Xia You, Ash, and the others exchanged glances. Since they had no other options for the moment, following Lühé's suggestion and attacking the mechanical Gyarados's belly was undoubtedly the best solution.
Seeing that everyone had reached an understanding, they nodded at the same time and gave their commands.
"Charizard, use Flamethrower!"
"Pikachu! Use Thunder Shock!"
"Starmie, use Swift!"
"Marill, use Bubble Beam!"
The four Pokémon focused their attacks on a single spot. With a thunderous boom, four differently colored blasts of energy struck the mechanical Gyarados, shattering its outer shell in an instant!
Their combined attack was tremendously powerful. Besides piercing its armor, it seemed to have damaged the mechanical Gyarados's power unit. A second later, the mechanical Gyarados that had been swaggering around just moments ago erupted in a violent explosion!
Boom!
Before the Team Rocket Trio in the cockpit could react, the explosion blasted them into the sky, where they became three bright stars and disappeared into the distance.
"What an awful feeling!~"
"How did it turn out like this again?!~"
The Team Rocket Trio's voices grew fainter and fainter. Once they had vanished completely from sight, Ash and the others could not help breathing sighs of relief.
But before they could celebrate, the containers holding the Magikarp inside the mechanical Gyarados suddenly erupted in a series of explosions as well!
Bang, bang!
The Magikarp were blasted into the air. As they began to fall, they resembled flowers blooming all across the sky, as though a shower of Magikarp had begun!
Over a hundred Magikarp wriggled as they splashed into the lake one after another.
"Oh no!"
Lühé's expression changed. He had never expected this outcome, nor had he expected their attack to catch the Magikarp in its wake!
If the Magikarp were injured and missed their annual