Pokémon: Who let him leave Pallet Town?

Chapter 487 Eye of the Sky
Originally, Team Magma and Team Aqua planned to each take what they needed and leave after collecting the gem fragments.
But when they saw the team members who had been knocked unconscious by Ash, the Team Aqua members couldn't hold back and started fighting each other.
Inside the room, the telekinesis was cut off, and Ash and Meowth's phones couldn't get through. Natsume started to feel anxious.

There shouldn't be any problems, right?
The main characters and the trio working together is a situation that only occurs in theatrical versions when facing certain legendary Pokémon, compared to just two Team Magma and Team Aqua.

Not worth mentioning!

Evening news in the Hoenn region.

The Sea Museum has been attacked; a suspected clash between Team Magma and Team Aqua is suspected!

The two fragments were stolen by members of Team Magma and Team Aqua, respectively!

Natsume curiously clicked to take a look and found that the blue gem fragment had fallen into the hands of a Team Magma member, while the red gem fragment had fallen into the hands of Kojiro.

Kojiro seems to have been kidnapped by Izumi.

Natsume stared silently at the candid photo, which showed a voluptuous woman with a flamboyant smile, holding Kojiro and pulling a cat-shaped balloon down a rope as they walked away.

"Nothing should happen, right?"

Natsume touched his nose.

He dialed Xiaozhi's number.

"Hey, hey, hey, Natsume-nii?"

Ash's face appeared on the screen, and Natsume was taken aback.

"How come you're back to normal? Where's the baby?"

"Hey, I suddenly realized that I can put the Life Doll into a Poké Ball, then I won't have to live in fear all the time!"

Xiao Zhi recounted his new discovery.

Natsume was taken aback. The system's definition of a "life doll" was indeed Pokémon.

"So, after you threw the fragment to Team Magma, you were able to get away normally?" Natsume asked curiously.

"Of course!" Ash rarely lived up to his name.

"also."

Before he could finish speaking, the video feed started shaking.

"Let me see who's been corrupting Xiaozhi every day, making him do bad things."

"Thorn-"

Before Xiao Yao could finish speaking, Xia Mu hung up the call.

It was getting late, and he should leave.

As night deepened, the hustle and bustle of Feiyun City faded away.

The lights at the Pokémon Center were still bright.

Natsume appeared silently in a dark alley near the headquarters of Peace Dove Technology.

He looked up at the towering building that seemed to reach into the clouds.

Most of the windows were pitch black, with only a few still lit, like the eyes of a giant beast lurking in the night.

The patrolling security guard had just turned the corner.

Natsume took a deep breath.

The time has come.

The encyclopedia screen on his wrist flickered slightly.

"Zi La~"

Amidst a faint crackling sound, the second Rotom hidden within the phone quietly detached, transforming into an almost invisible bolt of lightning that merged into an inconspicuous vent gap in the building's exterior wall.

This is the first step.

Immediately afterwards, Natsume released Loreton from the Poké Ball.

"buzz"

A very faint hum.

Loletton's enormous, dark red body appeared in the narrow alley, almost filling the entire space.

Its sleek motorcycle lines gleamed with a cold, metallic sheen under the moonlight.

It's too big.

Natsume frowned.

it's fine.

Natsume took out a ghostly stone slab, inserted it, and pressed it down slightly.

"Giratina Tablets, Ghost/Dragon, learned!"

The platinum-gold giant claw seemed to appear out of thin air, leaving a huge claw mark on Loletton's chest in his motorcycle form.

Wisps of black mist swirled within the traces.

As Natsume mounted Loletta, the black aura began to spread unchecked.

"Run~"

Loletton's figure vanished mysteriously.

Shadow Strike, Giratina's signature ability, allows her to briefly infiltrate the antimatter world before leaping out.

Outside of combat, it can also be used to stealthily infiltrate certain locations.

In Natsume's mind, Rotom No. 2 infiltrated the circuit and silently transmitted information to him.

The daytime inspections cover some open public areas, although Natsume has never been inside the core area.

However, generally speaking, the more central the area, the stronger the machine's performance and the greater the power supply. Rotom No. 2 only needs to sense voltage changes to provide Natsume with a general location.

A cold, absolute darkness enveloped Natsume and Loletta.

This is the crevice of the antimatter world.

There was no sound, no light, only a chilling sense of emptiness.

Natsume focused his mind, sensing the faint signals emanating from Rotom No. 2 in his mind.

It was the pulsation of electricity, like a firefly in the dark.

"there."

With a slight thought, Natsume's massive body glided silently through the void.

The target is the node with the strongest energy response in the core area!

"Om~"

A slight tremor came, and the darkness before my eyes was torn open like a curtain.

Lollerton, carrying Natsume, silently leaped back into the real world.

They appeared in a spherical space that was far larger than they could have imagined.

The place is brightly lit, and the air is cold and dry.

Countless cables of varying thicknesses extend from the dome and walls like the roots of a giant tree.

Finally, they converged on the colossal object at the center of the space!
Natsume's breathing stopped instantly, and his pupils contracted sharply.

Eye of the Sky?

It's right here!
But it's not a prototype that's still under development at all.

It was a huge silver sphere with a diameter of nearly fifty meters.

Its surface is as smooth as a mirror, reflecting the cold light, and countless complex interfaces and sensor arrays cover it like scales.

It hovered silently in mid-air, several meters above the ground, emanating a stable, powerful, and heart-pounding energy fluctuation.

Large and sophisticated.

And—it's done!

Natsume was taken aback.

Isn't this thing still in the development and investment-attracting stage?
Isn't the external communication still in the proof-of-concept stage?
How could this be? A complete satellite, ready for launch at any time, just lies here silently!

Rogers was clearly still discussing a collaboration with Cattleya in broad daylight?!

A profound sense of absurdity overwhelmed Natsume, and he couldn't wait to find out what was going on.

His gaze swept across the surroundings.

The spherical space is filled with various highly automated devices.

robotic arms, automated detection platforms, and energy transmission towers
All of them are smart devices.

As expected, there were no low-intelligence machines in the core area.

Natsume's heart sank.

Activating these smart devices is too risky.

They possess inherent logical processing capabilities.

After activation, their intelligence is higher, and they are not easily fooled.

It would be funny if they called the police directly.

Their gazes returned to the massive silver sphere in the center.

The Eye of the Sky. It looks like the most harmless scientific research satellite.

But Natsume knew it was definitely not simple.

Does the "Eye of the Sky" have any alarm devices on it?

Take a gamble?
Within the antimatter rift, Natsume shouted out his middle-part hairstyle and rolled it into a ball in his hand.

The latter was fast asleep, its breath warm.

"Throw it in the air. If you fall into the antimatter world, then give up. If not..."

"Pickup!"

The sleepy-eyed Chinese man was suddenly awakened.

In a flash, it flew off into its dream world.

“Okay, let’s activate it!” Natsume said without hesitation.

Target—Eye of the Sky.

But it must be done quietly.

"Number One, get ready!"

Natsume issues commands using his telekinesis.

From within Lolton's core, Rotom Number One responded.

A slow, black mist spread from his chest, thick as oil, heading towards the crack connecting him to the real world.

"It must be extremely thin and extremely slow."

Natsume whispered a reminder.

The claw marks on Lollerton's chest glowed faintly.

It was no longer a raging black python.

Instead, it was an extremely thin, almost transparent, grayish-white mist.

Like the finest dust.

A trickle, a wisp, slowly and precisely seeped from Loletton's body.

Ignoring physical barriers and energy shields, they pierced the smooth, silver shell with pinpoint accuracy, like the most precise probes.

It disappeared into the massive Eye of the Sky.

There was no earth-shattering buzz, no spatial tremor.

With Lollerton's increased expertise, the current revitalization process is like a gentle spring rain nourishing the earth.

Silent and extremely slow.

Time passed by minute by minute.

Natsume waits patiently in the cracks of the antimatter world.

Through Rotom No. 2's sensitivity to electric current, it deduced the extremely subtle changes inside the Eye of the Sky.

Deep within the core.

A faint, nascent will.

Like a dormant seed, it awakens extremely slowly under the nourishment of the sparse breath of revitalization.

This process lasted for nearly ten minutes.

Finally, Natsume sensed it.

The Eye of the Sky—It's alive!
Although it is still very weak, like a newborn baby, it truly has life!

"Okay."

Xia breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems that Team Rainbow Rocket's technology hasn't reached a level that's hard to imagine.

At least, they were unaware of this characteristic of Loletton.

At this moment, a sudden change occurred.

The smooth, harmless silver shell suddenly rippled like water.

It was extremely brief, extremely slight, so fast that it was almost an illusion.

Beneath the outer shell.

The menacing outline of the cannon muzzle, the sharp, jagged phantoms, and the complex energy array patterns.

Like a fleeting moment, gone in an instant!
Then everything returned to normal.

Smooth and harmless.

It was as if that fleeting glimpse of destruction had never happened.

But Natsume could see it clearly from within the antimatter gap.

"what is this?"

Natsume was stunned.

It appears that this so-called high-altitude environmental monitoring satellite is actually a weapon?
Natsume didn't understand, but he would soon find out.

By probing with his telekinesis, Natsume gained a complete view of the interior of the Eye of the Sky.

"Ok?"

There is actually a telekinetic absorption device in the Eye of the Sky?

Before Natsume could think about it, he sensed a faint emotion.

Are you Peace?

The intermittent sound came from inside the Eye of the Sky.

Natsume was slightly taken aback.

"No."

With a slight thought, a telepathic connection is established.

"I want to find peace."

The Eye of the Sky responded.

Is this thing used to deal with Peace Dogs?

Natsume was horrified.

Wait a minute, how could something of this level possibly deal with a Peace Dog?
"I want to seek peace and move closer to peace."

The intermittent sound resumed.

"What do you mean?" Natsume was taken aback.

Without artificial intelligence, the machines are easy to talk to, but communication is too difficult.

"Approach and identify the flames."

With a whoosh, the menacing cannon muzzle reappeared, then immediately vanished.

Natsume frowned, as if he had thought of something, and he prompted:

"You want to intercept... no, you want to make contact with the flames of peace, using those things within you?"

"It seems so."

After receiving the acknowledgment, Natsume nodded thoughtfully.

It seems that after the last time Team Rainbow Rocket gathered information from that parallel Gryphon, they wanted to create something that could intercept Peacekeeper's World Strike.

Although it's unclear how the Eye of the Sky will be intercepted, if this thing is actually made, wouldn't it mean that Team Rainbow Rocket can freely enter and leave this world?
They don't even need to hide like they do now.

Natsume instantly realized the seriousness of the situation.

As he pondered, the voice of the Eye of the Sky continued to resound:

"Why should I do this?"

Upon hearing this, Natsume was taken aback.

Once activated, this machine, which is not equipped with artificial intelligence, is like a blank sheet of paper, full of curiosity about everything in the world.

"Why do you do this? Because you yearn for peace."

Natsume suddenly became serious.

Why do we yearn for peace?

The voice was even more puzzled.

"Because you are a guardian of peace, you are a protective satellite, and you will follow the front line of peace to carry out a second strike on the target!"

Natsume's voice was strong and clear.

"Follow-up. Second strike on the front line"

The Eye of the Sky kept repeating this sentence.

It seems to have a similar meaning to the code within its body?

(End of this chapter)