Just as they had discussed, Harmony and Ash parted their ways, one to go get their gym badge the other to go train. Dawn and Brock decided to tag along with Ash with Dawn saying she wanted to train as well. They wished Harmony luck on her gym battle and she nodded waving them off.

Upon reaching the gym Harmony was greeted with Roark who was clearly ready for her battle against him.

"Hi Roark! Ready to have a battle?" she asks with a wide grin Chu jumping off her shoulder and rushing to sit along the side-lines cheering happily. "And that one is ready to cheer us on!" she says.

"Ready as ever," Roark says with a grin as the two go to their respective sides.

Harmony flew through her gym battle, using Draco the Dracozolt to take down Onix and nearly knock out Geodude before having to switch to Hatterne to confuse the poor Geodude by teleporting everywhere making it dizzy and easy to land an attack. When it came to Cranidos Harmony struggled a bit calling back Hatterene as she could tell her fairy pokemon was just getting too tired and didn't want her overworking herself. Sending out Bubbles the Vaporeon was the best part as she was easily able to turn the battle around. Freezing the floor of the gym with ice beam making it easier for Vaporeon to slide around as if skating, a contest technique Harmony had used before, and using hail to make it harder for Cranidos to see the liquidation coming straight for it.

"You did it Bubbles!" Harmony cheers rushing onto the field once the ref called it only to slip and fall on her bum causing her to laugh as the Vaporeon rushed to her side purring and licking her cheek. "I'm okay! Thank you so much" she says carefully getting up this time to go shake Roark's hand. "Thank you so much Roark! I nearly thought you had us after Hatterene got really tired."

"And thank you for such a great battle. You were strong, and I was weak. That's all there is. According to Pokémon League rules, I have to give you our Gym Badge since you've beaten me, the Leader. Here's your official Pokémon League Coal Badge." Roark says as he holds out a badge to her in the cushioned case.

"Awesome! We just got the Coal Badge!" Harmony cheers striking her pose she had come up with, similar to Leon's Charizard one, but with her having a Blastoise pose.

"Thank you so much Roark! Now just to go find the others, I think they said they were going to train at the mines." Harmony says rubbing Chu's head, having returned her other pokemon after their pose.

"I was just going to head there myself, I could walk with you there?" Roark suggests.

"Sure that'd be great!" Harmony says with a grin.

Spotting Ash and Brock was easy among the rocks.

"Seems like you're working hard!" Harmony chimes in, Chu hopping off to run and tell Pikachu all about the battle.

"Hey Harmony! Hey Roark!" Ash says a smile on his lips, "Does this mean you won?" he asks.

"Oh yeah! He nearly got me though, if it wasn't for Bubbles and using some contests maneuvers I think we could have lost." Harmony admits.

"Rock as far as the eye can see. It is a great way to get you ready for another battle in my gym." Roark comments to Ash pulling his attention back onto the gym leader.

"And you can be sure we are working super hard," Ash tells him.

"Just don't work too hard, you simply figure out a strategy that suits you and your pokemon as well," Roark tells Ash.

"Uh Okay. But I was just thinking about the way you fought Paul!"

"Hang on a sec, this has been eating at me since our last battle. Just who is it you're trying to beat anyway?"

"Oh that! Uh…" Ash says before realizing what exactly Roark meant.

"Right, it's understandable for you to be concerned about Paul, but it's not Pual you're gonna be battling with, it's me right?" Roark points out.

"Right! I hear ya!" Ash says,

"Good, you'll be fine. And I've got some serious digging to do."

"What now?" Ash asks confused.

"Looking for more fossils right?" Harmony asks with a grin on her face. "Especially after a loss with me!"

"Right, I've always loved ancient pokemon. Like that!" Roark says moving aside a small stone to reveal a fossil. "I found that Cranidos fossil when I was just a kid, and so I had to have it restored," he tells the group

"Like how Harmony's Dracozolt was restored?" Ash asks with wide eyes.

"Exactly, it was an amazing thing to restore it and other pokemon fossils." Roark explains as he inspects the fossil, "thing is Cranidos was the first pokemon we used it on."

"Awesome! Amazing what science can do!" Ash says completely intrigued

"Yeah, but these fossils are more amazing. You see pokemon have been changing at a process that has been taking place over millions of years to get to this point." Roark says as he looks down at his palm that held the fossil. "It's almost as if these fossils have come back to tell me about their ancient secrets. Fossils as are beautiful as it gets. Truly there is nothing more beautiful than these," Roark tells the group.

In the distance Ian calls out, "Roark!" with panic lacing their voice.

"Huh?"

"Something terrible has happened," Ian tells Roark

"What? Tell me!" Roark demands standing back up.

"The ancient pokemon are on a rampage!" Ian tells him.

"What pissed them off to get them enraged?" Harmony questions, "Pokemon don't go rampage without reason, something must have pissed them off."

"Right, there's something off about it," Roark says agreeing with Harmony. "We better check it out!"

The group rushed off to try and find what was going on, coming across Officer Jenny and the scientists along with the police task force and tanks.

"Hold on! You've got to let me handle this!" Roark calls out as he heads to the two fossil pokemon. "Cranidos will help with this!"

"Draco can help too," Harmony says getting her Pokeball out and making it bigger.

"Alright, Harmony, and I will distract them while you look or an opening, then you take them both down!" Roark commands the teens.

"Right!" they shout out, getting the plan into motion.

'Cranidos flamethrower!" Roark calls out.

"Draco Dragon Pulse!" Harmony calls out.

Unfortunately, the distraction does not work and Armaldo and Kabutops go to attack Sudowoodo and Pikachu.

"Cranidos zen headbutt!" Roark calls out.

"And Draco use Wild charge at Kubutops!" Harmony calls out.

"Yeah that's it!" Roark cheers as the pokemon start to get affected only or our arms to shoot out around the fossil pokemon capturing them.

"Hahaha you can never get too much of an old thing!" The group hears.

"Oh, no...is that...are they really that much of dunderheads to steal that?" Harmony mutters shaking her head.

"No way!"

"The fossil restorer!" The scientist shouts.

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!

James!

And Meowth, now that's a name.

Putting the do-gooders in their place!

We're Team Rocket!

IN YOUR FACE!

"So you're the ones behind this awful crime!" Officer Jenny shouts.

"Return the machine and pokemon at once!" the scientist demands.

Jessie scoffs, "Like that's ever going to happen."

"We've got a lot of restoring to do." James says.

"And we're gonna make an army of the baddest bunch of ancient bullies you ever saw!"

"Oh no your not! Ready Chu?" Harmony growls out.

"Ready Pikachu?" Ash asks and the two electric mice stand in a battle stance.

"Ash, Harmony wait!" Roark says.

"Huh?"

"We've got to be careful about how we do this. If not Armoldo, Kabutops, and the fossil restorer could be badly damaged." Roark points out causing Harmony to groan.

"And too expensive to fix, man that ruins how we were gonna go about this," she says with a huff.

Team Rocket boasts about it but just then a loud cry came from the sky. "Is that an Aerodactyl?" Harmony asks with wide eyes.

Before someone could answer her the Aerodactly let off a hyper beam knocking Team Rocket's robot off onto it's side and releasing the pokemon in the metal hands clutches. This gave the scientists a chance to return the two fossil pokemon while Harmony moved a bit to try and get Draco, which did not please the Aerodactly one bit as it loaded on a Giga Impact.

"Bad idea! Bad idea!" Harmony cries out frozen to her spot which was wrapped around her pokemon.

"Harmony!" Ash calls out horrified.

It was then that Cranidos stepped in front of the two with the command of Roark, "Cranidos intercept it!"

It couldn't hold it getting pushed back along with the other and it exploded causing the humans to fly through the air and the Areodactly to get even more pissed off firing hyper beams around the one heading straight for Ash and Harmony who had been covering their pokemon. As soon as the impact would have hit them an ice beam and bubble beam shot out causing ti to not touch them.

"Hey Ash! Harmony! Are you two okay1?" Dawn cries out, Buneary and Piplup by her side as they ran towards them.

"We are thanks to you Dawn," Harmony says with a sigh of relief.

"We'll take care of this now!" Dawn says her pokemon and her standing in front of Harmony and Ash with a look of determination.

Areodactly went for another Giga Impact, "Another Giga Impact!?" Harmony cries out.

"No problem, watch this! Piplup, Buneary, let's go!" Dawn calls out her pokemon getting in position as Areodactly got closer, "Not yet...just a little more time...Okay do it now!"

The two pokemon jump in the air before making themselves spin, causing them to dodge the move and were able to quickly tackle in via getting on it's back.

"That's great! Go Pokeball!" the scientist says tossing it at the Areodactly catching it. Buneary picks up the ball handing it to the scientist.

"Thank you. We're all safe now, thank you." He says to Dawn.

"You're welcome" Dawn says happily.

"Oh yes, now or them," Roark says turning to Team Rocket who was trying to upright their mecha.

"Tough luck losers," Roark says stepping with Cranidos by his side as Team Rocket noticed what they missed. "Now we'd like our machine if you don't mind," Roark says sarcastically.

Team Rocket tried to flee, "Stop! Cranidos go!" Roark calls out his pokemon racing after them only to get caught in a net that Team Rocket shot out.

"Oh no!" Harmony cries out as the group tries to run after it to help Cranidos.

"They're not going to make fools out of us! Are you going to let them win?" Roark calls out to Cranidos.

With that Cranidos was enveloped by a white light getting larger until it was double the size.

"Woah! Cranidos evolved!" Ash says with wide eyes.

"Yes! Let's go Rampardos!" Roark calls out in excitement as the newly evolved Rampardos rushes faster towards Team Rocket, abling to just rip the machine from the robot they had and is able to place it aside before using Zen Headbutt causing Team Rocket to blast off once more.

"Amazing!"

"And so powerful!" Dawn says pulling her Pokedex out.

Rampardos the head budge pokemon, and the evolved form of Cranidos. Its headbutt attack is so powerful that it can pulverize even the sturdiest of objects in just one hit.

"Thank you Rampardos, thanks to you we have our machine back." the scientist says.

Officer Jenny thanks them too which causes Brock to go all lovey-dovey once more until Crogunk poison jabs him.

"Hey Roark, can we please have another battle tomorrow? I'd love to go against your Rampardos" Ash asks as he turns to Roark.

"Oh? Have you thought about what strategy you want to use?"

"Yeah"

"Okay. Then you can have the honor of being Rampardos' premiere opponent."

"Really wow cool thanks!"

"Dawn do you think you could help me train a little bit?" Ash asks making Harmony grin.

"I kind of want to train a bit too, that move you used was pretty cool Dawn I wouldn't have thought of something like that," Harmony says praising her friend.

"Sure it'll be great training for me as well," Dawn admits.

"Thanks that's great! You know what, after all, that I know I'm going to get that badge!"

"Alright you just give it all you got!" Roark responds to Ash.

The next day Ash successfully took Roark down all thanks to training with Dawn and using the spinning technique to his advantage.

Harmony and Dawn were dressed up in cheerleading outfits, along with Chu, Buneary, and Piplup helping out being cheerleaders for him.

"He really did it!" Harmony cheers waving her pom-pos around happily for Ash's victory. "I haven't seen this great of a battle in a while, especially one so close!"

"The way you adapted quickly to changing conditions was just amazing." Roark complements Ash after they were outside the gym.

Harmony and Dawn had changed back into their regular clothes and were grinning as Ash got the badge.

"So here's proof of your victory at Oreburgh City Gym. The Coal Badge," Roark says holding out the tray that held the badge.

"Wow! Thank you so much Roark!" Ash says with wide eyes grabbing the badge and holding it up doing his pose. "Alright! We just got the Coal badge!"

"Now we can start heading towards the next contest!" Dawn says happily, "Which is in Floaroma Town!" she says excitedly.

"I can't wait, but I'm not sure I want to compete, usually I give a bit more time between them, but we'll have to see, isn't it on the way to Eterna City? I thought there was a gym there?" Harmony asks.

"There is one there, and it would be the closest gym from mine Harmony," Roark says with a nod.

"Awesome! Thanks so much Roark! Then it's settled, we'll go to Floaroma Town and then after that to Eterna City!" Harmony says as Brock nods.

"If we start now we'll have enough daylight to get at least started going. If the map is right there should be a clearing we should reach easily by nightfall." Brock says making Harmony grin.

"Great, then we better get going! Bye!" she says grabbing Ash and Dawn's wrists tugging them off towards the exit of town laughing.