Celadon City
I was hungry. But it wasn't the hunger that would be satisfied with food. No. It was a hunger for that fourth badge. Possessing it would mark the half-way point in this challenge. I wasn't nervous in the slightest.
We approached the gym and we came upon old man looking inside the building from the window. He was laughing in a real creepy way like the don't-look-at-the-crazy-old-man kind of creepy.
"The gym's full of beautiful women." He muttered.
This piqued my interest. As a man of curiosity, I had to investigate. So I casually, while keeping a decent distance from the old man, looked inside and indeed he was correct. Women as far as that window allowed me to see; a glorious sight to behold indeed.
"Change of plans guys." Tony said clearing his throat. "I'm going to try a new tactic."
"New tactic, huh?" Riley asked suspiciously.
"It wouldn't involve flirting like an idiot to get the badge now would it?" Jessie asked crossing her arms.
"What? Me? No!" Tony said. "I'm simply going to use my male charm to persuade the ladies to convince their leader to give me the gym badge…."
They had rather unconvinced looks on their faces. They exchanged looks with each other before nodding in unison. I didn't like where things might be heading.
"Trainer may be unable to battle." Riley said.
"Riley, I think you might be right." Jessie said.
I definitely didn't like where things were going.
"Guys, team, I was only kidding." Tony said as he started to sweat as he backed away from his advancing party. "You guys didn't think I was serious did you?"
"Boss, you look a little…tired." Carl said.
"Maybe you should take a nice, long nap." Dennis said as he started to swing his pendulum.
"We'll take care of things here." Sam said.
"So don't worry about anything." Sean said.
Before I knew it, everything went dark and when I came to I was outside the gym with the Rainbow Badge in my hand and my team battered and bruised, but alive and one piece... I wish they weren't.
"I hate you guys so much." Tony said looking at his team who only smiled back at him.
"We love you too." They said in unison.
And with that, the hunger was satisfied…for the most part.
"You really don't see a problem here." Jessie asked.
"A problem with what?" Tony replied.
"I don't know, maybe it's all the guys in black walking around." Riley said.
"Oh that." Tony said now taking notice.
Celadon did have rather interesting amount of guys in black. They didn't seem too threatening, so I didn't see any reason for concern. It wasn't like they were some evil organization bent on taking over the world or anything, that'd be crazy. Right?
"Hey get back here!"
A group of men in black said chasing after an Eevee. The Eevee was holding some sort of flash drive in its mouth as it ran. The Eevee ran behind Tony using him for cover.
"So he's the spy!" the man yelled pointing to Tony.
"Wait, let me explain." Tony said. They didn't seem like they were interested in any explanation of mine.
There were roughly six of them, so I personally was outnumbered.
"You're going to regret messing with Team Rocket." Another man said as the he and the others started to advance on Tony. They cracked their knuckles ready to most likely pummel me into the dirt.
Tony's party stood between the men and Tony. Jessie shot a few Embers at their feet before snarling at the men. Sam hissed while Riley showed off her needles.
"You guys sure you want to do this." Tony said. "My Pokemon don't take kindly to threats against me."
"We'll let you off the hook this time brat!" one of the men said before motioning for the others to leave.
"That's right you better run!" the Eevee said coming from behind Tony.
"I'm sorry, but I think you owe me an explanation." Tony said taking Eevee by its collar. With his free hand he took the flash drive from its mouth. "I wonder what this is."
"Hey, give that back!" Eevee said while trying to free itself.
"That's confidential!" Eevee yelled. "You can't look at that!"
"You keep barking, but I can't hear you." Tony said pushing Eevee as plugged the drive into the Pokemon Center's PC.
"Tony, you don't think this might be I don't know a bad idea?" Jessie asked.
"Jessie, Boss knows what he's doing." Carl said. "Right, Boss?"
"Jessie, be more like Carl." Tony said as the files opened on the PC.
"No!" Eevee cried. "You're not supposed to see that!"
"These are blueprints to the Team Rocket Hideout…under the Game Corner?" Riley said looking at the files.
"Very interesting indeed." Dennis said looking a t the files as well.
"What do we do with this Trainer?" Sean asked.
"Well we got nothing better to do; I say we can check it out." Tony said.
"That makes perfect sense." Jessie said.
"You can't get in anyway, the switch is hidden so-" Eevee started.
"It's hidden behind a poster?" Tony said as he looked at a file displaying a diagram of how to get into the hideout.
"Are you sure Team Rocket's an actual threat?" Riley asked.
"Doesn't matter, you guys aren't special agents like yours truly." Eeevee said. "It's too dangerous for regular Trainers and their Pokemon."
"Is that a challenge I hear?" Tony said.
"More like a statement of fact." Eevee retorted.
"Same difference! Team, we're moving out!"
"Trainer, I got bad feeling about this." Sam said.
"I must agree. This is a bit out of our class." Dennis said.
"Relax, have there ever been anything we can't handle?" Tony said reassuringly.
"I can't tell if you're brave or stupid" Eevee said with a sigh. "I guess you'll need the expertise of the 'Natural in Covert Operations'."
"Yeah, I'll call you Nico." Tony said.
"That sounds lame!" Nico complained. "Call me something else!"
"All names are final and are not subject to change." Tony said wagging his finger.
"You're not my trainer." Nico said turning his back to Tony. "So I don't have to help you."
Let's see if a pokéball can fix that.
Nico "joined" the party.