Danny's Journal, Part 11- Team Rocket Takeover?

I got up bright and early this morning to get my team ready to challenge the Mahogany Gym. They didn't seem too pleased, but I was so excited I couldn't help myself. I bought them a large breakfast and they seemed to forgive me.

The Gym itself was rather confusing- its floor was frozen, and I had to slide across the icey tiles in order to get to the gym leader, Pryce. He was probably amused at me slipping and sliding all over the place, that damn geezer. I finally got to the platform where he stood, though, and I challenged him to a battle.

I thought Vesuvius could handle his team alone, but I was mistaken. He used a Seel and Dewgong, so I switched out Vesuvius for Imani, who took care of them without much problem. I switched back to Vesuvius for his Piloswine, and she knocked it out with one Lava Plume. So that was one more badge that I acquired, and I'm only one more badge away for qualifying to challenge the Pokemon League! My team seems to share my excitement.

Although, lately I've noticed that my team has been having a little bit of trouble with battles, possibly because of the more difficult and skilled opponents. I took this opportunity to train around the Lake of Rage, so I hopefully won't have any casualties in the near future.

In the middle of my training session, though, I got a phone call from Professor Elm. I didn't really understand what he was saying, there was static and he was talking rather fast. I did hear him say something about Team Rocket on the radio before the call cut out on me. I booted up the radio app on my Pokegear, and sure enough, there was a radio announcement talking about Team Rocket. Had they hijacked the radio tower?

I sent out Thorne and made a beeline for Goldenrod City as soon as the announcement was over. It was rather obvious that something had happened, I saw nobody except Team Rocket grunts in the streets of the city. I nearly got attacked by a group of them, but Indiana helped me sneak into the underground to evade them. If this kept up, I wouldn't be able to even get near the radio tower, let alone get inside.

I was about to exit the other side of the underground before I was approached by another Rocket grunt. Indiana was getting ready to attack him, before we realized that he thought I was a new Team Rocket recruit. I played along with the conversation, and he ended up giving me a Rocket uniform to 'replace the one I lost'. Heh, I love conning people out of things.

With my new uniform, it was super-easy to get into the radio tower. I was just talking with one of the grunts who would allow me to go upstairs when I got tackled by someone who sounded very familiar.

Goddammit, Silver, why do you have to stalk me everywhere?

I tried to hide my face, but he unfortunately recognized me. He accused me of taking the cowardly approach to attacking the radio tower, and then he proceeded to rip off my Rocket uniform.

...Yeah, I'm not even going to comment. Luckily I was wearing my regular clothes underneath, I wouldn't appreciate being stripped naked in public. Thanks to Silver's sudden forced strip tease, though, I got attacked by the Rocket member I was trying to talk to. I easily beat him, and after ditching Silver, I proceeded to go to the upper floors of the radio tower.

The place was swarming with Rocket members, and I managed to take care of most of them. I had to take a couple trips back to the Pokemon center because my team kept getting poisoned, but I finally made it to the director's room. He was talking about 'the glory of Team Rocket' before I interrupted him. Turns out, he wasn't the actual director; he was Petrel- the Rocket executive from the Mahogany base. After some forced questioning, he revealed that the real director was being held captive in the underground, and he then challenged me to a battle.

He really needs to raise a better team; it consisted of five Koffings and one Weezing. Imani and Vesuvius made quick work of them. After he was defeated, he nearly escaped, but I knocked him out with a punch to his face. I went through his pockets until I found a large key ring- one of them probably worked the locked doors in the underground.

I'm currently taking a quick break at the Pokemon center before we go off to rescue the director. The radio is still spouting nonsense about Team Rocket, and Ao Tonbo is trying to eat it. I don't think he likes Team Rocket that much. Either that or he's just hungry.

Current Team:
Typhlosion 'Vesuvius' Female, Lv.40
Fearow 'Thorne' Male, Lv.39
Arbok 'Indiana' Male, Lv.39
Haunter 'Scheme' Male, Lv.39
Shiny Yanmega 'Ao Tonbo' Male, Lv.39
Espeon 'Imani' Female, Lv.39