Xia You directed Haunter to use Hypnosis to put all the Team Rocket members guarding the perimeter and their Pokémon to sleep.
Though they had been diligently patrolling, Haunter's elusive movements allowed him to slip silently behind them, leaving them no chance even to cry out.
Watching from a distance, Lorelei adjusted her glasses. Amazed by how practiced he was, she also realized this clearly was not his first time doing this sort of thing.
"Your Haunter is incredible. His Hypnosis is so powerful and takes effect so quickly. He feels just like Agatha's Gengar... no, perhaps even stronger!"
"Of course." Xia You held up two fingers to show her a two. "If your Pokémon lived for two thousand years, they'd become just as powerful as him."
"Two thousand years!? How is that possible?" Lorelei was dumbfounded, thinking for a moment that Xia You was joking. "He's already lived that long!?"
"What's so surprising about that?" Haunter had returned to Xia You's side by then. Seeing Lorelei's incredulous expression, he could not resist teasing her. "Little girl, the last time I went into a long slumber, you might still have been an embryo in your mother's belly!"
Lorelei: ...
Hearing Haunter's words and recalling the incident with the Never-Melt Ice, Lorelei was thoroughly annoyed.
Hmph, like Pokémon Trainer, like Pokémon! They're exactly the same!
After clearing out the members on the perimeter, Xia You and the others carefully approached the warehouse's back entrance. They had thought everything would go smoothly, but a hidden infrared surveillance camera still detected them.
Alarms immediately rang out inside the warehouse, and a second later, heavy steel barriers dropped over every door and window, front and back!
"I knew it wouldn't go this smoothly!"
Lorelei sighed. With their attempt at infiltration thwarted, they had no