Just as Baimu said.
The arrival was not enemy reinforcements, but rather the princess of Azoth Kingdom—
Ji Meiya.
Distrusting the minister Jarvis, who is also the antagonist, she chose to side with Volcanion and Ash Ketchum's group to try and prevent Jarvis from obtaining Magearna's Soul Heart.
He remembered this princess quite clearly.
On one hand, because of her awkward and distracting voice acting, and on the other hand, because she mastered the Super Evolution of the Altered-color Gardevoir.
Volcanion was displeased by the sprawling group of humans before him.
"Why are there even more people now!"
It turned its head and grumbled softly.
Originally there were only four, Baimu came and made it five, captured two enemies making it seven, and now there's one more!
It was getting increasingly unhappy!
On the other side.
Ji Meiya's self-introduction to Magearna triggered the latter's past memories.
It was manufactured as an offering to the Azoth Kingdom with the purpose of accompanying the princess, understanding human language though unable to speak it, and the appearance of the person before it suddenly reminded it of the little girl it used to accompany.
Pop~!
A bouquet of flowers sprayed from Magearna's wrist.
"Ah! Wow! How beautiful! Thank you!"
Ji Meiya exclaimed in surprise, then approached Volcanion and said, "Volcanion, you've been protecting Magearna all these years, haven't you?"
"…Hmm, more or less."
Volcanion glanced at Magearna, turned its head pondering over something.
It looked around at the group and shouted loudly, "Get ready to depart! We can't keep staying here!"
"But let me make it clear, I don't allow these two people to come along! Captives are not allowed either!"
Volcanion's gaze finally fell on Baimu, speaking with utmost seriousness, "The house will get dirty! Quickly, chase them away!"
Although wanting to say your house in the original story was almost blown to bits, just being cheeky with sarcasm is meaningless.
With him around, he definitely wouldn't let something like that storyline happen.
Baimu nodded, turned to approach the Rocket Team trio who had been sneakily up to something.
"..."
"..."
Musashi and James hid Meowth behind them, beads of cold sweat appearing on their heads, looking extremely guilty.
He pried the two apart, a burst of white light suddenly illuminated the front.
"Take my Frenzy Swipe Meow!"
Meowth's shrill cry echoed in his ears.
Baimu calmly reached out and grabbed the brain of the airborne Meowth, its limbs suspended mid-air flailed back and forth, the white light on its paws seemed somewhat chilling, yet it couldn't reach his face due to the length of his arms.
Swish swish swish—
After swiping the air for a while, Meowth finally gave up resisting, its limbs hanging down heavily and panting.
"How… how is this possible Meow."
"Your paws are quite nimble."
He glanced at James' handcuffs, they did seem to have a tendency to be picked open… these are police-grade handcuffs, right?
Skilled in sneaking and lock-picking.
What a talent.
Too bad they're excessively loyal to Rocket Team, they were delisted in the No-mark Era yet stubbornly wished to rejoin, nearly fanatically worshipping Giovanni.
Baimu thought for a moment about how to handle them.
Though these two men and one cat are part of his childhood memories, they have indeed committed many misdeeds, their past good deeds and occasional righteous actions cannot wipe out the wrongs they've done.
Often, the storyline worsens due to a series of foolish actions they undertake.
However.
The problem arises.
He doesn't have concrete evidence proving many deeds were done by the Rocket Team trio.
And he can't directly put them in jail since he even needs to commission Da Wu and Liu Ge when dealing with Flashing Flame Team, not having such authority or ability.
Despite hoping these three genuinely reform, currently there isn't time or opportunity.
Send them to Ore Region to plant trees?
Don't let them secretly contact Giovanni and have him turn his attention to Ore to develop a branch base, finally getting rid of Shadow Team only to welcome Rocket Team is something Baimu definitely doesn't wish to occur.
Shanren already has heaps of troubles over there.
Damn it…
Three hot potatoes.
Better to just throw them to Officer Jenny.
Doesn't the police station have a wanted poster for these three?
But to be safe, it's best to sternly warn them to prevent these three from inexplicably causing trouble when infiltrating Flashing Flame Team later.
Baimu tossed Meowth to Hydreigon, which revealed a sinister smile at it.
"Meow, I won't move Meow."
Meowth forced a smile, as a Pokémon it could recognize which Pokémon should be messed with and which shouldn't.
"Let's go first."
He pulled along James, cheerfully unlocking his handcuffs, heading to the small forest arm-in-arm despite James' bewildered expression.
Meowth and Musashi both watched James worriedly.
By now, even if they're not too smart, they've understood Baimu definitely isn't simply their fan, but clearly he's not an easy existence to deal with.
At least he's quite merciless!
Hope no screams coming from James later.
Meowth and Musashi exchanged glances, then eyed the calm Hydreigon, shivering into silence.
Ash Ketchum's group was also curious how Baimu would handle Rocket Team, usually they're dealt with by blasting them off, but now they've been captured for the first time, leaving them bewildered as well.
Thirty seconds later.
A smiling Baimu emerged from the forest, behind him was James with drooping hands and an expression as if he'd lost his soul.
His obedient demeanor made Meowth and Musashi shiver.