Ash, Misty, and Brock were lost, as usual. Just like all the other times,
it was a
forest that they were lost in (in this case, it was the Ilex Forest).
Just like
always, Brock was looking at a map, and Misty was yelling at Ash. She
was about to
begin another unflattering description of his intelligence when Ash
spotted a
landmark.
"Hey, Brock! What does your map say about that altar thi-
hey! Isn't that
a
pokémon?"
Noticing that it was, and failing to
grasp the stupidity of his question
("OF
COURSE IT'S A POKÉMON! WHAT DID YOU THINK
IT WAS, A GIANT BLOCK OF
CHEESE?")
he swiftly pulled out his pokédex and pointed it at the half-bug,
half-fairy
thing in front of him. The device told
him, in the same monotone
that it
always did, a few important facts about it: its name was Celebi, its
types were
grass and psychic, there were certain attacks a trainer should watch
out for when
facing it (this was followed by a list of these attacks), it was
the only
known pokémon that could travel through time, and it was exceedingly
rare. This information, of course, did not make
Ash change his battle plan,
because he
only had one prepared: have Pikachu zap the thing, then throw a
pokéball at
it.
"Pikachu, GO!" he yelled
with his usual enthusiasm. This sent
Pikachu
running
towards Celebi, but it also had the unfortunate effect of alerting
Celebi to
the fact that it was about to be attacked and, if possible, captured.
In order to
escape, it opened something that anyone acquainted with fantasy
role-playing
would not hesitate to call a "dimension door". This description,
however, is
only partially accurate, for the portal went through time as well as
space. Whatever you want to call it, the Celebi
jumped through, or rather, it
flew
through. Unable to stop, Pikachu went
through with it
"Wait! Come back!" Ash yelled imploringly as he ran through after
it.
Calmly walking through the portal,
Brock told Misty that "We have to
follow him
to make sure he doesn't kill his own grandmother or something like
that."
Reluctantly and silently (there was no
one left to talk to), Misty became
the third
person to travel through time.
