After Nils healed his Pokemon, he Ren and Firenze decided to spend the rest of the day at the Pokemon Center for some training. The next day, the trio left the place and entered a valley.
"This must be Hosh Valley," said Ren, "The trainer who told me about Sacr City also told me about this place." "There are lots of Pokemon here."
Just then Nils noticed something strange and realized it was a ruined tree. The trio decided to investigate and see if it meant a problem. At the tree, Nils found an injured Spoink and decided to heal it.
"Are you ok," asked Nils as he healed Spoink with a potion.
"Spoink," answered the Spoink after recovering.
"This is strange," said Firenze, "First we find a destroyed tree and now an injured Spoink," "what's going on here?"
Spoink then got a look like it had an idea and then took an empty Pokeball from Nils and used it on itself leading to a successful capture.
"Well that's one way to get a Pokemon," said a surprised Nils, "But why would Spoink decide to become my Pokemon like that?"
Just then, Spoink got himself out of his Pokeball, asked the trio to follow him and led them to somewhere. Once they reached their destination, Nils, Ren and Firenze saw several small Pokemon being chased by three members of Team Bomb who were causing destruction just so they could catch the Pokemon.
"Hey," shouted Nils, "Stop this at once." "You're scaring the Pokemon and destroying the valley."
"Who cares," said one of the grunts, who was the only male of the trio, "What matters is we are getting Pokemon for our army."
"Army," asked Firenze, "You're out of your mind." "Besides it's not worth catching Pokemon if they're terrified and the land is destroyed."
"If you intend to get in our way then go Muk," said one of the female grunts as she sent out a Muk.
"Go Rapidash," said Firenze as she sent out Rapidash. "Get the Pokemon out of here while I hold this grunt off," Firenze told Nils and Ren.
The two boys then gathered the Pokemon and split in two groups while being chased by each of the other two grunts.
Meanwhile back at Firenze, She had the upperhand against her opponent and without noticing, a Houndour that was unable to escape and was hiding in a bush watched the battle while being impressed by Firenze's courage because it never knew how to be brave.
"Rapidash use Flame Wheel," said Firenze and Rapidash used the selected move to defeat Muk which force the grunt to run away right after returning her Muk to the Pokeball.
With the battle over, Houndour went out of the bush and walked to Firenze who had just realized she was being watched.
"Hello there," said Firenze, "You must have watched that battle right?"
"Houndour," answered Houndour.
"You know," said Firenze, "If you want, you can come with me and I can make you as strong as Rapidash." "What do you say?"
"Houndour," said Houndour cheerfully as Firenze threw a Pokeball at Houndour which caught it.
Meanwhile, Ren was escorting his half of Pokemon to safety while avoiding the male member of Team Bomb when suddenly, a Larvitar tripped and was left behind until Ren noticed and went back for it.
"Well you're gonna make a good catch," said the grunt as he made it to Larvitar.
"Back off," said Ren as he made it just in time to stop the grunt and then sent Makuhita out for battle.
"If you want a fight you got it," said the grunt who sent out a Gligar.
"Use tackle," said Ren and Makuhita attacked Gligar with the move of choice.
"Use Sand Attack," said the Grunt which made his Gligar use the selected move. "Use Acrobatics," and Gligar hit Makuhita with the move.
"Use Vital Throw," said Ren and Gligar then took damage from the attack and was knocked to the ground. "Use Force Palm," and once Gligar was hit by the chosen move, it became paralyzed.
"Use Fury Cutter," said the grunt but Gligar couldn't attack due to being paralyzed.
"Finish with Arm Thrust," said Ren and Makuhita then knocked out Gligar with the move of choice.
The grunt then returned Gligar to it's Pokeball and ran away being unable to do anything. Once the grunt was gone, Larvitar jumped up to Ren, hugged him and cried.
"It's ok," said Ren, "The bad guy is gone he won't hurt you."
Larvitar stopped crying and then looked at Ren smiling.
"I'm guessing you want to come with me," said Ren, "Ok," and Ren threw a Pokeball at Larvitar which caught it successfully.
At Nils, Nils lead the Pokemon he was leading to a cave. He thought it would work when he was unable to find the Team Bomb grunt that chased him but when he entered the cave, the second female grunt came out.
"I thought you would go to this cave," said the grunt," That's why I decided to come here first and wait for you."
Spoink, who was out of his Pokeball the whole time,then went a bit closer to the grunt which meant he wanted to battle for his friends.
"I understand Spoink and I'll let you battle her," said Nils who understood what Spoink wanted. "Just remember, this is our first battle together so I expect it to be good."
"Spoink," said Spoink in agreement.
"Well if that's what you want," said the grunt, "Go Loudred," and a Loudred appeared just in front of Spoink.
"Use Psybeam," said Nils and Spoink launched the selected attack at Loudred which did little damage.
"Use Stomp," said the grunt which made Loudred use the move of choice with a lot of power but Spoink managed to dodge.
"Use Zen Headbutt," said Nils and Spoink managed to hit Loudred with the chosen move.
"Use Bite while it's still close," said the grunt and as ordered, Loudred did some super effective damage to Spoink.
"Psybeam again," said Nils who became worried because Spoink took a lot of damage from the Bite.
Spoink launched another Psybeam which once again hit Loudred but this time, Loudred became confused.
"Use Power Gem," said Nils who started to believe he could win now and Spoink then used the selected move on Loudred. "Finish with Bounce," and as commanded, Spoink hit Loudred with Bounce which defeated it.
"I guess I have no choice but to get out of here," said the grunt as she returned Loudred and ran away.
Later, Nils Ren and Firenze reunited and told eachother that they all managed to defeat the Team Bomb grunts and that they each caught a new Pokemon.
"Well Pokemon of Hosh Valley, you are safe now," said Nils to the wild Pokemon.
"We'll talk to an Officer Jenny about this so you don't have to worry about Team Bomb coming back," said Firenze.
After saying goodbye to the Pokemon, Nils, Ren and Firenze decided to set up camp and rest for the night because it was late. As they slept, they smiled over the fact that they each caught a new Pokemon.
