"Well, first of all, Team Plasma was still active at the time," he begins. "And they were working together with Team Rocket, except some other Rockets wanted to take over themselves and didn't want to work with them. So the ones who didn't like Plasma sent us information we could use to fight them. Not all bad guys get along, after all." It's a simplification of the situation, but the best way he has to put it for now.