i would like to put before you that blaine is an asshole. also a supervillain. these two things are related. you may recall that in gen ii you find cinnabar island in a state of ruin, decimated by the volcano that it was built on top of. but wait, where are the people? certainly not on the island, but surely they are-wait, no? nowhere? huh. i guess they died. yes, every citizen of cinnabar island was killed. all except blaine, the man most likely to be caught in the explosion. why would blaine be caught, you say? let's look at the facts. blaine surely knows there is a volcano dwelling under the island. he's a former researcher after all, and it doesn't take a genius to figure out you've built your village on top of a fucking volcano. more than that though, he built himself a stadium(in the anime) inside of that volcano for battling. surely an accidental explosion would have stood a huge chance of catching blaine off guard while he battled, but this is not the case. blaine, being the devious bastard that he is, got tired of the townsfolk constantly scratching their berry heads at the mere mention of his 2012 riddles. he hatched a scheme to use moltres to excite the volcano into an active state, and blew the entire island sky high while he sat pretty and watched from the seafoam islands. this is why blue is investigating the island when you find it in gen ii. it's not because the volcano erupted. the volcano erupted because it was a fucking volcano. blue is conducting a HOMICIDE INVESTIGATION 
