Jovi was able to sleep peacefully for the rest of the night without any interruptions. By the time she had woken up, the figure on the Mt. Battle building had disappeared, without Jovi even realising that it had been there at all. She sat up in her sleeping bag and looked at Plipli and Mimi. The two had fully recovered from their battle last night and were sitting up looking at her. The snag machine was still present, much to Jovi's relief. She reached into her bag and pulled out some food for herself and her pokémon. She was nervous about letting her shadow pokémon out but they had to eat. She pulled out the poké balls containing the shadow pokémon and let them out. All of them growled and looked around. Plipli and Mimi flashed electricity to try and keep then quiet. This worked for all but pikachu, who just sparked electricity as well. Jovi heard the electricity crackle while she was preparing the food.
"Everyone, calm down!" Jovi snapped. All of the shadow pokémon growled but quietened down when they noticed that Jovi had some pokémon food. She carefully placed a bowl in front of each of her pokémon and filled it with pokémon food. The shadow pokémon stopped being vicious and began eating. Plipli and Mimi began eating from their bowls, giving Jovi some breathing some space. She took out a BLT sandwich from her bag and pulled out her diary. She turned to the previous night's entry. She took a bite from her sandwich and began writing an additional entry.
"Additional. During the night, I was disturbed by some rogues called Trudly and Folly. They were after my pokémon, but I easily fought them off. It was then that I was confronted by their leader, Miror B. I battled him and was able to snag his shadow sentret. After that little incident, I was able to get back to sleep." After writing this additional note, Jovi closed up her diary and finished her sandwich. When she finished, she took out a bottle of water and some more bowls. She filled these bowls with water and gave them to her pokémon before drinking some herself.
"I need to stock up on supplies in a minute." Jovi thought to herself. She looked at her pokémon. They were all still eating and drinking. She just sighed and looked at them.
"Five more minutes guys." Jovi aid. The pokémon ignored her and continued eating. Jovi started looking into the sky. She began to wonder if her journey would take any more mad twists and turns like the previous night. For on thing, there were still a lot of unanswered questions. For instance, what was this XD150 that Breagull had spoken off? She had already made the connection that it must have been the XD150, whatever it was, that had attacked the train. She still had no idea of what it could be. So far, she had no idea of what it looked like, only that it seemed to have thin arms and could change shape. This was unlike any pokémon that she had come across before. For all she knew, it may be an undiscovered pokémon. Her thoughts were interrupted by a growling. She looked and saw that her shadow pokémon had finished their food and water. They were now looking at Plipli and Mimi's food. They were all growling. Trying to intimidate the two pokémon. Plipli and Mimi were letting loose a little bit of electricity, but this wasn't holding the shadow's back. Jovi sighed and took out their poké balls.
"Ok guys, take it easy." Jovi said sternly, recalling her shadow pokémon before they could start trouble. This allowed Plipli and Mimi to finish off their food and gave Jovi a chance to pick up the bowls used by her shadow pokémon. When she had picked up the last of the bowls, her PDA beeped. She immediately opened it up and it turned to the shadow monitor. The squirtle that had been left in the purify chamber was now ready to be purified. She needed to return to the lab to purify it. This was perfect, as it meant that she could also stop off at Agate to stock up on supplies on the way and report what had happened to Lily and Krane. She then heard a squeak. Plipli and Mimi had finished their food. Jovi picked up their bowls and put them in her bag. She then began packing up her sleeping bag while Plipli and Mimi had a looked around. Their attention was suddenly drawn to a figure near the Mt. Battle building. They couldn't see it very clearly but saw it fly away as soon as it noticed them. Jovi didn't notice the figure, as she was busy packing. She did notice Plipli and Mimi looking in that direction.
"Is everything ok guys?" Jovi asked. Plipli and Mimi looked at her and began squeaking and squealing, indicating that they had seen something.
"It's probably nothing you two. Come on, we need to head back to the lab." Jovi recalled Plipli and Mimi into their poké balls once she had said this. She then gathered everything up and climbed onto her scooter.
"This is a bit of a detour." Jovi muttered to herself.
After a brief stop in Agate village to stock up on poké balls, including a few great balls, Jovi returned to the lab. The first place she went to when she arrived was the purify chamber. One of the assistants that was in the room saw Jovi enter the room. She looked at Jovi and smiled.
"Ah Jovi, we're ready to do a purification ceremony." The assistant said.
"Ok, how would I do that?" Jovi asked.
"If you step into the hologram display, touch the shadow pokémon and it will happen automatically." Jovi nodded and stepped into the hologram disc. She was then surrounded by the holograms that she had seen before. The squirtle hologram was flashing white. Jovi touched this hologram and watched in amazement as the whole area turned green. A pulse of energy went around the edge of the area and gathered at a point above the shadow squirtle. This energy then dropped down onto the squirtle. Jovi then watched as the remaining darkness inside squirtle was removed and disappeared. Squirtle was now back to normal. Before anything else happened, a message appeared in front of her. The message said that squirtle had relearned tackle, tail whip, hydro cannon and iron defence.
"Saves trial and error in finding out its moves." Jovi thought to herself. She nicknamed the squirtle Squirty in her head before it was transferred to her PC. The holograms then disappeared from her view.
"How are things going Jovi?" A voice from behind asked. Jovi turned around to see Krane and Lily in the room.
"All going well. I've caught 11 shadow pokémon and purified 4." Jovi replied.
"That's great work."
"But there is trouble; there is another XD class shadow pokémon."
"I feared as much. But how do you know?"
"A cipher admin I defeated in agate mentioned it. He called it the XD150. No doubt it was the XD150 that attacked that train." Krane had a think for a moment before speaking again.
"The 150th pokémon was mewtwo, so a shadow mewtwo is a possible."
"What is a mewtwo?"
"A pokémon cloned from the genetic structure of the pokémon mew. It was captured some time ago by a trainer but it was reported to have escaped during an accident."
"How long ago was this accident?"
"Just after the first shadow incident."
"But can mewtwo shape-shift?"
"I don't think so."
"Then what could it be?"
"The problem is that we have no clues as to its identity other than that it is a shape shifter, which isn't a unique pokémon skill."
"I'll ask Vander when I see him."
"You're going to Mt. battle?" Lily asked.
"Eagun told me that Vander had seen something a couple of days ago. I'm going to talk to him and find out what he saw."
"Ok, but be careful."
"Just one more thing before I go." Jovi turned back to the purify chamber and accessed the holograms again. She then used the holograms to create a new set. The new set had Bulby looking at Ziggy, Ziggy looking at Chauncer, Chauncer looking at Squirty.
"Not perfect but it'll do for the moment." Jovi thought to herself before putting rattata and sentret in the two sets. When she finished, Krane was smiling.
"You've gotten the hang of the purify chamber haven't you?" Krane said.
"Indeed I have. I'd better go." Jovi left the room and then left the lab to head off to Mt. battle.
"Be careful Jovi!" Lily called out as Jovi left the lab on her scooter.
When Jovi arrived back at Mt. battle, there was an obvious difference. There was absolutely nobody around in the front garden. This was a surprise as Jovi had been told that it was always busy. Her nerves began to tingle nervously. There was a strange air around the place, not the kind of air you'd expect from a place of training. She drew a poké ball and walk towards the main entrance cautiously. She was passing a small tree in the garden when she was jumped by a female cipher peon. She could tell that it was a cipher peon because of the uniform.
"Sorry sweetie, Mt. battle is temporary closed." The peon said. Jovi was shocked. Cipher had reached the facility while she was gone. Jovi now had a reason for being here. She would have to drive cipher away by whatever means necessary. It was clear to her that whatever Vander had seen, they didn't want anybody knowing about, so they had come to keep Vander quiet.
"I have to get through. Don't make me use force." Jovi said bravely.
"Wow. You've got guts to stand up to cipher. Allow me, Hannah, to show you your mistake to challenge us." Hannah threw two poké balls in front of her. They opened up to reveal a pidgey and a spearow.
"A battle, fine. Kadabra, jigglypuff, go!" Jovi threw the poké balls containing jigglypuff and kadabra onto the field. When they came out, the two looked at their two flying adversaries and sneered menacingly.
"Pidgey, gust!" Hannah ordered. The pidgey whipped up a small tornado and hurled it at jigglypuff. Jigglypuff was caught in the attack and spun around. It didn't too much damage and jigglypuff was able to recover easily
"Spearow, peck!" Hannah instructed again. Spearow flew through the sky and pecked kadabra on the head, causing very little damage.
"Jigglypuff, shadow song!" Jovi instructed. Jigglypuff sang its evil song and sent both the opponents to sleep.
"Uh-oh." Hannah mumbled.
"Kadabra, shadow mind!" Kadabra's eyes glowed dark and lifted the two sleeping pokémon into the air. The two then hit each other in the air and were then thrown into the side of the building. Neither of them could move after that so Hannah recalled them. She then drew out a third poké ball.
"Go hoothoot!" The poké ball opened and revealed a hoothoot. It began hopping around while glaring at everything. Before Jovi could do anything, the aura catcher reacted. The hoothoot was a shadow pokémon. Jovi knew what she had to do now.
"Kadabra, shadow rush!" Kadabra charge, full body, into the hoothoot and knocked it backwards quite a distance. It hopped back onto its feet and hopped back into battle.
"Hoothoot, shadow down!" Hannah shouted. Hoothoot released puffs of shadowy down, which clung to kadabra and jigglypuff.
"Jigglypuff, shadow song!" Jigglypuff then sang its evil song and sent the hoothoot into slumber land.
"Oh no!" Hannah exclaimed. Jovi had already loaded the snag machine with a newly bought poké ball.
"Hoothoot is mine!" Jovi said as she threw the ball. The ball made contact and pulled hoothoot inside. After a few seconds of rocking, the ball stopped and disappeared.
"Gotchya!" Jovi exclaimed. Hannah turned tail and ran, dropping about 300 in prize money.
"Kadabra, jigglypuff, return." Jovi recalled her pokémon and picked up the prize money. She could now enter Mt. battle and fine out what was going on.