"Athena, did you think this scrap metal could hold me?" Giovanni's voice was bone-chilling, like a freezing wind from beneath the Nine Netherworlds.
Before he had finished speaking, the purple eyes of Mewtwo behind him suddenly blazed. An invisible, terrifying Psyshock, too powerful for words to describe, swept through the entire control room like a tsunami!
"BOOM!!!"
The automated defense systems had only just turned their guns and had yet to open fire when, in an instant, they became toys crushed by an invisible giant hand. The powerful psychic field completely burned out their internal circuits, and their energy cores overloaded and exploded in brilliant showers of sparks.
"Kill!" Giovanni's Personal Guard, true elites who had clawed their way out of mountains of corpses and seas of blood, reacted immediately after their brief shock. Roaring like tigers released from their cages, they lunged at Athena's rebels, who were equally well equipped but lacked their ferocity.
For a time, energy beams and Pokémon moves wove a web of death inside the cramped control room, while battle cries and explosions rang out without end.
Amid the chaos, a barely perceptible gleam flashed in Ye Li's eyes. Like a slippery loach, he slipped silently through the fierce fighting. He directed Umbreon to covertly sabotage several cables beneath the main console that connected to the Genesis Gate's backup power supply system.
"Click." With a few barely audible snaps, the enormous monstrosity suspended deep underground, which could have been accidentally activated at any moment, became nothing more than a motionless heap of scrap metal.
"Nidoking! Megahorn!"
"Rhydon! Earthquake!"
Elsewhere, Giovanni finally took action himself. He sent out the two ace Pokémon he was proudest of. Their terrifying Elite-level strength was fully revealed at that moment. Like a purple armored tank, the massive Nidoking easily impaled