"Calm down."
Baimu kept his voice gentle, trying not to upset Z2. "The priority is getting somewhere safe and checking on Z2. Revenge can wait."
Z2 was far weaker than he had expected. Z2 could barely respond even to Z1's calls.
Team Flare had clearly subjected this core capable of destroying the world to more horrific experiments than Z2 could bear, all to keep Z2 under control.
Baimu could only sigh and hope his Heart of God, together with comfort from Z1, Ash, and the others, would ease Z2's pain.
As the original story went, Z2 had not taken out Z2's anger at Team Flare on other humans.
"..."
Z1 said nothing, seeming to accept his words.
Baimu switched off the Barrier beside him, scooped the restrained Z2 into his arms, and glanced around with a frown. "Hm?"
Where was that spiderlike Mind System?
Hadn't they kept it with Z2?
"Porygon2! Found it?" he called to Porygon2 inside the computer network. But for once, the virtual Pokémon had hit a wall.
His phone screen suddenly lit up, and a shaken Porygon2 appeared on it.
"I almost... almost got trapped."
"Trapped?"
"Some computer expert I couldn't locate came after me before I could search properly. Good thing Substitute saved me. The decoy fooled them."
Even through Porygon2's flat electronic voice, he could hear the lingering fear.
"I can't connect to the network again. They'd track me down... Sorry."
One of the four scientists working for Lysandre?
"It's fine. Don't worry about it."
Baimu reassured Porygon2.
For Porygon2 to beat a human computer expert in cyberspace, Porygon2 might have to evolve into Porygon-Z...
No.
Given the strange conflict between Unit One and Dr. Akihabara, with both accusing the other of obsession, he didn't dare let Porygon2 evolve on a whim.
Dr. Akihabara