Seizing the Team Base and Taking Control

Chapter 348 Seizing the Team Base and Taking Control

"Ze Shu, you're saying these people aren't the raiding party?"

Higana, who was tied up, stared wide-eyed.

Could it be...?

"These people are the Shadows?! The Shadows who turned Pokémon into Dark Pokémon?! This wicked organization is despicable!! They really are the evil guys who managed to trick the wise and mighty Queen Sylvanas!!"

Realizing this, Higana puffed out her cheeks and her indignant voice rang out again.

"Quick! Quick! Sawaki, get rid of all these annoying guys!!"

Ze Shu: "————"

Team Rocket members who tied up Higanbana:

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"Don't lump us in with those shady characters!" one of the Team Rocket members muttered.

Higana realized, "Aren't you the Shadows?"

Zeshu said, "They are the Rockets."

Higana suddenly realized, "Oh... I see."

At this moment, Lance, who was under the control of Dream's superpower and was dizzy from the fall, opened his eyes in a daze. Why couldn't he understand the conversation between Higana and Zeshu?

Lance had a lot of doubts in his mind.

Aren't these two people subordinates of that Disjui, or members of that Shadow Organization?

How could they mistake Team Rocket for the Shadows and even call them evil?

Even more surprisingly, these two recognized him as a member of Team Rocket? Even if the Shadows knew about Team Rocket, this massive organization that roams the Kanto underworld, they couldn't possibly recognize him so quickly, could they?

There are too many unusual things about this.

Could it be...?

Lance's eyes widened suddenly, and he looked up at Ze Shu in disbelief.

Isn't this person a visitor from the Shadow Organization?!

Finally, he realized the truth beneath the facade.

But it's useless now.

Because his head had already been stepped on by Ze Shu.

"I didn't expect to run into Team Rocket here." Sawaki stepped on Lance's head and looked down. "Am I right? A 'rotten screw' executive?"

"I remember I once seized a batch of severed Slowpoke tails in Johto. It was very bloody, and there were even tails of immature Slowpoke babies among them. You must have been the one who ordered them to be cut off, right?"

"I originally intended to go directly to the Slowpoke Well to arrest you, but unfortunately, I had other important matters to attend to, which allowed you, 'Rotten Screw,' to escape."

Lance: "???"

His brain had completely shut down.

After a long while, he looked up and stared blankly at Ze Shu.

He hadn't made the connection before, but now, without the afro covering his face, Ze Shu's face became increasingly familiar to him, gradually merging with the face of the person who had arrested most of their Team Rocket officers and was labeled "a serious danger" within the Team Rocket.

"You, you, you are...."

"That investigator?!"

Lance's eyes widened suddenly.

This is a terrifying fact.

Especially now that his head is being trampled under the investigator's feet, and he is completely powerless to resist.

Lance had already foreseen his fate.

He never imagined that he, who had established himself in Team Rocket with his cunning and treacherous ways, would fall into the trap of this investigator in the remote Ore region.

If he could do it all over again, if he could recognize it immediately, Lance would never have brought Ze Shu into this raiding party base and chosen to ambush them. He would have run, run far away, and then notified Boss Sakaki to deal with this investigator together.

But that's no longer possible.

Lance was utterly devastated.

He had previously been so confident and full of ambition, dreaming of capturing this investigator and handing him over to Boss Sakaki.

"Hmm? Looks like you recognize me?" Seeing that Lance recognized him and his eyes were inexplicably filled with fear, Ze Shu was quite surprised. Was he that famous within Team Rocket?

But Lance was no longer able to say anything.

"Hurry! Hurry! No matter what kind of Shadow or Team Rocket they are!" Higanbana shouted, ignoring the desperate cries of the Team Rocket members behind her, "Sawaki, take them down!"

The Poké Ball at her waist was already locked, rendering her completely powerless to resist. But she showed no fear whatsoever, even scoffing at the bewildered Team Rocket members around her: "Who told you to ambush me? I've been caught, but you'll all be getting beaten down by Ze Shu in a minute!"

Ze Shu:

Even after being arrested, you're still so arrogant.

"Alright then." Zeki looked at the Team Rocket members who were escorting Higanbana.

The Rockets are on high alert.

Judging from the state of the Pokémon around them—Muk, Magneton, Gloom, Weezing, and so on—it's clear that even if they aren't executives or high-ranking members of Team Rocket, they are still elite members.

That's why they were able to be sent to Orei and control the team's base.

From this perspective, these Rockets personnel might be even more difficult to deal with than Lance, the cadre at your feet—but only slightly more difficult.

"Well, Dream, I'll leave this to you." Ze Shu only said that one sentence.

dream:"???"

What do you want from me this time, Ze Shu?!

Your explanation is so unclear, it's really frightening for the kitten!

【No, no, no! Mew just came to see you, Sawaki. I just remembered that Hoopa is probably eating all by himself on the spaceship. Mew has to leave to make sure Hoopa doesn't eat all by himself... Ah!!】

"Get out of here!"

But then, all Dream heard was Ze Shu whispering something in its ear, but before it could react, it was suddenly thrown out with the last words, "Go!"

"No way! No way! No way!!"

[Sawaki is a super, super, super bad guy!!!]

During its flight, Mew screamed and complained in panic, but then its body transformed into the opposing Team Rocket's Weezing. Simultaneously, a terrifying white light of self-destruction, akin to "shattering everything in its path," spilled from the holes in its body!

Upon seeing this, the Team Rocket members tensed up and simultaneously gave the Pokémon commands like "Get out of the way!" and "Back off!" The Pokémon reflexively dodged.

Only Higana remained, bound and unable to escape.

"EhΣ(°△°||)|?!"

Higana could only watch helplessly as the two gas canisters, blazing with light, grew ever more dangerous and drew ever closer to her, as if the "jade and stone shattering" was about to explode right beside her.

She froze.

but.

As the double-explosive gas exploded, its body abruptly began to dissolve, transforming back into a pink kitten covering its mouth and chuckling.

[Hehehe! A bunch of Team Rocket idiots, idiots, big idiots! They actually fell for Mew's little trick!]

Mew grinned and made a face at the Team Rocket elites who had kept a safe distance from the explosion.

Higana understood this time.

This is a classic case of "openly practicing underhanded tactics while secretly carrying out clandestine operations"!

"Release me now!" she snorted. "Let me deal with these Team Rocket members who ambushed me! Let them see the might of Queen Higanbana!"

But the dream did not solve her problem.

It simply stretched out its little finger and frantically pointed at the Poké Ball on Higanbana's waist.

But no matter how many times she tapped, nothing happened. Instead, Higanbana twisted and turned, which made Mew extremely anxious.

Stop fidgeting, you idiot, Higana!

"It itches so much! Dream, please stop poking me! Just let go of me!!"

【No way! What good are you, Shisana! You're useless! Your Pokémon are the only useful ones! Don't worry, Mew will be activated soon!】

[However! Which button is the release button?! Sawaki only told Mew to release those guys trapped around Higanbana's waist, but he didn't say which spot to press!]

Just as the Team Rocket elites realized something and were about to launch their Pokémon attack, the situation changed.

In her haste, Dreamy finally clicked the correct button.

With a series of "bang bang bang" sounds, the white light summoned by the Poké Ball flashed continuously.

The Pokémon of Higanbana was finally revealed.

"roar-!!!"

Two husky dragons, Salamence and Roaring Moon, appeared first, their wings outstretched and roaring fiercely.

[Wow, that was terrifying!]

Dream finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Hilaria's six Pokémon have all been released. Although Hilaria herself is a bit of a goofball, as the inheritor of the Meteor Dwellers, she shoulders the mission of "saving the world," and her Pokémon are quite powerful.

They quickly suppressed the Rockets' elite personnel.

Because of the commotion here, in addition to the elite Team Rocket members who were lying in ambush here, Team Rocket members who were also taking over other locations in the base also arrived one after another.

Thus, this could be considered a narrow corner of the capture team's base.

Salamence and Roaring Moon charged wildly, each collision sending an elite Team Rocket Pokémon flying.

The sticky dragon is spitting out mud cannonballs; a single mud splatter can blast away a cross-bat.

Altaria scatters its feathers, which stick to a Pokémon, making it unable to move. Then, the immobilized Pokémon is launched into flight by Salamence...

Before long, the entire capture team's base was cleared out by Sissana's six Pokémon.

"Higana, you're amazing!" Zeki exclaimed in admiration of her achievement.

"Hmph! Although Queen Higana is very powerful!" Higana puffed out her cheeks and glared at him, "Could you please untie me before you say that?!"

Despite the Pokémon constantly battling, Hilaria herself remained bound and held captive. This frustrated Hilaria greatly.

But what frustrated Higana even more was...

Ze Shu pointed helplessly at her hands, which were tied behind her back: "Why don't you try to free your hands? Try to struggle?"

As he suggested, Higana tried it, but after she exerted a little force, the rope binding her hands came loose and fell to the ground.

"Huh?!" Higana exclaimed in surprise.

"I already cut the ropes binding you, and I told you that too," Ze Shu said mercilessly. "But you were too busy smugly shouting that your Pokémon was attacking Team Rocket, and you didn't break free. I thought you were a masochist, that you liked being tied up and wanted to savor the feeling a little longer."

"I didn't expect that you, Higana, aren't a masochist. You're just a simple-minded idiot."

"Ugh!" Higana blushed, "I...I..."

She opened her mouth wide, but stubbornly refused to utter a word. She could only puff out her cheeks, raise her head, and let out a muffled groan. Anyway, so be it, she's an idiot. It's not the first time I've said that, I'm used to it.

Soon, after a fierce battle by Higanbana's Pokémon, the knocked-out Team Rocket members were piled up in a corner of the Capture Team base—marking Team Rocket's failure to control the Capture Team base, and now Sawaki was in control of it.

Lance was also bound hand and foot and hung from the ceiling by hemp rope.

Xiao Lan quickly tallied up the numbers: "The Rocket Team sent over forty people to capture this base."

Ze Shu: "I don't know why these guys came here."

They looked at each other.

"Could it be that they're thinking the same thing as us?"

Having realized that Mewtwo has become a Dark Pokémon, they want to come to the Orei region, the birthplace of Dark Pokémon, to investigate and find a way to track Mewtwo down.

"In that case, we need to speed things up," Ze Shu said.

"From what I've learned about this raiding party's base," Xiao Lan added, "I've found some information about the raiding party, and... the location of their warehouses where they store their looted goods."

"It's in the basement of this base."

"Furthermore, the data shows they also have a shipment stored up," which they intend to deliver to a location. Presumably, it belongs to the so-called Shadow Organization.

The "goods" of the raiding team were, of course, the Pokémon they had stolen. In this basement where the "goods" were stored, there were as many as thirty or forty Pokémon, all of them fast asleep and making no sound.

"The secrecy surrounding the capture team isn't very tight; in fact, you could say it's a bit... lax."

"These are documents that the Rockets casually flipped through after they took control of this place. They even have the resume of the guy who took over the team's leader, this guy called Black Kung Sha."

"But that's not important right now."

"The important thing is that their publicly available information goes beyond just the delivery locations of the goods they seized."

"Even the delivery method, the route, and the code words are all written in the assignment document signed by this Black Demon."

Xiao Lan's expression was strange.

To be honest, this seizing team was bad; they really were.

However, their internal operations were quite well-organized, with all the essentials in place. This conveniently saved Ze Shu the time it would have spent gathering intelligence for the raiding team.

"Doesn't this just demonstrate the extent of Shadow's control over this raiding party?" Ze Shu chuckled. "They even have to keep records of the raiding party leader's background. Presumably, this 'Black Fiend' boss is also subject to their control."

Xiao Lan chuckled, "But now, it's convenient for us."

"In that case, things become much easier," Ze Shu said thoughtfully. "Besides, the purpose of sending these goods to the Shadow Organization is undoubtedly related to Dark Pokémon."

"—Maybe we can send them directly to the Shadow's base, or their Dark Pokémon lab."

Xiao Lan looked at him and said, "You mean...we're going to deliver these 'goods'?"

Looking at the pile of sleeping Pokémon around him, Ze Shu sighed, "These aren't the goods we're delivering, of course. But we're the ones delivering the goods."