"Urgh."
In the darkness.
An unconscious, pained groan came from a man's mouth.
His heavy eyelids seemed to weigh a thousand pounds. They trembled constantly, yet he could not open them.
As time passed.
The man's groans gradually weakened, as though his body could no longer hold on.
Suddenly.
A faint green light lit up in the darkness.
Following its glow, it came from somewhere beneath the man's clothes.
The seemingly weak green light contained astonishing Life Energy.
If someone had been nearby, they would have seen that as the green light covered the man's entire body, all of his injuries healed at an unbelievable speed.
Gradually.
The green light dimmed.
The groans from the man's mouth vanished as well.
They were replaced by steady breathing.
Who knew how much time had passed.
"Uh... where am I? What happened?"
Feeling as though his body weighed a ton, the man struggled to open his eyes. He fumbled around his surroundings and staggered upright.
A thick, earthy smell flooded into his nostrils, making him instinctively frown before he had adjusted to it.
Purple energy flashed across his body surface.
After blocking off the influence of the outside world, he finally became a little more clearheaded.
"The Legendary Birds self-destructed... Giovanni, that lunatic."
With an exceedingly grim expression, Tetsuya finally recalled what he had been going through before.
He vaguely remembered that, at the instant the explosion occurred, Gallade and he had forcibly used Teleport.
There had simply been too many interfering factors.
For example, the Energy Fluctuations mixed together by the self-destruction of the Three Legendary Pokemon had made it who knew how many times harder to tear through space and Teleport.
Then there was the fact that everything had happened so suddenly. The other people and Pokemon he wanted to bring