[Someone clearly forgot to press B. There's a nervous laughter before he'll just... explain.]

Two of my ex-colleagues threatened to tell the people in Team Rocket that my fiancee had been keeping me safe - as she was from Team Rocket as well. So instead of making it impossible for her to remove the microchip from her starter, I gave her a chance to do so by sacrificing myself.

The result was a month in jail, losing some of my Pokémon, getting dumped on Whirl Islands, being roughened up and having a mad fiancee.