Oscar's first thought was 'who's deedee' before shaking his head free of superfluous thoughts. He twisted his neck into a nod, "Yes! Yes, it works beautifully. In this size anyway." Oscar gestured to the large pod, beautiful in its medical purity. "But it's not portable, which is what I need. There is no way you can lug this across a battlefield. Hmm, perhaps a demonstration would help."

Oscar walked over to a nearby box of pokeballs, every one a reject from Rocket's training or breeding programs. He pulled a random one off the top and walked over to the pokepod, tapping a few keystrokes to open it up. The contents of the ball was released, an elderly looking torkoal too confused to do anything as it was locked within the pod. After another set of keystrokes, the pokepod sprang to life with a loud whirring--its elastic tendrils stabbing themselves into the soft areas of the torkoal.

A mere few seconds later, and the machine would light up as it extracted the torkoal's Infinity Energy. The creature seized up before passing out entirely. As the machine did its work, Oscar would provide an explanation. "Infinity Energy is basically a natural power that fuels the life force of a pokemon. When extracted it can be used as a stronger form of electricity. The pod isn't hooked up to anything right now so it's just storing the energy--but you can imagine how it transfers and shit. Right now I have it so that the machine is extracting just enough to keep the pokemon in a comatose state. If I press here..."

Oscar messed with the console, and suddenly the torkoal sprang awake--screaming before mummifying and crumbling into dust. The machine sparked, but Oscar managed to turn it off before it could do anything unpredictable. "Pulling it all out at once kills the pokemon but provides a huge surge of power. It'll only last a few seconds but it's useful in a pinch." Oscar turned back to Yuan and rested his hands on his hips, "So what do you think? Can we shrink it?"

Yuan Wright

Stripping down the machine? Oscar had not considered that. His vision required this portable model to have all of the capabilities of its larger counterpart, but perhaps trying to fit everything into a small package was holding him back. Oscar enjoyed Wright's own vision for the future, he had been thinking a lot about exploring the possible uses of Infinity Energy outside of powering machinery. Perhaps Wright could assist him later.

For now though, they should stick to the task at hand. Oscar rubbed his chin as he gave the concept of downsizing some thought. "Ideally, the extractor would pull just enough energy to put a pokemon to sleep. That way it can continue to siphon energy as the pokemon 'recharges' its lost supply. If we downgrade the power of the extractor to that minimum level, we could leave out at least half of the circuitry."

Oscar smiled as he shot Wright a look of genuine respect. "Smart thinking, wish I thought of it first." Oscar walked over to his operational model and bent toward the base of the capsule. He popped open a panel and began rooting through the inner mechanisms. "What else would be superfluous within a smaller model?"

Yuan Wright

Oscar was enthralled by Wright, believing him to be just what he needed to solve this conundrum. He even believed him to be a bit of a genius--until he introduced Oscar to the 'Gerald Method'. Oscar's enthusiastic face slowly turned neutral as Dr. Wright had a mental breakdown right in front of him, yelling at what seemed to be an ordinary rubber duck.

Oh well, all great minds were a little loony. The man had some good ideas, so Oscar would not write him off just yet. Or should I say, Wright him off!? HAHAHAAA HA HA HA HA

HA HA HA

HA...heh.

Oscar feigned a smile as Wright returned to the realms of coherency, "For sure a ray in the future. Right now though Wright, I wanna focus on the portable extractor to power our existing war machines. I like your idea about a lighter metal, though the smelted steel pokemon I've been employing have proven to be about as light as metal can get."

Oscar tapped his cheek as he pondered his options. "Would you happen to know the lightest steel type off the top of your head?"

Yuan Wright