Chapter 383: The Only One Caught
Not far from the Weather Institute.
A helicopter bearing the Team Aqua logo was flying toward the institute.
The helicopter was flying at a moderate speed, but its altitude was quite bizarre.
It was only about ten meters above the trees on the ground, and even more bizarrely, it was dragging a person underneath it.
This person was none other than the unlucky Goh, who had joined Team Aqua.
Because of his own bad luck buff, Team Aqua had already crashed no fewer than ten aircraft. Therefore, whenever Team Aqua had to take him on a mission, regardless of the vehicle, he could only be dangled by a rope at least 15 meters away from the vehicle.
Doing this wasn't without its benefits; whenever they were being pursued, at least there was a target to absorb most of the aggro.
Based on this alone, Team Aqua couldn't possibly abandon him.
"Arrived over the target!"
"Good, now let's begin the first phase of the operation: throw that unlucky guy down first."
Following Izumi's order, the rope holding Goh was unilaterally cut, and Goh plummeted straight into the institute's artificial Lake.
The moment he fell, Goh couldn't help but curse in his heart: "Damn Izumi, sooner or later I will make you experience this kind of pain too!"
Goh's fall easily attracted the attention of the Weather Institute staff.
It wasn't that they were worried about Goh's safety, but rather that the artificial Lake was crucial to the success of their experiment.
On the helicopter, Izumi, seeing that most of the institute's personnel were focused on Goh, slowly ordered her subordinates to rappel down.
The Team Aqua members, relying on their Crawdaunt, easily subdued the institute's staff.
There was no helping it; most of the institute's staff didn't carry Pokemon for self-defense, and on top of that, they were busy trying to save the artificial Lake.
Izumi sneered, "As expected, that unlucky guy's only use is to provide cover!"
On the other side, the Team Rocket Trio, who had been hiding near the Weather Institute, were accidentally captured by Team Aqua members as well.
Hmm... they originally had a chance to run away, but Jessie and James triggered their opening line mechanism.
"Hey, what do you want to do with us?" Jessie demanded.
"Now is not the time to argue, let's find a way to unlock this ring first, Meowth!" Meowth whispered.
"Exhale, just try to shrink your body as much as possible!" Jessie suggested an extremely outrageous method.
James was also reckless; he didn't even consider if the method was inhumane and immediately performed the exhaling-collarbone technique, and in the end, it actually worked.
Seeing James succeed, Jessie and Meowth followed suit.
The Team Rocket Trio's actions successfully irritated Izumi. "Since you three have such abilities, let's have you test the power of this machine."
Hearing Izumi's words, a Team Aqua member directly activated the weather-changing machine.
As the machine started, a large dark cloud gathered above the Team Rocket Trio.
Baru saw the Castform on his shoulder change into its rainy form, and with lightning flashing in the dark clouds, he immediately sensed danger and shouted to his colleagues behind him, "Danger, everyone get down quickly."
The Team Rocket Trio looked at Baru and the others in confusion.
Before they could ask, two bolts of lightning struck down.
One hit the Team Rocket Trio, and the other happened to hit Goh as he crawled out of the artificial Lake.
Inside the institute.
Ash and the others also saw the situation outside the institute on the monitors.
"Is that Team Aqua? They were actually released?" May asked in surprise.
"That's normal. For them to develop to their current scale, the person behind them must have extraordinary strength."
Ash only wanted to know if the bounty on Team Aqua had increased.
When Mili saw the Team Aqua members controlling the key mission figure, Baru, a cold glint flashed in her eyes.
But considering that Ash and the others were formidable, she didn't show it, and instead said to them, "The institute is not safe right now; everyone, follow me to a safe place first."
"I think..."
Just as Brock was about to take charge, Ash spoke up.
"Alright, then thank you, Ms. Mili."
Outside the institute, Team Aqua realized they hadn't found the data they needed, so they turned their attention to the director, Baru.
Baru realized the situation was bad, so he handed his ID card to Castform and asked it to go find Mili.
Izumi immediately ordered people to chase after it.
After noticing this, Mili wore a strange smile on her face and said to Ash and the others, "It's no trouble, everyone follow me."
Under her guidance, Ash and the others came to a storage room. "Ash, you guys stay here for now, I'll go contact Officer Jenny to seek rescue."
After speaking, Mili left on her own.
"Ash, is there something wrong with Mili?" Brock asked suspiciously.
Ash nodded: "Yes, a big problem. He is not the real Mili."
"Not the real Mili? Then who is he?" May was confused.
"He should be that expert-in-disguise executive from Team Magma. His purpose for coming here is similar to those guys from Team Aqua; they are both after the Groudon and Kyogre data stored in the institute," Ash explained.
"I see, then let's hurry up and catch them!" May said impatiently.
"Don't be in such a rush!"
Ash stopped them again, then took out his phone to check the bounty on Team Aqua.
Seeing that the bounty had actually decreased instead of increased, he no longer planned to catch Team Aqua and hand them over to Officer Jenny.
However, the bounty for that Team Magma executive was ridiculously high.
Having decided who to catch and who to let go, Ash took May and the others and set off.
Meanwhile, Mili had already obtained Baru's ID card and was copying data in the data room.
After Ash and the others walked out of the storage room, they soon encountered two Team Aqua members patrolling with Crawdaunt.
After those two saw Ash's face, cold sweat immediately poured down. One of them shouted into his headset: "Captain Izumi, the situation... the situation is bad, we've encountered the number one obstacle at the institute!!"
Outside the institute, Izumi's expression changed drastically, "What?"
The so-called number one obstacle naturally referred to Ash himself.
After the failure at Yantotsu Mountain last time, Archie specifically investigated Ash's background. Upon confirming that Ash possessed a Legendary Pokemon, he listed Ash as the number one target to watch out for, and no matter what operation they were executing, if they ran into him, they were to run away immediately.
Izumi gritted her teeth and said: "All units, listen up! Terminate the operation immediately and retreat!"
Many Team Aqua members heard the order and hurriedly evacuated.
May saw the two Team Aqua members turning around and running, "Uh... Ash, it seems like they are trying to run away?"
"They can run this time, but they won't be able to run next time. Let's go catch that fake Mili first."
Following the sensing of Aura, Ash soon arrived at the data room where Mili was.
Before they could break in, Mili walked out holding a disk.
He asked suspiciously: "Huh? How did you guys get out?"
"Nothing much, just here to catch a criminal with a very high bounty," Ash chuckled.
"Criminal?"
Feeling Ash's sharp gaze, the fake Mili stopped pretending. "How did you discover that I am the fake Mili?"
"Because I smelled the scent of crime."
"Heh, you think you can catch me just like that? It's not that simple. Ditto, transform into Pikachu and use Thunderbolt."
Ditto's body squirmed, and in the blink of an eye, it transformed into the yellow rat.
Before Ash could tell Pikachu to attack, Eevee launched the first attack, striking Ditto's face with an Iron Tail.
With a "smack," Ditto was sent flying against the wall and transformed back to its original form.
Pikachu: Iron Tail to the face, does she have a problem with me?
With Ditto defeated, the fake Mili had no support left.
After capturing him, Brock unveiled the mysterious mask of the fake Mili. Upon seeing that it was a man in disguise, he finally understood why his passive ability had failed when they first met.
In the end, the Weather Institute's data was not lost, and the real Mili only arrived late to report to Baru after the fake Mili was taken away by Officer Jenny.
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