"Haha! This is so exhilarating!"
One Tree, also protected by the barrier, laughed triumphantly, "When we came here two years ago, we were so timid and could only sneak in. Now we can openly barge in and fight. Awesome!"
If one could be a berserker, who would want to be an assassin?
"Don't be careless, they haven't shown their trump cards yet. Also, quickly grab someone to ask," Joker glanced at him and said.
"Tsk~ Got it!"
One Tree snapped his fingers.
The Exeggutor behind him emerged, using psychic powers to control Watzel, as if an invisible hand was pulling him towards Joker and One Tree.
"Damn it! Using dark power!"
Watzel shouted anxiously, his body uncontrollably flying towards Joker as if affected by Universal Pull.
Instantly, in the eyes of Joker, One Tree, and Watzel wearing their respective masks and glasses,
nearly a hundred Shadow Pokémon around them had flame-like dark waves rising from their bodies.
It appeared! Dark power!
Clap!
The already spectacular barrage of attacks increased in power by more than just one level.
The barrier created by Suicune quickly developed cracks, like glass hit by a stone.
"Scatter."
Joker uttered two words in a deep voice.
Instantly, two Poké Balls on Joker and One Tree's waists opened on their own.
Latios and Natu jumped out, grabbed their respective owners' shoulders, and flew in opposite directions.
Almost in the next instant.
The combined attack of the strengthened Shadow Pokémon alliance broke through the barrier.
An even more powerful shockwave swept out.
The violent force was too much for the earth in this area to bear, and it directly collapsed!
"Wah!"
Many Shadow Pokémon and their trainers were caught off guard.
Falling along with the ground.
Joker and One Tree, grabbed by Latios and Natu, looked down.
They discovered that there was a large research institute beneath the gym.
Just like the thing Sakaki had built under the Viridian Gym.
"Hmm!?"
Joker's eyes sharpened.
Latios on his shoulder guessed Joker's meaning, opened its mouth and released a Dragon Pulse, cutting through the collapsed pile of earth while gliding at top speed.
Joker stretched out his hands.
One on each side, he caught two girls who were about to be crushed by the collapsed earth and flew back into the air.
"Joker, Brother Joker!?"
Kurumi, held in Joker's left arm, said in surprise and joy.
"Glalie! Ice Shard!"
Watzel, who had temporarily escaped, sent out a new Pokémon.
The Glalie that jumped out of the Poké Ball released cold air, condensing a large number of cone-shaped ice shards in mid-air, like a Gatling gun sweeping towards Joker and One Tree in the high sky.
"A piece of cake!"
The Poké Ball on Joker's waist popped open on its own.
Umbreon jumped out from it.
When Latios came out just now, taking Joker to fly upwards, she had already returned to the ball on her own.
When to go to battle and when to go back.
This was just basic skills in Joker's team!
Umbreon's tense muscles were as hard as steel, and even thin blood vessels could be seen at close range.
Letting the ice shards hit it, it remained as still as a mountain!
"Skarmory! Flash Cannon!"
"Crobat! Air Cutter!"
"Pelipper! Water Gun!"
Seizing the opportunity when Umbreon blocked the ice shards.
Other Shadow members also had their respective Flying-types ascend into the sky, and various colorful long-range attacks rained down, completely covering the night sky above Joker and Latios' heads.
"What if you guys are strengthened?"
As soon as Joker finished speaking, Umbreon's body radiated a flash of lightning.
In the unbelievable gaze of more than a hundred Shadow members on the scene, it transformed into Raikou.
"Thunderbolt."
Joker uttered two words lightly.
Raikou's roar vanished into the clouds.
In the next instant, a hammer of lightning fell from the center of the night sky.
Before those long-range attacks landed on Joker and Latios' heads, it slammed hard on the backs of those Shadow members and their Flying-type Pokémon above.
"Oh oh oh! It turned into Raikou! Quickly take a picture... Oh, that's right, my phone was confiscated..."
Kiki's eyes lit up, and her natural internet celebrity body's urge to take pictures relapsed.
However, when she reached into her pocket, she remembered that her phone had been taken away by Shadow when she was locked up.
Unhappy ing...
"Sacred Fire."
Joker ordered.
Raikou's body radiated fire, and it transformed into Entei.
Opening its fangs and releasing the same orange-red flames as its master, Ho-Oh, a large sea of fire lit up the night sky.
The Officer Jenny police team, who had arrived at the gym entrance, looked up in astonishment.
What Pokémon attack could reach such an exaggerated range?
...
With this move, at least 80% of the Shadow members below would be finished.
However, just when Kurumi and Kiki, these half-baked people, thought so.
A light blue light faintly appeared below.
A huge semi-circular barrier covered the entire Asagi Gym's backyard.
It was the "Protect" move!
"It's larger than the range, but it's impossible to block Joker's Entei's Sacred Fire," One Tree shouted confidently.
This was not a game where a level 1 Wurmple's Protect could block a level 100 Rayquaza's Dragon Ascent.
Although "Protect" could be regarded as an almost perfect defensive skill.
But if the strength gap was too large, it would still be easily crushed.
Sacred Fire slammed down hard.
For a time, the backyard of the Asagi Gym directly turned into a mountain of fire, even burning the gym along with it, making the Officer Jenny police team, who had just arrived in police cars, dare not approach.
Seconds later, the Sacred Fire dissipated.
The Asagi Gym next to it was burned to almost only the load-bearing walls remained.
However, the light blue spherical barrier in the backyard.
Still stood tall!
"Impossible!"
One Tree's eyes almost burst through the mask.
Kurumi and Kiki, who were held by Joker in both arms, had incredulous expressions.
And Latios, who was grabbing Joker's shoulders and acting as a glider, suddenly shrank its pupils.
Because standing in the center of the barrier was a Pokémon that looked exactly like itself!
Latios!
That's right, it was Latios!
Moreover, unlike the Latios above Joker's head, this Latios was burning with dark waves on its body!
Even without wearing special masks and glasses, one could see it!
And standing next to that Latios was none other than Elites!
"Haha!"
Joker couldn't help laughing, "In two years, has the dark power been strengthened again?"
From that Latios, Joker could feel it.
Different from other dark Pokémon, not only could he see the dark waves on his body without special glasses.
The power was also not on the same level as those dark Pokémon before!
"But, for the vitality of Pokémon, it will be consumed even more severely, right?"
Joker asked again.
Elites avoided answering Joker's question and just said calmly:
"Are you here to save those two girls? Since you have already obtained them, why not stop here."
Joker narrowed his eyes under the mask, sizing up Elites.
Just as he had expected before.
This guy did not kill Kurumi and Kiki.
At this time, continuous jets of water sprayed down on the burning gym behind everyone.
Several Blastoise and Feraligatr crashed through the remaining load-bearing walls of the gym, and a large number of police officers also rushed over.
"Is anyone injured!?"
The leader of Asagi City's Officer Jenny police team shouted anxiously.
Immediately afterwards, she saw Elites and Joker confronting each other in the backyard.
"This..."
The Officer Jenny police team leader was stunned.
This was simply a repeat of the Asagi Gym attack incident two years ago.
"Joker! You actually launched a terrorist attack on a League Gym for the second time!?"
The Officer Jenny police team leader glared fiercely at Joker.
Another police officer next to him shouted, "Mr. Elites, we are here to help you... Huh? Mr. Elites, that Latios of yours is not quite right..."
Elites ignored the police who came, just looked up at the night sky.
"Almost there, right?"
Almost there?
Hearing his words, everyone on the scene was stunned.
Hoo wooo wooo——
Suddenly, the huge roar of engines echoed in Asagi City's night sky.
No, time had come to the next day's morning, and the first ray of sunshine in the morning had fallen through the overcast clouds.
However, less than two seconds after the sunshine fell, it was immediately covered by a new shadow.
Everyone looked up.
They discovered that a huge flying object soaring in the sky was blocking the sunlight.
"That is... an airship?"
The Asagi Officer Jenny police team leader opened her mouth in astonishment.
When the airship flew over the Asagi Gym, the hatch at the bottom slowly opened.
The meaning was self-evident.
"Elite Four Aluthus!?"
Many police officers below shouted in unison at the man standing at the hatchway, with his hands behind his back, exuding a chilling aura.
It was Aluthus, one of the Elite Four of the Indigo League!
"Elite Four Aluthus! Joker attacked Mr. Elites' gym again, please come and help!"
Although they didn't know why Aluthus was driving such a conspicuous airship to swagger through the city.
But since they saw him, the police team, which also belonged to the League, naturally asked him for help as their first reaction.
Although the popularity was snatched by Su Sheng before, the police knew that Joker had escaped from the encirclement of many experts in the Fengyuan area not long ago.
Relying on them and Elites alone was probably not enough.
However, Aluthus, with a deadpan face, ignored them.
Just raised his head at his younger brother Elites.
Elites rode on the Latios with dark flames rising from its body and flew to the giant airship in the sky.
Watzel took out a Gengar with the Levitate ability and followed closely behind.
Other Shadow members disguised as gym staff also rode on the backs of their Flying-type Pokémon and rushed to the airship.
The police team led by the Officer Jenny police team leader all had a face of "Who am I? Where am I? What am I going to do?"
They didn't understand the current situation at all.
Joker attacked the Asagi Gym for the second time, and they, as League police, should naturally take him down.
But Elites, as the person involved, just left like this?
And Aluthus, as the Elite Four of Indigo, also ignored it.
At this moment, the entire Officer Jenny police team was completely confused, just like being possessed by vodka.
"Let's go too."
Joker said.
"Don't care about them?"
One Tree pointed to the airship that had flown far away, leaving only a sesame seed-sized dot.
"To be honest, I also want to see what they are going to do next."
As a time-traveler, although he knew the plot, he only knew it from the Satoshi era.
As an evil organization before the Satoshi era, Joker was also very curious about how big a thing they could make.
"Then tell Officer Jenny and the others!"
Kiki pointed to Officer Jenny and the others who hadn't reacted yet, "Those Shadow guys will definitely not do anything good, we can notify the League through them."
"No!"
However, before Joker could speak, he saw Kurumi pouting her little mouth and saying:
"They just said they wanted to catch Joker, Brother Joker, let them suffer a little!"
Kurumi was already very dissatisfied with the League using the media to reduce reports on Joker's positive behavior, and just now she saw that Officer Jenny wanted to catch Joker without asking any questions.
In that case, why sell intelligence to them?
You guys solve it yourselves.
If the Asagi Officer Jenny police team knew Kurumi's thoughts, they would definitely be speechless.
I am a League police officer, on one side is a wanted criminal, and on the other side is a Gym Trainer with a good reputation in the League.
If you were me, who would you stand on the side of?
Joker smiled slightly, and did not say much, waving his hand to signal everyone to leave together.
And Officer Jenny and the others did not stop them.
They all knew that they couldn't stop Joker.
...
...
On the other side, Indigo Stadium.
The quarter-finals were in progress.
"Hiss!"
A sound like tearing silk and cotton came from the arena.
Under the gaze of tens of millions of viewers on the scene and on TV.
Incineroar actually tore open a "three"-shaped opening on the chest of the opposing Rhyperior!
On the big screen, next to the head of the Lily trainer who advanced to the top 8, all 6 Poké Ball icons went dark.
Representing that all six of her Pokémon had lost their ability to battle.
And on the right, next to "Karin", only one Poké Ball icon was lit, with the head of Incineroar inside.
Representing that the other party had only sent out one Incineroar.
The remaining five had not been taken out yet!
On the audience stand.
Satoshi swallowed, "Good, so scary... Miss Karin..."
Green: "That Incineroar has been trained very well, with basically no shortcomings."
Shigeru: "Hey hey~ In this competition, is there no one who can kill one of her Pokémon? Where should we put the face of our Kanto?"
Red: "..."
"Rhyperior lost its ability to battle, Incineroar wins."
The flag-raising referee's expression was a little numb.
"Since all 6 Pokémon of the Lily trainer have lost their ability to battle, therefore advancing..."
"Enough!"
Before the referee could finish announcing the last few words, Rika rudely interrupted him.
If Su Sheng were here, she could still restrain her temper.
But Su Sheng had gone out, and to save two little girls.
Rika's already bad mood was further inflamed.
"Do I have to fight two more of these boring battles?"
As she spoke, Rika pointed to Xiao Zhuang and another eighth-finalist named "Du She" waiting in the player tunnel, preparing to enter the round of eight to quarter-finals.
"Come in, all of you. I'll take care of you all at once. Aldous is next."
The audience at the scene and in front of the TV almost lost it.
Holy crap, you're too arrogant, aren't you?
Inside the player tunnel, Du She, who looked a bit weak, was momentarily stunned by Rika's aura and didn't dare to speak.
But Xiao Zhuang wasn't afraid of her.
As a descendant of the Yanmo Dragon family and the soon-to-be Gym Leader of the Yanmo Gym, how could she be intimidated by a single sentence?
"You're too arrogant, aren't you?"
Xiao Zhuang frowned and stepped forward.
"Not as arrogant as your cousin,"
Rika crossed her arms and sneered, "Actually, I'm curious about what he's so arrogant about. Has he ever won against Joker? What a waste..."
Holy crap!
This time, not to mention the ordinary audience.
Even Shiba on the VIP stage, and Cynthia and Steven Stone watching the match on TV, elites from various regions, were shocked.
Who doesn't know that repeatedly losing to Joker is Lance's sore spot?
It's one thing if you say it in private or online, but you dare to say it in front of the whole world!?
"You're asking for death!"
Xiao Zhuang, who had been barely able to remain calm, instantly lost her composure.
"This is bad."
In the Valley of Charizard in Goldenrod City, Xiao Zhuang's best friend Ji Ke cried out in her heart.
Sure enough, the next second, Xiao Zhuang directly drew the whip she carried with her and lashed it at Rika.
Those who know Xiao Zhuang know that.
She's a hardcore brother-complex.
If you scold her, she might tolerate it and ignore you, but if you scold Lance, she's really going to fight you!
The reason why Xiao Zhuang came to participate in this tournament was to warm up her popularity in advance for inheriting the Gym Leader position.
And also to witness her cousin Lance ascending to the champion's throne up close.
Oh no, perhaps for Xiao Zhuang, watching Lance win the championship is the most important thing, and promoting herself is just a side benefit.
Rika's Poké Ball on her waist popped open on its own.
Kubfu jumped out of it and grabbed the flying whip in his hand.
"You want to fight, huh? Incineroar!"
Rika beckoned her finger.
She was just looking for a punching bag to vent her anger.
"Kingdra!"
Xiao Zhuang threw out a Poké Ball with a backhand.
Seeing that Xiao Zhuang had sent out Kingdra, Rika's expression became even more fierce.
Fire and water collided, making a hissing sound and emitting a large amount of water vapor.
After a two-second standoff, everyone realized that Flamethrower was suppressing Hydro Pump.
But Rika had no intention of waiting those few seconds.
"Darkest Lariat."
Incineroar took a step, his right arm slightly hooked, and black energy erupted from his entire arm.
In the next instant, Incineroar burst out from the spot.
He instantly rushed in front of Kingdra, grabbed its neck, and slammed it hard on the ground.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey! Dr. Su Sheng's companion is a bit too macho!"
Shiba, who was watching the match while lifting dumbbells, stood up from his seat with a "slap", "Lance, take care of your cousin!"
Lance also knew that he couldn't let this continue, so he walked onto the balcony to enter and stop this farce.
But Agatha said, "Quickly call that Aldous guy over. Although I don't know what happened between him and that girl, without him, that white-haired girl won't stop..."
"Everyone in the Pokémon League!"
Just then, an echo reverberated over the Indigo Plateau.
It was also transmitted to the people of the entire Pokémon continent through the shooting of countless cameras on the scene.
Many photographers subconsciously pointed their cameras in the direction the sound came from.
It was the west side of the Indigo Plateau.
A huge airship was flying towards this side.
And the huge LOGO on the side of the airship, that is... the Shadow's logo!
