#ooc: ''nerd out over cool science with Lysandre'' vs ''make sure Lysandre isn't trying to use the weapon and if so talk him down''

[the-fluffiest-trainer]

[An audio recording is attached. It is slightly muffled, like the holocaster is in a bag, but still clear enough.]

This is the Ultimate Weapon? It's... I honestly don't know if I expected it to be bigger or smaller.

This is it. It is large, yes, and I don't know if we could move it if we tried. But at the same time, it is no larger than the mainframes of early computing. Here it has lain for three thousand years, near the coast, in the center of what was once the battlefield in the great Galar war. According to legend, it was built on the very spot where the king's beloved pokemon fell in battle, as a way of inflicting the same pain he felt upon all the invading armies.

Are you sure? I heard he built it as a machine to resurrect his pokemon first, and only converted it into the weapon later.

Ah, who knows. Some say he was successful, and made both the pokemon and himself immortal. More reputable scholars tend to call the whole thing nonsense. But then, there are plenty of scholars who disbelieve that the Ultimate Weapon ever existed.

[There is a pause in the recording, with only the faint sounds of hoofsteps on a hard floor.]

So if those cables are where the power comes in, and that lens is where is comes out... The shape of that suggests it would fire a beam straight upward, but then how would the infinity energy actually hit anything and do what the legends say it did?

In the beginning, you have it right. But this part here...

Life calls to life, and infinity energy is the essence of life. When the attractive capacitor module is active, the Weapon acts less as a laser and more as a fountain, as all the energy it puts out is called back to earth by its causal force. Not directly of course, there's a cross product term in the math so you get a sideways force spreading it into more of a paraboloid, but you get the idea. The point is, it splashes, and that is what scoured clean the ancient shores and drove the lord of Galar back to his islands across the way.

And then after the capacitor has served its purpose in directing the main blast, you can discharge it as well for a second wave!

Or redirect its charge through the diode to jumpstart the main power banks again. Either way, it is a capacitor, so you don't want to leave it charged and walk away. On this team, we like our explosions controlled.

Oh, of course. I w–

[There is a brief, almost strangled sound from Twilight, as if she suddenly choked on her own words.]

Are you alright?

Quite fine, thank you. What I meant to say was, I would hope there are no explosions at all resulting from this device. It shall be a weapon no longer, as the aim is for the betterment of the region, and the world, yes?

It will bring stability to a world still wracked by too much conflict. No more will men fight for limited resources.

In a world with near-infinite free energy, I suppose that's right, there wouldn't be a need. Though we should find a better source of infinity energy than draining it from legendary pokemon – surely it can be drawn out of the earth somehow? Maybe–

[Twilight is cut off again by a fit of coughing.]

Twi, no, please–

It is worth investigation. Are you sure you are feeling okay? There is no shame in taking a medical leave; you are a part of Team Flare regardless of whether you stand within the labs. I promised to guarantee your safety when you joined, and I take that to include from your own overwork.

Maybe I should call it a day, at least. Just... promise me Fluttershy's concerns are unfounded? She is still my friend, and it is hard to think of her as so mistaken. Promise me this device will not be used as a weapon again?

I promise I have only Kalos's best interests at heart. Now go and rest, and clear your head. The team will need you at your best.

[Recording ends.]