Pokemon were gathered in a meeting room much larger than what was usually used in team briefings, almost like a theater or lecture hall. Yuri saw Kira and Leslie on the stage area, and Ella and the somewhat mysterious looking Zorua sitting at the front when he entered. The Riolu looked around for an open seat somewhere towards the middle of the room. Finding one that satisfied him, he sat, taking out his tablet and notebook in preparation for anything he might need to copy down. He shared a few words to the Pokémon next to him who he had seen working during the initial visit to Mount Bristle.

Once everyone were seated, Kira started her presentation. "...we have been able to identify the temporal interface used in the attack. It was a CD0801 active temporal sensor manufactured five years ago. This sensor, like the model number suggests, uses a class of temporal technology called 'Celebi Derivative' as the way it interacts with the time stream was inspired by the legendary Pokemon Celebi, and has 8 sensor elements and one emitter element (therefore, one independent temporal interface). By contrast, the Temporal Observatory uses CD6402 devices. We have yet to identify the origin of the interface, but due to the fact that CD0801's are no longer produced, we believe that one that was once used for legitimate research was either stolen or not destroyed as per regulation when it was decommissioned."

Yuri wrote down what he understood of the presentation, sometimes putting down a question to ask later. For the most part, however, his eyes were locked on the stage, occasionally drifting over to the Zoura he met earlier.

"...when we decompiled the firmware that was on the sensor, we discovered a script that was set to run at the same time as when we detected the temporal destabilization, minutes prior to the appearance of the temporal distortions. The main payload of the script contained a loop that ran just four instructions..."

Kira held a remote control suspended in telekinesis, and used it to advance the slideshow. The next slide showed the decompiled code:

TSI EMIT 0x07E70000 0330 esp
TSI REFLECT 0x01 esp
TSI WARP 0x45 esp
TSI RESET

Yuri raised his arm sheepishly. "Um, considering many of us don't have, uh, much knowledge about the TSI, what does the code mean?"

"Actually, we're not completely sure either. The second term in lines 1 to 3 are interface commands that each represent a quantum interaction with the time stream. Emit, well, invokes the creation of new temporal particles called chronitons, while Reflect and Warp manipulate existing chronitons, both natural and artificial. The more we look into it, the more we suspect that the temporal distortions are just a side effect. The four lines were set to loop exactly one hundred thousand times, whereas distortions are usually creates by another command, called 'rotate'. We don't know what they were trying to accomplish with those commands. I should also mention that warp, reflect and rotate, in the context of temporal interactions, don't literally mean moving groups of chronitons in those ways. How chronitons interact aren't intuitive or easy to visualize or describe, think of them as code words."

"Ah, thank you," Yuri replied. He tried to sit back further into his seat, a little embarrassed, whilst adding the new information to his notes.

"...we tried to find serial numbers, identification codes, anything that would determine where the sensor came from, but we haven't had any luck. A lot of labels have been removed, and the ones that remained didn't have any useful information. We are enlisting the help of the Pokemon Security Service to help us track the origin of the interface, hopefully their huge amount of experience in forensics can find what we didn't. This concludes the Temporal Observatory's preliminary findings report, does anyone have comments or questions?"

The Zorua was the first to speak, "Was the hardware modified? It is my understanding that active temporal sensors cannot be used to arbitrarily interact with the time stream without the recent hardware upgrades."

"There was indeed hardware modification. A new controller was installed, but because there have been no upgrade kits released for that model of sensor, and the general haphazardness of how the controller was put together, we believe that the Pokemon responsible modified the existing controller to enable TSI functionality."

Yuri finished up his notes and waited until the meeting is concluded. While doing so, he made a little sketch of the Pokémon on stage as Kira spoke. He nodded as he began to understand the specifics of the discovered TSI. A voice somewhere behind him piped up.

"If we didn't know this Temporal Interface existed, what's to say there aren't more? What if whoever is responsible has more plans underway?" a Darmanitan asked.

"That's what we are worried about. If they do plan on deploying more of these then it will be a race against the clock to find them. The PSS are doing their part to increase security in the area, and we need to focus on the investigation and be ready to provide emergency aid if it does happen again."

Another Pokémon, this time a Mienshao, raised his voice to ask, "but how would anyone outside of the guild, specifically the ones who work at the Temporal Observatory, get their paws on the technology that only exists here? If the old sensors were destroyed, how was the missing one overlooked?"

Whispers around the room could be heard. Yuri could feel the alarm and unease of the other guild members following the Meinshao's question.

"We don't know how they ended up in possession of the sensor in question, but a few other guilds and similar organizations do have temporal technology. Off the top of my head, I can think of three possibilities. The sensor was stolen from a legitimate research facility, it wasn't destroyed when it was decommissioned due to little more than incompetence, or this was the result of coercion or bribery of a legitimate research facility or otherwise an inside job."

The crowd quietd down to listen to Kira speak.

"What can the expedition teams do to help?"

"Please report any suspicious activity to the guild administration or Perry here.", she pointed to the Zorua, "We are currently thinking of getting teams to carry portable, passive sensors, the type that only collects data and isn't a temporal interface on their expeditions so we have a better idea of any small, local scale disturbances, but we're not sure if it will go through. We don't have enough sensors for everyone."

Some of the Pokémon nodded as Kira spoke, but no one else made a move to ask any more questions.

"If there are no more questions, then our debriefing will conclude here. If you have anything else to say, please do not hesitate to contact a guild coordinator, Ella, Leslie or myself."

As Pokémon began to filter out of the room, Yuri put his belongings in his bag. As he headed toward the exit, the exhaustion from the past two days' activities washed over him.