"Tch, stay calm and find somewhere to stand."
It wasn't a good time for Shen Qi to run inside. A clamor of footsteps was already surging out from below, and rushing down would only cause more chaos.
Dodo said he had temporarily used "Battery Levitate" to bring Florges, the children, and some fallen evacuees he could still rescue onto the roof of a stationary subway train. The situation was stable for now.
But... there was still no sign of Team Rocket, nor had he even sensed any intense Type Energy fluctuations from a battle.
"Move, move!"
"Get out of the way!"
Evacuees began pouring out of the subway entrance. Once-immaculate suits had been torn to shreds, and ties had twisted around to hang down their backs like nooses;
Some of the women were in even worse shape, having lost their shoes as they ran, their feet covered in blood.
As miserable as they looked, making it out at all was a good thing. From Dodo's description earlier, quite a few people must have died.
Shen Qi quickly turned and stepped aside, recalling Chansey immediately so she wouldn't see.
"Dodo, still no signs of a battle?"
"Gujii..."
Dodo could no longer tell. Faced with the deadly crowding and trampling down in the subway, some Pokémon had inevitably used moves.
From farther away, out of sight, how could he distinguish whether the energy fluctuations from those moves came from battles or their instinct to survive?
Team Rocket... could this have been their goal all along?
Shen Qi formed a preliminary judgment.
There weren't many Team Rocket members inside the subway at all. They had scattered a few among the various shelters, suddenly spreading word that Team Rocket had broken in among crowds already thick with fear, using the upheaval of the startled