Drastic Action

Red ruminates on his failed attempt to project a feeling of safety onto Rowan's alakazam using the same mental state he mapped from the incomprehensible ghost marowak in Lavender Tower. He realizes that if Rowan’s advanced partitioned mind allowed him to block the projection, Rowan might have spent his time away from Kanto training renegade pokemon with similar immunities to Red's sakki. Because sakki relies on removing inhibitions rather than direct mental control, a renegade force trained to be immune to it would neutralize Red's greatest combat advantage, making Rowan uniquely dangerous.

Red attends an urgent briefing with Leader Sabrina, Interpol Special Administrator Looker, and Director General Tsunemori to discuss the threat. Sabrina is consumed by guilt, feeling she should have paid closer attention and stopped Rowan's reckless self-experimentation with unown clusters. Looker dismisses the apology, demanding actionable intelligence on Rowan's plans. While Tsunemori doubts Rowan has had the time or resources to train a meaningful renegade force, they lack any concrete leads on his current whereabouts. Looker pivots to Sabrina's other secret, demanding to know if she has identified the "Dreamer"—the psychic responsible for projecting the apocalyptic warning across Kanto. Sabrina admits she suspects another former student but refuses to share their name, insisting they had good reasons for remaining hidden and the mass-projection itself justifies breaking the law if the threat is real.

Frustrated, Looker warns Sabrina that if her silence enables a catastrophe, she will be held responsible. Sabrina firmly states she has already accepted that burden, revealing she unsuccessfully tried to contact the Dreamer through a mutual acquaintance and burned the bridge in the process. Sensing Sabrina's profound feeling of helplessness, Red intervenes. Drawing on his therapy, he walks Sabrina through a problem-solving framework, asking her to forget the social costs and physical constraints and identify what she would do if anything were possible. Stripping away her assumed limitations, Sabrina realizes that while she cannot reach the Dreamer with a massive telepathic projection, she can achieve the exact same result using a literal television broadcast.

In Unova, Leaf wakes up to a quiet morning with her mother, Professor Juniper. Her mother is excited about new discoveries from the unown sublab matching the vibration frequencies of the last genesis event. As they eat breakfast and watch television, a high-priority interregional Interpol alert overrides the broadcast. Sabrina appears on the screen, looking exhausted but composed. She delivers a carefully coded message, ostensibly to warn all psychics against merging with unown clusters due to the risk of severe psychological fragmentation, citing Rowan's catastrophic mental break as proof. The true purpose of the broadcast, however, is a direct plea to the Dreamer. Sabrina publicly assures them that she believes their intentions are good and asks for any information that might help stop Rowan, offering Elite Agatha as a secure point of contact. Leaf is chilled by the broadcast, recognizing the sheer scale of the emergency if Interpol is facilitating such drastic action.

Leaf teleports back to Cinnabar Island, meeting Red and Blue outside the ruined mansion. Red briefs them on his terrifying encounter with Rowan, leaving Blue deeply unsettled by the revelation that Rowan might be capable of countering Red's psychic powers. They are joined by Rangers Ira and Wendy, and soon after, the excavation team leader, Rob, emerges from the staging area. Rob delivers grim news: the crater blocking the hidden laboratory was not caused by a natural earthquake. The blast marks and melt patterns confirm the use of high-yield explosives. The facility wasn't simply buried; it was intentionally destroyed to cover up whatever was inside. Despite the risk of unexploded ordnance or aggressive nesting pokemon like ditto, Red, Blue, and Leaf agree they must enter the ruins immediately before anyone else can sweep the site and hide the truth.