“Now!”
In that instant, the pressure shifted—overpowering Dialga and Palkia.
Luo Yuan, who had been monitoring the two legendaries through his psychic link, sensed a sudden flaw in their energy.
In a normal battle, he wouldn’t be so reckless. After all, many Trainers—including himself—enjoy fishing for fake outs.
But this wasn’t one of those moments.
Dialga and Palkia, still bound by the red chains, had long since lost their conscious will. There was no way they were deliberately exposing a weakness.
So Luo Yuan seized the opportunity without hesitation.
Three legendaries moved at once!
“Deoxys—[Shadow Ball]!”
“Mewtwo—[Psyblade]!”
“Rayquaza… [Draco Meteor]!”
Mewtwo’s spoon, vibrating with high-frequency energy, sliced through the air as a blade of pure psychic force.
Between Deoxys’s tendrils, a deep-shadowed orb took shape, fired like a barrage of missiles.
Rayquaza reared its head—
A golden beam shot through the cavern’s shattered ceiling, piercing the sky.
Far above, in the vacuum of space, several meteors responded to its call. After smashing through a passing Devon Corporation satellite, they trailed blazing golden tails as they plummeted toward Earth.
The assault began.
At the center of the encirclement, Dialga and Palkia immediately sensed the incoming danger.
Especially Dialga—its mastery over time made it acutely sensitive to threats.
Though its mind was clouded, instinct took over. Dialga tried to shift across time to evade the onslaught.
But the red chains did their job.
Just as its form began to blur—slipping out of the current timeline—the chains snapped it back with brutal force.
Palkia reacted a beat slower. Just as it tried to warp space and vanish, the red chains bound it in place.
“Looks like Team Galactic’s tech wasn’t entirely worthless after all.”
Luo Yuan glanced at the red chains locking the legendaries in place. Despite their flaws—prone to interference and fueled by the lake guardians’ power—the design was far more reliable than the armor Giovanni had once created for Mewtwo.
Ironically, what Galactic developed to control Dialga and Palkia was now serving him.
Their most evasive abilities had been sealed. Now, they were little more than targets.
But Dialga and Palkia weren’t about to go down quietly.
Driven by instinct and pressed into a corner, the two gods of time and space abandoned their battle with each other—
And turned their power outward.
Dialga’s chest crystal lit with a deep blue glow. It opened its mouth—
A torrent of warped time energy blasted forth.
Palkia’s eyes gleamed orange. The pink pearl on its shoulder pulsed. Energy surged down its arm—
And then it struck, cleaving with a spatial rend sharp enough to slice dimensions.
[Roar of Time] + [Spacial Rend]!
The twin signature moves barreled toward Mewtwo and Deoxys.
There was no question—these attacks were powerful. No Trainer would take them lightly.
But Luo Yuan didn’t flinch.
The [Psyblade] struck first.
Amplified by Luo Yuan’s psychic attunement, mental resonance, and the massive spoon acting as a psychic conductor, the blade clashed with the [Spacial Rend].
The twin slashes collided.
Watching from the sidelines, Cyrus swore he could hear the very fabric of space shattering.
The [Spacial Rend] chewed into Mewtwo’s [Psyblade]—but the legendary psychic held firm.
Mewtwo, strengthened by Luo Yuan’s enhancements, showed no signs of being overwhelmed.
If anything, the more power it poured into the blade, the sharper it became.
On the other side, Deoxys’s [Shadow Ball] clashed with Dialga’s [Roar of Time].
Time warped and twisted. The orbs shattered like soap bubbles, one after another.
But Cyrus wasn’t fooled.
He could tell—Dialga wasn’t gaining the upper hand. Because Deoxys wasn’t launching one or two [Shadow Balls]—
It was firing dozens.
In the blink of an eye, Deoxys’s tendrils wove a storm of dark energy. The attacks weren’t individually powerful, but they were endless.
“Does this thing have infinite stamina?” Cyrus muttered, unable to believe what he was seeing.
Of course not.
But as one of Luo Yuan’s Pokémon, Deoxys was being replenished by the [Viridian Power].
As long as that energy held, it might as well have been infinite.
Deoxys and Mewtwo had locked Dialga and Palkia into a war of attrition.
And that was exactly what Luo Yuan had planned.
Because the real finishing blow… would come from Rayquaza.
Luo Yuan looked skyward through the broken cavern ceiling.
FWOOOOOSH—!
A sharp screech tore across the heavens.
At first, just a few golden specks.
Then brighter.
In the cities surrounding Mt. Coronet, the people who had taken shelter looked up—
And saw meteors, wrapped in blazing gold, streaking toward the summit of Sinnoh’s highest peak.
Under the eyes of the entire region…
The meteors slammed into the mountain.
Silence.
Everyone stared, unmoving.
The entire city seemed to hold its breath.
Then, a moment later—
BOOM!
A thunderous explosion shattered the air.
The forest erupted.
Flocks of Starly took off in panic.
Skuntank and Stunky sprayed wild streams of foul-smelling gas.
Near the riverbanks, Bibarel tumbled headfirst into the water, some even breaking their teeth in the chaos.
The entire Mt. Coronet ecosystem descended into chaos.
And that… was just the beginning.
As people recovered from the shockwave, their eyes turned back to the summit—
And what they saw next… was even more terrifying.
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