“Serena! Don't look!”
In Asaka Town of the Kalos region, the young mother Saki covered her daughter Serena's eyes.
But honestly, it was unnecessary. The TV screen was already filled with static, and nothing could be seen.
However, the last moment before the screen went blank, the wails of countless people and Pokémon on the battlefield, and even the vaguely visible dismembered limbs, were enough to become a nightmare that countless people would never forget.
On the special planes heading to the Quartz Plateau from various regions, the elites representing each league were equally anxious.
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They didn't know the situation on the ground!
“No matter what, we must finish this in one battle.”
Cynthia, who was heading to support from the Sinnoh region with Lucian and Flint, clenched her teeth and said in a deep voice: “If Shadow wins this battle and they are given time to recuperate, we will have no chance at all!”
Among the many champion-level trainers who were later regarded as the "Eight Masters."
Cynthia may not be the one with the highest combat power, but she is definitely the one with the best judgment in the face of crisis.
With the current combat power of the Quartz Plateau, she didn't think they could defeat that Shadow Lugia.
But even so, they had to fight on!
Her group was about to join the battlefield, and then join forces with the elites of the Indigo League led by Lance, even if they couldn't defeat Shadow Lugia.
At least they could severely deplete its stamina.
Moreover, she heard that other regions had also sent reinforcements.
If Lance and the others couldn't do it, she and her group would go up, and if they couldn't do it, then Karna and Leon would go up.
They would exhaust Shadow to death!
Otherwise, if Shadow was allowed to retreat with that Shadow Lugia unscathed, and then come back in full strength after a while, that would be completely finished!
“Huh, the picture is back?”
Just as Cynthia was analyzing the battle situation, Flint pointed to the public TV on the plane and shouted.
Cynthia and Lucian turned their heads to look.
They found that the camera was pointed at the instigator of this disaster, the Shadow Boss, Death Gold.
“Now, you should all understand my power, right?”
Facing the camera, Death Gold flashed a gold tooth, looking completely carried away.
However, with the Shadow Lugia overhead as a backdrop, the whole world had to admit that he indeed had the qualifications.
“But this is not the most perfect and flawless power of Shadow Lugia…”
Just now, under Death Gold's orders, researchers from Shadow's science department moved a camera that the league used to broadcast this year's Indigo Plateau Conference.
After successfully repairing it, they aimed it at their boss.
In an instant, the TV screens around the world that were originally filled with static returned to normal.
“Our Shadow's greatest masterpiece…”
At this moment, Death Gold was still sitting leisurely on the throne in the airship hall, but with the ghostly Shadow Lugia hovering overhead.
In addition to the battlefield of slaughter behind him, and the miserable appearance of the league's trainers.
The sense of oppression from Death Gold was raised to the limit.
“Shadow Lugia, code name XD001, full name [Extra Dark], which means 'Ultimate Darkness'.
Death Gold sneered:
“Unlike other semi-finished products, it is the strongest and most perfect Shadow Pokémon…”
“Aerodactyl! Rock Slide!”
Just as Death Gold's smile grew wider and he was about to do something else.
A young man's roar resounded throughout the battlefield.
An Aerodactyl had countless tennis-ball-sized rocks appearing around its body, and the next second they smashed towards Shadow Lugia like machine gun fire.
However, in front of Shadow Lugia, such an attack seemed so ridiculous.
And the owner of this Aerodactyl was none other than Falkner, the son of Sprout Tower Elder, who had also been a participant in the Indigo Plateau Conference and was now the Gym Leader of Violet City.
At this moment, Falkner was kneeling on the ground, holding his father, Sprout Tower Elder, who had almost turned into a bloody mess.
When Shadow Lugia released the Shadow Blast just now, it was his father who protected him.
Although he didn't die on the spot like Pryce’s father, he only had half a breath left now.
“This kind of attack is not worthy of Shadow Lugia's attention.”
Death Gold's face was full of disdain.
The Shadow Zapdos slightly below flew out like a guard, releasing countless slender currents from its body.
Each one accurately hit the flying small rocks.
Not only did it penetrate them, but it also continued to fall towards Falkner with undiminished power.
Thunderbolt!
“Ninetales! Charizard! Heat Wave!”
Two Fire-type Pokémon rushed to Whitney's side, one on the left and one on the right.
In an instant, the sky above Falkner's head turned orange-red.
The lightning, enhanced by the power of darkness, collided with the flames of the two main Pokémon of the old Elite Four member in an instant.
It erupted with a destructive power that even a normal Elite Four member could only look up to.
“Please! You two!”
Under Blaine's encouragement, Ninetales and Charizard increased their power output.
The flames below gradually suppressed the thunder above!
The League trainers who had been frightened by Shadow Lugia finally showed a glimmer of hope between their eyebrows.
As expected of the second-ranked trainer in Kanto.
Even in the face of a legendary Pokémon, he is not afraid!
“Blaine, the second-ranked Gym Leader in the Kanto region? You are qualified to let Shadow Lugia take action.”
Death Gold smiled coldly.
At this moment, sharp-eyed viewers noticed that Shadow Lugia's neck above Death Gold's head moved!
“Blaine, be careful!”
Damachis roared.
In the next instant, Shadow Lugia opened its mouth a second time.
A dark Earth Destroyer Impact roared down, as if to crush the space along with it.
Dark Pulse!
The Shadow Zapdos, which was directly below, quickly moved to the side.
But the tip of its right wing still brushed against a corner of the Dark Pulse.
“Eee——!”
Just this brush made the enhanced Lightning Bird let out a heart-rending howl.
“Uh!?”
Blaine's eyes behind his sunglasses changed drastically.
Ninetales and Charizard, the two main forces, each picked up Falkner and hugged their master.
Running away to both sides.
The Dark Pulse smashed down.
Blaine and Falkner did not hear the deafening roar, because they were too close, and before they heard the sound, the terrifying impact made them temporarily deaf, and a trace of blood flowed from their ear holes.
The Ninetales carrying Falkner and the Charizard hugging Blaine fell in two opposite directions.
“Go.”
Death Gold coldly uttered another word.
The Shadow Moltres and Zapdos flew towards the two of them together.
“Wallace!”
Steven, riding on Metagross, shouted loudly.
“I know!”
Wallace sent out his trump card, Milotic, to meet them.
Milotic opened its mouth and released a Water Gun to stop the Moltres from attacking Falkner and Ninetales.
The Moltres, which hated water, frowned slightly and dodged to the side.
And Steven's Metagross was obviously higher level than Wallace's Milotic.
It had already rushed between Articuno and Blaine, and its right claw burst out with a bright white light, meeting Articuno with a punch.
Meteor Mash!
Having taken a punch, Articuno, as a legendary Pokémon, was not so badly damaged that it lost its ability to fight.
But it was seeing stars for a while after taking such a blow to the forehead.
“Let's solve Blaine first.”
Death Gold's cold and ruthless voice came again, like a death knell.
Steven, who had just gained a temporary upper hand, looked up.
He saw Shadow Lugia covered in terrifying black flames, cold and vast.
Its already unusually large body was more than twice its previous size.
Like a dark phoenix!
“Shadow Dive.”
As Death Gold called out the name of this move.
The dark phoenix-like Shadow Lugia swooped down!
At this moment, Steven's situation was very similar to that of a certain face-changing king facing the phoenix.
“Son!!!”
Far away in Hoenn, President Stone jumped up from his chair with a cracking sound, shouting with a broken heart.
“Is this the end for me?”
Steven's pupils shrank.
At this moment in what seemed like the last moment of his life, he only had this one thought in his mind.
“Ga-meh!”
However, just when Steven thought he was done for.
The Metagross under him suddenly flew up, facing upwards and directly throwing its master down.
As if wanting to resist Madara Uchiha's Heavenly Meteor, it rushed straight towards the falling god of darkness with an "Iron Head".
Courage is commendable, but... too small!
“Metagross! Don't!”
Steven shouted hoarsely.
But it was too late!
Above the sky, the dark bird, like a judge of hell, crashed down, and the Hoenn quasi-god below was set off as so small.
Suddenly, an unparalleled strong impact was set off, unreasonably throwing down Steven, Charizard, and Blaine.
Even Falkner, Ninetales, Dragonair... many Shadow and League trainers who were relatively close were lifted off.
The dark flames overturned the earth again.
If the Shadow Blast had cut away a quarter of the area of the Indigo Plateau.
Then now this Shadow Dive has cut away another quarter of it.
“Uh…”
I don't know how long it took, Steven got up from the ground, ignoring his blood-red hair, and turned his head to look around.
“Metagross! Metagross! Where are you?”
Boom!
A landing crash sounded, as if responding to Steven's call.
It was Steven's Metagross that landed.
“Metagross, great…”
Steven just showed a smile, but the smile froze completely in the next second.
At this time, Metagross's eyes were dull, tilting its head and staring straight ahead, its breath was almost non-existent.
Not dead, but it felt like it only had half a life left.
“Metagross, quickly, come back quickly…”
At this time, Steven also felt a strong sense of dizziness, staggered and knelt on the ground, supporting his last breath and took out a Poké Ball to take back his partner who didn't know whether he was dead or alive.
In the next second, he also tilted his head and fainted on the ground.
Steven, the Hoenn champion-in-waiting, is out!
“Hoo... hoo... are you, are you okay? Charizard…”
On the other side, in front of a boulder, Blaine propped himself up with one hand and asked the Charizard, who was protecting him like a barrier in front of him.
“Woo~~”
However, what responded to Blaine was only Charizard's painful cry.
With a "pa" sound, it knelt on the ground, and completely fell down in the next second.
Seeing this, Blaine quickly got up and took out a Poké Ball to take Charizard back.
However, when he just reached out, he found that he had grabbed nothing.
Blaine turned his head to look and found that it was not that he had grabbed nothing, but that his right arm was empty, with only rotten minced meat, vaguely visible white bones, and bright red blood!
“Ugh ah ah——”
The adrenaline that had been suppressing the pain failed at this moment.
A strong pain surged through Blaine's body.
Even a top-level veteran of the Elite Four is just a mortal body.
Losing an arm, how could he not feel pain?
Blaine, the second Gym Leader in the Kanto region, lost his arm!
Unable to fight anymore!
Steven fainted on the ground, Blaine covered his arm and cried out in pain.
With one move from Shadow Lugia.
Two of the League's top experts were unable to fight on the spot!
The whole world was silent, is this... the power of a top-level legendary?
Giovanni walked to Blaine's side, released a Crobat, and took a Poké Ball from Blaine's pocket, helping him take back Charizard.
“You go first, leave this to me.”
Giovanni put the shrunken Poké Ball back in Blaine's pocket.
Blaine, covered in sweat, endured the severe pain and asked in a low voice:
You, uh... what, what are you planning to do?”
Blaine's situation was actually a bit like Althea, although he was a high-level cadre of the criminal organization, he still had a conscience.
Shadow's actions made him, who was used to Team Rocket's violence, unable to stand it.
“Don't worry, the League won't be over yet.”
Giovanni responded in a low voice, “Victory belongs to Team Rocket.”
After speaking, Crobat grabbed Blaine's shoulders with both claws and sent Blaine away from the battlefield.
“It's a pity that it wasn't Lance who lost his arm.”
After sending Blaine away, Giovanni muttered in his heart.
At the very least, it could have been Lorelei or Agatha.
Thinking of this, Giovanni turned his head to look.
Lance was still fighting Althea.
And Lorelei and Agatha were respectively facing the three Regis and the three Legendary Birds.
It can only be said that these three really have no concept of saving people.
Unless it is someone who is very close to them, such as Whitney, who is Lance’s cousin.
Otherwise, if they were to choose between "killing the enemy" and "saving people", these three would definitely choose the former.
It's really ironic, Team Rocket cadres run to save people, and the League Elite Four ignores it.
“There's no way, let's use Asheng's method…”
……
Boom!
On another battlefield, a Cloyster flew out like a baseball being hit.
With a loud noise, it smashed into a large pile of fighting people from both sides in the distance, causing secondary damage.
That was Lorelei's Cloyster!
“Damn it!”
Lorelei turned her head to look at the Registeel that had knocked her Cloyster away, gritting her silver teeth but helpless.
Although she is already among the top powerhouses in the Elite Four.
But among her team, only Lapras and Dewgong can reach this level, and Cloyster, Jynx, and Slowbro, who joined the team later, have not reached this level.
If she wants to compete with the legend, she is still far behind.
“Get out of the way! If you can't do it, don't hold me back!”
Rika, on the back of the Galarian Moltres, shouted without hesitation.
Just now, Giovanni was able to restrain the Legendary Titans, but Lorelei clearly doesn't have that ability.
Rika naturally wouldn't miss the opportunity to mock this cow.
I've been disliking you for a long time!
"Huh?!"
At this moment, Rika noticed that the Dark Lugia, which had defeated Lorelei and Blaine, two of the League's top powerhouses, had turned its attention to the ceiling of the League's combat power—Giovanni!
Recalling the miserable states of Lorelei and Blaine, the hearts of the whole world clenched.
After the Hoenn's would-be champion and the Kanto region's second Gym Leader, is the first Gym Leader being targeted as well?
"Gym Leader Giovanni, be careful!"
Erika shouted anxiously.
"Don't worry, I will at least leave a scar on it to create an advantage for you."
Giovanni turned halfway around and smiled slightly.
For a moment, a large number of League trainers, led by Erika, were deeply moved.
What an excellent senior.
Suddenly, Dark Lugia moved!
Its open mouth released a darkness-crushing dark impact for the second time.
Dark Pulse!
The terrifying spiral impact directly shattered the earth and approached Giovanni.
Nidoking and Nidoqueen rushed out from Giovanni's left and right.
They respectively released Earth Power and Earthquake to contend against Dark Lugia.
The two sides were deadlocked for a few seconds, and finally, Dark Pulse swallowed Nidoking and Nidoqueen, who were blocking in front, along with their trainer Giovanni.
"Mr. Giovanni!"
Erika's face turned pale, and she shouted in dismay.
Everyone turned their heads to look, only to see Giovanni, who had been hit by the impact, had been knocked into the air, and his two Ground-type generals were falling uncontrollably with him.
"Garchomp!"
The hatch of a plane with the Sinnoh League logo opened, and the Sinnoh Valkyrie threw out a Poké Ball against the strong wind.
Sinnoh's reinforcements have arrived!
"Dark Freeze!"
A darkened Articuno suddenly appeared, and a dark aura-filled ice laser was released from the side.
But the target was not the Garchomp, which was four times weak to ice.
But the small passenger plane belonging to the Sinnoh League.
Boom!
The front half of the passenger plane was instantly blown to pieces, and the ice-covered nose and fuselage split apart and fell down together.
The Garchomp that had just flown out looked at the falling plane in horror.
After hesitating for less than half a second, it immediately turned around to catch its master.
And Giovanni had fallen into the abyss and disappeared.
"Mr. Giovanni!"
Many trainers in the League army who admired Giovanni's face turned even paler.
Oh my god!
Lorelei and Blaine haven't finished leaving the stage, and now another top combat power has been lost!
……
……
However, no one saw that in the instant before Giovanni was about to fall onto the Champion Road below and turn into minced meat.
A Beedrill jumped out of the Poké Ball, calmly grabbed Giovanni, and landed smoothly.
"My acting is okay, right? A Sheng."
Giovanni straightened the suit that had been ruffled by the strong wind in the sky and asked with a self-deprecating smile.
"At least better than someone I used to know."
At this moment, Su Sheng walked out from behind.
The Bewear behind him gently put down Blaine, who had stopped the bleeding and had a prosthetic limb attached.
"Dr. Su Sheng, you..."
Blaine, who knew Su Sheng's true identity, was dumbfounded.
Su Sheng patted the other person's right shoulder, "Don't get excited, Blaine, otherwise the artificial body you just connected to will fall off."
"I have to go up and lend a hand, otherwise the League is really going to be finished."
Su Sheng looked up at the Indigo Plateau that had transformed into a Sky City in the clouds.
"Are you going, A Sheng? Or is Joker going?"
Giovanni asked with great interest.
This matter is still very important, after all, it determines the ownership of Dark Lugia.
"Well..."
Su Sheng cosplayed as a tumble dryer, pinched his chin and thought for a moment, and the answer was already in his heart.
……
……
Giovanni "fell", and the Sinnoh trio joined the battle.
The fight continued, and the battlefield continued to echo with the sound of Pokémon moves colliding and exploding.
The entry of the Sinnoh trio did not bring much advantage to the League.
After all, the three of them, who have not evolved into the complete body of the future, are not as good as one Giovanni when tied together.
Most importantly, none of the three of them have the ability to resist Dark Lugia!
"Miss Cynthia! Scatter!"
Just as Cynthia was continuously solving three Shadow members.
Saturn's shout came from not far away.
In fact, without anyone's reminder, Cynthia also felt it.
The Sinnoh's would-be champion suddenly turned around, and in her gem-like eyes, the figure of Dark Lugia with its wings spread open was reflected.
From the mouth of the God of Darkness, a dark spiral light wave was released again.
Boom!!
The earth shattered, and the violent dark wave roared out again.
Wherever it passed, large numbers of trainers and Pokémon were overturned.
The screams were endless.
With its champion-level strength, Garchomp hugged its master at the first moment to avoid the impact.
However, not everyone has such strength.
For example……
Boom—crash!
Lorelei, who was originally nearby, also avoided the devastating blow with the help of her partner.
However, in the next instant, the air wave set off by Dark Pulse exploded the earth, splashing countless gravel and falling.
Although Lorelei's Jynx and Cloyster did their best to help their master resist.
But helping Lorelei avoid Dark Pulse just now was already their best effort, and they were unable to cope with the aftermath.
Tear!
One of the gravels cut Lorelei's knee, and blood gushed out from under her stockings.
After inheriting the team's top two strengths, Lapras and Dewgong, two more main forces lost their combat capabilities.
Looking at the dark figure that was playing with the top combat power of the leagues in the palm of its hand, the whole world was deeply shocked.
Has the era of the League really passed?
"Do you want to continue fighting? Everyone in the League."
Under the control of his subordinates, the only filming lens on the scene was aimed at Zinzolin.
"Now, those who want to join our Shadow, I can forgive your previous behavior."
The Shadow Boss had a confident expression on his face.
However, just as Zinzolin was proudly delivering his victory speech.
Some sharp-eyed viewers have already discovered.
On the battlefield behind Zinzolin.
Whether it is the Shadow's thugs who have the upper hand, or the League trainers who are stubbornly resisting.
One after another, one after another, their eyes are turning white and foaming at the mouth and falling down.
An invisible aura gradually enveloped the entire Indigo Plateau.
I can update twice today, thank you for your understanding.
