For once, Josh's trip into the Power Spot was uneventful. Was the Raging Bolt's presence scaring away all the strong Pokémon away to let them mine in relative peace? He wasn't going to turn down this gift Rapidash, starting to load his Manectric's saddlebags with ore and relying on his MAGNET RISE to leave the Power Spot. "I love my Gym, Yuina. I love it more than the League," Josh replied, showing just how passionate he was for the way he taught Hoenn's trainers. "It's a lot harder when you've been under the League's lens of scrutiny before. I told you the story of how I almost lost my job last spring, right?"

Regardless of whether she had heard the story or not, he would nod in agreement with her points. "Keeping Hoenn's people, the ones who don't have Pokémon they can protect themselves with, is priority one. I may not be a front-line fighter, Yuina, but I will do what I can to support those fighting Rocket directly. I'm a courier. An Envoy. Intelligence and supply drops are just as important as the people who utilize them. And I'll deliver them to the best of my ability. Swift and I will do so... by lightning strike, if we have to."

Josh sat astride the Manectric and prepared for him to levitate skyward, unloading ore from him until he was light enough to float upward. "A gubernatorial crisis is imminent, I feel," he sighed. "There are way too many people up top that have widely differing views on how to run the government, and you know what our tax dollars go to? Their stonewalling. There's been nothing but regression since I've taken my seat. Did I tell you I ran for Elite Four when Callan Young stepped down?"