"Cough, cough... What the hell..."
Dust swirled through the air. The moment Eternatus carried Chen Shi out of the Space-Time Passage, he got a mouthful of it.
Then a sharp sting shot through Chen Shi's eyes. Unsurprisingly, the dust was probably to blame for that too.
Left with no choice, Chen Shi closed his eyes and used his Psychic power to form a transparent barrier in front of him, keeping the dust out.
Only after doing all that did he open his eyes and survey his surroundings.
"Seriously? We ended up in a desert?"
He had barely finished complaining when a cold glint flashed behind him. Eternatus snorted and lashed out hard with its tail, which was wreathed in purple energy.
A pitch-black Flygon went flying and crashed into a mound of sand, its fate unknown.
"Tch, a Shadow Pokémon right off the bat." Chen Shi shook his head. "Looks like this world really has become a paradise for darkness."
"You're right." Eternatus's eyes dimmed slightly.
"Shadow Pokémon are everywhere, across ninety-nine percent of this world's land and oceans."
"Otherwise, an ordinary Shadow Pokémon could never have assimilated me."
This was the world Eternatus had always lived in. It was its home.
Seeing its home reduced to this wretched state filled Eternatus with a nameless fury. It desperately wanted something-or someone-to vent it on.
Zacian gave the shadow Flygon a cold glance. "Now isn't the time to talk about that. Didn't we come back precisely to save them?"
"For now, we should keep a low profile and rescue some Tier 1 Legendary Pokémon first."
"Otherwise, we might not even be able to keep ourselves safe."
"Exactly," Zamazenta agreed. "Our most urgent task is to figure out where we are, then find the nearest Tier 1 Legendary Pokémon."
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