I knelt there for an hour. I wasted a precious hour of my last time being free on the ground in shock about how I had lost. I didn't understand then the power of Team Rocket. I didn't understand then that I had only been delaying my fate. Team Rocket would have gotten me somehow. And I knew now that I would never get away. That final battle 2 years ago was something the world will  never forget. According to the news, which I stayed updated on constantly, the people of Viridian City felt responsible for my disappearance, seeing as they'd let me go to that gym. 

The little girl I had helped was constantly in tears, Green had taken it fairly well that I'd disappeared (I had a feeling she felt more than she'd let slip), Blue had gone into a state of shock for, oh, a month or two, and my mother... had also disappeared off the face of the earth. No shocker there, I knew exactly were she was. Giovanni had somehow felt the need to make double, triple sure that I didn't pull anything and now my mother's health and well being was on the line. He hadn't needed too, I had made that promise and I was going to keep it, thankfully no one thought that there was a possibility that Red could be the masked shadow, the new Sub-President of Team Rocket.

Masked Shadow, an unknown and a mystery to the entire police force, and what dex-holders were interested. When playing as Masked Shadow to do Boss's dirty work I wore a black mask of one way glass (see out not in), a long black scarf, and a Rocket uniform that is all black with only a Red R on the front. I was far better at everything than Koga, Lt. Surge, and Sereina, except their specialties, but even they only knew me with my mask. The only one who knew of my identity as the Masked Shadow was Boss. Boss Giovanni, though I just called him boss.

Now don't go calling me a monster yet, it hurt to see my friends in pain, I could see through all of Green's fake smiles and Blue's forced strategies. I'd had to act everything out, become a new person, Masked Shadow. The true me, Red, was still there, I felt him every once and a while, when I looked at remnents of the my old life, thought about my friends, Blue, Green, and the young girl I know knew as Yellow, when ever Boss brought up my mother... but I was slowly feeling him less and less, but if he ever left, Arceus help us all.