Zero Lab

Zero Lab ゼロラボ Zero Laboratory "Wild Missingno. appeared!"
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Location:	Area Zero
Region:	Paldea
Generations:	IX
Location of Zero Lab in Paldea.
Pokémon world locations

The Zero Lab (Japanese: ゼロラボ Zero Laboratory) is a facility located at the bottom of Area Zero in the Great Crater of Paldea.

In the core series games

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

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)

Journal entry

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.

Items

Item		Location	Games
	Booster Energy	1F; near the elevator	S  V

Pokémon

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.

Trainers

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   --

Music

Games	Location	Song name (Japanese)	Song name (English Translation)	Composition	Arrangement
S  V	After the Scarlet BookS/Violet BookV is placed into the time machine	戦闘プログラム起動	Activating Offensive Protocols	Hiromitsu Maeba Toby Fox	Hiromitsu Maeba
	When fighting against the Professor	戦闘！ゼロラボ	Battle! (Zero Lab)	Toby Fox	Toby Fox
	When the Professor is defeated	ゼロラボで勝利	Victory! (Zero Lab)	Toby Fox	Hiromitsu Maeba
	When Arven first sees the AI Professor	再開	Reunion	Hiromitsu Maeba	Hiromitsu Maeba
	When the Paradise Protection Protocol activates, and after being challenged by the Paradise Protection Protocol	楽園防衛プログラム	Paradise Protection Protocol	Hiromitsu Maeba	Hiromitsu Maeba
	When KoraidonS/MiraidonV is sent out by the player and changes into its battle form	バトルフォルム	Battle Form	Gō Ichinose	Gō Ichinose
	When the player's KoraidonS/MiraidonV battles the rogue KoraidonS/MiraidonV	戦闘！■■■■	Battle! (■■■■)	Toby Fox	Gō Ichinose
	When the Professor is saying their final goodbyes to the group after the KoraidonS/MiraidonV battle.	切なる思い	Earnest Feelings	Hiromitsu Maeba	Hiromitsu Maeba
	When the Professor disappears into the time machine	ボン・ボヤージュ！	I bid you adieu!	Hiromitsu Maeba	Hiromitsu Maeba
	As the player, Arven, Nemona, and Penny discuss the events of the ending	ザ・ホームウェイ	The Way Home	Toby Fox	Hiromitsu Maeba

Trivia

• 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.

In other languages

Language Title Chinese Cantonese 零區研究所 Lìhngkēui Yìhngausó Mandarin 零區研究所 / 零区研究所 Língqū Yánjiùsuǒ / Língqū Yánjiūsuǒ French Laboratoire Zéro German Labor Null Italian Laboratorio Zero Korean 제로랩 Zero Lab Spanish Laboratorio Cero

References

Paldea
Settlements South: Cabo Poco • Mesagoza (Naranja Academy/Uva Academy) Los Platos • Cortondo • Alfornada • Pokémon League East: Artazon • Levincia • Zapapico West: Cascarrafa • Porto Marinada • Medali North: Montenevera South Province Area One • Area Two • Area Three Area Four • Area Five • Area Six (Alfornada Cavern) Poco Path • Inlet Grotto • South Paldean Sea East Province Area One (Schedar Squad's Base) • Area Two • Area Three Tagtree Thicket (Navi Squad's Base) • East Paldean Sea West Province Area One (Segin Squad's Base) • Area Two • Area Three Asado Desert • West Paldean Sea North Province Area One • Area Two (Caph Squad's Base) • Area Three (Ruchbah Squad's Base) Casseroya Lake (Socarrat Trail) • Glaseado Mountain (Dalizapa Passage) North Paldean Sea Great Crater of Paldea Area Zero Zero Gate • Zero Lab • Area Zero Underdepths Landmarks Ten Sights of Paldea (Colonnade Hollow) Grasswither Shrine • Icerend Shrine Groundblight Shrine • Firescourge Shrine Access to Kitakami • Blueberry Academy

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