#9 - Old Team Rocket Hideout
20 Sided Stories
POKÉMON! Pen & Paper Version
Episode 9 - Old Team Rocket Hideout
Air Date: March 5, 2019
[Podcast Intro music throughout.]
Sage G.C.: This podcast and series has no affiliation with Nintendo, The Pokémon Company, Game Freak, Creatures Inc., or anything in the official Pokémon franchise whatsoever. It is a non-profit, fan-made parody piece created in fair use and all product names, trademarks, and copyrights are the property of their respective owners.
The bulk of what you are about to hear was recorded live by improvisers who simply love the franchise, and we thank you for joining us on our nostalgic adventure through Kanto. Enjoy.
[Intro crescendos.]
Jessica Dahlgren: Thank you and welcome to 20 Sided Stories.
[Intro fades out.]
Episode 9 - Old Team Rocket Hideout |
[Suspenseful, music; Grimey jazz rendition of the Team Rocket theme.]
Narrator: Our trainers and Officer Jenny descend down the staircase into the ex-Team Rocket hideout. It looks extremely abandoned. It is dark and grimy, old machines are gathering dust, and the floor is covered in trash and rubble.
[Footsteps tap on stone steps.]
Candace: Ugh, gross.
Skip: Yeah, there hasn’t been any janitor service in here for what seems like months.
Candace: Even years.
Xander: [quietly] How long has Team Rocket not been around for?
Officer Jenny: Seven years.
Candace: I was right once again. On fire, NBD. [licks finger and hisses]
Skip: This could be the camouflage for them to hide behind! We need to rush in there and seek ’em out. Let’s go, Dratini!
[Dratini trills. The music intensifies.]
Sage: Skip runs into the darkness, beyond the light that Abra has illuminated, all by himself.
Skip: Dratini, Dragon Rage!
Dratini: BrrrrRRAAAbrbrbrrrrrrrr!
[Electric hum, flames rush.]
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Go ahead and roll me Effectiveness, Skip.
[Failure chime.]
Hmm. Our trainers sit there in silence for a couple moments looking towards the dark, not sure how to respond or help Skip.
Skip: [shouts] Didn’t work, guys.
Sage: And then he starts smelling smoke.
Candace: [coughs] Oh, no.
Sage: But it smells dirty. It’s definitely a black smoke, some kind of toxic gas is being leaked.
Candace: Oh no. This doesn’t seem like smoke to a fire.
[Pokédex clicks open.]
Pokédex!
[The Pokédex beeps as it powers up.]
What is this mysterious smoke I smell?
Pokédots: [glitches] Error. No Pokémon detected.
Candace: Uh…
Xander: Candace, I think there’s a gas leak. We need to get outta here.
Candace: Oh, uh.
[Pokédex clicks shut.]
[shouts] Skip. Skip!
Xander: [shouts] Skip!
Skip: [shouts] I can’t see you guys!
Candace: Skip.
Xander: Skip, run back to the light!
Candace: Come back to us!
Skip: I’m gonna light a match.
Candace: NO! No!
Xander: NOO!
Candace: No, no!
Officer Jenny: Don’t do that.
Candace: Come back, there’s a gas leak!
Skip: Alright.
Candace: Run back to us.
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Skip can you go ahead and roll for Sense to see if you can find your way outta there?
[Success chime.]
Critical. So Skip looks around in the darkness and is able to kind of adjust to the environment. Realizes that the Dragon Rage that Dratini let off had in fact set a machine off in a corner of the room. No explosion, but there’s a small purple fire, which you recognize as Dratini’s signature-color fire, started on this machine with some gas. You remember exactly where you ran from, do a complete 180, and run back into the light.
[Shoes stomp along the stone floor as Skip runs back to the group.]
Skip: Hey, we’re back, guys.
Candace: Oh, thank god.
Skip: I started a machine with my fire.
Officer Jenny: You kids sure are gung-ho. You need to be more safe in here.
Skip: We’re ready to gung-go!
Officer Jenny: Let’s gung-take-it-slow, ’cause—
Xander: Can we gung-leave? There’s a gas leak. I’m gonna gung-leave.
Candace: Gung-whoa! I see a-a-a g- a g- a g…
Travis: Walk back up the stairs. [chuckle]
[Stifled laughter.]
Sage: Xander tries to exit. The latch has been closed.
[Metal lock clatters.]
Skip: What’s goin’ on?
Xander: [shouts] We’re locked in.
Skip: Dratini, get ready to fight!
[Dratini trills.]
Xander: What? No! There- we need to put out the- we’re gonna die, ’cause we’re gonna run outta air—
Candace: Pixie.
[Candace throws a Poké Ball. Pixie the Ninetails exits and cries out.]
Get ready to fight.
Xander: [exasperated] Oh my god! Ramona!
[Xander throws a Poké Ball. Ramona the Pidgeotto exits and cries out.]
Officer Jenny: O-Okay. All the Pokémon in here are—
Xander: Whirlwind that way. Whirlwind that way.
[Stat test chime.]
[Ramona cries out and flaps her wings. Wind swirls through the room.]
Sage: Go ahead and roll me 1dF for Effectiveness.
[Failure chime.]
Not effective.
Xander: Ramona!
[Ramona clucks.]
Come back.
[Ramona returns to her Poké Ball.]
Candace: Uh…
Xander: Well, that was my idea.
[Misadventure music.]
Officer Jenny: Kids, I don’t know if havin’ your Pokémon out around here is the best idea. It seems like it’s really dangerous.
Candace: Oh, I’m getting really dizzy, Officer Jenny.
Officer Jenny: Oh no! What’s goin’ on—
Xander: There’s a gas leak.
Officer Jenny: —are you not feelin’ well?
Candace: There’s a gas leak, Officer Jenny.
Officer Jenny: How ’bout you kids? Are you feelin’ okay?
Skip: I’m feelin’ okay. Hey, Dratini, Let’s clear some of the air. Twister!
[Stat test chime.]
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
Sage: The Twister ends up just grabbing a bunch of debris and swirling it around the room, hitting other machines and also our trainers a little bit.
[Everyone cries out in pain. Once the debris settles, Candace groans.]
Xander: I’m fine.
Sage: Everybody’s okay, but Dratini is disoriented.
Skip: Aw, Dratini!
Sage: Officer Jenny, can you go ahead and roll me Smarts?
[Stat test chime.]
[Dratini trills.]
Go ahead and take those two dFudge and roll them in the center.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Success chime.]
Success! Okay, so Officer Jenny puts together that she’s feelin’ a little slow. The sickness has not gone away, and the fact that she’s inhaling gas of some kind is also not a good idea. She thinks that they have to go in a little bit deeper, but as quickly as possible to find a key to get their way out.
[Jazzy misadventure music.]
Officer Jenny: Alright kids, this is not safe here, but I don’t think I can be in the smoke anymore, I’m super not feelin’ well. We need to go a little bit deeper.
Candace: Into it?
Xander: Hold on. [unimpressed chuckle] So you want us to go deeper into the gas leak that is slowly killing you?
Officer Jenny: Well, if I’m not mistaken it looks like there’s some other hallways down here, and we can go down one where the gas isn’t.
[Air rushes by as Skip runs off.]
Skip: [distant] You’re not moving fast enough!
[Skateboard rolls across the stone floor, fading away.]
Xander: God dammit.
Officer Jenny: I think that’s a “yes”.
Candace: [groans weakly] Well, where else are we gonna go, Xander?
Xander: Alright, here we go.
[Jessica stifles laughter.]
[Music fades out.]
Sage: And so our reluctant trainers go into the darkness of ex-Team Rocket. They start to adjust. Of course, Abra is illuminating a small path in front of them.
[Stat test chime.]
Go ahead and roll me Sense, Candace and Xander.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
[Travis grunts.]
[Net chime.]
You guys travel for a couple of minutes through this basement and its traversing hallways and you find that Skip is nowhere to be heard or found. Seen. Uh, you don’t know where he is. Lost!
[Low, suspenseful music starts to build.]
They see these weird platforms with arrows on them. They don’t seem to be doing anything. But you look a couple of platforms in front of you and there’s a shoe.
Candace: [worried] Is this- is this Skip’s shoe?
Officer Jenny: I don’t see him. Where’d he go?
Candace: I don’t know. But there’s a shoe on this platform, and it looks around the size of Skip’s shoe. So, uh, I think it’s Skip’s.
Xander: [hesitant] Skip?
Candace: Skiii-Ski-Ski-Skiiip?
Xander: Why are you stuttering? Skip?
Candace: Sk-Sk-Sk-Sk-Skiiiip?
Officer Jenny: This day can’t get any worse.
Xander: Skip?
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Please roll me Sense to see if you can hear them.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
[Jessica groans.]
He does not. As a matter of fact, during their travel through the basement, Skip encountered these platforms which seem to be turning off and on sporadically. He had stepped on a platform and it shot him forward, spun him out, and Skip is currently at the opposite end of the room, dazed and hanging out with his Dratini around his neck, trying to stay awake as the gas inhales and starts to pass him out.
[Music stops.]
Skip: Guys?
[Beat.]
Hey, Dratini, how ya doin’?
[Teamwork motif gently plays on guitar.]
Dratini: [weak] Brrr.
Skip: [scoffs] Tell me about it. You know, if I never see Klara again, this’ll be pretty sad.
Dratini: Brr! BrRbrr.
Skip: [chuckles] I know, I love you too.
Dratini: Brr. Br.
[Platforms click throughout. Dark misadventure music echoes.]
Sage: Cut back to Candace and Xander and Officer Jenny looking at all these arrowed platforms and they start to notice a pattern. Every now and again, they’ll turn on and zip a little bit, zap a little bit, and it’ll turn back off.
Xander: [mumbles] What the fuck?
Candace: Whoa. What’s going on?
Xander: The floor’s zippin’ and zappin’.
Officer Jenny: Wait a minute, kids! I think this floor does something!
Xander: Stand on it then.
Candace: No! No, no, no, no, no!
Officer Jenny: I know what we do. Give me Skip’s shoe.
[Stat test chime.]
Candace: Okay, I’m gonna carefully grab the shoe off this platform.
[Footsteps scuff as Candace slowly moves toward the platform. She eases down to pick up the shoe.]
[quiet] I’m very cautious about this right now.
[Success chime.]
Sage: Single success. You grab the shoe and it turns on, but you’re good.
[Candace jumps back and returns to the others.]
Officer Jenny: Okay, what we’re gonna do is we’re gonna place the shoe on the platform when it lights up.
Xander: You mean the platform we just took it off?
Officer Jenny: When it lights up.
Candace: There’s multiple platforms.
Xander: I just- I’m sorry, I’m just a little frustrated with your policing methods at this point.
Officer Jenny: This is detective work, young man. This is difficult.
[Everyone begins slurring their words.]
Candace: Yeah, you wouldn’t know anything about that, ’cause you’re the furthest thing from a dete- detective, right, Officer Jenny?
Officer Jenny: That’s right.
Candace: I am s- I know my stuff.
Xander: You’re takin’ in too much gas, Candace, you’re startin’ to sound stupid.
[Greg laughs.]
Candace: You know what?
Xander: What?
Candace: You’re stupid! ’Cause you’re taking just the same amount of gas, so…
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Can the three of you roll me health?
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
[Failure chime.]
[Failure chime.]
[Stifled laughter.]
Wow. They all fail. So everybody has rolled failures except for Officer Jenny, who rolled a critical failure.
Travis: That’s your tax dollars at work, everybody. [snickers]
Officer Jenny: Kiddos, [clears throat] I know it’s stressful. I know you’re stressed out, but I’m really not feelin’ too well. We need to find your friend, and we need to figure our way outta here.
Sage: She collapses to the floor.
[Officer Jenny’s eyes roll back and she collapses with a heavy thud.]
[Misadventure music.]
Candace: Um…Officer Jenny?
Xander: Oh, no. Hey, lady!
Candace: Give her mouth-to-mouth!
Xander: What? N—
Candace: I would do it- I- I don’t know how.
Xander: I don’t know how.
Candace: Don’t you, like, live in the trailer park by, like, the water?
Xander: What does that have to do with anything?
[Greg stifles laughter.]
Candace: Well, I’m- I- [chuckles drunkenly] I imagine that you would know how to do CPR. ’Cause you’re, like, basic survival mode.
Xander: Hey, do you have a fireplace in your house?
Candace: Yeah?
Xander: Are you a lumberjack?
[Beat.]
[Greg laughs.]
Shut the fuck up, Candace.
[Candace squawks in indignation.]
Hey, lady!
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Please, Xander, roll me Agility.
Candace: Officer Jenny?
[Success chime.]
Sage: Success! You’re shaking Officer Jenny and you notice all of the arrows turn on at once and then you have the wherewithal to—
[Travis laughs.]
—just barely grab her body and lift her before she catapults across the room.
[Travis laughs harder.]
But you see that flash in your head for a moment.
[Music stops.]
Candace: Wow! That was zippy fast!
Xander: [groans] Oh my god.
Candace: You’re sweating!
Xander: Ugh. [mumbles] I’ve had better days.
Candace: Well, no duh. We’re trapped in this basement and there’s a gas leak. Our friend is missing, and Officer Jenny is, like, dead in your arms. Well, she may not be dead. Will you check her pulse?
Xander: I don’t know, is she breathing?
[Beat.]
Candace: Okay, she’s alive.
Xander: [quiet] She’s breathing.
Candace: What’re we gonna do? How do we get outta here? Should we go on one of these platforms?
Xander: Maybe it’ll run us into Skip.
Candace: I guess. Maybe.
Xander: We can ride her like a toboggan.
[Stifled laughter.]
Candace: Alright. I mean, she’s already passed out. And she’s the grown-up, so it just makes the most logical sense to do it. Sorry, Officer Jenny.
[Surfy, misadventure music.]
Sage: Our two trainers lay down Officer Jenny on an arrow platform and sit on her, kind of straddling over like a toboggan.
[Stifled laughter.]
Candace: You’re as good as a toboggan as you are a police officer.
[Laughter.]
Xander: [Travis stifles laughter] Which is to say not very.
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: [amused] Can both of you please roll me Luck?
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
Jessica: Uck, god dammit.
[Success chime.]
Travis: Straight up fool runnings.
Sage: You both wait for what feels like an eternity. It’s probably only really like a minute and a half in real time.
Candace: That’s a long time!
Xander: [groans] Oh my god.
Sage: But down in the darkness it feels like a long time.
Xander: I’m sitting on a lady.
Candace: I have such a big headache.
Sage: And then they all turn on—
Xander: If you don’t make it outta this—
Sage: —and launch forward.
[Music intensifies and builds into a frenzy.]
[Candace and Xander scream as they get thrown around the maze. Platforms click with each turn.]
Into another arrow. And then another arrow, hangs them to the right and, like white rapids, they start riding Officer Jenny and smacking her head into various walls in the basement of Team Rocket. They end up hitting a corner.
Candace: OW! Ugh. Whoa.
Sage: Look to their right—
Candace: [yells] Skip!
[Pokémon Main motif gently plays.]
Xander: [weak] We found you.
Candace: Skip.
Skip: [groans] Oh.
Candace: Skip.
Xander: Skip.
[Dratini trills]
Skip: [weak] Candace. Oh, hey.
Candace: Hey.
Skip: Oh, hey, Xander.
Xander: Hey.
Skip: Oh, hey, Officer Jenny.
Xander: Uh-uh.
Candace: She’s out.
Skip: Uh-oh.
Xander: We rode her.
Skip: What?
Candace: Like a- like a toboggan.
Skip: Is that why she’s dead?
Candace: She’s not dead, she’s—
Xander: [groans] Oh, she’s dead!
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Why don’t you roll me Smarts.
Travis: Me?
Sage: Yes.
Travis: [mumbles] Oh, shit.
[Failure chime.]
Sage: [chuckles] Critical failure. Xander goes up to Jenny, puts two fingers—
Greg: On her eyes.
Sage: [chuckles] On her eyes.
Xander: I think this might end up being the best day of her life.
Candace: Mm.
Skip: Alright.
Candace: Okay.
Skip: Well, I’m not carryin’ her…by myself. But we can carry her as a team!
Candace: Abra, Flash!
[High-pitched humming. A chime echoes as Flash goes off.]
[Suspenseful music begins.]
Sage: Lights up the room. You see this huge puzzling labyrinth of arrows and hallways. All of these platforms that spin and launch making up some kind of weird, almost like amusement park inside of this base for reasons you cannot figure out.
Candace: [gasps] Whoa.
Xander: How did they get anything done here?
Skip: Well, we need to pick a direction to go. I’m gonna spin around in a circle and I’m gonna point at one of them.
[Stat test chime.]
[Success chime.]
Sage: Skip steps on a platform and it launches him forward. But he’s okay, he doesn’t hit-
Skip: Whoa- wai- whoa!
Sage: Just, whoa, bounces around a little bit, and then he stops.
Skip: Hey guys, I’m in another room!
Candace: Should we, like, follow you?
Skip: Yeah!
Candace: Okay.
Xander: [quiet] Alright, let’s just sit on this lady and go.
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Both of you roll me Luck.
[Failure chime.]
[Net chime.]
You step on the platform, the zip zap jolts of this arrow is far quicker than the other one.
Candace: Oh no.
[Zaps and jolts throughout.]
Sage: It pushes you guys off of Officer Jenny, and then Officer Jenny separates to a separate part of the platform and you end up with Skip.
[Music darkens and growls.]
Xander: Shit!
Candace: Officer Jenny!
Skip: If only one of us had a flying Pokémon to pick her up!
[A Poké Ball is tossed and a Pokémon exits. A drum beat starts.]
Ramona: Pidgeyoooo!
Xander: Alright, Ramona, look at me.
Ramona: Pii.
Xander: See that lady over there?
Ramona: Piidgeo!
Xander: You gotta pick up that lady.
Ramona: [confused] Pidgeyoo?
[Stat test chime.]
[Failure chime.]
[Ramona cries out and flaps away.]
Sage: She’s able to lift her, but she can’t fly all the way back to you. She’s getting very irritated by all the gas.
[Ramona coughs and falls to the floor with a thud.]
[Laughter.]
Xander: Alright, come back.
[Ramona returns to her Poké Ball.]
Skip: Do you think she’s just gonna be safe there?
Candace: Xander, you just suck! Like, if your Pidgeotto was better, it would get Officer Jenny over here.
Skip: Hey, Candace, come on.
Candace: Sorry, it’s the gas—
Xander: No, no- don’t- don’t fight my battles for me, Skip. Alright you and- and you.
Candace: I think you’re drunk.
Xander: You’re drunk! Fuck you! You been—
Candace: I think you’re high on the gas.
Xander: You know what I’m high on?
Candace: You’re doin’ the dope.
Xander: I’m high on you bein’ high on yourself!
Skip: Guys, we’re a team, and if we don’t work as a team, we’re never gonna get through this.
Xander: Oh, no. No, I jus—
Candace: Every time we do the team pose, he never does anything!
Xander: Because I never asked to be on a team with you guys.
Skip: I’m totally down to hash this out, but right now we have a limited supply of oxygen.
Candace: Ah, nuts. You’re right.
Skip: Officer Jenny’s an adult. She knows what she’s doing.
Xander: Officer Jenny’s bad at her job!
Candace: She’s passed out.
Xander: And that’s her fault!
Candace: [quiet] Well…
Skip: Look, we’ve just figured out a lot of things together.
Xander: [shouts] She let children into an underground crime lair!
Candace: [shouts] Hey, hey, hey, hey! I—
Xander: [shouts] In which one of them sprung a gas leak!
Candace: I started the lead down here. So I led us down here. Officer Jenny helped me. ’Cause I have detective skills as well, if you forgot.
Skip: Did you try Gust?
[Beat.]
Xander: [mumbles] No.
Skip: Why don’t you give it a shot?
[Beat.]
I believe in you.
[Ramona exits her Poké Ball and cried out.]
Xander: [mumbles] Pidgeotto. Use Gust.
[Success chime.]
[Ramona cries and flaps hard. Wind swirls away.]
Sage: And the gas is pushed into the other room momentarily.
[Everyone takes a relieved breath.]
Skip: Great!
Candace: Whew!
Skip: Good job, Xander.
Candace: [relieved] Ah, air.
[The music calms; Pokemon Main motif.]
Sage: You see that it will creep back slowly, but it gives you more time to explore and figure out how to get out.
Candace: Guys—
Skip: Look down there.
[Xander coughs.]
Candace: Look where?
Skip: Down there.
[The group runs over to inspect what Skip pointed out.]
Sage: You see a brand new arrow platform.
Candace: Whoa. Let’s stand on it!
Skip: I bet this is gonna work out!
[Jessica stifles laughter.]
Sage: Everybody roll Luck.
Who’s That Pokémon? |
[Who’s That Pokémon? music.]
Candace, Skip, Xander: Who’s that Pokémon?
[Pokémon cry.]
[Pokémon cry.]
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[Music cuts off.]
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[Beat.]
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[Door slams in background.]
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[Radio switches off.]
Who’s That Pokémon? |
[Who’s That Pokémon? music.]
Candace, Skip, Xander: It’s Koffing!
[Koffing cry.]
Old Team Rocket Hideout - Part II |
[Jazzy music; a light-hearted Team Rocket Theme.]
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Everybody roll Luck. Let’s get a group poll going.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Net chime.]
[Success chime.]
[Net chime.]
Net, success, and net. Alright. They step on the platform and launch forward. Go ahead and give me some “Whoa!”s.
Dream Police: Whooooaaaaaaaa!
[Platforms whirl and click.]
Sage: And they stop on a small platform where they see a satchel with a red “R” on it.
Candace: Oh no. Guys!
Skip: A red R?
Candace: That’s just like the suits!
Skip: It must be Team Rocket!
[Candace groans in annoyance.]
Uck. My least favorite team.
Candace: They’re the worst!
Skip: Xander, how do you feel about Team Rocket?
Xander: I don’t know anything about them. I don’t care.
Skip: Right, guys!
Xander: I just wanna leave.
[Candace scoffs.]
Skip: Alright, I’m grabbin’ it.
Candace: What d’you find?
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Roll me Luck.
[Net chime.]
Skip: A net!
Sage: Mmm, alright. You know what?
Skip: I found a net!
[Chuckling.]
Sage: You find a net that Team Rocket most likely uses to catch Pokémon. Very old and dusty. There’s a lot of withered pieces. It’s not very useful, but among sifting through, you also find six Rare Candies.
[Cloth rustles as Skip sets the net down and searches through the satchel. Item Found chime. Candace cries out happily.]
Skip: Check it out, guys. Not only did I find six Rare Candies, but these Caterpies that we run into are goin’ down.
[Cloth rustles as he holds up the tattered net.]
I found a net.
Candace: That’s pretty cool. Should we feed these Candies to our Pokémon, or save ’em?
Skip: You’re the one who knows the most about Pokémon.
Candace: You’re totally right, I do! Uh…
Skip: That’s why you’re the brains of this team.
Candace: Yes, I am! Duh, I know everything. Uh…
Skip: And Xander, you’re the talent.
[Xander opens his Pokédex.]
Xander: Pokédex, what do the Rare Candies do?
Pokédex: [beep] Rare Candy. A special sweet treat for your Pokémon. Levels them up by one point.
[Pokédex clicks shut.]
Candace: Yeah, so, um, the Rare Candies level our, uh, Pokémon up by one point.
Skip: Here you go, Dratini.
[Wrapper crinkles as Skip opens the candy. Dratini trills happily.]
Candace: Alright, Abra. This one’s for you.
Sage: And right before Candace goes to feed her Rare Candy to Abra, they hear footsteps behind them.
[Suspenseful music. Light footsteps tap closer and closer.]
Candace: [frantic whisper] Shhh, shh, shh! Shut the fuck up!
[Travis stifles laughter.]
[whispers] Do you hear that? Sh-shut the fuck up.
Skip: [whispers] Which direction is he coming from?
Xander: [whispers] Nobody’s saying—
Candace: [whispers] Shut the fuck up!
Xander: [whispers] Nobody’s saying anything. Don’t ask me a question if you don’t—
Candace: [whispers] Shut the fuck up, shut the fuck up!
Xander: [whispers] Shh, shh. You shut the fuck up. Shut—
Candace: [whispers] Shit face.
Skip: [yells] Who’s there?
Xander: [groans] Oh my god!
Candace: [whispers] Oh, you stupid!
[Footsteps tap closer. A raspy throat-clear.]
Man: [raspy] What’re you kids doin’ down here?
Skip: [shouts] Who are you?
Man: Uh. Uh, it’s been so long.
Skip: You forgot your name?
Jeff: Mmm. Jeff.
Xander: What?
[Travis chuckles.]
Candace: Jeff?
Skip: That’s what we’ll call you, but I don’t believe that’s your actual name!
Travis: What does Jeff look like?
Sage: Jeff looks like he’s dying.
Travis: Oh, shit.
Sage: He is at the thinness that is right between alive—
[Candace gasps.]
—and- and a corpse.
[Backpack zips open and a wrapper crinkles.]
Candace: Want my PB&J sandwich?
Jeff: You have a sandwich down here?
Candace: Yeah, I made it myself in the beginning of our trip and I’ve been saving it for a moment like this.
Skip: Whoa, hold up! Don’t feed him the entire sandwich.
Candace: Why?
Skip: Because of the state of hunger he’s in, that could make him even more sick and die.
Candace: Okay, here’s a crumb of it. It’s a little piece.
Jeff: You’re gonna give me that whole sandwich, little girl!
Skip: Hey, Jeff, back off!
Candace: We’re looking out for your best interests!
Jeff: Are you threatening me?
Xander: [quiet] That sandwich doesn’t look like it’s good anymore.
Jeff: Give me it now, or I’m gonna send out one o’ my Pokémon.
Skip: [shouts] Send ’im out! We’re not afraid!
Sage: He takes off some dirty sweater that he was wearing and found down here—
[Candace groans.]
—and reveals the uniform—the really old uniform—of Team Rocket.
[Suspenseful music intensifies.]
Skip: No sympathy here, ex-Team Rocket Member!
Candace: I’ve never even heard of you, Jeff.
Jeff: What d’you mean you’ve never heard of Team Rocket Grunt Jeff?
Skip: Hear about this! Dratini, go!
[Team Rocket Theme slams in on rock guitars!]
Dratini: [determined] Brr! Br br br brr brr brbr bRr!
Travis: [chuckles] Dratini played by Miles Davis.
[Laughter.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Go, cobra- I mean, Arbok!
Xander: [quiet] Just in case any of you hadn’t figured that out yet.
[Jeff throws a Poké Ball and Arbok exits, hissing.]
Skip: Dratini, Thunder Wave!
[Dratini trills, Thunder Wave zaps.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No, you can’t do that.
[Crinkling is heard as Arbok sheds its skin.]
Because Arbok doesn’t get Paralyzed, ’cause he knows Shed Skin.
Xander: Gross.
[Dratini trills.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Arbok, use Pursuit.
[Arbok hisses. It launches forward and hits Dratini, who trills in pain.]
Oh no, all of his skin’s been shed. Arbok! Are you out of skin to shed? Are you shedding so much skin that you’re just a hunk o’ meat?
Xander: Stop talkin’ about skin!
Skip: Get ready to feel the burn of my Dragon Rage!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No, Arbok, you gotta be able to move!
[Dratini trills. Electronic hum, flames surge forward.]
Come on, use Glare. Stare at ’im. Stare at Dratini’s soul until he freezes up.
[Vibrating chimes are heard as Arbok Glares at Dratini. Crinkling as Dratini sheds her skin.]
Xander: Whoa, Dratini’s shedding his skin too.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Wait, what the fuck?
Skip: Guess what, buddy? [scoffs] Dratini’s not outta this fight! Dratini, finish ’im off! Let’s do a Dragon Rage!
[Dratini trills. Electronic hum, flames rush toward Arbok.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No, no, no, that does- no! No, Arbok!
[Arbok hisses in pain and falls down with a thud. Jeff pants in anxiety.]
Xander: [cautioning] Small hallway.
Skip: When you play with fire, you end up dead!
[Arbok returns to its Poké Ball.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Oh, I loved that snake. I would wear that snake around my neck.
[Jeff tosses another Poké Ball and Golbat exits.]
I caught it outside o’ my house—
Skip: A Golbat?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: —in my backyard in—
Xander: Careful, this could be your future.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: —near- near the pond.
Skip: Oh, sorry.
Candace: Yeah, that sounds a lot like how you found—
Xander: Hold on, wait, wait. Hold on, what’d you say?
[Record scratch. Music stops.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: I caught that snake outside my house in my backyard near a pond.
Xander: And you’d wear it around your neck?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: And I’d wear it around my neck.
Xander: Do you also think you’re the best?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: I’m the best!
Xander: Guys, this is—
Candace: Are you also in love with a girl named Klara?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Klara Ann.
[Suspenseful music resumes.]
Candace: Whoa, this is… [gasps]
Xander: Okay, so this- I think we’re all still really high.
Skip: He sent out a Golbat. Can I fight it, guys?
Xander: I think this- are you from the future?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Am I from the fut- what are you some kinda stupid fuckin’ idiot?
Xander: Hey!
Candace: Jeez!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: So is that a “no” or…
Xander: No!
Candace: [scoffs] He’s just poor.
Xander: Yeah! Wait, what? Hey.
Candace: What?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Golbat…
Xander: Is that how you see poor people?
[Music quiets.]
Candace: What?
Xander: Do you think all poor people are stupid?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: [mumbles] Okay, I- I wasn’t tryin’ to start anything.
Candace: No! No, I just said you’re poor. You’re not, like, dumb.
Xander: [irked] Those are two… I mean, it just seems like you connected those two in your mind.
Candace: No! I- I’m ju- I’m just saying it’s, like, your only fault is that you’re poor.
Xander: [angry] Tha- that’s my fault?
Skip: [stage whispers] Psst. Dratini, Thunder Wave.
[Dratini trills. Thunder Wave zaps.]
[Battle music resumes!]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No! Golbat, use Air Cutter!
[Golbat screeches and flaps its wings. Air slices toward Dratini.]
Get the wind and cut right through it. That’s right.
[Dratini trills weakly.]
You’re down to 56%, Dratini. I see you. Half of your tail is shed, but the rest of it is not.
Skip: Don’t worry, Dratini! We can sweat this off! But he’s not gonna be able to sweat off the heat that we’re gonna bring!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Wait a minute. No.
Skip: Because the fire that’s gonna come outta your mouth is gonna cause so much damage, he’s gonna feel the burn.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No!
Skip: Alright, Dratini. Together, as the Dream Police, let’s bring it.
Xander and Skip: Dragon Rage!
Xander: I called it.
[Dratini trills. Electronic hum, flames rush forward.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: No, no, no! Golbat, you gotta move! Quit bein’ Paralyzed like a robot.
[Golbat cries out in pain as Dragon Rage hits it.]
Shed your skin. Use some kind of echolocation! Fly around the room! Find us an exit! Golbat, it’s been years!
Xander: You guys talk so much!
Skip: Alright, Dratini. I’ve had enough and so have my friends. They’re sick and tired of us monologuing and going on with this fight that never seems to end.
Candace: What are you guys saying? I can’t even hear you!
Skip: [over his shoulder] Excuse me, I’m in the middle of this. [at Dratini] Dratini! Look at me.
Dratini: Br.
Skip: Make eye con—
Dratini: Br!
Skip: There we go. Alright, look back at your opponent.
Dratini: Brr!
Skip: Never break eye contact with your opponent.
[Jeff sneezes loudly.]
You’re doing great!
Candace: Bless you!
Skip: Alright, don’t be distracted by his grossness.
Dratini: Bbrbrbrrrr!
Skip: Bring the flame, bring the fury. It’s time for Dragon Rage!
[Dratini trills. Electronic hum, flames shoot at Golbat.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: [mumbles] Yeah, yeah, we’ve heard a million times. [normal] Golbat, use… No.
Xander: He fainted.
[Golbat falls to the ground with a thud.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Golbat!
Skip: Candace, use Crumb of a Sandwich!
Candace: Uh, Crumb of a Sandwich! Throwin’ it right at you, Jeff.
[Candace throws a piece of her peanut butter and jelly sandwich.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: The fuck are you doin’ that for?
Skip: Tryin’a feed you, man.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Oh. [growls and chews]
Candace: You feel better? You a little less hangry?
[Jeff mumbles.]
Xander: Are you outta Pokémon?
Candace: You prob’ly shouldn’t battle—
Xander: Are you outta Pokémon?
Candace: —Pokémon when you’re hangry.
Xander: You’re done, right? We’re done?
Candace: D’you want anoth—
Rocket Grunt Jeff: What’re you kids doin’ down here, fuckin’ with Team Rocket?
Skip: It’s amazing! Although his body is totally weak, his fighting spirit seems to be at full potential!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: You didn’t answer my question at all.
Xander: We accidented here.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: You “accidented”? Oh, you sure you’re not tryin’ to foil Team Rocket’s master [burps] plans?
Skip: Team Rocket was disbanded years ago.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Y-yeah, so what? We- we had a- we had a re- cult goin’. We had a revolution [sighs] couple years after. Didn’t really work out. But it’s gonna happen again, I bet. So long as I get outta here.
Skip: Right, you admitted it! And I recorded the entire thing on my Pokédex!
[Pokédex beeps.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: What?
Skip: Guess what, buddy? You’re goin’ down.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Goin’ down where?
Candace: [shouts] Yeah, Team Rocket sucks!
Xander: Yeah, we brought a police officer!
Skip: We’re junior police!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Oh, yeah? Well, where is she?
Xander: She’s resting.
Candace: She’s—
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Resting?
Skip: She’s our backup!
[Suspenseful music builds.]
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Arresting who?
Candace: Your friends.
Xander: Your leader.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: What?
Xander: Right now!
Candace: Yeah, right now!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Giovanni?
Xander: Yeah!
Candace: Yeah, that’s right!
Rocket Grunt Jeff: I thought Giovanni disappeared into Seafoam Islands and never came back.
Candace: Seafoam Islands?
Xander: He came back and we…got ’im.
Candace: Yeah, we got all your friends. You know? Like…
Xander: Craig.
Candace: And…
Skip: Zach!
Candace: …Cody!
Skip: Blue!
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Roll for Confidence.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Success chime.]
[Net chime.]
Alright, success and net. So he believes your bluff.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Okay.
Xander: It’s all over, man.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Alright, alright. Fine, fine, fine.
Xander: All over.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Fine. I was really close to gettin’ outta here, you know? And then I heard your noises, saw your Flashes. Finally I was puttin’ the whole puzzle together. The whole map, you know? They haven’t been here in years.
Xander: So you know how to get outta here, right?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: I think so.
Candace: Yeah?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Yeah.
Xander: You wanna- you wanna help us get outta here?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Yeah, sure.
Xander: And you won’t get arrested, maybe?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: Alright, yeah.
Greg: We all wink at each other.
[Suspenseful music shifts into a dark drone.]
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: On your way there, group pool, roll for Sense.
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Success chime.]
[Net chime.]
[Hidden Power chime.]
Greg: I got a net!
Sage: Critical success, net, and- and Hidden Power.
Greg: Oh! Uh, Wisdom.
Sage: Alright, perfect.
Jessica: Whoo!
Travis: Wow.
Sage: So, as Skip and the Dream Police go through the Team Rocket hideout, Skip remembers that this might be their only chance to find some evidence on this new wave of Team Rocket and their return and who’s involved and how Cedric somehow was working with them and who had that shirt on the boat. So he starts pulling out drawers of filing cabinets and searching for any proof and any clues. And he comes across a journal.
Old and dusty, a lot of the entries inside of it are unreadable, but some of them are.
[Page rustles as the book opens. Giovanni Motif pulses.]
Dear Diary,
- One gallon milk
- One dozen eggs
- One unit laundry detergent
What size do they sell laundry detergent in? Don’t buy Gain, that stuff ruined my clothes.
Where to buy cattle prod for 11-year-old children that continue to frustrate my plans?
[Page turns.]
Dear Diary,
Those goddamn Seels are out on my lawn again and they keep getting at my groceries. And I put them in the Seel-proof, sealed containers that I got from Vons. And they just don’t work. The damn Seels just hop up and they take my pork chops—
[Page turns.]
Dear Diary,
Criminals in this town used to stand for something, but the world is changing. Things are going south for me. I’m beginning to lose hope.
[Page turns.]
Dear Diary,
Auntie Millie’s birthday.
[Page turns.]
Dear Diary,
Another 11-year-old completely screwed on my ass on this deal. I don’t know what I’m going to do. What is it about these kids that make them so powerful? It can’t be this “actually loving your Pokémon” crap. We all know that that’s a huge load. If there was only some way I could leverage that to my bene–
Wait a minute. Wait a minute.
[Music builds.]
I think I’ve just had an idea. I think I’ve just had a wonderfully awful idea. And if I can work–it’s a million-to-one shot–but if I can get it to work, then I’m gonna be right back on top, and this Team Rocket’s gonna make it all the way to the moon, baby! All the way—
Damn it, the Seels are back! They ate my turkey sandwich! Ah, now I have to go back to Vons? AHH—
[Book snaps shut. Music fades out.]
Skip: Cool.
[Backpack zips open and the book rustles as Skip stows it inside. Zipper shuts.]
Sage: And you all return to Officer Jenny.
[Light-hearted suspense music.]
[Stat test chime.]
Officer Jenny. Can you please get me a roll for Luck?
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
Jessica: Oh.
Sage: Oh, no.
Travis: Jesus Christ.
Sage: She is still alive.
Greg: Can I try to Reviv-afy her?
Sage: But she cannot wake up.
[Greg hisses in a breath.]
Alright, roll Smarts.
[Stat test chime.]
[Success chime.]
Travis: Wow.
Sage: Alright, if you give her some air…with CPR.
Candace: [taunts] You’re gonna have to kiss Officer Jenny.
[Beat.]
I won’t tell Klara.
Skip: Okay, guys. I got this.
[Skip reluctantly approaches Officer Jenny. He sighs and groans. The sound of lips sucking is heard.]
[Greg chuckles.]
Candace: That’s not- You don’t actually kiss her!
Xander: That doesn’t seem like it. That does not seem like it.
[Skip blows.]
Candace: There you go.
Sage: After some really awkward attempts…
[Laughter.]
Xander: Stop puttin’ your hand in her shirt!
Skip: I’m trying to push her chest!
Candace: Not in her pants!
Skip: What?
Xander: From the outside!
Sage: [chuckles] Eventually Officer Jenny takes a gasp of air.
[Officer Jenny takes a deep breath.]
Xander: [mumbles] Think you- think you found the spot.
[Stifled laughter.]
Officer Jenny: [coughs] Oh, what happened?
Skip: I brought you back.
Officer Jenny: …What did you do?
Rocket Grunt Jeff: [fast] Nothing. They did nothing and I’m not a member of Team Rocket—
Xander: Shhh.
Rocket Grunt Jeff: —and we’re gonna get you outta here.
[Beat.]
Officer Jenny: Uh, I don’t- um, I think I need a minute. Who’s your friend—
Rocket Grunt Jeff: This way!
[A thud as Jeff shoves Officer Jenny. Frenzied music starts.]
Sage: And he pushes Officer Jenny off to—
[Laughter.]
[Platform beeps and everyone screams as they spin through the maze.]
Everybody spins across.
Candace: I’m motion sickness!
Skip: I’m think I’m gonna…feel great!
Sage: And they end up back in the first room.
[Suspenseful music pounds. The group hurries back to the staircase.]
We look up. The latch is still closed.
[Stat test chime.]
If only someone could roll me Wisdom or Smarts to figure out how to get that thing open.
Travis: Great. On three, everybody.
Greg: I’ll just throw a Pokémon at it. [chuckles]
Travis: One, two, three!
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Hidden Power chime.]
[Net chime.]
[Success chime.]
Jessica: Net.
Greg: Wisdom!
Sage: Somewhat- Oh! You got a- you got a Hidden Power. Okay.
Travis: I got a success.
Skip: Hey! I got an idea. Why don’t my Dratini and your Pidgeotto combine powers? Twister and Gust!
Xander: [deadpan] Sweet idea, man. Would never would’ve thought of that on my own. Thanks for tellin’ me.
Skip: No problem, dude. Teamwork!
[Beat.]
Candace: I’ll do it!
[High-five taps.]
Skip: Thanks, Candace.
[Stifled laughter.]
[Adventure music.]
Dratini, go!
Xander: [quiet] Go, Ramona.
[Dratini trills.]
[Ramona exits her Poké Ball and cries out.]
Sage: Alright, they swirl up some debris. The machines- the smog starts getting in, it makes them all cough and wheeze. They don’t like the way it feels.
[Xander coughs.]
Just one? Just one.
[Skip and Candace cough weakly.]
[amused] There you go. That’s good, that’s good.
[Everyone coughs harder.]
Alright, alright, you’re good, you can stop now.
[Everyone groans and coughs louder.]
Okay, okay. We’re good! We’re done! We’re done, we’re done! Stop! [chuckles] And the door bursts open.
[Music stops. The slot machines in the casino ding, and muffled chatter from the patrons is heard. Everyone walks out of the basement.]
Officer Jenny: The back of my head really hurts, kids.
[Candace groans.]
Xander: You hit the floor when you passed out.
[Jessica stifles laughter.]
Candace: There was nothin’ we could do.
Xander: You fell down some stairs.
Sage: They go outside.
[Casino door opens and the cheery music of Celadon plays.]
It’s a nice day. The fresh air is very revealing. However, they look around and everyone’s still sick and throwing up, and still this weird energy about Celadon.
Skip: People of Celadon City, gather around!
[Stifled laughter.]
Sage: [amused] No one does. But some people are passing by, so it makes Skip think that they are listening.
Skip: You! Pokémon trainer! You, guy with a fedora! And you, man who...goes to the hospital too frequently?
[A man coughs and vomits.]
Candace: Sir, will you quit vomiting? You’re interrupting my friend!
Skip: Everybody, listen. We found what’s causing the problem! There are machines that are spewing toxic gas out into the city! Don’t worry, the Dream Police, and the regular police, are here to save you guys! We’ve found the problem. It’s Team Rocket!
Officer Jenny: What? You found Team Rocket?
Skip: They’re back!
Xander: [quiet] We found this g—
[A mysterious whoosh is heard. Suspenseful music kicks in.]
Sage: He’s gone. However, his hat was left.
Travis: Is this like a m- like a memento?
Jessica: What kind of hat is it?
Sage: It’s black, has an “R” on it.
Skip: Must’ve died.
Candace: [irked] No!
Xander: What?
Candace: [irked] He ran away!
Skip: Oh, that makes more sense.
[Stat test chime.]
Sage: Skip, can you roll me Wisdom?
[Dice roll on the table.]
[Failure chime.]
Mmm, okay. [chuckles] Then, yup. This was just Team Rocket and there’s absolutely nothing else going on.
[Suspenseful music crescendos and fades out.]
Credits |
[Pokémon Main Theme plays throughout.]
Marlena Jean: Thanks for tuning in! This has been a 20 Sided Stories production.
Candace Carter was played by Jessica Dahlgren
Skip Svitak was played by Greg Reasoner
And Xander Whitten was played by Travis Reaves
With Additional Voices by David Michmerhiezen, Mariah Ramblas, and Sage G.C.
The original music from the Pokémon Red, Green, Blue, and Yellow Versions was composed by Junichi Masuda
With Arrangements and Additional Scoring by Sage G.C.
Additional Production and Audio Assistance by Travis Reaves
Game Master Assistance and Pokémon Battle Management by Grant Bouffard
Original Character artwork by Ariana Cabebe
Podcast Directed, Edited, and Sound Designed by Sage G.C.
You can get the soundtrack to this series for free at
sagegc.bandcamp.com
And of course, visit our website at 20sidedstories.com
[Transcripts by Tiffany Chapman]
[Main Theme crescendos and fades out.]