They all took the elevator up and ran into a woman.
"You! You took care of my Raichu!" Dawn shouted.
"What are you doing here?" she asked.
"We are here to see Lillie!"
"You barged in here without permission and demand to see someone?"
Riachu popped out of its pokeball.
"You… you understand that we have the best intentions, don't you?" Dawn asked the worker.
"Rai…" it responded with a confused look.
"Your rude trainer and her friends have barged in here and are attacking us. Please help us, Raichu."
"Raichu! Don't you want to help Piplup, Pikachu, Lillie, and Nebby?" Dawn asked.
"They are fine. None of that concerns you. We only want to help, Raichu."
"They are working with Team Skull, and they stole Nebby…"
"Lillie stole Cosmog while we are doing research."
"She was trying to protect it! And now Pikachu is missing too!"
Raichu held its head, confused on what to do. It doesn't want to go against the person who helped it, but it doesn't want to go against Dawn ether. Raichu ran off as memories of traveling with Ash and Dawn, and how the Aether Foundation lady helped her flooded through his brain.
"Raichu!" Dawn shouted. She ran off after him.
"Dawn, wait!" Hau shouted.
"…Leave her," Gladeon said.
"No way!" Ash ran with after her.
Gladion crossed his arms with an annoyed look and sighed as he watched Dawn and Ash run out of sight.
"Security, we have intruders on the ground floor by the elevator," the woman calmly talked into the walkie-talkie.
Suddenly they were surrounded by Aether Foundation workers, and they all sent out pokemon.
"Oh no!" Hau shouted.
"…Great," Gladion thought.

Dawn continued to run after Raichu, but it was too fast, and Dawn lost him. "Raichu, where did you go?" she yelled. Then she sighed when she knew it was no use. "First Buneary… now Raichu."
Ash put a hand on her shoulder. "Don't stress, babe! We'll find them! I know it!"
Dawn smiled and held onto Ash, as she appreciated him comforting her. Though, she was still really worried about them.
He gave a confused look. "So… why did you just sent Buneary to help us in Po Town?"
Dawn gave him a puzzled look. "What? I never sent Buneary to Po Town!"
"Dawn? And Ash?" A familiar voice questioned.
Dawn and Ash turned around and smiled when they saw her.
"Wicke! Please! We need to find Buneary, Piplup, Lillie, and Raichu!" Dawn pleaded.
"Well, I only know where Lillie is. She went to speak to Lusamine. They're this way." Wicke led them toward the doors that led them to Lusamine. But before she was able to swipe the card to open the door, she was flung backwards by a Psychic attack and slammed into a wall by the side.
"Wicke!" Ash and Dawn shouted. Then they ran towards her.
"I'm disappointed in you, Wicke. Betraying the Aether foundation like this," Faba said.
Wicke groaned in pain as she stood up with Ash's and Dawn's help.
"What are you doing?" Dawn shouted.
"I won't let you pass." He stepped in front of the door with his Hypo. "People not a part of the Aether Foundation and with no permission are not allowed in."
Another employee came to his aid.
"We need to help Lillie and Nebby, and I won't let you get in my way!" Ash shouted. He went to grab one of his pokeballs, but then remembered he's missing all his stuff including his pokemon.

Lycanroc was sniffing the ground and finally found who was looking for. He ran up to him and started licking him.
"Lyronroc! Where did you come from, buddy?" Ash asked.
Loconroc barked, telling him he came looking for him from the nature preserve.
"Alright buddy, let's get Faba out of our way!"
Lycanroc barked with agreement and barred his fangs at Faba.
Faba laughed. "You think you defeat me, Branch Chief Faba with help with a singular pokemon?"
"Except Ash isn't battling alone!" Dawn sent out her Ninetales.
Ninetales and Lycanroc both happily barked at each other than glared at Faba.
Faba shrugged. "It won't make any difference."

Raichu hid in a corner. He could not betray Dawn, but he didn't want to turn on the woman that helped her. Raichu wasn't sure what to do. Then he heard a familiar voice and looked up and saw Pikachu and Buneary. They ran to each other and Raichu asked them how they got here, and the other two asked him the same thing and where Dawn is. Raichu started sweating.
Decidueye and Crabrawler than ran towards them.
Pikachu gave them a confused look and asked if he knew the Decidueye.
Decidueye crooked its head, saying they knew each other quite well as they have the same trainer.
Pikachu frowned, not remembering it. He knows Salazzle, Araquanid, Crabrawler, Lycanroc, Dartrix, and himself are part of Ash's team.
Decidueye wondered how Pikachu forgot that he evolved. He was with Ash when it happened.
Buneary told them they have more important things to focus on, and asked them how they got here.
They told him after they got let out the nature preserve, they found each other and decided to try and find the rest of the team to rescue Ash.
Pikachu gave a confused look and asked what happened to Ash.
Everyone gave him a surprised look.
Buneary gave him a sad look as she asked him if he remembers getting captured by Team Skull.
Pikachu gave a shocked looked and asked if that was true.
Everyone nodded with a concerned look.
Buneary looked down with a guilty look, remembering that Pikachu must have got really beaten up Buneary failed them.
A couple of Aether grunts came running up. "Okay you troublemakers, time to go back into the fenced area!" They sent out pokemon to round them up.
Pikachu went to go and use Thunderbolt on their pokemon, but nothing happened.
A Gumshoos came up and was about to grab him, till Buneary use Bounce right on its face and slammed it into the Aether Foundation and a bunch of their pokemon.
Pikachu tried to use Volt Tackle, but no electricity ever generated up and got Fury Attacked by a toucannon.
Buneary took care of the toucannon with an Ice Beam. She turned to Pikachu with a worried look. Something is defiantly wrong with Pikachu. She turned to the Aether Foundation employees with a serious look. Before she let Ash and Pikachu down, but she isn't going to let that happen again. She kept Pikachu from getting attacked with the help of their teammates.
Pikachu looked down with a frown, concerned on why he's unable to use his electric moves. He wondered what happened.
Decidueye told them they won't be able to fend them all off and need to escape.
Everyone nodded and ran off with the employees chasing after them.

Ash and Dawn defeated Faba and his team mate.
"T-That's not possible! I am chief commander Faba!"
"Out of our way!" Ash shouted.
Wicke laughed. "I guess… titles aren't everything."
Dawn and her pokemon kept Faba surrounded as Wicke swiped her card, and the door opened.
"Thank you so much, Wicke!" Dawn shouted.
"Don't mention it! You better get going." Wicke said.
"Right." Dawn then ran off.
"Good luck, Ash and Dawn."
Dawn ran through the roof of the building and into a room. However, she didn't see anybody. "How odd… Did we go the wrong way?" Dawn asked.

Araquanid and Salazzle where crawling around to see if they could find anyone who may be able to help them, and saw Gladion and Hau. The boys have taken care of the backup the woman called up. They went up to them and started asking them for help.
Gladion gave them a confused look. "Why are some of the pokemon here running about? I guess mother really has stopped caring about the other pokemon here at the Aether Foundation…"
"Hey… These may be Ash's pokemon!" Hau shouted.
Araquanid and Salazzle nodded at Hau.
"But… were could Ash and Dawn have gone…?"
Araquanid and Salazzle frowned.
"Look, we'll search for them later. Right now, we need to stop my mother." Gladion looked down at Ash's pokoemon. "For now, we need your help!"
Salazzle and Araquanid thought about it, and since Gladion said that they'll help them look for Ash later that they can help them now.

Ninetales then was attracted by a glowing pad. He touched it with his paw, but then disappeared.
Dawn and Ash gasped.
"Ninetales!" Dawn shouted. She ran up to the place where Ninetales disappeared, but saw nothing. She walked up close to the area where he disappeared and inspected the walls, but then she stepped on the warp pad and appeared to where Lusamine and Lillie where.
Lillie and Piplup was attempting to free Nebby.
"You will never open the cage that way…" Lusamine said.
Ash popped up from the warp pad. "Lillie!" He then saw Cosmog. "Hey! Lusamine, stop!"
Suddenly an Ultra Wormhole appeared.
"At last…" Lusamine slowly walked into the wormhole. "I'm coming… my precious children. You shall receive my love, at last." She was sucked in.
"Wait for me, Lusamine!" Guzma shouted. He ran in the wormhole after her.
"Mother, no!" Lillie ran towards the hole along with Ash and Dawn, but it disappeared. She gave a horrified look. "Mother…" She looked back at Nebby, but it looked completely different and wasn't moving. "Nebby!"

Lillie, Dawn, and Ash freed Nebby.
Pikachu and the pokemon with him found the warp pad. Then Pikachu saw Ash, smiled, and jumped into Ash's arms.
Ash held onto Pikachu. "You're okay!" He petted Pikachu as it nuzzled him.
Pikachu crawled up on Ash's shoulder.
"Raichu! Buneary! Your both okay!" Dawn shouted. She ran up and embraced them. "I'm so relieved that you're both okay!"
Buneary held onto her, glad to see her again.
Raichu had tears coming out of his eyes, feeling bad for running off and making her worry.
Lillie was holding Nebby who wasn't moving or making a sound, while staring at the place where Lusamine got sucked in the Ultra Wormhole. "… Mother."