The city is essentially empty except for everyone in the laboratory, including Tory and the others. Lund orders all of the scientists to evacuate and runs to find Tory in the greenhouse, but gets cut off by a crowd and is forced to leave the city with everyone else, ultimately meeting up with Officer Jenny on a boat.
Deoxys creates a bunch of copies of itself and uses them to carry innocent people who are actually trying to leave away, but just then, Rayquaza shows up. Deoxys creates a force field around the city, cutting Rayquaza (and Lund and Jenny) out of it. This means that everyone in the city has either been caught by Deoxys or was in the laboratory. Rayquaza will spend the next half hour headbutting the force field.
When the force field goes up, the wind power goes down (because no wind can reach the city), making the electrical grid useless. Because the city's electrical grid is down, all of its advanced technology fails, including the doors. Yes, someone thought it would be a good idea to connect every single door in the city to the same electrical grid because **** it, it's way cheaper and how likely is a blackout anyway? As they leave the greenhouse, the Deoxys clones attack, and while they go down to one attack each, they're too numerous to fight, and manage to steal Sid and his Blastoise. Instead of leaving the greenhouse normally, Tory decides to lead everyone out of the underground exit, so why they tried to pry open the main doors to begin with I have no idea. Also: the greenhouse underground exit is the only door in the entire city that isn't an electric sliding door. I'm serious, it's the only one and there's no explanation as to why.
The heroes meet up with Yuko, who takes them to the laboratory and explains that the city's electrical grid is down. She's using a backup generator for the laboratory, but anything else won't function, including pokeballs. Yes, apparently pokeballs rely on the city's electrical grid because **** if I know how they work in forests, which are not well known for their electrical grids. This means they have only the pokemon they had already let out: Surskit, Masquerain, Metagross, Blaziken, and Pikachu. Yuko explains that Deoxys crashed to the Earth four years ago, and Lund named it Deoxys. Why Deoxys? Because shut up. She thinks Deoxys has been regenerating since, and is now powerful enough to return to the city. The heroes are afraid Deoxys has found them,
But it turns out to be the wild Plusle and Minun from earlier, which do their best to pal around with Tory, who doesn't really like them because he's still not huge on the pokemon thing.
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Started: July 6, 2005