Chapter 19: Final Badges

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After leaving Cinnabar Island, Leaf, Ellie and I went back to Fuchsia City to get the badge from Koga before going back to Viridian. When we went to Viridian, there was a lot of talk about the Legendary Trainer challenging the Gym a couple weeks before that and a mysterious object flying through the roof of the Gym. After some dirty looks from Ellie and Leaf, we finally went to the Gym to face Giovanni once and for all. When I got to him, he had a smug look on his face. "You finally relieve me of the suspense." Giovanni says. "Let's make a wager on this battle." I say. Leaf and Ellie are shocked at this statement. "What are the terms?" Giovanni asks intrigued. "If I win, Team Rocket disbands and you never bring them back together." I say. "Alright. But, what if I win?" Giovanni asks. "I'll give you all the research put into my armor on how my powers work." I say reluctantly. "William, you cannot do that. It's putting all the Legendary Pokémon at risk if you do." Ellie says. "I won't lose! Not to the leader of Team Rocket. I am the force of nature that protects Pokémon from those who would mistreat them for their own selfish ambitions. I am the Legendary Trainer!" I say while getting angry. Ellie and Leaf back away because they have never seen me like this.

Giovanni and I set up to battle. I send out Venusaur and sweep through all of his Pokémon before he sends in his last. I withdraw Venusaur and send in Aggron. "Aggron? I know you want to have a challenge to honorably earn your badge, but with you betting all of this, why are you doing it again?" Leaf asks. "I can't go against my own nature. I will beat him using this method." I explain. Giovanni sends out a Rhydon. I create a link between Aggron and myself before attacking with Iron Head. Rhydon had a ton of HP and only went down one fourth of the way after the Iron Head made contact. "Aggron, let's try using Flash Cannon." I say through the link. After Aggron used Flash Cannon, Rhydon was so close to being finished. "Rhydon, use Fissure." Giovanni says. I think about that move and realize it's a one hit knock out move. Luckily, it didn't land. "Aggron, Flash Cannon to finish this. And follow through with Iron Head." I yell aloud. Flash Cannon was dodged, but Iron Head landed and took down Rhydon. Giovanni, surprisingly being a man of his word, turned to all of the Team Rocket members behind him and said, "From this point forward, Team Rocket is forever disbanded. No one attack the Legendary Trainer, for he has shown honor in this challenge that he had with me."

Ellie, Leaf and I were standing there in shock and awe that this was really happening. Giovanni turned around and said to me, "This is the Earth Badge. It's the final badge that you need to go to the Indigo League. Thank you for showing me the light through our battle. I'm going to go on a soul-searching journey to figure out what I should do now. If we meet again, I hope we will not have any hard feelings." Giovanni says giving me the badge and holding out his hand for me to shake. "I believe we can put water under the bridge." I say as I shake his hand. "Just know that I'll have eyes on you making sure you don't try anything sneaky." I add. "That's fine. I hope we can be friends one day." Giovanni says before leaving. We head out of the Gym still a little shocked at what we just accomplished. "Did that really just happen?" Leaf asked. "Did we really just disband Team Rocket for good?" Ellie asks. We all look at each other and realize it wasn't a dream. We jump around and hug each other. When I hug Ellie, she kisses me passionately for a few minutes. Leaf doesn't even notice cause she's so excited that we finally did it.

Red shows up and sees us. "What arewe celebrating?" Red asks. "We just defeated Team Rocket for good!" Leaf tellshim. "Will you two get a room please?" Leaf adds when she notices us. I back upfrom Ellie. "Sorry. It was a close battle. But, I managed to get my badge whiledisbanding Team Rocket." I said while showing my badge. "How did you end upgetting them to disband?" Red asked. "This numbskull decided to bet themdisbanding against the research of his powers on the result of the Gym Battle."Leaf said as she punched me. "Hey! That was the only thing that I could think ofthat he would agree to." I explain. "That was extremely reckless, William. But,efficient in the end result." Red said. We headed back to Pallet Town tocelebrate. It didn't take long for everyone to organize a party in celebration.At the party, we started reminiscing about all of the events to happen on ourjourney.    


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