A few months later, my father started to teach me something new, and something of great importance: about the natures of both humans and Pokemon. What you are about to hear may shock you as it shocked and confused me at the time... but I've come to realize the importance of what I was told as time has passed. My father started by telling me the reason why nobody but he and my mother knew of my existence, and while it may seem that it is ridiculous now, many things have changed... many things indeed.
"I don't understand... how can my existence be a crime?" "The fact that you exist is NOT a crime... the problem is the issues that surround bringing a clone into existence. First off, a lot of time, effort, and money are required to create a clone such as yourself. On the most basic level, cloning is simple and inexpensive... but that only applies to bacteria, which are single-celled organisms with DNA that is so well understood and so simple in nature that it can be successfully manipulated by high school science students. In fact, a bacterium reproduces by dividing into 2 smaller bacterium, which are identical to the original bacterium. In other words, they clone themselves."

I didn't understand where my father was going with this for a moment, and then I realized something: my father had pointedly noted that bacteria were simple in nature, and given them as an example of cloning on the most basic level. "You mean that it becomes more and more difficult to successfully clone an organism if the organism is more complex than a bacterium?" "Yes... the more complex an organism is, the more problems there are in cloning that organism. However cloning would probably be legal if that were the only problem. The reason why cloning is illegal is the problems that succeeding in cloning an organism brings. For example, your DNA is composed of my DNA and Comet's DNA... but if another clone were made from the same DNA and compared to yours, that clone's DNA would be different from your DNA." "I don't understand... how is that possible? How could DNA from another clone differ from mine if their DNA were composed of the same DNA that mine was?" "There are several reasons for it... reasons which I will teach later. What is more important is for me to explain the other reasons why cloning is considered illegal, as this in turn will also help you to understand why this fact is so important."

My father started off by telling me that in many cases, the clone of an organism would not live as long as the organism it was cloned from. This was both because the clone would come into existence with a body genetically the age of that the original organism was when the DNA used in the cloning process was obtained... and because quite often clones were subject to debilitating ailments. "Is that going to happen to me?" "... I wish I could say that it won't, but the truth of the matter is that I don't know, and neither does Comet. However, there are several things that we do know. First off, if your DNA coded for anything that would have prevented your body from functioned properly, you wouldn't be alive right now. Second, you have been taught that you are capable of regenerating damage inflicted to you in battle... you can also do that outside of battle, and we've also determined that your body involuntarily regenerates itself. In other words, your body is constantly repairing any damage your body has sustained... or came into the world with. Last of all, there are always exceptions... while you would be expected to have those problems based on what has happened in past cases, there is the chance that you will be fortunate enough to escape that fate... and that is something which Comet and I pray for."

I didn't understand what my father meant by "pray," and I asked him about it. "That is part of what you are about to learn. Humans... Pokemon... both are imperfect creatures. We can try to achieve perfection, but we can never truly reach it. Those who think they are perfect are not... for perfection is an illusion, and by attempting to achieve it many have lost sight of what is truly important. Many humans believe that there are beings who hold control over the world and everything in it to some extent, beings which have few to none of the imperfections we mortal creatures have. In the past, humans called them "gods." I know not what Pokemon called them, or if Pokemon even believed in the existence of "gods." Some Pokemon were prayed to and worshipped in the past because nobody could explain anything about them scientifically and because of their powers; much of what has been learned about Pokemon has been discovered only within the past few hundred years. Others like the Ghost-types were feared... but whether feared or worshipped, Pokemon were respected and they still are... in many cases."

My father continued to teach me for several months more about the nature of humans and Pokemon. I was taught by him that "good and evil" are relative terms, and that what one human or Pokemon views as one can be viewed as the other by another human or Pokemon. I learned that unfortunately not all humans respected Pokemon, and for that matter some didn't respect other humans either. The same applied to Pokemon as well. "Those who have Pokemon do not always respect them... it is an unfortunate fact. Just as it is an unfortunate fact that there are those who do not respect their own kind." I learned that while my mother and father were the only ones that knew of my existence, my father and I were the only ones who knew of my mother's existence. When asked about why this was the case, my father would say nothing except that it would be extremely dangerous for my mother if anybody else knew her existence. I wondered why this was the case... and I unfortunately found out. The peaceful existence that my parents and I knew wouldn't last... and one day I finally learned what my father and mother had been so afraid of...