"Sharpedo is Unable to Battle."
The Rotom Drone glanced at the scorched concrete. Sharpedo lay belly-up like a dead fish.
The air reeked of char.
Matt's mouth fell open. "What the heck was that?"
From his perspective, Mega Sharpedo's defeat was downright bizarre. Mega Gengar had used some special method he couldn't understand, let alone counter—
Dimensional Shuttle?
There had to be more to it!
"Hee-hee-hee!"
Mega Gengar let out a shrill, wicked laugh. Greedy Rapp's special ability was awkward to use normally, but Mega Evolution had greatly enhanced it.
Not only could he reliably control others, he could also enter another dimension from inside their bodies.
Unfortunately.
Reaching an opponent's body directly through another dimension wasn't so easy.
For one thing, the exit was fixed while opponents tended to move. For another, the exit had to be established somewhere stable, free of interference from elemental energy.
Most of the time, an opponent wouldn't give Mega Gengar the chance to meet all those conditions.
But that was fine.
The move was mainly meant to be paired with special techniques like Curse, Will-O-Wisp, or Perish Song.
To control an opponent, he had to turn into a shadow and merge with them. That made it hard to channel his own elemental energy, and he might even hurt himself.
Even when he entered the other-dimensional space, he had to break the merger first, then create an entrance and slip inside.
So Baimu hadn't expected anything more terrifying from it.
It was outrageous enough already.
Meanwhile.
Matt still hadn't thought of a way out. "...Come back, Sharpedo."
Mega Gengar's methods were too uncanny, far beyond what an ordinary Pokémon should be capable of. With his team already locked in, Matt couldn't pull off a flash of inspiration like Ash.
He was straightforward through and