Badge #17, Pt 2: Operation Iskra

After a small cutscene with Bennett, you can leave the lift and climb up into a maintenance shaft, where you'll find a Glaceon to adopt. Follow it down to the molten glass section where it will freeze the path ahead for you and promptly get captured. Walk up and talk to the Team Hitler soldier who will lock you out of the room where the Glaceon has been captured. Walk around to the side and break the glass window to get inside.

Once you battle the Schutzstaffel soldier, exit through the broken window and interact with the molten glass to create a bridge across. The lava immediately to the left is blocked off by a pallet of glass, so continue to the far left to find a stream of... molten concrete? Freeze all of them in sequence and then walk into the room you find.

The door will get slammed in your face, and there's no path to a side window... or is there? If you go backwards, the glass that previously blocked you will be knocked out of the way and you can once again enter the side building. Once you battle the Schutzstaffel solder again, you'll find that the Espeon is locked in a cage, and you don't have the key; neither do the SS units inside.

Back outside and to the right is a set of stairs that goes up onto the railings above. Walk up onto them and all the way to another set of stairs. Walk over to the door at the south-west of the room to find the Cage Key being guarded by a Schutzstaffel soldier. Return back to free the Espeon; you'll now have two of them following you around.

You can switch between the two Eeeveelutions by interacting with them. Espeon can give you a poor quality vision of the future, or move the glass pallets around (but only either perpendicularly, or away from you).

This area is very long, with lots of interlocking parts; this is my best guess at the order of things you need to do.

First, make Glaceon sit here so you don't accidentally make it inaccessible. (Glaceon is the less useful of the two Eevees.) Then, make Espeon follow you and move the glass block immediately to your right upwards so that the path is no longer blocked.

Grab Glaceon again and bring it down here. Make it sit here, then return to Espeon.

Move the glass blocks out of the way, then set Espeon down near the stairs. Grab Glaceon, bring it over to the stairs too, then use Espeon to move the glass block out of the way and open up the path.

Bring Glaceon over to this area, and freeze the molten glass. Retrieve Espeon and move the glass blocks around at other side of the lava to find the Gyradosite. If you do the same in the bottom room you can find TM29 Psychic.

If you didn't already, move this glass block down to unblock the path to the first two lava bridges.

Cross over the left-most bridge and move these blocks out of the way. You'll need to go back and retrieve Glaceon from where you left it if you left it at the bottom of the map, too.

Use Glaceon to make a bridge across this part of the molten lava. You might want to talk to the Genie of Good Game Design next to it, too.

This is likely the point where you are - like me - going to get hard stuck with nowhere immediately obvious to go. You might have figured out that you need to get Glaceon onto the upper railings, but don't know how.

Luckily, there is a solution! Use Espeon to move this block to the left and break the glass. This will re-enable the lifts to the upper railings. It's a good thing that you left Glaceon up near the top lava bridges (you did.. right), as that way you can easily grab it.

Go into this lift and select B1F to get onto the railing with Glaceon. Walk down to the bottom of the railing to find a room with two Schutzstaffel agents in there, TM179 Nasty Plot, and an EV Tuner. Talk to the second agent (Simon) twice for him to wallow a bit (you don't get the option to kill him, but you should). (This is part of the Super Rod quest.)

On this railing are two rooms; one (on the left side) has the Master Ball (!!) in it but isn't accessible yet. The on the right has the Meteor Card in it, as well as two cryogenic storage units containing the bodies of Anna and Noel. If you gave the ring to Blake, then you get the Meteor Card by talking to Aster; if you didn't, it's just laying on a table.

Put Glaceon in this exact spot, then use Espeon to drag the glass box across. Put Espeon next to the molten glass where it won't block your path, then make a path across the glass with Glaceon. Move the box at the top out of the way of the computer, and scan the Meteor Card.

For all my issues with Reborn's writing post-E16, I really like this segment. It's one of the best written parts of any game I've played. It's not Disco Elysium... but it doesn't need to be.

No words. Just enjoy it.