The Teleport Tile sent Red, Yellow and the old man directly to the first floor of the Pokémon Tower and from there the old man led the two kids to a nearby building.

"This is the Volunteer Pokémon House." The old man said as he opened the front door. "I opened this place up many years ago as a place to take care of abandoned Pokémon."

Several Pokémon were scattered around the house, enjoying themselves. On the far side from the entrance, a girl around Red's age was tending to an injured Cubone.

"This is Reina. She's our only volunteer here at the moment, but she does more than enough work to make up for that."

"Thank you, Mr. Fuji, but I just do what I can." Reina blushed as she accepted the compliment.

"Though I suppose you two would be more interested in hearing about Cubone. You see, that Cubone is the son of the Marowak ghost that you encountered up in the tower."

Red and Yellow weren't sure what to make of this revelation.

"Not too long ago a group of evil-hearted Team Rocket members attacked and killed Cubone's mother. When we found them shortly afterward, we took Cubone in and made sure that Marowak had a proper burial in the tower, but then her spirit started to haunt the floor she was buried in and attacking everyone in sight. I went up there to try and calm her down, but then those three you fought showed up and only agitated her spirit further, trapping us on the top floor."

"Wait, you were attacked?" Reina gasped.

"I will explain later." Mr. Fuji told her before turning his attention back to Red and Yellow. "Now I'm afraid I will have to go up there again to calm her down, but in the meantime, I wanted to give you a gift for saving me."

Mr. Fuji walked over to a nearby set of drawers and picked up a small case and some sort of wooden flute. He then walked back to them and handed the flute to Yellow.

"This is a Pokéflute. They say that the sound it makes is capable of waking up any sleeping Pokémon." He then turned to Red and handed him the small black case. Red opened it up to find a small black bracelet and some sort of marble that shone blue and yellow as light reflected off of it. "I don't know for sure what this is, but I feel that it will come in handy for you at some point."

"We can't take these." Red insisted.

"Nonsense! I'm giving them to you because I want you to have them. Are you really going to turn down an old man's generous offer like this?"

"I-I guess not." Red said.

"Good. Now, I wish you the best of luck in your travels!"


Daisy and Giselle were just reaching the outskirts of Celadon City when they found their path blocked by two men on motorcycles.

"Now what do we have here?" One of the men mockingly asked the other. He was a thin man with a spiked Mohawk and a brown leather coat. "Yo, Cue Ball, what do you make of this?"

"Looks like a couple kids trying to make their way past our turf." The other man said. He was a very heavyset man with a black vest and his head was cleanly shaven to the point where light reflected off of it as if his scalp were made of glass.

"That's what I thought." The first biker said. "But surely no one would be that stupid, right?"

"Not unless they want a beatin'." 'Cue Ball' agreed.

"Get out of our way." Giselle ordered the two bikers.

"Oh, this girl thinks she can just go and order us around like we're her servants or something. Well, guess what, girlie: The Gyarados Gang down's take orders from nobody!"

Giselle smirked. "That's a double negative, which means that you do take orders from somebody. And I guess right now that somebody would be me."

"Why you little-" The first man said, gritting his teeth. "Come on, Cue Ball, it's time we teach these two a lesson on respecting their elders."

"I guess this will be our first team battle." Giselle said to Daisy. "Two rivals teaming up to fight off a common enemy. It's almost poetic, don't you think."

Daisy, who had been looking on in horror as Giselle had somehow managed to make a bad situation even worse for them, meanly sighed as she pulled out one of her Pokéballs.


"What do you think it does?" Yellow asked Red as the made their way out of Lavender Town. Red had put the bracelet on his right wrist and was examining it closely.

"I'm not sure." Red answered as he pulled out the marble-like object. He held the strange gemstone up to the bracelet and noticed there was a small opening just large enough to put the marble in. He inserted the marble into the bracelet and found that it fit perfectly.

"It looks good on you." Yellow smiled.

"Yeah, but I'm sure there's more to this thing than just a fashion accessory. Oh, well. We'll figure it out eventually I guess."

The two continued walking in silence as they made their way along Route 8 until eventually Yellow turned to Red.

"I think someone's following us." She said to him.

Red turned around and saw that there was indeed someone following them. A young woman with long purple hair that Red recognized as the woman that had been asking Yellow about ghosts yesterday.

"Can I help you with something?" He asked her.

"No, not really." She replied.

"Then why are you following us?"

"Oh, no reason. I was bored and thought you looked interesting. I thought that if I went with you for a while, something might happen."

"Well, you can't just follow someone around without their permission." Red said.

"Alright then. Can I go with you for the time being?"

Red thought for a moment, but couldn't really think of a good reason to say no. "Um, sure, I guess. At least until we get to Saffron."

"Oh, good." The woman clapped her hands together.

"I'm Yellow and this is Red." Yellow greeted the girl. "What's your name?"

"You may call me Sable."


"How much longer do we have to go?" Misty whined as she, Ash, Carmine and Brock continued to make their way through the sewer tunnel they had become trapped in.

"Who knows?" Brock answered. "We don't even know where we are right now. We might not even be in Kanto right now."

"In fact, it was a ghost that sent us here, so for all we know we're actually stuck in the Distortion World for all eternity." Carmine joked.

"That's not funny." Misty said angrily.

"I'm just messing with you. According to the map on my Pokégear, we're somewhere between Lavender Town and Saffron City, heading towards Saffron."

"Wait, you've had that the entire time?" Misty asked. "Why didn't you say something earlier?"

"No one asked." Carmine replied. "Besides, it's not like this thing will tell us where the sewer exit is. I can't make a call from down here."

"But can you at least tell us how far much longer we have to go until we reach Saffron City?" Ash asked. "There should be some way out over there."

"It shouldn't be too much further. Although it's hard to tell because I lost the signal for the map a little while ago."

"Well, this is just great." Misty said, "Just when we get some sort of hope about knowing when we're getting out of this stupid place, it just goes away. We're going to be down here for the rest of our lives, aren't we?"

"Don't be ridiculous. There was to be a way out somewhere and we're going to-"

"Going to what?" Ash asked as Carmine didn't finish his sentence. When no reply came, Ash turned around to see Carmine, Misty and Brock all standing still. Something seemed off about their eyes. Ash started to walk back to them, but just as he took the first step, suddenly a loud chattering sound echoed through the tunnel and he, Pika and Volty all had to cover their ears to try and block out the horrible noise. He tried to yell over the deafening noise, though of course no answer came. Ash turned around again and saw ten glowing eyes come into view ahead of him as the shadowy silhouettes of some unknown Pokémon made their way closer to him.