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Winston cleared his examination apparatus, and returned the megalith to its shipping container. Having finished with a report on the energy signatures within the slab of rock, the hyperintelligent gorilla swiped across his screen, bringing up an email from the UN, forwarded from Jack.

"Sigh… Looks like I'll have to make improvements to the flux capacitor again. What was it, a terajoule limit? Let me check."

Winston released metagross from its pokeball, mega evolving the iron leg pokemon. Attaching a cable to a port in the iron leg pokemon's back, and another to the astral projector's removed core, a sine curve appeared on one of Winston's monitors.

"Alright metagross, this may be a stretch, but I want you to hit a hundred megajoules of psionic energy. Think you can do that for me?"

Metagross shut its eyes, pumping its psychic energy through the cable. Winston activated a x10 amplifier, and the astral projector core began to heat up. Taking his measurements, Winston turned off the amplifier, before unplugging metagross from the projector.

"Winstonnnnnn! Got ya favorite!"

The scientist turned to see Lena at the door, bananas in hand as always. The cheery briton blinked into the room, stroking metagross' regenerated arm.

"The thing looks good as new, love! Ain'tcha just a big ol' brute! But don't scare me like that next time, gross! You gave me a heart attack!"

Winston scratched the back of his neck, taking the bananas. Lena blinked once more, this time to the megalith's containment unit.

"Pretty little thing, isn't it, love?" Lena said wondrously, laying a hand above the mega evolution sigil that flashed all over its shining surface. "Ah, if only I could've had another shot at it. Ame's strong, no doubt. What does it do anyway?"

"Well, that is classified information, but I suppose I can trust you to keep it a secret. Commander Morrison and Reyes were the ones who brought the megalith back. They were climbing Mount Coronet during their tour of Sinnoh about a year ago, up on Spear Pillar Reyes found something shiny embedded in one of the pillars. With Morrison, he extracted it and brought it home, and now here it is - the megalith.

"Enough of the backstory. Now, inside of this stone is a large quantity of energy. It's a really peculiar kind of energy that we haven't documented in our world in years past. This energy is responsible for the power surges that bring about mega evolution - yes, that means your key stone and mine were both tailored from this piece of stone itself, and both store a small amount of its energy.

"It's not just that though. If you recall Hanzo's decidueye using sinister arrow raid, that particular move also siphons some of this energy to power it. This kind of energy permeates both our dimension and theirs, but it has a different signature depending on which dimension it flows through. From what I have examined, I located signatures from our world, the pokemon world, and a few other pretty interesting ones.

"There's a dimension where time only exists in one moment, branching out into a billion different possibilities. Another one has the fabric of space completely liquified, allowing travel between two points instantaneously. The last one I've discovered is a world of ever-replicating antimatter, which I believe is the same dimension Talon was trying to access when we raided their base 6 months ago. Though there are quite a few faded and incomplete signatures of other realms as well, what we've found fits pretty well into Sinnoh's legends of creation, if I do say so myself."

"That'd be dialga, palkia and giratina, innit love? Heard that stuff from Mccree after he snooped around in Gabriel's office. Say, dialga's the guardian of time, why don't we drop by and ask if he'd improve my chronal accelerator? Surely he has some temporal database or something?"

"Well, as much as I would like to think that he will disagree, getting to this… temporal dimension would be nigh impossible. The megalith only houses the energy signature of these dimensions, but not a specific gateway to get through to them. Not only that, we'd need Overwatch's old tech, which is unstable, decommissioned and now illegal to use. And even if we do get there, we may end up causing a paradox and getting chased right back out."

"Oh well, then. Looks like whoever wins the tourney's gotta contend with a free mega stone for any pokemon he'd like! None of this transdimensional jibber jabber."

"I suppose so, Lena, but the megalith is powerful in its own right." The scientist glanced at the clock on his computer. "Hmm, lights out in half an hour. You'd best get going, Lena. It's been a pleasure talking."

"Aww, you're welcome big guy. See ya tomorrow!"

The Briton blinked out of the room, her chronal accelerator dimming a little as she did. Winston took notice, entertaining the thought of exploring other peculiar dimensions, and using their traits to further help mankind, just as the pokemon world did.

Soon, the lights went off. An invisible woman stepped from the shadows, taking hold of Winston's astral projector core. A rotom appeared behind her, laying one of its tendrils on the projector, and another on Winston's computer.

"Careful, now, amigo. Leave no trace."

Both units flashed pink as rotom downloaded their databases. The woman projected a string of code, giving it to her pokemon, who promptly installed it into the astral projector.

"Database transfer complete, modifications stabilized. Have a look, Sombra."

With her cybernetic fingers, Sombra produced multiple holographic screens, scanning through information on all of them.

"Heh, still no match for me, Athena. Now let's see... energy signatures, stability issues, link that to the dimensional traces… yes, I think I can work with this. Meanwhile, try not to over-exert that Astral Projector of yours. After all, I've just made some… improvements to it."