RGBY - Vol. 2 - Mask of Ice Summary - A familiar foe is hunting them...
2.5 - Brock's Back?
"Hmm?" Blue noticed her Pokegear repeatedly ringing in her bag.
"Is something wrong?" Brock spoke to Blue walking ahead at the front.
"Just a call from Red." Blue smiled. "He's always worried about his friends but I need to conserve power until we get to a hotel or a PokeCenter."
"Yeah. That's Red alright." Brock smiled. "He's always fighting for his friends to the very end!"
"Hey Brock? What were you doing in Mt. Moon anyway?" Blue smiled, walking backwards with her arms behind her back.
"Nothing too interesting. I came here looking for moon stones, Mt. Moon is famous for them!"
"Really?" Blue continued smiling. "Last time Red told me, you were coming here for fossils?"
"Fossils? Of course I was but I'm also looking for evolutionary stones and other prized treasures. Why Blue." Brock smiled. "It's almost as if you were trying to pry information from me. Trying to sell any fossils I found?"
"Hehe. No. Those days are long over! I haven't done the whole thieving thing in a long time." Blue smiled, thinking to herself. "He's good."
"Well anyways. We should continue heading this direction." Brock pointed at a smaller tunnel of the much wider cave area.
"Sure Brock. How about we use your Steelix to get to the entrance faster?"
"Not a good idea Blue. We'd end up destroying Mt. Moon's ecosystem and the roads from Pewter City to Cerulean."
Nina sighed, her legs feeling tired. "Really? Can we at least see the Steelix?"
"Sorry kiddo." Brock said. "Steelix is too big in this part of the tunnel."
Blue continued. "It's just that your Steelix is such a great digger. I remember how it went up against Jasmine and lost but it didn't lose without a good fight of course."
"Yes. I remember that as well." Brock nodded in agreement. "Even though I'm the rock expert, Jasmine is the steel expert and had far more knowledge and strategy with Steelix than my very own Steelix."
"Well now that's odd." Blue placed a finger on her chin. "I never said it was a Steelix back than. It was an Onix that went against Jasmine's Steelix and lost. Heck, you were surprised that Onix even had another evolution at the time."
"That… woopsie daisy me." Brock facepalmed his forehead. "I must've hit my head hard on a rock."
"How?"
Nina just glanced at Blue's questioning silently, wondering what she was doing.
"Ran too fast and slipped of course."
"What? You a rock expert slipping on some dirt. I find that hard to believe but oh well." Blue smiled. "Anyways, we better get back but… question?"
"Yes?"
"Where's the rest of your Pokeballs?" She looked at her belt, no Pokeballs in sight.
"Right here!" Brock showed her a Kabutops from his jacket.
She looked at the Kabutops glaring through the red glass, but something was odd about that Kabutops. It looked angrier and meaner.
"Okay but where's your Graveller and Steelix?" Blue said.
"Steelix and Graveller? Back at home being raised by my father and siblings of course."
"Really?" Blue stopped.
"Is something wrong?" Nina spoke.
"Yes. Is something wrong?" Brock said. "I can't help but feel your suspicious of me Blue."
"You see I just think that it's very odd Brock cause last time I checked, you gave Graveller to Yellow which later evolved into Golem."
Brock stopped smiling, expressing a serious look on his face. "What's with all these questions Blue? Again, I've hit my head hard. I don't exactly remember anything."
Blue stopped smiling, confronting Brock. Her eyes showed also showed a serious look in her face.
"This is... getting a little scary." Nina said.
"Perhaps you really did hit your head hard." Blue said. "But there is something that's bothering me. Something you said earlier."
"I see. That is a huge concern. I hope Starmie and Lanturn are doing well with the maids." Brock said.
"Huh?" Blue paused for a split-second. She thought to herself. "I mentioned Starmie… but… how does he know about Lanturn left behind at the gym!?"
"That does seem strange doesn't it?" Blue spoke.
Brock wasn't smiling at all anymore, only glaring.
Blue continued. "So how do you know about Lanturn, one of Misty's Pokemon left behind the gym that I never mentioned once while you were working at Mt. Moon alone? Doesn't that seem odd 'Brock'!"
"Wh-what's going on? Blue." Nina's entire body felt heavier .She had a very bad feeling about this. "Why are you acting like this?"
"That Brock!" Blue pointed at 'Brock'. "He's a fake! I bet you attacked the real Brock. Your probably the one who attacked Misty too since you know about Lanturn!"
"She's-She's lying right?" Nina looked to Brock. "Right Brock? Brock?"
"Hehehehe…" 'Brock' chuckled, his voice grew deeper, echoing across the caves. "Well, well Blue, you really are observant. The boss-man said you were, growing up from that cutesy little girl afraid of some pigeons."
"I'm sorry." Blue glared at the imposter, wondering how he knew her former phobia of birds. "Do I know you?"
"Hehehe. No. Not really."The man spoke.
Brock's disguise began to ripple apart, his eyes flashing red.
Blue and Nina stood back, they've never seen a disguise like this. His entire disguise shattered into pieces, vanishing. There he stood, like one of the cloaked figures she fought before. He was fairly tall but his cloak was different from the female trainer she encountered and the giant trainer Yellow described. It was a hooded cloak of course but it looked like a blue buttoned raincoat reaching past his knees.
"Copycat trainer. I adore your little disguises. They remind me of mines." He grinned wide, his sharp pointy teeth revealed. "I think you could learn something from her Blue."
"Uh-huh." Blue bluntly spoke. "Wigglytuff. Do your thing!"
"Wiggly? Oh I see." He looked up.
He took a step back as the pink balloon Pokemon came crashing in, slamming her fist where the Mystery Man originally stood.
"Neat little trick Blue." He chuckled.
"How did you know where she was coming from."
"I just do. Come on out and play Kabutops." The Mystery Man flashed opened a ball.
"KA-BU-TOPS!" Kabutops roared, landing on his feet, his blades reflecting against Blue's eyes.
"Why do I feel there's something familiar about that Kabutops?" Blue thought.
"So here's the deal little Blue. That Pokedex you have. Give it to me. No one gets hurt, you and that little copycat can live on a merry life."
"The Pokedex?" Blue said. "Why do you want the Pokedex?"
"Yes. The Pokedex. And no one has to get hurt… especially a couple of missing gym leaders." He grinned.
"Like that'll ever happen! Wiggly! Freeze his legs with ice-punch!"
"This always happens." He grinned, shaking his head.
"Wiggly—TUFF!" Wigglytuff swung her fist to the mystery man but the mystery man easily took a step back away from the ice punch. "Wiggly!?"
The Wigglytuff saw the fossil Pokemon lunging at her with water-coated blades! Liquidation!
"KA-BU-TOPS!" Kabutops slammed both blades into Wigglytuff's chest.
"Wiggly!" Wigglytuff screamed.
Wigglytuff was sent rolling as water splashed across the cave like an "X" mark.
"Wigglytuff!" Blue shouted.
"Woosh!" A voice whispered from behind.
Blue could feel a breath of warm air from behind her neck, she glanced back seeing sharp teeth grinning widely.
"Hey there." The Mystery Man grinned widely.
Blue jumped back, startled by the man's sudden appearance. "Y… you creep!"
"You look all cute scared." The man grinned widely. "Is this how you looked like when that fire-breathing bird kidnapped you."
"Your really starting to get on my nerves!" Blue looked angry.
"I take it back. You look cuter angry. Hehehe… oof!?" The Mystery Man's laugh got cut off by a huge boulder!
The Mystery Man got struck by the huge boulder directly into the chest, sending him sliding 10 inches where he originally was. He quickly grabbed onto his chest, smiling.
"Clefairy!" Clefairy grabbed another boulder, angry at the man's taunting towards her trainer.
"Calm down Wigglytuff." Blue glared at the man. "We don't want him dead! Although I might consider roughing him up."
"Hehehe… now your playing with titanium." He smiled, standing up, dusting off the bits and pieces of rock like it was nothing.
"That was a boulder. Did he just recovered from that like nothing?" Blue thought. "What is he?"
"Clefairy!" Clefairy threw another boulder at the Mystery Man.
The Mystery Man took two steps to the right, his face narrowly missing the boulder.
"Wiggly!" Wigglytuff came running behind with another Ice-Punch.
The Mystery man sighed, taking a step to the right as he stuck his leg out.
"Wiggly!?" Wigglytuff panicked as she tripped herself against the man's leg.
"Wiggly! Are you alright!" Blue shouted.
Wigglytuff found herself tumbling and rolling to her trainer's feet. She quickly got up, bearing an angry look to the Mystery Man.
"Alright!" Blue said. "Both of you. Ice..."
"Uh-uh-uh." The Mystery Man interrupted, waving his finger at her.
Blue's eyes froze in horror.
"Children's necks… are so fragile." The Mystery Man held the young girl by the neck.
Blue paused, seeing the Nina gripping the man's right hand struggling to breathe, her toes barely standing on the ground.
"W… what? Why are you…"
The man stopped smiling, he only reached out his other hand, waving it. He wanted that Pokedex.
Blue gulped. She looked at Nina, hanging her hands around the man's hand, desperate to breathe.
The copycat trainer opened her mouth trying to say something, but nothing came out, she was running out of air.
Blue's eyes widened in horror. She thought she said a weak "H…e…l…p."
"HELP!" Little Blue screamed from the talons of the bird, crying... but no one could hear her so high in the air.
"Stop it!" Blue shouted, pulling out her Pokedex from her bag. "I'll give you the Pokedex."
She threw the Pokedex almost effortlessly to the man as the Mystery Man dropped Nina from his grip.
"Huh…" The man looked at the Pokedex, reminiscing how Blue just easily threw that hunk of metal as he dropped the little girl to the ground. "I guess gravitational pull is just a myth."
Nina fell on her bottom, slowly opening her eyes to Blue, looking somewhat scared and worried, as she rubbed her throat.
"Thank... you." Nina got up, slowly running to Blue.
"You got what you want!" Blue shouted.
"Hehehe. This isn't a Pokedex." The man smiled at the "Pokedex". "Clever girl. This is a Ditto? What were you planning? Does this Ditto had some kind of tracker? Was it going to leave a trail mark? Yell for my position?"
"What?" Blue looked astonished "How did he knew about ditto so fast!?"
"Hehehe... you shouldn't lie Blue." The Mystery Man grabbed the "Pokedex" tightly.
"Ditto!" The Pokedex morphed into a pinkish blob shouting in pain. "Ditto!?"
The Mystery Man grabbed Ditto tightly, bearing his sharp teeth at it. "That's awfully risky of you?"
"Let her go! Please!" Blue looked afraid.
"What happened to all that confidence? I bet your used to putting your Pokemon in risky scenarios all the time as a confident little thief, Blue. That you never thought what would happen if they got deep into someone's. Crushing. Grip. They're bones cracking one by one." The man gripped onto Ditto harder and harder. "I'm not even sure if Ditto have bones? Let's test that!"
"DITTO!?" Ditto shouted in great pain, it looked like she wasn't being choked, she was being crushed by his grip!
"Okay! Okay!" Blue shouted, gritting her teeth, as a drop of water hit the floor.
"Really now? You're a big girl aren't you?" The Mystery Man rolled his eyes to Blue, looking at her tears as she gritted her teeth angrily. He took another look, grinning at that Blue's saddened face. "Oh wait! Your serious! Hehehe."
"Please stop." Blue rubbed her tears off of her cheek.
"Ditto." Ditto looked at her worried. Suddenly Ditto felt the man's crushing grip loosening. "Ditto?"
"The Pokedex… please." The Mystery Man said.
"Here's the real Pokedex." Blue gulped, pulling it out of her purse.
"Ditto! Ditto!" Ditto shook her hand no.
"You look so disappointed Ditto." The Man smiling up-close to Ditto with those sharp teeth. "You should be grateful. She's your big hero. She's saving you!"
"Ka-bu-tops!" The Mystery Man's Kabutops was slammed into the ground by a red blur.
"Oh? Your finally here?" The man turned around, smiling at Red, Green and Yellow. He gave a quick glance especially to a horned imp creature floating behind Yellow. "Children… children… no need to be alar-Oof!"
The man got struck by the red blur, a huge claw slammed into his head as Ditto was freed from his hand.
"Ditto!" Ditto jumped to the ground, quickly scurrying to Blue.
Ditto jumped into Blue's arms with a tearful smile. "Ditto!"
"Ditto!" Blue smiled. "I can't believe I'm saying this but I really thought you were in serious danger this time!"
"Ditto." Ditto smiled, hugging her trainer.
"Are you alright!" Red ran up to her.
"Yeah. I'm fine." Blue returned Ditto to her ball. She rubbed the last of her tears, angrily glaring at the man grinning at her and her friends, his hands deep into his pocket. "But that man isn't going to be."
"Really heroic of you!" The man smiled at Green, slowly clapping his hands.
"Ka… bu…" The Kabutops got up.
"Like a brave hero in shining armor coming to the girl's rescue! It's like something out of a fairy tale!" The man grinned. "Hehe… I'm kind of jealous of you little Greeny boy."
"Jealous?" Green said.
"Scizor." Scizor appeared right beside his side.
"Something like that." He stopped smiling. Suddenly, his grin returned. "Speaking of brave… I'd rather much prefer cowardice over brave. You know why?"
"Why?" Green said.
Suddenly he heard a blur from behind.
"Brave people are just too much trouble to handle." He showed a malicious smile. "Cowardly people on the other hand… much easier to control."
"Th… that smile?" Red gulped. "Where have I seen that before? Green? Green!?"
"Green!" Blue's eyes widened in horror.
Green's eyes wide opened, blood slashed across the rocky surface.
Yellow screamed as Green fell to the floor bleeding while Nina just stood there frozen.
"Hoo... pa!?" Hoopa's eyes grew larger, flashing red in a split-second.
The Mystery Man just stood there, no longer smiling as Scizor panicked, holding Green quickly before he could hit the floor.
"You! You coward!" Blue clenched her hands into a fist.
"Kabutops." The Mystery Man muttered as Kabutops appeared next to him. "Went a little too far there didn't you buddy?"
"Wigglytuff!" Blue shouted.
"Hey. Hey." He calmly showed his hands.
"You think your going to get out of this by your annoying talk!?"
Hoopa watched Yellow quickly rushing to Green's help.
Yellow shouted, "Blue! We need to get him to the PokeCenter nearby!"
"You could do that." The man pulled something from his pockets. "But… he'll probably bleed to death. Look at all that blood gushing out… can make a person squeamish hehehe… you need bandages don't you?"
"What?" Blue saw the man holding a tape of bandages.
"Here. Take it." The man threw the roll of bandages to Blue.
"This-this won't change anything!" Blue ran to Yellow.
"Give me that! Quickly!" Yellow swiped the bandages.
Yellow quickly taped the bandages around Green's back as Scizor held him.
"I know it won't change anything." The Mystery Man replied. "Would be quite ashamed if you musketeers were a man short."
"Okay!" Yellow carried Green on one shoulder. "We need to get him..."
"Oh no." He interrupted. "If you want to go through me to the PokeCenter, your going to have to fight me."
"What!? Then why did you give us the bandages!?"
"As I said. It would be disappointing if you were one musketeer short." He grinned. "That doesn't mean I'm going to let you off so easily. So tell you what? If you don't want to end up like Green here, let's do a 1-on-1 battle. Nothing else. Just one Pokemon. If I win. All of your Pokedexes. If I lose. Your scott-free."
"One Pokemon?" Blue eyed the Kabutops. She thought to herself. "That Kabutops is unusually fast and strong. Is this a trick?"
"Like we ever agree to that!" Yellow shouted.
"I'll battle him." Red walked forward.
"Red?" Blue looked at him.
He wasn't smiling but neither did he looked depressed as before. There was a sharp anger in his eyes.
"Good! Good!" The Mystery Man smiled. "Which Pokemon?"
"I choose you! Pika!" Red's Pokeball flashed open.
"Piiika!" Pikachu came out, angry, gritting his teeth at what he saw from his Pokeball.
"Ho ho ho!" The man looked at Red's other Pokeballs on his belt, shaking angrily, wanting to come out for what he did. "Do they also want a piece of me?"
"Are we going to fight!" Red shouted.
"Sure. Sure." The Mystery Man said. "Kabutops! Iron Defense! Liquidation!"
"Kabu!" Kabutops nodded, crossing his scythes in a watery X as his body sharpened brightly, glowing red.
"Pika! Agility!" Red ordered.
"Pika!" Pika zoomed past Kabutops scythes, eyeing angrily behind.
Red spoke. "Thunderbolt!"
The Mystery Man smiled. "Double Team."
"Pika!" Pikachu buzzed full of electricity.
"Kabu!" Kabutops formed clones of himself!
Pikachu launched a powerful thunderbolt to not one but all the Kabutops clones! Each thunderbolt spread out striking each one, vanishing into nothingness.
"Protect." The Mystery Man spoke.
"Kabu!" The last Kabutops raised a bluish shield around him, shielding him from the thunderbolt.
Kabutops protective shield vanished, his eyes quickly reacting to see Pikachu coming straight at him!
"Your way too close kid." He smiled. "Giga Impact."
"Pika!" Pikachu's cheeks buzzed with electricity.
"Kabu!" Kabutops charged full of massive energy!
The two struck each other as Pikachu landed on his fours past Kabutops!
"Seriously kid?" The Mystery Man looked a little disappointed. "You call that an attack?"
Red stared at him, speaking. "Nuzzle may haven not hurt him a lot but it did paralyzed him upon contact."
"Huh?" The Mystery Man looked a little confused.
"Ka? KABU!?" Kabutops felt a surge of electricity coursing through his body.
"Interesting." The Mystery Man smiled. "Your Pikachu is really strong. Normally Giga Impact one-shots a lot of Pokemon."
"Pika!" Pika gritted his teeth feeling the impact coursing through his body, his right arm feeling heavier than usual.
"What are you going to do Red?" The Mystery Man smiled. "As were speaking now, Kabutops is recharging and your Pikachu doesn't look so well. My Kabutops is far stronger than Brock's Kabutops. It's defenses are raised further and it has enough speed and attacking power to beat your Pikachu down to the ground. You have no real..."
"SHUT UP!" Red shouted, pointing his right thumb to his chest. "Nothing you say is going to break my spirit!"
The Mystery Man paused, looking into Red's eyes chock-full of anger. The Mystery Man didn't smiled, he just looked at Red glaring into his.
"Really?" The Mystery Man slowly clapped, his smile returning. "Well than. It's pretty clear nothing at all will break that determined spirit of yours! Oh! But there is one thing!"
Red's eyes look confused as the hooded man pulled out a small remote with a shiny red button from his pockets.
"I guess not even this will break you." He smiled. "You see. Your two friends are locked up in chairs surrounded by explosives. So since nothing will break your spirit, I guess I might as well press this trigger."
Red's eyes were replaced with fear. He shouted "No! STOP!"
"Nooo!" Blue and Yellow shouted.
"Pika!" Pikachu shouted.
"Hoopa!?" Hoopa shouted.
"Please!" Nina shouted.
"Woopsie daisy!" The man pushed the button.
Red, his friends, Pikachu. All stood there froze in horror what he just did.
"HeheheHahahaaHAHAHAHA!" The Mystery Man laughed. "Oh man! You should've seen the look on your faces! I'm just messing around! The boss-man isn't stupid! He wouldn't put two valuable hostages locked up around explosives! The trigger is a fake."
He looked forward to their reactions. The Mystery Man could see Blue and Yellow horrified at his laughter, joke or no joke. Hoopa looked scared, hiding behind Yellow's hat while Pikachu angrily gritted his teeth but Red. Red just stood there silently.
"Yeah... that'll do it." Red muttered.
"What was that?"
"You know something." Red spoke, looking down the ground. "You shouldn't have raised your Kabutops defenses so early on nor should've used risked Giga Impact's recharging for what I'm about to do."
"Oh and what's that?"
"Kabu?" Kabutops looked up, recharging in one place.
"Red." Blue and Yellow spoke.
"Red?" Green slowly opened his eyes.
"Pika. Use substitute. Basic form." Red spoke.
"Pika!" Pikachu nodded, gritting his teeth.
The Copycat Trainer watched seeing Pikachu POOF! into a... plushie!?
"Pika!" The plushie spoke.
"What's so dangerous about a plushie?" Nina looked confused.
"I think you already know the basics of substitute." Red said. "It turns Pikachu into a plushie."
"Oh no!" The Mystery Man gulped. "Not a Plushie!"
"Hoopa!?" Hoopa noticed Green getting back up.
"Is Red crazy?" Green spoke.
"Green!?" Blue and Yellow looked at his rising from his back.
"Pulling that trick with Venusaur against Charizard at the Pokemon League is one thing. Turning Pikachu into a Plushie? That's too risky!"
"I'm sorry. What' so dangerous about a plushie?" Nina spoke.
"You may not know this but substitute can be used in many ways Nina." Blue explained. "It can be used as a way to escape an attack by creating another clone or mold a part of yourself into an object, like how Pikachu can substitute a surfboard or some balloons. But in it's simplest form, substitute usually starts out as a plushie."
"Yeah." Yellow added. "At the cost of half your health, substitute can be used as a protective shielding, a decoy, against any attack. As long as the HP provided for substitute doesn't run out, Pika inside the substitute is practically invincible."
"Inside?" Nina looked at the Mystery Man, she could see him sweating a bit as he maintained that smile. "Is he afraid of losing?"
"Red must've noticed it as well." Yellow spoke.
"Noticed what?" Nina said.
"That Kabutops doesn't seem to have any real ground-type moves. There super-effective against electric-types."
"Kabutops. Use liquidation." He ordered.
"Ka-BUUU!?" Kabutops felt electricity rushing his body from within.
"Pika." Red spoke. "Use Focus Punch."
"Hehehe... Well. This is unfortunate." The Mystery Man thought.
"What's Focus Punch?" Nina asked.
"Focus Punch? Is that what Red is aiming for?" Green slowly got up.
"Sit down! Your hurt!" Yellow stopped Green from getting up any further.
Green sat down, sighing. "Focus Punch is the strongest fighting-type move ever."
"Strongest!?" Nina jumped.
"Yeah but the huge downside is if you get even hit once, Focus Punch loses it's focus and thus it's power. Unless..."
"Substitute!" Nina looked at Red.
"Pika!" The Plushie rolled towards, tackling the paralyzed Kabutops.
"Kabu!?" Kabutops felt an intense force struck against his chest.
Kabutops slided back, taking the damage well actually.
"It isn't enough?" Yellow looked surprised. "Even with iron defense, that Kabutops should've gotten some serious damage."
"Kabutops!" Kabutops shouted.
"Kabutops! Liquidation!" The Mystery Man ordered.
"Kabu!" Kabutop's scythes were coated with water.
The Kabutops struck the plushie with liquidation! But it wasn't enough! Not even a crack.
"Focus Punch!" Red ordered.
"Pika!" The Plushie rolled forth, striking the Kabutops in the abdomen.
It didn't look like it was even punching, it looked like Pikachu was headbutting, kicking, or tackling.
"Liquidation!"
"Focus Punch!"
The Plushie rolled under Kabutops water-coated scythes, striking him in the left leg.
"Kabutops!" Kabutops shouted in pain, standing on one knee.
"Kabutops! Use..."
"Focus Punch!" Red shouted.
"Pika!" Pikachu struck the hurt Kabutops.
"FOCUS PUNCH!" Red shouted.
"Pika!" Pikachu struck again.
"Kabutops!?" Kabutops was sent rolling, unable to attack as he gritted his teeth.
"FOCUS PUNCH!"
"Pika!" Pikachu struck the Kabutops while it was trying to get up.
"Tops!?" Kabutops's head was slammed to the ground.
"FOCUS PUNCH!"
"Pika!" Pikachu struck the Kabutops, barely standing on his scythes and knees.
"FOCUS PUNCH!"
"Pika!" Pikachu struck the unconscious Kabutops lying there on the ground.
"FOCUS PUNCH!
"Pika!"
"FOCUS PUNCH!"
"Pika!"
"FOCUS..."
"Red! Stop!" Yellow shouted.
"What!? I'm busy!" Red shouted.
"Your going too far Red!" Blue shouted.
"What are you talking about!?" Red gritted his teeth angrily.
"Please look!" Yellow pointed at the Kabutops.
"What?" Red looked.
"Pika!" Pikachu panted, angrily gritted his teeth, his cheeks buzzed with electricity in his plushie form, standing over the severely beaten and fainted Kabutops.
He already won.
"You already won Red. Please stop!" Yellow looked worried. "You don't need to... um..."
"Your right Yellow." Red took a deep breath, looking at the fainted Kabutops and the Mystery Man just standing there, not doing anything about his losing situation. He wasn't even smiling. "I did what he wanted. I lost control of myself for a minute there."
"Pika!" Pikachu glared at the fallen Kabutops ready for another attack.
"Pikachu. Stop." Red said.
"P-pika?" Pikachu's anger vanished, looking at Red in confusion.
"Come here. We won." Red lowered a knee.
"Pika." Pikachu ran to Red in his arms, looking worried.
"I'm sorry for making you do that Pika." Red spoke.
Hoopa watched Red holding Pikachu closely, he then turned and saw the Mystery man raising a Pokeball.
"Return Kabutops." The Mystery Man sighed, beaming Kabutops back to his ball.
Yellow looked at the man's lower face, there was no smile, only a disappointing sigh?
"Wait a minute!" Blue shouted. "You wanted our Pokedex's right! But why! And where's Brock and Misty?"
"Hmm?" The man turned around, smiling at the girl. "You know despite the awful things I said and did. You're a pretty heroic and caring individual Blue, saving the little girl and your Ditto, knowing tricks won't always work."
"Answer me!" Blue shouted.
He grinned. "I handed Brock and Misty over to the boss. Someone who remembers you and Silver's little antics."
"Me and Silver?" She thought. She spoke. "What do you mean?!"
"For one thing Blue. Jiggly was it?" The Mystery Man looked at the Wigglytuff.
"Wiggly." Wigglytuff sized up her arms.
"Weren't you told Blue..." He grinned wide oepend, his sharp white teeth revealed. "Never to nickname your Pokemon?"
"W-what." Blue's eyes grew worrisome. "How do you know that?"
"Later Blue." He turned around.
"Come Back!" Blue chased after him deep in the darkness of Mt. Moon.
"Wait Blue!" Red shouted.
Blue kept running after the man, she could barely see him standing there on the ground but as she got closer and closer. She realized he was standing on the edge of the cliff.
"We'll meet again." He spoke.
"Scizor!" Scizor sprung behind from the darkness.
The man yawned as he stepped off the edge of a cliff.
"Scizor!?" Scizor looked puzzled.
"Are you crazy!" Blue shouted.
The two quickly looked over the edge of the cliff, finding no one, just vast darkness.
"How did he disappeared like that?" Blue gulped.
"Scizor." Scizor pointed something in the darkness.
"Huh?" Blue looked at it closely. A pink gem shining from a nearby cliff below. "A z-crystal. Here!?"
The Pokedex holders rushed to the Pokecenter in the midst of the full moon, they could see the nurse yawning as she went forward to the counter hearing the footsteps running close-by.
"Did something happened?" The Nurse noticed them rushing and panting. She eyed a person carried by Blue and Red. Her eyes awoke in shock. "Oh my! Get him to the emergency room quickly!"
Hours passed as Red crossed his arms leaning against the wall near the emergency doors while Blue constantly walked back and forth in guilt feeling like her reckless behavior caused all this. Yellow and Nina sat at the waiting chairs nearby, looking on the ground worrying. Hoopa peeked behind a wall, worriedly looking at others. Red looked at Green's Pokemon in their Pokeballs lying there near Yellow. They all looked worried through the red glass, including Scizor who was impatient as ever, crossing his arms, wanting to know what's Green's status.
The nurse stepped out through the doors, smiling. "He's going to be alright."
"Really!?" Red, Yellow and Nina jumped, relieved and happy.
"Oh thank you." Blue smiled the most.
"Yes but he needs to take it easy for some time before walking to Pewter City."
"Take it easy? Like what?"
"No rushing things or doing anything reckless like flying to a location as fast as possible or riding on a Pokemon that hops and shakes a lot. He'll be fine as long as he travels on foot. However… "
"How long will he fully heal?" Blue interrupted.
"Oh. In a few days of course. Next week perhaps. Then he can travel anyway anywhere he wants." The Nurse smiled.
"Excuse me." Yellow said. "But can we use your PC? We need to transport a Pokemon."
"Hoopa?" Hoopa said.
"I'm sorry but the PC transportation system here has been down for some time." The Nurse sighed.
"What? Here too?" Red said.
"Yes. In the meantime, all of you can rest here." The Nurse smiled. "You must be all awfully tired."
"You don't say…" Blue sighed, feeling heavier than usual as she sat down.
"Hey." Red placed his hand on her shoulder.
"Huh?" Blue looked to Red, smiling at her.
"It'll be alright! Green's the strongest person out of all of us!"
"Yeah. I guess that's true." Blue gave a light smile at Red's words.
"Plus. We all need rest." Yellow said. "What if that stranger comes back tomorrow and we come ill-prepared?"
"I suppose your right." Blue yawned stretching her arms. "I could use some rest."
"Hey Hoopa!" Yellow said. "No need to hide anymore! Everything's alright!"
"Hoopa?" Hoopa muttered, still hiding behind the wall.
As the trainers went to their beds, the Nurse chuckled.
"Hehehe…"
She sat at the chair near the counter, stretching her arms, eyeing the nurse, that looked exactly like her, tied up under the counter.
"This is too easy." The "Nurse" grinned revealing sharp teeth.
