"Get away from those children!" cried a voice in the distance.

Pluto turned around, "Who do you think you are talking to me like that?"

"Someone who's going to beat you."

"Show yourself," replied Pluto, getting slightly nervous.

A young man, older than Rose, but younger than Red or Erika stepped into view, he was wearing plain black clothes, but his main features were the emerald green eyes, his spiky red hair and a mechanical device on his arm.

"Hello Rose," said the young man.

"Black?" asked Rose.

"Indeed, and who's your friend?"

"This is Beelzebub," replied Rose.

"Ah isn't this nice, a little reunion, it makes me sick!" yelled Pluto.

"Shut up, what's the point in attacking defenceless children?" asked Black.

"Ah but you don't understand, one of them isn't defenceless, are you?" replied Pluto, staring at Beelzebub.

"Don't do anything," whispered Rose to Beelzebub.

"What do you mean?" asked Black, pulling a pokeball off of his belt.

"Come on, don't be shy show yourself."

"I've had enough of this," said Black as he threw a pokeball into the air. "Vaporeon use hydro pump!"

The jets of water hit Pluto square on the chest, and sent him flying, a nearby car's engine started, and Pluto hurried to get into in, as the car drove past, he yelled at them, "This isn't the last of me, I will be back!"

"Okay, that was weird," said Black, as he sighed. "Now is there something you need to tell me?"


"So let me get this straight, you're a human, but you can turn into a Flygon?"

"Yes, but I don't like transforming, because people stare at me, call me names and sometime even hurt me," replied Beelzebub.

"Geez, some people can be real cretins."

Rose and Beelzebub nodded in agreement, Beelzebub knew only too well how horrible people could be, he thought back to Alexander, and wondered why he did it, he didn't understand how or why someone could be that horrible to another human being.


"So what are we going to do now?" asked Rose.

"Well how about we have a little walk around?" asked Black.

"Err yeah sure, I guess, but let's try not to get distracted, I need to get to Sinnoh as soon as possible," replied Rose.

"Oh yeah, Red told me about that, well let's say about sever tonight we leave, I've got everything ready, but it would be stupid to miss an opportunity to visit the sights of Saffron."

"But from what I've read in books, the only things which are in Saffron are the magnet train, the two Pokémon gyms and Silph Co." Beelzebub replied.

"Two gyms?" asked Rose.

"Yes, originally there was one, which was a fighting type gym, but then another gym, a psychic one was built here, and the Pokémon league said that they couldn't have two in one city, so they had to fight over the title, and obviously psychic is stronger than fighting type Pokémon, and so the fighting gym lost its official title, and the psychic gym leader won." Replied Beelzebub.

"And the gym leader of the psychic gym was-?"

"Your mother," Black replied, "did you not know your mother was the gym leader here?"

"I knew she was a gym leader, but I didn't know it was here," replied Rose, maybe that's why Red sent us here?

Rose stood there, she didn't know much about her mother, not even the fact that she was a gym leader; she began to think to herself, about her worthiness of having a mother like that.

"So where do you want to go first? Black asked.

"I don't mind really, where would you like to go Bub?"

"May we go to Silph Co. I've heard that they have very advanced technology."

"Yeah sure, now let me just find my security pass," Black replied, as he fumbled around in his bag for something.

"Security pass?" asked Rose.

"Yeah, they heighted their security after Team Rocket took over years ago, but they're still paranoid about the whole thing," replied Black.

"Alright let's go," said Rose.

"Here we are, right I think it would be best if you didn't tell them you're a morph, because they well...I dunno, but it might be bad," said Black.

Beelzebub looked down at his feet; he felt that Black might be embarrassed by his differences, but how was he to judge, he didn't anything about him, nor did Black know anything that he had been through, "Alright then..."


They walked up to the front desk, the lady immediately jumped to attention, "Welcome to Silph Co. The top floors are no longer available to the public, but you may look around the bottom floor."

Black pulled the security pass out of his pocket, the lady's eyes glanced at the object and her jaw fell, "a member of the Alliance! I'll just inform the president that you're here, but first, why are you here? Hopefully nothing to do with Team Rocket I hope..."

"No, it's just a social visit, my friends here wanted to visit," replied Black, trying to reassure the lady.

"Oh thank Arceus," replied the lady, as she picked up the phone and began to dial, "yes sir, I know you're busy, but we have a member from the Alliance here, alright I'll cancel your next meeting, although if you don't mind me saying it was going to be with Sangro, alright I'll send them up."

"Sangro? I think I've heard of them," said Rose.

"Sangro Technological Research Corporation to state the full name of the company, they are situated in the Sagam islands on Daemon island, they rival company of Silph and Devon, but the three of them are trying to amalgamate into one company," replied Beelzebub, as if he had just read it out of a book.

Rose, Black and the lady at the front desk all stared at Beelzebub, who blushed, "I read a lot of books."

"Wow, that was really good, if you ever need a job, come to us, I'm sure we could use you," said the lady, "alright take the elevator up to the top floor, and the door should be open."

"What about the warp panels?" asked Black.

"We took them out, they were too confusing," replied the lady, laughing.

"Alright, let's go!" cried Rose, who was getting impatient.