More than an hour ago.
After Su Sheng led Ursaring towards the battlefield.
On the mountain road of Victory Road.
The Team Rocket members and executives summoned by Giovanni to Victory Road gathered one after another.
Sitting beside a rock, Blaine, clutching his newly attached right arm prosthetic, thought to himself: "It's going to be a three-way melee..."
After everyone had gathered, Dr. Namba, wearing a white coat, stepped forward and handed Giovanni a vial containing a medicinal liquid.
"Giovanni-sama, what you requested."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work, Lumba-hakase."
Giovanni nodded.
Namba's mouth twitched violently and unnaturally, suppressing the urge to curse as he screamed in his heart, "Not Lumba! It's Namba!"
Giovanni held the vial in his left hand and lightly tossed a Poké Ball with his right, releasing Beedrill.
This old partner, who had been with Giovanni since he became a trainer, knew what he wanted to do when he saw Giovanni's gesture.
Beedrill proactively offered its left arm stinger.
Giovanni said: "Aptx4869, invented by Joker, possesses the power to devolve Pokémon, and this power also works on humans."
As he spoke, Giovanni poured the medicinal liquid from the vial onto Beedrill's left arm stinger.
"Seize the most opportune moment to pierce Lance's body with it, turning him into a child. Until then, do not attack with your left hand, understand?"
Beedrill nodded upon hearing this.
"Hehehe~ This will be very interesting."
Giovanni's smile became increasingly twisted.
Hearing Giovanni's plan, Blaine's heart skipped a beat.
Holy crap, he's going to screw Lance over to death!
"Boss, this subordinate believes that this level of attack won't harm Lance much."
Archer suddenly spoke.
"Oh? Do you have any good suggestions, Archer?"
Giovanni raised an eyebrow and asked.
Archer smiled and pointed to the medicinal liquid dripping on Beedrill's left arm. "Joker-sama's invention only returns the target's body to a juvenile state, right? It doesn't revert their mind as well. It won't mean much to Lance. He can still do what he continues to do, and Lance doesn't have a lover or anything. He can completely continue doing what he's doing with a 10-year-old body."
It had to be said that Archer hit the nail on the head.
The reason why Aptx4869 was so effective on Conan Edogawa was because he had a unicorn... oh no, Ran Mouri, his weakness.
That's why he was eager to find an antidote to restore his body to its original state, otherwise, his childhood sweetheart might be stolen by a blonde.
If Shinichi Kudo had no woman in his heart, he could slowly deal with the Black Organization.
Using Aptx4869 on Lance was obviously meaningless.
Whether it was a 20-year-old body or a 10-year-old body.
It wouldn't affect him continuing to be a trainer and investigator.
Although Lance also had Lorelei as a childhood friend, he didn't have any feelings for her.
And he fought with Pokémon, unlike Bea, who fought herself.
Making his body smaller naturally didn't mean anything.
"Then you mean..."
Giovanni narrowed his eyes.
"Doesn't the Boss already have the answer in mind?"
Archer narrowed his eyes and asked back.
For a moment, the two revealed cunning smiles in unison.
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Boom—!
On the battlefield, Dragonite used a combination of Extreme Speed + Flamethrower to create a second-creation version of Flare Blitz, slamming heavily into Beedrill.
However, at the instant Beedrill was hit, the stinger on Beedrill's left arm protruded.
Lance's expression changed slightly.
He remembered that Beedrill hadn't used its left hand since the battle started.
Dragonite, weighing more than ten times its weight, crashed into it. Even Giovanni's Beedrill was blown away for a moment.
But at the moment of flying out, the left stinger suddenly protruded, accurate and deadly, like giving a vaccination, piercing Dragonite's left arm!
In the next instant, the impacted Beedrill was blown away.
It flew hundreds of meters all the way, and only managed to stabilize its body at the edge of the double tornado, but quickly flew back to Giovanni's side.
"It must have been hard fighting with only one hand, Beedrill."
Giovanni nodded in encouragement.
"Although I don't know what you're up to, you're dead!"
Lance's angry roar came from above.
Dragonite's whole body was filled with green flames, turning into a ferocious azure dragon.
Dragon Rush!
However, facing this champion-level attack.
Giovanni just stood there with his hands in his pockets, quietly.
Neither dodging nor ordering Beedrill to meet the attack.
"Is he crazy?"
Wallace, who was assisting Shadow in escaping, murmured.
Not only Wallace, but the whole world had the same idea.
"No!"
And Cynthia, who was running towards "Su Sheng" with Diantha, noticed something was wrong.
The azure dragon in the sky was shrinking at a speed visible to the naked eye!
"Did it get burned?"
Seeing the drastic reduction in the momentum of Dragon Rush, Diantha subconsciously guessed.
After all, it was common knowledge that the attack power of Pokémon would be weakened in a burned state.
"No, that's not right!"
Cynthia's expression changed drastically.
What was shrinking was not only Dragon Rush, but also the Dragonite inside!
In the raging flames, the Dragonite, which had been cultivated by Lance to a height of 4 meters, was rapidly shrinking.
In the blink of an eye, it became a normal Dragonite with a height of just over two meters!
And it wasn't over yet!
The power of Dragon Rush was further weakened.
And the originally burly and bloated Dragonite's body further "shrank", and the orange scales also turned sky blue.
It changed from Dragonite to Dragonair!?
"What's going on!?"
In the Cerulean City Pokémon Center, Blue, who had an arrogant personality, directly turned into an emoji and shouted incredulously.
Gary, Ash, Red, and others around him also widened their eyes.
On TV, Dragonair still used Dragon Rush to rush towards Beedrill.
But the power had been weakened from the champion level to the elite four level, and it was still getting weaker!
Finally, when it came to a distance of less than two meters from Beedrill.
Dragonair's slender body was still shrinking.
The power of the gym leader level was weakened to the novice level!
And this Dragon Rush was more like a mini dragon acting cute, so ridiculous that it was cute.
"V~\
,"It's difficult to judge Beedrill's mood through its expression.
But from the laughter just now, it was obvious that one could hear the mockery and disdain in its tone.
Beedrill didn't even use a move.
The right arm needle was flicked back like a tennis racket.
It directly fanned the Dratini away.
"Dragonite!?"
Lance himself was also frightened, ordering Aerodactyl to land quickly, rushing up and hugging Dratini in his arms.
"You called it wrong~ Champion Lance, this is Dratini~\
,"Giovanni said with a smile.
The sudden turn of events stunned people all over the world.
Even the Shadow members who were undergoing emergency evacuation stopped one by one, casting a living ghost-like gaze towards this side.
And the Victory Road scene was even more silent.
No one thought such a change would happen.
Ahhhh! I originally wrote 2000 words, and then accidentally deleted them. It's so painful to rewrite what I've written. A small extra is offered, sorry for being late.
