Chapter 1283: Flame Plate

The different space was like an endless universe.

Countless stones of all sizes floated in mid-air, circling the constantly roaring Dialga and Palkia.

Below them, at the bottom of a craggy canyon, the brilliant radiance of crystals illuminated the faces of the six people.

"What happened?"

Following Ash's exclamation, the prismatic crystal in All Baimu's arms, which was fused with the Legend Plate, gradually grew larger, simultaneously sprouting four legs, a head, and a tail.

"Ba~ga~"

Terapagos had awakened once more.

It carried the Legend Plate on its head, looking up at the two dragons of time and space, who were imprisoned by the Red Chain and a large Legend Plate.

"Ba! Ga!"

This... why does it sound like it's cursing?

Everyone looked at each other in dismay.

Dawn tilted her head curiously and asked, "All Baimu, is this your Pokémon?"

"Not entirely."

All Baimu hadn't put Terapagos into a Poké Ball yet; he squatted down and tried to pick it up.

Terapagos did not resist, staring persistently at the sky.

It seemed to be waiting for something.

"It's called Terapagos, a Pokémon from the Paldea region. Legend says it's the source of Terastallization," All Baimu explained casually.

Ash was immediately excited, "Paldea region! The origin of Terastallization!"

Influenced by someone, he had traveled to the eighth generation and encountered the ninth generation system early, so he couldn't help but be full of fantasies about the mysterious Paldea region.

Especially the battle festival a few months ago.

All Baimu's Terastal Regidrago had left a very deep impression on him.

Ash had already made a decision in his heart: after participating in the World Coronation Series, he would go to Paldea to continue his journey and get to know the unfamiliar Pokémon of that land.

During the conversation, Chloe, who was holding Eevee in its armor, spoke up, "Everyone! The most urgent task is to solve the problem with Dialga and Palkia, right?"

Ash and Dawn's attention was immediately pulled back, and both scratched their heads in embarrassment.

"Sorry, sorry."

"There is indeed something more important!"

They looked at the sky together, "But how can we help them? Since Team Rocket can make the Red Chain, they should have a way to use it, right?"

Porygon2 gave a negative answer, "Team Rocket only knows how to make the Red Chain; they don't know the specific usage. They are preparing to wait until Dialga and Palkia are weak enough, then borrow other means to capture them."

Team Rocket in the parallel world was equally unreliable.

Just like how they could create a presence like Mewtwo that rivaled cover legendaries, yet were unable to perfectly master this power.

The group was worried.

All Baimu knew the method from the original plot, but seeing the Legend Plate on Terapagos's head, he felt that things were not that simple.

Otherwise, how could Arceus easily open a side quest for him?

The key was that the little turtle had also woken up.

"What are you looking at?"

He asked Terapagos, who was staring without blinking, but the latter ignored him.

Following its line of sight, it wasn't hard to see that Terapagos was staring at the Red Chain circling Dialga and Palkia.

All Baimu then asked, "Do you have a way to solve it?"

"Ba~ga~"

Terapagos chirped lightly without turning its head.

All Baimu: "..."

If you don't have a way, you don't have a way, why are you cursing?

At the same time.

Ash and Dawn felt more and more familiar with this scene, as if it had happened somewhere before...

"Team Galactic?!"

The two looked at each other and whispered in unison.

Under the gaze of All Baimu and the others, they explained the situation that had occurred during their past travels—

Cyrus, the leader of Team Galactic, who had also created the Red Chain, forced the Lake Guardians Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf to summon Dialga and Palkia.

Then, he controlled them with the Red Chain, causing them to create a new world without spirit.

Ash said, "There might be a way to manipulate the Red Chain in Team Galactic's database!"

"Right!"

Dawn nodded quickly, "There definitely is!"

Because Dialga's power hadn't completely gone out of control, reversing time for them and their Pokémon, everyone didn't temporarily place all their hope on the elusive Arceus before they were at their wit's end.

After listening, All Baimu also felt that this made sense.

In the anime, Cyrus's ambition was actually realized, it was just that he went to the new world alone, and the gate to the new world was completely destroyed by Dialga and Palkia.

Coincidentally, in the Journeys arc, Team Galactic also appeared, and they didn't even know where they got a Flame Plate—

Huh?

"You don't want me to recover the Plate in advance, do you?"

He leaned in and whispered.

As if in response to his words, the Thousand-Arms, which had been perfectly still, began to flicker.

Terapagos also became excited, "Ba-ga! Ba-ga!"

"What's wrong?"

Ash and the others hurriedly cast their concerned gazes over.

All Baimu twitched the corner of his mouth and said, "Nothing. Alright, leave this matter to me!"

"I'll go too!"

Ash hurriedly raised his hand to follow.

But he was refused.

All Baimu said, "I can move faster alone; you all stay here for now. After all, we only solved a part of Team Rocket's members; when they can't make contact, they will definitely send people over."

Everyone looked at each other, feeling that what he said was quite reasonable.

"Okay!"

They immediately completed the division of labor.

But it was simple to come to a different space, but it wasn't so easy to get out; they could only wait for Palkia to dissipate energy to open a space-time hole.

All Baimu waited for a long time before waiting for three space-time holes to open simultaneously.

Which one led to the original world became a mystery.

"Wait for my good news!"

He randomly found one and prepared to go in, when his arms suddenly felt empty; it was Terapagos breaking free from them.

Just when All Baimu thought the little turtle didn't want to go, this guy wiggled its limbs and crawled onto his head.

"Ba-ga!"

It shouted, the Legend Plate on its head flickering, looking very excited.

All Baimu was speechless.

A dignified third legendary actually couldn't speak...

Fine.

It was possible that those who could speak like Calyrex were the minority; hadn't he seen that Dialga, Palkia, and Giratina didn't speak?

Of course, it was also possible they were just too lazy to speak.

The Shiny Gengar carried All Baimu on its big head and quickly drilled into the space-time hole.

It could actually use Psychic, but it just liked to show off.

——

Real world.

All Baimu fell into a garden.

"Where is this?"

"Wait a moment, searching for signal..." The Poryphone shook, "Hmm, it seems we are in a parallel world."

A large desert appeared on its screen, "There is neither you nor the lush Orre League here, only the barren Orre region from the past."

Hearing the Poryphone say this, All Baimu suddenly became interested in the Orre of the parallel world.

Would a second him exist here?

One had to know that he had recovered entirely by chance; if there was a "All Baimu" in the parallel space-time, what was he doing at this moment, and was he still struggling in Gateon Port...

Had he met his Aggron?

"If there's a chance, I want to go see the Orre here."

All Baimu whispered.

Porygon2 agreed, "I'm also very curious—space-time fluctuation detected! It should be the space-time hole leading to our world! Let's go quickly!"

"Gen-ga!"

Gengar flew toward the indicated direction without hesitation.

It had no interest in itself in the parallel world, because it could always think of the hateful Greevil.

The person Gengar hated most in this life was Greevil.

The Poryphone's ability to detect space-time holes came from Team Rocket; All Baimu had once been curious about how Team Rocket moved accurately through space-time holes.

Their database gave the answer.

Without a doubt, Team Rocket had created an instrument capable of detecting space-time fluctuations, carried within their armor suits.

Just now, the Poryphone had borrowed the relevant instrument.

In a quiet forest.

A space-time hole leading to an unknown destination appeared.

Gengar took out its movement that was abnormally fast for a fatty, and with a 'whoosh', it carried All Baimu flying into it, causing Terapagos to chirp with joy repeatedly.

"Ba-ga~ Ba-ga~"

"Why are you like a child?"

All Baimu looked up, his gaze just happening to meet its drooping head.

Terapagos gave a smiling face, "Ba-ga~"

"You should at least chirp 'Terapa-Terapa'..." he sighed helplessly.

The other side of the space-time gate.

Was a place he hadn't expected.

"Canalave Library?"

All Baimu saw the sign in front of the building, and also saw Cynthia running out from inside.

This Sinnoh Champion was answering the phone with a very serious face, and at the same time, she also noticed the space-time hole not far away.

The two looked at each other.

"All Baimu?"

"Ms. Cynthia..."

The space-time hole slowly closed, and Cynthia hung up the phone, "I just received news that 'doors' with unknown situations have appeared all over the world, and many people's Pokémon have been stolen because of this.

"Not only that, Pokémon in various places have appeared with strange phenomena where they can't use moves, and even revert to their original appearance just after evolving! Do you... know anything?"

She looked at All Baimu's attire and behind him without a trace.

All Baimu replied, "The matter might be a bit long to explain; if you don't mind, let's talk on the way."

Bang!

White light flashed.

The Iron Serpent Miraidon appeared.

To prevent some special mutations, he had brought all his Pokémon with him this time he went out; Miraidon, as the fastest means of transportation, naturally wasn't left behind.

"Okay."

Cynthia decisively threw the ball and released Garchomp.

The two headed straight for Mt. Coronet in the center of Sinnoh.

In All Baimu's memory, Team Galactic's secret base was located here in this world; they were preparing to use Heatran's power to catalyze the Flame Plate and open the space-time gate to recall Cyrus.

However, how could Arceus allow them to operate this power that didn't belong to them recklessly?

So, by chance, Ash went to stop Team Galactic.

All Baimu was probably replacing Ash's position at this moment; after all, how could a tool person be as good as one he made himself?

On the way, he briefly explained the situation to Cynthia.

Cynthia frowned, "In other words, Ash and the others are waiting in a different space-time?"

"That's right."

All Baimu nodded, seeing her worried, he comforted her, "If Ash wasn't wrong, the last Red Chain incident was also thanks to Ash and the others, right? I think you don't need to worry about them."

"Hmm..."

Cynthia acknowledged this point, and sighed again, "But after all, they are still just a group of teenagers chasing dreams."

Many things should have been done by adults like them.

All Baimu smiled without saying a word.

The scene of adults solving events would only appear in youth manga; the protagonists of shonen manga were usually no older than high school students.

"Alright, I'm going to accelerate."

All Baimu didn't want to waste any more time and cause extra trouble, saying, "If you can't keep up, you can go to the Spear Pillar and wait first."

After saying that.

Miraidon's whole body flashed with electricity, and with a howl, it sped away.

In the blink of an eye, it had disappeared at the end of Cynthia's vision, turning into a flickering blue dot.

"Ka-bu!?"

Garchomp didn't believe in evil and chased fiercely, but ended up not even being able to catch the other's exhaust, feeling like it had seen a ghost.

Cynthia was silent, "It seems we can only go to the Spear Pillar and wait first."

"Ka-bu~"

Garchomp responded.

"Red Chain, Dialga, Palkia... how many times has this been?"

Cynthia recalled the many events related to the two dragons of time and space over the years.

She only felt that their existence was higher than in the past few hundred years.

Why was this?

She hoped it wouldn't be a warning of some kind of disaster.

Cynthia had originally planned to retire, but now it seemed there was no chance to retire; the Sinnoh region really needed her!

At the same time.

All Baimu had already arrived near Mt. Coronet.

This was his first time coming to this towering mountain closest to the gods, and he only felt a sense of holiness for no reason.

"Can you find them?"

"Rest assured, as long as they are connected to the internet, there is no one I can't find."

Porygon2 boasted.

The data life form roamed the data space, starting to search for electronic signals near Mt. Coronet and classifying them.

To speed up the processing, it asked for help from its brothers and sisters again, using the nearby Poryphones to process together.

Not long after, the Team Galactic base hidden near Mt. Coronet was exposed to its vision.

"They actually installed a Porygon firewall? A mere evil organization! How shameless!"

Porygon2 deeply believed that this thing was a bad invention, making it difficult for it to roam the backends of some computer systems.

Fortunately, it was no longer the Porygon2 of the past; the modified suspicious patch had turned it into Porygon2 MAX, which could be called the machine king among Porygon, a flagship machine!

A mere Porygon firewall! Break!

Silent fluctuations surged in the data space, and Porygon2 successfully blew up the firewall, presenting the internal monitoring on the phone screen.

Only to see that in the large space, two familiar figures and many people dressed as standard Team Galactic members were standing, and in the middle was a device carrying a giant colorful crystal plate.

"Flame Plate..."

All Baimu stared at the giant colorful crystal plate, and Terapagos on his head saw it, dancing its limbs excitedly, "Ba-ga! Ba-ga!"

The next moment.

Blinding red light filled the research lab on the screen.

Porygon2: "Oh ho, not good, we've been discovered."

"It doesn't matter, I only need its location; whether discovered or not, it doesn't matter."

All Baimu fell to the ground, raised his hand to release Steelix and activated the Key Stone in his arms, "Come on, open a path for us!"

"Roar!!"

The Super Giant Steelix roared, its whole body's horizontal steel bones spinning rapidly, triggering a fierce wind!

It aimed at the mountain below and rushed forward with a bang!

Boom——!!

In an instant, the world turned upside down!!

The entire Mt. Coronet trembled under the unmasked rampage of the Super Giant Steelix!!