"Bye mother! I'm off to really join the war." Lucian said.

Patricia hugged her son. "Be careful. And please come home alive."

"I will mother. I promise." Lucian left. He knew he was supposed to wait for Galen, but didn't feel like it. So he left without him. He got to Route Twenty when Galen finally caught up.

"You were supposed to wait for me!" Galen said.

"I don't need a babysitter." Lucian rolled his eyes.

"You father is the mayor of Aspertia and a Reshkari Master. I promised him I'd keep an eye on you." Galen said.

Lucian rolled his eyes again. They walked to Virbank. They soon came upon a scene.

"Roxie, don't try and stop me! I'm off to Pokéstar Studios to become an actor!" A ship captain said

"Get rea! We are in the middle of a war! You can live out your dream after the war is over!" Roxie said.

"Oh, dear daughter. You are in a band are you not?" Roxie's father said

"I was in that band BEFORE the war! If you had wanted to become an actor before the war then that would be different." Roxie said.

"Hmp! I'm off. Good bye." Her father left. Roxie started swearing as she left for her gym. Galen and Lucian looked at each other and shrugged. They went to catch Pokémon and train. Lucian caught a Magnemite in the Virbank Complex and named it Magnet.

Lucian started training. A Growlithe leaped out of the grass and attacked. Ordinary jumped in the way. Lucian tried to get away, but the Growlithe kept blocking his path. It fired an Ember. Ordinary blocked the attack. He was set on fire.

"NO! Ordinary!" Lucian cried. When the fire finally went out there was nothing but ash.

"Ordinary…"

"Tepig Tackle!"

Lucian looked and saw Galen and his Tepig kill the Growlithe.

"Thank you…"

Galen looked at his friend. "This is why I have to look after you. You are only a Padawan. You still have much to learn. Now come on. You need to get back up and get back to training."

Lucian did as Galen said. By doing so Leaf evolved into Servine. Then he was ready for the gym.

"Galen I'm going to the gym." Lucian said.

"Fine, but be careful." Galen said.

"I have a Magnemite. There's nothing Roxie can do to me, but I'll still be careful." Lucian said. He really liked Galen, but he could be as bad as his father sometimes.

"Well if it isn't daddy's little baby." Roxie sneered. "Daddy finally let you out to play?"

"Knock it off. I'm here to battle you." Lucian said.

"I'll knock it off if you can beat me. But you won't. You'll just be sent home crying for daddy!" Roxie laughed.

Roxie sent out her Koffing. Lucian sent out Magnet. Koffing broke Magnet's Sturdy with Tackle. Magnet used SonicBoom to pop Koffing. It fell to the ground deflated. Whirlipede came out. Whirlipede tried Pursuit, but Magnet's defenses held strong. It used SonicBoom to weaken Whirlipede, then Thundershock to finish it.

"I lost to some brat?!" Roxie yelled. "Fine! Here's you badge. I have to go find my pops and smack some sense into him." Roxie gave Lucian the Toxic Badge and left to find her father.

As Lucian was leaving the gym a talent scout from PokéStar Studio approached him.

"That battle was incredible! I wish to invite you to the premier of Brycen Man!" The scout said.

"Thank you. I accept your invitation." Lucian said.

"Great! Follow me!" The scout led him to PokéStar Studio. He took Lucian to the theater.

"This is our theater." The scout said. "And this here is our latest actor." He pointed to Roxie's father.

"Hello. I have just made my movie debut." Roxie's father said.

"Come! Let us watch the movie."

Lucian watched to movie, but for an action movie he was bored. The only good part of it was Brycen. He tried to stay wake but couldn't and fell asleep.

"Umm. Please wake up."

"Uh? Oh. Sorry." Lucian eyes slowly opened and saw the scout.

"It's not your fault. Half the audience fell asleep." The scout sighed. "I should have known this movie would put you to sleep. I should have taken you to an older film."

"I'd better go find my friend." Lucian said. When he left the theater he saw Roxie and her father talking.

"It wasn't that bad. Brycen was good." Roxie said.

"Yes. HE was good. I was terrible. I wasn't even the entertaining kind of terrible." Roxie's father said. He sighed. "I'll go back to helping with the war." He went back to his ship yard.

"You can still be an actor. Just wait until the war is over." Roxie called. She ran after her father.

Lucian followed them. When he got there Galen was there as well as some Team Plasma grunt.

"So you're Team Plasma." Roxie said.

"We are." The grunt proudly said. "We may have been betrayed by our king, but we refuse to give up! People and Pokémon will be separated, and order will finally come to this world!"

"Shut up! I won't allow it!" Galen shouted. "Lucian! Get over here and help!"

Lucian joined the fight. Boring took out a Patrat. Having lost the battle the grunts pushed Lucian to the ground and ran off. Galen ran to Lucian's side.

"Are you alright?!"

"I'm fine. We need to find Team Plasma." Lucian said.

"I shouldn't have asked you to help." Galen said.

"I said I'm fine. Now let's go and find Team Plasma."

Lucian went to Route Twenty where he found a grunt.

"Arg! Go Purrlion!" The grunt yelled.

Lucian used Boring to kill the Purrlion. The grunt used this opportunity to flee.

"Patrat!" Lucian said.

"They sure know how to run." Galen said. "We should head to the Pokémon Center for the night."

Lucian nodded. Tonight he would rest. Tomorrow he would take the chase back up.