"Damn it... who exactly are those trainers?"
Inside the primary command module of the grounded dreadnought, Yao Feng slammed his fist onto the console. He had finally parsed the mathematical impossibility: finding the exact regional coordinates of the mythic trio three times in a row across a continent was not a feat an ordinary sandbox player could achieve.
But dwelling on the security breach was a waste of resources. Fortunately, his flagship core remained data-intact; the loss of the two perimeter hulls didn't compromise their primary containment grid.
"Since they want to disrupt our operation, accelerate the timeline!" Yao Feng barked into the communications matrix. "Overclock the primary emitter towers to their maximum threshold! Force the capture algorithms. Even if it tears their code, secure the data blocks of the Three Legendary Beasts first!"
Yao Feng hadn't fabricated his structural goal when he handed out those transponder cards: his corporate backers were funding an absolute harvest of the sovereigns' internal elemental streams and genetic sequences. His baseline strategy had relied on a slow, methodical attrition protocol, draining their physical stamina bars to ensure a clean, uncorrupted sample extraction.
But with elite external actors shattering his hulls, the luxury of time had flatlined.
"Initializing overclock protocols, Chairman."
The technicians bypassed the standard system dampeners. The energy weapons targeting the mythic trio instantly generated a blinding, high-frequency kinetic hum, their output scaling multi-fold within a single refresh cycle.
The structural pressure on the three sovereigns exploded exponentially. To evade the high-output thermal and plasma nets, they were forced to slide into the overlapping volleys of the corporate guard lines, their physical hit pools suffering massive, continuous wear under the raw volume of numbers. Even a Level 70 mythic baseline couldn't mathematically sustain an infinite war of attrition against an entire corporate army.
"Dragonite, Dragon Pulse! Lapras, Hydro Pump! Cloyster, Psybeam! Slowking, Psychic! Jolteon, Thunderbolt! Donphan, Sand Tomb! Nidoking, Earthquake! Golem, Stone Edge!"
Guinaifen issued nine commands in a single breath, her voice crisp and completely devoid of hesitation.
Nine of her optimized anchors charged onto the battlefield simultaneously. Having already pre-stacked their offensive multipliers during the cloud descent, her vanguard systematically targeted the elemental weaknesses of the corporate guard lines.
The resulting clash was absolute devastation. Wherever the golden-buffed moves connected, the corporate vanguard's Pokémon vanished from the field, their data structures forced into an instant recall state. The raw destructive output of Guinaifen's coordinated line rivaled the full-force attack of a sovereign beast.
"Dragonite, use Twister! Rhydon, clear the flank!" Sushang screamed.
"Espeon, provide psychic cover! Bellossom, Giga Drain!" Qing Lan echoed.
The support from her companions arrived precisely on schedule, their combined streams carving a clean, temporary breach through the corporate encirclement.
Yet, the sheer logistical depth of a galactic pharmaceutical firm revealed itself. The moment the first defensive line collapsed, the corporate trainers simply opened heavy automated transport crates lined up behind their positions, unleashing a secondary wave of fresh, high-level assets to seal the gap.
Recognizing the threat the three girls posed to their capture arrays, a specialized detachment of the vanguard reoriented their positions, forming a tight, secondary ring around the trainers.
"This is completely cheating!" Sushang yelled, her eyes widening as she spotted the massive storage crates teeming with spare Poké Balls. "Their roster limits aren't locked to six slots per person! How is that fair within the league rules?!"
Despite her complaints, her fingers didn't stall on the interface. The air around them was already choked with incoming elemental feedback; a wall of corporate moves was cascading toward their positions like a tidal wave. Without immediate, micro-managed defensive inputs, their active anchors would be crushed by sheer volume.
Managing even two assets simultaneously in a high-density crossfire left Sushang visibly flustered, her commands lagging behind the field's progression. Qing Lan possessed slightly better tactical awareness, but her lack of real-world combat testing showed; her younger Psychic-types suffered severe kinetic chips after missing their parry windows.
On the center ridge, Guinaifen operated on an entirely different cognitive plane.
Relying on the heightened situational awareness her anchors possessed, she only injected verbal commands and positioning corrections at the exact millisecond they mattered. When a gap materialized in the corporate lines, she seamlessly linked two or three independent Pokémon to run an instantaneous, untelegraphed combination strike.
Aside from her eyes darting across the battlefield and her head shifting to map the flanks, her posture remained relaxed, her inputs flowing with a smooth, narrative perfection.
The live stream chat exploded in awe:
"Lil' Gui is showing out! Her command efficiency is top-tier elite cluster management!""Remember the old lore posts Xuan Qiu dropped after the Offline Master Tournament? The four Hall of Fame contestants who dominated the simulated trials alongside Lady Fu Xuan—Silver Wolf, Guinaifen, Mr. Welt, and Stephen—perfectly match the Elite Four blueprint.""Netizens were literally wondering how a streamer could handle a live multi-slot command frame. She's navigating it like a true Elite Four master.""Does anyone have a guide for managing multi-target co-op matches? I try to run a simple double rotation and my UI completely locks up.""This isn't just a game anymore; this is a test of supreme spatial observation and tactical reflex. Guinaifen has completely evolved past her casual persona.""Don't celebrate too early, family. The math is still against them. Arceus Studio built the corporate faction with infinite reinforcement lines. Without backup boxes, the girls' stamina bars will eventually hit zero."The Overclocked Trap
"Don't let them pin our position!" Guinaifen commanded, her voice cutting through the din of the explosions. "We can't win a localized war of attrition! Focus all movement toward the center! Rejoin the sovereigns and break the grid together!"
Recognizing that their window of superiority was closing, she ordered her primary Dragonite to link networks with Jolteon and Slowking, unleashing a massive, concentrated energy wedge that shattered the corporate vanguard's inner line. With Guinaifen guiding the vector, Sushang and Qing Lan spurred their mounts to follow her directly into the mythic trio's defensive perimeter.
"Dragonite, Dragon Rush!"
"Golem, block the eastern line with Stone Edge!"
Guinaifen deployed her remaining defensive assets to intercept the corporate guard lines attempting to lock down the center. Reaching the crater where the sovereigns stood, she saw the three legendary beasts buckling under the intense, high-frequency hum of the overclocked emitter towers. She immediately directed her heavy kinetic moves to shatter the machinery.
CLANG!
The combined impact of Dragon Rush and Stone Edge slammed into the central emitter tower, the brute force deflecting the plasma arrays away from the beasts. But before the sovereigns could capitalize on the reprieve, the automated backup circuits inside the tower clicked over, routing fresh energy from the dreadnought's core. The mechanical arms snapped back into alignment, the plasma grid burning with a violent, violet intensity that surpassed its previous baseline.
"Push the reactors past the safety thresholds!" Yao Feng's voice echoed across the corporate tactical channel. "We are writing off the hardware depreciation! Do not allow the assets to break containment!"
The terrifying evolution of the emitter arrays was the direct result of the Chairman's oversight. The corporate machinery had entered a lethal overclocking state, bypassing all internal cooling cycles to maximize output at the cost of structural integrity.
"We're losing the spacing! Everyone, clear the impact zone!" Guinaifen screamed, her eyes logging a massive energy buildup in the central pylon. "Dragonite, use Extreme Speed to pull back!"
Before her command could register across the network, the automated mechanical claws of the emitter system shifted their logic tracks. The array completely ignored the incoming Dragonite, its targeted sensors tracking the weakened sovereigns standing behind the dragon's wing.
They aren't trying to trade with us, Guinaifen realized, her breath catching as the data aligned. They're focusing down the objective.
But her realization arrived too late to rewrite the grid.
The overclocked plasma claws erupted forward, the kinetic energy repelling the desperate counter-attacks of Raikou and Entei before their AI could calculate a defensive parry. Crystalline energy barriers slammed down around the beasts, while heavy, mechanized containment collars clamped around their necks, anchoring them to the bedrock.
A low, agonized hum rippled through the valley as the collars pulsed with suppressive memetic data. The moment Raikou or Entei attempted to channel their elemental force, the mechanized rings discharged a brutal, disruptive shock that forced a painful cry from their lungs.
Suicune, already running on a critical data threshold from the corporate ambush at the water source, collapsed onto her side within her energy cage, her long purple mane trailing in the mud as her breathing turned shallow. Yet, her eyes remained fixed on the mountain peaks, her spirit refusing to yield to the system lock.
With the Three Legendary Beasts successfully secured within the containment matrix, the remaining corporate guard lines and the unspent emitter arrays slowly reoriented their metallic barrels. Hundreds of pairs of eyes—both human and Pokémon—turned cold and precise, locking squarely onto Guinaifen, Sushang, and Qing Lan.
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