Player walks out of the gym and sees people rushing by towards a building, someone bumps into the player.
Player: What's going on?
Other: Come quick! A fight has broken out in Pavlov's lab!
Player walks to the lab and is greeted by a hostile scene: townspeople surround two men in lab coats with a third man in a suit off to the side.
???: Damnit, Valentine! I won't let you do this to us! This changes nothing for you. Nothing! I'll kill you!
Valentine: My dear Boris –
Pavlov: That's Dr. Pavlov to you!
Valentine: As I was saying, my dear Boris: you and my employer had an agreement – a contract, in fact – and your request is in direct violation with that agreement.
Pavlov: It's one machine, and one damn egg! It won't make a bit of difference if we use it once before passing it on. Mr. Valentine, you may be a man of funds but I've always been a man of action; I'll kill you if you attempt to take this opportunity away from me.
Valentine: I'd like to see you try.
Player steps up: Stop! I don't fully understand what's going on here, but this won't solve anything!
An Enigma officer walks in, the crowds depart silently.
Officer: I trust you can resolve this by yourselves, gentlemen? I have important business to attend to, and if I'm forced to return you'll both disappear. Am I understood?
Valentine+Pavlov: Yes sir.
Officer: Good, if either of you hear anything about the son of a ranger I expect you to inform me immediately. Is that understood?
Valentine+Pavlov: Yes sir.
Officer: I'll be off then. Good day to you, gentlemen.
Valentine (to player): So, you're the son of a ranger, eh? Don't look so surprised; your emotions are what gave it away in the first place. Don't worry, your secret's safe with me.
Player: You seem to be mistaken… but what exactly is going on here?
Pavlov: I was hired by a Mr. Barnes to develop a modified incubator to hatch the offspring of a species thought previously to be extinct. You see, the pokemon inside are essentially frozen without contact from their mother – no growth, no aging, no life. There are currently no known female specimens left in the world, but my assistant and I have managed to recreate that contact with a series of electrical stimuli.
Player: That's incredible! Does it really works?
Valentine: Oh it will, they just need a few more parts – a few more incredibly expensive parts – and should Boris here stay true to his word, the machine will be in my boss' hands in no time. If, however, he attempts to use it for himself, it will be ceased and funding will be pulled immediately.
Player: I don't understand, why can't you both use the machine?
Valentine: Tell them, Boris. Give him the full story, no more of your half truths and deception.
Pavlov: … there is… a chance that the machine will only have enough life to restore one egg to life. But even if that is the case we could just recreate it.
Player: Wait, so you're being paid to develop this technology but would have it for yourself?
Valentine: Exactly, I'm glad we see eye to eye.
Pavlov: This is my life's work! My life's work! I just need to know what's inside this egg… I need to know… please, I have no family, this egg's mother was my family. It was my life! You must understand, I beg of you!
Valentine: I'll tell you what. We have an industrious young man with us, and the son of a ranger, no less. Why don't we let him decide?
Pavlov: I… Okay. Please understand what I'm going through…
Valentine: That's quite enough Boris. He understands the law, and justice will be served. So what'll it be?
The player will then have the option of siding with either Boris Pavlov, the scientist, or Mr. Valentine and his wealthy boss. It's a question of emotion vs. justice, and your choice will matter. Siding with Valentine will lead to the closing of the lab and Pavlov turning on you later in the game in the form of an extra battle in a post-game dungeon. If you choose Pavlov, Valentine's powerful employer, Mr. Barnes, will close his mansion down to you and you'll see several of his agents sent to seek revenge for your choice later in the game.
If Pavlov:
Pavlov: Thank you! Thank you so much…
Valentine: Your funding is through, and you'll be hearing from our lawyers. And you (turns to player). You'll be hearing from us.
You'll then have to bring a prototype to various cities (the first of which being to the next town you're supposed to go to) in order to show off the technology and get support in the form of the missing materials. Once the pokemon is hatched, the device will break and he'll thank you profusely and tell you to take the pokemon, explaining that it deserves a trainer who will challenge and raise it, but asks you to stop in occasionally. Later on there will be more quests from Pavlov.
If Valentine:
Valentine: An excellent choice, my boy.
Pavlov: You… you're heartless. I'm taking the machine with me! Damn your decision! Damn you all! (To other man) Anderson, let's leave.
Valentine: Anderson, you have a family to feed – be reasonable and bring the device over here.
Anderson: I'm sorry Boris… I'm so sorry.
Pavlov leaves. You'll then bring valuable gems to exchange for the missing parts, and Anderson will help assemble the device. Once the pokemon is hatched you'll be given the pokemon and told that they have plenty more. You'll also be informed that Barnes wants to meet with you about a job opportunity, opening new missions later.
Regardless of who you choose, the other will report you to the Enigma officer and you'll be forced to leave town with the instruction of attaining the parts, and leading you to the next stop on your path. Should you choose to ignore the quest that'll be fine, but you'll miss everything that follows. I have some ideas for what the pokemon should be like, and for what the quests should be like, but there will be quests for both that would lead the player to believe he's made the right and wrong choice, depending on the quest.