Monday, May 13. The weather was clear.
Goldenrod City's airport was as bustling as ever. As an international commercial metropolis, its airport saw terrifying, holiday-travel-rush levels of passenger traffic every day.
Goldenrod City TV Station, a department under Goldenrod City's Radio Tower, had always enjoyed exceptionally high ratings, ranking alongside Sinnoh's Jubilife TV and Kalos's Lumiose City TV Station.
"Come to think of it, if we hadn't taken Lance out ahead of time, the Goldenrod Radio Tower might have been occupied again." He met up with Ash's trio and the Team Rocket Trio in the parking lot.
Gary sighed as he watched the large screen recently installed outside the radio station building. It was broadcasting the Hoenn Region's Champion League.
Wallace's Milotic certainly was magnificent, but the way it was beating down Steven's Metagross looked a little fake.
Everyone knew Steven had a Shiny Metagross. One elbow strike from it had once nearly given Kyogre a concussion.
Bringing an ordinary Metagross into the Champion League and throwing the match so openly was going a little too far.
But it didn't really matter. Steven would soon discover that Wallace was even less reliable than he was.
Steven only treated mining as a hobby, while Wallace genuinely used his position to promote his Pokémon Contests like mad...
Before Wallace could completely twist the style of Hoenn's Trainers, Steven could only grit his teeth and return to work.
Of course, none of that was the point. The point was...
"Could you all stop baring your teeth at each other?" Gary looked speechlessly at the six behind him...
To be precise, it was five people and a cat...
"Gary, those three are outright villains. How could you hire them?" Ash said hesitantly.
"Exactly. They might be a little stupid, but their intentions definitely aren't