Pirated Fruit Hits the Market, and a Business Rivalry with Team Rocket

When Lambda said he had buried a hundred Koffing around the Manor as a threat to blow it up, Mingyou's reaction was, "That's it?" Far too few!

But when Lambda said Team Rocket had cracked the Manor's core technology and could produce its fruit, Mingyou's reaction was much stronger.

How was that even possible?

Even Mingyou didn't understand how it worked. He had made everything by using cards to change the varieties of fruit and vegetables. Could someone really make knockoffs?

Then again, Team Rocket was the world's largest criminal organization, with scientists to spare. Maybe they had an agricultural genius who could pull it off. But Move-Learning Fruit?

There was no way to copy that, right?

And they couldn't. That was why Lambda had proposed buying up all of Mingyou's rare fruit and vegetables. Team Rocket wanted to become the sole supplier, sell at high prices, and split the profits, because they couldn't produce those varieties themselves.

Team Rocket had discovered the fruit in the second half of last year. Kitakami was nearby, and word spread fast online.

At first, they paid little attention. Only after the Lily of the Valley Conference gave it publicity did they take it seriously. Team Rocket had even placed quite a few orders with Mingyou, intending to extract genes from the fruit for research.

After months of work and who knew how much wasted fruit, they finally isolated the variant genes. By injecting them into ordinary fruit trees or vegetable seeds, they could grow their own crops.

The results were weaker than the originals, and the quality couldn't match what Mingyou grew. But that was enough. They could undercut the genuine products with cheaper knockoffs and drive them out of the market.

Taking over a market was easy for them. The Sinnoh Region