[ EU ] `` Got ta release them all '' - The protagonist works for an organization that fights against an established institution of capturing and imprisoning creatures with magical powers in tiny balls and using them to battle each other for sport and entertainment .

`` How many''? 
 
 `` Fourteen, sir. We've liberated fourteen Pokemon and made six arrests.'' 
 
 Commander Giovanni signed and took a swig of his coffee. Fourteen Pokemon freed and six abductors arrested. Not very impressive results considering the scope of resources involved in the raid. But it was something. `` Alright. Also, I've just received intelligence that an important racketeer, or `` Pokemon Champion'' is active in this area. Here are the files. I want the prisoners questioned over this above all else.'' 
 
 `` Yes, sir.'' The young Lieutenant scampered away with the files. Giovanni leaned back into his sofa and sighed. He knew he'd have to do a lot better than this if he were to bring illegal Pokemon fighting to an end. 
 
 Illegal Pokemon fighting was a growing business, despite the best efforts of law enforcement to stop it. Increasing numbers of ambitious young trainers were going out, capturing Pokemon in those new special balls developed in Japan that could hold large objects. Giovanni had n't the faintest clue how the process worked - he was no scientist, but that was not important. The important thing was that these kidnappers trained their captive `` pets'' to fight and then pitted them against each other in matches, just like dogfighting, only uglier, due to all the special powers Pokemon have. 
 
 In any event, the growth of this illegal pastime had caused such alarm that a new, international task force had been formed to deal with it. Formed from military and law enforcement personnel from participating countries and with the authority to operate in any one of them, this new taskforce, known officially as the `` International Task Force on Pokemon Enslavement'', was better known as `` Team Rocket'', a nickname that had arisen due to its missions falling under the codename `` Operation Rocket''. And Giovanni had to admit, it was a far sexier name. 
 
 In any event, Team Rocket had been in operation for five months now, but it had so far failed to deliver a crippling blow to the illegal Pokemon fighting industry. True, there had been some impressive hauls, and several key racketeers ( `` Pokemon Masters'', as they called themselves ) had been arrested, but the success of Team Rocket had so far been limited. As the Commander of Team Rocket, Giovanni was all too aware had a lot of important political figures in various countries that wanted this dirty business stopped breathing down his neck. And he knew that if he did n't deliver what they wanted, someone else would take his place. 
 
 But it was no simple manner to find and arrest these people and free their captive Pokemon. It was n't just because of the inherent difficulty in penetrating their clandestine underground organizations and finding people who practice these activities in strict secrecy, but also because he had some incompetent people on his staff. Like those morons, Jesse and James. Giovanni did n't know who gave those dolts badges, much less allowed them to join a major multi-national law enforcement effort. They'd been after an illegal trainer identified as `` Ash'' and his two accomplices for months, but had so far failed to capture them, or even prevent them from capturing a bunch of Pokemon. Giovanni wanted to slam his head on the desk in frustration when he thought about it, so he tried not to, and instead took another swig of coffee, then absentmindedly picked up some files from his desk. Photographs of an illegal Pokemon fight in progress that a drone had captured. His men had swooped in on the site, but the trainers, apparently having spotted the drone, were long gone by then. Giovanni sighed again. Yes, he was going to have to do far better than this.
