It's been another week since Sarah and Ash's encounter with Kaito and his Pokémon. Nikki and James were amazed to hear the story and they felt a little bit bad for their daughter having had nearly lost Silvally if it wasn't for the two Espurrs. The male and female Espurr made themselves right at home with Sarah and her family. Today, the family was heading to the Pokemon School together. The two little Espurr's were riding on Nikki and James' shoulders, smiling.

It was the day of the Pokemon Open House and everyone was asked to give a presentation on what they each think about Pokemon. While Ash was given the hard task to describing and explaining how Alola Pokemon differ to Kanto Pokemon, much to his dismay and with the knowledge that his mother, her Mr. Mime, Mimey, and Professor Oak are coming to see him and his presentation, Sarah was assigned by Professor Kukui to give a presentation and how and what Pokemon would mean to her as a family.

"It still amazes me that there are other worlds out there along with our own," James continued to awe from Sarah's story. "And, you had a magnificent battle with someone who's a little like you and who's stronger in almost any way."

"Well, we may have our difference and his words may have hurt but I've Kaito to thank for making me stronger," Sarah replied with a smile. "Even if he had no right to say those things, I'm sure he did the right thing to help you deal with your inner turmoil," Nikki agreed.

"Do you really think I'll be hurt when you and everyone else would betray me at some point or another?"

"Of course not!" James chuckled.

"And, we're glad that you decided to confide your troubles with us, Ash, and Professor Kukui. Even your friends will make sure it won't come to that. Even if it did, as you said, you'll seize whatever new life is ahead of you and forge the way."

"We're proud of you, baby," said Nikki. "That shows how much you're growing up and we couldn't be happier."

Nebby cooed and babbled happily in Sarah's arms, agreeing with Nikki.

"I see your baby's looking forward to hearing your presentation," she smiled as she watched Nebby babble with joy. The female Espurr on her shoulder purred as well, smiling at the little baby Pokemon.

"I want him to have a front row seat for when I give my presentation," grinned Sarah.

"He'll be wanting me to go first so badly."

"Have you finished your report on your subject Professor Kukui gave you last week?" James reminded. Sarah grinned again to his satisfaction, "I finished it yesterday."

"Good."

"How do you think Ash will do with his report compared to me and the others?"

"Well, from what you told us, it sounded like he was having it rough when you came to see how he's getting on with it on Monday," mused Nikki.

"He'll be fine as long as you all give him the support he needs," said James.

"Pikachu Pika.." Blitz smiled.

"Sylveon Sylve." Sylveon added with a happy grin, but little did Sarah, Nikki and James know, this Open House would bring a strange and big adventure for them.


(Opening 3 – Rurouni Kenshin Opening 1 – Freckles (English Dub)

(The opening begins with a silhouette of a young girl with a Chinese straight sword sheathed in a gold scabbard sitting within images of Team Rocket, Team Skull, Guzma and Plumeria, the three mysterious grunts, and the grunts' leader before the image brightens and the girl is left alone)

(The girl gets up and awakens to reveal herself as Sarah as she and her Pokémon are on a large boat as it sailed across the ocean to one of the other Islands of Alola. While some of her Pokémon are relaxing on the boat ride, Silvally, Lolita, Blitz, and Red Eyes look out into the ocean with determined looks on their faces with their trainer)

I brush against the freckles that I hated so and life goes on but I heave a little sigh for you. It's heavy, the love that I would share with you. Then it dissolves like it was just a sugar cube!

(Ash and Pikachu were shown at the Pokémon School trying to practice the steps to a new Z-Attack until they missed or exaggerated a few steps and fell down on the ground. Lana, Mallow, and Sophocles, who were with them along with their Pokémon Partners, either laughed at or groaned at them. Ash and Pikachu smiled sheepishly as the scene pans from the school to the beach near the school)

Now, the little pain sitting in my heart has shrunken a bit but it really does hurt me now. Those silly horoscopes, I guess I can't trust them after all~!

(Kiawe was there with Pyroar and Turtonator as he commanded a Double Flamethrower and gave a satisfied smirk as his partners landed on either side of him as he then looked to his right)

If we could get further away~! I wonder what it would be li-i-i-i-i-ke, yeah~!

(The scene pans to Lillie looking out her backyard from her mansion with Snowy as she had a happy look on her face before they turned to their left in surprise)

I'd be so happy inside my hea-a-a-a-a-a-art!

(Sarah and her Pokémon are surrounded by mysterious grunts and a small team of people in white uniforms as she held a strange cosmic-like Pokémon in her left arm and the Sword of the Sun Lion on her right hand as she was then attacked by a mystery grunt's Houndoom and its Flamethrower attack)

All the memories I have are beautiful in my mind!

(A Thunderbolt appears and blocks the Flamethrower to reveal Zeraora as the Thunderclap Pokémon shielded her)

But, they don't feed the hunger deep inside my soul!

(Silvally, Lolita, and the Puppy Pair use Tri Attack, Dark Pulse, and Double Rock Slide to beat their foes getting to Sarah)

And, tonight, I thought I'd be just sitting in my sorrow!

(Ponyta and Wooloo attack together with Electro Ball and Moonblast while Aqua and Milotic use Bubblebeam and Dragon Pulse before Candy and Blitz joined forces to use Thundershock and Signal Beam at their own enemies)

And now, I must wonder why, what did it really mean to you?

(Sarah appears and opens her eyes as she saw her family and friends, humans and Pokémon alike, waiting happily for her to join them as she walks to them. The Season 2 titles appear just as the song ends)

I just can't see it anymore~! I just can't see it anymore~! O-o-o-o-o-oh~!

Pokémon Alola Journey – The Trials of Sarah


Surprisingly, Sarah and her family arrived very early for the Open House and saw Ash and the rest of Sarah's friends. To everyone's dismay, Faba was also there from the Aether Foundation and he was with Professor Kukui and Principal Oak, discussing something on the scientist's planned lecture together before Kukui and Oak would begin the Open House.

Silvally stalled and growled as he eyed Faba sharply. Ever since his and his family's visit to the Aether Foundation and crossing paths with him, Lusamine, Wicke, and Professor Burnet for the first time, he felt very uneasy and would always become a shut-in about the cold-hearted AF scientist whenever he was asked to tell Sarah and the others what's bugging him about the guy. Professor Kukui noticed Sarah coming in and he smiled.

"Hello, Sarah, I didn't see you come in. You and your family are up bright and early for the Open House. Have you finished your report yet?" "It's all done, Professor," she said as she took her seat and her family joined her. Then, she frowned as she turned to Faba. "But, why is HE in the school?"

"That's exactly what I like to know," Lillie asked as she and the others also directed their glares towards Faba. "Charmed," replied Faba, deadpanned. Professor Kukui just smiled, "Faba is here to give you all a lecture upon your mother's request." "Exactly. She wants me to explain to you about the marvels of science and for the day, you'll all address me as 'Professor'."

However, a little sheep pokemon wasn't too keen with that. Wooloo gave him a whack on the head, "Baaaa...!" "OW!" "Wooloo!" Nikki scolded and she grabbed the tiny sheep. Wooloo glared at Faba and gave him an angry "Baaa..."

"Wooloo!" Sarah snapped at her Sheep Pokemon, the Galar Pokemon suddenly wincing from her motherly tone. "Come here..."

"Baa, Baa..." he apologized to Sarah before he glared at Faba one last time before returning to his mother figure's side. Professor Kukui was more surprised and curious than mad about Wooloo's protective behavior. "Hmm, it seems Wooloo still doesn't take a liking to Faba," he noted.

"Do you know what's got him riled up, Sarah?"

"I don't know but something about Faba really makes me uneasy," she said as she petted Wooloo with Lolita's help to stop him from doing anything stupid he might regret.

"I'll see if I can get any of my Pokemon to not do anything stupid." "Good idea," Professor Kukui nodded. Ash then turned to Faba, still not trusting him, "So, what kind of science are you going to show us, Professor?"

"Oh Mister Ash, it's the coolest invention I ever made." Faba said and he revealed a gadget with the top half being a pokeball and the body of it being a medium sized stand and the bottom was on wheels. "Woah... so what is it?" Sarah asked. "i'm glad you asked, Sarah." Faba replied with a smile.

"As you all know, class, large Pokemon like a Snorlax or an Exeggutor can be shrunk down to a smaller size to fit inside a small device such as a Pokeball," Faba answered.

"Using the Pokeball and its properties and the information I gathered on it as a base, I created this device to shrink any large object down into a tiny, minuscule size to fit inside a Pokeball Capsule Device or a PCD, for short."

"And, the device in question, the Poke-Shrinker! All I need to do is to activate the Poke-Shrinker and point it at any large object to shrink it down to a more tangible size. Once it's shrunk, it'll be easily more portable and tangible in a short moment." Faba sets his shrinking device to target the blackboard while everyone watched.

"To start off, I'll shrink the blackboard down to a more tangible size. I'll just rearrange a few of these controls to set it shrink and..." But, to Faba's dismay, the blackboard remained the same size and he aggressively tried to get it working. The students, however, weren't impressed and were still glaring at him for the no-show.

Silvally and Nebby were starting to laugh at Faba's increasingly flustered state to which Nikki noticed even if she and James tried to stifle a giggle from how much he was making a fool of himself.

"Silvally, Nebby, don't laugh at Faba. He's doing his best," she said. Professor Kukui looked to the students, continuing to smile. "I'm sure he just needs to get his machine configured and a few bugs out of the way," he told them.

Faba messed with the machine but it suddenly started sparking and spitting out smoke, "Uh is that suppose to happen?" Nikki asked nervously.

"Not at all!" Faba exclaimed.

Everyone was now looking worried as Faba started to panic while working on his Poke-Shrinker as it rattled and smoke. "Look out!"

"Take cover!"

"Take to the hills!"

"Duck!"

"Run!"

"It's gonna blow!" Ash and the others panicked as they hid under their desks and even Faba and Professor Kukui ducked as it started to fire a laser. The Pokemon made sure to get out of the machine's range so they wouldn't be targeted.

Unfortunately, Nebby was dropped and he didn't escape in time as it immediately targeted him, much to Sarah's horror. "NEBBY!" she shouted and ran back to him.

Nikki and James saw this and they ran back in a panic, "Sarah!" "Nebby!"

They reached Nebby and shielded him just in time as the Poke-Shrinker fired its laser and shrunk them as they screamed in panic before ending up at a total height of six inches as everyone watched in shock and horror.

"Oh no!" Everyone cried.

"SARAH!" Silvally gasped along with the other Pokemon as Sarah, Nebby, and her parents noticed themselves in their new size.

"Uh oh, it looks like Faba's machine shrunk us instead of the blackboard or the others," James realized in horror. Nebby, still being the cute, little baby he is, just clapped and babbled happily in Sarah's arms, thinking it was all a game.

Sarah gently rubbed the little pokemon, "Faba, what did you do?!" Kiawe exclaimed.

"D-Don't look at me!" Faba defended.

"Golly!" Sophocles gasped as he and Lana looked at them. "They're so tiny now!"

"They must be no more than six inches high and Nebby's no more than a dot," Lana gaped in awe as she looked all over them.

"Yeah, and you guys are no more than giants from where we're standing," Nikki replied as Lillie came and extended her hand to pick them up.

"Come on, you guys, let's see how bad it is," she said as they got on her hand and she put them on her desk.

"It can't be all bad. Besides, the machine just shut down and they weren't put into any Pokeball Capsules," said Faba, trying to remain calm.

"I'd say this is a whole new level of 'bad' if they ended up like this," grumbled Professor Kuki at the scientist. Sarah looked over to Silvally as she watched to the edge of the desk she was put on and was boggled by how much of a giant he is now along with her other Pokemon as they looked at her, Nebby, and her parents.

"I cannot believe it!" Sarah shouted in disbelief as the Synthetic Pokemon leveled himself with his mother figure. "I'm smaller than you and everyone else, Silvally!"

"You're all puny!" Silvally replied, also stunned.

"Yeah..." Sarah stated.

"Faba, you gotta fix this. Now!" Kukui stated, frantically.

"R-Right. Rotom Dex, I need your assistance." Faba replied. Rotom Dex saluted, "Right away."

"Not to worry, you lot, I will fix you all straight away," Faba said as he took Sarah, her parents, and Nebby and put them inside the Pokeball Capsules and set the machine to bring them back to their correct height with Rotom-Dex's help.

"You guys all look like figurines," Lana put in as she observed them again.

"Or like dolls in a little toy fun house," smiled Mallow, much to Sarah's embarrassment. "I'm not one for the over-excessive girly kind of stuff, you bird brain!"

"Settle down, Ponchita. We all know you don't like that kind of stuff," James soothed along with a still happily babbling Nebby, whom she smiled at as she rocked him.

"Does that mean she's a tomboy, Kiawe?" Ash asked, curiously.

"Yeah, she never has an eye for anything that she sees as frilly and fruity tooty about a girl," Kiawe smiled. "And, she's always one to go out as a man in some cases with what she does."

Faba managed to set the machine to change their size back to normal but when it didn't perform as expected, everyone groaned as Faba panicked once again. "Maybe we should call you, the Fail Branch Chief," Lana muttered.

Nebby laughed at Lana's joke and Silvally snickered. The two Espurrs came onto the desk and looked at the shrunken family and Nebby, "Espurr?"

"Don't worry, you two," Nikki reassured. "We'll be fine, we'll just need a little help from you-know-who to grow us back or else he'll have to answer to me."

"This is serious," Professor Kukui replied, looking grim. "If we can't get that machine working again, there's no telling what'll happen to them if they're stuck being at the right size for a game of Cat and Mouse." He then turned to the panicking Faba.

"Faba, you take your machine back and figure out what's wrong with it. We'll look after Sarah."

"Yes, right away," Faba agreed shakily before he turned to Rotom-Dex. "Rotom-Dex, I'll need your help again."

"You got it! Think happy thoughts, Sarah, we'll have it up and running in no time! Don't move!" the living Pokedex called as he went with Faba to help fix the Poke-Shrinker again.

"I don't think you'll expect us to do anything at this rate," groaned Sarah, deadpanned and seething as Nikki and Nebby soothed her while Sylveon decides to carry them with the Espurr joining her.

"Sylve, Sylve," the Intertwining Pokemon called to the trio. They climbed up on board her and took a keen liking to how soft her fur is while the others looked on, enviously.

"Aw man, why can't we ride on our Pokemon like that?" Ash grumbled.

"You and your parents are lucky, Sarah," agreed Kiawe.

"Some people have all the fun," muttered Lana jealously.

Blitz and Aqua sweat dropped at Lana's comment. Togedemaru, on the other hand was giggling until it rolled up into the ball and started rolling around the classroom, "Togedemaru, wait, stop!" Sopheceles called but the Electric and Steel type pokemon wouldn't stop rolling around the room.

"Toge..!" Suddenly, the little guy was seen rolling right towards Sylveon!

"Sylveon!"

"LOOK OUT!" Sarah and her parents cried but Togedemaru knocked into Sylveon, launching the three of them and Nebby into the air and out of the school!

"Oh no!" Ash and Kukui gasped in horror.

"Pikapi!" "Sarah!" Blitz and Silvally exclaimed.

Togedemaru gasped in horror, realizing its mistake as it saw Sarah and her parents holding onto Nebby and Sylveon as they landed in a river and floated away before being sucked down through a small whirlpool to another part of where it goes. "HELP!" Sarah cried before they were completely sucked under.

At its field, Zeraora opened its eyes while it meditated and heard Sarah's cries along with Zorua as she woke up from her nap. They were worried for the girl so they nodded to each other, deciding to search for Sarah and protect her.

"Sarah, Sylveon!" "Nikki, James!" "Nebby!" Lana, Mallow, and Lillie cried in horror as they saw them all gone.

Silvally growled as he turned to Togedemaru and the Electric Type whimpered as he got closer, "This is, all, your, FAULT!"

"Pikapi! Pika, Pi Pikachu Pi, Pika, Pika!" Blitz cried as he got in front of Silvally and pointed towards Faba with a glare, reminding him of who was really responsible for Sarah and her family's current predicament.

Silvally growled at Faba before he finally calmed down. "I'm so sorry, Professor Kukui! I didn't know Togedemaru would find it funny!" Sophocles cried, ashamed of his Pokemon and of himself for not stopping his partner. He then turned to his partner, who winced at his glare as he picked it up, "Togedemaru, you're going to apologize to Sarah and her family for what you did!"

"Toge..." "It's alright, Sophocles, we're all just a little shaken up," reassured Kukui before he grew stern.

"But, we have to find Sarah, her parents, Nebby, and Sylveon before anything happens to them. Sylveon can only do so much to protect them before they run into trouble."

"PIkachu..." Blitz agreed and turned to Sarah's other pokemon, "Pikachu Pika Pika.." The others nodded and they ran out of the school, "Wait for us, Blitz!" Ash called as he and Pikachu followed the group.

"Us too!" Kiawe added.

"Me too!" Lana said.

"Count me in." Mallow added.

Ash brought out his other pokemon to help join in the search, "Rowlet, go get Lucario and Dragonite, maybe they can help too." Ash said and Rowlet nodded and flew off to get Sarah's parents' pokemon partners.

"I only hope they stay out of trouble before it finds them," Lillie fretted as she and Snowy joined the others along with Sophocles and Togedemaru.

"Lillie, how much trouble will they get into? They're only six inches tall!" remarked Sophocles as they left.

Rotom-Dex was also worried and decided to join them but Faba drags him back, still wanting his help with the Poke-Shrinker, leaving him to groan and feel annoyed.


Meanwhile, after their little whirlpool ordeal, Sarah, Nebby, and her parents were floating on Sylveon as she carefully swam across. The river current was flowing easily and she didn't need to do too much to flow in the same direction the river's going. The trio and Sylveon were worried about what happened to the others after they were washed out after the accident with Togedemaru but Nebby giggled happily as he squirmed in Sarah's arms, getting smile slices out of them, even if they're forced.

"Well, at least you found it funny," Sarah sighed with a smile as she rubbed him.

"But, we're still a long way off from the school," Nikki reminded.

"How are we going to get back?"

"We'll just have to hope we figure out a plan and hope that help will soon come," James hoped.

"Sylve!" Sylveon exclaimed and the group saw a wild Mudasdale.

"A Mudsdale!" Sarah stated.

"It's huge..!" James said.

The wild Mudsdale crossed the river easily, but its walking created large waves towards the trio. "Not again!" Sarah exclaimed in fear.

"Sylve!" Sylveon exclaimed as the waves washed over them again.

They panicked as they were once again soaked before the waves washed them ashore and away from danger. Sarah, Nikki, James, and Sylveon all groaned as they dragged themselves out of the water and onto dry land again, tired but relieved to be out of the river.

"Not cool, totally not cool," grumbled Sarah while she dried Nebby up as best she can while Sylveon shook herself dry to rid of any lingering water on her fur.

"We can't do much now that we're six inches tall," Nikki reasoned. "For every tiny experience we have, there's always a big adventure out of it."

Suddenly, the ground rumbled as the three shrunken humans were knocked off their feet while Sylveon looks around for whatever could trouble her human family and Nebby until an Alolan Raticate appeared and eyed them.

"Such as dealing with a regular-sized Alolan Raticate!" James panicked.

"What Alolan Rati-GAH!" Sarah screamed, seeing the Dark and Normal type pokemon in front of them. "Raticate..!" it growled at them.

"Uh.. Raticate don't get hungry do they?" Nikki asked nervously.

"D-Don't count on it, dear." James added.

Sylveon stood in front of her shrunken family, "Sylveon..." she growled.

"Sylveon." Sarah called.

Raticate growled back, unhappy to know that its moment for a quick meal was interrupted but the Intertwining Pokemon held firm as she glared back before using Shadow Ball and combined it with a Tackle attack, covering herself in the Shadow Ball's power just as it charged with Bite. The two Pokemon collided but Raticate was blasted back hard before it fell to the ground and now looked at the Fairy Type in fear.

"Sylveon!" Sylveon hissed before the Dark Type panicked and ran away, crying.

Sarah and her friends were surprised to see how truly vicious Sylveon can get when protecting her new family. Being a Trial Pokemon alongside Goomy under Noctowl, having been their elder and father-figure before Sarah, before accepting her new life helped her to develop whatever self-confidence is needed from a Pokemon so small.

"Remind me to not get you mad whenever you need anything from me, Sylveon," quipped Sarah, making her Fairy Type chirp with happiness and a nod.

"What are we going to do now?" Nikki asked, now more worried than ever. "We can't just wait for help," James told his family.

"It's too dangerous for us to be in this forest. If there are any Pokemon out there looking for food like that Alolan Raticate, we'll be Pokemon chow before you know it. We'll have to look for the others on our own and hope that we don't get squashed by anybody else in the process."

"But, the world is so big and we and Nebby are a bunch of mice compared to Sylveon, where do we start?" Nikki asked again.

"Sylveon, Sylve, Sylve, Syl, Sylveon, Syl," replied Sylveon as she encouraged them to ride on her again. Sarah realized what she was planning to do, "You want to try calling out to the gang, girl?"

"Sylve!"

Sylveon nodded and the trio climbed back onto Sylveon while Sarah held Nebby tightly in her arms. And with that, Sylveon walked off, to try and find someone to help her shrunken family... unaware that the Raticate from before wasn't quite done with her yet... And the next time, he'll have some back up waiting for the Intertwining Pokemon.


Later...

Ash, Professor Kukui, and the others, joined by Sarah's Pokemon, were looking all over for Sarah, her family, Nebby, and Sylveon and hope that they can figure out a way to grow them back to normal but they didn't have any luck. "Nothing in here," Mallow sighed sadly at her location and Steenee agreed. "Steenee..."

"Sarah!" "Nikki, James!" Ash and Professor Kukui called with Ash's team.

"Pika!" "Raow, Maow!" "Lycan!" "Row!"

"Yoo-hoo, Nebby, Sarah!" Lillie cried with Snowy, the two most worried for Sarah and Nebby.

"Vul! Vulpix!"

"Come out, come out, wherever you are!" Sophocles said with Togedemaru rolling alongside him. "Toge, Toge, Togede!"

"Olly, olly, oxen free!" Lana shouted from her own location as she and Popplio searched far and wide. "Popplio, Pop, Pop!"

Kiawe was flying over the skies with Charizard, hoping to find them from the air but he had no luck pinpointing them either. "Come on, Sarah, where are you?" he called worriedly.

Sarah's Pokemon were joined by Lucario and Dragonite after Rowlet managed to reach their house and explain everything about what happened to their trainers, their daughter, Nebby, and Sylveon. They also searched far and wide across Melemele Island but they had no luck as well.

Wooloo and Candy were very worried for their adopted family, "Pikachu Pika Pika..." Blitz reassured them, promising them they'll find her and the others.

Ash and Professor Kukui continued to search in vain for Sarah, worried for her to be put through another life or death situation after her eventful and fated meeting with Kaito.

"Professor, I'm worried about Sarah. What could've happened to her after she and her family along with Nebby and Sylveon were sucked into that whirlpool at the river?" Ash pondered. Professor Kukui nodded, understanding and sharing his fears.

"We all are, Ash. But, we must be strong for them and hope that we'll find them or help to give us a hand. If I know Sarah, considering the amount of times she got herself into one of these sticky situations, she's being as resourceful as ever. And, with her new strength as a Fairy Type, Sylveon will do what she can to protect them until we get there or help arrives," he confided. Ash nodded before they continued their search, just as Zeraora and Zorua were watching them from the shadows and nodded to each other again, heading down another path that will lead them to Sarah, Nebby, Sylveon, and her parents.


Back to Sarah and her family, Sylveon had been walking through the forest with her passengers on her back for minutes on end and they finally made it out of the forest. They managed to arrive on Route 2 on the northeastern side of Melemele Island and Sarah and her parents were contemplating on their size conditions.

"You know, it might not be so bad for some people to be small like this," Nikki said after several moments of silence. "If anybody's shrunk like us, I'm not sure if they'll want to return to the life of a normal-sized person."

"I don't know if others will be jumping at the opportunity for that kind of thing," James put in, not very keen on the idea.

Nebby smiled and babbled in Sarah's arms. "Looks like only Nebby's enjoying this." Sarah sighed.

"Well, at least he doesn't know what he's in for as long as you're around," James smiled at his daughter. "The way you're treating him after first seeing you as his mother, he sees you as his own security blanket. He has no fear of everything around him whenever you're around."

"And, since he trusts you more than anyone else, it's no surprise that he'd be having fun more than anything with you protecting him," Nikki added.

Sarah nodded with a smile but then she remembered Wicke's story about the Ultra Beasts and the connection her baby Pokemon may have to Solgaleo and Lunala.

"Mom, Dad," she asked. "Do you really think Nebby could be an Ultra Beast from another dimension?"

"What makes you think that?" James asked back, he and his wife now curious.

"I can't get Wicke's story about the Ultra Beasts and the Ultra Beast War out of my head after our visit to the Aether Foundation," she started to confide. "It scares me, knowing that Nebby could potentially be an Ultra Beast as well as a Pokemon. But, if he's tied to Solgaleo and Lunala, it could be an indication that they also could be Ultra Beasts. Yet, there was no mention of them in the legend. I'm not sure if they were a force of evil to begin with, after they entrusted me to look after and protect Nebby."

"There's a lot of things we don't know about them, honey," Nikki replied. "Fear can be a powerful emotion and it can cloud one's judgement badly if it's not controlled properly. Sometimes, people fear what they don't understand and it's no different that people in Alola only see those two as Legendary Pokemon and nothing more."

"I don't know what anybody at the Aether Foundation, let alone Lusamine, would want to do with the Ultra Beasts," James added. "But, if she can be trusted if she allowed you to continue looking after Nebby after you told her about your dream along with Silvally, then there's no reason for her to lie as she personally made known during our visit there."

"Hmm... yeah, you're probably right, Dad." Sarah replied. Nebby cooed and nuzzled Sarah's chest with a carefree grin on his little face. Then Sarah's stomach let out a small grumble.

"Oh, man..." Sarah groaned as she held her stomach with Nebby cooing at her worriedly. "I'm so hungry..." "Oh yeah, we must've been in that forest all morning while trying to find someone who can help us get back to Professor Kukui and the kids," Nikki realized.

"Now, that I think about it, we haven't stopped for a minute to eat anything yet, let alone find Mallow's family's kitchen," James added in agreement. "But, I'm not sure where we should go to get any food. We're very tiny so it's no surprise that nobody will find us, even if we're riding on Sylveon's back. They'll think she's just a wild Pokemon if she walks into a place, uninvited."

"Hey, Sylveon, is there a place where we can get something to eat?" Sarah asked her Intertwining Pokemon. "We're getting kinda hungry back here."

"Sylveon..." The Fairy Type Pokemon walked a little further down until she came to a medium sized tree. Sylveon used her ribbon-like feelers to pull an Oran Berry from one of the branches, "Sylve.." she smiled as she showed the berry to her family. "Sylve..."

"An Oran Berry?" Sarah gasped in surprise. "Does that mean there are some trees with berries like this, like the ones you, Goomy, and Noctowl guarded during Olivia and Professor Kukui's Akala Curry challenge for me?"

"Sylve!" Sylveon chirped.

"YEAH! My hunger problems are over!" Sarah cheered as she grabbed the berry.

"Are you sure these are edible for humans, honey?" Nikki asked, feeling skeptical as Sylveon brought them some more berries from the tree.

"They could be safe for both humans and Pokemon to eat," James replied. "Many people have been cooking them since forever. We should have no problem eating them raw, they're as fresh as they can get."

"Sylve, Sylve," nodded Sylveon before she took a berry and ate it, giving another happy chirp.

"Come on Mom, Dad, try it." Sarah smiled and Nebby babbled too.

Hesitantly, Nikki took one a Pecha Berry from the ones Sylveon picked out and James decided to pick up a Leppa Berry and took small bites of them. Their eyes brightened by the different flavors of them with each bite.

"Wow, this is good," Nikki said with delight.

"You and your Pokemon sure know your berries," James added. "Have you been doing your research on them after your Akala preliminary trials?"

"I did do a bit of reading on them after the berry challenge. And, Sylveon was trained as a Trial Pokemon to guard berry bushes in the Lush Jungle," Sarah admitted while she fed Nebby one of the berries to keep him from getting hungry.

"Good job, Sylveon." "Sylveon!" chirped the Intertwining Pokemon. Once they were satisfied, they started to figure out what to do next.

"I think we should make our way back to the school," James finally decided.

"But, who do we ask for directions? We don't know where we are on Route 2 and who knows which way we're supposed to go when we're this tiny and Sylveon's the only one who knows about us at her original size?" Nikki retorted.

"We'll just have to figure it out as we go."

"Sylveon..." Sylveon nodded but then, "Raticate...!" The trio gasped, seeing the same Alolan Raticate from before!

"Syl Sylve!?" snarled Sylveon as she got ready to fight the Dark Type again.

"It's the Alolan Raticate!" Sarah cried as Nebby now whimpered, feeling scared of the Dark Type rat.

"What's it doing here on Route 2?" Nikki asked in bewilderment.

James thought back to when Sylveon first fought to protect them and realized what the Alolan Raticate wanted from following them all the way to their current location. "I guess it didn't take kindly to losing its meal and decided to stalk us so it can fill its big stomach with us inside!" James hissed as he glared at it.

The Alolan Raticate sniggered, as if it was praising James for having figured out its intentions. It then hissed at the trio and Sylveon, telling them that it's not alone in its personal crusade this time. With a finger snap and another hiss, a swarm of Alolan Rattata and younger Alolan Raticate joined its side as the small group gasped in shock from the Alolan Dark Type rat army in front of them.

"That rodent has a whole army of Alolan Raticate and Alolan Ratatta with it!" gasped Nikki in horror.

"What are they all doing here?" Sarah quivered as she held onto Nebby, the baby Pokemon now starting to cry.

"It must've called for backup just to get even with us. It lost once before but now it thinks it can gang up on us with an army beside it," James hissed again as he looked to all of the Alolan Rattata and Alolan Raticate that laughed and hissed back at them.

"Sylveon, Sylve." Sylveon snarled at the army of Raticate and Ratatta.

"Sylveon, you can't fight them all on your own." Sarah warned her fairy type friend. Sylveon didn't have any Fairy type moves which were super effective on the Ratatta and Raticate which put them at a serious disadvantage. "We gotta go, now girl!" Sarah whimpered and Sylveon turned tail and ran away from the army of rats.

"Rattata!" the lead Rattata called and the army chased after them!

As the army of Alolan Rattata and Raticate charged after their newfound common prey, the head honcho Alolan Raticate cackled at its enemies' misfortune and joined its army to watch them suffer before it eats them. What the Dark Type didn't realize that its dangerous and evil intentions attracted a familiar Electric and Dark Type duo watching what's happening to Sarah, her family, Nebby, and Sylveon. The two Pokemon glared at the disappearing Dark Type army before they vanished in a Thunderbolt with the intent on following and stopping them and keeping them safe.


After searching in vain for Sarah, Sylveon, James, Nikki, and Nebby, Professor Kukui, the students, and their Pokemon along with Dragonite, Lucario, and Sarah's other Pokemon regrouped to rethink their plan. The Lycanroc Couple, having come back from a few days of exploring and hunting around the island, were greatly worried when their sons told them about what happened to their trainer, her family, and Sylveon and Nebby.

"I don't know about you, guys," Kiawe put in with a worried grimace.

"But, I don't know where Sarah and the others could've gone."

"Yeah, I'm getting worried," Mallow agreed. "We've looked for them for hours and nobody knows where they are."

"Like I said, how much trouble can they get into when they're six inches tall?" Sophocles reminded.

"But, even if they did manage to stay out of trouble, where else could they have gone?" Lillie pondered.

"There has to be someway to find them..." Ash stated. Blitz and Sarah's other pokemon were worried about them all.

"RATICATE!" a Raticate's voice shouted in anger. Everyone jolted and looked around for where the Raticate's voice came from until Lillie looked back noticed something that gave her a fright.

"Ash, Professor, guys, look! Up ahead!" she pointed in fear. They all turned to where Lillie was pointing and there, running away from what looks to be a sea of Alolan Rattata and Raticate, was Sarah's Sylveon with a familiar trio riding on her head. One of them was even holding Nebby, who was babbling happily again from the ride he was getting despite the dangerous situation.

"Hey, what's that?" Lana asked, surprised. Sophocles looked closer at the scene.

"And, what's that coming towards us?" "Oh no! That's Sarah's Sylveon! And, she's got Sarah, Nebby, and her parents riding her!" Mallow cried in shock.

"With an army of Alolan Rattata and Alolan Raticate chasing them!" Ash added.

"Out of the way, it's a stampede!" Professor Kukui warned everyone. Nobody didn't need telling twice and they quickly cleared the street before they would all get run over while Sylveon, still carrying Nebby, James, Nikki, and Sarah ran past them with the Dark Type rat army coming after her, not too far behind. Right away, everyone knew that this is leading to trouble.

"Faster, Sylveon. Hurry girl!" Sarah called to her friend.

"Sylveon..." Sylveon confirmed as she kept running.

"They won't give up, honey." Nikki whimpered.

And, give up, they didn't. The Alolan Raticate and Rattata army continued to pursue them and no matter how many twists and turns and alleyways she took to shake them off her tail, they continued to eye them and catch them for the sake of making a meal out of a Fairy Type and its passengers that stand no chance of beating them.

Finally, Sylveon turned towards another alleyway but unfortunately, when she reached the end of the alley, they saw that it was a brick wall. "Aww, man, it's a dead end!" Sarah grimaced.

"Damn it!" James cursed, seeing their predicament. They all turned to see the Dark Type army chasing them finally laugh as they slowly approached them.

"Uh oh, got any new tricks to get us out of this, Sylveon?" Sarah now questioned fearfully.

"Sylveon, Syl, Sylve, Syleon, Sylve!" the Fairy Type told her, knowing if she did, her trainer, Nebby, and parents would be the next ones to know.

It seemed like all is lost for them until the Rattata and Raticate army was attacked by what looks to be a Pin Missile attack which shocked the Dark Type army, the head honcho Raticate, and their common prey. Everyone's attention turned to an angry "Zer!" from above them and they looked up from behind Sylveon, James, Nikki, Sarah, and Nebby to reveal Zeraora and a Jolteon glaring darkly at the Dark Types.

"Rati Raticate?" the head honcho Raticate demanded. Zeraora and Jolteon didn't need to say anything as the Lightning Pokemon transformed into Zorua and landed beside the Thunderclap Pokemon, the messenger bag still attached to her giving her away to the shock Fairy Type and her human family and Nebby.

"Zeraora!" Sarah cried, elated from her Electric Type defender.

"Zorua!" James and Nikki called in surprise, much to their daughter's confusion. Sylveon was amazed, the Thunderclap Wanderer and the Tricky Fox Pokemon she and the rest of Sarah's Pokemon met during their trainer's sick day had both come to the rescue.

"RATI!" the head honcho Raticate demanded.

The Alolan Raticate and Rattata army prepared to attack their prey's last hope but their new enemies were greatly underestimated by the Dark Types. Transforming into a clone of her Electric Type friend, Zorua joined Zeraora as they plowed through the Dark Type army, keeping them away from Sylveon and her shrunken family as the Intertwining Pokemon looked in awe to see the two identical Pokemon beat the Alolan Raticate and Rattata using Zeraora's varied move set.

The pained and panicked screams of all the Alolan Rattata and Raticate that fell to their combined might can be heard as Sarah, her parents, and Sylveon winced at the sight of the Dark Type Pokemon army being pummeled. Sarah managed to hide the curious Nebby away from the carnage happening in front of them.

Before long, the entire Raticate and Rattata army was beaten to a pulp as the head honcho Raticate was the only Dark Type left standing. But, it was now quivering in fear of its enemies as they drew closer and closer until it were face to face with them.

While Zeraora maintained its hardened glare, Zorua cracked her knuckles in her Zeraora form and smirked darkly, letting out a sinister snigger as she was ready to deliver the final blow as well. The head honcho Ratitcate panicked as it tried to run away but the Thunderclap and Tricky Fox Pokemon weren't letting it off the hook as they charged their fists with electricity and their eyes glowed for a Double Plasma Fist attack.

When they were at full power, they both let out a roar of anger and justice towards the frightened Dark Type as it blasted off with a panicked scream.

"RAT TI RAT RA TI RAT RATICADE!"

As the Dark Type rat twinkled out into the distance, Zeraora and Zoura smiled and performed a fist bump before the Tricky Fox Pokemon returned to her normal self and landed on her taller friend's head, sniggering gladly as they turned to the Raticate and Ratatta army's former common prey.

"Wow, that was amazing," Nikki replied, gobsmacked by what she had seen.

"I can't believe those two Pokemon defeated the entire Alolan Rattata and Raticate army and made the leader blast off without even breaking a sweat!" James gasped in amazement.

"Zeraora..." "Sylveon..." Sarah and Sylveon breathed in awe while Nebby, despite not knowing what happened, clapped his wisps happily at the two Pokemon. Their two friends had come to rescue them and they did it with flying colors. Zeraora walked over to them and knelt down, surprised and concerned by what happened to Sarah and her family while her Sylveon remained at her original size.

"Hey, Zeraora, thanks for rescuing us again. Who's your friend?" Sarah asked, as she never saw Zorua before.

"En, En, En!" Zorua introduced herself while her parents spoke for her.

"That's Zorua, it's known as the Tricky Fox Pokemon," James told her.

"The day when you were sick, honey, we came home after getting your doctor and meeting your friends who got goodies and a cake for you when we found that cutie in the house with your Pokemon," Nikki added.

"She was also the one that brought that good luck charm made for you to us." Zorua nodded happily, while she sniggered before she got down to see them. James, Nikki, and Sarah, while she's still holding a happily babbling Nebby, got off of Sylveon to join her.

"I suppose we should thank you for what you and Zeraora did, Zorua," Sarah replied.

"You were awesome with your abilities and how you fought with Zeraora." She rubbed Zorua's nose in thanks and the Tricky Fox Pokemon sniggered again as she smiled but then she started to feel her nose run as she tried to hold it until, "En...CHOO!"

Zorua accidentally let out a sneeze as she blew Sarah and her parents away as she somehow, shockingly returned them to their normal size while they crashed into a surprised Sylveon. Surprisingly, Nebby was on top and he was laughing happily from Zorua's happy accident.

Zorua sniggered sheepishly in apology as she rubbed her nose and sniffed normally again but she and Zeraora looked stunned as they saw Sarah and her parents, along with Nebby, back to their normal size. Something, I might add, the trio noticed and were elated from.

"I'm my size again!" James cheered.

"I'm all grown up again," Nikki gasped in relief as she felt herself all over.

"Like, me too," Sarah breathed happily before she looked at Nebby, who was his old small size again and laughing. "And, so is Nebby!"

Sylveon was amazed to see that it took only a sneeze from Zorua to turn them back to normal and nuzzled her trainer happily, prompting her mother figure to rub her head and allow her to wrap her feelers around her right arm.

Finally, Zeraora smiled as he looked to Zorua who just sniggered and gave her a pat. Then, everyone heard the sounds of Professor Kukui, Sarah's Pokemon and friends and their Pokemon Partners running towards and calling them, prompting Zeraora and Zorua to quickly say goodbye to their old friends with a smile before they disappeared by a Thunderbolt before they could be stopped.

But, Sarah, Sylveon, and her parents, along with the oblivious and surprised Nebby, just smiled as they met with their friends and their Pokemon, who greeted them with relieved cheers and worried questions and happy licks and hugs.

But, while Sarah, her parents, Nebby, and Sylveon were being fussed over, nobody took notice of a white cat-goat like Pokemon standing above them and looking down on them with a mellow authoritative stare.

It was looking directly at Sarah and Nebby, who were fussed about all over by their human friends as she tried to calm them down from overwhelming her with relieved questions. It felt as though something bad would happen to them one day as it narrowed its eyes and growled a soft warning of caution to them to be ready for a great danger ahead of them before it left to return to where it came from.


Later...

Everyone returned to the school, none the worse for their little adventure and amazed by what Sarah and her family told them during their shrunken escapades.

Faba was finishing up his machine by the time the group and the Pokemon returned although Professor Kukui had to consider the option to postpone the Open House for tomorrow due to the ordeal Sarah and her family went through. Togedemaru even apologized to Sarah, Nikki, James, Nebby, and Sylveon for being the snowball that started their shrunken adventure avalanche but they were kind enough to forgive Sophocles' partner.

"Class, I'm so sorry for having messed up and causing Sarah and her family so much trouble," Faba apologized shamefully. "I know there's still a lot of work that has to be done and I have a lot of wrongs to right from today but with Rotom-Dex's help, I finally fixed the problem with the Poke-Shrinker."

He set up the Poke-Shrinker to point towards on of the chairs in the hopes that nothing will go wrong until it targeted Togedemaru and grew her into a giant, scaring everybody as it started to attack everything before it turned back to its normal size. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief before they all glared at Faba.

"W-w-w-well, I guess that was f-f-fortunate. At least, s-s-she didn't take long to shrink back d-d-d-down to size..." Faba stammered with a sheepish smile.

"THERE'S NOTHING FORTUNATE ABOUT YOUR WORK, YOU DINKY BRAIN!" snapped everyone as they surrounded the Aether Foundation scientist and made him shrink down in humiliation and fear.


Meanwhile, outside of the Pokemon School, the white Pokemon that was watching everyone earlier had come and was now watching them from a distance. It was later revealed to be the Disaster Pokemon, Absol.

As it watched the group, its attention was fixed Sarah and Nebby again as if it still knew that something terrible would happen to them later on but that's another story.

Whew, was that a close call for Sarah and her family! It looks like nobody would be looking forward to Faba's complicated scientific measures, thankfully. But, what's with the Absol staring down at our heroes, particularly Sarah and Nebby? What could it possible know about them and what kind of danger does it sense for them ahead? There's only one way to find out as the journey continues!


Sarah's Team:

1. Pikachu

Moves - Thundershock, Tackle, Thunderpunch, Double Team

2. Lycanroc (Dusk Form)

Moves - Rock Throw, Bite, Tackle, Rock Slide

3. Lycanroc (Midnight Form)

Moves - Rock Throw, Bite, Tackle, Protect, Rock Slide

4. Silvally

Moves - Crush Claw, Air Slash, Hyper Beam, Swords Dance, Dragon Claw, Multi Attack, Tri Attack

5. Mudsdale

Moves - High Horsepower, Double Kick, Mud Slap, Bulldoze

6. Wooloo

Moves - Wild Charge, Tackle, Electro Ball

7. Ponyta (Galar Form)

Moves - Dazzling Gleam, Moonblast, High Horsepower, Heal Pulse, Psybeam

8. Meowth (Alola Form)

Moves - Thunderbolt, Scratch, Iron Tail, Dark Pulse

9. Popplio

Moves - Pound, Water Gun, Icy Wind, Bubblebeam

10. Milotic

Moves - Dragon Pulse, Ice Beam, Twister, Mirror Coat

11. Mareep (Shiny)

Moves - Thunderbolt, Confuse Ray, Power Gem, Signal Beam

12. Sylveon

Moves - Tackle, Tail Whip, Copycat, Shadow Ball, Light Screen

13. Goomy

Moves - Water Gun, Protect, Tackle, Dragon Breath

14. Noctowl

Moves - Wing Attack, Foresight, Air Slash, Confusion

15. Espurr (Male)

Moves - Helping Hand, Psyshock, Light Screen, Future Sight

16. Espurr (Female)

Moves - Heal Pulse, Psyshock, Dark Pulse, Future Sight