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When Professor Juniper pressed the button, a newly-launched satellite high above the world shot a beam at the Hoenn region. Instantly the landmass disappeared and like a pokémon was digitized. All of Hoenn, with all its towns and cities, all its people and pokémon, was downloaded onto the Professor's computer. Like a pokémon, the Professor could rematerialize it any time she wished. But that wasn't all she could do. With this wonderful program she had created, she could edit the captured data however she wished, and this she proceeded to do. A few minutes later, she directed the program to materialize the modified Hoenn—or rather, a copy of it, perfect down to the finest detail save for one little change: rather than reappearing in the middle of the ocean, in the roiling seas where tons and tons of saltwater still rushed in to fill the emptiness that its disappearance had left behind, Hoenn and all its millions of inhabitants now found themselves inhabiting a little Petri dish on the

2 Glasgow, Scotland Propped up against the pillows on her bed, Samantha Casey was busily typing out a text message on her phone when she paused halfway through. She looked around her bedroom, her inhuman eyes narrowed in suspicion. Was that smoke she could smell? She set her phone aside and got to her feet. She tilted her head and sniffed the air. It was smoke. Sam glanced down out of the window and saw nothing happening out there, just the little back yard that had been her playground all her young life. When you looked the way she did you wouldn’t make many friends. Feeling anxious all of a sudden she turned to the door leading onto the upstairs landing. Something was wrong, very badly wrong and she didn’t understand how she knew that. She opened the door, about to call down to her mother. A wall of boiling flame roared into the room and swallowed her alive. Sam bolted upright, sobbing and drenched