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[[File:Team Rocket airship Adventures.png|thumb|250px|Team Rocket airship]]
The '''Team Rocket airship''' is an aircraft used by [[Team Rocket]] in the [[Pokémon Adventures]] {{pkmn|manga}}. It first appeared in the {{chap|FireRed & LeafGreen}}.

==History==
==={{chap|FireRed & LeafGreen}}===
The airship debuted in ''[[PS286|Meet Deoxys, and Deoxys, and Deoxys, and...]]'', where [[Sird]] and [[Carr]] picked up [[Orm]] from [[Six Island]]. In ''[[PS287|Secrets from Sneasel]]'', led by {{adv|Deoxys}}'s divination powers, {{adv|Giovanni}} told the airship to head to [[Viridian City]], where his long-lost son, {{adv|Silver}}, was currently located. The airship arrived in Giovanni's hometown in ''[[PS289|Surprised by Sneasel]]'', and Giovanni sent Sird and Orm to bring Silver to him. They succeeded in ''[[PS292|Bested by Banette]]'' and fled from the site, with {{adv|Yellow}} in pursuit.
[[File:Team Rocket airship Stadium Mode Adventures.png|thumb|left|250px|The airship in its Stadium Mode]]
While Sird and Orm were retrieving Silver, {{adv|Red}} and {{adv|Mewtwo}} approached the airship. Noticing them, Giovanni decided to settle things with the one {{pkmn|Trainer}} who had ever managed to defeat him once and for all, and transformed the airship into its Stadium Mode, creating an airborne battlefield. In ''[[PS291|Can Mewtwo Dish It Out with a Spoon?]]'', Giovanni challenged Red to a one-on-one match, Mewtwo vs. Deoxys, which Red accepted. Due to Deoxys's ability to {{DL|List of Pokémon with form differences|Deoxys|change its form}}, it gained the upper hand, dealing severe [[damage]] on Mewtwo by piercing its chest with its Attack Forme's sharp tentacles. However, Red managed to steal the airship's remote control from Giovanni, using the force field covering the stadium to protect Mewtwo while it used {{m|Recover}}. Mewtwo subsequently managed to hit Deoxys on its vulnerable core, defeating it, especially as Giovanni realized that the {{i|Ruby}} and the {{i|Sapphire}}, which had been placed in an amplifier at the [[Rocket Warehouse]] to grant Deoxys access to its Normal and Speed Formes in [[Kanto]] and the [[Sevii Islands]], had been removed {{adv|Bill|by}} [[Celio|someone]], leading to Deoxys losing its access to those Formes and thus limiting its capabilities significantly.
[[File:Mew saving Team Rocket airship Adventures.png|thumb|225px|The airship after crashing]]
In ''[[PS297|Mewtwo Comes Through]]'', the airship was taken over by Carr, who aimed to crush Giovanni and Silver in order to become the new leader of Team Rocket. During the violent turns he put the ship through, Orm fell off the ship, and Sird cancelled the Stadium Mode by {{m|Thief|stealing}} back the remote control. Carr revealed that he had placed his eleven {{p|Forretress}} around the ship, all having been commanded to use {{m|Explosion}}. One Explosion sent Sird flying out of the airship, while Carr escaped before the rest would explode. After making sure that his friends had been safely evacuated in ''[[PS299|Distant Relation Deoxys]]'', Red and {{cat|Red's Pokémon|his Pokémon}} teamed up with Deoxys to locate and defeat the Forretress before they could explode. In ''[[PS301|Storming the Forretress]]'', {{adv|Blue}}, {{adv|Green}}, and {{adv|Silver}} used their Pokémon to try to keep the ship from crashing into [[Vermilion City]] as Red successfully prevented all the Forretress from exploding, personally convincing the last one, hidden in the armory, not to do so. When Red's shirt, which he had used to hold the steering wheel in place while he was stopping the final Forretress, ripped, it seemed the ship was going to crash, only to be gently brought down to the ground by {{adv|Mew}}.

==={{chap|Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire}}===
The airship, fully repaired, reappeared in [[PS613]], where Giovanni was revealed to have brought Red, Green, {{adv|Amber}}, and [[Blaise]] onboard it after they had been knocked unconcious by {{DL|Super-ancient Pokémon (Adventures)|Groudon}} and {{DL|Super-ancient Pokémon (Adventures)|Kyogre}}. He told them that he had come to help stop the [[Grand Meteor Delta|great meteoroid]] that was threatening to impact the {{pkmn|world|planet}} within a few days. In [[PS614]], everyone onboard observed as Groudon, Kyogre, and {{DL|Super-ancient Pokémon (Adventures)|Rayquaza}} combined their powers to destroy a big chunk of the meteoroid falling before the main body over {{rt|120|Hoenn}}, only barely succeeding.

==Trivia==
[[File:Mewtwo Returns.png|thumb|200px|Giovanni's airship in ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'']]
* Team Rocket's airship [[List of cross-canon references|is based on]] the airship used by {{an|Giovanni}} in ''[[Mewtwo Returns]]'' in the {{pkmn|anime}}. 

==In other languages==

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