Upon arrival at Fuchsia City, the four were surprised by snow falling.

Kevin's theory was right after all. "Hey, I was right. Winter in summer."

---

The next morning, Karl woke up. He looked out the window to see a sheet of four inches of snow throughout the town. "Hey! It snowed!"

Hadley awoke to see the same thing out the window.

Kevin unfolded the note from the bottle. "All right."

The note read:

To whom it may concern,

As you know, climate has really gone crazy these past few days. I have found evidence that Team Rocket may be connected to this phenomenon.

Much of the lettering had faded, however, and that was the only clear part remaining. Wait. There was one other phrase at the bottom.

"'Legendary Birds.' Hey, it looks like Team Rocket did something to mess up Kanto. Something to do with 'Legendary Birds'."

Hadley overheard him. "Let me read that." She looked at the note and squinted.

"'Sincerely, Blaine.' It's from someone named Blaine."

"Gym Leader Blaine?" asked Karl.

"There's no last name written on here, or it's faded out, too." Hadley then realized that they found a piece of evidence. "Let's tell Koga about this."

Later, at the living room, Koga looked at the letter. "Blaine's been missing for a year now. I think he was trying to communicate with us. I'll send this over to the authorities."

---

Karl tossed a snowball at Koga's daughter, Janine. "Ha! Got ya!"

"Time to disappear..." The ninja girl dove into the snow.

"Huh? Where'd she go?" Karl peeked at the spot Janine dove into. There were no hidden passages that she could have possibly entered.

Suddenly, he had been pelted by many snowballs, causing him to fall to the ground and hit a house. Snow fell onto him. "Hey! What's the big idea, Blue? Janine and I are trying to..." He pulled himself out of the freezing snow and turned around, but saw no one. "Who hit me? Ah, that snow's cold!"

"You Karl Caliduct?" someone asked.

"You're not Blue. But yeah, that's me."

"I've been looking for you!" This was Mr. Fuji! "I'm sorry for snowballing you, but I needed your attention. I've heard how you survived a nuclear meltdown and fooled Team Rocket."

"You know, we managed to adopt a Lapras that someone from Team Rocket released."

"Good riddance. I'm sure it will be glad to live with you. Where are Green and Blue? We need to go to Seafoam Islands."

"For what?" Karl wasn't exactly sure what was interesting there.

"I'll tell you once we arrive."

"Green and Blue? They're at the Safari Zone. I'll get Blowtorch down there to get them over there."

---

Hadley and Kevin trudged through the snow, which reached up to their shins. They were in the Safari Zone, which seemed way different now due to the recent snow.

Flora and Koopa were trapped underneath, hopping to resurface.

Flora panted in cold sweat, her freezing breath clearly visible. This white stuff was freezing cold, and bad for plants.

A rumbling sound could be heard near them.

POP! Janine emerged from the snow, frightening the Pokemon.

"Whoa! How long have you been there?" asked Kevin in amazement. "Teach me!"

"Not a chance." Janine then scoped the park. "The snow reached this part. Yeah, strange weather."

"It's bad luck." Kevin shivered from the cold air. "We have got to be the world's unluckiest people."

Another rumble could be heard in the distance. Soon after, a herd of Tauros rushed through the snow..

Flora looked behind herself, and saw a herd of Tauros coming right at them!

Kevin had been struck by one of the bulls and ended up on its back. "Help! They're running away with me!"

Flora heard Kevin's cries and unveiled her vine whips, pulling at a Tauros' hind leg.

Hadley and Janine quickly mounted on the bull. "All right, let go." Hadley recalled Flora as Koopa mounted.

Tauros followed the tracks of its herd.

Kevin didn't want to let go, fearing that he would be run over by the stampede. "Hey, come on, help me here," he pleaded desperately.

"All right, then, I'll try to catch that Tauros." Hadley then aimed a Safari Ball at the bull with Kevin and tossed it.

Kevin fell away from the stampede and into the snow. The others quickly jumped away.

The ball containing Tauros shook three times before finally clicking. "Now that was cool," said Blue gratefully. "We got another Pokemon and you saved my life."

"Well, Blue," Hadley said nervously. "I- I don't want to lose you."

"I know, you care about me. Do you?"

"Well... Somehow... Yes, I worry about you." Hadley had taken up the courage to speak up.

"I knew it," Kevin said nicely. "You're a great girl."

"Why, that's a nice thing to say. I don't think anyone else ever said that to me." Hadley's grass-green eyes dazzled with excitement. Had she finally met her match?

"Hey, there's a hill down there." Janine noticed the Pokemon hopping away.

Blowtorch skipped through the deep snow and found Koopa and Flora. He lowered his tail at them. The flame was a soothing welcome after a cold winter.

Koopa readied himself for the slide down the hill. He squinted and ran, pulling in his head and limbs. As he hid in his shell, he slid down, pushing up snow that hit Flora.

Brrr, she thought as she shook off the snow and moved towards Blowtorch to warm herself.

Koopa reached a frozen lake. Magikarp and Goldeen were stuck tightly in place. There was also an eel with a majestic facial structure.

Hadley, Kevin, Janine, Blowtorch, and Flora had all caught up with the ambitious Squirtle.

"Wait, where did Red go?" asked Hadley. "Why is Blowtorch all alone?"

Janine answered, "I got away from him, but I'm sure he'd find me here. But as for where he is, I don't really know."

"I'm sure he's just exploring town. He does that at Viridian City a lot." Kevin paid attention to the frozen underwater Pokemon. "It must have been a surprise to wake up unable to move at all."

Flora wandered off to another lake. The Pokemon in this lake were moving. The thin ice cracked, and Flora fell in. But instead of extremely freezing temperature, the water was strangely warm. Flora splashed into the hot water.

Koopa jumped onto Flora, pushing her underwater. The dinosaur-like creature pulled herself back to the surface.

"Hey, there's a Dratini down there." Kevin pulled out a Safari Ball. "I'm going to catch it."

Blowtorch couldn't survive in water – the fire would be extinguished by it. Instead, he tried to explain to Hadley and Kevin what had happened to Karl.

Hadley read the Pokedex. "Mr. Fuji met up with Red? I think we'd better leave now."

"It's been great to know you," Janine said happily.

"All right, I've got the Dratini to counter Daisy's Chansey. That reminds me! We need to get Daisy and go home."

---

Karl, Hadley, Kevin, and Fuji had mounted on Lappy at Fuchsia Beach, which wasn't covered in much in the line of snow, but the cold temperature was still present. Two islands were visible on the horizon.

"Is everyone ready?" asked Fuji.
"Yeah, we're ready to go on our way home." Kevin hoped that no more disasters would impede their journey.

Water... Karl and Hadley were terrible swimmers. Even then, it was too cold for skinny-dipping, as they found out while testing the water. They had to be careful while riding the Lapras.