Team Poisoned Rose started life in an abandoned garbage dump far north in Unova… the very same one I first called home, actually. Secretly, however, it was more than just a gigantic landfill… deep within, for many years, a bunch of Poison Pokémon — along with myself — had slowly been converting the landfill site into a secret base. A recycling sorting area became a trading post; a reception became a rest and recreation area; there were several buildings for secret meetings; and even many garbage heaps were pushed around, and an area cleared to be used as a battleground. All this would eventually turn the dump into a highly hazardous, well-hidden base.

At the time, however, Team Poisoned Rose was nothing more than a Guild of Poison Pokémon and fanatical Trainers united by their mutual respect. For the most part, the Guild simply conducted battle contests, ran Poison-themed events, and generally just explored the Pokémon World professing their love of Poison. The mission, to actually spread the power and beauty of Poison Pokémon by force and pollute the very world itself, would come about much later…