Meanwhile, at the Whirl Islands, a few bodies lay on the floor of one of the caves. A blast of sun seeped out from one of the cracks in the ceiling of the cave, covering the bodies in the light. A lonely Aipom, looking a bit dazed and injured from a fall it had, rose up next to a Trainer. The Trainer sat up from the ground at the same time, patting the Aipom on the head, smiling at it.
"Ugh…" The Trainer groaned in pain. "Ouch…" The Trainer looked over to his Aipom, and smiled saying, "Ouch… Ah… Good morning, Aibo." As more light covered the bodies, it was revealed that the Trainer sitting next to the Aipom was none of other than one of the Pokedex Holders of Johto, Gold.
Aibo pointed to Gold's hair as he said, "Damn! My hair's a mess! But wait… it's always like that, Aibo! But more importantly…" Gold finally mustered up enough strength to look up, realizing that he only thought he was still weak. He stood to his feet and continued, "… Where are we? I remember the fight at the Lake of Rage with the Masked Man…" As he began to remember what happened at the Lake of Rage, another Pokedex Holder popped into his head. "Ah! Silver! Where are you?" Aibo pulled Gold by his jacket and pointed to Silver, who laying on his stomach, on the ground. "Silver! He's alive… And, apparently, awake as well…"
"I woke up WAY before you, Gold." Silver said, standing to his feet. "I'd suggest you not move around right now. Despite the fact that we're able to stand up, that does not mean we can move around like we normally do. If we were not saved at the Lake, we'd have died then."
"Saved?" Gold asked, surprised, throwing his arm to the side. "By who?"
"At that time…" Silver said, beginning to think back to what happened. "We were saved when we drowning in the Lake after being attacked by by the Masked Man. A shadowy figure brought us here through a crater and continually warmed us with flames coming from himself. Those weren't ordinary flames, though… It must be the "flames of life" that gave us the "energy of life"! And that shadowy figure… is now gone!"
Gold turned away from Silver and put his arms behind his head saying, "I can vaguely remember something like that. I had the feeling that something was looking after us while we were unconscious."
Silver then turned and started walking away, seeing flames around them disappear quickly. The flames are gone…! As if they knew we were awake! Silver thought to himself as he stopped walking and pondered on the thought for a second.
"Hey, Silver! Who the hell was it that brought us here?" Gold asked, however, he didn't have anytime to answer. Something was moving behind them, and it was in a large quantity. They both turned around as they saw, bunches and bunches of Sandslash laying behind them in a ball. "What? What're these?"
Before they even time to think about it, the Sandslash jumped at them, trying to consume them and kill them for waking them up from their sleep. Gold, Silver, and Aibo began running away from them, dashing forward toward the opening of the cave. Gold reached for his bag, however, he noticed that it was missing. He groaned and said, "Damn it! I lost my bag again!"
Damn… He loses his freakin' backpack a lot… Silver thought as Gold smiled in confidence.
"But that's okay! All I need is… THEM!" Gold shouted as he pulled his billiard cue from behind his back. It was tucked inside of his jacket, just in case and he hadn't lost it in the fall. Gold then tossed out of all his Pokemon to face off the Sandslash that were coming for them. His Quilava, Aipom, Politoed, Togepi, Sunkern, and Sudowoodo emerged from their Poke Ball's and they charged directly at the Sandslash that were trying to attack them.
"GO!" Silver shouted, throwing out his entire team to take down the Sandslash in front of them. Silver's Croconaw, Murkrow, Ursaring, Kingdra, and Sneasel emerged on the battlefront, heading into battle alongside Gold's Pokemon.
Both sets of team charged in, however, they couldn't even make contact with the Pokemon's spiky outside. The more they fought, the more seemed to appear in the area. As Gold and Silver's Pokemon panicked, Gold and Silver soon realized something.
"There's way too many!" Gold and Silver shouted at the same time, however, their Pokemon continued to fight off the Pokemon that were terrorizing them. Finally, after having enough of these Pokemon going crazy, Silver's Croconaw jumped up and grabbed one of the Pokemon and slammed it into the ground, knocking it out and also opening its body up to be seen.
"These thorn balls are…" Silver started to say, unable to say their name because he was so stunned.
"SANDSLASH!" Gold shouted, completing the sentence for Silver.
They all quickly ran out to the opening of the cave, eventually losing the Sandslash's interest. He huffed and puffed, realizing they had ran for awhile away from them. However, as Gold stepped forward, he realized his hat, scooter, bag, and a few of his other things that he was missing.
"My stuff! Awesome, I'm glad we got out of the cave!" Gold shouted, putting on what should have been there in the first place.
"How the hell did your stuff get out here? Isn't that a little coincidental?" Silver asked, although Gold simply brushed it off. Silver looked out into the sea before them and suddenly, saw something gleam in the distance. What is that? Silver thought to himself as he watched the thing in the distance begin to come closer, at record speed.
That gleam in the distance, however, unknown to Gold and Silver at the moment was Hakel and Crystal on Hakel's Pidgeot. They had finally arrived at the Whirl Islands, where Gold and Silver had just came out, to unknowingly greet them.
"Hakel!" Crystal shouted to him, over the wind that whipping at them as they headed toward the Islands. "How in the world did you know Gold and Silver would be here? I just don't understand how you could really tell that easily just from that radio broadcast!"
"Crys, you've asked me that question five times already! Isn't it obvious by now?" Hakel asked as Crystal shook her head in confusion. "I thought you already could understand this but… I guess I'll explain it to you. The fact of the matter is, is that I just… somehow knew! Something in my being, through and through, told me to go here! I don't know what it was but… I knew we had to head here next! Do you understand now?"
"Uh… Not really but… I suppose, if that's the best answer you've got to give me then…" Crystal said as Hakel sighed, making Pidgeot stop in the middle of the five islands.
"Now… Where could they be?" Hakel asked, with Crystal still pretty doubtful that they were here. She looked around as well, meeting eyes with Silver who was already waving to them both, in hopes that they would see them.
"Hakel!" Crystal said as she tugged on his clothes. "Look!" She pointed down at one of the caves for the Whirl Islands. Hakel turned his head and immediately, a smile covered his face. Once Hakel saw them, Gold and Silver knew they could finally leave this place. However, just as Hakel started to fly toward Gold and Silver, something that gleamed of silver waves of light flew past them at an alarming speed, knocking Hakel and Crystal off of Pidgeot.
"Pidgeot, return!" Hakel shouted, calling back to Pidgeot, knowing that it was too weak to do anything further. "Come out, Furret! Surf now!" He released his normal type Pokemon that splashed into the water. Hakel landed on the back of his Furret, although, at first, he wasn't able to float correctly on its body. "Crys! Are you alright?" He looked up to see that she was hanging onto the legs of her Natu, which she normally used to fly.
"Yeah, of course! I'm a Pokedex Holder now!" Crystal said as Hakel smiled and sighed. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah, I'm fine! My Furret here saved me!" Hakel said, as his Furret smiled up at Crys.
Silver and Gold walked to the edge of the cliff that they were on and looked down on them to see that they were alright. Silver sent down his Murkrow that picked Hakel and his Furret. Crystal flew up onto the cliff that led into the opening of the cave. Hakel returned his Furret to its Poke Ball and landed on the ledge right next to Crystal. As soon as they thought they were safe, Hakel and Crystal's eyes opened wide to see that a gigantic creature was floating behind them, with menacing eyes.
"What's wrong, you two?" Gold asked, excited to be back with the Pokedex Holders once more.
Crystal and Hakel pointed behind Gold and Silver. Crystal then said, in a nervous tone, "Uh guys…"
"Is that the beast that just attacked us?" Hakel asked as Gold and Silver turned around quickly to see that a beast resembling something between a dragon, a plesiosaur, and a bird. It was colored a pale silver-white and it gleamed in the moonlight that was splashed on its body around its body. Its stomach was colored blue but it is said that this beast's colors varied in a different tones of the same color.
It had a somewhat beak-like, ridged mouth, although it had a tooth poking out from its lower jaw. It seemed that its head had a point in the back and its eyes had blue spikes on them. This beast had a long, slender neck and its body was smooth and streamlined, as if it had just been in the water, with the exception of dark blue spike-like protrusions that ran down the length of their back. There were also two smaller ones that stuck upward on the end of its tail. Its wings resembled hands, which it was using to keep itself in mid-air for the time being.
"Damn it…" Silver said, putting on two red gloves that matched his hair, strangely.
Gold tightened the hat on his head with his goggles on them and said, "There hasn't been a moment of rest since I woke up! This beginning to get annoying!"
As Lugia glared at them, its eyes glowed a bright blue color. Suddenly, out of nowhere, the four of them were lifted into the air and thrown through the air, toward the sea. Just as they began to fall, Silver realized what this beast's name really was. "Psychic powers…?"
"Pidgeot, come out!" Hakel shouted, re-calling his flying Pokemon into the sky. It emerged out of its Poke Ball and quickly saved all four of the Pokedex Holders, taking them back into the skies.
Then, just as they all got their heads together, they saw that the Pokemon was charging up for a blast of energy that looked incredibly powerful. Silver then blurted out, "It's Lugia!" This legendary beast then sent out a blast of energy so powerful, it split the sea beneath them apart and almost made them all fall back into the water.
"Damn! So, is this the Pokemon that created all the whirlpools around here?" Crystal asked, surprised.
"Murkrow!" Silver shouted, calling out his flying Pokemon. He then grabbed onto its legs, and took off toward the legendary master of the legendary birds.
"Silver! Where the hell are you going?" Gold asked, completely confused as to why he would leave. Silver didn't answer Gold whatsoever and simply headed off to face the legendary Lugia. Lugia pulled back its head and its breathed in a larger blast of blue energy. It then released the energy, shooting three beams of energy directly at Silver. Silver was barely able to dodge them, moving out of the way of all three blasts.
Hakel dodged another stray blast that Lugia happened to let go, originally aiming for Silver, however, it accidentally came at them. Hakel and his Pidgeot was able to dodge the attack, saving all three that were riding on the Pidgeot. Then, just as the battle began to become tougher, something started beeping in Crystal's bag. She searched through her bag, found it, and opened it up, revealing that it was her Pokedex.
"What the hell?" Gold shouted, surprised that Crystal was actually a Pokedex Holder. "Wait a second…" Gold took out his Pokedex and revealed that it was doing the same thing. "My Pokedex is doing the same thing too! Why?"
"Ah, yeah…" Hakel said, turning around ton Crystal and Gold. "I remember Professor Pine telling us about this. "That's probably the 'Pokedex Resonance System'."
"Resonance system?" Crystal asked surprised.
"The previous Pokedex's had the same function too! The Pokedex will start beeping when three of them come together in the hands of the legitimate owners! This never happened to us because we were always together but… since the three legitimate owners of the Johto Pokedex's have come together!" Hakel explained, as he started to turn around.
"Does this mean that she is-" Gold started to ask, however, just as they looked back up to Lugia, its blast of energy smashed into them, knocking them all off of Pidgeot's back. The three of them fell into the water, however, only Hakel and Gold were fine. Crys was floating away, nearly unconscious, toward a whirlpool.
"Crys!" Hakel shouted, calling out his Furret. He dashed over to her, however, he couldn't get close enough to her to help her out. Even though Gold didn't know who Crystal was yet, he didn't want want a fellow Pokedex Holder to die. They had to stick together. So, as Hakel tried to help out Crystal, Gold went searching through the water with something else in mind.
Silver was floating in the right next to Lugia, who had fired its blast of energy at the heroes, while they weren't looking. This tremendous prowess! The Sandslash herd must have hidden in the cave because that beast. It seemed to have totally lost its mind. There must be a reason! Silver though to himself as he saw that Lugia was looking at the sea below it where Hakel was trying to rescue that girl he came there with. Hey! It's that girl that Hakel came here with! And… is that a Pokedex in her hand? With this, Silver let go of his Murkrow and headed into the water to help out Crystal. He called back his Murkrow and tossed a Poke Ball toward the water. "Croconaw, come out!" He landed on the back of his starter Pokemon, and pointed over to Crystal, who seemed to be drowning.
Gold splashed onto the top of the water, riding his skateboard like a surfing board. Exbo, his Quilava, landed directly next to him as they both sped off to help the wounded Crystal. Hakel, Silver, and Gold managed to grab Crystal's hand and pull her onto a flat rock that was sitting in the middle of Islands.
"Gold! Where the hell were you two seconds ago?" Silver asked, a bit annoyed that he worried about something other Crystal's safety. "Were you trying to play the cool guy again?"
"What? I'm one of the main characters! So, of course, I should be the one saving damsels around here! Give me the credit for this one!" Gold shouted, glaring at Silver.
Crystal was quickly awoken by their asinine shouting and then screamed, "Ahhhh! Punks!"
"I don't about this guy but Hakel and I aren't punks! We helped you!" Gold shouted, as they all began to hear a loud beep ring through their heads. They all held out of their Pokedex's and realized that they were three legitimate owners of the Johto Pokedex's.
"So… You are the third Pokedex Holder of Johto…" Silver said, looking over to Crystal. Gold looked stunned and Crystal looked simply amazed that she had finally met the two other Pokedex Holders for Johto. Then, as they tried to wrap their heads on what was going on, Crystal's Bayleef came out of its Poke Ball by itself and smiled greatly at Gold's Exbo and Silver's Croconaw, happy to be re-united with them once more.
Three Pokedex's… and the three Pokemon from Professor Elm's lab have gathered… together? Gold thought, completely surprised. He never thought that this would have happened. It'd been a joyous occasion if not for the situation… As Crystal introduced herself to Gold and Silver and them to her, Hakel stood up and called out his Meganium.
"Get ready! It's attacking again!" Hakel shouted to three of them, giving them all a heads up. Lugia sent another blast down at them from the heavens, breaking the rock they were on, in half. Luckily, they were able to stay on the larger side of the rock, to have some ground to fight back. As Gold and Silver flew through the air, they couldn't get away from one another so, they began to argue, telling each other to "back off" or "get away" in very harsh tones.
When they landed, Crystal realized that Gold and Silver were probably the most ill-tempered of the Pokedex Holders she had met, except Red, of course. But, at least, she respected Red for his strength.
"… Let's go, Croconaw!" Silver ordered, however, the three of the starters from Professor Elm, excluding Hakel's, had reared up for battle. Hakel called back his Meganium and allowed the three belonging to Gold, Silver, and Crystal take this battle.
"Hey, Silver, wait!" Gold shouted, stopping Silver from leaving.
"I'm completely aware that if we stay here, we'll not only be easy targets, we won't be able to attack either. But look, you're Croconaw is ready for battle!" Gold said, pointing to the three starters who were ready for battle. "They're all ready for battle! Even Hakel has stepped back to allow us to battle together!"
"He's right, Silver… I want to see how well you can work together." Hakel said as Silver groaned at the thought of working with Gold or Crystal for any longer than he had to.
"So what?" Silver asked, still not completely convinced that they would defeat or capture Lugia.
"For once, can't we put our differences aside? Give these guys a chance!" Gold shouted as Silver finally turned back around, ready to give this battle a shot.
"No worries, you three… If you can't win this without me, I'll help you out." Hakel said, as Gold gave him a thumbs up, assuring Hakel that they would win this battle without his help.
"Just watch! We'll surpass you and all the others!" Gold shouted as Hakel nodded and backed up against the backing of the rock. He released his Furret into the water and whispered to it, "Furret… I'll need your help with this one… If Lugia manages to aim at us and their strength isn't enough to repel Lugia's attacks, I want you to pedal as fast as you can to get us away from that blast. Understand?"
"Furret!" His Pokemon cried out to him, as he rubbed its head, understanding that it was going to move them. Hakel then watched the three Johto Pokedex Holders begin their battle against the powerful Lugia. Without even truly a command, Crystal's Bayleef, Gold's Quilava, and Silver's Croconaw sent their respective low level elemental attacks, hoping to bond together and combine their attacks to win. The three elements clashed, however, Hakel knew it wasn't going to be enough to deflect Lugia's attack.
"Furret, pedal!" Hakel shouted as his little Pokemon pedaled as fast as it could, moving out of the way before Lugia's attack could truly do any damage to them. However, the blast of energy still flew into the water, making a giant wave of water push the heroes through the sea.
"Damn it! I thought we could get through!" Gold shouted as Silver glared at him. "What's with that look, Silver? Got something on your mind?"
"You're such an idiot. How could you get our Pokemon so worked up and it wasn't even enough to hold back Lugia's attack?" Silver asked him, angered.
"Are you saying that it's my fault that were thrown through the water like rag dolls? How the hell was I supposed to know how powerful Lugia would be? Stop acting like you know everything!" Gold shouted at Silver.
"I do know everything… about Lugia! It's a Legendary! Don't you think you should know that type of shit from the beginning? Pay attention for once, Gold!" Silver shouted, as the anger between the two new Pokedex Holders began to grow.
Crystal, looking distressed, tugged at Gold's jacket shouting, "Stop!" Gold and Silver turned to Crystal, wanting to see what she had say. "You shouldn't be quarreling like this! Do you really think that's a way for two of Johto Pokedex Holders to act? We have to be as professional as possible in front of one of our superiors!"
Hakel stood up and walked over to the three of the Pokedex Holders saying, "She's right, guys. Either you work together or I can simply take you out now. You're choice… But! I hope you guys pick the right choice." Hakel then sat back down against the back of the rock and then pointed up at Lugia. "And if you're going to start working as a team, I would suggest that you do it now! Lugia's charging up its attack again!"
"Speaking of its attack…" Crystal said as she looked up to Lugia. "What's it emitting? Energy bombs? But, there's no way it's using energy to attack… As far as I can see from here, there's no energy accumulation in those attacks."
"You've got a very good point, Crystal. Hakel, do you know anything about this?" Silver asked, suggesting that he didn't know as much about Lugia as he was letting on.
"Yes and it's not energy, Crystal. Good eye. It's something much different. But rather than tell you, look at how Lugia gathers the power for its attack." Hakel said, pointing up the large, Legendary Pokemon floating high above them. Lugia pulled in air to its mouth, forming a stream wind to culminate as its attack.
"What the hell?" Gold asked, surprised, seeing what it was using. "Is.. is it really using… air to attack?"
"Correct, Gold." Hakel said, nodding to him. "Lugia can create that amount of damage with every breath it takes."
"So, it should be named, "blasting breath's"!" Gold said, trying to be funny, however, Silver and Hakel walked over to him and punched him on the top of his head. "What the hell was that for? I was just trying to be funny!"
"Now's not the time for that, you moron! Think before you say something!" Silver shouted to Gold, glaring at him. Hakel walked past everyone else and sighed, annoyed by the fact that Gold and Silver weren't working together, still.
"No, it's called…" Hakel started to say, tossing out his Espeon in the process. "AEROBLAST!" His Espeon's eyes glowed bright blue, as a gigantic shield of blue energy covered the four of them, excluding Furret who Hakel had just called back. Lugia's Aeroblast smashed into the Reflect that Espeon had put up, shaking their defense's greatly. However, despite that, Hakel's Espeon was more than strong enough to conquer and defend against Lugia's attack. "But, there's one way to defeat him… Silver, you know how to, don't you? You knew all along didn't you?"
"Yes and… it's really simple. We have to drag that giant beast into the water." Silver said, as Gold and Crystal gasped at that response.
"Drag it… into the water?" Gold asked, completely stunned.
"Its main attack is air blasts. It won't be able to attack under the water." Silver stated.
"But how?" Gold asked, not understanding how they could possibly defeat a Legendary Pokemon like Lugia.
"Think about it." Silver started to explain. "To stop it from flying, the only way to attack its head or wings would be from a short distance away."
Short distance away… I can't do anything then. Gold thought to himself. I can't even get close enough to attack. So… I suppose Silver was thinking about this the entire time…
Silver turned away from Gold and looked back to Lugia was saying, "Gold's out because he can't fly. And because Croconaw wants to stay here, everyone stays here! Murkrow!" Silver called out his Murkrow.
"Me too! Natee, go!" Crystal shouted, releasing her Natu from its Poke Ball to go and help out Silver's Murkrow. However, just as Murkrow and Natee started for Lugia, an Aeroblast came out of nowhere, making a direct hit into both of their bird Pokemon. The explosion was so large that Gold was thrown through the air and splashed into the water. "Gold!"
"Don't worry." Hakel said, pulling a long rope out of his back pocket and tossing it to Gold. Gold caught reluctantly, however, was soon pulled away from them by the rapids around him. They held on tight to Gold as best as they could, however, as Gold started sinking, it started to become harder and harder for them to hold on.
As Gold began to sink farther into the deep, he saw a bunch of light-blue fish-like Pokemon began to swim around him. He immediately noticed that they were the Pokemon Remoraid and they were frantic about something. Damn! Gold thought to himself. Polibo can't ride the waves and and I'm too heavy for him! I can't give up so easily! I'm used to sinking situations! I can only rely on myself now…
Just as Gold started to hold tighter to the rope, he realized what the Remoraid around him in the water were trying to tell him. Next to him was a frantic Mantine that was trying to escape from something. Gold looked up and saw that it another Aeroblast from Lugia was coming at the Mantine from above. Gold let the rope go and swam over to the Mantine thinking, A wild Pokemon from the sea? Gold swam above the Mantine's body and allowed himself to get hit by Lugia's Aeroblast. "Gaaah!" Gold shouted, feeling his eyes close and the rope begin to float to the surface of the water. No… I need help here…
Above the surface, Silver, Crystal, and Hakel felt the rope get tight. Silver pulled on it as hard as it could, yanking up the rope to the surface. However, when pulled up the rope completely, they saw that Gold wasn't on the other side.
"Oh dear…" Crystal said, as Silver and Hakel looked completely surprised. Then, as they tried to figure out what happened to Gold, they all heard a strange rumbling underneath the water.
"What's that sound?" Silver asked surprised as Gold burst out of the water on top of a Mantine with several Remoraid under its wings propelling it forward with bursts of water from their mouths. Gold had two Remoraid facing forward who were not propelling themselves forward with their mouth's wrapped tight around his billiard cue symbolizing a hang glider.
"What's that?" Crystal asked, taking out her Pokedex and watched as her Pokedex read off the information.
Mantine, the Kite Pokemon. While elegantly swimming in the sea, it ignores Remoraid that cling to its fins seeking food scraps. The electronic voice of the Pokedex said, which was a male for Crystal's Pokedex.
"Mantine! It's a water and… flying type?" Hakel asked surprised, looking at Crystal's Pokedex.
"A Pokemon for the water and seas!" Silver shouted, watching Gold head off toward Lugia.
"Silver! Hakel! And Crystal! Look on in amazement while I attack this bird and seal off its air blasts!" Gold shouted as he started to get closer to Lugia for a frontal attack. "Let's go!"