Gray stared at Saffron City looming in the distance. He wanted to walk in there and take down Team Rocket but knew, despite his super supreme skill, that he wasn't strong enough yet. He knew Yob and Tene felt the same.
Yob snapped him out of his thoughts to tell them that they wanted to visit the Rocket Game Corner. Gray felt that name sounded somewhat familiar but couldn't quite put his finger on it.
The trio waltzed into the glimmering building to see row and row of slot machines and dealing tables. At once they set to gambling all their money away as, despite being all under age, they were allowed in as easy profit targets.
While Yob and Tene played voltorb flip, Gray had run out of life savings and decided to explore the building. He saw that a poster on the wall wasn't stuck on correctly and under closer inspection, noticed a lever behind it that he naturally flicked without thinking what it might cause. A secret staircase appeared beside him, leading into some sort of underground building. Gray was dumbfounded and thought he had uncovered some sort of ancient tomb or something that happened to be right under a casino.
"Hey Yob, Tene," he whispered, not wanting to attract any attention, "come look what I just discovered."
The others were shocked at Gray's discovery and decided to descend into the depths of the casino. As they walked down the stairs, they were immediately confronted by two Team Rocket grunts.
"Hey, what are you doing in our base?"
The grunts tried to fight the trio but their teams were swept and they ran off for help.
"Wait, so we just uncovered Team Rocket's secret base?" Tene exclaimed, "This is huge!"
"No, Tene, I found Team Rocket's secret base!" Gray countered confidently, "I knew something was up about the name of the casino. It was totally on purpose that I found this place!"
"Whatever," Yob interjected, "This could be our chance to damage Team Rocket and help bring peace and prosperity to the world!"
The trio ventured further into the base and battled many grunts along the way. Eventually they got to a large array of spin puzzles that Yob and Tene completed in a few minutes but took Gray much longer.
"No not that one!" Tene yelled.
"Gray, it's the one left of you." Instructed Yob.
"Are you sure I haven't tried that one already?" questioned Gray, "I think I know what I'm doing. I'm going on this one instead."
Once again Gray ended up in completely the wrong place.
"Arrg! Fine, now go on the panel to your right," instructed Tene, now even more frustrated.
"I don't think that's right, I'm going left, "Gray announced before ending up yet again in the wrong place.
This carried on until eventually, by complete accident, Gray managed to make it through. He then proceeded to state that he had it under control and his friends were confusing him.
The trio continued on through the base, fighting more grunts and getting stuck on more puzzles, before eventually making it to a well guarded room. The grunts were quickly taken out by Gray's, Yob's and Tene's Pokemon and they entered the room.
Standing with his back to them was a man in a white Team Rocket uniform. As he turned around he spoke, "My name is Xander, I'm a TR Executive. I remember you twerps at Pewter City. You helped foil the attack and now you're here to follow that through, eh? Well I'm not about to let that happen. Go Koffing!"
"I've got this," Gray said before sending out his butterfree.
The two Pokemon exchanged attacks until Buterfree put the koffing to sleep with sleep powder before hitting it with a super effective confusion to knock it out.
"This is ridiculous," Xander said in frustration before summoning two Pokeballs at once, "Houndour, destroy this kid."
"Wait, Pokemon League rules say only one at a time!" exclaimed Gray.
"Do you really think I care about Pokemon League rules..."
Both houndour used ember on Butterfree, knocking it out. Up next was Diglett who met the same fate, unable to get a super effective attack off before being defeated. Finally, Gray sent out his wartortle and told it to use water gun. Despite the type advantage, wartortle was getting ganged up on by the houndour, who were using bite, one at a time.
"Wartortle, go inside your shell quick!" Gray commanded as the houndour were going in for a bite in unison, resulting in them hurting themselves on the shell. Wartortle then quickly popped out and hit them both with repeated water guns until they fainted.
"You won't hear the end of me," Xander spoke in anger, "You may have won this day but Team Rocket have big plans that you have no chance at stopping!"
Xander returned his Pokemon and ran off. Yob and Tene congratulated Gray before doing a group high-five that failed because Gray had no co-ordination.
***
To congratulate themselves for sacking the Team Rocket base, rather than sleep on the side of the rode, the trio decided to book a night at a local place called 'Equinox's Hotel' with the lucky jackpot Yob won on voltorb flip. And the message is kids, gambling is good. The end.
But wait...there's more. After Equinox showed the trio to their room, Gray approached his friends and said, "This is the perfect time to strike. We can take Saffron City now."
"Not yet," Tene replied, "We may have sacked their base but most of Team Rocket are in that city and if the Resistance and police are unable to do anything than I fear we are as well. I say we head south, train more and come back when we're truly ready to teach that scum a lesson!"
That night they all found it hard to sleep, worrying about Team Rocket. To remedy this, they all took a lick of Parasect's mushroom and were out cold. So the real message is kids, drugs are good. The end.
