All of Mossdeep City... even the entire Hoenn Region had fallen into chaos. And that chaos was still spreading, threatening to become a crisis for the whole world.
There were no humans left in Mossdeep City. Everyone had become a Clefairy, and even the nearby cities of Sootopolis and Lilycove had been affected. Many humans there had been replaced by Clefairy too.
And that was not all...
The most terrifying part of this mysterious crisis was that, although it could not turn other Pokémon into Clefairy, it could alter their memories, replacing every human face they remembered with a Clefairy's.
Worse still...
Mingyou suddenly realized something. Why were there so many Clefairy? They should have been like him and Akari, still able to speak and retaining their human consciousness.
Yet he had heard nothing from them. That meant the people turned into Clefairy might lose their consciousness after a while and truly become ordinary Clefairy!
Meanwhile, the image on screens broadcasting to the entire world appeared to show the inside of some sort of base. Traces of repaired machinery were visible in the footage.
Several Clefairy appeared before the camera, seemingly adjusting the picture and sound. Once they had finished, they vanished from view.
Then...
Dun, dun, dong—
To the beat of strange drums, a bipedal creature resembling an alien from a science-fiction story slowly stepped into view.
Its body was mostly orange-red. Rectangular protrusions extended from either side of its round head. Its face was blue-green, crossed by a purple stripe, and white circular eyes sat in rectangular black sockets.
It spread its peculiar arms, each formed from intertwining orange-red and blue-green tentacles, as though about to give a speech. Every Clefairy raised its head to watch the screen.
Mingyou and the others did too...
"That thing is..."
"The