With Wally in tow, Young Master Mao and his student set off for Professor Birch's Laboratory.
Fortunately, Littleroot Town was not far from Rustboro City. With Salamence and Altaria's flying ability, the two caught sight of the white seaside town in just over half an hour.
Walking up a woodland slope, Wally looked at his teacher in confusion. "Teacher, are we going to do some kind of training this time?"
"You'll know when we get there. Don't worry, it's something good~" Young Master Mao smiled and said no more.
Naturally, surprises were best discovered for oneself.
At Professor Birch's Laboratory, Professor Birch and his assistant squatted awkwardly by the entrance, each wearing a stab-proof vest and a steel helmet and carrying a riot shield.
"Young Master Mao, aren't you here yet..." Professor Birch could not help stealing glances at his roof, which was missing a corner, and the plants in the yard that had been sliced clean through.
On a distant hill visible from the laboratory's backyard, a pack of Poochyena was fleeing for its life.
Behind them, a flash of light suddenly swept across a millstone-sized rock, splitting it in two...
Behind the rock, a tiny Pokémon revealed itself.
It looked like a humanoid figure folded from a sheet of paper that was white on one side and red on the other.
Most of its body was white. Its head was folded into its body, with a yellow four-pointed star cut into the center and no obvious facial features.
It had two antennae with broad tips on top of its head, and yellow sheath-like structures on its shoulders. The sheaths connected to a slightly raised hexagon in the center of its torso.
The red inner portions were visible through its folded legs.
It was none other than the Ultra