Bugsy's POV

Three of us had walked past a hundred trees. The forest played an orchestra, an enchanting symphony one after another. The leaves danced to an unheard song, whispering it to the winds. The wind seemed to transfer the harmony to every kind of life around. From a humble Ledyba to a floating Hoppip.

I pandiculated and felt the cascading light, a dazzling white beam that illuminated the path ahead, taking us onward.

'Guys, stop', mumbled Lyra, bending down, holding her knees in pain. I could tell she was tired by her weary face.

'Wh-what happened Lyra ?', asked Red, stopping for her. 'You look exhausted. But we didn't walk that much today'.

Lyra took a deep breath and threw her bag on the ground. She unzipped it and grabbed out a water bottle and held it in her hands for a few seconds, then made a confound face, putting the bottle back inside.

'Ugh', cribbed Lyra. 'Boiling water !'. She slowly stood up and walked steadily. She was thirsty and probably needed some rest.

Then I thought about myself. I wasn't tired at all, I could walk ten kilometers no stop. I too needed water, especially cold. But it was difficult to find cold water in such balmy weather.

'Would you be able to walk ? Or should we take a break ?', I asked, waiting for confirmation from the two trainers.

Red wasn't tired, the way he stood, I could tell he wasn't going to be tired for hours. The boy had a determined fire in his eyes that craved triumph. Because of his own negligence and little knowledge of time travel, he made himself the second runner up of the Indigo League. Still, guilt couldn't be seen anywhere on his face, maybe because he knew that it could be undone.

'Red ?', I asked, confirming from the divergent boy who looked at me as I called out his name. 'What about a break ?'.

'Sure', he said, calmly. 'Let's sit under that tree'. He pointed at a tree, pausing to see it's silhouette, and then walking towards it.

Lyra managed a few steps and dropped herself under the tree. 'Do not disturb me. I require some rest'. She placed her head gently on her bag and closed her eyes.

Red and I stared at her in amazement. How could someone sleep like that in a forest ? I sat down with my legs crossed and unzipped my bag, taking out a few Pokemon food boxes.

'Send them out, they too deserve real air', I said. 'Pokemon food is better than what they get inside that ball'.

'Uh, right'. Red unclipped his Pokeballs and sent his Pokemon out. A Nidoking, a Hitmonlee,  a Pidgeotto, an Eevee and a Ditto came out.

A drop of tear, reflecting the sunlight to disguise itself as a diamond, slipped out of Red's eyes. He was crying, crying in joy.

'I can't tell how much I missed you', he said. 'All of you'. His expressions clearly said that he wanted to continue his journey with them, but he couldn't, a trainer always uses as much Pokemon he can.

Now, Red had about fifteen Pokemon. And he chose wisely what to use, instead of being partial toward any of his companions.

I wasn't a part of the reunion, so I sat in a corner with my laptop, caring more about the information I now had about Team Rocket.

I opened the SD card folder that was now made and browsed through it. My eyes looked for a something of interest. My fingers automatically selected a folder with the title Arrival.

'Arrival ?', I murmured in confusion. 'But whose ?'.

Red turned to me. 'Did you say something ?'. I wasn't sure what to tell him, I didn't want him to know about it unless I had the full knowledge of the matter.

'Nah, carry on', I said. Red turned back to his Pokemon. I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable, he was happy right now, that was all. If I were in his place, I would've been crying loud after the defeat in Indigo League.

After clicking on the Arrival folder, a word file appeared with the same title. Along with the Word file was an Excel file.

I first clicked on the excel file in curiosity. A spreadsheet, containing names of people appeared. I recognized four names.

Two belonged to the Team Rocket grunts Cassidy and Butch. The other two belonged to an unexpected surprising duo, Archer and Ariana. Weren't those two in Rainbow Rocket that is supposed to be against Team Rocket ?

I opened the word document, without going further through the list containing fifteen more members.

The word document had pictures of the Radio Tower. Fake IDs for those fifteen Team Rocket Members to probably get into the building.

Pictures of a device that seemed to be from a science fiction film. Under the picture was written Frequency ________ ?

What kind of frequency ? Red told me that he knows something about Team Rocket, but what ? I needed to ask him.

'Red ?', I said. He turned around and looked at me, smiling. 'You want to tell me something ?'. I pointed at the laptop screen.

Red walked around and looked at the picture of the unusual device. His face went blank.

'Lyra and I sneaked into a Team Rocket base. We saw it there. I don't exactly know what it's for, but I know that Giovanni is behind this', explained Red.

'So you know what Silver said was true ?', I asked. 'I can't believe you'.

'Let me explain first. Team Rocket caught us and erased our memory about it with some gun. I guess the affect of the gun is just for a month or so', explained Red.

'I see', I said. 'Here are some pictures of Radio Tower and Fake IDs, there is also a list of fifteen Team Rocket grunts with Cassidy and Butch'.

'Obviously'. Red laughed. 'Maybe Archer and Ariana too right ?'.

'How do you know that ?', I asked, astounded.

'I overheard Charles saying that Giovanni's plan is good or something like that in the base', said Red. 'So I figured that Rainbow Rocket is just a disguise for him to stay away from the cops and to fool us. Rainbow Rocket maybe an elite team of Team Rocket executives'.

'I am impressed', I said. 'That's why Charles erased your memories. Because you knew too much'.

'I guess', said Red, he scrolled the word file up. 'Radio Tower ? Frequency ?'.

'I think they need a frequency to activate this device. And the only way to send a powerful frequency wave is the Radio Tower', I said.

'But what are they going to do with such a powerful frequency wave ?', asked Red. He scratched his head.

'The device looks like some kind of portal', I said. 'But I don't have any idea what it's for'.

I silenced for a few minutes, thinking about the device and it's use. But nothing came to my mind, not a single theory. The only theory I can up with sounded stupid.

Maybe the device was a portal to another universe. Maybe the Radio Tower was needed to send out a powerful frequency wave, powerful enough to support dimensional travel. But I didn't came up with a theory about the missing frequency value.

'Incoming !', shouted a girl's voice. I raised my head up high towards the voice.

A girl sitting on what looked like a Mew levitated down. She was young, about my age. And she didn't belonged to Johto or Kanto. She was about 5 feet tall, same as me.

Her blonde hair fell to her shoulders as she jumped on the ground, like silent tides interlacing one another. The eyes reminded me the beauty of the Earth, it's brown color made me feel relaxed. She wore a white Cami under an open checked Tiffany colored shirt, tied from the bottom. She also wore denim blue shorts and black flip flops.

'Yellow !'. Red exclaimed in joy, then paused. 'How come you're here ?'. How rude, he just called the girl yellow. I would never do that, that's so discriminating.

'There is a huge problem', said the girl in sorrow. 'Team Rocket. They have Articuno'.

'What ?', cried Red in shock. 'How ? Where ? Why ? That's impossible'.

I was so lost, staring at the girl, that I didn't know what was going on. Her voice was perfect, she was the definition of cute.

My heart beat faster. And I realised I was blushing. Red and the girl kept talking about something, something very serious.

'Whats is it ?', I asked, interrupting their conversation.

'Uh. You are Bugsy right ?', asked the girl. My face was probably red by now. It was awesome the girl already knew I was a gym leader, I might have a chance.

'Yes, yes. I am Bugsy. Nice to meet you', I said in excitement. I couldn't hold my emotions but part of me thought that I had to.

'I love bugs, you know I'm a bug catcher myself', said the girl. My face must've been the brightest shade of red. She loved bugs, a perfect match. I now had a soulmate. 'What's your name ?'.

'My name is Amarillo, but my friends call me Yellow', said the girl. 'So Red, Orchid did so to get a hard drive containing some Team Rocket information. It probably contains their plans'.

Red looked like he just lost hope. 'We already have the information', he said. Yellow made a disgusted face and then glared at the Pokemon standing next to her.

'Oops', said she. 'You messed up again, Orchid. Fifth time'. She walked to the Pokemon and rubbed her hand on its head.

'Which Pokemon is that again ?', I asked, curious to know.

'Bugsy, we've already had a conversation about him', said Red.

'You erased that conversation out of existence', I said, smirking.

'How do you know that ?', asked Red. Yellow looked at Red. I felt jealous, because she was looking at him more than me. I had to say something.

'Because I don't remember the conversation, Mr. Second', I said. I knew Red would snap and he did, he looked so angry he could punch me right now.

'Erased ?', asked Yellow. 'Out of existence ?'.

'Yeah, he erased many things. He was actually the Champion but he changed that and made Blue the first runner up', I said.

'That was by mistake', Red argued. 'I didn't mean to do that. I didn't erase you, be thankful for that'.

'Erased but how ?', asked Yellow. 'I don't follow'.

'Red, he travelled back in time and changed things, probably also changed me', I said. There was no way Yellow was attracted to Red after she knew that he messed up real bad. Now was my chance.

'Time travel ?', asked Yellow. 'Red, you have done actual time travel ? That is so cool'.

Well, I messed up right now. Yellow thought time travel was cool and Red who have actually done it, made him more attractive. It was so discomforting.

Mewtwo's POV

The three of them talked nonsense. I looked at the sleeping girl, then at the Pokemon that stood behind Red.

'Hello', I greeted them. Hoping for a positive response.

'Mewtwo is it ?', asked Nidoking. 'How's it going with the girl ?'. I hated that name, but I knew he didn't know that.

'How are you ?', asked Pidgeotto, as he flew at a certain level.

'What's up ?', asked Hitmonlee. 'Hope you're doing great'.

'Sup man ?', asked Eevee.

'Mewtwo !', said Ditto, excited. He transformed into me. Then back to himself. And continued repeating the cycle.

'I am fine. Just to let you know, my name is Orchid. I don't like the name Mewtwo', I said.

'Okay, we understand why', said Nidoking. 'I feel really bad that Articuno was imprisoned by Team Rocket. Hopefully Zapdos and Moltres would help him. Or else we have to'.

I laughed. 'Moltres can't help anyone. He couldn't even help himself. He's fat and all now'.

'Ridiculous', said Eevee. 'That is impossible'.

Bugsy's POV

Lyra woke up and we both were too aware of the situation that Red's Articuno was taken hostage or something by Team Rocket. Mewtwo managed to get the hard drive from them and escape.

But the thing was, we already had the information that the hard drive contained. So Articuno's sacrifice was useless.

'Here is the hard drive, just check if the information is different. If it is, it maybe of use', said Yellow, handing me the drive.

'Bugsy, hurry up', said Lyra, when she noticed I was still staring at Yellow.

I attached the hard drive with the laptop and turned it on. After it was done, I selected the folder to see what's inside.

'I see the files are different', I said.

'Different ?', asked Red. 'Are they of any use ?'.

'Maybe, do you want to watch Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy ?', I asked.

'What ?! Crap, Orchid brought the wrong hard drive', Red shouted, then looked at Lyra.

'I can't say anything', said Lyra. 'Well, we did that too you know'.

Bill's POV

I sat in Professor Oak's house with him on the opposite couch. He looked disappointed and in great grief.

'I am glad you're here to tell me that Articuno has now been captured by Team Rocket, I can't tell how I feel, it's annoying', said Professor Oak. 'Could you please deliver something for me ?'.

'Deliver ? What and to whom ?', I asked.

'It's a very small box. Handle it with care and you have to go to Goldenrod Pokecentre, deliver it to Red', said Professor Oak.

'Red ? You mean that kid who came second ?', I asked, waiting for confirmation.

'Yes, just wait for him there and give this box to him', said Professor Oak. 'I wish everything goes well there'.