Earth, May 13th, 2022.
Less than a month had passed, and Fang Yuan was back again.
He took the express route through Celebi's time-space passage and returned!
Other than leaving Groudon, Kyogre, and Mewtwo in the Pokémon World, Fang Yuan still came back with his entire team this time.
Actually, Fang Yuan quite wanted to bring Groudon and Kyogre over to the Earth to show off a little.
For instance, riding Groudon and Kyogre to challenge the Guardian Gods of Earth's Pokémon Alliance.
But how, those two were just too strong.
The time-space passage constructed by Celebi simply couldn't allow both of them to pass through at the same time.
Even sending them one by one was quite a struggle, requiring more power. It would take two Celebis, along with Mewtwo and Victini all guarding and escorting to have a chance of making it happen.
But obviously, Fang Yuan wouldn't go to such lengths just for fun, so he honestly left Mewtwo and the others behind for proper training.
At present, the Celebi that followed Fang Yuan was that of the future senior sister's time-space Celebi.
And the little Celebi from the Pokémon World had stayed on Earth, following Mew.
It was specifically left by Fang Yuan and the others to prevent any issues with Earth's World Tree, serving as a communication tool.
However, given that there had been no communication for a month, it seemed Earth's World Tree was still holding steady.
After all, Mew hadn't spared any effort in drawing Victini to the World Tree to charge up, so the issue of energy depletion was probably not going to occur.
Also, due to the Mane Rock Werewolf, the World Tree had been very careful with the prevention of negative energy and other external viruses.
So unless there was an accident, the World Tree on Earth was not likely to have any major problems.
This time Fang Yuan returned, not only did he want to bring back some technology from the Pokémon World, but he also had two mystical tablets to hand over to Mew, and he wanted to visit home as well.
However, as Fang Yuan and Eevee returned to Earth this time, they suddenly felt that something was not quite right here...
......
"Mew~~!!"
Just as Fang Yuan and his team emerged from the spatial corridor, Mew was already blocking the entrance, looking at them with a face full of sadness and innocence.
Mew: ...(｡•ˇ‸ˇ•｡)...
Fang Yuan, Eevee, Celebi: ???
Fang Yuan said, "You came outside to greet us this time?!"
"But what's with that expression, what's the matter???"
"Aren't you happy to see us?"
"This time we brought back two tablets, you know."
Hearing about the two tablets, Mew's eyes lit up with joy, but then it quickly shook its head with a look of stomachache.
"Mew!!! (There's trouble!!)"
Fang Yuan: (」゜ロ゜)」?
"What... what." "Bwoo, Bwoo?!"
Fang Yuan and Eevee both looked at Mew with nervousness and confusion.
The World Tree, something's wrong??
Or something else??
As they were anxious, Celebi next to them suddenly looked thoughtful and observed the surroundings.
"Mew... (It's not really a big deal.)" Mew scratched its head.
"What exactly is the matter," Fang Yuan said, exasperated.
Mew: "Mew!! (It seems, it seems due to our frequent time-space travel, the arrival of Earth's secret locations has been accelerating. The remnants of the destroyed Pokémon World will likely fully merge with this planet in about a year.)"
"Mew!! (In a way you can understand, the prophecy you mentioned before, the one about the French Aster, might happen one or two years earlier...)"
After Mew finished speaking, the air suddenly became quiet.
Celebi nonchalantly shrugged its shoulders, revealing an "as expected" expression. It wasn't too worried—after all, in its previous future, most of what was to happen had already occurred, Groudon and Kyogre had fought, and an early incident in this time-space wasn't going to affect it way or impact it.
On Fang Yuan's side, he was startled at first and then quickly calmed down.
He and Eevee exchanged glances.
Happening a year or two earlier, huh...
It doesn't seem like that big of a deal.
After their journey in the Pokémon World, they found that even Legendary Pokémon weren't that scary.
With proper communication... everything should be fine.
If Legendary Pokémon descended upon this world, Fang Yuan still had some confidence—well, he probably had some confidence to handle it, at least not letting them go rampant in Hua Nation.
"Alright, indeed that is quite the crucial news," Fang Yuan sighed.
"By the way, where is the little Celebi?"
Why haven't I seen it?
"Mew~! (I sent it to another parallel time-space to help you look for the tablet!)" Dream chuckled.
It's faster to search together.
Fang Yuan went to the Pokémon World, little Shuckle went to another past parallel time-space on Earth, everyone advancing side by side!
Fang Yuan, Eevee, big Shuckle: ???
Damn, we left it behind to serve as a lifesaver for you.
And you ended up sending it off alone to scour the past time-space of Earth for the tablet???
"You're too ruthless, squeezing your employees dry like that," Fang Yuan said with a deadpan expression.
"No, could these Earth anomalies be due to your reckless exploitation of your workers?!"
"Mew!! (That's not it!!)" Dream innocently took Fang Yuan's backpack, then swiftly zipped it up, keen on searching for the tablet.
"Forget it. Oh, one more thing, I've captured Groudon and Kyogre from the Pokémon World into Poké Balls, and we've become good friends. How about one day you tweak the time-space channel, I'll invite them over for a bit of fun."
Click.
Dream's pulling of the zipper came to an abrupt halt, and it looked up with a blank expression. What did you say?
.........
In this nearly one month since Fang Yuan and the others left, Earth did indeed experience significant anomalies.
The arrival rate of secret locations in various countries noticeably accelerated.
The Pokémon Alliance on Earth also took note of this issue.
Among them, the French Aster Master, Zi Wan, conducted another prophecy.
This time, her disaster prophecy was clear about an impending calamity.
The calamity of death, the end of life, the withering of all things, a black aura covering the land, everything returning to the beginning under the shadow of black wings!!!
This disaster could happen within a year, even sooner than the earliest calamity previously prophesized by a whole year.
This had proven that the speed at which secret locations appeared had changed due to Fang Yuan and his friends casually traveling through time and space.
In fact, after the prophecy, Master Zi Wan intended to continue predicting, but the effort had drained her power, forcing her to cease her prophetic efforts and rest.
However, this single prophecy alone was enough to give the Earth's Pokémon Alliance a headache.
At this time, the Pokémon Alliance, in light of the recent anomalies in the rate of secret location arrivals, deduced that the disaster foretold by Zi Wan's prophecy may occur earlier than expected.
The Trainer Associations of various countries grew extremely anxious.
"Sigh, just as we'd resolved the disaster in the Hoenn region of the Pokémon World, is Earth headed for a period filled with disasters?"
"The end of life, withering of all things, that must refer to the Y God, Yveltal, a being akin to destruction gods and death gods. It destroys to balance the ecosystem, indeed tricky to handle."
"However, if it is Yveltal, Zhenyas should also appear to keep it in check..."
After releasing all of his Pokémon to move freely, Fang Yuan returned to the lab and lay down on the big bed, calling over his phone's Rotom to study together.
They were currently reviewing data newly updated by the Pokémon Alliance and the China Trainer Association during this time, gradually getting a rough idea of what had happened over the month.
"Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan, Fang Yuan Rotom!! I was just checking, and it looks like there is a Twelve Branches meeting coming up, Rotom. Do you want to attend~" Fang Yuan was in deep thought when Rotom, by his side, suddenly spoke up.
"Twelve Branches meeting?" Fang Yuan got up from the bed and looked at it.
Speaking of which, it's been a while since he last saw those old-timers. On Earth's side, it seemed he had been offline for quite some time.
"What could it be about, the Earth anomalies?"
"Hmm... Let's connect to it when it starts," Fang Yuan said.
......
That day.
All the members of the Twelve Branches in Hua Nation entered the online meeting room.
When they saw "Dog has entered the meeting room," they all showed looks of surprise and complexity.
This guy has finally surfaced again???
Fang Yuan had missed several meetings already!
In fact, ever since the Pokémon World Expo a year ago, Fang Yuan started getting all secretive, completely out of touch with the rest of the world, untraceable by anyone. He dumped his share of the work onto his colleague and disappeared on his own escapades.
So, when President Wen and the rest of the Twelve Branches saw that Fang Yuan had finally gone online, they all smiled.
It's been almost two years since Fang Yuan tackled the Road of Champions. If we exclude Darkrai, back then Fang Yuan barely had any top-level limit power Pokémon. So today, could his main forces have mostly reached Species Limit? Perhaps even Quasi-guardian god?
Together with Z-Moves, Mega Evolution, and Victini, these Twelve Branches suddenly felt that if things were going smoothly and Fang Yuan had improved well, he might even join the upcoming God Battles of the Nations. With Fang Yuan's talent, there would be hope! Of course, that's assuming Fang Yuan had been serious about training in the intervening period since Pokémon power becomes increasingly difficult to enhance.
"I really do seem to have been offline for too long."
Meanwhile, Fang Yuan, who had entered the meeting room, also fell silent. It seemed he hadn't really shown his Guardian God Level strength in this time-space, except a year ago when he demonstrated a cheating Three-in-one armed magnetic creature and Darkrai to Fu Hei and Master Kong Hai, right??? And at that time, both the armed magnetic creature and Darkrai were still the weakest versions before strengthening...
In the future time-space and Pokémon World, he had even taken on Legendary Pokémon from the Legendary Realm!!!
Guardian God Level? He had reached the toddler group!
As for the main forces, they were basically High-level Guardian strength at base… If he pushed hard, he could even take on Legends! Not to mention Mewtwo...
"Sigh..."
Seems like his version was way ahead of the curve. Would he end up feeling out of place in the meeting, he wondered nervously?