WOOOO Finally an update on this thing, I'm so sorry it's been so late, I wanted to update earlier but I didn't get the chance, and now finals agghh I need to study!

Thanks to all of you who reviewed and followed and favorited, thanks to you I'm still going! I'm sorry to keep you waiting! aaacckkk XD

I apologize in advance if the characters seem too MarySue/GaryStu-ish, this chapter gave me a lot of grief trying to figure out how to work. So I apologize if Chiosu or Ryuo or Pheon or Roland give you any annoyance! I will try to work harder on fleshing them out!

Disclaimer! Woo, yeah. I don't own Pokemon, if I did, I'd be in the Pokemon world for the rest of my lifffffeee!

Chapter Three- Visit

Pheon slammed his hands onto my desk, getting oh-so close to my face.

"Tell me, Chiosu, you can talk to him, correct?" he asked with a vitriolic tone. "Then answer me this: it's been six weeks on this project already, and we still haven't gotten the child to take any full evolutionary form?! I thought you said he grows with experience like any other Pokémon!"

"That's true we established that, but…" I started, trying hard not to let it show the effects of his intimidation.

"But, what, Chiosu?"

"But…" It took a few seconds to try and get these words out of my mouth. "Ryuo told me that…that it wasn't enough to just battle and train to evolve him fully, he said he doesn't know why!" Pheon scoffed.

"That's no excuse!" the head scientist barked. "This is supposed to be the project of the century, Chiosu! The century! We can't afford to not be thorough and let something like this be written off!"

"He's a child, Pheon! A six year old child! You can't expect him to master the 386 known Pokémon in less than two months, let alone how they react to his structure than a regular Pokémon!"

I stood, eye-to-eye with Pheon, my anger almost making me forget that he was my superior and this could most likely get me fired. His steely blue eyes bore into my own pale green, tinged with annoyance and dissatisfaction.

"I want improvements," he hissed before turning away and walking to the door. "Soon."

Five Months Later

"Flaffy, Rollout attack!" Roland ordered.

The electric sheep Pokemon curled up in a ball and rolled itself at superspeed towards Ryuo, now a Vibrava. Ryuo used Quick Attack and attempted to dodge Flaffy's attack, but the Pokemon continued to follow him with Rollout no matter where he turned. Ryuo was getting irritated, and he jumped up in the air above Flaffy.

"Stay away from me!" Ryuo yelled at the Pokemon, who had stopped its attack to look up. Upon his descent, Ryuo used Sand Tomb on top of Flaffy, trapping the bipedal sheep inside. Roland cursed under his breath as the attack made contact.

"Flaffy get out of there, now!" he scolded at the Pokemon. "Use Thunderbolt!"

Flaffy released a surge of electricity that reacted with the circling sand and rock, dispersing the sediment and nullifying the Sand Tomb. I looked down at the battle through the glass panel behind Roland.

"Ryuo, you need to find a way to completely disable Flaffy! Sand Tomb isn't enough," I told him.

"What do you think then, Chiosu-chan?" Ryuo asked.

"Maybe…a strong Psychic-type Pokemon, like Kadabra or Lunatone. Psychic types have a good moveset that can immobilize or knock out a variety of types."

Ryuo glared at its opponent and then closed his eyes.

He saw the stream of Pokemon, and briefly passed by each of them, searching for the right Pokemon to continue battle, before stopping at one that seemed right.

Mr. Mime! He thought. The image of the mime Pokemon glowed in accordance with him.

Vibrava's wings receded and the figure stood on its hind legs. Its other appendages besides the hind legs and forearms receded and it grew hands with five large fingers on each hand. Two blue cone-like structures appeared off of its head and two blue shoes appeared on its feet. With the last bit of the rosy cheeks and large red spheres on its body , the Dragon Pokemon transformed into Mr. Mime! I glanced at Ryuo curiously. Out of all of the powerful psychic types, he chose Mr. Mime? That's almost like going into a battle with only a Wobuffet, more defense rather than attack.

"Mr. Mime? What are you planning, Ryuo?"

"Just watch. Mr. Mime has a special ability that told me I could win with him!" he replied confidently.

Roland continued, eyes wide with adrenaline at the sight of Ryuo.

"I never get tired of this…" he muttered with a grin. "Flaffy, hit that Mr. Mime's weak spot! Use Signal Beam!" Ryuo narrowed his eyes as he saw Flaffy charge up, so he used Mirror Coat in anticipation.

When Flaffy used Signal Beam, the attack reflected off of the psychic Pokemon and shot back at the electric sheep Pokemon, who dodged barely via Roland's hasty command. Ryuo smiled inwardly. Using Flaffy's distraction, he began to mime a wall around his opponent. This confused both Roland and me.

"Ryuo, what are you up to?" I muttered as I watched the mime Pokemon hurriedly "complete" the wall around Flaffy. Roland grumbled beside me.

"Enough playing around! Flaffy, Signal Beam!" he ordered. The sheep Pokemon charged up then released the attack, but to all of our surprise, the attack hit the space in front of it and dissipated! Flaffy's eyes widened and it tried to run towards Ryuo, but it hit the same space that the Signal Beam hit. Slowly, I began to see a light blue box around Flaffy, and the Pokemon kept hitting the space around it, now able to see the barriers as well.

"How did he…?" I started, until I heard Roland scoff beside me.

"Right here in the known entries of Mr. Mime! 'Its gestures and motions convince watchers that something unseeable actually exists. Once it is believed, it will exist as if it were a real thing!*' It just made Flaffy unable to battle! Unbelievable!" I smiled.

"Good job Ryuo," I told him with a wink. "I didn't even know that Mr. Mime could do that!"

Below, Ryuo changed back into a human and smiled widely up at me.

"Thanks Chiosu-chan!" he chirped, pleased with his strategic victory. Roland, on the other hand, was very upset at his loss to him. But he didn't get to sulk about it for too long, because behind him came Pheon and…was that….no…it couldn't have been!

Walking behind Pheon was someone I had only heard of in reputation. Walking behind Pheon was Cipher's great scientist, Ein himself! I bared my teeth in a grimace, until I realized that the pair were heading into this room, that making me stand up straighter and acknowledge the door be opened. The air was tinged with both panic and interest, in Roland and me and Ein respectively. One thing besides his quaking status and intense knowledge kept me staring at him, however.

He had walked over to the window and stared down at Ryuo, now playing with the Flaffy, Ryuo as a Pikachu, putting its tail against the sheep's tail. And Ein looked down with a strange glint in his eye that made my stomach flip.

He looked at Ryuo with hunger in his eyes, as a fierce predator looms over its unsuspecting prey.

*From Ruby/Sapphire entry of Mr. Mime, the GBA games right before Colosseum came out, so I figured they'd be best. Although there was a shorter one from Crystal and SoulSilver/Silver that explained the hurriedness of it, but I figured I'd be more accurate to the game...

So yup, I debated on which Admin to feature, and I figured Ein was big enough to be interested in this project. (since the Ein files are being made that you collect in the game)

Oh yeah and according to my crazed up mind, the Shadow Pokemon Lab is now many times deeper than what you as a player actually explore (which makes sense when I think about it, restricted areas and such that were shut down XD), thus, this area of the lab is deeper than the area of Ein's lab, and since these scientists pretty much don't have lives, they live here and occasionally go to the Under, therefore barely seeing many of the Cipher Admins.

Yup. Oh and btw, I know that it's Ampharos that learns Signal Beam when it evolves but I figured What the heck, it's a lab, tests on Pokemon, different levels of learning moves. Besides I like Amphy better than Flaffy X3

We-hell now that I'm done rambling I actually have to go study now, 3 finals tomorrow~ woo.

-DMRA signing out!