diff --git a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/macros/driver.rs b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/macros/driver.rs
index eca338d..7ff797e 100644
--- a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/macros/driver.rs
+++ b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/macros/driver.rs
@@ -616,6 +616,28 @@ mod tests {
         assert_eq!(palette.observe(&mut wram, &NoLedger).scene, SceneId::Unknown);
     }
 
+    #[test]
+    fn the_frames_between_a_trainers_text_and_its_battle_deal_no_pad_and_record_no_ground() {
+        // Row 61, Viridian Forest. A trainer who saw the fly: its challenge text closes onto five
+        // frames that read as an ordinary overworld -- no box, no script bit, `wCurOpponent`
+        // still zero -- before the battle is decided. The pad was dealt there and the push-back
+        // the fly's walk had earned when the trainer took the joypad was written there, walling
+        // the one free tile of the corridor to the north gate for the session.
+        let mut wram = Wram::overworld();
+        wram.set(crate::pokemon_red::symbols::ram::wStatusFlags7, 1 << 3);
+        let mut palette = PokemonPalette::new(7);
+        let engaged = palette.observe(&mut wram, &NoLedger);
+        assert_eq!(engaged.scene, SceneId::Unknown, "the cartridge's, between text and battle");
+        assert!(engaged.bindings.is_empty(), "nothing to press: {:?}", engaged.bindings);
+        assert_eq!(palette.stood(), 0, "and no ground recorded from it");
+
+        // `.battleOccurred` clears the bit and the overworld is the fly's again.
+        wram.set(crate::pokemon_red::symbols::ram::wStatusFlags7, 0);
+        let own = palette.observe(&mut wram, &NoLedger);
+        assert_eq!(own.scene, SceneId::Overworld);
+        assert_eq!(palette.stood(), 1);
+    }
+
     #[test]
     fn a_teleport_pad_is_not_a_tear() {
         // Saffron Gym and two Silph Co. floors warp to themselves. Standing on a pad whose
diff --git a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state.rs b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state.rs
index af6a2d8..18f97c2 100644
--- a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state.rs
+++ b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state.rs
@@ -145,6 +145,11 @@ pub mod poke {
     /// zero in the overworld, non-zero from the frame a trainer's challenge closes to the end of
     /// the battle, including the 219 frames of the battle transition in between.
     pub const CUR_OPPONENT: u16 = super::ram::wBattleType - 1;
+    /// `constants/ram_constants.asm`: `wStatusFlags7` bit 3, `BIT_TRAINER_BATTLE` (row 61). Set by
+    /// `CheckFightingMapTrainers` (`home/trainers.asm`) on the frame a trainer sees the player,
+    /// cleared at `.battleOccurred` (`home/overworld.asm`) once the battle is over -- before the
+    /// blackout check, so a lost battle clears it too. Nothing else writes it.
+    pub const TRAINER_BATTLE_STATUS7: u8 = 1 << 3;
 
     /// `constants/battle_constants.asm`: the non-volatile status byte.
     pub const SLP_MASK: u8 = 0b111;
@@ -1841,8 +1846,14 @@ impl<'a> PokeState<'a> {
 }
 
 impl GameState for PokeState<'_> {
+    /// [`super::scene::detect`], except that an overworld frame inside a trainer's challenge is
+    /// the cartridge's ([`trainer_engaged`], row 61): section 12.13's `Unknown` with no text box,
+    /// an empty pad the fly waits out, and no frame a held push-back is decided on.
     fn scene(&mut self) -> Scene {
-        super::scene::detect(self.memory)
+        match super::scene::detect(self.memory) {
+            Scene::Overworld if trainer_engaged(self.memory) => Scene::Unknown,
+            scene => scene,
+        }
     }
 
     fn player(&mut self) -> Option<Player> {
@@ -1912,6 +1923,24 @@ impl GameState for PokeState<'_> {
 
 /// The cartridge tables on their defaults, and the exploration ledger wired through.
 ///
+/// Whether a trainer who saw the player is between its "!" and the end of its battle (row 61).
+///
+/// `DisplayEnemyTrainerTextAndStartBattle` (`home/trainers.asm`) clears `wJoyIgnore` before the
+/// challenge text and calls `StartTrainerBattle`, which writes `wCurOpponent`, only after that
+/// text's close-down has redrawn the map. Measured in Viridian Forest: five frames with the box
+/// gone, every bit [`controllable`] reads clear and `wCurOpponent` still zero, and then the
+/// battle. The macro seam read them as an overworld the fly owned, so the push-back a walk earned
+/// when the trainer took the joypad (row 58's held entry) was written on the first of them: the
+/// one free tile beside the trainer, in the only corridor to the forest's north gate, walled for
+/// the session.
+///
+/// **The macros' reading only.** [`controllable`] and [`super::scene::detect`] are shared with
+/// the reward adapter (the talk payout's "ready" test, the feed's scene), which this row does not
+/// change; [`PokeState`]'s own `scene` and `scripted` read this beside them.
+pub fn trainer_engaged(memory: &mut dyn MemoryReader) -> bool {
+    read(memory, ram::wStatusFlags7) & poke::TRAINER_BATTLE_STATUS7 != 0
+}
+
 /// `pokemon_red/macros/cartridge.rs` defaults every [`MacroState`] method and every default
 /// *narrows* what the palette offers, so the executor runs over live WRAM with no overrides at
 /// all and each one turned on later widens it without changing a signature. Two are still on
@@ -1923,7 +1952,7 @@ impl GameState for PokeState<'_> {
 /// taken rather than at the nearest door (`docs/design/macros.md` section 3).
 impl MacroState for PokeState<'_> {
     fn scripted(&mut self) -> bool {
-        !controllable(self.memory)
+        !controllable(self.memory) || trainer_engaged(self.memory)
     }
 
     fn text_open(&mut self) -> bool {
diff --git a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state/tests.rs b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state/tests.rs
index 751915c..5259b46 100644
--- a/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state/tests.rs
+++ b/services/flysim/crates/flybrain-gb/src/pokemon_red/state/tests.rs
@@ -1222,3 +1222,34 @@ fn a_refusal_that_cannot_be_read_is_not_reported() {
     read.set(ram::wEnemyMonStatMods + 1, 1);
     assert!(PokeState::new(&mut read).move_without_effect(TAIL_WHIP.0));
 }
+
+#[test]
+fn a_trainers_challenge_is_the_cartridges_until_its_battle_is_over() {
+    use crate::pokemon_red::macros::state::GameState;
+    // Row 61. A trainer who saw the fly: its text closes onto five frames with every bit
+    // `controllable` reads clear and `wCurOpponent` still zero, then the battle. The macros read
+    // them as the cartridge's; the shared readings the reward adapter and the feed use do not
+    // move.
+    let mut wram = Wram::overworld();
+    assert_eq!(PokeState::new(&mut wram).scene(), Scene::Overworld);
+    assert!(!PokeState::new(&mut wram).scripted());
+
+    wram.set(ram::wStatusFlags7, poke::TRAINER_BATTLE_STATUS7);
+    assert!(trainer_engaged(&mut wram));
+    assert_eq!(PokeState::new(&mut wram).scene(), Scene::Unknown, "between the text and the battle");
+    assert!(PokeState::new(&mut wram).scripted(), "and the fly is not its own master");
+    assert!(controllable(&mut wram), "the adapter's gate is unchanged");
+    assert_eq!(crate::pokemon_red::scene::detect(&mut wram), Scene::Overworld, "and the feed's scene");
+
+    // The challenge's own text is still a conversation to advance.
+    wram.dialogue_box();
+    assert_eq!(PokeState::new(&mut wram).scene(), Scene::Dialog);
+
+    // `.battleOccurred` clears the bit; the other bits of the byte are not a challenge:
+    // `BIT_NO_MAP_MUSIC` after a rival, `BIT_USE_CUR_MAP_SCRIPT` from a trainer talked to.
+    let mut after = Wram::overworld();
+    after.set(ram::wStatusFlags7, (1 << 1) | (1 << 4) | (1 << 7));
+    assert!(!trainer_engaged(&mut after));
+    assert_eq!(PokeState::new(&mut after).scene(), Scene::Overworld);
+    assert!(!PokeState::new(&mut after).scripted());
+}