More than thirty Team Rocket remnants surrounded the two children, both barely over ten years old.
Carter swaggered arrogantly in front of the two kids as well.
It was truly strange where this guy got the nerve to act so damn smug.
What happened afterward was no different from the original plot.
After seeing that the Pokémon of the Team Rocket members could do nothing to the two brats, Carter decisively sent out his enormous Piloswine. But Silver seized the opportunity and had Politoed use the terrifyingly powerful [Whirlpool], creating a mudslide vortex that trapped it inside.
While they were fighting fiercely, Gam, who had been keeping watch against Heiduo, noticed that something was wrong.
—The Piloswine were gone!
They had vanished mysteriously!
In an instant, cold sweat soaked Gam's back. She immediately interrupted Carter's attack and forced him to retreat.
Carter had wanted to refuse, but the tacit understanding he had built with Gam over the years told him that he had better listen to her right now.
After hesitating for two seconds, Carter gave the order to retreat.
The Team Rocket members withdrew like a receding tide.
Seeing this, Silver let out a slight sigh of relief. He was not arrogant enough to think he could defeat more than thirty people at once.
This was not some TV drama.
But Gold was not the sort of person who knew his own limits. He shouted at the retreating Team Rocket members, "Stop right there!"
Then he said angrily, "Damn it! They got away again!"
...What the hell was wrong with this guy?
Silver almost could not keep a straight face. Did Gold seriously have no idea whether he could win or not?
A hot-blooded idiot was still a hot-blooded idiot!
Two against thirty? Go fight them yourself!
Was he