The cold blew through Lucas' many layers as he flew towards the Space Center. There wasn't an ounce of warmth left in his body as he lands. Aerodactyl's wings sends snow flying as it settles just by the front doors to the space center. Lucas slides off its back with no delay. He desperately wanted to get inside, where it was warm. After fumbling with a pokeball for several beats the fossil pokemon disappears. Dropping the pokeball into his side pocket his attention would immediately fall on his partner. "Persephone I presume?" Lucas' voice is muffled, a white scarf covering everything beneath his eyes. "Let's move inside before someone catches a cold." Namely him, his entire body shivering from the ride over.

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Lucas pulls down his scarf first as he begins to undo his layers. A hand runs through his mahogany hair, fluffing it up before unbuttoning his coat. As they walk in silence towards the recess of the center he turns over the name Amavi in his head. He knew that name. It felt so familiar.

"Artifacts, there's artifacts?" He couldn't believe he was hearing of this now. Lucas thought nothing made it out, that the rescuers were lucky to have gotten out alive. "I didn't think any made it out, honestly. I had plans to talk to FERNANDO SILPH about the event. Are the artifacts under League custody, or?" He meant to imply if there were any for sale, any he could get for himself.

"Oooh" the flickering red lights caught his eye. "That's uh" the flickering stops, the lights becoming solid red over numerous pieces of machinery. "That's not suppose to happen. Hey somebody, security! We've got a problem!" He calls out down a corridor, but there was no one besides Persephone in earshot. "This is not good, not not good." His ability of perception was truly extraordinary. Unfamiliar with the machinery he begins to walk around the room, eyes moving across everything in sight. All in search of maybe an emergency switch, instructions for what to do in the event of an emergency, anything to help the duo.

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"I can hear something. But is it the power?" The situation didn't strike Lucas as something so simple. "The rest of the powers still going. It shouldn't be doing this," he said. The words came out rapidly, some slurred together. His mind raced as he thought of potential causes and solutions to the situation. With Perse's word's it'd finally dawn on him.

Something had gone awry with the machine. An unforeseen development with the experiment.

Lucas followed his colleague's lead as he released a Heliolisk. A command shot out from him immediately. The room lit up as the Heliolisk used thunder on a set of conductors. "This is going to be unsustainable. Circuits aren't often made to take in this much power." The scientist found himself hovering over a board filled with numerous buttons, levers, and sliders. Few were labelled, much less useful. "What needs this kind of power anyway?"

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「3/5」

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"Simulation of evolution? Remind me to ask them about it after we make it out."

Lucas racked his skull to remember equipment Devon used for a similar experiment. It'd do little for him, as he soon found the machine was entirely different. Mossdeep, much like other tech companies, chose not to rely on their competitor's inventions for secret experiments.

His finger moved around the dial board, hovering under dials as he thought of their uses. One wrong move and the whole experiment, and his career could go awry. After a rushed contemplation he twisted a dial counter-clockwise. The whirring of the machines while still prevalent, have quieted down somewhat. "Keep up the power," he commanded. The heliolisk released another discharge of electricity towards the conductors.

"We're getting somewhere. Someone should be coming soon. They need to do check-ups often for this sort of experiment. Or at the very least when an emergency sensor has gone off."

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"Again" he commanded. The heliosk shot another bolt of electricity into the conductor.

"That should be it," Lucas said confidentially. He could hear walking coming from just outside the door. The footsteps of what the head scientist assumed to be their saviour. A scientist that worked on the experiment that had gone awry.

Lucas stepped away from the dial board and strode across the room. He peered through the glass, straining his eyes to see what was happening inside. Persephone was right. Something was happening to the relic. It didn't resemble what he expected of an evolution simulation however. "What exactly is this?" He thought aloud, the words leaving his mouth right as an employee entered the room.

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