"Since I was a kid, I always wanted to go into space and catch pokemon."
Score: 3/10
Everyone had those dreams as a kid. Sadly, most of us will only accomplish the latter. Though I actually caught all 151 legitimately, I even went to a Nintendo event for Mew and everything.
The heroes reach the Mossdeep City gym, but are told everyone has gone to see the space shuttle launch at the space center. When they reach it, they see Tate and Liza battling in a zero gravity room, and just like real zero gravity, you can jump up and float in mid air without your velocity causing you to reach the ceiling. The group then plays around using the extremely expensive astronaut training equipment that they have access to because Commander Jim is their father. Yes, "Commander Jim."
Liza's dream is to be a gym leader in a space station around another planet. Well, set your goals high, kid. You can at least accomplish part of that.
Team Rocket attempts to hijack the shuttle to give as a gift to Giovanni (just roll with it), breaking in and tying up Tate and Max, who were playing in the cockpit. Just like real shuttles, you can launch them by pressing a single button in the cockpit that doesn't require a decade of training to understand, and you don't need any help from people in a control room on the ground, so they easily launch as everyone watches in horror. Fortunately, Max and Tate escape and Tate's Solrock defeats Team Rocket, so Tate's father tells him to guide the shuttle to the ground and land it safely. Tate's qualifications? He's used the training simulation a few times.
Well, that's overqualification if I ever heard it. He lands it easily, and a few hours later, his father launches the shuttle as planned. You know, I don't actually know this for certain, but you know what, I'm going to assume it takes days of work just to prop the shuttle up to begin with. I have put absolutely no research into this at all, but I will bet you it takes days and hundreds of thousands of dollars just to do that one thing.
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Started: July 6, 2005