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The man leading the new Team Rocket was named Archer. He used a fire-dog called Houndour and its evolved form, both of which made easy prey for Leviathan's Surf. Once defeated, he agreed to disband Team Rocket for a second time. Giovanni never appeared. It was impossible to tell if he had even heard the message. It made Dylan a little sad. Reviving Team Rocket was someone's dream. A lot of them were doing it out of love for their old leader, or so it seemed. But it had to be done.

He took some time to catch Pokmon he had missed before, such as Sentret, Hoppip, and Mareep, and explored some of the areas that his new HMs had opened up, particularly the extended Ruins of Alph, where he found a Pokmon named Natu. When he caught it, the Pokdex announced that it was flying-psychic, and his heart lept for joy. He named it Cassandra.

There was only one gym left in Johto, east of Mahogony Town. To get there he had to travel through a cold cave called Ice Path, which required a lot of skating on the slippery surface of the ice. He fell over a few times. The gym in Blackthorn City just beyond used dragon types, who were weak to the ice types native to the Path, which made the choice of location seem a little strange. The trainers mostly used Dragonair, which Sawyer could outspeed and one-shot, and Seadra, which was a poor match for Teddy, who evolved partway through the gym. The leader, Clair, made a good challenge. Her Dragonair knew lots of different elemental attacks and she followed up with an extremely powerful Kingdra packing Hydro Pump and Dragon Pulse. In the end, Gengar turned out to be even stronger. Clair refused to admit defeat and insisted that Dylan head into the dragon cave past town, where he caught a rare Dratini, which was a struggle. It was too low level to attack with any of his Pokmon, so he had to poison it, but its ability shed skin repeatedly cured it. He called it Smaug.

The cave's elder asked him a few questions about how he felt toward Pokmon, and seemed pleased with his answers. It was this guy who finally convinced Clair to hand over the last badge, but she apologized and gave Dylan a TM for Dragon Pulse. He liked her.

Professor Elm called him and said he'd received something interesting. It turned out to be a Master Ball, which was guaranteed to catch any Pokmon. Dylan was eager to try it out and tracked down Raikou, which he immediately threw the Master Ball at and caught. He had already used Thor and felt that the only sufficiently impressive name left for it was Deus. It had weak moves.

There were five Kimono Girls in Ecruteak City. He had encountered them in various places as he traveled. They called him now and challenged him to a gauntlet of battles, but not before embarrassing Morris by beating him easily. They used high-level Eevee evolutions. The Jolteon and Umbreon were especially tenacious. Dylan had to use a lot of items to get by. Once he had won, the girls asked him to come up to the local Bell Tower. He felt a little nervous about going to meet a group of girls on his own. It turned out they had some kind of mystical power and wanted to summon a legendary bird Pokmon called Ho-oh for him to fight. Ho-oh was an incredible thing to behold. It was massive, beautiful, and mighty. Its wings looked like they were ablaze with fiery rainbows, and it seemed to have some kind of deep wisdom. The girls speculated that it had been looking for someone like Dylan.

Ho-oh had devastating Fire type attacks in Fire Blast and Sacred Fire. Each of these was powerful enough to take down his Seadra in one hit at half damage. Its only other offensive move was psychic type, so he had Romeo tank the fire attacks until they ran out of PP and then switched to Ivan and threw Pok balls like mad. Finally, one of them stuck. It was an exhilarating feeling. He knew that this was the greatest thing he had ever accomplished, and probably ever would. He even got to apply a nickname to this god-like being. He called it Sol.

Pokdex: 151 seen/78 Caught

Team:
Sawyer (Gengar) lv. 38
Romeo (Typloshion) lv.36
Ivan (Umbreon) lv. 32
Leviathan (Seadra) lv. 33
Teddy (Meganium) lv. 33
Cedric (Noctowl) lv. 30

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