After Ralts evolved into Kirlia, the red, hair-ornament-like horns on its head glowed faintly. As it touched Iron Valiant's chest, it slowly conveyed its feelings.
Mingyou watched quietly from nearby without interrupting. He didn't know how Iron Valiant had come to this era from millions of years in the future...
But the future was the future, and the present was the present!
If it kept treating the future as the present, why not just become a Terminator and destroy the world?
The orders those future humans had given it no longer needed to be followed in an age where humans and Pokémon lived together in peace!
Not everyone wanted to become Digital Life for immortality. Mingyou certainly didn't wish for a future like that. If he abandoned his companions to become a mass of data, could he still call that life?
He shook his head and recalled Latias. He would get her treated once they left; this Network World still made him deeply uncomfortable.
He couldn't shake the feeling that something was about to happen. Iron Valiant had already stopped resisting, so there shouldn't be any more trouble...
With that thought, he looked at the missing Trainers outside the Rotom Phone Company. Right now, they were all nothing more than data in the Network World.
They only needed to bring these people out and return them to their bodies in the real world. Their consciousness would naturally recover.
He took out the Poké Ball containing Porygon-Z. He didn't know how Iron Valiant had enabled Flutter Mane to pass through the network into reality, but using Porygon-Z was the most reliable way to travel between the two worlds.
"Let's get these people out first... Hm?"
Mingyou froze at what sounded like thunder and instinctively turned. Purple bolts of lightning kept striking