Calyrex Steps Up: Revive, My Fruit! (Monthly Votes Appreciated)

"Quick, quick, quick!"

"If it won't fit, smash whatever's left!"

A group of Team Rocket members in black uniforms marked with red "R"s worked alongside a crowd of Machop and Machoke, loading crates of secretly picked fruit onto trucks parked nearby.

Once upon a time, they never would have dreamed they'd go out on a mission together not to catch Raikou, Entei, or Suicune, but to steal fruit from someone else's yard...

Bombing the Manor and stealing the fruit were both Lambda's ideas. After all, to most people, both fruit and Berries took a long time to grow. Even the fastest crops needed two or three months, right?

If they blew up the newly planted fruit trees and stole as much fruit as possible from the existing ones, Mingyou would take a serious hit. At the very least, he wouldn't be able to supply the fruit market for the next two or three months.

That was when Team Rocket would step in, quickly filling the gap with Counterfeit Fruit and breaking into the market. They weren't selling Pokémon; this was a completely legal business. The International Police would have nothing to investigate even if they wanted to.

"Move it! We're about to pull out!"

"Got it!"

"This mission's a breeze. There's no danger at all."

"Yeah. We might as well catch all the Pokémon at this Manor while we're here. Didn't the internet say a Pokémon called Ogerpon lives here? We could catch it and sell it!"

"Ogerpon... It's so cute. I'd love to see it locked in a cage, crying and trembling after a beating. And it'd definitely fetch a good price!"

"Don't get sidetracked. Get ready to leave!"

After smashing the fruit that wouldn't fit in the trucks, the Team Rocket members gathered to chat. With a mission