"No... that's not right..."
Ariel's breathing suddenly became rapid as a crazy thought flooded his mind.
"They... they don't lack a bond!"
"They are using their will to protect each other as fuel and their shared bloodline as a bridge to forcibly ignite the ancient power sleeping deep within their genes!"
"This is... an evolutionary leap initiated by life itself in order to survive!"
Beside him, Yule's eyes were also wide open. She didn't understand what was about to happen. This light? Could it be evolution?
Can Legendary pokémon evolve too?
In the next second, the light suddenly converged.
As the light dissipated, two new figures appeared in the sky.
Their appearance was similar to before, yet completely different.
The original red and blue colors had vanished, replaced by a uniform, noble, and mysterious purple.
Their bodies had become more slender and aerodynamic. The jet-plane-like arms on their sides were tucked close, shimmering with a metallic luster. The halos surrounding their arms emitted a faint energy glow.
Mega Latios!
Mega Latias!
More importantly, all their wounds vanished within the light of evolution, and their condition returned to its peak!
The two siblings circled in the air and glanced at each other.
In those eyes, there was no longer pain or weakness, only cold fury and soaring battle intent.
"Swoosh—!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Mega Latios's figure instantly vanished from its spot.
It wasn't high-speed flight, but a true disappearance, like a spatial jump!
Above the sky, Mewtwo, who had originally held the winning hand, blinked its red electronic eyes, seemingly processing this sudden turn of events.
Just then, a purple afterimage flashed past its left side.
"Bang!"
A Zen Headbutt, condensing massive mental power, struck solidly at the joint of its left shoulder armor.
That joint let out a tooth-aching sound of twisting metal, and several electrical sparks exploded out.
Mewtwo's body stumbled from the massive force. It immediately raised its arm, firing a Hyper Beam toward the direction where the afterimage had vanished.
However, the beam of light only hit empty air.
At the same time, another purple stream of light appeared behind its right side.
Mega Latias flapped her wings, and an energy sphere surrounded by a brilliant mist struck the power pack's energy pipe joint on Mewtwo's back at an extremely tricky angle!
"Boom!"
The energy explosion made the once-arrogant Mecha Mewtwo look somewhat disheveled.
The sky had completely become the stage for the Mega Lati twins.
Their speed had increased to an inconceivable level, turning into two purple streams of light that couldn't be captured by the naked eye, weaving an inescapable web of attacks in the sky.
Meanwhile, the originally suffocatingly powerful Mewtwo now appeared incredibly clumsy.
Its power was still immense; every Dragon Pulse and every Psycho Cut was enough to split mountains and crack rocks.
But the problem was, it couldn't hit them at all!
Its attacks could only ever chase after those two purple afterimages.
In contrast, the Mega Lati twins' attacks were precise every single time.
Zen Headbutt.
Mist Ball.
Psychic.
Dragon Pulse.
The siblings' coordination was perfect to the extreme, as if a single brain were thinking.
One was responsible for the main attack, while the other handled distraction, their targets always being the weakest joints and energy lines of the armor on Mewtwo's body.
They were using their own way to dismantle this cage that bound a god, bit by bit!
"Crack!"
In another perfect coordination, Mega Latios's Zen Headbutt struck Mewtwo's chest plate head-on, leaving a clear dent.
Mega Latias's Mist Ball followed immediately after, exploding in the same spot.
A crack finally appeared on the armor of the core area on Mewtwo's chest.
An opportunity!
A sharp glint flashed through the eyes of both siblings simultaneously.
They stopped their hit-and-run tactics and suddenly split apart high in the air, one to the left and one to the right, pulling several hundred meters apart.
Immediately after, both figures turned around and launched a desperate charge toward Mewtwo in the center!
Emerald-green Dragon-type energy flames burned on the surface of their bodies, trailing long tails of fire behind them.
Dragon Rush!
And it was a Dragon Rush performed by two Mega pokémon working together!
The sky seemed to be torn apart by these two emerald-green streams of light.
Mewtwo also seemed to sense the crisis. It abandoned its Lock-On, crossed its arms in front of its chest, and poured all its energy into defense.
In the next instant.
The two emerald-green streams of light, with an unyielding and resolute posture, crashed heavily into the cracked core armor on Mewtwo's chest!
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
Ariel could even clearly see that the chest plate, forged from high-strength alloy, first dented sharply inward at the point of impact, and then countless spiderweb-like cracks spread crazily in all directions from the center of the impact!
"Clang—!!!"
An extremely crisp sound of metal snapping echoed through the clouds, drowning out the waves and the wind, reaching every corner of the island.
The sturdiest core armor on Mewtwo's chest, along with the Energy Suppressor inside, was completely pierced and shattered!
The final shackle binding the god was broken.
Having lost the Energy Suppressor, the power within Mewtwo's body instantly went out of control, and violent purple energy gushed out from the breach in its chest.
Like a punctured balloon, it could no longer maintain its levitation. Dragging its tattered armor, it was slammed into the tallest mountain in the center of the island by an irresistible force, like a true meteorite.
"Rumble—!!!"
The earth shook and the mountains swayed!
The entire island trembled violently, as if a massive magnitude seven Earthquake had occurred.
A visible shockwave spread from the point of impact, snapping the trees around the mountain in half, row after row.
Then, a small mushroom cloud, mixed with dust and rubble, slowly rose from the center of the mountain.
The sky regained its long-lost peace.
Only those two purple figures remained floating quietly in the air, declaring the winners of this battle.
Ariel stared blankly at the huge, hideous hole in the mountain, his heart pounding wildly.
He knew that the battle...
Was far from over.
What was shattered was only the cage.
What kind of monster would be released?
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