From a young age, Ian suffered from a degenerative disease that led to him slowly losing mobility in his body, leaving him bound to a wheelchair and needing to be cared for constantly. Many times he wished that he join the other kids. To run and play outside and not worry about the degeneration of his body.

One day, he and his parents were approached by a person in a brightly colored uniform. They had heard about Team Union from accounts on the news, and so were all wary. However, strangely, instead of just trying to shoot them with catalyst, the TU Grunt instead mentioned that he had heard about Ian’s plight, and that if they would allow it, he could possibly help the boy. Though it would involve being changed into a Pokemorph, and this particular Grunt didn’t want to just force the change from the shadows.

Ian’s parents weren’t really sure how to respond, but it was the young boy himself who practically jumped at the idea. The sheer possibility of gaining the ability to move around again was too much to pass up, and he outright begged his parents to allow him to be turned into a Pokemorph. His parents, though wary, couldn’t bring themselves to tell him no, and so allowed the Union Grunt to go ahead.

Having asked if there was any Pokemon in particular that Ian was interested in becoming and receiving a ‘not sure’ response, the Grunt set the Catalyst device to random and shot a glob at the boy.

Ian would experience a change throughout his body as the virus attempted to convert him into a Shedinja Morph. However, in the process, things ended up going a little strange. While his outside body become a Shedinja, there was an unexpected reaction from within his body as a secondary figure was ejected from the hole in his back. A secondary individual that was clearly a Ninjask.

Ian had become two different people, and not only that, but complications in regards to the ‘genderless’ aspect of the Shedinja led to a glitching that resulted in Ian’s secondary ‘Ninjask’ self becoming female.

It was very confusing for the both of them, as they had trouble deciding just who was who, as they were both ‘Ian’, but they still couldn’t both be ‘Ian’. Still, both of them would discover that they were no longer forced to be bound to a wheelchair. In fact, the Ninjask Ian seemed to possess an inexhaustible amount of energy leading to her zipping about. The Shedinja Ian was more easy going, but still enjoyed being able to move around on their own.

After an eventual trip to a newly established Pokemorph psychologist named Dr. Raymond, the two of them were able to agree that neither of them were actually Ian anymore, and it wouldn’t be a good idea for one of them to keep using the name while the other didn’t. As such, Ninjask Ian would soon be known as Iona, and Shedinja Ian would adopt the name Emery.