Amid the flashing lightning, the screen lit up for an instant, then returned to normal.
Where the researcher had been standing, only a charred black mark remained.
There was no telling whether he had escaped the lightning or become that black patch on the ground...
Lance was still struggling to process the scene before him when another burst of shifting colors erupted across the nearby Jolteon's body. With a howl, the Pokémon quickly vanished into the shadows beside him.
Only then did Lance react. He controlled his character and gave chase, only to find that the Eevee had long since disappeared.
Lance stood quietly in place, recalling everything he had just witnessed, his brow tightly furrowed.
Those Team Rocket scoundrels were utterly unforgivable. They had actually forcibly transformed an Eevee into something like this...
And there was no doubt that Eevee had acted that way because the pain he had experienced had become unbearable... leading him to turn on his own creator.
These people really were even darker and more evil than he had imagined!
No matter what, Team Rocket had to be eradicated!
Lance moved his character quickly over to the enormous machine and pressed the interact button.
[This machine still contains a great deal of culture fluid. Some cruel breeding experiment seems to have taken place here...]
[You found a journal in a corner of the machine. Would you like to read it?]
Seeing the game's prompt, Lance immediately pressed confirm. This was exactly the clue about Team Rocket he had been looking for.
A close-up of a book's pages appeared in the game, with neatly written red text on them.
[Experiment log: AE023. Experiment successful. Genes stable.]
[Linked to... Mewtwo... Project.]
Mew... two Project?
Lance froze for a moment at those final words.
But he soon stopped