Journeys: Red, Green and Blue//ON HOLD//

Chapter 2

"Professor Oak!" Red shouted as he burst into the Pokemon lab. Also near the door was Green, who had an extremely annoyed look on his face, like usual.

"Well dummy, if you used your brain with a little help from your eyeballs, you'd be able to see that Gramps isn't here," Green said with a bit of a joking tone. His annoyed look got less so but didn't completely go away. Red knew that he was just kidding around, even if Green didn't want to admit it.

"He isn't in one of the other rooms?" Red pointed to the doors that led from the main lab into other rooms.

"I told you, he isn't here. I'm his grandson. Have at least that much faith in me," Green smirked, rolling his eyes at the same time.

"Your attitude doesn't exactly inspire faith, Green," Red muttered. "Anyway, if he isn't here, then we should go find him cause he said to be here at eight, but it's already eight ten," Red checked his Pokegear just to be sure. It was definite, though. The professor was late.

"Well, then you go have fun on your wild goose chase. I'll be waiting for you," Green tried to wave off Red, who merely stood his ground.

"You're coming with me," Red replied, stuffing his Pokegear in a pocket. "Knowing the professor, he'll be studying out on route one. You know what happened to the last person who went into the tall grass alone."

Even the usually calm and collected Green shuddered at that. A ten year old had gone into the the tall grass around the entrance of route one and had accidentally disturbed a nesting Rattata mother. The little boy had been lucky to get out of there with all of his parts intact. Pokemon, especially those raising young and especially in recent years, could be very vicious when they were spooked. Even the small ones like Rattata and Pidgey were dangerous.

"Ok, fine, but don't expect me to babysit you," Green sounded a bit annoyed as he grabbed his own jacket. The two went out onto the dirt road that led from the lab to route one. Pallet Town was small, so none of the streets were properly paved. The only people who even had personal vehicles were the few who worked in Goldenrod City, but those were few and far between, so the dirt roads were never a problem. If Red needed to get somewhere, he could walk or ride a bike. The edge of town wasn't all that far away from the lab, so they got there within a few minutes. Red stopped just outside of the tall grass, but neither he nor Green could see professor Oak anywhere.

"Woah. It goes all the way up to my belly button," Red said. Green, who was a bit taller, came and stood there as well.

"Hehe. It only comes up to my waist, shorty," Green snickered. "I dare you to walk in."

"Wait, what?" Red backed up a bit in surprise.

"Come on, do it! It'll be awesome. I promise I'll come in and drag your whiny butt back out here if you get attacked. Or are you too chicken?" Green started to make clucking noises to go along with the taunt.

"I'm not a chicken. I'm just careful!" Red protested. Green was being embarrassing.

"Then prove it! Walk into the tall grass. Doesn't even look like there's anything in there. It's so still," Green waved his hand towards the grass. Despite Red's protests, he thought that going into the grass would be fun. He didn't see Pokemon very often, other than those of passing trainers, so he'd get a chance to spot one.

"I still don't know..." Red said. Just as he was about to make his final decision, he heard the call of someone else coming from behind him. He twirled around to see Professor Oak coming from the direction of the Pokemon Center.

"What are you two kids doing here? Don't you know that it's dangerous in the tall grass?" he called out, carrying a bowl of strange looking dirt.

"Darn it Gramps," Green muttered.