Pokémon Go! World
Chapter 2: Celebi and the Ilex Forest!
Narration: Johto, often referred to as the Region of New Beginnings. Initially defined by its neighboring relation to the Kanto region, in the years that have passed it has steadily grown a more luxurious and rich reputation that has allowed it to stand on its own as a cultural juggernaut. At one point plagued by the threat of the revived Team Rocket organization, a multitude of trainers have long since stood tall and spearheaded the movements into a new era. Even further growth has been established as new trainers have decided to take charge and challenge the current world of Pokémon.
"It's a whole new world we live in (live in), Pokémon Johto! Do-do-do-do-do-do, do, do-do-do-do-do, do! Everybody wants to be a Master! Everybody wants to show their skills! Everybody wants to get there faster! Make their way to the top of the hill!" a young girl sung to herself while humming a catchy tune.
She had long black hair that possessed a slight blue tint along with blue eyes. She wore a yellow baseball cap with white and black trimmings and a red Pokéball symbol that had a black star in the background. She sported a rose colored collared shirt with a black trimmings along with a white crop jacket that possessed yellow, rose and black colored trimmings with rose cuffs. She also sported yellow capris with black and navy blue colored trimmings and plain rose colored sneakers with black bottoms and white ribbons attached to ankle. The girl carried a yellow backpack with navy blue colored trimmings and a white star symbol, from what could be discerned from one of pockets on the side of her backpack she also possessed what appeared to be a Pokégear but it was noticeably smaller and simpler in design and possessed a yellow color scheme, she also wore golden star shaped earrings. The young girl walked down a clear path alongside her Cyndaquil as they then arrived at a city.
"Ah, Azalea Town, it's been a while." the girl cheerfully expressed at the site of the relatively plain town.
"I know that it hasn't been very long since we headed out on our Frontier Challenge but it still brings back memories seeing these old places again. Oh that's right we can't afford to stand around, Metal's waiting for us over at the Pokémon Center." the black-haired girl announced while running along with the Fire Mouse Pokémon towards the Pokémon Center.
Elsewhere in what appeared to be a forest maze with various trees, spider webs in corners of the area and karts shaped in the mold of various Bug-type Pokémon, among them being Spinarak, Ariados, Scyther and Pinsir. On a wide open battlefield littered with leaves of varying color, the variety giving off an autumn-like feel, stood two trainers. The first was an average sized boy with shoulder length dark maroon colored hair and silver eyes. He wore an indigo colored hooded jacket with lava colored trimmings that had a black 'S' on the upper left breast with a dark gray shirt under it, along with that he possessed form fitting stone colored jeans. Finally he also possessed indigo and lava colored boots.
The second was a slim average sized man with lavender hair and lavender eyes. He wore a forest green colored long sleeved shirt with a yellow green colored vest and yellow tie. He wore beige colored pants with a brown belt and holster along with brown shoes.
"When I started my journey and first came to this town I wasn't entirely certain on if I was prepared to challenge this gym, along with the fact that you weren't here at that time I took it upon myself to continue forward with my journey." the boy announced. "How many badges do you have now? I take it that you're prepared now?" the lavender-haired man inquired in response.
"I have six. I wouldn't have bothered to challenge you if I wasn't ready. Honestly at this point I feel that I may be over-prepared." the boy confidently smirked.
"Is that so? Since your skill level is far beyond that of a beginner's you know that I'll be using a team specialized for your level. When it comes to Bug-types, I won't lose." the man declared. "This will be a four-on-four battle between the Azalea Gym Leader Bugsy and Gray from New Bark Town, the first side to take out all Pokémon from the other side's team will be victorious. Now let the Azalea Gym Battle begin!" the referee declared.
"I'll start with Bayleef!" Gray exclaimed while calling out a Pokémon that resembled a pale yellow sauropod dinosaur or a lizard. A large leaf shaped like a scythe protruded from its head, with curled leaf-like growths sprouting in a ring around its neck. It had red eyes, a short, blunt snout, and a short, pointed tail. There was one large toenail on each of its four feet. "A Grass-type, I see why you'd have felt anxious challenging this Gym. Shuckle!" Bugsy declared as he called out a Pokémon that resembled a small turtle. Its body was yellow and appeared soft. It was encased in a very hard red shell that had many holes in it. The holes in its shell were rimmed with white. "A Bug/Rock-type, you're overlooking me. Bayleef, Energy Ball!" Gray commanded. The leaf on the Leaf Pokémon's head began to glow and sparkled light green. A light green orb of energy then formed in front of its mouth, which it then fired at the Mold Pokémon.
Elsewhere the black-haired girl arrived in the local Pokémon Center as she looked around. "Hey, Estelle!" a voice called out.
The black-haired girl then looked in the direction which the voice came from and saw a young boy waving towards her. He had navy blue colored hair with gold colored eyes. He wore a teal and white colored pullover hoodie with two interlocking Pokéball symbols and he sported a black shirt under his hoodie. Along with that the boy wore light gray pants and teal and white colored low top shoes.
He stood with two Pokémon, the first resembled a bipedal, blue crocodile with red spines on its back and tail. The spine on its back was larger with additional ridges. Its head was large, with ridges above its eyes, much of the head's size was composed of its snout and strong jaws. There were two visible teeth on the tip of its upper jaw, and two rows of three teeth on each side of its lower jaw. On its chest was a yellow, somewhat V-shaped pattern that extended to its arms with a line bisecting the pattern, it also had five sharp claws and three toes. Its eyes were red and surrounded by a dark blue or black pattern.
The second Pokémon was an Aipom with a noticeably long cowlick, which indicated that it was a female.
"Metal, it's been a long time! How have you guys been, Totodile, Aipom?" the black-haired girl inquired while greeting the trio.
"We've been fine. I'm glad to see you, big sis." Metal grinned.
"Huh? Wasn't Gray supposed to be looking after you? He was closer to New Bark than me so his mom asked him to look after you today." Estelle noted. "Oh, well he went ahead to challenge the Azalea Gym. I'm not sure how he's doing but whatever I stayed here and was practicing with Totodile and Aipom for a bit." Metal nonchalantly responded. "You're so lucky that Mama let you get a Pokémon even though you're not even old enough to travel around. When I was your age I couldn't get any of my own Pokémon yet since they didn't think I'd be ready to handle it." Estelle muttered in slight jealously towards her brother's more lax upbringing.
"Sis, don't talk like that, you're not that much older than me." Metal muttered.
"Sorry, sorry." the black-haired girl chuckled in embarrassment. "Oh, that reminds me! Can you show me what Pokémon that you have?" the navy blue-haired boy excitingly inquired. "Sure, we've got a few minutes left before the special event." Estelle announced to her younger brother's glee.
Elsewhere Gray commanded a Sneasel to utilize Ice Punch against Bugsy's Scyther, who intercepted the attack with Slash. The two Pokémon repeatedly struck at one another as their trainers continued their battle.
Estelle and Metal walked out into the backyard of the Pokémon Center. "You ready!?" Estelle inquired while the navy blue-haired boy excitedly shook his head. The black-haired girl pulled out six Pokéballs, two of which possessed a camouflage pattern with various shades of green and one had a green color scheme with red orange and yellow colored markings, and threw them up into the air. Along with Cyndaquil, she called out a dainty, bipedal Pokémon that was small in stature. It was white with a red and blue triangular ring pattern on its body. It also had a relatively long neck and long legs and a pair of wings on its back, giving it a vaguely angelic appearance.
A small, bipedal Pokémon with a golden brown hide that covered most of its body, including both dorsal spikes. Its belly was a very light brown. Two small claws, one on each hand, served as its thumbs, and one large nail on each foot made up its toes. On its head, it wore the skull of its dead mother as a helmet. Much of its actual face could not be seen except for its triangular, black eyes and a small area surrounding them. The skull had two rounded horns on the top of its head and a tooth-like point on the lower sides, under the skull it had a brown snout. Alongside them was a green condor-like Pokémon with long, red-and-black tipped white wings that covered most of its front. Underneath its wings were designs that resembled red eyes. Along with its main green coloration, its design had accents of black, yellow, and red. There was an extra set of yellow stripes on it, it had almond eyes, a long, slightly hooked beak, and two long, red feather crests. Its feet had only two toes, one in front and one in back.
There was also an orange, insectoid Pokémon that had been completely overtaken by the parasitic mushroom on its back. It had a small head with pure white eyes and a segmented body that was mostly hidden by the mushroom. It had three pairs of legs, with the foremost pair forming large pincers. The fungus growing on its back had a large red cap with yellow spots throughout.
The final Pokémon was a brown, log-shaped body with yellow spots. It had short legs with toeless feet and thin forelegs with three green spheres at the ends. It had a forked "branch" on top of its head.
"Wow, awesome!" Metal exclaimed in awe.
"I know right? I got Togetic here from an egg Papa gave me and I put it in a Friend Ball that was given to me by Ms. Maizie, after it hatched. Cubone and Xatu I caught when I went to the Safari Zone, that's why they have different Pokéballs than the others. These guys are just my main team, the rest of my Pokémon I catch for Pokédex reasons among others." Estelle informed her brother.
"Isn't that kinda cruel? If you aren't gonna love em than what's the point?" Metal wondered.
"I-I do love them, I just don't want to get overwhelmed by juggling so many Pokémon around when I'm still a rookie in general. Besides Professor Lyra treats them great and I rotate commonly anyways." Estelle responded.
"Oh okay, so can I see your Pokédex?" Metal inquired while the Pokémon played with one another in the background. "Sure." Estelle responded while looking into her bag.
"Gyarados, Hydro Pump!" Gray commanded. The shiny Atrocious Pokémon blasted a powerful jet of water at a large, red dragonfly Pokémon. Compared to its long, thin abdomen, its thorax was short and wide. It had three pairs of two-toed legs and two pairs of wings with red bands on them. A bright green mask marking covered most of its face, and it had two spikes on top of its head along with blue yes. The end of its tail had two flat extensions from the sides and two gray spikes in the center. "Yanma!" Bugsy exclaimed in astonishment as the Clear Wing Pokémon was sent flying.
"You see how powerful my Pokémon are? I guess even a veteran like you isn't much of a match for us anymore." Gray smugly declared.
"You've only got six badges but you've got enough strength for a trainer with at least a complete set of badges, I'm impressed." Bugsy smiled. "Why's he so calm?" Gray wondered to himself. "I'm down two-to-three, but Yanma won't lose so easily. Now go, use AncientPower!" Bugsy exclaimed as their battle continued.
In a luscious green forest with various trees of varying width and height, a man with a maroon cloak walked around, he wore a black turban with red goggles while eerily continuing on his way.
"Hurry, it's starting!" Metal called out as the siblings ran into the Pokémon Center and looked up at the television screen in the lobby.
Two trainers were shown standing across one another on a battlefield on the television screen. The first was a tall man, he had jet black hair along with golden yellow eyes. He wore a red jacket with black cuffs and white/black trimmings along with a white shirt that was mostly obscured by his jacket. The man had dark gray pants, with black accents and he also wore crimson colored sneakers which were accented with white and had black bottoms. He noticeably had a golden yellow and black arm band on both of his jacket's sleeves along with a yellow and black cap with a red Pokéball symbol in the center, which was worn backwards.
The second individual was an average sized woman, she had navy blue hair with a teal tint along with blue eyes. She wore a white cloche-like hat that had a yellow ribbon tied onto it and she also wore golden star shaped earrings. She possessed a red buttoned vest, which was sported over a black turtleneck shirt. Along with that the woman had a white opened up sweater with black trimmings and pink cuffs and she also wore yellow shorts. She had long black stockings and red and yellow shoes with white bottoms.
They stood on a battlefield with blue tiles and a giant Pokéball symbol in the center along with the platforms where both trainers were on having smaller Pokéball symbols.
"Ladies and gentleman, we present to you today's special event. An exhibition battle between two of Johto's strongest and most renowned trainers. First up, the Leader of Johto's very own Battle Frontier, the man who attained the status of legend through his trials in the Kanto and Johto regions and his conquering of the Indigo Plateau, Gold!" a man announced.
"I thought his name was Ethan." Metal muttered while being hushed by his sister.
"His opponent will be none other than Mt. Silver's Shining Star, the trainer who stands at the pinnacle of Johto's independent Pokémon League and quite possibly at the summit of the Pokémon world itself, Kris!" the voice added along.
"After all this time, I didn't think I'd be able to do this with you again." Kris announced.
"It isn't much of a big deal, we've already been in these kinds of scenarios plenty of times before. Besides this time around it's only an exhibition." Gold responded.
"This will be a one-on-one battle with a ten minute time limit. Let the battle, BEGIN!" a voice announced.
"Come on, Typhlosion!" "Meganium, you're up!" the two trainers exclaimed. Gold brought out a badger-like Pokémon with a bulky yet agile body. When its mouth was open, it showed its thick tongue and sharp canines. It had a short snout and small eyes and ears. Typhlosion's face, underside, arms, and legs possessed a shade of cream, and its back was dark blue. On Typhlosion's rear, there was a spiky, coarse fringe of fur. Across the back of its neck, there were several red spots.
Kris brought out a pale green, sauropod-like Pokémon with yellow eyes. It had two stamen-like protrusions sprouting from the top of its nose, each tipped with its own anther. It had four feet, each of which had three toes. Large pink flower petals with a yellow central pattern and white tips encircled its neck. Additionally, it had a short, pointed tail and it seemed to have a yellow bandana with a white star-shaped marking, tied to one of its legs.
"Meganium start things off with Earthquake!" the Johto League Champion commanded.
The Herb Pokémon stomped its front two feet onto the ground and released powerful shockwaves that caused the entire battlefield to shake violently. "Jump to avoid it!" Gold exclaimed as Typhlosion leaped up and successfully avoided the powerful technique.
"Cover the field with Flamethrower!" the Frontier Brain commanded as the red spots on the Volcano Pokémon's neck ignited and released flames while it unleashed a powerful stream of red-orange flames from its mouth down at Meganium. "W-what incredible power!" a man in the Pokémon Center exclaimed as the entire battlefield was engulfed in the flames while Estelle and Metal looked on. "Blow the flames away with Dragon Tail!" Kris commanded in response as a light blue glow shined in the flames. Meganium then swung its tail around and it managed to successfully repel the flames with its attack.
"Incredible, to brush off that super effective Flamethrower with Dragon Tail, as expected of the Champ!" a voice commentated.
"Amazing." Gold smiled. "Even if it's only an exhibition battle, it'll send the wrong message to Frontier Challengers if you get shown up so easily." Kris announced.
"Jeez, here I thought we could go ahead and start small to lead up into an exciting climax but you can't take things easy in the slightest." Gold sighed.
"I'm always serious in battle regardless of the scenario. Meganium use Dragon Tail!" Kris commanded as the Herb Pokémon rushed towards Typhlosion.
"Intercept them with ThunderPunch!" the black-haired challenger declared in response. The Volcano Pokémon's fist was surrounded by yellow sparks, which grew into a ball of electrical energy and it clashed with Meganium. Light blue and yellow sparks flied across the field as the two final stage Pokémon repeatedly struck at one another, with the ground beneath them cracking from the sheer pressure of their attacks.
"They're not even using all of their strength and yet I can feel the intensity of both Typhlosion and Meganium's strength just from watching them on television. They're the top trainers of Johto's strongest establishments, it's only natural that they give off this kind of pressure." Estelle muttered to herself.
"Typhlosion don't let up and use Extrasensory!" Gold commanded.
Typhlosion's eyes began to let out a golden glow as it put its arms in front of it. In between its hand an orb of golden energy began to form as the energy was then circled by three rings of rainbow energy. It then fired a multicolored beam with white crescents at the Herb Pokémon, who was struck and sent reeling by the powerful attack.
"Meganium, retaliate with Giga Drain!" Kris quickly exclaimed.
While still reeling the flower petals on Meganium's neck began to glow green. Matching energy shot out from the petals and wrapped themselves around Typhlosion's body. It began to suck up the Volcano Pokémon's energy for a brief bit before the energy receded back to the flower petals. "I was hoping to trigger the secondary effect of Extrasensory to gain the lead but I guess that didn't go as well as I hoped." Gold muttered. "It can't be possible that the great Leader of the Battle Frontier is already feeling pressured?" Kris wondered in amusement.
"With an opponent as amazing as you how couldn't I feel pressured?" Gold charmingly winked.
"S-stop, you're embarrassing me." Kris shyly blushed.
"Don't do this in public." Estelle muttered as Metal falsely gagged. "Typhlosion, the timer's running out but we can't just let them show us up in the remaining time. Flamethrower!" the Frontier Brain exclaimed as their battle raged on. "…I've seen them battle so many times in the past and yet even now nothing really changes. *sigh* I guess seeing this helped reinforce how far I am from conquering the Battle Frontier but it's not like I needed any reminders." Estelle smiled while getting up from her seat.
"Where are you going, sis?" Metal wondered.
"To Ilex Forest, I came to Azalea to go there in the first place. I'd like to see this through to the end but this battle is pretty much just meant to be a tease." the black-haired girl declared. "I'll be back in a while, be careful until then." Estelle declared to her brother, who nodded in response as she headed out.
"I could have sworn I just saw him, but it was pretty far away and it's not like there aren't any other people out there with red hair." Gray noted while walking in the streets of Azalea Town before looking up ahead and noticing Estelle. "Oh, you're here too, huh?" the maroon-haired individual noted while recalling a past encounter.
"At long last today will be the day that you will be starting your journey!" a brown-haired woman declared to Estelle.
Along with her brown-hair she had bright brown eyes with her hair being stylized in pigtails. She wore a black mandarin shirt with a bright red undershirt, which was worn under her white hooded lab coat. Along with that she wore a denim colored short skirt. The woman also had a white headband which had a red ribbon tied to it, long white and black stockings and finally she wore red shoes with white bottoms. She also had a silver ring and wore red lipstick.
"He won't be starting his journey today, but on your mother's request whichever one of these starter Pokémon that ends up leftover today will be going to your little brother." the woman announced while showing the black-haired girl three Pokémon, two of which were Cyndaquil and Totodile while the last one was a small, pale green Pokémon with a darker necklace of buds. It had a large head in proportion to the rest of its body with large red eyes that appeared to have no pupils. It had four short legs with a single nailed toe on each and a small tail. Its most distinguishing feature was the large leaf on the top of its head, which was longer than the rest of its body.
"I never got any of these three since my first Pokémon was an Azurill but I'm sure you'll make a great choice." the woman noted while her partner Azumarill stood next to her. "Any of them would be incredible, but since I'm challenging the Battle Frontier I have to choose carefully." Estelle muttered to herself. "Definitely, hold on a moment." the professor stated while walking back and banging on the wall with Gray then crashing down as a result.
"What are you doing, today's the day you pick your first Pokémon too! Don't tell me that you were planning on stealing one of them instead!?" the woman exclaimed.
"I'm too cool to do things like a normal person." Gray declared while being bonked on the head by the brown-haired woman. "Ow, what was that for, you hag?" he retorted in annoyance as Estelle giggled. "With that long hair, you kinda look like a girl!" she laughed to Gray's horror.
"So do I still look like a girl now? Wait, that's right I look like a winner." Gray arrogantly smirked while Estelle noticed him.
"Hi Gray, bye Gray!" Estelle declared while quickly running past the dark maroon-haired boy without stopping to chat with him for even a second.
"That's right, keep on running. All of you can keep on running but you'll never be able to escape the inevitable fate of my victory." the boy smirked.
Elsewhere the hooded man stopped in front of decorated wooden shrine, which resembled a hokora. It had a dark red rooftop, with a string hanging that had gold, silver and crystal colored accessories. He placed a red cube in front of the shrine before pressing a button on the cube. An orb of energy emerged from the cube as time appeared to freeze entirely, noticeably due to the seemingly motionless leaves in the background. A green light shone as a while it faded appeared a green fairy-like creature. It had round toeless feet, three-fingered hands, and clear wings on its back. It had a round head that came to a curved point. It had large baby-blue eyes with thick black rings around them, and a pair of green antennae with blue tips.
"Looks like the rumors were true, you really do hide yourself in time itself. But what good is that before this device? A small fragment of the Creation trio's power was used to allow this device to create a special field separate from the outside world. The Time Travel Pokémon attempted to flee before a small disk was thrown on the floor, two purple energy chains were then released as one of the chains wrapped themselves around the Time Travel Pokémon's legs and the man's arm.
"The Battle Chain. Voice of Time, Celebi now you won't be able to escape, at least not until I capture you." the man smirked.
"Now, let's battle!" he maliciously shouted.
"This is it, Ilex Forest. I heard stories about the Mythical Pokémon Celebi from Mama and Papa. I knew I wasn't ready back when I started my journey but maybe now I'll be worthy enough to meet it." Estelle muttered to herself while she began to walk through the luscious green forest. "What is this? This overwhelming eeriness?" the black-haired girl wondered to herself while abruptly stopping.
Elsewhere Gray entered the Pokémon Center and looked over to see Metal watching television. "You sure kept yourself busy, don't worry I won my Gym Battle." Gray declared while holding out a circular red badge with black markings reminiscent of a ladybug's back. "The Gym Leader was tough but I was tougher, I probably didn't even need to wait this long to challenge that gym." the dark maroon-haired boy pompously announced. "Oh, you came back." Metal muttered after noticing Gray. "…So what were you doing?" Gray inquired in response. "I was watching a battle with Estelle, she left to Ilex Forest a while back but the battle ended without a result so she didn't miss much. They're on commercial now but I was watching a special broadcast about Ms. Jasmine of the Elite Four." Metal responded. "Ilex Forest? Stay here, I'm heading out." Gray declared.
"You weren't going to watch me anyway." Metal mumbled as the dark maroon-haired lad left.
"It's always one annoyance after the other. Did she hear about when I went toe-to-toe with Raikou, is that why she went to Ilex Forest to encounter a legendary Pokémon herself?" Gray wondered while recalling his encounter with Raikou.
"Raikou, battle me!" Gray exclaimed, he stood in a narrow path cluttered with autumn colored leaves with his Misdreavus ready to confront a quadruped, yellow, tiger-like Pokémon with black stripes and a white underside. It had a thin, light blue tail with sharp angles and a spark-shaped formation at the end. Most of its face consisted of thick, white fur and shorter yellow fur around its red eyes. Raikou's muzzle was a light blue "X" and it had a black faceplate with two bumps that covered its forehead, nose, and ears. It had two long fangs that made its appearance similar to the saber-toothed cat. Its large claws each converged to form a single point and never retracted. Extra fur hung off its body in front of its thighs. Raikou had a mane across its back that resembled dull purple rain clouds. In retaliation to the dark maroon-haired lad's challenge, the Thunder Pokémon simply stared at the duo in indifference at the boy's declaration before simply leaping away and escaping him with relative ease. "Hmph, that's right run, run like they always do." Gray smugly announced while looking on as two Kimino Girls looked on at him in disinterest.
"Celebi isn't much of a fighter from what mom told me about it so she has to have something up her sleeve to go and try to find it. But what?" he wondered to himself while running through the streets. Celebi fell to the floor as the hooded man stood alongside a flaming silhouette of what appeared to be a quadruped being. "Hey, hey, come on now, seriously? You probably haven't fought a battle in ages but come on you're a Mythical Pokémon not just some random bug, get it together. Give it your all." the man condescendingly declared.
Celebi raised its arms and its body became outlined in light green energy. It was then surrounded by a large number of glowing green leaves, which it fired at the flaming opponent after bringing its arms forward.
"Eruption." the man commanded. A red orb appeared in front of the burning aura of the flaming Pokémon. It then unleashed a stream of lava, smoke and flames at the Leaf Storm. The Eruption forced its way through the Leaf Storm with ease as Celebi managed to avoid the attack, which in turn burned down a few of the trees around the shrine.
"Smoke?" Estelle muttered while seeing smoke in the sky.
"Even with the type disadvantage you're annoyingly persistent. But I have to fulfill my part of the plan." the man muttered. In response the Time Travel Pokémon's body glowed white and it created a see-through afterimage of itself. The afterimage then spun quickly and created a silver ball with a green core in front of Celebi's body, which it then fired at the duo, causing a massive explosion.
"My whole life has led to this. T-time to test my skills. I know…I-I know I just can't miss. Gonna show the wor-! AH!" Estelle screamed in fear as she stopped singing while various Bug-types slithered past her, among them being Caterpie, Ledyba and Weedle. "Calm down, they were just Bug-types. Don't be scared, j-just sing, that'll take your mind off of things." the black-haired lass thought to herself. "But still what is it that's getting me so scared? It's like the forest itself is being disturbed by something, but what?" she wondered. "It's getting dark, come on out!" Estelle declared while calling out her Cyndaquil. "Sorry Cyndaquil, do you think you'll be willing to light the way for me?" she then asked as the Fire Mouse Pokémon ignited the flames on its back to assist its trainer.
"Darn it, it's getting darker. I've gotta hurry up!" Gray declared while continuing on his way.
"Behahaha, that's it, that's it, Celebi!" the man declared, his turban flying away from the force of the wind, revealing himself to be B. "Now, go on and use Snarl!" the Dogma Commander commanded. The flaming unknown Pokémon that he used then let out a roar. It was covered in a purple aura, it then fired out purple energy, which turned into a hemisphere while traveling towards the Time Travel Pokémon. The super effective technique then struck Celebi, who glowed blue while being sent flying, indicating that it's Special Attack had been lowered due to Snarl's secondary effects.
"Now's the chance!" B exclaimed while jumping towards the dazed Mythical Pokémon.
The maroon-haired man then threw two disks, one being gold and the other being silver. Energy sparked in between the disks as silver constraints emerged and connected to the two disks, morphing into a crystal-like container, with the letters 'GS', which were colored gold and silver, being imprinted on the container. "With this, the climax has been concluded." B smirked while Celebi was successfully imprisoned. "The GS Cube or GSC, it took a few years to make it and some data about the GS Ball was borrowed from here in the Johto region to help in the production of this cube but all in all it was stylized specifically to capture you." the Dogma operative announced.
"With this my part of the mission is complete." he then added along while putting on a hood. "But I can't risk anyone finding me here, especially that annoying detective. Hey, I'll count on you to cover our tracks, Lava Plume." B commanded as he grabbed the GS Cube by the handle on the top of the container. The burning silhouette caused an explosion and spread out a mix of flames and smoke that struck the trees around the Ilex Forest shrine, setting all of them on fire.
"Good job. Celebi hides itself so often and appears so rarely in front of others that people will probably just assume that it leapt through time or something like that." B muttered to himself while leaving with his Pokémon along with the trapped Celebi.
While Estelle and Cyndaquil continued on their way, yet again various Pokémon were shown fleeing from afar.
"What's going on? Paras, Metapod, Kakuna, Hoothoot, why are all these Pokémon running away?" the black-haired girl wondered while looking on at the myriad of fleeing Pokémon. Various orange, insectoid creatures resembling the nymph stage of a cicada were shown desperately crawling. Its ovoid body was segmented, and it had three pairs of legs. The foremost pair of legs was the largest and had sharp claws at the tips. There were five specks on its forehead and three teeth on either side of its mouth. It had circular eyes with large pupils. Along with that two different kinds of Cocoon Pokémon were shown hopping. The first kind resembled a green chrysalis. Its body was crescent-shaped with several segments making up the lower point. The front of its shell resembled a face with heavy-lidded eyes and a sharply pointed nose. The back of its shell consisted of several geometrically shaped portions and projections. The second kind was a yellow, cocoon Pokémon. It had a dome-shaped head and black, triangular eyes. It had two scythe-like arms in the middle of its body.
Various round, owl-like birds with two stubby wings and a short, fan-shaped tail flew in the air. It had large red eyes with beady pupils. Its feathers were mostly brown with a beige underbelly. It had a large black, mask-like crest, which encircled both eyes and covered the face. The crest had two protrusions at the top resembling the hands of a clock. The parts of the crest below each eye had notches resembling the teeth of a clockwork gear. They had small, hooked beak and two feet with five digits.
"Cynda, cynda!" Cyndaquil exclaimed while pointing forward as it and its trainer looked on to see the various trees around them catch on fire.
"A fire? Cyndaquil, what did you do?" Estelle asked to the Fire Mouse Pokémon, who shook its head in response to rebuke the notion of it having any involvement with the fire. "This is bad, at this rate the entire forest will be burned to cinders. I can't let that happen!" Estelle declared while holding out an aqua blue Pokéball with a red center, that had three horizontal golden yellow lines.
"Seadra use Brine!" she exclaimed while calling out a blue, seahorse-like Pokémon. It had a long snout and a two fin-like ridges curving over either side of its head. Its belly was covered with rough, cream-colored scales. Its lower pectoral fins had sharp, pointed, cream-colored tips, it also had a large, coiled tail. The Dragon Pokémon fired a powerful stream of water from its snout at some of the nearby burning trees, successfully extinguishing some of the flames. "Cyndaquil you can return, leave this to Seadra!" Estelle declared while recalling her starter Pokémon.
"Hey, what's going on over there?" "That's coming from the Ilex Forest!" "Don't tell me, is that a forest fire?" a crowd of people murmured while looking at the smoke coming from the direction of the Ilex Forest. As that occurred a dark red-haired man quickly ran in the direction of the smoke.
"What the heck? This is ridiculous." Gray exclaimed while looking around at the burning trees.
"Steelix use Sandstorm!" Gray exclaimed while holding out a flint colored Pokéball with solid blue orbs and calling out a long, serpentine Pokémon with a silvery-gray body made up of rock-like sections. Three of those sections had long rock spikes coming out of them on either side. It had a massive head mainly made up of its large, wide jaw with sets of large square teeth inside. Along its bottom jaw were two pairs of ridges, several small, square lumps covered the underside of its lower jaw. Its eye sockets were slightly deep set, and the eyes themselves were red. Its head had two long ridges going from the eyes up to the top of its head, the tip of its tail was conical with a blunt tip.
The Iron Snake Pokémon pointed its tail to a few trees, it then released a tornado of sand towards the trees, dousing the flames, which then reignited after a bit. "Darn it, so we'll need more than that, huh? Gyarados use Hydro Pump!" the dark maroon-haired man exclaimed. The Atrocious Pokémon then fired a powerful jet of water out of its mouth at the intense flames.
"Steelix, you keep on using Sandstorm to back up Gyarados!" Gray exclaimed as the two Pokémon continued their attacks.
"What is with these flames? Normal attacks should be enough to extinguish them but they're still burning so intensely." the young trainer thought to himself.
"If only I had more Water-types with me, we could have handled this with less trouble. Where is Estelle, was she caught up in this too?" Gray pondered on as he observed the seemingly endless inferno.
"Seadra use BubbleBeam!" Estelle ordered while the inside of Seadra's snout glowed light blue and it fired multiple light blue bubbles from its snout at the fire. "Sudowoodo use Mimic!" she then exclaimed while calling out the Imitation Pokémon. The branches on its head glowed gold and it released light blue bubbles from it, having duplicated Seadra's BubbleBeam. "Seadra use Brine one more time and Togetic use Mirror Move!" the black-haired girl exclaimed while calling out the Happiness Pokémon to assist its teammates. While Seadra attacked, Togetic created a black portal outlined in white in front of itself, and fired a powerful stream of water. The two attacks then managed to douse the flames on a few nearby trees as Sudowoodo successfully extinguished the flames on another number of trees.
"Yes, this is great! If we keep this up we'll be able to put out the fire before the forest gets burnt to ashes. Everyone, keep this up!" Estelle commanded.
"Even though we keep extinguishing the flames on some of the trees, the fire from the others keep reigniting them. We'll just be going around in circles if we can't use more power to take out this forest fire. Darn it, if only I had someone with Rain Dance on hand, that way we wouldn't need to keep overexerting ourselves!" Gray cursed as despite the best efforts of his Pokémon the flames continued to burn vigorously. "How did this darn fire even start anyways? I thought this place was supposed to be a domain for Bug-type Pokémon? Did some reckless trainer lose one of their Fire-type Pokémon in this forest or something?" the dark maroon-haired trainer expressed in frustration. "I should have taken that kid's Totodile with me before I left, at least then I would have had more Pokémon to use for this fire." he then added along.
"We report to you on the outskirts of the Ilex Forest, which is now the scene of a forest fire. We aren't aware of the cause but we have been told that firefighters should be on their way to put a stop to this." a reporter noted on television.
"Oh no, Estelle!" Metal exclaimed. "Come on, Totodile, Aipom, we've gotta go save my sister!" the navy blue-haired boy called out to his Pokémon while preparing to flee before being stopped by the nurse. "Where do you think you're going? This is no time to be acting rashly." the nurse declared. "But my sister is in that forest right now, she must have been caught in that fire!" the boy cried out. "Your sister?...Calm down, please, if your sister is a trainer than she should be able to handle herself just fine, besides help will be on its way." the nurse assured the young boy, who hesitantly remained in the Pokémon Center in spite of his concerns for his older sister.
"By this point people should probably have already noticed the forest fire. So help should probably be on its way but there's no telling how long it'll be until then." Estelle thought to herself as smoke engulfed the entire forest. "Togetic and Sudowoodo won't be able to keep this up for too long and Seadra's going to get dehydrated from the excessive heat. Darn it, don't think of that now just think about stopping the fire!" the young girl thought to herself while trying to shake off her concerns.
"Everyone, attack in one direction and then spread out, it may take longer but that way we'll be able to put out the flames easier if we follow this pattern of striking!" Estelle called out to her trio of Pokémon.
"Gyarados, Hydro Pump!" Gray exclaimed as the shiny Atrocious Pokémon attacked with such force that it accidentally knocked down a few of the trees. "Damn it!" Gray exclaimed in dismay. As he had his back turned a burning tree began to stumble over and fall towards him. The dark maroon-haired trainer looked back in dismay as he was unable to react in time to the falling tree but before he could be crushed by it a powerful blast of water managed to destroy the tree, saving the young boy.
Gray looked over and saw a tall man with long dark red hair and gray eyes. He wore a dark indigo top coat with red accents, which was sported over a violet shirt that was mostly obscured. The man wore loose fitting black plants with silver colored cuffs along with dark indigo and red colored boots. The man stood next to a bulky, bipedal crocodilian Pokémon that was primarily blue with accents of red and yellow. A notable feature of it was its large, powerful jaws. Three pointed teeth were visible when it closed its mouth, two from the lower jaw and one from the upper. It had three sets of spikes on its body; one on its head, one on its back, and one near the tip of its tail. The one on its back appeared to be particularly prominent, due to its size and the bulk of the Pokémon's shoulders. It had a bisected, V-shaped yellow pattern between its thighs and it also had large scales on its arms, tail, and legs.
"….I knew it, you were the one I saw before!" Gray excitingly declared.
"Now's not the time, take your Pokémon and get out of this forest now." the man responded. "Yes, sir!" Gray obediently replied.
"H-hold on, Estelle's still somewhere in this forest." Gray noted after recalling Metal's statement from before. "Estelle? Don't worry, I'll go with Feraligatr to get her and meet you on outskirts of this forest." the man announced in response. "Right, but at least let me help out. Golbat, go look for Estelle!" the dark maroon-haired lad exclaimed while holding an black Pokéball with yellow markings and calling out a large, kelly green bat-like Pokémon with salmon wing membranes. It had small eyes with slit pupils and a massive mouth containing four fangs. Its pointed ears were tiny, and it had short legs with long, thin feet.
"Good luck!" Gray exclaimed while recalling his Gyarados and Steelix and departing from the scene.
"Golbat, don't worry about us, just find Estelle and we'll follow you!" the man called out while putting on black gloves.
"Let's go, Feraligatr!" he then declared while following after the Bat Pokémon with the Big Jaw Pokémon.
"This fire just doesn't let up. I'm sure that the Pokémon of the forest must have evacuated but I wonder if Celebi is fine. From what Mama told me in the moment of a crisis in this forest it'll show itself and restore order, so where is it?" the black-haired girl wondered as she looked back and saw that the trail she had taken up to that point was covered in flames as well. "We're stuck." She muttered while looking at her wheezing Seadra, who had nearly reached its limit due to the excessive heat from the flames and its own dehydration. "Seadra, return. You did well." the lass told the Dragon Pokémon while recalling it back into its Pokéball.
"Togetic, Sudowoodo, are you two still alright?" Estelle inquired as the two Pokémon nodded their heads in response to ensure their trainer that they were still able to keep up their efforts. "The Water-types of the forest must be struggling to put out the flames as well. If only the Slowpoke Well was closer to this forest, we could have used them to help put out these flames! If not then maybe Lugia would have been a lot of help. It could have been able to help settle this easily with its power." Estelle pondered on about hypothetical ways to extinguish the abundance of flames while collapsing onto one of her knees, much to the concern of her Pokémon.
"Don't worry, I-I'm fine…" the young lass panted, clearly feeling the effects of the heat. "Is *pant* this *pant* it?" she wondered out loud.
"N-no! There are still so many things I haven't done. I haven't beaten the Battle Frontier yet and I haven't even gotten to see my brother start his own journey!" she thought to herself while attempting to fight off the suffocation from the burning trees and the smoke. "Hydro Pump!" a voice exclaimed. The red spikes on Feraligatr's head started to glow light red while its body glowed blue and it released a powerful blast of water that blasted through the barricade of flames.
"M-Mr. Silver!" Estelle exclaimed after seeing the dark red-haired man.
"Don't worry, things will be alright." Silver declared while helping the black-haired girl stand up. "W-what are you doing here?" the young girl wondered.
"I heard rumors about mysterious activity that was being held in the Ilex Forest. I was looking deeper into things back in Azalea Town but then this fire started so I came as quickly as I could." Silver informed the young trainer. "Golbat, go back to Gray, we could handle things from here on out!" Gray called out to the Bat Pokémon, who went back to its trainer. "Call back your Pokémon, we're going back." Silver told the black-haired girl, who weakly held out two Pokéballs and then called back both her Togetic and Sudowoodo.
"Mr. Silver, why are these flames so persistent?" Estelle inquired while observing the burning trees.
"It's possible that these flames were produced by a Legendary Pokémon if not one with strength akin to one. With how close together the trees are it's no wonder that these flames are so difficult to put out." Silver responded while carrying the young girl. "Feraligatr, Hydro Pump!" he exclaimed as the Big Jaw Pokémon blasted through various burning trees. "But what about Celebi? Isn't it supposed to stop all of this?" Estelle wondered.
"Celebi is a Pokémon known for traveling through time, at this very moment it may be in a different timeline entirely. It could possibly be assisting trainers and Pokémon from another era while we speak." the dark red-haired man responded while Estelle began to lose consciousness due to exhaustion. "Just stay calm, things will be fine. Leave this to me." Silver assured the young lass while looking ahead to see that a few trees had fallen and were now blocking their path.
"How annoying, Feraligatr move those trees out of our way with SuperPower!" Silver commanded.
Feraligatr's body became outlined in a light blue aura and it then grabbed onto the trees and moved them out of the group's way. "Well done, Feraligatr." Silver thanked the Big Jaw Pokémon. But as the dark red-haired man walked one of the burning trees began to fall in front of him. "Feraligatr!" he exclaimed while throwing Estelle to the Big Jaw Pokémon, who successfully caught the young girl as the fallen tree separated the dark red-haired man from his Pokémon. "There's no end to this." Silver mumbled in annoyance. "Estelle, Feraligatr, stay put. I'll meet up with you guys!" he exclaimed while preparing to take action.
Feraligatr looked on and saw light blue sparkles along with a fierce wind that enveloped before looking up and being astonished as a slim, quadruped, blue, mammalian Pokémon with white, diamond-shaped markings leapt into the air.
Its face and underside were white as well. It had a thick, purple mane that resembled the aurora borealis and two white, streamer-like tails that waved forward. It had a long, white snout and a large, hexagonal, cerulean blue crest on its forehead that resembled the antlers of a Qilin with two prongs on either side of the base. It had red eyes, a small tuft of fur under its chin, and small paws with white paw pads.
"What is that?" Estelle wondered while briefly regaining consciousness and looking on at the majestic Pokémon.
The Pokémon quickly used its two prongs to grab the tree that obscured the group's path and threw it out of the way.
"Suicune." Silver uttered in astonishment at the sight of the Aurora Pokémon.
Its eyes glowed blue as its body was then enveloped in a light blue aura. Suicune let out a roar as it summoned dark storm clouds and as a result a heavy rain then ensured that proceeded to envelop the entirety of Ilex Forest. "What is one of the three legendary beasts doing here? Did it really come to stop this fire or is there something more to it?" Silver wondered to himself. "The Legendary Pokémon, Suicune." Estelle muttered in awe at the sight of the majestic Aurora Pokémon, who then looked over at the group. The prongs on its body began to flow wildly as Suicune proceeded to create a giant wave.
"So you want to fight?" Silver asked before Feraligatr proceeded to grab its trainer as the wave came crashing down and proceeded to envelop the entirety of the forest.
The clear blue waters seamlessly flowed through the trees, successfully extinguishing the flames and subduing the forest fire in the process.
"Rain?" Gray muttered while noting the change in weather along with the reporters.
"The fire's being put out." a reporter muttered as the waves from Suicune's Surf proceeded to come bursting through the entrance gate and proceeded to sweep away Gray and the reporters. As the water dispersed Feraligatr held a soaked Silver and Estelle, having used the waves created by the Aurora Pokémon to quickly escape from the forest and also having realized Suicune's true intent in its supposed attack.
"We made it out." Estelle coughed.
"There is such a thing as giving a warning. How reckless." Silver complained while standing up and looking over at the downed reporters. "Tch, they'll be recovering soon. Give Gray my regards, I'll be heading out now. The last thing I need is to be pounced on by a bunch of annoying reporters." Silver announced while recalling his Feraligatr and departing. "Sure…Thank you for the help!" Estelle called out while thanking the dark red-haired man.
Eventually some time had passed as Estelle and Gray had returned to the Pokémon Center.
"I'm so glad that you're safe!" Metal cried while embracing his older sister. "Don't worry, I'm fine." Estelle smiled.
"Man, to use Surf like that. Suicune really holds nothing back." Gray stoically noted while keeping his distance from the siblings.
"It was a bit much, but it really helped out a lot back there. Oh, that reminds me, thanks for coming to the Ilex Forest, I didn't think you'd try and save me." Estelle laughed while thanking the dark maroon-haired lad. "I wasn't trying to help you, I just couldn't stand the thought of you getting one up on me. To try and search out Celebi and meeting Suicune in the process, you sure are trying to hog up all the spotlight for yourself." Gray responded.
"I regret not having my Pokédex on me, I was so eager to try and find Celebi that I accidentally left it in my bag. I guess there's always for the next time I see Suicune." Estelle chuckled while holding out what resembled a sleek handheld device with a crystal color scheme that possessed gold colored accents. "I won't be giving you the chance. Just because you're aiming for the Battle Frontier while I'm challenging the Johto League doesn't mean that I'll just let you do whatever you want!" Gray announced.
"That's right, did you win your Gym Badge?" Metal inquired, having mostly tuned out the dark maroon-haired trainer's boasting from earlier.
"The Ilex Forest Fire which caused quite the uproar earlier today has been calmed by a sudden rainstorm followed by what appeared to be a flood that has since cleared out. We're mostly unaware of what had transpired but we believe that both the fire and the ensuing rain were a result of Pokémon, whether due to a battle that broke out or because of an accident is still unknown. From a statement given by the Azalea Gym Leader Bugsy we have been informed that due to the destruction from the forest fire the residents of Azalea Town have decided to take it upon themselves to assist in the restoration of the Ilex Forest and help provide shelter to the Pokémon who lost their homes due to the incident. Thankfully no casualties were sustained and any injuries suffered were at the bare minimum." a reported noted on the television as Gold, Kris and the professor looked on.
"We managed to get a few statements out of two trainers that happened to be at the scene and we will be sure to report back to you all later." the reporter then added along while showing pictures of Estelle and Gray. "What is wrong with those kids?" the professor wondered while covering her face in embarrassment. "It's just one thing after another, why are all kids always so eager to get into trouble?...Then again I'm the one who usually lets them start their journeys." she then added along while getting up to go and make a call.
"If she was at the Ilex Forest than that must mean that she was looking for Celebi." Kris noted while Gold simply chuckled.
"I'm not sure why but this kind of thing makes me feel awfully nostalgic." he muttered to himself.
"Are you all alright?" the Professor inquired to Estelle, having called her on her Pokégear, which seemed more 'modern' and sleek in comparison to the Pokégears that were more familiarly associated with the Johto region but it still seemed familiar enough to be identified as a Pokégear.
"Yeah, somehow we managed. I wasn't really able to do much in the fire but thanks to Mr. Silver and Suicune we managed to make it out in one piece." Estelle responded. "S-Silver? He was there with you?" the brown-haired woman inquired to the young trainer. "Yeah, he left as soon as he saw the reporters but it probably would have been a lot more difficult if he wasn't around." the black-haired girl smiled.
"I'm glad." the brown-haired woman chuckled with a slight blush.
"That reminds me, do you want to talk to Gray?" Estelle inquired.
"It's fine, just tell him I'm glad he's alright. He'd just be embarrassed to hear it from me and I'm sure he doesn't want me to coddle him." the professor responded.
"Oh come on, Ms. Lyra. I'm sure he'd appreciate hearing that from you a lot more than you think he would." Estelle laughed. "You're too naïve, Estelle." Lyra mumbled to herself with a smile. "Regardless, keep up the good work and report back to me whenever you make a new capture." Lyra stated to the black-haired girl. "Yeah, I promise." Estelle smiled as their call ended while Gray complained to Metal in the background.
"How dare they go ahead and hold a big tournament over in the Unova region when I'm still in the middle of my badge hunt?" Gray expressed in frustration.
"The Johto League Conference isn't for a while so you probably could have gone." Metal noted.
"What and disrupt my focus, you've gotta take into account the schedules of the Gym Leaders, the slightest slip-up and I could end up missing potential battles all because I lost a month hanging around in another region." the dark maroon-haired trainer responded. "Oh yeah, you're talking about that Grand Prix thing in Unova, right?" Estelle inquired while returning from her talk with Lyra. "Yeah, from what I heard the prize of the tournament was the fulfillment of a wish. What a waste!" Gray responded.
"A wish? That sounds handy, oh well." Estelle laughed at Gray's expense.
"So while we're talking about journeys, how have you come along with the Johto Frontier?" the dark maroon-haired trainer then inquired.
"I've won four Silver Hall Prints and three Gold Hall Prints at the facilities. There are ten prints in all if you count both the silver and gold hall prints so I'm almost finished closing in on the final battle." Estelle informed the duo. "That's awesome!" Metal exclaimed in awe. "By the rate you're going I'll have already conquered the league by the time you even hope of challenging your final facility." Gray smirked.
"So are you going to challenge the Kanto League after you're finished with the Johto League? Or are you going to challenge the joint Kanto/Johto League?" the black-haired girl inquired while ignoring the dark maroon-haired boy's provocations. "Don't be stupid, I'd need to win the Johto League first to even think of challenging the unified league. Besides that league is biyearly so I'll have to wait until next year to challenge it." Gray responded.
"Well then that's a whole other year of preparation for you to get yourself ready." Estelle declared.
"You're so noisy, so what's next for you after the Johto Battle Frontier? Are you going to try and imitate my greatness by challenging the Johto League?" Gray inquired in response. "Not really, I think I'll challenge the Johto Circuit afterwards or maybe I'll check out that Pokémon Olympics thing. Both my parents already challenged the league before so I think I'll hold off on doing it myself." the black-haired girl responded. "I see, well that special battle today was already finished so since you're here you can wait for your mother to take your brother back yourself. I'm heading out to request a battle against Jasmine of the Elite Four." Gray declared while walking away.
"He's not a good caretaker." Metal muttered while looking on.
"Not even a little. By the way your mom said to take care, oh yeah and bye Gray!" Estelle called out while waving to the dark maroon-haired boy.
"He still kind of looks like a girl with that hair." she then giggled while Metal laughed with her as Gray looked back in annoyance.
"Securing you should earn me more points with Master, at least more than whatever C did." B smirked while looking at the imprisoned Celebi as he flew in a private jet. "Now all that's needed is for those two to complete their part in things and everything will be set." the maroon-haired man thought to himself.
"To think I'd run into Suicune so easily, the way that Suicune obsessed freak talked about it I figured it'd be a lot harder to encounter it." Silver thought to himself while walking through a route at night. "*sigh* Oh well, I should report back to the agency, I still haven't found anything on my father's disappearance from years ago so I should go ahead and look into other investigations in the meantime. Suicune's presence in Ilex Forest and Celebi's absence is strange, those flames along with the status of those legendary Pokémon were also pretty suspicious to say the least." the detective muttered to himself.
Back in the ruined Ilex Forest Suicune looked on at the unscathed Ilex Forest shrine while intently glaring at it, elsewhere Raikou stood around in front of a large cave that had three entrances and looked into the sky. "Hey look everyone, it's Raikou!" a voice called out as the Thunder Pokémon nonchalantly fled.
"I wonder if this wouldn't have happened if I stayed home with Metal today." Kris muttered.
"Not likely, if getting into trouble was avoidable than none of us would have ever saved the world as often as we did." Gold grinned.
"Just because we did it doesn't make it something that everyone should do!" Kris retorted.
"Don't be such a nag, you're the Johto League Champion." Gold mumbled to the teal-haired woman's annoyance.
"Mama, Papa, I've still got a ways to go but don't worry, I'll keep growing stronger!" Estelle thought to herself.
"Metal, sorry for failing out there. I won't keep falling behind. Celebi, Suicune, Mama, Papa, no matter what obstacles stand in my way, I'll promise to surpass all of them!" the black-haired girl declared to her younger brother, who smiled in response.
"I'll win the Battle Frontier, just you wait!" Estelle eagerly promised while holding up her Pokédex.
Narration: Johto, the land of opportunity. As the legend of battle grows, the adversity faced by the young trainers that inherit the will of their predecessors strengthens.
Major Events (1/11/14): Various trainers and leaders from various institutes from the Johto region are introduced.
The Johto League is revealed to have become independent from the Kanto League and they are now revealed to hold biyearly joint leagues with one another alongside their respective regional leagues. Alongside that Johto is revealed to have created their own distinct Battle Frontier with Gold being the leader of the area.
Gold and Kris have an exhibition battle while Gray wins his seventh badge from Bugsy.
Various legendary Pokémon native to the Johto region are introduced.
B is revealed to possess an unnamed Fire-type Pokémon and for unknown reasons uses it to both kidnap Celebi and set ablaze the Ilex Forest.
An event called the Pokémon Olympics is referenced.
Gold is revealed to have become the Head Frontier Brain of Johto's Battle Frontier, Kris is revealed to have become the Champion of the Johto League, Silver is revealed to have become a Detective and Jasmine is revealed to have been promoted to the Elite Four in the years that have passed.
Characters:
Estelle (debut)
Gray (debut)
B
Metal (debut)
Gold (debut)
Silver (debut)
Kris (debut)
Lyra (debut)
Bugsy (debut)
Civilians
Trainers
Reporters
Kimono Girls (flashback, debut)
Nurse
Pokémon:
Cyndaquil (Estelle's)
Togetic (Estelle's, debut)
Cubone (Estelle's, debut)
Xatu (Estelle's, debut)
Parasect (Estelle's, debut)
Sudowoodo (Estelle's, debut)
Seadra (Estelle's, debut)
Bayleef (Gray's, debut)
Sneasel (Gray's)
Gyarados (Gray's, shiny)
Misdreavus (Gray's)
Steelix (Gray's, debut)
Golbat (Gray's, shiny, debut)
Chikorita (Gray's, flashback, debut)
B's unknown Pokémon (debut)
Totodile (Metal's, debut)
Aipom (Metal's)
Typhlosion (Gold's)
Feraligatr (Silver's, debut)
Meganium (Kris', debut)
Azumarill (Lyra's)
Shuckle (Bugsy's, debut)
Scyther (Bugsy's)
Yanma (Bugsy's, debut)
Celebi (debut)
Raikou (debut)
Suicune (debut)
Caterpie (multiple, debut)
Weedle (multiple, debut)
Ledyba (multiple, debut)
Paras (multiple, debut)
Metapod (multiple, debut)
Kakuna (multiple, debut)
Hoothoot (multiple, debut)