Karl, Hadley, Kevin, and Daisy drove home from Celadon City.
"I think something bad is about to go down." Karl remembered what Team Rocket said at the carousel. "Project Ultima? Professor Oak's on their hit list?"
"Red, you're getting all paranoid," assured Kevin. "They've forgotten about us."
"It's not us," Karl quickly replied. "It's Professor Oak! Team Rocket's after him."
"We've got to warn him about Team Rocket."
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Dairy drove back home while Karl, Hadley, and Kevin ran towards Professor Oak's lab.
Karl, Hadley, and Kevin opened the door. The lab was ransacked. Books littered the place. Torn strips of paper and overturned chairs were sprawled out on the floor.
"Professor Oak?" Hadley didn't see Oak anywhere.
"Hey, gramps, if you're hiding, it's not funny." Kevin thought that his grandfather was playing a prank on them.
Karl dug through the recycling bin, fishing through discarded paper. "Hey, there's a note on the top." He took the crumpled piece of paper out.
The note read: "Karl, Hadley, and Kevin, I know you'll find this sooner or later. Team Rocket has abducted me. I'm afraid that they were involved in the disasters plaguing Kanto. We appear to be ready, as Mandroph Darkao has ordered his grunts to pull out of Pallet. I've put a secret homing device in my shoe. Your Pokedex will be able to signify where I'm at by now. Hurry! I need your help."
It was signed, "Professor Paul Oak."
Karl said in disbelief, "We shouldn't have gotten involved in this mess in the first place. They got what they wanted, and won."
"Yeah," Kevin agreed. "They might be anywhere by now. We've got no idea where they went. They got their Pokemon back, and they defeated us…"
A homing device… "We sure do have an idea!" Hadley exclaimed in excitement. "We can use the Pokedex to track him down!"
Karl pulled his Pokedex from his pocket. "This is real useful. The 'dex can be used to translate a Pokemon's cries and for homing devices!"
"Whoa, Gramps really thought ahead."
Karl went outside, and pointed his Pokedex in every direction, trying to get a signal.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Hmm... 36' 17' north, 86' 18' west. I think Green should look at this."
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Hadley input the coordinates on the lab's computer. It pointed to an isolated location somewhere above and between Pewter City and Indigo Plateau. It was somewhere in the mountains. The location was also blocked. "It's blocked. Why?"
"'Cause it's probably some top secret facility," blurted Kevin. "Guess they don't want anyone trying to sneak up on them."
"Try getting directions to there, Green." Karl knew that they could find out what was there if they went personally.
Kevin sighed as he scoped the lab. Time to start cleaning up this place.
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Blowtorch, Flora, and Koopa were in a lab. Where their story began. Only this time, it all came together. They were about to witness "Ultima", the ultra-power bird with the DNA of the three legendary bird Pokemon.
Professor Oak was confined in a cell. "What's going on here? What happened?" He had awakened to find himself in a lab. The three Pokemon were visible. "Something's about to come down soon..."
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Karl, Hadley, Kevin, Daisy, and Bill drove through Pewter City up into Pewter Canyon. The road grew rockier.
Much of the canyon was a wasteland – unnaturally. There were no plants at all.
"We've got to follow the coordinates to where Professor Oak's being held." Karl, however, would need Psycho to be the navigator. "Come on Psycho, let's get to the lab where you came from!"
Psycho didn't understand what Karl meant.
The Pokedex read, "I'm sorry, Karl. I have no idea what you're talking about. I cannot teleport to places I have never seen before. All I know of my past is that I met Becky when she was a grunt. But nothing before then."
Team Rocket Pokemon had their memories wiped upon receipt by Team Rocket. Hadley then asked, "Do you remember the coordinates 36' 17' north, 86' 18' west?"
Psycho didn't remember, but he could still tell where the coordinates pinpointed. He pointed northwest. "I shall guide you there."
"Let's get moving," Bill announced. "Psycho would know where to go. Let's listen to him. Psychic Pokemon are smarter than computers."
Strong wind blew through. "Whoa! I think it lifted me off the ground for a second," said Kevin.
"Well, how worse could it get?" asked Karl.
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"You had to ask, didn't you?" questioned Kevin.
Dust blew through the canyon, obscuring anything through the windshield.
"I can't see a thing," complained Daisy. "I think Psycho should go behind the wheel."
Psycho, however, pushed the car using his psychic abilities to avoid falling down a chasm. "We can only proceed further on foot. I will still guide you through."
The five followed the Kadabra through the dust storm, exiting and locking the vehicle.
Karl coughed frequently. "This'll really clog my lungs."
Suddenly, the storm stopped, and a sunset cleared.
"Huh? Dust storms don't usually stop instantly," Hadley said in wonder.
"There's some deep chasm and stepping stones across." Karl noticed that it led to an obscure building in the distance. "I bet if we cross the chasm, we could get there in no time."
Karl jumped toward the first stone. It was a very long way down. But he had to look across, not up or down. Scared, he quickly jumped the stones across, not knowing that he succeeded. "Man, I don't want to go through that again!"
Hadley jumped halfway through, timidly, knowing that Psycho would grab her if she fell. "Still gotta be careful..." After jumping, she tripped and fell. "Heeelllppp..."
Psycho telekinetically lifted Hadley, and put her at the other side. He had to conserve his psychic energy in case he would need it at the destination.
Kevin shut his eyes. "I'm not looking down." He walked toward the first stone, but didn't realize he was about to fall down the chasm. "Whoa!"
Daisy pulled him away. "Blue, don't look down, but please, watch where you're going."
"All right, then, here goes nothing." Determined, Kevin jumped the stones quickly, his eyes locked on the other side. He then hurled himself to solid ground. "Yeah! I made it through!"
But the stones collapsed. Daisy and Bill couldn't make it through.
"We'll need to find another way across." Bill knew that Team Rocket would obviously need some practical road across the chasm. But where?
Bill and Daisy ran to find an alternative road. Karl, Hadley, and Kevin headed toward the long road to their goal.
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After the long road, night had almost fallen. The sun had almost disappeared from the horizon. Dust began to build up in the wind, but it wasn't as intense as in the storm.
Looming over them was the blocked spot. A large base. Strobe lights patrolled the base.
Bill pulled out his cell phone. "Lance, we're at the base."
"Good work! We'll head down there right away." Bill hung up.
"We'd better stay out of sight," Hadley reminded. "It looks like tight security."
A tall security fence sealed in the base.
Kevin examined the fence. "It doesn't look that tall to me. Let's climb it!"
"I'm with ya, Blue!"
Karl and Kevin put their hands and feet onto the fence. But they felt a shocking sensation all over their bodies and fell to the ground.
"That fence is electrified," Hadley said in surprise. "We'll need to try another way in."
Karl ran to the entrance, but skidded to a halt. "Whoa. A force field." He didn't dare touch the red beams, because he could get fried.
"Let me handle them," said another voice. Bill and Daisy had caught up with them. "I'll try deactivating the force field."
Hadley and Bill carefully pried open the fuse box. After a few minutes of tinkering with the fuses, and an electric shock to Bill, they had deactivated the force field. Daisy and Bill entered first, but a motion sensor alarm was triggered.
Karl, Hadley, and Kevin ran away from the base, out of sight. Daisy and Bill tried to escape, but metallic clamps had caught them, causing the two to fall to the ground.
"Bill, I'm afraid..." Daisy was speechless after that.
"Don't worry, Daisy. Lance knows we're here, so he and the rest of the Elite Four will rescue us and stomp Team Rocket."
"Come on, you two, let's get moving," said one grunt.
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Karl, Hadley, and Kevin, out of sight from guards, wondered what happened to Bill and Daisy, but it didn't appear good.
"Psycho, come on out!" ordered Karl.
The Kadabra surveyed his surroundings, and vaguely remembered the lab. It had all come back to him. He warped the three into the base, away from surveillance.
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"All right, we're in." Karl could see that Daisy and Bill had already been taken into the base. "But I'm not sure I'd want to be in here! But we've got a boatload of work to do in there."
Kevin tried to punch a window to break it, but it was too strong. "Hey, this is Plexiglas. What gives?"
Hadley knew that surveillance was still in effect. They would have to pass it. "We've got to overload the security's power. Go, Sparks!"
The Pikachu checked his surroundings. Compared to the Power Plant, this was majestic. Seeing the fuse boxes, the electric mouse powered up its cheeks, and shot a beam of lightning at the fuse boxes. The strobe lights overloaded with power, and shut down.
"Now's our chance. Let's go!" Karl led Hadley and Kevin into a side entrance.