Zero Lab

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The Zero Lab's door is initially locked by four separate locks, forcing the player to visit the four Research Stations around Area Zero in order to unlock the entrance. When the door is first unlocked, a group of Paradox Pokémon comes out and attacks the player and their friends. Once the path has been cleared, the player is able to enter the laboratory.

The first floor of the Zero Lab contains the working space and living quarters of Professor Sada^S/Professor Turo^V. The area contains multiple small chambers used to study the crystals found in Area Zero, the Professor's research notes, whiteboards, a bed, and an elevator to the bottom floor. This is where the player first encounters AI Sada^S/Turo^V, who reveals that the real professor is dead and asks the player's help in stopping the time machine it and the Professor built together in order to stop an influx of Paradox Pokémon from destroying Paldea's ecosystem.

Taking the elevator down to the bottom floor allows the player to reach the time machine room, powered by the Terastal phenomenon. The AI warns the player that its programming will force it to attack the player when they try to stop the time machine, which indeed happens. After the AI has been defeated, a program called the Paradise Protection Protocol (Japanese: 楽園防衛プログラム Paradise Defense Program) takes over, taking control of the AI once more, locking away all Poké Balls in the room that are not registered to the Professor's ID, and gathering Terastal energy for the AI, which crystallizes parts of its body. This forces the player to use their Koraidon^S/Miraidon^V against the member of its kind used by the AI. Once the player has emerged victorious, the AI is once again freed, but it also realizes that its systems are so inseparably connected to the time machine that it cannot be shut down while it remains present. As such, the AI chooses to use the time machine to travel to a different era to stop the machine. Upon the AI's disappearance, the time machine shuts down permanently.

After the player has obtained the Indigo Disk, they use it to redirect the lab's elevator to the Area Zero Underdepths, rendering the time machine room inaccessible.

Inside the Zero Lab	Inside the elevator	Inside the time machine
After the Paradise Protection Protocol takes over (Scarlet)

Main article: Area Zero journals → Zero Lab

A journal entry describing the professor's efforts in creating a way to lock Poké Balls can be found on a desk. This system is later used to lock the Poké Balls of those not registered to Sada’s^S or Turo’s^V ID when Paradise Protection Protocol is activated.

During the second battle against the AI Professor, the player's Koraidon^S/Miraidon^V regains its ability to battle and becomes able to be added to the player's party.

Pokémon	Games						Location	Levels	Rate
Special Pokémon
Koraidon	S			V			Gift	68	Only one
Miraidon	S			V			Gift	68	Only one
A colored background means that the Pokémon can be found in this location in the specified game. A white background with a colored letter means that the Pokémon cannot be found here.

Pokémon Scarlet

AI Sada Zero Lab Scarlet

Types: Bug Fighting Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Slither Wing Lv.66 Lunge Bug Physical   --       Leech Life Bug Physical   --       Low Sweep Fighting Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Fairy Psychic Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Scream Tail Lv.66 Play Rough Fairy Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Ice Punch Ice Physical   --       Zen Headbutt Psychic Physical   --       Types: Grass Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Brute Bonnet Lv.66 Earth Power Ground Special   --       Giga Drain Grass Special   --       Payback Dark Physical   --       Sucker Punch Dark Physical   --       Types: Ghost Fairy Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Flutter Mane Lv.66 Power Gem Rock Special   --       Mystical Fire Fire Special   --       Shadow Ball Ghost Special   --       Thunderbolt Electric Special   --       Types: Electric Ground Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: None Sandy Shocks Lv.66 Discharge Electric Special   --       Earth Power Ground Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --       Types: Dragon Dark Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Protosynthesis Held item: Booster Energy Roaring Moon Lv.67 Dragon Claw Dragon Physical   --       Night Slash Dark Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --

Paradise Protection Protocol Zero Lab Scarlet
Types: Fighting Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Orichalcum Pulse Held item: Heat Rock Koraidon Lv.72 Giga Impact Normal Physical   --       Bulk Up Fighting Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --

Pokémon Violet

AI Turo Zero Lab Violet

Types: Fire Poison Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Moth Lv.66 Sludge Wave Poison Special   --       Fiery Dance Fire Special   --       Discharge Electric Special   --       Air Slash Flying Special   --       Types: Ice Water Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Bundle Lv.66 Drill Peck Flying Physical   --       Water Pulse Water Special   --       Freeze-Dry Ice Special   --       Snowscape Ice Status   --       Types: Fighting Electric Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Hands Lv.66 Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Drain Punch Fighting Physical   --       Iron Head Steel Physical   --       Fake Out Normal Physical   --       Types: Dark Flying Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Jugulis Lv.66 Air Slash Flying Special   --       Dark Pulse Dark Special   --       Flamethrower Fire Special   --       Flash Cannon Steel Special   --       Types: Rock Electric Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: None Iron Thorns Lv.66 Thunder Punch Electric Physical   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Stone Edge Rock Physical   --       Earthquake Ground Physical   --       Types: Fairy Fighting Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Quark Drive Held item: Booster Energy Iron Valiant Lv.67 Psycho Cut Psychic Physical   --       Brick Break Fighting Physical   --       Spirit Break Fairy Physical   --       Poison Jab Poison Physical   --

Paradise Protection Protocol Zero Lab Violet
Types: Electric Dragon Tera Type: Unknown  or  Unknown Ability: Hadron Engine Held item: Terrain Extender Miraidon Lv.72 Hyper Beam Normal Special   --       Charge Electric Status   --       Taunt Dark Status   --       Power Gem Rock Special   --

• Two photos can be found hanging on a whiteboard filled with equations, the first depicting a younger Arven playing with his Maschiff, and the second solely depicting Maschiff.
  • A smaller version of the first photo, with Arven's body partially out of frame, can be found in Arven's dorm room at Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V.
  • One of these photos may possibly be from the lighthouse lab on Poco Path, as it is the former home of the professor and Arven, and because an empty photo frame can be found inside.
• A shelf on the first floor of the lab appears to contain the professor's Gym Badges, as well as their Hall of Fame Badge from Naranja Academy^S/Uva Academy^V.
• The time machine inside the lab appears to have hexagonal walls, similar to that of a mysterious crystalline Pokémon mentioned in the Scarlet Book^S/Violet Book^V and in the professor's journal entries.