Just as Ash and his two companions began to throw themselves into this headache-inducing city defense battle.
The true source of the turmoil and filth in Gringey City.
Inside that giant suburban garbage landfill.
The scene was completely different from the chaos of the outside world. This place was not the disorder and confusion one might imagine.
Groups of Grimer and Muk crawled quietly upon the mountains of trash.
Trubbish and their evolved forms, Garbodor, stood like silent sentinels, towering amidst the foul-smelling smog.
Their eyes were dull, yet their movements carried a bizarre, controlled discipline.
This was an extremely unreasonable situation.
Because by nature, Grimer and Muk do not get along with Trubbish and Garbodor.
Alolan Muk is the natural predator of Garbodor.
When Trubbish breathes, it leaks toxic gas; smelling this, Muk will come rushing over while drooling.
The design principle of the landfill was exactly this—to let Muk and Garbodor devour the garbage, and then these two types of Pokémon would kill each other.
It is a pity that this designed balance had been broken.
In the core area of the garbage dump.
At the peak of a "mountain" piled up from discarded appliances, metal wreckage, and unrecognizable plastic products.
Several figures wearing Team Rocket uniforms were busying themselves mechanically.
Their eyes were hollow, their movements stiff, like marionettes.
These were precisely the Team Rocket members who had been invited by Cassidy, Butch, and Cross, and ordered by Vicious to come and "instigate" the garbage Pokémon to create chaos.
However, at this moment, they had long lost their self-awareness, completely reduced to puppets of some deeper darkness.
Team Rocket's rules are very cruel.
No matter what, it is a villainous organization. Even if Giovanni has already enforced a certain degree of restraint, it is the same.
If you want to join a villainous organization like Team Rocket to profit, you should have some psychological preparation, right?
Rights and obligations are equal.
Risk and return are equal. Greed and price are equal.
It was not Team Rocket's ambition that manipulated these Team Rocket members, but rather—Marshadow, lurking within the countless shadows.
Marshadow was quite ruthless; compared to Team Rocket, it did not yield much, and it was certainly not some soft-hearted individual.
In fact, since they were Team Rocket members, there was no need to feel pressure when making a move on them.
After all, if it casually made a move on ordinary people or ordinary Pokémon, it would be nagged by its two colleagues.
The arrival of Entei and Suicune still imposed some restrictions on Marshadow.
Especially since Marshadow and Entei had a very good relationship.
Shadow-like dark power had already shrouded the entire garbage graveyard, collecting the dark power beneath this earth and the sedimented malice.
Marshadow had a petite stature, but its power was not lacking in the slightest.
As one of Ho-Oh's envoys.
Although Marshadow had issues in the head because of its Ghost-type nature.
It was not a pure villain. Collecting [Darkness] to facilitate its destruction all at once was also its mission.
Like a Legendary Pokémon condensed from shadows, it was currently hovering above the peak of the garbage mountain.
Flames burned within its eyes, and invisible power spread like a spiderweb, firmly controlling all the Team Rocket members below, as well as... that colossal behemoth crawling directly beneath it.
The garbage dump's [Environmental Aura] collected by Marshadow was being injected into it.
That was a Garbodor.
A monster that surpassed the limits of ordinary cognition.
It did not rely on the Dynamax energy of the Galar region to mutate, but rather, through years and years of insanely devouring the waste in this garbage dump, it had piled up such a terrifying body size.
The body of this Garbodor was a small hill piled up from rotting garbage and industrial waste.
Its height approached twenty meters, its surface covered in rust, oil stains, and sticky exudate of unknown colors, emitting a trembling stench.
An ordinary Garbodor appeared as tiny as a child's toy in front of it.
However, this massive body appeared abnormally loose and fragile, as if it would collapse at any moment.
Its power came more from its terrifying volume and the horror of its inherent toxicity, rather than the condensation of energy levels.
Compared to the Giant Tentacruel at the Vermilion City port, which had absorbed legendary power and briefly reached the "Pseudo-Totem" level, this Giant Garbodor had only volume; its strength was far inferior, looking more like a forcefully inflated skin bag filled with poisonous gas.
Its body was even so large that it oppressed its own ability to move.
And this lack of mobility was being supplemented by Marshadow.
Marshadow was also a Legend.
Although its combat power certainly could not compare to the Giant Dragonite, who was a Sea King.
But it could similarly accomplish all sorts of miraculous things.
In fact, this Garbodor was stupider, making it even easier to control.
Besides Grimer, Muk, Trubbish, and Garbodor.
There were other Poison-type Pokémon here at the garbage landfill. For example, Gastly.
Although Gastly's primary type is Ghost, its secondary type is Poison.
There were plenty of poisonous gases here at the garbage landfill, which were just right to serve as Gastly's food.
Moreover, the terrain of the garbage landfill was extremely chaotic, and the gaps created by the accumulation of various garbage were also very suitable for Gastly to hide. This included Gastly's evolved form, Haunter.
Both Gastly and Haunter are Gas Pokémon.
However, compared to the Gastly stage, where the body is 95% toxic gas, the Haunter stage has already increased the proportion of soul and negative emotions by a lot.
Compared to toxic gas, Haunter needs negative emotions more, so a considerable portion of Haunter would leave this place.
By the Gengar stage, they would not stay here at all.
If one says Haunter can still barely survive on poison gas.
Then Gengar does not eat poison gas.
Gengar is the Shadow Pokémon; it is no longer a Gas Pokémon.
Negative emotions are their staple food.
Apart from these, there were also many Koffing and Weezing floating everywhere.
However, this is the Kanto region, so there were only the original form of Weezing.
There were very few of that Galar special form of Weezing.
This portion was even captured and introduced from Galar.
There was no helping it; ordinary Weezing would only mix poison gases, making the poison gas more and more severe.
Only the Galarian form of Weezing could purify poison gas.
But later, it was discovered that the speed of purification could not keep up with the pollution, so in the end, it was abandoned.
Capturing Galarian Form Weezing from the Galar region and bringing them over had a relatively high cost.
And the Galar side was not very willing either.
Galarian Weezing is the True Environmental Cleanup Ambassador!
Marshadow's gaze penetrated the layers of garbage mountains, as if directly seeing Ash, who was currently in the East District of Gringey City, circling around with a Muk that was trying to rummage through a trash can.
It sensed that aura which faintly resonated with Ho-Oh's feather—it was a pure and firm Aura.
"Gu..."
A low cry, sounding as if it came from a subterranean abyss, spilled from Marshadow's throat.
The light in its eyes, burning with candlelight, suddenly became a degree more intense.
The trial of the Rainbow Hero quietly kicked off the prologue in this filthy place abandoned by civilization.
—Marshadow, I!
—This time, I will definitely be able to test out the true hero.
The only problem is... how big is the gap between modern people's cognition and the past?
Is the Rainbow Hero test, once approved by people of the past, really suitable for modern people?
Do modern people... really need this?
Perhaps only after failing the trial will they be beaten awake.
Perhaps humanity no longer needs the excessive care and control of the gods.
The difference in the view of time. The old timer's thinking can't keep up with the times.
And at this moment. In Gringey City.
Ash suddenly felt a chill on his back.
This was the instinctive perception of Aura.
Marshadow was very strong.
So in the Aura perception, it was also a huge fluctuation.
Even if Ash did not recognize Marshadow's aura.
But Marshadow releasing a large amount of power was enough to disturb the environment.
Beside Ash.
Pikachu controlled the intensity of his electricity release well; the current intensity paralyzed the Muk, making it twitch, but was not enough to make its body explode.
"Pika?" Pikachu looked at Ash—Partner, what's wrong?
"I have a bad premonition... is Team Rocket about to cause trouble?" In Ash's view, obviously, the blame still lay on Team Rocket's head.
"Mai mai?" Misdreavus, entirely encased in a plastic bag, used Confusion to lift the Muk and threw it into the garbage truck beside them, making it convenient to transport back to the dump.
Confusion, as a basic Psychic-type move, is truly a jack-of-all-trades.
[Is it a powerful ghost force? Why does it feel unlike one?] Misdreavus felt the sensation in Ash's heart, analyzing: [Is it a shadow?]
[Gengar?]
Misdreavus had seen Gengar.
This force felt very much like Gengar in her perception.
Gengar is the Shadow Pokémon.
No one guessed Marshadow.
Because this was completely different from the anime Ash had seen before.
What Rainbow Hero test... who the hell knows when he started that?
So.
"If Meowth's information is correct, then it should be Team Rocket causing trouble."
In the Kanto region, if you feel something is wrong, then pin it on Team Rocket.
You can't say it's 100% accurate.
But in ninety percent of cases, it's not wrong.
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