As soon as the little Duraludon appeared, it couldn't wait to charge toward the attacks launched by Arbok and Vileplume.
After being a salted fish for such a long time, it was finally time for him, the great general of the dragon clan, to show his power.
As a Steel-type pokemon, he usually bathed in venom.
When Axel released the little Duraludon, he had already aimed carefully.
Now the position where he appeared was very clever, basically within the range of Sludge Bomb and Toxic's projectile.
The little Duraludon merely shook its body lightly and easily caught the two attacks.
Poof!
A dull sound mixed with a slight corrosion noise rang out on the Duraludon's body, and the little guy immediately felt extremely comfortable.
Compared to the working snakes in Dragon Lake Park, the attacks of these two pokemons were much stronger.
Not only did it easily remove the impurities on the little guy's body, but it even produced an effect similar to polishing.
The little guy's body visibly grew by a size, and its level increased.
Axel's mouth slightly lifted.
He had thought that fighting Ariana should be relatively easy, after all, his Gardevoir restrained the opponent's Dark-type pokemon, Murkrow.
As for Ariana's other pokemons, Axel had actually long forgotten them.
But he absolutely didn't expect that the opponent would actually bring out a Poison-type pokemon and a Poison + Grass-type pokemon.
The little Duraludon's Steel + Dragon attributes gave it immunity to Poison and quadruple resistance to Grass.
It could completely rub these two guys into the ground.
"Duraludon, use Dragon Claw to suppress these two pokemons."
"Pheromosa, stir up an Icy Wind, use your speed advantage to lock down the battlefield, if they leave the Duraludon, use Stomp!"
After completing the battlefield division, Axel refocused his attention on the battle between Gardevoir and Murkrow.
For the Duraludon, those two pokemons were just small fry.
The key was still whether Gardevoir could defeat Murkrow.
Ariana also noticed this and directly gave up commanding the other two pokemons, letting Murkrow launch a strong attack on Gardevoir.
"Murkrow, use Night Shade on Gardevoir!"
"Gardevoir, Will-O-Wisp!"
The two gave commands almost simultaneously, but unfortunately, Murkrow still hadn't escaped the confusion state, flying around aimlessly in the air.
It crashed headfirst into the Icy Wind stirred up by Pheromosa, and the toxic orb's effect triggered again, shaving off nearly a quarter of Murkrow's health.
Under the cold of the ice crystals and the pain of the poison, Murkrow let out a muffled groan, successfully breaking out of the confusion state.
Just then, Gardevoir's Will-O-Wisp also reached Murkrow.
The eerie flames covered Murkrow's body, quickly turning into a searing Fire-type energy, putting Murkrow into a burn status.
Ariana did a quick calculation; under the dual effects of poison and burn, Murkrow could now at most withstand two Moonblast hits from Gardevoir.
But from the start until now, her ace pokemon, Murkrow, hadn't even launched a single attack.
Under Axel's command, Gardevoir once again used Moonblast.
The moonlight came crashing down, fiercely slamming toward the heavily debuffed Murkrow.
Ariana was shocked to find that she had completely fallen into the opponent's battle rhythm.
'Since it is like this...'
"Murkrow, use Protect!"
Murkrow nodded, quickly raising a white, glowing, semi-transparent shield, steadily receiving the falling moonlight.
Ariana's mouth curved into a smile.
'After such a storm-like assault, the opponent must be exhausted, right?'
A trainer's battle is extremely tense, especially in wild battles.
Not only do you have to consider the pokemon's attack rhythm, guess the opponent's moves, but also constantly pay attention to your own safety.
The vast majority of trainers find it very difficult to stay at their peak state continuously.
"If that's the case, then it's my turn to counterattack."
"Murkrow, use Night Shade, take down this Gardevoir in one strike."
"Let these people who resist our Team Rocket see how invincible Team Rocket is!"
Axel looked at Ariana like he was looking at an idiot.
'At least Gary would pop champagne at halftime, you're about to get killed and still popping champagne?'
"What are you so excited about? Someone who didn't know better would think you already won."
Under Ariana's stunned gaze, Gardevoir suddenly hooked its finger at the Murkrow that was gathering Night Shade.
Murkrow froze mid-air, tilting its head slightly.
'Is this Gardevoir saying that my Protect isn't perfect enough?'
'Since that's the case, I'll show you what a perfect Protect is!'
Seeing her Murkrow completely lose its fighting ability, Ariana clenched her fists tightly, blue veins bulging on her forehead.
'This Gardevoir trainer is too dirty!'
She could accept that her Arbok and Vileplume were restrained by attributes, but she really couldn't accept being defeated by a Gardevoir trainer in this manner.
'If you're so dirty at heart, why don't you play Poison-types instead?'
'Who says Poison-types are dirty?'
'Who says villains are bad?'
'You're the dirty and bad one!'
The only thing that made Ariana slightly comforted was that Axel didn't seem bad to the core, at least he didn't send out another pokemon specifically to take her out.
The moment this thought settled, she suddenly caught Axel's gaze clashing with hers.
Ariana had a bad premonition.
Before she could react, Axel's clothes suddenly bulged wildly, and a surge of violent psychic power erupted.
The metal cabinet between Axel and Ariana slowly floated up and smashed down toward Ariana.
"Sorry, I don't have more pokemons to spare to deal with you right now."
"But... luckily I know a little bit of psychic power."
Ariana: "???"
'Are you freaking kidding me?'
"Vileplume, use Growth."
The moment Ariana gave the command, she quickly hid behind Vileplume.
Under the effect of Growth, Vileplume's body instantly enlarged, with two upward circles of light appearing on its body.
Attack and Special Attack were both boosted.
However, Ariana didn't continue to command Vileplume to fight, instead taking advantage of Axel's attack gap to rush toward the biotic bredding tank in the corner of the room.
Inside that bredding tank, a green Pokémon connected by tubes and chains was imprisoned.
It was precisely the Mewtwo who had just mentally communicated with Axel.
"Kid, don't think you can beat me."
"As a senior researcher and senior executive of Team Rocket, I am undefeated," Ariana's tone carried madness.
"You forced me."
"As long as I release this pokemon, everything nearby will be destroyed."
"And you will be the sinner who caused it all!"
Seeing Ariana, who looked like a mad dog running to the bredding tank, Axel was completely dumbfounded.
He had just secretly tried to use psychic power to free Mewtwo, but the machinery seemed to be made of very special alloy.
No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move it in the slightest.
But now... Ariana actually wanted to actively release Mewtwo.
'Do you know that your Mewtwo has already understood the meaning of life?'
Seeing Axel seemingly stunned in place, Ariana's lips curled into a cold smile.
In her view, Axel must have already been scared stiff by the psychic power leaking from Mewtwo.
"Kid, do you know what terrifying existence you're about to face?"
"Unfortunately... you're destined to not escape!"
Axel: "..."
'Yeah, yeah, right!'
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