Traveling through the desert, the group stopped Team Rocket from getting their hands on a rare Pokémon, which at this point, was both annoying and somewhat amusing to Laura.

"I still can't believe that you are still going at this," Lynn said eye rolling as Lucario faced off against Cassidy's Granbull, "I mean we all know how this goes, you try and capture a Pokémon, we kick your asses, you try to get away, but we catch and arrest you," the female trainer said.

"She does have a point," Butch said scratching the back of his head.

"Who asked you," Cassidy growled out before turning to Lynn only to see Granbull's butt smacking her in the face.

"I think you know what happens next," Lynn said smirking as Pikachu unleashed a Thunderbolt, sending both Cassidy and Butch flying.

A week or two later the group of three saw a mountain in the distance. "Wow this is the first time I've seen Mount Coronet this close," Dawn said.

Hearing the rustling of bushes, the human and Pokémon saw a small Pokémon that had a sort of Shield for a face and pulling out her Pokédex, Lynn scanned it.

A Pokémon that lived in jungles around 100 million years ago. Its facial hide is extremely hard.

Wondering why a Pokemon like that was doing here, it was answered when Lucario narrowed his eyes, "I sense danger approaching," he said turning to the right. Not even a second later a familiar six wheeler smashed through the trees with the intent to ram them over. Acting fast, Lynn and Lucario fired their Aura Spheres into the oncoming vehicle sending it into the sky before it landed onto its side, "Damn it, of course, we would be seeing you again," the man said climbing out and that's when the group recognized the six-wheeler and the person driving it.

"Fuck, your one of Hunter J's grunts," Lynn swore.

Watching the grunt releasing two Golbats, Pikachu easily dispatched both of them with a single Thunderbolt; however, before they could move two more six wheelers burst through the trees. Though before anyone could make a move a voice only familiar to Brock and Lynn shouted out, "Electivire: Double Thunder Punch." Appearing out of the woodworks Electivire punched both vehicles forcing them to stop.

"Gary?" Lynn said out loud catching his attention, "No time to talk, we need to run now," he said getting a head start with the others soon following.

"H-hey who's that?" Dawn asked between breaths as they followed Gary.

"That's Gary Oak, the Grandson of Professor Oak and former rival turned friend of Lynn's," Brock answered as they took a short break as they hid behind some trees.

"So Gary what are you doing in Sinnoh? And with prehistoric Pokemon to boot," Lynn asked once she knew that they were out of danger.

"I've been doing research in the region when Professor Rowan contacted me if I could help in turning this area into a nature preserve for the Sheldon," Gary explained. Pulling out a laptop, the Grandson of Professor Oak typed in a couple buttons and Professor Rowan's face appeared on the screen.

"Ah, Gary it's good to see you again," he said but then saw three familiar faces, "Oh I see you ran into Lynn and the others, good you might need their help. How goes the recovery of the Sheldon?" The Professor asked.

"It's good but I've already had an into Pokemon Hunters so I'm taking these little ones out of here," Gary said informing the professor of the current situation.

"Alright, in the meantime I'll be meeting you at this location," Rowan said as the map popped up and it zooming in on a mountain close to the lake, "Take care and good luck," he said signing off.

"So how do we get there?" Dawn asked, "I mean this entire mountain range could be surrounded by Hunter J's people," she points out.

Before a decision could be made one of J's vehicles appeared on the scene, "There you are, Hunter J will be pleased when she gets her hands on the Sheldon and the girl's rare Pokemon," they heard over the mic.

"You're not getting your hands on my Pokemon," Lynn called out. "Lucario: Aura Sphere and make a ditch," she said ordering an attack.

Seeing that the vehicle was stuck in the man-made ditch, the group bolted with Electivire holding the four Sheldon in its arms. Running for seems hours on end, the group had to hide when Lynn and Lucario sensed multiple boogies in the area, "Great all direct routes are being blocked and it's only thanks to Lynn that they can't see us right now," Gary said typing on his laptop trying to figure out a way to get around the grunts.

"Why don't we just keep walking with the shield Lynn has up?" Dawn asked, "Can't we use it to sneak away," she points out.

"Sorry Dawn, one move away from this spot will shatter the illusion causing every grunt around us to attack," Lynn said shaking her head.

"There's a river to the north and a deep valley to the south, it's going to be risky but we'll have to try one of the paths," Gary voice out his findings before closing the laptop.

"We'll have to go to the valley," Lynn said, "If anything happens I'll have my Flying-types lay low and act as an escort as well as run interference in case we get jumped by any of J's grunts," she explained.

Sneaking their way past the grunts and making it to the valley, Gary pulled out some rope and tied it around the Sheldon and each other as Laura and Lucario, Laura returned Amaris into her Pokéball, formed an Aura Board with the Princess herself had Charizard, Pidgeot, Swellow, and Noctowl fly escort.

Making their way through the valley without any encounters, the group took a short rest as Gary linked up with Professor Rowan, "Alright, just take care of yourself as well professor, things are going to get dicey from here on out," Gary said. Just as they were going to start moving out again trouble came knocking in the form of Hunter J, "God damn it," Lynn swore as soon other grunts appeared as well, "We're surrounded," she growled out.

"Hand over the Sheldon and your friend or else," Hunter J demanded priming her gauntlet, "You have nowhere to run or hide, this is where you all cease your meddling in my plans for some big bucks."

"Damn it J, is money the only thing you care for," Brock said hoping to find a way to out of the current situation at hand.

Without saying a word, J signaled her grunts to attack, "Charizard take care of Salamence," Lynn screamed out as she made a dome of Aura to protect everyone, "Pidgeot, Swellow, Noctowl distract the Golbat," she continued.

Appearing out from high above, Charizard slammed into the Dragon-Type Pokemon making a decent sized crater before picking it up and sending it flying before chasing after its opponent. While with the other dual type Flying-Pokemon, they made quick work the Dual Poison-Flying types. Releasing the dome, Lynn turned to see that the grunts were siding down the mountainside with batons in hand ready to crush them, "Go I got this," Lynn told her friends as she formed Aura tonfas in retaliation. But seeing as they were surrounded Lynn didn't know how to get them to safety; however, as they got closer a ring of fire appeared and looking up there was a figure in front of the sun, and floating down it was a female figure with that of a teenager. With her bright orange-red hair, she wore a light silver bodysuit as the collar is ruby red with a royal purple piping as a silver tiara resting on her forehead with a round pyrope gem in the center. The ruby bow with royal purple brooch engraved with a flame symbol in silver. The rest of the outfit comprised of a pleated ruby skirt with a royal purple edging as the high heel boots in the same style of the skirt appeared all the while elbow ruby red fingerless gloves finished the look.

Seeing this J started to grin, "So you're one of the scouts of this world huh, I think you'll make me some big bucks in the black market," she said.

"Oh no you don't," Lynn shouted lodging an Aura Sphere but J easily dodged it.

As Hunter J released her Drapion, Lucario went to intercept, "Your fight is with me, Ogor," Lucario said forming a staff made of Aura. Seeing this, Drapion spits out a glob of poison in which Lucario jumped high, using the sunlight to blind his opponent, turning the staff into a spear before tossing it.

Back with Lynn, she had her back against the mysterious scout, "So tell me what plate do you represent?" Lynn asked ducking under a punch then performing a low sweep on the grunt in front of her.

"Fire Plate," the scout said catching the punch sent her way before placing her arm at the grunt's elbow and sent him flying into a group of grunts.

While Lynn and the new scout kept the grunts busy; Dawn, Gary, Brock and the Sheldon snuck around the fighting when one of the four prehistoric Pokemon slipped and tumbled down getting J's attention. "Nice for you to finally drop in," J sneered turning the scared Sheldon into a bronze statue, "We have the target, everyone fall back," she barked out.

"Oh no you don't, Ring of Fire," the Flame Scout cried out invoking fire to stop the remaining grunts from running. In the ensuing chaos, Lynn noticed that one of the vehicles was ready to move so she used her aura to turn her invisible and hid underneath the six-wheeler.

Looking around, Gary groaned, "Please don't tell me that Lynn went off on her own?" He asked hoping he was wrong.

"Gary, you should know by now that even as a female Lynn follows her heart no matter how dangerous it looks," Brock said pulling out a device and began messing with it.

"What's that?" Dawn asked as the scout was also interested.

"It's a tracking device," Brock answered, "After the number of times we were separated, Lynn decided to buy us these," he explained before the device came to life.

"Or you could have asked me," Lucario stated voicing his reminder.

"Sorry Lucario, but this was before Lynn and I met you back in Kanto," Brock replied and with both the tracking device and Lucario's Aura acting as a sonar they were easily able to find Laura.

Seeing the vehicle stop near a lake, Laura saw that the case containing Sheldon was lowered before moving into the ship, "Now to cause a little chaos," Laura grinned. Exiting the room, Laura released Liepard and started destroying the place by firing Aura Spheres and the likes as the alarm blared. "Come and get you fuckers," Laura said ducking under lunging grunts as well as sending them back to their comrades.

Creating an opening by blasting a wall to bits, Laura caught Sheldon's container at the end of her roll as the grunts guarding Hunter J were defeated by Amaris, "There you go, you're free," the reincarnated princess said petting the crying Sheldon.

"Hunter J, our deal is off, officer Jenny is coming this way any minute now and I don't feel like being arrested," J's buyer said signaling for the helicopter to take him out of there.

However, Lynn had other plans, "Aw, are you sure that you want to leave? I'm sure that Officer Jenny can give you a nice cell in her jailhouse," she said firing off a shot of compressed Aura destroying the second smaller set of propellers. Watching Hunter J walk away, Lynn let her go knowing that any more battling could lead to consequences she didn't want to deal with at the moment before sensing that the others were soon arriving.

"So Lynn where are you going off two now?" Gary asked as Professor Rowan and Officer Jenny talked about stationing guards to protect the wildlife in the area.

"Hearthome City for my third badge," Lynn easily replied smirking.

"Please, if I was still a trainer then I would easily on my fifth badge by now, Lynny-girl," Gary smirked before walking away.

Blinking Lynn slowly registered what Gary just said before walking away and watched as the jeep and motorcycle drove away, ". . . Oh come on, GARY OAK YOU FUCKING BASTARD OUT OF ALL THE THINGS YOU HAD TO SAY IT HAD TO BE THAT ALTERATION OF THAT FUCKING NICKNAME YOU HAVE FOR ME ARCEUS DAMN IT, THE NEXT TIME I SEE YOU I'M KICKING YOU IN THE NUTS YOU HEAR ME OAK, THE FUCKING NUTS," she screamed at the top of her lungs.

"What was that about?" Lucario asked trying to get the ringing sound out of his ear.

"Just Gary being a dick," Lynn said rolling her eyes, "Even now, he can't help but be a dick at times," she continued, though she could have sworn that she heard her mother, Queen Serenity, laugh at her reaction but also scold her for her use of language.