Back to the main story now, I'm on a roll!
We're on chapter seven, and I have managed to do more than I ever could on Shades of Red and we have Red's original team! Hope you enjoy and please, please review or suggest to communities like Protanopia or Palletshippers Paradise, please!
Red dressed himself, pulling his cap round from the back so the flap faced forwards shielding his face from intense light.
Sitting outside on the porch of Sabrina's home with his Pokémon hours before the battle with delicious home-made food and fresh, clean clothes made him feel rejuvenated after whatever had happened to knock him out cold; he just couldn't put his finger on it.
Stroking his Pikachu, he rolled a purple pokéball (with two lighter purple semi-sphere shapes attacked onto the right and left sides of it, with a small 'M' carved on and painted pink) between his fingers known as a Master Ball. Sabrina had told him how he had defeated Giovanni, the Rocket Boss, and that this prototype pokéball was one of a kind and rare hence why it was given as a gift.
Placing it back in his bag, giving it a compartment of its own so he wouldn't use it recklessly like any other pokéball, he got up with pokéballs on his belt and his Pikachu on his arm and set off to the gym to grab his fifth badge.
Yes, his fifth even though Sabrina was the sixth gym leader in all of Kanto – he thought he might as well grab this one while he was here. Besides, the fifth gym leader was in a town close to Cinnabar Island, home of the second to last gym leader.
Red's hand pushed against the door of the gym and he opened it, determined to win.
"Sabrina!"
Pikachu slept on Red's back, having been promised a rest if he cleared the gym trainers.
Red reached for his Charizard's pokéball, grinning.
"I had a vision of your arrival, which is how I knew of your challenge and your comatose state in the Silph Co. building."
Red blinked, but shrugged it off.
"Explain to me, how you knew?"
"I've had physic powers since I was a child... I first learned to bend spoons with my mind but now I can connect with my Pokémon with the use of verbal speech."
"I see... Cool!"
Sabrina laughed, it filling the middle box room: "I dislike fighting, but since you have come from so far and seem so eager... I will show you my powers!"
A pokéball floated from her belt and an Abra came out from the ray of ruby light. Red stared in amazement before sending out his Charizard.
"Charizard, use Dragon Rage!"
The blue-red fireballs surrounded the tiny physic type, and before it could teleport away clashing into it. The Abra shuddered, but stood strong using Reflect to create a box of mirrors around itself while it recovered.
"Charizard, melt the Reflect mirrors with Ember then use Slash!"
Charizard heated the mirrors until they melted and faded when it became apparent the weakened Abra couldn't keep them up much longer. It took the Slash attack but as it attempted to fight back, it fell – Abra passed out.
Charizard huffed, breathing out smoke as it stood strong ready for a second opponent.
"Kadabra, go!"
Sabrina's Kadabra – her second Pokémon – stroked a finger along its spoon whilst keeping eye contact with Charizard.
"Use ember!"
Sabrina's eyes narrowed and Kadabra used Reflect to deflect most of the ember's damaging effects so the physic-type just shook it off but using Recover.
"Dragon rage, Charizard!"
The dragon-type move hit, but was all in vain, as Kadabra recovered once again before hitting the irritated fire dragon with a Physic attack, flinging the heavy Pokémon into a wall.
"Charizard, are you okay?"
The fire-type stood up, and growled at Kadabra who smirked.
"Charizard, use Ember then Slash!"
Charizard breathed a spiral of flames but instead of aiming at Kadabra, aimed at its own claw before charging at Kadabra taking it by surprise, hitting it with the fire vortex covered Slash attack, knocking it out instantly.
"Charizard, you're tired... you did well – Let Lapras take it from here."
Red swapped Charizard for Lapras, and Sabrina swapped Kadabra for her strongest Pokémon, Alakazam.
Alakazam was faster than the Ice-type, flinging it up into the air with a Physic and watching it crash into the ground. Lapras retaliated with Ice Beam but it had little effect.
"Use Physic, Lapras!"
The physic move did nothing to the Alakazam, which shot Lapras back into the wall that had Charizard's imprint on it.
"Lapras!" Red ran over and comforted the ice-type before muttering and healing the Pokémon with a Hyper Potion.
The Lapras moved forward slowly, as Sabrina gave Alakazam a capsule that the Pokémon swallowed to higher its defense; It shot an Ice Beam so to freeze the Pokémon so Alakazam panicked as it was unprepared for the Body Slam that followed, causing it to faint and for Red to win the battle.
"We did it! We won, Lapras!" Red exclaimed while hugging the Lapras' long neck.
"I'm actually shocked... I didn't predict that... But a loss is a loss." Sabrina was breathless.
She continued, smiling as Red approached her. "I admit I didn't work hard enough to win. You earned this, Red."
Returning their Pokémon to their pokéballs, Sabrina and Red shook hands before he received the Marsh Badge and the TM Psywave, which he taught to Lapras in place of Horn Drill.
After Red trained his Pokémon up to the 50's on Route 13 and onwards, he headed towards Fuchsia City, where he heard there was a competition to get to the hidden room in the Safari Zone where lots of rare Pokémon could be caught.
He healed his Pokémon upon early arrival, exhausted after the immense battles.
"I hate peddling..." Red whined, leaning over to a shelf where a leaflet for the Safari Zone stood tall like a guard at its post. His eyes widened, and his pout expanded into a grin.
The leaflet claimed that if you got to the hidden room, you got the HM Surf and there was the HM Strength up for exchange if you could find the Warden's golden teeth that were lost. Red got giddy with excitement, he just needed three HMs and he would have collected them all: Fly, Surf and Strength were the only ones he didn't have.
Red rushed, picking up his Pikachu and bag, to the Safari Zone with the amount of cash needed.
Red threw a Safari Ball at an Exeggcute and grinned when it was caught; this was the final Pokémon he could catch, as he was one Safari Ball away from ending his game. He continued rustling around the area and tripped over something.
"Ow... that hurt."
His eyes blinked as he saw something shiny under his foot, his hand scooped it up and retrieved what appeared to be fake teeth – gold ones at that.
"The Warden's Teeth!" He jumped for joy, forgetting about the forming bruise underneath his trousers. "I can get HM Strength now!"
Red ran around, feeding the wild Pokémon around here whilst he searched for the hidden room deep in the Safari Zone.
Covered in leaves, dirt and bruises – Red stumbled into the hidden room, face first.
"I've... m-made it!" he exclaimed, raising a fist into the air before unclenching the fist.
"Ah! Finally!"
A man, middle-aged with an explorer's hat and a pouched waistcoat over a green shirt, stepped forward and grabbed Red's hand before our trainer let it go limp, pulling him onto his legs and setting him down on a seat.
"You're the first person to reach the Secret House! I was getting worried no-one would win our campaign prize!" He laughed full-heartedly causing Red to join in; they do say laughter is contagious after all.
The man handed him HM03, Surf, congratulating the boy on his win. He waved good-bye after finishing a cup of coffee with the Safari staff member and headed towards the exit so he could give the Warden his teeth.
It took him a while to find out where the Warden lived, as a lot of the staff members tried to convince Red to give them the teeth because apparently the Warden talked too much that him losing his teeth was a relief.
Red just laughed it off, and circled Fuchsia until he found the Warden's name on his post-box and knocked on the door, letting himself in. The elderly man's house was full with books, paperwork, old Pokémon merchandise the Safari Zone first started selling in their gift shop and a shelf with a HM and a few other items.
Red tapped on the elderly man's shoulder, grinning at the excited look on the Warden's face.
"Here you go, sir – your teeth!"
The man turned around to fix in his teeth without grossing the boy out before turning back round; "Thanks, kid! No-one could understand a word I was saying so I couldn't work, I bet they all miss me back at the Zone."
Red chuckled.
"Oh yes, they did all right!"
"Yes well, let me give you something for your troubles; it's Strength!"
Red soon after decided to train on the Cycling Road, and found the house of a young woman who was hiding out in a house so in exchange for knowing her secret location and forcing him to swear to secrecy, he obtained and taught Fly to Charizard.
"Charizard, fly me to Fuchsia City so we can defeat Koga!"
"Fwahahaha!"
Koga's laughter made Red scrunch up his face in annoyance; It was so loud and obnoxious.
"A mere child like you dares to challenge me?"
Red glared, and shouted back in retaliation: "I'm not some mere child, Koga, I'm Red of Pallet Town and I'm going to become the Pokémon Champion!"
Koga's laughter ceased, his face steeling into a serious expression.
"Very well, I shall show you the true terror as a ninja master! You shall feel the despair of poison and sleep techniques!"
Red sent out his Lapras, which was faster by far than Koga's Venonats– it was over in three beams of ice, taking out all three of the bug Pokémon with ease.
"Ugh... You are quite strong, for a child."
"I've been training for this, and I've already defeated Sabrina so this will be easy! Pikachu, use Thunder on Koga's Venomoth!"
Koga lost, it was no challenge for Red at all.
Koga's jaw dropped to the floor in shock; He lost so easily!
Red held out his hands in a 'gimme' action, as he awaited the TM Gift, Toxic, and the Soul Badge. Koga sighed, and pushed them into his hands.
"You have won... I shall be right to understand you are going to Cinnabar Island next?"
Red nodded, attaching the badge on the inside of his jacket – he kept reminding himself to get a case for them.
"Well, I hope you have strong water Pokémon; Blaine is a powerful master of the fire type. Good luck, Red."
Red sat on his Lapras' back as his Lapras swum across the Sea Route 19 towards Cinnabar Island, having to go through Seafoam Islands that had a cold, icy feel to them that made Red shudder at how ominous it seemed. Not as creepy as Cerulean Cave, mind you.
Having to enter the cave just to get to Cinnabar was a pain, but there was lots of cute, rare and interesting Pokémon between the common Zubat and Golbat.
"Come on, Snorlax!" Red encouraged the large Pokémon as it pushed boulders along the ground floor into holes, as the floor below this one had a fast current in the water that evaded the entrance.
After finishing the boulder puzzle, a squawk could be heard echoing from the lower floor. Red, pried by curiosity, returned his Snorlax and jumped down the hall releasing Lapras at last minute so he landed on the ice-type's back as they hit the water.
The current had been slowed by the rocks blockading the source and Red could see a mist settling on another small platform – carefully, Red sailed Lapras towards that platform.
Stepping upon the platform, the mist clouded Red's vision but as he followed the sound of a bird, he found two large, blue talons in front of him and further up them talons was a majestic blue bird, it squawked at him.
"Gyaoo!" flapping its wings it brought a freezing cold chill, before flying off away from Red, leading him out of the Seafoam Islands.
Finally, after taking out another lot of trainers and another half hour swim around in the ocean, they made it to Cinnabar Island.
Wandering around, he found the laboratory for fossil resurrection – Red remembered the Old Amber and the Dome Fossil's in his bag, squashed against other items. Taking them and walking in, he talked with a few of the scientists there (he also found an interesting picture of Mr. Fuji, who happened to be the founder of the lab!) and came out with two Pokémon; Kabuto and Aerodactyl.
Putting them in the BOX System and sending them to the Professor, only to find out the Gym was locked, Red decided to go train up in the Pokémon Mansion nearby.
The mansion was an old wreckage of rubble.
The only things that remained were items that were left behind after the fire, the occasional chair or bed and weird statues.
Red ran his fingers over the statues, triggering a switch in the eye of the statue (which was shaped as a strange Pokémon, but it could not be described as anything other than unearthly) that opened a nearby door up but closed another.
"Huh, so these statues have switches?" A mischievous grin appears on Red's face. "This is going to be so fun!"
Red ran up the stairs and into another room after messing with a door.
"Hm?" He stopped at a table, his Pikachu nudging a diary entry in a book with its foot. "What's this?"
"July 5th, Guyana, South America: A new Pokémon was discovered deep in the jungle."
It was brief but had no real detail about this new Pokémon, this got Red curious.
"I wonder if there are anymore... let's look, Pikachu!"
He found another diary entry on the same floor, south of the one he was just in.
"July 10th: We christened the newly discovered Pokémon, Mew."
Another brief entry, but at least this time it gave a name for the Pokémon – Red wonder if it even existed now. On the floor above, a third entry was found.
"February 6th: Mew gave birth. We named the newborn Mewtwo."
"Mewtwo? That is a strange name... I guess I can't judge."
After that entry, Red managed to find the last one in the basement with a few TMs, it read...
"September 1st: Mewtwo is far too powerful. We have failed to curb its vicious tendencies..."
The rest had been ripped out underneath another entry, as if someone had clawed through it angrily.
Thinking over the Mewtwo and Mew thing, Red found a key with a note attached to it telling him that he had found the key to the gym, and the leader cannot wait to face the challenger.
Red ploughed through the quiz set up in the gym, having learnt so much on his journey around Kanto.
"This is it!" he grinned, and picked Pikachu up running into the final room where Blaine, Cinnabar's gym leader awaited him.
A happy chorus of laughter erupted from the older man, as he adjusted his glasses and stroked his moustache.
"I am Blaine! I am the leader of Cinnabar gym, as you must know... and who are you, young man?"
Red smiled; this was the politest gym leader he had met so far, he could get used to the respect from this man.
"Red and I'm here for your gym badge!"
Blaine chuckled and nodded, reaching for a pokéball in his lab coat pockets.
"Well, Red, my fiery Pokémon will incinerate all challengers; I only hope you have a burn heal, my boy!"
Red grinned and sent out his Blastoise, patting its shell fondly.
"I hope you have a few matches, because we're going to douse you out!"
Blaine sent out Ninetales, similar to Blue's but stronger, much more graceful. It jumped towards Blastoise and its eyes glowed purple, with flickers of yellow – Blastoise's eyes followed the pattern, and caused confusion.
Blastoise hurt itself repeatedly while been bombarded with fire attacks that proved ineffective. Up until the last minute, Blastoise got itself together and blasted Ninetales with a Hydro Pump attack and snapped out of confusion.
Sending out his Pokémon, Rapidash, and Blaine ordered it to stomp on the water turtle. The hoof of the fire stallion hit Blastoise's face, knocking it onto its legs but was greeted with a bite attack, keeping the stallion in place as it thrashed and missed multiple attacks, was then taken down with another Hydro Pump.
Due to the health decrease on Blastoise, Red switched out for Lapras who watched cautiously at the graceful, elegant Arcanine that Blaine presented. The Arcanine was faster.
Lapras was hit with a Flamethrower attack, burning the side of the Pokémon's face.
"Lapras, use Surf!"
The intelligent, rare Pokémon whipped up a tsunami wave somehow and crushed the Arcanine under the water's pressure before making sure it stayed down with a Physic attack. Red won his seventh gym badge.
"I have burnt out! Hah!"
Red and Blaine shook hands, smiling and exchanged the TM and Volcano Badge
Red turned to leave but stopped, his eyes locking on Blaine.
"Excuse me, Blaine?"
"Hm? Yes, Red, my boy?"
"...What is...? Mew and Mewtwo?"
Blaine stopped dead still, as if he was frozen in ice for centuries. The elderly man guided Red outside to the Shore of Cinnabar Island, and sighed.
Red sat on the sands of Cinnabar, and waited for Blaine to begin – his eyes full of curiosity.
"Mew is known as the New Species Pokémon, or the DNA Pokémon... some people believe it isn't even real or a mirage, hence the nicknames 'Phantom' or 'Mirage' Pokémon. Others believe it is the ancestor of all Pokémon we know today. I was a scientist under Dr. Fuji at the time, when we was tracking it down."
"Dr. Fuji? As in Lavender Town's Fuji?"
"Is that where he went? Well, then yes... I guess I should tell you the whole story... Fuji is the founder of the lab here, and was a close friend of mine – he was studying genetics in both Pokémon and people, fuelled by despair after his little girl Amber had died."
"Genetics? Amber?" Red questioned before his eyes widened, his voice now a small whisper. "He tried to create a clone?"
Blaine nodded, a look of regret in his eyes reflecting in his glasses.
"Yes, he did. His research, our research, was funded by a man known as Giovanni." Blaine looked at Red for a reaction; Anger, disgust. "I know, Giovanni... The man who runs the criminal organization, Team Rocket, but he was the only one who would fund our research and in exchange for that funding, an island and the travel means, he wanted us to create a copy of Mew."
"We agreed, we had no choice. We travelled to Guyana and found Mew after so long... We took its newborn baby and used it as DNA for the new clone. The clone was born as Mewtwo, and the only experiment to survive after trying to clone the Kanto Starters and Fuji's daughter – all of them died shortly after they were made apart from Mewtwo."
Red hugged his knees and stared into this distance before making an effort to reply: "Mewtwo then got too powerful to control and disappeared along with Mr. Fuji."
"Dr. Fuji, or Mr. Fuji, burnt down one of our many facilities – Pokémon Mansion been his home before he left Cinnabar, I never had the heart to remove the remains though and it has become the home to many Pokémon here – and most of his research with it and must have left for Pokémon Tower. I never heard from him since he fled New Island."
Red stared a little longer into the distance before standing up, his eyes fixated on Blaine.
"I'm going to defeat the last gym leader, find Giovanni and make him regret the day he created Team Rocket! I'll find Mewtwo, as well!"xx
As Red flew to Pallet Town to spend the time at home before the final gym leader, Blaine watched him.
"If only you knew, Red, what awaits you in Viridian City..."
I hope you liked this chapter! I used an uncut storyline to the Mewtwo movie for the whole Fuji-Giovanni-Mewtwo thing.
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