Epilogue

Following the confrontation at Cerulean Cave, we collected the body of Giovanni or the man once known as Kami Sakiki and buried him along side all of those who died and were buried together in a field behind Indigo Plateau. When asked later if his information should be changed at Memorial Tower back in Lavender Town to reflect his more recent cowardice and hostility, I refused.

Yellow and a crew of IP left for Johto and have begun an investigation into the whereabouts of a young boy named simply Silver, the one we believe to be Giovanni's son. According to Dr. Fuji, Silver had similar facial features to Giovanni but also long, red hair, and after asking around Kanto, it appears that several people did in fact see him a few times securing that he is no fantasy and a real boy, out in the world without his parents to help him. At this time all known members of Team Rocket have been accounted for in Kanto except for the three men that broke out of jail earlier including Alfie, Butch, and Jesse, but I trust the International Police will soon find them. Oak recently made contact with a friend in Johto named Dr. Elm who claims to have seen the boy running around his neighborhood and will keep an eye out for him.

Dr. Oak recovered from his injuries and then immediately turned himself in. Apparently his last mission to help Kanto was to draw out Giovanni from hiding. He nearly died in the process! I would have thought that a heavy price to pay on its own for his crimes, but he also took full blame for neglecting Blue and inciting him to anger and rebellion and consequently drug use.

Blue has completely recovered from and parted with his dependence on Rare Candy and began making public statements to make people aware of the dangers of using the drug. Despite its effects on his psyche and body, he has maintained sobriety and actually made great strides with repairing relationships that he damaged. One of his first moves was to apologize to his sister Daisy and then her best friend Summer, the latter of which accepted his apology and has started dating him once more. There's even talk about marriage between the two of them though he told me this would have to wait until he paid off some debts.

Blue publicly forgave his grandfather for everything that happened and has told us that he is applying for the position of Viridian City Gym Leader in place of Dan Mirty who happens to be in drug rehab on Cinnabar Island. Though Blue will have to consider going back to his birth name Jack Mizushima for the job and acquire an additional Skillfinder for Ground Pokemon Skills, he seems willing to do what's required. I have already endorsed him for the job and believe it will stick.

During the hearings of the men involved in the Mashmo death conspiracy, Oak, Fuji, Bill, and a few others were all investigated and charged with conspiracy to murder. The trial didn't appear to be going well for them, but their estranged friend Blaine as well as Gym Leaders Koga and Lt. Surge made good character witnesses for them which overall got the jury to empathize with them. I made a statement to the press defending Oak and the others good contributions to Kanto while also their not so good contributions, and soon after their sentences were reduced to community service and various legal fees instead of prison. Though their reputations may be forever clouded, enough people believe in them that I think they will continue to serve Kanto in some capacity only now without the fear of being caught in a lie.

Mewtwo left Kanto and no sighting of him has come up since the day he was released from Giovanni though there have been sightings of a small, similar looking creature flying around Johto. I can only guess it is his biological parent, Mew. I'm hoping that Mewtwo, and all Pokemon stay out of harm's way for years to come and vow to let no man try to weaponize any Pokemon or use them directly for battle as Team Rocket tried to do.

Mr. Silph turned over his blueprints for the Master Ball to the International Police for the sole purpose of them catching dangerous Pokemon and then releasing them somewhere they can't hurt anyone. I'm told that Hayashi ended up catching the last legendary bird, Moltres, which was quite difficult for the other IP offices to try and do and released him with the other two birds west of Cinnabar Island. They haven't been seen since.

Yellow apparently had to use a Silph Ball on a Snorlax after weeks of it traveling out of the woods and onto the Cycling Road and back and eventually laying out in his front lawn blocking Daisy in their house. He told me he had tried to move the creature several times unsuccessfully, and I did offer him a Flute, but he didn't believe me or didn't like my story about what happened with the other Snorlax I encountered outside Lavender Town.

Following the excitement of the final battle with Team Rocket, I was soon after sworn in as Monster Champion of Kanto. To my utter surprise, the former Champion, Oak technically, had received a nice estate outside of Indigo Plateau with several acres of land and a three story house, though he had never accepted it and left it instead to the next is a lot bigger than anything I thought about for a home growing up, but I'm happy to share it with Kyomi and hopefully some kids in the future.

The evening of my inauguration, another celebration was held in Viridian Forest. Looker or as he later revealed himself, Handsome Mann, which I find to be the best/worst name ever, ordained the wedding for Kyomi and I. The guests included JBlue who has changed his name back to Jack, Summer, Yellow, Daisy, all of our parents, Dr. Oak, and the 8 Gym Leaders from Kanto. I wore a black tuxedo with a red sash and Kyomi a white dress with a red shawl. She was so beautiful! Everyone came and celebrated and danced the night away.

Kyomi sometimes still struggles with the trauma of what happened to her in Saffron City, but she no longer tries to hide her scars. She and her father have chosen to stay in the IP, and I can now say that she is officially the hottest lady on their roster! Shortly after the wedding, we were asked by the public if we would continue to use the names Red and Green and someone even suggested we take new but similar names like Fire and Leaf, but we promptly declined promising to return to our birth names.

When we got home from our wedding, we found an incredible amount of gifts from people all over Kanto including matching bikes from Mr. Velo, a guy I remember running into back in Viridian City months ago. We don't NEED to ride bikes anymore, but we decided to keep them for the occasional cycling date on the weekends.

This whole journey didn't go quite as I planned, but now I know that I can serve Kanto as her Champion and fight the good fight for my country out of faith, hope, and love. I live each day now heading the restoration of Kanto myself, training side by side by some of best friends a guy could have, waking up each morning to kiss and share my love with my wonderful bride, and of course, setting old scores straight.

Old rivals that we are, we can't help but egg one another on. Call it good or bad, one secret I learned about and shared with my friends are the caves of Mount Silver, located in the woods behind our new house. I like to come out here and sit and collect my thoughts for a second when things get to be too busy but have let two people come up here. One is Kyomi who loves to watch the sunrise with me when we remember to get up here. The other is Jack and that's because Jack and I will follow each other into oblivion and back if we can prove the other wrong.

"Satoshi, I totally beat you on that cruise so quit playing!"

"Jack, you and I both know it was a tie!"

"Dude yeah because they called the clock. You know I was seconds away from whooping you off the deck and into the water!"

"Yeah, whatever man, prove it!"

"Hey you two," Kyomi interjects. "Are you going to fight or just stand there and talk smack at one another?"

"You want in on this Kyomi? I won't hold back just because you're the Champion's wife!"

"What? Satoshi, get out the way, I'm going to kick some butt!

"Oh, Jack, you pulled the 'wife' card man. Big mistake!"

"Whatever loser, if you two team up you just might beat me, but you don't stand a chance, I don't care what they call you!"

"Alright man, let's do this then!"

And after all this time, I stop and acknowledge that some things may never change.

The End