Giovanni stood at the airship's window, gazing at the vast forest spread out before him.
This was where everything had begun for him, and where all his ambitions had first been given power.
The largest forest in the Kanto Region.
Viridian Forest!
And beside Viridian Forest was the city where Giovanni had once served as a Gym Leader, as well as his hometown—Viridian City!
Bzzzzz—
As the propellers continued to spin and the airship slowly descended, swathes of forest foliage were pressed flat in uncontrollable waves.
Team Rocket's airship was indeed extremely fast.
How long had it even been?
Yet it had already traveled from the Sevii Islands to Viridian City in Kanto.
"Urgh!"
Giovanni's smiling face suddenly tightened, contorting with pain.
Beads of sweat as large as beans seeped from his forehead and cheeks before sliding down. He crouched on the ground, hunched over like a lobster.
"Boss!"
Sakaki and Oka were alarmed at the sight and hurried forward to support him.
But Giovanni stopped them with an outstretched hand.
"Bring him up."
At those words—
Sakaki and Oka exchanged a glance, their expressions turning serious as they nodded slightly. "Yes!"
The two immediately boarded a small airship and descended below.
There—
At the border between Viridian City and Viridian Forest, before the Viridian Gym, two figures stood watching the suddenly appearing Team Rocket airship with solemn expressions.
One of them was Yellow, a Pokédex holder who had originally been from Viridian City.
The other was Silver, who had come to Viridian City in search of his "roots"—Giovanni's son, the Silver who had been taken away by the masked man as a child and had his memories erased!
Through Yellow's Viridian Force, she had read some of Silver and Sneasel's childhood memories from the mind of the Sneasel that