Hunted

In the basement power room, Blue finds himself at a severe disadvantage against the renegade's magneton and hypno. His large, outdoor-focused team struggles in the cramped space: his rhydon, Rive, is wounded by a Mirror Shot, and his arcanine, Soul, lands a Crunch but is put to sleep. Blue relies on his wartortle, Maturin, for Bubble Beam cover while he revives Soul with an Awakening. Desperate, Blue summons his breloom, Gon, for a fast Mach Punch, but the renegade ruthlessly sacrifices his own magmar with a suicidal Overheat. Blue manages to withdraw Maturin just in time, but Gon is caught in the flames and incinerated.

Furious and grieving the loss of his longtime partner, Blue forces himself to suppress his desire for immediate revenge and focuses on his objective. While the renegade remains hidden, Blue uses the wounded Rive to manually smash the room's generators with Hammer Arm. The renegade retaliates under the cover of thick smog from a weezing. Blue deploys his pidgeot for a quick Gust to clear the air, but the renegade strikes with a muk's Sludge Wave. Blinded by the smog and anticipating a Self-Destruct, Blue abandons traditional battling. He removes his shoes for silence, throws a decoy pokeball to draw fire, and uses his dojo martial arts training to ambush the renegade in the haze, subduing him with a stun gun. After securing the prisoner, Blue calls his surviving pokemon back to him. He is relieved to find Soul alive and stunned to see that Maturin has evolved into a blastoise. Despite his exhaustion, Blue knows he must destroy the second power room before time runs out.

On the upper floors, Red experiences a terrifying backlash from his psychic overexertion: his mental partitions fail. Without his partitions, the panic and trauma he had been suppressing flood his mind, leaving him unable to execute an indoor teleport. Worse, the remaining renegades have realized an unseen psychic is hunting them and have collectively swapped to Dark-type pokemon—such as scrafty—which are invisible to Red and his kadabra's extrasensory perception.

When a renegade breaches his office, Red relies on Blue's "Battle Calm" to anchor his spiraling thoughts into a structured decision loop: Goal, Options, Predict enemies, Path to victory. He summons his Bug/Steel forretress to buy time with Bug Bite, while Kadabra casts Miracle Eye. The renegade counters with a devastating Fire Punch, forcing Red to swap to his nidorino for a Double Kick, but it falls to a Zen Headbutt. With Kadabra's lock established, Red projects sakki into the Scrafty, forcing it to brutally maul its own trainer.

Barely surviving, Red tries to catch his breath, but more renegades close in. He uses a flashbang and his spinarak's Fell Stinger to defend himself against a mightyena and cacturne. In the chaotic sequence of swaps, Red tragically loses his Spinarak, Nidorino, and Aiko's venomoth to lethal attacks, including a Dark Pulse and a vicious golbat. Pushed past his limits, Red manages to anchor his mind to the feeling of safety provided by the police barricade downstairs, successfully teleporting back to the security room.

There, an exhausted and traumatized Red reports his kills and admits he is psychically spent. When the police note that the first backup generator has gone offline, Red realizes Blue survived and is actively sabotaging the building's power. With the police preparing for a final breach against the hostage-takers, Silph's head of security transfers ownership of a rare lapras to Red, asking him to provide Icy Wind support as they move to end the crisis.