"Closed?"
Baimu read the notice outside Pewter Gym.
The situation was even stranger than he had imagined. Not only was Brock absent, but so were his nine siblings and their parents.
The notice stated that they had gone traveling.
As for when they would return—
Indefinite!?
It was the second half of the year, the peak season for Pokémon Gym challenges!
Baimu finally understood why the Quartz League conducted regular inspections. Even after all these years, Kanto's Pokémon Gyms still felt like a slapdash operation.
No wonder it had more Gyms than any other region.
"What do we do now?"
The Porygon Phone asked for his opinion.
"Let's go to Viridian City. We've already seen the Fossil Restoration Machine prototype anyway."
In the field of Pokémon Fossil restoration, Kanto had been the first to make a technological breakthrough. Rumor had it that it was related to the ancient Pokémon discovered in the Grand Canyon.
Without a doubt, they were the ones who had lured Ash's Charmeleon into evolving into Charizard, making it even less obedient.
However, Fossil Pokémon in the Pokémon anime world were rather unusual.
Even without modern scientific equipment, they could be revived by all sorts of influences.
For example, during the Original Series, when Ash and his companions were traveling through the Orange Islands, they once reached an island made entirely of Kabuto fossils.
Bathed in Moonlight, those Kabuto revived on their own, causing the entire island to collapse with a thunderous crash.
The Fossil Pokémon living in the Tree of Beginning in the movie The Hero of Aura had most likely come about the same way.
In the blink of an eye.
Hydreigon flew over Viridian Forest.
In the Pokémon Adventures manga, a child with special powers was born in Viridian Forest every ten years.
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