Ash and his group had a knack for attracting trouble.
No matter where they went, all kinds of incidents were bound to happen.
Although Baimu had recently shown signs of heading in that direction too, he was still far behind Ash and his group.
And although Iris had already left the group, the buff on her seemed not to have worn off yet, causing her to lose her Pokémon after failing to avoid a sandstorm, then become trapped inside Mirage Tower.
Strangely enough,
she was actually able to stay in contact with the outside world by phone!
Team Magma's infrastructure is terrifying! Baimu clicked his tongue inwardly.
As far as he knew, most signal stations in Hoenn had been set up by Team Magma. To keep them from being chewed up or wrecked by wild Pokémon, they had no choice but to disguise them as all sorts of bizarre things.
Iris, on the other end of the call, said, "Until I find an exit, sorry for the trouble, but could you look after Emolga for me? Please!"
"No, I'll figure out a way to come find you."
Baimu glanced at Iris's location displayed by Porygon on his phone. It did not overlap with the area previously ravaged by the sandstorm.
If there was a signal, there was a location.
Even if Iris was currently in some alternate dimension, the connection point between that dimension and reality had to be where the location indicated.
"You keep looking for the exit. I might be able to find the entrance from outside."
That was what he told her.
To his surprise, Iris agreed without asking further questions. But before she hung up, a deep, muffled roar seemed to come from her end, followed by a shriller howl.
Were there wild Pokémon inside Mirage