'I've just had the best idea!' said Victor, snapping his fingers. Chris looked over at him.

'What?' he asked.

'We can't actually catch this new pokemon,' said Victor. 'But there is one way we can study it without catching it!'

'How?' Chris asked, curious. Victor picked up a pokeball and showed it to Chris.

'Ditto,' he said. 'The only pokemon with the move transform. If we take Ditto with us to find that pokemon, when we see it we can send Ditto out and get it to transform into it. Then, even if the pokemon runs away, we can just keep Ditto out of the pokeball and it will stay in the form of the new pokemon!'

'You're brilliant!' Chris smiled. He turned on his computer and accessed the pokemon storage system. Depositing his Lickitung, he withdrew his Ditto and turned to Victor. 'Let's go.'