Dazzling white light filled the upper level of the central area. Mewtwo had contained the explosion to a spot less than two meters across.
When the light faded, everyone looked over. Mewtwo had vanished without a trace, as though she had never existed. Giovanni's Mewtwo was unharmed, but his face twisted in agony...
He had replaced this world's Mewtwo and inherited the duties of a Legendary Pokémon, even though this world's rules did not normally affect him.
But that concept encompassed the entire Cosmic Bubble. It was a rule laid down by the god who had created every universe—the true Almighty Sinnoh, that unknown being from a higher dimension!
Giovanni had let his guard down. When he left this world, the Mewtwo at the Cinnabar Island Laboratory should have been destroyed. Team Rocket had disbanded, after all. Why keep her around?
What he had failed to anticipate was that the researchers had refused to give up on Mewtwo. They, too, had dreamed of wielding her power to rule the world.
They had continued their research after Team Rocket disbanded, and succeeded spectacularly: the entire laboratory had blown up, Mewtwo had disappeared, and the surviving researchers had fled...
"One oversight after all that planning... It was the same when Team Rocket disbanded. But I thought I'd put that behind me. I shouldn't still be hung up on the past..."
Giovanni spoke in a low voice, rubbing his forehead and shaking his head. After a moment, he looked up with a cold smile. "But to resort to a trick like that... If you think it'll be enough to defeat my Mewtwo, you're sorely mistaken!"
"You don't get to call Mewtwo's sacrifice worthless. This is enough!"
Xingye waved his hand and shouted. Miraidon snapped up the Herba Mystica he threw, converted it into