A rough plan had already taken shape in his mind before he finished thinking it through.
He opened the forum, navigated to the Strategy Guides section, and spent 20,000 League Credits to purchase a one-time anonymous posting function.
Then he began drafting the post, making sure to tick the paid content option before he started writing.
Any player who wanted to read the full post would need to spend League Credits to unlock it.
This time Naoki had no intention of selling the information to a single buyer the way he had with the red Gyarados lead.
His actual goal was to deal a serious blow to Team Rocket’s most important project while making some money on the side.
For that, the more players who knew, the better.
Maximum disruption was the objective.
Even an organization as powerful as Team Rocket would struggle to contain the chaos if enough players descended on them at once.
In the original story, Mewtwo had been brought to Viridian Gym after its awakening, fitted with armor, and set to face challengers under Giovanni’s control.
But players were a variable the original story had never accounted for.
If any player had started with an identity tied to Viridian Gym, they could potentially approach Mewtwo during its most vulnerable and disoriented early moments.
Naoki turned the possibilities over quickly, finished drafting the post, then spent an additional 100,000 League Credits on a site-wide announcement and hit send.
A new anonymous post appeared across the player forum and world channel simultaneously, impossible to miss.
Anonymous: Exclusive classified intelligence.
The world’s most powerful artificial Legendary Pokémon is about to be born on a secret island in the Kanto restricted zone.
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The entire forum seemed to hold its breath for half a second.
Players in the middle of arguments, mid-journey, harvesting berries in the field, all of them stopped.
The title had everyone’s complete attention.
Legendary Pokémon intelligence?
The flood of clicks came almost instantly.
Is this real or fake?
Why post anonymously if you’re not hiding something?
Don’t spread misinformation.
From what I understand, paid anonymous posts go through system verification before they’re approved.
The content has to be confirmed as genuine before it goes live.
Wait.
That means the Legendary Pokémon information in this post is actually real?
Since the game launched, not a single player had managed to catch a Legendary Pokémon.
Most had barely even seen one.
Legendary Pokémon sat at the absolute top of the power hierarchy in this world.
Catching one was the kind of thing players had only dreamed about.
The bragging rights alone would be beyond anything they could imagine.
At that moment, something close to ninety percent of the active playerbase had the exact same thought at the exact same time.
5,000 League Credits for one view.
For most of them, that was nothing.
They paid immediately.
The locked content opened.
The Legendary Pokémon’s name is Mewtwo.
Based on intelligence obtained from a Team Rocket facility, Team Rocket has been conducting a project codenamed the Mewtwo Initiative.
Using genetic material extracted from a Mew fossil combined with human DNA, they have produced Mewtwo through artificial cloning.
Mewtwo is Team Rocket’s ultimate weapon, developed over many years with the goal of world domination. You are reading on g.com, the official source.
Its power is extraordinary.
Mewtwo has not yet fully awakened.
It is currently being held by Team Rocket on an unnamed island in the southern seas of the Kanto region, in the vicinity of Cinnabar Island.
Warning: the Mewtwo Initiative is now in its final stage.
If New Island is not located in time, Team Rocket will successfully take control of this weapon.
I am making this information public because I cannot catch this Pokémon alone.
You have all seen what Team Rocket is capable of.
I would rather put this out into the world than watch Team Rocket gain control of this kind of power.
The post detonated across the entire player community.
5,000 League Credits was practically free for what it offered in return: an exclusive lead on a Legendary Pokémon event of historic scale.
The payment counter began climbing like a wave breaking.
The comment section went from empty to unreadable in seconds, scrolling faster than the eye could follow.
What the hell?
An artificial Legendary?
Team Rocket has been hiding this the whole time?
This explains everything.
I’m a Kanto League player and I could never figure out why Team Rocket kept running those experiments on Pokémon underground.
Now it makes sense.
Mew DNA?
An artificial Legendary?
If someone can actually catch this thing they’ll be unstoppable.
I’m heading to Kanto right now.
All the people who were defending the Team Rocket players and killing NPCs, say something.
Team Rocket has been running forbidden experiments this whole time and you thought the League was overreacting?
Dragon Guild, everyone assemble.
Legendary Pokémon, first one there takes it.
Move.
Finally a real event.
I’ve been grinding in the Hoenn wilderness for weeks and I’m losing my mind.
First Legendary-scale event since launch, I am not missing this.
The argument that had been raging across the forum over Moon and NPC treatment collapsed instantly.
Every conflict, every grudge, every ongoing debate, all of it was swallowed whole by the new event.
Solo players, small guilds, mid-size organizations, lone veterans who had been wandering the open world on their own, all of them pivoted simultaneously and began converging on the Kanto region.
Paldea League.
HR division.
Naoki sat at his desk watching the payment counter climb.
In the thirty minutes since the post went live, it had already reached five million League Credits.
The platform would take its cut when he withdrew, leaving him with roughly half.
But more payments were still coming in, and what he already had was more than enough for his purposes.
The primary objective was already accomplished.
Naoki turned his attention back to the player activity feed.
These players operated outside the rules of this world.
Team Rocket held no particular fear for them.
They were reckless, aggressive, and completely unbothered by consequences. Follow the newest chapters on g.com.
As a disruptive force aimed at Team Rocket’s operations, they were perfectly suited to the task.
More importantly, the players who had already joined Team Rocket were not loyal to the organization in any meaningful sense.
They had joined for resources and advantages.
The moment a Legendary Pokémon entered the picture, their priorities would shift immediately.
Though there was one concern Naoki kept returning to.
He could not rule out the possibility that some players would see this as an opportunity to report the post to Team Rocket leadership in exchange for trust and access.
Some people would make that calculation.
Beyond that, players without coordination were ultimately just chaos.
Even the strongest players currently in the game would not be able to handle Mewtwo in a direct confrontation.
Players alone were not enough to destroy the Mewtwo Initiative.
Disruption without a proper force to close the trap would accomplish nothing lasting.
A real organization needed to be brought in to form a complete encirclement.
He already knew exactly who that needed to be.
Lance.
The Kanto League’s Dragon Master.
A man who had spent his entire career fighting injustice and protecting Pokémon and the peace of the world.
Principled, sharp, and methodical.
He would never stand by if given solid evidence of what Team Rocket was doing.
And unlike the players, he would not tear the place apart indiscriminately.
He would move precisely against Team Rocket’s illegal operation and nothing else.
Players to create the chaos.
Lance to finish it.
The plan would work.
The question was how to reach him.
After a moment’s thought, Naoki opened his chat with Moon.
Larry: Do you have a moment?
Moon was probably in class at Naranja Academy.
He expected to wait.
She replied almost instantly, her message carrying the unmistakable energy of a teenager who had just been freed from a lecture.
Moon: What’s up, Larry!
Just got out of class!
Naranja Academy is honestly so relaxed.
I wish real school was like this QAQ
Naoki smiled faintly reading that.
Larry: I need to get a message to the NPC called Lance that you met.
Is there any way you can reach him?
Moon: He actually gave me his contact details.
He said I could reach out if I ever ran into trouble.
That was exactly what Naoki had expected.
Lance was not the kind of person who would hand a girl like Moon over to the Paldea League and then stop thinking about her entirely.
Larry: Don’t mention my name.
Pass a message to Lance on my behalf.
It concerns Team Rocket.