How come my Pokémon turned into a girl?

Realizing that Beedrill had surpassed them in speed after its mega evolution, Genta hurriedly took advantage of Sakaki's focus on strengthening Mega Beedrill's attack and had Alphabat use its Tail Wind move.

The purple wings flapped, creating a violent whirlwind on the field. This airflow would always maintain the same direction of movement as Touye, pushing her body faster.

Chapter 136: Second Chance

In this way, the speed gap is eliminated. No... it should be said that the Crossbat is coming faster!

A flash of purple appeared behind Mega Beedrill. Before it could turn its head, Shiye controlled its sharp wings and chopped down on its head.

The insect's head quickly turned to the side, barely avoiding the attack of the cross-bat's wings, but one of its hard tentacles was still cut off.

"Toya, keep attacking with your wings!"

The Crossbat flapped its wings and dodged the sting of the Mega Beedrill, flew a big circle in the air, and circled again to the enemy's blind spot, and its wings cut towards the opponent's transparent insect wings like knives.

However, this time, Mega Beedrill seemed to have sensed some murderous intent. Before Touye approached, it vibrated its wings and dodged to the side, allowing the opponent's attack to hit the air directly.

What happened? Yuan Tai was slightly stunned. He was clearly unable to react to Shiye's speed just now, but now he was able to dodge it directly... Was it just a moment of good luck?

At this time, a smile appeared on Sakaki's lips, and he ordered Mega Beedrill: "Beedrill, prepare to spin silk!"

As the words fell, a purple figure appeared above the head of Mega Beedrill. As soon as the sharp bat wings were raised, the poisonous bee below raised its head and sprayed out tough and sticky white silk from its mouth.

The silk screen adhered to the connection between the body and wings of the Crossbat, severely restricting her movement and strength. The speed of her attack was obviously slowed down, and was easily avoided by Mega Beedrill.

Seeing that the situation was developing in the direction he expected, Sakaki did not miss this opportunity and immediately ordered: "Beedrill, launch a combo attack now!"

Upon hearing this, Mega Beedrill used its stinger as a spindle, with the spikes on its limbs facing outwards, and began to spin at high speed in its original position.

The spikes swept towards Shiye who was entangled in the white silk one after another. She tried to flap her wings and run away as soon as possible, but the silk threads on her body greatly restricted her speed, making it impossible for Shiye to escape the pursuit of the spiked gyroscope. She could only raise her wings as a shield to block.

However, simply parrying is obviously not a solution. The Mega Beedrill's rotation speed is getting faster and faster. At first, it can still barely resist, but as the attack becomes stronger and stronger, deeper wounds appear on its wings.

"Your Crossbat relies not on its own speed, but on the boost it receives from the tailwind. My Beedrill will sense the incoming air currents before it reaches the enemy. Once you adapt to this rhythm, predicting the direction of the Crossbat's attack will be easy."

"Of course, theoretically, if your Xorbat's reflexes could keep up with its own speed, even if the Beedrill could predict the angle of attack, it could adjust in time... But it seems you haven't used it in any truly intense combat in these decades, right?"

Watching the extremely powerful X-bat being suppressed and defeated, Sakaki had the leisure to explain to Genta the reason for his defeat.

Honestly, he felt it was a shame. Judging from performance alone, his Beedrill, even after Mega Evolving, was still slightly inferior to that of the Crossbat. However, his old friend had clearly not given it any specific combat training, so it was inevitable that its flaws would be exposed against an opponent of similar strength.

However, while the explanation was being given, the Crossbat seemed to have suddenly broken free from the constraints of the silk net. Its originally sluggish wings flapped violently to accelerate, and it suddenly escaped from the attack range of Mega Beedrill's continuous slash.

"What?!" Sakaki's eyes quickly turned to the bat flying to the ground. He saw that the white silk attached to its wings had fallen off a lot, and the broken threads had smooth cross-sections, as if something had cut them off in one go. Then he suddenly realized:

"I see. He deliberately used his wings, which had been hit by the silk, to block Beedrill's continuous slashes, and then used the enemy's attacks to break free."

"Shiye, use Feather Perch now." Shiye, who escaped from Mega Beedrill's combo attack, flew straight to the ground. White feathers seemed to emerge from his body. Those illusory feathers fell on the scars on his purple wings, and the wounds quickly began to heal.

There was still some silk thread remaining on the wings. Shiye looked a little uncomfortable and wanted to use the claws on his wings to tear off the white silk, but he couldn't reach it.

At this moment, a sudden flash of inspiration struck her, and her form instantly transformed in a white light. Her slender arms, transformed into a human form, finally reached the base of her wings. After removing all the remaining threads, she transformed back into her cross-bat form.

Seeing that Shiye's injuries had completely recovered, Yuantai also breathed a sigh of relief, and then gave an order: "Shiye, activate the air blade now, and then follow closely."

The wings, freed from their restraints, flapped at high speed, slicing through the air currents and creating countless air blades. These air blades were not intended to kill, but to disrupt Mega Beedrill's perception of the air currents, allowing it to launch a surprise attack.

Sakaki naturally saw through their plan. While the Xbat was healing its injuries, he and Beedrill did not just stand there and strengthen their sword dance.

Sword Dance makes Mega Beedrill's already excellent attack power soar even more, and the energy gathering makes it easier for it to find the enemy's weaknesses. Even if Alphabat is resistant to all of its own moves, it will find it difficult to block the next fatal blow.

From this point on, the battle between the two sides entered the final and most tense stage - both sides have the ability to end the game with one blow, and whichever side hits the opponent first is most likely to be the final winner.

"Squeak!" With a crisp cry, Touye flapped her wings and soared, catching up with the air blade she had launched earlier. The purple body, moving at such high speed, was impossible to see with the naked eye, but she didn't attack immediately. Instead, she circled around Mega Beedrill.

The wings of the Crossbat constantly sweep out air blades, trying to lure the opponent into making a move first, so that it can seize the flaw and strike the enemy with one blow.

However, the dangerous poisonous bee behaved very calmly, carefully feeling the changes in the surrounding airflow, and was not disturbed by one or two air blades passing by.

"If this continues, the tailwind won't last much longer, right?" Sakaki "kindly" reminded Genta, turning his eyes away from the field.

It has been a while since Alphabatus got the tailwind, and it seems that the airflow that pushed its body to move faster is about to end. Without the boost of the tailwind, Beedrill will be able to defeat the opponent first at a faster speed.

The longer time drags on, the more advantageous it will be for him. Of course, it would be even better if his old friend, in a panic, gave a rash order, causing the Crossbat to lose his composure and reveal its flaws.

"I shouldn't be the one who's worried. If I make a wrong judgment, your Beedrill won't have a second chance." Yuantai's eyes were still on the "battlefield" in the sky, but he retorted without giving in.

At this moment, Mega Beedrill perceived that the wind around it suddenly became stronger, and its opponent seemed to have finally lost its patience and was ready to take the initiative to attack.

Its sharp eyes suddenly opened, and the two needles in its hands stabbed out with all its strength in the direction of its head's deflection. Although the opponent was well hidden, it was the first to sense a presence wrapped in an air flow and swooping down at high speed.

The two long needles easily pierced through the body of the bat with a look of astonishment on its face. Its wings, which were raised high, could no longer flap. After all, I was one step faster!

Just as it was thinking this, the purple bat pierced by two needles suddenly turned into a green rag doll. It was a substitute! When?

Wait a minute, while I'm focusing all my attention on sensing when the opponent will attack, it's entirely possible that they'll take advantage of the opportunity to secretly launch a Stand. Was that sudden gust of wind actually meant to conceal the launch of the Stand's moves?

After figuring this out, Mega Beedrill broke out in a cold sweat. A purple figure rose from behind him, a pair of yellow eyes flashing red.

The wings flashing with white light swept across the waist of the poisonous bee. This time it failed to dodge the attack and was swept away and fell heavily to the ground.

The two long needles in his arms were stuck in the ground as he struggled to support his body, but he was ultimately unable to defy his own physical limits. After looking at his master with an apologetic look for the last time, he completely lost consciousness and fell to the ground.

After it, Touye, who had transformed back into human form, flapped his wings and slowly landed on the ground. His purple hair was slightly messy, and an innocent smile hung on his pretty face.

"My dear, you're right. Beedrill doesn't have a second chance, but I still do~"

Chapter 137: The Strongest Pokémon in the World

"Shiye, thank you for your hard work." The rough palm stroked the long purple hair, and Shiye's pretty face showed an expression of enjoyment. She raised her head and rubbed Yuantai's palm.

It was really dangerous just now. Although it seemed that the victory was decided by just one move, if Shiye hadn't understood his own hint and activated his substitute in advance, he probably wouldn't have been able to withstand the final fatal needle stab that was stacked with various "buffs".

Fortunately, he got inspiration from Beedrill's tactics of using shadow clones to cover up the use of stand moves at the beginning, and the tacit understanding between him and Toya for decades also played a role at this most critical juncture.

Genta's gaze returned to Sakaki. There was no emotion on the face of the man with a crew cut. He just silently put the Beedrill, which was lying on the ground and had lost its mega form, back into the advanced ball in his hand.

"You lose, Sakaki." The middle-aged man made a low voice.

According to Team Rocket's tradition, the weak obey the strong. Sakaki is indeed a man who will do anything to achieve his ambitions, but there is one thing he will never do, which is to break the rules he has set.

"I lost? My old friend, why do you have such thoughts..."

Sakaki acted completely unconcerned about Beedrill's defeat, and his overly calm expression even surprised Genta—

In my impression, Mega Beedrill cannot lead the other Pokémon in Sakaki's team by a huge margin. There are still one or two Pokémon that have the strength to compete with it.

But despite its combat power, as the Pokémon that had followed him the longest, it clearly held a very special place in his heart. The fact that the man known as "Sakaki of the Earth" still had Beedrill as his ace Pokémon, the Bug and Poison-type Beedrill, somewhat confirmed this.

"Beedrill was indeed one of my most powerful Pokémon in the past, but decades have passed and many things have changed." Faced with Genta's confusion, Sakaki chuckled and began to explain slowly.

"I'm sorry, even though your performance just now was truly impressive, the only thing you can prove is that you're qualified to face the true power of Team Rocket!"

As Sakaki's heroic voice fell, a secret door in the corner of the spacious office quietly opened. A chilling aura suddenly emanated from it, sending a chill down his spine, forcing Genta to turn his gaze towards the interior of the open secret room.

"What is that?!" When Yuantai saw the true appearance of the thing, his pupils suddenly shrank.

It was a mysterious humanoid Pokémon whose entire body was tightly covered with mechanical armor. It wore a crown-shaped gray knight helmet on its head, and its rectangular goggles flashed green light from time to time.

The cold armor was draped over the shoulders, back of the hands, torso and ankles from top to bottom. Countless red wires extended from the gaps in the mechanical shell, directly connecting to the three-meter-high heavy-duty battery storage tank behind him.

The parts not covered by the shell have two ears protruding from the head, and the slender limbs appear bright white with a slight lavender sheen. If you look closely, you can also see a thick and long body tissue like a purple tail dragging out from the bottom of the body.

"Mewtwo?... You actually created that forbidden creature."

He still remembered the project that the old man who had been competing with him was in charge of when he was still "Kazeshima Sho" of the Rocket Team.

Project Mewtwo, a madcap plan to replicate the legendary Pokémon controlled by Team Rocket using genes extracted from fossilized Pokémon. Although, having once led the Miracle Evolution project, I didn't seem to have the right to say such a thing.

"Fate is a funny thing. Decades ago, you chose to leave Team Rocket because you lost to the Mewtwo Project in scientific research progress. And now, decades later, you have to face your old rival again. How do you feel?"

"Sakaki, I have long stopped caring about the outcome of that kind of thing." Genta stared closely into the other's eyes and answered in a deep voice.

"Maybe, but no matter what you think, the final result is already determined, because you are about to face the strongest Pokémon in the world!"

All the wires connected to the mysterious Pokémon were disconnected at this moment, and a strong green light suddenly burst out from the goggles, as if announcing its awakening.

"Ugh..." Touye, who was next to Yuantai, suddenly fell to the ground with a muffled sound, as if some invisible terrifying force was pressing her down. Her limbs and the purple wings behind her were pressed against the ground, and there was even a tendency for them to sink into the floor.

"Shiye!" Seeing this, Yuantai hurriedly squatted down and stretched out his arms to help him up.

However, he clearly couldn't touch anything above Shiye's body, but when he tried to pull him up, he felt like he was wrestling with a mountain.

"Mewtwo has amplified the gravity on its body. If it were a normal human, such high pressure would be enough to grind all the bones into powder. It seems that even if a Pokémon takes human form, its physique is still superior to that of an ordinary person. Unfortunately, such research is meaningless in order to obtain the strongest power."

Sakaki spoke slowly. Armored Mewtwo stood motionless beside him. If it weren't for the suppressed telekinesis emanating faintly from its mechanical shell, one might mistake it for a statue. Toya gritted her teeth, a white light emanating from her body, transforming her form into that of a Xylobat. This Pokémon form allowed her to unleash her full power, even breaking through the gravity exerted on her by Mewtwo.

However, when he saw Xbat flying up, the goggles on Mewtwo's face shone even brighter, and a huge green ball of telekinesis was added to the body of the purple bat, like an invisible palm that grabbed the opponent tightly, and then slapped it against the wall.

"Crack!" Shiye screamed in pain, but the intensity of the mental power exerted on her became stronger and stronger, and the bones all over her body began to make mournful sounds as if they could not bear the burden.

Unable to maintain his composure any longer, Yuantai quickly ran to the wall, but looking at Shiye in great pain, he was helpless.

"Stop it! Please..."

Hearing that the other party finally showed weakness, Sakaki raised a palm, and the next moment, the green light in front of Mewtwo's helmet dimmed, and Xbat was able to slide down from the wall that had been pressed into a deep pit.

Yuantai stretched out his arms in panic and caught the falling Shiye. In his arms, the extremely weak eyes that looked at him immediately revealed the guilt for failing to complete the task, which made Yuantai feel even more guilty.

"The outcome is now decided... As expected, you've become weak, which is why you were defeated so miserably."

Seeing the middle-aged man in front of him who was completely lost, Sakaki did not feel any joy of defeating the enemy. Instead, a sadness rose from the bottom of his heart. It was the sadness of confirming that his former confidant and comrade had completely fallen.

"So-called Pokémon are merely our tools. As long as they're useful and durable, that's all that matters. The Kazejima Sho I know wouldn't care about such frivolous emotions. Once he sees his target, he can pile countless corpses into a long stairway to godhood without batting an eyelid."

"And now? You're actually feeling sentimental about a tool, letting so-called shackles hold you back, preventing you from moving forward... Without the most fundamental drive for progress, how can you be called a strong person?"

While analyzing the reason for Genta's defeat in a deep and magnetic voice, Sakaki walked slowly forward.

The so-called treat, behead, and accept as a dog... Although this theory is somewhat strange when applied to a former subordinate and close friend, in fact, it was the other party who took the initiative to attend the banquet, and the power of "beheading" to shock himself was also accomplished with the help of Mewtwo. Now only the last link is left.

But at this moment, a dazzling white light suddenly appeared out of nowhere on his way forward, forcing Sakaki to stop and fix his vigilant eyes on the abnormal light ball.

Behind him, Armored Mewtwo, as if sensing something, also looked towards the light. A pair of human legs took the lead and then, a black-haired boy, with scattered light dust draped over his shoulders, revealed himself.

The dark pupils lingered on Sakaki and the unidentified Pokémon restrained in the mechanical armor for a moment, then immediately turned around and ran towards the middle-aged man who was hugging Xbat tightly.

"Qian Ye?! Aren't you still on Honglian Island?... Why are you here?"

Yuan Tai knew that he and Shiye had left without saying goodbye, and that if that guy, Oki Xuecheng, found out, he would definitely notify his own brat immediately. However, the distance from Honglian Island to here was so far that even if he happened to catch a passenger ship that was about to depart, it would take at least two and a half days to arrive.

Even if they were to rush all the way here at high speed with a flying Pokémon, it would still take at least several hours. Speaking of which, that little brat's appearance was also quite strange. How could he have just swooshed out of a beam of light?

……

Time went back to about twenty minutes ago. Qianye was a little panicked when he received the urgent call from Professor Oak, but he quickly adjusted himself and asked the person on the other end of the line:

"Professor Oak! There should be cameras everywhere in the institute. Can you see how they left? Did someone suddenly break in and take them away by force?"

"That's strange..." On the communication screen, Professor Oak rubbed his wrinkled forehead with a hint of distress and continued:

"I've already checked the surveillance footage. Actually, Touye and Genta left on their own. They haven't had any contact with outsiders these days... but they've been running into the Pokémon in the research institute quite often."

"What about tracking? Can you tell which direction they're going?"

"Based on surveillance data analysis, the first city they'll arrive at on their chosen route is likely Viridian City. We don't know if that's their target location."

Tokiwa City, Tokiwa... The boy didn't have any deep impression of that city. The only memory he had was that he seemed to have lived in a hospital there for most of the day.

Generally speaking, Viridian City doesn't have the iconic cultural characteristics of many cities in the Kanto region. In other words, it's not a tourist destination that travelers would prioritize. So what made my parents go there? It couldn't be to visit friends, right?

As far as he could remember, those two had never left Pallet Town, so it was unlikely they'd know anyone from outside the town. The last "friend" his father had from out of town, Xia Bo from Red Lotus Town, was a former colleague of his on Team Rocket.

Wait, Team Rocket?

Suddenly realizing a possibility, Qian Ye's body trembled and he almost dropped the communicator in his hand to the ground.

"I understand, Professor Oak... Please keep an eye on their movements for me. Please notify me as soon as there is any new information."

After hanging up the phone, the boy didn't hesitate for a moment and eagerly asked the red-haired lady beside him, "Sister Kona! What's the fastest way to get to Viridian City from here? How long does it take?"

"Why are you asking so suddenly..." Seeing Qianye's confused look, Kona didn't dare to indulge his curiosity any longer and quickly replied:

"There are ships that can depart immediately, but the fastest it will take is two days."

Two days wouldn't be enough! Considering the distance between Pallet Town and Viridian City, they could reach there in half a day at full speed... No, considering Professor Oak might not notice this immediately, maybe they've already arrived.