Chapter 235: Sableye's Instigation
Seeing the Coalossal subdued one by one, Bai Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He then turned his head to look at the Mines where Explosions were still occurring.
If the Mines continued to Explode and burn, more serious accidents would surely happen.
Thinking this, Bai Feng said to Mewtwo beside him, "Let's go check out the Mine."
"Okay!" Mewtwo nodded.
Immediately, the Human and the Pokémon quickly flew towards the Mine with the most severe Explosions.
When they arrived above the Coal Mine, they saw a large amount of burning Coal piled on the Ground. Thick smoke billowed out from the Mountain top, making Bai Feng frown. He quickly used Psychic Power to create a Barrier, protecting himself.
At this time, there were still a small number of Coalossal around the Mine. They were releasing Flames extensively, attempting to burn the Coal that had already been Mined.
This Coal was important Energy, very crucial to the entire Motostoke City. Although he didn't know what the Energy Company had done to the Coalossal to provoke them to such madness,
the Coal itself was blameless.
"Mewtwo, do you have a way to extinguish the flames?"
Mewtwo nodded. With a wave of its hand, large patches of Blizzard appeared out of thin air. In just an instant, all the burning Coal and the rampaging Coalossal were frozen into Ice Sculptures.
The sudden drop in temperature made Bai Feng shiver.
"Will those Coalossal be alright?" Bai Feng asked, looking at the frozen Coalossal.
Mewtwo shook its head. "After the ice melts, they can recover." Of course, it wouldn't kill them.
"That's good." Bai Feng relaxed upon hearing this. "Let's go Inside the Mine and take a look!"
Saying this, Bai Feng flew into the Mine's interior along the Tunnel. Mewtwo followed closely behind. The Tunnel was a mess, with scattered mine carts and Coal everywhere. Even the tracks used for the Coal carts were destroyed.
Because of the Coalossal's rampage, there were no workers, working Coalossal, Carkol, or Rolycoly in the Mine at this moment, so it was very quiet.
"Ami~"
Just then, a timid Sound rang out. A pair of red eyes slowly appeared In the darkness of the Tunnel, staring intently at Bai Feng and Mewtwo.
Bai Feng used Psychic Power, originally intending to catch this fellow and ask about the situation Inside the Mine. But he was surprised to find that his Psychic Power dissipated directly after extending near those eyes.
This meant his Psychic Power had no effect on the Pokémon with those eyes.
A Dark-type Pokémon? Bai Feng was startled.
"Mewtwo, please!"
Mewtwo nodded, and its Psychic Power spread out. Then, the Pokémon hidden In the darkness was dragged out by Mewtwo's Psychic Power, screaming and struggling. It really was a Dark-type Pokémon.
A Dark type and Ghost type Sableye.
Sableye is a Pokémon that likes to inhabit dark Tunnels, feeding on Gems dug from Tunnels and even preying on Carbink it encounters.
This Sableye was being sneaky, who knows what scheme it was up to.
Although it was a Dark-type Pokémon and immune to Bai Feng's Psychic Power, it couldn't escape Mewtwo's Psychic Power because the Strength gap between them was too large.
When the Strength gap is too large, Type immunity disappears.
After Mewtwo pulled Sableye to Bai Feng's side, Bai Feng questioned it, "What are you doing following us sneakily?"
"Ami~ Ami~" Nothing, nothing, I was just curious.
Sableye was very timid. Facing Mewtwo, who exuded intense Pressure, it didn't dare to have the slightest desire to resist.
"Lying!"
Sensing that Sableye was lying, Mewtwo scolded it loudly, while tightening the Psychic Power restraining its Body.
"Tell the Truth, quickly!"
Sableye felt its Body was about to be Shattered, so it instantly became compliant. Trembling, it said, "Ami~ Ami~" I'll tell, I'll tell, I just came to check the situation.
"Check what situation?" Bai Feng pressed.
"To see how things were outside, to see if anyone came in..." Sableye muttered softly.
"What does the outside matter have to do with you?" Bai Feng asked, puzzled.
"Actually... actually... actually, those Coalossal were instigated by me to go cause trouble..." Sableye stammered.
"What?!" Bai Feng was Shocked. "Why did you do that?"
"It was originally you Humans who were wrong, I was just helping the Coalossal!" Sableye suddenly became courageous, sticking its neck out and talking back to Bai Feng.
Bai Feng theorized that the Energy Company people must have done something, so he calmly asked, "Tell me, what exactly happened!"
So Sableye began to tell Bai Feng everything that happened Inside the Mine.
The Mine where Bai Feng and Mewtwo were currently located was in the western suburbs of Motostoke City. Most of the Mines here belonged to an Energy Company called Mardaba Energy Company.
Although this Energy Company had been operating in Motostoke City for many years, its situation had not been good, and it didn't have much competitiveness among the many Energy Companies in Motostoke City.
However, they had always treated the Coalossal, Carkol, and Rolycoly in their Mines well, so the Pokémon in the Mines strongly supported this company and usually worked diligently.
But all of this changed drastically half a year ago.
Half a year ago, Macro Cosmos, the largest conglomerate in the Galar Region, forcefully acquired Mardaba Energy Company and carried out drastic reforms on the Energy Company.
According to Sableye's Investigation, Macro Cosmos not only acquired Mardaba Energy Company, but several other Energy Companies in Motostoke City had also been secretly acquired by them. Mardaba was just the one put in the open.
With the old Boss replaced, the Coalossal, Carkol, and Rolycoly working in the western suburbs Mine were very dissatisfied and had emotional outbursts for a while.
They had been in Partnership with Mardaba Energy Company for many years, almost watching the Mardaba Group grow step by step. Now that the Boss suddenly changed, it was hard for them not to develop rebellious Emotions.
However, later, the new Boss of Mardaba Energy Company invited the original Boss to come forward and appeased them for a while before the Coalossal's Emotions stabilized.
But later, the Coalossal discovered that their Benefits had worsened, so the Problem arose again.
To maintain their Body's high temperature, Coalossal sometimes put a certain amount of Coal Inside the body. But since Macro Cosmos took over the Energy Company, the amount of Coal the Coalossal received was only half of the original.
This caused the Coalossal's Emotions to completely erupt.
Sableye was not originally a Pokémon living in this Mine. It fed on Gems from the Ore Vein and didn't eat Coal, so it naturally couldn't live in a Coal Mine.
It lived in an Evolution Stone Ore Vein in the southern suburbs of Motostoke City. Although that place only produced some low Quality Evolution Stones, Sableye occasionally stole and ate one or two Dusk Stones when the miners weren't noticing, living a very content life.
But the Evolution Stone Ore Vein where it lived was also acquired by Macro Cosmos. And after acquiring the Evolution Stone Ore Vein, Macro Cosmos began arranging people for frantic Mining. In just a very short period of time, they completely depleted the Evolution Stone Ore Vein that wasn't very abundant to begin with.
Having lost its Food source, Sableye held a grudge. Only then did it start to Investigate Macro Cosmos. It wanted to know what Macro Cosmos was doing.
They had acquired several Energy Companies and also extensively Mined Evolution Stone Ore Veins, so they must be undertaking a large project.
As it investigated, Sableye followed the clues and investigated into the Mine in the western suburbs, and learned about the changes in the Mine over the past half year from the Coalossal.
They told Sableye a strange Matter: Since the new Boss took over, the amount of Coal Mined that was transported outwards decreased, and the Coal that wasn't transported always disappeared without a reason.
Coal disappearing without a reason? How is that possible! It could only be Human-caused, and must be related to the people from Macro Cosmos.
Becoming suspicious, Sableye began secretly Monitoring the situation Inside the Mine. Later, it indeed discovered something abnormal. The Mine's supervisor would often have their Beheeyem quietly transport the Coal away using Teleport.
This supervisor was an Employee sent down by Macro Cosmos.
Where that Coal was quietly transported to, Sableye didn't know at first. But later it discovered that Beheeyem's Strength wasn't strong. This meant that, with its Psychic Power, it had no way to Teleport far with a large amount of Coal.
That can only explain one Problem: The Coal was still Inside the Mine.
As a Ghost-type Pokémon, what Sableye was best at was uncovering Secrets. So it started searching everywhere Inside the Mine.
Finally one day, it discovered that the Underground depths of the Mine were abnormal. Logically speaking, it could sneak Underground, but whenever it snuck to that area, a special Magnetic Field would appear and interfere with it, preventing it from going deeper.
Later, another Matter occurred, which made Sableye feel its Opportunity had come. This is what Bai Feng learned from the Miss at the charging station: the Coalossal's protest incident more than ten days ago.
More than ten Coalossal disappeared Inside the Mine.
This Matter caused the Coalossal, Carkol, and Rolycoly, who already harbored strong dissatisfied Emotions towards Macro Cosmos, to become even more dissatisfied. So the protest incident occurred.
This Matter made Sableye realize that if all the supervisors belonging to Macro Cosmos Inside the Mine could leave, wouldn't it have the Opportunity to Investigate the situation in the Underground depths of the Mine?
The Coalossal were also naive. After the protest incident occurred, people from Macro Cosmos came forward and guaranteed they would definitely help find the missing Coalossal. The Coalossal believed them, so the protest stopped.
But Sableye knew that the people from Macro Cosmos wouldn't help at all, because the missing Coalossal were the ones they quietly took away.
So more than ten days later, the Coalossal that had originally disappeared still hadn't been found, and several more Coalossal disappeared.
This was a big deal. The Coalossal, suppressed to the extreme, only needed a fuse to erupt.
At this time, Mister Sableye told the Coalossal the Truth, telling them that if they wanted to find the missing Coalossal, they had to escalate the situation and make the people from Macro Cosmos compromise.
So the angry Coalossal, bringing Carkol and Rolycoly, began widespread destructive behavior.
(End of this chapter)