>>46416039Pretty sure he got beat like normal, considering Red and Blue seem fine at the Battle Tree, but perhaps he left to reconsider everything, until he rebuilt Team Rocket into Rainbow Rocket. possibly after hearing about or after witnessing other regions evil teams get defeated time and time again. Inspired by Aether’s research into other universes by Faba, who somehow must have gotten in touch with Giovanni, he decides to steal the tech and establish a multiversal crime syndicate from worlds where the villains respectively won. Also obviously pulling a version of Mewtwo for himself in the process for his own team, possibly from a world where he won as well, and just was given it.
Heck, whose to say an alternate Giovanni wasn’t the one to come up with this plan and gave USuM Giovanni the idea.
