As the group of teens were on their way they came across a guy named Alan who asked for a battle, at first Ash wanted to battle him with Turtwig in order to take on Alan and his Nosepass, but Harmony stepped up before he could ask.
Deciding her best bet was to go with a water type while Chu, her Pikachu sat on Ash's shoulders with his Pikachu while she called out Pip the Prinplup to battle the Nosepass.
Pip dodges a fury of Zap Cannons as it rushes towards its opponent before taking a sharp turn, where a chase ensues. Alan orders Nosepass to keep up the Zap Cannons, and eventually one hits close enough to send Pip flying. However, Pip barely was able to get his footing as he landed on top of a rock.
As Harmony orders Pip to jump away, Alan orders it to stop as the battle has to take place in their current location. Harmony nods her head in agreement figuring out what he meant while the rest of the teens were confused by the request. Alan explains that he wants to battle near Mt. Coronet so his Nosepass can evolve due to the special magnetic field present in the area. Ash gets rather excited at the thought of being able to see Nosepass evolve and agrees with the idea, obviously very keen to help Alan inch closer to his Sinnoh League dream.
Brock calls for the match to resume. Pip dodges a Rock Slide and strikes back with Drill Peck. Nosepass stands its ground and responds with a Tackle.
The match gets heated as Alan and Harmony exchange attacks, with each taking significant damage. Nosepass suddenly bursts into light and promptly evolves into Probopass, which Dawn looks it up on her Pokédex: "Probopass, the Compass Pokémon, and the evolved form of Nosepass. Its body acts as a powerful magnet. It controls three smaller units called Mini-Noses"
Harmony and Alan prepare to resume the battle after congratulations are made when an odd helmet falls on Probopass's head.
With the weird helmet on its head, Probopass's mini-noses then attack Alan. A cackle of laughter alerts Alan and the others to Team Rocket, who reveals that they are controlling Probopass. Alan calls for his Pokémon to listen, though it is well and truly under Team Rocket's control. They have Probopass break up the ground before flying off with the Compass Pokémon. Alan is distraught by the loss, but the group of teens reminds him not to give up.
After splitting up with Brock going on his own and the others soon spot Team Rocket, noting all of the other helmets that they were going to use for other Pokemon assumingly.
Alan prepares to rush in, but both Brock and Harmony stop him and point out that he will just be attacked.
Instead of rushing in, Ash and Harmony send Pip and Buizel, who swims across the river and gets close enough to attack Meowth and Jessie with water via a softer bubble beam. At the same time as Pip was distracting Buizel goes to get the remote, however, bungles the remote retrieval after he drops it, causing Team Rocket to notice both him and Pip.
In response, Wobbuffet and Buizel battle for the remote, which is then knocked into the air by Pip's Steel Wing bashing it. Ash jumps to catch it, but Jessie's Dustox uses Whirlwind, causing Ash to fall into the water while Harmony rushes to go help him, her eyes narrowing at Jessie as she helps Ash get out of the water, but not after making sure he was alright of course.
The remote then hits Probopass's antennae causing it to explode. After it gets destroyed, Probopass continues to act out. It first attacks Team Rocket and sends them blasting off with a Zap Cannon, then turns to Harmony and Ash.
Thinking Quickly Ash and Harmony have Chu and Pikachu to use Thunderbolt, but this fails to destroy the helmet, instead, it makes Probopass flee.
Alan soon catches up and hops on Probopass to get rid of its helmet. Knowing he will also be attacked, Alan asks Chu and Pikachu to use Thunderbolt. This causes Alan and Probopass to be shocked, but the Compass Pokémon remains under the helmet's control.
Alan suddenly spots a river up ahead and orders Ash and Harmony use a Thunderbolt and Water move combo when he gives a signal.
Soon, Probopass comes to a stop at a steep cliff overlooking the river, so Alan gives the signal. Chu and Pikachu's Thunderbolt, Buizel's Water Gun, and Pip's added Bubble Beam knocks Probopass and Alan into the river below. Probopass quickly sinks to the bottom, where Alan manages to pull the helmet off. With Alan still not ashore, Ash looks at Harmony who huffs but slips her bag off her shoulders and swiftly dives in, Pip at her side for assistance.
Unfortunately, Team Rocket makes another unwanted appearance. Chu and Pikachu unleash a Thunderbolt, but the entire group, minus Harmony as she was still helping Alan get out of the water, gets caught up in a rocket-fired net.
Alan finally manages to awaken his Probopass, and they swim back to the surface along with Harmony and Pip's help. Alan declares that he has his burning spirit back, though Jessie and James call on Seviper and Carnivine to teach him otherwise. Ash and his captive friends have Pip use Steel Wing to free themselves from the net.
Team Rocket orders their Pokémon to attack, but Probopass knocks them down with Magnet Bomb. Pikachu follows up with Volt Tackle to defeat Seviper and Carnivine. Pip and Alan's Probopass then deal the finishing blow, a Hydro Pump, and Zap Cannon combination to send Team Rocket blasting off. With Team Rocket behind them, Harmony calls out to Alan wanting to finish their battle Pip flexing his wing and narrowing his eyes playfully wanting to finish what was started.
Of course, though, Harmony won the battle, only barely with Pip evading a final Zap Cannon and retaliating with a Hydro Pump to the face knocking Probopass out.
A few nights after the teens' run-in with Alan they walk into the courtyard of a large manor where they were hoping to spend the night, spotlights suddenly blind them.
Once they could see after squinting a blue-haired girl and her Luxray were the ones standing atop a rooftop, and Luxray jumped down towards the group of teens and attacked Chu and Pikachu, something its Trainer clearly did not want yet.
Pikachu and Chu swiftly dodge Luxray's strikes. Pikachu ushering Chu to hide in the bushes with him, but Luxray's x-ray vision spots Pikachu before using Iron Tail at the pair.
Luxray's Trainer tries to stop her Pokémon, but it proceeds to use another Iron Tail, which Pikachu moves to protect Chu with its own Iron Tail.
Luxray's Trainer then calls for backup, with six bodyguards quickly surrounding the group of teens. They try to seize them, but Pikachu and Chu's Thunderbolt stops them cold.
Harmony glares at the girl and goes to open her mouth with a sassy remark when Brock stops her and starts to try and convince her that they are not criminals, and the manor's owner, Matthew, steps out and supports them, recognizing them from the Hearthome City Tag Battle Competition.
Matthew points out that the increased security is because that crook, named the Bandit Beauties Three, threatened to steal his Old Charm. When he asked Officer Jenny from Mahogany Town for assistance, Luxray's Trainer, named Marble, was sent instead.
The group of teens quickly decide to help Marble, but Luxray is still demonstrating hostility towards Chu and Pikachu, clearly not trusting them one bit.
Inside the manor, they set up in front of the vault where the Old Charm is kept. Marble informs them that the bandits will try to steal it at eight o'clock.
While they wait, Marble reveals her concern for her Luxray, because it has been unable to use Electric moves since evolving, causing it to disobey her. THis makes Harmony wonder if it was something else that was making Luxray not be able to use electric type moves, it usually was something that the trainer and pokemon had to figure out together.
When they tried to help Officer Jenny capture a crook, Luxray wasn't able to use Charge Beam, forcing Jenny's Arcanine to stop him, upsetting Luxray.
Marble was excited to see Chu and Pikachu, hoping to inspire Luxray to regain its ability to use Electric moves.
Ash and Harmony both offer to help with some special training, but Marble wants to start with calming Luxray's anger.
The clock read ten minutes to eight, just as a group of poorly dressed guards makes Harmony narrow her eyes in suspicion, steps in, saying that they have ordered from Matthew to move the Old Charm.
Marble is hesitant at first and Harmony was about to speak up to agree with the girl, but Brock sees it as good since they could fool the thieves.
They open the vault, but Dawn almost unmasks them as the disguised bandits. They try to ward it off, mentioning that the bandits are professionals and would be on time, but Brock points out that they could have set the clock back five minutes.
Matthew shows up and reveals that he never gave an order to move the Old Charm, unmasking the bandits.
Team Rocket activates a bomb and tries to escape in their balloon, reciting their motto much to Harmony's annoyance as it was overdone.
Ash and Harmony have Chu and Pikachu use Thunderbolt, but Luxray knocks them aside and tries to land Iron Tail. A mecha arm knocks it back. The balloon proceeds to get away, but when Ash's Staravia uses Quick Attack, Team Rocket fires thrusters to escape. Unfortunately, they puncture the balloon on the castle, sending them crashing down.
Finally being able to find the spot where Team Rocket crashed they moved closer only to find them gone, but Matthew mentions that they must still be in the area since the exterior is still being watched.
Matthew mentions that there are plenty of traps in the area too since they would try to hide treasures.
Luxray spots the pit trap near Chu and tries to warn it, but Pikachu takes it as hostility towards his mate and accidentally triggers it.
Luxray tries to save Chu and Pikachu from falling in, but it falls in too.
Harmony soon panics and moves to try and go down but Matthew and Ash stop her by warning and grabbing hold of her arms in Ash's case, from going down. Matthew offers to lead them to a safer entrance.
While Chu, Pikachu, and Luxray end up underground, Matthew shows them a staircase behind a fireplace that leads them to the underground complex.
Marble compliments Harmony and Ash on how well they and their respected Pikachu's work together. Ash mentions that when he first started, Pikachu would not listen to him until he protected Pikachu from Spearow.
Ash suggests that Marble should try to maintain a friendship with Luxray outside of her job.
Ash and Harmony along with their friends suddenly appear from behind a concealed door, meeting up with the Pokémon.
Harmony cries out happily opening her arms for her partner to race and hug, nuzzling their cheeks together with a sense of relief washing through them. While Ash hugs Pikachu as well as Marble hugs Luxray, with the two becoming friends again.
Marble accidentally triggers another trap, causing the door to close and two opposite walls to close in. They try to open the passage as Luxray quickly finds the switch to stop the trap, using Iron Tail to hit the switch and save them.
Team Rocket then tunnels into the chamber with the teens. Meowth opens the chest and finds the Charm, and though dismayed at the contents, puts it into a safe.
Jessie and James send out Seviper and Carnivine to battle, and Seviper uses Poison Tail while Carnivine uses Bite, but Luxray uses Iron Tail to stop both.
Chu and Pikachu use Thunderbolt to shock them, while Luxray jumps into them and takes the electricity from the attack, charging up its body.
Marble decides to have Luxray try Charge Beam. Seviper and Carnivine try a double Bite attack, but Charge Beam works, stopping them cold.
Dawn thankfully catches the box with the Charm as Pikachu, Chu, and Luxray execute a triple attack to send Team Rocket blasting out of the underground.
Once outside again, Luxray uses Thunder Fang to electrify the box and cause it to open, getting the Old Charm back.
Matthew thanks them all as Officer Jenny suddenly shows up and confronts Marble about taking the case without authorization.
Brock makes his usual moves, but Croagunk shuts him down quickly. Marble apologizes as Jenny compliments her about developing a bond with Luxray.
Matthew offers the group a meal to end the day, and Ash readily accepts it without hesitation earning a laugh from his friends.
Finally moving forward and stopping on a break Dawn and Aipom along with Harmony and Lyn the Luxio are training for the Solaceon Contest.
Dawn was having Aipom use Focus Punch in fast succession to make it look like Aipom has two tails.
Finally noticing what Dawn was having Aipom do made Harmony grin and point out that move was actually Double Hit and with learning that it might mean that Aipom is more than likely close to evolving.
Kenny arrives and mocks Dawn for not knowing that Aipom evolves into Ambipom. To which Harmony glares at him pointing out that not everyone knows about every single evolution chain. He refers to Dawn as Dee Dee, with the mysterious nickname puzzling Ash yet again, and Harmony telling him to just let it be and pointing out if Dawn wants to tell them she will. Dawn, clearly upset by the nickname, insists on Kenny not to go there.
Kenny reveals that he is looking forward to the Solaceon Contest, and Dawn replies that she and Aipom will be hard to beat. Harmony piping up that she and Lynn, her Luxio won't go down as easily either.
Ash, however, is keen to finish his match against Kenny, but Kenny declines and says he was going to see Dialga and Palkia, which piked Harmony's interest fully, a dozen unanswered questions popping up from their time in Alamos Town. Harmony was quick to offer to accompany Kenny, correcting herself to point out that the group would accompany him to the ruins, and they soon start heading that way.
When they get there they marvel at the entrance featuring a Dialga and Palkia statue. Harmony tilting her head as she just observes the statues a bit moving to try and brush her hand against it but it was just stone.
Kenny offers to battle right now, right in front of the Dialga and Palkia statues, and Ash agrees to it.
Ash and Kenny don't know who should go first, which causes Dawn to bring out her Pokétch App, the Coin Toss. Once the Coin Toss is done, it is decided that Ash goes first. Since Ash thinks Kenny is going to use Prinplup again, he sends out Turtwig, insisting that Pikachu should relax. Kenny, hearing this prediction, instead sends out Breloom, which surprises everyone, especially Ash.
Ash starts the battle with a Tackle, which Breloom tries to dodge, but isn't fast enough. Kenny is surprised at Turtwig's speed. Ash orders Turtwig use a Razor Leaf attack, though Breloom's Mach Punch hits first.
Turtwig rushes forward with Bite, but Breloom counters with an Energy Ball. Ash is impressed by this move and asks Kenny to teach it to Turtwig.
Kenny thinks about it for a moment and says that knowing the move Bullet Seed makes teaching Energy Ball easier. After Ash admits that Turtwig doesn't know Bullet Seed, Kenny says it will be difficult, but says he'll teach it to Turtwig if they defeat him in a battle.
As Dawn and Harmony watched from the entry stairs of the ruins as Ash and Kenny train, the entry stairs begin to lift up, carrying Harmony, Dawn, Chu, Lynn, Piplup, and Aipom with it. The boys leap inside to rescue the girls just as the Solaceon Ruins shut behind them.
Dawn and Harmony panic a bit when they couldn't find their Pokemon but eventually the duo manages to find Piplup and Aipom, Chu, and Lynn though they are disorientated by their odd surroundings.
The Unown appears and fires a combined attack, leaving Dawn and Harmony clueless, however, her Pokémon helps her with Swift, Bubble Beam, Thundershock, and Charge respectively.
Because their Pokemon attacked the Unown, the Unown suddenly snapped out of their confusion and turned the place back to normal.
However, even with things seemingly back to normal, Harmony and Dawn still didn't know how to get out, and it still looked really weird up ahead.
Dawn and Harmony continue running and encounter more Unown. Piplup uses Whirlpool to snap the Unown out of their confusion while Chu and Lynn team up for a stronger Thunderbolt-Charge combo.
Then, surprising the two teens was Team Rocket, who showed up falling down from the nearby stairs.
Another group of Unown appear but they are stopped by Aipom's Double Hit, who then evolves into Ambipom making Dawn and Harmony gasp in shock and excitement.
Then, she hits the Unown with Swift snapping them out of confusion.
Finally seeing that Brock and the others showed up, and due to Unown's illusions each side sees each other as if they are walking on the ceiling making Harmony let out a small laugh.
Another group of Unown appear but they are snapped out of confusion by Piplup's Bubble Beam, breaking the illusion.
As the illusion lifts off, it is revealed that Harmony, Dawn and Team Rocket are actually on the ceiling and subsequently they fall down on the floor. This made Ash's eyes widen as he rushed to try and help Harmony, though he wasn't quick enough as she fell on top of him letting out a groan of pain. Pikachu doing the same thing with Chu nuzzling her cheek as the two spark happily to one another clearly slightly distraught at being separated in such away.
Brock used Happiny to help with her massive strength catching the other just fine.
Suddenly the door to the outside opens and the group gets out and it looks as though nothing was wrong, to begin with.
Harmony turns to finally glare at Team Rocket calling them out as to why they were in there and for what purpose. However, the Team Rocket Trio decides to make a run for it before they can get into any more trouble while promising revenge against Team Galactic.
At the name Team Galactic Harmony frowns, narrowing her eyes trying to think about what it all meant, and what it was they were planning.
Ash looks up Ambipom on his Pokédex as the Long Tail Pokémon practices her moves. 'Ambipom, the Long Tail Pokémon. It uses its two tails to shell nuts, and then it links them together in a ring as a sign of friendship.'
Dawn is now even more confident that Ambipom can win her the Solaceon Contest Ribbon, though Harmony is still hesitant about it, but seeing Dawn so determined made her happy, she was hopefully out of her rut.
Ash again asks Kenny about their call-off battle. Kenny agrees to teach Turtwig Energy Ball, on the condition that Ash doesn't tell Dawn how scared he was, Ash agrees with the same terms about not mentioning it to Harmony either, after all, he didn't want her to think he was a wimp even after saving her from falling, did he?
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A/N: Sorry this took so long, had to work around school work and never got to publish it. Hope you enjoyed it!