Naeya sighed as they approached the city hall yet again, this time to see Xharye about two subjects. Juieh's name change from Juez, and Naeya accepting having a capture cancelling device strapped to her body so she would be able to ignore having Pokeballs being thrown at her without the worry of getting stuck in one. It would still be irritating to have them pelting her, but it would be better.

The group walked into the city hall, Juieh holding onto Pichu in her arms, Naeya holding Frogadier the same way, and Doublade hanging on her back. They earned stares as they walked in, but mostly because it seemed everyone was in the know about Naeya's situation and position. Everyone was giving away that they were being considerate, and when they made it to Xharye's desk and she noticed attention was focused near her, she slowly peeked her head up.

"Ah! Naeya, how was your visit with Juez?"

Juieh giggled when she heard Xharye refer to her that way when she was right there.

"It's sad that he took so much damage in the aura sphere, I hope he'll get better enough to experience being a trainer."

Juieh put her trainer card she had received from Xharye on the counter and said the words.

"Name change please."

Xharye looked at Juieh with surprise at the interruption in conversation with Naeya, but Naeya motioned that she should deal with the other person she was with. When Xharye noticed Juieh holding onto the Pichu, she stood up in her chair and nearly screamed at how she was excited, but she took a deep breath and sat back down.

"How...?"

She seemed more to ask Naeya the question because there was only one person who could be the cause of the unbelievable sight in front of her. She knew for certain it would be Juez/Juieh holding the Pichu after the egg would hatch, so somehow when she wasn't around to witness, Naeya did another crazy thing and somehow changed Juez' body to be female.

"Forced transform. If I do it to another person, they don't return to their previous body unless I return them to it. This energy is really crazy. Even sped up Pichu hatching from the egg. Oh, and I'll be accepting the offer for me to wear a capture canceller. Almost got stuck in a cultist Pokeball in the restaurant of the apartment building making sure Juieh was well fed."

Xharye shook her head and looked down at the keyboard under her.

"I'm pretty sure even normal Mew don't have nearly the same ability you're using. Just, surprise after surprise with you. My first surprise from you was the friendship with Honedge who is now a Doublade already. It's been nothing but surprises from you since then, including your closeness with sis. I can't believe she already got the two of you matching engagement bands...she has no sense of timing or patience. Hopefully you have the patience to handle her."

Juieh was surprised to hear it from Xharye. That Naeya really was in a...much heavier relationship than led on before. With the champion of the region.

"Anyway, I think I heard her right in that Naeya said your new name is Juieh? What was the inspiration?"

Juieh blushed a little before answering.

"Actually, my parents called me that when I was little and they played with me as if I was born their daughter instead of how they ended up raising me. So, in a way I'm already used to being called by my new name, and it's not really new. It's kind of my original name."

Xharye looked at her with a happy expression that was mixed with surprise.

"That's really cute! Okay, just change this really quick...and Porygon will take a new picture of you...there. New trainer card printed."

"After this, I'm going to take Juieh out to find her first female Ralts. It'll be easier to find her Ralts with a Pokedex, so is there a chance we could meet with the region's lead professor about getting getting our own dexes?"

Xharye seemed ready to leave her post again to take them out and find Juieh's Ralts, but when she was reminded they hadn't received their own Pokedex like most trainers would start with, she sighed and pushed her chair back before she gave them an expression of apprehension. She continued to the back room and shortly after going back there, she returned with an elder woman who gave the sense she was even more deceiving of age than the receptionist at the water type zone. Naeya was surprised at the age of the person on the other side of the counter with Xharye. She could feel the age in the energy as she reached out to understand the other person a little before starting a conversation.

"Two new trainers? Well, have you given them their region exclusive Pokemon yet?"

Xharye sighed, giving Naeya a look that this was how the professor usually was, not as observant as a professor would be expected to be.

"Professor, Naeya already has three Pokemon with her, and Juieh has a Pichu, but Naeya will be helping her find a Ralts. You were busy the other day, so they couldn't get a Pokedex from you then. Could they get Pokedex to bring on their journey and continue to help provide information for your studies like the rest of us trainers?"

The professor seemed to pay as much attention as possible to Xharye's words, but her mind was rattled. Naeya reached her energy in and calmed the thoughts in her head, reminding her of the words which were just said to her in as clear a way as possible.

"Ah, some promising new trainers then. Of course, of course. Let me get back to my office and grab each of you a Pokedex. The more information the better. Some day. Some day, we'll figure out everything about Pokemon, and their connections with humans."

She was a lot more organized with her movements and thoughts after Naeya did a little work with the energy. She felt like she might have meddled where it wasn't needed, but seeing the relieved expression replace the confused and strained expression of deep thought ensured what she did was the right thing.

"I haven't felt this clear in decades. Xharye, could you bring your Pokedex so I can import the data from yours to theirs? So they know where to look for Pokemon you encountered on your adventure. It would help them with their zone challenges and they would know of other places to look for Pokemon where your Pokedex doesn't include information, perhaps find rare Pokemon you might have missed. My goodness this clarity of mind is relieving. I swear it's almost as if someone dislodged a Garbodor from my brain."

Xharye looked at Naeya with surprise yet again, shook her head and pulled her Pokedex from her bag before going to the back room originally assumed as the manager's room on the main floor of the city hall. A few seconds passed of Naeya and Juieh waiting, and they were answered with the professor looking even younger and more chipper in their expression than before, excited to hand over the copied Pokedex from Xharye's dex information. It would certainly make it easier for them to look for a Ralts for Juieh.

"Now, this current model is one that was refined by a fine young professor from the Kanto region, the grandson of the original inventor of the Pokedex. This Pokedex has all the function of a Pokegear built into it, as well as the camera function of the Pokefinder app on phones commonly mistaken as item finder app. These all working together give you the opportunity to record and share all of the information you find directly to my information system here, and I'm able to process it to my information on the specific study relating humans to Pokemon. My original goal was to see if humans could function as Pokemon, or if Pokemon could become as humans, but after all of these years my research hasn't turned up much information at all. I have a feeling Vescalla, the legendary of the region might be tied into such a connection, but that information won't be shared with me by Xharye and her sister despite their other help at filling information for the Pokedex. I also have a feeling that the earlier dubbed "Genetic Pokemon", Mew, is able to connect the space between human and Pokemon. Imagine, some day, we could have Pokemon carrying us around in Pokeballs and having grand adventures. Wouldn't that be incredible?"

Naeya...was nervous about recording herself into the Pokedex with that kind of ambition behind the professor's goal, although she felt bad about unveiling that part of her mind so easily. She felt...that while there were downsides, the blissful happiness the professor wore on her face told Naeya she did the right thing for her. Maybe she could lightly let the professor know about her condition instead of broadcasting the information to her through the powerful Pokedex her and Juieh received from the professor.

The elder woman returned to her room at the back with so much energy and vigour, one might mistake her for really being decades younger.

"I've...I haven't seen Professor Spenleaf that energetic since she gave me my first Pokemon and Pokedex. Even then, her mind wasn't clear enough to give her spiel like most professors about their goal in gathering information through the Pokedex. What did you do to her Naeya?"

Naeya almost didn't understand how so little could clear up so much of the old woman's mind. Lightly organizing her mind and clearing the cluttered thoughts so they would be easier accessible seemed like a natural thing to do. Only else she did was to remind her what Xharye told her about the situation.

After explaining her own confusion, Xharye sighed and looked at the group on the other side of the counter.

"Really though, I had no idea she was researching exactly what's happening with you Naeya. Maybe revealing your abilities to her will convince her to retire...or maybe it would convince her to fight even more to achieve having other people becoming more like Pokemon and to have Pokemon become like humans."

Naeya had to wonder though. What if the old woman actually knew something about Naeya? What if she knew something that could tell Naeya a little more about herself so that she would know how to go about her life. If there might be a way for her to stay more human, or if she couldn't help becoming a Pokemon.

"Right, the capture canceller. The technology department upstairs was able to make a portable device for you to wear, but the issue would be that while it's active, you wouldn't be able to catch Pokemon for yourself. So the times you would be trying to catch other Pokemon as a trainer would be a risk for you. You could end up capturing yourself in a ball, or you would be vulnerable to others capturing you while it's inactive. While this doesn't really seem like an issue with your ability to communicate and befriend Pokemon the way you have been, it would be worrying if you slipped in your caution. Your way of capturing Pokemon for now as suggested by myself is that you go with them until you're in a secure location where you can easily sense whether or not you might be targeted and deactivate the device for a short time while having your new companion or companions go into their Pokeballs."

Naeya nodded her head in understanding of the situation.

"I'm...curious about what the professor might have to say about my condition. While there is a little worry on my end that she might try to capture me herself for further study, there's also the possibility that she might be able to tell me something about myself I don't know yet."

Xharye seemed apprehensive of having the professor know about Naeya's condition as well, but in the spirit of how well Naeya had been doing with her abilities and that she might really get some helpful information from the professor, she walked over to the gate which led behind the counter and opened it. She led Naeya to the professor's office where Naeya both was and wasn't surprised at the area behind the door that she hadn't yet seen. The small section which seemed more likely to be a closet of some sort was just a small entrance space, while the laboratory the professor worked in was much larger and darker. The room was dully lit by glowing tanks of fluid that gave Naeya a mysterious familiar feeling. The fluid seemed to be blue in colour, but it was most likely just the lights of the machine making the fluid look blue. In fact, the fluid could be a thick metallic colour like quicksilver, or it could be clear like water, just thick like the slime generated by Pokemon like Shellos.

There were machines lining the walls with computer monitors attached to each different machine, monitoring many different things. It felt to Naeya like the entire room was already dedicated to researching her, when there was no way that was possible...right? At least, it shouldn't be possible unless the mental stretch of the professor working with the cult was possible. How else would that one cultist know so much about Naeya she didn't know about herself? Why would that cultist think it was normal? Or why would they be able to talk to her about it so easily?

"Ah, there you are professor. I have something else to ask you with Naeya here. It's difficult to find you when you're really making progress with your studies in here."

Naeya could tell where she was the moment they entered the room, but that wasn't the issue when Xharye mentioned that Naeya was with her. Naeya could feel there were other people in the room. That normally wouldn't be a bad thing in such a large lab if the situation were normal, but the professor definitely worked the lab mostly on her own. Naeya knew there were other people in the room, and she could feel her energy warning of Pokeballs being readied to aim at her.

Do you have the capture canceller on you? If you do, turn it on right now.

Naeya pushed those thought words into Xharye's mind. She trusted Naeya enough to do it anyway, but she looked at Naeya in confusion. A second after Naeya could feel the energy of the canceller activated, a large volley of many kinds of Pokeballs flew at the two of them, the pelting of their forms and stopping after collision, falling to the ground and breaking, being cheap imitations of the ones made at good factories. They were made by people who were familiar with the process of creating Pokeballs, but not people who had the materials to make them as well as Pokeballs were intended.

"What's with all the noise Xharye? You mentioned you were here with that new trainer Naeya? She seemed a little special when I saw her, but I can't imagine it being a reason for you to bring her into my lab unannounced."

Naeya asked her energy to light up the room around her, showing that the reason for the noise was in fact nearly two dozen cultists standing in the shadows of the room who had thrown Pokeballs at her. The professor was startled at first by the sudden amount of light in the room, then angry about the light because light was apparently harmful to the fluids in the tanks, but then she realized the source of the light and grew excited, but that excitement didn't last long before she realized the source of the noise she'd heard. The crowd of cultists who had been hiding in the lab with her frightened her to nearly have a heart attack. Naeya reached her energy to her a little to calm her heart from actually going into a critical state.

"Well, now this feels exceptionally awkward. I can tell the professor wasn't working with you which is a good thing, but cultists being able to get in here without her noticing is unsettling. We'll have to fix that. I suppose you already knew about my condition and thought you had a chance at putting me in a Pokeball, but it isn't happening today. It won't happen. Especially since my energy is just ready to do even the most precise of things today. Let's shut you up, and make you unable to move. Professor, could you call the police down from upstairs please? We'll have to look around for their way of getting in here."

Naeya's energy reached around and just before the cultists in the room could start panicking and reacting, trying to get out of the room, Naeya bound the mouths shut with their own skin, making their mouths sealed completely, binding their hands and feet together the same way. They all crashed to the floor harmlessly, not dealing any damage to the professor's lab.

The professor watched on in glee at seeing the result of a human with such control over ability even Pokemon don't have. She put off making the call for a few seconds, just to observe a little of the situation in front of her.

"Ah, right."

She reached into the pocket of her lab coat and touched the screen quickly.

"Security, please send down a large detail. There's a large group of cultists here who infiltrated my lab. Quickly please."

The professor tapped the screen of the device in her hand and pushed it back into her coat pocket before shuffling her feet over to Naeya and Xharye, grabbing Naeya's face to get a good look at her. It made Naeya feel uncomfortable, but the little bit of petting that made her feel like she was being doted on by a trainer...felt oddly satisfying.

"My goodness, your appearance is totally human, but you definitely just used the same energy recorded during the times Vescalla has been summoned. See, the machines in this room record all energies they experience, and the fluids which should be harmed by light in the clear tanks which normally light the room reacted to your energy. Naeya correct? Where is your home region? The region you were born in that is."

She wanted to say Xhova because that was the story she was told most of her life, but she had the feeling what was said before was true, that her parents only found her and looked for her real family for a time in their home region of Kalos before deciding to retire temporarily to Xhova to raise her.

"My home region is Kalos, professor."

"Remarkable...now, please, sit in the oddly shaped chair. It will measure which Pokemon genetics you carry if the data on the Pokemon are recorded in my database. If you have Xerneas data in you, then it will explain the connection to Vescalla, but otherwise, there's only more questions for me to find answers to."

All of her excitement seemed to ignore that the security had been filing into the room and dragging out the mysteriously bound cultists out of the room. She was ignoring everything but her interest in studying Naeya.

Naeya only took a seat on the chair when she was able to confirm what kind of energy it was working with. Just a thermal and energy reading through physical connection. While she tried to understand it on a more heavily scientific level the professor might understand, she was told the machine had already done its thing. Fast and painless.

"Naeya, come over here. Do...you recognize the species of Pokemon you see on the screen?"

Naeya walked over to where the professor asked her to look at the screen, and when she saw a shape similar to the statue in the park and the slightly different version Xhasca had on her team, she became confused. The colours of the Pokemon were different, being more similar to the legend of Lugia's colour scheme. A very human-shaped dragon with shining white fine scales which couldn't be seen as anything other than sparkling skin from the appearance on the screen, and violet moving fluid like the quicksilver appearance that showed on Xhasca's mysterious team member.

"That...looks familiar, but isn't it too different?"

The professor shook her head and faced Naeya with an intense expression in her eyes.

"While the legend says that Vescalla has pink scales and quicksilver skin, that is in fact supposed to only do with the amount of energy is has. While awake and unleashing its power, Vescalla was recorded to be of that appearance, but there is no data on what Vescalla looks like when hibernating, or when they are in another state of being. I believe you might be related to Vescalla somehow. Can you think of anything to support or deny this?"

Naeya was reminded that Xharye and Xhasca had seen her transforming into a white Mew, and so that answer crossed her lips.

"I...can't imagine any reason for Vescalla to be connected to Kalos, and especially I'm concerned that when I was sick from holding back using my energy, Xharye and Xhasca saw me transforming into a white pelt Mew."

The professor stared in shock.

"Sit in the chair again please."

A few seconds after Naeya confusedly sat in the chair again, she was called over to the professor and saw another supposed legendary Pokemon on the screen. This time it was the ever famous Arceus.

"Unbelievable, correct? Because Mew as the genetic Pokemon should have been a creation of Arceus, not the other way around. Mew was originally dubbed the name as the mother of all Pokemon, but without a gender and Arceus' stories coming to the surface, the world accepted that Arceus was instead the Pokemon who started the world and all of the Pokemon on it. In fact, my studies have been proving this false over and over again, breaking down Arceus as just another child of Mew, which your genetic structure is proving right now. Why not try using transform to become like the Arceus on the screen, but a version small enough to fit in this room please?"

Naeya was worried that the topic would continue for a very long time, and she was reminded of Juieh waiting outside of the room for Naeya to bring her out and find her first Ralts. Naeya wanted to know more about herself, but she also wanted to...

"Uhm, Xharye, can you apologize to Juieh for me and help her with finding her Ralts? I want to confirm what I can with the professor. I...finally have the chance to find out things about myself I've never known about."

Xharye smiled and nodded her head. She reacted as if she forgot about something, and tossed Naeya a small device barely the size of her pinky.

"Blinking light means the capture canceller is working. Forgot to give it to you before. Everything was surprising me so much..."

She waved gently and turned, jogging out of the lab. When she closed the door behind her, Naeya reached into the energy around her and tried. To transform into the legendary Pokemon dubbed as the creator of the world. With success.