May, on her way to Viridian City:
May saw the city in her sights, and it was a good thing as it was getting dark. She suddenly thought of the Ashs with a worried look, wondering if they're both okay. Then she looked down at Pikachu with a worried look. "Right now, I should be focused on taking Pikachu to the pokecenter." As May rushed to the pokecenter, she realized something. "Oh no! Max!"

"There you are!" a familiar voice shouted.

May looked up and saw her younger brother. Tears from relief fell from her face as she ran over with a smile to Max. She was so relieved he was here safe and sound. "Max! Oh, Max! You're okay!"

"You're the worst sister, EVER!" Max yelled right in his sisters' face.

May glared at him with an annoyed look. "Well, you're the worst person on Earth!"

"You're the worst person in the universe!"

Crobat in the sky saw them arguing, and instinctively went to break it up. Having to deal with Brock's nine siblings made him deal with a lot of sibling squabbles.

May screamed with shock. "Ahhhh! A Crobat!"

"How cool!" Max shouted with an excited look.

Crobat starred at them with a curious look, as they looked familiar to it.

Max then realized something. "Oh yeah. I wonder if this Crobat is the same one that belonged to Brock and his siblings…" He remembers challenging Pewter Gym years ago in his travels to Kanto and seeing Crobat there.

Crobat gave a surprised look and nodded.

"Oh cool! Can you take me to see Brock? It'll be nice to see him again." He shot a glare to May. "And be better than being with this so-called human being."

May rolled her eyes with an annoyed look.

Crobat gave an unsure look. It was supposed to be looking for Misty.

"Plus, we need more people who can actually help us with something important! Unlike this creature who is only thinking of herself, which is putting the world in jeopardy…"

"You're the one that was being a pest! Besides, me and Cesar were doing just fine without you!"

"Didn't look like to me, when you were looking for Ashs for days with no clue where one could be!"

Crobat sighed as the two started a yelling match again.

"I'm so done with you! Let's go, Crobat!" Max shouted.

Crobat sighed, deciding that it could be a good time to go back and report back to Brock.

"By the way, I'm telling Cesar what you did!"

"What?" May yelled with a worried look.

"Yeah, I'm telling! And he'll never want to kiss you again!"

"No! Don't!"

"Make me!" Max sticked out his tongue and ran off the completely wrong direction to where Brock was at.

Crobat chased after Max, trying to tell him that he's going the wrong way.

May started to run after him, but then remembered what she needed to do and looked down at Pikachu. She saw Max pull out his Pokenav, so she quickly did the same and pulled up Ash's number as she ran toward the pokemon center as fast as she could.

Meanwhile, with Cesar:
Ash sighed as he realized it was pitch black outside. "Now what…?"

Psyduck held its head with a pained look, trying to think. "Psy…"

"Poli…" Politoad replied with an unsure look.

Ash smiled. "Well, I guess…"

There was some sniffing noise that caught everyone's attention.

Ash looked down and smiled when he saw an arcanine. "Hello there, Arcarnine!" He gave the arcanine a pat.

Arcanine smiled and wagged its tail from the petting, but then gave a serious look. At first, he thought his nose was playing tricks on him. But no, this guy is the person he and his master seen die and the person who his master and his friends are trying to find out who is responsible for his death.

"Hmm… Do you know who I am?"

Arcanine nodded.

Ash smiled. "I see. That's why you came up to me." He then got an idea. "Say, do you think you can find someone who smells exactly like me?"

Arcanine starred at him like he was nuts.

Ash gave him a serious look. "He may be in danger, and we need to find him fast!"

Acanine thought for a moment. His master said that he needed to locate Misty. Then he noticed Psyduck and Politoad and asked them what they are doing.

Politoad explained they lost Misty in a river, and this guy told them he'd take them to find Misty.

Arcanine asked if they knew that this guy is Ash, and they gave a shocked look.

Psyduck and Politoad don't understand how that could be. But knows Arcanine is a serious pokemon and wouldn't lie about something like this.

"Ah, you know the Arcanine as well? Then that means you should know who Misty is! We are looking for her as well!"

Acanine nodded and started sniffing the air again.

"Alright! Thanks, Arcanine!"

Arcanine figured that since he is also looking for Misty, he can help locate who he wants to find, them drag them back to the lab to explain everything to everyone.

Ash's phone suddenly rung, and saw it was from Max and May was trying to reach him as well. Ash gave a shocked look and answered the phone. "Max, where have you been?"

"Tapped under some seat with my mouth tapped shut! I was lucky some guy kicked me and noticed me! And guess who's the heartless…"

May gave a worried look. "Cesar, he's lying! You got to believe me!" May shouted.

"I had to go all the way to Galar because of her!"

"Alright look, I did tap him up… but he was being such a brat! And I was planning to free him once we got close to landing!"

"See how terrible she is? She's now calling me names as well as continue to lie!"

"I am not! You are a brat!"

"What a hateful, unlikeable person! Huh, Cesar?"

"You should stop talking about yourself, Max!"

Ash sighed and a sigh could be heard from Crobat.

"Alright, look. We got more important things to focus on right now, and I know you both care about each other very much. So can't you two please just apologize to each other and move on?" Ash asked.

My gently smiled. "You're right, Cesar… Max, I'm so sorry," she genuinely said.

Max looked down with a sad look. "I'm sorry too…" Then he gave an angry look. "Sorry that I was born to have a sister like you!"

Ash and Crobat sighed as they started up again. Ash remembered he always wanted a sibling.

The next day, with Misty:
Misty was back with Tracey. Brock, Gary and Prof. Oak back at the lab. Everyone looked disheartened about finding no leads. She sighed, thinking about anything that could lead them to the culprits. Then, it hit her that she did see Ash recently and the dream faded away. When she opened her eyes, she was up close to Ash's face, their arms wrapped around bodies with their bodies against each other, with her lips almost touching his. Misty jumped out of Ash's grasp heavily blushing and screaming with her heart racing and was about to clobber him.

Ash turned over and grumbled in his sleep, then continued to loudly snore.

Misty narrowed her eyes with an unamused look. "Maybe he hadn't changed that much over the years…"

Suddenly, Gyarados, Azumarill, and Kingdra happily went over to their trainer and greeted her, with Gyarados returning her pokeballs.

Misty stared at them with a surprised look. "How did you all get here?"

Her pokemon explained that when Venomoth returned to tell them that you're okay, Brock suggested to have Venomoth lead them back to her. When they arrived, they saw them sleeping and decided to let her and Ash sleep as they went to sleep themselves.

Misty smiled, holding back some tears. "It's good to see you're all okay! I'm so sorry for not keeping your pokeballs safer."

Her pokemon said they forgive her.

She then gave a worried look. "But… where's Psyduck? Politoad? And Pikachu?"

They gave a sad look and told her they don't know.

Misty gave a worried look. Pikachu seemed too injured to move, and Psyduck doesn't know how to swim. She remembered that Ash said he feels Pikachu alive and well, and with Politoad also missing, she hoped he saw them and helped them both. She then looked over to Ash, remembering that a group Ash said called themselves Team Rainbow, was trying to kill him. She knew if they spot them again, they're likely done for. Right now, they need to head back to Prof. Oak's lab and tell them everything that has happened last night. Plus, they could be big help finding Pikachu and Psyduck. "Alright, listen everyone. I need you to quicky head to the gym and grab some hair dye, comb, men's pants, shirt, socks and shoes, a bandana, a dress, a couple pair of sunglasses, and some bandages and ointment and bring them back to me." All her sisters kept their props at the gym and a lot of their clothing and other things when they did plays there long ago. "Think you can handle it?"

Everyone nodded and left.