Red looked at his team: the Scyther that had been with him since the start, the Kingdra that stopped crying, the Metang that learned to trust him.

Red understood. He didn’t need to fight. He walked to the terminal behind the throne, pulled out the randomizer seed card Cera had given him, and inserted a blank one.

The screen asked:

“You! The boy with the Scyther!” she yelled. “I’m Celio’s sister, Cera. I caused this. I was trying to install a ‘variety patch’ to make Kanto more exciting. But I tripped over a Joltik and typed a random seed: .”