Chapter 107 I'm Not Only Going to Beat You Up, I'm Going to Rob You!
"It seems that Pokémon should be on you."
Bai Yu stared at Athena in front of him. There weren't many valuable items in the entire Team Rocket base.
Athena's presence here meant that the Pokémon was inside the research institute.
It was very likely on Athena.
Sure enough, when Athena heard these words, her expression changed slightly, her gloomy gaze constantly shifting before finally fixing on Little Blue behind Bai Yu.
Little Blue had been hiding behind Bai Yu at some point, whistling and constantly looking around, as if none of this had anything to do with her.
"It really was you!" Athena was certain that it was Little Blue behind Bai Yu who had exposed her.
She should have put in more effort to capture this guy back then, and she wouldn't have caused such a big problem.
Could it be that Lance was also lured here by them?
"What are you all standing there for? Attack!"
"Tear them all to shreds."
Athena's face was ashen as she pointed at Bai Yu and his group and shouted loudly.
"Yes, Lady Athena!"
The researchers behind her also threw out their Pokémon. These were Pokémon they had forcibly researched, now devoid of independent consciousness, only capable of mindless battle.
"Electivire, Thunderbolt!"
Upon hearing this, Bai Yu stopped talking nonsense. A bolt of lightning surged from Electivire's body, arcs of electricity raging across the corridor.
The Rattatas, having lost their minds, charged forward recklessly. Even as lightning struck their bodies, they showed no fear, their faces contorted with ferocity as they leaped about, baring their fangs and claws.
"Psychic."
Sabrina, seeing this, also threw out her Poké Ball, her words falling calmly.
Psychic-type Psychic.
A powerful psychic force controlled everything around them. The Rattatas stopped in their tracks, unable to move forward even a step, their bodies flying upwards against their will.
They violently crashed into the ceiling above, the Rattatas losing their ability to battle with each impact, their eyes glazed, falling to the ground in disarray.
"A bunch of useless trash!"
Athena's eyes were filled with anger as she stared at the Alakazam behind Sabrina.
A Champion-level Alakazam would make dealing with those weaklings much easier than expected.
She could easily take down the swarm of Rattatas released without much effort.
"Hurry up and bring out the other Pokémon."
"Do I have to teach you how to release Pokémon?"
Athena gritted her teeth, enunciating each word clearly.
This group of guys was far more difficult for Athena to handle alone than she had anticipated.
She had to buy more time this way, she had to get Rattata out of Team Rocket's base.
Besides Bai Yu and his group, only Lance was involved in this invasion, and Athena had sent people to intercept Lance, so there shouldn't be any unexpected problems.
"Alakazam!" Sabrina didn't want to waste time here.
She had been with Team Rocket for a while, but had never done a mission with Athena.
But the more Athena acted this way, the more it proved she was stalling for time.
There are probably a lot of valuable items inside Team Rocket's base, currently being moved, and she's just a discarded pawn, specifically there to buy time.
Alakazam guessed Sabrina's intentions, releasing a powerful burst of psychic energy from the ladle in her hand. The researchers behind Athena, holding Poké Balls, were unable to move.
Suppressed by psychic powers, they couldn't find an opportunity to throw their Poké Balls.
"Sabrina!!"
Athena's eyes were almost overflowing with coldness.
In the end, the person who hindered her actions was Sabrina, the one who had been targeting her at every turn within Team Rocket.
Now that it's left Team Rocket, it still does things like this; it truly deserves to die.
"Arbok!"
Arbok, its forked tongue flicking, stared at Electivire, sensing a threat from it.
Arbok charged forward, its body becoming a black shadow, swiftly sweeping across the ground, its mouth wide open, revealing its venomous fangs. Unlike other
Poison-type Poison Jab
users, Arbok uses its own fangs to attack, not its tail.
"A little snake, where do you think you're going?"
"Thunder Punch!"
Electivire's eyes darted around, searching for Arbok's location. Countless arcs of electricity surged into Electivire's right fist. The moment Arbok appeared,
a punch landed. Arbok's body caved in, its mouth gaping open as if struck by a severe blow. It flew backward, crashing into the metal door behind it, leaving a deep dent.
"You seem to have misunderstood something," Bai Yu said slowly, a hint of a smile in his voice.
Athena swallowed hard. She'd initially thought her Arbok had been accidentally captured by Electivire, assuming it was only barely a Champion. But...
this guy was incredibly strong, defeating her main Arbok in a single move. The speed it unleashed was so fast that even Athena hadn't reacted in time.
Arbok was arguably Athena's strongest Pokémon.
As one of Team Rocket's four generals,
she could barely accept being weaker than Apollo.
However, the fact that her Arbok was defeated so easily was hard for Athena to accept. At this moment, she finally understood
why Apollo and Lance had been captured by the League in Goldenrod City.
This guy's strength, even if he were a Champion in any region, would rank among the top; he was far superior to those ordinary weak Champions.
"Why do you think Lance's side is a bigger threat?"
Bai Yu asked, glancing at Electivire as Arbok tried to stand up again.
Electabuzz held Arbok firmly down, preventing it from getting up. Arbok repeatedly thrashed at Electabuzz with its tail, struggling but unable to withstand Electabuzz's power.
As the frequency of Arbok's tail strikes decreased, Electabuzz casually grabbed Arbok and tossed it aside. Arbok's energy was low; without immediate treatment, it would soon die.
"A madman!" Athena had never seen a League Trainer do such a thing before.
She had always thought only Team Rocket members would act this way.
Even the most frenzied chakra seemed benevolent in front of this guy.
Athena pulled a bottle of healing potion from her pocket. Spraying it on Arbok would forcibly stabilize its energy; after a period of treatment and recuperation, it would recover to its best condition.
"Where do you think you're going? You don't actually think I'd let you heal that Arbok, do you? You're so naive, Athena from Team Rocket. The competition is still going on. As a challenger, how can you just leave?"
Athena's lips twitched at these seemingly gentle words.
This guy really thought it was gym battle time.
Damn it!
He beat her Pokémon to a pulp, it's almost on its last legs, and he's still provoking her.
Athena suppressed her anger. She wanted to retort, but none of her Pokémon could beat him, so she simply shut her mouth and stood there silently.
"Sister Sabrina, is Gym Leader White Feather always like this?"
Little Blue, who had been hiding behind White Feather, now ran up to Sabrina instead. Xiao Lan's voice trembled slightly; it was the first time she had witnessed a battle of this scale.
No… it wasn't a battle, it was a one-sided massacre. She had thought Lance was ruthless enough in handling matters, but now it seemed what Lance had done was nothing compared to this.
Bai Yu had truly intended to kill that Arbok, showing absolutely no mercy.
"He… he's not usually like this. Little Bai, he's very gentle,"
Sabrina said softly, a smile appearing on her face.
As the person directly involved, Sabrina naturally knew why Bai Yu was angry.
That Arbok had targeted her, and Bai Yu had acted this way because of her.
This blockhead, actually doing something like this one day!
It touched Sabrina's heart slightly. Although no matter how Arbok attacked, it wouldn't harm her.
Times had changed; Sabrina valued actions more than words.
"Gentle?" Blue stared blankly at Sabrina, then looked towards Bai Yu. The Arbok was barely breathing, practically on its last legs, and this was called gentle?
Were all trainers in the Kanto League like this? Blue wanted to escape back to the Johto region. If it weren't for some important information she had, she really wanted to go back to Johto to reunite with Silver; the Kanto region was far too dangerous.
"You… what are you going to do!"
Athena clutched the healing potion in her hand, her heart filled with turmoil.
"Hand over that Pokémon."
Bai Yu stared at Athena and said calmly.
"Give it to you, and I'll leave?" Athena asked tentatively.
"I find that you Team Rocket people are quite naive."
Bai Yu sneered. The situation was clearly in their favor, yet they still wanted to leave.
That was incredibly naive. Apollo had the same idea earlier, and in the end, he was caught by Red. What good was running fast?
"Give me the Pokémon, and I might let you save that Arbok."
"Judging by the time, that Arbok can only live for three minutes. Your time is precious."
Bai Yu had plenty of time, while Lance was eliminating Team Rocket members on the other side.
Given that guy's hatred for Team Rocket, the elimination speed would definitely be twice as fast as expected. Once that was over, even if Athena wanted to escape, she wouldn't be able to.
"I can give you a pseudo-legendary, but not that Pokémon!"
Athena was still bargaining. That Pokémon was the culmination of Team Rocket's research.
It had crucial progress for future research on evolution types. They would rather lose a pseudo-legendary than give it to the other party. That Pokémon was too important to Team Rocket.
"Hmm?"
"What pseudo-legendary? Let me see."
Bai Yu immediately became interested, not expecting such an unexpected gain.
As a cross-regional evil organization, Team Rocket could obtain pseudo-legendary Pokémon from other regions much more easily than the League. Team Rocket had some secret connections with evil organizations in other regions.
Most of the Pokémon acquired by Team Rocket need to be sold to other regions. Some common Pokémon become rare and valuable in other regions, fetching much higher prices than when sold in Kanto.
As a high-ranking member of Team Rocket and the manager of their base, Athena naturally possesses the Pokémon needed for these transactions. Due to the suddenness of the situation, she didn't have time to move her Pokémon, resulting in this predicament.
"A pseudo-legendary Pokémon from the Hoenn region, Beldum."
Athena threw a Poké Ball towards Bai Yu. This Poké Ball was quite high-end, with some decorative trim and a black finish, clearly a Luxury Ball.
A Luxury Ball could sell for ten Ultra Balls on the market, and in terms of practicality, it was even inferior to a Great Ball, merely a status symbol.
"It really is Beldum. They can even get their hands on a pseudo-legendary from the Hoenn region. It seems Team Rocket is far wealthier than I imagined." Bai Yu scanned the Poké Ball in his hand with the system.
After confirming it was Beldum, he also threw it into his system space.
He had originally intended to search for pseudo-legendary Pokémon within the Galar map, but this had unexpectedly saved him a lot of trouble.
After completing this mission, Lance even entrusted him with Larvitar, which would later evolve into Tyranitar, a mainstay of the Sandstorm team.
After Athena threw out the Poké Ball, she went to Arbok's side and applied a healing potion to Arbok's wounds. Arbok's breathing quickly stabilized, and it was out of danger.
Seeing this, Athena breathed a sigh of relief, took out a Poké Ball to recall Arbok, and got up to leave, but was blocked by Bai Yu.
"Where does Ms. Athena wish to go?"
Bai Yu looked at Athena with a smile.
"Didn't I already give you the Pokémon you wanted? Are you trying to go back on your word?!"
Athena looked up at Bai Yu, her tone tinged with impatience.
The League guys were troublesome; she had already lost a pseudo-legendary Pokémon. If Giovanni found out, she would inevitably be scolded and ridiculed by the other executives.
She had already suffered a great loss and didn't want to waste any more time here.
"What do you mean by going back on your word? Lady Athena, I've never received a Pokémon from you. Am I mistaken?" Bai Yu said with a smile.
In that instant, Athena felt as if she had been struck a blow to the heart.
How could someone be so shameless? She had clearly seen him hand over the Poké Ball, yet this guy was still blatantly lying.
"The Beldum I just gave you, have you forgotten?"
Athena said, suppressing her anger, enunciating each word clearly.
"What do you mean 'given' to me? That Beldum has always been my Pokémon."
"Lady Athena, you must be hallucinating."
Bai Yu didn't want the Beldum; getting it was completely unexpected.
What he wanted was an Eevee, an Eevee that could switch between various forms.
Besides that Pokémon, Bai Yu also wanted to see what other Pokémon Athena could produce.
Team Rocket's organization was truly excellent.
Knowing they were short of a Metagross, they quickly sent him one.
Their speed in sending Pokémon was far more efficient than that guy, Master Damaranchi, and Lance, without even inviting him to join some organization. How much better and more straightforward!
"You!"
Athena, facing someone like this for the first time, was momentarily speechless.
She wanted to offer another Pokémon in exchange; as long as she could leave this place, it would all be worth it.
"However, this time I want an Eevee, an Eevee that can transform into different forms."
"I remember this Eevee; it seems to be Athena's masterpiece!"
"Could you part with this Pokémon?"
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