The moment Pryce mentioned the Hoenn region, Axel's brain had already started turning.
If anyone else talked about catching Kyogre and Groudon, Axel would at most just smile and not say anything.
Those two guys still have a lot of presence. Even though they often get turned into memes, that does not mean they are weak.
In the story, even the leaders of Team Aqua and Team Magma were still controlled by Kyogre and Groudon during the process of capturing them, becoming their puppets.
In other words, the difficulty of capturing Kyogre and Groudon is absolutely nightmare level.
But with Pryce involved, Axel could not be sure.
After all, this guy had a track record of capturing a Legendary, and that was when Swinub had not even evolved.
Now that Swinub had evolved, Axel was really afraid Pryce might even get Groudon in his hands.
Axel was thinking that while he put his main task on finding the Ultra Wormholes, he should find someone strong enough to contend with Pryce.
The best person for this would actually be Steven, that Hoenn myth who is even called a male god in many spin-off works, the man who once resisted Legendary Pokémon attacks alone for months.
The only problem was that Axel did not know Steven.
So, settling for second best, with Leon being directionally challenged and unwilling to let Cynthia get hurt, the best choice became Giovanni.
"Rotom-roto!"
Rotom suddenly spoke, pulling Axel's thoughts back.
"So you already finished editing it?"
"Roto!"
A confident expression appeared on Rotom's screen.
Axel tapped play, and Pryce's voice immediately came out.
["Silver? You actually still dare to look for him!"]
["Go fck yourself. When I see Silver, I will definitely brainwash him hard and make him kill you and Giovanni."]
Hearing Pryce's lifelike voice, Axel's eyes lit up. He had not expected Rotom to be this good at editing. It was even better than Axel had imagined.
'Emmm... no wonder he is getting dirtier and dirtier. Turns out he is being corrupted by his Pokémon.'
"Dial Giovanni's number. I want to contact him."
["Axel?",] Giovanni's low voice came from the other end of the line, ["What do you need?"]
Ever since the news of Axel saving Sinnoh spread, Giovanni had also become somewhat wary of him.
This guy was definitely not as simple as he looked on the surface.
Right under his nose, he had stolen that Mewtwo from the S.S. Anne and even completed Mewtwo's genes.
"Gym Leader Giovanni, I met Pryce today," Axel did not think too much about it. With the Mewtwo matter already between them, he and Giovanni were bound to clash sooner or later, so he went straight to the point.
["Oh?"], Hearing Axel's words, Giovanni became serious. He had been searching for his son these days, but had found no leads at all.
At a time like this, Pryce's whereabouts became something Giovanni could not ignore.
["Does Pryce have any news about my son?"]
"Emmm, I did ask him for you, but," Axel paused for a moment, "But he fought me, and then he started swearing."
"He swore a bit too nastily. You should just hear it yourself. My Rotom happened to record it."
Not long after Axel hung up, Giovanni received a message.
[Pryce swearing.mp3]
Very quickly, Giovanni's chat bubble filled with a voice suppressing its rage.
[Tell me where he is. I want to see for myself how he plans to brainwash my son.]
Axel laughed, [He just ran away, but from what I heard, he seems to be heading to the Hoenn region soon to catch Kyogre or Groudon.]
Giovanni said thanks and did not reply further, but Axel could already imagine the scene over at Team Rocket.
[Ariana, take leave for me and get Mewtwo ready.]
Sometimes Axel really had the urge to take down the Kanto Champion title just so he could give Giovanni days off every day.
———
After learning Aether Paradise's goal, Axel was no longer in a hurry. Team Magma had detectors for Kyogre and Groudon anyway, so Aether Paradise, with nothing in hand, definitely would not get there first.
He now planned to go back to the lab and take Lillie to the Sinnoh region.
That girl still had a Cosmog in her hands. It might produce some unexpected effects.
"Mr. Axel, you are back?"
As soon as he entered the laboratory area, a lab member in bodyguard uniform spotted Axel and waved enthusiastically.
Axel glanced at the ground that looked like it had been scorched by a great fire and was almost carbonized, and he was immediately a little surprised.
That black and white dragon seemed a lot stronger than he had imagined.
But thinking about it, that made sense. After all, it was a god that had dominated Team Plasma's development for thousands of years. Maybe it had seemed so weak before only because it had not fully revived yet.
Axel decided to confirm it and asked, "Was the damage on the ground caused by Reshiram?"
"Yes!", When Reshiram was mentioned, the staff member in charge of the aftermath had eyes full of admiration.
"We were on duty this morning when we suddenly saw Lord Reshiram and Lord Zekrom fly into the sky, releasing divine might and spewing powerful cyan flames down at the ground."
"Right after that, we heard dense sounds of people begging for mercy from the ground. Now our security team is swamped. Each person has to watch over a hundred Team Plasma members."
"Those who had a chance to surrender seem to all be believers of Lord Zekrom and Lord Reshiram. Every one of them is very obedient and says they will reform properly and gain the chance to serve the Divine Lord."
"Oh right, sir, do you know who the Divine Lord is?"
The security member looked at Axel with admiration, his eyebrows dancing, as if knowing this gossip was something extremely glorious to him.
Axel subconsciously ignored the question of who the Divine Lord was and just looked blank.
'How many people?'
If Axel remembered correctly, the security force here had over a hundred people.
Even if only half of them were guarding prisoners, that was five thousand people or even more.
How many members did Team Plasma even have in total?
Adding the part over with N, he probably had more Team Plasma members in his hands now than Colress did.
'I am just raising dragons and beating up the villainous chosen one. How did I really become the boss?'
'No wonder Giovanni looked so prosperous. Running a region does not seem that hard after all.'
Just as Axel was about to go find Lillie and take her away, a message suddenly flashed through his mind.
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