The next day, as noon approached and the birds outside the window began chirping noisily, Misty finally woke up. The moment she opened her eyes, she was surprised to find herself in a hotel in the metropolis—in the most luxurious double suite Annie had booked once again.
She was lying safe and sound in her own bed, dressed in a soft, comfortable nightgown. Standing beside her bed were her two worried companions, Ash and Tracey.
And, of course, Pikachu and Togepi were right there too, leaning over the head of her bed and watching her anxiously.
"??"
"Where are we...?"
She instinctively felt her chest and found that all her belongings were intact. Her heart was still beating, and her skin didn't have so much as a scratch. Only then did Misty ask in confusion, her voice rising in alarm:
"Ah!"
"That monster!"
"Did you two drive it away?!"
Since she was safe and sound, and since everyone had returned to the hotel and seemed fine, Misty naturally assumed Ash and Tracey had rushed back in time and rescued her.
"Huh?"
"Well..."
"Um..."
"Where should we start?"
At Misty's question, Ash and Tracey exchanged a glance. In the end, Tracey had no choice but to explain in detail what had happened.
"Actually..."
"You've got it wrong, Misty. We weren't the ones who brought you back. We'd only just woken up ourselves."
"It went something like this..."
With a wry smile, Tracey looked at Misty sitting on the bed and came right out with what had happened.
After Ash and Tracey had scuba-dived through the underwater passage, they quickly found the Bulbasaur that had been captured and gone missing. They also discovered an unusually powerful, gigantic mutant Bulbasaur.
At first, they thought it was the sewer monster. But after getting to