Turns out there will be no piano exam since my dad got the date for it wrong. I missed it. Ah well. New chapter, yay!

Disclaimer: Pokémon, along with any people, places or things from it are not mine, nor do I claim it to be. The only thing I do own is myself and the dream this all started from.

Finally I had managed to at least challenge the Celadon Gym leader to a battle. It wasn't as easy as it had looked. It took a while to get her to realize my reason for being there. The glass screen popped out of my watch, as did hers.

I let out Fearow first, ready to quickly eliminate whatever she would throw at me first. Erika sent out her level 29 Victreebel. This certainly wouldn't be a challenge for my Flying type that was five levels higher than it. I was right; a single Aerial Ace took it out.

Erika's next Pokémon was a level 24 Tangela, which was going to be even easier to deal with. I decided to keep battling with Fearow, since she had barely even done anything yet. Again, it was easy to take down the little Grass type, only requiring a single Aerial Ace from Fearow.

Erika was down to her last Pokémon, a level 29 Vileplume. I decided to give Kadabra a shot at this once, switching my Pokémon out. It was just as easy to take the mushroom Pokémon out as all of the others. Kadabra used one Psybeam and the Vileplume had already fainted. I almost couldn't wait to get some new Pokémon so that the experience would be spread around a little more; making my Pokémon less overpowered and making battles a little more challenging.

Erika gave me the Rainbow Badge along with TM19, which was Giga Drain.

This was a wonderful TM to have. It added to my healing and draining strategy that I used with Venusaur, so I taught him the TM, getting rid of Tackle for it, seeing as it was a fairly useless move now. I remembered that Giga Drain had a low number of PP in the Pokémon games, which probably would transfer into real life, giving Venusaur a limited number of uses. Luckily, I remembered the location of a hidden PP Up.

I walked out of the Gym and through the path that led back to the town. There was another Cut-able tree on the eastern side of the town, just to the north of the tree you needed to cut down to get to the Gym. Near this tree I found the PP Up I was looking for. I gave it to Venusaur for his Giga Drain. Now he would get six uses of the move. I knew the location of more hidden PP Ups I could find a bit later, so I wasn't too worried about the limited uses Venusaur had for the move, since he still had Razor Leaf.

As I was walking back over to the Pokémon Center to give my Pokémon a rest to restore whatever PP I had depleted in the battle, since I didn't know how PP worked in the real world, and I could see the PP count, I ran into another Team Rocket grunt.

"What are you staring at?" he asked me, "Get lost, or I'll punch you."

Once my Pokémon had been healed I went to check out the Café again, since I had only been in there for a second last time, to get the Coin Case. I talked to the chef and the other person behind the counter. The chef told me he was on break and the woman suggested I give my Pokémon drugs from the drugstore to make them stronger.

I decided these two people weren't too interesting, so I walked over to the table closest to the door and introduced myself to the guy sitting there.

He and I talked for a while, and then he stopped and looked around before talking to me in a hushed voice, "There's a basement under the Game Corner, I hear," he told me.

'Of course there is!' I exclaimed to myself, 'Why did I forget about that?'

"Because you were too busy being addicted to the slot machines," Mew joked through her telepathy.

'Shut up,' I thought back.

I said goodbye to this friendly stranger and headed back over to the Game Corner. Sure enough there was a Team Rocket grunt standing in front of a poster.

"Is there something interesting about that poster?" I asked the grunt as I walked up behind him.

"I'm guarding this poster! Go away, or else!" he responded angrily.

"Guarding a poster?" I asked, "Why would you need to guard a poster?"

"You need to learn to shut up kid!" he said before our watches produced the glass panels. He intended to battle me.

I humoured him, using my Fearow to take out his pathetic team of a level 20 Raticate and a level 20 Zubat. This was nothing that Fearow couldn't handle. I'm sure she could have done it in her sleep without my direction. The only thing about the battle that was worthwhile was that Fearow levelled up.

Before running off the grunt said something about a secret hideout. He ran off to the right, and then disappeared.

I walked up to the poster he was guarding only a minute ago and pulled it away from the wall. Behind this poster was a switch. I pushed it, like any sensible person would, which caused a set of stairs to appear.

"And how did he run down the stairs without them being opened?" I asked myself. I shrugged it off and walked down the set of stairs into the basement of the Game Corner.

Before I went off to defeat Team Rocket I decided to go check the potted plants near the entrance to this hideout because I remembered that one of them contained a PP Up, which would be great to give to Venusaur. I checked five of the six pots without finding anything. Of course the last plant I checked had to be the one that had the PP Up in it.

I gave this PP Up to Venusaur to give him another use of his new move, Giga Drain, bringing his estimated PP up to around 7.

"Alright," Mew said, becoming visible beside me, probably because she figured it was currently safe for her to be visible, "We need to get rid of these gangsters immediately. This seems to be a large hideout, which means it probably has the highest concentration of Team Rocket members, and maybe even their leader."

I nodded my head, "Let's do this!"