Awaken Groudon, expand the land, and create a new world!
It was hardly surprising that outsiders knew this overarching goal Team Magma openly proclaimed.
After all, it was this grand-or rather, insane-ideal that had allowed Maxie to gather Team Magma around him.
Anyone who cared to investigate could find it. It was no secret at all.
But controlling Groudon through the Red Orb was not something an ordinary Team Magma grunt would know about.
That was classified information available only to mid-level officers and above, the most crucial part of the plan!
Did Team Magma have a high-ranking mole from the Hoenn League?
But even if they did, Xia Chi wasn't part of the Hoenn League. Where had he gotten his information?
Courtney's thoughts tangled into a mess, her composure shattered in an instant.
Watching her reaction, Xia Chi smiled slightly. "So you saw it yourself just now, didn't you? You fought with everything you had to cover your teammates' retreat, yet they abandoned you without a shred of hesitation."
"Incompetence is one thing, but even their most basic loyalty is pitifully thin. Miss Courtney, do you really think you can create a new world alongside vermin like that?"
He waited for Courtney's reaction.
If this was the Courtney from the games, blindly loyal to Maxie, she would probably have rebutted him by now with something like, "Master Maxie is a leader as great as the sun."
But if this was the more realistic Courtney from Pokémon Adventures, who pursued power and excitement, it was harder to say.
Xia Chi clearly remembered that, toward the end of Pokémon Adventures, Courtney had realized this was a foolish undertaking, and that Maxie and Archie were merely two delusional madmen.
She had then switched sides and joined Ruby to stop the disaster that