As the waterspout weakened, the thick curtain of water shrouding Shamouti Island thinned, and sunlight from outside spilled in again.
The storm's subsiding was like a signal.
After a brief standoff, an all-out battle between the Pokémon League and Team Rocket erupted on this ancient, sacred island.
"Roar!"
Bruno's Fighting-type troops were the first to charge, like tigers unleashed from their cages.
His Machamp, Machoke, and Primeape, Fighting-type experts with muscles coiled all over their bodies, roared as they rushed toward the positions Team Rocket had seized.
"You have a death wish!"
Apollo snorted, and the Team Rocket battle group behind him refused to back down.
Houndoom's Flamethrower, Weezing's Sludge Bomb, Arbok's Poison Fang...
Countless moves brimming with malice and destruction clashed head-on with Fighting-type energy brimming with masculine vigor.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
Violent explosions erupted across the island, shaking the earth as though the entire island were trembling.
Meanwhile, in the shadows on the other side of the battlefield.
Agatha's ghostlike figure silently emerged.
She lightly tapped her cane against the ground, and over a hundred Gastly and Haunter seeped from the shadows in every direction like a purple tide, attempting to bypass the front lines, infiltrate the Altar, and ambush Ye Li as he recovered his psychic power.
But they had only just approached the Altar's perimeter.
An invisible Psycho Cut, so powerful it was suffocating, descended from above and slashed down viciously in front of them.
Boom-!
A bottomless fissure was carved into the ground, and the powerful psychic shock wave sent the Haunter flying backward with shrill screams.
Mewtwo hovered above the Altar, cold light gleaming in his purple eyes, like the most loyal guardian deity, keeping every threat that tried to approach Ye Li at bay.
While the island descended into utter chaos.
Giovanni walked