"Sure, my treat." May smiled as the night breeze lifted the ends of her hair.
Lin Hao took off his cap and clenched it in his hand, rubbing hard at his stiff neck as he headed toward the safe house.
Pikachu lay on his shoulder, then suddenly poked halfway out of his coat, hooked its forepaws onto his collar, and raised its tail toward the North District Warehouse.
Lin Hao stopped short. The ground was shaking. Dull impacts rumbled underground, and something was pushing its way out of Goldenrod City's belly.
The streetlights began to sway. An entire pane of glass shattered out of a grocery store, scattering shards across the ground, its crash swallowed by the greater tremors.
"What's happening?" May looked back toward the North District Warehouse. The sky there was turning red. Deep crimson light surged up from below the horizon, burning half the night sky the color of a furnace.
The Communicator crackled, and Morty's voice cut through the static. "Artificial Moltres's genetic chain has completely broken down! Giovanni triggered the Core Compartment's Forced Awakening Program before getting into the car. Energy is leaking out of control, and Suicune's containment has already been breached!"
Lin Hao frowned and asked a question in his mind.
Mewtwo's voice soon answered. "Master, the genetic breakdown has triggered a chain reaction. The energy field severely interferes with psychic power, so I cannot perform psychic teleportation within this area. At its current rate of expansion, it will reach six hundred meters within three minutes."
"How far are we from the warehouse?"
"Four hundred and twenty meters."
Lin Hao said nothing. Pikachu had already climbed from his collar onto his shoulder and stood upright, its ears flattened.
The second tremor was far more violent than the first. The wall of a two-story