Team Rocket manages to evade the Sinnoh police and make it to their destination in:
#70: Death by Portal Gun
After somehow evading the sniper-rifle-wielding police force of Sinnoh City, the trio arrive at the entrance of Team Galactic's HQ in the nearby Veilstone City.
It was night time, and the moon above them was shining bright.
There appeared to be no security personnel guarding the building, and to their dismay, no immediately means to sneak in.
"Great, how do we break inside and save our friends?" Butch proclaims, feeling the walls to see if he could find a hidden switch or something.
"Perhaps I can help, young lad!" says a boastful, manly voice from behind the trio.
All three Team Rocket members to turn to face a mysterious stranger who appears out of nowhere.
"Who are you?" Cassidy questions the man.
"The name's Cave Johnson, billionaire CEO of Aperture Science, a scientific research corporation in the U.S.," the man introduces himself. He was a tall, middle-aged man with a southern accent who looked the part of a rich business tycoon.
"So, you'll help us get inside Team Galactic's HQ? What business do you have inside?" Alolan Meowth questions.
"Yeah, our pals are being held in there against their will!" Butch says, clenching his fist at the thought of needing to get inside fast.
"Because my gut feeling says you three needing to get inside to save your friends due to noble intentions, I'll tell you!" Cave says in a confident tone. "Team Galactic's leader, Cyrus, is another rich businessman whom I've worked for many years ago. He plans on unmaking reality as we know it by opening a portal to another dimension! It may sound like hogwash, but he actually has the technology to do so…that he STOLE from me!"
"Wait, Cyrus is planning on ruining our reality? Using portals?!" Cassidy says, taken aback by the revelation.
"How the heck is going to do that? What did he steal from you?" Alolan Meowth questions.
"He stole a massively intelligent computer system from my laboratory, and is planning to use its infinite knowledge to build portals to achieve his evil scheme," Cave answers.
"And why would he need something like that?" Butch asks. "Sounds like something that needs to be stopped!"
"Yeah, as far as I know, science should be use for good, right?" Cassidy adds.
""Science isn't about 'why', it's about 'why not'!" Cave responds with a nod of assurance. "And he is going to pay for taking my company's greatest achievement! Well, we'll show him, as I got a little object here that'll help get us all inside!"
Cave then proceeds to pull out a futuristic-looking gun and show it to the trio.
"What is it?" Alolan Meowth asks, poking at the device.
"This, my good feline, is the Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device! This little beauty allows you to create portals that allows you to travel virtually anywhere a human would normally be unable to! Here, I'll show you how it works," Cave explains.
Cave takes the gun and points it toward the rooftop of the HQ, where a climbable vent shaft sat next to a wall. He shoots the gun toward said wall next to the vent, creating a circular portal surrounded by a light-orange aura. He then shoots the gun on the ground near his feet, creating a second one with a light-blue aura. Cave then jumps into the ground-made portal, and suddenly appears out of the other one on the rooftop.
"See?! Instant transportation. Just point and shoot. Ingenious, isn't it?!" Cave yells down to the trio. "Here, now you try it!"
Cave tosses the Portal Gun down to the trio, which Butch catches with ease.
"This is so cool!" Butch says with a giddy glee of of excitement!"
"So all we have to do is repeat the process and we'll be teleported to the rooftop as well. Go ahead and do it, Butch!" Cassidy says with bated breath.
Butch, in his moment of excitement, makes the ground-portal first, and then prepares to aim toward the wall on the rooftop where Cave was waiting for them…
…but as Butch pulled the trigger on the Portal Gun, a random bird swoops down and knocks his hands away from his target…
…which now was pointing at the moon in the sky.
"No Butch, not there!" Alolan Meowth yelps, as all three realize what was about to happen.
SHOOOOMP!
In an instant upon the second portal had reached the surface of the moon, the vacuum of space sucks the trio through the ground-made portal and the three are instantly thrown onto the moon's surface.
A sweat-drop appeared on Cave's head upon witnessing this.
"Well, looks like it's up to me to get those youngins' back down to Earth. Don't know how I'm going to achieve it, but as the old saying goes: When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade! Make life take the lemons back!"
Who knew Team Rocket would be the first to be chosen to participate in the world's first non-spacecraft flight to the moon? Please review and stay tuned to the next chapter to see what happens next!
