chsdbacks Chapter 305 You tricked me, so I'll bomb you.
Chapter 305 You tricked me, so I'll bomb you.
Chapter 305 You tricked me, so I'll bomb you.
Mt. Chimney trembled more and more, the crater about to erupt, as if the sleeping Pokémon born from the earth were about to awaken.
The Crimson Pine's body seemed to be imbued with the surging energy emanating from the vermilion orb, turning completely crimson. Finally, carried by the orb and enveloped in energy, it soared into the sky, heading towards the campfire, its destination unknown.
And it was extremely fast, disappearing from the campfire's sight in an instant.
In fact, it wasn't just this Crimson Flame Pine that was unusual.
Something strange was coming from afar.
The campfire blazed as it looked eastward from the top of Chimney Hill.
That was the direction from which the tremor came, and also the direction of the underwater volcano on the other side of Hoenn, where the tides rolled and the waves surged, a strange phenomenon that was similar to, yet opposed to, the awakening of Groudon at Mt. Chimney.
The campfire was stunned.
"I...can't stop it...can't even stop Team Magma..."
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"Your hands must be sore, right?"
"It was so sour. After this, I think I'll hate, or rather, be averse to, raising my hand for the rest of my life."
Akromar gripped the iron awl tightly in his hand. The numbness and soreness in his arm made his facial expression difficult to control, but he continued to draw—
With a slight twitch at the corner of her mouth, she persisted in answering Ze Shu's question.
If he doesn't answer, Ze Shu might think he's distracted.
Akromar believed that Deoxys, who was always ready beside Zeki, would unleash his superpowers without hesitation, blasting Zeki's body apart like the twisted, dented, and smashed doors from the previous two encounters.
Ze Shu looked at Akroma's struggling appearance and chuckled.
This Akromar, rather than being a bad person, is more of a pure person.
He is a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his scientific goals.
He can disregard ethics and the subjective opinions of Pokémon, allowing them to recklessly modify their bodies according to his research needs.
They can also disregard their stance, becoming either a scientist for Team Plasma or betraying Team Plasma later in the story to help the game's protagonist, thus becoming an ally of the "protagonist's side" in the game's sense.
But for Ze Shu, he would have no pity for Akroma.
"It must have been very torturous, right?" Ze Shu asked again.
"It was agonizing," Akromah answered honestly, her face pale and twitching. "I don't think I've ever experienced such torment in my entire life—it's the greatest torment I've ever suffered."
Simply holding this extremely heavy iron spike, specially crafted to pierce the Punishment Jar during a fog, is not enough.
In addition to needing to be highly focused, one also needs to maintain an extra bit of strength, so that... at least Ze Shu feels that he will still have the strength to use this iron spike to pierce the glass along with the punishment pot the moment Ze Shu has the intention to attack.
If you could only maintain that for a fraction of a second, that would be fine; anyone could do that.
If you can hold it for four or five minutes, that's fine too. Just use all your strength and be prepared to endure the torment. It will pass eventually.
But he had to hold out until the destroyer reached the Giant's Cave.
Although the destroyer's speed was already the highest that their Plasma Team's technology could achieve, the journey from the Wyvern City docks to the eastern sea area of the Giant's Cave spanned nearly half of the Unova region's coastline, which was no small feat.
For a regular cruise ship, it would take at least half a day or even a whole day to complete the journey.
Akroma had lost track of how much time had passed; he only knew that every second was a challenge to his physical limits.
His body went through a process of extreme pain, turning white and trembling, and then becoming numb and exhausted.
This scientist, who pursued science with utmost purity, even thought many times during this torment that he should put down the iron awl in his hand, kneel down, and beg Ze Shu for forgiveness in the most humble way possible.
But he still rejected the idea.
After all, if he made that choice, the kindest outcome for Ze Shu would be that he would be imprisoned in the Alliance Prison.
But he still needs to find the best way to pursue his research goal—"to unleash the full potential of Pokémon."
While he was suffering, he could still watch helplessly as Ze Shu leisurely surfed the internet, sent messages, and even played with Pokémon in the laboratory.
That chubby Vulpix eats a lot; that pink, ice-loving Dratini is already quite fat, and given his Pokémon research, it'll probably molt and evolve soon; that Glaceon is really attached to that pesky investigator, but Acromorama has to admit that bonds are also a crucial factor in unlocking a Pokémon's potential...
Akromma tried to distract himself by observing these things.
But the results are minimal.
He felt he was about to give up.
But after an unknown amount of time, good news finally reached his ears—a calm voice from Ze Shu said, "My destroyer has now arrived near the Giant's Cave. So, shouldn't your ridiculous torment be over?"
"You should put down your iron spike, and I should check the state of Hoopa in the Judgment Jar—it hasn't moved at all in the past six hours of sailing."
"Or are you planning to hold it up until the Kyurem comes to rescue you?"
Akroma, without the slightest sign of relaxation, said, "Yes. It's time to end this. I don't want to endure this torture anymore."
He then asked, "What do you think we should do to benefit both of us?"
Before Ze Shu could answer, he continued, "I only have one need: to get a chance to escape. As for your need, I'll venture a guess, it's to keep the Punishment Jar intact while capturing me, right?"
Ze Shu simply said, "You're not entirely right."
"Heh." Acromorma's lips twitched unnaturally as he chuckled. "Then I'll suggest a method: during that time I can escape, your Deoxys should relax its psychic powers and not attack, and you won't release any other Pokémon to deal with me; and I will release this spike and run for my life, ensuring the Punishment Jar won't be pierced by the spike—legendary investigator, do you agree to my proposed solution?"
After all, Deoxys had already used his superpowers to track his every move, and that was his biggest motivation for escaping.
Faced with Akromati's solution, Ze Shu remained noncommittal: "So, how long do you think this period of time—where Deoxys doesn't intervene, I don't capture you, and you escape—would be?"
"Just ten seconds," Akromma replied. "I know I can't ask for more. After ten seconds, it's up to you. But I hope you'll keep your promise."
"Okay." Ze Shu glanced at Deoxys beside him, closed his eyes briefly, then opened them again and said directly, "Ten..."
Nine..
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As Zeki said "ten," Deoxys cooperated by dissipating his condensed superpowers.
Akroma was caught off guard when he heard Zeshu suddenly start counting, but the situation did not allow him to waste any time.
He tried hard to drop the iron awl he was holding, but his numb hand made the action take a full seven seconds before the awl hit the ground with a crisp "bang".
Then, with stiff legs and all his might, he ran frantically toward the door of the research lab, looking somewhat disheveled but no longer caring.
He knew there was a secret door, a hidden passage leading directly to the ocean below. He also believed that this investigator, despite claiming to be the captain, was unaware of this location. The reason he was able to come to this destroyer without being discovered by Kuroji was because of this secret passage.
Before Ke Zeshu could react, he had already wasted a second.
It took him seven seconds to get rid of the torturous iron spike.
When he reached the laboratory entrance, Ze Shu counted to "Gold," and Deoxys's vertical pupils flashed. Acromata had already sensed its dangerous psychic power. In desperation, Acromata gritted its teeth, flicked its hand, and a Poké Ball was thrown down, giving rise to a white light behind it.
"Genesis! The Big Bang!" he said without turning his head.
As the white light faded, the heterochromatic Genesect, now entirely red and sporting a new cannon barrel, stood between Deoxys and Acrom.
Then, upon hearing Akromah's command, Genesect, whose white light had just faded, rapidly and dangerously emitted a white self-destructive light from its entire body.
"Forget about that scientist who's running away in a panic, deal with this self-destructing bug," Ze Shu said quickly to Ochisis.
If this self-destruction were to actually occur here, the jar of punishment that seals Hoopa would probably be shattered into pieces, reduced to nothing more than dust.
Upon hearing this, Deoxys's superpowers changed direction and plunged straight towards Genesect, who was about to self-destruct.
However, this was a cramped and enclosed compartment on the lower deck of the destroyer. Furthermore, Deochis couldn't easily cancel Genos's self-destruction.
In order to minimize the impact of the self-destruction, Deoxys had to disperse another part of his superpower, condense it into a drill, and blast it straight at the steel wall of the destroyer on the side, breaking through the wall layer by layer to create a passage, revealing half of the ocean and half of the sky outside.
Then, the self-destructing Genesect was quickly thrown out through the breach.
Five seconds after Akromma released Genesect, a deafening "bang" was heard, and Genesect, just thrown out of the destroyer, successfully self-destructed.
It did not self-destruct in the laboratory, and the Jar of Punishment was not blown to pieces.
However, the self-destruction of the "Strongest Hunter's" phantom beast was quite powerful. In an instant, the entire destroyer shook, and the shockwave from the explosion, through the passage that Deoxys had opened to throw Genesect out, crashed back into Akromar's laboratory!
Because of this air current.
With a "bang".
The Judgment Jar didn't break, but the glass dome Akromama used to protect it shattered. The Judgment Jar also wobbled and nearly fell over, but was caught by Ze Shu.
But look at the black mist emanating from the jar of punishment, like a caged beast released from its cage, as the glass dome shattered—this was Hoopa's evil thought. It even quickly condensed into a giant like a demon god and began to materialize.
Ze Shu scoffed, "Akroma, you tricked me, so it's only natural that I retaliate..."
On the deck of a destroyer.
Higana, who had been standing with her arms crossed, like a haughty overseer monitoring the Team Plasma members she had bound, was thrown into disarray by Genesect's self-destruction, causing the entire ship to rock violently...
"Ah ...
"Ouch, ouch, ouch, ouch! Salamence, why is your head so hard?!"
The Flying Dragon, its forehead also throbbing, was bewildered: "???"
Is it its fault that its head is hard?
This silly trainer! Even the dragon that grew up with you has a temper!
Salamence puffed out its puffed-out head and saw on the other side, Nearly Doll, which had been released to treat the Team Plasma Pokémon burned by Reshiram, was leading its three "patients" standing at the edge of the deck.
"Tabu!"
This is Ze Shu's command!
In the rocking destroyer, the doll clung tightly to the deck, intently searching the churning sea below. Then, it spotted a high-tech kayak launching from the bottom of the destroyer and rapidly jetting towards the shore, and its blue eyes lit up.
"Tabu! Tabu!"
That's the goal!
Ze Shu said, "Attack this target!"
The almost-recovered doll gave instructions to the three Genosects beside it, who were nearly recovered.
Although it wasn't good at attacking, and was even afraid to use any attack moves, it mustered up its courage because of Zeki's command and directed the three Genesects to attack the target Zeki had ordered it to attack.
The target Ze Shu was referring to was the scientist who escaped from the bottom of the ship—although he no longer resembled a scientist.
Without the guidance of the almost-doll, the three Genesects, despite their deep hatred for Acromorma, would find it difficult to attack him because they had been under his control.
But now, in the process of treating Genesect, Almost Doll seems to have also captured the hearts of the three Genesect.
At the command of the almost-doll, the Genesects' bodies rang out with a series of crisp steel clangs as they quickly but stiffly adjusted into a "high-speed flight posture" and then chased after the high-tech kayak that was jet-powered away!
During the pursuit, the giant cannons on the backs of the Genesects also emitted a terrifying glow.
These three beams of light echoed each other in the not-so-clear sky.
Then it blasted at the fleeing kayak!
Thanks to Akromma's carefully calibrated aim, the Genesis's "high-tech beam cannons" hit their targets precisely.
The kayak was engulfed by the three thick beams of light.
What happened to the people on the boat?
Nobody pays attention to this kind of thing anymore.
"What the heck is this?! What ...
Higana stared blankly at the rear half of the destroyer.
Above the ship, black mist filled with evil intent swirled and spread, gradually coalescing into a massive, robust demon god with six floating arms.
Then, a rough voice resounded from the demon god's mouth.
"Hahaha! My seal is finally broken!"
"Then the whole world! From this moment on! Is my playground! No one can stop Hoopa!"