Zinzolin pointed the gun at Bianca, who sensed he wouldn't hesitate to shoot her. Bianca didn't move a muscle, fearing it would make Zinzolin react and fire at her. She apologized to Cheren in her mind, for failing to save him. She also apologized to herself for failing to save herself. Then she forgave herself, only because she knew she might not get another chance to do so in the future. Then she heard a loud noise, and closed her eyes. It lasted less than a second. She felt nothing, she garnered enough courage to open her eyes at the same time a white beam made out of light knocked the gun out of Zinzolin's hand, mildly injuring it in the process. Zinzolin screamed angrily as he grabbed his injured hand surrounded by smoke. He and Bianca turned their eyes to find Colress walking toward them with a magnezone by his side.

The rage on Zinzolin's eyes disappeared and was replaced by fear; his eyes looked like plates, which, along with his wet forehead, showcased perfectly his harrowing state. He ran away like a coward, leaving his unconscious cryogonal on the ground. Meanwhile chandelure was still frozen on the ground, so Bianca chose to stay and look after her pokemon instead of running after the fugitive, who then disappeared from the scene.

Colress approached her without minding Zinzolin in the least. Bianca looked at him right in the eyes and Colress sensed her wariness, so he calmly showed her his open hand and then directed a rather mechanical smile at her, as warm and inviting as he could make it. He reached into his coat pocket and produced an ice heal, and Bianca felt relieved. Colress knelt down next to her and healed her pokemon, earning an earnest nod and a faint smile from Bianca. Afterwards he stood up and went to search for the laser gun while Bianca stayed down petting the convalescent chandelure.

"So you are Colress, right? You dissolved team plasma," Bianca said, then she called chandelure back and stood up,

"yes, and this is mine," Colress answered as he picked up the gun,

"you made that, why?"

"I once sought to discover what I foolishly envisioned as the full power of pokemon, I was adamant to find it, by any means necessary, even by ignoring their wishes, their will. To achieve that I created many gadgets like this one to aid me in my research."

He put the gun inside his coat and in turn got out a revive, which he then used on the cryogonal, which woke up and started hovering above them confused. Then Colress continued,

"I saw my errors, stopped my research and put everything away, although it seems I didn't hide it well enough, it's a shame that any idiot like Zinzolin can use it for the wrong reasons, again. Don't worry about him anyway he shouldn't be a problem, at least for now. Apparently someone else has reformed the team and that constitutes the real problem,"

"Grimsley," Bianca whispered loud enough for Colress to hear,

"I wish I knew what he's planning to do, I need to lay low for a while so there's not much I can do. There aren't many of places where I can show my face at the moment, perhaps that will never change, I am now cursed by my past."

Bianca suddenly thought about showing Cheren's letter to Colress, and intuited he wouldn't believe her, or anything that was written on it, even though it contained irrefutable proof of Grimsley's villanous nature.

"He has my friend," Bianca said, and she could sense the hopefulness, the trust, and the fear coming out of her with her voice,

"what did he do?" Colress said with suspicious indifference,

"He wanted to investigate Grimsley's actions,"

"is that so?"

Bianca decided to take a leap of faith, she produced the letter from her purse and showed it to Colress, then waited for him as he took his time to read it. He was astonished, although not for the reasons Bianca would've thought. Because, although Colress' intentions were sincere, he was still used to keeping secrets. All he wanted was to leave his past behind. His undying curiosity had led him through a dark path that he then abandoned, although it still had a hold of him, and now it seemed like Grimsley wanted to ruin his attempt to reform by bringing team plasma back to everyone's memory, for seemingly no reason at all. Colress would do anything he could, with everything he had, to stop him. But he didn't have very much.

"Sadly this doesn't say what he plans to do with the remnants," Colress said apathetically, "but it's a shame, for your friend I mean, I'm sorry," he then added with embarrassment, "I must put a stop to this somehow,"

"me too, that's why I came to see Rood, but he's nowhere to be found,"

"and you are to stop Grimsley? By yourself?" Colress asked inquisitive,

"I must," she answered.

He adjusted his glasses, the reflection of the sun caused them to turn white for a second. He took a pause to choose the right words in his mind.

"Well...it seems that both you and I are in luck then, I may have a plan to stop Grimsley, or rather, a plan for us to stop him together,"

"would you care to share it with me?"

"With pleasure, basically it involves a believably young subject, you, infiltrating Grimsley's sad joke of a team, getting some evidence of the fact that he has a group of people and that he plans to use them for evil, and that's it, then I'll have the right to take him down, no more operating outside the law for me, what's more, they'll have a reason to stop him too,"

"that sounds like a well thought out plan, unfortunately it needs someone who can actually carry it out to completion, that is, not me," Bianca sorrowfully admitted to herself, out loud.

"You are underestimating your abilities, or overestimating those losers, or both, I'm certain you can do it," Colress replied, although he was unsure if he really believed what he was saying. He was only sure he needed to convince her to help him.

"How would I infiltrate the team anyway?" Bianca asked back, still unsure,

"you would dress up and pass yourself as a previously desultory team plasma grunt, show up at the door and ask to join the group, as easy as that,"

"wouldn't they realize that I'm not part of the team and I've never been?"

"No, these guys aren't exactly scientists, you are giving them too much credit, besides, I was the leader of said team and I'll tell you everything about them, train you to pass yourself flawlessly as one of them...so, will you do it?"

Bianca looked at the cryogonal as it approached Colress. He raised his index finger and Cryogonal hovered above it rather peacefully. Bianca empathized with Colress, although it wasn't hard for her to empathize even with the lowliest and most mischievous individuals, at least in some regard. But she cared about him specially because she knew what it felt like to be haunted by your past.

Bianca also kept secrets, she was looking for a way to atone for what she thought of as transgressions, which in reality were nothing more than clumsy and innocent mistakes. She would never admit it, her tender and righteous heart would not be appeased. In her mind she was no better than the worst criminal. Besides, she needed to act fast, for Cheren's sake, and Colress' plan was better than any plan she could have come up with on her own.

"...I'll do it", she finally said, completely certain it was the right answer.