The next morning, Ash and Dawn ran into the observatory and looked around for Sophocles. They trained real hard yesterday, so Ash feels ready for his challenge. They listened to the directions of people working there, and eventually found him.
"…You're here for your trail I'm guessing?" Sophocles asked.
"Yeah!" Ash shouted.
"So… you must be getting close to your goal."
Ash nodded.
"Okay then. Let's get started."
Ash pumped his fist. "Yeah! I'm ready."
"Alright. So, it's your job to call the totom pokemon here and prove your strength to it."
"Sounds simple!"
"Alright. So I think I made a device to do call the totom pokemon." He directed them to the device. "I built this machine because some pokemon hear sounds that we people can't pick up."
"Wow! Cool!" Ash commented.
"We also developed a security system here… but that was Big Mo's idea."
"Wow. You two are quite the team!" Dawn commented.
Sophocles smiled as he put a hand behind his head. "Yeah… I guess we are." He looked back at the machine with a serious look. "Anyways, this will be my first time trying this out, so it's good you came. I needed a test subject."
"Wait… why didn't the others around here test it beforehand?" Dawn asked.
Sophocles frowned. "Everyone around here is always so busy. But come on, what's the worst that can happen?"
Ash smiled at him. "Yeah, Dawn! There's no need to worry! Besides, this still counts as the real trail, right Sophocles?"
Sophocles nodded.
"And as long as I'm able to complete this trail, I'm fine with it!"
Dawn smiled. "Alright. Good luck, hon."
"Thanks babe!"

"Well let's get started. Ping totem pokemon 2.0, engage!" Sophocles shouted. A quick noise from the machine started. "The totem pokemon sho…" The lights in the room suddenly went off.
Ash jumped, Dawn gasped, and they held onto each other.
"No! Did I just blow a fuse?" Sophocles shouted. He shuffled to the door. "Egh, it's closed!"
"Oh no! What are we going to do now?" Dawn Asked.
"We need to shut off the security system to open it by passing an audio quiz."
Dawn clenched her fist. "Really? Who makes a quiz to operate their own systems?"
Ash frowned. "Yeah really…"
"I-it's fine! I feel a powerful presence here! It's coming, the totem pokemon!" Sophocles said.
"Alright! I'm ready totem pokemon!" Ash shouted.
"Alright, so here's my trail!" Sophocles said.
A loud robotic voice then filled the room. "If you want to open the door, correctly respond to the audio quiz! What pokemon does this sound come from?" A pokemon cry was made.
"Man, I defiantly heard of it before…" Ash thought about it for a bit. "I know! That's a crabrawler!"
"Correct! Opening door!" the robotic voice said.
Something rushed in the room.
"There's a pokemon in here! Ash…"
"I'm on it! I got you totem pokemon!"
The grubbin stared at Ash with a confused look.
Ash sent out Salazzle and it used and knocked out the grubbin. "Nice work, Salazzle!"
Salazzle happily smiled at Ash before it was returned.

"Well I got some bad news… the door closed again," Sophocles said.
Dawn sighed. "Of course. Isn't there anything you can do?"
"I-it's gonna be okay… The totem pokemon will be here soon!"
Ash groaned. "Of course, that pokemon wasn't it…"
"Totem pokemon presence detected! To open door respond to this quiz. What pokemon makes this sound?" the robotic voice shouted. Another pokemon sound was made.
Ash thought about it. "I haven't heard of that sound in a while…"
Raichu started shouting, as he knows the answer.
"Wrong! Not a raichu! Guess again!" the robotic voice shouted.
"Please be quiet, Raichu!" Dawn scolded.
"It is not a Raichu! One more guess until we shut off soundwaves, thus the totem pokemon will leave!"
Dawn put her hands over her mouth.
Ash thought back to all the pokemon he's seen here so far. "It isn't a yungoos, rowlet, litten, dewpider…" he kept thinking. After a while, he remembered. "It's Wishiwashi!" He shouted.
"Correct! Door opening!"
Charjabug scurried through.
Ash defeated the charjabug with Lycanroc. "Man, that didn't seem like the totem pokemon ether…"

Dawn crossed her arms. "Are you sure about this?"
"Y-yes! The totom pokemon is gonna be here soon!" Sophocles shouted.
The door closed again.
"How can you be so sure? Didn't you say that this is your first time doing this?"
"Uhh…"
The sound of the robotic voice came again. "Totem pokemon presence detected! To open door respond to this quiz. Whose voice does this belong to?" Another female voice said "hello," out of it.
Ash crossed his arms as he thought. "That voice does sound familiar… But who is it?"
Dawn thought about it. She believed that the voice had to belong to someone from the trail, and they had to have battled them at this point. It wasn't Lana's voice, nor did it sound like Oliva. "There was another one, wasn't there?" she wondered. It then came to her. "Mallow!" she shouted.
"Correct!"
The door then opened and out came a vikavolt that had a glowing aura.
His rotomdex popped out. "This pokemon is a vikavolt, a bug and electric pokemon. It flies around to look for an opening. With its large jaws, it concentrates electrical energy and zaps its enemies with it!"
"Now that's a totom pokemon!" Ash shouted.
He sent out Lycanroc, which put up a good and used Continental Crush before getting knocked out by getting doubled up on by the ally charjabug. Next He sent out Dartrix, which tried its best, but quickly got knocked out. For Ash's next pokemon, he sent out his Salazzle.
"It's all up to you now! I'm counting on you!" Ash shouted.
Salazzle nodded and focused upon totom vikavolt.
Vikavolt used charged, and Salazzle used Toxic. Vikavolt used Spark and Salazzle quickly dodged the attack and used Flame Burst. Vikavolt grabbed onto it with Vice Grip and Salazzle was struggling to get free with the charjabug attacking it. Salazzle used Flame Burst again, but Vikavolt held strong and still had its grip on her. It then used Spark. The poison it had was really starting to effect it now, and Salazzle finally was able to wiggle out of Vikavolt's grip. Salazzle then tried to use Dragon Rage, but did not have enough stamina to preform it. Vikavolt was coming in for another Vice Grip but went down to the poison hurting it and feel on the Charjabug and made it faint.
"Alright! Great job, Salazzle!" Ash shouted.
Salazzle crossed its arms with a smirk, saying it was no problem as it fell to its knees.
The lights came back on.
"Finally!" Dawn shouted.
"That was great work, Ash! I guess you deserve this now!" Sophocles gave Ash the Electrium Z.
"Thanks!" Ash proudly starred at it, then back at Sophocles. "You know, that was a really cool and unique challenge!"
"You know, he's right! It was real fun Sophocles! Sorry for giving you such a hard time…" Dawn said.
Sophocles shook his head. "No. It's okay! I know there's work that needs to be done, but… I'm really glad that you enjoyed it!"
"If you're gonna perfect it, then it's going to be a lot more entertaining than when I went through it…" Ash sighed.
"Well if you like, you can come back to test out my improved challenge!"
"That'd be awesome!"
"Alright! I'll see you when I'm done with it then!"
"Sounds great! See you then!"
"Oh and one more thing, here's how to perform the Z-move that I gave you." Sophocles did the dance for the Z move.
They then said their goodbyes and Ash and Dawn headed out of the building.

Ash and Dawn headed to the pokecenter for the night and where eating dinner.
"You know what? I think you should have the Electrium Z!" Ash shouted.
"But why? You earned it…"
"Yeah, well I don't see a good use for it for me. I mean, the only one who could use it is Pikachu, and I already got a good z move for him. However, it'd defiantly be good for Raichu!"
Raichu turned to him and shouted excitingly.
"See, even Raichu likes that idea!"
Dawn smiled. "Alright. Thanks Ash!" Dawn took the Electrium Z and put the z move on Raichu.
Raichu hovered around Pikachu with its paws up.
They both smiled.
"It looks like you want to test out your new move, right Raichu?" Ash asked.
Raichu hovered over to Ash and nodded.
Ash turned to Dawn. "What do you say?"
"Ready when you are!" Dawn replied.
They both ran outside to have Raichu try out the z move. Dawn did the pose and Raichu used it, but Pikachu quickly dodged it. Raichu shouted at Dawn, wanting to try again.
"Sorry Raichu. Only one usage per battle, remember?" Dawn said.
Raichu pouted.
Ash and Pikachu knelt down to him.
"Don't worry! You just need to keep practicing with it, and you'll be great with it in no time!" Ash said.
Pikachu told him that it was a very powerful attack that he felt, which made Raichu happy.
After that, they all headed to bed.