Not even a single move.
Gengar felt something it had never experienced before.
Frustration.
Ever since being caught by Sam, Gengar's journey had been smooth. Victory followed victory. Even when facing Koga's Crobat yesterday, it had managed to force a draw in desperate circumstances.
But this battle—
It was different.
Watching Deoxys and Mewtwo clash left Gengar shaken.
If one day it faced an opponent like that…
What would it do?
Surrender?
Deoxys, now in its Speed Forme, had pushed its velocity to the absolute limit. Sam could no longer track it with his eyes. He could only estimate its position from the sharp sounds of air splitting apart.
Facing such overwhelming speed, Mewtwo's response was simple.
And brutal.
It raised its right hand.
Psychic energy gathered instantly, compressing into a blinding mass of power.
Mewtwo didn't try to track Deoxys.
It didn't need to.
It would simply destroy everything within range.
The strategy sounded crude—but only Mewtwo could execute it so effortlessly. No other Pokémon possessed psychic power vast enough to unleash such indiscriminate destruction.
Light burst from its palm.
Materialized psychic waves expanded outward in all directions.
Everything in their path was erased.
Sam watched as trees that had already been broken by Deoxys' earlier impact were completely disintegrated by the spreading force.
Psystrike.
This—
Was Mewtwo's power.
"Everyone, come back!"
Sam immediately recalled all Pokémon except Tyranitar, Gengar, and Scyther. The battle had escalated beyond anything the others could withstand.
Mewtwo's attack spared no one.
Sam and his Pokémon were well within its range.
The expanding psychic shockwave rushed toward them.
Tyranitar stepped forward.
It spread its arms wide.
The ground trembled violently.
Walls of sand surged upward, forming a massive barrier in front of them.
The psychic waves slammed into the sand wall.
After a violent clash—
The residual force finally dissipated.
"Boom!!!"
Deoxys did not escape Psystrike.
Mewtwo had anticipated its movement.
The attack struck cleanly.
Deoxys was blasted straight into the ground.
But at the moment of impact, it had already switched into Defense Forme.
Even so—
The damage was severe.
Deoxys' condition was already critical. Its energy was nearly depleted. After battling Rayquaza and now Mewtwo, its body had reached its limit.
Even Sam felt a trace of sympathy.
Escaping Rayquaza only to encounter Mewtwo…
Its luck was truly terrible.
Deoxys understood.
Mewtwo was no weaker than Rayquaza.
If it continued fighting—
It would die.
Whoosh—!
Deoxys shifted back into Speed Forme.
It chose to flee.
"Trying to escape?"
Mewtwo's cold voice echoed across the night sky.
Blue spheres of condensed energy formed in its hands.
"Aura Sphere."
Even without a Trainer, Mewtwo instinctively selected the perfect move to prevent escape.
Once formed, Aura Sphere would pursue its target until impact.
Deoxys was fast.
But it could not outrun inevitability.
The Aura Sphere struck.
Boom!!!
Deoxys was sent crashing down again.
It had reached its absolute limit.
Despair flickered in its eyes.
There was no escape.
Sam looked at the fallen Deoxys and felt a complicated weight in his chest.
Deoxys was not a Pokémon that sought conflict. It was peaceful by nature, attacking only when necessary.
Its arrival on this planet had been an accident.
And now—
This was the end.
Sam sighed deeply.
There was nothing he could do.
Mewtwo was far beyond anything he could challenge.
For his own safety, he decided to leave.
But—
As he turned—
Deoxys made a final decision.
Its body began to glow.
It burned the last of its life force.
Its form collapsed inward—
Compressing.
Shrinking.
Becoming a crystalline core.
With the final fragment of its strength, it propelled the core toward Sam.
"No, no, no—don't come here!" Sam panicked.
The core flew unerringly.
And landed inside his backpack.
Sam nearly cried.
He slowly raised his hands.
"If I say I'm innocent… would you believe me?"
Mewtwo floated in the air, silent.
Time passed.
Finally, it spoke.
"Life is truly fragile. Even a being that powerful cannot escape death."
Sam didn't know how to respond.
What he really wanted to say was—
Life isn't fragile.
If it hadn't met you, it wouldn't have ended like this.
But he swallowed the words.
"If you want it… I can give it to you," Sam said cautiously.
The core of Deoxys was priceless.
But no treasure was worth his life.
Mewtwo did not respond immediately.
When Deoxys had transformed into its core, Mewtwo could have stopped it.
But it hadn't.
Was delivering Deoxys' core back to Giovanni—
Really what it wanted?
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