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Pokemon Tales: Red Chapter 24: Let Sleeping Cats Lie.

Blaine didn't want to show hesitation since he knew Giovanni was very perceptive. Despite that, he wanted to remain careful in his wording. One misstep could mean that the boss would dismiss him without listening to what he had to say. Only two second passed when Giovanni got visibly bored with waiting and was about to open his mind, probably to say something like "I'm waiting."

The scientist gathered up his courage and even though he didn't have a clear plan of how he wanted to convey his feelings, he spoke up anyway "The truth is..."

The fact that he said anything was already a step in the right direction. Even if Giovanni wouldn't have anything better to do that day, he would consider waiting for Blaine to speak a waste of time. But since his friend already started talking, he didn't mind giving him a short amount of time to properly choose his words, especially since he knew very well how intimidating he was to others.

"...I'm worried about Mewtwo. No. That's not it. The proper thing to say would be that I'm worried about us."

"By "us" you mean the entire Team Rocket?"

It wasn't a surprise that boss understood the meaning of his words. Out of the two options; Team Rocket or just the two of them, that one was the logical one to think about. But even though Giovanni didn't show it, Blaine began to worry if maybe the boss predicted the reason why he wanted to talk with him and decided to allow him to talk about it anyway, to check if he deduced correctly or as show of courtesy. He could spend the whole day trying to understand what was going in Giovanni's head but he still wouldn't reach a definite conclusion so it was better to continue with what he wanted to say and get at least part of the picture based on his reaction.

"Yes. I mean the entire organization. After hearing about what happened during my stay in the hospital, I took the liberty of visiting the Cerulean Cave. It... It didn't help me in any way. It just made me think more."

"About what?" Giovanni asked.

Blaine noticed that he picked up a pen from his desk and began twirling it around which could be a worrying sign. But he already came too far to give up.

"We never had a set date for the execution of our plan, but Mewtwo was always to play the main role in it. Only one day passed before everything went to hell. Mewtwo escaped, fought against two of your Admins and somehow gained the cooperation of the Gym leaders. Do you see where I'm going with this?" that last part of his speech was in order to gauge Giovanni's opinion, since normally he would probably just give a very short answer, putting Blaine on the defensive.

"Not really." the boss responded, leaving the scientist believing that it was all he had to say, until he continued after putting down the pen "We already have various team of scientists working on it. You can visit them and help out. I would understand if you didn't want to do that, seeing how you're still not fully recovered. We are going to break through that barrier and use a device which will put M2 under our control. It running away was a problem. It being trapped in that cave is a blessing. And Gym leaders... I'm not really worried about them. They have no way of knowing the scope of our plan, and with M2 on our side, none of them will be able to put up a fight. After we conquer Kanto and show them our plans for the world, I'm sure that they will all join us."

"What about Koga? He's the only leader besides me who knows why you formed Team Rocket and yet he didn't join when he learned about it."

"Do you see only the negative side of everything? Koga may not agree with what we're doing but he won't try to oppose us, precisely because he knows my reason for doing it. Even if you know it as well, you wouldn't be able to understand it in the way he does. He's angry at himself because he fears he would be the same as me under similar circumstances."

"I..." Blaine didn't like that all of what Giovanni said made sense, since that meant that there was no reason for his own personal feelings to interrupt their plans "You're right. I feel like a fool for wasting your time with this stuff."

Even after getting a clear explanation from his boss, the scientist didn't feel like his worries lessen in any way. There was nothing more that Giovanni could say to him that would help, so he came to the conclusion that he would have to deal with this problem himself.

"You don't have to feel bad. You're one of my most trusted underlings. I'll always have time to chat with you." he stopped for a while, probably because he noticed that Blaine didn't seem to feel relieved "What are you going to do now?"

Blaine struggled with his himself. Part of him felt like it knew why he was bothered by, but the rest of him considered those thoughts too dangerous and forced him into thinking that there must have been another answer.

"I'm going to rest here for some time before going back to the Celadon City base. Peter was supposed to bring in someone who may be able to help us and I predict that person will feel weird if they know I'm involved in this project yet I'm absent."

"That's understandable. If you need anything, just contact with Resse." he said while looking towards the woman who adjusted her glasses as if to signify that she also heard the bosses words.

"Thank you. I'll be going down."

Blaine bowed slightly before leaving the room. Giovanni's secretary became a little worried when she noticed after a while that he was drilling the doors with his eyes, even after Blaine left, but she knew that it wasn't reason enough to bother him so she remained quiet.

. . .

Sitting atop Gyarados' head, hiding between the tree tops, Red was patiently observing the sky above them.

"I see one! It's way up there!" he yelled with excitement while pointing to a Pidgeotto flying in the distance "Okay. It's time to jump towards it. Let me just grab onto your... hooorn!"

Eager to act, the serpent didn't give his trainer enough time to finish before using Bounce to propel himself high above the forest. The bird seemed to notice that something was moving in its direction, since it glanced toward them. It probably had trouble comprehending what was happening since it stopped mid-air and looked with a shocked expression at the enormous, blue beast approaching it with incredible speed. Red got over the initial burst of air which pushed him down and stood up while climbing up the Gyarados' crest. Pidgeotto came to its senses when the Water Pokemon was already dangerously close. It did a barrel roll around his body and looked back to see if he would follow it. Gyarados wasn't completely sure what happened but his trainer didn't lose sight of their target.

"We need to turn back!" he yelled.

The serpent swung his tail which allowed it to turn in such a way to be facing the bird. Trying to land to bounce again would take too long time and could allow Pidgeotto to escape. To show it that there was no way to do that, Gyarados curled up his body into a spring-like shape which allowed him to use Bounce mid-air. Seeing that even without any wings and despite its large size the serpent could still easily move through the air, Pidgeotto opted out for using its speed to escape instead of trying to outmaneuver his opponent.

Gyarados kept on repeating the same movement and each one allowed him to fly around another 100 meters before his altitude would start to decrease. Pidgeotto took that into account and descended between the trees, hoping that the foe wouldn't follow it. It turned its head to look behind and witnessed Gyarados slamming into the ground without much care. The natural wetness of its body allowed it to slither between the trees without much trouble. The bird carefully chose its path in order to make it hard for the duo to follow it.

Even though Gyarados wouldn't have a problem with taking down a couple trees in his path, his trainer was worried about any Pokemon who could be living inside. The teenager took a leap of his Pokemon's head and quickly returned him to his pokeball before doing a spin in the air and throwing another ball in Pidgeotto's direction. Raichu appeared, immediately ready for action.

"Iron Tail!" the boy shouted while rolling to lessen the damage caused by landing from his fall.

The mouse purposefully swung his tail in such a way that when the bird tried to avoid it, it overlooked the branch that was right next to it and slammed into it. It was a little shook but it wasn't hurt too bad and still wanted to take its chances with running away. Raichu didn't let up in his pursuit. He used Thunderbolt from time to time to try to slow it down and also to give Red a chance to catch up since, no matter how much effort he put in, the boy was nowhere as fast as the two Pokemon. As they continued their pursuit Red noticed that there were fewer and fewer trees, and it seemed like they found themselves atop a cliff which would mean that their target could easily fly away and they wouldn't be able to follow it.

"Strike it down!" the boy commanded.

Raichu saw Pidgeotto preparing to ascend and used Quick Attack to strike it with his head. He didn't account for his strength and the force of the attack pushed both of them over the edge. With the mouse on top of it, the bird wasn't able to fly away and both of them fell down. Red, afraid for their fate, ran over as fast as he could, causing him to accidentally trip and making him fall down much like the other two. The landing was hard but also unexpectedly fast.

After getting up and touching his nose to make sure it wasn't broken, Red started to look around. It seemed like they fell only 3 meter or so. He couldn't tell what they landed on. It looked like some white, square platform overgrown a bit with the surrounding trees. When he walked over to one of the edges, he understood that it must have been a building since he could see what looked like automatic doors a couple meters below. He was so curious about what this place was doing in the middle of a forest that he completely forgot about why he himself was there. He turned around to see what happened to the other two and saw Raichu using all its limbs to pin down Pidgeotto while using his tail covered in electricity to warn the bird that struggling would bring it pain.

"Are you ready to give up, buddy?" Red asked the bird while squatting so it could get a good look at his face.

It seemed like Pidgeotto felt that it would be better to give up even though it didn't look happy about it. It didn't try to move a bit and just stared at the boy, probably trying to check if he wanted to do anything suspicious.

"Don't worry." he said while taking off his backpack to search for an ultraball, a gift he got from Mr. Fuji as a thanks for saving him "After all the times I've almost died because of falling from great heights, I decided that I desperately need a Flying type Pokemon. Gyaradosss... doesn't really make me feel any safer. I'll need to evolve you as fast as possible if I want to use you for flying so be prepared for lots of training."

Pidgeotto didn't seem to understand what the teenager was talking about but it at least didn't feel any evil intent. In the position it was in, letting itself get caught seemed like the easiest choice. Red lightly tapped the bird's beak with the ball and caught without the button flashing even one time. After acquiring his new Pokemon, Red checked the Pokedex to learn that it was the first female in his team and to look up what other useful abilities it had besides flying.

"We should get down from here. Probably the easiest way would be this..." after saying that he once again released Gyarados from his ball and instructed him to act as something like a slide or a staircase that would take Red and Raichu towards the ground.

Curious about the mysterious building, the teenager had to put the Water Pokemon back in his pokeball since the doors were too small for it. He observed it for a while from the outside. He couldn't tell what it was made of since it didn't look like it was metal but the wall were perfectly flat and had a square pattern. There were no windows but judging by height the building could have 3-5 floors. Between the trees he could see something that looked like it could be producing electricity for the building, protected by a chain link fence from all sides.

After checking out everything he could learn about this place from the outside, he approached the automatic doors. To his surprise, they still worked. Seeing how overgrown it was, he suspected that it may have been abandoned but maybe whomever it belonged to just couldn't afford a gardener. The inside was very similar to the outside; a white corridor with two lines of lights on the ceiling. As soon as he stepped into the building he felt that he stepped into something and looked down to see earth spilled from a knocked over plant.

As he explored further, he saw claw marks on some parts of the walls and various scraps of white fabric and damaged, small electronic devices. He and Raichu walked forward while trying to decide which of the many identical doors they should go through to explore further. It looked like they had descriptions written on them but the letters were too faded to be read. The mouse ran ahead and called his trainer to show him something. It was a smear of blood on the floor. It was hard to tell how long it was there but after touching it the boy was sure that it at least wasn't fresh. That didn't mean that whomever or whatever spilled it wasn't still in the building. Red signaled Raichu to keep close in case someone or something would try to attack them.

"Let's try this one." he said to the electric Pokemon after reaching the door furthest from the entrance.

He made sure not to walk too close to any of the previous ones since they were all automatic. He had to stand right before these final ones in order for them to open. He was about to take his first step into the next room but stopped since he noticed in time that the doors were malfunctioning and wouldn't slide open completely. He had to push them back with his hand in order to get inside. After looking around he saw that the room he found himself in was full of empty cages in various sizes. There were even more signs of some struggle than in the corridor. Some cages looked like they were melted while other were completely in pieces, which made walking through the room harder.

"What the hell happened? There were definitely some Pokemon here, but for what reason?" he said, more to himself than to Raichu, although both of them were equally worried about the mystery of this place.

After going through another door, Red found what looked like a storage room which must have been the place where the food for the Pokemon was kept, judging by a bunch of empty, torn bags. There were also some bowls. After counting them up, he could tell that there were as many of them as of the cages which led him to believe that each one only housed a single Pokemon. Since there was nothing else in the room, he had to backtrack to the main corridor. Wondering which door to try next, he forgot to watch his step and tripped on a piece of equipment. He was about to get up when he saw a hand reaching towards him. Not knowing what it meant, his instinct was to stand up and jump back as quick as possible.

"Oh. Are you alright? You shouldn't get up so fast if you aren't sure you didn't pull something." said a soft voice with a slight southern accent.

Red wanted to remain careful even after seeing whom it belonged to. It was a short, dark-skinned woman. She had hazel eyes, full lips, puffy bronze hair sloppily tied into a side ponytail. She wore red sneakers, light overalls, a sleeveless grey undershirt, an open, worn out lab coat and a big backpack. The thing that immediately caught Red's attention was that she was quite dirty, not only her clothes, but her hands and face too. It calmed him down that it at least wasn't blood. She seemed to notice that he was staring at her, since she also looked at her hand as she was retracting it.

"Oh. My bad. I haven't been properly taking care of myself since I don't really have any guests." she explained before going into deep thought "But what should I do? I don't think the water system is working. Even if it did, I'm not sure if we have any clean towels. There should be some lab coats but..."

She stopped herself since she thought that it would be rude to keep talking to herself while Red looked like he wanted to ask her something.

"Yes. Do you have a question?"

"Yeah. In fact, a bunch of them. But for now let's start with the most basic one so that I can put my mind at ease,,, What happened here?"

"Oh. You're skipping ahead. I thought you would ask who I am or what is the purpose of this place but you went straight for that. Yesss. That's definitely the most interesting matter." she sounded like she didn't really want to talk about this matter "There was an accident. That must be obvious, right? A bunch of angry Pokemon escaped from their cages after not receiving a proper amount of sedatives. Many of my co-workers were hurt but thankfully there were no deaths. Now it's just me and Sekhmet left."

"Sekhmet?"

"It's a female Persian."

"You don't keep her in a cage?" Red asked while nodding towards the room he visited.

"Oh. I do. But she has her own room now, right next to mine so that I can keep a close watch on her." realizing that it could be misconstrued, she added "To help her in case something happens."

"Now that I know that there's no danger..." the boy said while putting emphasis on the last two words "...do you think I could take a look at Sekhmet?"

"I'll gladly show you around and answer all your questions but as I said, I'll have to find some way to clean myself. There's a pond nearby so I'll search for some towel and clothes and wash up. Could you wait here in the meantime?"

"You're awfully trusting." Red slipped up without thinking.

"I guess I am."

"Then I'll try to trust you too. Go, Charmeleon."

The woman didn't seem too shocked by Red suddenly letting the lizard out of his pokeball, but she still looked at the boy with a face demanding an explanation.

"It's quite cold outside. I'm not even sure how you can go out in the clothes you're wearing right now without freezing but going into cold water won't be good for you. Charmeleon can heat it up for you beforehand. You can tell him to turn around when you're bathing if you're embarrassed."

"Oh. That's so thoughtful. Thank you so much." she responded while bowing way too much "I promise it won't take long."

"Oh. I'm Red, by the way."

"My name's Nihaya." she said before going through one of the doors to search for clothes.

. . .

It took almost an hour, during which Red and Raichu got tired enough that they decided to find a part of the floor clean enough to comfortably sit down, before Nihaya and Charmeleon returned.

"Sorry that it took so long." he heard her voice as he was about ready to take a nap.

When he looked at her, he noticed that she had a new lab coat, although this one was closed. It didn't seem like she was wearing any pants and her hair was down. A quick assessment of the things she was carrying caused him to reach a worrying conclusion. He looked at Charmeleon as if he wanted to get a confirmation by simply looking at his face but the lizard responded by shrugging, possibly signifying that he didn't want to give his trainer any clues. He was, after all, his partner long enough to understand how Red's mind worked.

"Is something the problem?" the woman asked after noticing the exchange between the two of them.

"Please, don't tell me that you're naked under there." the boy said while blushing and looking away.

"Okay. I won't." she said, seemingly giving it no thought, before walking over to the backpack she left on the floor.

"But also, please do tell me if you are since I think the curiosity will use up too much of my brain space to focus on other things."

She picked up the backpack and looked at him with an empty expression "You're really a kid, aren't you?"

"Wha-?" he felt even more embarrassed after hearing that.

"Don't worry about it. I have underwear on but I didn't have any spare clothes so I washed these. I thought Charmeleon could help them dry but he almost set them on fire so I'll just hang them somewhere before we go visit Sekhmet." she explained.

. . .

As they walked towards the room in which resided the cat, Red decided to begin questioning the woman again "So what is the purpose of this place? You said something about angry Pokemon and sedatives."

"Yes. Right now the place is abandoned but before there was around a dozen people working towards a common goal."

"And that goal wasss...?"

"Calm down. I'm getting there." she jokingly furrowed her brows while glancing at him "Do you know how durable are Pokemon?"

"I... No. I mean... They're more durable than humans. I think you could at least that much."

"Wellll... It differs from one Pokemon to another but yes. Even though Pokemon can feel the pain from a punch, a knife, a gun, it's still hard for their bodies to actually receive any wounds. And they can be healed a lot quicker than humans thanks to the existence of Pokemon Centers. That's why when talking about being a Pokemon doctor, people focus a lot more on the mental side of things than at the physical."

"So this place is like some hospital for Pokemon with mental issues?"

"Kinda." she said, looking slightly worried, right as their reached their destination.

She slowly approached the door and, after they slid open, took a peek without walking inside. She was about to take a step when it seemed like something came to her mind. She looked towards Red and quietly signaled him to put Raichu and Charmeleon back in their pokeballs. He did it without a protest and the two of them went inside the room. The teenager's attention was immediately caught by a cage, much larger than the other ones, taking up about 1/3 of the room. Nihaya dragged him by his arm, wanting to keep him a safe distance from it.

Sekhmet seemed to be sleeping so the woman carefully pulled up two chairs and sat with the boy at the opposite side of the room. There was various equipment there but it was all placed along the walls so they had a clear view of Pokemon. Since it seemed Nihaya wanted him to keep quiet until the Persian would wake up, he took that time to take in as much visual information as he could. There lots of scratches on the walls and the floor and even on the bars but it seemed like Persian was a Pokemon specializing in physical attacks which weren't enough to allow it to escape. She had a round, torn up bed, a half empty bowl of water, and another one with what looked like leftovers of some canned food.

"She was the only one who didn't escape during the accident. I saw that as a glimpse of hope and decided to stay even though the government cut our research money and all the others left." Nihaya said quietly.

"I'm still not completely sure of what it is you're trying to achieve here. It just seems like you've made all these Pokemon angry."

"What?! No! Quite the opposite!" she was so offended by his remark that she raised her voice and stood up while clenching her fists.

That was enough for Sekhmet to wake up. At first, she opened one eye to check what it was that disturbed her sleep and closed it back again as if she didn't care about the two humans. She put her front legs forward and, while scratching the floor, stretched her body. After that, she slowly got up and used her tongue to clean some food that was sticking to the side of her mouth.

"How are you feeling, my dear?" Nihaya asked while slowly advancing towards the Pokemon.

The Persian leered at her as soon as it saw movement. She took a couple steps back, until she felt the wall which served as one of the sides of the cage, before lunging towards the bars that separated her from the others. She hit her head but acted like she didn't feel any pain. She kept on trying to reach the woman while scratching and biting the metal and didn't seem to even consider the idea that maybe she wanted to do the impossible.

Since it didn't look like they were in any danger, Red thought it was a good time have Nihaya give further explanations about her job "So if that's not your fault, what happened to her?"

"Markaija. It's a disease. A very rare one. Only somewhere around 1 in 300000 Pokemon get it. The Pokemon who have it are in an almost constant state of rage and attack everyone and everything around them. Additionally their lives are extremely shortened when compared to other Pokemon of their respective species. In the past there were cases where excessive force had to be used in order to deal with such Pokemon after they came in contact with people. Me and my team offered to help find a cure for it. The government funded our research and built this facility away from major cities in case any Pokemon escaped. After everything went sideways, they sent a police taskforce which caught and put down most of the escaped Pokemon. After hearing about that, I couldn't allow them to try to do the same with Sekhmet. I used all my saved up money to buy this place. Truth be told, I couldn't really afford even one 1% of this place but they must have thought I've gone insane and let me keep this place."

Red felt saddened after listening to that story while also being mad at himself for assuming things about Nihaya before hearing her out, but there was something that he couldn't stop himself from asking "How long?"

"How long? Oh. Around 3 months have passed since everyone left." she said while trying to hide the pain she felt while telling that story behind a fake smile.

"That's not what I meant. I meant how long unt..."

"I know!" Nihaya shouted before the boy could finish.

He felt worried when he saw her leaning down in such a way that her face was hidden by her hair. He pushed a part of it aside to see if she was doing what he felt would be an appropriate reaction after her yell. Tears started forming in her eyes. She felt a little weak on her legs so she backed off and sat back down on the chair.

"Even if you know, it seems like you're not willing to face it. It's probably none of my business but after seeing the state this place is in and what you looked like when I met you, I feel the need to ask it. How long until..."

"No!" she protested while putting both her hands in his direction as if that was supposed to push him away.

"...you find a cure?

"Huh?"

"What? Is that not what you expected me to say?"

"It seems like I was right about calling you a kid." she said while wiping away the tears.

"I'm not a kid!" he shouted, not understanding that her words were meant as a compliment.

Ignoring his irritation, she stood up and walked close enough to the cage where she was just out of Sekhmet's reach.

She turned around with a big smile on her face "I don't know how long it will take but I won't give up until I find a cure."

The warmth radiating from her seemed to even affect Sekhmet since she stopped trying to reach the woman with her claws for a second or two.

. . .

"You really didn't have to do so much for me."

"I can't help you with your research but I still wanted to do something. Anyway, what do you think?"

Red pointed towards a hut for storing wood he built with the help of his Pokemon and an elevated barrel which was to serve as bath, with a sliding system which allowed for easily getting rid of the water without needing to use strength. Nihaya would need to fill it up but as long as it wasn't too cold she could count on rain to help her. It was made in such a way that the wood could be burned in a hole under it, allowing the woman to heat up the water.

"It's amazing. I'm truly thankful."

"Maybe I should train Pidgeotto to carry small packages so that I could buy you some new clothes and send them over."

"No, no. Don't trouble yourself anymore. Please." although she appreciated the gesture she already started feeling like she should be repaying the boy in some way so she didn't want to owe him even more.

"Are you sure? I could..."

"Yes. I'm sure."

"Alright then. I guess this is it." he said before realizing something "Oh. I should see Sekhmet before leaving. Would she remember me even with that disease? Hmm."

"No, no. There is no need. I'm sure she knew that you wanted the best for her." the woman responded while shaking her palms as a sign of protest.

"Okay. If you say so... Anyway... Good luck and good bye."

"The same to you." she responded while smiling.

The boy let Pidgeotto out of her pokeball so that they could get better accustomed while travelling towards Celadon City. The science wasn't sure what caused Markaija to occur so it was important for him to spend as much time as he could with his Pokemon in case something bad ever happened to any of them. He already ran for about a kilometer when he realized that there was something wrong with what Nihaya said before they parted ways. He spent the last two days working on the hut and the bath so he was too busy to spend any time in Sekhmet's room. The one other time he was there, she was asleep. He didn't see her at all the day he left.

"Why was she speaking in past tense?"

. . .

Nihaya slowly walked through the building while grabbing her arms in order to stop the shaking. Tears were running down her face as she approached Sekhmet's room. She had to wipe them away to input a combination which would cause a part of the wall to slide open and allow he to reach the cage from the other side by going into another room.

"I'm sorry."

She looked at the cat laying on the floor.

"I'm sorry."

She took a few steps in her direction.

"I'm sorry."

She kneeled down, almost falling onto the floor.

"I'm sorry I couldn't help you."

She hugged Sekhmet's lifeless body.


I'm sorry. And I don't mean that as a joke. I actually feel like a piece of shit after finishing this chapter. Especially since I made a couple big changes while writing. In my plans, Sekhmet(named after an egyptian goddess) was the only Pokemon to ever be in this facility and Red met it after it ran away and helped capture it. All the scientists were there, no one was hurt and Red showed the scientists that what they needed wasn't a cure but love for Pokemon. And that's just a stupid story, not matter how you slice it. That's why the story was changed and Sekhmet died. And since this was pretty much a filler you'll nevel learn how her death affected Nihaya apart from that final scene.

What I liked about the chapter is that all the action happened in like the first 1/3 of the story and even though Red catching Pidgeotto is important, it's probably not the thing you'll remember about this chapter. Same with the Team Rocket scene. Although I hope that one will arise your curiosity about what is Giovanni's goal, and his relationships with Blaine and Koga. I think Resse's name is something like half of the word secretary in some language, but I didn't write it down anywhere. Nihaya means "dead end" which alludes to Sekhmet's eventual fate, same as the title which is a play on the idiom "let sleeping dogs lie".

The next chapter is probably going to feature the next Gym battle. I'm not sure how long it will take me. My computer is acting up and I don't have money to repair it so I have trouble with writing sometimes. I'm actually trying to solve it. I finally wrote a new CV and started looking for job. Of course I'll have less time to write if I get a job, but I'll have even less if they kick me out of my house, so wish me luck.

Red. Team: Eevee, Charmeleon, Raichu, Oddish, Gyarados, Pidgeotto.

Badges: 3

Green. Team: Ivysaur, Nidorina, Jigglypuff, Hitmonlee, ?, ?.".

Badges: 3

Blue. Team: Bellsprout(Bell), Wartortle(Tori), Zubat(?), Graveler(?).

Badges: 3

Alex. Team: Ditto, ?, ?, ?.

Angie. Team: Dragonair, Sandslash.

Peter. Team: Dodrio, Haunter, ?.