Squirtle being fed up with slave life leaves the confines of his pokeball, it being plenty spacious but lacking the flare of home.  Having no where to go now, he returned to his thug roots of downtown Compewterville to realize his dream of becoming a gangster rap artist.  Squirtle's dream shortly fades as he turns to a life of burgling balls.  So the scrotum-less Ash having nothing to lose (from his encounter with Koffing, read that first) went in search of his prize workhorse....