Epilogue

Since Ivory Lake was now known to the world, some Pokémon Trainers started making the trek to the town. Many passed by the old abandoned mansion. After talking it over with Booster, the young members of Fire Strike decided to open their own Pokémon Center slash Gym in the building. The PLM offered them a small loan to help them set up shop.

The very first thing they did was paint 'Fire Strike' on the side of their favorite helicopter.  Then they flew to the now abandoned Flame Force base and helped themselves to the equipment there. They swiped the still large cache of evolution stones as well as the healing unit. Nick disassembled it and remade it into a unique model- with a few of his 'modifications'. When told about these 'modifications', Uiru said that the first Pokémon healed on it would be Nick's.

Uiru still didn't have his sixth Pokémon, but hey, he had all the time in the world to get it.  The five evolution stones he had taken, he had enclosed in a glass case and mounted on the wall of the living room.

Matt and Geoff both had entirely different ideas on how to set up the Pokémon Gym upstairs. Eventually, with a little compromising and a lot of yelling, both were satisfied and they began revamping the training area.

Allison talked Nick into building them a refridgerator. It took two and a half weeks, but with the amount of junk in the basement, Nick boasted he could build a rocket ship if he wanted. Erin told him to get them a phone that wasn't out of the Stone Age. There was still only one in the entire building.

Patrick and Matt were running the building of a helipad behind the mansion. Uiru told them to be careful where they put it- he and Jessica liked the view and didn't want the helipad to spoil it. Patrick eventually suggested building it on the side of the mansion. That would be fine.

Jessica ordered much more recent Pokémon textbooks, and instead of throwing out the old ones, had Uiru and Nick kick up some new bookshelves for them. In one of the Ghost manuals, they even had information on Bleak Eternal. It seemed the Eternal Night had succeeded in making the world aware of the terrible ability, and were now warning trainers of the dangers involved in using it.



A few weeks later, their Pokémon Center was opened. The Gym still needed work but hey, it was a start.

Alex decided it was time to say farewell. "I'm going to defend my town," he said, "and help the other trainers there."

Uiru and Alex shook hands. "It's been great knowing you," Uiru told him. "With you in charge, I know Sapphire City's got nothing to worry about."

"Thanks, man. I'll see you guys later!" Nick offered to fly him there via chopper. He was learning how to be a pilot. Alex wasn't entirely sure it was the safest way to go, but it beat walking.



Booster, Showers and Thunders came up to visit and were impressed by what they saw. They suggested selling the evolution stones to trainers, as well as the leftover Softboiled rocks. Uiru agreed.

"Oh, I almost forgot," Booster said as they were leaving. "This came in the mail for you."

"What is it?" Jessica asked.

"Oh my... This is from Sunder!" Uiru shouted. "He says he's escaped from prison and is really pissed off. He's assembled a group of mercenaries and has taken over some little town far from here, and wants to fight us!"

"That guy just won't quit!" Jessica replied. "I say we go and smash him flat."

"Here we go again!" Booster sighed. "A soldier's work is never done."





                                       The End... of Part One.

			Pokémon: Fire Strike Continued- Part 2: Augmentation
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