RGBY - Vol. 2 - Mask of Ice Summary - A familiar foe is hunting them...
2.6 - Porygon in the Shell!
The sun shined hard on Green who looked annoyed as he walked on the hard rocky surface of the mountainous Route 3, holding onto the crutches. Red, Blue and Yellow looked at him from behind with worrisome eyes as Pewter City was just close by.
"Are you sure you don't need help?" Red gulped.
"No." Green bluntly spoke.
"Sorry about what happened back in the cave heh-heh?" Blue nervously chuckled.
"Mmm."
Hoopa didn't uttered a word, only burying his head in Yellow's arm, occasionally peeking at Green.
"He looks scary…" Yellow thought.
"Independent as always Green… " Red couldn't help but smile. "Remember when..."
Green glanced back at Red. "I have no time for small talk. Let's go."
"Were... here." Yellow gave a light nervous smile, pointing to a huge sign.
"Welcome to Pewter City!" The sign read.
They didn't seem happy or sad. Just worried or quiet. Red looked at the sign, remembering Brock mentioned his dad working at the museum. How was he going to explain this to him?
A tall man sporting a spiky hairdo similar to Brock wore a red tie and a brown coat. He looked at his papers on the clipboard mentioning the next shipment coming to the museum containing valuable artifacts. He pondered over the shipment orders until he noticed a familiar face stepping into the museum.
"Ah! I remember you!" Brock's father pointed to Red. "You're the young lad who not only bested my son in an official gym battle but you also saved my museum from those dreaded Magmars! How did you do it by the way!"
"Uh… hehehe…" Red smiled with a bit of pride. "That's easy! I sent out Snorlax and used his huge size to prevent the flames from spreading. I then ordered him to use Rest to heal faster than the flames can burn while my other Pokemon put the flames out."
"Amazing!" Brock's father said. "I never thought the move Rest could even be used like that!"
"I never thought that either?" Blue said.
"Even I'm clueless how that's possible." Green added.
Brock continued. "Say… why are you and your friends here?"
"Um… how do I put this?" Red looked afraid to tell him what happened.
Brock's father could see it in their faces, Blue holding onto her arm nervously, Yellow glancing to the floor as she held Hoopa tightly in her arms, Green standing silent as sweat dripped down his cheek and Red's eyes showing fear in silence.
"What happened to Brock? He hasn't been home in days."
Pewter City, one of the relatively quieter cities of stone and brick carved nearby the rocky mountains of Route 3. The group passed by many quiet citizens bearing soft smiles on their faces. The five of them looked up, seeing Pewter City's Gym letters painted red at the top-front. The glass doors opened.
"I see." Brock's Father entered the gym.
The four trainers behind him followed. They all held light quiet smiles but Hoopa was amazed at the massive rocky arena in the middle and rows of seats to the sides. Similar to Sabrina's gym, there was also a backdoor behind the rocky stand. Red could remember Brock waiting there, crossing his arms holding a serious expression on his face, patiently waiting for challengers. Instead, he saw two kids in scouting clothing saluting to Brock's father with good posture.
"Welcome Master!" The boy scout and girl scout shouted.
They stopped saluting, realizing it wasn't Brock.
"Hi kids." Brock's father sighed. He turned to the trainers behind him. "These are Brock's students. As you know many Gym Leaders carry the responsibility of teaching to new students."
"Where's Brock?" The girlscout stepped forward, looking worried.
Brocks' father turned his face to them. "I'm sorry but he won't be coming home for a while."
"Did something happened? Where is he?" The boyscout stepped forward, patiently waiting for an answer, clenching his hand into fist.
"Um… well…" Brock's Father looked worried. "How do I explain this?"
Red, Green, Blue and Yellow found themselves sitting at a table in the backroom of the gym. Red looked around, seeing a counter with a sink, cooking supplies and the two scouts rummaging through the fridge.
"You must be hungry coming such a long way!" The girl scout smiled, laying out plates on the table
"Here. Take a bite! Brock's food is the best!" The boy scout laid some heated sandwiches on the plates. "These were supposed to be for next week but might as well use them now since your all here visiting. Anyone who is a friend of Brock is a friend of ours!"
"Um… thanks." Red placed his two hands on the sandwich.
"You know… for a bunch of old heated sandwiches." Blue looked at the toasted sandwich filled with chopped white cabbage, sliced ham, fried eggs and red saracha sauce. "This actually looks really good."
"It's amazing!" Green spoke.
Red, Blue and Yellow looked to Green quickly taking a second bite out of the sandwich.
"Really?" Yellow took a bite. She smiled tasting the mixture of flavors in her mouth. "Wow!"
Red and Blue took a bite out of the sandwiches. They couldn't help but smile. "This is so good!"
"Hoopa?" Hoopa looked at Yellow's sandwich.
"You want some? You can have the rest." Yellow smiled.
"Hoopa!" Hoopa grabbed the sandwich, taking a bite. The Hoopa shaked his arms repeatedly, eyes sparkling at the multiple flavors. "Hoopa!"
"Glad your strange-looking Pokemon liked it!" The girl scout crossed her arms, smiling with pride. "But this is just a quick snack compared to what Brock can make! You should see what he makes for dinner!"
"Hey um…" The boy scout rubbed the back of his hand. "So… who is this hooded man? The one who attacked Brock?"
The table suddenly stood silent. The Pokedex Holders looked at each other bearing worried looks.
"I can't explain it." Blue laid her sandwich on the plate. "But he can somehow change disguises quickly, it looked technological compared to how the copycat trainer we met did it."
"Someone who can disguise as anyone?" Brock's Father sighed. "That's not good."
"Hey?" Green finished his sandwich. "Does the transporter at the PokeCenter here work?"
"No." The Boy Scout spoke. "There shutdown here as well. Must be caused by the Power Plant disruption we heard from."
"I don't think so." Blue said. "Bill said that problem is fixed. The PC's should be running unless something else is the problem."
Red spoke. "Maybe it's a coincidence that the PC's in Saffron, Cerulean, Mt. Moon and here don't work. We should just head down to Viridian."
"Well actually now that you've mentioned it." The girl scout spoke. "The PC's do actually work. It's just the transporter that's shutdown."
"The transporter?" Green looked at her. "That's odd. It was the same as Saffron, Cerulean and Mt. Moon. Video cams, call features, everything on the PC worked like a charm. The transporter feature was the only feature that didn't worked."
Red gave a serious look to Green. "Do you have any ideas Green?"
"I have a hunch." Green turned to the Girl Scout. "When did the transporter feature stopped working?"
"Well..." The Girl Scout thought about it. "I believe it was around morning today."
"Morning?" They all spoke.
Yellow spoke. "That was around the time we came."
Green spoke. "I thought it was a local issue in Cerulean and Saffron until I found out about the problem in the Poke Center at Mt. Moon. Now in Pewter City? Now I'm pretty sure this is no coincidence."
"We should contact Bill. The video cams still work." Yellow suggested.
"Hmm?" Brock's father glanced at Yellow oddly.
Yellow noticed his odd glance.
"Uh... Is something wrong?"
"Nothing at all dear." He sighed, his eyes looking away from them. Suddenly he smiled. "I got an idea! Why don't you leave your Pokemon here, let them play around the gym while you go off and explore the city!"
"Hoopa!" Hoopa smiled at the man's words.
"Sorry Hoopa." Yellow said. "We might need to be prepared just in case something happens. Those hooded people aren't the only things were worried about."
"Ah right! That dastardly man could be lurking around the corner as we speak!"
"Yeah. But we'll be okay." Yellow smiled.
"Seriously!?" Blue looked angry, hitting the PC over and over again with her fist. "The video cam isn't working either!"
"Strange…" Green placed his finger his chin.
"The video cam isn't working?" The Pewter City Nurse came forward. "That's strange. The Pokémon transfer feature isn't working but the video cam was just working fine an hour ago."
"Really?" Green turned to the nurse. "Are other transporter systems shutdown across the Kanto region?"
"No. I called other nurses about this problem too. I've been told there working fine in places like Cinnabar or Fuschia City."
"You mean… it hasn't happened across Kanto at the same time?" Green said.
"Across Kanto? What are you talking about?" The Nurse looked confused. "Again. Everywhere but Saffron, Cerulean and the Pokecenter near Mt. Moon are working fine."
"What?" Red, Blue and Yellow spoke in disbelief.
"What? Is something wrong?" The Nurse said.
"Are you absolutely sure?" Green looked to her, his eyes expressed a serious look to her.
"Yes… um… did something happened?" The Nurse looked nervous at Greens grave look.
"Nurse. Where were you last night?"
"Um… what? Why?" The Nurse looked nervous at such a question.
"Green. What are you doing?" Yellow asked.
"I need to know." Green continued facing the nervous nurse. "It would help us a lot if you told us."
"Why would I do that!"
"Me, Red and Blue here are all top three finalists in the Pokemon League and Yellow here is the famous hero who saved Kanto from the Elite Four all those years ago. This is urgent."
"Really? Well… if it's from the finalists and the one who saved Kanto." The Nurse said, thinking back to it. "I was on a date last night with the most handsome man, a professor from the museum. Why?"
"Where is this professor?" Green said.
"Well you see..." The young professor stood there, rubbing his hand on the back of his head nervously. "I was on a date with this cute nurse. That's it. Nothing suspicious if that's what your asking."
"I see." Green placed his fingers on his chin, thinking about it as he held onto his crutches. "You can go."
"Thank you." The professor smiled, walking off into the light crowd near the Pewter City Museum.
Red spoke. "Green? Why are you asking all these questions."
"I think were being followed."
"Followed?" Red looked puzzled.
Blue and Yellow stood there silently, trying to hide their surprised looks.
"Hoopa?" The little Pokemon wasn't sure what was going on.
Yellow spoke. "You mean… like those cloaked guys that attacked us?"
"Perhaps but it's more concerning that this guy can just change disguises." Green said. "I have a hunch what may have happened to the PCs but before we go we need something to distinguish ourselves."
"From that copycat guy?" Blue said. "You mean like use a marker to differentiate ourselves from the copycat?"
"Yeah but not a marker." Green explained. "From how you explained it Blue, that copycat doesn't have the best knowledge of personal history judging how you told me he made a lot of mistakes talking about Brock's personal history. From the looks of that strange tech he's using, he can mimic us to the smallest details including marker. We'll only ask each other a question the real person would know. Something you can't find in the newspaper or books."
"I… I don't know if that's a good idea." Blue gulped.
"Why?" Green looked to her.
"That cloaked man, the one with the grin and sharp teeth." Blue held her arm tightly. "He seem to know awfully a lot about my past!"
"What!?" Everyone gasped, looking at her.
"Yeah… he knew about Ho-Oh. The bird that kidnapped me." Blue shook. "Honestly… I'm a little afraid of how much he knows about me and Silver."
"That is a problem." Green said. "He seems to have researched thoroughly about us."
"Okay than. How about this!" Red smiled.
"Hmm?" Everyone looked at Red.
"To find out who's real and who's not, will just ask for a password."
"A password? That's actually not a bad idea." Green said.
"Yeah that… wait." Red stopped for a moment. "Actually? What's that supposed to mean!"
"Quit stalling. Continue please."
"Fine." Red sighed. "We'll ask for a password to see who's who! We in turn respond a Pokemon's name that… hmm… we normally don't really think of a lot. For example, me… it could be… Slowpoke!"
"That's good." Green said. "I guess I'll be… Raticate."
"I guess I'll beeee… Electrode!" Blue smiled.
"And my password will beeee… Murkrow." Yellow smiled.
"Definitely Pokemon were normally aren't associated with." Blue smiled.
"Still…" Green thought about it. "I wonder if that rocket glove we found has anything to do with that copycat. Not many people know about your past Blue."
"Yeah." Blue looked worried.
"I would assume someone related to Team Rocket would know about your past."
"That's kind of the problem. The Team Rocket lead by Giovanni knows little about my past. Even Giovanni himself was clueless where Silver was all those years when he was kidnapped. The Team Rocket your talking about is a completely different one lead by…" Blue gulped at the thought. "The Masked Man. The Mask of Ice. You don't think…"
"I haven't seen any real signs that old man Pryce is up to his old tricks." Green said. "In fact I can't really see him do any of that terrible work anymore. He got what he wanted. He has no reason to lead Team Rocket or come after us."
"Hey Green?" Red spoke. "Wasn't there something else you wanted to check out?"
"Yeah. The PCs."
The group re-entered the Poke Center. They noticed the Nurse looked happy to the PC's. They also noticed a man in a blue uniform looking at the PC's wiring in a compartment below.
"It's you guys again!" The Nurse smiled. "I got a repairman working on the PC!"
"Did he find anything?" Green asked.
"Nothing. Nothing at all." The Repair man replied, getting up. "The PC actually seems perfectly fine."
"Perfectly fine?"
"Yeah." The repair man spoke. "I had a hunch maybe someone sabotaged it but there were no cuts in the wires, no shady devices connected to it, nothing. I tried rebooting it, getting it into safe mode, looking into other files manually if anything was missing or there was anything suspicious. I can't find anything wrong. Despite the transporter not working, it's almost as if all it's features are working perfectly fine."
"I have an idea. Nurse, do you mind?" Green asked, slowly reaching for a Pokeball from his belt.
"Sure. At this rate I'm willing to try anything." The Nurse sighed. "Lots of new and young trainers come through this town with lots of low-level catches."
"Green? What are you going to do?" Red asked.
"This. Come out..." Green's Pokeball slipped out of his hand from the crutches. He looked at the Pokeball on the wooden floor, annoyed. "Dammit."
Yellow walked forward, holding Hoopa in one arm while the other reached to the Pokeball.
"Um. Let me..."
"I can handle it!" Green raised his voice.
"Uh. Sure!" Yellow backed off.
"Hoopa!" Hoopa quickly buried his face in Yellow's arms.
Green slowly ducked to his knees, letting go his right crutch. The crutch fell to the floor as he reached his hand to the Pokeball.
"I got it. It's fine." Green grabbed the Pokeball, holding on to the left crutch.
"He seems really annoyed with the crutches." Red thought.
Green enlarged the Pokeball.
"Porygon 2! Come out!" Green's Pokeball flashed opened!
"BZZZZZzzzzZ!" A giant chicken-like Pokemon emerged, one made of blue and red spherical objects.
"Hoopa!?" Hoopa looked frightened at the giant Pokemon, popping out of Yellow's arms, quickly hiding behind her giant hat.
"He's bigger than I remembered!" Blue looked astonished at Porygon 2's size, almost as big as her Blastoise.
"It's alright Hoopa. Porygon 2 helped you out at the Dome remember." Yellow smiled.
"Hoopa?" Hoopa peeked it's eyes above the hat, looking at the Virtual Pokemon
Red smiled at Green's intentions.
"Your going to use him to tap into the computer right? Into Virtual Space! Great idea Green!"
"Yeah." Green smirked. "Porygon 2. Do your thing!"
"BzzzZZZZz!" Porygon 2 nodded.
Porygon 2 lowered it's chicken-like body, forming into a jet-like creature. Porygon 2's oval legs started turning in circles like wheels, zooming into the computer.
"Whoa!" The Nurse and Repair man looked shocked.
Porygon 2 found himself in virtual space, green lines crossing together forming a 2x2 grid across the floor as 0's and 1's rained in the background. The Virtual Pokemon jetted across the green grid, it's eyes glancing back and forth at the many virtual objects, many sticking out as prisms and cubes. Porygon 2 halted at a screeching stop.
"Bzz?" Porygon 2 noticed something peeking behind a virtual rectangle. "BZZ!"
"Bzz!" The creature quickly hid his head.
It was too late, Porygon 2 locked onto his target, jetting to it's location.
"BZZZ! FOUND! BBZZZ! YOU!" Porygon 2 curved around the object.
Porygon 2 looked and saw nothing. He looked a little confused, looking up.
"BZZZ!" A jagged-polygon creature emerged. A squeaky voice emerged. "BZZZ! HYPERZZZ BEAMZZZ!"
Porygon2 rolled away to the right in his jet form, barely escaping the orange beam of chaotic energy. Porygon 2 lifted his head, glaring angrily at the Porygon as a loading bar appeared next to it.
"BZZZ! He he he. BZZZ!" Porygon eyes expressed a happy but nervous look as he floated there, glancing at the loading bar next to him saying "RECHARGING...".
"BZZZ!" Porygon 2 leaped at the recharging Porygon.
"BZZZ!?" Porygon panicked.
"What's taking so long?" Green looked at the time on his watch.
"Uh guys!" Yellow pointed at the PC.
The four looked at the PC, noticing the computer bouncing around, shaking and tumbling all over the desk.
"It… it looks like someone's fighting in there!" Red noted.
"Fighting?" Green looked.
"BZZZzzzZZ!?" A Porygon popped out of the PC in terror, panting and shaking.
"Porygon!?" They all shouted.
"Hoopa?" Hoopa muttered, looking at the tiny creature.
"BZZZzzZZZZ!" Porygon 2 followed, popping out of the screen.
"Hoopa!" Hoopa quickly hid behind Yellow, surprised at the giant creature.
Porygon 2 eye's shifted across the room, spotting Porygon zooming to the door!
"Oh no you don't!" Green saw the Porygon zooming past him. "Porygon 2. Ice Beam!"
"BzzzzzZZZZ!" Porygon 2's head launched a beam of frost.
The Porygon crashed to the floor, encased in a chunk of ice. The Nurse watched in horror as the wooden floor was damaged.
"Not the floor!" The Nurse screamed.
"Um… sorry." Green scratched his cheek, nervously glancing elsewhere.
"So a Porygon was the culprit?" Blue said.
"Probably either A) Porygon zoomed through the virtual space computer by computer or more likely B) someone was following us and sent out Porygon to these computers while we weren't looking, disabling the transporter functionality." Green explained.
"Is he related to Team Rocket?" Red said.
"Hey. He's waking up?" Yellow said.
"BzzzZZZ? BZZZ!?" Porygon panicked, seeing himself tied in rope.
Porygon's eye shifted to Green glaring him, to Blue crossing her arms, to Red eyeing him suspiciously, to Yellow just standing there watching curiously, to the Porygon 2 floating above them giving a mean look in his eyes.
"Are you with Team Rocket!" Blue shouted. "Well! ARE YOU!"
"BZZZ!?" Porygon shook in fear at Blue's shouting.
Yellow spoke. "Actually we don't really..."
"He's up to something!" Red said. "The fact that he can travel through virtual space says so!"
"Uh… what?" Yellow looked confused at Red's reasoning. "Porygon 2 can travel through virtual..."
"He's definitely suspicious." Green cracked his knuckles from the crutches.
"Bzzz" Porygon 2 nodded.
"Bzzzz!?" Porygon panicked, shifting he's legs like wheels, looking for a way out as their hands got closer and closer.
"Whoa! Whoa guys!" Yellow blocked them off from getting any closer to Porygon. "I know you guys want answers right away but isn't this a little overreacting!"
Red sighed, knowing what Yellow said was true.
"Yeah. Your right."
Green spoke. "You got a better idea?"
"Of course!" Yellow smiled. "Did you forget already! I can talk to Pokemon!"
"Bzz?" Porygon looked to Yellow with curiosity.
"Hi there Porygon!" Yellow smiled at the virtual Pokemon, pulling something out of her satchel. "You know. Even though your apparently a man-made Pokemon, your still a Pokemon right? I bet you like a treat."
"Bzzz…" Porygon eyed a large blue berry with great suspicion.
"It's not poison or anything! See. Let me show you." Yellow took a bite out of the berry. "Mmm! No poison or anything! Just a delicious berry I found in the trees."
"Bzzz?" Porygon eyed the berry.
"You want some?" She smiled widely.
Porygon slowly nodded his head twice, still showing suspicion.
"Okay! Eat up!" Yellow reached the berry out to Porygon.
The Porygon pecked and munched the berry quickly like a bird, eyes looking back and forth at his captors.
"Wait?" Red said. "How can a Porygon eat? It doesn't have a mouth... I think?"
Green sighed, crossing his arms as the berry shrank and shrank. Porygon pecked the berry faster and faster, it's eyes no longer looking in suspicion, enjoying the berry.
"Bzz!" Porygon finished eating the berry, it's eyes expressing happiness.
"Okay Porygon!" Yellow smiled. "Can you tell me what you were doing in that computer?"
"Bzz!" Porygon nodded. "BzzzzzZZZZZzzzZZZ!"
"Mhmm." Yellow nodded, her smile grew less and less as she read Porygon's thoughts. She gulped at the image of a tall man imprinted her in mind, grinning widely like a maniac. "What. Really?"
"Bzz!" Porygon nodded.
"What's she saying?" Blue said.
"Shh!" Red shushed.
"Green does look scary sometimes does he?" Yellow chuckled to Porygon.
"Bzz!" Porygon nodded happily.
"What?" Green looked annoyed.
"Bzzzz…" Porygon gave an annoyed grunt to Green.
"Green's just like that because we've been through a lot! He's actually a nice guy once you get to know him." Yellow explained to the Porygon. "Thank you for cooperation though! Your free to go!"
"Free to go? Yellow what are you doing!" Green saw Yellow untying the rope.
Porygon 2's eye watched in shock as the Porygon quickly zoomed away from his original spot, past the exit!
"Yellow!" Green shouted.
"Wait! I know it sounds strange." Yellow said. "But… it's a wild Porygon Green."
"Wild Porygon? I never heard of that before. He could be lying."
"I think Porygon was speaking the truth! He claims to be from a vast forest full of white trees in the Unova region. He and some other Porygons were moved to the Kanto region for some reason. He won't tell the rest because… well he's too scared to answer."
"That sucks." Blue sighed, seeing the door flinging back and forth. "If it wasn't wild, maybe we could follow it if it belonged to a trainer."
"Well… that's not the only thing." Yellow paused for a moment. "He told me who he was scared of. A tall scary man bearing a maniacal smile, piercing eyes that always watched where Porygon would go. The description kind of creep me out. He didn't gave me a name because…"
"Because what?"
"Because he said he would know instantly somehow."
"How could this person instantly know somehow?" Red said
"I don't know…" Blue said, thinking about it. "That shady man at Mt. Moon. He kind of fits the description. Not to mention, he not only knew about me but he somehow knew the Pokedex was actually Ditto in disguise quickly."
"But how?" Green said. "That doesn't make any sense… unless…"
"Unless what?"
"Just a hunch, maybe… he has psychic powers like Yellow? Can sense people's life force or something…" Green suggested.
"Life force?" Yellow looked clueless. "I've never heard or experienced that."
"Just a thought."
"Well… there's not much to go on." Blue said.
"Then let's call Bill."
The PC beamed up, Bill looking surprised as he drank a cup of coffee at an office desk it appeared.
"Hi guys!" Bill smiled. "I haven't seen you in a while! Did anything happened?"
"No." Green responded, remembering what happened in Mt. Moon. "Nothing at all. We found the problem though. I think someone was following us in disguise, using a wild Porygon somehow to hack into the computer, disrupting many of its features."
"Really? I've never encountered such a problem before." Bill said. "That's normally because Porygon are incredibly rare. Wait! Did you said a wild Porygon?"
"Yeah. At least I think. Yellow talked to the Pokemon, Porygon saying it came from the wild in Unova."
"Huh…" Bill thought about it. "I have heard there was a white forest there that served as a shelter for all sorts of Pokemon, regardless of their origins."
"Yeah but there was apparently more." Red butted in.
"We think it was that copycat trainer that followed us!" Blue butted in.
"Would you guys stop popping in for a minute!" Green angrily pushed there heads out of the way.
"Uh… hi Bill." Yellow nervously smiled from the background.
"What do you mean copycat?" Bill said.
Green explained "Fairly tall fellow in a blue rain coat I think, sharp teeth, was able to change his disguises instantly. It looked like state-of-the-art tech to be honest."
"Hmm… Tech that can change disguises instantly. I have heard of something like that from Kalos." Bill said.
"Now that you mentioned it." Green spoke, thinking about his trip to Kalos. "I did encountered this girl who wore similar technology that could change disguises instantly. It was during the time I helped out these two trainers and their friends."
"You mean the boy with the Mega Charizard X and the girl with the Greninja?" Bill said. "I'll research into that guy's strange tech immediately! Now that the PC's working I assume your off flying to the Viridian gym before heading to Pallet Town?"
"Not really." Green sighed, the crutches were outside of the PC's camera. "I have Charizard here but I walked here on foot with crutches. That sharp teethed guy attacked me when I wasn't looking."
"Hi there sweetie!" A feminine voice echoed off-screen to Bill.
Green could hear the door shut closed as he recognized the voice. Bill panicked, shifting his eyes to the person off-screen and to Green repeatedly.
"That sounds like…"
"Uh… Um! Gotta go! Don't forget to transport Hoopa!" Bill turned off the PC.
"Huh… what's that about?" Green looked clueless.
"Ah!" Prof. Oak smiled through the PC. "So you finally fixed the transportation problem! And dealing with a Porygon no less? How suspicious."
"Yeah Gramps. We thought the same thing." Green said.
"Are you ready to send Hoopa?" Prof. Oak said.
"Of course!" Yellow smiled from the background, holding Hoopa in her arms.
"Hi Professor." Red smiled as well.
"Hoopa!" Hoopa smiled.
"Ah good and..."
"Um Professor!" Blue's head popped in.
Green sighed. "Blue. What are you..."
"This is important!"
Green sighed. "I understand."
"Yes Blue?" Oak smiled.
"Um... your best friends with Pryce right?" Blue spoke, twiddling her fingers.
"Yes. Is this about what Green told me about that sharp-teethed fellow?"
"Yes. What has he been up to?"
"You have nothing to worry Blue. I don't know where he is but you know Pryce is not the same man as he was before. He even helped Silver save Johto from the brink of destruction. He has nothing to gain as the Mask of Ice."
"I know."
"Good however..." Prof. Oak rubbed his chin. "There's something that's been bothering me. Why at all do they want to study your tactics and research your pasts? That's something that struck me odd. They certainly don't need to be THAT prepared to get a Pokedex."
"Now that you mentioned it." Red said. "That doesn't actually make a lot of sense."
"It's almost like..." Oak said. "There studying all of you for information."
"That's... creepy." Blue said. "Also what would they use that information for?"
"I'm as clueless as you are Blue." Oak said. "For now. Transport the Hoopa to my place. I'll examine those rings. Also do you still have that berserk Lanturn?"
"Yeah professor." Red stepped forward, holding a Pokeball in his hand.
"I see." Oak looked at the Pokeball from the monitor, seeing it's lost glaring eyes. "Get that to me too as well."
"Okay Professor." Yellow walked up to the cylinder machine.
Yellow placed Hoopa on the red spot as Red placed the glaring Lanturn's Pokeball onto one of six ball-like placements.
"Good. Let's get this show on the road." Oak pressed a red button.
Suddenly the Transporter started beeping and glowing.
"It's working!" Red said.
Electricity popped from the machine, light flashing.
"Hoo..." Hoopa's voice vanished.
The machine stopped lighting, Hoopa and Lanturn were gone.
"Ah!" Prof. Oak looked at the transporter from his side.
Electricity sparked brightly as a ball and a horned-imp shaped into form. The electricity settled and Red, Blue, Green and Yellow could see Hoopa and Lanturn's Pokeball in Oak's labatory.
"... pa?" Hoopa slowly looked around the lab.
"Hello Hoopa!" Oak smiled, holding a pink berry in his hand. "I got a Pecha berry for you! They are really sweet!"
"Hoopa?" Hoopa looked at the Pecha berry.
"Alright! The transporter worked." Red smiled.
"Yes." Oak smiled at the curious Hoopa. "I assume you guys are heading back to Pallet Town on foot because of your injury Green?"
"Yeah." Green said. "It'll heal in short time according to the nurse."
"Good. You'll be up and flying in the air on your Charizard in no time!" Oak said.
"Yeah Gramps." Green smiled. "Cya."
"Goodbye Green."
The PC's monitor's light vanished into pitch black.
"I guess were going to Viridian City next." Green said.
"Hey Yellow." Red looked to her. "Isn't Viridian Forest where you live?"
"Yeah." Yellow smiled. "We can stop by my place on the way!"
"Oh really Yellow?" Blue gave a sinister grin. "Maybe you can give Red the tour of your room?"
"That... um..." Yellow flushed red.
"Ah! Your face again!" Red looked startled. "Are you alright Yellow. Are you sick? Dizzy?"
Yellow quickly turned around, covering her red face with her hands.
"N-no. I'm alright!" Yellow spoke.
"Hehehe." Blue giggled. "Hmm?"
"Hello there Red!" Brock's father walked in, smiling at the four.
"Hello!" Red smiled.
"Red? What are you doing here in Pewter City?" Brock's father spoke.
"Huh?" Red looked confused. "Y-you just met us at the museum didn't you?"
"Museum? I was off to Cinnabar checking on new fossils at their research facility." Brock's father said.
Red, Green, Blue and Yellow's eyes widened in horror.
"Who are your friends? By the way? I bet they'd appreciate some dinner that Brock made some days ago. It's still fresh in the fridge." Brock's father smiled. "Where's Brock by the way? I haven't heard him call in a while. Uh Red?"
Red just stood there, frozen.
"Red? Are you alright?" Brock's father said.
