Pokémon: Starting as a Farmer Instead of a Trainer

Chapter 297 Prison Chief, when will you win the revival match? (Seeking monthly votes)

Milton transformed into a bolt of lightning and sped across the mountaintop. Perhaps their movements had been monitored, for soon out-of-control vultures and Metagross rushed up into the sky from below and attacked them.

"Although I know this wasn't your intention, I'm still sorry. I will provide you with treatment after this incident is over!"

As she spoke, Mingyou's eyes lit up, and she waved her hand and shouted, "Ponpon, chase them all away!"

"Mmm!"

Ponpo put on the Fire Stove Mask, stood on Milton's back, and wielded the Thorn Vine Staff. With an Abyss Thrust, it forcefully interrupted the Metagross's mental power, and then hurled the staff at Vulturena with force. After hitting her head, the Thorn Vine Staff flew back into its hand like a boomerang.

Somewhere in the Giant's Cave, a satellite head watching this scene on the screen was greatly surprised.

"Oh? This Pokémon escaped the control of the radio waves? No... it must have resisted. It seems necessary to capture it and conduct a special experiment on it, but before that..."

He adjusted his glasses, the lenses reflecting the light from the screen, and continued, "I can't let you track me down. If you find out what's going on here, my research funding might be in jeopardy. So let more wild Pokémon go!"

On the other side, after easily defeating the two Pokémon that attacked, Ponpo did not let its guard down. Sitting in Naruto's arms, Meloetta, who had transformed back into its singing form, looked at Ponpo, who could only fight alone, and also wanted to do its part to help everyone.

"Melo!"

I... can fight too!

As long as it can transform back into its dance form, it can still fight, even if it can't maintain that form for long.

Seeing its eagerness to help, Mingyou forced a smile, patted its head, and said, "It's alright, just leave it to Pengpeng."

"Mmm~"

Ponpo smiled and nodded, which made Meloetta feel a little uncomfortable, as she was troubling everyone again.

Milton listened to the conversation and wondered, if they didn't have the strength, why did they even bother to fight?

It doesn't quite understand, and at this stage, it's difficult for it to comprehend Meloetta's ideas...

Milton continued driving them forward, but at this speed, they still couldn't see Riolu. Just as Mingyou was wondering if Team Plasma had some other means to take them away...

Numerous Sunrocks and Moonstones, along with MetalGreymon and IronDumb... wild Pokémon living atop Giant's Cave seem to have been waiting here for a long time, ready to stop them.

"How did they manage to do that?"

Mingyou didn't quite understand how the Plasma Team's black technology could be so outrageous as to control such a large-scale mass out-of-control situation.

"Mmm!"

Faced with so many Pokémon, Ponpo silently apologized in her heart and prepared to fight them, but Naruyu didn't want to waste any more time.

Then he waved and shouted, "Millardton, please, fly!"

"Miller!"

Millerton reacted to the sound, and the wings of light on both sides of its head instantly unfolded, extending into two colorful wings. The jet structure on its hind legs also spewed out purple flames at this moment, and then it soared into the sky!

"ah!?"

The satellite head, which was watching to see how they would be stopped, was dumbfounded when it saw this scene. As a scientist, his ideas were shaken for a moment, and he couldn't understand the structure of the motorcycle at all.

After a moment of shock, he adjusted his glasses, pressed a button next to the screen, and a slight smile appeared on his lips: "Looks like I have no choice but to greet this guest. You barged in here yourself!"

With that, he turned and left the room.

As Milton glided down with Mingyou and the others, they seemed to have bumped into something. A colorful light screen suddenly appeared on the mountaintop, which should have been empty. After flashing, a ship's mast appeared.

As it slowly descended along the incredibly thick metal mast, Milton landed smoothly on the metal deck. Everything that appeared around him after the colorful light curtain dissipated shocked Mingyou.

As night fell, a warship with its sails furled resembled a giant steel dragon perched atop a giant's peak. Its flags fluttered in the wind, the black and white symbolizing the Plasma Team's ambitions.

The gun emplacements on both sides, along with various military equipment, displayed a powerful armed deterrent, which greatly shocked Mingyou. The well-trained crew members in black uniforms, who kept emerging from the fore and aft cabins, with cold expressions, blocked all escape routes.

"Hmm..."

"Melo..."

Ponpon and Meloetta were both stunned, while Millerton was full of questions. What kind of toy is this?

"It seems... I've probably seen something I shouldn't have seen."

Mingyou snapped out of his daze and chuckled. He hadn't expected the Plasma Team to use optical camouflage to dock such a massive destroyer here. If they were to launch a surprise attack, probably no one could withstand it.

As soon as he finished speaking, the plasma team members surrounding him dispersed to both sides, and a satellite-headed man in a white lab coat walked out, holding a tablet computer, and smiled at them.

He immediately greeted her, "Nice to meet you. Although I don't know who you are and I don't care about your identity, since you've managed to find your way here, I must give you a warm welcome!"

"Isn't this a bit too enthusiastic?"

"Haha, just ignore them."

"..."

"Let me introduce myself first. I am Akromma, the chief scientist of the plasma team. As for my job, I can't disclose that."

Akroma adjusted his glasses, speaking to Mingyou with great enthusiasm, showing absolutely no sign of hostility. He continued, "I hope to temporarily invite you to be my friend and tour the interior together."

"Mmm!"

Ponpo doesn't want Mingyou to have a friend like that; this guy clearly doesn't seem like a good person.

Mingyou reached out and stopped it from acting, then looked at Akroma and nodded gently, "Alright then, I'd like to go in and take a look too!"

He knew the other party must have some purpose, but he wasn't sure if N and Riolu were here, and he also needed to figure out why the Pokémon went out of control, so naturally he would just be "friends" for the time being!

Akromar waved his hand, dismissing the other members of Team Plasma, and led Mingyou and the others into the cabin alone. The two had a brief conversation, and it was then that he finally learned Mingyou's name.

"Wow, so you're the one who developed mutant crops? I thought you'd be much older, but you're so young."

"It's all just empty fame, but I'd like to know what kind of research Dr. Akroma is conducting here. My Riolu has been kidnapped."

"As I just mentioned, this is not convenient to discuss, but I can take you on a tour."

Akromar adjusted his glasses and then said with a hint of apology, "As for that Riolu, I just need a nimble Pokémon to help me catch N. After all, that's a task assigned to all of us by the leader. If he hadn't come to Giant's Cave, I wouldn't have bothered to catch him."

"Yeah?"

"Of course, I'm completely absorbed in my research and have no interest in those things. Your Riolu is in the lab downstairs right now, and I'm going to take you there anyway. You can take it with you anytime."

"That's good. So, what about my friend N?"

Mingyou asked with a smile, but Akromma pushed up his glasses and didn't respond immediately. After a moment of silence, he said with a troubled expression, "This is difficult for me to handle, after all, his identity is not simple."

Although the two chatted harmoniously like friends, their words were full of rivalry, and neither of them trusted the other at all; they were just waiting for something.

Stepping into the laboratory, a chill swept over her, making Meloeta wary. Millerton, however, merely glanced at her calmly and paid no attention.

Inside the laboratory, the atmosphere was incredibly eerie and cold, with many experimental instruments that Mingyou couldn't understand, as well as various pipes and glass jars filled with liquid.

But none of these are the most important. Mingyou's attention was instantly drawn to a giant glass jar in the center of the laboratory. She looked at it in astonishment and saw a creature inside, its body connected to pipes that were transmitting energy!

It was a bipedal, asymmetrical, gray-blue Pokémon with a long neck, an ice-blue face and jaw resembling a broken icicle that extended upwards to form two ice horns, eyes tightly closed, and a unique ice-blue thorny nose.

It has a yellow crest on its head, two fingers on each of its two claws that connect to two ice-block wings. The wings have flat ends with two ice spikes on each side, and the tail has only three ice spikes at the end. Overall, it looks as if it is empty and void.

[Kyurem: A Pokémon from the Boundary. It is sleeping. Do not disturb it. It will awaken when reality or ideality appears and use them to fill its body to protect that future. You can only gain its favor by being recognized by Reshiram or Zekrom.]

"This is……"

Mingyou's eyes widened, and she hesitated, as if she wanted to say something but then stopped.

Hey, you haven't even won the revival round yet, how come you've already been caught and used as a power bank!

Seeing his shocked expression, Akroma assumed he didn't recognize it and gestured, introducing, "This is the third dragon not even recorded in the Unova legends, and it possesses terrifying power surpassing Zekrom and Reshiram!"

"So this is your plan?"

"You got half right, so I'll give you 75 points."

Akromah pushed up her glasses, a slight smile playing on her lips, seemingly finally deciding to stop pretending. She snapped her fingers and said with a laugh, "Kyurem's power is indeed terrifying, but it's useless if he can't wake up!"

"So I absorbed its power and converted it into the power source for this destroyer, as well as the power source for the controller I developed. That's why I tricked you into coming here. Otherwise, how could this Pokémon have followed me in?"

With that, Akromar waved his hand, and from somewhere in the laboratory, a wave of electricity formed by absorbing Kyurem's power shot straight toward Ponpon!

Seeing the radio wave hit its mark precisely, Acromantr completely revealed its true nature at that moment, letting out a gleeful smile: "This Pokémon is mine now!"

……

(End of this chapter)