For The Longest time

Final Chapter Part 2: Starting Anew

It had been a few hours since Red drifted off to sleep. At the time, he was sleeping soundly until….

*BANG*

"H-huh?" He mumbled with his eyes half open.

*BANG*

The sound loudly rang out again causing pikachu to get spooked and unintentionally shock him.

"OWW!" Red yelled as he jumped out of bed and ran to the window "What the heck's going on?"

He stared out of the window for a few seconds before turning around to see both pikachu and jigglypuff running around in a panic "Guys! Calm down!" He said as he bent down and scooped them up in his arms "Everything's going to be oka-"

"WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!" Leaf screamed as she suddenly burst into Reds room and started to shake him violently "Red! I'm not ready to die!"

"Calm down Leaf!" Red yelled back as he grabbed her shoulders to try and comfort her "I'll be right back! Just stay here okay!" He stated before running down the stairs and grabbing his coat.

As Red stepped outside, he was greeted by everyone in Pallet town standing outside their houses wondering what all the commotion was about.

"What's going on Red?!" Professor Oak asked as he ran up to him.

"I don't know!" Red replied and started looking around, trying to find out where the noise was coming from.

"Look! Over there!" Someone cried out and pointed towards some lights moving in the distance.

Red narrowed his eyes as he saw the lights as well "Don't worry everyone! I'm going to go investigate!" He bravely stated as he started walking towards them.

As Red make his way closer to the lights, it didn't take him long to see what all the commotion was about. Not too far away a bunch of construction workers were diligently digging away at the ground.

"HEY!" Red yelled as he ran up to the workers "What's going on here?!"

Before he could get on the site, the head construction worker stepped in front of him and stopped him "Sir I'm going to have to ask you to stay back!" He stated as he raised his hand in front of Red "This is the construction site for the new monorail system!"

"The new monorail system?!" It took Red a minute to figure out what he meant, and then it hit him "That stupid petition I signed!" He angrily thought to himself as the worker continued.

"So you see sir, I'm going to have to ask you to leave. This is a direct order from champion himself!"

"The CHAM-" Red was furious, he quickly reached into his coat to pull out his league license and he watched as the lead worker went wide eyed in response "I'm the EX-champion and I'm ordering you to halt your construction right now! Your digging just woke everyone in Pallet town up!"

The worker didn't know what to do; he was under orders from the champion to start building the new monorail system, but here was the ex-champion telling him not to "B-but….sir….the…champion…" He nervously tried to explain, but Red wasn't having any of it.

"I will discuss this matter with Lance later! Until further notice, you all have the night off!"

"Y-yes sir!" The worker saluted and ran off to shut everything down.