"Your Porygon2 wasn't involved, was it?"
"No. It's at home writing code."
"Good."
Click.
Shan Ren hung up.
Baimu breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Porygon2, which had stopped writing code. "They got arrested."
"F-for how long?"
Porygon2 looked terrified. It couldn't meet its Trainer's eyes through the screen.
"Years, at least," he replied. "The losses across the regions are impossible to calculate. You should be glad you didn't get involved."
Porygon2 said, "But I talked it over with Unit One back then. If it gives me up, wouldn't that make me an accomplice..."
"Like you said, that's if it gives you up. It didn't. It chose to shoulder it alone." Baimu clicked on Porygon2 twice with the mouse.
Porygon2 responded with its [getting hit] animation right on cue.
It was begging forgiveness by acting cute, more or less.
In any case.
The online war between Porygon and Rotom had finally ended under the International Police's investigation.
Porygon's side had won decisively through sheer numbers, but it was also held responsible for damaging networks everywhere.
Unit One tried to take all the blame. Unfortunately, things had gone too far for it to decide the outcome alone. Every Porygon involved in the conflict, including Unit One, was temporarily banned from loading into Porygon Phones.
The ban would only be lifted once firewall software capable of keeping Porygon, Rotom, and other Pokémon from causing trouble was released.
Fortunately.
The Porygon Phone Company hadn't been affected.
On the other hand, no one had expected a conflict between Porygon and Rotom to have such a massive impact on cyberspace.
The major regions would probably take cybersecurity more seriously from now on.
But what about the Rotom?
The conflict had been started by both Porygon and Rotom, after all. Before that, Unit One