It had only been an hour since she had gotten the game and already, her character was ready to go! With the VR helmet on and and a click of a button, Vanessa felt herself being taken away from the problems of the world.

Cola arrived first inside of some lab of some kind. The bubbling of an unknown chemical was kept company only but the soft hum of the bunsen burner beneath it. For a moment, he had been thoroughly convinced that this was some kind of glitched area that he hadn't been meant to find. Until his attention turned to the voice of a woman coming from somewhere in the area. "...?!" He went to go investigate what could have produced such noises and soon came face-to-face with another person. But she looked far too young to really be in this kind of area. Cola quietly watched her in hopes maybe she could provide some answers only to be met with an introduction and a vague explanation of the shadowy look.

He looked annoyed, maybe unimpressed by the feat of looking at this child just asking him some weird kind of question all of a sudden with only a weird name to go off of. But the worst thing one could do was to be rude to an introduction. "C-Cola." he waved at the girl and sat down in the chair nearby. "Yes. I wanted a starter." Thoughts and everything were kept short while the man fidgeted on the seat. "Um, fire?"

He was supposed to ask her a question?! Cola hadn't been expecting such a turn of events! He stammered out a panicked series of "uhs" and "ums" while the ever annoyed looking man had kept his gaze down to the floor. Even if this was supposed to be a personality test of some kind, what kind of question was this?! He took around five seconds to consider all the three questions asked while trying to narrow down his answers enough so where he wasn't rambling on. "Wh-Where are we? I don't think I read about this place inside of the guide online." Cola asked to answer her first question and then moved onto the other two.

"Friends? I mean, I don't..." he began, waving his hand around dismissively while attempting to think about what constituted as their friend. There were those two from his class last year...but they never really talked all that much. If anything, they just traded greetings in the hall in passing to one another. Cola leaned forward with a troubled expression and managed to bring his vision up from the floor. Now it locked onto one of the decorations of the desk. "I don't have any." Somehow the declaration was more melancholic when said out loud.

But for which Pokemon they would want to be? Cola had one ready at all times. It was something that they had on the back burner, ready to be fired off when asked. "I would want to be an Altaria. Just imaging flying around in the skies sounds nice..."

Oh, Briarbane. That helped Cola sort of geolocate himself at least! He nodded quietly and waited for the results of whatever this test would produce. The NPC continued to scribble down on her clipboard something fierce! The sound of lead scratching the surface of a people broke through the ambience of the quiet, dusty looking laboratory. His eyes drifted off towards the wall in some attempt to break up the period of not talking between the two, until the doctor tore off her paper. "Did I...do good?" Cola asked, only to be treated to the woman's back as she dugged into the cabinet.

The paper she had been writing on was turned over in Cola's direction. Instead of the intense notes and thoughts of the doctor for this short test, what was on the paper was a drawing of an Altaria. For as detailed and intricate as it was, he had been expecting something far more professional than a sketch on a bubbly version of the word "friends" that he was treated to. Somehow it only further pushed in that feeling of isolation from people outside of the game. Cola's brows closed together in worry just in time for the doctor to come back out from her search and throw him a pokeball. He caught it with both hands and looked at the name above the button.

"A Squirtle." Cola said to himself while looking at the capsule in his hand. He had always found himself enjoying water types. He hadn't really ever been swimming outside of the game but maybe this would be a good sort of first attempt of it! If the realistic setting was anything to go off of, he may be able to feel just that! "Uh, thank you, Doctor." he said, "But where do I go first? I haven't really played Pokemon before..."