Professor Hastings

**Adalbert** is one of the head researchers and the Chief of Technology of the Ranger Union. He's also a friend of Professor Oak, and they keep their friendship a secret from the public eye since its considered treason in both nations.

He along with Professor Oak are the one's responsible for Project Coexistence which pacified most of the Pokémon worldwide.

## History

### The Main Timeline (Past)

For a school project, he created a machine, called the Capture Loopy-Looper, that could bestow his feelings to wild Pokémon to pacify them.

While on a trip to Melemele Island, he was testing the Capture Loopy-Looper when he heard a commotion nearby. When he investigated he found two young boys trying to escape from a wild Bewear. After using his machine to distract the Pokémon, the two introduced themselves as Samuel and Samson Oak.

Later Samuel found him again doing some testing on the Loopy-Looper, where Adalbert was having trouble figuring out an issue. Samuel suggested that a piece was really worn out and needed to be replaced. Upon doing so there was a huge improvement in performance. In gratitude, Adalbert asked if Samuel would like to continue working with him. Hours later, the two reached a point where they had the current model of the Capture Loopy-Looper completed. Wanting to test it immediately Adalbert pulled out some berries and crushed them in his hands coating himself in juice all the while yelling out trying to attract wild Pokémon. When some Alolan Rattata and Raticate approached he successfully used the device to get the Pokémon to approach him peacefully. The two continued working together whenever they were able to meet up in Alola and developed a strong friendship and a trusted partnership. During their work together and at Samuel's insistence, Adalbert renamed his invention the Capture Styler.

Years later, the two met once again on Melemele Island and Adalbert learned his friend was from a T.A.T.O. nation. The two discussed their viewpoints based on where they live and agreed that even if they can't see eye-to-eye on everything, they would continue being friends and work together.

To Adalbert's dismay, when tensions rose between the Ranger Union and the T.A.T.O nations, the Ranger Union started using the now perfected Capture Styler to assist in military actions against their enemies. When confessing everything to his friend, Samuel brought up an old dream of his own that they needed to find a way to pacify all Pokémon. Adalbert agreed and the two began working in earnest together to try to accomplish this. Eventually they were able to create a prototype of the now code-named Project Coexistence that could pacify all the nearby Pokémon based on the Capture Styler but in order to make it scale up to a worldwide level, they needed to find a common element to al Pokémon's homelands. They decided that soil from the rumored ancestral birthplace of all Pokémon, Faraway Island, was their best candidate. The two organized an expedition to Faraway Island with the assistance of Adalbert's brother, Booker, who would captain their ship to and from the island and Samuel's close friend and powerful trainer, Agatha.

On Faraway Island the group was immediately accosted by swarms of aggressive Pokémon that were believed to be extinct. Agatha took on holding them off allowing Adalbert and Samuel to tread deeper into the island's jungle. When the two were tracked down by a Tyrantrum Adalbert tried to sacrifice himself so Samuel could get away and succeed in their mission, but Samuel wouldn't have it and tackled him out of the way and off a steep hill. When Samuel confronted him about why he would do something so foolish, he confessed that he would deserve it for being responsible for the deaths caused by the Capture Styler. They were then interrupted by a unknown Pokémon cry and when the two went to investigate they came across a very angry Mew. Samuel was able to talk down the Mythical Pokémon and the two got to work collecting soil samples. The two then returned to where they had left Agatha and activated their device which calmed all the Pokémon down much to their delight. On the way back from the island Samuel and Adalbert revealed to Booker and Agatha that they were going to keep their collaboration a secret and show off their research to their respective nations separately. Project Coexistence was a huge success and Pokémon round the world lost their hyper aggressive tendencies.

## Links

1. ↑ https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon\_Ranger:\_Guardian\_Signs\_(anime\_special)#Part\_1