For two weeks, nothing really happened save for Elio and Lillie's motorbike being built. They had made friends with nearly everyone at the H.Q lab and most of the people at Gateon port had either grown fond of these two or to a lesser extent tolerated them. Most of the information on Rotom dex regarding most of the pokemon Elio had caught in Alola was shared with the H.Q. except information on the Ultra Beasts, Type:Null and its evolution Silvally which are at best classified, Elio uses his Torracat as an visual example of a pokemon native from Alola. Lillie asked about some of the lab equipment as she help move things around and unlike with Elio the only question she asked about the Lugia was how old was that picture and where was its trainer? Lately the duo have been helping the H.Q with finishing an important project while they wait for the final touches to be made.

Beep!

"Master, I have two of them in sight. Proceeding with capture?"

As Elio and Lillie were about to head back to port, a large net was shot at them. The Torracat at Elio's side did not even hesitate to bite through the approaching net with fire fang. The parts of the net sparkled electricity, the super trainer that stood before them look in shock as the plan did not work.

Elio put on smile to greet the man. "Okay why did you try using a stun net at us?"

The trainer panicked as he reveals his disguise, before them was a strange looking person wearing a helmet and a scarf. "Grr, that plan failed! Time for plan B. just knocking you two out manually."

Elio stepped forward with an angry smile as he send out his Drowzee to join the Torracat in battle. "Approaching Lillie with that mindset is just asking for trouble."

Krane walked out in curiosity. "What is going on I smelled fire an..." The professor looked in shock at seeing the scarfed man. "Lillie, there is a glove like device in my office go get it, hurry!"

Elio looked back as Lillie was heading inside the building. "No worries dealt with something like this before."

VS Scarfed Man Juglar.

Juglar sent out Zubat and Meowth.

Zubat used bite on the Drowzee. Super effective but relatively weak.

Elio shouted. "REMMER USE CONFUSION!" As the Drowzee sent out a small psychic wave, the Zubat felt dizzy as the wave hit it. It fell to the ground unimpressive. Meowth use bite on the Torracat, it returned with its own fiery version, with the burn finishing it off.

As Lillie rushed back out of the building with the glove like machine, the would be kidnapper sent out his last pokemon, a small brown fluffy creature with long cat like ears.

Elio noticed that something was off with this Eevee. They are normally cheerful creatures at worse, but this one looked emotionless and dead.

Krane turned towards Lillie. "Do you have any poke balls?"

Lillie looks confused. "Yes!"

The professor shouted. "Hurry put that snag machine on!" Elio saw the very machine he asked about two weeks ago, then glared back at the scarfed man. "What the hell did you do to that Eevee?"

Jugal scoffed."Why would you care for a simple tool?"

As the scarfed man said those words, Lillie finished putting on the machine, it was even equipped with a type of scanner. It activated, showing more of what was wrong with the Eevee, a black aura surrounded it.

The scarfed man grinned without a care. "Eh the boss only needs one of you anyways, Eevee shadow bite this brat!"

The Eevee's teeth generated a dark glow as it lunged forward, skipping both the Torracat and Drowzee as it rushed towards Elio. In reflex Lillie sent out her Pikachu to try and stop the Eevee but it was too late. It bit into the arm Elio used for both the Z bracelet and to block the Eevee. While Elio was use to simple pain just from handling a more reckless pokemon (Gladiator during training tend to hurl rocks as a result of its moves), it hurt to the point that he barely held in a scream. In panic the Drowzee used confusion to loosen the Eevee's grip and toss it off of his master.

Lillie shouted! "Shockums use thunder wave!" As the Pikachu sent out a small volt to paralyze the Eevee and slow it down, the Eevee was clearly stunned, but it acted like it did not care. The Torracat retaliated against the Eevee who bit his trainer with a bite of its own, it still did not care.

Krane looked towards Lillie and shouted. "Hurry! Get a pokeball in that machine and toss it!"

Jugal glared at both Lillie and the pokemon standing before him "Gr! I had enough of this! KILL this brat you little runt!" Pointing towards the injured Elio. The Eevee set up a shadow bite ready to lunge at Elio's throat.

Lillie tossed the ball shouting "Go Pokeball!" Before the Eevee made contact a large hand materializes from the ball to yank it in. As it fell to the ground it shook.

Shake, shake, shake, click!

Eevee was caught.

Jugal looked in anger. "What? How?"

The Torracat and Drowzee did not like the fact that this person tried to kill their trainer and set off a simple move combination called hold and capture. The Torracat lunged at the guys leg to hold him down as the Drowzee set of a hypnosis to keep the offender from escaping. Lillie rushed towards Elio, who was knocked prone from the initial bite and was bleeding. "Elio, please don't get up!"

Elio looked back at Lillie and put out a smile to hide the pain, then looked towards Krane. "These are those bad people you mentioned before. Right?"

As professor nodded, Lillie looked in confusion and shock. "Elio, please you are hurt!" Looking at the professor, she signaled him to get medical help.

Elio whispered. "Hey Lillie, I am not the only one that needs help. I think that little guy is hurt a lot worse." As he looked at the pokeball containing the vicious Eevee. Lillie puffed up her cheeks to try and make a scolding face as she picked up the ball.

In a few minutes, a medical team equipped with a Blissey arrived. In the residential area, Lillie and Elio were still looking at the ball holding Eevee. They wondered why an Eevee would attack like that and thought that something horrible had been done to it. Elio was slightly angry about how deep that bite really was, until it fully healed he was very limited on the z moves due to how precise they are and while he could still throw with it he will need to keep the wound in constant care. The professor returned with drinks and a box containing files.

Elio asked, "So Krane, can you tell us what exactly was done to that Eevee and also if this is the same group from twelve years before, what more do you know about them?"

The professor made a grim face. "It is hard to really explain, you may want to read some of the files on what we gathered about these pokemon."

Elio and Lillie read up the first file on the pile.

"Shadow Pokemon"

Pokemon who have the doors to their hearts forcibly closed. Elio was about to ask what it meant until he read the next sentence. "Turning it into a soulless fighting machine." Both Elio and Lillie's eyes widen at that sentence. "While pokemon are normally friendly, Shadow Pokemon would not hesitate to attack ANYTHING in sight, including its own trainer! Using shadow moves to achieve this. Nothing can be done about these creatures save for trying to bond with the creature, opening the door to its heart again." Or as Elio worded it, regain its sense of self back.

Next file they read. "Hyper Mode"

"Some times a shadow pokemon will have its emotions go into a fever pitch. Entering the stage known as hyper mode, the shadow pokemon is at its most dangerous. Its shadow moves having a higher chance of landing a critical hit, will ignore orders, will attack its own allies, it will attack the trainer, will attack its own trainer, it will even attack itself. They only care about attacking what ever it pleases. The only way to end hyper mode is to call it out during battle." Upon reading the notes on Hyper Mode, the duo cringed on how wrong it sound and that someone did this to a living creature knowing full well what it would do.

Last file "Opening The Door"

"As a Shadow Pokemon heart opens, it will regain it's normal moves, it will regain its nature, it will start gaining experience again, building up until the door to its heart is restored. When its heart is about to open, the one place it can go to for it to be saved is a place called Agate Forest, which is a relic dedicated to Celebi, who is a pokemon with the power to travel through time. It is said that the reason this relic works is because it allows the pokemon to finally remember what it once was, before it was turned into a weapon. A faster process was made via the Purify Chamber, a machine that surrounds the shadow pokemon with a carousel of pokemon, lining up based on its type match up. For example putting a fire type, bug type, grass type then water type, maximizing the tempo."

The duo read a small note regarding the machine. "Only by maximizing the tempo in all chambers were we able to save Lugia. What was a shadow pokemon that by any normal means would have its heart forever closed."

From gathering the information on the Lugia Krane described three weeks ago, Elio thought to himself. "Why? Why would people do this?"

Lillie, in absolute shock from what she had read, said to Krane; "So that Eevee, it is among the new shadow pokemon that these... people created, with the full intent to hurt people?"

The professor nodded. "Yes twelve years ago we thought this organization known as Cipher to had been destroyed. Most of the people responsible for this were locked up behind bars. If they are making a comeback then many, many more shadow pokemon have been created with the intent of world domination being in mind."

Lillie frowned in worry of what she gotten herself and Elio into. "Then we have to do something for them. We can't just leave these pokemon to this."

Elio heard Lillie as he looked at her snag machine, then back to the professor. "You said that you have a second one of these things made?"

Lillie looked at Elio in worry, "Please your hurt badly."

Elio looked back with a determined look. "Lillie you are not dealing with this alone and I will be damned if I am sitting around being useless!"

Lillie sighed in defeat. "Elio...just please, don't get yourself hurt."

Elio looked at the professor. "I am in, show me the machine and I will put it on." They took out the second snag machine, Lillie did not want Elio to undo the bandages and helped him put on the machine. The boy looked at the machine with a grin.