Chapter 116: The City in Chaos
It was supposed to be an ordinary day, or so I thought.
Last night, I was at the police station handling the recent frequent poaching cases, working until almost midnight before going home to wash up and sleep. It had been a long time since I'd gotten home so late. You should know, I've always had regular living habits; after all, staying up late is bad for the skin.
Speaking of which, I grit my teeth with hatred for that despicable group of Pokémon poachers.
Not only did they attempt to invade the Pokémon Ecological Reserve, but they didn't even spare the Pokémon deposited at the Pokémon Center. These past few days, a lot of effort has been spent searching for this group of people.
What's strange is that in the past, their crimes were always aimed at being low-key and inconspicuous. How is it that this time, their crimes are so high-profile, so rampant? As if they were afraid we police wouldn't know they were going to steal Pokémon?
When things are abnormal, there must be a demon at play.
However, I don't know if it's because it was too obvious, but we police managed to catch quite a few of them. Recently, they've also become slightly more low-key; at least, there haven't been too many cases in the past two days. In that case, the matter should be resolved soon.
Ah, I hope for peace in the world, otherwise, my skin is going to get wrinkles from staying up late. Heavens, I'm only in my 20s.
With my mind full of all sorts of messy thoughts, I fell into a deep sleep, until my cute little Growlithe started barking frantically at the window.
"Woof, woof, woof, woof!"
"Ugh, Growlithe, what's wrong with you?"
The seemingly ceaseless howling was a bit much for me to bear. I couldn't help but get out of bed to look at Growlithe.
"Good boy, stop barking. Let me sleep a little longer."
Seeing that the sky outside wasn't fully bright yet, my sleepiness was still irresistible. I tried to pat Growlithe to calm him down.
But my usually docile and well-behaved Growlithe still bared its teeth, as if there was something outside the window that terrified it.
I also noticed this and, yawning, thought of walking to the window.
"Rumble—" Suddenly, a distinct tremor made me a little unsteady on my feet.
"What's wrong, an earthquake?!!"
My still-hazy mind instantly cleared. However, compared to a regular earthquake, I thought of a more accurate possibility.
"Could it be that the Pokémon in the reserve has awakened?!!"
Ever since the Pokémon League escorted that Pokémon to the reserve, there had been occasional ground tremors from time to time. But never had one been this intense and obvious.
I hurriedly pulled open the curtains.
In that instant.
"BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM—" A huge explosion sounded from outside the window. The shockwave of the explosion even made the windows of my room rattle violently.
At the same time, my phone rang frantically.
"Officer Jenny, it's not good... Y-you, look outside!"
Holding my phone, I looked out the window in a daze.
An incomparably huge Pokémon was standing tall in the center of the city, its whole body wreathed in black aura. Its seven red dots flickered with an ominous black-red light.
…
Time rewinds to a few minutes earlier.
Verdant Leaf City, in the depths of the Pokémon Ecological Reserve.
"Beep, beep, beep, beep—"
As if awakened from a deep sleep by the noise, the legendary Pokémon known as the Steel God Pillar, Registeel, slowly regained consciousness.
"Thump." It pushed off the ground with its black arms, its steel-like body gradually rising from a semi-lying position to a standing one.
Damn it, how has the place I was sleeping in changed again?
Registeel's 360-degree vision allowed It to see clearly where It was.
At this moment, It noticed the creature standing before It.
It knew of this creature. It seemed to be called "human"—a despicable creature that would commit all sorts of vile acts to satisfy its own desires. When It recalled this creature, the unpleasant past events made Registeel become irritable.
In times past, "humans" would always awaken It from Its sleeping place, then use an object with magical power to trap It, calling it "capture" for the sake of appearances, and then use Its power to realize their own ambitions.
Although Registeel didn't care how humans fought among themselves, It was very dissatisfied with its experiences of being repeatedly bound and then used—even if the humans who bound It would eventually perish in the river of time, and It would eventually return to Its initial slumbering place.
Is the human before Me going to use My power again?
Thinking of this, Registeel's mood grew worse and worse.
Suddenly, that human with a greedy face took out a spherical object.
It recognized this object. It seemed to be called a "Poké Ball" by humans? But it was different from the ones It had seen before. The so-called Poké Balls of the past were mostly red and white, or blue and white. Some humans even used purple and white Poké Balls to bind It. But this thing before It, it was actually entirely black?
But no matter what, this time, Registeel was determined to make this human retreat in the face of difficulty.
"Beep, beep!"
A strange trill resonated in the cave. The massive Steel God Pillar waved its palm, crudely swatting away the thrown Dark Poké Ball.
However, its expectation of smashing the Poké Ball with one slap fell through. That strange Poké Ball "popped" open, and a thick black mist overflowed from within the sphere, enveloping Registeel's entire body in a very short time.
Even the Poacher General Captain hadn't expected this Poké Ball to be so bizarre.
In the past, even when they used forceful means to poach or rob Pokémon, they still needed to use violence to force the Pokémon to submit before they could forcibly capture them with a Poké Ball. But this Dark Poké Ball seemed to make that common sense no longer true.
But he, on the contrary, liked this effortless method of capture even more.
"This Poké Ball is really amazing. It can capture a legendary Pokémon without even a fight." The General Captain's mind was filled with greed. He couldn't help but lick his somewhat dry lips. "If I had this kind of legendary Pokémon, and then snatched this kind of black Poké Ball from that organization, wouldn't I be able to do whatever I want?"
"Beep, beep... da."
The Dark Poké Ball shook frantically a few times and finally lit up, signaling a successful capture.
The General Captain slowly walked forward and picked up the Dark Poké Ball.
The moment the Poké Ball was in his hand, the continuous shaking made him feel astonished.
"What, you want to cause a scene here?"
An irrepressible, ferocious restlessness came from within the Dark Poké Ball.
The black light in the General Captain's eyes also brightened a few degrees.
"Alright, as you wish." He threw the Poké Ball. In a cloud of black mist, the Steel-type legendary Pokémon composed of a spherical body and cylindrical legs, Registeel, reappeared.
However, upon its appearance, the Steel God Pillar, which was originally only a little over 2 meters tall, under the strange power of the black mist, "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh," continuously expanded upwards.
"Bang, bang," It broke through the top of the cave, pierced through the ground of the reserve. The entire Pokémon, like an inflating balloon, swelled to a height of nearly 20 meters.
"Ah, is this the might of a legendary Pokémon..."
The General Captain, standing on Registeel's hemispherical shoulder, looked down at the entire Verdant Leaf City, at the panicked people and Pokémon fleeing everywhere, and at his underlings who were like ants in size yet still sent up fanatical shouts. A feeling called arrogance filled his heart.
"Hahahaha, what a magnificent view this is!"
The General Captain laughed maniacally.
"Go, Steel God Pillar, Registeel! Unleash your wrath!"
"Omm, omm, omm—"
Endless black mist erupted from Registeel's body, sweeping over more than half of Verdant Leaf City.
One by one, 7 points of light, shimmering with a black-red glow, appeared indistinctly in the black mist.
The black mist outlined a massive humanoid form.
The legendary giant!
The Steel God Pillar, Registeel!
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