AN: This is a sidestory, just to make up for the lateness of the previous chapter. Yes, it does happen in the Fire Before Ashes universe, but it won't be written anywhere else. Enjoy!
Oh, yes. Due to the lateness of the previous chapter, the next chapter will not be published until Tuesday after next. Thanks!
Disclaimer: TC! Where are you?
TC: What do you want? You just updated, and I need to work on my own story!
Yeah, yeah. I just want to know what your plan for making me say the disclaimer is.
TC: Do we really have to do this now? I mean, it's four in the morning.
Well, let me put it this way. If you tell me what you plan, then I won't tell everybody what you did in Vegas...
TC: WHAT HAPPENS IN VEGAS STAYS IN VEGAS!
Only if you don't have a friend.
TC: ...
...
TC: ...So, what should I tell you?
How you plan to make me say I don't own pokemon.
TC: Like that. Now, I'm going back to sleep.
Inteactions between Green and Red (In terms of hair)
or What Goes On Without Red and Ash
Oblivia
Winter
The man with green hair stared over the water. It was a beautiful day, as were most days in the region.
"Such a pure place... So many pokemon, and so few trainers... The only people and pokemon have to live together," the man murmured, staring out over the seas.
The pokemon at his side growled its agreement. The man sighed and looked up at the volcano. "I wonder... Are they, is she, still searching for me? Or have they given up by now?"
"Who knows? But if he finds us, then it will be far worse," the pokemon at his side said. Its trainer smiled softly.
"Well, you know what they say about Obliva. It's a place that the rest of the world has forgotten, so he shouldn't try for me here. And it's so nice here, it'd be a shame to leave."
His pokemon growled, "Better than Orre. More water."
"Indeed. And this place, although it has a history of suffering like all places, is more peaceful than the sadness there," the man replied. "But I have to say that this volcano is nice. After all, tourists are forbidden here."
The two stared up at the clouds, before something caught the pokemon's eye. He pointed it out. "Look. A latias."
"A rare sight. Although her beauty does not match up to-"
"Hey! What are you doing here! You're not allowed here!" A portly man shouted as he waddled over to the two. The man and his pokemon both sat up, their feet still dangling over the edge of the dock.
The man seemed faintly amused. "We know. We just wished to see the sights in Oblivia before we left the region."
The fatter man, however, was not nearly as calm or happy as the other. "Well, we'll see what Rand says! Then you might be seeing what our lock-up looks like!"
The green haired man sighed. "Well, the volcano was nice. I guess that our next stop is Silver Falls?"
His pokemon nodded, as the furious man started to shout at them that they weren't going anywhere. The man brought out his pokemon, one that had never been seen in Oblivia, and latched on, letting it carry him away. The portly man made an attempt at running to the end of the dock, and screamed at the flying man as he left.
In the air, the man tried to catch sight of the many flying pokemon, seeing togekiss and pidgey alike. As he flew, a large stone thing in the water caught his attention, but he decided that he could come back later to see it. He continued his northward journey, talking to his pokemon all the way.
On landing, he saw a startled pichu run out of sight, and sighed. "I'm sorry, little one. I mean no harm, just wish to see the falls."
The pichu poked its head out and asked, "No pokeball?"
The man shook his head. "I promise that I would not confine you. Do you want a few berries? I came from Hoenn, which has many, so..."
The pichu happily took the berry and scurried off, but not before saying, "If you're lucky, you might see Summer on Suicune! She'd come from the south, so look out!"
The man smiled softly, looking at the magesty and scale of the falls. "Odd that more people don't come here just to see these."
"Yeah. But most people are too focused on what they think to try new things," said another person from behind the relaxing man. The speaker, a man with red hair and red eyes came to sit down next to the green haired man.
"Yes, but you can change that," the green haired man replied. The red haired shrugged, releasing a feraligatr into the water.
"Maybe. But to get the level of shock that causes that, you can also send them away, wanting them to leave the world."
"You speak from expirence?"
The red haired man paused. "Yeah. One of my oldest friends."
"I apologize. But perhaps they wanted to figure out who they really were when they left," the green haired man suggested. The man with red hair snorted.
"She knew who she was before that. Outspoken, strong. Believe me, there was little soul-searching there."
The green haired man lay back, staring at the clouds, before he asked, "So, what brings you to Oblivia?"
"I'm searching for my friend. What about you?"
"Avoiding two people. One who I would count a friend, one a foe."
The redhead was silent for a minute, before speaking. "So your idea was your reasons."
The green haired man didn't need to say anything. The two men watched the falls in relative contentment, but neither of them wanting to stay for too long.
The red haired man finally broke the silence. "So, what's your name?"
"N. Yours?"
"Silver. What kind of name is a letter?"
N raised an eyebrow. "Mine. What kind of name is a metal?"
"Mine," Silver said, smirking. N smiled, as Silver asked, "Hey, N? Can you talk a bit slower? It's hard to figure out what you're saying."
"I can," N said, slowly. Silver sweatdropped.
Silver's feraligatr swam over to them, having been under the falls, and tugged on Silver's jacket. "Yes?"
"Inside the falls. There's a cave!" Feraligatr said, pointing at Silver Falls. Silver gave Feraligatr a questioning look.
"What about the falls?"
N spoke up, "He says that there's a cave. Behind the waterfall, I mean."
"You understand pokemon?" Silver asked, giving N an amused look. N nodded.
"Do you believe me? Obviously you can't hear them, but do you believe that I can understand what they say?" N asked, staring Silver right in the eyes. Silver shrugged.
"I know two people who could understand pokemon, so it's not that hard to believe. You didn't grow up in Viridian Forest, so that might not be the way that you're able to understand them, but I believe that you can. So, do we go to the cave?"
N thought for a few seconds, before standing up and releasing his vanilluxe. "Vanilluxe, please freeze the water behind the falls so that we may pass." His pokemon immediatly fired an ice beam at the area behind the falls, making the spray fade away and reveal that the path continued onwards. N returned his pokemon and walked towards the falls.
Silver called back Feraligatr. "I suppose that's a yes, then?"
The duo traversed the ruins that were behind Silver Falls, fending off multiple wild pokemon with their own pokemon. After a time, they reached an area that was aboveground, overlooking a large lake. Near there was a continuation of the ruins.
N noted, "This place seems rather unusual. I find it odd that nobody has ever found this place, if we are above the ground."
"Maybe they have, and there was nothing of interest," Silver suggested, looking at the building while N stared over the landscape. For some reason, the lake called to N.
N was starting to walk forward, before Silver grabbed his shoulder and pointed at the building. "N, let's not walk off the edge, shall we? This way."
N shook himself, before he followed Silver into the ruins. After a short hallway, the two arrived in an oblong room. On the floor was a triangular figure, with each corner lit up a different color, red, blue, or yellow. Four walls had pictures on them, one depicting a man on an entei facing off against many people in armor, while Latios and Latias flew overhead. Another showed a strange thing in the sky, raining down fire and destruction. The next showed a grail on a pedastal shooting out a rainbow that broke the thing in the sky. The last one was of the man in the first picture with Articuno, Moltres, and Zapdos flying overhead. On the far side of the room was a doorway.
"This place... I've never been here, but it feels familiar..." Silver said quietly. N nodded grimly.
As they walked around, examining the prophecy and the floor, before they felt done. After they finished looking around, N led the way out of the ruins, back to the falls.
While the two walked down to the water's edge, a girl on a suicune and a man on a staraptor rushed over. "Halt!" the man called.
N, recognizing what the two were, put a hand to his pokeballs discreetly and started to rub a certain pokeball. Silver walked forward, before he asked, "Who are you?"
"My name is Rand, and I'm the area ranger for Oblivia. Summer, go get Ben and contact HQ. We're going to need help to make sure that he doesn't escape," Rand said, directing the girl, Summer, at the end.
Summer saluted, before suicune, with her on it, ran off at high speed. Silver yawned. "So, what do you want? If it's about going up to the falls, it's because we found some ruins, so you can tell whoever you want about them."
Rand's face became serious. "You went into the Oblivia Ruins? What did you do there?"
"Seriously, what do you want?" Silver said, annoyed now. Rand glared at N.
"That man there is wanted for various crimes, prime among them for being the leader of Team Plasma. He's been on the run for about a year now, and we haven't caught him yet," Rand said, Silver giving N a disbelieving look.
N grabbed the pokeball he had been rubbing. "As I told White, I no longer believe in that philosophy. I disbanded Team Plasma and left to learn what I wanted from the world."
Rand called over one of the wild pokemon, an azumarill. "But that doesn't matter. You're going to be taken into custody today, no more fleeing!"
N clenched his fist at the sight of Rand using azumarill. "You know something? I. Hate. Rangers. You all sicken me, using any wild pokemon you come across to do your work, and not giving them a chance to fight back or flee. How do you think that the pokemon feel after you use them? They flee from all people after then, not knowing if they're rangers who'll force them to break boulders or move a tree. And then you make some pokemon fly you around!"
"Great. Azumarill, water gun," Rand said, the pokemon shooting a blast of water at N. However, the attack instead hit the pokemon that N had sent out. Rand paled at the sight of the dragon, while Silver's eyes widened and mouth hung open.
Reshiram roared, as she started to fly up, N on her back. N, in the sky, called to Silver, "Silver! I hope we can meet again! Search for your friend, or for your friend's friend! Never give up!"
N, on Reshiram, flew off quickly. A brief incident where a latias with Summer on her back tried to stop N was quickly resolved with a dragon pulse, and N flew off to see if he could discover what he wanted to be, and to see the world.
On the ground, Silver smiled at the sky, thinking about what N had said. He sent out his honchkrow, and flew off towards Kanto, leaving the cowering Rand behind.
Silver, at that moment, decided that he would search for Green along Kanto and see if she knew anything. Then, if he failed to find his oldest friend, he would search for Gold, Red, or those two from Hoenn that he didn't know the names of. This was the start of something new, something that he knew had to happen, or else he would never be able to look at himself ever again.
Precious Metals and Gemstones
or A Cutural Exchange Between Johto and Hoenn
North of Cerulean
Spring
Gold landed, calling back Togebo as he landed. He sighed, looking at the bridge and wondering if anybody else was there, of if he was the only one to recieve Green's message.
Loud shouts interrupted his thoughts, as he saw two teenagers, younger than him but not by too much, arguing. Gold couldn't help but draw closer when he heard the word 'green' come up.
"I'm telling you, Green told us to meet her near Mt. Moon!" the girl with blue clothes shouted, as the boy in red and black, with what seemed to be white hair, tensed.
"What are you doing? Do you want everybody to know who we're meeting?"
The girl hit him over the head. "Well, if you hadn't been sending us the wrong way, I wouldn't have said her name!"
"Hey! Easy on the hat! It's not easy to fix!" the boy said, steeping back and holding his hat. The girl rolled her eyes.
"Ruby, it's a hat. Knowing you, you have backups."
"Only three! But we have to go to the east of Cerulean, not the west," Ruby said, prompting the girl to hit him again. Gold walked over as he saw them continue to argue about Ruby's hat.
Gold interrupted the two teens by asking, "Excuse me, but did you say Green, as in Red, Blue, and Green?"
Both of them tensed up and said at the same time, "No! Who's Green? We're not meeting anyone in Cerulean!"
Gold chuckled as he watched. "Well, I have one thing to say." The two tensed even more, both of them dropping a hand to their pokeballs, before Gold said, "Ruby's right. Green said to meet at Route 9."
Ruby and the girl facefaulted, as Gold started to laugh loudly. After a few minutes, where the three walked across Cerulean, Gold asked, "Well, I know Ruby's name, but what's yours?"
"Sapphire. And who're you?" Sapphire answered.
Gold smirked. "You have spirit. My name's Gold! The pokemon and billard master!" Gold shouted as he took a pose. Ruby and Sapphire blinked.
"Never heard of you." Gold fell over.
As he got up, he caught sight of a small shop that advertised, 'Best Food in Cerulean!' and so he dragged the two protesting companions over.
After talking over food, Gold learning who Sapphire and Ruby were, and vice versa, Gold waited for the man who ran the shop to come over. "I hope you enjoyed the food?" the owner asked.
Gold nodded entusiastically. "Excellent! I've never had any food from Cerulean, so this was really good!"
"I appreciate that. Now, the total cost is this," the man said as he handed over the bill. Gold started to whistle and passed it over to Ruby and Sapphire.
"Um, Gold? You know we have no money, right? We brought our own food," Ruby asked. Gold's eye started to twitch, as did the owner's.
Gold laughed nervously, as the owner produced a large cleaver. "You need to pay for the food. So, how about you change into clothes for washing dishes, all three of you?"
Ruby and Sapphire were about to protest, before Gold narrowed his eyes at the man. "Are you a trainer?"
The owner nodded. "Sure. Competed in the league before, and got the money to open this place. Why does that matter?"
"I have a wager. I bet that I can beat you, one on one. If I win, the meal's free."
"And when I win, you work here washing dishes for a month. Deal?" the owner asked, extending his hand. Gold shook the hand as Sapphire facepalmed.
The battle was held behind the shop, in a small field. "Venusaur! I choose you!" the owner called, throwing down his pokeball.
Gold smirked, before hitting his pokeball with a billiard cue. "Exbo!"
The typhlosion roared as it appeared on the field. The owner of the shop paled, seeing that it was a strong fire type.
On route nine, Gold yawned as he watched a few pokemon roll down the hills. Ruby and Sapphire were talking to Crystal, amazed by her tales of catching every pokemon in existance, and then some. Gold, having heard all that before, stared at the sky, waiting for something to happen, or for somebody else to show up. He knew that it wasn't exactly hard to find Red, as he was always on Mt. Silver now, but he might not come.
Catching sight of a honchkrow, Gold raised a hand in greeting to his old rival. Silver landed and recalled his pokemon before walking over to a corner all alone.
It was a few minutes more before the rock wall that Silver was leaning against vanished, leaving the man to fall into the revealed cave. A woman with long brown hair and a black dress started to walk out of the cave, before seeing Silver lying on the ground and sidestepping him. "Ew."
Silver groaned. "Really, Green? No 'Silver! Let me help you up!' or 'Silver, what are you doing on the ground?' And I thought we were friends."
Green rolled her eyes, ignoring Silver except for that. "Okay, everybody! Into my cave!"
Most people there wondered what was going on, before they went into the cave. After everybody else had left Green helped Silver up. "So, are you sure you found her?"
"Of course. Why else would I be here?"
"Well, you could have stopped by to see lil ol' me?"
"Funny, Green. Great. So, let's go see the others and assign the mission, shall we?"
"Come on!" Green called, already halfway into the cave. Silver stared after her, before sighing and following.
Inside the cave, the dex holders came into a cavern that was filled with all sorts of machinery, including a large workbench. There were two other ways out of the cavern, one that led to a silvery barrier and the other that led to a wooden door. Green followed the group in.
"Like it? This is my inventing space. Also my meeting area, since I only have one working device that blocks out all forms of bugs. And since my work is more important than anything else, I keep it here. That way," Green pointed at the silver barrier, "Is a titanium shield. Some of my devices are a bit... explody. So I test them in there and make sure that they don't-"
Green was cut off by a muffled bang that echoed from behind the barrier. She sighed, and continued, "Explode. The other way is my living space, so that's mine. No going in there. Mine. Further that way are a few training caves, and various other places, including my ore mine. And that's the tour!"
Crystal raised an eyebrow. "Nice. So, remind me why you called us all here? I was trying to get to that shrine in the north that has a diagram of every pokemon for my research."
"We have a mission to complete, that every dex holder except for Black in Unova and Emerald in Hoenn has been called for," Silver answered. Gold raised an eyebrow.
"Excuse me? I don't see Red, and we all know where he is."
Green smirked. "Okay, Mister Gold, where is he?"
"On top of Mt. Silver. Like he has been for six years now," Gold said, the look on his face asking if Green was stupid.
"Well, that's actually why I called you all together. Red has taken an apprentice, and is traveling through Sinnoh. A certain Ash Ketchum?"
Sapphire blinked, as did Gold. "You mean that kid who traveled with my lookalike that acted like Ruby?" Sapphire asked.
"The kid that was involved in the thing with celebi?" Gold asked.
The two drew odd looks from the other dex holders, before Ruby asked, "So, what's going on?"
"Red contacted me through my apprentice, and gave me information that Yellow isn't dead, like many of us thought. Because of that, I made contact with Silver, who was looking for me, and asked him to search for a place that Yellow could be. Using the information that Red sent me later, Silver and I pinpointed the most likely place, and we need an army to storm it."
Crystal frowned. "So, we're the army? Why couldn't you, Red, and Silver do it alone?"
"Red's busy, actually he's in north Sinnoh, and from what I found on the group, there's a group of executives that are each as powerful as a member of the elite four. Since I'm only a bit stronger than one of them, and Silver isn't, we needed a few more people."
"Great. So, where's the place, and when do we go?" Gold questioned, staring at Silver.
Silver grimaced. "Do you know a place called Navel Rock?"
Ruby twitched. "We have to go there?"
"No. There's an island halfway between there and Unova. A small compound is visible on the island, so that seems like the most likely place to go."
Crystal nodded. "Okay, so what are we going up against?"
"No idea!" Green exclaimed cheerfully. Most people in the cavern sweatdropped.
Gold, thinking about it, asked the obvious question. "So, when do we go?"
"The day of the Lily of the Valley Conference. But nobody can say a word of this to Red, otherwise he'll go running off. We have to be careful, and stealthy. Got it?" Green asked. Everybody nodded.