"So... Ms. Briar, you really are helping us? But why...?"
As they fled the warehouse, Uva was baffled. When they had been captured, they had all thought Briar had betrayed them. Yet she had not only rescued them, but returned their Poké Balls too.
Briar scratched her head and gave an awkward but polite smile. "Because I forgot to bring any Pokémon with me... Without you around, I don't feel safe at all."
"Seriously?"
None of them quite believed that excuse. Still, in all the months they had spent together, they had never seen Briar use a Pokémon. And in a way, her personality really was rather innocent.
Or perhaps... foolish?
Penny and Arven remained wary of her. After Arven used a Full Restore, Kirlia finally woke up. The moment he noticed, he hurriedly asked, "Hey, what happened?"
"Don't shout! You'll scare Kirlia!"
Penny frowned and warned him. She and Kirlia were close friends, as well as coworkers at Turnip Studio. Seeing Kirlia hurt so badly pained him too.
The group stopped, all hoping to learn what had happened from Kirlia. Their Rotom Phones had no signal inside the ship, so they could not contact Mingyou to find out what was happening on his end.
"Neru..."
With Uva supporting Kirlia, Kirlia barely managed to stand. Kirlia shook Kirlia's head. Kirlia did not know what was going on either, but one thing mattered greatly now.
Kirlia pulled a Data Chip from Kirlia's hair and handed it to Penny, panting with exhaustion. It contained Backdoor Data for the ship's Control Terminal, along with information on the Paradox Pokémon in the Armory.
If they kept analyzing the data and broke into the ship's systems, they could locate the Control Terminal and the Plate supplying its power, even if they could not take Control