"Wh--Raven?!" Owen shouted, but she was already so far away. Maybe she was leaving to get help, or maybe she panicked and didn't remember she could just use telepathy. He snarled and turned his attention back to Mewtwo, still advancing.
"Mewtwo's closing in!" Owen announced, just as Mewtwo was one more Teleport from getting to Cola. Arceus looked like he had been trying to Teleport away, but it was being suppressed. Despite his regal movements, Arceus seemed at a loss for what to do. He only stood in front of Cola, protective... but with their difference in size, Mewtwo could easily sidestep him if it came down to it.
Pop looked to Koa. "Buy time," he said. "We can only hope to repel him. Protect Cola."
Cola looked like he was panicking and avoided any attempts to approach him, friend or foe. But he was also slow, and it didn't look like his usual Teleporting was working. He waved and dodged any of Echo's attempts with uncanny speed, running silently and blindly around behind Pop.
Owen launched his Overheats again; in the horizon, Cal and many others of Team Spectrum were flying over. Echo had been much faster. But the others were too slow--Mewtwo would get to Cola much faster at this rate.
Mewtwo disappeared, and then reappeared right in front of Cola. He skidded to a stop and tried to bound away again, but then Mewtwo reached forward and grabbed Cola, squeezing. A horrible energy radiated off of Mewtwo's hands...
Cola's body dissolved into a silver color. That silver shaped into an arm, which trailed into the torso and then the white mane of the divine Zoroark with a devilish smirk on his face.
"Hey," he said to Mewtwo. "Happy to see me?"
Far away in town, Raven would feel Cola shifting around nervously with the little bauble that Soda had given him.
