Pokémon League Traitor Xia Yan?! (8k!)
"You lot."
Seeing Lance, Steven, Cynthia, and Lorelei appear one after another, the eyes beneath the leader's hood filled with uncontrollable astonishment.
Why?
Hadn't they been supposed to stop them?
They had.
Of course they had stopped them.
Among the Pokémon rushing over now, whether it was Lance's Dragonite, Cynthia's Garchomp, or Steven's Shiny Metagross, all of them bore varying degrees of injury.
Yet it was precisely these wounds that lent those Pokémon, as well as the Trainers standing on their backs, a vicious aura few had ever seen before.
What truly enraged them was that their good friend, the dignified Champion of the Sinnoh Region, had actually been ambushed!
And they had even been prevented from rushing to his aid.
What was that supposed to mean?
Were they really planning to go to war with the entire Pokémon League?
As for the truth of what had happened, Lance, Cynthia, and the others did not actually know much.
But they knew one thing right now.
Someone was trying to harm their good friend.
However.
Before Lance and the others arrived, Xia Yan had already made his move.
He sat atop Spectrier as an immensely powerful psychic force suddenly surged from his body, and he raised a hand, spreading his five fingers.
His fingers slowly curled inward.
"Star Shatter!"
Neigh—!!
Spectrier let out a shrill roar as surging Ghost-type energy burst forth, instantly blanketing this area of Lake of Outrage.
Within that pitch-black Haze, like a drawn curtain, specks of light quietly emerged. Both the frequency and intensity of their flickering changed dramatically.
When those dazzling points of light, like stars in the sky, finally came into full view, they proved to be falling stars.
Bang!!
The largest star abruptly shattered, transforming into Meteorites wreathed