Porygon was asleep.
It was the main fighter in tomorrow afternoon's match, so it needed to be well rested.
But after waking in the middle of the night and getting a "lecture" from Baimu, he couldn't fall back asleep. Looking at those five hearts marking its trust level left him more than a little worried.
He knew it was unrealistic to expect his apology to raise its trust level, but he had hoped it might.
The result was right there on the screen.
No change.
Hopefully tomorrow's Gym Challenge would give him a way forward.
With that thought, Baimu watched the video Porygon had shown him a few more times. Watching it at night really did feel like watching a horror movie.
Where had that Phantom Porygon come from?
Of course, he also sent a copy to Dr. Akihabara and his assistant. Whatever was happening to Porygon was something they all needed to investigate. Perhaps one of them could give him a definite answer.
He was about to turn off his phone and sleep when the screen lit up right after he locked it. Dr. Akihabara had replied.
Huh? Wasn't he busy?
Why was he awake and replying in the middle of the night?
Curious, Baimu opened the message. It was a wall of exclamation marks with a few words buried in the middle, plus an image.
Dr. Akihabara: "Unit Zero! It has to be Unit Zero!"
The image was a blurry mass of pixels forming something that might have been a Porygon-Z.
Only the doctor knew which frame he had grabbed it from. Baimu compared the images for ages and still couldn't see it. Then again, Dr. Akihabara had created all three forms of Porygon.
Baimu: "Unit Zero? That can't be right. Didn't it disappear? Why would it be