Chapter 3

"I guess I haven't explained what we are supposed to do." Grey grinned and scratched his head, "When I was notified of this event by the Mexican government, I immediately called up Oak. We haven't found out what it could be, we have several hypothesis, but nothing concrete. The reason we called you up was to tell you that you have been chosen. We are going to Mexico to track down Matarae. Now, it will be at least one or two weeks before we reach Mexico. You see, there is more to the world than Johto and Kanto. We are going to take a flight to Mother Russia first. There, we will pick up two people, our weapons expert and a crypto zoologist. After that, we will fly for a couple days straight to America, we will meet the rest of our expedition at Nuevo Paso del Norte. A small drive towards Mexico's interior will follow, then we will set up base camp and track Matarae."

"Unless it tracks us first.," Oak mumbled.

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"Now boarding for...." The woman announcer's voice was droned out by the mass of people.

"Ugh, now where is that plane..." A girl, about 18, walked around lost in the airport, she toted a black suitcase behind her. "Uhh, excuse me sir, couldya tell me where..."

"Sorry, don't know."

"But, I didn't even finish asking the question!" The girl whined. "Dammit, well, looks like I have 2hrs to find the damn plane..." She looked down at her ticket, gate 28J. Gate 30I was right next to her, ahead she saw a sign that said:

J Terminals -

"Ah, there it is." She walked off through the crowd.

"I wonder if we'll meet anyone famous Evee." She was sitting down petting her Evee. The luggage was already taken by the helper Machoke. "Ah, a nice long vacation to Russia, just what we need eh?"

"Vee!"

"Heh, I knew you'd like it. You hungry Evee? C'mon, let's go." She called Evee back into its pokeball and walked into the crowd towards the restaurants.

She stood in the line to a burger place, Aerodactyl Burgers to be exact. She yawned and glanced around the person in front of her to see what was the hold up. In the line next to her, a young man kept glancing at her. He was about 6 feet tall, with shoulder length brown spiky hair tied in a pony-tail. "Jennifer?" He asked.

"Yeah, how can I help you?"

"Jennifer! Its me, Gary!"

"Gary!?"

"Yeah, wow, its been such a long time."

"Uhh next please," the attendant said, Gary realized he was next in line. He motioned for Jenny to come over. "You want anything?" He asked.

"Umm, sure. I'll have a number 3."

"Ok, a number 3, and a number 5."

"Don't worry, I'll pay." Gary stopped Jenny from pulling out her purse, he put a 20 on the counter.

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"So, what're you doing over here?"

"Well, my Evee and I are going on a trip to Russia. For a vacation."

"Wow, I'm going to Russia too."

"Oh, on vacation?"

"Well, not really." The two continued to talk over their meal. After a while, Grey called Gary.

"Gary! The plane is gonna leave in 30 min. we're boarding already!"

"What gate is it at again?" Gary asked.

"28 J!"

"Oh damn, that's my gate too!" The two looked at each other, stuffed their food into the trashcan, and ran after Grey. (Of course Gary shoved a handful of fries into a napkin before he ran off.)

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"Gary, I'd like to talk to you about something."

"Yeah Gramps?" Oak motioned for Gary to lean in closer.

"You cannot, tell anyone about this mission."

"Not even Jennifer?"

"Jennifer? She's here?"

"Yeah, didn't I tell you?"

"Well, no. But, I don't want you to get too involved, you two broke up a while ago."

"Umm Gramps... we never really broke up."

"What?!"

"Well, not what you think, we still kept in touch. Hehe."

"Ay Gary.." Oak sighed, "What are we going to do with you?" Oak shuffled over to his seat and sat down, he closed the window and his eyes. The flight attendant announced that the plane would be leaving shortly and everyone should take their seats. Gary picked a seat next to the emergency exit, the one with two seats facing them in front. He saw Jenny walking around the plane, he called her and invited her to sit next to him. Soon after, Brock and Sabrina joined the two. The flight attendant announced that the plane is going to depart, and everyone should buckle up. She then told the routinely emergency exits here blah, blah, blah. The plane started to move out of the gate, it gradually picked up speed until it flew off the ground.

Roughly 20 minutes into the flight, people started to unbuckle themselves and walk around visiting with others. "What was in that vile you gave to Ash's Pikachu? The little guy is running around like nothing happened," Brock asked Gary.

"Yeah, what was in that vile?" Sabrina added.

"Well, you see, a while ago, I was in a small village on the Orange Islands. There, someone sneaked something into my Venusaur's food. He was getting very sick, eventually he passed away. That's why I wear this necklace, it has one of his teeth and a piece of a leaf. Anyway, the elder gave me a box, inside it was its powders and leaves. Also, a jar with his ashes was in it. The elder showed me how to make potions using the different powders, I never really had any use for them until I met Gevaudan."

"Question. What the hell is a Gevaudan?" Jenny asked.

"I'll explain everything, just listen. According to the elder, everyone has a guardian. Someone or something that looks over him or her. Mine is Gevaudan. I realized that, when I remembered that he rescued me once. I was small, around 9. I wandered around the grass outside of Pallet town. Suddenly, a very angry bunch of Mankeys started to attack me. I fainted, but I could vaguely hear a roar and the sound of fighting. I then felt like I was floating. I woke up at the house. Several occasions that resembled that occurred. Finally, about a month after Venusaur died, I was walking through the jungles in the Orange Islands. I was looking for the cave of the Crystal Onix, I hoped to study and train with it. A group of punks a little older than me appeared. They held a gun to me and took almost all of my money and Pokemon. I managed to beat a couple of them down, then I started to become overwhelmed by them. Suddenly, Gevaudan appeared. He roared in fury and charged at the muggers. They started to send out their Pokemon, but failed. Gevaudan attacked all of them, knocking them out and wounding them not seriously. It was enough to warn them not to mess with me. I took back my stuff and cautiosly walked around Gevaudan. He walked up to me and let himself in one of my Ultra Balls. The Ultra Ball then turned a black color with a symbol of a crystal on it. I found my guardian. After a while, we became unbeatable. All of us, Typhlosion, Haunter, Ampharos, Gevaudan, Nidoking, and Arcanine. At one of the battles though, I accidentally severely wounded the opponent's Pokemon. I automatically took out the box the elder gave me, and ran towards the injured Pokemon. I made a small potion to help it heal. I later experimented with the mixtures. I made one to heal severe wounds, minor wounds, and to bring them back alive. That last one is the hardest to make, I only have about five vials of that stuff left. I need to find some Shining Berries, which are very rare. I carry around a set of vials whenever I battle just in case."

"All of that from Venusaur powders?" Brock inquired.

"Yes. I can teach you some tricks if you want."

"Sure."

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Gary taught Brock the techniques, Sabrina was asleep. Brock was busy studying and memorizing the notes he took, occasionally he would ask a question. Grey and Oak were discussing the techniques they should take in tracking Matarae. Misty and Ash were making up for the fights they had before, and Surge was trying to hit on one of the flight attendants. Gary looked at the TV screen above him, it showed that they were about half way there. Gary then decided to tell Jenny what they were doing. He had to take that risk, if Gramps got mad at him, oh well.

Jenny and Gary talked about Matarae, whatever Gray knew about it, he told her. He then asked her if she wanted to join them. She agreed and made some plans. She would swap her hotel stay for a plane ticket in Russia. After a couple hours, almost everyone was asleep on that plane. Jenny was asleep, her head on Gary's shoulder. Gary just stared at the ceiling thinking. The flight attendant announced, "We will be landing in New Moscow shortly, please bring your seats to their full upright positions."