"Shit-"

After a series of explosions, the trainers refound down the shrine, which was fine. Crystal and Red were resting against each other as Gold looked around. Silver had vanished, and it worried him. Yellow frowned.

"Now what?"

"Good question." Blue sighed as Alabastru noticed Gold's search.

"All good?" He nodded.

"Just... Silver's missing. I know he was with Crystal... but he's not here anymore." Silence joined as the two started getting up and assessing the situation. Gold then sighed. "I just hope he's ok. His mum's probably worried sick-"

A yelp escaped him as something tackled him, which caused someone to burst into giggles. Crystal took two seconds before she snorted, a smirk crossing her face before Gold glared at her.

"What was that for?"

"Can you not hear behind you?" The glare deepened as the giggles grew. She then looked up and called out. "Get down here, you little sneak." Silver's red hair swayed below him as he hung down, his silver eyes scanning her.

"That's not fair. I had more to pull."

"Suffer. What did you do?" Silver chose not to answer as he climbed back up before Gold got free of the pokemon Silver had tackled him with.

"What do you-" Seeing the Typhlosion instead of a Quilava made him look up. "Silver!"

"NOPE!" Alabastru climbed up before a yelp followed. "WAIT! NO!"

~

They were able to get him down before he giggled.

"I had it handled." Typhlosion stayed at his side so that he needed to steady himself. "While Whitney did get away, I was able to make sure she didn't fully succeed." Gold glared at him as he swayed.

"Which was?" Silver blinked twice.

"Well... Whitney did get into the shrine. However, I was able to break the pokeball she had that captured Celebi." Crystal paused.

"So... she's trapped in the shrine?"

"Unless Celebi let her out." A snicker escaped Red, clearing that suspicion. Silver smiled before his stomach growled. "Darn it. All this hard work made me hungry. I'm going home." The others couldn't hold their laughter as he climbed onto Typhlosion and the two started leaving. Red blinked.

"Hey wait! I want food!" Crystal, who was the only one not to laugh, couldn't help it as the sly Dexholder went after the weaponsmith, who waved him off. Gold sighed.

"Let's go before they leave us." That got agreement before they went to join the duo.

~

Silver's mom instantly greeted them, helping them get comfortable and food while embarrassing Silver about his hair, which was tangled from what happened in Ilex Forest. She also helped relax Crystal and Red, who were still uptight about the Masked Man, and almost got Alabastru to take the wrap, though Red shot a look at her before she could. They all jumped him, but he argued back, keeping his ground.