With my new team in tow, it's time to go back to the Rocket Hideout and end their Pokemon smuggling ring!
I may have mentioned this before, but I love the music for this place.
Trainer 1 catches me off guard with a Critical Confusion on Kasz, but I fortunately don't lose him already. Likewise, #2 gets a critical Hyper Fang, almost wiping Kasz out again.
I bypass the Rocket on this floor, instead going to one of the best parts of the game: the "Fly in a direction in slow-mo" tiles! I gather all the loot, including a TM, but there's nothing special. Oh well.
Back on Floor 1, I have Kasz switch in and out with Turkish, Radish, and Spurg, gaining valuable XP. He evolves, giving him a much needed power-boost. Unfortuantely, I still haven't found what I'm looking for. I head back upstairs to heal.
After a another trip to the bttom of the place, I finally snag a key off of a guard. I go into the elevator, go back to the bottom floor, and guess who I see again?
Yup, the comically inept villains from the TV show.
I rape them. Sexually. With my mons.
Anyhow, on to the real boss, Giovanni.
He starts off with an Onix, which really worries me at first. Then I realized that I can ahnilate that thing thanks to Radish's Quadruple-powered Vine Whip.
Next he uses Rhyhorn. Radish got easy XP. He's my strongest mon now, at level 27.
Last is a Persian, which Turkish takes out in two hits.
I really should have saved the Hippy Psychopath for after this, huh?
Next time: Pokemon Tower!
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