Bang! Another Gym Leader Class Pidgeot was sent flying, collapsing before Xiao Ran and Ye Ling with both wings broken. Its breathing was already dangerously faint.
"Don't be afraid!" Xiao Ran stepped forward and carefully began healing it. It belonged to an officer from the Military. Clearly, Pidgeot's defeat had put him at a severe disadvantage; he did not even have time to check its injuries.
For a Pokémon that was only Gym Leader Class, recovering from injuries this severe was no easy matter. Xiao Ran could only do his best to ease its condition.
"If we go into the main hall, is there a way to close the passage?" Ye Ling asked as she watched Xiao Ran treat Pidgeot.
They did not know what lay inside the tomb's main hall, but if they could close the passage first, whatever the Hall's people tried would be wasted effort.
"I don't know. None of us has ever seen what a passage to the Reverse World looks like. I don't even know whether we could close it on our own!" Xiao Ran shook his head. Giratina had rarely appeared even in the anime, much less in this real world.
"Then we'll just take out everyone from the Hall!" Ye Ling said. She pulled the Poké Ball from around Xiao Ran's neck and, together with her own Blastoise, sent two more Gym Leader Class Pokémon onto the battlefield.
The two Pokémon immediately filled the gap left by Pidgeot's defeat, moving to support the Military's Gym Leader Class Pokémon Trainer.
"Arcanine! Extreme Speed!"
"Blastoise! Flash Cannon!"
At Ye Ling's command, both Pokémon launched their attacks straight at an enemy Victreebel. Pidgeot's defeat had allowed the enemy to send it out, putting their Gym Leader Class officer under pressure.
The sudden appearance of two Gym