The man led him downstairs where there was a mechanical area. There were several Team Rocket Members in just about every corner here! Most of them were conversing with one another, they all wore the typical Team Rocket Grunt outfits.

"This way, we'll take the elevator to the testing room. There are others also being tested, depending on your performance is how you'll be ranked."

The man further explained the ranking system of Team Rocket.

The ranks were as followed from Highest to Lowest.

Boss - Highest Rank.

Executive - The second-highest level rank who takes orders from the boss personally.

Elite Officer - Usually works right under the boss.

Officer - A leader who manages other operatives.

Spies - Secret agents who work directly under the boss.

Agents - Field operatives.

Grunts - The lowest level of operatives.

Suppliers - They supply other members with food and money in the field.

The man explained that he was a scout, his job was to recruit people to join Team Rocket. The man explained a lot much to his surprise, was he not suspicious of Gan?

Taking the elevator, they descended to the lower floors of the base. Once they arrived, they were in a hallway filled with red carpet and several pictures on the wall as if he had entered a museum. Some were pictures of pokemon from around the world.

"This way." The man said bluntly.

Gan simply followed and soon arrived in an area where several other people were. Some were talking to each other and some looked nervous.

"This is the testing area, you'll be battling here using random pokemon. The Pokemon have been instructed to listen to their trainer. If you win, you'll be promoted to a Grunt, this is the limit until you're able to complete enough missions for promotion."

The Scout quickly explained because he had to leave soon. He also told Gan that he'll receive a pokemon of his choosing. There weren't many to chose from, but it was okay with Gan, he had an idea of what he wanted to do next once he got his first Pokemon.

There were a total of 16 people here including himself, they all walked into an area that appeared to be a gym. There was the typical battle arena where people battled and Gan took a number which was 7.

Some man in a black suit stepped up and called 2 numbers.

These numbered individuals stepped on the field, then suddenly something came from the ground. The strange device was made of steel with 6 sockets in them, it appeared next to each trainer. Each socket held a Pokeball with different pokemon inside of them, they were only rentals for battle.

There's was a little screen on the device that shows the pokemon inside, so they could choose what pokemon they wanted to do battle with.

Each Trainer quickly picked their pokemon of choice.

One guy sent out a NidoKing, while the other trainer sent out a Sandslash.

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"Battle!" The man in the suit suddenly said.

Gan just watched the battle from the side, both of their pokemon was level 35. Overall, they both were noobs, but the Individual with the Sandslash won in the end.

This continued on and on until it was finally Gan's turn. Once they were done battling, they would be given a rank of either Grunt or lowest rank, Supplier.

Gan had picked an Arcanine and won his match. The problem with the people that battled was that they didn't know the moves of their chosen pokemon, but Gan did.

Afterward, everyone was taken to separate rooms to choose what pokemon they wanted. There were 5 pokemon to choose from on the list that appeared.

Zubat, Sandshrew, Ekans, Koffing, and Rattata.

Potential wise, Zubat was clearly the best but it was weakened during the daytime. Gan thought for a moment and decided to go with Koffing for his own special reason.

There were several different Koffing to choose from, but this was only to prevent people from having a hard time if they wanted the same pokemon. Gan could see their stats and chose the best one he could find.

Gan checked its stats.

|Name: Koffing

|Type: Poison

|Level: 19

|Gender: Male

|Ability: Levitate

|Potential: ★★★

|Nature: Bold

|Moves: Smog| Tackle| Poison Gas| Selfdestruct|

Gan saw a lot of 1 to 2-star Koffings and quickly picked the best potential one of the batch. He also learned something quickly, stats didn't matter here, there was no EV training. Gan had to use his own skills to train this pokemon to be the best that it could be.

Unfortunately, Koffing Evolved at Level 35, which was quite some ways away.

"Good! Everyone has picked their pokemon but I'll tell you now, these pokemon were forcefully taken out of the wild, so they may be a little pissed. So, you'll have to tame them yourselves, you have 5 days to do so or you'll have your pokemon confiscated and you'll be reduced to a lowly Supplier."

The man in the black suit and shades said with a smile before leaving.

"What? They took them from the wild without properly catching them." A blue-haired boy around 14 to 15 complained. In fact, everyone felt like this, you'd be simply looking for death trying to control an enraged pokemon, definitely a Poison or Fire-type!

Gan frowned himself, this wasn't a game anymore or the happy show of pokemon. This was the truth of the matter and you would die in this world!

"If you have any complaints, then hand over your pokemon now!" A Muscular Field agent gazed at the small crowd coldly. Everyone immediately went silent, but they still felt uneasy about the matter, but what choice did they have?

Gan felt the most unpleasant about it. Koffing could spread poison on an AOE scale when it attacked. Poisonous Gas and Smog was very threatening to anything or one that was not of the poison type!

"You guys may go now, hehe, but be careful. The last recruits we have were mostly wiped out by their pokemon, mainly the recruits that picked Ekans and Koffing, haha!" The Field Officer looked at those particular trainers with meaningful eyes, this included Gan.

There were only 8 people, while the other 8 lost their match, so they could only be suppliers for now. Gan was the only one who chose Koffing, while 2 other people chose Ekans. Some people sighed in relief, this was mainly for the trainers that picked Rattata since it was the easiest to tame.

Gan the rest of the Team Rocket Recruits dispersed into different directions around the base or the battlegrounds.

Gan looked at his Pokeball and could only sigh to himself. Afterward, they called everyone over quickly before they could send out their pokemon. They wanted everyone to register as a Team Rocket member, so they asked for their names and needed a picture of you.

Gan didn't use his real name and called himself Agent X. The man that was in control of the registration told Gan that he couldn't do that and he had to use his real name. However, the one over his head told him that it was okay to use such a name, as long as they had a picture of him, it was fine.

Afterward, Gan decided to head to the waste area within the base, he knew Koffing liked sludge and raw garbage. There were tons of built-up trash that had yet to be disposed of; this place was practically heaven to a Grimer or Muk.

Gan looked around, he was the only one here. He left leeway for himself to run if he had to. He pushed the button on the Pokeball, then it grew in size before he tossed it.

Sure enough, Koffing emerged from the Pokeball. Puffs of brown gas would shoot out of the holes on its body every now and then. Koffing had a derpy smile on its face with eyes nearly going crescent, its face resembled the troll meme from his world.

"Koffing!" Koffing looked around with unknown joy, it saw the trash around it and was elated.

"Hey, I'm the one who brought you here, so you should listen to me. I'm your boss, your master, and trainer." Gan said calmly, but this was only a front.

"Koffing!" Koffing looked at Gan with an indifferent expression, it wasn't like it could change it anyway, as it always looked to be smiling.

"If you listen to me, you can eat all the trash you want. We'll travel the world and defeat people and take their trash for ourselves." Gan's mouth twitched when said these words, who in the world would want to defeat someone for their trash?

Pokemon could understand human speech perfectly. Koffing floated slowly towards Gan with the same strange smile. This caused Gan to sweat profusely, he didn't have any antidotes so if he got poisoned, it could be bad.

However, he remembered that he did have 2 full heals, but these were expensive compared to Antidotes. Full heals could heal all status problems, so they cost more than a regular Antidote.

Koffing looked into Gan's eyes, as Gan kept his composure and looked back.

"What do you say?" Gan said confidently, his back was already drenched in a cold sweat at this point.

After a moment of silence for about 2 minutes, Koffing started spinning around happily.

[Ding! Koffing has joined your party!]

"What? It worked!?" Gan was shocked, his heart was beating full of joy and relief.

"Okay, you can go eat what trash you can, then we'll be off." Gan turned around and sat someways away from this place. The smell here wasn't pleasant, so he sat as far away as he could from the area.

Koffing wasted no time and flew off to enjoy his little buffet.

|Gan Arson

|Age: 16

|Gender: Male

|Affilication: Team Rocket| Rank: Grunt|

|Badges: 0

|Pokemon Caught: 1

|Party

|Pokemon 1: Koffing Lv: 19

"Good, hehe!" Gan smiled as he watched Koffing from a distance.