Carlos left the Celadon City Pokémon Gym,holding a fainted Pikachu in his arms and a Rainbow Badge in his Badge arrived at where the Pokémon Cnter of finding the red roofed pokemon hospital he found a damaged and wrecked version of the Pokémon Center with a two first note says the Following : DUE TO AN UNFORTOUNATE EARTHQUAKE CAUSED BY AN UNKNOWN SOURCE,OUR EQUIPEMENT IS DAMAGED A ESTIMATED WEEK WILL PASS BY FOR THIS CENTER TO OPEN AND HAVE OUR EQUIPMENT ) (Pokémon League International Association).The other note got Carlos's quickly recalls Pikachu into her pokeball and transfers her to Oak's Lab in exchange for Mankey and Heads into Celadon University ,which at the time that he challenged Erika mysteriously closed Carlos Arrived he saw numerous amounts of Team Devastation Grunts guarding and patrolling their managed to hide from them and enter the building via a cardboard box disguise .When he saw that the coast was clear Carlos took the box off of him and puts it in his back as he goes past the reception desk and into an empty room, confusing Carlos and loored around for something worth of warning Lucario's Pokeball opens as the fighting Steel type closes his eyes and begins to use his Aura Sense (What was it called again?) to sense for any human or pokemon auras in the the snaps his eyes oprned and smashes a wall,opening a hidden door on another wall.
"Thanks Lucario!Now Let's get going!"Carlos said as he goes throught the hidden door that took him and Lucario Carlos reached the first basement floor he sees a familiar layout to what his father told him about Team Rocket's former hideout back in the Game soon as Carlos stepped out of the stairs and into the room the sounds of alarms are next thing he and Lucario knew they were surrounded by a small team of Team Devastation Grunts.
"Hey That's the Kid who ruined our operation on Mount Moon!Get Him Boys...and Girls!"One Grunt said as they all agreed and sent out Machops,Sandlsahes,Raticates,Vileplumes,Magnemites,Magnetons,Arboks,Scythers and Pinsirs as Carlos sends out the rest of his team to fight alongside Lucario...except for mew and managed to get through each grunt on every basement floor until he and the rest of his team arrived at what seems to be an office of saw a man sitting on a desk .The man's facial features was covered by a green fedora,he wears green and purple jumpsuit with red boots and grey gloves.
"So you arrived then. Good to know that you're the reason that caused the ruckus now then hand over the Mew if you know what's good for this pokemon"The man said as he shows a squirtle in a cage,the water type's condition is not a good one,his hsell was cracked in multiple places,bruises and has both of his eyes closed and shut clenches his fist at if responding to this Lucario steps in front of his trainer.
"Ah a battle by me prepare to be burned and have your life and pokemon devastated by Scorcher of Team Devastation!"Scorcher says as he sends out his first pokemon a begins the battle with a Bone Rush only for Magmar to catch it and release a fire blast to the Aura's pokemon's face,landing a critical hit and sending him to the gets up and uses an aura sphere to hit Magmar then Magamar's eyes begin to glow Blue and tosses Lucario around before dropping him to the quickly runs up to Lucario.
"Lucario are you alright!?"Carlos asked his first Pokémon who weakly nodded causing Carlos to smile and recall him back onto his then sends out Nidorina into battle.
"You send out a poison type,knowing that Magmar has psychic...I can't tell wether you-"Before Scorcher could finish his sentence he was interrupted by an explosion of sludge and Magmar scoffed at this and recalled Magmar and then sends out his next pokemon a female Pyroar,taking Carlos by surprise as Pyroar uses Bulldoze to damage Nidorina and grabs Nidorina by the neck and uses Fire Fang,burning throguth the Poison Type's scales causing Carlos to watch in horror while Scorch watches with Glee and suddenly Pyroar lets go of Nidoran who falls down with a trainers look confused as of what just happened and then Carlos realized what happened: Poison Point came into weakly got up and winced in pain due to the burn marks on her was a bout to recall her but Nidorina runs at her opponent and uses Poison Jab,damging Pyroar and not giving her any time to react and then smashing her with Iron Tail.
"Hyper Beam." Scorcher simply.a says as Pyriar fires and uses the move in Nidorina knocking her glances at Squirtle's cage and sees that it's grins at this and goes for his next pokemon Ivysaur.
"Now a grass type...I don't even know what to say ...or what I think of you boy"Scorcher says as Pyroar stays still due to the usage of Hyper Beam as she was hit by Ivysaur's energy ball ,knocking her recalls Pyroar and smirks at the Pallet Native.
"You know I rarely use my ace against opponents like you but it seems that you left me no choice! Ninetails!" Scorch says as he sends out a kantopian ninetails into uses grass knot and sunny day as Ninetails took advantage of Sunny day and used Fire Blast,landing a critical hit and burning and Scorch smirked when the move hit Ivysaur and then were surprised when the grass poison type was glowing blue and white ,her body changing shape and appearance and thus Ivysaur evolved into Solar beam only for it to barely affect Ninetails who uses Psyshock on Venusaur knocking her recalls her and grabs Charmeleon's pokeball.
"Alright my friend I'm counting on you Go CHARMELEON!" Carlos yells out as Charmeleon was send into battle and roars at her opponent.
"Oooh a shiny pokemon and a cutie at that...You'll make a perfect addition to Devastation's arsenal "Nineails said to Charmeleon
"Oh shut it Grandma!we're taking you down!" Charmeleon said as she uses flare blitz,doing a ton of damage to Ninetails as Ninetails counters with flamethrower as Charmeleon uses Flame burst form both her tail and mouth to protect herself rom the fire type move as she uses a flamethrower of her own doing a ton of uses Iron Tail and sends Charmeleon Flying and bringing the Kanto Fire starter to a pinch of HP. as Charmelon gets up her tail flame burns brightly and hotter as he eyes glowed red and lets out a might Flame thrower knocking out stood there in disbelief before recalling Ninetails and tossing a smoke ball,covering the are in quickly spears and Teleports Carlos,Charmeleon and herself into Celadon Mansion where the team got healed .Carlos approached Squirtle who just stares at him After a minute Squirtle touches an empty pokeball and was sucked into ball shook once...twice and a third time and then dinged,signyfing that she was took out his pokedex and swappe dout Nidorna for Squirtle and Pikachu for a new team member caught tne Team Devastation's Hideout abandonded Carlos now resumes his journey to go to Vermilion the Journey continues!