After arranging to battle Gardenia again the next day and waving goodbye, Xia You and May accompanied Cheryl out of the Eterna Gym.
Once they returned to the Pokémon Center, they first left Cheryl's Pokémon with Nurse Joy for treatment, then went to the restaurant to eat their rather late lunch together.
It was already past two in the afternoon, which was indeed a little late for lunch.
After all the traveling back and forth and battling, Xia You, May, and Cheryl were all ravenous after such a busy half day.
Just then, May and Cheryl heard the Pokémon Trainers around them discussing the attack on the Team Galactic Eterna Building and Cynthia's battle against Team Galactic outside. Only then did they learn that something so major had happened in the city while they were at the Gym!
In fact, just as Xia You had predicted, even with all those elite Team Galactic members attacking at once, they were no match for Cynthia. She defeated them all in just seven or eight minutes.
But those people weren't stubborn fools. Seeing that they couldn't rescue Jupiter, with the police almost upon them and the risk of being arrested themselves if they lingered, they scattered and fled.
Of course, they couldn't leave without making threats, declaring that Team Galactic wouldn't let Cynthia get away with this and would do everything they could to rescue Jupiter, and so on.
With Jupiter to guard, Cynthia couldn't act rashly, so she didn't pursue them.
She waited until the police arrived, identified herself, and handed Jupiter over. Then she entered the Team Galactic Eterna Building with the police to wrap things up before finally extricating herself from the affair.
One could say that Xia You had enjoyed himself wreaking havoc inside the building, but had dumped