Remember the ramen stand I mentioned in Ecruteak City during my Johto adventure? I decided to take Red there. Red jumped on Fearow with me, and we left the God forsaken mountain behind. Once Fearow landed in Ecruteak, we headed towards the stand. On the way there, Red looked around at the city.

"It's been so long, I forgot what a city looks like. This is all coming back to me now. I did travel to Johto, but that was a while ago."

"Well then, welcome back to civilization." We sat down at the ramen stand a few seats away from some other guy who looked like he had just gotten his bowl. He looked over at us, but something was familiar about him. Blue hair?

"You look familiar. Have I seen you before? No, I couldn't have," he said.

"What's your name?" I asked as Red and I each ordered.

"Cyrus."

"Cyrus? Oh, hey! It's you! Remember me? Distortion World?"

"Oh yeah! You're that kid! What was it?"

"It was Vinny, remember? Uh, how are you these days? I hope you're not doing evil work anymore."

"Oh, no! I've been done with that for a long time. It's been a while, huh? After you spared my life, I thought about my future and my actions. I realized that my actions would affect my future. So, I disbanded Team Galactic, and now I'm a businessman for Silph Co. It's a much better job that before, and they pay a lot more. It was tough getting in because I had to go through a bunch of legal stuff, you know, because I was the leader of Team Galactic. Apparently, they had an issue in the past with Team Rocket, so they had to beef up their security."

"Wow. Well, I'm glad to see that you're alright these days."

"Thank you. For everything, I mean. For sparing my life, changing my ways, everything. I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for you. Oh, I'm uh, running a bit late. I need to be in Olivine for business things. Uh, take care now! Bye!"

"Bye." I turned back to Red. While we waited to be served, we talked for a bit about each other's history.

"Wow. So, you're sorta like me, in that you went up to the mountain in search of a greater challenge. If you went up there because you were depressed, well, no, not depressed, but bored with Kanto and Johto, then why didn't you just travel to another region like I did?"

"Well, it's not really that simple for me. For starters, I wasn't even aware of any other regions besides what I'm familiar with, that being Kanto and Johto of course, and also Hoenn and Kalos. But even though I was aware of that, I was worried about pushing my Pokémon too hard. But now I see that it's done often, thanks to you. Oh, arigato gozimasu." The man who had made the ramen passed Red his bowl of ramen and then me, in which I also thanked him. I couldn't remember the last time I had a bowl of ramen that good. In all of the regions I had been to, I had to admit, nothing tasted better than hole-in-the-wall-restaurant food. As we ate, we resumed our conversation.

"So wait, you're the one who disbanded Team Rocket all those years ago?" Red only nodded, as his mouth was currently full of food. He swallowed, took a drink, and responded.

"Yeah, they were a bunch of douchebags anyway. I can't believe they had the nerve to form together again. I would've stopped them, but ya know, I had a pretty good streak going on Mt. Silver..."

"Haha. Yeah, don't worry about it. They'll think twice before rejoining again. Those idiots. What the hell was their goal anyway? I mean after they rejoined. Ah, whatever. They're gone, hopefully for good, so who cares? Maybe they'll find some good in their hearts and move on to do better things. Oh, dinner's on me, by the way."

Red and I finished our bowls and thanked the ramen guy for the meal. I flew Red back to Pallet Town on Fearow and said goodbye. As I flew away on Fearow, I caught a glimpse of Red hugging his mother for a long time, and his mother crying into his shoulder. I flew to Viridian City on Fearow and let him rest for a bit at the Pokémon Center along with the rest of my team. Once I was done, I got back on Fearow and told him to fly north back to Sinnoh. It was nighttime, but Fearow could still see in the darkness. As we flew over the lands below, I reflected on my journey, my entire journey, from Sinnoh to Kanto, and thought about how long it had taken. When I started out, I was 14 years old, and when I defeated Red, I was 17 years old. It had been about 3 years since I first set off to avenge my father, keeping my quest in mind as an incentive the whole time, but had never been able to find the evil group of bad guys who killed dad.

I landed in Twinleaf Town. Everything looked same as usual, smelled the same, felt the same, but I felt different, like I was the odd one out of a crowd. But what crowd? It felt kind of weird. I was happy to be back, but at the same time, I felt empty. I entered my house. I was greeted by a warm hug by my mom, and I felt safe, but empty and depressed. I guess I didn't do such a good job of hiding my sadness, because Mom asked me what was wrong. I simply said that I would tell her another time and kissed her goodnight. I went upstairs and got ready to go to sleep. While lying in my bed, I felt the worst kind of sadness, like if you died and were never reincarnated. You're taken away from your home, only to never return. After a torrent of thoughts and indecision, I finally decided that I would learn to cope with this sadness and go on living my life normally, accepting the fact that I wasted my time and I would go on living with the fact that I never avenged my father. Through all the bloody murders, all of the bad guys I killed, all of the bad organizations I disbanded, I was never going to avenge my father...

… but of course, I was wrong.