Use Hoopa's power to travel to other planets?
It wasn't as if Baimu had never considered it.
Meeting Unit Zero's burning, almost hypnotic gaze, he nodded. "Good idea! But we don't know whether Hoopa's power has a range limit, let alone how far it reaches."
"We don't know? How is that possible?"
Unit Zero couldn't accept that explanation. Wasn't testing the limits of its own abilities simple?
Baimu continued, "Because it's a conceptual ability. Put simply, no matter what Hoopa wants to find or summon, it needs to understand the general concept.
"If it doesn't know what space travel or a habitable planet is, how can it use a Warp Ring to open a path to one?"
"That... Fine."
Unit Zero wanted to argue that this hardly counted as a limitation, but when it saw Hoopa's bewildered expression, it realized it had assumed everyone knew what it knew.
What seemed obvious to Unit Zero clearly wasn't obvious to Hoopa.
Still.
Unit Zero said eagerly, "I can help it understand! I'm sure we could test it before long!"
Unit One hurried to say something, but Baimu stopped it.
"Please respect its right to speak."
"..."
Unit One glanced at Dr. Akihabara, who was deep in thought beside it, then lowered its head and oval hands helplessly.
Baimu said to Unit Zero, "I think you've misunderstood. Hoopa isn't my Pokémon. I asked it to summon you both here so we could negotiate.
"Anything beyond that has nothing to do with it. There's no question of helping it understand; it doesn't need that knowledge. If you want to ask it for help, get its consent first."
Hoopa had been lost throughout the conversation. It flew onto the table and looked from side to side. "Little White! What are you talking about? Do you