Smiling Wattson (Twenty-Minute Revision)

"Roar—"

Visible waves of sound came crashing in, layered and powerful.

Faced with Ampharos's attack,

Mechanical Raikou merely raised its light-blue, lightning-like tail.

The spark-like tip seemed to possess a magnetic pull, drawing all of the Thunderbolt's power toward itself.

"Bzzzt—"

The dense crackle of electric sparks rang out.

Bathed in electrical energy, Mechanical Raikou did not look any worse for wear. If anything, it seemed even more invigorated.

Its red electronic eyes shone even brighter.

"Can it absorb electricity and turn it into its own power source?"

Tetsuya was not particularly surprised by this. "In that case, Ampharos, Charge!"

Perfect.

Ampharos had just absorbed quite a bit of Static, leaving the Electric-type energy in its body excessively abundant.

It needed to vent it somewhere eventually anyway.

It might as well use this Mechanical Raikou as its target.

They could take the opportunity to see whether it had a limit—or where that limit lay.

"Bwoo."

Ampharos's eyes lit up as well.

With a slight focus,

immense Electric-type energy began gathering continuously around its body.

Even with Psychic-type protection around him,

Tetsuya could not help backing away a little to avoid getting caught in the aftermath.

"Roar!"

However,

Mechanical Raikou naturally would not simply watch Ampharos prepare its move.

Tetsuya did not know what kind of logic governed its operations.

But if his guess was correct,

this Mechanical Raikou should have been a guardian placed here by Wattson.

By that reasoning,

the man and Pokémon were currently intruders—or invaders—in Mechanical Raikou's eyes.

Its steel limbs slid rapidly across the ground.

The speed Mechanical Raikou burst out with was not at all inferior to that of a somewhat weaker Elite Four Level Pokémon.

Of course,

the structure of the entire space also had something to do with that.

In Tetsuya's perception,

the