"Sheesh, what's taking them so long?" Florian sighed.

"Come on man give them a minute" Oort reassured "It can take a while to wrangle Tauros like that.

From the middle of the road, Giacomo pulled out his phone Florian couldn't make out what he was saying but it sounded important whatever it was.

"Okay so umm guys slight change of plans Ortega said something went wrong with the gate and your all gonna want to run for your lives" Giacomo stammered his face white.

A pair of Aqua Breed Tauros came charging down the road from around the corner.

Then a Blaze Breed Tauros.

Then more Tauros.

Time to start running.

Florian switched to autopilot running in the opposite direction of the Tauros.

"Okay, Florian where's somewhere that a Tauros can't go? The answer high up"

Florian jumped up a stone wall safely out of the reach of the Tauros. Hopefully.

"Do you think they can get up here?" Another Team Star grunt sitting on the wall asked fearfully.

"No, no there's no way that a fat cow could jump this high" The grunt beside her responded.

Among the chaos, a Blaze Breed Tauros looked at the grunt dead in the eye as if personally insulted by the comment.

With a loud bellow, the Tauros stomped its hoove fur becoming cloaked in flames.

"Um hey, dude I don't think you should have said that" Florian panicked jumping to the other side of the wall. Looking around this was somebody's backyard. Florian duct behind a trashcan hoping the Tauros wouldn't see him.

The Tauros leaped over the wall landing on the other side. So of course it went straight for the trashcan.

Perfect.

"Well that's not good" Rinto stated at the herd of Tauros now running through Levincia.

"Nemona where are you going?" Julianna asked.

"Were do you think I'm going to wrangle the Tauros"

"Shouldn't we come up with a plan first we don't want to get hurt"

"Oh ya I guess that is a good idea"

"I could try calling Geeta but she's probably busy right now"

"Figures" Rinto muttered.

"Hey, Julianna you know Mr. Ketchum don't you why don't you ask him if he could help?" Cherry suggested.

"Oh, ya that is a good idea Cherry I think he's at the event I could call him"

"Goh, Iris, get over here" Ash called out.

"Julianna called me apparently something happened with that Team Star and there's a herd of Tauros on the loose in Levincia"

"I swear she and that Florian guy always seem to get into something" Goh sighed.

"Reminds me of Ash" Iris replied. "Anyways not important right now how do we stop a herd of rampaging Tauros?"

Ash saw the answer with his own Tauros.

"You stop a herd of Tauros with another herd of Tauros" Ash replied flying on his Dragonite.

"Iris you come with me Goh go find any rouge Tauros"

"Alright, I'm on it, Ash!" Goh yelled running down the street with his Dewgong and Cinderace.

"Tauros follow me" Ash commanded.

Ash and Iris took off on their Dragonites with his Tauros following behind him.

From his view high up Ash could see that most of the escaped Tauros were running together along a side road.

"Dragonite use Ice Beam!" Iris's Dragonite fired a beam of ice in front of the Tauros causing them to change their direction towards Ash's Tauros who drove them down another side road.

"Dracovish I choose you!"

"Use Fishious Rend!" Dracovish hit Fishious Rend on the ground creating a blast of water to drive the Tauros down another side road back toward the gate they came from.

Ash's Tauros ran along with the other Tauros nudging and prodding them with their horns to guide them back to the gate.

"Ya alright were driving them back!" Ash shouted.

"Gabite go!" Iris called.

"Use Sand Tomb!" Gabite created a swirling field of sand blocking the Tauro's escape route and turning them again.

The Tauros were back into the gate running back down the hill into the stadium.

Mission accomplished.

With most of the Tauros back in the stadium Ash landed his Dragonite.

"Thank you, Mr. Ketchum" Julianna yelled running up to him with Rinto.

"Nemona and my friends are going to see if they can find any more stray Tauros"

"Oh ya you know all in a day's work" Iris replied.

"You can get going now I'm sure you've got some important bureaucratic paperwork to file out after this incident" Rinto scoffed.

"Oh, no Rinto that's not our thing to do paperwork stuff" Ash laughed

"Oh I've seen what Rika has to do I know"

"How do you know Rika?" Ash asked. For some reason, Rika and Iris gave him a strange "What man?" look.

"Um...you do know that she's my sister right?"

Ash blinked "Oh ya of course I knew that"

After they went their separate ways Iris and Ash had a conversation about how he didn't know that Rika and Rinto were siblings. Looking back on it Ash should have noticed when he meet Rika how similar she looked to Rinto.

With that done Ash texted Goh who said he and Jacq were looking for the last few Tauros which meant he was now free to enjoy the festivities.

Before he could do any festivities Finizen popped out of his Pokeball and went for Aqua Jet.

"Capsa-kid!" the same wild Capsikid from the academy screamed dropping an apple it had stolen from a store.

"Fin! Fin!" Finizen squeaked angrily tackling the Capsikid and the two went tumbling down the street.

"Wait Finizen get back here" Ask yelled chasing after his Pokémon. Pikachu sighed as he chased after him.

Of all the things that could have happened to him today Florian didn't want to be staring down a raging bull.

Why was he staring down a raging bull run you idiot!

So that's what Florian did he took off running as fast as his legs could carry him.

The loud thundering of hooves behind him let him know that Tauros was chasing after him.

Florian leaped out of the way as the Tauros charged past him with Flame Charge.

He was trapped with tall walls on three sides with a Tauros facing him down that he couldn't outrun.

The only way out of this was to get Tauros through that wall.

"Hola vaca come and get me" The Tauros looked up eyes focused on Florian charging at him with its horns bent down Florian jumped out of the way.

The Tauros got up shaking its head out of a garbage bin.

"Is that the best you got there cow!" The Tauros let out another loud bellow charging Florian charging head first at Florian.

Florian jumped out of the way but his plan to get the Tauros threw the wall was not working and he couldn't keep avoiding it forever.

"You got anything better than that" Florian taunted.

The Tauros fur lit a fire as it charged up a Flame Charge rocketing forward at Florian.

By sheer luck, the Tauro's hoove slipped on an apple core that spilled from the garbage bag. The Tauros flipped over sailing through the air and crashing through the wall with a loud thud.

Loud shrieks and cheers came from the top of the walls around Florian.

The rest of Team Star had been watching his matador performance and had been cheering him on.

"Oh my god Florida that was fucking great" Alejandro laughed hoisting Florian up on his shoulders.

"Ya dude, he thought you were a goner" Oort patted Florian on the back.

A loud bellowing stopped Florian dead in his tracks.

The Tauros stumbled out of the hole in the wall shaking its head in anger.

"Oh fuck, oh fuck, oh fuck!" Florian yelled as the Tauros began to stomp its hoove against the ground.

As the Tauros charged at him Florian did the only thing he could think of tossing a Quick Ball to buy him some time.

One shake.

Two shakes.

Three shakes.

Caught.

"Okay everybody is very, very quiet alright" Inteleon whispered as they reached the edge of the tree line.

"What about Walking Wake," Maushold asked holding a fish out of reach of Walking Wake's head the only way they could get it to follow them.

"Just keep him as not loud as possible"

"That's not how grammar works" Aerodactyl sneered.

"He still gets what I meant"

"High there!" Inteleon shouted in surprise at the voice punching Wobbuffet in the face causing the punching bag to swing back and send him flying.

"Wobbuffet what did we tell you about doing stuff like that" Pelipper scolded.

"What I thought they wanted to know about the Pokémon stealing the crystals"

"Wait what!" everybody said in unison.

"Well Bombirdier said that's what he saw"

"Bombirdier you didn't think that was important to mention" Bramblin scolded.

"Well you said I only have to mention it if it's important and I thought it wasn't important"

"En realidad?" Veluza scoffed.

"Are you serious you freaking stork why do we even keep you around?" Glimmet yelled.

"Can you at least tell us where they are?" Great Tusk asked.

"Oh, ya right over there" Wobbuffet pointed to a trail where a group of Pokémon was moving a maroon and a black crystal through the forest.

"Alright now we need to think of a plan to stop them" Flygon pondered.

"Cune!" Walking Wake charged out before the crystals preceding to sit down and start sleeping fish tucked between its jaws.

"Well, well, well, what do we have here" Espathra scoffed.

"Observation this is a great opportunity for slaughter," Iron Treads remarked.

"Iron Treads no killing only capturing Flutter Mane Moonblast" Flutter Mane moved forward charging up a Moonblast.

"Okay, the plan is we just start attacking them!" Everybody threw themselves in front of Walking Wake.

Now everybody was in an all-out brawl.

Inteleon tried to hit Espathra with Snipe Shot but she dodged it with Feather Dance disappearing into the crowd.

"Get them!" a Brute Bonnet yelled body glowing with a Payback.

"Nope, not my problem" Intelon went for a U-Turn flipping behind Iron Thorns.

"He's your problem now"

"No problem mate" Iron Thorns fired a Pin Missle at Brute Bonnet sending it flying away.

Amongst the brawl, Inteleon could make out Espathra dodging Frogadier's Smack-Down blinding him with Lumina Crash before darting off.

"You get back here!" Inteleon yelled dodging Lokix's Throat Chop knocking out an Ambipom.

"Hey, Raichu you know where the Espathra went?"

"I saw her battling Frogadier but I haven't seen her since that" Raichu replied.

"Heads up!" Raichu yelled overpowering a High-Jump-Kick from a Lopunny with Thunder Punch.

Inteleon kept running through the battlefield dodging a Sprite Break and Air Slash from Iron Valiant and Iron Jugulis.

He saw Espathra fighting Abomasnow and Darmanitan dodging a Fire Punch and Ice Punch before using Dazzling Gleam to escape.

"Hey you Ostrich stop running away and fight me like a man" Inteleon was suddenly bowled over by Iron Treads Iron Head.

"Defiant Statement there is nothing you can do to me," Iron Treads said in a completely emotionless voice.

"Do you worst-" Before it could finish it was hit by Stantlers Confuse Ray causing it to hit itself with its trunk.

Flygon flew behind Iron Treads hitting it with an Earth Power sending flying into the air Inteleon finished it off with a Snipe Shot sending it rolling away.

"12A489D#3HM-Revolting" In place of Iron Treads was a terrifying-looking Mega Salamence.

"Oh no, not Roaring Moon" Great Tusk yelled pointing at Iron Moth "What did you do to get her to agree to this?"

"I don't know what you're talking about"

"Then what with the thing around her neck"

"A new fashion sense my friend"

"Do you really think I'm that stupid you-aahhh" Great Tusk was blasted away by Iron Bundles Hydro Pump.

With a loud roar, Roaring Moon attacked with a Dragon Claw sending Stantler and Flygon flying back.

Now she was looking Inteleon dead in the eye.

"No no, don't eat me I'm too skinny!" Inteleon yelled running behind Spidops.

"Spidops do something!"

Spidops looked up at the giant lizard and went pale.

"What do you want me to do!" Roaring Moon struck with Throat Chop which Spidops blocked with Silk Trap slowing her down.

"Alright thanks, buddy good luck with that" Inteleon kept running as he heard Spidops get blasted by Scale Shot.

He saw Team Rockets Veluza and Bombirdier knock out a Luxray and Houndoom with Psyco Cut and Rock Slide. He decided to not go near them he didn't want to break the truce between them.

He kept running to his left Bramblin and Glimmet were fighting an Arcanine with Ancient Power and Bullet Seed to his right Pelipper was fighting a Staraptor with Hydro Pump.

Why did he have to run into all the Team Rocket Pokémon?

Roaring Moon was gaining on him charging up another Scale Shot.

The only Pokémon around him that wasn't from Team Rocket was Walking Wake still sleeping with its fish.

Roaring Moon fired the Scale Shot Inteleon ducked to dodge it. One of the glowing black and white scales hit the fish in Walking Wake's mouth disintegrating it.

Walking Wake's eyes shot open like it had seen the person who killed its family.

"Cune!" Walking Wake screamed firing a Hydro Steam from its mouth. Roaring Moon flew out of the way to dodge it letting it hit Iron Moth and Iron Jugulis.

Walking Wake continued shouting Iron Bundle attacked with Ice Beam but was overpowered by Walking Wake's Flamethrower.

Roaring Moon appeared again slicing Walking Wake with Dragon Claw.

Walking Wake hissed in pain retaliating with Hydro Steam, the heat from the water burning the device around her neck.

"Oh, no that's not good" Espathra sighed.

With a loud shriek, Roaring Moon started attacking everything in sight sending multiple Pokémon flying with Dragon Claw and Scale Shot.

"Roaring Moon stop it's me Iron Valiant!" Iron Valiant pleaded but was knocked aside by Iron Head along with Iron Thorns.

Roaring Moon went flying forward at Wobbuffet slamming into him with Throat Chop.

To everyone's amazement, Wobbuffet didn't go flying.

Wobbuffet went for Counter sending Roaring Moon flying away into the horizon.

Espathra and the Paradox Pokémon had retreated with the Fighting Tera Crystal but had left the Dark Tera Crystal in their haste to retreat.

"Do think Roaring Moon will be okay?" Iron Valiant asked.

"Oh, ya she'll be fine just a little confused maybe try to eat a few people" Great Tusk replied.

"Santo Moly que fue increíble!" Veluza congratulated Wobbuffet.

"You know when you said you countered a Giratina's Shadow Ball I assumed you were lying. But now I'm starting to believe you actually did that" Pelipper remarked.

"Anyway more importantly we got a Dark Tyep Tera Crystal baby!" Inteleon celebrated by dancing on top of the black crystal.

"Ya we got one out of three" Aerodactyl sighed.

"Well it's Dark/Flying against Fighting/Flying and Psychic/Flying I'd bet on those odds"

"Also mate what do you think happened to Slither Wing?" Iron Thorns asked "I didn't see her in the battle at all"

Inteleon didn't want to know what a Slither Wing was but his first guess was a Ground/Flying winged Sandaconda.

"She's probably somewhere up here" Great Tusk responded "Knowing her probably trying to eat people"

"When do you think Goh and Jacq will get here?" Iris asked.

"Soon probably rebellious Tauros can be a handful" Saguaro replied.

With it being late in the evening Ash and Iris had been invited to a hotel lounge with the rest of the Paldean league and Academy staff.

"Why would Team Star even do something like that?" Ash wondered.

"Bullies can do wonders on messing up your mind" Ryme replied "If you feel like nobody's looking out for you then you feel like you have no choice but to take matters into your own hand"

"I can testify to that" Grusha added "The number of times someone called me a girl to insult me is too many to count"

"But then if bullies are that big of a problem then why doesn't Clavell do something about it"

"No offense to him but Clavell but he's living in the past" Dendra explained "When he went to school bullying wasn't taken seriously and he still thinks that way"

"Well Geeta could do something she's chairwoman of the school board," Iris asked.

"Geeta generally doesn't have an interest in things that don't affect the league or school directly" Rika explained helping Poppy with a coloring book "unless it affects the school's public reputation which Team Star is far worse at it's not her priority"

"And that's not bringing up the fact that they were willing to let Tauros maim or potentially kill two students" Miriam scoffed.

"I agree bullying is a serious issue but sticking dangerous Pokémon on someone is taking retaliation way too far" Kofu added.

Their discussion was interpreted by Jacq and Goh bursting through the door sweat sticking to their clothes like they had just run a marathon.

"Oh, good you're finally back how was Tauros herding?" Salvator asked.

"Hu, hu, back, hu, hu back with bad news!" Jacq panted wiping the sweat from his face.

"Hu, hu, wow sal, sala chase!" Goh stammered.

"What are you saying?" Hassel asked.

"Salamence, Salamence, chase! Salamence chase!" Jacq huffed.

"What?"

"A Salamence chased us!" The doors to the lobby burst open trapping Jacq underneath them.

Standing on top of him was a Mega-Salamence but something about it seemed off.

It looked weird almost primal with deep red feathers adorning its crescent moon-shaped wings.

End Credit Song-The Heat by The Score.

Suprise it's a three-parter that's how much I had to write

Florian owns a Tauros now and I have an actual idea of what's going to happen once we're out of Levincia in Chapter 25.

Anyway, it's like 02:00 Am right now so I should get to bed good night:)