Those running the process will be in for a long day.

On your person:

Clearance Keycard

Keys to car for transport between home and work

Wallet with $50 cash and a debit card where your paychecks get deposited

Pokeball containing a (regular, non-altered) Rotom that knows:

Ominous Wind

Shockwave

Thunderwave

Swift

Foul Play

Sitting in your office, you look over your desk, a pile of papers cluttered around, notes scribbled everywhere in pencil. You look over your calendar. Next week is the big week. An email notification pops up on your screen, from Dr. Anton.They hadn’t forgotten you, at least. WIth extra vigor, you go back over your paperwork, reviewing the steps. Statistically speaking, somethinggoes wrong the first few times a process is run. The Psychological profiling that Matthew is currently running will complete soon.You scratch out the predicted order. First, Eevee. The first run of this is likely to fail in some way. Poor tuning of the waves, combined with Eevee’s unstable biology means that it is likely forced to evolve. Better to have instantaneous feedback than potentially waste multiple subjects on accident.Mienfoo for second and third. Mienfoo’s anthropomorphic body is useful, the only models of sapience you have are humans, so it may acclimate to being sapient easier than others with more complicated biology. Snivy is a similar situation.The remaining: Axew, then Emolga and Deino The President of Fusion Labs’ parent organization has a particular fondness for the Dragon types, which could be useful as a symbolic gesture once the process has matured and become more reliable. Inkay, not on the list. Just a gut feeling that didn’t sit right.Everything should already be in order, but you review the checklist again. You leave your office.In the hallway, you run into Jezebel. “Hey Doctor,” she says.“Morning, Jezebel” you respond.“Morning. I’ve set up the chamber, all safety precautions are in place. Matt should be wrapping up the last of the profiling now” She says.“Good. Here’s the tentative ordering of pokemon.” You say, handing her the list.“You sure about this?”“What’s wrong with it?”“Well, first off, Inkay on the last of the list? You aren’t superstitious are you?”“I don’t think so.”“In that case, for the record, I think you might need to spend some time with an Inkay in person. A Dark/Psychic dual pokemon isn’t anything we should be worried about, for one. They’re not intelligent enough to evenevil. And the issues with Malamar in the past doesn’t make any sense. It was probably a storm bird or other legendary agitating them, like every other myth about rampaging pokemon.”She has a point.from a legendary has caused millions of pokemon to be more aggressive, agitated, and flighty. All you can do is shrug. You are so low on resources you can’t exclude pokemon just because of superstition around Malamar. “Add it to the end of the list then. We can re-order later if a once the process has been ran a time or two. Please make sure that everything is prepped for Eevee. We’re all aware of the protocol.”Jezebel just nods her head. “All right.”After checking everything, and going over the protocols, lunchtime rolls around. You pull out your bag from the fridge. Pidgey sandwich with fried bellsprout. Matthew comes into the break room with you, and looks at your meal.“I don’t know why I never noticed before, but I guess I you don’t subscribe to the question of eating pokemon either, do you?”“No, I don’t.” You say. The kid, in his early 20’s, goes to the fridge and pulls out his own lunch.“Have you tried the meat they’re trying to grow?”“Yeah.”“It tastes like garbage!” He exclaims. You just nod in agreement. “Somehow, they made meat, but excluded the heme that makes it taste good.”The teams working on the fake meat knew that, and were working on it. It was… difficult, though. Unfortunately, those teams failed to hire you or any other researchers from Rocket Labs disaster with relevant experience modifying genetics.And for some reason, Fusion Labs didn’t indicate any interest in that market. Guilt-free meat. A future project, you suppose.“I guess you’ve not really made a big deal out of it. Makes sense why some people avoid eating lunch at the same time as you.”You just shrugged as Matthew kept talking gossip, eventually moving about the developments in other areas of pokemon genetic research, but you just grunted. Kid could talk for hours about nothing. Eating meat at Fusion Labs was a big deal when the staff was larger and they had provided decent ‘guilt-free’ meals at first, which made it easy. Now, though? Not so much.After lunch, you and the three researchers are gathered in a light circle. You begin: “I’ve given Jezebel the ordered list of pokemon. We’ll be starting with Eevee. I expect she’ll last about 10 hours, with a ten minute break every three hours. During that time, we’ll run a quick analysis to ensure her psychic wavelengths match the profile we’ve analyzed.”You look to Matt. “The last psychological profile has been run”, He says, taking a pause, “and the calculations will be finished in the next five minutes.”“Good” you say, “we’ll begin the expansion process shortly.”You look to Jezebel. “The harness for Eevee is setup, aerosolized sleep powder will be released every few minutes to keep Eevee sedate without knocking her out.”You look to Ryan. “I’ve ran the numbers” he begins, “on the report for the psychology analysis. I can’t find any significant difference between this eevee or her non-altered sister. Numbers don’t seem to be any different than her parent, either. Which don’t seem to be any different than her non-altered counterpart.”“Ryan and Jezebel, please make sure the area is clean, re-review the checklists. Statistically speaking, the first process in these operations is a failure. Let’s do what we can with the limited resources to make it as likely to succeed as we can.”“And Matt, please let everyone know when the calculations finish. I’ll be in to oversee the setup of the beginning of the process, but will also want to review the profiles that have been made up to this point.” Everyone nods. You head back to your office to wrap up some number crunching.About ten minutes later, Matt pops into your office. “The calculations have finished, Jezebel and Ryan are letting Eevee out for a bit before beginning.”“Good”, you say, “I’ll be out in a minute to review the setup.” Matt pauses.“Also, I, uh, ran the numbers on Ryan’s report. Something doesn’t make sense with what he’s saying.”Great. Just what you needed, what with the superiors coming next week. Just what you need. A weekend of reviewing camera footage and comparing the numbers with the actual results of the test.Quest Notes:Current Location: In your office, in a semi-isolated research facility in Unova.Current Date and Time: Thursday, 12pm.All previous Pokemon tests have been recorded on camera.