Both Meowth and Goliath were soon with the other Pokemon.

"Hey, Meowth, you look like you've seen Gengar." Pikachu chuckled.

"Is that a joke about Ghost Pokemon?!" Mismagius glared.

"No, really!" Pikachu yelped.

Goliath was soon seen chasing Meowth. The Pokemon spread out as Goliath chased Meowth.

"One of you stop this crazy thing!" Meowth begged.

"Should we?" Sparky smirked playfully.

"Why not?" Surge smirked back.

"PLEEEEASE!" Meowth begged as he couldn't take it anymore. "Oh, why did I have to be so irresistible?!"

"Okay, okay, we'll help." Mismagius laughed.

"Thank you!" Meowth said.

The Pokemon soon let Meowth run ahead, but run behind them as they stood in front of the predatory dog, and where this caused Goliath to stop. The Pokemon smirked to the dog. Goliath tilted his head since he had never seen Pokemon before.

"What's with him?" The male Ralts asked.

"I don't think he's seen Pokemon before." The female Ralts said to her twin, and where she was right as the dog sniffed them.

Pikachu came up to Goliath and touched his nose. Goliath sniffled and sneezed to that.

"He sure is cute." Espeon smiled.

"Is he filthy though?!" Minccino got paranoid.

"Relax, buddy!" Ditto told the Pokemon who was obsessed with cleaning. "Man, you really need to get out of the Plaza more away from Margarita's mother and aunt."

"Well, I can't help it if they're maids with Johanna, Mabel, and Lily." Minccino stuck his tongue out.

Teddy soon bent down to Goliath. Goliath looked to Teddy before growling.

"Guess he thinks I'm a real bear..." Teddy said.

"Well, can ya blame him?" Vulpix replied. "I'm just surprised he hasn't chased me, I thought dogs liked to chase foxes."

"Don't worry, we're friendly." Mismagius told Goliath.

Goliath backed up as he looked to the Pokemon. "What are you all?" he then finally spoke to them all.

"We're a special species known as Pokemon," Pikachu told him. "We live with humans, and they train us to fight, and we often travel with them."

"And why were you chasing me?!" Meowth glared at Goliath.

"Well, sorry, it's my anatomy," Goliath said like it was obvious. "I mean, you're a cat."

"I am not a cat!" Meowth glared. "Well... I'm sorta cat-like, but I'm a Meowth!"

"A what?" Goliath asked.

"A Meowth!" Meowth repeated. "It's the kinda Pokemon I am."

"Oh, uh, sorry..." Goliath smiled sheepishly. "I guess I couldn't help it."

"Oi." Meowth groaned.

"So, Meowth, what were you trying to tell us before this dog chased you?" Vulpix asked.

"You'll never believe this, but I saw Kidd!" Meowth replied. "She's trying to find a Mew!"

"She is?" Vulpix asked. "As in catch it?"

"That's what I heard anyways," Meowth said. "I don't know who she was talkin' to, but she was tellin' someone she was sent on findin' it over here."

"Then we better protect it," Goliath said. "This sounds serious."

"It is..." Meowth shivered nervously. "I may look like a brave knight, but I may need a little help here."

"We'll all help." Pupitar said.

"Sounds like a plan to me," Teddy agreed. "All right, everybody, let's do this thing. Go, Team Dynamite!"

"But I thought we could be Team Super Cool?" Vulpix replied.

"As I recall, it was Team Awesome." Ditto suggested.

"I voted for Team Alpha Pokemon Squadron." Mismagius muttered dryly.

"Alright, alright, alright," Teddy decided. "From henceforth, we're all to be known as Team Alpha Super Awesome Cool Dynamite Pokemon Squadron."

"That is one long team name." Goliath said.

The Pokemon just shrugged. Goliath chuckled as he grew to like the Pokemon so far.

"So, does Kidd work for Giovanni?" Surge asked Meowth.

"I don't think so..." Meowth replied. "Where ever this Mew is, we gotta help it."

"But how will we find it?" Sparky asked.

"That, will be a challenge..." Meowth admitted.

"Hmm..." Ditto hummed before morphing into said Pokemon, but was his purple color. "If I were a Mew, where would I be?"

"Wait... Isn't Mew playful?" Pupitar asked.

"It's possible..." Teddy said to his cousin.

"So, then we'll just have to find a Pokemon that's playful." Vulpix said.

"Right." The other Pokemon agreed.

"Should we use attacks?" Meowth asked.

"We probably shouldn't," Sparky replied. "We might scare it away."

"Uh, Vulpix, have there always been two of you?" Goliath asked out of confusion.

"What?" Vulpix asked before turning to his right.

There was another Vulpix who blinked to him and soon copied his every move.

"Mew?" Vulpix asked the second Vulpix.

The second Vulpix smiled nervously.

"It's you... It is you, isn't it?!" Vulpix demanded.

The second Vulpix soon shook before becoming Mew.

"Whoa!" The group smiled.

"I'm sorry I tricked you, but I can't be found..." Mew told the other Pokemon.

"Why?" Teddy asked.

"They're after me..." Mew trembled. "The Weavils too!"

"Those Pokemon always give me the creeps." Sparky shivered.

"Me too..." Mew pouted. "It'll be worse if they find me."

"We'll protect you." Goliath said.

"Oh, thank you so much..." Mew replied. "Again, I'm sorry for tricking you all, but I can't let her find me."

"Oh, don't worry about that now," Pikachu smiled. "Why don't we play?"

"Yeah!" The other Pokemon agreed.

"Yeah." Goliath smiled to them.

All of the Pokemon soon began to play with Mew together.

Munchlax, of course, was mostly interested in food and soon ate the food that Meowth had found. Goliath didn't found that fair. Munchlax smirked as he was about to go with the food.

"You should share!" Goliath scolded the hungry Pokemon.

"Who?" Munchlax blinked innocently. "Me?"

"Yes, you." Goliath said.

"Couldn't be." Munchlax replied.

"Don't play dumb with me!" Goliath glared.

"Oh, Munchlax never plays~" Meowth teased.

"I saw you take Meowth's food!" Goliath barked.

"Must've been someone else... Don't make that noise though..." Munchlax replied.

"What?" Goliath glared. "Oh... THIS?!" he then barked louder.

"Yoink!" Meowth yelped at the loud barking, and where he jumped before ending up by Munchlax before seeing his stolen food.

Munchlax gasped. Goliath then pushed Munchlax out of the way and allowed Meowth to take his food back.

"Thanks for the heads up." Meowth said as he got his food back.

Goliath hid a small smile to Meowth. The Pokemon were all having fun, but little did they know, they would soon be encountered by the one who wanted to take Mew for herself.

"Well, hello there, Mew~" A female voice smirked as she was accompanied by her two Weavils. "I want you to tag Mew with this transmitter."

Samson noticed Kidd was missing and had a feeling she might have been up to no good.

"You're such a gentleman." Giselle blushed to Samson.

"Please, excuse me, I have to go." Samson said with a bow.

"Oh... Um... Okay..." Giselle replied softly.

Samson nodded before he soon ran off to find out if his suspicions were right, and of course, they were. Giselle soon sat down at a table. Eloise giggled as she danced with Bruce before waving to her big sister. Giselle simply waved back.

The Weavils soon hopped like ninjas with the transmitter to see the other Pokemon.

"Oh, my!" Mew gasped after seeing the Weavils and floated out of the way.

"STOP THAT MEW!" One Weavil commanded to the other and they soon both chased the Mew.

"Leave her alone!" Goliath barked before attacking the second Weavil.

The second Weavil snarled while the first glared at Goliath before tackling him.

"Run, or, fly, Mew!" Goliath called out. "FLY!"

Mew yelped as she soon flew away to avoid the Weavils before they then used Frost Breath on the dog, and which caused the dog to howl for help.

"Goliath?" Samson called out as he heard the dog howl while he was going up a flight of stairs. He then heard many Pokemon battle cries and this meant he needed to power-up. "I'm coming, Goliath, with Samson Power!" The black-haired boy told himself in strong determination.

"That'll teach you for getting in our way." One Weavil mocked Goliath while the other got the transmitter for Mew.

Samson soon used his gold magic bracelets which caused him to transform into a super powerful older version of himself. Goliath barked even louder.

Samson soon broke into the room and looked around for his dog before glaring at the Weavils who were tormenting his pet. The Pokemon gasped in shock. Samson hit his golden bracelets together and summoned the power onto Goliath, and which turned the dog into a strong and powerful lion.

"Oooohhh..." The Pokemon were amazed by that.

Goliath soon snarled to the Weaviles while Samson glared at them.

"Uh-oh..." The Weaviles gulped before attacking them with their Frost Breath.

"Look out, Lion and Kid!" Meowth cried out in worry for Samson and Goliath.

Goliath began to roar loudly which shook the room and blew away the attack. The Weavils shivered and even held each other.

"Stay away from Mew!" Goliath roared like the lion he was.

While that was going on, the dance soon ended.

"You okay, Ash?" Emi asked her brother who just had to sit and watch.

"I just can't believe this staff is hundreds of years old, and now I'm holding it." Ash told his sister.

"I know, and it looks like an ordinary staff." Emi said.

Ash's eyes widened.

"What?" Emi asked.

"It's that voice again..." Ash murmured.

"What voice?" Emi asked.

"I heard a voice in this staff," Ash told his sister. 'It said something about Sir Aaron."

"Really?" Emi asked. "Weird."

"And now, one last tribute for Sir Aaron," Ilene told the people as they stopped dancing. "Our Aura Guardian will give the signal to start the fireworks."

"That's me." Ash told Emi.

Emi nodded to her brother. Ash then stood up from his throne.

"Assume the pose of the guardian!" The maid whispered to Ash.

"What do you mean 'pose'?" Ash asked her.

Emi was confused as well before looking at the portrait of Sir Aaron and cleared her throat to Ash. Ash looked to her with a nod and soon copied the pose of Sir Aaron in the portrait. Once that was set, outside of the palace, the fireworks filled the full moon night sky. Everyone oohed and awed at the fireworks. Mime Jr smiled as he climbed onto Ilene's shoulders. Emi soon noticed something was happening to the staff.

'I believed in you.' A dark voice told Ash.

"Oh, is something the matter?!" The maid panicked as the staff shook in Ash's hands.

"Ash, quick, let go of the staff!" Emi told him.

"Huh? Oh, sure, Emi!" Ash replied before doing as his younger sister said.

"That should make it stop shaking now." Emi said.

The staff soon glowed and everyone flinched in shock and blindness from the bright light. The staff shook from the bright light and it soon summed out a creature in the ballroom.

"What is that?" Eloise asked.

"SIR AARON!" The creature snarled before jumping toward Ash. "Why did you abandon the Creed?!"

"Telepathy..." Ash whispered as he could hear the creature through his mind which was why no one else could hear him.

"ANSWER ME!" The creature sounded angry with Ash, thinking he was Sir Aaron.

Emi couldn't tell why the creature was talking about Sir Aaron before seeing its eyes were closed. The creature's eyes soon fluttered open and saw Ash right in front of him. He looked confused before looking all around everyone else in the ballroom. Seeing all of this soon made him hop off.

"Who was that?" Ash wondered.

"Lucario." The maid replied.

"Why did Lucario look confused?" Emi asked the maid.

"According to our legends, it was a Pokemon who served Sir Aaron." Ilene informed.

"Right." The maid replied.

"From in here?" Ash asked as he looked at the staff.

"How is that possible?" Akito asked.

The kids looked concerned as Lucario rushed out of the palace.

"This festival must've awaken him somehow." Emi guessed.

Lucario began to make his way to a room that he seemed to know the way to. He was confused of the fireworks as he wondered why everyone was celebrating when they were under attack. He soon arrived at a door. Memories began to flash through his mind as he thought of older times.

"Lucario, from now on, this castle is going to be your new home, and the place where you train," Sir Aaron told the Pokemon before he soon opened the door and opened it. "I'll teach you everything I learned, and you can also be a user of the aura." He smiled to the Pokemon.

"Thank you..." Lucario replied.

"Yes, the aura is inside." Sir Aaron informed as he put his hand to his heart.

Lucario soon saw how his room looked now.

"And soon one day, you will learn to trust it." Sir Aaron told Lucario.

Lucario soon came into the room, both present and past day.

It had changed so much and looked more like a display than a room, and where it made Lucario wonder of how long he was in the staff. Akito, of course, decided to go after Lucario. He soon walked into the room. The others came after Akito as Lucario explored.

"Lucario." Ilene called to the elusive Pokemon.

"Lady Rin?" Lucario smiled hopefully. He soon saw that it wasn't who he thought it was.

"I'm not who you think I am." Ilene frowned apologetically as her maid flicked the light switch on.

Lucario soon looked disappointed.

"You see, my name is Lady Ilene, and Lady Rin was one of my ancestors." Ilene explained to the Pokemon before walking up to him and gave him a hug.

'This must be a lot for him to take in.' Emi thought to herself.

"You've been asleep for a long time, Lucario~..." Ilene soothed the Pokemon.

"Is it possible?" Lucario wondered.

"I am telling you the truth." Ilene told Lucario.

"But... I was just in this room..." Lucario backed up before backing up against a glass case. "Just a few days ago!"

"I think that might have been years ago." Bruce said.

"Please believe me," Ilene told Lucario. "It may seem like days have gone, but in reality is you haven't walked in this palace for centuries."

"That is a real long time." Yuko said to the others.

Lucario looked all around as he had a lot on his mind right now. Emi could tell this was a lot for Lucario to take in. They soon went into the throne room so Ilene could tell Lucario everything that she knew that was handed down from her family for generations, and where he would be learning of what he missed.

"According to the stories that were passed down, you vanished during the battle," Ilene told Lucario. "Can you explain what happened?"

"There were two huge armies on the move," Lucario bowed. "Each side sworn to destroy the other. The Palace was trapped in the middle, I went out to see if there was a way to stop them from fighting, but it was hopeless."

"How so?" Estelle asked.

"There was no peace." Lucario replied.

"Ohh." Felicity said.

"But how was Sir Aaron able to make peace?" Ash wondered.

"What?" Lucario looked at him.

"Our legend says Sir Aaron found a way to end the battle and save the Palace." Ilene replied.

"Sounds like he did something right." Akito said.

"IMPOSSIBLE!" Lucario snarled.

"Isn't that true?" Margarita asked the Pokemon.

"No... Sir Aaron deserted the queen..." Lucario was in denial. "Then trapped me inside the staff!"

"Seriously?" Bobby asked.

"But he's a hero..." May muttered.

"Could it really be wrong?" Brock wondered.

Lucario soon looked up to the portrait of Sir Aaron in deep intensity.

"We'll look into it further and determine what is truth and what is fiction." Ilene declared.

"Agreed." Emi said.

"I will do what I can to help you." Lucario decided.

"Lucario, one thing hasn't changed," Ilene smiled. "This palace is your home. Please feel free to stay here as long as you'd like."

They soon heard another Pokemon coming.

"I am deeply grateful, Your Highness." Lucario bowed to Ilene.

The kids looked over to see which Pokemon was coming now.

"What is it, Eloise?" Giselle asked her little sister.

The Pokemon that came over was Torkoal.

"Torkoal, what are you doing here?" Emi smiled to the Pokemon.

Torkoal began to tell her why he was there.

"I see..." Emi said to him.

"Lucario, how come you thought I was Sir Aaron?" Ash asked the Pokemon.

Lucario simply answered by making them all look at the portrait of Sir Aaron.

"Ash, you look just like Sir Aaron." Akito said.

"You mean the costume makes me look like him?" Ash wondered.

"No, I mean actually do look like him." Akito said.

Ash looked up at the portrait.

"He has a point, Ash," Emi agreed. "There is a strong resemblance."

"Where are the Pokemon?" Giselle asked. "Oh, Eevee must be so scared to death without me."

"Oh, that reminds me, Torkoal just told me where the other Pokemon are." Emi said.

"Where are they?!" Giselle yelped.

"They're all together with a boy and his dog and should be coming in now." Emi told the girl.

And as if on cue, Max soon came over with the Pokemon.