The next morning, Anabel woke up early after a fitful sleep. She grabbed her token and folded down the second part, though she still hadn't made a wish. She was just doing it for some sort of comfort. She still had her mission, but now there was the second issue to deal with. She didn't usually drink hot cocoa in the morning, but now she needed its comfort. She looked out the window and tried hard to ignore the phantom tower she kept seeing. It appeared that of all the places for them to end up in a mission, they had ended up in the alternate Anabel's hometown. Silently lamenting the downright awful coincidence, she agreed to split the mission with her friends. She would focus on finding her alternate self, Nanu would focus on the Ultra Beast, and Looker would be a go between. That meant that Anabel now had to confront the lost girl's parents. She shuddered at the possibility of recognizing them, but steeled herself and went anyway.

Looker dressed himself as smartly as possible and rehearsed his lines as he prepared to go with Anabel. He was a police officer from a nearby city here to investigate a missing child with his fellow officer, Lila. They had chosen another name for Anabel to use, both help her distance herself and to distance her from the small Anabel for everyone else. She would be Lila for as long as they were here. He called for Anabel and they left, both of them feeling nervous as Looker knocked on the door to a plain, unassuming house. When a woman answered the door, Anabel's entire body went stiff. 'Mother…' She almost reached out to hug her, but stopped herself, fighting back tears. She forced herself to speak. "Hello Miss. We are here to investigate the case of your missing daughter. I am Lila. Please, won't you let us in?"

A few minutes later, playing the part of a normal cop was proving nearly impossible for Anabel. Everything in her ached to call out to her mother and father and tell them that she was their child, and that she had finally come home. But she wasn't their child. She wasn't their Anabel. She didn't belong to them, she belonged to two identical copies that were impossibly far away. She wasn't theirs. They weren't hers. She managed to keep herself together long enough to gather the information they needed, that little Anabel had run off to look for Jirachi four days ago and hadn't come home. After making it back to her hotel room, Anabel began to fall apart. She started shaking, her vision changing entirely to that of a little girl's and then back to an adults. She had longed from the moment she had woken up in a hospital bed to go home. And now she was the closest to home she was ever going to get and it wasn't close enough. She felt Looker's arms wrap around her, heard his soothing voice, and cried. She completely broke, sobbing like a child, with only the arms of the man she loved to hold her together.

Looker held Anabel as she cried, almost crying himself. It was so, so unfair for this woman to be forced to go through this. If only she wasn't Interpol. If only she had stayed in Alola and never come here. If only fate wasn't so damn cruel. Again, he made her hot cocoa, and told her stories of the many wonderful things he had seen in his life. Nanu came back after dark, as grim as ever, muttering something about an Ultra Wormhole having opened up over the mountains and closed again. By that time Anabel was asleep, and Looker was forced to listen to a report he really didn't want to hear right now damn it Nanu, as he silently thought about what could have happened to this world's Anabel. She had been gone for four days. What was she eating? Where was she sleeping? What the hell were they going to do if they ended up finding a little corpse? Of course the freaking Ultra Beasts just had to ruin everything.

The next morning, Anabel had taken her Lucario out and gently told it to search for an aura almost exactly the same as hers, and walked the mountain paths searching for little Anabel. It felt so strange, thinking of the child as her. She wasn't her, and yet in the eyes of this inverse, this universe that she had crashed into without ever really belonging, she was her. Anabel wasn't Anabel here. She was a stranger. An intruder. And it was painful to think about, but it was completely impossible to think about anything else as she struggled with the headache and disorientation caused by the constant double vision. After a long, exhausting walk Lucario gave a sharp bark, having found an alarming aura. Anabel ran to it, stopping dead at a terrifyingly familiar aura. "Oh no…" She whispered, paling. An Ultra Wormhole has opened here. There was an Ultra Beast nearby. Anabel called out her Mismagius and then her Weavile a second after, on high alert but scared, so scared. The memory she had recently regained brought her blood pounding in her ears. She was frozen to the spot, unable to think or even move as UB Symbiont approached her, sensing her energy and planning to use her to get home. She gave a tiny whimper as she raised her hand to shield herself, closing her eyes in terror. Her Pokémon sensed this and leapt into battle, determined to protect their beloved trainer even if she gave them no orders. Anabel chose to run, something she would hate herself for later but something she could not help now.

Three long hours later, Anabel carried her exhausted Pokémon back to the city in their poke balls, unable to stop shaking. She stumbled, sliding down a small drop. She was so frightened she could barely think or even see straight. She couldn't get back like this. She grabbed her radio and sent out an SOS to Looker and Nanu, curling into a ball to calm her terror. Once the two men found her, they helped her walk back to the hotel, where she took an icy cold shower to calm herself. Furious at herself for being so damned awful at what should have been a simple mission, she muttered a stream of insults at herself, before emerging to tell Looker and Nanu what she and Lucario had discovered. The Ultra Beast was only part of the trouble. Lucario had sensed little Anabel at the same time. She had almost certainly ended up trapped in an Ultra Wormhole. Anabel shocked both men by announcing her intentions to go get her, even if it seemed impossible. Looker furiously disagreed, shouting that she wouldn't be able to control where she ended up. In a rare display of outright anger, Anabel snapped at him to shut up. They'd been sent here to solve the UB problem anyway, they were already in deep shit. She was not abandoning that kid. She couldn't. Seeing her… no, the other her's parents so upset, seeing the pictures of a tiny, brightly smiling Anabel… that child deserved to be brought back home. If nothing else, Anabel would give her what she herself could never have. Somehow.