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"It's my sister!" Max spotted May from afar, held hostage and motionless aboard the speedboat. Worried sick, he couldn't help shouting, "May! May!"
"It's Max!" May abruptly raised her bowed head and looked up at Max, Liu Qing, and the others in the sky. Hope surged through her. Struggling, she slammed into Soul beside her, knocking him aside, then stood and shouted, "Forget about me! Stop them! Their target is..."
Unfortunately, before May could finish, her eyes rolled back and she passed out, revealing Soul behind her, his hand still poised from the chop he had delivered to her neck. He adjusted the gold-rimmed glasses on his nose with one hand, then moved the other to catch her collapsing body.
"That's Sinnoh Champion Cynthia, Unova's Psychic-type Elite Four member Caitlin, Namikaze Liu Qing, and Tears of Stone! Professor, what should we do?" Wing panicked, his face turning slightly pale. Someone like him, who cared only for profit and nothing for other people's lives, usually paid the closest attention to the world's powerful figures, whether officially recognized or not, to avoid bringing death upon himself. With four of them appearing at once, not fleeing on the spot already counted as keeping his composure.
"Heh... heh... heh... heh... Quite the lineup!" The Professor swept a vicious gaze over the people standing on Salamence and Hydreigon in the sky. He took a remote control from his pocket and pressed its red button. "Let those little darlings play with them first. Once my plan succeeds, these people will be the blood sacrifices that herald my return!"
"Mr. Liu Qing, Lady Cynthia, please, you have to save my sister!" Max had no other options now. Who could he rely on besides Liu Qing and Cynthia? His and May's parents, far away in Hoenn and