[b]"Hey! Is someone there! Give me a second I'll be up front in a sec. Just feeding some of the Pokémon. Just head to the foyer to the left. Watch out for the Pidgeys perching above the doorway!"[/b]

"Whup!" Adrian dodged out of the doorway and turned his eyes upward. Sure enough, a flock of Pidgeys were sitting around chirping at each other. Magnus hovered up to their level, beeping at them, but they turned to glare at the Steel-type and it retreated back down to its Trainer's shoulder. Taking a few cautious steps away from the bird Pokémon, Adrian took a moment to examine the interior of the Laboratory.

It was a colossal mess, though Adrian interpreted it less like the place had been trashed and more like a certain someone had been left to his own devices for too long. Some things were overgrown out of neglect, others just plain broken. There were holes in the walls between rooms, for Arceus' sake. The Trainer just sighed, his suspicions correct. Someone needed to take over this place, preferably sooner rather than later. "This place is a trainwreck..." he muttered in an aside to Claire. "Come on. We should find some place to wait for whoever it was that gave us that heads-up."

Before Adrian could lead the way to the foyer the voice had mentioned, another girl burst into the Lab with reckless abandon. She made straight for the younger of the two Trainers, and Adrian's eyebrows were soon in danger of disappearing into his hair.

"Er... hello to you too, I guess?"