Team Rocket’s Second-in-Command! [458]

As the terrifying aura in the sky grew more intense and Dialga and Palkia inched closer to losing control, Luo Yuan raised his arm.

The power of Viridian activated!

An invisible wave of energy radiated outward from his arm, quickly touching both Dialga and Palkia.

Through the [Viridian Power], Luo Yuan was able to sense the emotions of the two Pokémon.

Pain. Unease. Chaos.

Their minds were overwhelmed with negative emotions, nearly drowning out their reason.

Luo Yuan attempted to use the power to soothe them, to calm them down.

But with the red chains still exerting their influence, neither Dialga nor Palkia responded to his efforts—in fact, they violently rejected the connection.

“So it’s not going to be that easy, huh…”

He had already expected the Viridian power wouldn’t be enough.

Watching this unfold, Cyrus sneered coldly.

Luo Yuan glanced at him, sighed.

Sigh… I really didn’t want to resort to this. Why do you people always insist on forcing my hand?

It wasn’t that Luo Yuan wanted to show off. The truth was, even he didn’t know exactly what would happen once things escalated.

But no matter what, he couldn’t allow Dialga and Palkia to continue spiraling out of control.

He raised his hand again.

This time, two Poké Balls flew from his grasp.

Twin flashes of white light burst forth—Rayquaza let out a deep roar as it unfurled its massive body, and Mewtwo appeared beside it, spoon in hand, radiating psychic power.

Together with Deoxys, still restraining Cyrus, the three Pokémon formed a triangle, surrounding Dialga and Palkia in the center.

“If words can’t get through to you… then we’ll have to speak with force!”

Luo Yuan signaled.

Immediately, Deoxys, Mewtwo, and Rayquaza began charging up.

Rayquaza’s jaws gathered a sphere of devastating, dark energy. Mewtwo spun its spoon, the tip vibrating at high frequency as a razor-sharp psychic blade took shape. Deoxys shifted into Attack Forme, drawing in a dense Shadow Ball at its chest.

Cyrus stood to the side, silently watching.

The pressure from Dialga’s time energy and Palkia’s space energy had already been crushing enough.

Now, with Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Deoxys joining the fray—five legendary Pokémon unleashing their power atop Spear Pillar—the sheer force of it all made Cyrus, for the first time, feel how small and fragile he truly was.

It was like being a tiny fishing boat in the eye of a storm—one wave would be enough to capsize him entirely.

But the impact wasn’t just psychological.

The collision of their energies was causing the entire Spear Pillar to tremble. Cracks split across the stone platform, and the columns at the edges collapsed, one after another.

In the nearby towns around Mt. Coronet, residents suddenly noticed that the clouds that had always loomed over the peak had vanished.

Now, for the first time, the summit of Mt. Coronet was visible—and glowing.

“What’s happening up there?!”

“What the hell is going on!?”

Countless people with Silph Co.’s holo-communicators rushed to capture the moment, broadcasting the sudden changes at Mt. Coronet across the world.

In mere moments, the entire globe had turned its eyes to the Sinnoh region.

Back at Mt. Coronet, Luo Yuan—unaware he had inadvertently given Silph Co. another great marketing moment—tapped the communicator in his ear.

“Evacuate the area. I have no way of predicting what Mt. Coronet will look like in a few minutes.”

At the foot of the mountain, Cynthia had also seen the phenomenon above.

Her expression was… complicated.

This was a man from Team Rocket—a notorious executive, the infamous Tech Hunter—yet he seemed to possess a stronger sense of responsibility than many League trainers.

He had not only freed her, but also arranged for the evacuation of nearby civilians when things got dangerous.

The contradiction made him impossible for Cynthia to figure out.

Still, she didn’t let it distract her. A battle was about to erupt atop Mt. Coronet.

Pushing down her swirling thoughts, Cynthia activated her communicator, using her authority as the Champion of Sinnoh to issue emergency evacuation orders to the towns surrounding the mountain.

Spear Pillar

Luo Yuan ended the call. Cyrus gave him a strange look.

Clearly, he also found it baffling that a Team Rocket executive would be thinking of public safety at a time like this.

“Don’t look at me like that,” Luo Yuan said, noticing his stare. “We’re not the same as your Team Galactic.”

“What’s the difference?” Cyrus smirked, his voice heavy with scorn. “Team Rocket, the ones who stir up chaos and conflict, claiming to be the good guys now? That’s laughable.”

“I never said we were the good guys,” Luo Yuan replied coolly, glancing at him. “But compared to psychos like you who want to destroy the world, I’d say our goals are at least a little more… grounded. We just want to rule it.”

With that, he turned away from Cyrus and looked to the sky.

The turbulence overhead was intensifying.

But now that Luo Yuan had linked Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Deoxys through a psychic network, the battlefield had shifted.

At the center, Dialga and Palkia were still fighting each other under the influence of the red chains.

But around them, Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Deoxys—united in purpose through Luo Yuan’s mental link—were beginning to act as one. Their combined presence boxed the two legends in completely.

The overwhelming pressure forced Dialga and Palkia, even in their conflict, to take on a subtle defensive formation—unintentionally cooperating to resist the trio’s onslaught.

A new kind of balance was forming on the battlefield.

But Luo Yuan knew this balance wouldn’t last.

As long as Dialga and Palkia remained at the center of it all, as long as they weren’t neutralized, the outcome would be unpredictable—even he might not make it out unscathed.

Are you ready?

Luo Yuan sent the thought through the psychic link to Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Deoxys.

Once he received their confirmation, Luo Yuan activated his own psychic power without hesitation.

He synchronized with their frequency, merging fully into the trinity.

Now part of the same network, Luo Yuan’s mind and will became one with Rayquaza, Mewtwo, and Deoxys—and their strength surged again.

Their united force now fully overpowered the trapped Dialga and Palkia.

“It’s now or never!”

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