Red Tajiri/History

## The New Timeline (Past)

Red was raised by his single mother, Shinku. She taught him that the best way to respect someone in a fight is to always try your best. It is implied his mom died in a house fire that Red caused with his Bloodliner abilities.

Red obtained a Pichu some time before he started his journey as his first Pokémon.

## Pewter Arc

By using his strategic mind, Red was able bring his type disadvantageous team a victory against Brock for his first badge in Pewter City . He planned to travel through Mt. Moon to get to Cerulean City for his second gym battle. In the tunnel he came across a swarm of Zubats attacking something, so Red scared them off. The target of their attack was a weak and battered Yellow. Yellow then began travelling with him. The two then traversed the rest of Mt. Moon, the whole time Red was on the search for rare Pokémon. They did eventually find one single Clefairy, which Red captured.

## Cerulean Arc

Red challenged Lt. Surge for a battle for his third badge. He made it past Surge's first Pokémon without trouble before his Charmeleon battled against the gym leader's Magneton. The Steel-type was able to inflict notable damage but eventually fell. When Surge sent out his Raichu as his final Pokémon, Red swapped out his Charmeleon for his Weepinbell. The Grass-type was defeated soon followed by Red's Meowth. Red brought his Charmeleon back out to finish the fight and was able to overcome the powerful rodent and win Red a Thunder Badge.

## Battle Dome Tournament Arc

Some point after Red and Yellow arrived in Lavender Town, they were approached by Scott. Scott invited him to compete in the Battle Dome Tournament, Red accepted. After accepting the invitation, Red and Yellow explored Lavender until Yellow ended up running into and colliding with Ash. When Red met Ash's eye the two trainers quickly took up positions to have a Pokémon battle. Right before they could summon their Pokémon, Scott once again appeared, this time stopping the battle. When Ash and his companions accepted his invitation to join the tournament, Red and Ash agreed that would be a more suitable battlefield.

In the first round Red battled against Alex Davis. Red used his Charmeleon while Alex used his Kadabra. Having experience battling Gary's Kadabra, the two easily took the win.

In round two Red was paired against Iris. Red used his Clefairy against Iris's Axew. During the battle, Axew cut Clefairy's palms with a Scratch attack when Clefairy tried to attack the dragon. Clefairy began to counter with a string of Metronomes while singing a chilling song. Iris ultimately surrendered in fear of Clefairy maiming Axew. Red himself deemed it necessary to apologize for Clefairy's actions and made a note to learn why Clefairy creeped out his other Pokémon.

In the third round Red and his Pikachu faced off against Misty and her Gyarados. Thinking it would be an easy win, he was stunned when Pikachu's Thunderbolt was completely ineffective. Red continued to try to attack Gyarados, but no matter what he tried nothing seemed to work. Eventually Misty ordered Gyarados to use a Water Pulse that would eliminate Pikachu. Red used his Bloodline to effectively stop time and examine all his options, and when he examined Thunderbolt he noticed his Victory Odds were suddenly 74%, leaps and bounds better than what he was getting all battle. Not knowing why her strategy would not work anymore but seeing it as his best option, Red did issue the command for a Thunderbolt. This electric attack won the battle for them.

In the finale Ash was the opponent that he was paired against. When preparing for the battle, Red looked at what the best options for both him and Ash could be. Red could see the logic of Ash using either his Squirtle or Snivy, with Snivy being the more dangerous option. With this in mind Red selected his Charmeleon for the battle.

When the battle began, Ash brought out his Butterfree which had no possible logical reason for being the case. Immediately Red thought he had the battle guaranteed. Ash's Bug-type surprised him again and again in the battle causing Red's Victory Sight to give him unknown values for the first time in his life. Eventually both Pokémon were knocked to the ground, and it was only Charmeleon's superior upper body strength compared to Butterfree that managed to allow the Fire-type to rise when his opponent could not. This won Red the battle and as a result the tournament.

The victory against Ash felt hollow to Red. For his Bloodline let him see that Ash had some sort of power like his own but did not use it padding-left: 10px;against him. Red suspected that had Ash used it he would have lost and as such felt like he did not deserve his win.

## Poison War Arc

In Fuchsia City, Red and Yellow walked through the streets planning for Red to challenge the local gym leader soon. They spotted a Pokémon nearby that seemed to be asleep, and Yellow found it adorable and asked Red to catch it. Red however quickly pointed out that the Pokémon had a collar with a tag. Suddenly, the Safari Zone warden, Kaiser, came out of a building grumbling as he talked to a girl named Lilo, who quickly revealed herself to be the owner of the Pokémon, a Komala named Stitch. After Yellow introduced both herself and Red, he stares at Lilo, who understood the unspoken message and challenged him to a Pokémon battle. Red decided to use Pikachu while Lilo brings out a Pokémon named Crabrawler. Due to its appearance Red assumed it might be a Water-type, only to find himself surprised that it's actually a Fighting-type, briefly catching him off-guard. Red's Pikachu managed to win nonetheless, and the second bout soon began. Red brought out his Charmeleon, while Lilo chose an Exegguttor that's a lot taller than the ones Red knows. At first, Red thought he had the upper hand, until he realized a Shadow Claw attack didn't do super effective damage. Lilo then ordered Exegguttor to use Draco Meteor, making Red realize the different typing, albeit a bit too late as Charmeleon ended up poisoned and forced him to forfeit. The trainers decided to go for best two out of three and Lilo brought out a Mudsdale, another Pokémon Red did not know, but quickly deduced by its name and appearance to be a Ground-type, so he chose his Victreebel. Red also took notice of a white ring she suddenly put on her wrist with a crystal, and seemed ready to use it, but before the battle can begin, Kaiser called Lilo in to do some paperwork. The battle ends interrupted, but Lilo proposed that they settle the score in the upcoming Fuchsia Tag Tournament that she's planning to enter, which Red agreed to.

While waiting for the beginning of the tournament Red challenged Janine at the Fuchsia gym. He won the battle and earned his fourth badge.

## Fuchsia Arc

A few days later before the tournament begins, Red looked around for his partner with the number six. Red is notified by Yellow that he is paired with Ash, which Yellow quickly celebrated and declared them "the greatest team ever".

While Red and Ash waited for the beginning of their first match, against a couple of trainers names Al and Sasha. Red noticed that being around Ash causes his Victory Sight to glitch and not give him any numbers. He'd also done some digging about Lilo and Alola, and found out that the ring he saw her wearing before was different to the one he got in the Battle Dome, and guessed that it might be a different secret weapon than Mega Evolution. Recalling Yellow's words of them being "the greatest team ever", Red admitted they're a strong team, but was unsure as to how he'll battle without relying on his Victory Sight as he'd done so far.

In the first round, their opponents brought out a Rhydon and a Bellossom, while Ash sent out his Yanma and Red selected his Poliwrath. Poliwrath and Yanma won due to Yanma confusing their opponents by throwing Bellossom and Red capitalizing on this with a Water Pulse on Rhydon.

Red and Yellow then joined Ash and Anabel in the spectator seats where he noted to Ash that Lilo was the strongest opponent in the tournament. During Misty and Iris' match, Red took notice of how both girls have grown stronger, to which Ash replied that traveling together with friends helps a lot. Yellow suggested they could have dinner together tonight, and they all agreed to do so.

Later at the Pokémart, Red wondered if they jumped too soon about the dinner idea. Yellow denied it, but she did say they needed topics to talk about. Red only had in mind battle combinations for the upcoming matches, much to Yellow's chagrin. She tried to suggest that they asks Ash things about himself instead. Knowing that he comes from Pallet Town, Red wondered if asking about the place he's from would be enough, and Yellow agreed.

At dinner, the conversation went from Pallet Town to Ash and Red's respective starter Pokémon, which Yellow found odd that Ash would have Pikachu as his starter as she would have expected Bulbasaur or Charmander, which Ash mentioned ended up in the hands of a couple of twins, Elwood and Aideen. Red explains that he had also met them before, having fought them in a Battle Club some time ago. Red eventually revealed his surname before he picked up Ash's Pokédex from the table, which the machine seemed to find displeasing. Red then mentioned that Ash's Pokédex said that Yanma seemed more oriented to special attacks, while Ash's Yanma only used physical attacks during their match. Ash replied that Yanma enjoys fighting like that and he didn't seem to do well with special moves, so he focused on that. Red argued that Yanma also evolves learning a special move (Ancient Power), but Ash refuted that he's training Yanma to work on what he does well and suits him, and he won't force him to evolve unless he chose to. The answer left Red rather puzzled, but Ash continued by stating that he believes in working with a Pokémon's strong points as individuals, not as representative of their species. Red then suggested they talk about battle combinations, which made Yellow facepalm.

Ironically their opponents are none other than the twins Elwood and Aideen. Aideen called out a Nidorina, and Ash chose Ambipom. In turn, Elwood brought out a Hitmonlee, and Red responded with his Victreebel. Victreebel's Leaf Storm defeated Hitmonlee and then a Vine Whip/Power-Up Punch combo from Victreebel and Ambipom finished off Nidorina. With the battle won they advanced to the next round.

Later, Ash and Red watched Lilo's match, this time she used her Crabrawler. Among the chatter, Red and Yellow revealed the other Pokémon Lilo used in her unfinished match against Red, including the Alolan Exeggutor and the Mudsdale, which Ash and Red looked up in the Pokédex to learn what they can do and prepare. Red mentioned that he didn't get the chance to fight Mudsdale so he borrowed the Pokédex to look up as much data as possible.

The next day, Ash and Red are pitted against Tim Mortis and Mike. Mike sent out a Ninetales whose Drought ability immediately brought harsh sunlight on the field. Ash chose to send out his Charizard, while Tim sent out a Misdreavus. Red wished he could have used his Haunter, but her ball was currently inactive, so he chose to use his Persian instead. Red and Ash battled together with perfect teamwork and as a result easily win the battle.

Later that day, Red and Yellow track down Ash to confront him about being a Bloodliner. When they do find Ash, before saying a word he ignited his hand with a Fire Punch, then revealed that he knows Ash is a Bloodliner himself. Red then made his eyes glow with Victory Sight, and told Ash that he knew he too has a power like his but had been holding back on using it. After he explains how his Victory Sight works, he demanded to know how Ash's does, and Anabel explained it for him. Ash however replied that he didn't use it often and it usually activated on its own, but they've won their battles without it. Red however didn't seem pleased at this, and Ash explained that he didn't use it because he viewed it as an unfair advantage and considered it cheating. Red insisted that it's not cheating, they all were born with those abilities and have both the right and the duty to use them in competitions to give their all, and told him that he could have used his power to win back at the Battle Dome, just like Red used his. Upon learning this, Ash became shocked and angry, thinking that Red cheated to win against Misty and Iris. Red defended himself by saying that battling against or alongside Ash screwed with his Victory Sight and he hasn't been able to use it for the whole tournament, and told Ash to stop "holding back". Ash refused to budge, telling him that he relied on his own abilities instead of using shortcuts. Red replied that he does too, but didn't feel like "trying to run with one leg", before he turned around and left.

In the next round of the tournament, it is between Red's Haunter, Ash's Pikachu, Lilo's Mudsdale and her partner's Pidgeotto. At the beginning of the battle, Pikachu's Thunderbolt quickly hit the other trainer's Pidgeotto leaving it out of the fight, but not before it could use Tailwind. The increased speed allowed Mudsdale to land hits it normally couldn't, and it's Stamina allowed it to shrug off hits. Ash had Pikachu try to block an attack on Haunter with Thunderbolt but it is redirected into the Ghost paralyzing it. The Tailwind's effect finally petered out, and Lilo prepared to use her ultimate weapon: her Z-Move Tectonic Rage. Red tried to get Haunter to dodge, but the paralysis flared up and left the Ghost-type helpless to take the full brunt of the Z-Move's power, leaving her unable to continue. As Red recalled his Pokémon, he asked Lilo if this was her ace in the hole from the last time, which Lilo confirmed, and Red realized that, had that battle gone on uninterrupted, she'd have won. Red then admitted defeat, but Ash berated him for behaving as if Pikachu has already lost as well, and told him he intended to win this, much to Red's shock. The battle continued in a stalemate, with Mudsdale able to tank any of Piakchu's hits and Pikachu able to dodge any of Mudsdale's attacks. Ash then surprised Red and everybody else when he ordered Pikachu to gather as much electricity as he can in his tail before slamming his tail on the ground straight at Mudsdale. The attack sent out a rain of rock and dirt chunks over Mudsdale, heavily damaging it. Pikachu then used one last Quick Attack to defeat the Ground-type.

Later, Yellow tried to bring Red to eat with them before Misty and Iris' battle, but Red didn't feel like going, even lying that he was not actually hungry. He recalled his mother's lessons about always giving your all as a sign of respect to your opponents, which is only compounded by the fact that, when he gave up on the fight, Ash picked up the slack and won it for both of them, and without using his Bloodliner powers. That bothers Red to no end, feeling that Ash refused to use his abilities because he considered his opponents "unworthy" of them, considering him arrogant for it.

That night Red stumbled into Ash on a walk, and recognizes an injured Raichu in front of him as Paul's. Ash explained that Paul had a habit of releasing Pokémon he thought too weak. Red stated that he understood not catching a Pokémon in the first place, or either trading or giving it away to someone who'd want it, but not discarding it this way. Ash then caught the Raichu and Red then decided that they have to win tomorrow's match. He asked Ash to tell him as much as he can about Paul so they can plan together. They might have had disagreements, but Paul crossed a serious line and Red wouldn't stand for it. Ash agreed and gave an in depth explanation of what he knew.

The following day, just as Ash predicted, Paul brought out Torterra, and Red countered with his Charmeleon. Gary sent out his Blastoise, and Ash sent out Servine. The two decided that the battle will be easier with Blastoise out of the way and tag team to defeat the Shellfish Pokémon. They then turned their attention to Torterra who has used this time to power with Curse. The Bloodliners try to have their Pokémon hit Torterra, but it seemed to be able to block all of their attacks. After one last Leaf Storm attack, Ash told Red that he had a plan, but for it to work they needed Charmeleon to evolve. Red and everyone ended up in shock at Ash's declaration, but Ash insisted that, having his own Charizard, he knew that Red's Charmeleon was on the verge of evolving, having the power to do so and only needing the will to let it flow. Red sighed, but ultimately decided to try giving Charmeleon a speech to encourage him. Not a very good one, but surprisingly, Red got through to Charmeleon, and triggered his evolution to Charizard. The Fire-type then uses its newly learned Heat Wave to defeat Torterra and win the tournament.

In the Safari Zone, Red and Yellow trekked through the wilds and managed to capture a good selection of Pokémon. Many of them being able to Mega Evolve in their final forms, which is something in particular he was looking for. Eventually they stumbled upon a Snorlax and Red debated on whether to capture it or not. Suddenly a girl called Naty appears on the Snorlax when they go to walk away. Naty claimed that she wanted Red to become sort of a chosen one, and she would help him get there. She gave him a Rainbow Pass and told him to come to a private sanctuary in the Sevii Islands where he could leave his Pokémon out of stasis. To persuade him further Naty tempted Red with a Kangaskhanite and took one of Red's Safari Balls and captured the Snorlax with it. Naty then told Red in order to get his Snorlax back and the Kangaskhanite, he would have to scour the island chain to find this place before teleporting away.

## Red's Sevii Islands Arc

Red raced to Vermilion City while managing to earn three badges on his way. Now needing only one more and having months to get it, he could take the time to look for the place Naty wanted him to find. Red and Yellow caught a ferry that took them to One Island.

### One Island

On One Island Red and Yellow were confronted by a strange girl who mentioned Naty jokingly before teleporting away with her Abra. The two decided to explore a landmass north of the island that looked rocky and had a tall mountain on it. Yellow explored the beach while Red climbed around the rocks, there he ran into a strange man who knew who he was. That man guessed that Red was wanting to master Mega Evolution, but also observed that Red was missing something if he was to obtain that goal. Red questioned him, but the man said nothing and simply left on his Gyarados that appeared to be holding a Mega Stone.

While Red and Yellow continued looking they traveled towards Mt. Ember but found the heat getting to them, so they took refuge in a cave until it got dark and cooled down. To pass the time, using his Pokégear SP Red watched a battle that was won by Casey Snagem using willpower rather than anything logical. Red came to the conclusion that friendship and trust with his Pokémon must be what he was missing. When he brought his Poliwrath out to bond with it, the Water-type discovered a hot spring in the cave. Red then rotated his party while allowing each of his Pokémon to relax in the water.

### Two Island

Having no luck finding the sanctuary near One Island, Red and Yellow continued on to Two Island. Here Red decided to try to talk with some of his Pokémon one on one to get to know them better. Knowing that something was wrong with his Clefairy he decided to start with him. Right before Red released the Fairy-type from its ball, a loud explosion sounded from not too far away. The pair of Bloodliners cautiously investigated and saw an old woman with her Pokémon practicing amazingly powerful attacks.

Excited by the attacks, Yellow approached the woman with Red trailing behind her. The women introduced herself as Ultima, and explained she was a master of the Ultimate Moves. Yellow asked Ultima to teach Blast Burn to Red's Charizard, the old lady replying that she would have her Dragonite test the boy and his Fire-type to see if they were ready. It was at this point that Clefairy released itself from his Poké Ball and challenged Dragonite to a fight. Dragonite easily defeated the fairy, but Ultima still had to recognize that something was seriously wrong with it. When she found out Red had done nothing to find out why that was, she berated the boy.

Ultima stayed true to her word and still had Red and CharIzard tested. The two however were unable to Perform the move properly even with her help. During the test battle, Red got angry that the Dragonite was holding back, feeling that he was not being respected. Ultima asked why he would want her to use more force than necessary to take Charizard out and leave it in an injured state especially during a test. Red could do nothing but concede that point.

### Three Island

When Red and Yellow landed on Three Island they soon came across The Kanto Pokémon Federation, a biker gang that was terrorizing the town. Red used his team to fight the gang off and the island’s citizens praised them as heroes. Suddenly a man came running into the town looking for his daughter, Lostelle. The townspeople come to the conclusion that the little girl must be in the Berry Forest, a dangerous place where multiple children have gone missing in the past. Knowing that Red can protect himself, the father begs the Bloodliners to look for his daughter. Yellow accepts on Red's behalf and the two venture into the woods.

After walking around for a while they realize they have been moving in circles. This was caused by a group of Slowbro using their psychic powers on the two. In the battle to stop the Water-types, Red and Clefairy are separated from the others, because Clefairy took the fight too far and reawakened a Slowbro who then attacked Red with a Psywave. After coming to, Red and Clefairy begin to search for not only Lostelle, but now Yellow and Pikachu as well. Instead they end up finding the Slowbro that Clefairy had injured before. Clefairy once more attacks the Slowbro without regard as to when enough is enough. Red captures the Slowbro so that he will be able to get it medical attention then loses it on Clefairy, saying that one shouldn't keep attacking like that after the victory is assured, and that Clefairy is a monster for doing so. The words sounded familiar when coming out of his own mouth so Red thinks on them and comes to the conclusion that they are similar to the ones Ash and Ultima have used to describe his battle policy.

Red and Clefairy then hear Yellow and rush in that direction. When they stumble into a clearing, one one side is Yellow, Pikachu and Lostelle, while on the other is a Hypno and a bunch of hypnotized kids who look to be dirty and somewhat injured. Red thinking the Hypno is a horrible being for doing that to kids, orders Clefairy to Double Slap the Psychic-type viciously. Hypno apologizes and begs for the attacking to stop, but Red doesn't allow it until all the children have been released from its spell. After the Hypno runs away terrified, Red turns around to see Yellow looking at him the same way he has been looking at Clefairy lately. She then told him that Hypno was just confused and was likely going to let the children go with a little more prompting. This makes him feel terrible.

Once the children were all safe with their families, Red took Clefairy out of town to talk and to heal Slowbro. Red finds out Clefairy is lonely and does want to be good, but is having a hard time being so. The trainer offers his hand in friendship and the partners get to work on caring for Slowbro.

### Four Island

On Four Island, Red and Yellow visited the Pokémon Day Care in an attempt to give his Pokémon an opportunity to be happier. While there the couple that ran the daycare told him that Lorelei was from that very island, and that she had captured her Lapras in the Icefall Cave. Wanting a Lapras for himself Red set off on his own into the cavern, knowing it would be too dangerous to take Yellow with him.

After a few hours of traversing the cave and still not finding a Lapras, Red ended up being attacked by a wild Sneasel. Red's Ponyta managed to take care of it, and Red captured the ice weasel. During a lunch break when Red was feeding his Pokémon, he let out Sneasel and won its loyalty and signs of a friendship by giving it treats.

Continuing with his search Red was crossing a narrow ledge when he was attacked by a Zubat swarm. He had Pikachu try to scare them off with a Thunderbolt, but in addition to scaring the pests it made the mouse and he lose their balance and fall over the crumbling edge. Luckily the same strange man from One Island was there and caught Red before he fell. The man introduced himself as Siebold, a member of the Kalosian Elite Four. After a short conversation Siebold gave Red more of a clue to what he was doing wrong in regards to Mega Evolution. Instead of trying to capture as many Mega Evolution capable Pokémon as he could, he should instead focus on the ones he has and build their relationship up. For it is the relationship and trust a trainer has with their Pokémon that makes Mega Evolution possible. Knowing that Red was honestly tiring to work on his relationships he has with his Pokémon, Siebold suggested Red try something new. Siebold would accompany Red to the deepest part of the cave where a pod of Lapras was said to live, and Red would attempt to capture one through talking rather than battle.

Once the two trainers got close to the back of the cave they heard signs of a battle. Hurrying to the location they found a Mamoswine attacking a young Lapras. Red attempts to fight the Mamoswine off, but it isn't until Siebold intervenes that the Mamoswine retreats. Noting the Lapras' injuries, Red slowly approaches it and feeds it some Pokémon food the Elite Four member provided to earn its trust. Red applies some medicine and once the Lapras is healed the rest of the pod approach. Red sees them acting as a family and decides that he can’t take the child away from its parents and turns to leave. The Lapras calls out to him before they can leave and after a conversation between Red and the pod, the child agrees to carry Red out of the cave system.

Arriving in the beach Red and Lapras encounter Yellow who is happy Red found what he was looking for. Red formally captures Lapras before Yellow drags him back to the daycare telling him the couple have something to give him. Once they return to the Daycare Center the old couple lead Red into a room full of Pokémon eggs and offer him one of his choosing. They explain that they can see Red has trouble with social interactions and that raising a baby Pokémon is a known way to help. Red gratefully accepts before choosing a brown egg with a jagged cream colored stripe encircling the middle of it.

### Five Island

Soon after reaching Five Island, Red and Yellow found themselves at the Pokémon Center getting Red's party a check up. During that check up, the Nurse Joy on duty noticed Clefairy's odd behavior and did some extra tests. She found that Clefairy suffered from a chemical imbalance in his brain that can cause him to act on impulses without being able to differentiate them between right and wrong. The nurse then gave Red a prescription for Clefairy to help with the imbalance.

Red then moved to the beach where he and his Pokémon started doing some multipurpose training. Not only did his Pokémon get practice in battle, but he also had Slowbro use a weak Psywave on Red himself so as to prevent Victory Sight from working. It was during this training that a strange man approached them and out of nowhere had his Arbok paralyze Red and his team before taking Yellow hostage. He offered to return Yellow safely if Red brought all his Pokémon to a warehouse in Five Isle Meadow as a trade.

Red scouted out the warehouse both from the water and from the air. Confident he had as much information as possible, Red began the raid with his Sneasel and Slowbro quickly taking out all the guards outside. Red then used an application of Victory Sight to guess the password for the door. When the door opened an all out brawl broke out between Red's team and the Team Rocket goons inside. Red's team quickly took control of the situation so Red left Sneasel, Clefairy and Lapras to handle things before taking the rest of his team deeper into the warehouse. As Red progressed he was continually being ambushed by Team Rocket grunts and their Pokémon. Instead of fighting long drawn out fights Red decided to abandon them and focus on finding Yellow. This however had the side effect of more and more grunts being after him at the same time.

At one point Red flew over a row of cages with Charizard to avoid his pursuers, and on the other side he found the Hypno he had attacked back on Three Island in a cage. Knowing that Hypno is a powerful psychic, Red realized that the Hypno was his best chance at getting through everything even if Victory Sight said the odds were only a 13% chance at success. Red apologized to Hypno and attempted to convince him to lend a hand in escaping together. Hypno agreed and disposed of all of the opponents. Suddenly Red's group is confronted by Deacon, the admin in charge, and his Pokémon. They are easily defeated, but right when Red started to think that he has won his group is bombarded by Hyper Beams from above. They all were down for the count and Deacon approached Red to grab his Poké Balls, but before he could reach them he was attacked by a Rattata. As the Rattata distracted Deacon and his Pokémon, Yellow snuck up and began to heal Red's group. Now healed up Red's group manage to defeat Deacon's team with the help of Clefairy, Sneasel and Lapras who arrive as reinforcements. Now safe they all leave the warehouse together.

When they reached the town's outskirts, the group started to celebrate their escape together. Red noticed that Hypno was still looking morose, so offered him a spot on his team. Hypno accepted and Red's team became one larger.

### Six Island

After the excitement from the last five islands, Red was a little disappointed when he searched Six Island end-to-end and found nothing of interest. When the siblings were on their way to the Pokémon Center, they came across a battle between two trainers using a Machoke and a Pidgey. The Machoke was beating the Pidgey viciously with little to no care about the bird's safety. Angered that they would take the battle so far Red and Yellow intervened and the Pidgey was finally able to be retrieved by its trainer. When asked how the Machoke's trainer could take things that far, he quoted Shinku Tajiri's philosophy about fighting.

After rushing the Pidgey to the Pokémon Center, the siblings learned that the Machoke's trainer was named Rosso, and had been beating many other Pokémon the same way. Red was infuriated that someone was using his mom's teachings to justify bullying others, beating others with no restraint. He also worried that it was the way he came across to others like Ash and Ultima. He then spoke to Shige, the Pidgey's trainer, and his grandfather, Unsho, about Rosso's past and how he treated Shinku's philosophy as law.

Not being able to stand someone corrupting his mom's teachings, Red left to correct Rosso's beliefs one way or another. He finds Rosso at the Dotted Hole and introduces himself as the son of Shinku, while claiming that Rosso was corrupting her memory. Red challenges Rosso to a battle, where the winner will be implied to be be the one that best understands what Shinku taught. To Red this battle is more important than any other he has had, because it means honoring his late mother. The battle was a three on three battle with Red using his three newest Pokémon, each against opponents that have a type advantage against them. In each match Red wins without too much difficulty.

Rosso was distraught at his loss, and Red tried to use it as an opportunity to clear up Rosso's misunderstandings of his mom's beliefs. Rosso listened to what Red had to say, but then walked away without an acknowledgement of whether he truly understood or not.

### Seven Island

When Red and Yellow arrived on Seven Island it was raining, so to utilize his time and not be out in the rain Red challenged the local Trainer Tower. The tower was eight floors full of challengers that Red fought and defeated winning him a Normal Gem.

He and Yellow then traveled towards the south of the island where a large canyon was situated. Instead of searching the canyon the two made camp as it was getting late. After Red fell asleep, he awoke on the other side of the campsite to the site of him asleep where he began. Suddenly he started hearing strange noises and decided he would have to investigate. He made his way through the canyon but none of the nocturnal Pokémon noticed him.

It wasn't until Red was reassuring himself that Yellow would be okay, that somebody spoke out to him. It turned out to be a young boy that resembled Ash with legs attached to the rock face of the canyon, that spoke to him a out Yellow's welfare. Red walked away but another Ash-lookalike rose from the grass and continued the tangent, but Red walked through them and they disappeared. A third Ash made from rocks then showed up and started talking about the difference between Red and Ash's rivals from The Old Timeline, to Red this just sounded like incorrect/crazy ramblings. Red followed the path towards the noises he had been hearing and came across another figure who was somewhat transparent and somewhere between his and Yellow's ages. This figure, known as the Tanoby Keykeeper, also talked nonsense about futures and how they have changed as well as responded to Red's thoughts about dreaming and being between them. He explained that the Unown were on the other side of dreams, and that with the right prompting could alter reality immensely both in terms of space and time. The figure then told Red that in order for him to awake from this state that he must make a wish to the Unown, but to be careful because if not worded carefully there could be dire consequences.

Red then entered the Tanoby Key and approached the spinning mass of Unowns trying to temper his thoughts so nothing unexpected would happen. Every time a thought would come up, the Unown would begin to react and Red would be forced to clear his mind or risk that thought becoming reality. Red knew that he had to choose wisely what he would wish for. After much deliberation Red declared "I seek a map of Seven Island that will lead me to the girl called Naty who has a Safari Ball holding a Snorlax and a Kangaskhanite Mega Stone!". There was then a flash of light and Red began to wake up exactly where he had fallen asleep, only there was a map in his hands.

Red and Yellow followed this map further south and eventually located Naty and the sanctuary she promised.

## Mewtwo Arc

After Red earned his eighth badge, he an yellow had a small celebration on the coast. While there he was challenged by another trainer to a battle, and was able to defeat that trainer's Machamp with Pikachu. He and Yellow were disussing what to do until the league, when a Dragonite crashed their celebration and gave Red a letter to a gathering of trainers on New Island, where he would be abel to meet the world's greatest Pokémon trainer.

When Red and Yellow arrived at the wharf where the ferry was to depart from to New Island, there was a massive storm so the boat ride ended up getting cancelled. Wanting to still attend the gathering, Red decided that Lapras would be able to brave the storm and carry he and Yellow to their destination. Once they reached the island they were greeted by a woman who had him release all of his Pokémon out of their Poké Balls in a large room. When they entered the room, where he found Ash, his friends and one other trainer already there. They waited around while some other trainers arrived, until their mysterious host decided to show himself. The host turned out to be a powerful Pokémon who introduced himself as Mewtwo. When Mewtwo claimed to be both the world's strongest Pokémon and Pokémon Master, Red like some other trainers there had Pikachu launch a Thunderbolt at him. Mewtwo reflected all of the attacks back at Pokémon and trainers, but before the electricity could make contact, Ratty jumped in and shoved both Red and Pikachu of the way. Confused by Ratty's interference, Mewtwo questioned how it was possible, and Yellow said it was because she wanted to save her brother. This angered Mewtwo, so many of Red's Pokémon launched their own attacks in hopes to take his attention from Yellow, only to be quickly reflected once again.

After some arguments between Mewtwo and the trainers, and a battle between the Psychic-type and Casey Snagem's Chesnaught, Mewtwo brought out cloned versions of Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise to challenge the trainer raised species present. Red conceded that this type of battle was something that Ash and his Charizard would be more suited towards so let Ash take the Charizard round. When Ash was able to win his match, Mewtwo decided Ash must be a Bloodliner, and sent out a swarm of Poké Balls to capture all of the Pokémon and Bloodliners present, including Red.

Some time later Red was released from his confinement by Yellow, who quickly explained they had to open all of the balls and release their inhabitants. Once everyone was free, Red asked Ash what they should do next. When it was decided they would take the fight to Mewtwo, Red agreed and joined the assault. Eventually Ash was able to defeat their opponent with a super powered Z-Move and gave a speech about what to do when you lose a loved one. Mewtwo agreed to let everyone go, but that most everyone there would have to lose their memories of the event. They were all teleported away and Red found that both he and Yellow were able to retain their memories.

## Indigo Arc

During the first round of the Indigo League Conference, Red was paired against Watac, who's entire team was swept by Snorlax. Red continued his winning streak defeating Hayden, Oliver, Dozer, and Raymond without too much trouble. When Red realized after winning one more battle, all future ones would be full 6-on-6 battles and worried about Yellow's well being while he battled. He decided to suck up his pride and ask Ash and his friends if they would be willing to take care of her while he was busy. Red and Yellow were able to track down Ash down in a forested area training, and to Red's surprise they agreed immediately to watch their younger sister.

In the Top 32 match, Red was paired against A.J. The match was very close and even though A.J. Mega Evolved his Beedrill, Red was able to come out on top thanks to the efforts of his Sneasle, Hypno and Gyarados.

In the Top 16 match Red was matched against Alexander Silph for his first full battle this tournament. Red found this battle difficult, in part thanks to Silph using many Pokémon he wasn't familiar with that had unknown quirks and typing. During the battle between Red's PIkachu and Silph's Marowak, Silph threw Red for a loop when he revealed he knew what happened on New Island. This surprise combined with Silph's Hydreigon's power were able to knock out three of Red's Pokémon even if in the last bout, Red's Scyther was able to take the Dragon-type down with it. During the halftime break, Ash and Yellow met up with him to talk. Ash revealed what he knew of Silph, and that he expected Silph was overconfident in his odds due to his presumed knowledge of Red. After Ash declared he wanted to meet Red in the finals, Red felt inspired when he began the second half of the match. The continued to prove very difficult, but Red was eventually able to pull of the win.

## Links

1. ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/mark331/art/Pokemon-Reset-Bloodlines-The-First-Battle-732370809