Chapter 1230: The Entei Guard

"Hum!"

The semi-dormant Iron Treads suddenly jolted awake, disengaging its wheel form and retreating behind Nemona.

Scream Tail also displayed a solemn expression, "Iya..."

Something troublesome was approaching!

Nemona and the others noticed what All Baimu had just said. As they looked in the direction of the vibrations, they asked in surprise:

"Suicune? What Suicune?"

"Paradox Suicune!"

As he spoke, he pulled out a Poké Ball and threw it forward.

Bang!

"Guroar!"

The great monster Aggron appeared, spotting its opponent from afar—

A blue-skinned, purple-maned raptor that was taller than it, with an appearance both familiar and strange.

"Roar—!!"

It roared, causing the ground to rumble as it approached at high speed, scaring Arven and Penny into throwing their Poké Balls immediately.

Bang! Bang!

Mabosstiff and Sylveon landed.

Nemona suddenly shouted: "It's that one! This sound! The mysterious Pokémon by the water!"

Back then, because of Professor Turo's experience and out of consideration for Arven's feelings, they hadn't continued exploring Area Zero.

The strange roar heard when they broke into the thick fog had become a completely unsolved mystery—

Later, Nemona had specifically gone to search for it but found nothing, and consulting Professor Turo hadn't yielded a definitive answer either.

If everyone hadn't been present at the time, she would have even thought it was her own hallucination.

Arven and Penny quickly recalled the scene buried in their memories.

"Why would it appear here?"

The location back then was near Research Station No. 3, but they hadn't even reached Research Station No. 2 yet; they were in the upper layer of Area Zero!

All Baimu turned his head to look at Iron Leaves standing on the cliff.

"That's something you'll have to ask it."

The group only then realized that Iron Leaves had appeared out of nowhere.

And the approaching Paradox Suicune, upon seeing them, didn't stop to observe; instead, it lowered its body and accelerated its charge!

"Roar!!"

The beast's roar was deafening.

Attacking directly without rhyme or reason?

Very much in the style of an Ancient species!

"Iya—"

"Guroar."

Aggron held back Scream Tail, who wanted to step forward, and took the lead to meet the charge.

Boom!

The great monster launched itself from the ground, rushing straight for the Paradox Suicune's face with lightning speed!

In a flash, earthy-yellow light centered on its thick horns, radiating high-energy fluctuations that made one's heart palpitate.

【Explosive Leap · Double-Edge Headbutt】!

"Roar—"

In the distance, the Paradox Suicune opened its maw; just as a small mass of azure water gathered, the space before it had already turned into a blinding earthy-yellow!

Thud!

A strong light exploded!

Soil and grass were lifted like a tidal wave, and the sky-high dust obscured everything!

On the cliff, Iron Leaves' electronic eyes flickered; Mabosstiff and Sylveon were amazed, and Iron Treads reverted to its wheel form.

The exaggerated power of the Double-Edge Headbutt had truly caused them a certain degree of shock.

Among the Pokémon present, only Scream Tail had no reaction, and was even a bit unhappy that the great monster had stopped it from attacking.

"Iya~!"

It should have let it roar!

No one paid attention to the overconfident Scream Tail; everyone was focused on the smoke-filled area.

Nemona said excitedly: "So amazing!"

"Did it take it down?" Penny clenched her fists nervously, more concerned about the Paradox Suicune's fate.

As if responding to her question, restless struggling sounds came from the flying dust, and the smoke was stirred away at this moment.

Aggron was suppressing the Paradox Suicune, which was larger than itself, not giving it a chance to get up.

"Roar!!"

The Paradox Suicune continued to emit manic roars, its ferocious posture making one gasp.

At this moment, the Rotom Phone spoke up.

"In the Scarlet Book, it is called Walking Wake!"

The Violet Book was in Professor Turo's hands, while the Scarlet Book was passed down in Briar's family; Porygon2 had already recorded the information from both books.

Walking Wake.

The name sounded quite nice.

All Baimu suddenly developed a mischievous interest: if he captured it and brought it before Suicune, what kind of expression would the latter show?

That would definitely be interesting!

"All Baimu, Iron Leaves has come down." Arven poked his arm with his elbow.

His mischievous impulse interrupted, All Baimu turned his head to look at the future Virizion—Iron Leaves—approaching leisurely.

He asked directly: "Why is Walking Wake here? Did you lure it up?"

"Beep... beep..."

Iron Leaves' tone was strange.

The Rotom Phone said: "Can't understand."

Can't understand?

Doesn't it speak human language?

All Baimu raised an eyebrow. Paradox Pokémon were not like Ultra Beasts; their language systems were still the same as ordinary Pokémon.

At the very least, the Rotom Phone could understand what Scream Tail and Miraidon said.

Nemona waved her hand: "Long time no see! What exactly is going on here? Can you explain?"

The future Swords of Justice maintaining the environment of Area Zero and preventing Paradox Pokémon from escaping had been analyzed, and the Paldea League determined that they had the possibility of communication.

It was just that, like the modern Swords of Justice, they usually didn't appear in front of people at all.

Even if they did appear, they would just watch from afar.

The Paldea Elite Four had tried to communicate with them many times but failed.

"Beep... beep..."

Iron Leaves' voice remained strange. It stared at the few people, then looked at Walking Wake, which was still struggling under Aggron's physical suppression in the distance.

It moved.

But instead of heading toward Walking Wake, it chose to flee.

As if dumping a mess on the group, it leaped high back onto the cliff and disappeared after a few brisk strides.

"This guy... could it be that it lured it here on purpose?"

Arven hypothesized boldly, "It wants us to help it deal with Walking Wake! Using us as a blade to kill!"

Penny pondered for a few seconds and agreed with Arven's statement, "Very likely! Otherwise, there's no way to explain why Walking Wake appeared in the upper layer!"

Nemona was surprised, "Is there some conflict between them?"

"Whether there's a conflict or not, we'll know by asking the other party involved." All Baimu pulled out a Net Ball.

If he wasn't mistaken, Walking Wake should also be a Water-type.

Whoosh!

The small Net Ball pierced the air like a sharp arrow, flying toward Walking Wake, whose head the great monster had deliberately turned away to prevent it from noticing.

But halfway there, a blinding light suddenly flashed!

Snap!

The Net Ball was shattered by a bolt of lightning!

Everyone was shocked!

Was there another Pokémon nearby?

All Baimu's eyes trembled, and he shouted quickly: "Gengar!"

"Gengar!"

The Shiny Gengar leaped out from the shadows, opened its mouth wide to swallow the four of them, and dived back into the shadows, leaving only the other Pokémon in place.

A few seconds later, Gengar spat All Baimu and the others out.

"No follow-up attack?"

He scanned the surroundings; the lightning's speed was too fast, and even his eyesight couldn't capture its path.

An unknown attack caused him to order Gengar to protect them.

But the opponent seemed to have no intention of attacking again, merely destroying the Net Ball.

Of course,

What really made All Baimu overreact was that he hadn't even discovered the target of the attack.

It wasn't him boasting, but his current observation and perception skills were no less than those of a high-level Watchog, and he hadn't been ambushed for many years.

It was always him ambushing others.

Who on earth was the attacker?

"Iya!"

Scream Tail pointed loudly at the sky; although it hadn't seen where the lightning came from, it could hear it.

All Baimu looked up and saw a mass of churning purple clouds.

Clouds?

Purple ones?

"It's the Ancient Raikou!" Nemona gave the answer quickly; how could she forget?

After all, this was the goal of this trip!

The Rotom Phone scanned, "No life-form reaction, pure thundercloud—most likely a move!"

So where exactly was Raikou?

All Baimu suddenly felt a strong pressure and turned his head to look at the cliff on the other side.

The Pokémon that appeared made his pupils shrink.

"Ancient Entei?"

First Suicune, then Raikou, and now even Entei had popped up!

The other three looked up in the direction of the sound and were stunned to see a great lion with a shield-like head crest, as if it had mixed in the bloodline of Bastiodon!

"Roar!!"

It roared angrily, and under the sky covered by the vast sea of clouds, a scorching ball of light quickly took shape.

In an instant.

Orange-red light waves lit up on the surface of Walking Wake, which was being suppressed by Aggron, and Scream Tail was the same.

"Unified ability..."

All Baimu waved his hand and threw out Poké Balls.

Bang! Bang!

Hydreigon, Tinkaton, and other level-90 Pokémon all appeared.

The other three also knew the situation was bad, but except for Nemona swapping Iron Treads for Pawmot, none of them released more Pokémon.

This was only because they knew they didn't have the ability to command several Pokémon at once.

Rather than multi-tasking, it was better to specialize in one.

On the cliff on the other side, the Ancient Raikou they were looking for finally appeared, overlooking the crowd.

"All here at once."

Nemona still had the heart to joke, but her expression was very serious, "Pawmot—"

"Wait."

All Baimu raised his hand, stopping Nemona's attempt to attack.

His eyes met those of the Ancient Entei, "Aggron! Let go of Walking Wake!"

"Guroar!"

The great monster didn't hesitate; even though it might be attacked by the surging Walking Wake, it obediently released it and retreated.

Sure enough, the enraged Walking Wake opened its mouth, intending to spray it fiercely!

"Roar—!!"

The Ancient Entei roared suddenly; the lion-like, highly penetrating roar caused Walking Wake's spraying action to stall.

Afterward, in the surprised eyes of Nemona and the others, Walking Wake struggled to stand up, took a deep look at Aggron as if to remember its appearance, and walked away with a limp, taking slow steps.

Seeing this, the Ancient Entei and Ancient Raikou also retreated one after another, leaving without any lingering attachment.

"What's the situation?"

Arven was confused.

He had thought he was about to face a fierce battle, but they were telling him these three just left?

Penny said calmly: "They didn't attack us, which to a large extent explains the problem."

The Ancient Raikou only destroyed the Net Ball, and the Ancient Entei only roared and set up a harsh sunlight.

From these points, it wasn't hard to find that their attitude was relatively friendly.

At least friendlier than Walking Wake, which launched an attack out of the blue.

"They are called Gouging Fire and Raging Bolt." The Rotom Phone dug out the records about the other two in the Scarlet Book.

All Baimu said: "Their personalities are completely reversed."

"What?"

Nemona and the others were puzzled.

He said: "Entei's personality is relatively impatient, but Gouging Fire is very steady; Raikou is rough, but Raging Bolt doesn't look rough at all; on the contrary, Suicune, which is the most elegant and peaceful, has a Paradox form, Walking Wake, that is very manic."

How do you know what the Entei Guard's personality is?

Question marks appeared on the three people's foreheads; All Baimu's tone was as if he had been in deep contact with the Entei Guard.

But he should have only fought them once in a battle, right?

At least in the situation everyone knew, All Baimu had only defeated Entei once with Hydreigon in the Orre Tournament.

Could it be that they formed a bond that time?

They didn't think deeply; the top priority was to figure out the situation.

"Gouging Fire and the others are here to save Walking Wake, right? I always feel there's something fishy about this."

Arven speculated: "Could it be that Iron Leaves and the others have some conflict with these three?"

This was undoubtedly based on the previous speculation about why Iron Leaves wanted to hand Walking Wake over to them.

Nemona said: "Do the future Swords of Justice want to compete with the Ancient Entei Guard for territory? In Area Zero?"

Pokémon occupying territory was an old convention from ancient times.

It wasn't strange for her to think so.

Penny lowered her head to think but didn't give any speculation, saying: "Let's go ask the Elite Four stationed here; maybe they know something."

Everyone agreed.

Indeed, rather than guessing blindly, it was better to ask the people here.

All Baimu recalled the Pokémon he had sent out and patted Aggron on the arm, "Thank you for your hard work."

"Guroar~"

Aggron responded and shook its head again.

It refused to return to the Poké Ball, wanting to stay outside to protect All Baimu's safety.

As the Pokémon involved in the battle, what it felt was clearer than the onlookers.

Walking Wake's initial anger was mostly directed at Iron Leaves; although the hatred shifted later, the experienced Aggron believed that the opponent very likely regarded them as accomplices.

Wasn't Scream Tail the same?

It always felt like everyone was ganging up to bully it.

Even though there was clearly no such thing.

All Baimu looked at the great monster's azure eyes and nodded: "Alright, then I'll leave it to you."

"Iya!"

Scream Tail was unconvinced; it felt that it was enough on its own.

Iron Leaves, Walking Wake, it could handle them all completely, but All Baimu just wouldn't give it a chance!

Aggron couldn't be bothered to pay attention.

Reasoning with an idiot was a torture; there was no need for it to suffer the same fate Porygon2 had.

The group set off toward the bottom again, and before long, they successfully arrived at Research Station No. 2 and met the second Elite Four member stationed there.

"Hassel-sensei!"

Nemona waved excitedly at the blonde, scholarly-looking man.

Compared to Research Station No. 1, Research Station No. 2 had also been renovated, but it was clearly not as good as the former.

The surrounding engineering machinery was also in a state of suspension.

"Why are you here? Hmm? All Baimu-kun?"

Hassel's eyes lit up, and he stepped forward enthusiastically: "I heard your Hydreigon is already a Long Wang?"

"Yes, you also follow the Long Wang Festival?"

All Baimu asked curiously.

Hassel laughed heartily: "Of course! This is a major event for Dragon Tamers! Besides, you are the Dragon Tamer I pay the most attention to!"

Although he wasn't the first to see All Baimu's infinite potential, Hassel was definitely one of the people who appreciated him the most.

The mutual appreciation between Dragon Tamers!

All Baimu smiled and exchanged pleasantries, then quickly asked the main point, "It's like this, Hassel-san..."

After a brief explanation.

Hassel frowned, and after a brief contemplation, he dialed a number on his phone.

Beep...

Beep...

The call connected.

"Hello?" A listless voice came from the other side.

All Baimu could tell that the person on the other end was Larry, the legendary worker who held three part-time jobs.

Hassel didn't say any superfluous nonsense and quickly explained the situation.

"Ah, this situation, it exists."

Larry gave an affirmative answer.