It was a few days later when once again the group of four had been bombarded by Team Rocket who at this point had decided after overhearing Harmony talk about something special about the pair of Pikachu's that it was their new goal to steal not just Ash's but also Harmony's!
"Team Rocket come back!" Harmony and Ash call out angrily as Tea Rocket's balloon was up in the air, a rope dropped below where Pikachu and Chu were doing what they could to try and break free.
"That's not your Pikachu!" Dawn cries out as all four of them run after them.
"Never stopped us before, we're not changing our modus operandi because of a twerp" James calls out from above.
"Right we laugh at the word enough, what's mine is mine and what's yours is too," Jessie says with a grin on her face.
"Forget Pikachu and collect stamps!" Meowth teases out.
"Now! Starly I choose you!" Ash calls out tossing his Pokeball out letting his Starly out. "Starly cut the rope holding Pikachu and Chu with Wing Attack!" Ash calls out
"As if! Let's ask Carnivine for an alternate opinion." James calls out only for his Carnivine to chomp on his head which had Jessie and Meowth trying to help pry it off, causing the balloon to shake around only for Starly to get landed on popping the balloon with his beak.
"Starly!" Ash calls out.
"Oh no! Chu!" Harmony yells out with worry as the four of them froze watching the balloon go down.
"Pikachu!" Ash calls out as the group had heard Team Rocket blasting off.
"Chu!" Harmony cries out rushing past as her Pikachu leaps away from Pikachu and Turtwig to nuzzle into her arms, which seemed to upset the Turtwig.
"Everything okay?" Ash asks as the Turtwig steps in front of Pikachu saying something.
"Wow, it's a Turtwig!" Dawn says in amazement.
"Sure is, pretty sure it's a Sinnoh Region stater pokemon," Ash says pulling his Pokedex out.
Turtwig the tiny leaf Pokemon, it's shell is made of earth and when it absorbs water it becomes harder.
"That's really rare, to find a start pokemon in the wild." Harmony says, "And for a wild one to be in such great health like that." she says in awe.
"This is my chance!" Dawn says bringing out her Pokeball, "Piplup us peck!" she calls out.
Needless to say it didn't go well, with Turtwig responding by using razor leaf and hitting an Oddish who uses sleep powder in Pikachu's direction only or Ash to try and protect his pokemon ending up falling to sleep.
"Is he always going to be this reckless?" Harmony says with a sigh moving her bag off her shoulder, "I have one Awakening though…" she says with a groan. "I forgot to stock up…" she says only to look up and notice that Turtwig had taken Pikachu off of Ash and was taking him somewhere. This did not sit well with Chu who moved off Harmony's shoulder and raced after him.
"Hey! Chu! Don't run off!" Harmony cries out zipping her bag and racing after her pokemon.
"Hey wait!" Harmony heard Brock call out behind her, but her focus was on getting to Chu.
Harmony didn't notice that someone else was there as she had run off in search of Chu.
Chu had found Pikachu who was awake and raced over to him nuzzling her red cheek against his sparking a bit while Turtwig tilted its head in confusion. Chu then turned to Turtwig and started talking to it with a bit of anger, which was where Harmony found them.
"Oh thank goodness you are alright. You had me worried and the others seemed to have not followed me." she says with a sigh of relief only to move out of the way from a razor leaf attack. "Hey! That's not nice at all! Turtwig!" she says in a small scolding manner, "Pikachu and Chu are fine, Ash really would like Pikachu back, it's Team Rocket that is always trying to get him."
It was then there were cries of an argument among other pokemon which caught Turtwig's attention as he glanced at her before running off. Harmony moved to follow, scooping Pikachu and Chu up and onto her shoulders.
Up ahead Turtwig had seen a Mankey and Geodude fighting over some fruit, but instead of solving the issue he seemed to get into a fight which Pikachu went to try and stop only to get tossed back. "Uh well...I guess that's one way to handle it? Wouldn't having them split the fruit work better?" Harmony whispered to Chu who had a sweat-drop going on as well as Pikachu.
A few minutes later Harmony had a notebook out and was writing down what Turtwig did, was instead of splitting the one fruit he had gotten the two pokemon equal amounts of more fruit. "Fascinating."
Turtwig had seemingly been a bit more trusting towards Harmony as he was letting his guard down to take a nap making her smile softly slipping her phone out to snap a small photo. "He is cute, Milo would love seeing this," she whispers to Chu who nodded in agreement that the newer Galar Grass Gym Leader would love seeing this.
"Pikachu! Harmony!" Ash calls out a bit of relief in his voice which made Harmony look up, and obviously put Turtwig on high alert as he moved in front of them letting out unhappy calls of its name.
"We thought we'd find you here," Dawn says with a grin.
"It's great how well Clara knows Turtwig," Brock says making Harmony frown
"Clara? Is that why you didn't follow me?" she asks as Ash moves to walk forward closer.
That move seemed to trigger Turtwig who started running at full speed tackling Ash in the stomach.
"Ash!" Harmony cries out along with the two Pikachu's in worry. "Turtwig! That was not nice, he wasn't going to attack us!" she scolds moving to try and block the Pokemon as Pikachu tried to reason with it.
Turtwig, however, was not budging but it had faltered a bit when it looked at Harmony before almost huffing and turning its attention back to Ash with narrowed eyes.
"It's not listening to Pikachu or Harmony," Brock says bewildered.
"Pikachu's my best friend! See we were only trying to help. Team Rocket they're the bad guys who took Pikachu from me and we're trying to stop 'em" Ash explains as he grabs his hat off from the ground.
Turtwig tilted its head looking back at Harmony who nodded, "I know, I told you, you wouldn't listen little one." she says softly as Turtwig gets a horrified look on its face before bowing multiple times as if to apologize.
"I guess Turtwig is sorry for what happened," Brock says with a smile on his face.
"A little too sorry don't you think?" Dawn says softly.
Ash moves to get up placing his hat back on his head and walks over to the Turtwig who had its head down and pet it's back, "Don't worry about it Turtwig, hey I'm really grateful to you for saving Pikachu!" Ash says which Turtwig looks up at him with tears in his eyes.
The moment, however, was ruined because a Linoone came out covered in wounds collapsed.
"A Linoone? But what's wrong?" Ash says.
"A battle perhaps?" Harmony says as Ash and her rush off, Dawn pulling her Pokedex out to check it out.
Linoone the rushing pokemon, when it spots its prey it runs after it in a straight line. Though able to run at 60 miles per hour, it is unable to turn.
As Ash held the Linoone Harmony tried to gather a few things from her bag, "Okay I have some potion left that can hold it off for now." She says softly as Brock moves near her to check it out nodding.
"This Linoone smashed into something really hard, Harmony give it the potion and we'll help it back at Clara's," Brock tells them and Harmony nods applying what she had left of a potion before they rushed it back to Clara's house.
At Clara's house, Brock fixed up the Linooone easily with herbs from Clara's garden, Harmony having helped make the paste.
"This is awesome Brock, you sure are really good at this, I hope I can pick up some of this as well, usually all I can do is carry less natural remedies," she admits as she helps Brock applying the paste to the Linoone. "But then again with a Linoone like this it's far easier, the ones in Galar are a bit harder to handle" she admits.
The others were talking to Clara while Brock and Harmony helped heal the Linoone. "They're different in Galar?" Brock asks.
"Yeah, they're dark types, black and white instead of tan and brown. And tend to get a bit more rambunctious than these it seems. It's interesting, and something I would love to research more into, but I'm still helping Professor Magnolia with things that I can't do my own research for a few more years." she admits. "I wouldn't change it though, I love doing more exploring for data. Getting the info on Turtwig in the wild was interesting," she explains.
"Gathering research is something of interest, but why specific pokemon like Turtwig?" Brock asks.
"Well Turtwigs aren't allowed in Galar, specific ones aren't even able to get into our borders, they usually have to come through the Isle of Armor or The Crown Tundra before coming into the main parts of Galar. They're picky about other regions pokemon because of disease and all that. I find it silly, but that's the way Chairman Rose runs things." she says with a shrug. "There you go Linoone soon you'll be able to be back out there!" she says gently petting its head as it sighed in content.
"Mmm, anytime you need something eaten just ask!" Dawn says as she dug into the soup Brock had made.
"Well then you'll have to try some curry with me sometime, I have the stuff in my pack, straight from Galar." Harmony teases, "but it might be a bit too spicy or your tastes I could attempt sweeter but most of my pokemon like that or bitter." she states earning a sparkle from Dawn about trying more food as their journey would continue.
Ash turned to the pokemon who were eating on the ground, "Hey Linoon good food huh?" he asks. The Linoone gave out a happy cry and Turtwig moved it's bowl closer to it so it would have more.
"Aww Turtwig is so sweet, sharing his food!" Harmony coos.
"You know what you're nice after all!" Ash says happily to Turtwig earning a nod from the Pokemon. "But don't let it go to your head," Ash state before pointing to his, "Or mine!" he says and Turtwig looks a bit sad only to look up once Ash started laughing, "It was just a little joke."
"Hey Turtwig, you should eat too," Harmony says as Ash handed her his bowl and she filled it up, with Ash moving to give it to him.
This act that Ash did seemed to spark some sort of joy with Turtwig as he jumped up biting Ash's head.
"Oh my goodness, now that is one way to show affection," Harmony says giggling.
Clara started laughing as well, "Turtwig is such a scamp." she says causing Ash to freeze from trying to pull the pokemon off his head.
"Huh?"
"When Turtwig bites you it's a sign that Turtwig really likes you," Clara explains.
Dawn looks confused, "So does that mean Turtwig does that to you too?"
"Of course, come here Turtwig!" Clara says wiggling her finger, which alerted Turtwig to jump towards her only to be caught by a stick making Harmony squeal.
"My little Chewtle used to do that when she was a little baby!" Harmony coos with big eyes. "I mean she still chomps down on my leg because she's too big to fly through the air, but she loves showing that kind of affection."
It was then three suction cups darted through the air landing on Pikachu, Chu, and Turtwig making everyone gasp.
"Pikachu!" Ash calls out.
"Chu! Hey! Stop it!" Harmony cries out getting up to follow after Ash.
"Turtwig! Pikachu!" Ash calls out his hand falling into a fist as the three pokemon were put into a glass container in the river.
It was then a giant Magikarp submarine popped up making Harmony groan. "Of course it's those gits again," she growled out her Galarian accent coming through thick.
"Who in the name of Pokemon are you?" Clara asks.
"Listen, is that a voice I hear?
It's speaking to me loud and clear.
On the wind!
Past the stars!
In your ear!
Bringing chaos at a breakneck pace.
Dashing hope, putting fear in its place.
A rose by any other name is just as sweet.
When everything's worse, our work is complete.
Jessie!
And it's James!
And Meowth, now that's a name!
Putting the do-gooders in their place
Team Rocket we're in your face!"
"Team Rocket!" Dawn and Ash yell out at the same time with frustration.
"Say that's some catch, you can't get any fresher than this!" James calls out.
"Come one! Why don't you give it up!" Dawn says angrily.
"That hat of yours is too tight otherwise you'd remember what I said, what's mine is mine and what's yours is too," Jessie says sarcastically.
"We've got three power pokemon bunched in a peekaboo package," Meowth says with a grin before the three of them head down and go to try and get away.
"Oh no, you don't! Pip let's go!" Harmony calls out her Piplup, it's fur sparkling as it went straight into the water with her following after. "Alright, buddy like we've practiced in the water," she says.
Ash called out in surprise but following after her as Pip darts in front of the humans to try and catch up with the submarine.
It was then that Dawn's Piplup joined in following after. "Alright, Pip! Try using what we were doing with that Scald!" she calls out, hoping the hot water would melt away a bit with the Magikarp sub.
"I've got you!" Harmony says finally making it to the glass tube while Ash moved beside her. Her Piplup having dove underwater to try and use Scald against the submarine. Unfortunately have not fully mastered the move Pip was struggling with. And by that point, Team Rocket had found out and had drug Harmony and Ash underwater.
Turtwig fed up with all this started using tackle against the glass, giving Ash an idea. "Pikachu, Chu you two use iron tail!" he says making Harmony wince a bit at him using his air up.
When the pokemon did that Harmony moved a bit to grab Ash's hand wanting him to go up, "Thunderbolt guys." she gurgles out. Just as that was happening Pip was finally able to use Scald, which was not good as the two combines with the thunderbolt electrocuted everyone and the scald causing a mass explosion.
Harmony and Ash were thrown to the ground and groaned as the Pokemon landed on top of them, Harmony had landed on top of Ash in a weird way and hadn't noticed until the groans came from below her. Her cheeks flushed a bit at that and she moved off him quickly, helping him up, "Bloody 'ell, 'm sorry Ash." she says as he was helped up.
"It's so good to see you're all okay," Clara says relieved.
"Well besides some minor bruises we're great," Harmony says scooping her Piplup up. "Pip you did so well!" she praises.
"You did such a good job too, Piplup!" Dawn praises her Piplup that looked extremely happy about it.
"How are you tow guys holding up?" Ash asks Turtwig and Pikachu who were shaking their bodies a bit to get rid of excess water.
It was then that Turtwig used Synthesis to heal itself making Harmony hum, "Smart to have that."
"What's that?" Dawn asks.
"It's called Synthesis," Clara tells her.
"Synthesis is a move that allows Pokemon to heal really fast," Brock explains.
"What do you know? It really works!" Dawn says with awe.
"Pardon me if I could care less!" Jessie bites out from behind everyone making them turn around to see Team Rocket in the water, "You make me sick, listen to that Twerish triumph!"
"If you dweebs think we're going to let you off easy then think again!" Meowth says.
James stands up, "Right! We lose when I say so!"
"Ally oop!" Jessie says and they all jump out of the water and onto the land making Harmony groan.
They soon got into a battle, with Chu and Pikachu ending up with doing a double volt tackle straight for Team Rocket, causing them to blast off once more.
"Can we not like get them arrested or something?" Harmony begs.
"Alright!" Ash cheers happily as Turtwig turns to bite him on his head. "Hey, haven't we had enough biting for one day already? I like you too but this is nuts."
On their way to leave Turtwig decided it wanted to be with Ash, only if he could beat him in a battle of course. Once Ash had caught it Harmony flocked him with a hug grinning, "That was awesome!" she says before breaking away her cheeks reddening.
"Wow, that's how to catch a Pokemon! How cool is that!" Dawn says with a look of awe in her eyes.
"Promise me you'll take good care of Turtwig now, won't you dear?" Clara asks Ash, "It means a lot."
"Right!" Ash says with excitement as the four humans wave to Clara continuing towards Jubilife City to make it for Dawn and Harmony's first Sinnoh region Contest.
Next Chapter will be a few episodes combined, mainly because they're filler and won't really have much to do with the plot that I want to do!