Pewter City Gym, run by Brock the Rock himself. Green knew him well, as he did every gym leader in Kanto. He had rushed down to talk to him after a long walk through Viridian forest. (And a long talk with a wild pikachu) he made it to the gym. He came right in, much to Brock's surprise.

"Hey Green!" He waved. Brock had gained a bit of weight since his wife gave birth to their daughter. Fatherhood suited him. "What brings you here to Pewter city?"

"Well." Green began "I was hoping to talk to you. About Red."

"Red?" Brock asked "Are you sure you wanna talk to me? I only met him once."

"Yeah. I wanna talk about that. I'm sorta... walking in his steps before he disappeared."

"Oh!" Brock said "Well... It's been a while but I remember it as if it just happened. Well, Red came in here with only a Charmander. I laughed because he was clearly a novice. But I always get the novices. So we fought, and I was preparing my normal speech about types and whatever. Then he won." Brock said "He flat out beat me. His Charmander was on its last legs. "Red got real quiet and told it to use ember. And it landed a critical hit on Oinx."

"Yeah... His Charizard does that." Green said "What happened next?"

"Well. I told him he was very lucky, and explained the value of types. But still. The bond between him and that Charmander was amazing. It trusted him completely." Brock said "I gave him the badge and a TM and sent him on his way."

"That it?" Green asked

"Yeah. He wasn't even here an hour." Brock said "Sorry if I'm not very helpful."

"It's fine." Green said "I'll just have keep moving. I'll find what I need."

"Good, good. Before you go, I have a question."

"Sure."

"Is it true Red is part pokemon?" Brock asked "I know it sounds dumb but my daughter keeps asking me. And you knew him best."

"He wasn't." Green said with a chuckle before getting very serious "At least... I don't think so..."

"Well, if you ever find out let me know!" Brock said as Green went to leave.

"Sure will!" Green said and left the gym.

Misty wasn't much help either.

"He came in, real quiet and pulled out the cutest Pikachu. Neither Starmie or Staryu had a chance." She said "But he was really sweet."

Or any of the gym leaders for that matter.

"Son, Red came in here with a dugtrio stronger than a soldier. Knocked my Raichu right off the battle ground!"

"His Charizard burned up all my grass types. Though he was very sweet to me and the girls in the gym."

"He came in with a Ghastly. Then switched out to a Vaporeon who knew Bite. I knew from the moment I saw him I would lose."

"I'm not even a gym! But his Ghastly evolved into a Haunter right here, then he took me down. I gave him my prized Hitmonlee."

"His Haunter wasted my poison ninjas. I admired his swift movements and quiet nature. Boy would make a great ninja master."

"He came right here into my gym and his Vaporeon washed us all away. Thought I had him, when I managed to knock her out. IVaporeons are built like a tank! But then he pulls a Dragonair. A Dragonair! I nearly died right there. Do you know how rare Dragonair's are?"

"Thanks for the help." Green said each time

Green was starting to loose hope. He had tracked Red from Pallet town to Cinnabar Island, but no luck. He checked Red's journal again. There had to be something. Anything! As he flipped through the pages, something caught his eye. Two pages were stuck together. It took him a minute, but Green got them separated.

5/15/24

The mansion on Cinnabar Island is huge and crawling with wild pokemon. It made for good training grounds for Dratini. Who then evolved into Dragonair. She'll be a strong asset once she evolves into Dragonite. The mansion had strange books scattered through it. They talk of a strange pokemon. I'll have to tell Professor Oak.

"Strange pokemon...?" Green asked before closing the book and pulling out the pokedex. He ran through it all. All 149 accounted for. Nothing strange. He had to call Gramps. He got up ran to the pokemon center. He found the public phone and called up his grandfather.

"Hello?" Oak answered.

"Hey Gramps. I have a question for you." Green said pulling the Journal out. "Before Red vanished... Did he ever mention a strange pokemon he read about on Cinnabar Island?"

"Strange pokemon? No I don't think so."

"Damn..." Green sighs "Because I think this is the key to why he went missing. Why he left. There was something he heard about... Some type of new pokemon. He wrote that he was going to ask you about it."

"Well he never got around to it. Maybe you should see if you can't find where he read it?"

"Yeah. That's the next step."

"Any other leads?"

"Nope. All the gym leaders only briefly met him. Lavender Town has a memorial for him now. Since he saved the tower from Team Rocket... Silph Co, hasn't seen anything of him since he saved them from the rockets... I feel like I should have done this years ago... All that's left of him is faint memories and myths."

"We all are just memories and myths in the end."

"Thanks for the philosophy lesson Gramps. Look, I'm gonna check out this pokemon lead. I'll call you if I find something."

"I'll be waiting to hear from you."

"Bye." Green hung up the phone with a heavy sigh.

The day was still young, so he headed over to the pokemon mansion. The place was old, creepy and structurally unsound. Not to mention full of weird statues with switches. The statues seemed to be a pokemon, but it must have been an artistic rendering because Green had never seen one like it before. He scoured the whole place and found plenty of old books. He read along, until he found the passages.

The books described a new Pokemon. One that was an ancestor to all Pokemon. And how they cloned it. And how it escaped. Green was reeling. Mew, was out there.

A new pokemon. One that is older than all the rest. A sort of... Missing link putting all pokemon together. This must have been what Red saw. But Green was missing something. Why would Red wait until after the League ended to go? Why would he give up his title? Unless... He saw something. And whatever he saw had to be on the missing page.

Green still had work to do. One last Gym leader to ask, and unfortunately...

The last gym leader was Giovanni, and he disappeared ten years prior himself.