"Feng Lu, have your main partners returned yet?" Augustus shouted to the adjacent cell.
Several flashes of white light erupted through the stone. A majestic Sceptile used its leaf blades to carve the reinforced wall into neat chunks. Accompanied by Turtonator, Gyarados, Hydreigon, Haxorus, and Salamence, Feng Lu stepped through the rubble.
He cut a dashing figure, though years of imprisonment and having his life force siphoned by Chandelure had left him looking gaunt and aged.
"My team is malnourished after a decade," Feng Lu said, his eyes burning with determination as he looked at Augustus. "But once we're out, I have full confidence I can bring them back to their peak."
"Good. Together, we'll flip this wretched Indigo Prison upside down." Augustus and Feng Lu clasped hands firmly.
Throughout the facility, other high-profile inmates were making the same discovery.
"Haha! My partners are back! League, I'm going to tear you limb from limb!" an old man roared, his voice laced with decades of bone-deep hatred.
"My little darlings are home," a ragged old woman cackled, releasing Drapion, Beedrill, and Scolipede. "Kill, my sweets! Raze this hellhole to the ground!"
The biological security systems—Crobat, Darmanitan, and Chandelure—finally jolted awake, but they were immediately met with a tidal wave of Elite-tier fury. The High-Security Ward exploded into a battlefield.
"Emergency! Mass riot in the depths!" "The High-Security Ward has been breached! Sound the alarms!"
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
The deafening sirens of the Indigo Prison wailed through the underground. Even in the common blocks, prisoners stared in shock as their magic cell doors swung wide. Many found Poké Balls suddenly appearing in their hands.
"Damn the League! Damn Warden Dorus! Today we get our revenge!" "Charge! Break out!"
The prison descended into absolute, unprecedented anarchy.
Indigo Plateau: League Headquarters
"What is it? What's happened?!"
President Goodshow burst into his office still wearing his pajamas. "If you've woken me up this late, you better have a damn good reason!"
"It's a disaster, President! The Indigo Prison is in total revolt! They're sending out emergency distress signals!" the duty investigator stammered, his face pale.
Goodshow's face turned a sickly shade of green. "Impossible! What is that idiot Dorus doing? Have you contacted Hagen yet?"
"Sir... we can't reach Elite Hagen. He's not responding to any frequencies."
"Then get me Dorus! I want to know exactly how a 'zero-escape' prison turned into a war zone in ten minutes!" Goodshow roared, slamming his favorite teapot onto the floor.
Team Rocket Headquarters
Giovanni had just received the report. His expression was... complicated.
"Feng Che is almost too efficient," Giovanni muttered to himself. "I haven't even finished the logistical staging yet."
He rose from his desk, a satisfied smile spreading across his face. "Matori, summon the three Executives. We're moving up the timeline. We attack the League early."
With his back straight and spirit high, Giovanni strode out of his office. "Feng Che... you really did give me a surprise."
Indigo Prison: The Core
Feng Che followed Warden Dorus into a high-security hidden elevator. The air was thick with the scream of alarms.
"The sirens are going off," Dorus sneered. "My guards will have realized you kidnapped me by now."
"No," Feng Che countered coolly. "They're reacting to the fact that I gave every prisoner their Pokémon back."
He glanced at the trembling Warden. "I don't know why you were hoarding those balls, but I should thank you. Without your greed, I couldn't have started a riot of this scale."
Dorus's smug smile died instantly. He realized he was finished. If the League found out his private vault was the source of the breakout, his life was forfeit.
The elevator reached the absolute lowest level. Dorus scrambled out, lunging toward a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the floor.
The chamber was breathtaking—columns of high-purity metal rose like stalagmites from the floor. In the center, a basketball-sized orb of silver-white light hovered in the air: the Heart of Steel.
"Elite Hagen! Save me! I've been taken hostage by a prisoner!" Dorus screamed.
Hagen, a large man with a silver buzz cut, opened his eyes slowly. "Dorus, you've become pathetic, being held by a brat."
"His goal is the Heart of Steel, Hagen!" Dorus pointed frantically at the floating relic.
Hagen stood up, glancing at Feng Che with pure disdain. "You have guts, kid. Not even an Elite yet, and you come to my domain to steal the Heart? Did Arceus give you that courage?"
Beside Hagen stood a massive Aggron and a colossal Steelix. They were currently bathing in the radiant energy of the Heart.
Aggron: A titan encased in silver armor, its blue eyes gleaming with predatory intent. It bore countless scars on its plates—medals of a thousand battles. Steelix: A grey behemoth tempered by the crushing pressure of the deep earth. Its red eyes were vicious, its jaw capable of pulverizing any known mineral.
"Go! Corviknight, Incineroar, Greninja!"
Feng Che released his three primary powerhouses. "Handle the Aggron and Steelix."
"Go, Lucario! Intercept the Greninja!" Hagen threw a third ball. "I won't let you touch that Heart."
The Lucario, looking like a battle-hardened canine with steel spikes on its paws and chest, radiated a powerful Aura.
"I haven't seen someone this delusional in a long time," Hagen grunted. He had no respect for those weaker than him.
"Is that so?"
Suddenly, Feng Che's hands glowed with a brilliant blue light. In a shimmer of psychic power, the Heart of Steel vanished from its pedestal and reappeared directly in his grasp.
"Look at that. It's in my hands now," Feng Che smirked, enjoying the look of pure shock on Hagen's face. He had used Mewtwo's telekinesis to pull off the ultimate flex.
"You... you're a High-tier Psychic?!" Hagen roared. "Dorus, you useless fat fool! How did you let a High-tier Psychic into this prison without a suppression field?!"
"I told you a thousand times! Don't skimp on the sensors! Now the Heart is in enemy hands!" Hagen looked like he wanted to pummel the Warden himself.
Feng Che casually stowed the Heart into Mewtwo's subspace. Deprived of the relic's influence, Hagen's Pokémon visibly lost their radiant edge, their auras flickering.
"Give it back!" Hagen lunged forward, his fist cocked.
Feng Che Teleported instantly into the air, looking down at the Elite like a god observing an ant.
Meanwhile, back in the ward, Augustus and Feng Lu were tearing through the hallways. The Darmanitan and Crobat were being swept aside like autumn leaves.
"I want to find the Heart of Steel and give that guard dog Hagen a beating he won't forget," Feng Lu growled.
Suddenly, a pillar of fire erupted in the corridor ahead of them. A man riding an Arcanine skidded into view: Blaze, the Fire Elite.
"Tsk. A League Elite," Augustus muttered, his eyes narrowing. "Looks like we have to go through him first."
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