Chapter 55: Treasure Beach


August 1, 2006

Day 38: 1:21 P.M. Red's View

Location: One Island, Sevii Islands


"So why are we going to Treasure Beach?" I asked Green. Both of us were on a small boat ride over to the small island near One Island to check it out. The small island was known as Treasure Beach.

"Oh that's simple," she said to me, "Treasure Beach is suppose to be holding their monthly annual contest. You know how many strange and possibly valuable items are said to wash up on the shores of this beach right?"

"Yeah," I said, "I know about that. I heard somewhere that one time an old piece of a nuclear submarine washed ashore there one time."

"Ah-huh," she nodded, "A lot of junk appears on the beach, most of it is trash from other islands in the area that was swept to the beach by the currents. In order to deal with this problem, the island holds a special contest that also doubles as a clean-up project. The contest allows contestants to search the beach for anything that has washed up and take it. At the end of the 2 hour time limit, all the stuff is taken to committee in charge of the contest so that they can sort through it.

"After they finish with that, the judges add up the total worth of everything that has been found. The more unique and uncommon the item is, the more it's worth! The team or person that has the highest total in the end wins a special prize."

"So why does this interest you?" I asked.

"Besides the special prize," Green said, "The contestants get to keep whatever they find and want, anything else can be recycled or thrown away. I hear that many of the contestants find very cool things from Pokéballs to Full Restores to even nuggets on this beach during each time the contest rolls up! Imagine what we could find!"

"I see your point," I nodded, "Sounds like fun and this special prize is very tempting. I can't wait to check this out!"

It didn't take long for us to get there; it was probably around at least 10 minutes from One Island to there. When we arrived, we saw how big the place was. The beach was extremely wide and long in all directions. Further up the beach was a bed of tall grass that poke out of the white sand. Past that was a tall cliff that led to who knew where.

There was a small tent set up that looked like the place to sign up for the contest. Around the tent was a large group of people, from toddlers to senior citizens that all looked like they couldn't wait until the contest started. "This is a bigger event than I thought it would be," Green said glancing around at the crowd, "I think there is at least 40 people here!'

"Well what do you know," a familiar voice called out to us, "Red and Green. I haven't seen you two since Saffron City."

We turned to the voice and saw a tall boy about our age walking towards us. He had pitch black hair, ice blue eyes, and a bit muscular. He wore red swimming shorts, a white t-shirt, blue flip-flops, and a black backpack. "It's Vince!" Green said to me.

"Yeah I know," I said to her, and then I looked at him, "Haven't seen ya in a while. What have you been up to?"

"Not too much," he said, "Caught a few more Pokémon, got a few more badges, battle a few trainers, you know, the usual thing a trainer does. Same for you guys."

"Pretty much," I said, "Though we been battling Team Rocket and Elite instead of regular trainers."

"It would be nice if we could find normal trainers to battle against for once!" Green said, "All these enemies are starting to bug me."

"Whatever," Vince said stretching, "I haven't had a run in with Team Rocket yet or even heard of Team Elite before. You guys seem to have all the luck, I would kill for some excitement on this trip."

"We kill for some peace and quiet once in a while," I chuckled, "Anyhow, you here for the Treasure Beach contest?"

"Yeah," he said, "I figure I get some R&R before I tackle the last gym to get into the Pokémon League. This seemed like the best place to go for it as well. The beach, the cool air, and the ocean, nice place for some rest."

"Since you'll be in the contest like we'll be," Green said to him, "Expect a bit of a challenge from us, we'll be winning this contest."

"We'll see about that," he laughed, "You two better hurry up and sign up for the contest. They're almost ready to start."

"You're right," I nodded, "We'll see you later." We ran past him and headed towards the tent. Underneath it was an older man at a desk with a bunch of papers on it.

"You two joining?" he asked to us.

"Yep!" Green said to him, "We'll be signing up as a team."

"A team of three?" he asked.

"No," I said confused, "A team of two, where did you get three from?"

"That girl behind you is where I got the third from," he said pointing behind us. We turned around and saw an older girl, about 13, who was a slight bit taller than us. She had silky, black hair that came down to her shoulders and she was rather thin. She wore a gray tank top, jean shorts, and brown sandals.

"Excuse me," she said quietly moving past us and addressing the older man, "My name is Ashley… last name isn't important and I'm 13. I like to sign up for this event if you don't mind."

"Of course," the older man said writing her name down, "You're all signed up now. Please take an item detector to help you along with a shovel. Sometimes a lot of the stuff that gets washed will end up getting buried under the sand during the high tides and the shifting sands."

"That's ok," she said, "I brought my own detector, but I'll take a shovel." The man pointed a corner of the tent revealing a bunch of item finders and shovels. She ran over there and grabbed a shovel.

"Well I'm Red and she's Green and we're both 10," I said signing up me and Green next, "We'll be signing up as a team like we mention before." The man nodded and signed us up. I then grabbed an item detector and a shovel for ourselves.


1:45 P.M. Red's View Location: Treasure Beach


"Alright ladies and gentlemen," a voice shouted to all of us, "The game is about to begin! The rules are simple if you don't know them already. Grab as many things as you possibly can, be careful of broken glass and razor sharp edges of certain objects when you pick up things. In two hours the event will end and we'll count up the points of each team or person. The winner or winners will receive 500 Kanto dollars and a Full Revive. Get ready for this! Get set and go!"

We all turned our item detectors and started to head off in all directions. We both headed in a direction that was away from the crowd. "Where are we going?" Green asked me as she carried the shovel while I used the detector.

"I figure if we search in the areas that the crowd is not currently looking in," I explained to her, "We'll be able to get to a lot of more things before everyone else does."

"Good idea!" Green said glancing back, "But I think two others thought of that ahead of time. Take a look." I glanced behind me and saw that both Ashley and Vince were hot on our trail.

I stopped as soon as I picked up something with the detector. "I got something!" I told Green, "Right here!" She began to dig in the spot I pointed at and unearth a strange piece of metal, probably from a ship wreck.

"Sweet!" she said to me, "Probably worth a lot of points! Who knows what else we'll find here!"

"We better hurry then," I said continuing to move forward, "Those two are catching up!"


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"This is going to take a while," I said to myself as I scanned the beach with the item detector, "But I have to find that thing soon otherwise I'll be in big trouble with the boss!"

I sighed to myself and thought of that moment on the boat the previous night. I was onboard one of the group's boats and I was leaning against the railing. I had pulled out my PDA and was looking over the plans that my boss as sent me. Then one of the guys snuck up to me while I was distracted and surprised me.

In shock, I accidently drop the PDA over the railing and into the water below. I was pretty worried about this since my PDA contained a lot of plans from my boss and information about our group on it. If it was to wash ashore and someone else discover it, our group could be in big trouble.

I saw then that the boat wasn't too far from Treasure Beach. I had known that a lot of things wash up on the shores of it so I figure my thing end up there. I was going to relax for a bit on the thought that it would end up there and I could easily get it back, but then I realized that they were going to hold the monthly contest tomorrow so I had to get it back soon before someone else found it.

I snuck away from the boat and headed over to the island to explore it, but I couldn't find it at all. I couldn't find it at all in the morning either. So I decided to join the contest and hope that I would be able to find my PDA then. Plus, if someone else was to find it, I might be able to steal it away from them.

I sighed and continued to explore the area with the item detector. "I better find my PDA before anyone," I said to myself, "Even if someone was to find it and I was to get it back, they might turn it on and discover all the secrets that it holds!"


Red's View


After exploring the beach for about an hour or so, Green and me walked farther away from the rest of the crowd and to the other side of the island. "I can't see anyone anymore," Green said to me, "The cliff is getting in the way."

"That's ok," I said to her, "No one's been over here yet so we'll be able to get some other stuff."

"Sounds good," Green said to me, "Let's see here, we've collected at least 10 soda cans, 5 strange pieces of metal, a broken Pokéball, a golden triangle piece that looks awfully familiar from somewhere, a Potion, and some small bottle caps. We collected quite a lot."

"Not as much as me," Vince said running past us, "Now I'm going to get more than you two!"

"Not on your life!" Green snatching the item finder from me and giving chase after Vince, "I'm going to be you muscle head!"

"Green!" I shouted to her as she disappeared ahead of me, "If you don't scan the ground with the item finder you'll… ah heck with it! I'm just glad she's gone. Maybe I'll get some peace."

I start to glance around the area for items on the sand or partly buried in the sand. I didn't see anything right away but then I noticed something that grabbed my eye. A small item washed up on shore just then. I walked over to it and picked it up.

"Hmm…" I said picking up the item and examining it, "A PDA. This will get us a lot of points for sure. I wonder if it'll still work or not?"

"What did you find there?" a voice said from behind me. I quickly turned around while putting the item in my pocket. It was just Ashley from before.

"Ah nothing," I said to her, "Just some junk. Can't have it though, I need the points for my group."

She blankly looked at me in the eyes. I looked into her eyes as well, they seemed so dull and dead. It gave me chills. "Alright…" she said softly, "I'll be on my way… see you…"

She walked away back the way I came, but not without giving me another look that gave me more chills. "That girl's creepy," I mumbled, "What's with her?"

"IT'S MINE!" Green shouted up ahead.

"NO WAY!" Vince shouted in reply, "I GOT TO IT FIRST!"

"I'm too afraid to go and check this out," I sighed to myself, "But I better go see what's going on before there's too big of an issue."

I ran ahead and caught up to the two of them. Both of them were struggling over a piece of cardboard. "Ah come on," I said to the both of them, "Can't we just rip it in half and share it? Remember that commercial, sharing is caring."

"To heck with that commercial!" both of them shouted at me, "I'll shed blood for this thing! I will win this contest!"

"Stupid idiots," I mumbled to myself, and then I dragged Green away from him, "Look, forget that piece of cardboard! I got something that'll get us a lot of points! Take a look at this!"

I pulled the electronic thing out of my pocket and showed it to her. "Wow!" she said excitedly, "I can't believe it! A PDA! This is so awesome and it's so going to get us a lot of points because it's so rare to find one!"

"A PDA?" Vince asked suspiciously. I held it up for him to see.

"Hmm…" he said staring at it hard, "Lucky… you… don't lose it…" He stared at it for a while and then at us. The look he was giving us kind of made me nervous, I began to get the same feelings that I got when Ashley stared at me. Did he want the PDA for some reason?


The contest finally came to a close a little bit later. In the end, Green and I collected a few more things while we were on the beach besides the PDA. They're mostly garbage and stuff like that. Though I thought for sure we would be able to win with at least the PDA.

Everyone met back at the tent after the event was over so that the officials could score the stuff we collected. They walked from person to person to check the stuff they collected. "So you think we'll win this?" Green asked me.

"I'm pretty sure," I said to her, "We collected a lot of stuff and I'm sure the PDA will score us the most points. After all, what are the chances that an electronic thing would wash up on the beach and still work after being in the water? That's an amazing find!"

"So it still does work?" Green asked surprised.

"Oh yeah," I said remembering something, "I forgot to check to see if it still works or not. Let's see here…" I turned it on and screen sprang to life. A big, red R appeared on screen with a few icons on the sides of the screen.

"What's with the big R as a background image?" Green asked me confused, "Wait a minute… you don't think that this thing belongs to a…"

"A Team Rocket member?" I answered her, "I think so. Better check this thing out and see what's on it." I pressed a few buttons and a document popped on the screen. The title on it read, 'Operation Indigo League.'

I read a couple of things on it and then I realized something. This plan on the PDA… whoever received this document is going to join the league as an undercover operative! But the main question was why? Why did Team Rocket want an agent in the league?

"MY PDA!" someone shouted, "GIVE ME THAT BACK! VICTREEBEL! GRAB THAT THING WITH YOUR VINE WHIP!" A vine appeared out of nowhere and snatched the PDA out of my hand. I looked to see where the vine came from and saw someone with a Victreebel at his or her side.

"It's you!" Green said pointing at the renegade who stole the PDA, "You're a member of Team Rocket?!" The crowd gasped and looked at the person. The person looked at us and shrugged.

"Little old me?" the criminal said, "But hey, now that the cat's out of the bag I might as well admit it. I am a member of Team Rocket. I am Undercover Operative Ashley of Team Rocket, it's nice to formally to have met the two of you Red and Green."

"You know us?" I said.

"Of course," she said returning her Pokémon and pulling out another Pokéball, "But I have spent too much time here and I must be leaving. I suppose since you know now, I guess the next time you'll be seeing me is in the Indigo League. See you all later!"

"Stop her!" Vince shouted, "We can't let her get away!" A couple of people pulled out Pokéballs along with Green, Vince, and me. However, Ashley only smiled innocently and waved goodbye.

She released her new Pokémon quickly and said, "Weezing! Give us some cover with Smokescreen!" Her Pokémon nodded and released a dark, black, thick smog from its mouths covering the entire beach area. After the smog disappeared, Ashley and her Pokémon disappeared along with it.


Team Elite Abbey's View


"Hey Jordan!" I said rushing into his office, "I have some interesting news you might like!" He recently had gotten back from his trip to Cinnabar Island and has been looking all over the files and notes he gotten from Bill. Personally, I don't know what was so important about the information, but then again, if Team Elite's higher ups said that stuff was important, who am I to disagree?

"The only interesting news could be that someone finally has pin pointed the new location of Moltres," Jordan said looking at his computer screen, "After the failed attempt on Victory Road over a month ago, shouldn't someone have found out Moltres new home yet?"

"Well on that," I said to him, "Since Ice Island, Thunder or was it Lighting Island, and Fire Island sunk during that underwater earthquake, we have been trying to locate the legendary birds. As for Moltres, the most elusive of the bunch, we have some possible locations for current whereabouts now that it has left Victory Road, but that's not what I wanted to say. It's more important."

"You found some things about that Mewtwo project?" Jordan said, "I want to know what Team Rocket was up to!"

"No," I said, "It's about… that trainer that Team Elite has been looking at for a long time now. It's the one from the recent Hoenn League who caught… you know…"

"You don't mean…" Jordan said quickly turning around, "Him? That guy?! What's going on with him?!"

"He's coming to the Indigo League!" I said, "He was called their as a special guest!"

"Whoa…" Jordan said, "You know what this means? It looks like we'll have to put that plan into action after all! Are you up for it?"

"Of course!" I said, "I guess I'll be entering the league after all. Oh… one more thing… I was wondering something."

"What's crossed your mind?" Jordan said.

"What are…" I said blushing, "The chances of us going on a date if I ask?"

"Huh?" Jordan said confused, "Are you asking me?"

"No!" I said quickly, "I was just wondering…. You know what? Forget that I ever asked you in the first place!" Jordan looked at me confused, shook his head, and returned to looking over the files.


Author Note: Remember when I said I would probably introduce my last O.C. for this story? I have doubts on that, I have planned at least two more original characters by myself left for the story, but they'll appear near the end and probably only appear in like only 3 chapters so their part won't be huge.

In the next chapter, Red and Green visit Two Island for some fun, but then both of them are roped into finding a missing girl. Meanwhile, another trainer heads to the Viridian City Gym where he or she will run into a problem.


Next to Come: Chapter 56: Two Island

Date: 4/19/08

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