Rocket Hideout

Seriously, who hides a switch behind a crumpled poster and then sticks a guard in front of it?

What the hell are they doing down here? I’m not sure but whatever it is I don’t like it. All these poison types are good practice for Snoozie at least.

Why do these floor panels send me spinning around? I’m feeling sick.

“Ugh, why did the Doc fit me with a gyroscope?”

Hmm, I need a key to operate this elevator, it’s got to be around here somewhere. Maybe this goon who keeps talking about the key has it?

“Watch out for tha-”

Holy crap that koffing just exploded! Snoozie, no! You monster, you forced your pokemon to suicide bomb Snoozie! Unforgivable!

“That son of a- hey don’t forget to nab his key while you kick his ass”

Snoozie ♀ Lv. 13 - Lv. 23

Death by Selfdestruct.

So, Giovanni, you’re the boss of the rocket gang, and that’s a silph scope you have there. Hand it over!

Doug, wreck the place while you dig us out of here.

Err, Doug, you might want to work on your navigation, this is not Celadon City. This is some girl’s secret retreat, oh a free HM02!

“HM02 contains Fly. A pokemon can use this to carry you to places you’ve been before.”

Cool, maybe Peri can get us back to Celadon. Oh Peri, land us on the department store roof, I want to pick up a few things.

Some enhancement drugs for Mozilla, and a fire stone for later…

OK Peri take us back to Lavender Town, we’re not done with the rocket gang.

Lavender Town: Pokemon Tower

Peri’s too scared to fly me to the top of the tower so it looks like we’re taking the stairs.

Radlac’s here, and he wants to battle here of all places? Well it didn’t take much to beat him again. I wonder where the rocket gang is hiding, further up I guess.

A channeller at the next stairs advises I wear the silph scope from here onwards.

Wild pokemon are here? Time to recruit! What’s a cubone doing here? Pokeball go!

“Cubone: This creepy little thing is wearing the skull of it’s dead mother, it’s been crying”

Poor thing, I’ll call her Skully! Welcome to the team Skully, say hi to Backup Bob on the bench for me!

Skully ♀ Lv. 15

Wah! Ghosts!

“They’re pokemon, you moron. Gastlys mostly.”

The trainers here are using them too. Great, they’re all possessed and not answering my questions. At least all this practice has caused Tim to evolve.

T.N.T Lv. 30

Nearly at the top now, another ghost! It’s not a gastly or haunter.

“Point my lens through the silph scope!”

OK

“It’s a Marowak, the evolved form of cubone”

It’s Skully’s mother, and she’s mad!

After a quick battle to calm her down she points up the stairs and vanishes.

As I reach the top of the stairs I look to one side to see Marowak’s corpse, and up ahead I see rocket goons…

Fred! Crush them with rollout! Show no mercy! Ha! Selfdestruct won’t hurt Fred! Keep rolling!

With the rocket gang booted out I can see to their hostage. He says his name is Mr. Fuji and he wants to give me a reward for calming Marowak’s spirit. He wants me to follow him to the pokemon house in town.

Sure, but before that there’s something I must do first…

I’m so sorry guys, I wasn’t careful enough. I’ll make it up to you, I’ll become the champion and have your names put in the hall of fame’s memorial wall. I won’t give up! You’re a part of my journey and I’ll never forget you Nibbles, Flutterby, Jack, Boots, Sandra, Caesar, and Snoozie.

“Bored now, let’s go!”

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