No one's POV
It's been a few days and taking care of Nebby was a little bit of a struggle due to it constantly Teleporting everyone around, but it got better over time. Currently, everyone was on a boat, heading towards the Aether Paradise
Lillie: Oh! It is possible for you to see the place now!
Everyone looked over and saw Aether Paradise in the distance.
Ash: Whoa...
Lillie: That over there is Aether Paradise.
Upon docking the ship in the docking bay, everyone walked off, and looked around.
Nhazul: Jeez, even your docking bay is massive.
Faba: Welcome here. It's a pleasure to see you all.
Everyone looked over and saw Faba and Wicke walking up to them.
Wicke: Welcome.
Ash: Oh, it's Wicke and Faba!
Lillie: I would like to thank you two kindly for coming all the way out here to greet us.
Wicke: Lillie, everyone. We've been waiting for you.
Faba: It's been quite awhile since you last visited Aether Paradise, has it not, Missy Lillie?
Lillie began blushing embarrassed.
Lillie: Please, did I not already ask you to stop addressing me as "Missy"?
Faba: Oh, you will always remain "Missy" to me, Missy.
Lillie: On another subject, where is my mother?
Wicke: Your mother is expecting you in the residence.
Lillie: What?! She was the one who insisted we come by for your tour. That is the reason I had the others accompany me here.
Faba: You see, your mother is a very busy person and is unable to get away from her work. On another subject, Milady...Um... Where is Nebby today?
Nhazul: Right here.
Nebby then floated from behind Nhazul's head.
Nebby: Cos!
Faba: Oh!
Faba attempted to grab Nebby only for it to Teleport to the other side, resulting in grabbing Eevee.
Eevee: Vee?
Annoyed, Faba threw Eevee, but Nhazul quickly caught before she fell into the water. As he did, he and Eevee looked at Faba annoyed.
Nhazul: What the hell is the matter with you?!
Eevee: Eevee!
Lillie: Faba!
Faba: Oh dear me, please accept my apology.
Lillie: I am terribly sorry about this, Nhazul.
Nhazul: It's fine...
Faba: Now then, Milady, let us immediately head for the resistance.
Lillie: What? But I was thinking of giving mr friends a guided tour of the facility...
Faba: That can most certainly be done after you have seen Director Lusamine. Now, let us go.
Wicke: It is this way. Please follow us.
As everyone proceeded to follow Wicke, Nhazul just narrowed his eyes at Faba, as Eevee did the same.
Eevee: Eevee...
Serena: I don't like Faba really much...
Lana: Neither do I.
Nhazul: Yeah. I don't particularly care for him either. Especially after what he said before. But I rather not cause a scene to embarrass Lillie.
As everyone was walking, Nhazul felt an extremely powerful pulse of negative emotions through his Aura surprising him.
Nhazul's thoughts: What the hell was that...?
(Timeskip)
Upon entering the foundation, everyone made their way to the mansion in the open area.
Everyone: Wow...
Mallow: I never expected anything like this...
Lana: So this is Lillie's mom's house...
Serena: It's just as big as the other one...
Lillie: This residence is used as her workplace.
Wicke: The Dictator is waiting inside.
Entering inside, everyone was once again surprised by how fancy looking it looked.
Nhazul: Jeez... It feels even bigger from the inside...
Wicke: Director. They have arrived.
Suddenly, they heard someone walking down the steps, as Lusamine greeted them all.
Lusamine: Welcome! How nice of you to-
Suddenly, Lusamine's phone started ringing, making her sigh.
Lusamine: Thank you for taking the time to come here. It must have been a long journey.
Nhazul: ...-_-... I mean if you call 45 minutes long, then sure...
Both Serena and Lana elbowed Nhazul in his sides, pouting at him, as Lusamine continued talking.
Lusamine: Please make yourselves at home. Please excuse me.
Answering her phone, Lusamine started walking away, as Lillie just sighed. Everyone were then escorted to her office, as they were enjoying the desserts that were given to them.
Wicke: Please help yourself.
Everyone: Thanks for the food!
Lusamine: Eat away. No need to hold back.
As everyone was enjoying the deserts, Nhazul noticed Eevee and Nebby eating way too much of them, grabbing the both of them.
Nhazul: ...-_-... Alright, you two... Slow up a bit. Both of your stomachs will end up hurting.
The both of them started pouting at Nhazul.
Eevee: Vee!
Nebby: Mog!
Lusamine: Now then, could you please go ahead and tell me what Lillie's school life is like?
Lillie: M-Mother, what is the meaning of this?
Lusamine: What "meaning" is? Well, if we stay here, I can both work and talk to you at the same time. Isn't that right, Snowball?
Snowball: Vul?
Lillie: Are you implying that this is the entire reason you called me and my friends all the way out to Aether Paradise? I was under the impression that you did so primarily to give them a tour of the facility.
Lusamine: Of course I did. I was thinking of doing that after we talked-
Suddenly, multiple of Lusamine's phones started ringing, annoying Lillie.
Lillie: That is enough! Let us leave. I will personally give you a tour.
Sophocles: Huh? But I didn't try the chocolate cake yet...
Lillie looked at Sophocles with a icy look.
Lillie: ...
Sophocles: Y-Yes ma am...
Lillie: Come on, all of you.
Serena: Lillie is really adamant about this tour...
Nhazul: Yeah...
(Timeskip)
Upon leaving, Lusamine's office, everyone made their way to the elevator with Lillie pouting.
Lillie: I can't believe her nerve...
Mallow: Are you alright? If there's something we can-
Lillie: I am fine. I am merely of the opinion that us having to act according to my mother's convenience is unfair.
As everyone was riding on the elevator, Nhazul once again felt the pulse of negative emotions through his Aura, making his hold his head in pain, which the others noticed.
Serena: Nhazul?
Lana: Are you alright?
Nhazul: Y-Yeah... I'm fine... Just a little headache...
Nhazul's thoughts: What is that...?
Upon reaching their destination, everyone saw they had arrived at the Pokémon conservation area.
Wicke: Welcome! This is the Pokémon conservation area , the pride and joy of the Aether Foundation.
Ash: Wow...! It's awesome.
Lana: We're indoors, but it's like we're outdoors.
Sophocles: I'm speechless...
Kiawe: Even Charizard would have an easy time flying around here.
Mallow: Oh, look!
Everyone looked over and saw a group of Bounsweet around Steenee.
Mallow: That's so cute!
Popplio: Popplio!
Lana: Did you spot something, Popplio?
Nhazul, Serena, Lana and Sophocles all looked into the water, as Burnet in her wetsuit popped out, surprising Sophocles.
Sophocles: Aww! It's a monster!
Burnet: "A monster"? That's some greeting.
Nhazul: Hey, Burnet.
Sophocles: Huh? You know her?
Nhazul: Yeah, she's a family friend.
Burnet: Alola, Nhazul.
Lillie: Professor Burnet assists my mother in her research. Professor! These are my friends from the Pokémon school, the school which I attend.
Everyone: Alola!
Burnet: Alola! This is my partner, Munchlax.
Munchlax: Munchlax!
Ash: Professor Burnet! What are you researching today?
Burnet: I'm conforming if this conservation area is easy for Pokémon to live in, so I'm always diving around and checking.
Faba: There's no need to make frequent dives, though.
Burnet: Oh? So you don't agree that it's nice to combine business with pleasure?
Wicke: I agree! It's absolutely wonderful!
Burnet: Aether Paradise is an artificial island the Aether Foundation constructed die the purpose of Pokémon conservation.
Wicke: It's a facility for gathering injured Pokémon, as well as Pokémon that have been separated from their herds, from all kinds of regions. Then returning then to nature once they've recovered.
After meeting with Burnet, she took everyone to a area which multiple Ditto were in.
Sophocles: Huh? Ditto?
Mallow: "Ditto"? Ditto, as in the Pokémon that can...
Serena: There's so many of them...
Rotom Dex: Leave this to me. Ditto. The Transform Pokemon. Normal Type. It has the ability to reconstitute its entire cellular structure to transform into whatever it sees.
Ash: Thank you, Rotom.
Lana: I've never seen a Ditto before.
Lillie: Neither have I.
Wicke: Once they transform, it becomes impossible to tell them apart from other Pokémon. This is why they are conserved in a separate room.
Burnet proceeded to open the door, surprising everyone.
Serena: Is that a good idea?
Burnet: We'll be doing vaccinations now. Could you guys help me?
Everyone: Sure.
Upon walking inside, everyone other the Lillie held one of the Dittos, so Burnet could give them a shot, but the last one managed to get away, not wanting a shot. Now everyone was currently looking for it.
Ash: Any luck?
Kiawe: No, it wasn't there.
Burnet: Well?
Serena: It wasn't over here, either.
Lillie: I am terribly sorry. Had I done a proper job catching it, back then, this would never have happened...
Wicke: This isn't your fault, Lillie.
Burnet: Not at all. That Ditto just happened to be especially scared of needles.
Sophocles: I'm scared of needles too.
Kiawe: Same.
Ash: Same here...
Nhazul: ...-_-... What are you, four...?
Lillie: Guys...
Mallow: It'll work out.
Serena: Yeah, we'll find it.
Mallow: Let's all split up and find it.
Kiawe: It's probably transformed into another Pokémon by now.
Rotom Dex: Ditto's transformation ability is incredible. It won't be easy to tell the copy and the original apart.
Everyone looked at Rotom and was surprised.
Rotom Dex: What's the matter?
Rotom looked over and saw the Ditto, transformed into it, surprising it.
Serena: It's the Ditto!
Nhazul: It can even copy the Pokédex form?
Rotom Dex: I can't believe it! It took my form!
The Ditto then flew off into another area, with everyone going after it. As Nhazul went to follow, once again he felt the pulse of negative emotion, making him held his head.
Nhazul: Damn it... What is that...?
Nebby: Cos!
Nebby touched Nhazul and proceeded to Teleport him to unknown location.
Eevee: Vee?
Nhazul: What the...?
Nebby: Mog!
Nhazul just sighed and looked at Nebby.
Nhazul: ...-_-... You really need to stop randomly teleporting people.
Nebby: Mog!
Nebby just nuzzled Nhazul's face, as he looked around the area he was now in.
Nhazul: Now, where exactly are we...?
Nhazul and Eevee both looked around, as Eevee looked up surprised.
Eevee: Vee!
Nhazul: What is it?
Nhazul looked over to where Eevee was pointing to and he saw the Aether Foundation emblem.
Nhazul: Aether Foundation? Are we still at Aether Paradise?
Suddenly, Nhazul felt the pulse of negative emotions, making him hold his head again, as it was stronger then before.
Nhazul: Again...? It feels even stronger then before...
As Nhazul proceeded to look around and made his way to the source of the negative emotions, which led him to a lab.
Nhazul: A lab?
Looking around, Nhazul and Eevee looked around, when Eevee found a Pokéball.
Eevee: Vee!
Nhazul looked over and saw a red Pokéball that looks to be locked inside of a case.
Nhazul: A Pokéball?
Nhazul immediately was overwhelmed by the negative emotions, making him hold his head.
Eevee: Eevee!
Nhazul: Y-Yeah, I'm fine... But these negative emotions... it's been coming from a Pokémon...?
As Nhazul tried to open the case with the Pokéball, but he couldn't due to the lock.
Nhazul: Locked? Why would someone put a lock a Pokémon away?
As Nhazul continued to look at the Pokéball, Nhazul looked back at the desk and could see notes and a flash drive labeled "Test Run".
Nhazul: Type: Null... What is this...? An artificial Pokémon...?
Nhazul looked back at the Pokéball.
Nhazul: What the hell is this...?
???: I don't exactly like the fact that Missy Lillie is spending time around Pokémon...
Nhazul: Huh?
Nhazul leaned up against the wall, as he could hear someone walking in his direction.
???: Her somehow remembering what happened back then would be quite problematic...
(Flashback)
Nhazul: So what exactly happened?
Lillie: You see... I do not know...
Nhazul: You don't know?
James: How should I put it? Lady Lillie and the Mistress moved to another mansion for a period of time. Ever since she returned from there, Lady Lillie has been unable to touch Pokémon.
(Present)
Nhazul's thoughts: So what happened to Lillie... It wasn't an accident?!
Nebby: Mog!
As Nhazul went to confront the person, Nebby touched Nhazul, as it Teleported him back to the Conservation, surprising him.
Nhazul: I'm back...?!
Serena: There he is!
Nhazul looked over and saw Serena and the others walking up to him, as he quickly hid the flash drive into his bag.
Lillie: Where did you go? We've been looking everywhere for you.
Nhazul: Oh, uh, sorry... Nebby Teleported me to the kitchen to get more candy...
Ash: See? I told you it was Nebby again.
Serena: Still, it's concerning when he just up and disappears.
Wicke: Now that Nhazul is back, why don't we head back for some lunch.
As everyone began to follow Wicke, Nhazul looked over at Eevee.
Eevee: Vee...
Nhazul: I know... But I don't want to jump to conclusions right away. So be sure not to tell anyone.
Eevee: Vee.
Nhazul: Once we have some time alone, we're going to see what this "Test Run" is all about...