Team Galactic Again?

After your fight with Lucas, a man wearing a dark brown coat, black hair and black glasses approaches you, moving in a furtive manner.

"You two. What are you doing, just battling here so, out in the open and with no regard for what's going on around you?" He asks, speaking much to quickly. "Don't you know there is an investigation happening right as we speak? On this Island, there has been a hidden Team Galactic Research Facility and the International Police have been trying to find out what's going on. Don't you step in our wa-"

He quickly jumps over the both of you, grabbing each of you and hiding you behind a large rock, and sure enough, members of Team Galactic walk passed with a mauve-haired scientist. Who is this new character you haven't met yet. What is he up to?

"Right! That's it, you both just nearly gave our position away. You're coming with me," he whispers as he tosses you both the Iron Tail TM. "And that's payment for helping, now let's get going!"

You will need to investigate this with Looker and Lucas in order to progress in your journey and fight Byron.