Meanwhile, elsewhere.
Dian and Latias were still hiding in the grass, watching Nidoking battle Nidoqueen. Those two certainly had stamina, as though they planned to keep going until the end of time.
Dian had no idea whether time was ending. All he knew was that the ground was shaking, harder and harder, wave after wave, with a distinct rhythm, almost like...
Bang! Hiss!!
Thud! Hiss!!
As the shaking intensified, Nidoking and Nidoqueen broke apart warily, then bolted toward the peaks on the Plateau without another word.
Their flight seemed to trigger a chain reaction. In an instant, the entire Plateau erupted into chaos, scraps of grass flying everywhere.
Dian and Latias exchanged a glance, both realizing something was wrong.
Latias remained kneeling, a gleam passing through her golden eyes. She showed no intention of getting up.
Dian stood and gazed in the opposite direction from the fleeing Pokémon. He wanted to see what was so ferocious that the mere tremors it caused could terrify the Pokémon on the Plateau.
His gaze suddenly sharpened. He could just make out a figure sprinting toward them.
It looked like a girl. What kind of girl was fierce enough to make the earth shake? A ghost princess?
She was holding an... egg? Togepi?!
And that thing flapping like a banner against her legs was... a duck? Psyduck?
Togepi + Psyduck + girl = who?
"Run!!!!"
The panicked female voice was soon drowned out by the thunderous pounding of hooves.
Just as Dian was pondering this, he heard the shout coming toward him. His opinion of the girl immediately improved. At least the first thing she yelled wasn't "Help."
Then he realized who this girl taking a herd of Bouffalant for a run was.
It was Misty, the poor kid whose sisters had conned her