It has arrived. There is no turning back.
On a dark night, an explosion trembles on the secluded Sinnoh satellite headquarters of Team Rocket. The siren sounds as the operational Team Rocket grunts rush to the scene where the explosion occurred. An emergency system has been commenced to avoid public notice. The fire brigade hurtles to the scene. The rest control the rage of panic from their Pokémon. It is chaos.
Team Rocket's ruthless leader, Giovanni, arrives in the site via a helicopter. His party does not mind the rubble falling from the sky. Upon his arrival, a thick cloud of smoke occupies the vicinity. It is an opportune time for Giovanni to arrive when the damage is still minimal.
Matori expects Giovanni's immediate arrival, and she briefs him, "Giovanni, sir, we're expecting worse from Project: Olympus."
"Any signs of progress from the creature?" he sternly asks, walking towards the blast site.
"We detected sensitivity to electrical energy. We conducted several tests, starting from small amounts of conductivity."
"So where's the destruction coming from?"
"It's getting unstable. We assume it is overkill from the large percentage of power in the Pokémon. But we trace its cognitive motor skills. We found out that it's communicating. And somehow receiving power."
Matori is able to brief Giovanni sufficiently as the two of them walk past fleeing grunts and arrive at a large hangar, doubling as a laboratory for their Project: Olympus. The scientists assigned try to ease the situation, as with other grunts.
Giovanni observes upon the test subject, concealed on a warehouse that is almost at the brink of collapsing. The subject, a presumed Pokémon fossil with its flaky but thick preservation shell, has the appearance of a giant cuttlefish with two reptilian legs and ten claws on its chest. The creature is encased on a giant glass tube. But its signs of recuperating consciousness from the power cause minor and major power trips. "Impressive it can enhance the ability to accumulate power from itself," he utters. "You will never know the capability of true ancient Pokémon. That is why I start this initiative in the first place. Where's the other fossil?"
"Right here, Giovanni." Matori then shows the Team Rocket boss to the other fossil. But this time, it is authentically encased on a hard shell. The scientists assigned to it try to determine the materials that make up the shell, but none prevail. It is left encased on a more stable glass tube.
"Any signs of life?" Giovanni asks.
"None, sir. Not a single heat signature. But it is hollow. It must be a pure Pokémon fossil."
The ruthless leader approaches the fossil sample in awe and grace. Even though he is provided something that is close to a rock, he sees potential beyond it. "It only means one thing: a true power concealed by the passage of time."
"And a relief that it is in our immediate possession."
"Was it not?"
"It was almost taken by a child."
"Who?"
Matori then points to a large metal box encasement that contains Sinnoh trainer Barry, leaning to the left-side metal wall.
"What's that kid doing in the sight?"
"We found him at the dive site. Where the fossils are."
Barry overhears what the two Team Rocket superiors are talking about. In response, he charges towards the metal bars that imprisoned him. " Hey Team Rocket, you won't get away with this! I found the fossils first! I deserve the credit!"
"If you could avoid a clearly restricted area, juvenile," Matori replies.
"How would I know that it is a restricted area?" Barry retaliates. "Would you put up illegal signs that say 'Not any of your business on this point'?"
"I suggest you pipe down, child," Giovanni replies. "There is no jurisdiction for you to be here."
"What do I need for that for…whatever it is you are talking about?" Barry then pleads, "Just give me my Pokémon and my fossils back."
"Quiet down! You have no authority to question."
"Well yes I do! I just heard all of you chatting about that ancient Pokémon with hidden powers."
Giovanni easily gets irritated with the trainer. Thus he orders Matori, "That boy has seen enough. Take him away and make sure that memory gets extracted from his mind."
However, it is all interrupted when a wire short-circuits, causing a chain reaction to corresponding wires. The system gets hampered and the power destabilizes as heavy electrical current is absorbed towards the mollusk-like creature.
The creature starts to move its arms that, but its eyes are still closed. It thumps its claws trying to break out from the glass tube, sending the grunts to full alert.
The creature roars. Its disturbance causes trembling in their makeshift computer systems and on the warehouse ceilings. And BOOM! An explosion bursts in the warehouse. The entire area is trembling from top to bottom. The highest alarm is sounded to the entire compound.
"Take that monster away!" Giovanni orders heatedly. "We don't want anyone outside to know of our operations here!"
But it is too late for the Sinnoh grunts as the encased ancient Pokémon unleashes a Volt Switch that gets absorbed to the power units of the warehouse and overloads the entire system. The rest of the people stationed in the warehouse flee in fear.
The fossil Pokémon then breaks out of the tube with its ten limbs and approaches the other shelled fossil. The other grunts fire at the creature and send out Mightyenas and Bronzong to injure it. But the Pokémon retaliates with a Wild Charge attack to its enemies, finishing them off easily. The Pokémon are left injured, and the grunts place them back into their Pokéballs. It unleashes a Psycho Boost move that send a shockwave that paralyze the incoming threat.
Giovanni and Matori are pushed at well. A piece of metal debris exactly hits the locks to Barry's metal encasement, and he immediately breaks out and searches for his Pokémon
As it finally reaches the fossilized shell, the attacker presses its limbs to the shell that disintegrates the hollow, organic encasing into flakes. In a rare circumstance from its initial menacing states, the creature leans its head closer to that of the true content of the shell.
Out of the fossil comes a petrified human figure. Its left arms held a staff. And its right hand held a sword where it pointed to the front. It is almost like a monument on his stance.
The Pokémon presses its central limbs to the head of the frozen human. Giovanni sneaks in discretely from being covered in rubble to witness the creature reviving the figure from its fossilized state. He can only witness the moment that a strong Pokémon revives his master.
And with that, the figure comes to life once again. His appearance is of a tall stature. His locks are of crimson red, his body is brawn, his skin is fair, his arms are built and his attire is at full armor. (For real world referencing, he has the resemblance to well-known Russian Premier Leader Joseph Stalin.) As his body revives from the petrification, he falls to the chest of the ancient Pokémon, as the latter catches it with its invertebrate arms and revives it master with its powers.
Immediately, the man wakes up but immediately catches breath from what transpired. He looks upon to his Pokémon and utters, "Caliban…"
The Pokémon rumbles on its teeth.
The figure then notices the destruction around him and his Pokémon. His eyes cannot fathom the degree of ruin that they have suddenly stumbled upon. "What kind of realm have we stumbled upon? Where is this?!" Disillusion is what crossed him, how a man fossilized for a long period of time unknown, now revived and breathing in a new era. He is still blinded by his time.
But then he remembers what happened most recent from his ancient past. "It was his doing. It was their doing. They never hear our side. Never. But now, they will…"
Suddenly, Giovanni has his Persian used Hyper Beam against the two revived fossils. But the attack deflects towards the Persian. Luckily, the master and his Pokémon are able to dodge the ricocheting Psychic attack to a piece of burning rubble.
"Such a wit move, considering my Pokémon is a Psychic type," the figure says.
"I do not plan to attack. But look at what you have done," Giovanni replies about the destruction occurring to them.
"It is not of my obligation that I and my Pokémon would have to arrive at this period of time."
Just by indicating that clause triggers a suspicion for the Team Rocket boss. "Who are you?"
The figure then towers over a bruised Giovanni. "This would be a perfect time to acknowledge my presence. That if you do not, let the rest of the world acknowledge the return of a glorious realm that they have shunned. They said it is treachery; I believe it is life for the Pokémon world. I am Tamerlane of Ratma."
At the mention of just the name of that obsolete region, Giovanni is stunned. "What?! Ratma…?"
Barry, crawling from the rubble, overhears this. "Ratma?"
"You have been warned, warlord." Abruptly, the ancient Pokémon Caliban used a Teleport move that sends it and its master away from Giovanni's sight. But the effect is Psyshock that sends a final blow to the Sinnoh Team Rocket headquarters.
Meanwhile, half of the grunts are able to flee the island through helicopter and boat. But the rest are trapped in the island.
However, Barry is able to overcome the smoke and the ruins, and locate his Pokéballs. Yet, when he locates it on a collapsed desk, they are still strapped to Matori, who is unconscious. "Man, why does this happen? And why things happen in peril?"
Nevertheless, he carries Matori and has her cling on his Empoleon's back. "Alright Empoleon! To Professor Rowan!" With that, Empoleon surfs to the sea to take Barry and Matori for help. Barry could not turn his head back as the destruction of the island continues with a final explosion. He never knows what the fate of the other grunts becomes. He is only frightened of two things: what came to life and what is Ratma.
From a distance, Professor Rowan is conducting his daily observations when he spots the thick smoke coming from the location of the obscure Team Rocket island. "Hmmm never seen smoke that thick…"
Abruptly, his assistant frantically informs of news, "Professor! Barry's onshore! He needs you!"
Immediately, they drive to Barry's whereabouts. Upon arrival, they see him drag Matori out of the shore.
Barry sees them and quickly alerts, "Professor!"
"Barry, what happened?" Rowan asks.
"RATMA! RATMA!"
Immediately, the professor is puzzled. "What?" he replies.