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04: on the road
red & gold | what’s there to do after you’ve done it all? | pg

Gold finds him atop Mt. Silver, and he feels this specific emotion he’s never realized existed. When-exhausted, with trembling legs from the climb-he recognizes this person, he tries his best to not see the legend, that one kid that dismantled the Rocket years ago with nothing but his Pokémon and his will, he tries to dispel the image of the trainer who did everything that was to be done, ascended above every other trainer.

A legend; his hero. He tries to feel superior to the young man, alone in all this white, and his is red blood stained against the snow, sitting on the icy stones. Gold tries to walk in his direction-

-his foot trips on the cold ice and he mutters a less than magnificent curse, and Red turns to him-

Gold tries to feel superior, or even remotely close to him, but the shadow over his red, red eyes stops his pitiful charade before can even think about any plan B. Gold tries to hate him, for a moment, for setting such a masterful legacy, for setting such a high standard for any trainer to surpass if they wish to become the next master trainer. But he finds that he can do nothing but stare, paralyzed in awe.

He can’t.

So Gold sees the humanity in him. Not the legendary trainer, but the boy who has nothing but a handful of Pokémon who follow him, a friend who wishes to find him and a will of steel. Unwillingly he meets Red’s gaze and strangely, shockingly, he doesn’t see the flat hollow eyes of a legend but those of a boy, eyes full of loneliness and dreams and strange travels and sights. And Gold can’t help but-

-pity him.

He will save him, Gold decides, take him from this lack of inertia in this cold world. Defeat him and give him an objective, something to fight for. So that the legendary trainer will have lost to this little boy. Red will have to claw his way back up to his perch. He will have something to do, and maybe-maybe-it will take the shades of loneliness from his eyes.