The afternoon started off typical for fellow Team Rocket partners Musashi and Kojiro, along with their Pokemon partner Nyasu. After suffering another defeat in capturing Pikachu and being blasted away, they were continuing their walk back to civilization.
"I'm tired!" whined Kojiro, slowing his pace down.
"Stop that whining, I'm sure we'll get to the town soon!" Musashi snapped back towards him.
"Yeah," Nyasu added. "We's all tired too. So shut your yap!"
Kojiro sighed and quickened his pace so he could catch up to his teammates. A few more minutes of walking, Kojiro stopped walking and stood still, looking straight ahead. "Huh?"
Musashi, focusing more on where she was walking, slammed into Kojiro. Nyasu, who was resting atop Musashi's head, fell forward and she caught him just in time before he hit the ground. She looked up to glare at Kojiro's back. "Hey!" she shrieked. "Why did you just stop like that?!"
"Look," Kojiro muttered, still not moving or turning around to face his teammates. Musashi and Nyasu looked over Kojiro's shoulder in curiosity. There was a clearing amongst the trees in front of them and down the hill in the distance, they could see a very large building, maybe 10 stories high with glass windows surrounding it. "Isn't that...?" Kojiro began.
"Team Rocket Headquarters!" squealed both Kojiro and Nyasu. Nyasu jumped down from Musashi's arms. "At least one of dem," he added. "How many are dere again?"
"Who cares?!" Kojiro exclaimed. "Let's go!" He ran off down the hill, leaving Musashi and Nyasu calling and running after him.
They all stopped at the entrance to the building. There were huge tinted double glass doors. Upon approaching, the doors didn't automatically open. Instead, on the top right corner of the doorway, a black security camera panned and aimed at the trio. A speaker box to the right of the double doors crackled to life. "State your names and business with us today," a man's voice clearly came from the speaker.
"Uh, I'm Musashi," began Musashi nervously.
"I'm Kojiro," chimed Kojiro.
"And Nyasu's da name!" Nyasu added rather confidently. "We are one of Team Rocket's teams reporting for duty."
There was a moment of silence and the trio squirmed nervously, casting anxious glances at each other. They almost jumped out of their skins when the speaker crackled again with the same voice. "Proceed inside." and the double glass doors slid open. They hurried inside and gawked in awe at the expansive space inside. Dark brown marble floor and black marble walls adorned the entire main lobby. "Nice digs!" Nyasu exclaimed while Musashi and Kojiro both nodded vigorously in agreement.
The sound of heels clacking on the marble floor approaching them snapped them out of their trance. Dressed in a black pencil dress with a red R on the front it, came a well groomed woman with her pink straight hair pulled back into an elegant bun.
"Welcome to headquarters!" the woman chirped. Once she was close enough, she shook Musashi's hand first. "My name is Suki."
"Musashi," Musashi replied, a bit put off by her enthusiasm.
"Oh, a Nyarth!" she exclaimed, looking down at the cat Pokemon. He took a slight bow and said, "At your soivous!" Suki's golden eyes gleamed in pleasure and she giggled.
"So it's true, you can speak!"
Suki then walked over to Kojiro and shook his hand eagerly with both of hers. "And you must be Kojiro!"
Kojiro smiled nervously and agreed. "That's me"
"I have got to say Kojiro, you have the prettiest eyes I have ever seen! The color of your hair really brings them out!"
Kojiro chuckled and blushed. "Thanks!"
Musashi glared at the two and scoffed.
"Let me show you to your rooms!" Suki said eagerly.
"Wait, what?" Nyasu asked.
"We have rooms?!" Musashi asked incredulously.
"Why, yes," Suki responded, looking perplexed. "Don't you know all Team Rocket members in this region have a room here at headquarters? They are more than welcome to use them when they are in the vicinity."
"That's funny" Kojiro began. "I thought the boss wouldn't even consider ourselves important enough to even give us rooms-"
"Ah!" Musashi ejected, thumping Kojiro across the back of the head with a fan. "He means that we are a bit incognito ourselves. We do primarily hush-hush missions so we're surprised we're known at all!"
Suki continued walking, uninterested. Musashi took a moment to cast an angry glare at Kojiro, who caught it and looked at the floor gloomily. They stopped at an elevator with steel doors. The top of the doorway had "R8" engraved on a plaque.
"This is the elevator you need to take to get to the member dormitories. All other facilities are here on this floor." Suki explained.
"What other facilities?" asked Kojiro.
"Oh our library, media room, recreation room, cafeteria-"
"Cafeteria?!" Shouted Nyasu, Kojiro and Musashi.
"Y-Yes," confirmed the startled Suki. "All Team Rocket members who stay with us are provided meals at our cafeteria."
The trio looked at each other, grinning happily and giggling. The elevator opened and they all stepped inside. The elevator moved quickly, stopped at the 8th floor and chimed. The doors opened and they stepped out, walking to the right until the hallway ended.
"To the left," Suki lifted her left arm, "is the male dormitories. Kojiro, you and Nyasu will find your rooms down there. Musashi," Suki lifted her right arm. "You will find yours down this hall, along with the other female dormitories."
"How will I know which room is mine?" asked Kojiro.
"Oh, don't worry," Suki smiled. "There's no way you can miss your rooms." She bowed courteously to the trio. "I hope you'll find everything you need here at headquarters. Lunch is at 12!" She began to walk off towards the elevator.
Kojiro and Nyasu watched her walk off and then looked at Musashi, who had just turned her attention from Suki as well. They stared at each other and then smiled a huge smile. "See you at lunch!" they squealed and headed down their halls.
"How are we going to know which rooms are ours?" Kojiro asked nervously, looking down at Nyasu.
"Beats me!" he said, "But that Suki lady said we can't miss it."
Suddenly, they both stopped dead in their tracks. In front of them on the right hand wall was a blue gray door with Kojiro's face painted on it in a cute, cartoon way. It was just like their tower they had taken over before the evil Togepi ruined it all. Kojiro merely gawked at it before stepping forward. Immediately, the door opened and it revealed to be just like Kojiro's room at the old tower. His bottle cap collection was in display cases everywhere.
"Wow!" Kojiro exclaimed. "Just like it was at our tower!" He turned towards Nyasu. "Coming in?" Nyasu shook his head. He was too busy looking at the door immediately to the left of Kojiro's room. It was slightly smaller but it had Nyasu's face painted on it.
"I gets a room of my own too?!" he gasped and stepped into his room.
Meanwhile, Musashi was admiring her dormitory finding that it, too, was just like the room she had back at the evil Togepi tower.