As they arrived in Pyrite town, they instantly headed to the colosseum, and asked when the next tournament was. They had great luck in timing, to learn that the next one was in a few hours, so they could head on to train a bit.
They decided to train on a square in the middle of the town. They wanted to enter the tournament, because they hoped to gather information about Cipher or other Shadow Pokémon.
But during the battles, they learned that a set of the Pokémon the trainers used were Shadow Pokémon. They didn't hesitate a second, and Wes snagged each of the Shadow Pokémon. But unfortunately, they weren't able to get any useful info out of these trainers.
They decided to bring them for now into the Pokémon Storage system. They would begin to free them from their Shadow Form after they learned how to do so. Because they still hadn't figured out how they could cause by other Pokémon to have a familiar effect like IgVa had without risking anything.
During the training, David left the group shortly to greet somebody he knew from his last visit here: Ducking!
But as he entered Ducking's house, a young man stormed out. David recognized him as Ducking's friend, Silva.
He wondered what happened, because he didn't remember Silva looking that angry before. At least not in the time he was around way back…
He entered the house, and greeted Ducking. "Hi Ducking! Long time no see!"
"HI David! How are you doing?"
"I am fine! Just some things happened… by the way… did you hear about the Pokémon with their hearts artificial closed?"
Ducking winced by the mention but shock his head "No sorry! Didn't hear of it! But if I do I will inform you!"
David became suspiciou by his reaction, but decided to let it drop, and didn't dare to look into his mind… he had too much respect for just doing that…
"Thank you! Anything new since I was here the last time?"
"Not that I knew! And now excuse me! I have worked to do!"
David nodded and left the house.
In this moment Iain walked by and began, "David! You won't believe it!"
"What is it Iain?" asked David, curious.
"I just found out that somebody knows a bit more about the Shadow Pokémon! I fought against him and forced out of him that somebody named Major B. uses the colosseum here to give out Shadow Pokémon!"
David gasped "What?"
"You heard me right! Everybody who wins these tournaments gets a Shadow Pokémon!"
"But Ducking would never help criminals!" Came David's reply.
Iain shrugged. "Perhaps they have something with that they can control him…"
David looked back to the house and thought about how odd Ducking and Silva acted… could it be that this has something to do with it?
David turned back to his friend. "What do you think?"
"I say we just smash out of this guy where we find this Major B. is, and storm his house!" Guessed Iain.
David couldn't help but grin. He knew his friend would always go straight through the wall.
"Nice guess! I would even agree, but for now, I think it wouldn't be wise… if they can control Ducking somehow, I would rather find it out without risking that they would use that control against us somehow…"
"And what will you do?" asked Iain.
"We stick to the plan! We enter this tournament and one of us will win it! After that, the winner will lead to the hideout, and from there, we take action so far it is possible!"
Iain nodded and grinned. He liked the plan, especially the part with the action.
They went back to Wes and Riu, and together they went to the Colosseum. But as the power plant came in sight, somebody ran out, calling for help, and collapsed on the ground. The group instantly ran over. David had the feeling that this was something he should have inspected.