Red's POV

I stood in front of the PC in the Pokecentre, with my account logged in. After having the conversation with Ethan, I selected the Professor option. Professor Oak's name was on the top.

I selected his name and the call was sent, then, I just waited for Oak to pick up the call.

'Red, I'm pleased to see you', said the always-happy Professor Oak. 'You didn't call too much this month'.

'I am really sorry for not calling. You see, there's a lot happening over here, lately', I said.

'I'll go with that', said Professor Oak, smiling.

'No, it's not an excuse', I said, quickly. 'I wanted to ask if Pikachu would like to come back, really missing him here'.

'Of course he wants to. Pikachu, come on here', said Professor Oak, looking elsewhere.

Pikachu hopped on the table on which Professor Oak's PC was placed.

'Hey buddy, I was just asking Professor if you'd like to come here', I said.

'Pika', said Pikachu, showing two fingers, agreeing to come to Johto.

'Okay, Red. Which Pokemon would you like to send ?', asked Oak.

'Uh, for now, that'd be Jolteon', I said. 'I want him to take a break. And, soon, I will tell you about something, something that'll be hard to believe'.

'Oh, I know. Just don't mess anything up', said Professor Oak.

I looked at him in confusion, for a second I thought he knew about Eevee and the time travel thingy. But then he made an innocent face and smiled.

'Just kidding, tell me when the time comes', said Oak. 'Hope you enjoy the coming weekend'.

'Uh, okay', I said. 'I am placing Jolteon's Pokeball on the disk'.

I detached a Pokeball off of my belt and kept it on the disk for the transfer.

'Okay, done the same with Pikachu', said Professor Oak.

I pressed the red button on the disk and the Pokeball flashed and poof. The PC screen displayed - Transfer Successful.

'Good luck, Red', said Professor Oak, switching off his PC.

I was about to call Mom, but the time wasn't right, she must've been asleep by then.

I sent out Pikachu from his Pokeball. Pikachu jumped straight into my arms.

'I can't tell how much I missed you', I said. 'It was like I lost a part of me'.

'Pikachu, Pika', said Pikachu, his expressions clearly said that he missed me too.

I went upstairs to sleep, Pikachu didn't go inside his Pokeball the whole night, instead, he slept on my stomach.

I haven't talked to Mom in quite a while. It was almost the end of March, that means a month without even calling Mom, that was rude.

And I almost forgot I had a Pokegear through which I could place calls, without being in a Pokecentre, but my brain wouldn't use itself to make me remember that.

The next morning, I woke up early, which wasn't like me at all as I woke up late normally.

And I knew my mom was awake at that time, yeah, waking up late is what I inherited from dad. I called mom using the PC in the Pokecentre and talked to her. Then, I shared my PokeGear number to Mom, just because she knew I won't call her usually.

Bugsy came downstairs, then Lyra and finally Ethan, after an hour or so, until then I just talked to Pikachu, obviously couldn't understand him, but why not ?

When we all were ready, we went outside.

'So any ideas where can we find the king Unown ?', I asked. 'Bugsy ?'.

'What ? You act like I know everything, of course I don't know about any king Unown', said Bugsy, awkwardly.

'Okay, let's divide ourselves in two pairs. One will-', I said, interrupted.

'I will go with you, Red', prompted Ethan.

'That's fine. So one pair will go to the third Ruin and other pair to Ruin four', I said. 'I know Ruin four is abandoned and all but checking it out isn't so bad'.

'Everyone, come out', said Ethan, throwing his Pokeball in the air, all his Pokemon popped out of the Pokeballs.

'Okay, we will take help from our Pokemon too as the Ruins maybe big, without any further ado, let's find the king', I said. 'Come on Ethan, we'll check out the third Ruin. Lyra and Bugsy, you both go to the Ruin four'.

'Right', said Lyra. 'And how would we know if you found the Unown first ?'.

'That's obvious, he'll call you on your Pokegear', said Bugsy.

Lyra and Bugsy walked towards the Ruin four, opposite to the third Ruin.

'Okay, let's go', I said. 'Can't believe we are wasting time like this'.

'Wasting time ? This is fun. This is what makes a journey, what did you think ? You would straight up reach every city and win gym battles ? I've played many games and I know what it takes to be a trainer and I'm ready for every obstacle', said Ethan, with all his heart.

'Actually, I know what it takes to be a League Champion, I did something that's why I am who I am now. Ask random people if they know me. Chances are 8 out of 10 that the know me', I explained, in anger.

'You don't have to be angry and serious and grumpy grandpa all the time, you're just ten', said Ethan. 'Don't be hard on everyone'.

'Well, just stop being such a-', I said, interrupted.

'Such a...what ? You know what ? You are arrogant, and it will do no good to you. I wish that you lost to Blue, after all I had hopes that he would win, but because of you, I lost five hundred Pokedollars', said Ethan.

'Zip it', I said.

'You zip it !', said Ethan.

'No, I said, zip it. Listen', I said, trying to be silent. A sound was heard, probably coming from underneath the surface.

'That way', said Ethan, pointing from where the sound was coming.

We started running to the direction, towards the third Ruin.

Giovanni's POV

I walked to my office in the new Rainbow Rocket base. It was a slow day, no, it was faster than the rest, my days felt slow always because of the wait. I couldn't wait anymore, for the time to come when I would win and there would be no one who could beat me.

I had a perfect plan. A plan no one could out-smart, no one could out-think.

I would finally win, and my rivalry would finally end. Rivalry with my old nemesis - Ben, he was the only one in power to defeat me, and soon, I was about to get rid of him.

I dialed a number on my telephone. The bell rang and the phone was answered within seconds.

'Giovanni ?', said the voice on the phone.

'Its time to end this, sir. It's time to finish what we started', I said.

'Well, is it done ?', asked the voice on the other side of the telephone.

'Yes, Ben created the machine, it's time we finish his story here', I said, patiently.

'Yes, I was waiting for this very day. And don't forget to give him that Poliwhirl you found years ago. It's very important', said the voice.

'And what about you after that ?', I asked.

'I don't know. I am a ghost, a phantom, that no one knows about but I will go back to live my life as myself, it's been 18 years since I've seen my son. He must be so big now', said the voice, he sounded like as if he was crying.

'I know how you must feel, but I helped you only because to make you feel better. You deserved what you got. Soon after we deal with Ben, I promise you can go to your family', I said.

'Okay. Is my plan in progress ?', asked the voice.

'I want to meet you in person. I know you never show your face like that, and I know why. I've seen it. But you gotta stop doing that from now on. You don't want to hide it from your family', I smirked.

'Okay, a meeting. But not now. Only after when my plan completes, we will meet', said the voice. 'See you soon, Giovanni'.

Red's POV

We quickly rushed inside Ruin three. It was much like the other Ruins.

As soon as I entered, the cold air of the well ventilated Ruin contacted every cell of my body. I felt shiver-ish at once.

The interior was more or less like a museum, and had pictures hung on the wall. I could see a long corridor that was approximately 50 meters. I walked towards the end of the corridor and a passage was revealed to a second corridor parallel to the first one.

Ethan seemed very excited, he looked at each and every picture on the walls of the Ruin.

It was weird calling the place a Ruin. The floor was marble with a neat plain brown mat extending to the end of the corridor.

Then there was the yellow wallpaper with honeycomb designed with mustard.

The fall ceiling was white with dark yellow circular LEDs.

'Red ?', said Ethan. I thought he was again trying to start a typical Ethan conversation.

'Yes ?', I asked, annoyed.

'Bugsy actually told us about some photo frame behind which one of his research team members found a switch to trigger the secret passage from which the Unowns came out'.

It took me a few seconds to understand what he just said, it was long and complicated. But I knew he was like that so I didn't really have any complaints regarding it.

'But, Ethan, I really don't remember what Bugsy exactly said. Wait, I'll just make a call to Lyra-', I said, interrupted.

'I found it', cheered Ethan.

My facial expression changed to - how did you find it ? I looked at the photo frame behind which the switch was. It wasn't exactly a switch, but was a lever. Then, I looked at the photo inside the photo frame, it was an Unown, a blue Unown, with an A shape.

'This must be it', I said with a big smile on my small face. 'You found it'.

Ethan pulled the lever and a passage opened on the opposite wall to which the lever was.

I turned around, waiting for a bunch of Unowns to fly out. But nothing came out.

Ethan walked inside, overconfident. Then, I followed.

We walked down a few steps and there was an open place there. It really looked like a Ruin, an underground Ruin.

The place was really big, it had passages that seem to be leading to other open places like it.

I quickly called Lyra using the Pokegear. The bell rang and the call was answered.

'Lyra, we found the place, both of you come to Ruin three, you'll find an open passage in the second corridor, quick', I said.

'Okay, coming', said Lyra, hanging up the call.

In a few minutes, Bugsy and Lyra were there along with all their Pokemon out. Ethan and I too sent out all our Pokemon.

'Okay, everyone, we need to find a blue colored Unown, scatter throughout the Ruin, and find it', Bugsy commanded.

Everyone nodded and walked in different directions. After a few minutes of looking for the king, we heard a roar, and I could tell by the voice it was Charizard.

All of us rushed to the sound and found Charizard standing in front of another lever.

Bulbasaur pulled it using his Vine Whip.

A door opened just beside the lever and there was another room. But this one was smaller and without any other openings. In the middle, sunlight was falling through a hole above on to a slab on which lied an Unown.

'The blue Unown', shouted Bugsy.

'But how come its blue ?', asked Lyra.

'That is an error in the chromatin structure, the genes passed from it's parents must've been corrupted due to some reason. That's why it's blue in color', explained Bugsy.

'I didn't get any of it', said Ethan. 'We found it'.

Another 15 minutes and the unconscious King Unown was taken to the Pokecentre accompanied by some more Unowns.

'Good thing we could go now. I need to battle the Azalea Town Gym Leader, I wonder what he'll be like', said Ethan, walking outside the Pokecentre.

'Uh, you're forgetting that I'm the Gym Leader'. Bugsy started to laugh.

Lyra too started laughing at Ethan's lack of attention.

Suddenly, I felt like someone was pulling my belt. Bugsy, Ethan and Lyra grabbed their belts.
So did I.

In a matter of seconds, all our Pokeballs were pulled off towards a magnet.

'What just happened ?', asked Ethan, running towards the magnet.

The magnet moved and put all the Pokeballs in the back of a Pickup Truck and then adjusted itself in the back.

The window of the pickup truck opened. 'Sorry, but it wasn't our intention', said Cassidy, form inside the truck.

'We were ordered to take your Pokemon by Charles, the Boss of our organization', said Butch, bending so that we could see him.

'Team Rocket ?', said Lyra.

I had a sudden rage trying to come out from the deepest sections of my heart.

'I promise, taking our Pokemon is the last crime you'll be ever committing. If you do so, I promise you'll regret it afterwards', I said, challenging the both grunts.

'Okay', said Cassidy. 'Hasta la vista'.

The pickup truck started to drive away from us.

'What were you thinking ?', asked Bugsy. 'You call yourself a trainer ?'.

'He is Red, everything works out for him', said Ethan.

We all ran after the truck.