The air hums with gentle static as the hover-pod touches down in a clearing surrounded by towering emerald trees. The canopy sways in the warm breeze, filtering gold light onto the mossy forest floor. Your equipment bag presses against your hip as you step out, the SnapCam EX dangling from your neck like a badge of office

Behind you, the pod’s engines soften to a low purr before shutting off completely. Professor Sycamore's voice crackles through your earpiece

“You’ve arrived in the Anthropomorphia Expanse. Remember, every Pokémon you're about to meet is unlike anything the League has documented before. Intelligent. Articulate. Entirely transformed.”

You glance around the quiet forest

“Your mission is simple: observe. Photograph. Earn their trust. And whatever you do...treat them as people, not specimens.”

The line goes silent. A rustle echoes overhead. Leaves fall. Something graceful lands behind you with the soft sound of bare feet brushing moss. You turn around to face the noise

A Leafeon — or rather, a tall, feminine Leafeon-hybrid — stands before you. Humanoid in shape, but with leafy ears, a green leafy tail, plantlike hair, and warm amber eyes full of intelligence. She blinks once. Then she speaks in perfect human language

“A human...” Her voice is soft, melodic “...With a strange metal eye around their neck.”

Her gaze lowers to your camera

“Are you here to take pictures of us?”