The gang was once again lost on the way to Vermilion City. Somehow it proved to be very difficult to get there. They soon walked out of the forest and onto the beach.

"What a beautiful beach." Cora commented as the sun began to set over the horizon. She was distracted from the view of the sunset when she noticed a very small Krabby scuttle between her legs. She leaned down until she was looking down between them and pulled out her phone.

[Krabby, the River Crab Pokémon. Living on sandy beaches in burrows it digs, Krabby can grow back its pincers if they break off in battle. Its average height is about 16 inches]

"Do all Krabby's have the same height?" Mairin asked.

"Some have the same height while others might be smaller." Alain replied.

Krabby merely snapped its claws then looked at Cora as if asking for something. Not sure what the water type wanted she took out a Pokéball on instinct, "Do you want to be my Pokémon, Krabby?"

It responded by tapping the Pokéball with its claw and was sucked in, "Guess that answers my question." Then she sent the Pokéball to Prof. Oak's lab.

Perun pointed at something in the distance, "Pika! Pikapi! (Hey look over there! It's a lighthouse!)"

The gang turned to where Perun was pointing at.

"It's a lighthouse! That's good, maybe we can rest up there and I can make us some food." Cora said.

"I get to sleep in a nice bed! Let's go already!" Mairin took off so fast she was nothing but a blur.

"Espe, espeon espe (Wow, she must be really excited to sleep in a bed)." Kilala commented.

"Well, there are limits to when Mairin wants to sleep in a real bed instead of a sleeping bag." Cora stated.

"That is true sometimes." Alain agreed.

By the time the group made it to the building it was already foggy and dark. Cora sighed in relief when they finally reached the doors.

"That was farther than it looked." Cora commented.

"This lighthouse looks weird." Mairin commented.

The group stared at the door, Cora was in awe at all the Pokémon carved on it, the first she noticed the carving of an Arcanine.

"Guess we better ring the bell." Alain said.

"I got it." Cora replied when no one stepped up, pressing the red button on what looked like the intercom. The doorbell sounded off a chilling church like melody of gonging bells which spooked the group out.

"[Who's there?]" A voice over the intercom asked.

"Please excuse us sir," Alain said, "We're travelers and we're lost. So, is it all right to rest here for the night?"

"And I'm wondering if I could use your kitchen to make bacon double cheeseburgers for our group and I'd be more than happy to make something for you." Cora added.

"[That's great. Can you cook without using tofu?]" The man on the intercom asked.

"Oh, sure I can cook many things without using tofu." Cora replied.

"[That's great. I've been eating tofu since my cook went on vacation. Come on in!]" He invited, the large doors opening with a deep creaking sound to reveal a dark high ceiling hallway.

"Would you mind if I borrowed your phone?" Cora asked, her question echoed.

"[There's a phone right near you.]" the voice replied, still sounding as if it was coming over an intercom. The group looked to their left to see a phone in the shape of a Bellsprout with a screen next to it.

"Hey, it's a Bellsprout shaped video phone, that's so cool." Mairin said.

"I'll just call Professor Oak now. I've been meaning to talk to him about how my Pokémon are doing." Cora said as she walked over. Then she dialed and Prof. Oak appeared on the screen, and he was cooking something.

"[Well hi, Cora! You caught me cooking dinner! My cook is on vacation, and I've got to fend for myself until she returns.]" he explained.

"I'm just calling to see how my Pokémon are doing." Cora said.

"[Your Pokémon are doing great,]" Prof Oak assured her, "[Tana is doing a fine job in welcoming them and Digger is helping them train with the other Pokémon. The others make sure to follow their example.]"

"Oh good. That's a relief. By the way, have you got Krabby yet?" Cora asked.

"[Yes I did,]" Prof Oak replied, "[It's smaller than Gary's Krabby though.]" He showed Cora her Krabby and Gary's Krabby.

Cora sighed, "Of course Gary caught a Krabby as well." she muttered.

"[Anyways Gary has caught 45 Pokémon.]" Prof. Oak changed the subject, somewhat.

"Oh, I see." Cora said, calmly.

"[By the way, Cora. Just where are you calling me from anyways?]" Prof. Oak asked.

"We're at a lighthouse on a high cliff." Cora explained.

"[Oh, that must be Bill's lighthouse! He's a young Pokémon researcher who knows even more than me! See what you can learn from him. He can teach you just about everything about Pokémon and then some.]" Prof. Oak suggested.

"This is Bill, Professor Oak. Good to hear from you." Bill's voice sounded over the intercom.

"[Hello Bill!]" Prof. Oak greeted. "[Please give my friends here a crash course in Pokémon,]" Oak asked. "[Uh-oh! Tofu's done.]" he said as he picked the tofu out and blew on it before the screen blacked out.

"I'm starting to wonder why Prof. Oak is always eating whenever I call him." Cora pondered.

"Pika pikachu. (I'm starting to wonder too.)" Perun agreed.

Suddenly Cora heard some yipping from a cardboard box next to the table. She walked over to the box, and to her great surprise she found five Eevee's in the cardboard box. One of them is a shiny. She took out her phone.

[Eevee, the Evolution Pokémon. A Normal Type. Eevee is rarely seen, and can adapt to severe habitats by evolving, changing its capabilities and form.]

She smiled as she held her hand out to them and one sniffed her hand and pressed her cheek against her palm. Cora gently petted the Eevee and scratched the chin of another one. They cooed, liking the attention.

"That's amazing," The male voice said, "Those Eevee's are normally shy."

Suddenly all the lights turned on. "I am Bill of the lighthouse," he introduced himself, turning the group's attention to a large Kabuto at the top of the stairs rubbing its first two claws together.

"That's a Kabuto! An extinct Pokémon!" Cora called out.

"I wonder what it's doing here." Mairin said.

"I don't think that's a Kabuto." Cora and Alain said at the same time.

The Kabuto was waving its tentacles. "That's right, I'm not a Kabuto," it said. "I'm Bill, the Pokémon researcher."

"...Is there a reason you...look like that?" Cora asked delicately.

"This is a costume. I'm stuck inside it!" He explained.

"...do you need help getting out?" Cora offered.

"Y-yes!" He said in relief. "Step up here."

Cora jogged up quickly. "Just tell me what to do." she said.

"Push that button," he pointed with a claw. "I tried to press it before, but these claws are too short." Bill explained.

Cora pushed the small blue button and stepped away when it started to beep and pulse with light. The claws popped off first, then the black face and last the shell to reveal a young, dapper man with seaweed green hair. Cora knew that this was Bill.

"Thanks for helping me get out. I've been stuck in that costume for hours." Bill said gratefully.

"Did you just come back from a costume party?" Mairin asked.

"Eh...oh, no, this is a special costume I use for my research," Bill explained, "Getting inside its skin helps me get inside its head."

"I see, you're trying to understand how an extinct Pokémon lived by wearing that costume." Cora and Alain commented.

The two glanced at each other and looked away with pink dust on their cheeks.

"That's right. There are many kinds of extinct Pokémon and putting on a costume is one way of figuring out what they were like." Bill informed them.

"You can understand what a Pokémon is like from just putting on a costume?" Mairin asked.

"Yes indeed, or I'm beginning to." Bill replied.

"By the way, are those five Eevee's yours?" Cora asked.

"No, not really," Bill shook his head sadly, "The truth is I found these Eevee's in a box one stormy night. So I'm really looking for someone who would care for those Eevee's."

Cora felt sorry for the Eevee's. To be left abandoned and alone. Somehow, she keeps meeting Pokémon who are abandoned by their trainers. She couldn't believe that their trainers would just easily give up on them or are too lazy to help raise them. Just what is it with most trainers these days?

After Cora made a meal of bacon-double cheeseburgers for everyone, Bill showed them to a room, which had pictures of lots of Pokémon. "This world was created 4.6 billion years ago. During that time, all kinds of Pokémon existed. They had many ways of living."

"All kinds of Pokémon...how many?" Mairin asked, curious.

"On this planet there are currently more than 900 known species of Pokémon." Bill replied.

"Wow, that many?" Mairin gasped.

"I have also discovered that these Pokémon are not the only Pokémon in this world." Bill stated.

"Are you talking about the Johto, Hoenn, Sinnoh, Unova, Kalos, Galar, and Alola Region?" Cora questioned.

"You've heard about these regions, Cora?" Bill asked.

"I actually plan to visit one of them when I finish the Indigo League. Also compete in them as well." Cora replied.

"Yeah me too," Mairin added, "I'd like to catch some grass type Pokémon from those regions."

"I want to study more about Pokémon that are capable of Mega Evolution." Alain declared.

"You're lucky to be a Pokémon trainer. Your goal is to catch all these kinds of Pokémon. That's a great task," Bill said enviously. "No one knows how many there are exactly. The search goes on. There's always something new to look for in our lives and in ourselves."

"Something to look for?" Mairin repeated.

"Yes, there's a lot for us to look for, inside and outside ourselves," he trots down the steps. "There's meaning for every creature, a meaning for all the Pokémon and meaning for all us humans too." Bill enthused, his arms raised as he walked down the hall, the projections of the Kanto Pokémon on the walls.

"A meaning for all..." Cora murmured as she looked at the Kanto region Pokémon on the walls.

Soon afterwards, Bill had told them that he had something to show them and led them to the top of the light house.

"Keep looking for new Pokémon to catch. It's something that's very important for Pokémon research. It's as vital to me as it is to you." Bill turned back to the gang. "Right now, though, there's only one Pokémon I'm searching for."

"What kind of Pokémon?" Alain asked.

"It's probably the biggest Pokémon ever, bigger than all of the rest, and no one's ever seen it," Bill said as they looked to the ocean, covered in darkness and mist, only occasionally lit by the spinning lighthouse light. "It's been wandering the world for a thousand years, looking for friends."

"But doesn't that Pokémon have any friends or family?" Mairin asked.

"The Pokémon wanders because it's alone. It's the only Pokémon of its species, one of a kind," Bill replied. "One night I heard this very strange sound coming across the ocean." He took out a remote from his pocket and pressed a button. Suddenly, the strange sound he seemed to have been talking about started playing. "I want...I want to meet you, that's what it said to me."

Kilala, Perun and Chespie gave him a strange look.

"Some time ago, I recorded a similar sound and played it from the lighthouse towards the ocean...'Let's be friends. I want to meet you.'... One day, I heard the same voice calling back to me from over the ocean. 'I want to meet you, too. I want to be friends.' It was answering me back... Some foggy night, that Pokémon might come here to meet a friend it's been seeking for a very long time." He smiled suddenly. "I would be so happy to meet that Pokémon!"

"Are you going to try to capture that Pokémon?" Mairin asked.

"Why would I need to capture it?" Bill asked in return, turning to them. "Meeting it would be enough for me. Just a chance to study it would make my long wait worthwhile." He seemed ready to speak more until they heard an explosion.

"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!"

Everyone turned towards the voices and saw something fly across the sky and soon disappeared.

DING!

"Something tells me that that was Team Rocket." Cora guessed.

"(And they must have angered a Pokémon nearby which caused them to get blasted off)." Jackal added, appearing next to Cora.

"Jackal, what are you doing here?" Mairin asked, confused.

Suddenly they all heard a resounding sound come from the foggy ocean, making them all return to watching the sea.

There, seeming to stand on the water was a silhouetted figure what Cora easily identified as a Dragonite, certainly not the only of its kind like Bill seemed to think, but definitely the largest of its species, as large and tall as the cliff and the lighthouse it was holding. That Dragonite was Godzilla sized and might well be the only known Dragonite to have ever grown so big.

"The signal!" Bill gasped as the others watched the large Pokémon wading towards them ever so slowly in shock and awe. The sound Bill had recorded played in the background as the lighthouse light, for some reason, began to flash in different colors.

"It sounds like it's singing." Mairin said softly, closing her eyes, her hands clasped together as she enjoyed the soft melody.

Bill, Cora, Alain, and Jackal were still glued to the railing, watching the Pokémon in awe as Kilala, Perun and Chespie swayed cutely to the music. Dragonite walked until it finally reached the lighthouse. The Pokémon was so big and tall it reached from both the seafloor to the top of the lighthouse. Cora took out her phone.

[Dragonite, the dragon Pokémon. This extremely rare and highly intelligent type is able to fly faster than any known Pokémon.]

"A Dragonite huh?" Cora and Alain asked in unison.

The Dragonite showed itself to the group and lowered its head to Bill.

"I see, so you are a Dragonite," Bill said to Dragonite, rubbing its head, "let's be friends forever."

Dragonite roared in happiness. Cora, Kilala, Perun, Jackal, Alain, Mairin and Chespie were happy for Bill to finally meet the giant Pokémon.

Cora was glad that Bill finally got to meet Dragonite. It was a good thing that she sent out Jackal to make sure that Team Rocket was sent far away from them when Bill would meet Dragonite. Bill deserved to have a friend while he lived up here in the lighthouse.

It was the next morning, Bill and Dragonite were saying their goodbyes to the gang.

"I cannot thank you three enough for being here with me last night, when I finally met Dragonite." Bill thanked the gang.

"I just hope your friendship with Dragonite will last forever." Cora and Mairin smiled.

"If you're looking for Vermilion City, it's not far from here," Bill said, "Oh and Cora I have something to ask you." He handed Cora five Pokéballs. "These Pokéballs contain the five Eevee's, I've decided to give them to you."

"Me?" Cora asked in surprise.

"Yes," Bill nodded, "After seeing the Eevee's bond with you very quickly and for seeing your passion about Pokémon last night, I decided you're perfect for them."

"Wow thank you Bill," Cora smiled, "I promise you to take good care of them."

"I know you will." Bill smiled back.

After the five Eevee's were sent to Prof. Oak's, the gang had set off to Vermilion City.

Pokémon Caught:

Shiny Espeon (Kilala)(F)

Shiny Charizard (Nuri)(F)

Altaria (Talia)(F)

Shiny Lucario (Jackal)(M)

Frogadier (Kenji)(M)

Pikachu (Perun)(M)

Pidgeot (Gail)(F)

Shiny Gyarados (Rory)(M)

Cloyster (Matta)(M)

Shiny Starmie (Pyxis)(Genderless)

Beedrill (Stinger)(M)

Butterfree (Papilio)(M)

Nidoran (Juno)(F)

Nidoran (Malik)(M)

Clefable (Tana)(F)

Sandshrew (Digger)(M)

Alolan Vulpix (Elsa)(F)

Chikorita (Kalmia)(F)

Bulbasaur (Nemus)(M)

Shiny Fennekin (Rogue)(F)

Mienfoo (Mulan)(F)

Glaceon (Nieva)(F)

Leafeon (Panra)(F)

Shiny Gengar (Sypro)(M)

Shiny Chimchar (Pirro)(M)

Galarian Ponyta (Althea)(F)

Shiny Chespin (Cybele)(F)

Rockruff (Romulus)(M)

Meowstic (Yuki)(F)

Squirtle (Neptune)(M)

Krabby (Kuka)(M)

Eevee (F)

Eevee (M)

Eevee (F)

Eevee (F)

Shiny Eevee (M)