Chapter 555: Playing with Fire
"Old Flame, don't waste time on the enemy's Pokémon! Destroy the vehicles first! Lina, provide cover fire from above with Flamethrower!"
Arthur's tactical plan was clear—destroy the enemy's means of transport first!
Having completed a Dragon Dance, Old Flame was indisputably the fastest on the field! Combining speed and explosive power, even the vehicle carrying the new leader, Dayna, couldn't withstand a single Flare Blitz. The other vehicles had neither the skill nor the power to survive.
With Old Flame's current speed, they'd need the skills of a legendary drift racer to escape the pincer attack of the father-daughter Charizard duo.
Unfortunately, this wasn't Mount Akina, and there were no gutters in the desert for them to drift through...
In a short time, screams, curses, and shouts rang out one after another!
Within seconds, Old Flame braved a hail of bullets and flipped over seven vehicles. Above, Lina used Flamethrower to blow up an armed jeep mounted with a heavy machine gun.
As the saying goes, what goes around comes around. Initially, the enemy had fired a rocket to spectacularly destroy Arthur's vehicle, striking decisively and seizing the initiative. It had looked incredibly cool at the time.
But karma arrived swiftly. Just by giving Arthur a chance to cover Old Flame's Dragon Dance, the enemy was forced to pay back their initial advantage with interest!
Because they had no Pokémon fast enough to catch Old Flame after a Dragon Dance!
This meant no one could stop Old Flame as he flipped vehicles!
As cool as they were blowing up Arthur's car, they were equally pathetic jumping out of their own...
In the process, the plan conceived by Linda and the other cadres—to capture the leader first, taking down Arthur to force Old Flame to retreat—also failed.
Raichu and Magnezone, who rushed in first, were intercepted midway by Greninja in a 1v2 fight. Raichu was stunned in the first exchange.
In another direction, the three main Pokémon of another newly appointed cadre—Typhlosion, Empoleon, and Escavalier—were effortlessly stopped by the little dragonfly alone!
The wide coverage of Ground-type moves was fully displayed at this moment!
Ground-type moves were super effective against Poison, Fire, Electric, Steel, and Rock—five types in total! It was an extremely excellent offensive type!
The little dragonfly landed and slammed her palm down, using Earthquake to simultaneously knock back the three besieging cadre Pokémon, landing critical hits on all of them. She fought like a god of war!
These people had used a suicide bomber to injure her most admired Big Sister Tyranitar!
This made the usually lazy little dragonfly burst with 120% fighting spirit!
In a single exchange, within seconds, the Stitched Shadow Army was a bit dazed.
Weren't we supposed to ambush, fight quickly, grab the person, and leave?
How did we get beaten like this?
Looking at the scene filled with flames and wrecked cars, Dayna, who had jumped out of her car, gritted her teeth in anger.
Before this battle, she hadn't taken Arthur seriously at all.
Her imagined enemy was the person behind Arthur!
The true mastermind hidden behind the scenes, who had turned the previous leader into a puppet and deceived them for decades!
Before coming, she had planned to quickly capture this boy alive to force the mastermind to show themselves.
She had even planned to use his influence in the Kubfu Alliance to help the Stitched Shadow Army withdraw from the desert, and then execute him ruthlessly after escaping!
Let the opponent feel true cruelty! This would be revenge for manipulating the Stitched Shadow Army for decades!
She had envisioned countless cruel methods of revenge.
But she didn't expect to encounter a major setback at the very first step!
The real mastermind hadn't even shown up, yet a little brat had caused them such heavy losses?
It wasn't until Arthur rushed all the way to her that Dayna snapped out of it. She quickly released a Slowbro to intercept him, then mounted her large Lapras to retreat.
Once the melee began, Arthur fought more and more freely.
Because in close combat, the enemy didn't dare shoot recklessly for fear of hitting their own.
And once in the rhythm of a Pokémon melee, no one was more familiar with such battles than Arthur!
As soon as Slowbro appeared, it saw a sword slashing towards its face!
Its already dim-witted face was instantly scared into a meme-worthy expression.
But this wasn't what shocked Dayna the most. She had seen Arthur slash a Golurk earlier. What truly shocked her was the message Slowbro transmitted through their telepathic link.
"It's him?! It's the person from back then! Is he here again?!"
Dayna was confused at first. "What are you talking about?"
Until Arthur saw this familiar Slowbro and remembered their encounter. Suddenly, he smiled wickedly.
"So this is your Pokémon. Is your Jynx doing well?"
"?!"
Instantly, Dayna's face changed drastically.
"It's you?! The person in the slums that night was you?!"
Two years ago, in the slums of the Star Brilliance Alliance, Arthur hadn't gotten injured fighting the four cadre Pokémon for nothing.
He and Specter had worked together to kill a Jynx!
But at that time, none of the owners of the four Pokémon were on the main battlefield, so Arthur didn't know which Pokémon belonged to whom, only having vague guesses.
Until this moment, the Slowbro recognized him, and he recognized this old opponent.
Asking "Is your Jynx doing well?" after recognition was truly heart-piercing!
It was also the most powerful rebuttal to the enemy's ambush.
Instantly, Dayna could no longer remain calm.
"You're courting death!!"
Although Jynx wasn't her strongest ace, it was a main partner that had followed her for many years. The separation in Star Brilliance still pained her heart to this day.
She had always thought it was the mastermind from the Kubfu Alliance who killed her Pokémon. She never expected it was just this brat in front of her!
In an instant, her eyes became bloodshot.
Meeting her devouring gaze, Arthur smiled calmly.
"Did your heart ache back then? I guess that Jynx's heart ached too."
This sentence had a double meaning.
Specter had killed Jynx by piercing its heart with a claw. Naturally, her heart ached—it was shattered.
At this moment, even though Dayna knew this brat was deliberately provoking her with words, anger uncontrollably seized the high ground of her reason!
The angrier she got, the more charmingly Dayna smiled.
"Little brother, you're playing with fire!"
She used a seductive voice to spit out chilling words through gritted teeth.
Originally, she only saw Arthur as a tool in the plan to force out the mastermind. But at this moment, the gunpowder of the battle finally escalated!
Enemies meeting face to face, eyes blazing with hatred!
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