We now return to our regulatory-scheduled shenanigans in:


#71: Humiliation Through Venting

After retrieving Team Rocket's bodies from the moon, Cave Johnson takes the trio into Team Galactic's HQ through its ventilation shafts from the building's rooftop. As they crawled through the maze-like metallic network, they eventually came across a grate that sat along the wall near the building's core.

"Hey, I think this where we can get out from," Cassidy comments, peering through the metal bars that separated them from exiting the vent.

"Good, an old man like me can't be cooped up in a place like this for too long," Cave grunts while cracking his back from the tight enclosure.

"So how are going to open these bars from the inside? Anyone got any tools on them?" Alolan Meowth asks the group.

"Maybe this guy has some," Butch comments as a Team Galactic guard enters the room. "Hey pal, mind grabbing us a tool so we can get out of this shaft?" he calls out.

"Huh? Oh sure, I'll be right back…" the guard responds passively as he turned to do what was asked.

The guard then stops in his tracks, and turns to the vent.

"HEY WAIT A MINUTE, VENTS DON'T TALK!"

"Um…uh…sure they do! Ever heard of a voice-activated ventilation system?! It's the latest piece of technology among you millennials," Cave tries to cover for Butch's haphazard mistake, but the guard wasn't having any of it.

"Yeah right, I'll show you intruders the way out. Goodbye!" the guard responds as he presses a button on the wall above the vent, activating the building's central cooling system. This resulted in all four of our heroes to be swiftly blown throughout the ventilation system like a whirlwind, banging against its walls as they are ricocheted all over the network before being jettisoned out the building…

CRASH!

…and landing inside a large dumpster in an alley.

"By a show of hands, who wants to vote out Butch for his stupidity?" Cassidy mutters from within the piles of trash they were all now buried under.

Alolan Meowth raised his paw, with Cave Johnson raised his hand as well.

"What a trash situation…" Butch audibly mutters to himself.


I always know people who vented were sus...
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