Chapter 493: Twin Dragons Descend!

A full half-minute later.

The transport plane finally stopped its unstable, violent shaking.

And when Baimu and the others quickly looked outside, what greeted their eyes was the offshore waters of Kanaz City, which had been turned upside down by Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre.

They saw layer upon layer of massive waves frozen solid by terrifying cold air, transforming into jagged, menacing ice spikes; the exaggerated coverage area made it nothing less than a small island composed entirely of frigid ice.

The abnormal temperature originally brought by the End of the World had been neutralized, making the environment a touch more comfortable…

But the situation had grown even more tense.

In the far distance, police and television station helicopters had barely managed to stabilize themselves through the earlier energy storm, and were now fleeing back toward the dock at top speed. One could tell they had also realized that a battle between these ancient Pokémon was absolutely not something ordinary people could spectate from the sky.

And directly in front of the small island.

The culprit, Primal Kyogre, floated half-submerged on the water's surface, coldly staring at Primal Groudon, who had been frozen into a Bingshan.

Crack-crack-crack—

After a series of crisp cracking sounds, Primal Groudon, with searing magma flowing across its body, shattered the Bingshan imprisoning it. The two locked gazes, seeming to be at an impasse, yet also seeming on the verge of resuming battle.

The people inside the transport plane inevitably felt heavy-hearted, yet unanimously turned their attention to the dazzling light in the sky above.

"The energy expansion rate on the sea surface is still rising! The crystallization density is also accelerating—it's about to start solidifying!"

The intelligence officer's timely reminder made everyone grow serious.

Baimu cast a covert glance at Alain, and upon noticing a momentary unnaturalness in his expression, understood that Fladist was privately messaging the kid, coaxing him into charging in to his death.

Saying things like "the Megalith only holds meaning when it belongs to humanity," leading this chuunibyou youngster to be fooled into losing his head—Lion-Head, you truly have no heart!

Sure enough.

Alain suddenly said in a low voice: "I understand."

He then casually pulled out a Poké Ball and hurled it outward. "Go! Charizard!"

Champion Dawu, his face full of bewilderment, cried out in shock at his action: "Alain! What are you doing!?"

"I'm going to stop those two Pokémon!" Alain declared with a resolute expression, swiftly pulling out a Mega Stone and completing the Mega Evolution with the Charizard flying alongside outside.

The gazes of Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre were drawn to it, and the brief impasse was instantly broken.

"Roooooar!"

Mega Charizard X suddenly dove toward Primal Groudon.

The latter, hot-tempered as ever, opened its sharp massive jaws capable of biting through steel plate, and rapidly gathered a sun-like emerald radiance, which then transformed into a roaring emerald light pillar that blasted toward the incoming Mega Charizard X!

【Solar Beam】!

Boom—!

The sea surface continuously exploded with towering sprays of water as the emerald light pillar swept across it!

Fortunately, Mega Charizard X reacted quickly enough, swiftly spiraling and weaving around the light pillar, using its agility to dodge Primal Groudon's Solar Beam.

Inside the transport plane, Champion Dawu helplessly and headache-ingly sent out his Shiny Metagross, while Miss Xijiana beside him wordlessly sent out her Salamence as well. The two, in tacit coordination, went to stop Primal Kyogre, which was trying to take advantage of the chaos to swallow the un-solidified Megalith.

"Flash Cannon!"

"Dragon Pulse!"

The silver-white and azure energy pillars thundered forward, and amid Peng Peng's explosive roar, they struck down Primal Kyogre—which had opened its bloody maw wide like a carp leaping through the dragon gate—onto the ice surface.

Its massive body immediately crushed a great amount of floating ice.

"Meh-tah!"

"Roar!"

The Shiny Metagross and Salamence exchanged a glance, both well aware that despite appearances, the moves had landed and been effective, in reality they had caused Primal Kyogre essentially no damage.

Being able to knock it down was entirely thanks to gravity.

"Ugh!"

Alain, snapping back to attention from Mega Charizard X's side, looked toward Champion Dawu and Miss Xijiana.

The former said solemnly: "Are you planning to defend the Megalith from them with only Charizard?"

Alain clenched his fists. "But I can't just sit by and do nothing!"

"You're right."

Miss Xijiana said without turning her head: "The Megalith absolutely cannot be taken by them. It would be a disaster for the Hoenn continent and even the world!"

"You guys are really…" Champion Dawu swallowed the word "reckless." At this point, further complaint or blame was meaningless. He pinched his brooch, and Miss Xijiana not far away also revealed her ankle band.

"I'll handle Kyogre! Mega Evolve!" "Salamence! Mega Evolve!"

The two shouted in succession, and the colorful light of Mega Evolution immediately engulfed the Shiny Metagross and Salamence.

After a brief breath, Mega Metagross—with its eight thick arms resembling precision machinery—and Mega Salamence—with its wings merged into one forming a blood-red crescent moon—made their joint appearance.

"Meh—tah!"

"Roar!

"

The two growled as they charged toward Primal Kyogre, their explosive speed stirring up surging massive waves on the sea surface!

"Ridiculous…"

Baimu knew full well that ordinary Pokémon could not possibly defeat these legendary Pokémon—even those raised by Champions could at most only suppress them briefly.

So he was still hoping for Rayquaza to step in and suppress them.

But with reluctance, the three people beside him had already entered the fray. Could he alone stay out of it?

"I'm counting on you! Focus on containment! Don't engage Groudon in casual combat!" He sent out Dragapult and two Dreepy. At such extreme distances without the telepathic link of Mega Evolution, commanding them was basically out of the question.

Therefore, sending out the more autonomous, invisible, and high-speed Dragapult was the optimal choice.

"Rurua…"

The moment the socially anxious dragon appeared, the three people beside him immediately cast their gazes over.

Although no one said anything, All Baimu already felt his scalp go numb and cold sweat running down his back, so he quickly entered stealth mode and flew toward Primal Groudon.

The latter was certainly terrifying, but compared to being stared at by so many people, it was nothing.

In an instant.

This battle changed from a one-on-one between ancient Pokémon to a four-on-two between Mega Pokémon plus quasi-legendary Pokémon and ancient Pokémon. Although the mission was mainly to pin them down, both Alan and Champion Dawu, Miss Xijiana were suppressed by the strength of the two ancient Pokémon to the point of getting a bit heated.

Even taking the initiative to attack Primal Groudon and Primal Kyogre, looking as though they were determined to vie with them.

Fortunately, being heated also had its limits; they were all very clear they couldn't take hits from these two Pokémon head-on, so they did their best to have their Pokémon fight while dodging.

It's just that the moves they chose were very strange.

Alan's Mega Charizard X using Flamethrower on Primal Groudon goes without saying, but Champion Dawu, what do you mean using Aura Sphere on Primal Kyogre?

Fire against a Fire-type and Steel against Water, and they're special attacks too — what, afraid of actually dealing damage?

It's not like there aren't other more effective moves.

Dragon Claw and Psychic aren't both right there? You'd used them against each other before…

Can only say the two of them were both heated up and at the same time understood they couldn't casually engage in close combat.

All Baimu observed for a while, and only felt that the moves Miss Xijiana chose were clearly much wiser — she knew how to use Mega Salamence's Aerilate ability, staying at range to tease Kyogre into breaking up its Hydro Pump to create chaos for it.

On the other side, the All Baimu assisting Mega Charizard X was also fairly clever — not Bai Chi enough to send Dragon Pulse out with the Duraludon and the like to die, just continuously firing Dragon Pulse, and when Groudon noticed it, immediately using Phantom Force to teleport away.

Therefore.

Unlike the one-sided scene in an instant in the original work, Primal Kyogre's side successfully became entangled in a prolonged fight, and Primal Groudon's side, due to its size factor, was also greatly annoyed, with its anger accumulating substantially.

Everything was developing in a good direction—

Hm!?

All Baimu suddenly widened his eyes, his gaze freezing on the unmoving Primal Groudon. He wasn't sure if it was an illusion, but the bright yellow energy flowing like magma on the latter's surface seemed to shine even more brilliantly, and the distant Primal Kyogre seemed to be the same.

The unease in his heart immediately rose to the extreme, and he shouted: "Quickly retreat! All Baimu!"

"Retreat! Protect!"

Champion Dawu's voice also rang out beside his ear, and then he saw Mega Metagross and Mega Salamence attempting to move away from the equally motionless Primal Kyogre.

It seemed he wasn't the only one with keen perception.

But the unfortunate thing was that the ancient Pokémon wouldn't wait for their Pokémon to all safely withdraw before leisurely unleashing their big moves.

At this moment.

He saw Primal Groudon raise its head and roar wildly, the lava-covered ground rapidly spreading outward, countless crimson lava pillars rising from the earth, thud thud thud thud like muffled war drums, surging out in all directions like a forest of stone!

Completely unlike the small-scale skirmishing traces from earlier.

And on the other side, countless sapphire-blue energy bullets hovered on Primal Kyogre's surface, spewing out dense brilliant blue light pillars, every landing point a terrifying mix of explosion and spray!

Rumble rumble rumble—!

!

The massive energy impact once again made the transport plane shake violently, but the four people present were more concerned about their own Pokémon.

He saw the spherical light shield in front of Mega Metagross being crushed with ease, the remaining energy bombarding its body, causing it to fall from the air.

Mega Salamence was slightly better off — it successfully used the towering spray of water to dodge a light pillar, but no longer dared to approach Primal Kyogre.

On Primal Groudon's side, All Baimu saw the situation turn bad and shrank into the "other dimension" of Phantom Force.

He had originally intended to pull Mega Charizard X in as well, but who would have thought the latter flew too fast and dodged too diligently to be caught, and crashed headfirst into a lava pillar, then was stabbed in the head and belly by two more pillars in succession!

Thud thud!

Distorted flames covered Mega Charizard X.

"Charizard!"

Horrified, Alan shouted with all his might, seeing Mega Charizard X fall toward the ice in the smoke, crashing with a thud into a big pit and being buried by ice chunks, and without hesitation rappelled down with a rope.

"Alan!?" Champion Dawu couldn't stop him even if he wanted to, nearly scared to death by the reckless youngster, and only thanks to the latter's decent skills did he land safely.

He immediately ran to the cockpit, "Quickly lower altitude!"

The pilot responded.

Miss Xijiana looked at the legendary megalith that had yet to take shape, and for a moment didn't know what to do — given Primal Kyogre's performance just now, how could they possibly beat it!

No wonder the ancestors could only pray for the help of the Dragon God Rayquaza.

On the ice island.

Barely managing to help Mega Charizard X up, Alan, discovering its tail flame had dimmed, quickly recalled it, but inevitably suffered heavy from the波及 of the ancient Pokémon that had started fighting again.

These two fellows had driven off the other intruders, and without hesitation started fighting each other.

They even staged a melee.

He saw Primal Kyogre leap up like a fish only to be grabbed by Primal Groudon and hurled far away, instantly collapsing numerous glaciers, and the latter's volcanic-eruption-like lava bombs also caused the explosion shockwave to run rampant in all directions, which also caused Alan's fragile little body to be sent flying and slammed hard against an ice rock.

What is fate?

All Baimu saw this scene and was nearly speechless, and the pilot over there also shouted, "Someone opened the rear hatch!"

He looked over, and sure enough it was those two restless fellows, Manon and Chespin, who, seeing Alan injured, immediately rushed over without a care.

"Manon…" Champion Dawu's scalp went numb. If there were no comparison it would be fine, but with the more composed All Baimu standing beside him, he felt these two newly acquainted little friends were simply too impulsive.

Suddenly.

A gale swept in, glaciers shattered.

The transport plane that had just been preparing to land had to quickly gain altitude.

"Manon!

"

"Leave it to me!" All Baimu pressed down Champion Dawu's slightly impatient arm, gave him a calming look, and immediately used Porygon's Teleport to arrive at a safe spot on the ice.

He hurried to catch up with Manon. In the distance, Primal Groudon used Solar Beam to bombard Primal Kyogre's body, and the ice stones shaken up came crashing down wildly along with the shockwave.

"Don't move!"

Baimu grabbed Manon, who was already scared stiff, and Elaine, who had fainted, hooked Hariyama with his foot, and teleported once more, landing on a floating ice floe not far from the transport plane.

The Mega Metagross and Mega Salamence rushed over together to rescue them, continuously using various moves to shatter the lingering shockwaves from the clash of the legendary Pokémon.

The transport plane descended again in altitude so that Baimu could teleport back up.

A moment later.

Baimu returned safely to the transport plane's cabin with Manon, Elaine, and Hariyama.

"Phew… good thing you were there." Champion Dawu let out a long, heavy breath and smiled in relief.

He was truly afraid that something might happen to Manon and Elaine; if it did, he as the Champion could hardly escape blame, and even if no one else blamed him, he would blame himself.

Miss Xijiana also nodded approvingly — no matter how you looked at it, his willingness to risk his life to save people deserved praise.

"Don't be so reckless next time."

Baimu said this to Manon, who had finally come back to her senses, then his gaze drifted to a corner of the cabin; sensing the presence of Dragapult, his mood eased along with it.

One reason he had rushed down was to save people; another was to see whether Dragapult was secretly protecting the falling Mega Charizard X.

After checking, it turned out to be exactly that.

Too bad it hadn't been able to save Elaine at the time — it had been busy quietly shattering the flying shards of ice and hadn't managed to lend the kid a hand.

"No big deal."

Baimu checked Elaine's physical condition; the guy had just knocked his head against Bingshan and passed out — a bit more serious than in the original plot, because the distance was relatively closer, but it was still just a matter of lying around for half a day.

Anyway, he had no more scenes after this — he'd be a full-time shocked onlooker.

Baimu turned his head, saw the light outside flare up suddenly as if a sun had descended upon the world, and knew in his heart that the Legendary Titan was condensing.

Sure enough.

Surging energy transformed into violent tremors, slamming into everyone's line of sight.

"It's regenerating!" Miss Xijiana's voice reached his ears.

The crystalline, translucent giant presence in midair was unmistakably the Legendary Titan they had been pursuing.

"Roar!

"

"Shiiyaa—!

"

Primal Kyogre and Primal Groudon raised their heads and howled together, but after their gazes swept past the Titan, they fixed on the dark clouds that had suddenly begun to churn and swirl.

As the cloud layers flowed, a dazzling Jin Guang shone down upon everything like a god descending to the mortal world.

Champion Dawu couldn't help but look at Baimu. "Could this be…?"

"It absolutely is!"

Baimu looked up at the heavens and replied without the slightest hesitation.

The moment his words fell—

A thunderous boom rang out from within the clouds, and two resplendent golden long dragons, eyes glowing red, descended from the sky — one cyan, one black — wantonly spiraling through the air, their golden dragon whiskers whipping about ceaselessly, appearing incomparably sacred!

"Two of them appearing together!?" Both Champion Dawu and Miss Xijiana were stunned.

Baimu was even more shocked. "What's going on? They've formed an alliance! How did I not know!?"