At 22 years old Cynthia was atop of the world. She had fame, money and glory. Everyone respected her and admired her. She was what every trainer aspired to be. She had it all. Or so people thought.

To be honest, Cynthia was stuck in a slump. She was young enough to have her life ahead of her, but she felt like she was past the age to choose what to do. She was afraid that her title would be taken from her and she wouldn’t have anything left.
Scared. It was weird to think that the Sinnoh Champion was scared. She was the strongest trainer and longest running champion to date, yet she was scared.

Scared of being alone. Sure she had her friends, Gardenia and all the other leaders of Sinnoh. But there was times when friends weren’t enough to cure loneliness. This is probably why she emerged herself in work. She trained as vigorously as she could, that and she just loved history. Ever since she was little growing up in the Celestial Ruins she loved studying history. The pictures left behind by hundreds of generations just fascinated her. How peoples lives and crimes were all left behind. How mighty legendary pokemon created the world and protected it. It was just so marvelous to her.
Because all of the knowledge she possessed along with being champion, she was known as an archeologist of sorts to many in the field.  Her love of history took her travelling a lot. She had been to Johto’s ruins, Unova’s Underwater temples and was planning to visit a fellow Champion, Steven Stone who  was also said to be fond of archeology and history.

“Are you sure you’ll be fine without me?”

“Of course Cynthia, now go on and leave. You wouldn’t want to leave that hunk waiting now would you?”

“Thank you so much Gardenia. I hope you can handle Volkner and Flint. More Flint, but Volkner usually goes along with anything that hot head comes up with.”

Taking the champions hands in her own the grass type trainer stared at her. “Cynthia, relax. Everything’s going to be fine. Just enjoy yourself on this vacation. We all know you need it.”

“You’re right. Ohkay.. well then I’ll be going to catch…”

Buzzz. Buzz. Buzz.

Pulling out her cellphone she turned to Gardenia, “Sorry. It looks like I’m going to have to take this.”

Gardenia just sighed knowing this was not going to go as planned.

“Hello, Cynthia speaking… Professor Rowan, what a pleasant surprise… No I’m not busy.”
It was at that point that Gardenia knew she had failed.

“I’m in Eterna City as well. Ohkay then, I’ll stop by in a few minutes.” Hanging up the phone she turned to her friend. “So looks like I’m not going to be able to go after all.”

“What happened now?”

“Well there are some problems going on around Sinnoh revolving legendary Pokemon that shouldn’t be here.”

“Well why don’t you send Roark. He’s an expert as well you know?”

Dropping her stare Cynthia fidgeted with her fingers, “Well yeah…” Then with a pleading look she looked  up, “but I really want to see these legendary pokemon!”

Giving the champion an exasperating look she sighed in defeat. “You know, I’m starting to think you don’t even want to meet a guy.”

“Ohh don’t say that. I can meet a guy any day, but how many times can I see a legendary Pokemon?”

“Well knowing you, a lot of times actually.”

“Ha ha ha. Look would you rather see Celebi or meet a guy?”

Giving her friend an annoyed look she finally responded, “Celebi… Fine. I’m just saying, we all want you to be happy. We cleared our schedules because you were leaving and now it’s all going to waste. Flint was even planning a party at the Castle.”

Heading towards the exit of the gym she was turning ready to leave. “Oh calm down. I’m sorry that…” Then as realizing what Gardenia said she turned around to face her laughing friend. “What do you mean Flint was planning a party?”

“Hahaha. You’re cute Cynthia. You really need to meet a guy.”

“You know what… I’m just going to leave. The Professor is waiting for me.” And with that she exited the Gym heading towards the building that was a few blocks away from there.
As she entered the building she saw a legendary figure.

“Professor Oak? Is that really you?” Cynthia exclaimed walking towards one of the most famous Professors of all time.

“Your reputation follows you old chum.” Spoke the younger Professor as he walked from behind Professor Oak.

“Yes, yes it does.” Then turning to Cynthia, “So listen, this is really urgent,  and I was sort of hoping we could solve this soon.”

Noticing the seriousness of the situation she intrigued, “Yes Professor?”

“Well you see, the legendary birds of Kanto have fled and have been spotted around Sinnoh. So far people have reported seeing Articuno by Snowpoint City, Zapdos by Sunnyshore City but Moltres hasn’t been spotted. I was wondering if these claims are true then Moltres could be at Mt. Coronett or maybe it didn’t make the migration.”

“Do you know why they migrated Professor?”

“To be honest, no. Our priority is to find them. Legendary Pokemon aren’t to be messed with. They’re not all are friendly like Mew. Some can be territorial like Mewtwo. We must locate the bird trio as soon as possible.”

“You’re right Professor. Well Roark and I will search Mt. Coronett as soon as possible.”

“Thank you. I’ll be staying here waiting for results.”

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“Found anything yet Roark?”

“Nope ma’am.”

“Do you think it’s even here?” She said looking towards the young gym leader.

“To be honest, no, not really.” Returning his Rampardos to its pokeball he turned to the champion. “I keep a close eye on my city and me and my workers lurk around the mountains all the time searching for fossils and what not. If there was a legendary I’m sure we would have noticed.”

“Yeah. I’ll have to inform Professor Oak then.” Mounting on Garchomp, “Well I’ll see you around Roark, thanks for the help.”

“No problem ma’am. Happy to help.”

Parting their ways she left to inform the Professor.

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“Sorry Professor. We weren’t able to find any traces of Moltres around Mt. Coronet.”

“I see. Well this means it’s still in Kanto.” Then thinking it over, “Well at least I hope it still is.”

“Yes. That would seem likely. Maybe there’s a reason why they fled.”

“Of course! We haven’t investigated the habitats maybe there’s some sort of clue left behind.”

“Is there anyway I could be of help?”

“Well I know it’s asking a lot, but do you think you could come help us? Lance is really busy with all the other Elite Members. Lorelei retired, Agatha retired, Koga keeps leaving to help his daughter. It’s just hectic. And my grandson just became Gym leader so he’s still getting used to it. I know you probably have a lot of things on your plate as well but do you think you could lend me a hand?”

Mulling it over, she realized that her schedule was open for the next week or two. She had been planning on leaving to Hoenn, but going to Kanto could be fun as well. There was also the chance of spotting a legendary pokemon.

“Of course Professor.” Heading towards the door to leave, “Let me just inform Gardenia and we can be ready to leave.”

“Gardenia! Guess what?” The champion shouted walking in to the gym.

From the back of the gym you could hear Gardienia scream. “Back here!”

Walking to the back, “I’m going to take that vacation after all!”

“Really? Well then you should call Steven and tell him you’ll be making it after all.”

“Well I’m not going to be going to Hoenn.”

“You’re not?” Now questioning what the young blonde was up to.

“No, you see, I’m going to be going with Professor Oak to Kanto. We’re going to be looking for Moltres.”

“Moltres? Kanto? Cynthia, when we cleared our schedules it was in hopes that you would get laid! Not go legendary hunting.”

A tiny blush appeared on the champions face, “Well I’m going and I was really hoping you could keep an eye on Sinnoh for me.”

“You know this doesn’t really count as a vacation…”

“Well it’s fun so I think it counts.”

“You’re hopeless.” Heading towards the champion she embraced her in a hug. “Have fun and be safe. Don’t get burned by that bird okay?”

“Hah, sure sure. No problem.” Pulling away from the hug she headed towards the exit again.”See you in a week or two Gardenia.”

As she neared the entrance she saw Professor Oak atop of a strong looking Dragonite.

“Wow Professor, is he yours or was he lent to you?”

“He’s mine. I used to be a trainer back in the day y’know.”

“I’m impressed.” Pulling out her pokeball and releasing her Garchomp. ”Well then, are we ready to leave?”

As they soared through the skies Oak pulled in closer to the champion.

“Cynthia, is it fine if I drop you off with my grandson?” The champion gave him a quizzical look. “I just have to run home and get some papers signed before we can go check out what could have happened.”

“Uhh. Yeah sure. It’s  fine.”


Basically, Cynthia goes to Mt. Silver and finds Red and they battle and bang. He confused her with TR who has been taking over Kanto subtly in hopes of coming back one more time. I tried adding plot and action. Not sure how that works. Haven't seen many Cynthia and Red fics and I don't really like Dawn and Cynthia nor Steven. So this my try at a crack fic. I asked you for advice last time, the whole movie thing and I think this came out decent. I don't see walls of text so I hope it isn't to boring. Takes place in Gameverse. Reds 19? by my guess so I tried to not make it weird.