At the break of dawn, Nova found that she could not catch any sleep. She was feeling a little better after Cyrus' failed execution attempt, but was still in no shape to fight properly. No matter how hard she tried to get up, a sharp pain would always surge through her chest. Defeated, Nova just slumped backwards into her infirmary bed.

"Augh, this sucks!" groaned Nova. "Not only is my strength completely depleted, but I have no plan to end this stupid war at all! Worst of all, I don't have Fraxure with me."

Nova somberly remembered her partner, Fraxure. The last time that they were together was in the Galactic Prison Chambers, shortly before her execution trial.

"Poor Fraxure," sighed Nova, "he probably misses me like crazy after I was dragged away by that Grunt."

Unknown to Nova, Corn was peeking in through the slightly opened infirmary entrance door. He couldn't help but pity Nova as she laid in infirmary bed. But then, Corn had gotten a clever idea as he took out one of his Pokéballs.

"If she's so woeful about not being able to see her Pokémon again," thought Corn, "Then all I have to do is make sure she gets better quicker!"

With that, he released one of his Pokémon from the Pokéball, a pink creature with large, pink and cream colored ears, a white fluffy tail, and small blue eyes.

"Audino!" cried the creature.

"Alright, Audino," ordered Corn, "I need you to use Heal Pulse on Nova to speed up her healing process!"

"Au-dino!" obeyed Audino.

As Audino carefully walked up to Nova, she stared at it with puzzlement and curiosity.

"An Audino?" wondered Nova. "How did it get in here?"

Then, Audino released a wave of pink energy in Nova's direction. Nova panicked for a split second, but calmed down as she felt her wounds dissolve almost instantly. Any pain that she had once felt in her body was now gone. The blood that had stained her uniform was cleaned off as well.

"Gee, thanks!" Nova said to the pink Pokémon.

"Aud, Audino!" replied Audino.

Finally feeling her strength coming back, Nova leaped out of the bed, grabs her staff, and had snuck out the window toward Galactic HQ.

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Back in the Nova's resting chambers at Galactic HQ, Fraxure was laying on the bed weeping. After Nova had been taken away from him, he could only assume that his master was dead. Tears had soaked the sheets as Fraxure was being comforted by Nova's other two Pokémon, Excadrill and Emolga. Suddenly, Fraxure heard the room door creak open slowly. Alarmed, he bolted off of the bed, and started to charge a Dragon Pulse attack at the "intruder".

"Fraxure, stop!" cried the familiar voice, "It's me, Iris!"

Upon hearing that, Fraxure immediately halted his attack. As Nova entered through the door, Fraxure charged up to his life-long friend, and hugged her, teary-eyed. Nova was about to return the hug, when suddenly, she was hugged Excadrill and Emolga.

"I missed you guys, too!" said Nova. "But guys, I'm gonna need your help big time! I can't stop Ghetsis and Cyrus with just my weapon, so I'm going to need a little help from my Pokémon."

Fraxure, Excadrill, and Emolga instantly agreed to help their trainer. Nova sent Excadrill and Emolga back to their respective Pokéballs, and with Fraxure by her side, set out to stop the war that had kept Team Galactic and Team Plasma apart for so long.