"Serperior." Dian took out a Poké Ball and released Serperior. He stroked its elegant belly affectionately. "Sorry for the trouble, but please watch the room for me."
"Servine." Serperior nodded, circled once, and flew out the window to the ground below. Then its figure vanished without a trace.
Dian beckoned. "Misdreavus, come on. Let's head to the Mountain Shrine." He wanted to see whether his guess was right.
If all the disturbances caused by the Brain Pokémon were meant to conceal their extraction of Decolora Island's leyline energy, then their spaceship itself would naturally be near the Mountain Shrine now.
A dark shadow slowly floated up through the wooden floor. It was Misdreavus, still clutching her game console. She casually tossed it onto the bed, then darted onto Dian's head and grabbed two tufts of his hair as though she were riding a horse. "Mis~ mis!"
She cried out happily twice, recalling the racing game she had just been playing. Without another moment's hesitation, dense black light swallowed them both, then contracted toward a single point at its center until they vanished from the room.
Meanwhile, a circular flying saucer shimmering with five-colored lights appeared above the Mountain Shrine at the very center of Decolora Island.
As threads of five-colored lights swirled, Beheeyem slowly materialized in the air one after another, cautiously looking around with vigilance in their eyes.
"Beehey, beehey?"
"Beehey!!"
"Beeheyhey—!!"
As they communicated, the previously motionless circular spaceship slowly began descending. The four Beheeyem hovering in the air gazed down anxiously.
Their annual extractions had always gone smoothly, but something had gone wrong this year.
A few days earlier, the mysterious, highly concentrated mass of energy below had suddenly reacted with violent resistance. Countless beams of light had appeared in the sky as a result, not only