In a matter of seconds, the two changed their appearance.
Layton's own appearance was more specifically that of a black jumpsuit with neon blue highlights. On each side of his hips are what seems to be shells with a handle on them. His visor was also tinted blue where on each side is a disk covering his ears used as a radio receiver. His irises now have a faint blue glow.
Sherbert's own appearance is rather similar. His suit had neon yellow highlights instead and the shells were replaced with a pair of black gloves. His visor was tinted yellow and his irises emitted a faint yellow glow.
"I got a plan. Why don't I go for the Tyranitar and you go for the Exploud?" Layton suggested.
Sam got to the girls.
She gave the stickers to them.
"I already gave them to the boys, so don't worry about that detail." Sam assured them, knowing they would ask.
Pulling out one of the shells, it was revealed to be a blue sword.
Layton then gave a swing at the Tyranitar while Oshawott was keeping it distracted.
Working together, Sherbert and Helioptile gave the Exploud a paralyzing shock.
Pulling out their P-Scans, they pushed a button, which resulted in a light disk appearing.
They each began to use them to form a ring around their targets, 'capturing' them ranger-style.
They were able to faintly see two electric-like beings escape the pokemon before they regained themselves and left.
"How many Biosouls managed to cause rampages now? I think it was 30 this month alone." Sherbert noted before they met up with the girls.
All Sam had to do was look at their concerned faces to understand the situation.
"Let me take a guess, was the incident caused by Biosouls?"
They gave a nod.
"Isn't that just lovely. While I'm over here trying to figure them out they're already trying to tear this place down."
Deciding that they need to eventually need to figure out this mystery, they headed back to one of the centers.
One of the girls got back on the computer and logged the information down.
"I just don't get it. What exactly is their purpose in trying to make pokemon go crazy? For all we know, they may have been causing trouble for quite a while already."
Biosouls were a creation of mystery.
No one knows who created them or why, not much is known about how they come to existence.
Some theories is that some of them could be ghosts or yokai of people and pokemon that passed.
Whatever their origin, they may have a whole other world that's parallel to ours.
It would be interesting if we could meet one one day, and maybe learn more about them from it.
None of us think all Biosouls are bad, but we do have a theory that the ones causing chaos may be taking orders from another leader...
"I think we should report this to the Superintendent." Sam suggested.
Not knowing what else they could do with the information, they went to find their superior.
In a world that's digital...
A Biosoul was waiting in a room, waiting for someone.
There's many kinds of Biosouls, and this one in particular was in the virus category.
It's not like he's a bad one by heart, but all Biosouls have to be organized according to their coding.
Plus, he has his own reasons for being in the room, some not very obvious at first glance.
A screen in the room was playing footage from one of the patches of forest, and he noticed that someone in an odd-looking jumpsuit rampaging through the trees.
"Humans have their own viruses to worry about. This Self-Pokemerger seems rather strong..."
Another Biosoul got into the room.
"Now Zappa, do you know why I called you here?"
"I'm guessing a job, Leader?"
"Right! Have you ever heard about the Pokemon Tamers?"
He's heard about what happened to his co-workers: they got pushed out by the disks of light emitted by their P-Scans.
It's not like he had much energy to care too much for them, they did keep on teasing him.
He gave a nod.
"So sometime in the month, I'm going to send you out there and use your Imprisonment technique and use your new form to observe and strike them down. I also advise that you use the technique on one of the Tamer's parents, rumor has it that they have some energy that could be of use to you. Just make sure you choose the right age that you want that form to be."
He zipped off.
Back at the other world, the group told the Superintendent what they found.
"Hm, almost all of these incidents concerning rampaging pokemon was caused by Biosouls one way or another. I don't think this is a coincidence. What about reports about Self-Pokemergers?" he asked.
"There surprisingly hasn't been too many." Rainbow told him.
The ability to self-pokemerge was a bit of a mystery like the ability to pokemerge.
They both involve genetics, but have different affects on a person.
We like to say that the affects could make the appearance of one like they pokemerge, but without the assistance of a lot, if anything, and what happens after that looks a lot like they've been compelled to rampage by a Biosoul, but it's just their genes at work.
Anyone could have these potentially fatal genes, and the risk is for some reason increased if a pokemerge or contact with a P-Scan or similar object has happened prior.
"That's good to hear. Now, you actually came at a great time. There seems to be a report of one that just came in. I know you just came back from a Biosoul incident but who know what threat this one could cause, I already had to send in a couple of other departments. Do what you must!"
Once again, they were off.
Once at the scene, they already saw a bit of the engineering and food departments in their pokemerged forms already, but looking weak.
A girl zipped along to dstract the culprit with her Dodrio power-up, but got knocked down by the rampaging person.
"Great, you guys made it!" she said with a sigh of relief.
The group of Pokemon Tamers are separated by departments, each one with different ranks of fighting ability.
The strongest in the group is called out on a lot of different kinds of missions, so the puzzle and detective departments usually handle these kinds of fights, especially considering how much of a mystery the origins of what causes them is.
Sometimes the research department may help out.
Sam rushed to give them their own respective stickers while the others immediately got into their pokemerged forms.
Tulip's and Rainbow's both look very similar to Layton's and Sherbert's, but they both have grey highlights instead.
Rainbow also shares Ambipom's two tails.
With a blade, Layton immediately took a swing at him.
Even from a distance, the fight that ensued was visibly big.
This fight was not much different than the other fights concerning Self-Pokemergers.
They always have a ton of power, and the Tamers have to stabilize them and deactivate it.
After that, it may be possible to give them a suppressant to manage those parts of their genes.
Apparently, it wasn't regulated like this at one point, but when the kids were around the age of 3, due to someone going missing because of it, it was quickly regulated.
The person who went missing isn't known to most, but there's a theory that it was just a young girl.
As for the Tamers, it will be a matter of time before many events begin to unwind.
They will begin to search for the answer to a question.
"How do you save a life?"