hand at the trio, saying "Smell 'ya later!" Red sighed and shook his head. Gold stepped forwards, putting his hands on his hips. "Well, the quickest way for the three of us to get to Kanto would be to take the magnet train," Gold suggested. "Oh, we're gonna take a train? Sweet!" Brendan exclaimed. "I've always wanted to ride a train! Mostly because I wanted to sing Paradise Line."

If his singing is as bad as his trumpet playing, I got a bad feeling about this... Red thought. The trio made their way back to Goldenrod, and went straight to the train station. Just like always, there wasn't anyone there. So, Gold just walked straight up to the ticket taker. And then they got on the train, and montage stuff, blah blah blah... Red, Gold, and Brendan took their seats and the magnet train immediately sped down the tracks for Kanto. Brendan looked out the windows, seeing the trees and fields zipping by. He smiled to himself. "Hey, guys..." Before he said anything else, Red interrupted him. "Please for the love of god, do not sing." Brendan groaned and kicked his legs. "Aw, come on! I've always wanted to sing Paradise Line on a train!" "What is that song, anyways? I've never heard of it." Gold wondered aloud. "It's a song from Mother 1/Earthbound Zero." Brendan replied. "Oh yeah, that's a good game..." Red murmured. Brendan glanced around the train, seeing the others passengers were looking bored, some of them half-asleep. "Man, this place really needs some livening up!" Brendan exclaimed. "Brendan, if you sing I will tear out your vocal cords and beat you with them," Red threatened. Brendan and Gold stared wide-eyed at him before slowly inching away from him.

So, after the long and awkward train ride, they were in Pallet Town!

Gold and Brendan started heading for Professor Oak's lab, when they noticed Red was nervously staring at his house from the entrance to town. Gold saw this and walked by his side. "Yo, Red, are you alright?" Red glanced at him. "I'm worried my mom might see me out here." He replied. "Why are you scared of your mom?" Brendan asked, while hiding a smile. "First she grounds me for three months because I haven't been home for a while, and immediately when she lets me go, I run off again. She's gonna kill me!" Gold patted his shoulder. "Don't worry, Red, if your mom sees you and goes crazy we can get Brendan to distract her with his Trumpet." Brendan looked at the brass instrument in his hand, his lips curling into a huge smile. "I wasn't giving you permission to play it right now." Gold remarked.

So, the three made their way to Professor Oak's laboratory. "Professor? Are you here?" Red called out, opening the door. He saw Oak at the back of the lab, his back turned to him. Red entered and held the door open for Gold and Brendan. "Red..." Professor Oak spoke with a grim voice when the three boys approached him. "It appears your arch nemesis, Fire, had returned." "Booooorrrriiiiiing!" Brendan blurted. Red, Gold and Oak stared at him with chagrined expressions as he headed for the computers. "I'm gonna do an internet!" Professor turned his head back to Gold and Red, pointing at Brendan, silently asking for an explanation. "Don't mind him sir, he's just a little bit insane." Oak nodded, and cleared his throat.

"With the fact that he was in Black and White 2, and with the release of Pokemon: The Origin, Fire's powers are becoming stronger," He explained as he slowly paced back and fourth. "What can we do to stop him?" Gold inquired. "The way he is now, there doesn't seem to be a way to stop him." Oak answered. "But fortunately, I know his weakness!" A spark of hope went through Red and Gold, but not Brendan since he was too busy staring in shock as what he found on the internet. Professor Oak opened his mouth to speak, when suddenly two Team Rocket grunts, one male one female, crashed through the window.

"Hold it right there!" "We can't let you leave here with Fire's weakness!" Red and Gold glared at the grunts, each grabbing a pokéball off of their belts. "How did you find us?" Red growled. "Fire has spies everywhere!" The female grunt responded. "Remember when you where on the magnet train? Everyone aboard was a grunt in disguise!" Gold clenched his fist. "Dang it, I knew there had to be a reason there were people on board that didn't get off at Johto!" The male grunt threw two pokéballs, summoning a Golbat and a Weezing, facing Red and Gold, preparing for battle. Just as the two trainers were about to send out their own Pokemon, Brendan suddenly stepped in front of them.

"I got this!" He said, grinning. The Rocket grunts stared at him in confusion. "Who the heck are you?" Brendan's grin turned to a smirk as he grabbed a pokéball from his belt. "Well, well, well! I couldn't help but notice you cowering in fear of me! Continue to do this, for this as this is the proper action, when faced with Brendan, the great and powerful champion of Hoenn!" The grunts exchanged confused glances. "No, seriously, who is this?" The male grunt asked. "He kind of looks like Naruto." The female grunt replied. Brendan continued his speech, as he put his hands on his hips, in a proud or confident way. "Your deliverance will soon be at hand, my friends." He pointed dramatically at the grunts, clutching his pokéball. "Killing you will be the frosting on my murder cake! This day is your reckoning! Should you want to live, you'd best kill yourselves now!" Red face palmed as Gold slowly shook his head. The male Rocket grunt crossed his arms. "This is the idiot Fire is having us fight?"

Brendan's expression turned doleful as he lowered his arm. "...Did you just call me an idiot?" Red and Gold glanced at each other as Brendan gritted his teeth. "Nobody calls me an idiot!" He shouted, and almost slammed his pokéball into the ground, a Zangoose appearing in a puff of smoke. Gold grinned as he sent out one of his Pokémon as well, a Heracross, and Red sent out his Pikachu. "Alright! It's three against two! What now?!" Gold taunted. "I don't care what you do, just kill them, Zangoose!" Brendan continued to shout. Red just nodded at his Pikachu. "Heh, you think you guys are so great?" The male grunt smirked and pointed to the left. "Well, while you guys were fooling around, my partner captured the professor!" Red, Gold, and Brendan looked over to Oak, to see The female grunt had tied him with a rope. "Why does this stuff always happen to me..." He muttered. "Alright! I'm gonna take him to Fire!" The grunt said as she left, dragging Oak with her. "Someone has to help him!" Red shouted. He looked to Gold and Brendan, but they just stared blankly in the direction the grunt ran off to. "...You guys are useless."

The remaining grunt pointed at the three trainers, commanding Weezing and Golbat. "But enough talk! Have at you! Weezing, use Poison Gas on the Zangoose!" Weezing breathed a black cloud of smoke onto Brendan's Zangoose, surrounding it's head, but it shook it off like it was nothing. Brendan smirked. "Ha! Betcha didn't know my Zangoose is immune to poison!" Zangoose reached its claw up to its face to pull one of its eyelids down as it did a raspberry at Weezing. Weezing looked offended, and glared at Zangoose as it prepared another attack. However, it was interrupted when Gold's Heracross flew up to it and used it's Brick Break move. Red noticed the Golbat staring at the struggle between the three Pokemon. He fixed his hat, and commanded his Pikachu. "Use Thunderbolt," Pikachu did as instructed, and fired a bolt of lightning from it's tail at Golbat. Said Pokémon turned when it heard Red's voice, but was too slow to dodge the electric attack coming right it's way. It fell to the ground, shaking from electricity. "Aw, come on, I wasn't even paying attention!" The Rocket grunt complained. "Oh well, at least I still have Weezing! Use-" As he turned his head back to his Weezing, he saw Zangoose and Heracross dancing the macrana on it's corpse. "Oh come on!" He shouted, stomping on the floor in frustration. "How did I loose?!" Red withdrew his Pikachu into it's ball.

"Well, for starters, you challenged three of us, who all just happen to be the Pokemon League champions of their respective regions, to a battle with only two Pokemon," The grunt reluctantly withdrew his Pokemon, Zangoose and Heracross scurrying over to their trainers when Weezing disappeared, and ran for the door. But, he stopped and turned around to point at the three trainers. "You may have won the battle, but you will not win the war! Fire will destroy you!" Gold made a shooing gesture with his hand. "Yeah, whatever. They all say that." The grunt huffed in frustration before running off. Brendan withdrew his Zangoose, and turned to Gold and Brendan. "Well, we sure showed them, didn't we!" He smiled widely and put his hands on his hips. "Yes, but now we have to rescue Professor Oak..." Red replied. "Well, I guess that's kind of a good thing." Gold responded. "After all, we're kinda delaying this a bit too much, aren't we? We need to go to Mt. Silver and kick Fire's butt, anyways!" Red crossed his arms as he stepped forward. "That's my problem. We need to know Fire's weakness from Oak, but if Fire's the one holding him captive..." Gold understood, as he tried to think of an alternative. "Oh, don't worry, guys!" Brendan exclaimed. "While I was on the computer, I went to Plot Convenience dot com! So I know exactly what we have to do!" But his thoughts were interrupted when someone busted through the lab door. Red, Gold, and Brendan turned, to see a woman with blue hair wearing red dress and an apron standing in the doorway, with the door broken off of it's hinges. "RED! THERE YOU ARE!" She shouted. "Uh... Hi, mom..." Red stuttered.

Meanwhile, on Mt. Silver...

"...And that concludes our report, sir!" Said the rocket grunt from before, with Professor Oak next to him, looking bored out of his mind. "I know Red's coming to help me, but I'd appreciate it if he could get here sooner..." He muttered. Fire gave a nod. "Huh, that was a pretty good job!" He exclaimed. "You know, expect for the fact that it was freaking terrible." The grunt blinked. "What? Why?" Fire glared at him. "Because, YOU LET RED KNOW I HAVE A WEAKNESS!" He turned and kicked the snow in frustration. "You guys are the worst henchmen ever!" Oak sighed and shook his head. "What do you mean?" Asked the grunt. Fire slowly turned his head back. "I told you idiots to kidnap the professor before Red and those two weirdos got to Kanto! And what did you do? Wait for them to get to the professor and let him tell them I have a weakness! Wow! Good job!" He clapped sarcastically. "What is your weakness?" The grunt wondered aloud. "Do you really think I'm gonna tell you that?!" Fire spat. He sighed and turned around, and begun to walk with his arms behind his back. "Oh well, we'll work this out somehow..." He grumbled. "The should at least be busy having to deal with Red's mom since I told her where he is." Fire stopped, and begun to smirk. "And besides, I'm almost prepared for my plan to take over Kanto and Johto! Once I've taken control over them, I'll go after the others! And then... heh heh... I'll make sure there isn't anywhere safe for Red to run to! Mark my words!"