The scene changed.
The nurse returned to Castelia City, but she was in no hurry to resume her journey.
[You knew that very few Pokémon had the makings of a nurse. You were more likely to find one in the city than by taking your chances in the wild.]
Find a Pokémon that fit her needs in the city?
Black markets? The Pokémon Day Care?
As Baimu wondered, the nurse made the rounds of hospitals and clinics.
[You knew that Pokémon were often abandoned at hospitals. Lately, an unidentified organization had been urging people to release them.]
Team Plasma!
They had started operating this early?
He raised an eyebrow. By his reckoning, Ghetsis could not have been much older than the nurse.
But this organization probably had a history, much like Team Rocket.
Ghetsis was ambitious, but he might not have been its first leader.
As he pondered this,
the nurse on the screen found her target.
[You took in an abandoned Igglybuff. You gained another Pokémon nurse.]
Igglybuff, Jigglypuff's baby form.
It had a soft pink body and the adorable look of a balloon bobbing in the breeze.
But there was no doubt
the nurse had chosen it for reasons other than its looks. Her family simply had a course on training Wigglytuff nurses.
[You headed east, crossed the magnificent Skyarrow Bridge, and reached Pinwheel Forest.]
Unlike the previous simulation subjects,
the nurse valued efficiency over traveling north toward the bustling cities and challenging Gyms along the way.
Nacrene City and Striaton City were close together, and both had Gyms. That made them her targets.
In Pinwheel Forest,
she unexpectedly found quite a few Trainers honing their skills.
[You did not want to be disturbed, but when you heard that battling more people would help your Pokémon grow stronger,