Team Rocket's transport plane swiftly vanished into the distant night sky like a black phantom.
In the Power Plant's core area, the strange sound waves, filled with a mysterious rhythm, stopped as well.
Bound in the capture net, Zapdos took a long look at the woman below whose face was livid, and the man cowering and trembling in a corner.
Then, it let out a piercing cry.
The golden patterns on the surface of the specially made capture net binding it suddenly flared.
In an instant, the entire net dissolved into countless golden specks of light and dissipated into the air.
Free once more, Zapdos did not linger for even a moment.
It spread its enormous wings, transformed into a streak of golden lightning that tore through the night sky, and vanished into the labyrinthine depths of the Power Plant in an instant.
It returned to its nest and went back to sleep.
It was as though the earth-shaking battle just now had been nothing more than an inconsequential farce.
All that remained at the scene was devastation.
And Lt. Surge's troops, who had suffered devastating losses and had been almost completely wiped out.
Along with Lorelei, her face as dark as the bottom of a pot and her whole body radiating icy killing intent, and her equally bewildered Pokémon League reinforcements.
For the Kanto League, this incident was an unprecedented, utter disgrace.
A Gym Leader of the Pokémon League had acted without authorization and suffered heavy losses.
A member of the Pokémon League's Elite Four had come to the scene in person, only to watch helplessly as the criminals swaggered away right under her nose.
Most humiliating of all, not only had the other side escaped unscathed, they had even reached some unknown "agreement" before her very eyes with