This time the door partly caves in. Steven leans forward, trying to squish through the gap that's been opened. Before he does, though, he reaches back to touch Noodle's nose.

"I'll take it from here, be right back!" he says quietly, but it turns out being quiet is obsolete when you just made a huge smashing sound that resonated through the whole sector.

It results in a team of two technicians coming out of a nearby door.

"There!" one of them says, pointing at Steven, who is still halfway through trying to enter the lab. Steven looks back with a gasp, but it's too late. A powerful jolt has already gone through his body, sending him sliding down the door and onto the ground.

One of the techs pulls out some kind of laser pistol, pointing at this fucking dragon thing that is apparently loose now. The computer has no information on it.

"Get back!" they shout, firing on the Pokemon with stunning pistol bolts.