Masked Man's POV

"Charles, kill her now." Giovanni ordered. Charles placed the gun on Red's mother's forehead. She sobbed.

"Don't do this." Red's Dad begged. He crawled to his wife. "Giovanni, I'll do whatever you want me to."

"The Masked Man wants GS Ball. It uses the time traveling powers of the Celebi trapped inside it." Giovanni explained. "This is the GS Ball."

Giovanni was holding the GS Ball in his hand. Charles pulled the trigger and shot Ben's wife. Ben screamed and cried.

He pulled Charles' leg and tripped him. He quickly stood up and punched Giovanni, snatching the GS Ball from him. He pushed the button on the ball and vanished.

I woke up from my dream. I was exhausted and breathing heavily. Politoed turned to me and handed me a glass of water with my meclizine hydrochloride tablets.

"Where's Delibird?" I swallowed the tablet while drinking. Politied shrugged. I facepalmed. "He's gonna get me in trouble. I'm gonna go and look for him."

Politoed handed me my black matte mask. "Politoed." He offered.

"This won't be necessary." I kept it aside. "As if someone ever comes here."

I put my shoes on and walked outside. The Berry Forest was as quiet as always, Sevii was a great place to live in. The first reason because of which it was great was –no Team Rocket branch here.

I've been controlling Giovanni's plans and actions for quite a while now. I remember the time I met him.

Flashback

January, 2010

I walked into the Pokemon League. The lobby was filled with trainers, this was the time when trainers registered themselves.

I had my mask on. I tried my best not to get in suspicion and walked to the gents bathroom.

The bathroom was empty. I quickly gestured something on one of the walls and a door opened for an elevator.

I went inside and the doors closed. The elevator went downwards, to the first Team Rocket Base in the Kanto Region.

I didn't know getting inside a base was that easy. I knew I won't find any grunts there though.

The doors opened and there he was – Giovanni, sitting and working. I quietly walked to him and slowly pulled out my gun. He turned around and I pointed my gun at him.

"Who are you?" He asked, politely.

"Listen to me very carefully. I know that you're looking for a Mewtwo, I know you have the GS Ball which is capable of taking you anywhere in time." I said, confidently.

"Are you with the police?" He asked. "There's no proof to any of that."

"I'm here to help you, in return I'm asking for nothing." I said. "Here's my cell number, call me when you're ready."

I threw a piece of paper towards him and walked back to the elevator, still pointing the gun. I was surprised. Why didn't he do anything to me?

I went back to my safehouse on Three Island in Sevii. Few months later, I recieved a phone call.

"Hello?" I answered.

"What else do you know?" Giovanni asked. "And how are you planning to get Mewtwo?"

I smiled.

"It's not too complicated. We don't know about it's current location, but we know where it was in some point in time."

"1999." Giovanni quickly answered. "But you'll not be able to catch it that easily."

"For that, I know someone." I said. "There's a scientist at The Silph Company, who's secretly working on a prototype of the master ball."

"The master ball?" Asked Giovanni. "Just explain your plans to me."

"We need to kidnap that scientist, force him to make the master ball, the ball will have the capability to catch a Pokémon with a hundred percent catch rate." I explained. "And then-"

"Wow!" Giovanni exclaimed. "I'll contact you frequently. Bye for now."

"Tell me if something goes wrong." I said.

"I will. Thank you." He hung up the call.

Flashback Over

"There you are." I said. I walked to Delibird who was playing in the grass. "Since when do you like grass? Let's go home, come on."

We walked back home.

Red's POV

The sunrays fall as a blanket of white upon the greenery. In their glow the nascent leaves of summer lie papery and delicate, drinking in the energy the trees crave. The grass just as warm as the light touching my face. All of this combined with a rather cold wind.

We walked relentlessly over the tall grass when we met our old friends.

"Red!" Cassidy and Butch came running to me. "It's an emergency."

"What happened?" Lyra asked. "Pretty sure you wanna battle us again and lose."

"Giovanni sent me to kill you." Said Cassidy. "And then he asked Butch to kill me and get your bag¿ to him."

"What?" I asked. "Giovanni wants me dead? So you're here to-"

"Help you." Said Cassidy. "See, we're no killers, we're just thieves. That's the only thing we do. And after Butch told me that he asked him to kill me, I stopped trusting Giovanni."

"About time." I said.

"Now what?" Asked Lyra. "Wait, why does he want his bag?"

"Maybe he wants something that's inside it?" Butch said. "I mean, the way he said it, he sounded greedy and selfish. He offered a promotion, I mean really? I can't even hold a gun properly."

"Inside it?" Said Lyra. "Red what's the thing Giovanni would want, that anyone can find in your bag."

"Nothing." I said. "Mega stone for Charizard? He doesn't even have a Charizard, what's he gonna do with it? Use it on a Dragonite like last year?"

"Oh man." Said Butch. "It almost destroyed the Safari Zone."

"Butch!" Cassidy shouted. "We need to hurry now. Run."

"But where?" Asked Butch. "He'll eventually find us."

"I know." Said Cassidy. "But we need to leave. C'mon."

Ben's POV

I warped into the space time tunnel. It was a quiet place with white light all-around. Inside the light, I could see everything ever happened to me. My past, my present and my future.

I looked into my pocket and saw the Master Ball and I knew what I had to do. I thought about the year 1999, about the events that happened in that year.

Suddenly, I fell on the ground. I was in Vermillion City but it looked ancient. No skyscrapers, no futuristic roads. I was able to know that it was Vermillion just because the PokeCentre looked exactly like that of Vermillion.

"Polywag, come out." I said. My son's Polywag came out of the Pokeball. "You okay?"

"Polywag." Polywag shrugged.

"Good to know." I said. "C'mon." I walked towards the PokeCentre. There were newspapers kept outside it on a stand. I picked one of the newspapers.

The headline read – NASA intentionally crashes the Lunar Prospector Spacecraft into the Moon. I ignored the news and looked at the date.

"July 31, 1999." I said, tears came out of my eyes. "Red, I'm gonna save you. I will save my family."