"Why did you stop me?"
Although Rayquaza had listened to Cain's words and no longer attacked Deoxys again, he still did not understand the reason.
Rayquaza's body could be seen shining as he undid his primordial form, while coiling himself in space.
Cain looked toward Deoxys and discovered that the external wounds on its body had practically already disappeared. If anything remained, it was only some internal injuries.
"Calm down. He will not seize your divine authority, nor will he represent any threat to you again. I will keep him under control," Cain said to Rayquaza.
Hearing that, Rayquaza was stunned. Immediately afterward, he seemed to react and frowned.
"You were using me from the beginning?"
Cain spread his hands, indicating that it was not like that.
"Were we not using each other from the beginning? But you can rest assured. I keep my word. If I say that he will not affect your divine authority, then he will not affect it. You can choose to believe me."
Rayquaza stared fixedly into Cain's eyes for a long while, and in the end, he ended up giving in.
Because now, he no longer perceived any threatening aura from Deoxys, and his divine authority also showed no fluctuations, which proved that his divine authority truly had not been affected.
In reality, from the beginning, Cain had taken advantage of the fact that Rayquaza did not understand Deoxys as a Pokémon and did not know its characteristics.
Deoxys, indeed, could be considered a Legendary Pokémon, but if speaking strictly, from the essence of a Pokémon, it could be considered a Mythical Pokémon.
That is, an existence the same as Mew or Celebi.
Because of that, although Deoxys's divine authority conflicted with Rayquaza's divine authority, because their energy sources were different and there was an essential difference between the two, they would not affect each other.
That was also the reason why Cain dared to assure that it would have no effect on Rayquaza.
Seeing Deoxys's somewhat dazed and clumsy appearance, Rayquaza also did not understand why this Pokémon had been able to erupt with such powerful strength a moment ago.
No matter whether it was injured or not, whether its attacks hit or not, none of that seemed to affect its emotions.
Or, to say it more directly, the opponent simply had no emotions.
After confirming that Deoxys showed no abnormality, Cain withdrew it into the Master Ball.
Then he signaled to Rayquaza and flew toward the ground.
This time, Rayquaza no longer showed any rejection toward the fact that Cain was standing on his head.
And before everyone's eyes, that mysterious man dressed in a spacesuit and Rayquaza, after pulverizing that enormous meteorite, defeated a Pokémon with a very strange appearance.
The entire crisis ended in that instant.
Although there would still be quite a few meteorite fragments falling from space toward the ground, if it was only at that scale, clearly it would not cause too great an impact on the entire planet.
Below, there were still so many League experts waiting. At least they had to be given something to do; he could not let them feel too relaxed.
"Eh..."
Just as Cain was preparing to return, he suddenly saw among those meteorite fragments a small shining crystal emitting light.
With a thought in mind, Cain patted Rayquaza's head, and under Rayquaza's helpless expression, they flew toward that small luminous fragment.
He took it with his hand and felt a warm sensation.
He opened his palm to look at it.
"A Mega Stone?" Cain said in surprise.
In his possession, he had more than a hundred Mega Stones, practically covering all the Mega Stones existing in the Pokémon world.
Although it could not be said that he had them all, in general terms, he possessed most of them, except for some especially scarce ones or those of which there was only one in the entire Pokémon world.
And by pure coincidence, the one Cain had just found and had in his hand was precisely one he did not possess.
Only, for the moment, he did not know which Pokémon that Mega Stone belonged to.
But the instant Cain held that Mega Stone, he vaguely felt that it seemed to have a great connection with him.
As if he had perceived something, he suddenly turned his head, and a Pokémon entered his field of vision.
Mewtwo!
And Mewtwo also seemed to have felt something. His eyes looked in a daze at Cain's right hand, or rather, at the Mega Stone in Cain's right hand!
"Could it be a Mega Stone belonging to Mewtwo? Am I that lucky?" Cain murmured.
But now, clearly, was not the time to test it.
First, he had to return to solid ground!
Cain and Rayquaza passed through the atmosphere again and returned inside the planet.
Although Rayquaza had defeated Deoxys, in reality, when he had pulverized the enormous meteorite with all his strength and when he had broken Deoxys's defensive form, he had suffered some injuries, to a greater or lesser extent.
Because of that, after passing through the atmosphere, he directly left Cain.
However, Rayquaza also had no intention of going back on his word. Before leaving, he once again handed Cain an emerald-green sphere the same as before.
It was a Summoning Pearl that could summon him once more!
It would allow Cain to summon him again when he needed it.
After explaining the matter, he directly left.
Cain, for his part, summoned Salamence and flew toward Mt. Chimney. Today, all matters that had to be resolved had to be resolved!
When Cain appeared in the sky, the images transmitted by the internet and television also once again showed the interior of the planet.
Especially when Cain was riding Salamence and began to slowly remove the special spacesuit, the entire Pokémon world was shaken.
They had speculated for so long, wanting to know who that person carrying the entire Pokémon world on his shoulders and advancing was. They did not expect that now, the result would actually be revealed.
It was precisely someone everyone knew, the previous Champion of the Hoenn region, Cain!
That person who had once caused an enormous commotion across the entire internet.
Although he had disappeared for a year, although he had kept silent without appearing for a year, and even although his identity as Champion had been replaced by his good friend Steven, on the internet, there were still countless followers of Cain!
Seeing at this instant that that person was actually Cain, the entire internet and all the people in front of the televisions once again erupted in shock.
Those diehard fans who had once belonged to Cain appeared again, and those followers who originally only went with the flow, at this moment, no one knew how many of them became diehard fans.
From then on, the detractors became neutral, and the neutrals became fans.
(End of chapter)