RGBY - Vol. 2 - Mask of Ice Summary - A familiar foe is hunting them...

2.8 - Fight the Ice! Free Dragonite!


"Well you guys can sleep here!" Yellow smiled.

Red and Green found themselves in the living room, it was small but much of the furniture were packed near a wall. Wilton laid out sleeping bags on the floor underneath the small lamp up on the cieling.

"Okay. Where would you sleep?" Green said. "I assume the same place where Blue is, your room?"

"Nah. I think I'll just sleep on the couch." Yellow smiled.

"Um... but..." Red couldn't help but rub his finger nervously against his cheek. "Aren't you a... well... girl?"

"Um... w-what are you imply... oh?" Yellow stuttered. "Um... It's not like I'm going to change here! I'm just sleeping in my clothes and change later in the bathroom."

"Yeah. Yeah your right." Red said.


Red, Green and Wilton found themselves sleeping in the sleeping pads across the wooden floor. Yellow slept peacefully on the couch only to slowly open her eyes, noticing everything was dark. Yellow could hear her uncle snoring.

"Red." Yellow spoke softly, looking at the couch's top in-front of her.

"Yeah Yellow?" Red spoke with his eyes closed.

Yellow could hear Red's voice next to her.

"I really enjoyed that battle at Silph Co..." She said.

"Thanks for being my tag partner when I needed it." Red said.

"Honestly, it made me think about battling a little more... but... at Mt. Moon."

"The sharp-teethed man?"

"Yeah... you ordered your Pikachu to beat Kabutops down even when he already fainted. That's why battles honestly kind of frightens me... I hate Pokemon seeing get hurt. Even bad ones."

"I know Yellow..." Red slowly opened his eyes. "I'm sorry you had to see that, me losing control, not thinking straight."

"I know Red. You just got... worried is all." Yellow said.

"No. It was wrong for me to do that." Red said. "There's no excuse for the way I was acting there."

"Red."

"Yeah?"

"We'll find them. Brock and Misty."

"I know we will."

"Maybe we can have a big celebration after all this is over." She smiled.

"Sure." Red smiled. "That would be nice to have considering how many of our friends are moving on... one last celebration."

"Red?" Yellow looked a little bit surprised. "A-are you afraid of that?"

"Afraid of what?" Red said.

"Friends, just moving on, barely seeing each other."

"Yeah." Red said. "To be honest, I know we'll always be friends, even if they move away somewhere faraway but... to not see them in a long time... kind of sucks the soul right out of you I suppose."

"I'll always be there for you... I mean. If you need me." Yellow spoke, her cheeks flushing a slight red.

Red laid there silent for a moment, smiling.

"Thanks Yellow."

Yellow stared at the couch top with a light smile.


The door to Yellow's room was open, Blue smiled at the bed, her eyes slowly opening, hearing everything between Red and Yellow.

"That's... sweet." Blue closed her eyes gently.

"Blue…" A deep chilling voice echoed.

Blue slowly opened her eyes, thinking she heard something.

"Blue…"

"Who said that?" Blue rubbed her eyes as she got up from the bed.

"Come home my dear Blue… come home to your family…"

"Family?" Blue's eyes were wide opened, feeling a chill down her spine at the unpleasantly familiar haunting voice. "W-who is this?"

She looked through the window, her eyes in shock and puzzlement at what she saw. A tall cloaked figure… wearing a mask of ice bearing sharp fangs, slit eyes and icy blue hair. There was no mistaken it… that was the Mask of Ice… or someone pretending to be.

"I'm waiting…" The Mask of Ice stood there with his carved smile in his face, staring at her with his cold ghostly eyes.

"It can't be." Blue clenched her hand into a fist.


"Are you serious Blue!?" Red stepped out of the house.

"That doesn't make any sense! Pryce got what he wanted!" Green stepped out of the house.

"I know! I know!" Blue lead the group out of the house. "It could be an imposter but I have to know! How does he know about my past! Is he connected to the other guys!"

"Um… should I do something?" Wilton yelled with his sleeping cap on.

"Just stay where you are Uncle! We can take care of this!" Yellow smiled, running after the group.

They dashes after the woods, Blue seeing a cold-dead smile lurking from the trees under the night. She followed it and followed to the next one she saw.

"It can't be! It can't be!" Blue gritted her teeth angrily. "It has to be an imposter! It doesn't make any sense for Pryce to adopt that dead persona!"

They stopped in the middle of a wide-area full of grass. What they saw there left them speechless.

"Oh no…" Yellow looked horrified.

"Dr… Dragonite!?" Red and Green shouted at the same time.

Blue stood there shocked seeing the dragon, Lance's Dragonite, taken by surprised full of anger as it was imprisoned in ice. It looked like he was in a battle recently.

"This… this definitely looks like Pryce's handiwork." Red said.

"Not many people can control and master this level of ice." Green said.

"We don't know that!" Blue interrupted.

"Hey!" Yellow yelled. "Instead of arguing! We should get Dragonite out of the ice NOW!"

"Y-your right Yellow." Red said.

"Whatever you do. We don't want to break it okay." Green said. "He could be dismembered if we rush trying to break it. A strong fire-type attack will be good enough and since he's a dragon-type, it won't do much damage."

"And what?" A tall ghostly figure stepped out from the woods, bearing his icy fangs to the four. "Free him? Try that and you'll only feel the icy cold feeling of death inches away at your feet."

"You're a fake! A fraud!" Blue stepped forward without hesitation. She stopped and point her finger at him. "There's no reason for Pryce to return as the Mask of Ice. There just isn't, you imposter. Now why don't you stop posing, take off that dumb mask and stop it with the edgy talk!"

"Hehehe… little little Blue." The Mask of Ice shook his head nostalgically. "You've grown up, gotten rid of your fear of birds and met your real family. It's almost like a great coming of age tale featuring a little girl overcoming it all… and yet you completely forgotten your old family? You enjoy tricking others like the sly fox you are and now you think the old you is over ever since you've made lots of friends and reunited with your family."

"Shut up!" Blue yelled. "You don't know anything about me!"

"Child. Adult. You are still the same Blue who thinks she can figure people so easily out. I know who you are Blue. I gave you everything! A home! A loving family! Strength! And you betrayed me Blue. YOU betrayed ME! Your still that same sly fox who tricks others into your own doing, thinking you can get away with everything you get your slippery hands on."

"Don't listen to him Blue!" Green yelled.

Blue looked somewhat confused, how does he know all this? She gritted her teeth, holding up her head high. " If you really are the Mask of Ice, you would grasp how much he would go through for one Pokemon!"

The Mask of Ice grinned. "Grasp? Why my dear Blue. You cannot grasp the amount of lives that have suffered behind this mask."

Blue gulped, feeling an uneasy tension in her bones.

Blue spoke, "Why are you doing this! What else is there for you to do!"

"Lots. Simply lots. Like dealing with Silver in Vermillion City."

"Don't. You. Dare." Blue held anger in her eyes.

"You and little Silver. You had quite the beautiful friendship together after she perished. It's ashamed what happened to the girl Silver befriended before you came along."

"W-what. What are you talking about?" Blue looked slightly puzzled, holding on to her anger.

"That look says Silver never told you about the red-haired girl. Silver seemed to like her a lot… the one who I froze to death for her betrayal." The Mask of Ice glared at Blue.

"Don't listen Blue!" Red yelled. "Blue?"

Blue stood their silently, her held lowered to the ground.

"Funny though… if I never killed that cute little girl for her betrayal, you would've never met Silver and be in the loving arms of your sweet family. Who knows what would happened? Would you meet little Red and little Green on the day of your kidnapping?" The Mask of Ice waved his arms around, hugging himself. "Would you be just a regular Kanto girl proudly getting her very first Pokemon on the start of her Pokemon journey! Parents waving goodbye with kisses and warm hugs as you earn those eight badges!

He lowered his arms.

"I guess will never know."

Blue looked at the ground seemingly saddened by all this, holding her arms together.

"Really? Your going to cry…"

"No… just thinking…" She grinned. "You probably got me figured out… and you know what? I always wanted to pulverize the man who separated me from my family and caused a lot of harm to my friends. You may not be him but you're definitely a pretty good imitation!"

The Mask of Ice stood there… silently in disappointment.

"Now that's the Blue I know!" Red smiled.

"Yeah. Let's deal with this fake!" Green grabbed a Pokeball.

"Go! Granbull! Scizor! Espeon!" The three shouted.

"What about me?" Yellow grabbed onto a Pokeball.

"Hey wait a minute." Red smiled. "You said you don't like battling so just hang back and watch."

"Hmm..." Yellow said. "I suppose..."

"Scizor! Bullet Punch! Knock him out in the head!" Green ordered.

"Scizor!" Scizor vanished, striking a blow through the mask… but that was just it. His punch phased through the mask! Scizor looked incredibly puzzled. "Scizor!?"

The Mask of Ice suddenly vanished into steam.

"Where did he go!" Red said.

"Form a square!" Green said.

The four trainer backed together, arm to arm, watching every corner as there Pokemon remain vigilant. Suddenly, their eyes widened in terro, quickly looking behind.

"Hehehe..." The Mask of Ice emerged in the middle of their square, eyeing Red.

"ACK!?" Red was quickly shut off as the Mask of Ice grabbed him by the throat!

"Red!" The three of them shouted.

"Espe!" Espeon looked frightened as Red's body was slowly encased in ice.

"Pilo…" A voice mumbled from behind.

Suddenly two tusks came striking at the purple fox-creature!

"Esp!" Espeon shouted as he was sent rolling to the ground.

"A Piloswine!" Yellow looked at the creature.

"Piloswine… " Blue looked troubled. "Piloswine is the evolved form of Swinub… that can't be Pryce's Swinub right?"

"Blue! Snap out of it!" Green shouted.

"Hariyama!" A giant thick fat Pokemon pounded to the ground from the trees, taking Scizor by surprise.

"Sciz!?" Scizor got flinched by the Pokmeon's thick fat gloves as the Mask of Ice quickly leaped away from the group, holding the frozen Red.

"How can he leap like that!?" Green said.

"Leap!? How is able to hold Red frozen like that!?" Yellow said.

"Oh no…" Blue gulped as the Masked Man was now faraway, near the frozen Dragonite.

"Grrrr... " Granbull stood in front of Blue.

The Fairy Pokemon growled at the two Pokemon bearing their hands and tusks at the group.

"Yama." Hariyama's hands and right foot stood heavily against the Scizor.

"Sciz..." Scizor gritted his teeth.

"Esp!" Espeon got up, growling at his attacker.

"Be a good little eeveelution, Espeon." The Mask of Ice spoke softly. "You wouldn't want to see your trainer harmed… do you?"

"Esp…" Espeon looked frightened at the Masked Man holding onto Red.

"I… it's… it's alright." Red's teeth cackled back and forth, his head slowly turning blue. "Th… this isn't the first time."

"I can easily smash Red into pieces y'know." The Mask of Ice looked up closely to the frozen Red, chattering his teeth cold.

"Pilo!" Piloswine tackled the Espeon once more.

"Esp!" Espeon stumbled through the ground.

"Why are you doing this!" Blue shouted. "You have us cornered! What do you want?!"

"The Pokedexes… or do you want to see your friend here… die…"

"Y… you won't." Blue shivered.

"I'm not some saturday cartoon villain going around stealing Pikachu… A pokemon may be able to survive frozen a long time but a human…if you don't do something… he can feel the frost creeping into his skin, his tissue, his guts. Dying by freezing is a really terrible way to go. Surely you don't want him to suffer?"

"D...D-Don't listen to... him." Red's teeth cackled back and forth. "I-I-'ve been through... this... before..."

"True." The Mask of Ice said. "But how long can you stay in that state?"

"Y… you'd be surprised… hehe…" Red smiled at the Masked Man.

The Masked Man glared at the smiling shivering Red. He only continued smiling back at his hollow eyes. He sighed turning to the three.

"The Pokedexes now."

Yellow remained calm, clenching her hand into a fist.

"Hey… I have a plan." Yellow whispered to the two.

"Y-you do?" Blue said.

"Okay. What is it?" Green said. "I'm willing to try anything at this point."

"Sciz!" Scizor could feel Hariyama's heavy body against him.

"Esp..." Espeon looked afraid.

"Grrrr..." Granbull stood in-front of the two watchful Pokemon.

"What are they doing?" The Masked Man thought, he could see Green and Blue exchanging Pokeballs. "Should I just kill Red? He has the Pokedex encased under that ice probably… I should try to render there plans futile? Wait… what is that blonde girl staring at Espeon…"

"Okay!" Yellow said. "Let's do this! Espeon!"

"Esp!" Espeon nodded.

"Hmm?" The Masked Man watched. "There was no signaling, no communication. I wonder..."

Yellow threw the Pokeball but it wasn't opening, it was levitating! Espeon's eyes glowed blue!

"Oh… I see now. Your trying to strike me down or free Red with that Pokeball! Piloswine! To Espeon!" The Masked Man ordered.

"Pilo!" Piloswine charged blindly into Espeon only to for his tusks to be caught by Granbull's paws.

"Grrrr…" Granbull growled.

"Good job Granbull!" Blue smiled.

"Yama…" Hariyama looked surprised, seeing the Granbull's paws against the charging Piloswine's head.

"Protect!" Green ordered.

"Scizor!" Scizor shouted, a protective shield emerging from his body.

Hariyama lock onto Scizor quickly got pushed to the ground by the protective Shield.

"Now Scizor! Bullet Punch!" Green ordered.

"Scizor!" Scizor eyed the Hariyama.

He quickly vanished as Hariyama took a stance, covering his huge body with his huge hands, grabbing Scizor!

"Sciz!?" Scizor yelped

"Yama!" Hariyama the Scizor into Espeon.

"Sciz! Esp!" They both cried out!

"Hahaha… Meaningless. That psychic trick is interrupted and..." The Masked Man stopped laughing.

Something wasn't right, that Pokeball was still levitating towards him!

"What?! Another psychic Pokemon!?… No... not a Pokemon... Her."

The Masked Man glared at Yellow, her hands glowing blue as the Pokeball continued flying in a blue light.

"Telepathy and Level Raising was in the report... but levitation? That wasn't reported at all..." The Masked Man grabbed the Poke ball, slowly freezing it.

The three stood their, remaining calm as sweat dripped against their skin.

"Nice try… but… hmm?" The Masked Man felt the Pokeball wiggling through his fingers. It wasn't a Pokeball, it was Ditto! "Clever!"

"Ditto!" Ditto slowly froze as she spitted out a Pokeball from her mouth!

"No!" The Masked Man shouted.

Charizard glanced through the red glass as the Pokeball levitated... past the Masked Man!?

"It's not going to Red?" The Masked Man thought. "No… it's going to!"

"Dragonite!" Red smiled.

The Pokeball flashed open, a dragon bursting with flames was unleashed, eyeing the frozen Dragonite!

"Charrrr!" Charizard roared, melting Dragonite's frozen state quickly!

"Drag… Dragonite?" Dragonite stood up confused.

"Hmm!?" The Masked Man had a shocking feel under that mask. He turned to the trainer known as Yellow as she smirked at him. "Insolent little girl!"

The Masked Man could feel a presence, a shadow looming over him, Dragonite's shadow. He turned around, staring at the angry Dragonite. They just continued staring at each other until Dragonite lifted his claws, clenching it into a fire punch!

"Uh... y-you're a l-little close their bud." Red eyed the angry Dragonite before him.

"Drag!" Dragonite angrily and swiftly vanished.

"What!?" The Mask of Ice's hair blew away as he noticed the frozen Red wasn't in his hands anymore. He looked to his left, seeing Dragonite calmly laying Red on his two feet, freed from the ice.

"T-thanks Dragonite!" Red smiled.

"Yeah thanks!" Yellow smiled.

"Drag!" Dragonite smiled.

Dragonite's smile turned into an unfriendly gaze, looking at the Mask of Ice. The great dragon suddenly vanished, remerging over the Mask of Ice, face-to-face. The Mask of Ice calmly looked up with that grin of his. Dragonite gritted his teeth angrily, slamming a Thunder Punch to the Masked Man!

"GWAAAAGH!" Something screeched across the forest.

"What is that?" Yellow spotted the shadow, a giant bird it appeared.

Suddenly the shadow of the bird swiftly moved past the three! Dragonite's thunder punch was struck frozen by Ice Beam as he landed the punch! The Masked Man jumped back calmly, grinning at the frozen punch in the ground.

The Mask of Ice spoke. "Articuno. Put him in his place... again…"

"GWAAAGH!" A blue beautiful bird sporting a blue plummage and a crest locked onto it's target from the alluring moon.

"Articuno!?" All the Pokedex holders shouted.

The Articuno spread it's blue sparkling wings before sky-diving into the Dragonite's stomach. The great dragon clearly felt that, gritting his teeth angrily. The Dragonite quickly raised his arms and grabbed the Articuno by the wings!

"We gotta help." Green said. "Scizor! Use…"

"Hariyama!" Hariyama slammed his entire body into Scizor.

The Scizor was sent rolling, it's fluttering wings covered in dirt.

"Granbull! Playrough!" Blue ordered.

"Granbull!" Granbull leaped.

The Granbull landed on Hariyama's head, beating his fists on to the Hariyama!

"Hari!?" Hariyama tried pulling off the Granbull with his huge hands but the Granbull held on tightly with his legs, beating his head down.

"Esp…" Espeon gritted his fangs, weakened by the attacks of Piloswine. "Esp?"

Espeon saw Piloswine again, charging head on.

"Pilo!" Piloswine ran.

"Esp!" Espeon looked startled.

"Pilo!" Piloswine ran past the startled Espeon.

"Esp?" Espeon looked confused.

"Scizor." Scizor clapped his claws, attracting noise to the Piloswine.

Green smiled. "Without any orders, Piloswine can't really see well with that fur covering his eyes. It charges head on by focusing on noises."

"Scizor." Scizor's metal-coated head sharpened.

"Pilo?" Piloswine noticed the attack didn't seem to have any effect, the target still standing strong up.

The Piloswine looked up through his fur-covered eyes, getting a good look at his target.

"Scizor." Scizor grinned.

"Pilo!?"

Piloswine was sent flying across the grassy dirt to the Mask of Ice's feet as Dragonite slammed Articuno to the ground.

"Hmm…" The Mask of Ice looked at the spiral-eyed Piloswine and to the troubled Hariyama. He grabbed two Pokeballs in his hands. "Return."

The Granbull fell on his bottom as the Hariyama and Piloswine beamed-backed to their Pokeballs. He looked to the Articuno, getting up from the ground.

"Mind Reader."

"GWAAAGH!" The Articuno's eyes glowed a deep red, target the Dragonite.

"Drag?" Dragonite noticed a red-eye symbol appearing on his white belly.

"Oh no." Green said.

"What?" Yellow said.

"That Articuno has Sheer Cold! It'll one-hit KO any Pokemon at 100% accuracy combined with Mind Reader."

"Sheer…" The Mask of Ice spoke.

"Nite!" Dragonite stood up confidently, gritting his teeth angrily.

Before the Masked Man could even finish that sentence, Dragonite vanished instantly.

"Scizor?!" Scizor looked surprised.

"Was that… a priority move?" Green looked shocked, amazed at Dragonite's staggering speed.

"Dragonite!" The massive dragon angrily swooped from behind Articuno's back.

The Dragonite slammed a powerful Thunder Punch into Articuno's back as winds flew back from the impact!

"GWAAAGH!?" Articuno screeched in pain!

"Can Dragonite do that!?" Yellow got out her Pokedex.

"Scanning…" The Pokedex scanned the Dragonite. "Dragonite the Dragon Pokemon. It is a kind-hearted Pokémon whose intelligence matches humans and is capable of circling the globe in just 16 hours. Across the sea it kindly leads lost and foundering ships in a storm to the safety of land."

The Articuno wasn't attacking, it couldn't attacked at all! Dragonite vanished and reappeared, punching the Articuno in the jaw, to the stomach, to the wings, to the back again, the the jaw again! Each punch that impacted brought forth wind!

"GWAAAAGH!" Articuno screamed as Dragonite slammed a Thunder Punch into the gut!

Charizard gulped as he watched with his eyes-widened, surprised at Dragonite's extreme speed as the Dragonite slammed another to Articuno's head.

"T-that strength!?" Green braced himself against the impactful wind, having a hard time keeping balance.

"W-wow!" Red braced himself against the impactful winds as his left foot almost lost balance.

W-what's with those punches!" Blue kept her skirt down as she held tightly onto her hat, the wind blowing against her.

Yellow looked amazed, unable to keep her jaw closed as she held onto her straw hat, bracing against the impactful winds.

"What did Lance do to Dragonite?" Yellow looked puzzled.

The Dragonite punched so fast he looked like an orange blur moving all across Articuno's body. Articuno couldn't move on his own will, caught up in the scourge of punches.

Dragonite slammed a Thunder Punch into Articuno's face, sending the bird rolling into the skies!

"Damn..." The Masked Man muttered.

"GWAAAGH!" Articuno recovered from the hit, flying straight back at the Dragonite!

"NIIITE!" Dragonite grabbed the recovered Articuno quickly by the head!

"GWAAGH!?" Articuno gawked at the body-locked.

Dragonite whirled the Articuno in the sky in circles, almost like he was circling the moon, throwing the Articuno to the ground!

"Seismic toss!" Red spoke, shocked.

Red, Green, Blue and Yellow all looked astonished, unable to keep their jaws closed as Articuno was sent smashing through the earth at an extreme speed, a massive fracture cracked across the ground!

"W-whoa..." Blue froze.

"I-insane." Red froze.

Green and Yellow just silently stood their, eyes wide opened, jaws dropping at Dragonite's amazing strength.

The Mask of Ice raised his Pokeball to the cracked fracture, seeing a blue feathered tail. "Return!"

The Masked Man beamed the blue feathered tail, returning Articuno to it's Pokeball as the Pokedex Holders stepped forward.

"Well. You have nowhere else to go." Green looked as the Dragonite angrily emerged from behind the Mask of Ice.

"Is that what you think…" The Mask of Ice spoke.

Dragonite slammed his Thunder Punch, decapitating the Mask of Ice!?

"Dr!?" Dragonite looked shocked.

"Dragonite!?" Yellow screamed.

"Wait." Green said. "It's just an ice clone."

"Hahaha…" The decapitated Mask of Ice laughed. They could see his "head" melting into ice on the grass. "I'm no longer here… but since you defeated me here… I guess I will do something pointless."

"Pointless?" Blue said.

"Tell me Blue…" The Mask of Ice glared at the girl. "I wonder what your friend Silver is doing at Vermillion…"

"Don't lay a finger on him." Blue glared at the decapitated ice clone.

"Or what? You'll kill me?" The Masked Man chuckled at the thought. "You are indeed a strong woman. You have strong control over your emotions, even after the day you reunited with your parents… that DNA Pokemon swooped in and took them, you remained strong… but what about Silver?"

"What... what do you mean?" Blue looked nervous at the question.

"That boy is much easier to toy with… he shares the same anger and passion as his father, Giovanni." The Mask of Ice chuckled. "But unlike him, he lacks an ambition to focus on… blindly wandering fools are so easy to toy with."

"Don't you dare…"

"Then come to Vermillion City and stop me. There's a Diglett cave nearby in-between Viridian and Pewter City. It'll only take at least an hour. Or you can fly there. Whichever way is fine but I'll be there in a few days… so come prepared." The Mask of Ice said.

"This is obviously a trap!" Green said.

"Yes… it is… but would you want to risk that Green?" He looked at him. "I wonder where your grandpa is right now?"

"What?" Green glared at him. "What are you talking about?"

"Hoopa?" Yellow gulped.

"I'll admit, my old friend Oak put up quite a fight considering he was once the Pokemon Champion at one time…" The Mask of Ice. "He looked so surprised and confused when he saw his old friend wearing this mask again. I wonder what he was thinking inside? And that little imp too? He didn't put up much of a fight really. No, he was a scared shriveled coward."

"Stop it!" Yellow shouted.

"You're definitely not Pryce!" Green said. "He not only got what he wanted but he wouldn't want to harm an old friend of his from his journeys!"

"Ho ho ho… so did Agatha. Trap or no trap, you know where I'm heading…"

"Wait!" Green said.

Suddenly a green-brownish fox-like creature crawled up to the neck, carrying the Masked Man's Pokeballs and a small mic.

"Abra!?" Red and Yellow shouted.

"Abra!" Abra glowed purple.

"Drag!" Dragonite slammed his fist into the ice clone, destroying it into pieces.

It was too late, Abra teleported elsewhere. The four Pokedex holders looked worried, Green, Yellow and Blue looked particularly horrified.

Red spoke. "We need to get to Vermillion City. Now!"

"Yeah." Blue agreed.

"No." Green stopped.

"What?" They all looked at him.

"This is pretty much a trap." Green said. "And we are definitely going to go… but we need to come prepared. I'm heading to Viridian City to change up my team. You guys can go ahead if you want, I'll catch up."

"Were coming too!" Red said.

"Why?"

"It's quite possible that Masked Man might set up an ambush if we get separated. He has other goons under his watch too you know. Also Diglett cave isn't far away from Viridian, and I don't think you can fly yet. You just healed recently." Red said.

"I'm fine Red!" Green looked annoyed.

"No. No you aren't! Red shouted.

"What!?" Green looked surprised at Red's reaction.

"If you end up getting hurt while flying high up in the air, you would become dead weight." Red shouted.

"Red!" Blue shouted.

"No." Green sighed. "He's right to an extant. I can handle a few goons but if you really do feel the need to come, I'm not stopping you. And you Blue?"

"I agree with Red." Blue said. "Sticking together seems like the best option at the moment considering me and Yellow got ambushed by a bunch of goons with strong Pokemon. I'm going to contact Silver though."

"I guess I can't say goodbye to Uncle Wilton again." Yellow sighed. "Hey Dragonite! Dragonite?"

"Dragonite!" Dragonite took off into the skies.

"I guess he's looking for his missing trainer." Red watched as the Dragonite flew into the moonlight.

"Come on. Let's go." Green lead the way as he ran.


Viridian City, many lights beamed across the city surrounded by trees and wildlife. Around the City's pristine lake, Green lead his friends into the Viridian Gym. The Pokedex Holders entered the gym, noticing the flat grey surface and the many concrete beams. It was a relatively simple gym except for one thing. They noticed the damaged statues of Giovanni standing near the entrance.

"Giovanni." Red muttered.

"The leader of the real Team Rocket." Blue gulped.

"Yeah…" Yellow nodded.

"Yup." Green walked past the statue. "Didn't really had time to renovate… and…"

Suddenly a huge nine-tailed fox-like Pokemon leaped in the air, happily tackling Green.

"Oof!" Green fell on his bottom.

"Hey! I remember you!" Red recognized the Ninetales on top of Green. "You were a Vulpix when I and Green found you. We both tried to capture you but Green ultimately was the one."

"Alakazam! Exeggutor! Pidgeot! Golduck… Ora!" A fox-like bipedal creature holding two spoons, a giant palm tree holding many faces standing on two feet, a giant bird with a long red and yellow crest, a blue duck-like creature with a blue crest and a four armed wrestler-like creature stood before Green happily.

Green held two and one Pokeballs in seperate hands, clicking them opened.

"Arcanine! Rhy! Gourgeist!" Green released them into the gym. "I'm going to need you guys covering the gym for me. Alakazam, Golduck, Machamp. Your on my team now."

"Kazam! Golduck! Ora!" Alakzam smiled, Golduck gave a thumbs up and Machamp sized up his muscles happily.

"Oh yeah. Green has more than the usual six Pokemon." Yellow said.

"Yeah. That's the job of a Gym Leader for you." Red said.

"Take care of the gym guys." Green smiled at them. "I'm counting on you if any strange people come by. Now then…"

He turned to his friends

"Let's go to Vermillion City. We could also check up on Vermillion's Gym Leader by the way. If Brock and Misty are missing… and Sabrina's also missing, it's possible other Gym Leaders are being impacted the same way. Also… we should be careful. I don't know if that Masked Man is Pryce or not… but he is definitely one exceptional ice trainer, creating ice from his hands and even freezing the champion's Dragonite. We shouldn't take this lightly."

"Yeah. Let's go." Red nodded.

"Mhmm.." Blue and Yellow nodded as well.