[h2][center]Orre Region:[/center][/h2][h3][center] Pokemon HQ Lab - Laboratory Wing 1[/center][/h3]

A small child no more than ten years of age sat restlessly with a large ditto hoisted up in both arms. It was about her size and it drooped like an overstuffed, and over-sized carnival prize that she had been squeezing a little too tightly. 

[color=#BCED91]"Are you sure we're meant to have this?"[/color] Professor Krane asked the child, [color=#BCED91]"I know your father was a friend to this institution but this is a bit unexpected."[/color] He turned over the brand new Trainer's Gauntlet in his hand as to inspect it. It had only the standard applications, and had not yet been registered to the trainer whom provided it. As the professor browsed the app marketplace his assistant Lily spoke up.

[color=#EEB4B4]"I think you're confused, professor."[/color] The doctoral assistant in the double-breasted labcoat colored for her namesake interrupted the Professor's inspection of the Trainer's Gauntlet by producing her Pokemon Lens. [color=#EEB4B4]"Professor Ro worked on the integrating the Crown into the Lens, and did so in this very building,"[/color] she said while tapping the face-plate of the device with her long manicured nails before continuing, [color=#EEB4B4]"I think his daughter would rather have one of these, than one of those."[/color] Lily turned to the child and offered her a reassuring smile while the ditto oozed onto the ground. [color=#EEB4B4]"After all, she's come a very long way to get one. Isn't that right, Sarah?"[/color]

Sarah was obviously uncomfortable as she too slid out of the chair, and into the pile of pokemon that was her dad's ditto. Talking about her father often made her feel that way because everyone seemed to know him except for her. She only nodded as the befuddled professor turned from her to his assistant, who dropped her own Lens back into her purse as casually as if it were a compact or lip-gloss. 

[color=#BCED91]"We don't have a Crown,"[/color] he said before he realized what both women meant. He awkwardly laughed and corrected himself as Lily rolled her eyes. [color=#BCED91]"Oh! Right! The Lens. For new trainers!"[/color] He patted the Trainer's Gauntlet and thoughtfully turned to Sara before adding: [color=#BCED91]"You're a new trainer now, aren't you Sarah?"[/color]

Now that he was addressing her directly the child rose to attention and nodded. [color=#FFC0EB]"Yep!"[/color] she exclaimed, [color=#FFC0EB]"I'm a woman now!"[/color]

[color=#EEB4B4]"My, my my,"[/color] Lily chuckled, while resting her fingers against her cheek with one hand, and her elbow in the other. [color=#EEB4B4]"Ten years old and already a woman?"[/color] She turned to the professor, who was rooting around in his desk, and she cooed: [color=#EEB4B4]"Isn't that precious? They grow up so fast."[/color] To which the professor responded while producing a spare Pokemon Lens, [color=#BCED91]"You've got a couple of your own, don't you Lily?"[/color] The professor's assistant swiped the Lens and checked its operating system for the latest updates. [color=#EEB4B4]"One, and three,"[/color] she said in reference to their age as her face lit up first with excitement, then with embarrassment, [color=#EEB4B4]"and that hardly has anything to do with anything!"[/color] 

The immodest implication of the assistant's age soared over Sarah's head, as she patiently awaited her first poke-tool. A poke-tool that [i]really[/i] was her own and not her mother's or father's tools they let her occasionally play with. [color=#BCED91]"It should be a simple task to clone the Hoenn apps onto this for you,"[/color] the professor spoke to Sarah directly, before taking the Lens back from Lily, then placed it into a machine with the Gauntlet. It made the appropriate science-y lights and noises before he took it out again and presented it to Sarah. [color=#BCED91]"I see you already have a pokemon,"[/color] the Professor added, [color=#BCED91]"So why don't you try scanning it, and then we'll test your lens with a battle?"[/color]

The child nodded and nudged her ditto with her shoes which prompted it to 'stand' up. After scanning the Pokemon Lens created a true-to-life 3D miniature recreation of the ditto and spouted off some facts regarding it:

[color=cyan]"Capable of copying an opponent's genetic code, it can freely recombine its own cellular structure into other life-forms to instantly transform itself into a duplicate of the enemy. Ditto rearranges its cell structure to transform itself into other shapes. However, if it tries to transform itself into something by relying on its memory, this Pokémon manages to get details wrong."[/color]

Upon hearing the correct regional information being provided regarding the ditto, Lilly reached into her purse to produce a pokeball and her own Lens. She swiped the ball across the convext portion of the Lens and tossed it on the ground. [color=#EEB4B4]"Alright, Sarah, are you ready? Because here we come!"[/color] Sarah's own Pokemon Lens spoke up, announcing: [color=cyan]"Professorial Assistant Lily would like to battle!"[/color] as a Blissey exploded from the pokeball, which triggered Ditto's impostor ability. And, again, the Pokemon Lens recited the pokedex information:

[color=cyan]"Blissey has a very compassionate nature. If it sees a sick Pokémon, it will nurse the sufferer back to health. It senses sadness with its fluffy coat of fur. If it does so, this Pokémon will rush over to the sad person, however far they may be, to share an egg of happiness that brings a smile to any face. Anyone who takes even one bite of Blissey's egg becomes unfailingly caring and pleasant to everyone."[/color]

The pokemon's true-to-life 3D representation was again displayed centered in the air above the convex Lens' center but also had a list of moves inscribed in 2D on the surface of the lens itself that the transformed Ditto had copied from the Blissey. [color=#EEB4B4]"Everything seems to be in order,"[/color] Lily noted as she compared her own Lens, [color=#EEB4B4]"Shall we continue?"[/color] she asked Sarah before addressing her pokemon specifically: [color=#EEB4B4]"Use Double Slap."[/color]

[color=#FFC0EB]"Substitution!"[/color] Sarah shouted but her pokemon would not obey and instead used Me First. For the next few minutes the two pokemon proceeded to double slap each other all over the lab, as they crashed into computers, desks, and other equipment. Both of the actual adults laughed as Sarah tried to wrangle her pokemon into obedience. 

[color=#EEB4B4]"I,"[/color] Lily was still laughing as she recalled her pokemon, [color=#EEB4B4]"I think that's enough."[/color] 

[color=#BCED91]"Never forget,"[/color] the professor began after drying his eyes, [color=#BCED91]"Just because you're officially a trainer now, doesn't mean pokemon will just do what you tell them."[/color] Professor Krane bent down as to meet Sarah with eye contact on her level. [color=#BCED91]"Quite the opposite in-fact.[/color] he said while giving her an encouraging noogie. [color=#BCED91]"Your pokemon may always look to you for guidance, but only after you have proven yourself to be trusted with that leadership. Now that you're a trainer you must earn their respect as an equal, no matter how much they may have respected you as a person before."[/color]

Though she did not fully understand, Sarah nodded trusting that she would one day, before leaving the lab to return home to Hoenn.