The terrifying sound wave swept in.
"Yongji."
Yujira stepped forward, holding a spoon to sustain the Superpower Barrier.
But this time, the sound wave attack was excessively strong, with layers of rippling sound waves colliding against Yujira's superpower, causing it to start vibrating, as if it might shatter and collapse at any moment.
Snap.
Natsuhiko placed his hand on Yujira's shoulder, his eyes glowing with a blue superpower aura, quickly merging with Yujira's superpower.
This prevented Yujira's Superpower Barrier from breaking, and the merged superpower became stronger.
"Yongji!"
Yujira let out a low shout to finally withstand the assault.
They were positioned quite a distance from the Pokémon launching the attack inside the cave.
Considering this distance, the attack could still cause such destruction, showing that the attacking Pokémon's power was indeed formidable.
"Explosive Sound Wave."
As the sound waves gradually faded away and the surroundings returned to silence, Natsuhiko slowly spoke the name of the technique.
The power reached 140 points for a sound wave-type technique, making it the most powerful among all sound wave techniques.
Only a few Pokémon can use this technique, and those that can are usually quite rare.
With the white fur he had collected, it's quite apparent what kind of Pokémon resided inside the cave.
Swoosh—
With a gust of wind, a black silhouette shot out of the cave, shrouded in terrifying might, heading towards his location.
"Buzz Beedrill!"
Beedrill's red compound eyes flashed fiercely, vibrating its wings, leaving behind an afterimage as it faced the attacking Pokémon.
Boom!!
Cross Cut clashed against the opponent's Wing Attack.
Despite Beedrill's recent power increase, facing such a fierce attack with suppressive attributes left it at a disadvantage, being forced back after a single blow.
Meanwhile, the attacking Pokémon's ferocious form was fully revealed in front of Natsuhiko.
Huge ears, a neck surrounded by white fur, and exaggerated bat-like wings with black on the inside and purple on the outside, the membranes blue with two red claws on them.
As it roared at Natsuhiko, its open mouth showed two sharp fangs in its jaw.
Each flap of its wings was accompanied by air currents.
Seeing this Pokémon, Natsuhiko smiled.
"It's really it, Noivern."
A Flying Type and Dragon Type Pokémon, Noivern!
A Pokémon he's quite familiar with, as Master Ash's Noivern was well-known in the original.
In the original, Noivern seemed easily approachable, but in reality, these Pokémon didn't have good temperaments.
They were brutally fiery, full of hostility towards anything that came too close, sometimes using sound waves to attack everything they saw.
The white fur Natsuhiko found came from the area around Noivern's neck.
As typically omnivorous Pokémon, Noivern particularly loved various ripe Tree Fruits, sometimes becoming extremely docile if given delicious ripe Tree Fruits.
Of course, all this only applied during their normal periods.
But clearly, this was nowhere near normal.
Looking at the Noivern's bloodshot eyes and its intentional blocking of Natsuhiko's view towards the cave behind it, coupled with the matter of stealing Pokémon Eggs, it wasn't hard to deduce that Noivern was recovering from laying.
It wasn't this one here.
There's another inside the dark cave, a female Noivern.
Even usually docile Pokémon become irritable after laying, let alone Noivern, which already had a fierce temperament.
Clearly, this male Noivern regarded the approaching Natsuhiko and his Pokémon as enemies.
If they dared to get any closer, they would face Noivern's frenzied attack.
But.
For Natsuhiko, this matter meant something else.
Noivern, Dragon-type Pokémon, laying, Pokémon Egg.
This meant there's at least one extremely precious Dragon-type Pokémon Egg in the cave, possibly more.
If the one inside the cave is also a Noivern, it means the Dragon-type Pokémon Egg is at least Noivern's, not some "Shame of the Dragon Race".
The value of a Dragon-type Pokémon Egg is indisputable.
Even though Noivern's primary attribute is Flying Type, it's still a Dragon-type Pokémon; as long as the Pokémon egg hasn't hatched, anything is possible.
But first.
This Noivern must be defeated!
Its strength, judged from the earlier clash with Beedrill, is at the Gym Leader Level!
Benefiting from the wild Alternate Space environment with nearly no natural enemies, unaffected by human Trainer intervention, this growing environment was too favorable, allowing it to grow to Gym Leader Level with ease.
But just Gym Leader Level alone, Natsuhiko has defeated more than one Gym Leader Level Pokémon before.
Natsuhiko's Pokémon understood his intentions, stepping forward to confront Noivern.
Suddenly.
"Jia!!"
Doublade pointed towards the outside of the mountain cave, a black shadow swiftly swept past the cave entrance, heading inside.
As a Pokémon adept at using shadows, Doublade was very familiar with this, having once used this tactic to tail Hoshino Ryosaki into the desert ruins.
So Doublade immediately noticed something unusual.
Natsuhiko also observed this under Doublade's prompt.
Someone else?
As his eyes glimmered with determination, Noivern felt it but didn't notice the silent occurrence within the cave, its eyes reddening as it opened its mouth wide, rapidly gathering dense Dragon Energy within.
Dragon's Fluctuation!
"Togetic," Natsuhiko shouted.
"Cheerie!"
Facing Noivern's Dragon's Fluctuation, Togetic rushed directly forward.
Blue-purple energy surged like a tide, engulfing it completely.
But under Noivern's astonished gaze, Togetic stood "proudly" unscathed in front of it.
"Quickly end the battle," Natsuhiko said in a low voice.
The shadow hinted at someone else's presence; while Noivern was tangled with him, they snuck into the cave.
Their target was obvious, also those Noivern Pokémon Eggs.
He didn't want to be the one paving the way for others.
"Yongji."
Yujira opened up the Psychic Arena, wielding the spoon, and several Spirit Blades pierced out.
Doublade vanished into the shadow, swiftly appearing behind Noivern, a giant blue illusionary Holy Sword formed, slashing down on Noivern's back.
Togetic waved its tiny hand, targeting Noivern with its Divine Power attack.
"Buzz Beedrill!"
The recently forced back Beedrill didn't show any cowardice or retreat, flicking its Long Needle, flapping its wings, rushing towards Noivern like lightning.
Natsuhiko's four Pokémon attacked simultaneously.
Noivern, not to be outdone, flapped its wings vigorously, producing bright white air blades spontaneously, Air Slash!
Spreading towards all directions.
But at this moment.
Roar——
A piercing cry echoed from within the cave, halting Noivern's assault abruptly, dispersing the Air Slash mid-flight.
The red glow in its eyes vanished, replaced by worry.
Disregarding the attacks from Beedrill and the others, it abruptly turned and rushed towards the cave.
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