Elio and Lillie went over to Agate, dusk was starting to set. Much like the Tyrouge and Eevee before, they brought the Espurr, Skiddo and Venonat to the relic. Much like before, a green light enveloped them as their hearts open. Espurr glowed as it became larger, its tail fluffier and its ears opened up. Becoming a large blue cat. Elio grined at the Meowstic. "Welcome back Dib."

Dex flared up to explain what the three pokemon regained. "BZZT! Dib regained the move follow me. Venonat regained the move baton pass and Skiddo regained the move heal bell BZZT!"

Lillie thought up names for the Venonat and Skiddo; "Skitters and Nanny!"

Both trainers took a sigh of relief as more pokemon were being restored.

Elio turned to Lillie with a smile. "So now that we got some more pokemon, do we want to go back to the H.Q and end this day on a high note?"

Lillie was still energetic and nodded.

Elio shouted as he and Lillie returned to the H.Q. "Hey Krane, We got some more shadow pokemon fixed up. Is that machine ready?"

They spotted some of the assistants making the final touches on the Purify Chamber. They saw the professor turning back to greet them, Lillie properly greeted the people. "We only got two pokemon to get it started, but is it going to be enough?"

The professor took a deep breath as he remembered the same question asked twelve years ago. "Yes, but it will take time. To activate the machine step on the green pad and you should know the rest."

In the virtual machine there are nine chambers total. Elio looked towards Lillie. "So you decided on what to bring into the first chamber?"

Lillie was hesitate about putting the net ball containing Venonat into the machine and nodded.

Elio saw it and nodded back. "Don't worry about having too many pokemon, I have a hair brained scheme on what to do with some of these pokemon once all of this nonsense is done. If this becomes too much like... meh we will know when it becomes too much."

He put the ball containing Meowstic into the machine. Psychic beat poison, bug beat psychic, a circle was formed at low tempo. Elio tossed in the dusk ball containing Munna into the center of the first chamber.

Out of the chamber, Lillie asked the professor. "So all we have to do at this point is wait for the machine to do the rest?"

The professor nodded then.

BOOM!

Power went out save for the chamber. An explosion was heard from the outside. The two trainers rushed outside the room to see the ruckus, out of the elevator were two Cipher goons.

"Scouts you flank the one on the right, I get the one on the right! The boss wants this chamber shut down now!"

Vs Cipher peon Scouts.

Scouts sent out a yellow creature with a spoon known as Kadabra and a flightless two headed bird known as Doduo. Elio's Aura Reader activated. "That Doduo is a shadow pokemon!"

"REMMER, BRIMMY LETS STOP THESE GOONS!"

Doduo glowed purple as it tried to ram Elio. He dodged and in retaliation the Drowzee used hypnotic waves to make the Doduo fall asleep. The Torracat leaped at the Kadabra with a regular bite, knocking it out in one hit. Elio put in a great ball into the machine.

"GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake...shake...shake... click!

Simultaneously

Vs Cipher Peon Marina.

Marina sent out a tiny purple creature resembling a little girl and a small camel with a hole in its back known as Numel.

Lillies Aura Reader activated. "That Smoochum is a shadow pokemon."

Lillie shouted out. "Cain, Swoops we got to defend this place. Cain use quick on Numel, Swoops join in the with an air cutter!"

The combined quick attack and air cutter was able to knock the Numel out, leaving the Smoochum by herself and weakened. She unleashed a dark veil similar to that of the Aura veil move, a combination of reflect and light screen that is only usable in the hail.

"Swoops come back, go Shockums, Cain use sand attack to keep that Smoochum busy."

Smoochum shot dark looking snow at the Eevee, causing icy pain.

"Shockums use thunder wave."

The electric wave stunned the Shoomchum.

Lillie prepared a dusk ball. "Go snag ball!"

Shake... pop!

Smoochum was paralyzed and couldn't move as Lillie shouted. "Shockums use thunderbolt on the Smoochum, Cain keep tossing sand!"

The Smoochum was pelted by thunderbolt and sand as she aimed a sleet of shadow snow at Lillie. She missed her target so bad that she hit Scouts instead. Sending him into a hypo-thermal shock.

"Go snag ball!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

Elio glared at the peon and tossed an electric blanket. "Don't think I am doing this out of kindness. You deserve worse and jail is much colder."

Next group of peons leaped from the ceiling. Much like the ones they met at Agate, they have a blue and red color scheme. Elio confronted the blue one as Lillie confronted the red one.

Both talked in a robotic tone. "You will not be standing any longer fools!"

VS Cipher peon Gahdor.

Gahdor sent out a black starling known as Staravia and a ghost wearing a floating mask. Aura reader activated.

"That Yamask is a shadow pokemon."

Elio signaled his two pokemon to get ready. The Staravia dashed toward the Drowzee, under command the Drowzee hypnotized the Yamask. The Torracat bit the Staravia in flames, leaving a nasty burn.

Elio took a dusk ball into the machine. "GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake...shake...shake... click!

The Staravia dashed towards the Drowzee again, doing less damage. In a psychic beam the fight ended.

Simultaneously

VS Cipher peon Cahdor

Cahdor sent out a stinky weed creature known as Gloom and a small blue robot.

Aura reader activated. "That Golett is a shadow pokemon."

Lillie swapped Pikachu and Eevee for Pidgeotto and Skiddo.

"Nanny Razor leaf, Swoops take that Gloom out and weaken the Golett with air cutter!"

The Gloom took a scratch from the leafs and was finished off by the wind. The Golett took major damage from the leafs and minor damage from the wind. The Golett rushed to the Skiddo with a dark aura before Lillie sent in a dusk ball.

"Go snag ball!"

Shake... shake... shake... click!

The two peons fled shouting. "We must alert Frankas, you two, keep them off us!"

Next was a third wave of peons, both came rolling in from the hole. Lillie and Elio looked at each other ready to take them on together.

Vs Cipher Peons Estus and Chuck

Estus sent a tiny fairy on a flower, Chuck sent a yellow Aura Readers activated Elio and Lillie were not amused as they saw the Flabebe and Scraggy glowing a black aura. With a dead look in their eyes, Elio called back his Torracat, while Lillie called back her Pidgeotto. In an instinct, the Pikachu stunned the Scraggy while the Drowzee sent the Flabebe into a deep sleep. Lillie and Elio used great balls as they snagged the two pokemon.

Shake...shake...shake...click! Both peons ran back to the hole. The Drowzee glowed. He grew larger in a straight up position, he grew fur around his neck, his long nose turned into a big nose, its lower body slimmed down, it generated a pendulum as it finished its evolution into Hypno.

Elio grinned nervously at the startled Hypno. "Sorry I could not get you to evolve back at the Colosseum."

Hypno nod it off as he focused on the elevator. A strange elderly doctor in a purple lab coat arrived.

The doctor looked at the two who had been getting in Ciphers way for the past couple days. He gave a small smile as he approached them. "I suppose congratulations are in order. You two have done an amazing job in helping us get rid of those failures. I was trying to make shadow pokemon that were capable of evolving and well, not a single one of those runt's were able to evolve!"

Elio and Lillie reacted in shock as he casually blurted out his deed.

Before the two called him out. He continued. "Not wanting such research to go to waste, yes they have been distributed among the low ranking mook's just so they can still be a use at best or disposed of at worse! However Agate Relic is one thing that would undo all our work and that accursed machine your guarding is another, so I was organizing an operation to remove them from the picture. I did become aware of you two making a presence in Orre and it turns out you two are needed for a rather big project coming up. I personally came to this operation to capture you two."

Elio heard everything and moved over to try and defend Lillie.

Lillie stepped in to try and defend him. "No I am not letting you go after him alone."

The scientist looked at the two and smirked. "Cute."

Vs Cipher Admin Frankas

Frankas sent out a blue puffer fish and a blue scorpion. The two trainers Aura Readers activated.

"Qwilfish is a shadow pokemon."

Elio and Lillie nodded to each other in cooperation.

Elio shouted. "REMMER PSY BEAM THAT SCORUPI!"

Lillie shouted. "Shockums, thunder wave on that Qwilfish!"

The Hypno, with his new found power, made short work of the Scorupi; the Pikachu got to work in stunning the Qwilfish. It was not enough to stop the next shadow move, as dark spikes were launched into the air and pinned themselves to the ground. The Hypno and Pikachu were hit by the spikes and began to feel woozy, with the rest of the spikes blocking the exits.

Frankas nodded and bragged. "That is shadow needle, it works akin to the move toxic spikes except it automatically applies poison to boot."

Frankas sent out a familiar looking blue star fish that known as Mareanie that was holding a claw nail. Elio charges up a net ball at the Qwilfish.

"GO SNAG BALL!"

Shake...shake...shake... click!

Before Lillie had the Pikachu attack, the Mareanie's claw glowed as it shot a purple liquid all over the Pikachu, mercilessly doing double and critical damage.

Lillie shouted. "Shockums use thunder bolt!"

The Pikachu made quick work of the Mareanie.

Frankas looked at the battle field and found himself outnumbered but keeping his smile, he said.

"Look's like I really am going to do my little weapon test after all. You know after the project proved to be a bust, I decided to do some research on another group of pokemon. Contrary to what they said about the bond between trainer and pokemon, it's not really needed."

Frankas sent out a large pink, blue eyed creature, holding a particular stone.

Aura Reader activated. "Audino is a shadow pokemon."

The two trainers looked in horror as they realize what the admin was about to do. The Audinite reacted to a dark stone on Frankas' cane. It glowed turning into a more angelic appearance though its face looked more emotionless than caring.

Lillie was the first to shout the order. "Shockums, thunderbolt that Audino now!"

Despite how damaging the shot looked, it barely hurt.

Frankas looked relaxed as he continued to talk "There is a particular shadow move that I implemented on this thing."

He proceeded to snap his fingers as the Audino looked like it was praying, before generating a black pulse. The wave slammed into everyone; Elio, Lillie and the Pikachu were sent barreling towards a wall. The Pikachu was knocked out, the Hypno was hurt by this but still stood. "Shadow pulse, heals all shadow pokemon, damages everyone else not its master, have fun!"

Elio regained his breath. "Remmer use hypnosis."

The Hypno swung it's pendulum, the Audino was sent into a deep sleep. Lillie called the Pikachu back and shouted. "Go Cain!"

Out of the ball the Eevee growled as he saw the scientist, who in turn recognized him

Frankas looked at the Eevee in contempt. "Oh... that thing. After the failed attempt at getting the Tyrouge to evolve, I already came to the conclusion that shadow pokemon evolving was not going to happen. But that stubborn fool Ein insisted I try on the Eevee."

Frankas said in a mocking tone as he finished. "If we don't try this on a pokemon that has a massive evolutionary branch we would never know bah!"

Lillie shook her head in a mixture of shock and anger as she shouted. "Cain use swift!"

Elio pointed toward the Hypno to use psybeam. The swift did what was hardly scratch damage but the beam did more damage. It was not enough as the Audino glowed a dark aura to shock itself awake. The two pokemon tried the same move again; the Audino prepared another pulse.

"REMMER BLOCK LILLIE!" The Hypno bolted into action, the wave slammed Elio and the Eevee into the wall again. Both looked hurt, the Hypno still stood, more worried about his trainer than he was about himself.

Lillie closed her eyes as she switched pokemon. "Cain return. Go Golett!"

Elio was keeping his breath as he ordered. "Remmer... huff... hit that Audino with another psybeam!"

Looking wounded, Audino pulsed again. This time Lillie yanked Elio behind the Golett and got herself hit in the process.

SLAM!

Hurt, but still moving, the Hypno swung his hand and shot at his trainers order.

Lillie caught her breath after the beating as she shouted. "Golett, shadow rush!"

Insignificant damage as the Golett rushed but more than enough to have the Audino fall over on its knees.

Lillie put in a white ball with a red stripe on it. "Go snag ball!"

A hand reached out from a series of clocks to yank the Audino in.

Shake... shake... shake... click!

Audino was caught.

Frankas looked at the aftermath of the battle and claps his hands. "So that is the power of mega shadow pokemon? Excellent, soon we will be able to create stronger more powerful pokemon with this new discovery."

Frankas pressed a button on his ear phone as he dismissed the two. "You two can keep this machine, I gotten what I came for. We will meet again very soon!"

Frankas teleported out of the room, leaving his shivering and injured peon behind. The peon looked at where the admin use to be, upset that he actually left him behind to the sound of people shouting a take down.

Ace trainers and fire men arrived at at the scene to arrest the one peon and to put out the fire from the explosion. The H.Q was severely damaged, but the machine was still functioning even after all the chaos. The assistants at the H.Q rushed in towards where Elio and Lillie are. Both are battered, bruised and in need of medical assistance despite them prioritizing the pokemon that were knocked out.

For the next couple hours the two were being put in a room in the residential wing. It had two beds, one at each side to use as an emergency room. Even though the Blissey was enough to get the two healed they were to stay and rest until the next day. One of the nurses from Gateon port came over to do a full heal on the pokemon the duo had with them. While most of the pokemon they sent out were happy to see that their trainers were safe, it was the Hitmonchan and Eevee who wanted to stay with them the longest. They knew that their trainers just confronted the very person who turned them into shadow pokemon as well as what their trainers were feeling. Elio and Lillie were still shocked how this person did not even care about his peons, least of all the pokemon he had hurt.

Elio was the first to break the silence. "So Lillie, good job out there today."

Lillie looked back to give the same compliment, petting the Eevee as he felt depressed on how little he did against the Audino.

Elio attempted to make the Eevee feel better. "Don't worry about it Cain. Bad match ups happen from time to time, I mean look at Mac. He was not even sent out during that attack period, due to a major type disadvantage both defensively and offensively. Not making him feel down about it."

The Hitmonchan nodded his head in embarrassment, nothing worse for a fighting type than being sent to the side lines due to technicalities.

Lillie looked Elio in the eyes with a glare. "You are not helping."

Elio remembered the Eevee incident yesterday and how he made a mad dash trying to evolve. He saw the Eevee perk up a little bit, but now both are feeling depressed.

Elio got up to open the door. "Hey Mac and Cain, could you two go play outside for a couple minutes, there is something I want to talk to Lillie about."

The Eevee perked up in confusion as the Hitmonchan signaled that he knew a good place they could play.

Lillie asked. "What was that about?"

Elio grinned. "Just something I don't want Cain to hear. Remember that little thing I did to snap him out of his evolution craze, why would a type of trainer that would normally evolve a pokemon on the spot if there wasn't any moves he needed them to learn in advance, try and stop that?"

Lillie looked questioningly. "Yes that was rather weird how you stopped him."

Elio looked Lillie back the eyes. "Well I was playing devils advocate. The best thing to do in regards to an Eevee, or any pokemon that evolves through artificial means, is to let them decide what they want to evolve into. After all that is generally how it works with Espeon and Umbreon. I am a firm believer of the middle road. Trying to encourage the Eevee to pick a specific evolution, especially in a competitive scene where their personalities are a key factor to which Eeveelution is best for it. In other words, the trainer is normally the one with the mindset that it has to evolve to be any good on the competitive scene... or not if that Z crystal is anything to go by. Cain's personality specifically benefits the more physically offensive of its evolutions better than others."

Lillie raised an eyebrow over that statement. "If that's true, why did you do something to stop it from evolving?"

Elio's smile turned grim as the thought about it. "Because Lillie, after the little guy was turned into a weapon, they tried to force him to evolve in those conditions. When it did not work it was sent out to be cannon fodder. Seriously there was not even a point to doing it. That brainwashed mindset is not healthy for an Eevee, period. I got a question though. Did you actually force Rammas to evolve?"

Lillie's cheeks puffed up at such a question. "No, all I did was ask Rammas if she wanted to evolve and if so which! She simply walked towards the leaf stone!"

Elio laughed. "Funny when a pokemon chooses to take the stone. What about Lola? She was an Eevee as well, how did she come across a water stone?"

Lillie stopped to think about the question. "I honestly I do not know, I wanted Lola to evolve but I was going to let her pick on her own terms."

Elio smiled. " Yep... Where did you raise it?"

Lillie had to think over as she explained some of her adventures in Kanto, she was heading down the long bridge. Throughout the entire trip, she had her Eevee out with her for company since her Ivysaur at the time spent most of his time sleeping. Then a festival involving Dragonair happened when she went to Fuchsia city, it involved people playing around a lake at the safari zone. Lillie had some of the elemental stones in her bag at that point. When she went to change for the festival, the bag was opened and in place of a cute fluffy Eevee was a cute wet Vaporeon.

Elio nodded as he continues to support his argument. "That is how you encourage them to make a choice most of the time. You raised Lola around the sea side, she liked the sight. When you went to this festival, Lola knew she would not be able to stay in the water for long SO she took the water stone in an attempt to spend the entire day with you."

Elio smiled at the mental image before Lillie blushes and glares.

Elio noticed the glaring Lillie and continued. "Similar thing is happening with Cain, in bringing him through these tough battles, you are kind of keeping that mindset, I have to evolve in his head as he see's that as the only way to be of any use. You have to do something to make its mindset go from that mess to I want to evolve."

Lillie thought it over until she smiles at an idea. "What if I try telling Cain about my adventures with Lola and how that worked out in the end?"

Elio shrugged. "A much better plan that what I thought of. Letting Cain think this through by himself."

Lillie nodded then changed to a sadder look. "I know you are trying to protect me. But could you please stop rushing into danger like that, especially if you get yourself hurt in situations that could be avoided."

She started forming tears at the thought of the worse happening. Elio had nothing to say as he thought some of his actions over.

The door opened with the Eevee and Hitmonchan acting much more cheerful then they were when they left. They heard the end of the two bickering. The Eevee leaped on to Lillie wanting to be petted while the Hitmonchan looked at Elio making him proud. The two trainers looked at each other the rest of the day, as they thought about the argument.

I am perfectly aware the Police on Orre are incompetent. So head cannon on what changed after twelve years, a handful of people on Orre took the law in their hands and are able to make a smaller equivalent that are competent enough to at least arrest and detain people. Least able to do that to neutralized criminals after someone takes them down!