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It was early morning when Gladion and Moon could be found in the Hau'oli City Malasada shop. The couple thought it would be nice to get breakfast together before Moon had to get to the Pokemon League to await any challengers. The couple was just finishing off their Breakfast Malasada's when Gladion asked Moon a question. "You haven't seen Lillie around have you? I haven't seen her since yesterday morning."

"I haven't seen her since before yesterday. Actually, I haven't seen Hau around either." Moon replied as she and Gladion rose from their table and left the shop.

Gladion sighed in exasperation. If both of them were missing something was likely going on. "I tried calling Lillie but her phone is turned off."

"That's not like her." Moon scrunched her eyes in thought. "You don't think anything bad happened, do you?"

"I don't think so but I would feel better if we knew where the two of them were." Moon nodded in agreement to Gladion's statement as they walked down the road towards Moon's house so she could get her things before heading to the league.

Gladion had his arm over her shoulders as Moon leaned into his side while they walked. Seeing something move out of the corner of his eye Gladion stopped, halting Moon's progress along with him.

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"I saw something move." He answered her as the two turned around to look for the source of movement.

"Look," Moon pointed to a bush that was wriggling around unnaturally. "do you hear that?"

Gladion and Moon stayed silent as they listened for what was hiding in the bush. They couldn't make out what it was but it sounded like it wasn't alone. Gladion and Moon glanced at one another, each reaching to their belt and grasping a pokeball. They silently walked around the bush, ready to call their pokemon out at the slightest sign of danger.

What they saw when they got behind the bush wasn't dangerous, though it was odd. Turns out the creature was actually their missing friends. Lillie and Hau had yet to notice them as they knocked into and shushed each other.

Seeing there was no threat the two trainers put their pokeballs back in place and stared at their friends for a few moments before realizing they had no idea that there was anyone around besides them.

Gladion coughed to get their attention and it worked a little too well as Lillie spun around shrieking and Hau hid behind the blonde girl. After another moment Lillie calmed down. "Oh, it's just you guys."

Hau peeked out from behind her and laughed as he crossed his arms behind his head. "Phew, for a second there I thought you were you-know-who."

"What are you talking about?" Moon questioned with a raised eyebrow.

Lillie and Hau only stared at her in shock for a moment before Lillie suddenly hit her forehead with the palm of her hand. "That's right, you two haven't been around for this day before."

Now Gladion looked at her as if she had lost her mind. "What day?"

"April Fool's Day!" Hau shouted, flabbergasted that it was even a question.

"What's the big deal, so people pull a couple pranks? That doesn't explain why you two are hiding in a bush." Moon pointed out.

"The big deal is Kukui!" Hau shouted then quickly covered his mouth as his eyes darted around as if expecting the professor to pop out of thin air.

"I'm still lost." Moon admitted, Gladion only pinched the bridge of his nose, not bothering to comment.

"Kukui goes April fool's crazy, he's a menace. If you think Ghost pokemon like to play pranks you haven't seen anything compared to Kukui, even Burnet avoids him on April first." Lillie explained.

"Come on Lillie, how bad could a guy who goes around in a wrestling mask thinking nobody recognizes him as 'The Masked Royal' possibly be?" Gladion questioned her with an eye roll obviously not taking the threat the professor posed seriously.

"That may be true Gladion but he's also the guy that has pokemon attack him for his research, don't take this too lightly."

"Lillie's right, even the pokemon refuse to stick around today." Hau added.

"Relax guys, if his pranks are as good as his jokes then there's nothing to worry about." Moon assured them. "You guys go back to hiding if you want but I have to get to the league."

"Just be careful okay." Hau stressed to her.

"We'll be fine." Gladion assured accompanied by an eye roll as Lillie and Hau ran off to find a new hiding spot, having been out in the open for too long, and Gladion and Moon continued on their way to Moon's house.

After Moon grabbed her things they paged a ride charizard and dropped Moon off at the league. Before heading to the building she turned back to Gladion and handed him the pokeball holding her own Silvally as it was going to spend the day at the paradise. With Moon's pokeball safely put away Gladion hopped back on the ride Charizard and they flew off toward Aether Paradise. Neither one of them suspecting a thing.


At the Pokemon League

Moon walked up the path to the front doors and stopped in her tracks when she saw the elite four members standing outside the doors instead of inside preparing for the days battles.

"What's going on?" Moon asked as she came to a stop between Acerola and Olivia.

"Kukui happened." Hala informed her solemnly.

"What are you talking about, did he lock himself inside or something?" Moon asked.

Kahili swung her golf club over her shoulder as she walked to the door. "Not exactly." She pushed the door open, or rather, she tried to. It actually took all five of them plus Hala's Hariyama to shove the door open far enough for them to squeeze through.

Moon gaped at what she saw. The room was covered in green goo. The most noticeable aspect of all though was the giant banner hanging in the middle of the room depicting Kukui's face along with the message 'April Fools!'.

"What is that?" Moon asked staring wide eyed, Maybe Lillie and Hau weren't exaggerating after all.

"We don't know but it's not just in here. It's in all of our chambers and the champions room too." Acerola told her.

"We have a cleaning crew coming but it's gonna take a while." Olivia waved her hand, gesturing around the room. "We're going to have to close the league until this stuff is gone."

"I can't believe Kukui did this. How?" Moon was in shock.

"This is nothing, Kukui is a force to be reckoned with on April fool's day." Hala told her.

"Yeah, the ghost pokemon at my trial have nothing on his pranks." Acerola told her as they all made their way back outside, careful not to step in any goop strewn across the floor.

"I better go warn Gladion, we didn't take this seriously when Lillie and Hau tried to warn us before." Moon told them as she pulled out her ride pager.

The elite four members went wide eyed and as soon as the charizard landed rushed her off to go warn him to keep an eye out for anything suspicious.


At Aether Paradise

The ride Charizard landed gracefully on the manmade island and happily accepted a few poke beans from Gladion before flying off.

Gladion headed inside, greeting employees as he passed them, and made his way straight to the observatory deck where he released his pokemon and Moon's Silvally. The blonde trainer watched the pokemon for a bit as they ran around. With a smile on his face Gladion met Wicke outside where she handed him a clipboard with the rehabilitating pokemon he needed to check on it.

It took about half an hour for him to get to the end of his list, when he finished Gladion checked in with Wicke again, handing off the clipboard, and took the elevator to the floor his office was located on.

Gladion was satisfied with how his day had been going so far. He started the day off spending some time with his girlfriend, got done checking on the pokemon sooner than usual, he even saw Hau jump and cower behind his little sister because of he and Moon, and he didn't even cause that on purpose.

It was safe to say Gladion had been having a pretty good day and had every intention of keeping things that way. He would go to his office and finish up some paperwork he had been working on then go and spend some time with his pokemon and Moon's Silvally before meeting up with her later when the league closed for the day.

Yes, he had fully intended to have a calm and relaxing day.

Then he unlocked the door and walked into his office. Or at least he thought he walked into his office. Gladion took a step back into the hall and made sure he was in the right room. He was.

So where was all of his stuff. Gladion's eyes swept across the room in shock, all of his furniture was gone. Gladion slowly walked in and flicked the lights on. He was about to go find Wicke and figure out what was going on when he realized there were odd shadows being cast onto the floor.

Gladion felt the beginning of a forming headache as he glanced up to the ceiling. Yup, that's what he was afraid of. His missing furniture wasn't actually missing it was just misplaced… on the ceiling.

Gladion couldn't get his legs to function properly and just looked up at his furniture with his mouth hanging open in shock. His desk, his chair, his lamp, even Silvally's bed, everything was on the ceiling.

Gladion snapped back into focus when he heard footsteps approaching the room and turned to the door just in time to see Kukui make an appearance and lean against the door frame with a smug smirk and his arms crossed over his chest.

"You did this?" Gladion questioned. Kukui did not answer verbally but his smirk grew and Gladion could see the mischievous gleam in his eyes. "How did you even get in here?!" Gladion would clearly have to consider upgrading security.

"I think the question you should be asking-" Kukui finally spoke "-is where are the silvallys."

Gladion stared at him in shock for a moment processing what he just said. In the next second he was running out the door and through the hall back to the observation deck. His eyes searched the field bellow but he saw nothing. He was about to go find Kukui and make him explain himself when he caught two blurs of what looked like cotton candy running toward him.

The next thing he knew Gladion had two giant pink pokemon knocking him over. Upon closer inspection, he realized it was the two pokemon he had been looking for but it seemed they had been dyed pink. Gladion looked back and forth between the two in disbelief until he noticed a note in his pokemon's mouth.

Taking the paper from the pokemon Gladion glanced around trying to find the culprit but when he determined the professor was nowhere in sight he unfolded thee page in his hand.

Hey Gladion,

Before you start freaking out too much it's just temporary hair dye.
The color should be gone in a few days.
APRIL FOOLS!

Sincerely Yours,
Kukui

Well what do you know Lillie and Hau were right. Gladion let out a deep sigh, this would be a long day. He recalled both pokemon into their respective balls and attached them to his belt. He had better warn Moon.

He had almost made it to the exit when a thought struck him, the last thing he wanted was Kukui to still be here. He turned back around and quickly located a group of employees talking off to the side.

"Excuse me." He got their attention.

"Yes Mr. President?" one of them asked. Gladion blinked at them for a second still getting used to the title.

"Did you happen to notice Professor Kukui from Mele'mele island leaving the building?"

"Yeah." Another answered. "He left about ten minutes ago and called a ride Charizard. I don't know where he went though."

"Thanks." Gladion was already turned around before the word finished leaving his lips and he quickly moved outside pulling out his ride pager as he did so. He was just about to summon the Charizard when another one landed right in front of him and none other than Moon herself jumped off its back.

"Moon what are you doing here?" Gladion asked his girlfriend as she regained her balance. "Lillie and Hau were right, Kukui is crazy. He covered every room in the league in some kind of goo, we had to close down until a cleaning crew can get there. I came to warn you."

Gladion put a hand to his face. "You're a little too late. He was already here, he left about fifteen minutes ago."

"What did he do?" she questioned him concerned.

"Well first of all he somehow got into my locked office and stuck every last piece of furniture I have in there to the ceiling and second…" Gladion trailed off as he pulled the two pokeballs from his belt and released the pokemon inside.

Moon gasped when the pokemon were released. In the short couple of seconds before the pokemon bounded up to her and started licking her in greeting she saw that they were now pink.

"Wa-what?" Moon stuttered out as she nudged the pokemon back so she could looked at them.

"He left a note with them." Gladion handed her the pokeball that normally housed her Silvally and they recalled the both of them after giving them another pet. "It's temporary hair dye, it'll be a few days before it comes out."

Moon shook her head in exasperation at the man child that was Alola's Pokemon Professor. "Come on we better go regroup with the others, who knows what else he has planned." Moon quickly shot off a mass text to meet at her house before she and Gladion got back on the charizard's back and flew off.


Meanwhile, the couple's friends weren't faring much better against the menace that was Kukui


With Lillie

Lillie had decided that she would be safe enough going home just for a little bit. She didn't have too much of a choice after all. A stampede of tauros had run past her and Hau's new hiding spot and the noise startled them so much they lost their balance and rolled down the hill they had been hiding on and landed in a pile of mud.

So, she paged a ride pokemon for her and she had gone back to the mansion while Hau had headed back to his own house to get cleaned up. After all, she kept the doors locked when she wasn't home and it wasn't like Kukui knew how to pick a lock.

Lillie carefully tread across the floor careful not to track mud on the carpet and made her way up to her room where she grabbed a change of clothes and walked into her attached bathroom. Even though she knew she should be safe for now Lillie couldn't shake the paranoid feeling that had overcome her since she woke up that morning.

Pushing it to the back of her mind she threw her mud caked clothes into the hamper to be washed or thrown out later, she wasn't sure how well the mud stains would come out of white clothing.

Lillie pulled her hair out and stepped into the hot stream of water. She washed off the drying mud on her skin, scrunching her face as the water at the bottom of the tub turned brown from it. When she was sure her skin was free of the mud she grabbed her shampoo and started washing her hair.

She finished quickly and stepped out of the shower to pull on her clean clothes. Lillie grabbed a hair brush and walked in front of the mirror to fix brush her wet hair when she let out a shriek of a mix of fear and utter fury.

Dropping the brush onto the bathroom counter she turned on her heel and stomped back to the shower. Standing on the edge of the tub she unscrewed the shower head. Just what she had been worried about. Her shower head had been filled with blue kool-aid powder. Her platinum blonde hair was now a vivid blue and her skin had been tinted blur as well, though her face seemed to be purple as her face heated up in anger.

Apparently Kukui did know how to pick locks. Lillie was about to call Hau and warn him to watch out when her phone pinged signaling a new text message. She picked it up from its place on the counter beside her hair brush and saw it was a group message from Moon.

Moon: We need to do something about Kukui. Everyone meet Gladion and I at my house

Lillie quickly sent out her acknowledgment.

Lillie: On my way


With Hau

Hau had returned home quickly and showered. He was about to call Lillie to find out where they were going to hide next when he realized she was probably just arriving back home. Hau weighed his options. On one hand, he really should wait for Lillie before going off the grid again but on the other hand this was one of the most obvious places Kukui could find him.

Hau still had yet to make up his mind when his stomach growled and decided for him. He walked into the kitchen and was about to pull open the fridge when something sitting on the table caught his eye. There was a piece of paper under the plate containing none other than a malasada with his name on it.

Figuring his grandpa had left it for him Hau thought nothing of it as he grabbed it and took a big bite.

This was his second mistake; the first mistake had been not realizing that the note did not contain his grandfather's handwriting.

Hau dropped the malasada back onto the plate as he ran to the sink and spit out what he had bitten off. After scrubbing at his tongue to get the taste off he slowly walked toward the offending food as if it were and angry wild pokemon.

Upon closer inspection inside he saw a terrifying sight. Stuffed inside the Malasada was ketchup, horseradish, and from the smell of it vinegar… and a sticky note.

Hau pulled the note out and glanced at it cautiously as if the paper itself would attack him. He made sure to keep his arms outstretched away from him as he read it.

Have a nice lunch Hau?
APRIL FOOLS

You can't escape me,
Kukui

Hau couldn't believe his eyes. Pranks were one thing but this- this blatant waste of a malasada was more than he could handle. How could Kukui think this was okay?

Before Hau could start ranting to himself about the injustice he felt his phone buzz in his pocket and then again seconds later. He pulled his phone out and read his new text messages

Moon: We need to do something about Kukui. Everyone meet Gladion and I at my house

Lillie: On my way

Hau had a determined gleam in his eye as he typed out his reply

Hau: I'm in. He's gone too far this time

Hau looked at the message for a moment before sending another message.

Hau: I told you he was an evil genius


With Moon's Mom

Moon's mom smiled as she sat on the couch with Meowth dozing in her lap. She absentmindedly pet him as she watched the news on the television. Her day had been rather peaceful if not just a bit odd. Usually she would hear some kind of explosion or such in the distance from Kukui's lab by now but everything had been quiet.

Not thinking much of it Moon's mother brought her attention back to the current program as Meowth stretched out in her lap as he began to wake up.

Everything was quiet, bar the television, until a sudden knock came from the door. Meowth perked his ear up for a moment listening to whoever made the noise before suddenly jumping up and scurrying into the bedroom.

Moon's mother looked to where her pokemon disappeared around the door frame with a raised eyebrow. That was odd. Hearing the knock again she turned her attention to the door now. She wasn't expecting anyone today. Moon and Hala were at the league and Moon's friends knew she wasn't around. The only other person she could think of would be Professor Kukui.

"Come on in Kukui!" she called through the door, not bothering to get up since he would walk in before she got there as usual anyway.

Though he didn't walk in, instead another knock sounded against the wood. Maybe it wasn't him after all.

Moon's mom got up from the couch and walked to the door. She looked through the peep hole and seeing nobody in sight opened the door and stepped out to get a batter look. Or at least she tried to step out. She actually ended up walking into something and stumbling as something tangled around her.

After trying and failing to get herself untangled and ending up on the ground Moon's mother realized what had happened. She was currently wrapped up in saran wrap. With a wince of slight fear, she glanced back inside to the calendar and cringed at what she saw. Today was April 1st.

Hala had warned her about this day and more specifically to stay away from Kukui today.

"Hey there sister, I came by to see how you were doing but it looks like you're a little wrapped up at the moment. Haha! April Fools!" Moon's mother groaned as Kukui came into view. He laughed a little more before strolling off back to his lab, leaving Moon's mother sitting on her porch surrounded by the offending saran wrap.

Once Kukui was out of sight Meowth cautiously stepped out of the house and sensing no danger began to help Moon's mother rid herself of the prank. When it was all off of Moon's mother stood and scooped it up before waking back inside, kicking the door closed with her foot, and tossing the remnants of Kukui's little prank in the garbage.

She was just about to go lay down in an attempt to relive her forming headache when she heard her phone beep across the room. Walking back to the couch she grabbed her cell phone off of the coffee table and opened it up to see several new messages.

Moon: We need to do something about Kukui. Everyone meet Gladion and I at my house

Lillie: On my way

Hau: I'm in. He's gone too far this time

Hau: I told you he was an evil genius

Moon's mother sighed at the apparent antics of the pokemon professor.

Moon's Mom: He just left, it should be safe here for now

At least she hoped it would be safe and prank free for now anyway.


With Burnet

Normally Burnet missed her husband during her time researching in Heahea City but today was an exception. Truthfully, she couldn't be happier than to be away from him for this one particular day because nobody knew better than herself how much her husband loved April Fool's day.

She had been the unwilling victim to many of his pranks over the years and it would be a nice break to have a calm, worry-free day this April 1st. She wasn't worried about him this year, he was on another island than her and even though that in itself wasn't a problem for him he had plenty of new people to prank today.

Sure, she might have felt just a little bit bad about not warning the others but that would only put her at risk should her husband find out and want retaliation for helping 'the enemy'. Besides she figured Lillie and Hau would warn them anyway, either that or go off the grid into hiding for the day, but she couldn't worry herself over the details.

She had spent her prank free morning by doing some baking and then taking a nap on the couch but now she had to wash the dishes as the sink was overflowing with baking supplies.

Burnet pulled herself from the couch where she had previously been eating brownies, one of the many desserts she treated herself to making today, and walked into the kitchen. After grabbing the sponge and putting soap on it Burnet reached for the handle to turn the water on.

However, she got a bit of a surprise when instead of coming from the faucet water sprayed out at her from the sinks hose, getting both her and the floor completely soaked before she got her bearings back enough to turn it off.

Dripping wet and steaming mad Burnet grabbed for the hose to inspect it. Unseen by her eyes before the incident there was a thin piece of clear wire wrapped and knotted around the hose causing the water to spray out of it.

Burnet growled knowing there could only be one culprit, but when had he done it? She had used the sink earlier when she was baking and it was fine. She stomped off to her bedroom to get a dry pair of clothes when she saw there were already dry clothes sitting out on her bed along with a note on top in an annoyingly familiar scrawl.

Burnet snatched up the note and glowered at it.

Hey babe,
I just couldn't leave you out of the holiday fun!
Don't be mad, here's some dry clothes.

Love you
Kukui

P.S. You look cute when you fall asleep on the couch

Burnet glared at the paper. Even on a different island she still couldn't escape this holiday. Oh, but she wouldn't get mad though, oh no, she would get even. She was just starting to plot her revenge when her phone started ringing signaling a surprising amount of text messages in such a short time. She picked up her phone and opened the new group message.

Moon: We need to do something about Kukui. Everyone meet Gladion and I at my house

Lillie: On my way

Hau: I'm in. He's gone too far this time

Hau: I told you he was an evil genius

Moon's Mom: He just left, it should be safe here for now

Burnet smiled to herself, now she had four other people up for revenge. This was bound to be good.

Burnet: I'll be there as soon as I dry off

Burnet grimaced as she brought the dry clothes into the bathroom where she dried off with a towel and blow dried her hair before leaving.


At Moon's House

Moon and Gladion landed and hopped off the Charizard just as two more landed nearby carrying Lillie and Hau.

After looking at the recently arrived pair Gladion and Moon stood in shock as their eyes widened.

"He's gone too far this time!" Hau shouted, though some how they didn't think he was talking about Lillie's blue skin and hair.

"What happened?" Moon shouted after finding her voice again. Moon's mother, having heard the commotion, chose this moment to come out. "Oh my!" She froze in mid step as she had been going to greet the teens but stopped dead when she saw her daughter's blue friend.

"I'll tell you what he did. That maniac... that monster… that psycho he DISGRACED my malasada!" Hau yelled falling to his knees.

The rest of the group sweat dropped.

"I think they were talking to me Hau." Lillie told him bluntly, a pout forming on her blue lips as she glanced at her arms. "He put blue kool-aid in my shower head." She looked around at the others. "At least no one else got re-colored anyway."

Moon and Gladion glanced at each other then back at Lillie. "I wouldn't say that." Gladion told her with a sigh as they both released their Silvally's. The result was more gasping and eye widening.

"It's temporary hair dye, it'll be stuck for a few days." Moon explained

Before the two trainers had a chance to recall their pokemon another Charizard swooped down and dropped off Burnet.

She looked around at the gathered group, being the only one not to look shocked at either Lillie or the Silvally's dye jobs. She let out a low long whistle. "He got you guys good. What happened."

"Kool-aid in my shower, temporary hair dye," at this Lillie gestured to the smiling pokemon being pet by Moon's mother. "and apparently he disgraced Hau's malasada."

"He did!" nobody needed to look to know who made the indignant shout.

"He picked the lock on my office and stuck all my furniture to the ceiling and filled the league with so much goo they had to shut down and call a cleaning crew to get rid of it." Gladion added.

Everyone looked to moon's mother who stopped petting the pokemon so they could go back in their balls. "He set a saran wrap trap on the door that I got caught in when I went to answer it, Meowth had to help me get out."

What about you?" Moon asked the perpetrator's wife.

"He rigged the sink so the water would come out of the hose instead of the faucet and I got drenched before I could shut it off."

The rest nodded before Moon gestured for all of them to enter the house. The Alola champion looked around outside before shutting and locking the door. You could never be too careful, you never knew when Kukui would show up. Which is why she then went and shut all the curtains.

"Okay clearly this man has no boundaries," Moon gestured to Lillie who crossed her arms in a huff as she said this. "so I say we give him a taste of his own medicine." Moon was smirking by the time she finished.

Lillie, Gladion, and Hau readily agreed but Moon's mother was hesitant. "I think you can count me out, pranks aren't really my thing, but by all means do what you must." With that she an Meowth went to go lay down and hopefully ward off the headache she felt coming on.

Burnet scoffed at the curious glances she got from the remaining occupants of the room. "Forget that, I'm in and revenge is going to be so sweet.

"It has to be good, he's going to be just as cautious today as the rest of us if not more." Gladion advised.

"While I agree that it has to be good, I don't think he'll be expecting it. Nobody has tried to prank him back in years, they're too focused on hiding from him."

"Well that makes our mission a lot easier then." Hau smiled.

"But what exactly is the mission though?" Lillie asked. Everyone fell into contemplative silence as they sat themselves around the room and tried to think of a good revenge prank.

It had been nearly fifteen minutes of silence when Moon's head suddenly shot up, causing everyone else to look at her but she had her eyes focused solely on the blue girl across from her.

"When you were in Kanto with your mother and you were getting help from Bill, you said he told you about the time that he got stuck in a life-like pokemon suit. It was so good that everyone who saw him was real and he couldn't get it off because he couldn't reach the button to remove it."

Getting and idea of where she was going with this Lillie encouraged her to continue.

"You think he has another one we can borrow, a pokemon you could find in Alola." The others started catching on now.

"I'll call him now" Lillie rushed out of the room to go use the phone while Moon told the story in more detail to those who had yet to hear about it. By the time she finished Lillie was back with a smile on her face. "He has the perfect costume. He's going to have his Alakazam teleport it over."

"What is it?" Hau asked.

Lillie's genuine smile turned borderline evil, "You'll see."

Before anyone else could ask Alakazam had arrived and in his hands was indeed the perfect costume.

"Let's go." With those final words Moon led everyone out of the house and down towards the pokemon lab.

They snuck around the building and positioned themselves under a window and peered in. They ducked back down quickly as they saw him pass the window to go downstairs. Luckily he hadn't seen them and still suspected nothing.

Lillie pulled out a pokeball and released a butterfree, quickly shushing it before it could greet her. "Butterfree I need you to fly in through the window and go find the professor downstairs. I want you to use sleep powder on him but you can't let him see you. Then come back and let us know when he's asleep. Okay?" Butterfree nodded before flying inside the house and out of site as he made his way to the lower level.

They waited in tense silence until Butterfree came back and gave them the all clear. With a relieved sigh Lillie thanked her pokemon and returned it to its pokeball.

Burnet stood and jogged to the front door as she pulled out a key. She pushed it in the lock and turned it before pushing the door wide open. "Let's go." The remaining four rushed in after her. As they made their way through the house they found the professors rockruff, stufful, and snubull in their hiding spot.

Lillie and Burnet approached them cautiously, not wanting to scare them and started whispering to them. The pokemon nodded their heads happily before scampering off down the stairs. Burnet nodded to Moon, Gladion, and Hau, signaling for them to head downstairs.

When everyone got to the bottom floor they tiptoed over to the knocked-out professor who was lying in a heap on the ground not far from where the three pokemon had sat themselves in wait.

Without needing a verbal order Hau and Gladion began shoving Kukui into the pokemon costume, careful not to jostle him too much and wake him up. While they did that Moon pulled a voice recorder out of her bag and set it on the ground behind the pokemon so it was out of sight. Once the suit was in place the revenge seekers hid themselves around the room. Gladion and Moon in a closet with the door cracked open, Lillie climbed up on top of a tall shelf and pushed herself up against the wall, Hau called out Raichu and they both hid in the corner under a pile of blankets. Burnet though had the oddest hiding spot of them all. She just stood against a wall.

"What are you doing?" Gladion asked.

"Don't worry, he won't even notice I'm here." She assured him, showing just how little faith she had in her husband. Rather than argue with her Gladion shrugged and Lillie pulled another pokeball from her pocket. Clefairy popped out and looked around curiously not seeing Lillie anywhere. She trotted over to Burnet instead and glanced up at her questioningly.

"It's okay Clefairy Lillie's just hiding on that shelf."

"Clefairy?" The pink pokemon tilted it's head in confusion before seeing Lillie wave at her before going against the wall and out of sight once more.

"Clefairy," Moon called as she stuck her head out of the closet. "We're playing a prank on Kukui okay?" at Clefairy's nod Moon continued. "Can you please use wake up slap on him." Moon pointed to the still sleeping professor. If Clefairy was confused by what she saw she didn't let it bother her as she did as Moon asked before quickly being called back to her pokeball.

The second the red light absorbed Clefairy Kukui shot up onto his feet and looked around confused.

"That's weird," he said to himself. "I guess I dozed off."

In the closet Moon and Gladion smirked at each other before Moon pulled out a remote and pointed it at the voice recorder and pressed the play button. Now they wait.

"When do you think he's gonna realize what happened?" Kukui looked up in confusion as he heard the unfamiliar voice.

"Who said that?"

"I don't know, it's kind of hard to miss."

Kukui looked in shock at the sight in front of him, sat before him were Snubull, Rockruff, and Stufful.

"Uh, come again?" he asked.

The pokemon looked at him as Rockruff moved its mouth in time with the recording. "How could he not realize he's a Machoke?"

Kukui stared for an endless moment as his brain processed what his ears just heard. For the first time since waking up on the floor Kukui looked down at himself.

His mouth dropped open in shock, for it was true, he had somehow turned into a pokemon.

"Oh no, oh no, oh no. Okay what do I do?" Kukui started muttering and pacing the floor as the three visible pokemon watched on holding back their laughter. "Okay, I can work with this, I'll just have to make the most of it. Yeah, I'm sure everything will sort itself out eventually, and until then look on the bright side. What other pokemon professor has ever had the opportunity to study pokemon moves first hand?"

Kukui continued to give himself a pep talk. While he had his moment Hau turned to Raichu and told him to get ready.

"Alright Kukui. Use karate chop!" Kukui ordered himself as he turned to face a small table.

Hau and Raichu peeked out form their blanket hut. "Raichu, use psychic to break the table when he hits it."

"Rai" Raichu did as he was told and the second Kukui's costume covered hand came into contact with the table it broke clean in half.

"This is so awesome!" Kukui cheered for himself after staring at the remnants of the table for a minute.

Burnet just shook her head and rubbed her temple, still unnoticed.

"Okay Kukui, now try a low kick!" He turned to face a chair now and kicked out at it.

Hau nodded to Raichu to do the same thing as before.

The chair once again broke on contact and Kukui squealed in joy. "This is amazing!" He started hopping in place. "I know, it's one thing to study the use of pokemon moves on inanimate object but field research is a whole new level. To Ten Carat Hill!" With those parting words he was up the stairs and out the door.

Once the front door slammed shut Hau and Raichu emerged from the mountain if blankets, Lillie climbed off of the shelf, and Gladion and Moon walked out of the closet.

Gladion looked between the staircase Kukui had just taken and Burnet who was still leaning against the wall. "He seriously didn't notice you?"

The woman just shrugged and walked over the rest of the group. "Come on we better go stop him before he does something stupid."

"What do you mean?" Hau asked.

Burnet raised an eyebrow. "He just ran off to Ten Carat Hill to get real pokemon battle experience. Against actual pokemon."

The teens looked at each other before they raced off after the pranking professor. Burnet let out a sigh before following them after her husband. The things she did for him.


"AAAAHHHHH!"

The group ran out of the cave just as Kukui let out a shout. From the looks of things, he had just found out he wasn't really a pokemon is the angry midnight and midday for Lycanroc surrounding him were anything to go by.

Without a second thought Gladion released Silvally, Moon summoned out Primarina, Hau sent out Raichu, Lillie's pokeball revealed Lunala, and Burnet called out Munchlax.

Raichu started off by throwing a psychic shield up in front of Kukui. Then Silvally and Munchlax attacked to distract the Lycanrocs and while they were distracted Primarina used sing to put them and Kukui to sleep. Once the immediate danger was gone all the pokemon but Lunala and Silvally were recalled.

"Okay Nebby go get him but try not to wake up any other pokemon." Lillie instructed. Nebby picked up the professor and placed him on Silvally's back before going back into its own pokeball so the group could travel back through the cave and to the lab.

Upon returning to the lab Silvally went back inside the pokeball and Clefairy took his place. "Okay Clefairy use wake up slap again" Lillie didn't need to clarify who and Clefairy got right to work.

"Cle-fairy cle-fairy cle-fairy!"

Kukui woke up with a start and looked around the room still expecting to be surrounded by the pack of lycanroc. Seeing that he was back in his lab and who was surrounding him he relaxed, going so far as to laugh when he saw Lillie's blue skin and hair. Then the fact that he was still a pokemon occurred to him and he started to panic again.

He started making large gestures as he spoke, unaware that he was speaking English and they could understand him just fine. He grabbed onto Burnet's hands as he spoke. "Oh Burnet, you have to do something. I think Arceus wanted to help me with my research so he turned me into a machoke so I could study pokemon moves first hand but I don't know how to turn back!" He released his wife's hands and started pacing around the room still muttering to himself. He didn't hear anyone else in the room trying to get his attention until Clefairy slapped him again.

He looked at the pink pokemon in shock but she only crossed her arms and walked back to Lillie's side before getting sent back into her pokeball.

"Kukui you're not a pokemon." Moon told him.

"Of course I am Moon look at me! Wait you can understand pokemon?"

"She can't understand pokemon any more than the rest of us, it was a prank." Gladion told him with his arms crossed much Clefairy had just done.

"What?"?

"We. Pranked. You." Lillie said slowly and smugly.

Yeah," Hau laughed. "We were tired of your pranks every year so we thought it was time for some revenge."

"And you fell for it hook, line, and sinker!" Burnet didn't bother trying to hide her utter amusement at the mans shocked face.

"But- but look at me!"

"It's a costume, I had Bill from Kanto send it over. There's a button in the back to take it off." Lillie told him as Hau walked around him and opened the suit.

"So just to be clear," Kukui said slowly as he stepped out of the suit. "I was never really a pokemon and I never really did any of those attacks downstairs?"

"Nope. We were hiding-" Moon was cut off by Burnet.

"I wasn't you're just oblivious."

"Most of us were hiding and we had the pokemon in on it to make you think you could understand them when it was really a tape recorder and then Raichu broke the furniture, not you." She finished.

Kukui appraised them all before talking. "Well what can I say? You guys got me good." He laughed along with the others. When the laughter died down he got a dangerous gleam in his eye that had his companions on edge. "I'll just have to work that much harder next year if I want to top this."

Without a second glance at the horrified beings before him Kukui laughed and walked off to clean up the lab.