You head out and fight one of the rangers guarding the gates of Phenac.

Mystery Troop Rosso - Slugma, Spoink, Quilava (Dark 30)
You Snagem Quilava and Rosso tells you that dark pokemons have had their hearts closed and would not listen to anyone. The three rangers then run off back to Pyrite Town. Mirei tells you to head over there for a look.

Before you leave the city, you can fight some trainers at the training school

Prants - Hoppip, Sunkern
Marin - Marill, Surskit
Travis - Trapinch, Swinub
Cindy - Rhyhorn, Geodude

You go to the lady in charge but she refuses to battle you until you have 6 pokemons. Then from the teacher, you get your P*DA (pokemon digital assistant) updated with a pokedex of all pokemons you've encountered. You head to Pyrite.


Pyrite Town: (Colosseum, fortune-telling center, police station, Ginzaru's flat, Pyrite Building, windmill generator house)
Upon arrival, you see a policeman, Yuuto, talking with a trainer named Masa, then the police walks away. You enter the police station to known the cheriff's name to be Hejji. You also know from the note of the wall that the leader of T.Snagem is Gonzap. You battle the many trainers on the street, some with dark pokemons:

Nelisgo - Taillow, Sentret, Slakoth, [Furret]
Aje - Zubat, Gulpin, [Golbat]
Lon - Misdreavus (Dark 30), Skitty, Zigzagoon, (Shuppet), [Linoone]
Lon - Azurill, Slugma (Dark 30), Igglybuff, Swablu, (Numel), [Marill], [Jigglypuff]
Nover - Ledyba, Noctowl (Dark 30), Wingull, (Doduo), [Ledian]
Diogo: Flaaffy (Dark 30), Shroomish, (Pichu), [Pikachu]
Leba: Skiploom (Dark 30), Oddish, Dustox, (Sunkern), [Sunflora]
Divel - Quagsire (Dark 30), Psyduck, Horsea, [Seadra]

You enter the Colosseum to learn about the champion Masa, but you're not allowed to take part yet. You head back to the gate of the town to fight Cail:

Cail - Furret (Dark 33), Ralts, Machop, Seedot, (Snubbull), [Kirlia], [Nuzleaf], [Machoke], [Granbull], [Machamp], [Gardevoir], [Shiftry]

After you beat him, he will tell you about Cipher and Miror B., and you see an animation of Nascour talking to Miror B. through some computer screen on the wall, and they talk about the Dark Pokemon Scheme.

Next, you go to house of Ginzaru, who's in charge of the Colosseum. Behind the boy, you can open the switch on the bookshelf to open up the secret door. You enter and find some kids in there talking about a young lad called Siruba. You exit the secret room and see Siruba telling Ginzaru about Miror B.'s evil plans but he wouldn't believe. You head out and at the windmill generator house, the technician is knocked down on the floor and he tells you that Siruba has stolen a gear from the machine and the Colosseum is now forced to shut down due to electrical failure. You head back to Ginzaru who's thinking on Siruba's words. Then you enter the secret room to discover their pokemon, Plusle, has been stolen away by someone. You head out of the town and go to the Construction Site between Pyrite and Phenac.