Trippy. And until then, we can go as crazy as we want with guesses. Like: Do they have psychic powers where you're from? It could be all happening one way, but something, maybe the Pokemon themselves, are influencing us to see it another way.

[He shrugs.]

Here's the question. Judging by their actions during the fossil thing, the Gym Leaders seem to have more autonomy than others. Is there someone, somewhere, who knows definitively?