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Maple didn't have time to respond, though she did look a little heartened by the kind words of the others. It was small, but Millijoule saw the smile on her face. And then, when Cabot crashed into the machine, Owen readied himself for whatever might come out. The first strike wasn't quite...

Maple was transfixed on the crystals, but Pleo and Puddle were enough to get her back to her senses. "Right... right. Of course. These... don't mean anything right now. Let's focus on what else we can salvage." She was shaking, but she kept her breath even. "And... thank you. I..." She looked...

"Oh, that? Yeah, we took a look at that, but we don't really know much more about that... If it had a power source, it ran out. One-use. Real shame. The device we confiscated wasn't really any different from the other scraps we had..." Chip sighed. "It's almost like Giovanni is expecting us to...

"Yeah, exactly! Just because I made a new crater there at first doesn't mean I can't just recalibrate it." Chip nodded. "It's very simple. Hm. But anyway, Tree of Life? Back when Dungeons plagued the planet, the Tree was used to keep the major things about the planet operating. If it didn't, it...

"It isn't anything bad," Chip said immediately, raising his little arms. "They were just hypothetical experiments, and maybe some practical ones! Like... for example, finding a way to harness elemental energy for more concentrated bits of energy. Imagine compacting a power plant into something...

"I see..." Chip's eyes flickered with thought. "This could mean quite a lot. And it might be just what we need to convince Zekrom that we really should redouble our efforts into this technology! Eh, but, her main concern was that it could also be used to unjustly imprison someone in a cruel and...

"Couldn't tell you," Chip said. "I've never seen anything like this at all, and the sort of work you'd need to conjure something like this here... This looks like something several generations into the future! Advancements upon advancements... To have it simply appear out of nowhere, it was as...

"...He was probably a hallucination," Karat concluded to himself, picking up his book again. Solitude... He thought he was used to it. Yet apparently, after spending so much time in the public eye, he'd suddenly lost the ability to cope. Conjured up strange apparitions to keep him company. Maybe...

Owen helped with the analysis, looking over every piece of scrap and every bit of destroyed technology. Most of it wasn't anything new from Chip's findings... However, there was still a chance that they'd find new insight. Occasionally, the Charmeleon pointed out a strange piece of metal that...

"I did! For the most part, it's... nonfunctional, but we were able to deduce a lot of the way it should have worked." Chip buzzed again, possibly more defragmenting or whatever else he was doing. "Some of the technology is element-proof tech that we've never seen before at this level. It's...

"Hey, don't be too hard on the guy," Star said, bringing up a paw. "It's not like every world has a Mimikyu species that's literally lethal to look at. Back in my world they just look funny and have sun sensitivity."

Karat blinked again, trying to figure out if this was some kind of ruse. Seyka... was he the spy, somehow? Was he taunting him, right now, right then? No... That probably isn't it. "...My only tip is to be careful of who you trust," Karat said. "Almost every hero of recent memory has been met...

"Hnnnzzzzt... I will be fine. Defragmenting..." It looked like Chip had somehow overloaded himself with stress. Relatable. But for the time being, he may not be able to provide much more information--then again, it didn't look like he knew much more than he'd already reported. "Was... there...

"...What's happening?" Barky muttered, glancing back at Star. "I dunno." Star shrugged. "I kinda created the species, so I'm used to how they look, but maybe it's such a shock to some people that they just go kaput... Anybody have a Reviver?!"

"There doesn't seem to be any energy left in it," Owen said. "This water was conjured at least a few days ago, which means it must have been when Darkwhite raided this place to steal Ho-Oh... It must have been planned by Giovanni from the start to let it happen this way, right? Ugh, I can't...

"Possibly. But Reshiram already changed her badge out just in case, and that comes with changing any encryption keys that might have been stolen for her. So if it happens again, someone gained access to her badge for a second time, or replicated whatever they did before... assuming we didn't...

"Encrypted?" Chip asked. "The messages? Well, they are when being sent from one to the other, but... if you had the key, you could decrypt it. Or another badge that can send it the same way..." He hummed. "That might be a lead..."

"Well, yes," Chip said, "but we aren't allowed to view that kind of data under most circumstances, and we can only do that on our military network with further logging. It's not as easy to do on the civilian networks... We haven't really found anything that I'm allowed to bring up." Chip winced...

Silence answered Seyka at first, Karat giving the Skarmory something between a surprised and disgusted look. Mostly the former. "...I will... keep that in mind." Karat didn't know how to react. Seyka... did not exist in the same material plane that everyone else was familiar with. It was the...

"Cal, go with Maple," Owen said. "I need to analyze this room with the others, since that's where Ho-Oh used to be. But Maple... needs support." "Okay." And for once, Cal didn't put up a fuss, and followed Maple to the main room. The internals of Ho-Oh's former containment room was a mess...