>>20366934Mable salutes Team Flare using the ever-iconic pose, "Yes! It was all a part of our magnificent Ultimate Team Flare Protagonist Ruse-Ruse and you fell for it entirely! We Scientists NEVER had the key to begin with! The great Lysandre slipped it into your pocket just as you last saw him depart the laboratory basement! You had it the entire time and did not even know it!"
"W-What? But how does that--HE NEVER EVEN GOT CLOSE TO M-"
"MAGIC."
"O-Okay..?"
"That's right! You had the key the entire time and were misinformed that you had to defeat one of us to receive the key, when really, you could have went to the elevator and tracked down our master to defeat him, if only you had checked your pockets--BUT THE GREAT LYSANDRE KNEW YOU'D BE TOO DUMB TO DO THAT! Because of this wild goose chase to nail all of us beautiful Scientists down, YOU HAVE SIGNIFICANTLY WASTED APPROXIMATELY TWENTY-SIX HOURS, WHICH IS TIME THAT COULD HAVE BEEN SPENT TAKING US OUT. But uh, you wasted it so, now we're further along in our operation so screw you--we win in the end!"
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"W-What?"
