Anyway, we went through a large metal detector before we could leave the dock, which, according to one of the guards, was just to make sure we weren't taking anything into the Compound that could be dangerous. The only thing that set off any alarms was the Pokacu canister that Graleex had given us, but Dad assured them that the yellow gas was safe and would not be a problem in here. I wondered why Dad didn't let the government confiscate the canister; probably because he still wanted to examine it.
After that, we took a small cart—which had a trunk large enough to carry our luggage—through the Compound to an elevator on the very back wall. This elevator took us down into a long hallway that had doorways to several different rooms. My parents and I were taken to a door at the very end of t
