Peak Ch. 3

I was in the mood to write more. The four-hour plane trip with nothing productive but this to do helped.

"All right. I'm going to call the other two victims. See if your story jogs their memories. If not, then there's one more person I can bring you to…"

"Finally!" Shouted Ash (as usual). "You were taking forever!"

The boy saw Green take deep breaths. "This is a very serious matter. It's dangerous enough to go through that damned mountain, and now there's this mysterious, unregistered trainer on top of said damned mountain who could be a very serious threat! I don't care if he hasn't shown any malicious intent, he might have… might have…" Once again, Green stopped before making a comment, with a look of pain on his face.

"Might have what?"

"Nothing. Anyway, the first stop is my assistant, Crystal. Call out your Charizard, we're going to Viridian."

Ash looked around in wonder at the intricate lab that was Green's.

And then he saw who must have been Crystal, who bore a surprising resemblance to Lyra. His cheeks lit up.

He inwardly berated himself. She was way too old for him.

When she saw him, her eyes widened, before snapping shut and shaking her head violently. "Hey, Green. Who's this?" She asked in a tight voice. Ash got the feeling that she hadn't taken a liking to him.

"Ash Ketchum. Remember that little incident around twenty years ago?"

She bit her lip. "… You know I don't like talking about that, Green."

"Well, this… guy… (Ash felt that Green was about to call him something different) was stupid enough to climb Mt. Silver, and had an encounter with our mystery trainer."

"I swear, that mountain has a curse on it."

The brunette nodded. "I agree. Anyway, he's going to tell you what happened to him in an attempt to jog your memory. Right now."

The bluette was frowning at the ground. Green leaned forward, arms on his knees. "Ring any bells, Crys?"

She shook her head.

Her boss sighed. "I guess we'll have to go see Gold then."

Ash noticed how the assistant instantly perked up.

While on the train to Johto, Ash just couldn't keep it in any longer. "Hey, Crys?"

"Call me Crystal." Ash was honestly taken aback. He hadn't met many people other than Paul and Trip that were this cold to him. And he didn't even know why!

"I- I was just wondering what your encounter was like."

Crystal sighed, obviously unhappy. "I guess it's only fair, I know yours. Okay, settle down, go to the bathroom, whatever- I'm not going to keep telling if you have to take a break or interrupt."

It was cold. Crystal didn't understand why she had to be the messenger, though she knew Green was busy currently, preparing for a battle, but Blue was just being lazy. Why couldn't Yellow do it? Or Gold?

But, it was part or her job. Sadly.

Well, she had to tell Red that Green was ready, since apparently the champion wasn't answering his pokégear.

Why couldn't the man had just stayed off of the mountain until his and Green's battle?

Huuuuuhhhh…

Ah! There! The peak! Finally!

Weird… she hadn't been up there for a while, but she was pretty sure that the blizzard wasn't supposed to be this strong. Well, the sooner she went out and stopped stalling, the sooner she could have a nice, warm dinner in Red's shelter and head on home. She was glad she had had time to call in Gold to take over orphanage duties for her for the day, though on hindsight she probably should have called Silver. She hoped she didn't find it as a pile of ash.

Whoo, it was cold. She could see the homey yellow-tinged light coming out from Red's shelter, probably from a warm fire. Soup sounded delicious right now…

Wait… there was someone standing by the edge of the drop. No, a person and a pokemon. Red that's weird. Red never left the fire on while nobody was inside.

What if it was someone else?!

Also, Red never just, stood there. He trained.

She softly gripped her pokeballs, ready for battle. But she wasn't prepared when the blizzard somehow parted around the pokemon, and the Espeon fired a psybeam at her and her Meganium.

"… and all of my pokemon got destroyed pretty easily also, except not all of them in one hit. Now that I think about it, my pokemon were really uneasy, too. Like something was really wrong.

"But the next thing I knew, after I was defeated, I had gotten knocked out. When I woke up, Gold and the orphanage hell-raisers were looking down at me, saying that I'd fallen from a sort of vortex of light, the kind that psychic-type attacks generate. And my hat was gone. I was suspecting my money to have vanished, and all of my precious belongings. But, nope. Just my hat. And my pokemon were in perfect health.

"Everyone was fussing over me, especially after I told them what had happened, and eventually we came to the same conclusion you did, that Espeon had teleported me. And do you know what's strangest?"

Ash broke out of his reverie, and asked, "What?"

"When Professor Oak had run a scan for his pokedex,-"

"Red has a pokedex?!"

"He found out that it was on Mt. Silver, and had stopped picking up a pulse. And guess what? Red has an Espeon."

Yay! You now know what happened to Crys. If you hadn't figured it out, Ash isn't a super important character. He's just someone who disobeyed rules, and is now caught up in something bigger than his ego, for once. :D