Elves: Angler's Rainy Day Team

"Darkrai, Dark Pulse!" Upon hearing Shiba's purpose for coming, Yu Hai didn't give him a chance to go upstairs and immediately retreated, calling out to Darkrai at the same time.

"Land Rider, Focus Blast!" Shiba reacted quickly, instantly throwing out Land Rider's Poké Ball to launch an attack, clashing with Darkrai's Dark Pulse.

boom--

All the trainers who were fighting in the distance saw that an explosion occurred in the attic of the Crimson Gym, and even the roof was blown off.

"Don't worry, Wataru, stay calm. He's quite strong, and with Darkrai's protection, he won't be defeated so easily," Kikuko said, trying to calm Wataru down after he saw the attic being blown up.

Keep in mind that Yu Hai has seven or eight Champion-level Pokémon. That guy is the strongest Champion Trainer. He also has the Three Legendary Beasts on the roof. Who can snatch Celebi from him?

After the dust settled, Yu Hai, still holding Celebi in his arms, smiled and looked at Shiba behind Landorus, saying, "Heh, Giovanni, here, no one but me will care about Celebi's situation. If you were disguised as Lance, it might be possible, but you're disguised as Shiba..."

"Have I been discovered?" Sakaki wasn't annoyed. He took off his Ditto mask, took out clothes from his belt and put them on. He had thought about disguising himself as Wataru to get close to Ukai, but his height and build were too different from Wataru's.

If he were to impersonate Wataru, he would be exposed instantly, so he could only impersonate Shiba to test Ukai and see if he could take advantage of the situation to seize Celebi.

"Are all those loyal subordinates just expendable pawns?" Out of the corner of his eye, Yu Hai saw that the battle in the city was still going on, but Sakaki had come here. The Sakaki over there must be a stand-in.

"So many people were sacrificed just to cover your capture of the shrine. Don't you know that timelines are parallel, not linear? Even if you go back to the past, it's just another parallel timeline, not our past..."

From the moment he heard the voice of the future, he knew that the past and future did not exist at all; time only moves in a straight line. If there really was a past and future, only God could explain it.

Ash and his friends travel through time to change the future, but the legendary Pokémon just want to find someone to help them find something, or perhaps they're just having fun.

Arceus, the god of time and space, is a being that cannot be suppressed by some ancient people. It's ridiculous. They don't even know their own limitations. What kind of worthless people dare to challenge Arceus?

Arceus could easily overpower a three-headed dragon-type first-tier god, but in ancient times he became a weakling. How ridiculous!

Neither the modern Arceus nor the ancient Arceus possessed the Life Stone, which had no impact on their power. To them, who were immortal, humans were nothing more than insects.

When they're in a good mood, they'll play with humans; when they're in a bad mood, they'll instantly destroy an entire region—these are common occurrences...

Therefore, in his view, Giovanni's purpose was equally ridiculous. Did he think that if he traveled to a parallel world, replaced Giovanni in another world, and found that there were no other transmigrators in that world, and then he was also beaten up by them, he would be laughed to death.

Heh, just a dying fantasy...

"Impossible. I've been to the future, and the future there is exactly the same as ours, except for you..."

"Sakaki, this is the price of disrupting spacetime. When you travel to the future, your original future no longer exists. A new future will appear. Every time you travel, the future changes. So, is it strange that there is an extra me?"

"Even without me, there would be him, her, it..."

"Your mistake lies in the fact that the tide is not in your hands. If you could travel back to before the alliance was formed and build it yourself, do you think that would be the kind of alliance you want? Would you overthrow it? Or would you overthrow yourself?"

"No, impossible, impossible," Sakaki's eyes kept flashing, clearly having figured something out. If traveling to the future once changes the future, then what is his own future?

“Yes, yes,” Sakaki suddenly muttered to himself. From the moment he traveled to the future, his past had been fixed, and his future had been changed by himself.

Then one's own spacetime is detached from the original spacetime and is no longer on the original timeline.

If you don't change the future and let it develop along its original path, then why did you travel through time?

The reason people travel to the future is simply to find out what happens there so they can change it!

"Hehe, hahaha, so what I've been pursuing all my life has already come true..."

"Perhaps the alliance in some world really was founded by you. Living in this world, we humans have always been the weakest beings. Don't be fooled by our control of world-destroying power; it was all bestowed upon us by others. This power has never truly belonged to us..."

"Even the more special humans are just slightly larger ants. What they need is balance and stability, not who eliminates whom..."

"I just want to fish quietly for a while, why is it so difficult?" Yu Hai sighed softly, but didn't say the last sentence aloud.

The past, present, and future are too complicated for him; he just wants to live a quiet life fishing and doesn't want to do anything else.

After all, if there are two versions of oneself in the same spacetime, that would be a parallel world, not a past or future. He didn't believe Arceus could reverse the flow of time in the universe.

That's impossible. Precise enough to track the movement of every single particle, even Arceus couldn't do it even if he racked his brains.

Since they can't go back to the past or travel to the future, Giovanni's ideas are meaningless. What good would knowing the future do? The tide simply isn't in the Rockets' favor.

For example, if you know the winning lottery numbers, do you think you'll win? It's absolutely impossible; the odds aren't in your favor.

The odds are in their hands. Even if you could predict the lottery numbers, it wouldn't matter. They can win every time without knowing the future.

The potential to transcend time is the most important thing.

Without power, even the ability to travel through time and space is useless.

Yu Hai also time-traveled, yet he still stood on the side of the Alliance instead of opposing it; that's the fundamental reason.

That's how the adult world is. Even if he has ambitions, he won't oppose the alliance. He can achieve his goals in another way. Anyway, the Orange Islands have already taken the shape he wanted.

Once he becomes the champion, he'll have the final say on how things are manipulated. It's the same principle as the Rockets seizing power in the league and changing the league itself. He's just doing it more subtly, so the frog doesn't realize it's being cooked. By the time the frog realizes it, it's too late.

"Still want to fight back, Giovanni?" Yu Hai threw out Poliwrath and Slowking, three Champion-level Pokémon surrounding Giovanni. Did Giovanni still have some trump card up his sleeve?

"What do you think?" Giovanni looked at the three Pokémon surrounding him without showing any panic. Three Pokémon were not enough to trap him.

He was simply bewildered by Yu Hai's talk about the past and the future. He thought that everything he had done was right, but he never expected that what he was changing was not the future of this world, but only his own future.

"Trying to escape? You're probably out of luck," Yu Hai said with a smile, "Look around you..."

"Around?" Sakaki looked up and found that the sky around the attic was completely surrounded by elves.

Leading the group are the four champions from the four major regions: Wataru, Kikuko, Daigo, and Cynthia...

Next up are the Elite Four from various regions, Elite Four reserves, and elite trainers from the League who are still capable of fighting.

"Hehe," Giovanni recalled Landorus into its Poké Ball, threw the Poké Ball away, and took out a cigarette to light it.

Three champion-level Pokémon alone cannot contain him, but there is no point in resisting now. He cannot fight against the whole world; that would be a pointless thing.

"Take him away," Kikuko landed from the air, Gengar following beside her. She came to Giovanni and looked at this middle-aged man, who was once a young prodigy in the League. How could he have ended up like this?

She sighed softly, and after Sakaki was searched and handcuffed and shackled, she whispered, "Sakaki, when you were young, your mother and I were good friends. I watched you grow up, you..."

Kikuko didn't continue speaking, watching Giovanni's figure walk down from the attic. Who would have thought that the trainer seed with such talent, who could have succeeded as champion, would end up like this? It's really a cruel twist of fate!

With Giovanni captured, the great battle came to an end. Team Rocket members, executives, and high-ranking officers either died in battle or were captured; very few escaped.

In this battle, Sakaki was captured, Sabrina was captured, Kazuki was captured, Rika was captured, and Masato was captured...

Bishas died in battle, Athena died in battle, Apollo died in battle, Lambda died in battle...

A-Ju escaped, as did some other Team Rocket members. All the escaped Team Rocket members were placed on the league's most wanted list...

Looking at the final wanted list of fallen, the trainers on the League side were all of exceptional quality. In battle, at most, the Pokémon would die and the trainers would withdraw from the battlefield, so the casualties were not very high.

Team Rocket lost six Level 1 trainers, captured three Level 1 trainers, and one Level 1 trainer escaped. The League needs to send people to hunt them down.

Unfortunately, Sabrina didn't die, nor did Ichiju. Strangely, the heads of Bishas and Athena were missing.

Yu Hai knew that it was A-Ju who did it. He looked at his other two enemies and sighed helplessly. He knew that after Na-Zi and the other two were captured by the Alliance, they would not be sentenced to death, but would probably be imprisoned for life in the Alliance headquarters prison.

When he went to prison before, he saw many people being imprisoned, and Giovanni would probably be sentenced to life imprisonment there!

With the upcoming shortage of the top four players in Chengdu and Kanto, many reserve players will be nominated for the top four. In addition, Kikuko will retire after this battle, which paves the way for Ai to ascend to the championship.

He can wait until Xiao Ai wins the championship before challenging the Road to the Championship. After all, there are still messes left by the Rockets in Chengdu and Kanto. Du and the others probably won't have time to deal with the Road to the Championship.

……

Silver Mountains, Alliance Headquarters...

"Ah Hai, thank you for your hard work this time. I have a list of candidates for the Four Heavenly Kings here. Could you take a look?" Du found Yu Hai who was having breakfast and took out the list of candidates for the Four Heavenly Kings in this battle. Several people on the list were quite outstanding.

"Let me see," Yu Hai quickly scanned the list of trainers and immediately spotted Shingo's name, and couldn't help but laugh.

The Rockets had just left, and the league was already turning into a spider's web. He didn't mention anyone's name on the roster, but instead put it down and smiled at Watari, saying, "Anything is fine, you decide..."

"I asked you to come up with some ideas for me," Du said helplessly, rubbing his forehead. Yu Hai was good in every way, except for his lazy personality, which was beyond words.

“This is about the nomination of the Four Heavenly Kings for Chengdu and Kanto. You should discuss it with Kikuko,” Yu Hai smiled and continued eating his breakfast. Anyway, the alliance had already been infiltrated by the spider, so it didn’t matter whether he said anything or not. The alliance was already a breeding ground for the spider.

"Okay, okay," Watari said helplessly, putting down the list and absentmindedly eating his breakfast, still troubled by the reconstruction of the two places.

"Oh right, I need to take one prisoner from the list of prisoners," Yu Hai thought of something. Now that the great war was over, he would definitely take over as the champion of the Orange League when he returned, and he also needed to make plans for the Orange Islands. This would require a Team Rocket prisoner.

"Who? Don't even think about taking an important prisoner," Wataru said warily, looking at Yukai. Team Rocket's troubles had just ended, and he didn't want to see any more.

“Just a minor character,” Yu Hai smiled mysteriously. This person was indeed a minor character. He also showed the man’s information to Lance. “His name is Viper. His strength is not at the Elite Four level. He is in charge of Team Rocket’s logistics department. I need him to have information about the undercover agents in the Orange Islands…”

“Anyway, these people are already undergoing labor reform in prison, so sending them to the Orange Islands for labor reform is the same,” Yu Hai lied and did not tell Du the truth, but what he said was true.

In fact, Viper has two identities. What he needs is not the identity of the logistics department, but his other identity.

Viper, a Rockets executive and head coach, is responsible for selecting new players for the Rockets. His future plans for the Orange Islands require a head coach who can select talent to do things that are inconvenient for him to do himself.

He is a champion basking in the sunlight, so he needs roots in the darkness, buried deep underground, to bear the burden for the stability and peace of the Orange Islands...

Oops, I'm getting a bit mixed up with the other shows...

In short, the current alliance system has a drawback: the investigators are too kind, which makes them unable to do many things well, or even hinders their actions.

And then there's Nurse Joy, the investigator. She's a joke. Besides checking gyms, she gets chased like a dog by Team Rocket. What good is she?

The new department he's setting up won't replace the investigators' work; it will simply be more covert and capable of handling matters that are inconvenient for the Alliance's Four Heavenly Kings and the investigators to deal with.

The future champions and Elite Four of the Orange Islands will basically all come from this division. After more covert struggles, these Elite Four trainers who emerge from the new division can handle virtually any problem.

“You can take this person with you as you please,” Du nodded in agreement after reviewing the information on Viper. Yu Hai had done such a great favor this time, so it wouldn’t matter if he was just an insignificant nobody in the labor camp.

"I'll leave in a couple of days. Once you've recovered, I'll come back to challenge the path to the championship," Yu Hai said after finishing his breakfast, intending to say goodbye to the others before leaving the league headquarters.

"So fast?" Du was a little surprised. Wasn't Yu Hai always very free? Why was he in such a hurry now?

“The Orange Islands are pressing us hard, and Grandma Kikuko is here again,” Yu Hai said helplessly, spreading his hands. Did they really think he wanted to go back right now?

If it weren't for Grandpa Dunmei calling him, and Uncle Xia and Uncle Liu coming together to talk about this, he would have liked to go to Sinnoh for some fun.

"Alright, I've been too busy lately, so I won't see you off. Just ask if you want anything, and I'll send it over to you." Du could only sigh inwardly, realizing that such a talented person was ultimately impossible to retain.

"Oh, right, here you go. As the Dragon-type champion, you should make some preparations," Yu Hai said with a smile. Lance wasn't afraid of Fairy-types.

"This is," Wataru took the Fairy-type research data and casually began to read it, but soon his eyes widened because it had bold text that said, "The new attribute is immunity to Dragon-type attacks."

After Daigo arrived in Enju City to provide reinforcements, he handed over a lot of Fairy-type research data that he had previously helped Yukai update. After the battle, he said that there were still many Pokémon being tested and that he would definitely finish them all before Yukai became the champion.

Ukai was somewhat amused and exasperated by Daigo's enthusiasm, telling him not to rush things and that he could announce it after winning the championship.

Afterwards, he said goodbye to several familiar people one by one, and made a promise with Xiao Ai that he would come back to challenge the road to the championship after Xiao Ai becomes the champion.

There were also two old men vying for his disciples; he'd heard it so many times he was sick of it. He suggested taking on two teachers, but the two old men disagreed, and he couldn't be bothered to bother them anymore.

After bidding farewell to the three legendary beasts and Celebi, he left the League headquarters in the Silver Mountains with his spoils—the Moltres that Zapdos had defeated.

This Moltres was already half-crippled, and its strength would decline after treatment. It was defeated by Yu Hai's Zapdos, so the League decided to let Yu Hai handle it himself.

If Yu Hai didn't have Zapdos, the League wouldn't have agreed to let Moltres leave. Since Yu Hai was able to catch Zapdos, catching Moltres wouldn't be a problem either.

The remaining three legendary Pokémon—Zetzart, Articuno, and Landorus—were all taken back by the League. If they could be captured, they would be a boon to the League; if not, they would be imprisoned for life to have their energy extracted…