The New Normal – 5-2 – Interlude – Devon Scientist
His frustration grew. Why was it so difficult for his colleagues to understand the potential of the evolution device that he created for Porygon? Science was all about discovering the unknown and furthering the gaze of humanity, so he failed to comprehend why his superiors and colleagues almost unanimously rejected his newly created evolution device for Porygon2.
When his colleagues developed an evolution device they called an 'Up-Grade', which successfully evolved Porygon into a Porygon2, he naturally took the device one step further. He felt it obvious that if he just took the data that triggered the evolution of a Porygon and extrapolated it even further, then he hypothesized that they would be able to trigger yet another evolution for Porygon2.
And yet, when he shared his very reasonable proposal to his superiors and colleagues, they all blabbered on about 'inherent risks' and 'reckless testing'. He just couldn't understand why no one else saw the things he did; this was the ONE opportunity to push the Porygon2 evolution even further!
According to the data that they were already receiving from Porygon2, it was already a rather formidable Pokémon already and was able to fight at the higher levels of Pokémon battles. He could just imagine how powerful an evolved form of Porygon2 would be, and what uses it could bring to both the battling and scientific world.
Which was where he found himself now. He had successfully 'persuaded' a colleague of his to grant him access to one of the Porygon2 scheduled for routine testing. He only had an hour, but that should be enough to do what he needed to do.
He didn't have a name for his evolution disk, but he knew that he would be dead before he allowed it to be called a 'Dubious Disk', like one of his colleagues had jokingly named it. Putting that out of his mind, he released the Porygon2 from its Pokéball and slowly approached it, evolution disk held in hand.
As he got closer, the Porygon2 seemingly backed away nervously, its eyes staring frighteningly at the disk. As he noticed this, a part of himself was warning him that this was a bad idea, and that he should stop and actually listen to his colleagues. But the more stubborn part of himself, the one that was endlessly focused on his ambition to prove himself as a great scientist, ignored this.
Thus, he thrust his arm forward and nearly punched the Porygon2 with the disk in hand.
"Pory! Pory! Pory!" The Porygon2 whirred in panic, but it was unable to run away in time before he managed to inject the data set from his disk into the Porygon2.
Immediately, his eyes gleamed with excitement as the signature white glow of evolution engulfed the room. Finally! He knew that his foolish colleagues were simply too cowardly and cautious. And with this success, he knew that his name would be catapulted to the heights of the scientific world!
He had already thought of a name for this evolution! It was going to be called 'Porygon-Z'; named after himself, of course.
As the bright white light of evolution slowly started to settle, a spherical cylinder toy shaped Porygon greeted him. He smiled happily as he saw this.
"Porygon-Z, you're going to be my legacy." He spoke to it, as he began gathering up some monitoring equipment. "Now then, let's see what you can do…"
Unfortunately, as he was distracted with collecting the monitoring equipment, he failed to notice the confused and almost frantic buzzing that was coming out of the Porygon-Z. The whirring and buzzing gradually intensified, and by the time he turned back to face the newly evolved Porygon-Z, the buzzing almost had a maddening edge to it.
"Hey, what's wrong with you?" He asked confusedly, "And can you cut it out with the sounds, it's getting really irritating…Woah!"
He ducked out of the way when the Porygon-Z threw himself against a wall, creating a dent as it crashed headfirst into it. It was spinning around maddeningly and almost seemed like it had no control over itself.
"Pory! GON! GON! GONNN!" It cried painfully to the world, unable to break free from the corrupt data circulating through it.
Okay, he really was starting to worry now. He didn't know what in Arceus was going on, but the new Porygon-Z was acting very unstably and seemed to be plagued by something. He looked around desperately as he tried to think of something to solve this mess, something that could hopefully calm down this Porygon-Z and so that he could still classify his experiment as a success.
He refused to be ruined like this! He had worked so hard to climb the ladder of Devon Corp and to be assigned to this project. He would not let his career end because of one error!
And yet, despite his frantic struggling, he was once again forced to dive away as the Porygon-Z once again threw itself at him, this time smashing and destroying the monitoring equipment that had been brought in.
Which, of course, automatically triggered the safety alarms that were attached to them.
Red lights and sirens began flashing and blaring across the facility, and he knew it was over. Soon, the door to the room slammed open as the security guards burst in with their Machoke's and Kadabra's. One of them roughly grabbed him by the shoulders and threw him backwards, out of the room and into safety.
As he looked up in a slight daze from where he had fallen on his back, he was faced with the furious visage of his superior staring down at him.
"You fool." His superior spat at him, "I've already been told what happened. If you only could actually put aside your ego for once and actually LISTEN to what we've been trying to tell you, then this incident wouldn't have happened."
He stayed silent, bitterness warring with shame, as his superior continued, "Fortunately, these Porygon aren't trained for power. Otherwise, this incident might have caused far more structural damage. You're lucky that it didn't bring down the whole facility."
His superior grabbed him by the scruff of his coat, glaring at him furiously. "I want a full report on the incident detailing everything that went wrong and how to avoid creating an unstable evolution like it again. Hopefully we'll get something out of studying your new Porygon evolution so that this entire thing wasn't a waste."
Then his superior released him, pushing him back onto the floor, and he let out a colossal sigh. All things considered; it could have been worse.
"Also, you're demoted. Effectively immediately. You're lucky you didn't get fired." His superior added, before walking away.
Fuck.
A.N. Just wanted to show what would happen if someone used the Dubious Disk as per canon. TLDR – it doesn't go well. Which was why John was so hesitant with his Porygon2 evolution to begin with. Luckily, his turned out fine.
So yeah, the scientists are going to need to find a way to make the Porygon-Z evolution stable and safe first before releasing it.
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