Chapter 2
As soon as Tracey took a few steps away from the lab, a bright blue light flashed across the sky. He stared up at it, only to have his vision blurred by larger, harder snowflakes. "What was it?" he wondered to himself, not noticing that the snow had grown thicker.
Tracey trudged onward through the snow, slowly passing by the Ketchum residence, and later to the water's edge - all the way across Pallet Town. He took out one of the new PokéBalls that Oak had given him. Bulbasaur appeared in the snow in front of him. It looked up and smiled.
"Okay, Bulbasaur," Tracey told it in a gentle voice. "Do me a favor and step onto the ice. Give me a signal if it's thick enough for me to walk across."
Bulbasaur stepped cautiously onto the icy ocean. It smiled in approval. "Bulba!" Tracey smiled back at it, returned it to its PokéBall, and confidently stepped onto the ice. He took out a compass and began heading south towards the Orange Archipelago and Shamouti Island.
After about an hour of walking through 30 inches of snow, Tracey sat down, exhausted. He hadn't traveled much after he became Professor Oak's aide, and trying to get through cold weather was even more difficult. He shivered and opened the PokéBall containing Charmander. It sat on the ice, which slowly melted back to water. Tracey was busy warming up and didn't realize what was happening, but when he did, he got an idea.
"Squirtle, go!"
Minutes later, he was surfing through the ocean on the Squirtle that Oak had lent him. Charmander was sitting on the Squirtle's head, breathing fire into the icy ocean to melt it, giving Squirtle it's own river to meander through. "At this rate," Tracey thought to himself, "I'll get there in no time!" The team continued smoothly sailing toward the sea, towards the archipelago.
Suddenly, Squirtle stopped. "Squirtle, squirtle! Squirtle, squirtle! SQUIRT!" Tracey, who had been dozing off, suddenly was alert. A large fire was burning in front of the small trio, and a few people were sitting on the ice.
"What happened here?!"
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