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The absolute root of this entire catastrophe lay in Feng Lu's wild, untamed, and reckless nature. Decades ago, he had desperately sought a rare herb to cure his closest friend, only to be discovered by the League and sealed away inside the Indigo Prison.
The traumatic event had completely broken Yuan Jia, forcing her primary consciousness to retreat into a deep, protective comatose state. This tragic collapse was the exact threshold that permitted Vespiquen to reassert total control over her physical body.
"Then, if my objective is to awaken Yuan Jia, I must first break Vespiquen and forcefully rouse my mother's original soul," Feng Che analyzed, consulting Mewtwo.
[Theoretically speaking, that is entirely correct,] Mewtwo nodded smoothly. [However, I cannot offer absolute assurance on the mechanics. After all, this operation involves the intricate fabric of the spiritual core.]
[You should establish a psychic link with Gengar. When it comes to manipulating and splicing souls, Ghost-type Pokémon are the true, undisputed masters.]
[If your intent is to cleanly extract the invading spirit nesting inside Yuan Jia's vessel, you will undeniably require Gengar's specialized parameters to pull it off,] Mewtwo added.
"Vespiquen, use Attack Order!" the assassin queen bellowed at the top of his lungs.
Thousands of Combee concurrently discharged Signal Beam from their maws, the rainbow-like, glittering columns of light violently filling every corner of the grand cavern. To ensure Team Plasma's personnel did not compromise or disrupt Feng Che's tactical layout, Mewtwo had long since utilized its psychic authority to smoothly displace the remaining grunts into a completely separate sector.
Concurrently, the palm-sized Beedrill clones unleashed a tremendous barrage of Poison Stings, the high-lethal needles raining down toward Feng Che's coordinates like cattle hair.
"Alolan Ninetales, use Ice Beam into Blizzard to form an absolute frost wall!"
Alolan Ninetales slammed its left paw heavily onto the bedrock, instantly erecting a massive wall of solid permafrost before Feng Che.
The countless fine needles slammed dead-center into the barrier, a frantic hiss echoing as dense columns of white smoke bubbled from the impact zones. The ice wall was being systematically corroded and dissolved at a visible pace. Immediately after, the Combee brigade's Signal Beams slammed into the structural weak points, violently shattering the frost barrier into a thousand flying shards.
"Vespiquen, use Bug Buzz!"
Vespiquen fixed her captivating, treacherous eyes onto Feng Che, her voice laced with chilling focus. "The exact second I terminate your vessel, Grand Master Shaka has sworn a solemn covenant to permanently excise this invading soul from my body!"
"From that hour onward, I shall never again have to endure the constant agony of spiritual backlash!"
The Beehive Pokémon beat its wings at a manic velocity, coordinating its frequency with the Combee armada to unleash a devastating Bug Buzz. The ear-piercing, resonant screech echoed violently across the cavern walls.
Right at that critical millisecond, the white fog began to clear, revealing thousands of purple embers floating gracefully through the air. This was Ninetales's specialized Will-O-Wisp matrix; the exact millisecond any hostile entity brushed against these spectral fires, they would instantly trigger the burn status, systematically bleeding their parameters until they lost all capacity to battle.
"Curse it... Come forth, Venomoth!"
The assassin queen deployed a secondary asset. The Venomoth that materialized was colossally massive, its wings beating with frantic power to churn out an immense cloud of powdery scales.
Venomoth stood as an elegant, moth-like Pokémon, its segmented body a soft shade of lavender, balanced by an underbelly blanketed in fine white fur. It featured large, bulbous eyes resembling fluid bubbles, its pupils black, complemented by two sharp fangs protruding from its oral cavity. Three slender, antenna-like spikes crests its skull, supported by three pairs of tiny limbs extending from its thorax. Sprouting from its spine were two pairs of gargantuan wings, completely saturated with a dense layer of toxic purple scales.
A Venomoth's scales possessed dynamic chemical properties: a dense concentration would instantly induce severe poisoning, while a lighter dust layer would completely paralyze a target's nervous system. When initiating a full-field press, it would violently flap its colossal wings to blanket the entire arena in a lethal blizzard of toxic powder. If a mortal accidentally permitted the scales to coat their skin, the powder was exceptionally difficult to strip away, allowing the volatile neurotoxins to seamlessly seep straight into their bloodstream.
"Venomoth, use Poison Powder!"
Venomoth beat its wings furiously, refining the scales into a towering wave of Poison Powder that rolled across the field like a massive tsunami, barreling straight toward the Will-O-Wisp matrix.
[This is bad, Feng Che! Neutralize that cloud immediately! Vespiquen is explicitly trying to trigger a full-scale dust explosion!]
The exact millisecond Mewtwo's mental warning cleared, the highly volatile Poison Powder collided head-on with Ninetales's spectral embers. A catastrophic, earth-shaking explosion rocked the cavern basin, a colossal purple mushroom cloud saturated with dense neurotoxins violently expanding in every direction.
Even Insect Master, tracking the fallout from the periphery, felt his face turn completely ashen as the pungent, toxic cloud rolled toward his coordinates. He frantically snapped an advanced filtration mask over his face to bar the lethal dust from breaching his airways.
"The specific composition of the Poison Powder lining my Venomoth was meticulously engineered by my own hand," Vespiquen laughed triumphntly, a manic, cruel smile playing on her lips. "The precise microsecond those particles breach your respiratory system, your vital signs will instantly terminate."
"You are a dead man, Feng Che."
Dense waves of Viridian Force steadily pulsed across her body, the natural life parameters continuously purifying and neutralizing any stray toxin metrics attempting to compromise her own vessel.
"Shaymin, I'm counting on your parameters!"
Feng Che smoothly deployed his partner, directing the Gratitude Pokémon to systematically siphon and absorb the toxic cloud ravaging the field. Just a moment prior, both Ninetales and Alolan Ninetales had accidentally inhaled a micro-fraction of the Poison Powder, their vital parameters buckling under the severe poison status.
"Understood! Leave this entirely to Shaymin!" the Mythical Pokémon chimed, its voice exceptionally soft, sweet, and pure.
The lush, moss-like foliage cresting its back generated an irresistible telekinetic suction, the vacuum current siphoning the vast ocean of Poison Powder straight into its core. Concurrently, a purplish miasma bled out from the bodies of the collapsed Ninetales and Alolan Ninetales. As the toxic aura vanished into nothingness, the twin foxes recovered their baseline parameters at a visible pace.
The Supreme Leader of the Pierce Insect Organization specialized strictly in handling Bug and Poison-type assets, her mastery over lethal chemical compounding so profound that the criminal underworld universally revered her as the Poison Matriarch.
"So it was a Shaymin that effortlessly neutralized my ultimate toxin... That explains the anomaly," the Poison Matriarch murmured, parsing the data. Relying on the residual memories locked inside Yuan Jia's brain, she was fully aware of the Mythical Pokémon's absolute purification properties.
"Wait... this specific Shaymin aligns with a highly classified record hidden within my memory files," Vespiquen muttered, fragmented flashes of a distant timeline flickering across her consciousness.
"The incinerated Gracidea flower fields..."
"The Yuan lineage..."
"I see... You are that exact same Shaymin bound to the core bloodline of the Yuan family!"
"However, is that sacred entity not engineered to respond exclusively to the direct lineage of the main house?"
"Feng Che, you have hidden your administrative parameters exceptionally deep. To think you are actually a primary direct descendant of the Yuan lineage," the Poison Matriarch sneered, her tone rich with biting sarcasm.
"I have never once issued a public statement claiming I lacked a connection to the Yuan bloodline," Feng Che countered, his tone dripping with absolute disdain. "A pathetic, parasitic spirit that forcefully usurped another individual's physical vessel truly has immense audacity to stand there and mock me."
"How on earth do you know that?!"
The Poison Matriarch's pupils contracted in absolute shock. This stood as her single most heavily guarded, sacred secret. Having her true identity unmasked so clinically left her feeling a sudden wave of acute panic.
"Since you refuse to reveal the source of your intelligence, I have zero choice but to permanently erase your vessel from existence."
"That way, the secret remains securely buried within the dirt forever."
The assassin queen smoothly hurled a secondary Poké Ball into the clearing.
"Come forth, Ariados! Use String Shot!"
Ariados snapped its jaws, expelling thousands of unyielding, hyper-tensile silken threads from its oral cavity. The sticky strands tore across the air like a volley of high-velocity arrows, shrieking straight toward Feng Che's position.
"Hmph! Ninetales, use Flamethrower!"
Ninetales unhinged its jaws, unleashing a torrential Flamethrower that fanned out to convert the immediate field into a roaring sea of fire. The tensile silk was instantly vaporized upon making contact with the heat, filling the ambient airspace with fine carbon ash.
"Ariados, maximize velocity parameters with Agility, then follow up with Poison Sting!" the Poison Matriarch commanded seamlessly.
"Ninetales, maintain full-field Flamethrower!"
The torrential stream of fire swept ruthlessly across the stone floor, rendering the bedrock blisteringly hot. Ariados executed a sequence of rapid, high-speed maneuvers, leveraging its dense webs to launch itself up to anchor onto the cavern ceiling, before unleashing a massive barrage of Poison Stings downward.