Chapter 524: A War Sparked by a Language Barrier
Considering the trainers nearby were all heading this way.
So Will interrupted the Draconid people from continuing to thank Lord Dragon God, and also dragged back Steven, who was lying on the ground looking for meteorite fragments as if he had nothing left to live for.
They worked together to carry the eight glass boxes into Meteor Village.
Subsequently.
Elder Aster had people guard the tunnel leading to Meteor Village.
Everyone else headed towards the village square.
Not long after arriving at the square.
The eight Deoxys inside the glass boxes woke up simultaneously.
They swept a glance at the surrounding environment.
The shapes of their bodies started changing edges, trying to find a crack to squeeze out of, but unfortunately, they all failed.
Thump!
Thump!
The sound of strong heartbeats drifted into their ears from amidst a burst of noisy clamor.
The movements of all the Deoxys stopped at this moment.
The Deoxys located in the center slightly widened its eyes, slowly turning around in the narrow glass box to look behind.
Only to see a Lucario sitting quietly on the rock behind them, staring at their every move.
"Awake?"
Will looked at the Deoxys making eye contact with him.
Although he has face blindness.
But from the aura and Aura on its body, this is the one that battled him just now.
"Hah..."
Deoxys let out a sound with unclear meaning.
"What exactly does he want to express?"
Cynthia sat beside Will.
Just now when he blocked the meteorite, his hands were severely burned, and the healing effect of Aura Power was a bit slow, so Cynthia was spraying Potion on him.
"Probably wants to explain the purpose of his visit."
Will raised his head and thought for a moment.
He remembered Deoxys could speak using a Meowth's body through psychic powers.
However...
Meowth learned the ability to speak human language.
So it could express Deoxys' meaning.
But besides him present, no one else could speak out Deoxys' meaning.
Unless he himself...
That is an impossible thing.
When Deoxys controls Meowth's body with psychic powers, the latter is in a state of having lost consciousness.
If Will was controlled.
And Rayquaza isn't here.
No one present could stop him and this extreme Deoxys.
So Will absolutely cannot let Deoxys' consciousness enter his brain.
"Hm?"
At this time, Will suddenly caught sight of Steven's Metagross.
This big millstone was eavesdropping on the Draconid people discussing the iridescent stone together with Steven.
As fellow Psychic-type Pokémon.
Metagross should have a certain amount of resistance to Deoxys' mental power, right?
Moreover.
Metagross's strength is powerful, at the upper-tier Elite Four level.
Why not let that lower-tier Champion Deoxys, whose level is about the same, use Metagross's mouth to speak out the whole story?
If Deoxys harbored ill intentions, leaving aside that Metagross might be able to break free from the control itself.
Even if it couldn't break free.
Will could also immediately team up with other Pokémon to control Metagross at the first moment.
As for whether other people could understand Metagross's words.
That's not important.
It's enough that he can understand Metagross's language.
He can relay it to everyone afterwards.
Will immediately told Steven and Metagross his thoughts.
Whether this matter could work.
Still had to let them make the decision themselves.
And as expected.
Although Steven is young, and a bit unreliable on matters related to stones.
But as the Hoenn Champion, he doesn't lack responsibility and duty at all.
Steven and Metagross were both willing to follow Will's idea.
As for whether Metagross could be replaced by Victini, who is also a Psychic-type...
Of course not.
If Victini was controlled, the problem would be even bigger than Will being controlled.
"You can understand my words, right? Nod if you understand."
Will walked to the front of the glass box, making eye contact with the Deoxys inside.
This one is the strongest, should be the boss of this space virus squad.
That Deoxys leaned close, pressing against the glass box, a faint blue glimmer appearing in its eyes.
At the same time.
Victini on Will's head suddenly puffed up, frowned, and his eyes released pink light.
Will fell silent, his expression not looking very good.
This guy used an ability similar to mind control on him just now.
As expected.
Not rashly coming into contact with Deoxys was correct.
Once he was controlled.
Releasing these eight Deoxys.
Then Meteor Village would likely be finished.
Even if Rayquaza hurried back, it would probably be a step too late.
The incidents Champions have to handle are just troublesome like this. Things that seem to be almost over are full of risks and crises until the very end; one careless move and the whole game could be lost.
"You should be able to understand my words, but it looks like you don't plan to cooperate properly."
Will took two steps back.
Under its watchful eyes, he walked to the glass box beside it; inside happened to be the weakest Deoxys.
Probably because he stood on the side of the Draconid people.
And the Deoxys seemed to harbor quite a lot of hatred towards the Draconid people.
So Will also became an enemy in their eyes.
But unfortunately.
Although Will hasn't learned Psychic moves yet, his constant mental training hasn't fallen behind.
Several lifetimes of reincarnation made his mental energy abnormally massive, possessing high resistance against means like Hypnosis, mind control, and psychological suggestion.
Plus, Victini on Will's head is also a mid-tier Champion Psychic-type god.
So Deoxys wanting to control Will through the glass.
Is a fool's dream.
"If you guys don't plan to resolve this matter properly, for the sake of ensuring the safety of the Draconid people, we will implement humane destruction on you."
Will raised a hand and pressed it against the glass box beside him.
His gaze bloomed with the deep blue light of Aura.
The weak Deoxys inside made eye contact with Will, its body uncontrollably shuddering, involuntarily shrinking towards the corner of the glass box.
"Hah."
Bang!
The Deoxys boss angrily reached out and forcefully slapped the glass, letting out a loud noise.
Everyone's gazes gathered over.
The Draconid people subconsciously summoned their Dragon Pokémon.
In the blink of an eye.
Seventy or eighty Pokémon surrounded the square.
Will turned around and sat his butt on the glass box, leisurely swinging his calves like an old master, seemingly already considering the matter of destroying them.
However, this scene made the Deoxys boss recognize reality.
They couldn't run away.
They were fish on the chopping block.
Finally.
Deoxys still forced himself to calm down, staring at Will, showing a posture of compromise.
"Let this guy conduct consciousness communication with Metagross, and tell him the purpose of your coming here. If it's reasonable and logical, we can consider cooperating to complete your mission and letting you leave safely. If you pull any little tricks again, your cores will stay behind for humans to use for research."
Will patted the glass box under his butt, while simultaneously raising a hand to wave Steven and Metagross over.
The key to opening the glass box is on Steven.
Moreover, Steven has Metagross's Poké Ball at his waist.
Even if Metagross is controlled, Steven can immediately use the Poké Ball to recall Metagross inside to restrict it.
The subsequent matters went quite smoothly.
Under the signal of the Deoxys boss, the little Deoxys told everything to Metagross.
And Metagross relayed its words to Will.
After understanding everything.
Will couldn't help but show a weird expression.
This matter is really hard to say who is right and who is wrong.
If one had to say...
It was caused by the language barrier.
The original body of the iridescent stone was a special meteorite wandering randomly in the universe.
The reason it's called special.
Is because this meteorite can actively absorb a kind of laser in the universe, causing the viruses attached to the meteorite to mutate into the cores of Deoxys.
With the passage of time, this core will gradually possess its own consciousness and evolve new forms, thereby birthing a new Deoxys.
To put it bluntly.
The iridescent stone is the hotbed for this lineage of Deoxys to breed babies, the key to ensuring the continuation of their race.
If they lose the iridescent stone.
They will no longer be able to welcome the birth of new Deoxys babies.
Can only be like those wandering Deoxys, wandering everywhere in the universe with meteorites, craving that one day they might be lucky enough to meet fellow clansmen.
As for how the iridescent stone fell to the Blue Planet and into the hands of the Draconid people.
This matter has to be traced back to thousands of years ago.
At that time, the Deoxys wandered in the universe riding the iridescent stone, looking forward to the birth of new partners every day; life was plain and dull but full of hope.
However, suddenly one day.
A colorful, grayish-black beam of light shot from the depths of the universe, directly hitting their home squarely.
The iridescent stone was pierced into two halves by that laser. Countless unhatched cores were scattered all over the universe; even the iridescent stone split into two halves fell towards a certain direction one after another.
The Deoxys had no choice.
They decided to prioritize rescuing those Deoxys babies scattered all over the universe, and then go find the iridescent stone.
However, when they found it.
A thousand years had already passed.
A Deoxys saw one half of the iridescent stone falling towards the Blue Planet.
He worried the fall of the iridescent stone would cause countless deaths and injuries on the Blue Planet, so he planned to go stop it and bring back the iridescent stone, and then was discovered by Rayquaza, who was sleeping in the ozone layer at the time.
The result is naturally self-evident.
For the next two thousand years.
The Deoxys have always been trying to recover that half of the iridescent stone.
During this period, the Deoxys tried countless times to explain to Rayquaza, stating their origin, just borrowing the path to retrieve an item.
But how could Rayquaza, a Blue Planet creature, understand space language? It thought this group of rubber men was trash-talking it, getting so angry that its attacks became heavier each time.
There were also one or two Deoxys who luckily sneaked into the Blue Planet and arrived at Meteor Falls.
They greeted politely, wanting to negotiate with the Draconid people of the Magical Beast Era, hoping to use some items from the universe in exchange for the iridescent stone.
Who would have thought.
These barbarians, the Draconid people, called Rayquaza to beat them without saying a word.
This made the Deoxys feel the Draconid people and Rayquaza were robbers wearing the same pair of pants, completely not wanting to reason with them anymore.
Until today.
The Deoxys could endure it no longer and launched the final general offensive.
And then failed again.
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