Staring at the icy chasm that stretched endlessly into the horizon, Sheena clenched her teeth tightly. After a mont, she crossed her hands over her chest.
Suddenly, an indescribable, mysterious power surged from within her, gathering mid-air into a chaotic swirl resembling a portal!
"Could it be that she can really...?"
Faced with sothing clearly beyond the abilities of ordinary people, everyone present widened their eyes in shock.
"Dialga!"
The air itself seed to stop flowing in that instant.
From within the swirling chaos, a colossal Pokémon slowly erged in response to Sheena's call.
Its blue and silver form radiated an awe-inspiring divine presence.
Cynthia, who was both a part-ti historian and a Pokémon Champion, instinctively took half a step back in shock.
This... this Pokémon, she had seen it before. It was depicted in the murals of Sinnoh's ancient ruins.
The God of Ti from Sinnoh's creation myths—Dialga!
"She... she really summoned it..."
The Chairman of the Sinnoh League stared in disbelief at the divine being floating in the sky. Then, with an incredulous look, he turned to Sheena. "Miss Hina, why didn't you tell us!?"
"Countless evildoers are coveting the power of legendary Pokémon," Sheena replied with a tight-lipped expression.
With that one sentence, the Chairman and the others fell into silent reflection.
After all, the Shadow organization's recent attempt to control multiple legendary Pokémon with dark Poké Balls was still fresh in everyone's mory.
And who could guarantee that no one within the League itself harbored such wicked intentions?
But as everyone's attention was drawn to the dragon of ti hovering above the plaza...
Next to the icy chasm created by the Delibird, a six-year-old girl nad Marnie stared at a man in disbelief.
It was the man she had always wanted to et.
"Shh~"
Joker raised his right index finger to his lips, signaling the punkish little girl to remain quiet.
"Strange, why haven't the three beasts shown up yet?"
Hearing the voice behind Joker, Marnie tilted her head to look.
"Psychic Fatty!"
She called out the na of the grumbling fatty guy with an exclamation.
Joker beside her raised an eyebrow slightly.
"The God of Ti, Dialga..."
At this mont, Pryce, who was riding on the back of the Delibird, suppressed his overwhelming excitent and stared fervently at Dialga through his icy mask.
"I need you to use your power to send back to the past."
Hearing the audacious words of the human before it, the dragon of ti raised its brow slightly, casting a sidelong glance at Sheena, with whom it had a decent rapport.
Did you summon just for this crazy human?
"Apologies," Sheena said awkwardly, unable to explain the situation in such a short ti.
She rarely summoned the gods, after all.
The power of Aura allowed her to communicate with and summon legendary Pokémon, but it didn't grant her control over them.
"So this is the masked man's goal!?"
Upon hearing Pryce's explanation of his objective, the mbers of the Sinnoh League, along with so civilians who hadn't managed to flee the plaza, turned pale.
To travel back to the past—this was why the masked man had targeted the God of Ti?
"If you refuse..."
Pryce waved his hand with a chilling gesture.
The Delibird lowered its head and unleashed another Icy Wind.
In an instant, a dozen police officers and their Pokémon were frozen into ice sculptures.
"Noo!!"
Cynthia's usually elegant features were now twisted in fury as veins bulged on her forehead.
Enough is enough, isn't it!?
However, this was already Pryce showing restraint.
He didn't want to anger Dialga; his goal was rely to remind it of his resolve.
The God of Ti raised its brow slightly, its expression completely indifferent to the sight of humans and Pokémon being frozen.
As a neutral legendary Pokémon, Dialga wasn't the type to care. It wasn't like Xerneas, who would always intervene to protect life.
Its duty was solely to maintain the stability of ti within the Pokémon world. How many humans or Pokémon lived or died... was of little concern to it.
"You don't care about the lives of others, do you?"
Seeing Dialga's lack of emotional reaction, Pryce realized that taking hostages wouldn't work as a threat.
"In that case, I'll have to defeat you and force you to comply!"
As his words fell, both Pryce and Delibird's aura drastically changed, and the atmosphere of the entire island grew unbearably heavy.
"Wait, wait, wait—he's not seriously planning to capture Dialga, is he?"
Aaron, the youngest of Sinnoh's Elite Four, couldn't believe what he was hearing.
Dialga's re presence had already made it difficult for him to breathe.
And this masked man said... he's going to subdue the opponent!?
"He might pull it off,"
Berha said solemnly.
The video of the incident in Viridian City, where the masked man completely suppressed Ho-Oh in battle, is still trending on many video platforms!
Dialga's gaze narrowed slightly, and its expression finally changed.
But it wasn't the sympathy or compassion that Xerneas showed when it saw humans and Pokémon in distress.
Instead, what filled Dialga's eyes was pure displeasure—and a hint of... killing intent.
At that mont, a lightning bolt flashed across the sky above Lily of the Valley Island.
The air seed to tremble.
A surge of dragon energy, blue and radiant, imdiately coalesced in front of the mouth of the God of Ti.
It was Dragon Pulse!
"Save them!"
Cynthia's face changed drastically as she shouted.
Her first instinct was to protect the ice sculptures of the people frozen by the masked man.
And almost simultaneously with Dialga's move, there was no fluctuation in Pryce's expression behind the icy mask. He simply tapped the back of Delibird's head lightly.
Delibird imdiately understood his intention.
The temperature across half of Lily of the Valley Island plumted in an instant, an indescribable coldness gathering rapidly in Delibird's mouth.
In that sa instant, it unleashed its attack.
Master-level Ice Beam vs. the Dragon Pulse of a Tier-1 Legendary Pokémon!
In mid-air, an indescribable explosion erupted.
Blinding light appeared as a single white point at the center of the collision between the two moves, and then it rapidly expanded outward.
In an instant, the ground quaked violently. Every structure in the vicinity—including the towering Sinnoh League headquarters building, over 100 ters tall—was reduced to dust in the blink of an eye.
Below, whether it was Cynthia, the Sinnoh chairman, Officer Jenny's reinforcents, or the civilians who couldn't escape in ti, they all had the sa thought running through their minds:
Am I going to die here?
Just as the blue-and-white shockwave was about to crash to the ground, a dark purple, nearly black, semi-transparent do suddenly appeared out of thin air.
It was as if Gaara used sand to block Madara's Tengai Shinsei, isolating the dragon and ice energies above.
Bertha: "Is this... Protect?!"
Aaron: "A black Protect? The only one who could use this technique is..."
The mont Aaron said this, everyone present simultaneously thought of the sa figure.
A figure that haunted the hearts of everyone in the League like a nightmare.
Boom!
Suddenly, an ear-splitting roar resounded across the area.
At the island's outermost harbor, tourists who had just arrived on Lily of the Valley Island for sightseeing found themselves staring in disbelief at the center of the island.
At the heart of the island, a massive mushroom cloud was rising into the sky.
And before their eyes, a crack in the ground was snaking its way toward them.
Many tourists fell to the ground in terror.
Fortunately, the deep and seemingly bottomless crack stopped just ten ters away from the harbor.
Even so, it was still overwhelmingly terrifying!
At the center of the mushroom cloud, a man and a woman's voices suddenly rang out.
"Articuno, Hurricane!"
"Moltres, Hurricane!"
The combined Hurricanes instantly dispersed the mushroom cloud, allowing Cynthia and the others in the plaza to see what lay ahead.
Thirty ters above the ground, the God of Ti, Dialga, and the masked man riding on Delibird's back were locked in a standoff.
Slightly below them, about ten ters off the ground, Dark Moltres and Articuno hovered on opposite ends of the plaza.
No—this could no longer be called a plaza.
From an aerial view, Lily of the Valley Island now looked like a massive spider, with cracks spreading in all directions.
"Joker!?"
The survivors in the plaza all shouted the sa na in unison.
Standing before them...
Atop the head of Shadow Lugia, holding the hand of a little girl, and looking up at the scene in the sky—who else could it be but the King of Team Rocket?
"No wonder. A battle between a master-level Pokémon and a Tier-1 Legendary Pokémon... Even Shadow Lugia's protective barrier couldn't completely neutralize it," Joker remarked.
"Hey, hey, this isn't going according to plan, is it?"
Will shouted while looking down.
"According to the original plan, Sird and the others should've delivered the goods by now!"
"We just got word,"
Karen, who had given up wearing her mask now that her identity was exposed, pulled out her phone and said with a sidelong glance,
"She said that little thing can't pass through the portal it created, so she has to deliver it by plane."
Hearing this, Joker suddenly rembered.
Indeed, in the movie, it was ntioned that until the little Hoopa fully understood the aning of punishnt—or rather, until it fused with the other Hoopa inside the Prison Bottle—it couldn't use its portals freely.
She couldn't pass through her teleportation rings.
"Ah... I forgot about that..."
Joker rubbed his temples.
"It'll take about four hours to fly here from Kalos," Karen said.
"What kind of joke is that? By then, this whole island will have sunk!" Will exclaid exaggeratedly.
BOOM—CRASH!
A deafening noise, as if crushing the very air, ca from above.
Dialga made another move. This ti, it was Roar of Ti!
The Delibird flapped its short little wings, narrowly dodging the Roar of Ti, brushing past the attack.
Compared to the little Swinub, which had put all its skill points into Attack, Delibird's stats were much more balanced—it could be considered a jack-of-all-trades.
But to be honest, when it ca to durability, there was no way it could compare to a Legendary Pokémon.
Thus, when it could dodge an attack, Delibird would always choose to avoid it rather than confront it head-on. Especially since it was carrying its trainer on its back.
Dialga's eyes narrowed with determination, continuing to fire its Roar of Ti in pursuit of Delibird.
The attack swept across the area. The buildings below were like toys, easily crushed into rubble.
"Dialga! Please take the fight sowhere else!"
At this mont, Cynthia looked just like Diantha a month ago, when she had tried to stop the fight between Yveltal and Zygarde.
But the response she got was identical.
Dialga, just like Zygarde and Yveltal back then, completely ignored her.
"Unbelievable."
Joker suddenly waved his hand.
The Shadow Lugia beneath him turned its head toward the direction of the Roar of Ti and unleashed a Shadow blast.
BOOM!
The ground trembled lightly, and a massive cloud of dust was kicked up.
Under the shockwave's pressure, countless cracks rapidly ford on the walls of the nearby buildings, and windows shattered with a loud "CRACK!" sound.
But at least, with this move, the survival rate of the ordinary people on the island increased significantly.
Marnie, sitting atop the head of the Shadow Lugia, stared blankly at Joker's back.
The others below also wore expressions of disbelief.
Joker... had just saved people?
"This is only a temporary fix. If this keeps up, more people will still die," Will reminded him.
"There's no other way. Karen, tell Sird to get Hoopa to open a portal," Joker shouted.
Karen nodded and sent a ssage to Sird.
...
Kalos, Arche Valley.
At this mont, everyone in the Arche Clan had fallen into a deep sleep, including ray.
"You... you're all a bunch of bad guys!"
Hoopa glared tearfully at Sird.
But with her current deanor, even her anger only made her look adorable.
"Why, thank you," Sird responded with a smile.
Buzz buzz buzz—
At this mont, a helicopter bearing Team Rocket's "R" insignia descended.
"Ti to go, Sird. We still need to head to Sinnoh," Orm reminded her.
"Tch! Why don't we just kill all these people in one go? Such a waste of ti," Carr said impatiently.
"The King ordered us to minimize civilian casualties. Carr, are you defying the King's orders?" Sird asked, narrowing her eyes.
"...Tch."
Carr clicked his tongue again but ultimately didn't dare say anything more.
"Let's go."
Orm opened the helicopter door and stepped inside first.
"Wait."
At that mont, Sird received a ssage.
After taking two seconds to read it, she raised her hand to stop the others and said, "The King has issued new orders. Open a portal here imdiately."
Saying this, Sird turned to threaten Hoopa:
"Listen up, little thing. If you don't want your master to get hurt, open a portal connecting this place to Sinnoh's Lily of the Valley Island."
Hoopa, trying to suppress her inner fear, asked tearfully, "Li-Lily of the Valley Island? Where is that?"
Hoopa could only open portals to places she had been to before.
Lily Island? She hasn't been there, so she can't open it.
Three Beasts: ...
...
...
At Lily Island.
Hearing the ssage from Sird, Joker shouted, "Just have that little thing open the door by following Dialga's aura!"
Hoopa has two ways to open portals.
One way is like the move Fly, opening a portal to places it has been before.
The other way is to sense the aura of a person or Pokémon, like Kakarot, and open a portal to their location.
Hoopa uses this thod to summon legendary Pokémon.
As soon as Joker finished speaking, he felt two intense gazes from above.
Looking up.
Sure enough, the Shadow Lugia had just acted.
Its move had drawn the attention of both Dialga and Pryce.
Dialga's gaze was filled with scrutiny and suspicion as if asking: "Are you in cahoots with that ice-wielder?"
The black bird had just stopped Dialga's attack, so it was natural for Dialga to suspect that Joker and Pryce were working together.
"Don't misunderstand. I just want to prevent too many people from dying at your hands. No worries, carry on. Beat him to death, if possible," Joker said with a grin, pointing at Pryce.
Pryce was furious upon hearing this.
The mont he saw Joker appear, he had already guessed what Joker was planning.
So that's your sche!
"YOU—"
The enraged Pryce had just shouted one word when Karen and Will struck with lightning speed.
"Burn Out!"
"Ice Beam!"
The two legendary birds attacked simultaneously.
Seeing this, Delibird imdiately fired a Laser Beam, blocking the two attacks. After a mont of stalemate, Delibird increased its power output.
The combined attack from the two birds was pushed back toward them.
Seeing this, Shadow Moltres and Articuno flapped their wings and dodged the counterattack.
Neither Karen nor Will seed to care that their attack was missed.
Their primary goal was rely to stop Pryce from saying things he shouldn't.
At that mont, three golden rings suddenly appeared in the middle of the ruined plaza, rapidly expanding to the size of a door.
Cynthia and the others were dumbfounded.
What... what is this?
Even Dialga, who had been deciding which side to deal with first, froze montarily.
This... this thing... looks a bit familiar.
Joker slid down Shadow Lugia's back like skating on ice, holding Marnie in his arms. Pointing at the golden ring, he said, "Go in. Quickly."
"But..."
Marnie hesitated, still wanting to watch the scene unfold.
However, seeing Joker's solemn expression—even with the mask on—Marnie pursed her lips and nodded.
Just as Marnie was about to step into the portal, the punk girl suddenly rembered sothing. She pulled out her phone from her bag and ran back to hand it to Joker.
"Take my phone, okay?"
After saying that, Marnie turned and jumped into the portal.
Joker looked at the pink phone in his hand, complete with a tiny figurine of himself as a charm, and didn't know what to say.
"She's got a terrible personality, but that girl's pretty cute, don't you think?" Will said with a wink.
"Shut up! Get to work!" Karen scolded.
"What are you standing around for? Let's go," Joker said, gesturing towards the golden ring as he addressed Cynthia and the others.
Everyone exchanged glances.
In the end, Cynthia seed to think of sothing and stepped forward, shouting, "Carry the wounded inside and bring the island's citizens as well. Quickly!"
Hearing the champion's command, no one hesitated any longer.
Bertha, Aaron, and the others called out their strong Pokémon, like Nidoking and Drapion, to carry the frozen Flint, Lucian, and many other casualties into the golden ring.
...
At the Arche Valley
Seeing more and more Sinnoh residents erging from the portal, Team Rocket's Three Beasts were stunned.
Holy crap, this ability is way too convenient.
"You're... Team Rocket!?"
Just stepping through the portal, Aaron and Sheena locked eyes with the Rocket trio and were startled.
Bertha, however, didn't seem surprised at all.
"Joker is here, and with other Team Rocket mbers around, what's so strange about that?
But the key question is, where is this?
I can't sense the presence of Dialga, Shadow Lugia, or any of those powerful legendary Pokémon at all.
Is this still Sinnoh?
The people of Lily of the Valley Island are rushing into the golden ring.
However, Cynthia has no intention of leaving. She just keeps staring intently at that silhouette.
'Who... exactly are you!?' "
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