Team Plasma came to negotiate soon afterward, but N did not come in person this time. Instead, he sent two beautiful women called the Goddesses of Peace and Love. Liu Qing wondered whether everyone in Team Plasma had something wrong with their heads. Just like their names, these two women behaved with absolute sanctity, as though they really were goddesses brimming with peace and love. He hardly knew where to begin criticizing them. What troubled him even more, however, was Elesa, who had rushed over from Nimbasa City specifically because she had heard he was back.
Although Team Plasma's higher-ups all had problems with their thinking, their business representatives were exceptionally shrewd. At the negotiating table, they accepted the first two conditions concerning N without any objections, but fiercely argued their case against the Namikaze Family and Bourgeois Family negotiators over the concessions demanded in the third. Liu Qing knew they would reach an agreement eventually and were merely trading words for now, so he paid little attention. He was far more eager to see the revived Archen Team Plasma would send.
Although N had agreed to hand over fifty Archen without hesitation, Team Plasma's headquarters did not have fifty fossils suitable for revival. They could only send more people to excavate throughout the Unova Region. During this time, the Dark Night Family also sent representatives to negotiate. Liu Qing left those discussions to others as well, making only one stipulation: Youxing's Pokémon were now his spoils of war. Aside from Hydreigon, which could not be bought back, the other five Pokémon could all be ransomed. That condition alone infuriated the Dark Night Family's negotiators. If they were going to ransom any of them, Hydreigon would certainly have been their first choice, yet that possibility had been cut off outright.