Faced with this threat, Xia You and his companions dodged again.
Thanks to the extremely weak gravity here, as they leaped aside, the enormous Pokémon once again flew right past them.
For Ash and Dawn, it really was a narrow escape. It seemed that if they had been even half a second slower, this enormous Pokémon would have smashed them to pieces.
Yet both of them always managed to dodge at the critical moment. It was quite miraculous.
Seeing that Ash's Pikachu and Dawn's Piplup could do nothing to stop this Pokémon, Gengar was about to act out of concern for his Trainer's safety. But before he could do anything, a voice suddenly rang out nearby.
"Stop, all of you!!"
Startled by the voice, they saw a strange man with a Dunsteel climb up from another platform below them and stride over!
The man looked to be in his thirties or forties. Of course, with his full beard and exhausted expression, he might have looked a little younger than his actual age. He carried an enormous black travel pack and wore a torn red T-shirt and shorts. He looked travel-worn, as though he had not had a proper rest in ages.
Ash and the others froze at the sight of him, apparently never having imagined that anyone else would be in this strange space.
But while this man could influence them into refraining from attacking, Gengar was a different matter.
Why would he listen to anyone's orders other than his own Trainer's?
As the Pokémon drew closer and closer, he formed a Dark Ball and hurled it at the figure. The Pokémon seemed not to notice the tremendous power it contained and continued charging at them with the same momentum, neither dodging nor evading. But the instant the Dark Ball