[Dream Eater] could not allow Mega Gengar to replace Darkrai, the dream's owner, but it could "alter" the dream to a certain extent.
This power was also why it had managed to escape Darkrai's pursuit.
However, it was not inexhaustible. On one hand, using [Dream Eater] consumed type energy. On the other, [Dream Eater] could restore a Pokémon's stamina.
But dreams were strange things—the things one thought and desired were reversed. You get it?
In other words, the move that was originally meant to restore a Pokémon's stamina instead drained Mega Gengar's stamina.
—That was entirely because it had failed to seize control of the dream. If it had won control, this would not have happened.
Without control, the dream was warped and reversed for Mega Gengar.
Usually, when it entered Heiduo's or someone else's dreams, it had never encountered such outrageous resistance.
Fortunately, it did not deduct stamina at a fixed rate. The stamina it consumed depended on the scale of the "alteration."
Four Mega Gengar clones, for example, were not much.
"Geng..."
While they distracted those Darkrai, it needed to run. Fast.
Mega Gengar rolled away at high speed like a tire. Having lost its Levitate Ability and unable to use Black Hole Space, this was the most efficient way for it to move.
Even if it looked a little ridiculous.
If it could take control of the dream, encountering Heiduo would be as simple as opening and closing its eyes.
Elsewhere.
In the forest where Heiduo and Mismagius were.
"No Pokémon... There isn't even any wind. It's like a still image." Heiduo rubbed the ground, and the faint rustling of grass clippings against his shoes was incredibly clear in the silent forest.
Mismagius ignored him and headed single-mindedly in one direction. It had already sensed "living