Tangyang Town was an inconspicuous little town in the Johto Region, even more dilapidated and impoverished than Dark Night Town had once been.
But early that morning, a deafening boom startled awake more than half the town.
People discussed it animatedly, yet no one actually went to investigate.
If the sky fell, wouldn't the tall ones hold it up?...
And the tall ones in everyone's minds, Sato and Lance, had indeed appeared at the site of the explosion.
This was the coast northwest of Tangyang Town, where the shoreline met the dense forest without even a strip of beach in between.
But now, half the coastline had completely collapsed, and the seawater inflow had formed a massive whirlpool.
There were not many broken trees or clumps of yellow earth in the whirlpool. Instead, it was filled with large amounts of plastic, iron scraps, and all kinds of human waste.
"That's a bit environmentally unfriendly," Lance said seriously from atop Dragonite.
Sato sat on Hydreigon and could not help shooting Lance a glance. Is that really the point?
On the intact stretch of coast below them, a group of captured Team Rocket members shivered as they stared at the enormous whirlpool before them.
That had been a large base, yet Sato and Lance had punched straight through it in half a night, causing the whole thing to collapse.
The only survivors were small fry like them, the ones who had been captured from the beginning.
As for the Team Rocket base manager, Venom Star Hunter Hatake, and Dr. Sky, they had already been buried at sea along with the base.
The sea was both tolerant and merciless. As the giant whirlpool slowly subsided, it effortlessly swallowed everything.
Lance glanced at the Tangyang Town guards hurrying over from behind and pointed at