The flightless Groudon was the first to fall headfirst from the sky, followed closely by Kyogre and Rayquaza...
After the Hoenn trio came Lugia and the Eon duo, Latias and Latios.
Then came the Sinnoh region's Temporal and Spatial duo, Dialga and Palkia, along with the Renegade Pokémon, Giratina.
Accompanied by a strange buzzing sound like metal clashing, the massive Regigigas steadily fell from above, landing in front of Groudon, its three pairs of red, blue, and gray eyes scanning everything before it.
The last to appear were the Tao trio from the Unova region: the White Dragon Reshiram, the Black Dragon Zekrom, and the Ice Dragon Kyurem.
In the blink of an eye, the deities of the Pokémon world had descended upon this grassland filled with the scent of green grass.
"Hoopa!"
Hoopa's face showed a triumphant smile from its prank, clapping its hands excitedly as it admired its handiwork.
The moment Groudon descended, Caleb had already sensed the anomaly. As the only human present, his first thought was: 'I'm done for.'
Although he had the Red Orb and the Blue Orb, which would allow him to borrow the power of Groudon and Kyogre to fight, could they really defeat so many Legendary Pokémon?
Obviously not.
At this moment, Caleb's brain worked at high speed. Using the Warp Beacon to escape was not feasible; with Hoopa around, no matter where he fled, he would be caught immediately.
Besides the Warp Beacon, he had two other options...
First, use the Super Escape Rope to leave this Instance.
Second, have Celebi take him through time to avoid this n vs 1 Legendary Pokémon battle.
But since he hadn't found Mewtwo yet, he obviously couldn't leave the Instance now.
'This leaves only one option...'
Thinking this, Caleb took a step back and used his Viridian Power to recall all his Pokémon.
Dragonite and the others returned to their Poké Balls one after another. In an instant, the only one of his Pokémon left outside was Celebi.
"Bi?" (Ready?)
Celebi asked, perched on Caleb's shoulder.
Caleb grunted in affirmation, glanced at the group of Legendary Pokémon, and made one last attempt to communicate with Mewtwo's mind using his Viridian Power, but received an 'access denied' prompt.
At the same time, a dazzling green light shone from Celebi's body.
Caleb looked at the Temporal Pokémon, Dialga, opposite him. He was somewhat worried that Celebi's time travel would be thwarted by it.
However, Dialga simply remained motionless. After being summoned, it had been quietly floating in mid-air, watching Caleb's direction with eyes that showed no emotion.
Just then, Mewtwo on the other side also realized Caleb's intention.
Blue light flashed in its eyes as it activated its psychic power, trying to separate Caleb and Celebi to prevent their time travel.
Caleb frowned and shouted, "I'll say this one last time: I am not from Team Rocket, and I didn't come to this world to find you!"
Mewtwo remained unmoved. The psychic power in its eyes surged over like a giant wave.
Invisible energy blew through Caleb's hair. He felt an extremely heavy pressure rushing towards him.
At this critical moment, a green figure swooped down from the sky and timely blocked the Psychic attack.
It was Rayquaza!
"But... why?" Caleb muttered in confusion.
The next second, the energy from Celebi's body peaked. The power of time erupted, taking Caleb away from this place...
...
"The time travel was successful..."
Caleb sat on the same grassland at a different point in time, recalling the scene that had occurred just before he traveled through time.
Rayquaza had blocked Mewtwo's attack for him.
Dialga hadn't stopped him from traveling through time.
Strange, it was all too strange...
Could it be because of his Savior title + Viridian Power + Child of the Forest title's initial favorability?
But what about that Mewtwo?
Caleb had never imagined that one day he would be hunted by Mewtwo because of the Mewtwo's Favorability item.
In previous Instances, this item had always been a life-saving talisman, but in this Instance, it had become a death warrant.
He recalled the words and actions of that Mewtwo since he first saw it and organized the information he had gained...
First, Mewtwo had mistaken him for a member of Team Rocket based on some memory fragments.
Regarding this, Caleb wasn't unwilling to explain. He wanted to speak, but Mewtwo didn't give him a chance, immediately attacking him with psychic power. When he tried to use his Viridian Power, Mewtwo had closed off its heart, denying him access.
Second, based on the phrase: "Why did you follow me here? Still trying to use the so-called emotions to control me?"
It could be inferred that this Mewtwo seemed to have been deceived and controlled by someone using emotions before.
This behavior had severely hurt its heart, causing it to close itself off and believe that everyone approaching it wanted to control it.
If this were true, then everything would make sense.
Mewtwo attacked him because the 'Max (100+) Favorability' reminded it of some unpleasant past experiences, making it fear and hate this feeling.
This reaction reminded Caleb of a mental illness he had learned about in his previous life called PTSD.
PTSD refers to the delayed onset and persistent mental disorder caused by an individual experiencing, witnessing, or encountering one or more actual deaths, threats of death, or serious injuries to themselves or others...
So the question was, what had this Mewtwo been through?
Caleb lay on the grass thinking for a while but couldn't figure it out, so he simply put it aside.
He felt that the Mewtwo of every world was like a problem child with psychological barriers.
The Mewtwo from the Collapsed World was depressed to the point of wanting to commit suicide, and the Mewtwo from this world suffered from a mental illness.
Caleb thought of the Mewtwo from his exclusive Instance world...
Amber was dead, Team Rocket was destroyed prematurely, and Giovanni was missing. He didn't know if that Mewtwo had been successfully born or if it had developed issues like these two Mewtwos.
'Speaking of Amber...'
Caleb remembered that summer, the girl running happily by the seaside.
In Pokémon Adventures, Celebi used the power of time to revive Steven. What about Amber?
But Amber was different from Steven. Her cause of death was a problem with her genes. In this case, even if Celebi altered the timeline with its power, it couldn't change her physical condition.
Unless future medical technology became advanced enough.
*Sigh*
Caleb sighed softly, took out the Warp Beacon from his inventory, and prepared to check the specific situation at this timeframe.
After all, besides escaping Mewtwo, his main purpose in coming to the past was to investigate what exactly had happened in this world thirty-eight years ago.
The Warp Beacon didn't display the world's timeframe, so Caleb couldn't tell how many years back he had traveled.
He could only determine if it was thirty-eight years ago by checking if human cities existed on the Warp Beacon's saved locations...
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