The Gyarados's mouth gleamed with black light, four massive fangs of condensed energy slowly taking shape, just about to bite down on Malamar's body.
Malamar was already scared stiff, unable even to use Protect.
He had seen Ally Switch, he had seen Teleport.
But teleporting another Pokémon straight into your own mouth?
'Sorry, never seen that one before.'
Right now, all he wanted was to file a complaint with Giratina itself, 'Someone here's clearly cheating! You gods up there, maybe start doing your jobs!'
Finally, at the instant when Gyarados was about to bite down, a yellow phantom streaked past him and Malamar.
A power unlike anything seen before appeared, it carried a spatial ripple of its own.
Malamar's figure seemed to blur and fade, vanishing from the Pokémon world's space altogether.
Gyarados bit down on empty air, then instinctively peered into the yellow silhouette. Inside, it seemed like another world, like looking into a mirror.
Same coordinates as outside, but not a single soul in sight.
Only fragments of shattered mirrors everywhere, and within them, Malamar and that yellow dragon's shadow.
["You dare peek at me?"], Feeling Gyarados's probing of spatial energy, Giratina let out a mocking laugh.
Power unique to the Reverse World surged forth, the ghostly reversal energy tugging at Gyarados's body, seemingly trying to drag him into that world as well.
Gyarados's pupils shrank, he quickly opened his mouth wide and unleashed Spacial Rend.
A spatial rift formed between him and Giratina, neatly cutting off their connection.
"RAAAH!", Gyarados roared furiously at Giratina, then dove into the rift without hesitation, returning to the normal world.
Giratina curled its mouth slightly, showing no strong reaction.
It hadn't really intended to drag Gyarados over anyway.
That thing's energy was identical to Palkia's, its body and battle style resembled the Rayquaza clan, clearly a troublesome mix.
'Scaring it a little would do just fine...'
Giratina comforted itself with that thought, then turned, gazing through space toward today's main target, Caitlin.
As long as it captured that woman, and combined her psychic power with Malamar's, it could one day control countless Trainers.
Only then could it truly leave the Reverse World and become king of the real world.
With that thought, Giratina's form melted into shadow and began gliding toward Caitlin's coordinates in the real world.
A massive surge of Ghost-type energy enveloped its body, which gradually became translucent.
This was Giratina's signature move, Shadow Dive, an advanced form of Phantom Force.
Both involved vanishing temporarily and then striking after a time, but this one was far more powerful.
Sensing the incoming danger, Caitlin's psychic energy reacted instantly.
Her golden hair whipped wildly around her, and her eyes shone with blazing brilliance, as if twin suns had ignited in them.
"Darach, danger!"
Realizing something was wrong, Caitlin quickly used her psychic power to push her butler away, and instinctively released Gothitelle's Poké Ball.
"Protect!"
Caitlin moved fast, but not fast enough.
Gothitelle's barrier had only just formed; before it could even take effect, Giratina's ghostly form tore straight through it and slammed into Gothitelle.
The difference in type, species, and level was immense, Gothitelle was flung away in an instant.
Caitlin's psychic power immediately went out of control, her golden hair growing wildly, terrifying waves of psychic energy radiating outward in rings, pressing so heavily that Darach could barely breathe.
And yet, Giratina seemed as though it had done nothing of importance at all, its form shimmering as it calmly drifted back into the Reverse World.
Everyone present felt their scalps crawl.
Though Caitlin rarely fought in the Battle Castle, those familiar with the Battle Frontier knew her strength.
If not for her mental instability, if she could devote herself wholly to battle, she would be without question at the Elite Four level.
Which meant, her Gothitelle was an Elite-tier Pokémon.
And yet such a powerful Pokémon had been effortlessly defeated before that terrifying being.
Darach quickly pieced it together, the Pokémon that attacked was likely another god.
"Something's wrong today. Everyone, please leave this place for now."
After saying that, Darach released all of his Pokémon, forced himself to stand, and said with difficulty,
"Miss, you should go too. If something happens to you, the Master will be furious."
"Leave?", Caitlin's face twisted, her voice sharpening, she looked ready to explode at any moment.
"I can't leave. He's here for me!"
"You go and evacuate the people. I'll hold that thing off."
"In the Caitlin family, we've never had the habit of dragging others to die with us!"
Just as Darach was about to say something more, a slightly puzzled cry sounded behind Caitlin.
"Wobba~fet?"
'That guy's hard to deal with?'
Wobbuffet blinked, baffled by everyone acting like it was the end of the world.
He could tell that dragon's move was actually pretty easy to counter.
A spatial ripple appeared again, and Giratina's yellow form emerged from it.
This time, Giratina appeared right beside Caitlin, massive black wings sweeping wide, about to snatch her away.
Wobbuffet blinked again, his jellylike body stretching tall, trying to make himself look bigger.
'Oh, so you already stole my Trainer, and now you're trying to steal my human too?'
'Even the flower bandits of old weren't this greedy, take this punch!'
The moment he linked to Giratina, Wobbuffet's body flared with deep red light.
The ghostly glow coating Giratina's body suddenly went haywire, the instant it touched Wobbuffet, it rebounded violently, slamming back into Giratina itself.
Amplified by Wobbuffet's power, the energy became even more terrifying than when first unleashed.
Both its force and speed increased dramatically.
Giratina tried to retreat into the Reverse World, but it was too late.
BOOM!
A thunderous crash echoed out. Giratina's body was blown backward, smashing through the castle's thick stone wall and crashing to the ground, left dazed and frozen.
'What the hell just happened?'
'Besides the Space-Time Duo, there was another monster this strong in this region?'
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"Axel, will Caitlin be alright?"
Garchomp streaked through the air like a meteor, while Cynthia looked worriedly toward her friend's direction.
Leaning against Axel, she kept urging Garchomp faster.
"Don't worry," Axel grinned, squeezing the Poke Balls of Mewtwo and Rayquaza in his hands.
"Gyarados and Wobbuffet, the two best at escaping and defending, are both there."
"In ten minutes..."
"It'll be Giratina's turn to run for its life."
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