A Pokémon League supply transfer station had been attacked, and all its guards had been silently incapacitated.
The news was like a resounding slap delivered squarely across the Kanto League's face.
This was no longer a simple supply robbery, but a blatant military provocation.
The Pokémon League's senior leadership was furious.
Lorelei, one of the Elite Four, volunteered to take personal charge of investigating the incident.
By the time Lorelei arrived at the scene, Team Rocket had long since withdrawn completely, leaving behind only a mess and the dazed guards.
She entered the command room that had been looted clean. A faint, unusual energy fluctuation still lingered in the air.
Lorelei closed her eyes and extended a hand, carefully sensing the residual energy.
Her brows drew tightly together.
"This is a... variant of Supersonic," she murmured to herself. "But its properties are completely different. The frequency is higher, it's more aggressive, and it's mixed with powerful psychic interference."
Lorelei took a compact instrument from her pocket and collected and analyzed samples of the energy in the air.
An extremely complex waveform appeared on the instrument's screen.
This was an unheard-of, highly aggressive form of Supersonic.
A name immediately surfaced in Lorelei's mind.
Team Rocket.
Only that mysterious organization, with its technology ahead of its time, could have developed such a bizarre means of attack.
As she recalled the encryption technology at the Rainbow Game Corner last time, which could likewise block information, Lorelei's gaze turned utterly cold.
She once again focused her suspicions on Team Rocket, with its advanced technology, and the Rainbow Game Corner that served as its source of funding.
"It seems a covert investigation is pointless now."
Lorelei put away the instrument, a trace of resolve flashing in her eyes.
The other side had challenged the Pokémon League's limits time and time again.
This time, she decided to stop playing those games of hide-and-seek.
She was going to launch a direct, forceful strike against Team Rocket, one that would truly make them hurt.
Lorelei immediately returned to Pokémon League headquarters and exercised all her authority as a member of the Elite Four.
She began mobilizing the Pokémon League's Trainers.
Large numbers of Ace Trainers, Gym apprentices, and combat units directly under the Pokémon League began secretly assembling around Celadon City.
Lorelei's objective was clear.
She intended to carry out a devastating operation to wipe out several known Team Rocket bases around Celadon City that the intelligence department had been monitoring for a long time.
She would use storming measures to tell Team Rocket who truly ruled the Kanto Region.
The wind swept through the tower ahead of the coming mountain storm.
A large-scale, direct clash between Team Rocket and the Pokémon League was on the verge of erupting.
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