Buneary just stood where she stand watching out the window where Ash and Pikachu left.
Dawn walked over to Buneary, knelt down and put a hand on her head. "You're worried too, huh?"
Buneary looked to the ground without saying a word.
"But… there's no need to worry. Ash and Pikachu, they're strong and have dealt with a lot of crazy situations before. They can easily handle a bunch of stupid thugs."
Buneary continued to stare at the sea with a frown.
Dawn pulled her hand back and placed it against her heart. She really wanted to believe that Ash would be just fine, and would return back with the stolen pokemon. But she had a bad feeling and bet Buneary feels it too.

Dawn took a walk to take her mind off things. She just wanted to see Ash's beaming face, to throw her fears behind her and run up into Ash's arms in a deep embrace, and never have to let him go again. The sun was now setting, and there still was no word from him.
Piplup ran up to Dawn and started shouting at her.
"What is it Piplup?" Dawn asked.
Piplup told her what he just saw Buneary do.
"What? Buneary left?" Dawn started panicking, but suddenly some team skull grunts with the girl with the crazy multi-colored hair ran towards the Aether House and recognizing their uniforms both ran towards them.

Dawn ran in with the door left open and shouted, "what do you want now!"
"None of your business!" Plumeria shouted.
Lillie was in the corner, looking nervous.
Suddenly, Nebby started making noises and moving the bag.
Plumeria smirked at her and started walking towards her. "What's in the bag? Better cough it up, or something bad will happen."
The grunts had their pokemon by the kids, and they were readying an attack on the kids once commanded.
"You cowards!" Dawn shouted as she held up some of her pokeballs.
Plumeria glared at Dawn with an unamused look. "Do you not care about these kids?"
A pokemon pinned the girl down, and she screamed.
"Stop!" Lillie suddenly shouted. "I… I'll cooperate."
Dawn put down her hands with her pokemon inside them and looked at Lillie with a surprised look. "Lillie…"
Lillie shook her head, as she handed Plumeria the bag.
She snatched up the bag and peeked inside of it. "Yes, so you are the Lillie we are looking for. It's time to have a chat with your mother now!"
Lillie looked at her with a frown. "Fine."
"What are you doing, Lillie?" Dawn asked.
Lillie smiled at Dawn. "Thank you so much Dawn. You've helped me and Nebby out so much. Now… I'm not going to be a burden to anyone anymore. I'm going stop running away. I need to confront her and will try to convince her to stop what she's doing."
"Lillie, what are you talking about?"
"Let's go. Now!" Plumeria shouted.
A grunt grabbed her and started yanking her away.
"T-thank you Dawn! Thanks to you and Ash, I now see that this is what I need to do!" Lillie said.

As the skull members left the building, Hau stood in the way.
"What do you think you're doing with Lillie?" Hau asked.
"Get out of my way, brat!" Plumeria shouted.
"There's no way I'll let you take her, you thugs!" Hau sent out his Decidueye.
Plumeria smirked.
"No! Hau! Please, just leave!" Lillie pleaded.
"Let's give your wannabe hero a chance. If he can somehow win, I might let you and Nebby get away for now," Plumeria said.
They both went all out, but in the end, Hau lost.
Hau went on his knees.
"That'll teach you. Next time, stay away from team skull." Plumeria pulled out a phone, told them they got Cosmos and their location, and hanged up.
Dawn watched as a Aether ship came down with a surprised look. "Team Skull and the Aether Foundation are working together?" she wondered. She couldn't just let Lillie go on alone with team Skull. She whispered to Piplup.
Piplup jumped into the grant holding the bag, which made him stumble a bit.
"W-what the…?" the grant started.
"…Pew?" Nebby let out as Piplup came in.
"It's okay, Nebby. Just stay in the bag," Lillie said.
"Yeah, sit still!" the grunt shouted.
Dawn sighed in relief.
Piplup put his wing to his beak, telling Nebby to keep quiet.

Before Lillie left, she turned to Hau with a small smile. "Thank you Hau… But there's no need to worry!"
Dawn starred at her with a shocked expression.
Hau looked away with a sad look, unable to speak to her when he failed her.
Lillie got on the airship with the team skull members. A couple beams came from the ship to return their pokemon that took the kids as hostages and the ship quickly left. It was now dark out and the rain poured. Tears fell down Dawn's face as she placed a hand on her heart. "What… What now?"
Hau just sat in the mud, starring at the rain. "… Sorry Lillie. Sorry I'm so weak."
"Ash, Buneary, Lillie, Piplup…" Dawn looked at the sea with tears down her face. "Please, be okay."

Earlier, Buneary caught a ride on a magikarp. Buneary told the magikarp about how she's worried about someone she deeply cares about and needs to make sure that he gets back safely. The magikarp sympathized with her, as he still thinks about his friend that got captured by a trainer and wants a chance to see if he's okay. So the magikarp let Buneary hop on and swam as fast as he could to team skull's town. Once they got to the land that leads up to team skull, Buneary and Magikarp said their goodbyes and went their separate ways.

Buneary found the place and snuck through the bushes and climbed up a tree to search for Ash and Pikachu. When she did find them however, Ash was being dragged by a team skull grunt and another grunt was holding Pikachu with rubber gloves. Both looked pretty beaten up, and some creepy looking guy with spikey white hair, along with the stolen yungoos that were held by some grunts. Buneary used Ice Beam in front of the grunt's feet holding on to the yungoos and the grunts slipped and dropped the pokemon. Buneary told the freed yungoos to flee. It looked back, thanked her, and left.
"B-Buneary?" Ash questioned.
Pikachu shouted to Buneary to run away.
Buneary shook her head as she attempted to use Ice Beam towards the guy holding Pikachu, but the white-haired man threw Ash in front of the attack and it froze Ash. Buneary frowned and put her hands in front of her mouth.
"So you're as stupid as this kid, eh?" the white haired man said as he sent out his Golisopod.
Pikachu continued to try to persuade Buneary to leave, telling her there are tons of team skull members here, and that she'll be overwhelmed like they were.
Buneary shook her head.
"I'm going to enjoy beating you and beating you some more."
Buneary smiled at Pikachu, telling him she could never leave him in this situation no matter the odds, because she loves him too much.
Pikachu looked at her with a surprised look.
Buneary was putting up a good fight. But in the end, Golisopod knocked her down. She continually tried to get up to save Pikachu, but easily was knocked down again and again.
Pikachu watched with a saddened look, seeing Buneary continuously get tormented. Feeling each blow hit his heart.
The white haired guy laughed as he saw Buneary get up again, barley able to stand on its feet.
Buneary tried to use Dizzy Punch, but fell once she took one step.
The guy laughed louder.
Pikachu was feeling rage building up inside him.
The guy walked over to him and gave Buneary a solid kick in the face against a brick building. "Come on. That all you got?"
Buneary tried to get up but wasn't able to even get on her feet anymore.
The white-haired man walked over to her and stopped on her.
Buneary cried out in pain.
"Yeah, you should have never messed with me!" He laughed as he stomped on her some more.
Pikachu lost his mind. In rage he blasted a powerful Thunderbolt that was amplified by the rain and shocked the whole group, even Buneary. After that, both were knocked out, and had woken up locked in cages at the Aether hideout.

The next day, Yungoos returned to the house.
Gladion walked to the place where Dawn and Hau where at and shouted, "Lillie was captured, wasn't she?"
Hau stayed silent.
"Y-you know her?" Dawn asked.
"I warned that guy…" he mumbled.
"Who?"
"But that idiot had to go up in Po town and get himself captured."
Dawn's eyes got wide and her face dropped. "Y-you don't… you don't mean Ash?"
He glared at her. "That's the idiot."
Her head dropped down with a frown. But then she looked at him with a serious look. "I have to save him! Please, if you know anything, anything at all to where Ash might be…"
He sighed. "We need to head to the same location. I'll help you get there, but you also need to help Lillie if I do!"
"Of course! I want to save her too!"
He then starred at Hau. "And we'll defiantly need your help, too."
Hau laughed dryly. "I won't be of any help. I'm too weak."
"Hau…" Dawn said.
"When you're ready, meet me by the docs. Make it quick. We don't have much time," Gladion said.
Dawn tuned to Hau. "Please… Ash and Lillie need you." She then slowly left to grab her things and went to the docs to meet up with Gladion.