"Meow? (Can I attack? Won't that cause trouble?)"
"Do whatever you like this time. Just use the method you're most familiar with."
The goals of the various organizations in the Pokémon world differed greatly from region to region.
Team Skull in Alola was essentially a gang of street thugs with no grand ambitions, simply out to cause chaos.
In Galar... they were just a bunch of rabid Marnie fans, while in Paldea, they were bullied students fighting back.
In their own regions, these organizations counted as villains, but compared to those in Kanto and Hoenn, they were just children playing pretend.
The goals of both Team Magma and Team Aqua would cause irreversible damage. Mass extinction was only the beginning.
As a Wild Fighting expert, waiting for the enemy to attack before retaliating was undoubtedly substandard conduct.
If he sensed that the enemy intended to attack, he should take them out first. That was the reasonable approach as far as Meownei was concerned.
It was only because his surroundings had changed, forcing him to adjust his old ways, that Meownei had reined in his instincts.
Taking down the enemy Trainers was much easier than defeating their Pokémon.
"Hand over the meteorite right... what?!"
Boom!
Before the Team Magma member could finish speaking, Meownei had already readied his Hyper Beam and blasted it into the crowd.
Once the smoke cleared, the rule that smoke meant no damage failed to hold true. The Hyper Beam had sent Team Magma's members sprawling in every direction.
Yes, their bodies had been scattered around. If not for how bad it would look, it might have been their body parts instead.
With exquisite control, he had made the blast equivalent to a powerful concussion grenade. At worst, it would leave them half-dead and unconscious for four