Who lies about that? Dying isn't fun! [That sounds like a dumb thing to lie about anyways.] Yeah, it had magic. I could make things like battleships and entire planets shrink or move them or make them bigger. It was pretty neat.

Hmm. So they're trying to bypass item evolutions. But yes! Team Rocket is an organization that does bad things. I've heard that they try and steal Pokemon or cause trouble, so this might be one of those instances.