September 15, 2024.
San Francisco, a port city on California's Pacific coast in the White Eagle Alliance.
It had once been an immensely important international trade hub, a world-famous tourist destination, and a financial center.
But now, all of San Francisco was surrounded by an unprecedentedly terrifying storm. Even satellites could not observe what was happening inside—let alone now, when the satellites near Blue Star's low Earth orbit had all been destroyed by the awakened Rayquaza.
Communications within San Francisco had long since been cut off. Fortunately, after David Wilson declared war on the White Eagle Alliance as a candidate Chosen of the Gods of the New Star Organization, California's governor had already begun organizing evacuations.
As for those freedom-seekers who refused the evacuation order, or certain stubborn capitalists, all anyone could do was wish them luck.
Rescue teams dispatched by the various Pokémon Leagues had arrived one after another, but without exception, they had all become trapped within storm-shrouded San Francisco. They could not even approach the ruins emerging from the sea, much less rescue Milotic from there.
Once incomparably prosperous, San Francisco was now in ruins. Towering buildings had become shattered walls and broken remnants, bringing overwhelming Intimidate to the heart.
But if one had to name the source of that Intimidate, it was undoubtedly the three gods at the convergence of the storm, staring down coldly and mercilessly upon the earth like wrathful vajra.
Once the Guardian Deities of the White Eagle Alliance, they were now wantonly destroying its land. The contrast left countless people dumbfounded.
The three gods had been controlled by some method. That was a fact.
Yet the power they unleashed together had exceeded everyone's expectations.
Thundurus and Tornadus, whose individual strength could only be considered mid-tier among Class Two Legendary beings, joined with