vs Lance (One-Hour Revision)

"Chako Chako."

"Bwoo."

Somewhere on the battlefield within Cerulean Gym.

The two Pokémon that sensed the familiar aura both perked up their little ears.

Minglan, who had also heard the explosion sound, keenly noticed their reaction. "What? Did you find something?"

Then.

He quickly realized what it meant. "Tetsuya's here? He sure got here fast."

The distance between Pewter City and Cerulean City was not that far.

But Tetsuya still had to clean up the battlefield at Mt. Moon and send the three severely injured people back.

After all that, Minglan had originally thought it would take at least one or two hours.

Yet unexpectedly, Tetsuya had come to reinforce them in barely over twenty minutes.

"Is he calling for you? Then you two should go.

"I can still hold on here for a while. It won't be a problem."

Minglan looked at the two Pokémon. "If I'm not mistaken, that guy Lance just went to deal with your Trainer. He's no easy opponent."

Togekiss and Ampharos nodded repeatedly.

The latter swiftly leaped onto the former's back, and they flew through the air, breaking past the interception attempts of numerous Team Rocket members' Pokémon as they headed out.

Or rather.

Team Rocket had not actually intended to stop those two abnormally powerful Elite Four Level Pokémon.

They wanted them gone as soon as possible, lest they interfere with their plan.

"Old Master Minglan, you seem to be underestimating me too much."

Athena, the only Team Rocket Senior Executive present, let out a series of cold laughs.

By some unknown method, she had heard Minglan confidently say that he could hold on for a while.

In Athena's eyes, that was simply a case of putting on a brave front.

Leaving aside the fact that Lance outside was more than capable of