I bounced the theory off another person, and we guessed it's to have us trained Pokemon for them. We run directly towards the issue with limits.

[How much is enough, why them having volunteers from their native worlds, so forth.]

But if it's not VR and something else, the trigger would be either caused by someone, or something, else... Or I accidentally triggered something back in Pewter.

[Did he accidentally do a certain sequence and do the equivalent of stepping on a certain tile? Or an area in Pewter.]