As we walked through Eastern Forest Grovyle seemed upset. Something was wrong, I felt it too, and so did Pip. As we walked I noticed the strange feeling. Time has completely stopped still yet the Time Gear was in place, wasn't it?

"I don't believe this." Pip voiced out my fears.

"I don't either." I looked up at the Time Gear. My heart raced, overjoyed that we found the Time Gear again. Grovyle took it.

"Wait, Grovyle!"

"It doesn't matter if I take it anymore." Grovyle said. "This is bad news. Let's hurry back. Pip I want you to explore Treasure Town and see what's going on. But remember to stay low."

Pip agreed to the terms.

Grovyle enjoyed the sea while we waited for Pip. I was hard at work making a third locket. "What are you making?"

I showed it to Grovyle and opened it. Inside was a picture of Pip, me, and him. "I wanted him to have one too. Because he's one of us now." I looked up at him. He just smiled. "What?"

"This just brings back a lot of happy memories. That's all. Pip is going to love this."

I smiled and looked down at my locket. Etched in was a symbol that represented a Time Gear. I realized Grovyle's was the same way. Pip's was just plain.

"Pip. Did you get information?" I looked over at Pip.

Pip nodded. "Yeah. It seems that shortly after everyone recovered from the confusion about Dusknoir Uxie, Azelf, and Mesprite did their thing and replaced the Time Gears…only time, like we saw, never returned. And, in fact, it's spreading rapidly."

Grovyle shook his head. "No. This is bad. Way too bad." He started to pace. "Temporal Tower is collapsing and it's coming quickly." He stopped and looked at the two of us. "I'm sorry but you two will only drag me behind. You two find a way to Temporal Tower while I collect the Time Gears. They say Temporal Tower is in the Hidden Lands. And listen to me very closely," he pointed out of the mouth of the bluff, "I want you to look toward the sea."

Everyone was in agreement. As Grovyle took off I gave Pip his locket. "I don't remember how to etch in the Time Gears but…"

Pip's eyes watered. "Thank you, Ash." He hugged me.

I smiled. "Pip. I know this isn't what you want to hear but we need everyone's help. If time is running out we need to go to Wigglytuff's Guild again. We need them."

Pip frowned. "And if they don't believe us?"

"Then we'll have to live under their radar until we find what we need. Disappear until all of this is over." I smiled at him. "Let's just go."

Pip nodded reluctantly as I dragged him to the Guild. The sun was setting in the west. This scene was all too familiar.

"So uh…" Pip took a deep breath. "No, no turning back. We have to do this!" He shook me. "Tell me we have to do this."

"We have to do this."

"You have to sound more convincing than that!" He shook me even harder.

"I don't even know what we're doing! As far as I'm concerned you're leading me to my death!"

Pip turned away and took a deep breath. "Okay, I'm gonna do this." He didn't move. "Okay now…. Now…. Now I'm gonna do this."

I put my hand on both of his shoulder. "Now you're going to do this!" I demanded, pushing him onto the grate. He shrieked and tried to get away but I wouldn't let him.

"Pokémon detected! Pokémon detected!"

I smiled and pushed Pip onto the grate.

"Hey!" He froze.

"Pokémon Detected! Pokémon detected!"

"Whose footprint? Whose footprint?"

"The footprint is….T-The footprint is…footprint…" I heard the small Pokémon dig his way out of his post.

"Diglett? Where are you heading off to?" Loudrid demanded.

Diglett came up from under my feet, pushing me backward. "The Pokémon is Pip!" He yelled. "And Ash!"

Everyone came flooding from the tent. "It's true! They're back!" They exclaimed.

"Excuse me!" Chatot's voice waved over us. They parted like the red sea. Chatot and Wigglytuff came over to us and hugged us both.

"I'm so glad you two are okay!" Wigglytuff cried. "Let's get inside and you can tell us what happened."

On our way inside we took turns telling our story. Everyone stayed silent even when we were finished, they were in disbelief.

"I don't believe it!" Chatot squawked. "Dusknoir was such a gentleman he couldn't have been the bad guy! You two must've had a bad dream."

"That doesn't make any sense, Chatot." Sunflora chimed. "Then why did Dusknoir drag Pip and Ash into the hole? Pip's story makes more sense to me."

"You can't honestly believe them?"

"Well I do!" Bidoof stood by us.

"So do I."

"We do too!" Loudrid and Diglett declared.

Wigglytuff smiled and pat Chatot's back. "And so do we…don't we Chatot?"

Everyone glared at Chatot.

"He believed the story the entire time." Chatot turned as he started to laugh. "So let's do our best and find this Hidden Land!"

"We should get word to Azelf, Uxie and Mesprite too!" Sunflora declared.

"Everyone let's do our best!" I said before Chatot could. Everyone was in agreement. This was the start of the end of an excellent adventure.