"Damn it, how did Team Rocket find out about this plan?" Damalanchi's expression changed the moment he heard the cries of battle outside.
"Lance, Kikugoro, Lorelei, all of you, go! We can't worry about anything else now. We must bring down Rayquaza! President Petalburg, President Zircon, I'm counting on you two to join the fight."
Qing Wu had already fled far away when Hyper Beam arrived. He saw the green-haired youth standing to one side with his arms folded, looking completely unperturbed and utterly at ease.
What shocked Qing Wu even more was that among the four people chosen by Lance, the one who looked utterly ordinary—the one Qing Wu had always thought was just an unremarkable commoner—was also standing calmly in his original position.
So I misjudged him. There's an eighty percent chance he's someone who infiltrated this place too. Lance really knows how to pick people!
Kikugoro had already released his Pokémon. It was actually a Tentacool. At that moment, Tentacool was floating in midair with Aqua Jet, venom seeping from all eighty of its tentacles.
Lance's Pokémon was not his main combatant, but a Dragonair capable of summoning wind and rain. The Dragon Orb on Dragonair's body flashed as dark clouds gradually gathered, accompanied by lightning and thunder.
Lorelei's Pokémon was a Dewgong. The chill radiating from its body instantly froze the ground into ice.
"Xi, hand over Rayquaza and I'll spare your life!" Damalanchi leaned on his cane and spoke to Xi, who was chanting a prayer.
At that moment, Xi took two crystal-clear green gemstones from her pocket and murmured an incantation as she tossed them into the statues of Groudon and Kyogre.
The green gemstones melted the instant they touched the statues of Groudon and Kyogre. Strange patterns instantly covered the statues, which then