[center][h1][color=fff79a]"Plot Moving" Post[/color][/h1]
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[h3][color=c4df9b]May 14th, 2020; 13:10 Local Time[/color][/h3]
The past few days at the French HQ were moving along smoothly. In the morning, they would take world culture classes. At night, about 10% of people would return with a newly caught Pokemon. At this rate, by the end of their weak here, most people would have caught a Pokemon, if not two. 

But today was special. The academic portion of their day had just finished, but they were instructed to gather in the training/battle room for an announcement, instead of being dismissed for the day as usual. When they arrived, they found approximately 50 chairs spread out to face an empty podium. The assistant that opened the door for them instructed them to sit wherever they liked. 

It took about five minutes for everyone to get seated. Pokemon world trainers and Earth natives were all scattered about in no particular order. If anything dictated the sitting order, it was their own self imposed social circles and clicks. The room was chatty with people taking wild guesses at why they were being gathered. 

When Professor Sycamore entered the room, the voices quieted quickly. He made is approach the podium and spoke into a microphone mounted on the stand. His voice came out speakers set up at four corners around the seated audience, [b][color=f6989d]"Today is an exciting day Pokemon trainers. And when I say trainers, I mean everyone, because even if you haven't caught a Pokemon yet, I'm sure you will... Now for why I called you here. You see, I have some announcements to make, and I would like to address some of your concerns as well."[/color][/b]

With a polite clearing of his throat, he continued, [b][color=f6989d]"First, I regret to inform you that we still don't know how or why our realities have collided, the Pokemon world and Earth that is. But I assure you, this is still priority number one. Second, some of you have expressed concern over how our new Pokeballs work and what happens to Pokemon that are brought back here. It touches me deeply to hear your concerns, so I will be open and honest with you... In order for Pokeballs to work here, as they did on our world, we had to recreate the components according to the physics of this world. Without going into TOO much detail, this is how a Pokeball works..."[/color][/b] A large monitor was lowered down from the ceiling and hovered just above Professor Sycamore's head. The monitor displayed a slide show that accompanied the Professor's explanation. The way it was described, Pokeballs would send out a red energy beam that would simultaneously disintegrate the Pokemon and record the way all its molecules were arranged, as well as draw all of these molecules into the ball to be stored in compact form. The ball would then need to retain a charge so that it could continue to contain these molecules. When a trainer released the Pokemon, it's molecules would be reassembled to the exact state they were in when it was captured, down to the synapses that were firing in the brain at that exact moment. In other words, from a Pokemon's point of view, zero time would pass from the moment they were brought into the ball to the moment of release. Professor Sycamore then explained that any Pokemon they stored would be kept in this state of suspended animation (inside their ball), and their ball would be given a constant charge... Apparently, they were also working on creating safari zones where Pokemon could live outside their Pokeballs, but theses were not yet ready. 

This news seemed to effect everyone in the audience in a number of ways. Their minds were filled with questions. [i]"Is this truly humane?" "How is this possible?" "Are Pokemon really better off in a Pokeball than out in the wild?"[/i] 

Professor Sycamore then went on to explain that the reason why battling Pokemon is the most effective to make them easier to catch is that it causes a Pokemon to release energy and slow down its molecules, thus making it easier for the Pokeball to contain this energy. But he also stated that calming a Pokemon down through words or food could be beneficial... just not as effective. He also covered the healing technology found in "Pokemon HQs" and "Pokemon Outposts", technology that could examine a Pokemon's injured state and reorganize the information to produce a fully healed Pokemon the next time they were released. 

[color=f6989d][b]"Any questions?"[/b][/color] he finally asked, and the crowd did not disappoint. For the next fifteen minutes, he answered a plethora of concerning questions, mostly concerned with Pokemon safety. He did his best to assure them that this was the best solution. Not only had the technology proven to be practically 100% without error, but manually capturing a Pokemon and holding them in cages would actually be more inhumane than the Pokeball alternative, where time is irrelevant. Most accepted this logic, while others sat silently unconvinced.

[color=f6989d][b]"Now, I have one final announcement."[/b][/color] Everyone listened intently. After all that, what else could there be? [color=f6989d][b]"As I have said, it is important to battle in order to catch Pokemon. So, to prepare you for battling, we are going to create a '[i]league[/i]' of sorts, in which all of you can compete. That is not to say that you MUST compete, but we feel that this could be very beneficial to you as trainers. This is how it will work..."[/b][/color] His explanation could be boiled down to this: Everyone will be given League Points upon starting out. Trainers from Earth will receive 100 Points, while trainers from the Pokemon universe will start off with 120... Any time you defeat someone else in the league, they have to pay you 25% of their points (rounded to the nearest whole number), and vice versa. Furthermore, if you challenge someone that has more points than yourself, they must accept or take an automatic defeat, BUT if you challenge someone with less points than yourself, they may decline without any consequences... This was revealed as the reason for giving Pokemon universe trainers more points to begin with, so that they couldn't all target Earth trainers... As a final rule, no one can drop below four points; which means someone can gain one point from someone with four points, but that person's point total won't drop below 4.

The final slide was a picture of some of Pokemon's [url=https://i.ytimg.com/vi/E07RAXfXQ10/maxresdefault.jpg]strongest champion trainers[/url]. [color=f6989d][b]"Again, no one is being forced to join this battle league, but for those that do wish to join, this is your opportunity to become Earth's first champion. This will be decided by a tournament, to be held six months from now in November, UNLESS we find a way to return home before then. In that case, we will push forward the tournament date. In either case, only the trainers with the most points will be allowed to compete in the tournament. So battle hard, and have fun!... Any questions?"[/b][/color]

No time was wasted before Professor Sycamore had to answer some very tough questions like, [b]"Is it really okay to battle each other with Pokemon?"[/b] and [b]"Should this even be a priority?"[/b]. The professor did his best to quell these concerns as well, reminding everyone that this battle league is completely optional. He even went on to say that trainers should not battle with Pokemon who show no interest, and that any trainer caught forcing a Pokemon into battle against their will would be stripped of their title as a Pokemon trainer, and stripped of all government support ([i]AKA: No more Pokeballs and confiscated Pokemon[/i])... But as far as general safety, he insisted that their healing technology was so advanced that it could heal ANY injury. Trainers would however be responsible for recalling their Pokemon if there were any major risks to their emotional well being.

Their meeting ended with assistants passing out paper forms and pens. The papers reviewed everything the Professor discussed regarding the new Pokemon League. The last page was a form where they would either sign up or decline to join at this time.