After spending a night in Odale town and walking through Route 101, Storm, Plusle, and Minun had finally reached their destination, Littleroot town. Storm knew which house the mega stone was in. Remembering what had happened in Petalburg city, Storm decided to get the mega stone himself and have Plusle and Minun do something else.
"You guys can look around the town while I get the mega stone, okay?" Storm said to Plusle and Minun.
"Alright, sounds good," agreed Plusle. Plusle and Minun ran off to explore Littleroot while Storm walked toward the house that he saw the mega stone in. Storm looked through the window of the kitchen to see if anyone was in there and to locate the mega stone so he can get it as quick as possible without getting caught. There was a woman in the kitchen washing dishes. Storm found the mega stone sitting on the counter. Then suddenly, the woman got a phone call.
"Hello?" she answered. "What?! No, I didn't hear about that. Okay, I'm coming right now!" she shouted in the phone. The woman hung up, grabbed her purse, and ran out of the house. She didn't even bother to lock the door, which gave Storm the chance to enter the house without having to worry about getting caught.
Meanwhile, Plusle and Minun were exploring Littleroot town. They walked by Professor Birch's house.
"Seriously? Who puts a sign with their name on it by their house?" Questioned Minun, seeing the sign by the professor's house. Plusle and Minun kept walking around and found another building that belonged to Professor Birch. The professor had accidentally left the door open, so Plusle and Minun were able to see what was inside. The building was a lab.
"Hey, let's go in there and have fun," said Plusle.
"Great idea!" agreed Minun. Plusle and Minun raced into the lab and started playing with the equipment. They pretended to do experiments and pushed random buttons. Minun found a red switch and was curious on what it would do. Without reading the word on the switch, he flipped it and then a loud, irritating alarm went off.
Professor Birch was in his house, talking to his wife in the kitchen. When he heard the alarm, he quickly rushed to the lab to see what was going on. When he got there, he saw a plusle playing with one of the machines and a minun standing next to the pulled switch. The professor knew that the minun had pulled the switch. Professor Birch tried to chase Plusle and Minun out of his lab, but he was kind of scared of wild Pokémon and he ended up being the one that got chased.
Storm had gotten the mega stone from the house and stored it in his lax incense for safekeeping. He felt a little bad for stealing, but knew that the item belonged to Latios and not the woman. When he left the house, Storm saw Plusle and Minun chasing Professor Birch and heard an alarm coming from the professor's lab. Storm realized that letting Plusle and Minun roam around Littleroot town wasn't such a good idea after all.
"Hey! Plusle, Minun, leave the poor professor alone!" Yelled Storm.
"Sorry," said Plusle, as he ran back toward Storm with Minun following him.
"Whew, thank you. I better go take care of the alarm before the fire department comes," said the professor, as he ran back to his lab.
"Plusle, Minun, what did you do?" asked Storm, with an angry expression on his face.
"Um, we went into that building and decided to play around in there...," said Plusle, nervously.
"I flipped a switch wondering what it would do and then that alarm went off," explained Minun, fidgeting.
"Then, that guy came into the lab and tried to chase us and we ended up chasing him," said Plusle, looking down at his feet.
"Was the switch you flipped red and had the word fire on it?" asked Storm.
"It was red and I think it did have a word on it, though I didn't read it," answered Minun, feeling anxious.
"Minun, you pulled a fire alarm. You should never pull fire alarms unless there is a real fire. You could get in big trouble. Now, I'm not going to punish you because I am your friend and not in charge of you, but if you see a red switch with the word fire on it in the future, don't touch it," Storm said strictly.
Plusle and Minun were relieved to be off the hook. Storm was wondering where to go next. Now that he had gotten Latios's mega stone, he didn't have anywhere to go until he sees Latios again. He was going to go back to Route 110 to drop Plusle and Minun off back there, but at this point, he felt that he had a bond with Plusle and Minun, and knew that they would be sad to leave him and Storm didn't want them to leave his side either, even if they had done things that Storm didn't want them to do. Storm was hoping that he would see Latios soon because he wanted to hear an update on where May could be.