[Most of the other players are willing to take what CODY tells them at face value. When CODY said that CHARIZARD would have spun the truth about the hacker's death just to make their players hate them, no one even questioned it. But you always suspected that CODY only killed CHARIZARD to keep it silent, to hide an ugly truth that they didn't want you to know about. You just couldn't prove it. And with CHARIZARD gone, you know that CODY will never tell you on their own.]

[But there was something else you think CODY wanted you to take at face value, too: CHARIZARD's death itself. The solution to it was so obvious in retrospect, you're kicking yourself for not thinking of trying this sooner.]

[You commandeer CODY's body, using the directional pad to bring them all the way upstairs to the room that held CHARIZARD's tombstone.]

[After making them stand in front of it, you open the pause menu. ]

[You select the ITEM option, and scroll down to the POKé FLUTE.]

[Your eyebrows raise skeptically at CODY's plea, and you suddenly feel a sense of vindication. So they did consider reviving CHARIZARD with the POKé FLUTE as a possibility, and they were just hoping that you would be too stupid to realize it. Was that the real reason they wanted to avoid this room?]

[You ignore the pleas of CODY and your fellow players, spitefully pressing the A Button.]

[Suddenly, the screen begins to shake, and a very loud, distorted CHARIZARD cry rumbles from the GAME BOY's speakers, with intensity strong enough to make it vibrate in your hands.]

[After a moment, the shaking stops. The POKéMON TOWER theme does not replay afterwards. The game is eerily quiet.]

[During CODY's moment of hesitation, the menu prompt appears.]

[You immediately try to take full advantage of the opportunity by choosing the POKéMON option, hoping to send PIKACHU and BLASTOISE out as cannon fodder.]

[But PIKACHU will not come out of its BALL.]

[You try BLASTOISE next. Same result.]

[It seems they both know better than to fight a battle they know they can't win.]