Red's POV

Thud.

We landed in a garden in Celadon City. The soil was damp. It was so damp that the worms had surfaced to breathe and the Pidgeys fluttered over the grass with their inky wings, each of them eating at the sudden buffet.

Charizard stretched his arms and yawned. Then he glanced at me. I pulled off his Pokeball and called him back.

The rain seemed to slow down. The black clouds were disappearing, though it was hard to conclude that because of the night sky.

The rain slowly fell down the blades of grass into the already wet soil, the droplets pausing on the surface before being sucked into the mud.

Lyra removed her shoes and turned them upside down. The water was hurled out of the pair. She removed her socks and started wringing out the water.

She curled her bare toes over the watery floor. Then plunged into the Earth, just to feel its coolness that satisfied her spirit in a thousand ways. But this disappointed me. I didn't find it annoying, but found it childish.

'Stop', I began. Lyra felt interrupted, she wore back her partially wet socks and then her shoes. She almost looked irated.

'I know we need to get things done', said Lyra. She tightened the straps of her bag and started to walk. 'But you don't even care that we just time travelled, like its no big deal to you'.

I couldn't say a thing because I didn't have enough words to utter out of my mouth. Lyra was good in arguing and I didn't dare to say a thing, at least to her.

'Celadon is that way, you're walking absolutely opposite to it'. I started to walk in the right direction. Lyra jogged to me and walked behind me like a sidekick.

The streets were open with a street light every hundred meters. The night was silent. The street had a vibrant shade of gray. 

I was not expecting people walking around that late but two were seen. They both were in a distance, so I could not deduce much about them. They walked lifelessly past the Pokecentre.

Lyra increased her speed in suspicion. We walked silently behind them.

'They look like thieves', Lyra whispered. I nodded and advanced. I maintained my speed and avoid achieving more as they could have noticed me easily.

It could not get any creepier. The two men stopped outside the Game Corner. We had a tree as our cover. We silently watched them both. One of them grabbed out a key and started to open the lock. The other looked here and there.

Their clothes were black, from their shirts, to their shoes. Then, the red R team rocket logo was flashed on the pocket of one of the men.

'Team Rocket ?', asked Lyra. 'What are doing in a Game Corner ? Stealing points ?'.

'Well, no. The game corner has an underground passage leading to their hideout'.

The two grunts walked inside. Lyra and I slowly walked to the front door of the game corner. Lyra was standing at the the other end of the door. We peeked together inside. The grunts were gone, leaving the passage open.

We hurried inside to the staircase leading to the Team Rocket Hideout. I looked down, it was darker than the darkest shade of the darkest color. I couldn't see any signs of light.

We walked downstairs. The stairs were scary, I could fall down any minute. They were steep and felt like stone. I remembered the hideout to be iron floored.

As soon as I could explain things to Lyra, the staircase ended. We were standing inside the Hideout. A dim light could be seen near another staircase.

'I think I know-', I said, interrupted by Lyra.

'Yes, yes. You think you know everything', said Lyra. 'Why are we here ? I thought Professor Oak asked us to not to mess with the timeline'.

'I know what Oak said. But do you remember what Silver said ?', I asked.

'No', said Lyra. 'What did he say ?'.

'He said Giovanni had a hard drive which he didn't know the location of. But he last saw the hard drive in Giovanni's office in this very base, a year ago', I said.

'This is an opportunity for us to know Giovanni's plans. And if he is doing everything on someone's order, we need to find who that person is'.

'Should we be acting hero right now ?', asked Lyra. 'Because I really don't think this is a good idea'.

'Trust me with this one', I said. I walked to the second staircase. 'Giovanni's office is that way. Come with me or leave without me'.

'Whatever', said Lyra, walking down the stairs. 'But just for this once'.

We walked down and I led us to the office. I turned the handle and the door opened. The only source of light in the room was a study lamp. I shut the door and rushed to the table.

'What now ?', asked Lyra.

'Go through the drawers and check for any hard drive', I ordered, starting to check the drawers attached to the table.

'Found it', said Lyra. I was surprised it was that easy. I hurried to her and looked at the hard drive.

'Okay, let's get outta here', I said. 'No, wait'.

I took a closed look at the hard drive, it had a label which said - Spider-Man Trilogy. The drive just had Sam Raimi's Spidey trilogy. That means coming there was pointless.

Suddenly, the door handle turned. 'Wait, I almost forgot to take the file. How can I be so careless ?'. The voice was familiar. I could tell it was Giovanni on the other side of the door.

We quickly hid under the desk and covered ourselves with the chair.

There was a hole under the table, I could get a clear view of the door. I looked through it. The door was opened by an intimidating Giovanni. I was scared of the consequences if he found us.

He walked closer to the desk. The closer he got, the faster my heart continued beating. Lyra was scared too. But she didn't know what Giovanni could do.

Suddenly, his mobile rang and he stopped. He pulled out his mobile and answered the call.

'Hello ?', he said. 'Yes, the plan is ready. In a few months I will begin to execute it'.

I was not aware of the plan they were talking about. Maybe the plan in which Giovanni once experimented a mega stone on Dragonite.

'Your plan is working well. Just tell me what to do next and I will', he said, hanging up the phone and putting it back in his pants pocket.

He grabbed out a hard drive from his pocket and sighed. 'I am sick of him. Once I achieve what I want, I will eliminate him'. He threw the hard drive at the floor in anger.

The hard drive was very close to me. Suddenly, his phone rang again and he walked towards the door.

'Are you ready ?', I asked Lyra.

'Ready ? For what ?', asked Lyra.

I unzipped my bag and put the hard drive Giovanni threw, in my bag. And out the Spider-Man hard drive in place of it. I grabbed out the GS Ball and counted backwards.

'Three, two, one', I said. 'Touch it'.

Lyra and I touched it together and closed our eyes. After opening them, I found myself back in Ilex Forest. Lyra stood next to me, holding the GS Ball.

'What the heck ? Did you just teleport from there to there ?', asked Bugsy.

I explained everything to Bugsy, whatever happened after we first touched the GS Ball. Bugsy had no choice but to silently listen.

I grabbed out the hard drive I stole from the Team Rocket Hideout. It had a label that said - Project : Mew 2.

'You made a big mistake', said Bugsy.

'What ? You destroyed Giovanni's plans. You stole every detail of his grand plan', said Bugsy.

'That's it. Now we know what they are up to and we can stop them easily', I said.

'No. If you stole everything regarding his plans. There would be no plan to stop. His plans are over until you return it back. You realise you've changed the timeline right ? Or you've decided to become the next Barry Allen ?', asked Bugsy.

'Um, Bugsy. The reference is too early', said Lyra. 'The Flash TV series haven't yet started'.

'Oh, right. Most wouldn't get it. But, Red, I assure you there will be consequences. And they will be bad, unchangeable', said Bugsy.

'So you want me to return it ?', I asked.

'Yes', said Bugsy. 'No, wait. I will copy everything in the drive to my laptop first, then you may return it'.

'You really are sneaky', said Lyra. 'Do it quick. We don't know whether or not it will work again'.

'Did you give your Eevee to that man ?', asked Bugsy, turning on his laptop.

'No. But I didn't tell you anything about how I got my Eevee', I said.

'That's the ripple effect of the timeline', said Bugsy. 'I guess there is a closed loop. In which you go back to give the Eevee to the man so that you can get the Eevee. If you do anything except that, like stealing classified information, time will change'.

'Okay, that's on me', I said.

'We don't even know what else you've changed by now', said Bugsy.

Bugsy connected the hard drive to his laptop and selected the copy all option. The files started to copy.

'Wait, if you come back after returning the hard drive, there is a good chance that I might not have the information anymore', said Bugsy. 'I think we need to do a time hack'.

'What hack ?', asked Lyra.

'A time hack. When you go back, take a pen drive with you containing the same information as the hard drive. Return the hard drive and keep the pen drive somewhere so when you come back, you could take the pen drive from there and get the information'.

'Smart, Bugsy have done time travel before ?', asked Lyra. 'You are a pro at it'.

'I have another idea. I know where you can keep the information', said Bugsy.

'Where ?', I asked, eagerly.

'You will give your Eevee to someone. And will eventually get it back. So, if I put a memory card in Eevee's Pokeball. When you come back, it would be in Jolteon's Pokeball', said Bugsy.

The idea was so cool I could not reject it. But how was he going to put a memory card in a Pokeball ?

'Okay. Here, this is Eevee's Pokeball', I said.

'Send him out', said Bugsy. 'The files are successfully copied. Wait, I'll copy them in a memory card'.

Bugsy fiddled with the laptop. I sent Eevee out. Then I gave the Pokeball to Bugsy. After the files were copied in the memory card. Bugsy put the memory card to the inside of the Pokeball.

'There is a slot to put a location detector chip. We could use it to put the memory card', said Bugsy. 'Hopefully, it remains there'.

Bugsy handed the Pokeball to me and I called Eevee back. Lyra looked nervous. Anyone who was about to time travel would feel nervous.

'Ready ?', I asked.

'Ready !', replied Lyra.

Bugsy smiled at me. 'Good luck'.