With both of them having the Coal Badge, the duo made their way back to Professor Rowan to return the recovered briefcase. "The Professor will be with you shortly. Please have a seat over there." one of his assistents said. Kjolmar sat down and was rather quiet for a few minutes while just staring at Aro. 

A trainer called Paul passed them and pauzed in front of them. "You guys are trainers right? Do you happen to have a full team? I'm looking for a six-on-six battle."
Kjolmar shook his head. "Most of my pokemon are back home in Kalos. I only brought two of them with me. Even though I recently gained two new additions to my team, that only brings me to a total of four. My friend here doesn't have six partners on him right now either."
He realised both of them could easily transfer pokemon from their storage but Kjolmar didn't feel up for a battle right now. He first wanted to talk some things through with Aro.
Paul rolled his eyes. "Later then, I'm sure we'll bump into each other. Let me know when you have a full team."

Kjolmar barely responded to it. He didn't know Paul but he was sure that Gyarados alone would guide him to victory. Then again, he shouldn't underestimate other trainers like that. When Paul left and there was still no sign of Rowan, Kjolmar tried to interrupt the silence between him and Aro. "Maybe we should fill our team a bit more, in case more rivals request six-on-six battles. We could search the tall grass outside."

Noibat crawled right next to Apollo, who was sitting in Kjolmar's arms. He accidentally pushed Apollo a bit to the side. Well, at least it looked accidentally. Apollo glowed a little and thought to himself (and therefor indirectly to Luna) "Noibat doesn't seem to like it when I'm the center of Kjolmar's attention."
Kjolmar noticed Apollo glowing and it gave him a tingling sensation, but he couldn't hear his thoughts yet. Wondering a bit why Noibat was being so possessive suddenly, he turned his attention back to Aro.
"So. I bet we both have some questions for each other, I saw you looking at my Gyarados. I'll start. Number one, who is Cyrus? Number two, what happened to you right there after you saw Apollo?"

Meanwhile, a Mesprit was outside the building, looking in through a window. It gazed at Kjolmar intensely. That same Mesprit had been spying on him earlier at Lake Verity, when it had lured Noibat there. When Mesprit heard Rowan approach, it vanished back to its lake.

"Ah, you recovered my research, wonderful!" Rowan said to the duo. "Oh my, it got all mixed up." he said with a frown. Kjolmar figured that happened because he had been going through it. "Those thugs..." he said, giving Aro an apologizing look for the little white lie. 
Rowan cleared his throat before adressing the trainers. "I must admitt, I was considering to find help from someone older than you two but you amaze me by retrieving this succesfully. Unfortunately, there is more going on than what meets the eye. Team Galactic has taken over an entire building in Eterna City. Could I count on you to drive them out?"

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