In Pyrite Town.
The Rescue Organization had saved hundreds of thousands of people from misery.
Countless residents admired its members and wanted to join them.
But in some neighborhoods formerly controlled by the Quicksand Team and the Hound Team, the residents wanted more than a place in the Rescue Organization. They wanted to join the Rainbow Team.
For one reason alone.
The Rainbow Team's leader was Baimu.
Once, the Quicksand Team had wrung everything it could from Azure Iridium Street and Copper Milling Street, leaving countless people barely alive. Once, the Hound Team had fallen and Magnetic Barium Street had been destroyed, leaving its residents hungry and without enough clothing.
Once, the Ejin Force had arrived with Shadow Pokémon and raised its blades against the people. Once, those Shadow Pokémon had seemed unstoppable, forcing the resistance back again and again.
Baimu had led by example, keeping his people in line and giving the residents of two streets a stable life.
Baimu had rebuilt the shattered buildings of Magnetic Barium Street. Instead of taking anything for himself, he had turned everything he received into food for the refugees.
Baimu had stood firm against the Ejin Force as the Rainbow Team's leader and directed the evacuation of every civilian.
And when everyone else had been driven back through one defensive line after another, Baimu had pushed against the tide, leading countless Pokémon against the Ejin Force's Shadow Pokémon!
Perhaps he had his own reasons for everything he had done. Perhaps he could only have come so far because countless others had helped him.
None of that stopped people from deeply admiring the young man who had grown from a boy into a man.
After all.
Before the Rescue Organization had stepped forward, no one in power had ever done the things he