Lab incident

Aoki returned to his hotel in the evening and found Sabrina already dressed up and ready to leave.

After seven days of constant practice, the presence of Sabrina had changed.

Due to the constant overloading of her mind with psychic power and sharing her mind with Alakzam, her psychic powers received a big boost.

Although she didn't reach stage zero psychic like Agatha yet, Sabrina was close and Aoki calculated it wouldn't take long for Sabrina to stage zero.

Sabrina seemed to be happier after becoming strong which was a good thing for Aoki.

Since Sabrina was now able to control the power of Mega Evolution, Aoki decided to let her keep the Mega stone for Alakazam since his Abra would take a while to reach his last stage.

"How did you find the location ?" Aoki asked.

"I used some favors from my ex-colleagues and searched every corner of the black market to find the location of the lab.

A place like that cannot be made in a few days so some people were aware of it being built"

"Thanks for your hard work Sabrina "

"Don't mention it, you are already helping me more than I can repay you"

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The path to the research lab was very complicated.

They entered a normal-looking house, entered the basement which was the entrance of the Black Market.

Aoki decided to shop for some psychic orbs and ground orbs for Abra and Trapinch.

Eevee already had a normal orb that Aoki bought for her a few days.

Axew had already access to dragon scales and dragon fangs that broke off Salamence while training so Aoki didn't have to buy anything for Axew.

After walking for a while, they entered a room that had a big pink ball floating in the air.

This was a coordinate device that had coordinates for teleportation to various locations throughout the island.

Psychic Pokemon can use this to teleport to locations that they had never been before.

As soon as Alakazam touched the orb, multiple coordinations flashed within his mind.

Sabrina gave some description of the specific location as Alakazam locked into that coordinate for teleportation.

Three of them disappeared and appeared in front of a big laboratory.

The lab was black in color and looked like an ancient castle.

Aoki remembered the castle from the Mewtwo movie and realized that the lab in front of him was a miniature version of it.

The location of the lab was within a giant underground chamber.

Darkrai stood beside Aoki and informed them that there were no humans in the lab but there were some Pokemon inside them.

Aoki and Sabrina entered the lab with flashlights and found that all the things were in terrible condition.

There were cracks all over the wall and most of the machines were broken.

[Mewtwo's energy signature is all over the place] Darkrai said.

Swish!

A wild Rattata jumped on Aoki trying to bite him but Darkrai caught him.

Aoki looked at the Ratata properly and found that it was red in color which he had never seen before.

"It has lost its mind," Sabrina said.

"So it's one of the test subjects….. "

Aoki and Sabrina traveled from room to room looking for interesting they can find.

There were a lot of Pokemon skulls that seemed to be modified versions of normal Pokemon.

Aoki came across a lot of red colors Rattata who had completely lost their minds beyond help.

As there was no food, they fed on each other.

Aoki and both agreed that putting them out of misery would be the best so Darkrai decided to painlessly put them to permanent sleep.

Next, he came across a room that felt like a child's room with various broken toys and pictures.

Searching the room, Sabrina found what appeared to be a journal.

The journal was written by a man named Fuji who recorded her daughter's development from being born and stopped suddenly when she became five.

From the tone of the last few pages, it felt like his daughter passed away at age five.

Finally, Aoki entered the room which appeared to be the main control room with a lot of broken screens and computers and large blood stains.

[Human Blood]

There was a large broken tube at the center of the room with wires attached to it.

It had the highest energy signature of Mewtwo in the entire lab.

Aoki slowly took them apart one by one and tried to find any working parts.

He found multiple hard drives and tried connecting them to a spare laptop that he brought.

Out of all the hard drives, only one of them worked.

It had some research documents and two recorded videos.

Aoki opened the documents and found that they only had data about some of the experiments but nothing significant that Aoki could put to use.

Sabrina came near Aoki wanting to see what the videos were about.

Both videos were recorded six months ago.

The first video started with a scene where the lab was perfectly working.

There were about fifteen people in the room wearing lab coats indulging in various activities.

Floating in the tube was a pink bipedal Pokemon with metal armor attached to its body.

"Mewtwo…."Sabrina muttered.

The video continued for a few seconds before a person came in front of the camera.

The man wore glasses and had long hair and a beard.

" My name is Professor Fuji and I am the lead researcher of Project Mewtwo...

Today we have reached the final stage of our experiment of creating a legendary Pokemon from the genes of the mythical Mew and various legendary Pokemon.

From the direction we are going, the experiment is a success.

Just in a month, Mewtwo went from junior level to peak of elite level.

We believe that it shall reach Champion rank within a few days...

But we only have one problem….

Mewtwo is different from other psychic Pokemon.

His mind is like a human..the curious mind of humans…..So Mewtwo has to be connected to an armor we created to stop him from becoming out of control.

I guess it's my fault for letting Mewtwo interact with my….. dead daughter who I tried to clone.

Even if I could not clone her, I am glad that Mewtwo got her curiosity….

I miss you, Amber….."

These were the last words Fuji spoke before the glass tube around Mewtwo shattered as all the people in the room exploded splashing blood everywhere.

The video ended with a man in a black suit walking into the lab with a shiny totem Beedrill alongside two people.

"Seems like Giovani was here.

Not just him, Blaine and Professor Oak too"

Aoki played the second video which had CCTV footage of all the rooms.

As the enclosure of Mewtwo broke, all the humans as well as the machines could be seen exploding.

This footage also ended with Giovani, Oak, and Blaine walking into the room.

"So this is what happened here…" Sabrina muttered watching the horrifying scene.

"I didn't know that Professor Oak was involved in this" Aoki said.

Aoki and Sabrina spent an hour more in the lab but didn't find anything as everything was destroyed.

Even if machines were destroyed, some research evidence should be there but seems like they were taken away.

There was nothing in the lab except the video that could lead back to Team Rocket.

With only the journal and two drives Aoki and Sabrina returned back to their hotels.

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In the night :

"So where to go next?" Sabrina asked.

"I am thinking about returning back to Orange town, my hometown for a few days. " Aoki said.

"What about the Volcano badge? "Sabrina asked.

"I already have 5 official and 3 unofficial badges so I don't need any more badges.

I am thinking about giving my Pokemon a short vacation to meet their old friends "

"Sounds a like a good idea…"

"I have already met Zapdos and have Articuno, the only legendary bird left is Moltres so I am going in search of Moltres next before the league"

Excitement filled Sabrina after hearing about Aoki confronting another legend.

"I looked into the rumors and people believe that Moltres can be found in the Volcanos of One island in the southeast region of Kanto near Orre and Hoen region. "

"Can't wait for it" Sabrina expressed her excitement.

As they were talking, the doorbell of their room rang.

Aoki opened the door and was taken aback by the person on the door.

He was a tall man in his twenties. The man had darker skin and had long blue hair.

He wore white trousers and a black shirt with a matching white hat.

"Aoki Gunhildr I finally found you!

I am Leon from Galar the region.

I am the man who will become the World Champion!

Aoki Gunhildr! I challenge you to a battle!"