Champion and Elite Four his ass. They couldn't even release him from the M2 Bind in time. If it wasn't for that Electric Specialist interfering and giving the Elite Four an opening, who knows how long he would be dancing in Giovanni's palm under the M2 Bind's control.
But now, he's finally free and more than ready to rampage.
According to the arrangement he had with Jayce, this is the time where he offers his help to Indigo and helps to quickly suppress Team Rocket's forces in Kanto. The M2 Bind had sapped away a lot of his strength the moment it sensed that he wasn't following Giovanni's programmed instructions and it would take awhile even for a powerful being like him to fully recover, but there is still enough left in him to help.
The worrying thing is that because of the M2 Bind sucking so much of his power away before he was freed, he hasn't been able to sense Jayce's psychic signature from quite some time back. He only knows that Jayce is off tracking Giovanni down. Even Jayce doesn't know for sure where Giovanni could be, so he had to personally search for Giovanni and then have Nosy send his location to someone capable to help finish Giovanni off. Who that 'someone' is really depends on who Nosy can find right now among this mess.
'Jayce? Jayce! Where are you right now?'
It's no use, there's no answer. Jayce better be alive or he would have lost his only friend.
There's nothing Mewtwo can do now but to place his faith in Jayce's plans and hope for the best. That doesn't mean he cannot take his anger out on those Team Rocket wretches as he teleported himself from city to city and let his power run rampant, quickly quelling the unrest that is starting to erupt in Kanto's cities. No doubt they are doing so under Giovanni's orders, making use of the confusion and mayhem to create even more trouble for the Indigo such that they couldn't focus their full attention on Johto.
It's really like what Jayce had said. Giovanni is having people to sow chaos in Kanto to serve as a distraction for what is to come in Johto. That's why he has to hurry. He is Mewtwo. Even in his temporary weakened state, he is a force to be reckoned with.
With his psychic powers, it is easy for him to tell apart friend from foe and hunt them down with precision. Even when he is not in peak condition right now, it is easy for him to go from place to place and demolish each and every of Team Rocket's bases that Jayce had him memorised while he was still in that damn tank. Before the day is over, Mewtwo is sure that there will no longer be a place where Team Rocket can hide in Kanto because he is Mewtwo.
Once he is done with his assigned job, he will immediately go and look for Jayce and back him up regardless about what he said about staying away from Giovanni as far as possible. These Kanto Gym Leaders are useless. Can't even take care of a simple Team Rocket mob if it wasn't for him going from place to place to clean up the mess on Jayce's request.
Jayce should have been Champion and rule this land instead of that stupid lizard tamer. These humans are all idiots. No wonder Jayce had to lead such a hard life if these morons are the people that they are supposed to help save from Team Rocket's nefarious plans.
Hopeless, the lot of them.
He could still hear the rapid thumping of his heartbeat drumming away in his ears.
Giovanni watched as Jayce's grip over the dagger started to loosen little by little before the dagger dropped onto the ground with a dull clank. Jayce's body went limp before going still and it was then Giovanni finally snapped out of the trance he was in.
He should have died. By all rights he had lost that battle the moment Jayce reappeared right in front of him without him any wiser. By all rights, he should have died the moment Jayce lunged at him with that dagger in hand.
By all rights, the victor should have been the Rocket's Exterminator. If Jayce hadn't hesitated for that split second there's no way he could have won, strongest Gym Leader of Kanto or not. This isn't a League regulated battle with rules in place, this is a no holds barred deathmatch with the stakes being your very own life. It doesn't matter how many pokemon are defeated, the victor is the person who manages to kill the opposing trainer.
That was truly one of the hardest battles that he had fought. Jayce had beaten him, fair and square, using every single trick in the book. Giovanni is not afraid to admit that.
Jayce is a unique trainer. He is not strong. He doesn't have the required firepower needed to even qualify himself within the upper tier of the Elite Trainer community save a select few of his pokemon, but he's dangerous. He's so very dangerous that it is not even remotely funny if you found him as your enemy. He's so lethal that even a former Elite Four like him would lose if he so much as took a single wrong step during the entire course of the battle, just as how the battle earlier should have turned out.
If his team didn't spot that Perish Song that they all nearly missed, it really would have been over for him long ago. It was by sheer luck that they spotted it. What a dirty trick, covering up the use of Perish Song with another sonic attack like Screech. Simple, but effective.
Also extremely deadly.
A humongous steelix emerged from the ground behind him. This is another of his trump cards, another ground type who can undergo Mega Evolution. Giovanni still could not believe it, that Jayce had pushed him this far without the knowledge of him having this additional pokemon under his command. That gigantic hole that Jayce was dropped into which helped bring down his insanely powerful hydreigon and the very last attack, that Stone Edge that stopped Jayce from killing him and also stopped Jayce from killing himself through overuse of Mega Evolution, it was all steelix's doing.
Numbers wise, this wasn't a fair battle to start with. Jayce wasn't going up against twelve pokemon like he thought he was, it had always been thirteen. The one and only dirty trick he used against the Rocket's Exterminator was the only thing that had saved his life and ended the battle.
For some reason, Giovanni found this notion weirdly ironic.
If Giovanni wasn't aware of how tricky and downright dirty Jayce can be as a Dark Specialist, he would never have thought of releasing steelix without Jayce knowing when he called it out to battle. That was done in that short period of time while he himself was still hidden, right when his marowak purposely brought down the entire hideout when everything first started. The only point of using that dramatic opening move was to hide the fact that he had called steelix out and have it hide deep underground before Jayce knew of its existence.
It was also by sheer luck that steelix wasn't affected by that Perish Song because it happened to be burrowing deep underground when Perish Song was used, out of range of the effects of Perish Song. It was how they noticed that Perish Song was actually being used at all. Dugtrio and steelix had secretly worked together to create a network of tunnels underground which has been instrumental in helping steelix use its unique senses to spy on Jayce and his pokemon from underneath the earth the entire time, thereby providing them crucial information and allowing them to control the flow of the battle the entire time.
If Jayce had realised that there was more to that very first Earthquake, the outcome of this battle might have been very different.
It was obvious that Jayce would not stop no matter what happened to him. It was why Giovanni had decided to resort to stopping Jayce forcefully because sustaining Mega Evolution for any longer would have killed Jayce otherwise. Extremely thin spikes of rock had impaled Jayce from different angles, immobilising him and taking him out. Steelix had understood his intentions. They had purposely not made the attack fatal, because it is not his intention to kill Jayce. Those spikes had missed his vital organs on purpose. That Stone Edge would hurt and it certainly looked like it could kill, but it is definitely not enough to kill anyone.
For now, Jayce would live. He will get him the best medical attention Team Rocket has to offer and Jayce will recover without a single scar. Jayce is just a lost child dealt with a really bad hand, Giovanni can understand the rage he is feeling and the reason why he absolutely must go against him and the organisation. Understanding could only be reached when people bared their hearts to each other and that was what they did in this battle, even if it meant risking their lives.
That was why he indulged Jayce in an official battle. Part of it was his respect towards Jayce as a fellow trainer, part of it was because he wanted to give Jayce the normalcy of a Gym Challenge experience that he was denied for all his life, part of it was because he knew the conflict between them can never be resolved unless they fight it out with their lives on the line.
Part of it was also because Jayce is a good man and also a good friend no matter what anyone would say. He would never have thought that someone so kind would be an exemplary Dark Specialist. There's a good reason why a good number among the scant few accomplished Dark Specialists in PWL's history are incorrigible villains and why dark types are named dark types. There's a reason why dark types are seen as the embodiment of evil in the olden days.
Those who had truly understood the darkness and wielded its true powers very rarely used it for the greater good. It takes a special kind of heart, mindset, and talent to be able to do so, just like how Jayce had succeeded in doing so. He is someone who will truly fight for the greater good. In this regard, Jayce is really one of a kind. He is an anomaly even among Dark Specialists.
He is also a really really kind child. Too kind for his own good. Someone like him should theoretically never succeed in becoming a Dark Specialist and yet, here he is, almost managing to kill Kanto's strongest Gym Leader at the young tender age of…
Giovanni took a pause.
Right, whatever he thought he knew about Jayce as Jacob Myers are probably fabricated too. If Jayce doesn't even know his real name he probably had no clue of his real age either.
Fucking Kain.
After this, surely Jayce would see his point. He may have first become their organisation's Exterminator through Archer's nomination after his heartless deed, but Giovanni knew better. He knew that look in Jayce's eyes the first time they met each other in person in Viridian.
There is no way Jayce is a heartless man. Jayce is good at deception, but his eyes do not lie. His eyes had said it all. He is good at spilling the blood of others but that is what he hated the most. Giovanni could tell whether a person is truly kind after being involved in the underground world for so long. The fact that Giovanni is still alive and breathing now is also proof of this. Jayce is the kind of man that his Team Rocket truly needs to make Kanto a better place.
Above all, Jayce is a kind man.
Despite everything that had happened, his view of Jayce still doesn't change. He is a good man. The new Kanto that he had envisioned needs people like him. Like his Executives, Jayce is one of the few people that he had acknowledged and trusted with his life.
This is all Kain's fault. It is always his fault things turned out like this.
He turned such a good man onto such a suicidal path and forced him into such a dark life against his will. He wouldn't put it past Kain to have brainwashed Jayce somehow with his hypno without Jayce even realising it. Good thing that hypno was gone. As a precautionary measure, he would have to ask his doctors to check on Jayce's brain later on. If there was indeed a Hypnosis used on Jayce then it will have to be removed.
Still, Giovanni cannot help but sigh upon taking in Jayce's current state.
"All of that effort, and for what?"
Giovanni walked forward till he stood in front of Jayce, who is now unconscious and unable to move with all the rock spikes impaling him. Jayce's eyes are closed and there actually is a peaceful smile on his face. Somehow, it made Giovanni's heart hurt even more just by looking at it.
Just what kind of life had Jayce led for him to be so happy at the thought of finally being able to die?
Remembering that Jayce's honchkrow had used another Perish Song again just right before it was defeated, Giovanni swiftly recalled his remaining pokemon before letting them out again, easily cancelling the effects of Perish Song. He then released a blissey out of its pokeball, who immediately got around to heal the injuries of his remaining pokemon that are still conscious with Soft-Boiled, Heal Pulse, and Heal Bell. Giovanni couldn't help but let his hand gently touch the side of Jayce's face, feeling a sense of regret for having to do this to him.
To him, Jayce is just another child. An extremely talented one, but an innocent child. Like the rest of Kanto's masses, Jayce is a child of Kanto that he was tasked to protect as the Gym Leader of Viridian and yet failed spectacularly.
He failed as Kanto's protector, again. Jayce's plight is also partly his fault. If SKIP hadn't failed, Jayce wouldn't have needed to lead such a life. Jayce could be so much more if he was allowed to live a normal life. He's so young but he has talent in spades, more so than his other Executives. He would definitely have qualified as a candidate for Kanto's Thirteen Pillars in the new Kanto he had envisioned.
If SKIP had succeeded and Kanto were freed two decades ago, Jayce could have been so much more than he is now. He definitely would have made a name for himself in the region by now and also quite possibly across the world with that kind of talent. For all Giovanni knows Jayce could very possibly qualify himself as a Dark Master by the time he reaches his age, an honour that less than ten Dark Specialists ever attained throughout the PWL's long history.
If SKIP had succeeded, if they had succeeded, Jayce wouldn't be another nameless shadow whose light had been devoured by the darkness. He would be recognised, he would be known. If it weren't for the mess Kain created, if Kanto had successfully declared independence more than twenty years ago and is now peaceful and free from Indigo's oppressive rule, he himself would have snatched Jayce up and taken him under his wing to groom him as the successor that will one day take up the title of Viridian Gym Leader.
Jayce could have everything. He wouldn't be nameless like he is now, having nothing to his name and having none of his sacrifices recognised.
Giovanni could not help but clench his fists upon the thought. He's angry. As to where and who this anger is directed to, even he could not tell if he's angrier at his own failure or at the bastard Kain.
This is all Kain's fault.
Today, he will rectify things. Not just for his deceased family and his fallen SKIP comrades, not just for his ideals, not just for the greater good of Kanto.
For Jayce as well. To him, Jayce is the representation of his failure to make peaceful separation of Kanto a reality more than twenty years ago. Jayce is the result of his failure and he has every responsibility to right every wrong that had befell this innocent child and three hundred and fifty eight others. No child should have been forced to live the life they led, all because adults like him couldn't get their act together.
Besides, Ariana said that Silver seems to take a liking to Jayce. Jayce would make a good role model and brother to little Silver. People who could always make decisions for the greater good are people that Giovanni will always hold in high regards.
Giovanni made a promise as he took another look at Jayce's unconscious form.
"Don't worry, I won't let you die. Long ago, I had given you my word that Team Rocket will save you and that hasn't changed. Saving Kantonians was the very purpose of our organisation's founding despite the methods we employed. This is not your fault, Jayce. It is Kain's, it is mine. All the wrongs that you and the other 358 operatives had suffered, we adults should be the ones to take responsibility for it and this is what I will do, starting from now. You are still my friend, come hell or high water, and I would do anything for a friend."
Maybe becoming a father had really changed him. Even Ariana had teased him for becoming a lot softer lately.
He turned his attention back to his remaining pokemon. Their superficial injuries had healed thanks to blissey, but it will take some time for them to go back to tip top shape. A single day at the very least with how intense and violent their battle was. Hippowdon's right eye had been blinded by Jayce's zoroark and it doesn't seem like it was bothered by it. Still, that is not an injury that can ever be healed. His nidoking and nidoqueen had been killed by Jayce's gengar, that is two powerhouses gone and not something that can be replaced anytime soon.
Jayce had really pulled out all the stops just for a chance of stopping him.
Regardless, he will need to get more ground types on his team after this is over. He will need more firepower on his team for what is to come. He needs to be more than he is now. He wasn't expecting this battle, and even when he had heard of Jayce's capabilities many times before he had still underestimated just how dangerous the Rocket's Exterminator truly is.
Truly, Jayce is an exemplary trainer and Dark Specialist.
Garchomp raised its head into the sky and Giovanni turned to see what had gotten his pokemon's attention. A dragonite arrived onto the scene and for a moment, Giovanni thought that Lance had somehow found him. However, the person riding the dragonite is a Ranger that he doesn't recognise. However, he does recognise the other passenger.
"Giovanni."
"Samuel." Giovanni respectfully greeted the Champion that he had once worked under. The aged professor hopped off dragonite's back the moment it landed. Samuel obviously knows he is the mastermind now. Even in old age, Samuel Oak is not a trainer to be trifled with.
Why is Samuel here? How did he even get wind of his location? Was this Jayce's plan all along, to stall him long enough and prevent him from personally taking part in the operation until someone capable comes to stop him? To weaken him enough so that whoever comes right after to seek battle will have better chances of putting him down?
Huh, crafty. As expected from Jayce.
"Skye, please extract that young man out of here for emergency treatment as soon as you can."
The facial expression of the Ranger changed the moment she spotted Jayce.
"But Professor! I know that man! He's a Rocket! A really dangerous one! We faced each other on more than one occasion!"
"She's right." Giovanni said with a grin on his face. "He's one of my most capable subordinates. Samuel, meet Executive Plague, the Rocket's Exterminator. The attack on Johto National Park? That was his doing."
"You said your subordinate, and your response is to stab him like that?!" Samuel seethed. "The you of before wouldn't have done something like this! You have changed, Giovanni!"
"Time changes people, Samuel. You of all people should know this." Giovanni sighed before looking back at Jayce. "He's just lost his direction, and he pushed me far enough such that there was no other way to stop him. I planned to have him rejoin Team Rocket as one of the organisation's leaders after he made a full recovery."
Samuel looked as if he might burst a blood vessel anytime now given how cruel the sight of Jayce getting impaled by rock spikes looks like. Samuel and his compassionate heart. It seems that some things still don't change with time. No wonder he was Champion. He's worthy to be one.
Wonder what would Samuel's reaction be if he knew the full truth?
"I still have no idea exactly what he had done behind my back all this while, but be thankful to this child, Samuel, for Indigo would definitely have fallen by now if it wasn't for him. Do you know that he had been a double agent all along? Even with the kind of life he led, his loyalty had always been to Indigo. He has been working for Team Rocket for more than a decade and it was only today that I found out that he's the one responsible for single handedly hampering whatever we had planned. Violet City would have been under Team Rocket's control by now if it wasn't for him locating me and then stalling for time through facing me in a suicidal battle, knowing all along that he will pay the price with his life. Oh how we had failed, Samuel, that a child like him was forced to pick up after our messes, because we adults had failed."
With a simple wordless command from Giovanni, the earth exploded in Samuel's direction. Giovanni smirked when he finds out that the Professor came out unscathed, his pokemon team already released for battle.
As expected from the Undefeated Oak.
"Skye! It doesn't matter if that young man is a Rocket or not! You are a Ranger! Saving lives is your duty! I cannot fight at full power here with him like this and his fainted pokemon lying around! Please!"
"I-I got it!"
"I won't let you take him away! Garchomp, Earthquake!"
To Giovanni's surprise, garchomp was unable to use Earthquake to create a path through Samuel's team. From the look on Samuel's face, he wasn't the culprit either.
"Bulldoze!"
Garchomp immediately switched tactics upon his command and Giovanni tried to think back on what could have happened to result in garchomp being unable to use Earthquake. It must be Jayce's doing, no doubt, but what exactly did he do?
His eyes widened in realisation when he finally thought of it. His ninetales. The last cry it let out before it fainted wasn't simply because it was in pain after receiving the full brunt of the Earthquake. That was Grudge, a move whose effects will kick in if the user faints in battle. The move that knocked the user out could not be used again until at least a single day is over. In garchomp's case, that move was Earthquake. With that, one of his strongest powerhouses, garchomp, now lacks the most powerful ground type attack in his battle with Samuel.
Even in his heated battle with the previous Champion of Indigo, Giovanni cannot help but mentally praise and curse Jayce at the same time. That sneaky little-
Giovanni counted his lucky stars that his blissey had already healed the members of his team that had not yet fainted back to full health and even removed the poison status that Jayce had inflicted on his entire team. With Jayce's honchkrow out of the count, Taunt and Torment are no longer in effect. He can now fight his former Champion with more freedom, albeit not at full strength.
"Gliscor! Swords Dance, Stone Edge!"
Gliscor launched a powerful Stone Edge at Samuel but it was easily disposed of when Samuel's tauros came charging through it without stopping. The female Ranger had also somehow used this brief window of opportunity and cut Jayce away from the rock spikes, letting it remain stabbed in his body to prevent him from bleeding out. It also seemed that the Ranger had somehow found Jayce's pokeballs and returned all of Jayce's pokemon back into it.
This isn't good.
"Don't let her leave with Jayce! Rock Slide!"
"You should be focusing your attention on me! Hydro Cannon! Frenzy Plant!"
The powerful attacks unleashed by Samuel's blastoise and venusaur forced Giovanni and his team to defend themselves instead of preventing that Ranger from escaping with Jayce in her hands. Giovanni cannot help but be worried. He is not naive. He knows full well of the fate of his subordinates who got themselves captured by the League. Death is a much kinder option than landing themselves in their hands. Jayce does not deserve whatever punishments the Indigo will sentence him to. He had slaved himself for his entire life to protect Kanto's peace. He deserves a better fate.
Too bad for Samuel, he still has other pokemon that he can use.
"Alakazam! Take him back to Ariana!"
His alakazam is not a battler. It is trained for one job and one job only, and that is teleportation. Usually, alakazam's usual duties is to bring him to places that he needs to be at. However, in circumstances like this it can also be used to easily conduct a rescue.
With alakazam's speed and expertise in using Teleport, the Ranger never stood a chance.
"Fuck!"
"Skye, forget it! Just leave this to me! Go to places where you are needed! I have this handled!"
"Roger! Win, Professor!"
Giovanni didn't make a move to prevent the Ranger from leaving. Letting such a small fry go is inconsequential. Both him and Samuel used this chance to catch a breather, unanimously deciding to take a pause in their battle.
"If you are here, that means that you know. But how much do you know?"
"I know enough." Samuel gritted out. "Anything that I don't know, I pieced it out myself. I can't believe that you actually created Mewtwo behind our backs, Giovanni. I can't believe that you turned SKIP into… this."
"It's all for Kanto! For her people!" Giovanni roared out. "Don't be naive, Samuel! You had always been too naive! Don't you dare turn a blind eye to the sufferings our people had to go through under Kain's administration! All these years! All these years, Kanto had always been suffering, always! ALWAYS! It's ALWAYS US!"
"That doesn't justify starting a war!" Samuel roared out just as loud as their battle resumed. "What happened to peaceful separation?!"
"And what did that bring us? The death of our comrades and my family!" Giovanni seethed as he commanded steelix to whip up a sandstorm. "The death of my family and my friends and no change to Kanto's circumstances! We were being used as fucking scapegoats for Kain's own misdeeds, Samuel! I cannot take this lying down! If peace is not an option, then I will bring about a war to make things right!"
He revealed the bracelet around his wrist and without hesitation, used Mega Evolution on his steelix.
"Do you know how far we failed, Samuel?!" Giovanni bellowed as his Mega Steelix rampaged across the battlefield, forcing his opponent to go on the defensive. "The young man you told the Ranger to save? That double agent? The young man who despite being a kind child himself and an even better friend, forced himself to stop me?! Do you know who he truly is?!"
As if sensing his rage, Mega Steelix roared as the earth groaned painfully.
"He doesn't even know who he is! Nobody does! He was a double agent Kain sent to stop Team Rocket, a child spy who doesn't recall who or what he is before he landed himself in Kain's hands! Why, I bet Kain had his hypno brainwashed him to let him do his bidding, just like how it did to our comrades before SKIP was extinguished! That's something that bastard will do! That boy doesn't even have a goddamn name when I asked him! All he has are codenames and the closest he had to a name was one that his lover gave him before he was forced to kill her! BECAUSE THEY ARE SPIES WORKING FOR THE CORRUPT INDIGO! THE INDIGO THAT YOU ARE TRYING TO PROTECT!"
His Mega Steelix unleashed an Earthquake that split the earth.
"Project Illusion! Kain's secret project to raise child spies to do his bidding! Children that he abducted from who knows where! FROM OUR HOMELAND! That was where Jayce told me he came from when he was assigned to spy on Team Rocket with his lover when they were still children! CHILDREN, Samuel! He and his lover were forced to spy on Team Rocket against their will because WE failed! He is the last of three hundred and fifty nine children sacrificed for this cause! Can you imagine it? THREE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NINE! Everyone except for him is already dead and the cause is ME! The cause is US! Because WE, FAILED!"
Mega Steelix single handedly pushed the entirety of Samuel's team back as his emotions continued to fuel the power of Mega Evolution, the bond between him and his pokemon growing stronger and stronger.
"What was SKIP's mission, huh?! We wanted to see Kanto's children smile again, to see them grow happily and carefree and not trapped in this cycle of poverty and exploitation that Kain and Johto imposed on us! We fucking failed! It's only during my battle with him that I realised Jayce is proof of how far we had failed! Because of the mistakes we adults made, children like Jayce had suffered! Three hundred and fifty nine had suffered! They are not the first and they will not be the last if we allow this to continue! Heavy Slam!"
His Mega Steelix attempted to crush Samuel's gyarados but it got away. Mega Steelix wasn't discouraged but instead picked up the pace.
"This is why I will not stop! This is why I will not rest until the wrongs have been corrected! Indigo is corrupted to the core! There is no hope for Kanto if she continues to be a part of Indigo! The only way forward for us is to bring about a revolution! If you intend to get in my way then I will crush you too, Samuel! Don't blame me for being heartless from here on out! Mega Steelix, Flash Cannon!"
Mega Steelix unleashed a massive beam of energy at Samuel which Samuel's charizard responded with by firing a Blast Burn. The battle took a temporary pause as both trainers and their respective pokemon team sized each other up.
"Project Illusion. Three hundred and fifty nine lives. I see, so he is the last of them. I see now, he is Operative 2046, her partner. I've finally found him."
Samuel's soft voice grabbed Giovanni's attention. He could hear the range of complicated emotions within Samuel's voice in those few sentences.
"I should have done something a long time ago when I was the Champion. I should have done something even before SKIP was founded." Samuel clenched his fist as he too, revealed his own Key Stone hanging around his neck, hidden underneath his shirt all this while.
"It's my fault things turned out this way. It's my fault why people like the child you spoke of had to go through that kind of life, a life without a name. This is all my fault, I admit that, but that is why everything ends here, Giovanni. I will atone for my sins. Starting from now, I will make things right. The right way."
Samuel's charizard began to glow as it started to undergo the process of Mega Evolution.
"Giovanni! For Indigo, for a brighter future! I, Samuel Oak, WILL STOP YOU!"
Name: Jayce
Pokemon Team:
1. Ninetales, female
2. Exeggutor, male
3. Weavile, male
4. Honchkrow, female
5. Gengar, female
6. Houndoom, male
7. Umbreon, male
8. Hydreigon, male
9. Drapion, female
10. Zoroark, male
11. Bisharp, male
12. Shiftry, male
13. Porygon-Z, (Nosy), genderless
Name: Giovanni Halston
Viridian Gym Leader, Leader of Team Rocket
Pokemon Team:
1. Nidoking (deceased)
2. Nidoqueen (deceased)
3. Rhyperior
4. Golem
5. Sandslash
6. Marowak
7. Garchomp
8. Gliscor
9. Krookodile
10. Hippowdon
11. Dugtrio
12. Mamoswine
13. Steelix
14. Blissey
15. Alakazam
Name: Samuel Oak
Previous Indigo Champion, Kanto Regional Pokemon Professor
Pokemon Team:
1. Charizard
2. Blastoise
3. Venusaur
4. Tauros
5. Exeggutor
6. Gyarados
7. Arcanine
8. Alakazam
9. Kangaskhan
