Everything had been going perfectly when a collar suddenly slipped around Aggron's neck. The Champion's Aggron's eyes turned red. "To protect the world from devastation... skip the rest! This Aggron belongs to us now! Hahahaha..." What?! Those rotten Team Rocket members again! I'd almost forgotten about those scheming crooks!
We were done for! We didn't have a single Pokémon with us that could match the Champion's Aggron! Wutong rushed out and stood in front of Aggron to stop him from leaving.
The blue-haired man, James, said, "Aggron! Use Metal Sound to blast him away!" Without a shred of mercy, Aggron used Metal Sound on Wutong. Then Team Rocket drove away in their giant Meowth robot.
After Team Rocket took Aggron, everyone was frantic and had no idea what to do. Wutong was undoubtedly the most distressed of all. As novice Pokémon Trainers, we really were helpless. Stroid hadn't been programmed to handle an exception like this either, but still kindly asked, "Would you like me to notify Officer Jenny for you?"
Note: exception handling is an alternative way of dealing with something that falls outside a program's normal function library.
We replied awkwardly, "Thank you, but no."
Then Wutong, Meimo, Jieli, and I left the Lumiose Gym.
Meimo asked me anxiously, "What should we do...? Should I hire an expert to help you, Silver?"
I was deeply grateful that Meimo was willing to lend a hand. I bore the greatest responsibility for this, because Aggron had been in my care at the time. Why hadn't I returned him to his Poké Ball as soon as I won the Gym battle? Why had I been so careless? It wasn't as if I didn't know how many bad people there were in this world...
I really wanted to become strong enough to