[@Phoenix]

Newton is almost entirely unaffected by the destruction of poke-stations, he didn't come from a family of trainers and is pretty much improvising how he handles his Pokemon. All he knows at the moment is that berries do the trick just fine - he knows there's better medicines and unique items available but would never be able to afford the real deal. Instead, he uses his expertise in manufacturing to develop his own version of whatever technology he comes across. Although his designs are often of worse quality than the originals they're usually made from parts that are fairly easy to come by and so anything that breaks Newton will find the time to fix.

His involvement with Zodiac and his fight to stop them will derive from his huge man crush on Gaillard and hasn't begun yet. He's going to basically tell him to stop wallowing in self-pity and realise that there's bigger things worth fighting for. He's going to play on Newton's love for his own Pokemon to get him to fight for other trainers who, thanks to zodiac, will have to endure seeing their Pokemon in pain. Thereby learning him the ancient and oft forgotten art of empathy.