A grand event that should have been the focus of Trainers around the world ultimately devolved into an absurd farce that overturned everything people thought they knew.
Silver Town, a small town renowned throughout the world for the Pokémon League Conference, changed hands completely in just a few hours.
Team Rocket successfully seized control of all of Silver Town with almost no bloodshed.
Ye Li gave no one a chance to catch their breath.
He ordered the captured Pokémon League officials marched like livestock to the slaughter into the largest square in the town center.
Reporters from around the world had already packed the square's perimeter.
Countless cameras were trained on the Pokémon League officials who had once lorded it over them but now looked like beaten dogs, their flashes like stars in daylight as they recorded this historic moment.
Surrounded by fully armed Team Rocket members, Ye Li slowly walked to the center of the square.
He wasted no words.
He simply connected a data terminal to the enormous holographic projector in the square, which had originally been used to play Pokémon League promotional videos.
The next second.
Crystal-clear images of irrefutable evidence, enough to nail the Pokémon League to the pillar of shame forever, were made public.
They were the complete financial records for the "Biological Weapon" project that Team Rocket had seized from the Secret Base.
The source of every sum and the destination of every payment clearly pointed to one or more of the Pokémon League officials present.
Next came the even more horrifying complete experimental records.
From the initial capture of live subjects to genetic modification, then the final mechanical implantation... every step and every piece of data was recorded in appalling detail.
The list of Pokémon they had cruelly killed, or whose modifications had