Go-Rock Squad

The Go-Rock Squad (Japanese: ゴーゴー団 Team Go-Go) is the villanous team in Pokémon Ranger located in the Fiore. They have a loose musical theme and use evil versions of Capture Stylers called the Power Styler to capture the Legendary Beasts.

History

Before Go-Rock Squad, Hastings and Gordor went to school together and at one point working as colleagues. However, Gordor felt that he kept falling in second place behind Hastings all the time, so he broke away and started his own team with the intent of trouncing Hastings. Gordor had a falling-out with Hastings, when Gordor wanted to use the Capture Styler they invented to control wild Pokémon instead of helping them.

After the Go-Rock Squad was formed, they started to do evil things. The Go-Rock Quad joined and became admins, being given the Dusk Factory, to use for band practice. Many years passed before the Go-Rock Squad's real plan emerge.

At some point of time later, Hastings creates the Super Styler, a perfectly captures any Pokémon and visits Spenser at Ring Town to show him. On his way back to Fall City, Go-Rock Squad attack Hastings and take the Super Stylus. With the Super Styler, the Go-Rock Squad soon started to create hundreds of copies of it in the Dusk Factory, but it is shut down by Hastings and Solana/Lunick. Meanwhile in the Jungle Relic, the Go-Rock Squad unleash Entei by unlocking the fourth challenge. Gordor then captures Entei using the Super Styler but is soon defeated by Solana/Lunick.

The Go-Rock Squad then escape to Wintown and Sekra Range where the Go-Rock Squad Base can be found. But again Solana/Lunick infiltrate the base and defeat all the members. With that, the Go-Rock Quad decides to blow up the whole base and everything in it. Then the remaining members headed up to Fiore Temple and capture the three legendary beasts, Entei, Suicune and Raikou using the Power Styler in the form of a pipe organ. He plans to use the legendary beasts to rule Fiore and defeat the rangers, but the organ is destroyed by Solana's and Lunick's Plusle and Minun, enraging the beasts and start to attack Gordor, but they are stopped and set free by Solana/Lunick.

After the failed attempt to rule Fiore, Gordor runs away. Hence, the Go-Rock squad broke away. The Go-Rock Quads leave and concentrate on their musical act. They do one last performance under the Joy Clock Tower before leaving Fiore to bring their music to distant lands. Meanwhile, one member of the Go-Rock Squad remains renaming the squad, the "Solo-Go-Rock Squad" trying to create havoc inside the Jungle Relic again, but it was unsuccessful.

After the unsuccessful attempt to make havoc in the Jungle Relic, the single member of the Go-Rock Squad, regained other members of the Go-Rock Squad and planned to continue working for region domination where Gordor stopped by capturing Rayquaza with the remaining Power Stylers. But Rayquaza was too strong and angry for the Go-Rock Squad to handle, so they abandoned it, leaving it to Solana/Lunick to calm.

The Go-Rock Squad didn't appear for a while, until Hastings was delivering a Manaphy egg to Spenser. Go-Rock Squad hijacked Hastings and stole the egg from him in the Lyra Forest. After Solana and Lunick corner the remaining members of the Go-Rock Squad and retrieve the egg. At this point, Gordor returns to stop the last Go-Rock member, telling him that the Go-Rock Squad id gone and return the player to Professor Hastings.

Bases

Go-Rock Squad Base

The Go-Rock Squad Base is the main base for the Go-Rock Squad. It is well hidden within the Sekra Mountain Range with the entrance located under a fake boulder. It contains many rooms with some rooms containing senser panels on the floor that will sound the intruder alarm if stepped on while activated. Other rooms contain warp panels that will that people to other rooms of the base. At the end of the base are four rooms, each for the one of the members of the Go-Rock Quads. After all four Go-Rock Quads have been defeated, they blow up the base and escape, making it only possible to enter the first few rooms on return visits.

Dusk Factory

The Dusk Factory is an old, abandoned factory in the east side of Fall City. The Go-Rock Squad use the Dusk Factory as a place to create copies of the Power Styler. The factory is powered by Pikachu and Raichu that have been captured in generators that have their electricity drained. The password for the factory is Go-60. The Go-Rock Quads use it for their band practices which disturbs the nearby residents of Fall City. Garret is left to watch over the Dusk Factory.

Members

Gordor

Main article: Gordor

Gordor is the boss of Go-Rock Squad. He created the Go-Rock Squad when he felt that he kept falling in second place behind Hastings when they were colleagues at school together. His plan is to destroy all the rangers and replace them with the Go-Rock Squad by stealing the Power Styler and use it to capture Raikou, Suicune and Entei. During the end of the game, Gordor runs away but returns at the end of the mission to recover the Manaphy egg and tells he last Go-Rock underling and return the player to Professor Hastings. Thus telling the player that he became good in the end. Gordor is the father of the Go-Rock Quads.

Go-Rock Quads

Main article: Go-Rock Quads

The Go-Rock Quads are admins of the Go-Rock Squad just under Gordor. They are a musical quartet and dress up like rock stars. Together, they are the quadruplet offspring of Gordor, the leader of the Go-Rock Squad. The quadruplet names are Tiffany, the violinist and the only female in the group, Clyde plays the bongo, Garret, the bass guitarist and Billy, the oldest of the four, playing the electric guitar. At the end of the game, the Go-Rock Quads leave the Go-Rock Squad in shame and concentrate on their musical act. They do one last performance under the Joy Clock Tower before leaving Fiore to bring their music to distant lands.

Grunts

Most members of the Go-Rock Quad are grunts that have little power and are considered below most other members, but they have been given Power Styler for them to use against other trainers. The grunts dress in outfits resembling Go-Go dancers. After Gordor and Go-Rock Quads departed from the Go-Rock Squad, some Grunts remained in the Squad and continued working for region domination that Gordor couldn't do. But they stopped after Gordor came back.

Senior Members

There are senior members of the Go-Rock Squad that are faced at the Fiore Temple. They do not have a reflective rank, however, and one complains that one has to be family to get admin status.