"Report, ma'am! A3 Base has just been infiltrated!"
Miyamoto was leading a group of elites to support B13 Base in Viridian City when she received this message halfway there.
She immediately realized that this was likely a lure the tiger out of the mountain scheme. Their target had to be inside A3 Base.
Was it an ultimate item, top-grade Pokemon, or the two people they had just captured?
However, the importance of Team Rocket bases was not ranked according to their numbers.
B13 Base was a medium-sized base responsible for submitting missions and storing Pokemon, making it even more important than large bases much of the time.
So Miyamoto only hesitated briefly before sharply waving her hand and choosing to continue the support mission! Although A3 Base was large, its main purpose was to house Team Rocket members and detain enemies whose Pokemon had all been confiscated.
Therefore, A3 Base was far less valuable than B13 Base.
More importantly, there were other Team Rocket executives in A3 Base. They should be able to hold out for a while.
Meanwhile, Caesar, whom Miyamoto believed would be fine, wore a gloomy face as he was forced to fight Elite Four Shiba head-on.
"Hitmonchan, Fire Punch! Machamp, Karate Chop!"
"Ursaring, Hyper Beam! Weezing, Sludge Bomb!"
Thanks to the Dark Balls, Caesar could easily obtain plenty of reasonably powerful combatants.
But because Dark Balls inflicted enormous damage on Pokemon, Caesar had to regularly replace the dead Pokemon in his possession to ensure his strength did not fall too far behind the other Team Rocket executives.
Yet as Team Rocket grew increasingly prosperous, several executives broke through to Elite Four level. Caesar, who relied on Dark Balls, found himself at an ever greater disadvantage.
Five years ago, Elite Four Shiba had beaten him into fleeing