Conner asked, "Did you find them yet?" The Drayans were in the lounge of the Team Rocket headquarters.

"Those brats got away from me," snapped Becky. "And I just became a Team Rocket Elite after the museum incident. What if I'm demoted?"

Sandy said in disappointment, "They're not in Vermilion City, either."

Becky was dressed in light clothing – the white clothing she usually wore over her black uniform.

"We're trying our best, though," assured Becky. "Those guys are pretty sneaky. But there's no hiding."

Sandy had an idea. "Becky, I've got an idea. Could you please bring me the book 'Pokemon Quest'?"

"Sure thing!" Becky then went down to the library of the headquarters. "OK, let's see..." she mumbled to herself as she looked through the selections.

---

"The ghost departed into the afterlife, and I'm saved," Sabrina declared. "What a night. Now I can head to my home in Saffron tomorrow."

"Say, Sabrina, could you take us to..." Kevin was cut off.

"Celadon City?" interrupted Sabrina. "Why, yes, I'll do this for you."
"You're not faking it? You can actually read our minds?"

"It's been years of practice."

"We're asking because we need to get to Celadon City to..." Hadley was cut off, too.

"Save Daisy Oak. Ah, that's it. You'd better hurry once you get there, since there's not much time!"

"All right, then... what love relationship am I thinking of?" challenged Kevin.

"You and Hadley," declared Sabrina. Kevin was visibly embarrassed.

---
Back in the lounge, Conner asked Sandy, "Hey, Sandy, could I talk to you for a minute?"

"Sure."

Conner then asked suspiciously, "How can there possibly be a book of 'Pokemon Quest'? We're still making it!"

"Yes, but there's been a new breakthrough in the marketing of fictional stories."

"Really?"

"Really - instant fiction! It's published before the story is finished."

"Nah, that doesn't make any sense..."

Becky had returned with a book.

The front cover consisted of Karl, Hadley, and Kevin in heroic poses with large birds in the colorful background. Also in the background was Daisy being held under duress with Conner, Sandy, and Darkao next to her.

"Here you go – 'Pokemon Quest'."

"Good work, let's read it." Becky handed her father the book. "All right, let's see... 'The year is 2205.' Wait, that's much too early.'"

Conner flipped the pages. "Blowtorch placed his tail at the bottom of Sandy's skirt, setting it on fire."

"No, no, pass that part," said Sandy quickly. "In fact, never read that again."

Conner quickly turned to chapter nine. "Ah, now we're up to date!" Sandy then glanced at the book in surprise...

It read, "It read, 'Sandy then glanced at the book in surprise...'"

"Wait! What the heck am I reading?" questioned Sandy. "When does this happen in the story?"

"Now. You're reading now, Sandy. Everything happening now, happens now!"
"What happened to then?"

"We passed then just now. We're at now, now."

Becky had read the book. Everything her parents were saying was appearing in this book! She then turned to the previous chapter. "Looks like they're coming for us. We just have to wait for them."

"Go back to then," said Sandy.

"When?" asked Conner.

"Now!"
"We can't. We missed it just now."

"HEY, YOU TWO!" Becky shouted out. "Quit confusing yourselves with 'time travel' talk! They're coming for us."

"By afternoon, they'll be our prisoners!" exclaimed Sandy.

---

Karl, Hadley, and Kevin had taken the route that Sabrina showed them at Saffron City. And so, they arrived at Celadon City in the afternoon.

Karl asked, "Any idea where to find Daisy?"

"I'm sure Team Rocket placed her in their secret hideout." Hadley then realized that they had no idea where that was. "Question is, where's their hideout?"

Kevin knew exactly where that was. "Oh, I've got a darn good idea. Rocket Game Corner, anyone?"

"Kevin, we're not old enough to gamble!" exclaimed Hadley.

Karl then told them, "Let's find a secret way in."

After a few minutes of searching the Game Corner's exterior, they found a door. A metallic heavy-duty door. This wasn't something that they were able to just force open.

Hadley took a closer look at the door. A key card slot was on the side. This required a key card to open. "We're going to need some sort of key in the shape of a card to get in. Wait, I think I can crack it."

"That's not a good idea," Kevin pulled Hadley's hand away from the fuse box. "Read the warning sign: 'WARNING: Any attempt to circumvent the security system may cause serious injury or death'. There's no telling what will happen. Maybe it'll blow up! Let's go in through a safe way."

---

Daisy looked around the cell she was held in. Wanting to see what was beyond, she headed towards the door, and looked through the glass pane. What Daisy saw was a room made out of chrome.

Daisy immediately caught her eye on Chansey, confined in a small cell. Barely large enough. That was obviously what Blowtorch, Koopa, and Flora had gone through before.

That Mandroph Darkao! How dare he! She had become heartbroken when he mischievously told her that her father had died. What was Kevin going to say about that?

---

A Team Rocket Grunt had exit through the door. Birdo quickly flew onto the grunt's head, pecking it. "Hey! Get off, you Pidgey!"

Flora ran towards the grunt and whipped the grunt with her vines. "Stop that, you Bulbasaur! I'll bet you're the one that Professor Oak's grandkid stole!"

The Bulbasaur scattered some sort of pollen on the grunt, causing him to fall to the ground paralyzed.

"Don't worry, grunt, your superiors will heal you," said Kevin bravely as he took the key card from the Team Rocket Grunt. "Let's go!"

Upon entering through the door, they found a large garage. They knew they had to be careful, since they weren't supposed to be here.

After searching through the garage and moving out of the way of the trucks, they found a staircase.

---

The chrome rooms awaited the three as they opened the door at the end.

As Kevin and Hadley entered, however, they penetrated a laser beam, which caused a trapdoor to open up below them! Kevin quickly ran out of the way to avoid falling.

"Help..." Hadley yelled as she fell through.

"Oh, man, we're in trouble," Kevin mused. "She's probably going to end up imprisoned with Daisy.

"That's two we've got to save now. And only the two of us can do the job. Are you up two it?"

"Karl, you're a not funny. Worst pun ever!"

After sneaking through the hideout, they found a large room. There appeared to be no walls preventing them from reaching the room on the other end.

"Not so fast, Karl!" Kevin pulled Karl away from entering the room. "Look down there." He pointed to arrow pads that pointed away from the door.

"There's got to be some way across." Karl tried to jump over the arrow pad. He almost made it to the unmarked floor tile, but the pad pulled him away, and he spun like crazy.

"Hey! That looks like fun! Hey, Koopa, let's travel through these arrow pads." The Squirtle ran towards the first arrow pad, and hid into his shell, spinning around the room. "Wait for me! Yahoo!"

Karl crashed into the metallic wall. "Ouch! It's all fun and games until someone's hurt..."

Koopa arrived at the other side, and pointed at the correct route there.

The boys took the route and arrived at the other side. Karl began to feel motion sickness.

Karl looked around. There were a staircase and an elevator. Karl climbed up the staircase, but Kevin was too reluctant, saying, "Team Rocket's going to get you!"

"There you are! We've got you!"

"Told you so! Looks like that Rocket girl became an Elite now!"
Becky pursued Karl and Kevin, who ran towards the elevator. Karl inserted the key card and the boys quickly scurried into the elevator, pushing a button to another floor – quickly, before her Machop got to them. They didn't have much time.

Upon exiting the elevator, a room marked "Detention Block" was visible. "The girls have got to be here," stated Karl.

---

"Daisy, we've got to get back home."

"I don't know, Hadley, I think we should find a way to deal with Team Rocket first," indicated Daisy. "How did Kevin take our dad's death?"

"He got a little crazy."

"Hey girls," Kevin shouted out.

"Not so loud," criticized Karl. He inserted the key card, and the cell door opened.

"You saved us!" exclaimed Daisy. "Oops, sorry."

"Too bad dad bit the dust," said Kevin unhappily. "He really took good care of us. I bet he, in the afterlife, helped me find you."

---

Ben and Erika headed down into the hideout. Ben warned Erika, "Whoops, watch that hole!"

After a few minutes of dodging grunts, they found the arrow pad room.

Erika stammered, "I-I d-don't think we should go through this."
"Come on," insisted Ben.

A Kadabra warped into the room. It pointed to the correct route.

"If you insist." Erika then stepped on the arrow pad that the psychic pointed to and slid to the other side. Ben followed her. Kadabra disappeared.

---

Conner and Sandy found the four. "I'm warning you," threatened Conner. "Give us those three Pokemon, or we'll have to force you!"

"No! You can't do that!" cried Daisy. "You'll hurt the Pokemon. They never meant you any harm!"
"Go, Arbok, let's show how serious we are!" Sandy called out the purple cobra.

Arbok slithered toward the four, ready to strike, but before it could, Kadabra warped in and fired a psychic beam at the snake.

Ben and Erika both insisted, "Leave those kids alone!"

"Hey, you don't have permission to be here, old man!"

"Didn't ask for it," retorted Ben.

"Psycho, get back here!" ordered Becky, who entered the detention block. The Kadabra folded its arms and shook its head. "I'm warning you! Come back here, or I'm kicking you out!"

Psycho then shot a beam of light, which created a void in the wall.

Karl then told the others, "There's a way out! Get in!"

The four, along with Ben and Erika, ran out through the portal, which closed up as Psycho warped out.

"They got away again," mused Conner.

"Serves Psycho right!" exclaimed Becky.

---

The six arrived outside the Game Corner.

"All right! We saved Daisy!" Karl, Hadley, and Kevin gave a high-five.

"I guess it's time for us to go home now," Karl felt tired from this adventure, and wanted to get back to everyday life. Enjoying the summer.

Erika batted against that idea. "Hold on there! Don't you know about the unusual climate?"

"Yeah, but it's not our problem," said Kevin. "We're powerless to help."

"Erika's right," insisted Hadley. "Team Rocket must be manipulating the weather."

Karl then realized, "Team Rocket has some part in the change of weather!"

"We should tell this to investigators," said Ben.

Psycho warped in and moved toward Karl. "Hey, it's that Kadabra. I guess it wants to be with us. Serves Team Rocket right! Welcome to our team!"