POV Copper

Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon.

"Quilava, will you stop being such a Linoone and follow me!" I was getting agitated with my Quilava pestering the weak bug Pokemon that run rampant throughout the Ilex Forest. He just kept badgering it, not caring about the other Pokemon's feelings. "Quil, I need you to hack down this tree. Can you?

He came over to look at the small shrub. After closely examining its size and width, Quilava nodded to me and chopped the thing with ease.

"COPPER!"

I knew who that could be. He came to me, bearing the mysterious egg that Professor Elm thought I should have, in the Violet City PokeMart. The little redheaded wonder who always wore a capelet and followed me around dashed to catch up with Quilava and I.

"Hey, Booger," I said, patting his unruly mane. It stuck up all over the place.

"Don't call me Booger!" he screamed in ways only elementary schoolers could.

"Sorry, AJ," I hugged him. That small kid was like my brother. I had to look after him. He told me that he has a very scary older brother that will kill me in a snap if I get him hurt. "What's up, kid?"

"I got some stuff for our way to Goldenrod City. Oh, and Kurt also sent me to give you this," he held up a strange sort of Poke Ball. It was gold on the top half, with a silver button and bottom half. In the gold it was inscribed with the letters 'GS'. "It was a thank-you for saving all the Slowpoke…maybe there's a rare Pokemon inside!"

"Maybe," I smiled at his little kid antics, "Let's find out!" I pressed the button…

…only to find that there was nothing in this Poke Ball at all.

"Awwww…." AJ moped, "I was hoping for something cool."

"It IS cool, AJ," I snuggled him, "Maybe it does something cool when you catch a Pokemon."

"You really think so?" he looked up at me, tears in his little hazel eyes.

"I know so," I cooed back, "Why would Kurt give us something that isn't?"

"True," he pulled in close. I held him. He told me he never had a mom. I guess this is the closest it gets for him. I rested him against me.

A glow of light came from the shrine ahead. I looked ahead, only to be almost blinded by the rosy brightness. Sitting atop of the shrine house was a pink Pokemon, pixielike in nature. Its bright cerulean eyes blinked awake, its gaze fixated upon me. "Bi bi?" it chanted, wings starting to flutter. The flapping got faster to the speed of a Ledian's as it sped to where AJ and I were.

" Copper! It's the Pokemon of the forest legend!" AJ exclaimed, backing away from me.

Instantly, the Celebi grabbed ahold of my neck. I felt a strange, warming prescence about me, and then the forest started to spin around me. "COPPER! DON'T GO!" I heard AJ quietly screaming from a distance. Was Celebi taking me on an adventure?

Before I knew it, the forest turned into a rose-colored hue. Celebi was taking me somewhere, all right. Just where exactly? The spinning was stopping, and we settled in a dark, office-like room. There was a large window, which also led to another dark room from what I could see. A man in a padded office chair faced the window, apparently overlooking the activities of the other room.

"Daddy?"

I look to the other side of the room. A small boy who had to have only been a toddler looked afraid as he walked into the room. He clutched onto a Sneasel doll like it was his lifeline.

I recognized him.

Silver?

"What is it now, kid?" the man in the office chair growled, "Didn't I tell you to get lost?"

"Sorry, Daddy," the boy wimpered, "I just wanted to tell you I made my first friend. His name's Arnie." He held up the doll. "Isn't he cool looking?"

The man turned to see the boy and his doll being held up. "You call that a friend?" The man in the suit started cackling maniacally and rose from his seat. The breast pocket revealed a bright red letter R. Was this that Giovanni Petrel spoke of? "This THING can't even talk to you! This isn't a friend! It's an object, look!" The man then ripped the doll from Silver's hands, and tore its head off.

"DADDY! HE WAS MY FRIEND!" Silver sobbed.

"Not anymore," Giovanni snickered back, "Get some real friends, you bastard." Tears flooding his entire face, Silver ran through the doorway in which he came.

The room started to blur again.

"Oh, Celebi, what wretched sight are you showing me now?" I cried in the whirlwind as we traveled through time. Who else suffered in ways I didn't realize?

But we ended up right where we started: the Shrine.

"Copper, I thought I lost you!" AJ exclaimed.

"Of course you didn't, Booger," I took him in for another hug, "But I have some business to attend to."

"Like what?" he looked at me.

"Catching this thing!" I threw the GS ball at the Celebi.

It was captured in an instant.

"So THAT'S what that Poke Ball was for," AJ realized.

"I guess so." Thank you, Kurt!

End of Chapter 2!

More of Silver's memories to come! You're gonna end up wondering how he didn't end up becoming a serial killer...