Episode 132: UnBEARable
A couple of days came and went since Kairi had won the Poké Maiden Tournament and it didn't take long before her name reached over cities and towns her fanclub became international.
Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, Togepi, the Pichu, and the Alolan nine all continued onwards to Olivine City when the group is approached by a boy around Sora and Kairi's age.
"Excuse me there, miss! Are you by chance the champion of the Poké Maiden Tournament known as Kairi?" The boy asked.
"Yes I am. Why?" Kairi asked.
"I was wondering if you would like to have a battle with me, if it's not too much trouble," the boy said. "If not, then it's cool." Kairi looked over to Sora for his opinion.
"He made the challenge, so it's up to you if you accept or not," Sora said.
"I guess you're right, Sora. After all, I should have known winning a tournament would have it's consequences," Kairi said. "So what's your name?"
"My name is Brian. And I just want to warn you that I'm pretty good," Brian said.
"Okay, Brian. You're on," Kairi accepted. "How many Pokémon to use?"
"Let's make it two-on-two," Brian challenged.
"Okay," Kairi said taking out a Pokéball.
"I'll make the first choice," Brian said taking out his Pokéball. "Go for it, Hitmontop!" The Pokéball opens and Hitmontop spins upon entry.
"I'm going to go with Smoochum!" Kairi said throwing her Pokéball and it lets out Smoochum.
"You can make the first move," Brian offered.
"Thanks for being such a gentleman. Smoochum! Powder Snow!" Kairi ordered. Smoochum fired Powder Snow as it heads towards Hitmontop.
"Hitmontop! Detect!" Brian ordered. Hitmontop's eyes glows blue and he avoids Powder Snow like it no problem. "Now use Gyro Ball!" Hitmontop flipped onto the tip of his head and spun around as a blue circle flows around as Hitmontop spins around.
"Smoochum! Confusion!" Kairi ordered. Smoochum's eyes glows as she uses her Psychic Type attack to lift Hitmontop in the and slam him on the ground. "Now use Ice Punch!" Smoochum lands an icy punch on the handstand Pokémon freezing him in the process. Now use Shadow Ball!" Smoochum forms a ball of Shadow and send it towards Hitmontop knocking him out. Brian takes out Hitmontop's Pokéball.
"Return Hitmontop," Brian said calling back his fallen Pokémon. "You did your best. You just need to rest up." He looked to Kairi. "That was very good, Kairi. Now let's see how you handle this one. Go Yanma!" The Pokéball opens and lets out a Yanma.
"Think he sent out that Yanma to deal with Kairi's Smoochum since being a Bug Type," Sophocles pointed out.
"Yeah, but Smoochum has the advantage since being an Ice Type Pokémon," Sora said.
"Sora's right. Rather the choice to switch Smoochum or keep her in battle is up to her," Illima said. Kairi calls back Smoochum and pulls out Magby's Pokéball.
"Go for it, Magby!" Kairi called out throwing her Pokéball letting out Magby.
"So you've sent a Fire Type to take out my Yanma, huh? My Yanma won't be scared off so easily. Yanma! Secret Power!" Brian ordered. Yanma's body glows in a pink aura. Yanma fires pinkish-white energy right towards Magby.
"Magby! Dodge and use Ember!" Kairi called out. Magby narrowly avoids Yanma's attack and fired Ember towards the dragonfly Pokémon.
"Sonicboom!" Brian ordered. Yanma rapidly flapped its wings and it cancelled out Magby's Ember. "Now move in with Wing Attack!" Yanma flew towards Magby with its wings glowing white.
"Magby! Incinerate!" Kairi ordered. Magby fired Incinerate and it had more than enough fire power to take down Yanma and it falls to the ground beaten.
"Wow. I can see why you won that tournament," Brian said calling back Yanma. "But you should be careful around these parts of the woods." Sora, Kairi, and the Alolan nine were all confused by what Brian had told them.
"Why and how?" Kiawe asked.
"I heard that there's a scary Pokémon around here. It has been a nuisance around here for quite sometime. I don't know what kind of Pokémon could be lurking around here. It's been known to steal food from unsuspecting travelers along with your backpack. I just think it's best that you don't have anything to do with it," Brian warned the group. He took off leaving the group alone.
The group continued on keeping a lookout for any scary Pokémon Brian had warned them about.
Meanwhile, over to Team Rocket, they were at a nearby gravel pit site exhausted from so many hours of hard work; and it all started several days ago. They all wore yellow hardhats.
"I don't know about the two of you, but I'm bushed," Meowth said. "There has to be a better way to make some money rather than shovelling rocks and dirt all day."
"I don't like the gravel pit, but if we save our pay, we can pay off our debt and fund our secret weapons," Jessie reminded him.
"But Jessie, we've barely made enough to do some pit shopping," James said. Wobbufett pops out of his Pokéball once again.
"Wobbu, Wobbufett!" Wobbufett said in a salute.
"Jessie, can you deal with this? I don't have the strength take care of this today," James said.
"I feel for you, James. I don't think I have the strength to get angry," Jessie said. "Let's face it, James; we've literally and metaphorically hit rock bottom."
"We're even lower than a Bulbasaur's bellybutton," James said. "And if they had a bellybutton."
"We outta be soaring higher than the stars, but instead we're down here scratching around in the dirt like a Sneasel in an Easter Egg hunt," Meowth said.
"Well, we better report in for the night shift," James said.
"HELL FREAKING NO!" Jessie yelled tossing her pick aside. "I can't take one more second of this! I wasn't made for backbreaking labor!"
"I wasn't made for backbreaking labor either. I'm all for a buck, just not for an honest one," Meowth said.
"I'm with you," James said.
Jessie tossed her hardhat when she spotted a cornfield across from them.
"LOOK! A CORNFIELD!" Jessie exclaimed cheerfully. "I have an idea how we can make our money problems go away!"
"Huh?" James asked.
"I don't know what it is, but I bet it's corny," Meowth said with a pun.
Back over to Sora, Kairi, the Alolan nine, and the Pokémon, they continued on through the woods thinking about the scary Pokémon in the woods.
"That Brian guy said something about a pretty scary Pokémon. Just what kind of Pokémon that could be it?" Sophocles asked shivering.
"If we knew that, then we wouldn't be wondering what it is," Hapu pointed out.
"Point taken," Sophocles said.
"It might just be anything," Sora said stroking his chin. "It might be a pretty big Gengar in an extremely bad mood and hungry. Or it could be a Snorlax that's very angry because it didn't get enough sleep for a while. Or maybe a rogue Tyranitar attacking travelers just to steal food."
"All of those theories might make sense," Illima said stroking his chin as well. "Brian was right to warn us. We should be careful." Everyone all agreed as they kept going a little further.
"It's getting pretty dark fast; especially in these woods," Lana said.
"I think we should make a stop for the night," Lillie said.
"We're not setting up camp here are we? These woods are way too scary," Sophocles said.
"Stop being such a scared little baby, Sophocles. We made it through the woods without a problem. And you can send out your Pokémon to deal with whatever it is!" Hapu told him.
"If you say so," Sophocles said.
"We don't need to set up camp," Mina said. The others were about to ask what she was talking about and they spotted an old cabin.
"A cabin?" Kiawe asked.
"It doesn't look so roomy," Mallow said.
Sora knocks on the door.
"Hello? Is anybody home?" Sora asked knocking on the door. He slowly opens the door. "Sorry to barge in." He looked inside and saw no one in sight. "It's totally deserted."
"Judging how this place looks, it looks like no one has lived here for sometime," Illima said.
"A good place to spend the night," Acerola said.
"How are we doing on food so far?" Kiawe asked.
"Just some apples and some sandwiches from a sandwich stand we stopped by yesterday," Kairi said.
"I guess we'll have to make due with what we've got," Sora said.
"I don't think it's big enough for all of us," Lillie said.
"I think she's right though," Kairi said.
"Well, none of us wants to sleep outside and I know I don't," Sophocles said.
"I can. And I do. Mimikyu, Gengar, and Mismagius can handle anything out there," Acerola said.
"I might as well sleep out here too, since I'm used to weird things happening to us by now," Hapu said.
"You two sure you wanna do that?" Sora asked.
"It's roomier that way," Hapu said.
"I might as well sleep out here too," Kiawe said. "I'm used to sleeping outside anyway. Also, Acerola's right; Turtonator, Marowak, Mudsdale, Mimikyu, Gengar, and Mismagius will be enough to deal with whatever Pokémon were warned about."
The group ate what was left of their sandwiches and set up for bed. But, unknown to them, they were being watched by an unknown creature in the bushes. Kiawe, Acerola, and Hapu slept on the outside while Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, Togepi, the Pichu, Illima, Lillie, Mallow, Lana, Sophocles, and Mina slept inside the cabin. Sora and Kairi slept close together with their heads against one another.
The mysterious creature tossed a rock gaining the outside trainer's attention.
"What was that?" Hapu asked in a whisper.
"I don't know. But, it sounded pretty close," Kiawe said.
"What do we do? Should we wake up Sora and the others?" Acerola asked.
"I think we should. We could have better luck when there is more of us," Kiawe said. Acerola went inside as everyone slept soundly.
"Sora. Sora, wake up," Acerola said stirring him awake.
"Acerola? What's up?" Sora asked.
"We heard something. And we need everyone," Acerola said.
Sora nodded as he understood. He woke up Kairi and before she could ask whay he woke her up he shused her and pointed outside. Kairi understood the situation. Sora woke up Pikachu as Kairi and Acerola woke up the rest. Everyone stepped outside with Illima holding the lantern.
"Keep your eyes open, everyone. It might be the scary Pokémon Brian warned us about," Sora said. Everyone looked around and listened for what made the sound. The mysterious creature snuck inside and crawled into Lillie's sleeping bag.
"I don't see anything," Mallow said.
"Are you sure you heard something?" Kairi asked.
"We wouldn't be up if we haven't," Kiawe said.
"So, what is it?" Lana asked.
"Like what Sora said, it might be the scary Pokémon we were told about," Illima said.
Sora, Kairi, Pikachu, and the Alolan nine all looked around and they saw and heard nothing coming or going anywhere.
"There's nothing. False alarm. Sorry," Hapu said.
"It's okay, Hapu. I guess with what we were told earlier, we tend to get jumpy from time to time," Sora said.
"Sora's right," Illima agreed. "But this is nothing compared to having to deal with Ultra Beasts coming our way."
"Now let's get back to sleep and take off in the morning," Sora said as he Kairi, Pikachu, Lillie, Illima, Mallow, Lana, Sophocles, and Mina went back inside while Kiawe, Hapu, and Acerola went back into theirs. Lillie gave off a yawn when she saw something moving around in her sleeping bag and she screamed.
"What's the matter?" Kairi asked.
"There's something moving around in my sleeping bag," Lillie said.
"Something moving around?" Kairi asked. She saw that something and uncovered the creature in the sleeping bag. It was a little Teddiursa. "It was only a Teddiursa." Sora and the rest saw the little bear Pokémon sleeping soundly. Teddiursa woke up and placed it's index claw at its mouth and looked at the blonde and seeing how cute it was her heart instantly melted.
"Oh my gosh, such a little cutie," Lillie cooed. She takes out a Pokéball to catch the Teddiursa. "Sora has a Teddiursa of his own and now I want one."
"Urs. URSA!" Teddiursa cried and clinged to Lillie's leg.
"Oh, I'm sorry, Teddy. I didn't mean to scare you," Lillie apologized. She puts the Pokéball away. "See? The mean old Pokéball is good as gone. I won't catch you if you don't want me to. We can just be friends."
"Urs," Teddiursa beamed.
"Oh, you're ever so adorable," Lillie gushed.
"Teddiursa," Teddy said.
"That Teddiursa really knows how to turn on the Charm," Sora said jokingly.
"I didn't think a Charm attack would work on humans," Illima said.
Lillie had gushed over how cute Teddiursa is and then went off to sleep with Teddiursa in her arms. Just when everyone was deep in their sleep, Teddiursa woke up and snuck into Lillie's bag and grabbed the two apples inside and ate them, leaving behind two apple cores. Teddiursa smirked wickedly and climbed back into Lillie's arms and slept soundly.
As the sun rose in the next morning, Lillie woke up first and saw the two apple cores by her back.
"Oh no! My apples!" Lillie excalimed. "Who ate my apples?!" This woke up the rest inside.
"What's the matter now?" Sora said in a sleepy tone.
"Someone ate the two apples in my bag and left these behind," Lillie said, holding the apple cores.
"Well, don't look at Pikachu, because he was with me and Kairi the whole time," Sora said.
"The same can said for Togepi," Kairi said.
"Pi," Togepi yawned.
"Well, they didn't eat themselves," Lillie said. She looked over to the two Pichu sleeping soundly. "I bet it was those two. They're the only ones who could have."
"What?" Lana asked.
"That can't be true," Mallow said.
"Pichu," the two Pichu shook their heads in denial.
"Hey, that's not fair, Lillie! You don't have any proof that they did it!" Sora said to the blonde.
"Sora's right. Even if they did, they wouldn't know better," Mallow said.
"I guess you're right. Sorry, Pichu," Lillie apologized.
Everyone stepped out of the cabin as Kiawe, Acerola, and Hapu had just woken up.
"I guess we did better than I thought we would. But I would like to see the scary Pokémon we heard about," Acerola said.
"Only because you assumed it was a Ghost Type," Hapu pointed out. The Ghost Type trainer blew a raspberry at the Ground Type trainer.
"Knock it off, you two. The both of you can such children sometimes," Kiawe said. He looked over to the Teddiursa with Lillie. "This isn't Sora's Teddiursa is it?"
"No, it's not mine," Sora admitted.
"Lillie just found him sleeping in her sleeping bag last night," Kairi said.
"So, that's what it was all about?" Acerola asked.
"Yeah," Mina said nodding.
"And little Teddy is going to be joining us from now on," Lillie said.
"Not surprising that another wild Pokémon joining us for our trip," Kiawe said. Everyone got set up for travel with the Teddiursa joining the group.
Over to Team Rocket further up, they set up a little stand cooking some corn on a grill.
"Hey! Get your hot corn!" Jessie called out cheerfully.
"Step right up here, if you want a hot ear!" James called out.
"Hot corn, fresh from the husk! Hurry up, folks! We're only here until dusk!" Jessie called out.
"Yo! I'll take a bag full!" A teen said.
"Here you go! Enjoy every kernel!" Jessie said happily handing him a bag full of hot corn.The teen paid for his purchase and took off.
"Wow! We're doing great, Jessie!" James said fanning some of the corn.
"With my charming good looks, I can sell butter to a Butterfree," Jessie said.
"Well, here comes the new crop, kiddies!" Meowth said coming in with a wagon full of freshly picked corn.
"Looks like quite a hefty harvest!" Jessie said.
"Just think! Mother Nature does all the planting and we reap all the benefits!" James said happily.
"If we keep this up, not only we can pay off our debts, but we can have extra money left over to build our new weapons!" Jessie said.
"You've said it!" James added.
"Hey! You guys smell that?" Sophocles asked.
"I think I see the source; some roasted corn up ahead," Sora said.
"Crap! It's those twerpy-twerps!"James gasped.
"We can't let them recognize us!" Jessie said trying her best to hide her idenity. Sora and Kairi both saw through their ploy.
"What do you think, Kairi? Think that they got a job at a local farm or something?" Sora asked in a whisper.
"Not a chance. I can bet my money they stole that corn," Kairi whispered back.
"Think we should blow the whistle on them?" Sora asked.
"We could do that, but I think there might be a farm nearby, and let whoever owns the cornfield deal with them," Kairi stated. "Besides, there isn't a cop in miles of here."
"Good idea. But, let's pretend that we don't recognize them and keep moving," Sora suggested. Kairi nodded to the idea and they kept going. Teddiursa gazed at the roasted corn and Lillie noticed.
"Are you hungry, Teddy? Do you want one?" Lillie asked. Teddiursa turns and puts on the charm.
"Ursa," Teddiursa chirped.
"Ooh! I can't say no to that face," Lillie said walking up to the stand. "I'll have five of your biggest ears of roasted corn, if you please."
"Here you go," Jessie bluntly said handing her the bag. She glances over to the Teddiursa by her side. "Is that a Teddiursa?" The little bear Pokémon looked at Jessie and did the same charm he did with Lillie upon their first meeting. "Oh, you are such a cutie!" Jessie hands Teddiursa an ear of roasted corn. "Here, have an ear of corn on the house." Jessie handed Teddiursa the roasted corn. He takes the corn from her hand.
"Say thank you to the nice lady, Teddy," Lillie said.
"Teddiursa!" Teddy said.
"And thank you for the corn," Lillie said as she rejoins her friends.
"You idiot! I had to haul that corn all by myself! We're never make any profit if you just give it away for free!" Meowth hissed. He kicks her leg.
"Ow!" Jessie yelped. "I do whatever I want to!"
"If I recall correctly, Teddiursa are pretty rare and valuable," James said.
"They are. And once we earned enough money, we can build a new secret weapon and steal both Pikachu and that Teddiursa!" Jessie said.
"Let's get back to work!" Jessie and James both said in unison.
"Fresh hot corn on a stick!" Jessie called out.
"The corn's great and the sticks not bad either!" James added.
"Step right up!" Jessie called out.
"Corn here!" James called out.
"Don't be shy!" Jessie called out.
"Buy, buy, buy, buy!" Jessie and James called out.
Over to Sora, Kairi, the Alolan nine and the Pokémon, Sora was chewing Lillie out about what she did.
"I can't believe you bought some roasted corn from those jokers, Lillie! It didn't occur to you that all those ears of corn were stolen?" Sora scolded her.
"I couldn't help it. I just couldn't say no to this cute little face," Lillie said as she looks over to Teddiursa happily eating the roasted corn.
"I guess that's okay at the most part, but you can't just cave-in every time Teddiursa does that thing. Even Kairi doesn't spoil Togepi that much!" Sora said.
"Sora is right, Lillie. You have to set boundries with Teddiursa," Illima said.
"Okay. I'll try to be firm with Teddy from now on," Lillie said.
After a few minutes, they made it by a beautiful lake.
"This looks like a nice spot," Lana said.
"We can have our lunch here," Sora said taking out his Pokéballs and let out Bayleef, Quilava, Totodile, Swinub, and Meltan. "Anyway, how are we doing on food?"
"We only got loaf of bread and a big hunk of ham," Kiawe said. "I think that might be enough for all of us for the most part."
"It's better than nothing," Hapu said.
Teddiursa grinned so wickedly as he had some plans for that ham.
Kairi had called out her Pokémon to join Sora's Pokémon for some fun.
Sora, Pikachu, the Pichu, and Togepi gathered some rocks to build a fire while Kairi sliced the ham making sure it was enough for everyone. The Alolan nine were gathering up some firewood.
"Hey Kairi, think you can give me and Mina a hand with some of this firewood?" Acerola asked.
"Sure thing," Kairi said. Teddiursa waited for the aubrun haired girl to leave the ham unattended and went over to it. Just then, Jigglypuff was doing a rehearsal when she noticed Teddiursa over to the ham. Teddiursa got started eating the ham.
"Hey! What do you think you're doing? That ham is for Kairi and the others! That's not yours!" - Jigglypuff subtitle.
"Back off!" - Teddiursa subtitle. Teddiursa smacks Jigglypuff. That made her puff up in anger.
"Puff!" Jigglypuff huffed up.
"I'm starving. Let's make those sandwiches now," Sora said. Teddiursa hears the kids coming back and hands the balloon Pokémon the wrapper and pretends to cry. Lillie saw Teddiursa crying thinking he was crying for real.
"Jigglypuff! What did you do to Teddy to make him cry?" Lillie chided Jigglypuff.
"What's all the commotion about?" Kairi asked.
"Look at what your Jigglypuff did!" Lillie said accusingly. "Jigglypuff ate our ham and she scared Teddiursa!"
"What? Is that true, Jigglypuff?" Kairi asked.
"Jigglypuff, Jiggly, Jiggly," Jigglypuff denied shaking her head. "Puff!" Jigglypuff pointed to Teddiursa.
"Don't you dare accuse my sweet little Teddy! We know you're the one who ate the ham and don't you dare frame Teddy for it!" Lillie scolded.
"Hold on a second! How do we know it was Jigglypuff at all?" Sora asked.
"We just caught her red-handed! That's how I know!" Lillie said.
"Lillie is right. It does seems rather suspicious," Illima said.
"I don't care how suspicious it is, you can't accuse Jigglypuff for something like that! And if Jigglypuff said she didn't do it, then I believe her!" Kairi said.
"So you're defending a thief, are you?" Lillie argued.
"My Jigglypuff is not a thief! Unless you have picture evidence that supports it, you can't prove anything!" Kairi argued back.
"The ham's gone and Jigglypuff is holding the wrapper! What more proof do you want?" Lillie argued. Sora heard enough arguing from the two of them and broke them up.
"That's enough! What's done is done! We can just head over to the supermarket and buy some food there and maybe make some lunch with that. Won't that make everything better?" Sora asked. Kairi and Lillie glared at each other for a moment.
"Fine!" Kairi and Lillie both said.
After a little while, Sora, Kairi, Mallow, Lana, and Sophocles came back with food from the supermarket and got set up to make some lunch. Sora and Kairi were making some soup.
"How am I doing, Kairi?" Sora asked while he was tirring the soup.
"You're doing great, Sora. It's looking better than you thought it was," Kairi said.
"Good. I was worried about burning it or something," Sora said.
"Pikachu," Pikachu said.
Mallow and Lillie were setting the table while Teddiursa swiped the bananas from the table. Teddiursa was about to eat the bananas when Togepi came over to see what he was doing.
"Hey! Where did those bananas go?" Mallow asked.
"They were here a second ago," Lillie said. Teddiursa handed Togepi the bananas to frame the baby Pokémon. Togepi thought it was a game and shoved the bananas in his mouth. "Teddy, did you see a bunch of bananas?" Teddiursa was worried about being caught with his mouth full of bananas, so he shook his head.
"Maybe Sophocles took them. He probably couldn't wait until lunch anyway," Mallow guessed. Kiawe placed the grocery bag on the table and Teddiursa has eyed the sausages.
"So, how's that soup coming along?" Kiawe asked.
Teddiursa jumped on the table and grabbed the sausages. Magby saw what Teddiursa was doing and tried to stop him. The little bear Pokémon just shoved her out of the way. Teddiursa left a sausage link trail.
"Are you sure you left them on the table, Mallow?" Sophocles asked.
"I'm positive, Sophocles," Mallow said.
"Well, I didn't take them," Sophocles said.
"Didn't take what?" Sora asked.
"We had some bananas on the table here and now they're gone," Mallow said.
"Toge, Togepi!" Togepi chirped as they saw the sausage links.
"So, the food theif is in that bush!" Acerola said.
"Then let's pull it out," Sora said as he grabbed the sausages and started yanking. Magby was giving him a piece of her mind when Teddiursa felt the tug and tried to pull back the sausages. "I got you now, you little bandit!" Teddiursa winced knowing he was going to get caught in the act so he wrapped the sausages around Magby and shoved the end he was eating in her mouth and pretended to cry.
"What is going on here?" Sora asked as he saw Magby with the sausage in her mouth.
"This is hard to believe," Mina said.
"Magby stole them," Lillie said. Magby shook her head and spat the sausage out. Teddiursa ran up to Lillie. "You were trying to stop Magby weren't you?"
"Is that right, Magby?" Kairi asked. Magby shook her head. "I want to believe you, Magby, but it does look suspicious." Magby couldn't believe what she heard Kairi say, so she ran off crying. "Magby! Wait!" Sora and the Alolan nine after her.
"Kairi, wait up!" Sora called out after her. With the human kids gone, this was the chance that the little bear Pokémon was waiting for.
The kids caught up with Magby and saw her crying her eyes outs.
"Magby. I know you didn't do it. And if you said you didn't do it, then I believe you," Kairi said.
"Gotta admit, this whole thing is suspious. First Jigglypuff, now Magby. And both were around when Teddiursa was crying," Sora said stroking hos chin.
"What are you getting at, Sora?" Lana asked.
"Is anybody sensing a pattern here? Our food is disappearing and Jigglypuff and Magby have been caught with food in their possession. And isn't it a coincidence to see Teddiursa crying at the scene? We never had this kind of problem before," Sora pointed out.
"I agree. Two of Kairi's Pokémon has been caught with food with them and they never shown any misbehavior like this before," Illima agreed.
"No way! Teddy wouldn't do something like that!" Lillie stated.
"We don't know that for certain, Lillie. And until we do, we have to keep a pretty close watch on Teddiursa just in case," Sora said.
"Sora's right. I didn't buy that cutsie act for a second," Hapu said. Lillie was about to retort when Totodile, Jigglypuff, and Swinub came to the scene.
"Totodile!" Totodile said.
"What's up, Totodile?" Sora asked. Meltan made its sound as they all came back and saw Teddiursa rummaging through Illima's backpack.
"Teddy?" Lillie asked.
"Curious. What could Teddiursa be looking for in my backpack?" Illima asked. Teddiursa took out a loaf of bread and took a bite out of it.
"Aha! Caught ya!" Sora shouted. Teddiursa flinced and handed the bread to Meltan and pretended to cry once again. "Nice try, you little liar! Meltan doesn't eat bread!"
"So, it was Teddiursa stealing our food all along!" Kiawe said.
"He had us wrapped around his paw right from the start!" Kairi said. "And he framed Jigglypuff and Magby for the thefts!"
"No! It can't be true!" Lillie said. She went up to Teddiursa. "Please tell me you're not the one stealing our food and all is forgiven." Teddiursa tried his little charm once again. "Cutie! How can I doubt a sweet face like that?"
"Seriously, Lillie?" Hapu asked.
"Teddiursa was lying to all of us the whole time!" Lana said.
"And now we're on to your little act!" Sora said. Teddiursa knew his ploy could no longer fool them, so he strapped on Illima's backpack and ran off.
"Hey! That's mine!" Illima exclaimed.
"Give that back!" Sophocles shouted.
Sora, Kairi, the Alolan nine and the Pokémon chased after Teddiursa. They quickly lost his trail when Teddiursa went into some bushes.
"Where did he go?" Kairi asked.
"Teddiursa can't be too far!" Kiawe said.
"Let's keep looking!" Sora said. Everyone all agreed and kept looking. Teddiursa took off with the backpack.
Over to Team Rocket, they started to celebrate their successful day; let's see how long that lasts, shall we?
Jessie laughs and said, "We've made a bundle today!"
"We've sold a whole bunch of hot corn and we still have three ears left for us to chow down on," Meowth said.
"We got it made," James said. Team Rocket heard something jump into their wagon and saw the same Teddiursa from before with a new backpack. He was looking for some corn and saw it was gone. He spotted the three that was left and decided to have some fun with them. "Say, I think this is the same Teddiursa we saw with the twerps earlier today."
"I wonder what it's doing here," Jessie said.
"Teddiursa. Teddi, Teddi, Teddiursa, Ursa, Ursa, Teddi, Teddiursa, Teddi," Teddiursa said..
"That makes louds of sense. He's saying that he couldn't stand being with those goody two-shoes losers no-more," Meowth translated.
"Teddiursa, Teddiursa!" Teddiursa said.
"But, he said he was too lonesome being by himself; so he decided that he wants to be your Pokémon," Meowth translated.
"Ursa!" Teddiursa charmed.
"Cutie! Adorable!" Jessie cooed.
"Teddiursa, Ursa!" Teddiursa said.
"Our little friend has a pretty big secret too," Meowth translated.
"Ursa!" Teddiursa said pointing to his right.
"He just said that there's a forest nearby that's got a zillion apple trees in it!" Meowth translated.
"Ah! A zillion apple trees," James beamed.
"We'll get into the apple business!" Jessie said.
"And all those apples will sell just like hotcakes!" James said.
Teddiursa saw how distracted they were and made his move to swipe the three remaining hot corn while they weren't looking. Team Rocket turned to ask Teddiursa how to get there when they saw he was gone.
"Where did it go?" Jessie asked.
"He was standing right here," Meowth said. They all turned around and saw Teddiursa stealing the corn from them.
"That cuzzy little fuzzy-wuzzy is stealing our lunch!" James exclaimed. Teddiursa growls at Team Rocket and then puts on the charm.
"I know, but all because it's just so cute and cuddly, I don't even care!" Jessie cooed.
"Open up your eyes, Jessie!" James chided her.
"That little furrball is even more crooked than we are!" Meowth hissed. Just then, an angry farmer carrying a shovel comes running towards them.
"There ya are! You're them dirty varmits who gone and stole all the corn off of my farm!" The farmer shouted. Team Rocket screams in horror as they started running for it.
"Let's get out of here!" Team Rocket shouted.
"Get the hell back here, ya crooks! Nobody steals mah corn and gets away with it!" The farmer shouted.
Teddiursa watched them run off and took off with the backpack.
Meanwhile over to the group they all looked around and realized that their trail has gone cold.
"We lost him," Sophocles groaned.
"That Teddiursa could be miles away from here by now," Sora said.
"Indeed. If it was just all about food, I wouldn't care so much, but all the important things were inside it. The guidebook is included," Illima said.
"We better keep looking then," Sora said. Kairi spotted a Pokémon Center nearby.
"Guys look! There's a Pokémon Center over there!" Kairi said.
"Maybe Nurse Joy should know something that can help us how to find that Teddiursa," Hapu said.
"It's worth asking," Sora said. "Come on." Lillie still couldn't believe how such a cute and innocent Pokémon could do such a thing. The group explained about the backpack theft and Nurse Joy was shocked when she heard it.
"Oh no! That's the third report of a backpack theft had this week!" Nurse Joy said.
"Just when a Farfetch'd thief wasn't already bad enough," Mallow sighed. The group sighed as they remember that incident well.
"Did any of the victims mention anything about a Teddiursa?" Kairi asked.
"Yes. But was the Teddiursa you mentioned extra cute, extra cuddly, and sweet as can be?" Nurse Joy asked.
"That's my Teddiursa!" Lillie beamed.
"That's how it fools everyobody, I'm afraid," Nurse Joy said. Lillie sighed as she hung her head in shame.
"That's how he fooled me," Lillie said with regret. She turns to Kairi with a look of regret in her eyes. "Kairi, I'm so sorry for falsely accusing your Pokémon like that."
"It's okay, Lillie. What's important is we get that Teddiursa as quick as possible," Kairi said.
"I think I see a pettern. That Teddiursa must be the scary Pokémon Brian had warned us about. He didn't seem that scary to us and he knew we wouldn't see his cute little ruse as a threat," Illima said.
"And that was until he was caught in the act," Kiawe said.
"Let's find that little fuzzball and teach him a lesson he won't forget!" Acerola said.
"She's right. Something has to be done about that Teddiursa. It would be best if we all look for it together," Nurse Joy said.
Everyone agreed as they all set off to search for the thieving bear Pokémon.
Over by a lake, Teddiursa was happily eating some corn he stole from Team Rocket when suddenly a net traps Teddiursa in it.
"Prepare for trouble, Teddiursa!"
"Make it double, and things are gonna get worsa!"
"To protect the world from devastation!"
"To unite all peoples within our nation!"
"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"
"To extend our reach to the stars above!"
"Jessie!"
"James!"
"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!"
"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"
"Wobbufett!"
"Meowth! That's right!"
"Think you can con us and get away with it?" Jessie asked. "Guess again!"
"Ursa!" Teddiursa said as he cut through the net with his claws. That made Jessie growl with rage.
"We'll have to do this the hard way then!" Jessie growled taking out a Pokéball. "Arbok! Go!" James takes out a Pokéball and tosses it.
"Victreebel, get ready to attack!" James shouted. Victreebel comes out and chomps on James once again. "Wait! I didn't mean a snack attack!"
"Hurry Arbok! Use Your Poison Sting!" Jessie ordered. Arbok fired Poison Sting right at the little bear Pokémon. Teddiursa swipes at Arbok's Poison Sting like it was no problem. Teddiursa swipes at the cobra Pokémon with his Slash attack and sends Arbok back to the balloon.
"Victreebel! Use your Razor Leaf attack!" James ordered. Victreebel fires Razor Leaf and Teddiursa did the same thing as he did with Arbok's Poison Sting. Teddiursa then swipes at Victreebel with Slash and sends him back to James.
"It looks like a toy, but it ain't playing around with us," Meowth said.
"Wobbufett," Wobbufett said.
Teddiursa fires Swift right at the balloon and sends them flying in the air.
"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Team Rocket shouted.
Sora, Kairi, the Alolan nine, the Pokémon, and Nurse Joy came by through the woods.
"That tip we got from those two trainers should help us find Teddiursa," Sora said.
"It should be around here somewhere," Nurse Joy said. They all saw what looks like Team Rocket's hot air balloon flying in the air.
"Was that Team Rocket just now?" Kiawe asked.
"It sure sounded like them," Sophocles said. Mina turned to see the where they came from and spotted Teddiursa.
"Look!" Mina said pointing to Teddiursa. "There's Teddiursa!"
"And Illima's backpack too!" Lana said.
The group charged towards Teddiursa eating what remained of the hot corn.
"The jig is up, Teddy!" Sora said.
"Give back that backpack this minute!" Kairi added. Teddiursa just refused and took out another loaf of bread and ate it in two bites.
"He's not in the least bit ashamed that he's a liar," Lillie said. "And I even trusted you." Lillie was about to send out Snowy to deal with Teddiursa when Kairi stepped in.
"I'll take this. That Teddiursa can't frame my Jigglypuff and Magby and get away with it," Kairi said taking out Magby's Pokéball. "Magby! Go!" Kairi threw her Pokéball and Magby puffs some smoke upon entry. "Fire Punch!" Magby runs towards Teddiursa and lands a fiery punch on him. Teddiursa fought back with Swift. Then swipes at the Fire Type with a Slash attack. "You can beat him, Magby! Ember!" Magby fires Ember at Teddiursa and he just uses Double Team avoiding Ember.
"Great. Double Team," Sora deadpanned. Teddiursa and the Teddiursa duplicates all swipe at Magby with Slash.
"I know how to find the real one! Fire a barrage of Ember!" Kairi ordered. Magby fired Ember at the two of the duplicates and then found the real one. "Found the real one! Finish Teddiursa off with Incinerate!" Magby fired Incinerate at Teddiursa knocking him out. Illima walks up to the backpack and takes it.
"I believe this is mine," Illima said as he took off to rejoin the group. Suddenly, Teddiursa started to evolve. Everyone knew what Teddiursa evolves into and took off before the evolution was complete. Teddiursa was now an Ursaring.
Everyone made it back to the Pokémon Center and had some lunch to make up for the one they didn't get to have because of the food thefts.
"Just glad we made it out of there just in the knick of time," Sophocles said.
"Yeah. And I would like to add, it was a good thing that Teddiursa had evolved into an Ursaring," Sora said.
"Very good thing," Mina said.
"Now he'll have to get his own food instead of stealing it, since his charms will no longer work," Kairi said.
"I would feel sorry for some poor sap who wold cuddle an Ursaring," Sophocles laughed. Once they finshed eating up, they continued on towards their journey and for Sora's very next Gym battle.
Later that night, Team Rocket were popping some popcorn in a small pot on a campfire. They were all in a funk.
"It's too bad that farmer caught up with us," Jessie groaned.
"And he made us give him all the money we made. And after all the hard work we did and all the corn we stole," James added.
"And all we have left is this pot of popcorn without any butter," Meowth said. They all turned to their left when they heard some rustling in some nearby bushes. They all saw it was an Ursaring.
"URSARING!" Team Rocket screamed as they ran off screaming forgetting the popcorn. Ursaring looked at the pot of popcorn and took it.
"Okay, maybe my cute charms aren't going to work on anyone anymore since I evolved. But, at least I got something out of it." - Ursaring subtitle.
Team Rocket kept running for their lives as they climbed up a tree, before they found it occupied by some Spinarak and some Ariados. They ended up being wrapped up in some threads and gagged. We can just leave them here just for now at least.