Good point. Sounds like Gigas'd be interesting to visit one day.

[There's genuine interest in his voice there, not just polite neutrality. He's not about to drop everything and ask to go with them, but the fact that there's at least one more technologically-advanced city out there is very interesting to him.

Now though he's starting to feel like he's been pumping her for information, so some kind of repayment feels necessary. ...She did say that the group was focused on Pokémon research, didn't she?

He pulls back the sleeve of his jacket to reveal his Warp Band and starts pressing buttons.]

Dunno if you've seen these kinds of Pokémon before, but...

[His Klink is warped in, followed by his Carbink.]

The pair of gears is Spur-Mesh, a Klink, and the floating rock is Facet, a Carbink.