He studies it for a moment, an icon appears on the map, his current position. "Lavender Town, home of the Pokémon Tower." He switches off the watch, and stands upright from his previous position of leaning against the rock. He glances at his surroundings, a mountainous region with a little amount of trees. He sighs, "Well, Neiko..." he says to himself, ".... looks like you've got some more hiking to do."
* * *
Meanwhile, in the cove near Cerulean City. Dagger, Bajin, Kien, and the pokémon that unwillingly helped form the ball are sprawled out on the beach below, washed ashore by the waves of the cove. Kien and Dagger are the first to awake; followed by Bajin a moment later.
Dagger coughs up water, then coughs some more to get the awful taste of sea water out of her mouth. "Ugh," she groans, "What was that...?" She looks around, "Umbreon?" she looks around again, noticing that Umbreon was not too far away. She crawls on hands and feet towards the unconcious dark Eevee evolution and grins, "C'mon Umbreon, wake up." she shakes it, it coughs up sea water, "Oh Umbreon!" she embraces it.
A little further, Kien opens his eyes and spits some sea water out of his mouth, "Ah Damnit!" he curses, "How the hell did we end up rolling through Cerulean?"
He thinks for a bit. "My hometown... I promised that I'd come back after I beat the Pokémon League." He had done as he promised. He had gone up pretty high in the tournament, and won the Thursday set.
He looks up, seeing a chain of pokémon dangle from the cliff edge where they rolled off of. A single Geodude is supporting the weight of two Clefairy, a Paras, and a Jigglypuff. He notices Bajin sitting up, looking out to sea.
Bajin had been thinking of the events of the Pokémon League. How he had won the Prime Cup Ultra Ball tournament and how Kien had won in the Master Ball tournament, "It's amazing that you beat that trainer from Saffron City in the Pokémon League, Kien." he says to his friend, "You saw how easily that Kentra beat that Gym Trainer from Johto and you easily beat him of the Friday Finals Tournament, breaking his six year winning streak. Quite an impressive feat if you ask me."
Kien laughs in triumph, "Oh yeah," he replies, "Wasn't the Gym Trainer's name uh.... Whitney?"
"Yes, from Goldenrod City."
* * *
"He is changing." Mewtwo says suddenly to Mew and Sabrina, still in the cave near the ruins of Saffron City. "What?" Sabrina replies with spoken words, "What are you talking about?"
"Mewthree is changing."
"What does that mean?"
"He undergoing some physical changes."
"Does that mean he can still transform into a human?"
"If he wants to... yes."
"But does the identity 'Mike' still remain."
"Whether or not if that is possible is highly unlikely."
"How do you know?"
"Because I am viewing his actions in a clairvoyant kind of manner."
"But you can't read his thoughts?"
"No... I am sorry. He still has an unbreakable psychic shielding on his mind."
"But why is he changing? Do you know?"
"I do not have an exact answer, only a theory."
"Which is?"
"Some experimental pokémon that actually survived for more than sixteen years, like him, have a reactant to various things that happen to them. For example, if he eats something that is well nourishing, his cells react to the nourishment, causing an unstable mutation. If he does not eat for a period of three or four days a month, his body will start to eat itself away."
Sabrina gasps, "But.... isn't there a way to stop that from happening?"
"It was believed that there was a serum developed by Silph Company to stop this process, but that was only a rumor."
"How do you know so much?"
"I had been watching him since one year ago. So, as he was in the Silph Company building, I noticed some documents written up by that human, Kemdra Gemfk."
"Do you know why he hates humans?"
"Who knows? It can be anyone's guess what the motive was. But I can only guess that it was something having to do with his past."
"We aren't going anywhere in this...."
* * *
April 20th, nighttime, ten minutes after the destruction of Saffron City.
Ashley Skerry, a young woman of around fifteen years old, opens her eyes apon hearing a sound in the night sky outside a Trainer's Resting Room inside of the Pokémon Center in Celadon City. She sits up in her bed, her blue-green eyes seem to glow in the soft moonlight washing over her body through the window. She looks around, seeing that she had been at the same spot she had been when she fell asleep, she sighs.
She brushes back her blond hair from off of her shoulders and turns to look through the large paned window overlooking a small garden in the back of the Pokémon Center. The small garden seems to glow orange and crimson from an unknown source.
She turns towards the small television near the window, turns it on, and tries to watch something to lull her back to sleep, perhaps the Twenty-Four Hour Jigglyathon on KNN would be good enough.
The song of the Jigglypuff is interuppted with a Breaking News Report from the Radio Tower's News Room. Lavender Town's Officer Jenny is reporting. Her blue hair shines in the studio lights, her tuscan colored eyes show a look of concern and heartbreak. "Ladies and Gentlemen." Jenny starts, "I am afraid that I have some terrible news." "What?" Ashley says to herself, "What happened?"
"As of midnight, tonight, Saffron City has been completely decimated from the Kanto map."
"What?!"
"What caused the destruction of the Kanto region's central city is still unknown. However, eyewitness accounts from trainer's around the areas of Cerulean City, Vermillion City, Celadon City, and Lavender Town; as well as the surrounding roads, state that they saw a figure over the city before it was destroyed. The local police departments are warning trainers to not venture on the paths surrounding the city until further notice. Among the victims of the destruction was KNN's own Kaede Restor, a very well loved reporter who put her all into all of her news assignments."
A screen pops on in the background of the news soundstage, showing a picture of a smiling Kaede Restor, then a playing of a recording of her final broadcast.
"This is Kaede Restor reporting from in front of the Silph Company building in Saffron City. This is the site where just moments ago, a young man who is only known by the name of 'Mike' had entered the lobby and started to murder anyone in sight. His motives are unknown, but he was always known as the guy who was thought to be dangerous just by first glance."
The reporter's voice trails off in Ashley's ears. The report trails on for another ten minutes, but something catches her eye on the reflection on the Silph Company glass lobby doors, "What the hell....?" she says to herself. A dark figure is clinging onto the building across the street, "What is that thing?". The reflection shows the figure plummet onto a couple across the street, landing on the man, and decapitating the woman. It turns its attention to the people crowded on the streets, and attacks. "No!" she screams at the television set and starts to weep.