Chapter 521: Let the World Know Pain
Before Kuisqi was slain, on the front lines of the Syndicate Alliance, another Champion involved in the operation and the military command center had simultaneously received Kuisqi's encrypted transmission.
Combined with the earlier satellite reports of Groudon deviating from its intended path and the signs of a battle, the frontline Champion instinctively thought, "Is Kuisqi actually fighting Groudon?"
Unfortunately, he had overestimated his old comrade.
Soon, the communications team decoded the encrypted message and reported, "Sir, Champion Kuisqi reports that the operation has been interfered with by a mysterious individual. Judging by the accent, he is from the Kubfu Alliance. He appears to be between eighteen and twenty-two years old, and is extremely powerful. This young man—this young man..."
The Champion glared impatiently at the communications officer. "What about the young man? Speak!"
The officer swallowed hard, then said in shock, "Champion Kuisqi's message says that this young man held off Groudon for over an hour and even broke its emotional control! The plan... has failed. He is currently in the desert and urgently requesting backup!"
"What?!"
The entire command center was stunned.
The frontline Champion pressed urgently, "Are you sure Kuisqi's message only mentioned one young man from the Kubfu Alliance? No other participants? Did a Kubfu Champion intervene? To stop an enraged Groudon... did the Cai family twins team up, or did one of the retired Xiao family ancestors come out of retirement?"
But the communications team double-checked and confirmed that the encrypted message only mentioned a single person. "No, sir. Kuisqi only mentioned one unidentified young man from the Kubfu Alliance interfering with the operation."
"..."
For a moment, the frontline Champion, like Kuisqi before him, couldn't accept this reality. A young man, barely twenty, holding off an enraged Groudon for an hour and ruining their plan that had been meticulously prepared for over a year... was that even possible?! It sounded like a fairy tale!
But this was a top-level encrypted satellite transmission from Kuisqi in the desert. They had no choice but to believe it. No one would joke on a priority-one military communication channel.
Then, the communications officer asked, "Sir, Champion Kuisqi's message ended with a request for backup. Should we deploy troops to retrieve him?"
The frontline Champion fell silent.
If they sent troops deep into the desert to fight Groudon now, it would go completely against their original plan! They had schemed and plotted for so long just to lure Groudon to the border of the human world to kill it!
This was their home turf. Fighting on the edge of the desert meant Groudon couldn't summon many wild Pokémon, and they could blame all the destruction caused by the battle on Groudon afterward, allowing them to seize the moral high ground. But deep in the desert, all those advantages would be gone!
As for going in alone, without an army, to secretly retrieve Kuisqi? Unfortunately, not everyone had Arthur's courage to face a major Legendary alone.
In that moment, the Sinnoh Champion hesitated. "Kuisqi... he is a Champion, after all. His Pokémon are extremely powerful, especially his Gallade, whose combat ability is top-tier in the world. He should... have a way to escape on his own. Just deploy three regiments to the edge of the desert to receive him."
In reality, these were just excuses to deceive himself. There was only one real reason: he was scared. He didn't dare go deep into the desert to rescue Kuisqi without the protection of an army. Arthur's hour of life-and-death struggle was not something just anyone had the guts to attempt.
To change the subject, the frontline Champion asked about another piece of news. "Also, since the operation has been interfered with, we can't rule out the possibility that the Kubfu Alliance has discovered our plan! Contact the Dawn Star, Morning Moon, and Mist bases in the west immediately! Confirm the status of the Seeds! Even if we can't kill Groudon this time, it won't live much longer. The important thing is that the Seeds must not be lost!"
"Yes, sir!"
Although this was a diversion tactic by the Champion to avoid rescuing Kuisqi, he was right to focus on this point. The Seeds were the truly critical part of the entire plan!
The Seeds were obviously not here. The Syndicate Alliance was their designated frontline for the war, a place destined for a massive battle and devastation according to the original plan! The Seeds couldn't be kept in such a dangerous place.
At this moment, Dayna and Linda, leading the Stitched Shadow Army, were actually in the western part of the desert, handing over the last batch of captured Seeds to the three secret bases the Sinnoh League had built on the edge of the desert.
However, at the perimeter of the Mist Base, which Linda was responsible for, a patrolling soldier suddenly sneezed.
"Achoo! Damn it! Why is the wind and sand getting stronger?"
Another soldier on patrol agreed. "Yeah, could a sandstorm be coming?"
"Shut up, don't jinx it!"
But as the wind grew stronger and the sky in the distance turned darker, everyone gradually realized something was wrong. "F*ck you, I told you not to jinx it! A sandstorm is actually coming, dammit!"
However, inside the base, the meteorological monitoring staff were the first to notice the anomaly. "Something's wrong! This sandstorm in front of the base appeared too strangely! There were no warning signs beforehand. This doesn't look natural!"
This immediately alerted Linda, the temporary head of the base. "Not natural? Are you sure?"
They were deep in the desert, fighting against the desert itself! A sudden, unnatural, large-scale sandstorm was bound to raise some bad suspicions.
And in this world, there seemed to be a law: the more you feared and worried about something, the more likely it was to happen!
Sure enough, the next moment, a scout reported observing a Flygon behaving extremely strangely within the sandstorm ahead.
"What do you mean 'behaving extremely strangely'? What is that Flygon doing?!" Linda snatched the communicator and demanded anxiously.
But soon, she didn't need to wait for the scout's answer—the commotion outside the base gave Linda a much more direct and brutal response.
In the sky, amidst the raging sandstorm, the little dragonfly hovered dozens of meters high, her arms and wings spread wide, palms facing up, in a pose as if she were embracing the sun.
"Flyy, gon, gon!"
She was saying: Let the world know pain!
And in the next moment, everyone in the base truly put on their masks of pain!
Because—
"ROAR!!"
"ROAR!!"
Deafening roars rang out one after another!
The Phantom of the West, Tyranitar, and the Dragon of the North, Garchomp—two desert Phantoms appeared simultaneously within the sandstorm. One after the other, they Dynamaxed. Their colossal sizes, berserk strength, and wide-range moves instantly crushed the base's outer defenses like dry twigs!
During the time Arthur had risked his life to delay Groudon, the little dragonfly hadn't been idle! Most of the Seven Chieftains' tribes had gone south to support Groudon. So, the little dragonfly had found the remaining two Phantoms in the desert and launched a surprise attack on the enemy bases where the Seeds were being kept!
In this moment, she truly made Sinnoh and the Stitched Shadow Army know pain.
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