“Why was Kyle in a wall!”, Zerom shouts. “He's water damaged. His files are all corrupted. I work on stuff like him.” explains Myke. “Oh bye the way your pupil shape and color are different, what happened, your yellow, and your plasma is a teal.” points out some skitty. “New weird dungeon, and Kyle's arm's stuck in his head, again.” says Myke before he grabs his tools and gets to working on Kyle. Zerom wants to see if she can find a new dungeon, so she goes out to the forest, but first she buys a purple scarf since it's her favorite color, and a substitute TM. This will come in handy, and the TM was on sale too, nice. While walking Zerom found a trail, it's an orange, she wants to follow it, find where its from, make sure the pokemon that may or may not be at the end is safe. It leads through forests and beaches, even a cave. But at the end of the road, all there is to be found is a cracked container labeled: Experiment F1r3. She's not sure if this is a joke label or if she should worry. She realized that she's surrounded by some, uh, never mind just puddles of swirling red and purple goop, has a distinct burning smell, oh, it is burning. Apparently they're burning dittos. Their faces are melting, they're suffering, burning, screaming to be put out of their misery, yelling, telling Zerom to run while she can, they seem to be, oh, uh, their whole bodies are melting, burning, becoming ash. Zerom… just leave, it would be better to go, they won't last that long, the… leave the cartridge, why would you get it. The dittos perish and leave only ashes in their place. Zerom on the other hand runs home, she can't help but feel something burning, the liquid from the container, it burns, the burning pain, it won't stop. She drops the cartridge, the TM is used. Zerom uses substitute. Zerom leans in the substitute for some time before the pair continue that travel to the village, the substitute on the way takes the form of a vulpix to try and help cheer Zerom up. “Promise me you'll keep that form, please, Al…, can I call you Alice, I know your my substitute, but I want to give you a name.”, says Zerom, the substitute just nods. “I guess that means your a human too.” mutters Zerom. A few hours pass before they get back to the village. The village immediately goes to check Zerom and Alice's conditions. Zerom has a scratch behind her left ear and a burn, most likely from the dittos, she also seems to have learned flamethrower. Everyone in the village assumed that the vulpix taught her and asked no further questions, except Myke who puts the container in a secure box, and does his own personal check to discover that Zerom has gained a fire typing. Myke on the other hand seems to have gained a poison typing confirming his concerns. Alice and Zerom are left to go back home, Alice seems to have taken an interest in reading.
