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I shook myself from my cluelessness to answer the newcomer. "I, uh... was going to challenge you to a Pokemon battle, to help strengthen your pokemon, when you're not busy."

Reno looked at him and gave a curt nod. "Alrighty then. And I'll do it Sub. Just let me feed our little jailbird. Gotta see 'ow shes doing." Turning on his heel, the aforementioned Beldum trailed after him, having its Pokeball hover beside it. Grabbing some food from the kitchen, he ventured down into the holding cells. Lightly tapping on Io's cell, he said, "Soups on, miss. 'Ope your 'ungry."

Once Reno went downstairs to feed Io, I had my chance to ask Sub what he meant by all of that, but something else had already caught my attention. Beldum? That dude has an underevolved Metagross?

He'd be one to watch, I realized. "So, what you're saying is that rock gave her some kind of Pokemon power? And she could control it? And, what, you put an energy type she's weak to into her body, so she can't use her power anymore? I asked.

I sounded like I had the gist of it, but I was really just making wild guesses.

I started to say something to Sub, like he wasn't making any sense, but actually, he kinda was. My brain started putting together the pieces, and making me understand. So, chi was the life energy that all Pokemon used in their attacks, but it's not just Pokemon that have this energy. They're just the only ones that can use it. Or so I thought. So, Io used her channeler powers to take Psychic chi from that rock, and used it to... what? Go crazy, Sub said, but what exactly did she do?

I didn't ask him that, because another realization hit me, too. This explains hybrids. Some humans got hit with a large infusion of this 'chi' and mutated into half-human, half-pokemon beings. Or, maybe some of them were born like that?

So, while all this was coming together in my brain, I was staring blankly at Sub, probably giving him the impression that I didn't catch any of that. Oops.

While Sub was turned to talk to Terashi, Two quietly floated closer by an inch or two. Why? to be closer to the rock. HisHerIts unmoving red eyes fixed onto the stone. As if that wasn't creepy enough, Two projected a feeling as if it was lusting after this rock to a point where it would shudder if it wasn't a floating rock.

I snapped out of it, when Sub called out to me. "Yeah," I told him. "I think I got it no- what is that Lunatone doing?"

Tails turned to look up at Sigilyph as well, tails wagging behind him. "It's probably you," he said. "You're the one that's taken down a legendary class Pokemon."