At the headquarters of Team Galactic, Saturn puts on an evil smirk next to Croagunk as he fixes his gaze on the odd-looking machine that has five metal plates opening up from a central globe like the petals of a flower. After another minute of thought, he finally makes up his mind, and decides to set the device into action.

Currently, the central project Team Galactic is working on is the Galactic Bomb, and compared with that, this odd-looking machine is just an unfinished design in the past that was stopped in development and casted aside. He figures that the boss wouldn't be too mad even if he didn't get permission beforehand, and orders his grunts to launch the device. The plate-surrounded shiny globe, which is the plug site for firing off energy beams, gets extended upwards from the base, and soon emerges from the rooftop of the headquarters building through the front hutch of the left canopy.

Saturn commands that they must lure the bodyguards towards their Galactic Veilstone Building, and wishes to know their current position by sending out their remote intercom machine. His grunts reply that the one used at the Lost Tower is already broken, and Saturn instantly fumes with rage, hollering that they can simply send out a new one if that is the case. The grunts then quickly launch a new intercom machine, and dispatch it from the rooftop opening of their building.

Out on the streets of Veilstone, Dia, Pearl, Phool and Ignor are still chased by the TG army, who are now down to six grunts, five Skuntanks and three Staravias. Phool comments that their foe is certainly stubborn, and Pearl agrees as he starts to pant. On top of that, the boys have noticed that something seems eerie with these grunts and Pokemon. Not a single word has come out of their mouths and their gaze is always locked on the same direction. The unity of their actions almost appears as if they don't have their individual thoughts, but are moving as one entity.

Ignor compliments Dia and Pearl for being observant, and Phool says they feel the same, which would explain why their Ember and Hidden Power attacks managed to strike the entire team earlier all at once. He states that he can prove how the TG grunts truly move in synchrony, and orders Buizel to deliver a Swift. Before the attack strikes, all six grunts and five Skuntanks hop up to evade, and when Buizel follows up with a Sonic Boom, they all crouch against the ground to dodge.

Ignor comments that these people chase as one and evade as one, which is why they shall stop them all as one as well. Dia and Pearl soon find themselves standing on the rooftop of a building that has a giant satellite dish in the center, and quickly halt themselves with Roo and Chimlord before they fall off the edge. Phool remarks that it seems like they have been cornered, but Ignor grins that it is actually his intention to end up at such a place.

Before his partner has time to respond, Ignor grabs the boys off their feet, one under each arm, and says it wouldn't be safe for them to stand so close. With that, he hops off to a nearby tree, and uses his scarf to fasten them around the bark. He secures his hand-free microphone around Dia's left ear, and tells them to simply sit there and wait for their instructions. Dia notices a giant building to his right, which has spikes sticking out from its side walls, and remembers a similar construction he has seen back in Eterna City.

After hopping back to join Phool, who is standing next to the boys' Torterra and Infernape, Ignor motions to Pearl, and tells him to get Chimlord to attack. Pearl cries that the satellite dish is blocking his view of the incoming enemies, but Ignor assures him that it is alright and to proceed anyway. Taking his chance, Pearl commands a series of Ember from Chimlord, and the Infernape begins hurling blast after blast of flames, most of which have struck the base of the satellite dish.

Phool has no idea what his partner is doing, and says while it is great that he has kept the boys in a safety zone, the Infernape's attacks have all hit elsewhere. However, Ignor grins that they have actually all hit the right target, and it is now Torterra's turn to strike. He wants Dia to have Roo destroy the ground with its strongest move, and Dia immediately orders Roo to unleash an Earthquake.

The powerful attack shakes the entire rooftop continuously while the bodyguards and their Pokemon cling onto the Torterra's bony spikes, and the satellite dish eventually breaks off from its base, toppling over to trap the remaining TG grunts, Staravias and Skuntanks under it.

Ignor cheers that they have succeeded, and Phool finally understands his partner's strategy. By getting Infernape to fire a barrage of seemingly aimless Ember at the beginning, it not only weakened the satellite dish's base, but also forced the TG grunts to take shelter behind the dish. Torterra's Earthquake then collapsed the dish, and took care of the entire army with a smooth bang.

Ignor states that although he and Phool took a little risk by standing so close while the Earthquake was delivered, it was nevertheless Dia and Pearl's powerful Pokemon who saved the day, causing the boys to blush in embarrassment.

Dia: Not at all~ It was thanks to you guys who gave us confidence~
Pearl: This is so cheesy~ But it is still hard to believe that we've used a satellite to settle the fight!

Phool and Ignor laugh at Dia and Pearl's joke, and remark that it is time to go back and find their client, so the five of them may finally sit down and have a good talk.

Behind them, Saturn spies on the scene via the intercom machine that is hovering above, and isn't happy that his grunts didn't manage to do any damage on the bodyguards after all. However, the bodyguards have actually done him a favour by using the satellite dish as their strategy, for they are now standing within the firing distance of his device of ultimate terror, which he shall unleash on them in this very minute.

Aiming the metal plated shiny globe towards the rooftop where the bodyguards are standing, Saturn orders his grunts to launch the device, and begins to have a 5-second count down. An intense low rumbling immediately resounds across the entire city, so much that everything begins to shake and tremble.

Phool and Ignor look around and wonder what is going on, while Pearl covers his ears in pain, and Dia cries that he is getting an ominous feeling. At the Veilstone Game Corner, the Manager clings onto the front door which he has just locked, and inside the Veilstone Gym, Maylene, her father and the four Blackbelts put on baffled looks when they sense the sudden tremor. Standing on a terrace, the Tube Boy, Poke Kid and Ninja Boy feel the quake's intensity rising by the second, and start to feel worried.

In the next instant, the device of ultimate terror blasts out a powerful beam from its shiny globe, and hits directly on Phool, Ignor, Buizel and Burmy, splitting their bodies into double-images, one ethereal, one silhouetted, causing Dia and Pearl to gap their mouths wide in horror.

The fact is, in order to reach its goal, Team Galactic is in dire need of an essential force, and the device was constructed to control this force. However, when they came to the testing stage, they realized that there were no substitutes of that force for them to experiment on, and they had no choice but to stop and abandon its development.

With an evil grin, Saturn wonders what the bodyguards are feeling right now, as they soon will be completely cut off from the present world, and forever banished into another place…

(Original Japanese Jokes)

1. In Dia and Pearl's short Manzai joke, Pearl says 'Antenna de katsunantena', which means 'To win somehow by the antenna (satellite dish)'. The pun is on the word 'Antena', which is the Katakana writing of antenna, and a part of the phrase 'katsunantena' (to win somehow).