Ember had won her first Sinnoh gym badge. The gang decided to stay in Oreburgh to explore the underground and Dawn wanted to train for her next contest. Roark offered to show them the rest of the gang the underground and the museum and they accepted.


At the moment, Roark was explained that his Cranidos came from a Skull fossil, and he also explained that Pokémon called Shieldon came from an Armor fossil.

Ember took out her Rotom phone.

[Shieldon, the Shield Pokémon. It habitually polishes its face by rubbing it against tree trunks. It is weak to attacks from behind.]

"That would be a cool Pokémon to have." Alain commented.

Roark then talked about on how much he loved fossils like a maniac. The four trainers just looked fed up.

"Roark!" A familiar voice called. Everyone turned to see Ian running towards them! "Something terrible is happening!" Ian cried.

"What? Tell me!" Roark called.

"The ancient Pokémon are on a rampage!" Ian explained.

Everyone gasped.

"I'm on my way." Roark declared.

"We'll help you." Ember decided.

"Okay." Roark said.


Roark and the others soon caught up with Officer Jenny and another scientist, Dr. Kenzo. They were surrounding a Kabutops and an Armaldo.

"Alright then. Cranidos should do them right. I want the three of you to find an opening to them while I distract them! Got it?" Roark asked.

"Right!" Ember, Alain and Brock called.

"Okay, then! Cranidos! Use Flamethrower!" Roark called.

The Headbutt Pokémon appeared, firing the Fire Type attack as a distraction.

"Okay! Go, Tesla!" Ember cried.

"Go, Sudowoodo!" Brock called.

"Glaceon, let's go!" Alain called out.

The two released their Pokémon and charged after the two ancient Pokémon. Unfortunately, the distraction didn't take long for the four Pokémon as they attacked with Bubblebeam and Hyper Beam!

"Quick dodge!" Ember, Alain and Brock called out.

The four Pokémon dodged the attacks.

"Cranidos! Use Zen Headbutt, now!" Roark called. Cranidos startled the two ancient Pokémon. "Yeah! That's it! Do it, Cranidos!"

Just as Cranidos was about to land an attack, three robot arms grabbed the three ancient Pokémon.

"Ah!" Ember, Alain, Roark, and Brock gasped. Everyone heard a familiar trio laugh. It was Team Rocket. They were on a robot, containing the Fossil Restoration Machine.

"You can't get too much of an old thing!" Jessie laughed.

"No way!" Roark gasped.

"It's the Fossil Restorer!" Kenzo snapped.

"Listen, is that the shocked twerps I hear?"

"It's clinging to me loud and clear!"

"On the wind!"

"Past the stars!"

"In your ear!"

"Natsu, Air Slash!" Ember released her shiny fire/flying type.

Natu roared as she appeared and launched his attack at the robot arms and the three Pokémon were set free. Dr. Kenzo quickly returned Armaldo and Kabutops to their Pokéballs. Ember's eyes glowed blue and the Fossil Restoration Machine was outlined blue. Then the machine was ripped out of the robot and placed safely on the ground.

"Now it's time to send you three off." Ember glanced from her side, "Guys, want to give me a hand?"

"It would be my pleasure." Roark grinned.

"Do you need to ask?" Alain grinned.

"Cranidos, Flamethrower!"

"Glaceon, Ice Shard!"

"Sudowoodo, Rock Slide!"

"Natsu, Dragon Pulse! Tesla, Thunderbolt!"

All the attacks hit the robot, causing it to explode and sent the trio flying into the sky.

"Ancient overrated anyway!" Meowth shouted.

"No, it not! And you will make us one of those machines!" Jessie demanded, pointing at James.

James shrugged, "Sorry, but I've never liked old antiques."

Wobbuffet appeared and saluted, "Wobbaffet!"

"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" The trio screamed before they disappeared into the sky.

DING!

"That takes care of one problem." Alain commented.

"Aero!"

Everyone turned to the sound and saw an Aerodactyl coming towards them.

"An Aerodactyl?!" Brock gasped.

Then Aerodactyl started to use 'Giga Impact'.

"Natsu, Protect!" Natsu quickly projected a green barrier in front of everyone. She continued holding it up until Aerodactyl was pushed off.

"Leave this to me, go Téra!" Ember released her Fossil Pokémon.

"Aero!" Téra the Aerodactyl appeared.

Then Ember placed two fingers on her Keystone glove causing it to light up as Téra's Mega Stone shined brightly.

"Key Stone, let our hearts become one! Go beyond evolution! Mega Evolve!" Ember called out.

Téra changed into her Mega Evolve form.

"Whoa." Roark muttered, amazed.

Aerodactyl began using Giga Impact.

"Téra, use Giga Impact as well!" Ember ordered.

The two Aerodactyl's tackled each other. Téra was much stronger than this newly revived Aerodactyl and was thrown back easily.

"Now Iron Head, Téra!" Téra headbutted the other Aerodactyl and the other Aerodactyl was defeated by that steel type move.

Dr. Kenzo quickly threw a Pokéball at Aerodactyl and it was sucked inside. It wiggled a few times and then 'ding'. That meant a successful capture. Téra gently picked up the Pokéball with her hands and handed it to Dr. Kenzo.

"Thank you, all of you." Dr. Kenzo thanked her, "We're safe now."

"You're welcome." Ember smiled.

Suddenly, Cranidos glowed blue. Everyone gasped. Then Cranidos grew bigger. The glow soon resided, revealing Cranidos's evolved form which was a large, dark-gray, dinosaur like Pokémon resembling a Pachycephalosaurus. It has a dome head, which obstructs its red eyes. It has blue stripes, one on its tail, and one on each of its knees and wrists. It has various spikes: one on each knee, two on the blue collar on its neck, two short ones on its nose, and four on its head. Two of these head spikes are bigger than the other two.

"Rampardos!" The Pokémon roared.

Ember took out her phone and scanned the Pokémon:

[Rampardos, the Head Butt Pokémon and the evolved form of Cranidos. Its Headbutt attack is so powerful that it can pulverize even the sturdiest of objects with one hit.]

"A powerful Pokémon huh?" Ember asked.


Afterwards, the Fossil Restoration Machine and the Fossil Pokémon were back at the museum.

"We can't thank you kids enough for saving the machine and the Pokémon from those thieves," Roark said, "For doing so, we wish to present to you these gifts. You see we found a haul of Skull and Armor fossils and we've restored them to Cranidos and Shieldon. And we wish to let you have Cranidos and Shieldon."

The gang couldn't believe this.

"Are you sure about this?" Ember asked.

"Yes." Roark answered.

"It's the least we can do." Dr Kenzo agreed.

Ember, Alain and Brock were happy with this, and they accepted by taking a Cranidos and Shieldon each. Ember's Cranidos was a shiny and Alain received a shiny Shieldon.

"What about you Dawn, do you want Cranidos and Shieldon?" Roark asked.

Dawn shook her head.

"Thank you, Roark, but Cranidos and Shieldon are not our type of Pokémon. But thanks anyway though." Dawn stated.

"Then maybe you'll like this then Dawn." Dr. Kenzo suggested. He walked out in the back for a minute and then came back again with a Pokémon egg. It was pink and white colored.

"It was left here at the museum a couple of days ago and no one has come to claim it," Dr Kenzo informed, "and I thought maybe you can have it."

Dawn takes the pink and white egg.

"Thank you." Dawn thanked Dr. Kenzo.


Pokémon Caught:

Shiny Piplup (Triton)(M)

Budew (Hana)(F)

Shinx (Raji)(M)

Shiny Buneary (Usagi)(F)

Staravia (Sora)(F)

Turtwig (Silas)(M)

Shiny Cranidos (Garnet)(F)

Shieldon (Bertrand)(M)