Settling Old Scores, Odd Jobs No Longer Weak

Miraidon carried Xingye down for a smooth landing. The collapse ahead had stopped. Kabukicho had been built atop the Tree of Beginning, and the hole exposed by the collapse was undoubtedly a path leading there.

"Giovanni should be coming out soon too, right?"

Xingye spread his Aura outward to survey the situation, but aside from some Team Rainbow Rocket members, he saw almost no familiar faces.

He had spotted quite a few Legendary Pokémon from the air earlier. He had long anticipated this outcome—if Rose and Ghetsis had not been stopped back then, even more people would have come today.

Still, he was not overly worried. Their goal in causing this chaos was merely to disrupt the Tree of Beginning's influence over this place, locate its position, and then invade it in one stroke. Kabukicho being exposed was partly because of that as well.

"But are the people of Kabukicho really this easy to defeat?"

He noticed that the Pokémon Team Rainbow Rocket kept capturing barely had the strength to resist. Yet he still remembered when they had been surrounded in Kabukicho years ago—these guys had been completely different in strength back then. The only possibility was that they were still holding back!

"They were waiting for me to come..."

The moment Xingye thought of that, his Aura sensed a group of familiar presences rapidly approaching. Quite a few of them were splitting off toward other places. Kabukicho had begun its counterattack.

Sure enough, within the range of his Aura, a Team Rainbow Rocket member excitedly threw a Master Ball at a Metagross that had just arrived. But the instant the Master Ball left his hand, Psychic power hurled it back, smashing his skull apart and letting him experience how those Pokémon had felt when struck in the head and