Chapter 1061: Dire News from Mossdeep City

"Elite Four Terrance, this is..."

"A meteorite..." Terrance took the bag handed to him by his subordinate, revealing a surprised expression.

Inside was a pile of meteorites. Terrance sifted through them, then smiled and took out the most unusual one.

"After all that, you’ve finally returned to my hands."

Although the meteorite’s energy had dimmed, Terrance recognized it at a glance. It was the meteorite Team Magma had stolen from Fallarbor Gym.

Team Magma had been searching for an energy source to power their volcano project and stole a meteorite from him. They had only themselves to blame for being relentlessly hunted by Terrance now.

The petty Terrance intensified the purge of Team Magma and handed the task of dealing with Team Aqua over to the other Elite Four, all because he wanted to vent his anger personally.

Over the past half month, dozens of Team Magma’s elite members had been captured, including the Admin Blaise. Of the higher-ups, only Maxie and Courtney remained unaccounted for.

Team Aqua’s situation was largely the same. Their boss, Archie, was missing. The Hoenn League’s higher-ups unanimously believed that he and Maxie had died in the disaster. After all, Maxie and Archie had indeed been caught in Groudon and Kyogre’s attacks. However, some members of Team Magma and Team Aqua stubbornly insisted that their leaders were still alive...

"My assignment period is almost over. Although I’d still like to spend a little more time at sea, Elite Four Glacia insists that I take some time off."

"That’s right. She said you’ve already exhausted yourself enough lately, Roto." the Rotom Pokédex said.

"I still can’t rest easy without finding Maxie and Courtney. In my opinion, those two are the most troublesome people in Team Magma." Terrance shook his head. "But forget it. Since we haven’t found them after searching for so long, I suppose they may have already fled Hoenn."

With that, Terrance opened the window and gazed out at the sea one last time.

When his assignment ended, Glacia took over Terrance’s work and continued overseeing the hunt for Team Magma’s remnants.

Terrance, meanwhile, returned to Fallarbor Town and reunited with everyone at the Old Green House after a long absence. When Grandma Arlan worriedly urged him to be careful, Terrance smiled and promised that he would not be doing anything dangerous for a while.

"Troy originally wanted to challenge you, but you weren’t at the Gym."

"Did he challenge the Gym in the end?" Terrance asked, looking at Kotoko.

"Mm-hmm. He successfully took a Badge from me. He was better than any challenger I’ve ever faced." Resting her chin on one hand, Kotoko mused, "From what I can see, that Ash you think so highly of might be easily defeated by Troy~"

"Troy..." Terrance had seen Troy at Mt. Chimney. The boy had indeed grown quickly, but the only notable Pokémon he seemed to have was a Heracross. If Ash recalled all his main Pokémon, the outcome would truly be uncertain. There was still some time before the Ever Grande Conference began. He wondered whether Ash could build up more strength by then and bring out the true power of his Light Ball Pikagod.

As he thought about it, Terrance chuckled to himself. He was now a member of the "older generation," actually concerning himself with the affairs of his juniors. Although he was not much older than them, his experience and insight had placed him far ahead.

This time, Terrance remained in Fallarbor Town for about a month.

His main focus was cultivating the Power Herbs again while continuing his research into the Fairy type. Once Terrance began this research, however, he immediately became engrossed in it, scratching his head and racking his brains every day, completely unable to pull himself away.

Moonlight was produced by the reflection of sunlight, while Fairy energy was produced through the conversion of moonlight. If solar energy could be converted directly into Fairy energy, simplifying the process, or if solar energy itself could be utilized directly, then Altaria’s efficiency in using natural energy would improve considerably.

However, although the Rotom Pokédex had collected the results of many researchers’ and Professors’ meticulous studies on lunar stones, Terrance had no idea where to begin when it came to putting them into practice. His understanding of the sun and moon was still insufficient.

After encountering this difficulty, Terrance simply chose to leave Fallarbor Town. Taking his numerous Fairy-type Pokémon and Lunatone with him, he traveled to Seven Stars City.

Terrance wanted to enter Seven Stars City’s Super-ancient Altar and use the Pokémon’s Cosmic Power moves to attempt to come into close contact with the moon. Perhaps doing so might yield some results.

After arriving in Seven Stars City, he immediately received enthusiastic invitations from the elderly leader of the Rock Style Dojo and Jillian of the Wind Fist Style Dojo. Faced with invitations from acquaintances, Terrance found it difficult to refuse their hospitality, but his main objective was still the Star Altar.

To that end, the elderly leader of the Rock Style Dojo and Jillian, leader of the Wind Fist Style Dojo, immediately invited the other Dojo heads to discuss Terrance’s entry into the Star Altar.

In the past, if Terrance had wanted to enter the Star Altar, the major Dojos would have shown him respect, with each Dojo contributing some effort and pooling resources for him. But the situation had now completely changed. Although more than a month had passed, the repercussions of the "Battle of Legendaries" on Hoenn’s Route 127 had yet to fade. Aware of Terrance’s achievements, the Dojo Alliance immediately agreed to join forces and open the Star Altar at its highest possible level for him.

Although Terrance had brought his own Lunatone, receiving the full assistance of the other Dojos was naturally even better, so he did not refuse. Besides, he had already prepared generous gifts for each Dojo, so he was not taking advantage of them for nothing.

At the end of League Calendar Year 216, shortly before Terrance’s eighteenth birthday, he formally entered the Star Altar to train.

Time flew by, and a week passed in the blink of an eye. With the combined assistance of the various Dojos and over a hundred Pokémon capable of using Cosmic Power, the Star Altar had remained operational all this time. Terrance had not originally intended to remain inside for long, but when he discovered that he truly could resonate and make contact with the moon there, he instantly became engrossed. Seeing how serious Terrance was, the major Dojos said nothing despite the pain of watching their resources being consumed.

Yet amid this tranquility, the Mossdeep City Space Center detected an utterly shocking sight.

In the cold darkness of space, an enormous meteorite had suddenly altered its trajectory and was now hurtling toward their planet.

"Gulp..." After precisely determining the meteorite’s size, the technicians present immediately revealed expressions of despair.

The meteorite’s diameter... was six miles!

"Six miles in diameter?!" In distant Seven Stars City, Terrance broke out in a cold sweat the instant he received the information, rendered speechless by how disaster-plagued this world was. A diameter of six miles meant that even the Pokémon League’s most powerful taboo weapon could not compare to the destructive force that would be unleashed when this meteorite struck the ground.

After all, in his previous life, a six-mile-wide meteorite had once struck Earth. The meteorite had completely vaporized upon impact, releasing energy equivalent to as much as 120 trillion tons of TNT. It had swiftly triggered massive tsunamis and sent enormous quantities of dust into the atmosphere, completely blocking out sunlight, altering the global climate, and causing a nuclear winter!

The Pokémon world’s planet was even slightly smaller than Earth. Terrance could hardly imagine what consequences would result if the meteorite truly struck. Barring the unexpected, it would certainly be enough to devastate both human and Pokémon civilization, unless some power could stop the meteorite from approaching.

"A meteorite, huh..." Terrance thought of the meteorite he carried with him and immediately smiled bitterly. If only every meteorite in the universe were that small.

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