Danny's Journal, Part 13- Taking Back the Tower
I went back to the radio tower again, and found the door that the director's card key went to on the 3rd floor. On the floor above that, I found Proton, one of the Rocket admins I saw a while ago back in the Slowpoke well in Azalea Town. Get this- he actually accused me of stalking him. I've had... what? Four, maybe five stalkers? I think I'm an expert on the subject by now, so I know I definitely wasn't stalking him. He probably just said that to stroke his ego.
But yeah, he went down without much of a fight thanks to Indiana. He's been getting better at battling lately, I'm proud of him. After kicking Proton's butt, though, I headed to the upper floors, and found yet another Rocket admin blocking the hallway leading to an elevator.
She was the ginger executive from the Mahogany base, and her name was apparently Ariana. God, she's creepy. She kept giggling about how I was all alone with nobody else to help me, then she practically pounced at me to attack. Ugh, I know she was probably referring to how me and Lance double-battled her and that grunt back at the base, but it's still creepy.
I led with Scheme, and he took out her Arbok easily with Hypnosis and Dream Eater. Her Murkrow wasn't much of a challenge, either, but her Vileplume made him fall asleep with Sleep Powder. I switched out to Ao Tonbo, who finished up the battle nicely with a couple of Shadow Balls.
Ariana accepted defeat without much of a problem, saying that it was a shame that my 'skills' couldn't be put to better use. She also said that their boss was up in the observation deck past her, and that I should be prepared to get my butt handed to me. She got a face-full of dragonfly tail for that one, Ao Tonbo wasn't very happy with her.
After Ariana fled, I took the elevator up to the tower's observation deck. It was a large room with glass windows all around, which showed that it was already nighttime outside. I found the supposed Rocket 'boss' looking over Goldenrod City- he was some blue-haired guy who looked to be in his 20's, with a haughty sneer on his face and a fancy white jacket.
He introduced himself as Archer and congratulated me on getting this far, but he said his plans were almost complete. Apparently, he and the other executives had gathered all the followers they could to take over the radio tower to announce their comeback, just so they could try to get their actual boss out of hiding so they could restore themselves to their former glory. Heh, they never really had any glory if you ask me. Long story short, though, I challenged him to a battle over the radio tower. Ao Tonbo seemed anxious to help me bring down this guy, so I let him lead this fight.
Sheesh, he must have been pretty mad at Team Rocket, because he took out Archer's whole team without any trouble at all. That's saying something, because Archer had a Houndour and Houndoom on him team, which were both fire-types. I'm sure they felt pretty bad about getting beaten by a bug-type.
Archer was pretty beaten up over his loss, though. He went into a rant about how he wasn't up for the challenge, and that he would disband Team Rocket again, just like Giovanni did three years ago. And with that, he just... left.
I stayed up at the observation deck for a while with my team just to look out over the city. It seemed like not too long ago that I was here, just starting out on my adventure. Now I'm close to challenging the Pokemon League, and I disbanded Team Rocket? It almost seems like a dream, but it's a reality, and reality is awesome. Team Rocket was kind of a pushover, though. They probably would have been better with an actual boss to lead them.
Anyway, the director of the radio tower came up to find me after a little while, and he thanked me for taking care of the Rockets. He then gave me some sort of silver feather as a reward. Apparently, there was another tower in Goldenrod before the radio tower was built, and that feather was found at the top of that tower before the tower was destroyed. It might also be tied to a legend about the Whirl Islands, he said. I thanked him for it, I might check out the Whirl Islands if I have the time.
He also said that Goldenrod was throwing a party for me as a 'thank-you' gift for getting rid of Team Rocket. A party means drinks, food, music, and girls, so where do you think I went? So yeah, me and my team spent the rest of the night partying in the streets of Goldenrod with the locals. It was loads of fun, and a nice break from training and fighting evil teams.
I'm currently writing this as I watch Vesuvius and Imani attempt to hijack some bicycles from the bike shop, and Indiana and Scheme are off somewhere looking for more people to prank. They already glued some guy's shoes to a flagpole and set off the sprinkler system in the department store. I'm just sitting back with Thorne and Ao Tonbo to watch the madness, and to guard the food (and innocent passerby).
So yeah, I'll get back to training tomorrow. Or the day after. Or when my team stops being crazy. Whichever comes first. (Probably the latter, I know I won't find Scheme for at least another few hours. Anyway, I'm off to talk to this cute girl who just walked by... oh wait, that was Silver. Never mind. Damn nighttime and its lack of light.)
Current Team:
Typhlosion 'Vesuvius' Female, Lv.40
Fearow 'Thorne' Male, Lv.40
Arbok 'Indiana' Male, Lv.40
Haunter 'Scheme' Male, Lv.39
Shiny Yanmega 'Ao Tonbo' Male, Lv.40
Espeon 'Imani' Female, Lv.39