This is very late today, sorry about that. I was out with friends all day and got home in time for dinner. This was when I could post it...

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.

After healing Kadabra because of the Quick Attacks from the last grunt's Raticates, I continued on into the room to the south of the grunt.

This room contained an Escape Rope, but nothing else. I went back out into the main room and headed down the stairs to the second basement floor of the hideout.

Another grunt awaited me, though he was less of a challenge than either of the other grunts had been. Ha had five Pokémon, all at level 17, two Zubats, a Koffing, a Grimer, and a Raticate. Venusaur, who was week to these Pokémon, had no trouble knocking them all out.

Finally I approached the part of the Rocket Hideout that I had hated while playing the games: the tiles that pushed you around the floor. I spent quite a long time trying to get to all of the items, which I finally managed to do successfully. Once I had made it through the maze I had picked up a Moon Stone, an X Speed, the TM for Taunt, and a Super Potion. I then went up the stairs at the end of this hallway.

This set of stairs brought me up to a room with two grunts and an item.

I had Venusaur battle against the first grunt's Pokémon, two level 19 Rattatas and two level 19 Raticates. This was an easy battle for Venusaur and even brought him up to level 35. The second grunt, who battled with a level 20 Grimer and two level 20 Koffings, which were easy pickings for Fearow.

The past five grunts I had battled confused me. Why were these grunts using such low levelled Pokémon? What had happened to the ferocity of the Team I had experienced while locked up in their dungeon?

The item in this room turned out to be a Hyper Potion, which I wouldn't need any time soon, since none of my Pokémon had high enough HP for it to be any use yet.

I then headed back down the stairs and took the shortcut back to the beginning of the maze. I walked to the north and took the stairs that went further down into the hideout, since it was the only place to go.

The first grunt I fought down on this level was to the south of the stairs. He was also no challenge, my Fearow easily taking out his level 21 Machops. It was almost embarrassing how easy this was.

The grunt was guarding the TM for Frustration, but I wouldn't ever use this. Frustration was powered by your Pokémon's hate for you. As far as I knew my Pokémon liked having me as a trainer.

I went back around to the west and through another gruellingly long floor pusher maze, picking up a Rare Candy along the way.

At the end of this maze I was confronted by another weakling grunt. He used level 20 Pokémon, a Rattata, a Raticate, and a Drowzee.

I continued along to the south, then to the east as I followed the corridor. An item was sitting in the middle of the next room, so I picked it up, revealing it was Blackglasses, an item that powered up dark type moves. I decided to give it to Fearow to make his Pursuit attack more powerful, since it took two hits of it to make a Drowzee faint.

I then went down the stairs in this room and found myself in a room with a table. On this table was an item, which upon picking up, I discovered was a Max Ether.

My next move was to go north into a room with another item and a grunt. I decided to pick the item up first, which was the TM for Snatch.

The grunt in this room said something about needing a Lift Key to make the elevator work. I quickly knocked out his two level 21 Pokémon, a Koffing and a Zubat, causing Fearow to grow to level 36.

When we had finished battling I turned to the grunt. I knew he would tell me more now that I had beaten him.

"Oh, no!" he yelled, "I dropped the Lift Key!"

I expected the grunt to grab the Lift Key off of the ground, but to my surprise all he did was stand there.

"Um, you just dropped the Lift Key," I pointed out, "Don't you think you should, oh, I don't know, guard it?"

The grunt looked at me like I was insane, "Are you kidding? I'll get paid either way."

I snorted, trying to hold back a laugh before bending over to pick the Lift Key up myself. They really needed some inspired grunts guarding something this important.

I went back up stairs, through the maze, up another set of stairs and back through the maze on the other floor. Once through this maze I found what I was looking for, the elevator, which would now work since I had the Lift Key.

I entered the elevator and went back up to basement floor one to battle any grunts I couldn't have battled before, hoping they'd be slightly tougher.

I was disappointed, though. The single grunt up here I hadn't fought was just as weak as all of the others. He battled with a level 22 Grimer and Koffing. While he hadn't posed much of a threat his Pokémon were worth a bit of experience.

I re-entered the elevator and this time pushed the button for basement floor four, where I knew I could continue on. In the room that the elevator led to was a Calcium, which could come in handy later.

I then continued north and fought another two grunts. One used a level 23 Ekans, Arbok and Sandshrew and the other used a level 23 Sandshrew, Ekans, and Sandslash. At least the Pokémon were getting progressively higher levelled, though much too slowly for my taste. In this battle Kadabra levelled up to level 36, which caused him to learn the last move in his final move set, Psychic. Now he had exactly what I had planned, Shadow Ball, Shock Wave, Iron Tail, and Psychic.

I healed up my Pokémon at this point because I knew what was coming next from playing the games, Giovanni. I then entered the room, which contained nothing but six potted trees, a table with one chair and a laptop and a couch, which the leader of Team Rocket was sitting on.

The man looked me over carefully before speaking, "I see our prisoner has escaped," his voice wasn't at all like in the anime. It was harsh, with a cold undertone; I knew I had heard it before.

"Yes," I said holding up my left hand, "Your orders to break my hand did nothing for long."

A smile spread across his face, though not one of happiness, "I didn't expect it to. I knew that if Mew was still in our hideout she would come for you. It's no secret to someone who's done as much research as I have that it has powers to heal. It seems though," he said surveying my hand, "that it isn't quite as spectacular as I thought."

"She," Mew spat as she appeared beside me, "And don't you dare comment on my powers."

The smile playing on Giovanni's lips continued to spread, "It's still with you," he seemed to put emphasis on 'it', "Now's my chance to capture this one of a kind Pokémon and dispose of the biggest threat Team Rocket has faced."