Lucario kept pacing until he stopped. Emi soon closed her eyes so she could understand.
"Lucario, what's wrong?" Giselle asked the Pokemon.
"Something's coming!" Emi cried out.
"What's coming?" Eloise asked.
Emi took Ash's hand and went off, so he went with her. Something was thrown and it then exploded just missing them. A stone robot Pokemon was then shown and came behind Kidd's jeep and lifted it with strength.
"What is that?" Giselle yelped.
"Regirock!" Kidd cried out.
"What's it doing here?" Vincent asked.
"Hurry, this way before it hurts you!" Kidd told the others.
Lucario soon tried to fight the other Pokemon so it wouldn't harm the others.
"Why is it even attacking us?!" Margarita yelped.
"Jessie, James, are you betraying us?!" Vincent glared.
"No, honest, we love you kids!" Jessie and James replied.
"Follow me." Lucario told the others as he ran into a trench.
"Don't need to tell us twice." Ditto said.
Regirock soon tunneled underground like Experiment 529 AKA Digger. Lucario led the others through the trench into safety. Jessie held Molly's hand, acting more and more like a godmother/aunt to the girl since their adventure in the Spell of the Unknown.
"In here." Lucario pointed.
"In we go!" Molly said.
Luckily, they all fit in okay and hid inside for safety. Little did they know, they were closer and closer to Mew, Pikachu, and Meowth.
"Do you know why that Regirock attacked us?" Ash asked Lucario.
"It was just giving us a warning." Lucario replied.
"A warning?" Molly asked. "Why?"
"It must be on the look-out for intruders to protect The Tree of Beginning." Lucario replied.
Felicity was ahead of everyone with Lucario since she could see in the dark, but Kidd kept a light for everyone else just in case. Eloise also used her flashlight she kept with her in case of anything. Soon enough, it brighter, and there was a bright white light at the end of the tunnel which was almost a symbol for one's death. Goliath began to sniff ahead. They came into a peaceful zen garden like area.
"It's beautiful..." Giselle said as she held Eloise close to her.
There were many Pokemon who almost seemed in peace.
"Aw!" Molly smiled.
"It looks so peaceful out here..." Estelle beamed. "This must be how Mom felt about visiting Camp Everfree."
Bruce and Bobby were jaw-dropped with their Pichus to see so many Pokemon all at once.
"Well, gang, seems to me we're right under The Tree of Beginning." Kidd smiled as she put on special glasses.
"Ooh, what do those glasses do?" Eloise smiled at Kidd.
"It helps me find certain Pokemon." Kidd replied.
"I wanna see!" Eloise reached out like she would sometimes wear her tutor's glasses to annoy him.
"Is Pikachu up there?" Ash asked.
"Right above us." Lucario replied.
"How can you tell?" Giselle asked.
"Pikachu is up there," Lucario replied. "You just have to keep going up until you find him. That's the idea."
"Yeah!" Ash beamed and ran with Lucario to reunite with Pikachu at long last.
Emi soon joined them. The others soon followed after Ash and Lucario as well.
"What's that...?" Eloise asked as Kidd brought something out from her knapsack.
"Survey robots." Kidd replied.
"Cool." Bobby smirked.
"You sure got a lot of stuff, Ms. Kidd." Bruce added.
"When it comes to investigating, there's no such thing as being over prepared." Kidd replied as she set the robots off with a remote control.
"So, what were those robots for?" Margarita asked.
"Oh, nothing important, just sending some data to a friend of mine." Kidd replied before contacting said friend through her glasses.
"That's interesting." Margarita said.
Kidd then contacted her friend while the kids of the Plaza Hotel watched her. Their Pokemon looked almost as if they didn't trust Kidd.
"Race ya to the top." Kidd giggled to the kids before running with them.
"Yuko, you must be careful, I don't trust this woman." Espeon told her trainer.
"I don't trust her either," Yuko said. "And I can tell Emi doesn't trust her either, neither does Samson or Giselle."
"I'm sure Giselle is smart enough to do so," Eloise replied. "Nanny says she's 'rawther' sharp when it comes to thinking about others."
"Goliath even seems to distrust Kidd." Estelle said.
"Oh, Estelle, I didn't think you were here too." Eloise replied.
"I don't think I trust Kidd much either." Estelle told her.
"She's a bit suspicious." Akito added, sounding like a detective like his father.
"And what did she mean when she said 'sending her friend data'?" Bruce asked.
"I'm not 100% sure, but Kidd has to be doing some dirty work." Akito glared.
"Like when Edwin tattles on us?" Bobby huffed.
"No, Bobby, much more severe than that." Akito clarified.
"Like extracting something that might accidentally activate something bad?" Margarita guessed.
"Something like that, my dear Margarita," Akito nodded. "I've had funny feelings about her all day, and so has Pupitar. Not to mention when we met her Weaviles."
"Maybe her Weaviles can tell us what she's up to." Vincent said.
"How do we get them though?" Yuko asked. "I mean, it's not like we can track them down and interra-inturra-"
"Interrogate?" Akito asked her.
"Yes, that one." Yuko nodded.
"Oh, I think that I can help." Emi offered.
The others turned to the future Pokemon Princess.
"Emi?" Akito asked his girlfriend. "I thought you were with Ash and Lucario."
"I was, but then I remembered Kidd was behind." Emi said.
"Oh, you are so brilliant!" Akito beamed. "I could kiss you!"
Everyone then smirked to him.
"Uh, I mean... Heh... Let's get those Weaviles." Akito smiled nervously.
"Right." Emi agreed.
"Only one question: How do we get the Weaviles here?" Vincent asked.
"One of us steals her Pokeballs." Bruce suggested.
"We would have to be very quiet and sneaky." Yuko suggested.
"Too bad Matteus isn't here, he's pretty good at sneaking into the Hotel and back without anyone else seeing him." Eloise replied.
"Maybe 'Alois' should help." Ditto said to his trainer before becoming a sneaky young boy, looking like a boy version of Eloise before slithering along.
"Um, who is Alois?" Vincent asked while Akito and Estelle shrugged.
"Me." Ditto said.
"Oh..." The others said.
Ditto slithered around almost like a snake.
"Wow." Estelle said.
Ditto shushed them and then snuck to Kidd's Pokeball collection and brought out two before becoming Alois and then rushed to Eloise, handing her the Pokeballs.
"Oooh, I absolutely love having a Pokemon~" Eloise cooed as she took the Pokeballs.
"Now to interrogate them." Estelle said.
Eloise soon threw the Pokeballs. The Weaviles did a battle cry and looked around for Kidd. Goliath snarled as he came up to the Weaviles. The Weaviles looked at him and laughed since he wasn't in his lion form.
"All right, you chuckle heads, you better give us answers!" Akito glared.
"Why should we listen to you?" The second Weavile smirked.
"Yeah, you're all wusses, unlike that lion!" The first Weavile added.
"Samson, if you would?" Goliath smirked at his owner.
"Excuse me, Giselle." Samson told the girl he liked.
"Of course, course, course." Giselle nodded.
Samson soon activated his magic bracelets, transforming both him and Goliath. Giselle blushed at Samson's bigger and stronger form. Goliath snarled to the Weaviles.
"Oh, crud!" The Weaviles panicked.
"Now talk!" Goliath snarled.
The Weaviles shivered. "W-W-What about?"
"Don't play stupid!" Goliath snapped.
"I don't think they're playing." Mismagius smirked.
Felicity quietly giggled to that.
"Tell us about what Kidd is up to and what she meant by transferring data to her friend?" Samson asked the Weaviles.
"It's more than just a friend actually," The first Weavile replied. "He's actually her commander, Lieutenant Banks. He promised her a grand fortune if The Tree of Beginning is destroyed."
"What?!" The group gasped.
"Not if we have anything to say about it." Emi glared.
"Please don't hurt us." The Weaviles begged.
"We won't." Emi said.
The Weaviles then breathed and relaxed in relief. "Phew!"
"You can go back into your Pokeballs now." Emi said.
The Weaviles looked relieved before going back into their Pokeballs.
"I can't believe we've been tricked by Kidd..." Bruce frowned.
"I know, not even I would do something so nasty." Bobby agreed with his twin brother.
"Let's go and have a talk with her." Estelle said.
"Come on, they went this way." Akito replied before leading the way.
They all then followed him to have a little talk with Kidd.
"So, um, Samson how long can you stay in that form?" Giselle blushed at the boy she liked.
"Until Goliath and I are done with what we have to do to save the day," Samson explained. "Usually I travel with Goliath and we end up going on a lot of adventures to fight bad guys, and when they are defeated, we usually reverse back to what we once were."
"So, after we save The Tree of Beginning from being destroyed, you'll revert back to your original form?" Giselle asked.
"That doesn't bother you, does it?" Samson asked her with a small frown, hoping she didn't just like him for his muscles.
"No, no, no, of course it doesn't." Giselle insisted.
"Oh..." Samson smiled to her. "So glad that you think so."
"If it's one thing Nanny taught me, it's the man inside and not the outside." Giselle smiled back while blushing.
Eloise was happy for her sister.
They soon continued on their way up to the top of the Tree of Beginning.
"HEY, PIKACHU, ARE YA THERE, BUDDY?!" Ash called out to his and Emi's shared Pokemon.
"Where could he be?" Lt. Surge asked.
"Ash? Was that Ash?" Pikachu woke up as he, Mew, and Meowth all appeared to be sleeping before he rushed off. "ASH?!"
"Pikachu, don't go!" Mew cooed while going after Pikachu which then woke up Meowth.
"Huh?" Meowth asked. "What's going on?"
"Pikachu, if you can hear me, give me a sign!" Ash called out. "PIKACHU!"
"I'M RIGHT HERE, ASH!" Pikachu called out as loud as he could.
Akito soon heard Pikachu.
"It's Pikachu!" Ash smiled.
"I heard Pikachu." Akito told the others with him.
"Then let's go." Estelle said.
"Pikachu, I'm on my way!" Ash called out as he began to climb.
Lucario soon came after them. However, another Pokemon was around.
"Let me guess, another Pokemon giving us a warning shot?" Giselle asked Kidd.
"Looks like it." Kidd nodded.
The Pokemon seemed to beep like a robot before shooting ice crystals.
"Yikes!" Estelle yelped.
"What is that?" Vincent asked.
"Regice." Kidd recognized.
"Whoa." Emi said.
"HALT, INTRUDERS!" The Regice snarled as it shot ice crystals at them.
"Yikes!" Bruce yelped.
"Look out!" Bobby told Molly as he helped her out of the way.
"Wah!" Molly yelped, then looked up at him. "Wow... Thanks..."
The other kids from the Plaza Hotel were surprised that Bobby actually did something nice for someone else.
"You alright?" Bobby asked Molly.
"I-I'm fine... Thanks..." Molly replied. "I probably would've been 'icicled' if you didn't help me."
"No problem." Bobby smiled.
Molly smiled back to him.
"What're you hurting us for?" Emi frowned to the Regice. "We're just trying to look for a friend!"
"GO AWAY!" Regice demanded while still shooting and Lucario soon fought it back.
Emi could now tell that Regice was just a guardian of the Tree of Beginning and had a feeling so was Regirock. Regice was about to shoot at her.
"Emi! No!" Akito yelped.
But soon enough, Quilava came out of his Pokeball. Emi screamed against the Regice.
Quilava then glared at the Regice and tackled it. "Don't you dare touch my Emi!"
"Quilava, thank goodness!" Emi gasped to the Fire-Type Pokemon.
"How dare you attack the Pokemon Princess!" Quilava glared at Regice.
"How dare you try to break into our guardship!" Regice glared back, shooting ice.
"Oh, is that the best you got?" Quilava rolled his eyes before shooting fire at the ice, melting it instantly.
"Regice, we're sorry for coming here, but we really did come here just to get Pikachu and Meowth." Emi said.
"I don't believe you!" Regice glared, shooting more ice.
Quilava merely shot more fire back. "Emi would never lie, Pokemon Princess before or not!" he then firmly told the robot-like Pokemon.
Regice soon looked at Emi and recognized her face.
"Um, thanks for the fire." Emi told Quilava.
"Of course, you know I love you~" Quilava smiled as he nuzzled up against Emi like a loyal pet.
"So, you truly are just here for your Pokemon friends?" Regice asked.
"Yes!" Emi and Quilava replied.
"Oh... I suppose I could let you in then..." Regice replied. "I'd hate to disappoint the Pokemon Princess. I better clear this up with Regirock and Registeel though."
"Thank you," Emi said. "Though, you better destroy some robots that are around here."
"All right!" Quilava smirked. "What ever you say, Emi."
"I never noticed how loyal a Pokemon you are." Emi giggled to him.
Quilava simply smiled proudly.
Emi smiled back and pet him. "Now, go."
"I will!" Quilava proclaimed before running off and gave out a battle cry. "QUILAVA!"
"I never understood why Pokemon need to announce themselves before a battle..." Emi pondered.
Quilava soon pondered that too.
"Emi..." Akito gasped as he ran toward her. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine, Akito, I think we're all going to be okay," Emi smiled to him. "These Pokemon seem to respect the Pokemon Princess."
"Seems that way." Akito smiled back.
Registeel soon came out.
Akito glared as he got in a fighting stance. "Leave Emi alone, you Cyborg wannabe!" he soon threatened before smirking. "She's the Pokemon Princess, and I'm one of her friends!"
"I know, Regice told me." Registeel said.
"Oh, okay..." Akito blushed at his fighting stance. "Just making sure..."
"Are you guys guardians or something?" Emi asked.
"Yes," Registeel told her. "We're The Legendary Titans who protect The Tree of Beginning."
"Well, that's great." Emi said.
"You may pass with any friends you have, Pokemon Princess." Registeel told Emi.
"Thank you." Emi smiled to the robotic Pokemon.
They were soon able to pass through with no problem. From these Pokemon however, there would be more obstacles on the way.
"Why do I feel a chill down my spine?" Giselle asked.
"Well, it can't be the Regice, it stopped..." Samson replied as he stood with Goliath by his side.
"I know, but it just feels like something is going to attack us." Giselle said.
"I'll protect you." Samson soothed as he took her hands and looked her into her copper eyes.
Giselle soon felt safe around Samson. Samson smiled to her and she smiled back to him. Eloise could tell how happy Giselle was with Samson.
"Eloise, you're only a child, but I feel something inside of me I've never felt before." Giselle told her little sister.
"Could it be true love?" Eloise asked.
"I-I feel like it might be..." Giselle replied. "Nanny told me that true love feels like a fairy tale, like when she had first met Sir Wilkes."
"Aw!" Eloise smiled.
"I'm sure you felt your own fairy tale when you danced with Prince Kentaro." Giselle said.
"Leon." Eloise corrected.
"Oh, Eloise, his name is actually Kentaro." Giselle reminded.
"I know, but he asked me to call him Leon," Eloise explained. "We thought it could be our own special thing whenever we can communicate with each other overseas."
"Aw!" Giselle smiled.
Eloise smiled and Giselle smiled back to her little sister, and they soon shared a sisterly hug.
"Oh, I love you, Giselle, I absolutely do." Eloise smiled in the hug.
"I love you too, Eloise." Giselle smiled back.
Eloise then gave Giselle affectionate kisses on the cheek like some French people would to people they were close to such as their mother with her colleagues. Jessie and James were soon heard freaking out.
"Jessie and James?" Giselle asked worriedly.
"What's wrong?" Eloise added.
"HEEELP!" Jessie cried out.
"Calm, calm, calm down, what is it?" Giselle asked the ex-members of Team Rocket.
"That brute keeps trying to blast us!" James yelped as he pointed to Registeel.
"Must destroy Team Rocket." Registeel glared.
"Stop, Registeel!" Emi said as she came in front of the Pokemon. "Jessie and James aren't in Team Rocket anymore, and they're my friends!"
"Why should I listen to you?" Registeel asked.
Regice and Regirock whispered to Registeel about Emi's status.
"Oh, she is?" Registeel asked. "I didn't know, sorry."
"It's okay." Emi said.
"I thought these two worked with that nasty Giovanni man." Registeel said about Jessie and James.
"They used to, but not anymore," Emi replied. "I'll forgive you because you didn't know."
"Well, then you can all go ahead." Registeel allowed.
"Thank you, Registeel, this means a lot to us." Emi smiled to the Pokemon.
The Legendary Titans all soon smiled back to Emi as she was the future Pokemon Princess, though she was working her way up with each adventure.
Jessie and James soon breathed in relief.
"Molly, are you okay?" Jessie soothed.
"I'm fine, Jessie, Bobby helped me." Molly smiled.
Bobby simply smiled back bashfully.