In the midst of a dimensional wasteland which is the Spear Pillar on Mt. Coronet, the signature mountain of the Sinnoh Region, a giant dark figure charged towards another figure within the distorted landscape and sky and within the space of a red ring. They were none other than the Sinnoh Deities of Time and Space - Dialga: the Temporal Pokemon, and Palkia: the Spatial Pokemon. The two of them are currently locked in a battle as they traded one blow after another, their immense power radiating violently as their rivalry raged on which caused a series of dimensional portals to open around them without warning and sparks of Dialga's power over Time to be shot through each of them.

But, what nobody realized was that there was evil at work here as three figures that looked like Team Rocket appeared to be watching the action with dark and menacing smirks as one of them sneered with a devilish chuckle, "It won't be long now. Soon, all Pokemon will belong to Team Rocket..."

Meanwhile, back in the Sinnoh Region in the heroes' dimension, it was Wednesday and Dawn was now at a public park stretching her arms and having a short briefing with her current Pokemon team comprised of Piplup, Mamoswine, Quilava, Buneary, Togekiss, and Pachirisu regarding their Pokemon Contest training. Despite only making it as a runner-up in the previous Sinnoh Grand Festival next to one of her closest friends and her main rival, Zoey, the loss didn't deter her from her passion because following the rest of her journey following her Sinnoh escapades and Buneary's modeling work was complete, she continued to work hard with her Pokemon in the hopes of making her mother, Johanna, proud and finally achieve her long-awaited dream of becoming a true Top Coordinator whenever that may happen.

Day 3 of our heroes' time in the Sinnoh Festival and with Dawn has finally come but what's this? It looks like Dawn and her Pokemon are prepping for another day of Pokemon Contest training.

Speaking of which, Dawn was ready and yearning to get started so she can someday attend the Grand Festival again no matter where she is and continue her dream to become a Top Coordinator. As a Pokemon Contest was currently waiting in the wing for her the following day, she wanted herself and her Pokemon to start off fresh and she wasn't going to pass the contest she'll be attending soon up.

"What a nice day! It's Pokemon Context Practice Time so let's give it our all!"

Mamoswine, Pachirisu, Togekiss, Buneary, and Quilava cheered, eager to get started and be ready for their next contest. However, Dawn realized that there was one Pokemon missing from the lineup and she knew very well who that Pokemon could be.

"Hold on, where could Piplup be?" she questioned, causing Buneary to look around and Pachirisu to look forward for her close friend and brother figure until Dawn turned back and they all saw her partner snoozing at the worst possible time.

"Piplup, why are you sleeping now?" Dawn asked incredulously, making Piplup wake up and see his best friend and everyone looking at him (the former more so with a disappointed glare). "The contest is tomorrow and we're running out of time to brush up on our routines! You gotta pull yourself together and wake up or we'll never be ready when our friends and Sarah and her family see us perform!"

But, Piplup just yawned in response and continued on with his nap, much to Dawn's chagrin as she finally snapped, "Piplup! What are you doing?! SNAP OUT OF IT!"

That got the Penguin Pokemon up with a start as Dawn continued to scold him, "Come on! What's with you lately? Just when I needed us to focus, you've done nothing but sleep all the time! Whenever we have to train for our contests or something, you always find it in you to get a few Zs in and pass up on our contests and training for them! And, the minute you're done eating when it's time for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, you simply sleep all over again! I'm sick of it!"

However, Piplup ended up pouting and pulling off a temper tantrum as he ran off to do his own thing and possibly cool down before he would be ready to train with his friends and partner again for the contest, forcing Dawn to chase after him to talk things over and straighten him and his attitude out. The rest of her Pokemon stayed behind and began to wonder what happened with their friend and why he was acting like a brat just now.

"HEY! Stop right there, mister!" Dawn snapped as she continued to go after him until she went into the nearby forest. "Piplup! Uh-!"

But, just as she had found Piplup as he was continuing his tantrum, he stopped running and noticed another girl in front of a portal that opened in front of them without their knowledge. The proud Penguin Pokemon turned to the new girl before her in surprise but he noticed something off and at the same time, shocking about her: the girl was exactly like Dawn in all but the clothing. She also cried tears as she looked at him until...

"PIPLUP!" she sobbed, sounding happy as she hugged Dawn's baffled Piplup as he tried to break free in his panic and confusion.

Seeing her partner being taken by that girl as she approached them, Piplup's Dawn was left surprised. As the new girl then crossed over through the portal back to where she came from with her partner in her hands, she tried to go after them as she called out, "Excuse me! That Piplup is mi-!"

Dawn immediately cut herself off in surprise in shock as she saw exactly what her partner saw; the girl that took her beloved partner was indeed herself in all but the clothing. Unfortunately, her surprise at seeing a double of herself cost the young coordinator her chance of rescuing Piplup as the portal closed before either of them could move, leaving the real Dawn in horror as she realized that her partner and her double are gone.

"Piplup... Piplup! No... IT CAN'T BEEEEEEEEE!"

Meanwhile, in a hotel suite at a deluxe hotel in Calavine City (with expenses paid for them and their family and friends by Kukui's old friends at Aulani and a portion of their expansive family fortune), Sarah and Asha were sleeping together as the third day of their time in Sinnoh for the Hisui Festival was about to take place. The day before, they were all having fun winding down after finally finishing off Team Galactic with the help of Arceus, the Lake Guardians, and the Creation Trio and they were looking forward to sleeping in, even for one morning before continuing with their group's research vacation. It seemed as though everything was peaceful as there was nothing around them to disturb the two sisters (especially since both of them discovered each other to be very heavy sleepers).

Unfortunately, their sleep wasn't to last because, at exactly 6:00 AM, Ash and Pikachu came bursting in without warning and shouting, "WAKE UP/WAKE UP!", spooking the two sisters and causing them to fall off of their beds with a loud crash.

"Ugh!"

"OW!"

Needless to say, they were not pleased as Asha poked her head up and glared at Ash and his partner (sporting a bedhead as she shot up), "What the hell was that for, kid? It's 6:00 in the damn morning! Haven't you ever heard of knocking?!"

"Ugh, Ash Ketchum, you and Pikachu better have a good reason for waking us up this early. I'm sure none of us remember setting an alarm clock on you," growled Sarah darkly as she shot up and plopped back on the bed while rubbing her eyes, glaring daggers at Ash and Pikachu for the rude awakening and not in the mood to yell at one of her best friends.

Before Ash could apologize and explain why, James, Nikki, Doug, and Delilah came over to them and Nikki said to Asha, "Sorry, honey, but we and Kukui just got bad news from Dawn that you and Sarah would want to hear!"

"She told us this morning that Piplup had just been kidnapped!" Doug added, shocking both girls wide awake

"What?!"

"No way!" they cried in alarm.

Once they got over the initial shock of the news about Piplup's kidnapping and dressed themselves up for the day, Sarah, Asha, and their parents all gathered their entire family over to the back of the hotel and relayed the news to them, the news leaving everybody gathered speechless.

"Dawn's Piplup was actually kidnapped by a girl looking exactly like her?!"

"No!"

"But, that's impossible! How can there be another girl like Ash's old friend? Are you sure it isn't actually a Pokemon Hunter?" Nebby, Nebula, and Reshiram gawked in shock, trying to wrap their heads around the sudden turn of events along with everyone else.

"I know but Ash told us that when Dawn called and explained to him about Piplup being kidnapped, the person looked exactly like her in all but clothing. And, no, Reshiram, that rules out the Pokemon Hunter theory since the girl didn't have any bad intentions on what to do with her Piplup, " Sarah replied.

"But, if it truly is not a Pokemon Hunter and the little girl that Dawn saw taking her Piplup was a supposedly exact version of her, a double, no less... What could she want with him exactly if she's not as bad as the situation suggests?" Suicune pondered just as Reader paused and her breathing was hitched as her eyes glowed bright white again.

"Again, Reader?" Sarah blinked, checking her draconic seer.

"It must be related to the final part of the prophecy she received after Team Galacatic's final defeat," Raikou suggested just as the Sun Sword attached to Mudsdale's saddle sparkled and rattled, catching the princess' attention as she pulled it out and noticed Dialga and Palkia's gems blinking rapidly in a blinding mix of blue and pink lights.

"Hey, what's with Dialga and Palkia's gems?" blinked Hashimoto.

"I've never seen them going on and off like that before."

"You okay?" Naxoreal quizzed as Reader returned to normal and she tried to comfort her as she looked a little scared.

"This is... This is exactly what the last line of my prophecy meant!" she quivered as she recalled the final line. "It's happening now, 'When two deities clash, the balance will fall unless two worlds combine to fix it all'!"

"Oh, come on! Are you telling me we're not through with this doom and gloom BS?!" Eternatus snapped with an aggravated groan. "We already got enough of that with that lava freakazoid that ate that glowing plank and the lava bug so what's the story here?"

"I guess we'll have to meet up with Dawn and ask her more about what happened and what it could mean if we're to stop this from getting worse wherever Piplup is now," Sarah decided as everybody gave her knowing nods, unaware that what she and her family and friends are about to experience would turn everything she knew from Dia about a particular topic only they knew well both on its head and from a new yet unexpected perspective.

Returning to the park she was meant to be training with her Pokemon, Dawn had returned and was silently fretting with sheer worry about what could happen to her Piplup after her double had taken him away from her and vanished through the portal she came from. She had hit a roadblock with this crazy predicament of hers and she didn't know what to do by the time all of her friends arrived with Brock taking time off of his medical duties and studies to help out on this case.

"...Hi, Dawn," Sarah began with a sympathetic frown as carefully as she could.

"Sorry to keep you waiting," added Ash, looking just as concerned.

"Hi, Ash, Brock, guys..." Dawn sniffed, doing her best not to break down in front of everyone over the unexpected loss of her partner despite their previous fallout.

"We're sorry about what happened," Asha added, wincing with worry for Dawn.

"We heard from Kukui and Burnet when Professor Rowan contacted them and explained that Piplip and all of Sinnoh's Pokemon from trainers vanished without a trace," added Nikki, trying to be gentle.

"How are you holding up?" Brock asked, also feeling concerned for Dawn.

"Yeah, well, no need to worry... Though, I really wish I felt that way," Dawn replied, doing her best to remain strong despite feeling broken in her heart.

"How could you not worry at a time like this?"

"Yeah, and this was right after your Piplup was taken away from you by your double," Kiawe and Sophocles retorted with great concern which got them gentle but firm nudges from Wooloo and Ponyta as they baaed and neighed at them to be more sensible to Dawn's feelings.

"I thought of that ever since we were told so I brought you this!" Ash replied, showing some food that he brought for her to eat. "Ta-Da, fresh piping hot croquettes! Why don't we fuel up first and then we can figure out what to do to save Piplup?"

Dawn started to tear up, crying tears of joy for the support she was given; despite her worries about Piplup's fate after her double took her to wherever she came from and being in a major slump with the Pokemon Contest she's about to enter only hours from tomorrow, her friends somehow found a way to cheer her up and give her hope that there is a chance her Piplup will be alright and they'll support her in their rescue attempt to save him. It warmed her heart to know that she can always have friends to rely on to help her work out her troubles and this latest crisis regarding what happened to Piplup and all the Pokemon of Sinnoh belonging to trainers is no exception.

"Oh, Ash... This isn't like me, isn't it?!" she began, doing her best to stifle her tears and steel herself for her partner's sake.

"Dawn," Brock breathed, a little relieved despite his lingering concern for his other old friend.

"Are you sure you're okay?" Burnet asked as Sarah's Piplup, Snowy, and Snowflake cooed before they jumped onto her lap and gave her comforting nuzzles.

"Yep! I'm fine, now! There really is no need to worry, I know that Piplup will be fine somehow!" Dawn smiled with determination.

Everyone smiled warmly and after having some of the croquettes Ash bought for the entire group along with a couple of other snacks and fast food selections they bought and brought over from Calavine City, Dawn relayed everything that went down with her recollection confirming the suspicions Sarah and her family previously had in their private discussion back at the hotel.

"Really? So, Piplup was taken by someone who looked exactly like you, almost like she's your double?"

"Or your twin sister if you even have one?" Amelia and Dom blinked in surprise.

Dawn just nodded as she continued, "Mm-hmm, the clothes she was wearing when I saw her were just like mine but they were colored differently."

"Wow, no joke..." Ash remarked.

"Hmm, this is weirder than a Gyarados Calm Minding its own business when they don't get aggressive and nasty at certain points."

"But, how can it be possible for two of you to exist, and at the same time, as well?" Kukui and Burnet pondered in confusion as they each took a bite out of their croquettes along with Munchlax.

"Freaky. Sounds like you've got yourself a nearly identical twin as Dom mentioned," Ollie commented, a little baffled.

"Yeah. I heard that there can be other people in the world that look like you before. But, this... I have a feeling that this is different compared to what we've been through before and after," Dawn put in, causing the others to softly gasp as their curiosity got the better of them and they listened carefully.

"Huh?" Ash wondered.

"That girl was hugging Piplup when she entered a strange hole of light and it disappeared as soon as I arrived."

"What?"

"A strange whole of light?" Brock and Race quizzed.

"Yeah, and after that, they just disappeared into it without a trace!"

"You mean, like an Ultra Wormhole?" Ash asked.

"A dimensional gate, Ms. Dawn?"

"Or, maybe, some kind of portal?" Cobalt and Tyson inquired as they and their family became suspicious and deep in thought over what she said.

Dawn sighed as she then added while recalling her meeting with Officer Jenny, "I'm not sure, really. It looked nothing like the dimensional gate or an Ultra Wormhole but I can guess it was an actual portal. And, when I went to Officer Jenny to report it..."

[Flashback]

"There are actually a large number of cases that matched your description. According to eyewitness testimonies, that hole you saw appeared to be somehow connected to another undetermined location. We've been referring to this strange phenomenon happening all across Sinnoh as a gate," Officer Jenny informed, relaying what she and the Sinnoh Police Force had uncovered once they'd been given the case.

[End Flashback]

"A gate?"

"To some sort of strange location that nobody knows about?"

"It does seem strange now that I think about it," Lana, Mallow, and Lillie replied curiously.

Everyone thought for a moment what Dawn told them could mean, especially with the information regarding the strange light being a gate to wherever her twin came from with her Piplup at hand. They all thought hard until Sarah gasped in realization, recalling her time in Dia and Zeraora's world and learning about what the leader of the Power Rangers Beast Defenders told her about Parallel Worlds.

"...I know what you might've seen, Dawn," the little princess spoke up, turning to Dawn.

Dawn gasped, feeling hopeful as she asked, "You do?!"

Sarah nodded as she turned to Ash, "Hey, Ash, remember me telling you guys all about the time when Tapu Koko first teleported me, Solar, and the Pokemon joining us to Dia's world so we can help him and his Zeraora friend face off against Guzzlord?"

"Yeah, after you got back, you told us everything that happened and how he mentioned something about parallel words or some-!" Ash then cut himself off as he and everyone else gasped upon hearing the words, "Parallel Worlds", being spoken.

"PARALLEL WORLDS!"

"Oh, no!"

"Again?!" Nebby and Silvally groaned, exasperated.

"Parallel Worlds?" Dawn, Hiccup, Zayto, and Ryder asked on behalf of the rangers, Vikings, the PAW Patrol, and everybody else that didn't know yet about some of the Alola Gang's previous and most bizarre adventures.

"The Alola of Ruin?" Asha clarified, getting a nod from her sister-in-law.

"Last year, while my family and I were heading for school, we came across Tapu Koko who said he wanted us to solve a crisis of some sort that threatened to put all of Alola in another dimension somewhere within the Multiverse out of whack and destroy it as well as the rest of the world. We got zapped into a Parallel Alola of some sort that was destroyed by the Dragon of Glutonny from the Ultra Dimension, Guzzlord, where the Legendary Beasts with us now, Beautifly, Seviper, and Dawn, my Midday Lycanroc, came from. That was also where we met Dia and his Zeraora, both of whom had been working for weeks or months on end or so to kick him out ever since he appeared and destroyed much of his world before we got rid of him and they set to work on restoring their world after we left, starting with their Alola."

"For real, dudette?!"

"SAY, WHAT?"

"Puptastic, a new dimension in the multiverse!"

"Did you really cross dimensions to a world of ruin by Tapu Koko?" Zuma, Cyborg, Chase, and Beast Boy cried in alarm and surprise.

"All to help take down a literal dragon from the Ultra Dimension that made a mess out of that guy's world and Alola?" blinked a baffled Robin.

"We did, why else would we be here to tell the tale?" Zorua nodded.

Sarah continued as she explained, "While we were taking shelter at the old Pokemon School following Guzzlord's attack on the region and the world, Dia told me that Parallel Worlds exist as if there are two worlds completely different from each other and yet, the second world would be completely identical to our own in any way possible."

"That would explain why the girl that took Piplup looked almost exactly like you, Dawn," Raven (Teen Titan) nodded.

"You don't mean...?" gasped Tsukumaro, realizing what his goddaughter was alluding to.

Sarah nodded as she turned and confirmed to Dawn, "Dawn, I think Piplup was just taken to another world by your double, a Sinnoh Region parallel to ours through that gate you saw. It's exactly how my Zeraora, Nebby, Poipole, Silvally, Nebula, Blitz, Star, Zorua, and I were transported to Dia's world and Alola Region to help him and his Zeraora against Guzzlord via Tapu Koko when we first battled him that day."

"That is possible... I would be remiss if I didn't admit we also felt a strange disturbance in the Space-Time Continuum just now," Sol admitted with a thoughtful nod to Sarah's reasoning.

"Well, I guess that rules you out of this one, Discord," sighed an annoyed Ashia, eying Discord as he put a cheeky arm around her.

"Aww! You mean that, Ashia, dear? Why, I'm so touched yet hurt you would even think I would meddle with space and time," Discord smooth-talked with a cheeky smile, only earning a warning stink-eye from the Spirit of Order as she pushed him away from her.

"Hey, don't push your luck, you floating jigsaw. You were lucky I was merciful to take you in after Opaline busted you up and kicked you out of Equestria in a mangled heap."

"Whatever the case, I fear for the other worlds and dimensions should they get caught in the crossfire. They could very well suffer the same consequences or worse if something isn't done to stop this insanity as Reader foresaw in her vision," Nuraiah concurred with a worried frown as Sarah took out and looked at her Dialga and Palkia gems as they continued to shimmer and blink.

"So, what's the deal? Something's out of buzz with the bigshots of time and space, isn't that why their gems kept on blinking like that?" Parosea pondered.

"Actually, Sister Parosea, the gems are bonded to each Legendary and Mythical Pokemon when they were made so if they're in danger, they glow like that as a warning," Magearna clarified.

"So, if her gems were able to shimmer in such a frantic way, that must mean there is some sort of danger that Palkia and Dialga are facing right now," Starfire theorized.

"But, how can that be? We saw Dialga and Palkia along with Giratina and Arceus on the first day of the Hisui Festival and the only dangers we confronted that night were Team Galactic and the Heatran Colossal. After that, Dialga and Palkia went back to their respective realms and the last time something happened to them was in Alamos Town when Godey's nightmare about them battling each other came to fruition as Ash, Dawn, and Brock told us," Theo rebutted.

"That's true, the only reason they fought was that they thought they each disturbed each other's realm. And, that caused them to fight which nearly warped us all into another dimension that would've destroyed us had it not been for our efforts to stop them and Darkrai once the truth about him and what's been happening at the time came out," Brock nodded knowingly.

"Even so, if they really are in trouble and the gems are sending us a warning, we've got to find out what's the cause of this. We have to find out if they really are fighting again since it's having an effect on the Multiverse," Robin put in.

"Gee, of all the ways to repay a debt, this had to be it. Now, I've heard everything," Silvally griped in annoyance.

"You mean, we're going to the Multiverse?!"

"Awesome!"

"Sweet, we're going to be crossing dimensions!" Togepi, Cyndaquil, and Beast Boy cheered excitedly.

"Oh, not again!" Luna (Midnight Form Lycanroc) groaned, facepalming himself.

"No how, no way! I am NOT going through with supposedly losing our human mother to dimensional travel again!" Dusk (Dusk Form Lycanroc) agreed adamantly.

"Interesting, we could be living out our own 'Dr. Strange: Madness in the Multiverse' adventure," Xatu pondered curiously.

"Well, just as long as we don't create a paradox to scramble our brains," James' Dragonite replied.

"Okay, so if we all agree to find and follow Dawn's double, how are we supposed to get to her world? We don't know how one of those gates would open," Lillie noted which got Aiyon, Solon, and Zayto thinking as they then turned to each other and nodded in agreement.

"Well, there is a way we can do that. Maybe if we use the power of the Cosmic Dino Key and use it to access the Multiverse and find the parallel Sinnoh Region Dawn's twin disappeared to, we might be able to find Piplup and bring him home safely while looking into the mystery of the Pokemon's disappearance," Solon suggested.

"Unfortunately, that's about as unpredictable as unpredictable gets, Solon. If we're going to find the gate leading to the parallel Sinnoh Region, we need to-"

Sarah was unfortunately cut off as a clamp via a fishing pole ensnared Ash's Pikachu and the startled Kanto Mouse Pokemon screamed in panic as everyone looked in shock to see Team Rocket sneering at the heroes with James holding the fishing pole that caught Pikachu.

"I won't throw this Pikachu back!"

"It looks like trailing the super twerps to Sinnoh really paid off," Jessie and James snarked devilishly.

"It's Team Rocket!"

"Aww, man! And, just when we're about to head off to do you-know-what!" grumbled Rocky (Shovelhelm).

"Team Rocket?" the PAW Patrol puzzled in confusion.

"You mean that infamous trio, Jessie, James, and Meowth that always fouled up their schemes and landed at the bottom of the Team Rocket ladder?" Ryder quizzed, narrowing his eyes at the evil yet mischievous trio.

"ARGH! Back off, Kane, King, and Queen! This is none of your business and that Pikachu doesn't belong to you, stay out of this!" snapped Tyson.

"Catch ya later, kiddies!"

"See ya never, never, never, never, never, never, never!" taunted Meowth and Wobuffett.

"I got 'im! Those stooges are starting to bug me, big time!" Thunderalier snarled as he darted after them and destroyed the clamp holding Pikachu with a powerful Dragon Claw.

Team Rocket screamed in shock and panic at losing Pikachu yet again as the Kanto Mouse Pokemon screamed for help as he fell down only to be caught by Thunderalier at the last minute when he caught him when he was only several feet from the ground and flew back to the heroes.

"Pikachu!" Ash called, approaching the two Electric Types as his Pikachu safely returned to his arms once Thunderailer approached him.

"Nice shot, Thunderailer!" Race called.

"Good job, boy! I'll take it from here! Transport: Beast-X King Ultra Bow!" Sarah nodded, teleporting her Beast-X King Ultra Bow and pointing it directly at Team Rocket's Meowth balloon before firing. "Have a nice flight, Power Bolt!"

That did the trick as the Power Bolt punctured the balloon after it had been fired, Team Rocket screaming as they were having yet another blast-off and a premature one at that (and thankfully, on their part, without another one of Bewear and Stufful's New Blasts given that they didn't follow them to Sinnoh).

"WE'RE BLASTING OFF AGAAAAAAAIIIIIINNNNNN!"

"WHY, CRUEL WORLD?!" Team Rocket and Wobuffett wailed as they disappeared and the heroes sighed incredulously despite their relief.

"That didn't take long," Casey sighed, unimpressed at Team Rocket.

"Some folks never learn," grumbled Dawn (trainer) in agreement.

But, their relief was short-lived because they soon saw a gate opening in front of them, and to their surprise and shock, Team Rocket was back but they soon noticed something strange about this Team Rocket group. While they do look like Meowth, James, Jessie, and her Wobuffett, they were wearing more high-tech battle suits complete with armor, gauntlets, rocket-powered jets, and even a head-scanner for Wobuffett. What's most unnerving about them is the way they sneered at the heroes; unlike the goofy and taunting bully smirks the original Team Rocket would give them, this Team Rocket sneered at them with truly menacing and terrifying smirks as they sniggered darkly.

"Prepare for battle," the battle-ready Jessie announced, her devilish smirk never fading from her face.

"Team Rocket again?!"

"How'd they get back without their balloon after Sarah popped it?" Ash and Mallow gasped.

"They don't know when to quit!" grumbled Kiawe.

"Yeah, and where'd they get all that gear?" Sophocles pondered, looking at their gadgets and armor.

"Hold it, guys! My system's telling me something's off about those guys; that's not the Team Rocket you told us about," Steel remarked, seeing how different the Team Rocket before them looked.

"Steel's right; the Team Rocket we saw earlier seemed like a bunch of clowns and Thunderailer and Sarah took them down easily. But, this Team Rocket, I have a bad feeling about this," Nate agreed, feeling uneasy about the new Team Rocket as Sarah pointed her Beast-X King Ultra Bow at them.

"Be careful, everybody! The Team Rocket before us is definitely nothing like the one we saw before which means they must be an alternate version of them, they look like they're formidable opponents so watch your backs!" Sarah warned, keeping her Ultra Bow primed and ready as everybody got into their battle stance with Thunderailer, Chen Li, Star, Cobalt, Blaze, Ghost (Dragapult), Guardeon, Umbreon, their families, and Sylveon prepared to fight.

"Targets acquired."

"Begin capture of the Alolan Royal Family, humans included. Begin the attack!" the Alternate Team Rocket's Jessie and James called, preparing to battle the Alolan Royal Family as everybody else was secondary to them.

"Dark Pulse, go!" Alternate Meowth smirked, firing a Dark Pulse before Lana and Kiawe drew their PokeFury Sabers and blocked the Dark Pulse before slashing it away as the others joined them with their sabers drawn.

"Not on our watch!"

"If you want Sarah and her family, you'll have to go through us first!" Lana and Kiawe spat.

"Hmph, you talk big but can you back it up?" Alternate Meowth sneered before he attacked again. "Here's my Slash attack!"

"Let's get 'em!" Ash called as he and the others and their Pokemon all let out battle cries as they charged into battle.

"No, guys, wait! You don't know what they could be capable of! Wait! Stop!" cried Sarah, shocked at seeing her friends charging in to defend her and her family.

"Tsareena, Trop Kick!" Mallow called as she and both her partner and her Shaymin clashed with Alternate Meowth as he unleashed a fury of Slash attacks on them and held his own while keeping his smirk on his face as he continued his assault while they got help from Ash, Pikachu, Lillie, and Snowy.

"Primarina, Sparkling Aria!"

"Togedemaru, Zing Zap! Vikavolt, use Zap Cannon!"

"Turtonator, Pyroar, Double Flamethrower, now!" Sophocles, Lana, and Kiawe shouted, having their partners fire their attacks as they converged into one blast.

"Hmph, useless. Wobuffett," Alternate Jessie continued to smirk, signaling Alternate Wobuffett to use Mirror Coat as he got in front of his crew and deflected their attacks back, almost as if it was completely second nature to him.

"LOOK OUT!" Diane and Johnathan screamed in panic, forcing Sarah and both Ravens to use their powers to shield the group but being too late as their shields were shattered after they were brought up and Ash and the Pokemon School Gang and their Pokemon were struck hard.

"GUYS, NO!" Sarah bellowed in horror.

Alternate Jessie was impressed by what she saw from Ash and the others and after she, Alternate James, and Alternate Meowth shared an agreeing nod, her devilish smirk widened as she then said to Alternate Wobuffett, "Hmm, so there are some twerps here who do have some spine, very impressive. Capture them instead, we've got plans for them and the princess if they try anything!"

"Capture, on!" Alternate Wobuffett nodded as he fired some electric nets from a gauntlet on his right arm and ensnarled the Pokemon School Gang, Ash, and their Pokemon as they screamed from the shock they were given.

"AAAAAAHHHH/AAAAAHHHH!"

"ASH/NO!" Brock and Dawn cried, utterly horrified.

"Mallow!"

"Lillie!"

"Kiawe!"

"Sophocles!"

"Lana!" Steel, Casey, Amelia, Ollie, and Izzy (Unicorn) screamed, seeing Ash and the Pokemon School Gang and their Pokemon knocked out cold.

Alternate Jessie smirked as she then said to Sarah and her team before Alternate Team Rocket could make their, "Operation: Complete. Heed our warning, Princess; whether or not you'll see your precious twerp guard again will all entirely depend on you and your family. Retreat."

With that said, Alternate Team Rocket made their way back through the gate with their prisoners, confident in their success and what they plan to do with them once they return to their own world. A speechless and horrorstruck Sarah felt helpless as she watched them disappear just as the gate started to close in front of her and the others until Palkia's gem (which was still rapidly blinking) sent out a beam moments later at the gate just as it was about to close completely and expanded it, making it big enough for everybody to fit through.

"That's cool," blinked Javi in surprise.

"Come on, the gate's open for all of us so this is our chance!" James called out as he, Nikki, and Asha along with their Pokemon charged through the gate first.

"Now or never!"

"Let's go!" Houndoom and Misa shouted as they also hurried through the gate with everybody else following them.

As she watched on, Sarah steeled herself and nodded as she was the last one to enter the gate as she dived inside, the gate closing behind them after the princess managed to make it through and join her family and friends with them.

"That went well," panted Silvally with a gripe.

"Whose bright idea to get in here was this, anyway?!" Tou-Tou whimpered as he shivered and stayed close to his brother.

"What I want to know is where were those Team Rocket jokers earlier?" Brawleon pondered.

"We lost them just as we entered the gate moments earlier," Freezeon noted to her brother.

"Yeah, but what I don't get is where are we now? Officer Jenny said if we went through a gate, we'd be connected to some other place. Or, maybe, as Sarah said if this is a parallel world in the Multiverse, a new world," Dawn said.

"Well, let's hope we find the princess' friends. And, if they're anywhere in sight, Team Rocket might not b-Holy Heliolisk!" Tsukumaro shrieked in horror once he saw where their group is currently at.

"Tsukumaro, dear! Whatever is-OH, GOODNESS!"

"What the Rayaquaza!?"

"What's happened to the Sinnoh Region?!" Donna (former queen), David, and Brock screamed as terror gripped their and everyone else's hearts once they finally noticed their current location.

There, standing out in front of them and beyond, lay Parallel Sinnoh but it was not an exact copy of the Sinnoh Region they knew; the Sinnoh Region before them was filled with miles and miles of sand that had scorch marks on them and metal machine parts scattered about and the air was putrid, smelling more like smoke and ash. The landscape before them was nothing but a barren wasteland devoid of life, almost in the same scenario that had befallen Dia's world and Alola.

It was so bad that the Spinda Girls (whom Race, Aiyon, and Asha named Sally, Cindy, and Penny) whimpered as they hugged their trainers' legs and hid behind them in terror.

"Uh, guys, I don't think we're in our Sinnoh Region anymore."

"Yeah, no offense, Dawn, but... I kinda like our Sinnoh Region more compared to this," Ella and Tuck gulped worriedly.

"Whoa nelly," breathed an astonished and horrified Applejack.

"Roarin' T-Rexes..." remarked a stupified and stunned Rex.

"This is definitely not like the royal gardens from Barkinburg Palace," Sweetie said, concerned as she saw the place no longer teaming with life.

"Looks as though an entire army of some kind trampled this place flat," Race winced.

"There's nothing in it!" Dawn cried.

"It's nothing but a total wasteland!" added a scared Skye.

"Muy vacío, I wonder what could've happened to make this place so barren and lifeless compared to our Sinnoh back home," Tracker thought worriedly as he rubbed a paw across the sand.

"It's like our second war against Opaline and her forces but this time, there's nothing left and it looked as though evil triumphed over this world," Delilah breathed, horrified as she got on her knees and started weeping quietly for the lives that had been lost in the wasteland.

"Uh, guys, are you wearing contact lenses or something?" Appa blinked once he looked up at the sky and gasped.

"No, why?" Jax asked.

"He's right, I'm seeing what looked like an Aurora Borealis in purple and pink," gawked Rani as everybody gasped in shock at the sight.

"And, blue, too!" added Barkley, noticing large portions of blue mixing in with the purple and pink of the strange Aurora Borealis.

"Whoa!"

"Yeah, guys, I also have a feeling we're no longer home or in a thriving Sinnoh thanks to that weird gem," Whiskers and Andres quipped.

"But, that's impossible! The Aurora Borealis can't be here in this desert, we're miles away from the Arctic Circle and this doesn't make any sense!" Everest balked.

"Which means something else is at play here and it must be what's making this Sinnoh the wasteland it is now. What'll we do now, Sarah?" Ryder questioned the princess after theorizing what it could mean.

"We came here to rescue my friends from the Alternate Team Rocket, didn't we? And, something is definitely wrong in this Sinnoh judging by that aurora so... I guess we don't have any choice. We'll have to walk until we find any human civilization. That is if there are any towns or cities left standing," Sarah sighed as the entire group made their way through the desert.

But, as they walked across the desert, there was no sign of any human civilization in sight. Even with the temperature being merciful for the Beast Bots, Steel, and Solon along with the Ice Types, they were soon getting desperate.

Their fortunes were to turn for the better, however, because after walking a few more long yards across the wasteland, Skitty perked up as she meowed and found something that caught her attention. What she saw was a large scrapyard comprised of discarded vehicles including cars, trucks, mopeds, limousines, and so on and in the middle of it all, there was a small yellow sunflower that was able to sprout amidst all of the destruction.

"Flower! Flower, flower, nya!" smiled the Kitten Pokemon, running towards the flower and wagging her tail happily as she looked at it.

"Well, at least we now know this isn't all doom and gloom if that's any indicator," Casey smiled softly along with his team.

"It's amazing. This little sunflower was able to sprout in a desert wasteland and in a junkyard, no less," Falcon admitted, surprised.

"Cyborg, any other signs of life besides that flower around here?" Robin asked as Cyborg checked his computer internals and scanned the place before he found what they were looking for in the area.

"Got a lock, about eight small bio signs not too far from here and they're coming fast. Should be about..." he confirmed as the bionic titan kept his eyes open for the life signs he managed to detect.

"Over there, look!" cried Rex in shock as he directed the group to what looked like eight small figures coming towards them with relieved faces.

When the figures revealed themselves, they were discovered to be a small pack of six puppies and a pair of fillies with no guardians or parents with them.

Amongst the small puppy pack, there were three females which included a Pomeranian x Dalmatian Mix with a pink scarf around her neck, a German Shepard x Pomeranian Mix wearing a small gray tiara, a sterling silver necklace with a purple diamond gemstone in the center, and a small bracelet with a small violet purple scarf around her neck, and a Cocker Spaniel x German Shepard Mix who only had a pink collar with a white star around her neck.

The males consisted of a Beagle x German Shepard Mix with two pink music note marks on his right cheek with the same symbol as a Pup Tag attached to his blue-colored collar, a Dalmatian x Poodle Mix with only a red scarf around his neck, and a Landingham Pekingese x German Shepard Mix with no form of accessory or identification.

As for the two fillies, they were no younger than Equestria's Pippsqueaks which included Peach Fizz, Seashell, and Glory (Pegasus) with the first filly being a peach-orange unicorn with a jam burgundy striped mane and tail with the majority of them being a lighter shade and a Cutie Mark that was a light-blue star within a blue circle and a dark-blue outline around it and the second filly being an alicorn with a violet coat and a long mane and tail that had dark-yellow, dark-red, and regular purple stripes and her Cutie Mark was a large sphere that had a smaller green sphere inside it that's surrounded by three stars. The alicorn filly even had a tiny hoof-made saddleback on her back which had her Cutie Mark on it acting as a clip.

"What in tarnation...?"

"Oh, by my name!"

"What is this?"

"No way!"

"How is it possible?!" Applejack, Celestia, Twilight, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy balked.

"Six puppies like us and two fillies, all alone in this place!" Marshall blinked, stunned.

"Okay, that's...weird. Huh, sounds strange coming from me," Discord remarked, scratching his head in confusion.

"Whoa, dudes! This is crazy, there's actual life living in this wasteland and not just that flower!" Beast Boy cried in shock.

"But, what on earth could they be doing here?" Sweetie asked.

"I've heard of this in Ranger History class; in the universe where the RPM Rangers fought, a virus named Venjix nearly destroyed all of humanity there and many people were forced to flee to the domed city of Corinth. But, in all the chaos that followed since the virus attacked, many people were left behind when the shields were activated," Nate explained.

"Domed city of Corinth?" R.J. echoed.

"Left behind?"

"Out in these wastelands?" Heart and Tail gasped.

"Yeah, I remember learning about that, too. These poor fellas must've been left behind as well since animals that were affected by Venjix's invasion were victims of his wrath as well. Somebody must've forgotten about them while the people in this Sinnoh were evacuating to a safe spot," Ravi nodded solemnly.

"You're right, Ravi," nodded Trooper grimly.

"The poor things," Cadence softly wept as Chase leaned onto her to give her comfort.

"Well, now, this is a surprise. I never thought we'd ever seen humans outside of the dome and without any stragglers following them in sight," the Landingham Pekingese x German Shepard Mix commented (voice actor - Sunil (Littlest Pet Shop)).

"Uh... Yeah, well... You see, we're, uh..." Sarah began, not knowing how to respond until Race held her right shoulder and nodded reassuringly before he stepped forward to greet the fillies and puppies.

"Look, we're not native around these parts. We're just lost, trying to find human civilization after stumbling from where we came from, I'm Race and this is Island Girl, Sarah Tomoe. What are you guys doing here?" Race put in.

The male Landingham Pekingese x German Shepard Mix nodded as he then spoke, "My name's Flax. These guys here are my brothers and sisters: Jingle, Bling-Bling, Mazie, 14-Karot, and Knok-Knok. The fillies here are Amber Light and Sunlight Burst. Well, as for why we're here..."

"Our owners completely forgot about us!" Mazie barked.

"Yeah, we got separated from them during the evacuation to the domed city of Twinleaf Town and we don't know what happened to them," Jingle added with a nod.

"Domed city of Twinleaf Town?" Cocoa echoed.

"Just like the domed city of Corinth in the RPM Rangers' universe!" gasped Zoey, remembering what she, Devon, and Steel also learned in Ranger History class at Grid Battleforce.

"We tried to find them and Twinleaf Town as best we could but everywhere we went, there was sand, sand, and more sand. And, that's on top of the junk and destruction we had to take shelter in while we were on the run, everything looked the same no matter where we turned," 14-Karot frowned, feeling defeated.

"No kidding, must be pretty hard for you trying to figure out where you're going with the world in a real mess," Sunny agreed sympathetically.

"Your owners, they didn't come back for you when they found out you're missing?" Ryder asked as gently as he could.

"How can they? The wastelands are too dangerous and are crawling with whatever's around us by now," Bling-Bling rebutted as well.

"It's been two years since Twinleaf Town became the only safe haven left and we've had to fend for ourselves in that time, too," Frax sighed sadly, looking down at the ground and thinking of his family's owners as well as the owners of the fillies with them, wondering if they're okay.

"TWO YEARS?!" the entire Core PAW Patrol team and Ryder balked in total shock.

"Oh, you poor things! How did you ever manage to pull something like that off?" gasped Skye.

"That's dangerous!"

"Even if you were about a few feet from Twinleaf Town, it's still a risk having to stay out here with nothing but stand and rusting metal around you!" Rubble and Chase cried.

"You're kidding, right?"

"I can't believe you were able to survive for that long and not die!" Theo and Lily added in utter shock and disbelief, the pups nodding to confirm that what happened to them is the truth.

Hitch felt bad for them along with Fluttershy and even his animal friends with him including Kenith, McSnipslot, and a second seagull came over to the pups and the fillies and comforted them, the male Earth Pony then deciding to help them as he used his Earth Pony magic to create a small vine that had berries on them for the pups and the fillies to eat in case they were starving and had no more food on them.

"Whoa..." the new pups gasped while the fillies chirped in awe at him before they each took a berry and hummed in delight as they ate them.

Hitch just smiled warmly as he said, "I know it's not much given the conditions of this place but maybe they'll help you last until we get you all to Twinleaf Town."

Sarah smiled thankfully to Hitch along with everyone else now that the fillies and the forgotten pups were in good hands until they found their old owners but she looked back at the wasteland around them and could only frown sadly as she wondered what could've happened to the world that they're in.

"How... How did this world get so broken as the world around Corinth once was?" she thought.

Of course, Izzy, being the creative and bubbly unicorn that she is, quickly scampered over to a rundown tramcar she just spotted amongst the wreckage and her eyes gave a bright sparkle, a sign that her creativity bug was biting again and she was getting ideas on what she wanted to do with it. "Hmm..."

"Izzy, what is it you think you plan on doing with that destroyed tramway car?" Starfire (Teen Titan) questioned.

"Well... I suppose it's time, for a little unicycling!" the happy-go-lucky unicorn squealed excitedly.

"What?" Robin asked, raising an eyebrow at her in confusion.

"It's what Izzy mainly cause recycling. Believe it or not, she's actually pretty good at what she does. Never one to let anything she finds useful go to waste," Zipp chuckled, striking a chord in Rocky (Mixed Breed) as he came over to the tramcar and had the same mindset as Izzy and joined her while looking over the car.

"Yeah, in fact, I think we can reuse this old runner and turn it into something new to help us get across this wasteland and find out where this domed Twinleaf Town is," he smiled.

"Are you sure? that tramcar hasn't been used in years and whatever destroyed this world and made it a wasteland save for Twinleaf Town would've rendered it useless," Chase said doubtfully.

"With all of us working together, anything is possible! Team Friendship!" Izzy (unicorn) grinned as she giggled innocently.

"Don't you dare..."

"Oh no, you're not pulling that stupid friendship card on us like that this time," Silvally and Eternatus warned, not liking where she was going.

"...Alright, Izzy. If you really think so, let's do it!" Sunny decided, smiling as she decided to trust her best friend as a musical montage began and everybody began to rework the tramcar and make it operational and into something brand new that'll allow them to traverse the wasteland and find Twinleaf Town.

[Work Work Work Song (Reprise)]

(Mane 6)

Just a little touch-up
Just a little paint
And we'll be done in no time

True to her crafty nature, Izzy (unicorn) searched through a nearby box as she tossed some things away. As she did so, Zipp and Cam came by after they found some rope and handed it to her with a smile, getting a smile from her in return.

On a makeshift planning table they've managed to assemble, Robin, Sarah, Twilight, and Aurora carefully went through some plans they and their entire party came up with for the reworked tramcar with Sarah suggesting solar panels on the roof to provide power from the sunlight as they had no idea what's ahead for them and they leave for Twinleaf Town.

With a nearby dryer machine they found, Hiccup, Zenna, Zipp, and Rainbow Dash took out the engine block inside of it after applying googly eyes and a heart on the front door and tried to get it attached to the front but it was too heavy for all four of them to move until Izzy (unicorn) came over and used her magic to lift it up easily and place it on the front of the car.

Then, using their tools from their Pup Packs, Aurora, Cam, and Arcia carefully attached the engine to the tramcar with Izzy (unicorn) using some working blowtorches to weld the railings on the front in place and fix up the controls, the group now satisfied with how they're progressing.

(Mane 5)

'Cause they say many hooves
And the work gets lighter (work gets lighter)

Next, Snotlout, Hookfang, and Applejack attached a broken bike wheel into place on the controls to act as their makeshift steering wheel after they discovered that the old steering wheel was gone.

With his animal friends assisting them, Hitch, Izzy (unicorn), Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy worked on giving the tramcar a new coat of paint, the newly refurbished and renovated car being colored like a rainbow on the window boards with the assistance of the Jungle Fury Rangers.

And working with your friends
Will make the whole day brighter

Then, Zenna, Zipp, and Rainbow used gray paint to repaint the tramcar's roof with Pinkie, Rarity, and Hitch painting the bottom of the car red. Everybody watching smiled as Izzy then levitated a brush and painted a little bit of pink-red at a spot she found.

Gonna work, work, work
Got so much to do
Well, I don't mind the work
'Cause I get to work with you

And, finally, Camille and Jarrod helped Izzy (unicorn) with placing some makeshift wings she found amongst some of the junk lying around (that were once used on a plane of some sort) on the roof as she focused her magic but they had a hard time figuring out where it was supposed to go on the roof exactly. It wasn't until Zipp smiled with a chuckle as she flew up to them and kicked the wings into place as it looked more like a bi-plane or a light aircraft.

Satisfied after seeing the results of their work, Zipp landed back on the ground with everybody else as the Mane 5 came together and placed their hooves together in a final cheer, "Hooves to Heart!"

Everybody was surprised with how the tramcar looked now compared to the piece of junk that it once was before and while many of them were impressed with the work done on it, others didn't know what to think as they gave small (sometimes, awkward) chuckles at it.

"I haven't seen anything like that before, ever," Zacian said.

"Yeah, but I have a feeling we're not finished yet, Zash," Zamazenta noted, seeing the Mane 5's Cutie Marks glowing in conjunction with Sarah's Element of Hope and Race's Element of Faith (both of which they kept close to them ever since their creation) when they appeared.

Gonna work, work, work
Make our dreams come true
'Cause when we work together
There's nothing we, nothing we can't do

Everybody watched in shock and amazement as the two Elements placed themselves on the front of the car and their magic took effect as the modified and renovated tramcar turned into a motorhome that had foldable wings, a large window at the front for the driver, and a door with a sun-window over at the back. The windows of the motorhome were made clear and the vehicle's new color scheme was light-blue, purple, and yellow as it sported Sarah's Element on the front and Race's Element on both sides of the vehicle. To sweeten the deal, there was a large carriage attached to the motorhome at the back akin to Nebby's carriage for the Ultra Rescue Rangers' missions, being more than big enough for Sarah's entire family and her friends to fit in.

"Wow!"

"Puptastic!"

"Whoa, dudes! Sweet ride!"

"Amazing!"

"What a way for magic to top it off!"

"Sweet!"

"Cool!"

"You said it!"

"I'm lovin' it!"

"Now, that's a ride!" Chase, Skye, Zuma, Shadow, Meatlug, Thunder, Star, Keldeo, Phanpy, and Altaria shouted in amazement.

"Great job, you guys! This should get us to Twinleaf Town and out of this dump faster and safer!" Casey smiled proudly.

"Yeah, this is incredible!" Amelia added in awe.

"Sweet digs!"

"It's huge, this carriage is big enough for all of us to squeeze in!" Izzy (Green DF Ranger) and Javi shouted once they looked inside the carriage.

"Who can argue with that?" Axe quipped, impressive.

"Odin, help me," breathed an awestruck Stoick.

"This is the wildest ride any of us could ever dig in this desert wasteland!" Liberty remarked excitedly.

"Even I didn't see how good it'll turn out!" Izzy (unicorn) remarked, her eyes gleaming at the work done to the tramcar-turned-motorhome.

"I don't think any of us did. You ponies never cease to amaze us, Izzy," smiled Astrid, chuckling.

"Come on, you guys! Let's look inside!"

"Race ya!" Buneary and Fennekin chirped as they and their brothers and sisters joined the Garcia step-siblings looking inside the carriage and looked inside, all of them gasping in awe and wonder at the interior made possible by the Elements of Hope and Faith thanks to the work of the ponies and their friends.

The interior of the carriage, from what they saw, is now like a mini-mansion in itself with the rooms inside it being created by the power of the Elements (in a similar case as to what the Legendary Tree did for Sarah and her birth family's old home). Amongst all of the rooms inside, there was its own kitchen, a resting place, and even a playroom for the younger Pokemon, pups, and dragons along with the fillies.

Even the motorhome itself once the group took a look inside it had a small kitchen complete with an instant food ATM machine and a small food parlor inside in addition to its own lounge area with beds for everyone in it adjacent to a large bathroom.

"Whoo! Now, this is what I call a deluxe suite on wheels!" Aiyon barked in amazement as he grinned.

"This craft even has an ATM food machine along with a kitchen and a food parlor!" Barley blinked in surprise seeing the kitchen and food parlor in the motorhome.

"How is this even possible?" Stryka quizzed, cooing in shock at everything in the motorhome.

"Hmm, if I have to hazard a guess, the Elements of Faith and Hope must have made some extreme makeover modifications to this new jalopy and added that carriage as a bonus. This must be similar to how you mentioned to us the Legendary Tree in Alola renovated and remade your family's castle, Sarah," Solon theorized, intrigued at the motorhome and its new carriage.

"...I, had no idea," Sarah admitted.

"Yeah, seems kinda cool," Race blinked before he gave a thoughtful nod and smile.

Spotting the controls and the steering wheel as they looked around, the Fillies Three fluttered to the driver's seat and happily babbled while taking the wheel and wanting to drive themselves. But, Edge Blade was having none of it as she smiled while shaking her head at their antics before she came over and gently pried the fillies off of their seat and the controls so they don't start it up by mistake or fiddle with them to the point of something breaking.

"I can't have any of you driving this craft given that you're too young to do so," she chuckled at them, making the fillies babble innocently which got a chuckle out of Race and Sarah.

"Maybe it would be best if you three let us take turns in driving this thing," Sarah told the fillies as she went first into the driver's seat and strapped in while Race occupied the passenger seat to her right, both seeing that the motorhome also had enough seats for all three Legendary Ranger teams with them, the Teen Titans, Ryder, Solon, the Beast Bots, and her human family.

"Wow..." the six new pups gasped as they looked around while entering with the PAW Patrol, Ryder, Amber, and Sunlight.

"Cool..."

"I love this thing..." the two fillies breathed in awe until Sunlight gasped and called, "Wait! Would it be alright if we take Cupcake and Hippy with us?"

"Hippy/Cupcake?" the PAW Patrol echoed in surprise before everybody heard yipping and saw a Fidough running towards them with a sand dune following from behind which was actually a Hippopatas as it broke through the sand and joined its partner (both of them being Pokemon one wouldn't really find in a desert).

However, what made the Fidough (known as Cupcake) stand out was that it is a Shiny with brown fur and yellow 'frosting' marks on its body, the two Pokemon jumping into the motor home and happily bounding around the two new fillies.

Pastry, Danish, Muffin, and Fritter were surprised to meet the Shiny Fidough and they yipped happily in greeting to their new companion as they jumped up and down and joined her, "New friend, new friend! New friend! NEW FRIEND!"

"Amazing! Is that really a Shiny Fidough, I've never seen a Fidough like that unlike with Pastry and her sisters when they first came into our lives!" Rotom-Dex blinked in surprise and awe as he took photos of Cupcake as she looked at him with a curious coo.

"And, that right there's a Hippopatas!"

"So, that means you must've had Pokemon in this world before whatever happened to you all happened," Kukui and Burnet put in, causing the group to think back on their world and what also made this one completely different from it.

It wasn't until they thought over Cupcake and Hippopatas belonging to Amber and Sunlight did the answer finally click and they immediately blurted out, "POKEMON/POKEMON/POKEMON!"

"Of course, now I get it! Once we all jumped through the gate and entered this wasteland of a Parallel World, no Pokemon besides everyone we have and our new fillies' friends weren't even there which meant they were all left behind or in Twinleaf Town when the evacuations in the chaos from whatever attacked this world took place!" Steel gasped.

"I can't believe we didn't notice this until now! Apart from Cupcake and Hippopatas and whoever and whatever might be in that domed Twinleaf Town, wherever that may be, we haven't seen a single Pokemon around until we got here!" Solar grunted in realization.

"That explains the strange feeling we've all been having since we got to this world and started to make our way to wherever humanity and the Pokemon that possibly escaped from this disaster could be," noted Virizion in agreement.

"This means something might've happened to the rest while they were trying to survive, too," Boltund thought grimly.

"I suppose there's only one way to find out what going on now," Race replied.

"Let's find out where this fishbowl of a city is and see what we can do to help those survivors and find out where the kids were taken," James put in, knowing what everybody is thinking as they all nodded in agreement.

The heroes were just about to leave after everybody had piled into the motorhome and its carriage when all of a sudden, a loud "FREEZE! Everybody, out!" was heard, and some of the group who can fight were forced to pile out and see who else is with them. To their surprise and shock, the warriors amongst their party were greeted by the sight of a platoon of twenty grunts that looked to be from Team Rocket and they were pointing what looked to be electric net guns primed to capture all of them.

The sight of the grunts and their Capture Guns caused Sunlight and Amber to whimper as they quickly scurried under Celestia and Luna's legs to hide but Flax, Jingle, Bling-Bling, Mazie, 14-Karot, Knok-Knok, Hippopatas, and Cupcake just snarled and glared at the grunts as they moved in front of the fillies, preparing to fight them as if they had been dealing with them for a long time throughout their two years in the wasteland.

"So, you knuckleheads are also jointed to the hip by Team Rocket, huh?" Silvally snorted, getting into a battle stance. "Go ahead, I can take ya! Show me what you jokers got!"

"Who are you, why did you come here?" Sarah asked suspiciously.

"We've never met you guys before, what is it that you want with us?" Race added, narrowing his eyes at the grunts.

"These wastelands you're treading on are our territory, anybody not in league with Team Rocket is ordered for immediate deletion except for our main target: the Sun Princess of Alola," one grunt remarked.

"And, don't think you're walking off with those Pokemon! Hand them over and we'll let you go or else there's gonna be trouble!" another grunt exclaimed demandingly.

"Listen, bud, our family and my sister are not for sale. Back off!" growled Asha as she shoved the second grunt hard.

"Yeah! Don't you bad guys understand that our family and our friends we're looking for nothing without us and maybe some shelter still standing? We're just looking for a couple of People and their Pokemon that had been dragged out here and for one belonging to a friend of ours with us! My family and I and our friends with us are just passing by and we're not looking for trouble; we're trying to survive, find civilization, get our friends back, and do so without meanies like you getting in our way!" spat Mai in agreement as she bashed another grunt back with a hard Tackle and stood next to Asha.

"HA! Yeah, and flout around playing the heroes whoever you're trying to break out of Team Rocket's grasp, right? Any and all Pokemon stuck in this death trap belong to us by default and nobody can change that!" snarled a third grunt (a female this time) as she shoved Asha and gave a hard nudge with her left foot toward Mai as she was slightly kicked back.

"They're not yours if any of them belong to trainers that love and care for them! And, if even if they could survive out here, they'll never go with you bad guys, anyway!"

"What about their well-being? They stay with those they consider family since you have no right to steal any of them or worse, rip them away from the families and friends they already had when they wouldn't comply with your so-called orders!" Asha and Mai snapped back, surprising Sarah and everybody else watching greatly as they shoved a few more grunts that tried to apprehend them back hard while they made their defiant proclamations.

"Look, if you want to make trouble with Team Rocket, don't try taking that tone with us! We got free reign in this dump so why don't you and your rat friend just come quietly?" snarled a fourth grunt, already hating how righteous and defiant Asha and Mai were becoming.

"Listen, whatever happened here because of you, we'll find out and save our friends waiting for us to rescue them! Don't spoil it!" Asha finished.

And, with those words, Asha grabbed the male grunt that spoke to her and Mai last and performed a bit of Karate (letting out powerful cries with each move she inflicted on him) that gave him hard bruises and painful wounds before he was kicked back and knocked into four of the grunts manning one of the Capture Guns with the rest of their posse.

"You... Who the hell are you, pretty?!" the grunt breathed in shocked anger, hastily picking himself up and pointing at Asha as she smirked.

"Hmph, I'm just trying to teach you some manners and my family's not gonna sit this one out knowing you've assaulted the Alolan Royal Family," she replied.

"And, what are you gonna do about it? They made their choice when they tried to defend her, the fools didn't know what hit 'em, it's their own damn fault!"

"Then, I suppose you won't mind dying if you insist on pushing our buttons. That is if you have any buttons, really, since with all that armor on, you all look like a bunch of second-rate Stormtroopers."

The grunt growled angrily before the shocked and offended commander amongst the grunts immediately blurted out, "GET 'EM!", and several large circular drones appeared to attack and apprehend the heroes.

"Drones? Is that all you got?" Asha snorted.

"Lame!" Mai added, giving off a taunting raspberry from under her cloth.

"Ooh, I'm so scared~! Try and arrest my pipsqueak's posse with some donut robots who don't even have a brain, huh? HA! What can those tin cans do to break us, you filthy human garbage?" Eternatus sniffed at the grunts as he came forward and looked at the enemy offense, completely unimpressed.

"FIGHT!" the commander raged, causing the grunts on the front lines and the drones to charge at Asha, Mai, and Eternatus as they prepared to fight.

"Asha, Mai, Eternatus! Unleash the beasts!" Sarah cried as she glowed yellow and red and summoned her African Lion, Mega/American Lion, Smilodon, and Phoenix Spirits to protect them and attack the grunts and drones.

This was the signal for some of Sarah's family and the other heroes to jump in and fight as well as the Six Spirits, the Teen Titans, Melody, and Echo to join in on the scrap, bashing, blasting, punching, kicking, whacking, punting, and slam-dunking at the grunts already fighting and the ones manning the Capture Guns. All the while, her Phoenix Spirit sliced through the drones as if they were pancakes with the robots crashing on the ground and exploding once they landed while the Big Cat Spirits swiped at them hard and knocked most of them out and destroying a few of the unmanned Capture Guns. And, yet, in the midst of the carnage, the little sunflower that the heroes found remained untouched throughout and until the grunts were beaten, most of them knocked out cold with only one grunt breathing as Melody and Echo immobilized them in their makeshift amber cocoon prisons.

"DAGH! How can just one girl and a Pokemon humiliate us like that let alone be beaten by the princess, those lizards and Pokemon, and these weird kids with superpowers?! YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" the grunt roared furiously before he was shut up by Sarah's Rowlet (now named Hootie) as the Quill Owl Pokemon pecked him hard and knocked him out.

"Finally, I thought he'd never shut up and stop mocking Mommy like that. And, now..." he said, using a powerful Gust attack to blow the immobilized and beaten grunts away from them to who-knows-where.

"Good job, you guys," Sarah nodded before she felt Hootie resting on her head. "Thanks, Hootie."

"You're welcome," Hootie smiled as the princess then noticed the discarded and destroyed Capture Guns comprised of some surviving Electric Net Blasters and Wrist Net Launchers with some of them destroyed in the fight before she took the surviving gadgets with her. "What are you going to do with them?"

"You'll see. Seeing how the Team Rocket that captured our friends used them, I think they'll come in handy," Sarah replied to her Hisuian Grass Starter.

"HA! Man, I gotta hand it to ya, kid! You really are a billion times better than our resident pillow head case belonging to that Kanto turkey brain!" Eternatus remarked as he laughed, impressed at Hootie as Sarah came up to Asha to check on her sister while Izzy looked amongst the wreckage for anything she can salvage.

"Geez, Sis, you gotta be the craziest girl I've ever met and to be in my family the way you talked down those grunts like that. Are you nuts?" Sarah asked, raising an eyebrow at her sister-in-law.

Asha just chuckled while ruffling her little sister's hair, "Hey, I got that from you even if I haven't met you back then. I've seen how spunky you are and I got a feeling you've been doing this sort of thing for a while now since it came as second nature to you, doesn't hurt for me to give it a try now and then, huh?"

"Well, yeah... Just, try not to give me or your parents a heart attack doing that again, okay?"

"No promises, heh."

The two sisters then turned to the little sunflower near everyone's new motorhome and carriage that survived the fight and went over to it, surprised and relieved to see it still standing before Sarah whistled and her Vaporeon came over. The Bubble Jet Pokemon looked at the sunflower and looked at Sarah as she nodded to it, the little Water Type smiling knowingly as she then used Water Gun gently on it to water the flower so as to give it a better chance of growing and creating new life once Parallel Sinnoh is somehow at peace again.

"Come on, girls, let's jet out of here! We gotta go before any more of those Team Rocket creeps show up to kill us!" Casey called from the motorhome, the two of them nodding and directing Melody, Echo, the Pokemon, and the Teen Titans to hurry back as they prepared to leave.

"Aww, I'm not finished yet! There's a lot more here I can recycle!" Izzy (unicorn) whined as she scavenged the downed drones before she noticed an Egg Card Capsule which looked rather strange to her. "What's this?"

"Grab her!" Sunny barked, prompting Zipp to dart over to the happy-go-lucky unicorn and drag her back to the motorhome.

"One more minute, I'm not done!" Izzy (unicorn) whined, still carrying the egg card capsule with her magic.

"No time, sugarcube! Time to split!" Applejack replied as she opened the doors and everybody piled into the motorhome and its carriage.

As the entire group (Pokemon, pups, kittens, and humans alike) crowded inside both vehicles with Eternatus, the Six Spirits, the Eight Queens, Cyrus, Drogon, Zephyr, Nebby, Nebula, and Reshiram staying outside and sticking close to them to protect them and keep an eye out for more Team Rocket grunts, Sarah buckled herself back to the driver's seat and drove away, trying to find the domed city of Twinleaf Town and figure out where their captured friends and Dawn's Piplup are as well as try to stop this world's Team Rocket from the potential destruction of the world they're in now.

As they made their way through the wasteland scenery at a much faster and more comfortable pace with their new motorhome and carriage, they kept a look out for Twinleaf Town or any other form of human civilization they can take shelter in until they get their intended destination. However, the scenery didn't improve as it was still devoid of life but they knew they had to keep moving as it was made clear that Sarah and her family are Alternate Team Rocket's main target.

"This place is super scary," Nebby quivered a little as they made their way through another part of the wasteland.

"I hate this, it's creepy," Nebula agreed, feeling a shiver of anxiety and fear running down her spine as she and Nebby looked around at the depressing scenery before them and their family and friends.

"Mom, I hate to burst your bubble but I don't see any form of human civilization in sight."

"Mm-hmm. There's nothing but sand, sand, and more sand for miles around. We'll never get to Twinleaf Town," Blitz and Curly said, worried.

"I know but that doesn't mean we can't keep trying. Twinleaf Town can't be too far away, we've got to keep our eyes open and hope we're not being tailgated by Team Rocket again," Sarah reassured as she drove along.

"I hope so, I'm worried about my home. I wonder how things have been ever since whatever attacked the Sinnoh Region here," Dawn (trainer) sighed as Persian came over to offer her comfort.

"You know, if Sinnoh in this world isn't so much of a desert wasteland and reduced to nothing but one domed Twinleaf Town as our new friends noted, we would've had it easier even if we still have to figure out what happened to the others and the Pokemon here," Race replied.

As the heroes drove along while continuing to amuse and distract themselves from the depressing wasteland around them, Izzy (unicorn) was messing about with the Egg Card Capsule she managed to take with her before they had to clear out.

"What you got there, Izz?" Zipp questioned as she and the rest of the Mane 5 approached her.

"This egg thingy here, I found it amongst the drones Sarah and her family destroyed while they were beating the grunts that attacked us," Izzy (unicorn) replied, showing her friends the capsule.

Race suddenly perked up in surprise and quickly unbuckled himself from the passenger seat and went over to the happy-go-lucky unicorn as he said to her, "Let me see!"

The unicorn handed the capsule to the former Battle Frontier champion and when he saw it, he gasped as he recognized what it actually is, "That's not just any egg capsule, that's an Egg Card Capsule!"

"Egg Card Capsule?"

"I am unfamiliar with this Egg Card Capsule you're speaking of, Race," Starfire (Teen Titan) admitted as Race cracked the capsule open and checked out its contents.

"It's something Island Girl and I used to have that Chomp and the other dinosaurs along with their Elemental Stones came from while we were in Cyberspace one time while we were in Claw Town."

He picked up the four cards from it but he found out that they were far different from the cards he and Sarah have in their possession. Three of the cards were mainly purple and the tops of them were yellow, red and a brighter shade of violet but the fourth looked similar to that of the Secret Dinosaur cards.

Race hummed as he eyed the cards carefully; the faces of the cards showed a T'Rex, a Triceratops, and a Stegosaurus akin to Terry, Chomp, and Quake with the fourth showing a Brontosaurus/Apatosaurus but they were gray in color with white or yellow patterns on their faces while they look to have been covered in purple armor as Cyborg and Robin joined him.

"Hmm, let me take a look at those cards for a minute," Robin suggested, Race nodding as he handed the cards to the Boy Wonder and showed them to Cyborg. "Cyborg, can you scan these cards and see what you can make of them?"

"Frosty. I'm sure we can make good use of them if they haven't been used by those grunt cakewalks already," Cyborg agreed, activating his built-in scanner within his internals and analyzing the cards before him.

"Amazing, by the looks of it, I'm already picking high energy levels coming from the cards and the armor the dinosaurs are equipped with are already programmed into them like a power-up from a video game added to a playable character right off the bat. It doesn't make any sense as to how Team Rocket could've pulled it off."

"Maybe Team Rocket pulled off a Dr. Jekyll stunt crazy enough to make those dinosaurs and take them out for a joyride," Raven (Teen Titan) theorized.

"Or, maybe they would've been created as a secret weapon of sorts that could level the world before us as we see it now," her wolf counterpart put in.

"Aside from dinosaurs brought back to life, does anybody else besides us Beast Bots find it freaky that those grunts from before us said that anyone not with them is ordered for immediate deletion?" Jax brought up.

"Yeah, the grunt that said that sounded very serious given that we didn't comply with their orders," Cruise agreed. "And, they would've done so hadn't we managed to send them running and destroyed their drones when they tried to capture us," Smash nodded.

"Yes... The Team Rocket that we know were a bunch of clowns who can't catch a break every time we beat them but the ones we encountered before we came here along with the grunts looked like they were ready to terminate us," Dawn (trainer) recapped thoughtfully as she rubbed her chin.

"That's the deal. But, didn't they also mention that they want you and your family alive for whatever reason, Sarah?" R.J. puzzled to the princess.

"I heard, it's almost certain that the Team Rocket we've encountered prior to coming here still got Ash and the others. I have a feeling that they're using them as bait or keeping them hostage to strike that bargain they made, my and my family's lives for their own," Sarah sighed grimly.

'But, they've never even met you guys before let alone us, Sarah. So, how is it that they found out about you and your family after we came here?" Steel questioned.

"You remember Dawn's double that took her Piplup, Steel? Since we're now in a Parallel World, especially another Sinnoh, there's bound to be a double of each of us as well. We'll more than likely see ourselves in similar statures but with different clothing so it'll almost be like looking in a mirror."

"But, that won't create a paradox as long as we try not to meddle too much with the Space-Time Continuum, right?" Ravi inquired, concerned about the Space-Time Continuum.

"Hopefully, no, given that Dialga and Palkia are involved and we have to figure out what's going on with them."

"Uh, Mom, I don't want to alarm you guys in the motorhome but you might want to look ahead of you," Star called from inside the carriage while she looked through a scope via a two-way radio communication system (both part of the carriage and motorhome).

"What do you mean, Star?" Sarah quizzed through the radio system.

"I think I see a city up ahead but it's not a pretty sight from what I can tell," admitted the Shiny Lucario as they slowly came up to what looked like the remains of one of Sinnoh's cities.

"Brock, isn't that-?"

"Jublife City?" gasped Dawn and Brock, both of them in stunned horror as they saw to the city where the former and her Pokemon attended their first-ever Pokemon Contest was now nothing but a wreck.

Buildings scattered across the place including the old Jublife Stadium were crumbling or struggling to stand after the assault on the world and region, abandoned vehicles were scattered all over the place, and dust and smoke billowed billowed and blew everywhere. It was now nothing more than a ghost town for there were no more people or Pokemon living there.

"Oh, dear, oh dear... Jublife City is no longer a city, I'm afraid, children," gulped a worried Doug as they went along the abandoned streets as carefully as they could.

Diane didn't say anything as she held her husband tightly while turning away from the carnage in fear, Johnathan struggling to hold back tears at the sorry state of the former city as well.

"Oh, Nurse Joy..."

"Even the Pokemon Center wasn't spared. It looks as though an entire apocalypse came in and blew the city to nothing but bits," Brock and Ryder breathed, the latter wincing as he noticed the abandoned Pokemon Center and its broken sign laying on the ground as they passed by.

Driving slowly as they took in more and more and the dilapidated city, the heroes then noticed something in the middle of the street and it looked to be like a Western Dragon that was about the same size as Drogon with pure snowy white scales and gold horn frills on its neck. Its back was turned and it appeared to be asleep, not paying the heroes any mind.

"By the great Odin," breathed an awestruck Gobber.

"Is that...?"

"...It is, a Western Dragon," Zenna and Marena added.

"Check it out, it looks nearly identical to Drogon!" Hiccup gasped.

"Yeah, the only difference is that this one's scales are more white in color," Fishlegs pointed out.

"It must be his double if he looks like that but how can that be?" Nikki breathed, staggered.

"I, I hope he doesn't think of having us for dinner since there isn't any more food here," Zoey (Yellow BM Ranger) hoped.

"Strange, we haven't seen any form of human or Pokemon for miles around ever since we got here. Most of, if not, all of them would've cleared out since whatever ravaged this world left it like this and we can't be anywhere near Twinleaf Town even if we're making progress," Solon added in confusion.

"Nature always has a way to bounce back from disaster even if it takes years to do so given this world's current condition and this Drogon would've had a reason for being here," Nate mentioned.

"I say we check it out but stick together and stay sharp if this Drogon proves to be a threat and not like our own," Dom suggested, getting nods from everybody.

"Right, but let's not all go out. We need some of us to stay in the carriage and motorhome home to make sure our getaways don't get cut off or trashed," Zayto warned.

"Good idea. Fluttershy, Hitch, you stay here and keep an eye on the pup, the kittens, and the little ones until it's safe. Don't bust out into the open without our approval," Sarah ordered the animalistic Pegasus and Earth Pony, the two of them nodding in agreement to the plan as they carefully rounded up the pups, kittens, and fillies gathered with them along with the few Pokemon staying in the motorhome.

The three Legendary Rangers teams, Sarah, Race, Marena, and Tsukumaro along with Blitz, Absol, Curly, Mulan, and the Alolan Royal Family's Tomoe Squad cautiously stepped out of the motorhome first while everyone else stayed behind, brandishing their respective weapons or wands to make sure that the Western Dragon truly isn't a threat to them or strike should it attack.

They inched closer and closer to the dragon and then, the little princess and Race saw before them two strange objects standing 15 ft away from the slumbering dragon from where they are. Sneaking their way over, the young couple saw two staffs of a strange design with the first having a brown-orange cat with darker orange stripes at the top and the second having a beige-colored dog with brown spots and green 'eyes' at the top.

Unsure of what to do except pull them out from the ground they're embedded in and examine them, they carefully took both staffs (Sarah taking the cat staff and Race getting the dog staff) and pulled them out.

"Whoa..."

"This is incredible!"

"But, what are they?" the royal lovers bantered quietly.

Apparently, they weren't quiet enough as their amazement suddenly woke the dragon up as it began to move and stood up (startling both lovers as they yelped and fumbled about, getting back to the others as they got up with both staffs at hand), shaking off whatever dust it had gotten and turning to look down at the heroes before it.

The startled heroes stood ready as if the dragon could attack now that it noticed them but it narrowed its eyes as it looked at them with a look of suspicion.

"Hmm... Well, now, it seems as though we have a few stragglers roaming about. And, two amongst you are, peculiar, shall I say," the dragon spoke before it opened its wings and out from under them came two people that looked like Sarah and Race.

But, Sarah's double had her hair tied in a raised ponytail (akin to Kenshin Himura's ponytail during his days as Battousai the Manslayer) and a healed scar that ran down over her right eye (which she still had), was wearing Night Fury scale armor and a longsword holstered on the right side of her waist while Race's double wore Night Light scale armor with his hair curled to the left (akin to Gladion's hairstyle) and a lightning bolt scar on his left cheek (akin to the scar of Harry Potter).

"Holy jackrabbits!"

"Am I seeing things?!"

"Oh! Hoo-hoo, I'm seeing double! There are two Sarahs and Races before us!" Jax, Cruise, and Smash exclaimed in shock as they peeked out from the door of the motorhome.

"Whoa! Talk about double trouble!"

"I'm getting a brain teaser here!"

"What's this?!" Lily, Casey, and Jarrod gawked in surprise.

"Oh, my stars!"

"What in tarnation-?!"

"No way!" Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow Dash cried in shock once they saw what was happening, too (with the other ponies looking flabbergasted at Sarah and Race's doubles as they saw everything as well).

"I... I guess Raven was right on the dot about her double theory," Cadence admitted.

"Indeed, it is almost like looking in a mirror if those two with that dragon aren't wearing those ghastly suits of armor," Luna agreed, a little unnerved by the armor Sarah and Race's parallel world twins are wearing. "And, by their hair and scars," added Twilight, feeling weary.

"Oh, come on! I thought having one pipsqueak was bad enough but two at the same time?! CAN'T I EVER CATCH A BREAK WITH THAT BRAT?" Eternatus roared in shock and annoyance.

"What are they even doing here, anyway?" Keldeo quizzed.

"Don't know but they must know what happened in this world if they're looking like that and with Team Rocket on the prowl," Blaze (Race's Blaziken) remarked.

"This is insane! They're the same; just like with Professor Oak and Principal Oak, except for the scars and suits of armor and their hairstyles, everything else about them including their eyes, ears, and mouths is exactly 99.9% a match! Calculating, calculating, calculating...!" Rotom-Dex buzzed in bewilderment as he took photos of the alternate couple.

"Incredible!"

"If any of them could Double Team like this is a Parallel World, this could be a breakthrough!" Burnet and Kukui gasped in awe.

"Hey, do you mind?" Alternate Race sniped, annoyed from Rotom-Dex's camera flash as he blinked his eyes and tried to swat him away.

"What's wrong, man? Don't like even one little picture?" a male voice rang out (voice actor - King (Disney's The Owl House)), sounding deadpanned as the owner appeared from under the dragon's wings to join Sarah and Race's doubles.

The new arrival was a canine-like creature that resembled a wolf or fox but with its fur mostly black with its belly and the tip of its tail being in white fur. The dog-like skull it wore had two white horns on its head and it had yellow eyes with some green sclera, three fingers, and two toes that looked like white claws apart from the thumbs. All in all, the creature almost looked like King from the Disney animated series, The Owl House, except it had both horns on its skull intact.

"Hope this one's not as doom-and-gloom much as the kid, been a long time since she actually smiled after those rocket freaks made a mess of everything," the creature remarked, looking at the little princess compared to the Sarah before him and Race's double.

"Very funny, Prince. I got your number, you know," snarked Sarah's double, leaving everybody stupified as to what kind of creature Prince is.

As for Fluttershy, when she heard Prince and poked her head out of the motorhome to see him, she squealed in delight and burst out (leaving Hitch a moment too late to grab her by her tail and pull her back) in a flash as she fluttered quickly over and started to hug him, startling the poor guy as he struggled in vain to leave her bear hug.

"Awwww! You're so sweet and cuddly!" she cooed.

"Hey! Let go! Unhand me, you freak horse! H-OW! Not there! Watch it-AH! Do you mind, woman?! UGH!" Prince cried, squeaking cutely despite his extreme discomfort as he tried to sound upset.

"HE TALKS, TOO! Aww," Fluttershy cooed with joy as she continued to cuddle him, only to get an annoyed squeak out of him.

"...Well, I think it's safe for us to come out now," a baffled Hitch then said to the others with him as they nodded before they exited the motorhome.

They all slowly got off with the little ones, Hitch's animal friends, the pups, and the kittens following behind. But, when Flax, his siblings, Sunlight, and Amber joined them, they soon locked eyes with Sarah and Race's doubles along with Prince and gasped.

"MOMMY, DADDY!"

"MOM, DAD!"

"UNCLE PRINCE!" the new pups and two fillies screamed, overjoyed as they barreled through their saviors and rushed over to what looked like their own family.

"Amber, Sunlight!"

"Kids!" Sarah and Race's doubles cried with widened eyes, both of them sounding relieved as the pups and fillies rushed them as they both gave the tiny ones loving hugs and kisses, with Prince joining them to share his relief after he broke free from Fluttershy's bear hug once he saw them.

"Cupcake, Hippy!" Prince shouted, seeing Amber and Sunlight's Shiny Fidough and Hippopatas seeing the trio and joining their family reunion as well.

"Well, don't that beat all," Fluttershy muttered softly yet sweetly as she and the others smiled warmly to see how happy Sarah and Race's doubles were to see Sunlight, Amber, and Flax and his siblings along with Cupcake and Hippy with them as if they had been looking for them for some time.

"I thought we'd never see you again after we made it to Twinleaf Town!"

"We always kept searching for you all along with Hippy and Cupcake when we found out you were left behind in the wasteland, we never stopped!" Sarah and Race's doubles sobbed happily to the fillies and their pups.

"You took a two-year detour to try and find us, Daddy, but you kept your promise to find us should we ever get lost," Amber smiled.

"How were you little britches able to bail out of the wasteland and find us again?" Prince asked in awe and disbelief.

"Our new friends saved us while we were hiding out in a junkyard on our way to Twinleaf Town!"

"They agreed to help us find the place and when we arrived in Jublife City, we saw your dragon out on the street!" Bling-Bling and Knok-Knok explained.

"Are you, serious?" Alternate Sarah gawked in shock and disbelief as they all nodded until she looked at her counterpart and she gave a confirming nod as well, leaving her to clear her throat as she approached her and bowed in gratitude while on her knees, forcing the little princess to hold her in comfort as she brought her double up.

"T-Thank you... I was so scared when we realized we left them behind two years ago, I wanted us to go back but the general and her troops forbade it until we found a way to get past them. But, thanks to you all, they're okay now. What are you all doing out here? We saw no survivors or barely any, at all, throughout the time we've been here in the wastelands."

"...I was hoping to put it gently to someone should they ever become suspicious of us but given that I'm you and you're me from two different worlds, I guess it won't hurt to tell you," Sarah replied to her double, who raised an eyebrow at her.

"You see, my friends and I came from another world similar to yours but not like this. A Piplup belonging to a friend of mine, Dawn, was brought here by her double supposedly from this world and we came through to get him back for her. But, my friends and bodyguards have all been captured by this world's Team Rocket and we realized that something's wrong with Dialga and Palkia so we came here to find out what's going out and to get them and Piplup back, and if we're lucky, find out what happened to both Pokemon Deities and save them."

"...You, sensed, the Deities of Time and Space? But, how?" Alternate Sarah gasped before she noticed her counterpart's Sun Sword as the little princess confirmed story by showing her Dialga and Palkia's gems which were still shimmering and blinking frantically.

"This is how," the little princess told her double.

"That's all fun and all but who's the lizard there?" Eternatus frowned, eying the white dragon suspiciously as Alternate Sarah turned to the dragon and went over to it.

"My dragon: Pezor, Protector of Life," she introduced, gently petting the dragon's face as he then nuzzled her.

"Team Rocket? You actually fought Team Rocket...?" Alternate Race noted, getting a pained look from Alternate Sarah's face as she grimaced in frustration and shuddered.

"You got that right," Race nodded to his counterpart. "So, what's the sitch, is everything in this world this way because of them?"

"...Urgh, a war they started. One that we're trying to win even while we and humanity are on our last legs," Alternate Sarah snarled quietly, guilt and anger radiating within herself as she clenched her left fist while she rested her head on Pezor while leaning on him as well.

Sarah realized that her double was in turmoil from what she had heard and approached her as she gently offered, "Listen, I really don't understand or know how much pain you guys have been through and my own life doesn't compare to what happened to you. If you told me, you would be right. But, I'm sure we can give you a hand if you guys need any help. You mind if we talk about it along the way to Twinleaf Town?"

Later, after Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah agreed to come with the heroes, they set off and left the ruined Jublife City behind with Pezor flying alongside the larger members of their group outside. As nobody knew how long it'll be before they finally get to Twinleaf Town and they haven't eaten yet since the heroes' trans-dimensional adventure began, Edge Blade, Izzy (unicorn), and Luna decided to cook up dinner for everyone including Sarah and Race's doubles as they began to tell them how their world became broken.

"While your Team Rocket were nothing but clowns behind a more cunning leader, the Team Rocket we've been fighting against were cunning, sinister, and malicious monsters. When they unleashed their tyranny two years ago, they've reduced humanity down to nothing but little pockets surviving in only Alola, Paldea, and Sinnoh," Alternate Sarah began.

"Before they made their mark, this world was very much like your own. It was a paradise for everyone with humans, Pokemon, and creatures of all kinds living in corporation and harmony despite all the hurdles we had to overcome and nothing could've been more perfect for us. But then, one day, hostile forces from Team Rocket took advantage of the peace and tranquility we all took for granted and unleashed a wave of destruction and terror that killed off much of humanity and took away a lot of their Pokemon without any remorse or regret for their actions."

Alternate Race then took a deep breath as he continued their story, "It all started slowly with Pokemon trafficking and smuggling in the black markets that were sometimes stomped out but then they resorted to deadly experiments involving them recklessly fusing different Pokemon into hybrids with no mercy or consciousness, something that got our world's police forces in a tizzy and frantically tried to stop them for."

"So, that means Team Rocket were acting like an actual human version of the Venjix Virus that ravaged the RPM Rangers' world to nothing but the domed city of Corinth?!" Star gawked in shock.

Alternate Sarah nodded, "Yes. And, since you all heard about the Morphin Grid before as we had, I'm sure you know how that went if you've taken Ranger History class from what you all told us in turn."

"I'm guessing you guys had some resistances that were carried out and eventually stomped out when you all tried to fight to protect your world until only Sinnoh, Paldea, and Alola were left standing," Dawn said sympathetically, getting a confirming and solemn yet disgruntled nod from Alternate Race.

"Go on, children," Doug urged gently to the doubles, Alternate Race nodding as he continued his and Alternate Sarah's dark and apocalyptic tale that led to their world's current RPM world predicament.

"Sadly, despite our best efforts, every resistance team that fought and every effort made to stop them were wiped out. Team Rocket even went as far as to murder trainers in cold blood themselves or unleashing their newly-built Bounty Hunter Drones to steal their Pokemon for reasons only they know. Their ruthless actions caused many Pokemon species to become extinct or be shoved to the brink of extinction almost overnight safe for the numbers the two of us had with her family, much of my team, and the species we've preserved in our Alolan home."

"Whoa!"

"Are you nuts?!"

"Is this true?"

"Most of us Pokemon in this world are extinct now?!"

"All of it is because of Team Rocket in this world?"

"No..."

"It can't be true!"

"That makes Team Rocket in this world a much bigger threat than Opaline!" gasped a horrified Lily, Devon, Sunny, Blaze, Hootie, Keldeo, Burnet, and Kukui.

Alternate Sarah nodded with a pained grimace as she picked up where Alternate Race left off, "They even went as far as to develop a monstrous robotic Zapdos that only had one purpose, to destroy all of the Legendary and Mythical Pokemon that exist in our world that didn't surrender to their power. It's name: Iron Feathers. That mechanical abomination was how we ended up with our scars and how he..."

The young RPM couple exchanged knowing pained looks and Alternate Race nodded, revealing an eyepatch that covered his left eye after moving his hair covering the left side of his face. The heroes all gasped in shock and horror at the sight, now seeing how brutal things had truly been for him and Alternate Sarah and the rest of their world as they fought against their Team Rocket syndicate pariah.

"We barely escaped with our lives fighting against that monstrosity to save our world's Legendary and Mythical Pokemon and we finally destroyed it but at the cost of my left eye," Alternate Race went on, letting go of his hair as it covered his lost eye and they continued their story.

"But, apparently, the loss of Iron Feathers by our hands didn't just devastated Team Rocket, it made them outright furious. Even the creatures living alongside us weren't spared from their wrath safe for a few that managed to fight their way through to safety when the evacuations were being carried out. In retaliation, they went on to conquer all of the other regions as revenge; Hoenn, Kanto, Unova, Kalos, Johto, and Galar all fell before them but only Paldea, Sinnoh, and Alola were still standing after they put up a valiant fight and we used our magic to safeguard them. Even so, they continued their assault on Sinnoh, trying to place it under their control and much of our efforts were spent in keeping it from falling despite them being so close to succeeding. In the process, we've rescued thousands of Pokemon from all nine known regions from their clutches over the last two years but it's starting to wear us down even though we're still fighting the good fight."

Alternate Sarah agreed as she grimly finished, "No matter how many Pokemon we free and allowed to become a part of our family after they lost the trainers that loved them so much, Team Rocket's not ready to call it quits. They're absolutely relentless and if it wasn't for our magic, nobody, no animal, human, Pokemon, or creature we've managed to rescue, would've survived for this long."

"I don't believe this!" Snotlout gasped, horrorstruck by how deadly things had gotten for the world they're in. "That's horrible..."

"I can't imagine us going through that," Hiccup and Zenna admitted, grimacing.

"Aye, even the Red Death isn't as cruel as that," Gobber sighed remorsefully.

Even Stoick winced as he gave a sad sigh of his own, "I suppose, before we even know about all of this and while the Dragon Wars were still going on, we Vikings weren't much different from Team Rocket here."

Cadence (Rainbow Pup) frowned as well as she spoke, "There's one thing I don't get, how did you manage to safeguard Paldea and Alola while you were fighting here in Sinnoh?"

"We used an enchantment that allowed us to hide both regions and everybody living in them from existence, effectively keeping Team Rocket in the dark from them so they don't come knocking at their doorstep. It was the only way we can think of to save them including the Pokemon we rescued safe, they're all waiting in Alola as we speak."

"We had no idea what Team Rocket's endgame is aside from wanting to take over the world as generic as it sounds but if your mentioning of Dialga and Palkia is anything to go by, then it's a lead we now have worth following. Anything's worth a try as long as nobody else dies," Alternate Sarah frowned, trying to keep her anger and grief in check.

"We're sorry... But, if it's any consolation, we'll help you guys out however we can," Chase comforted as his fellow pups, the Cat Pack, and the Kitten Rescue Soldiers nodded in agreement, determined to end Team Rocket and save their new friends' world.

"...You really mean it?" Alternate Race asked quietly, stunned as he watched his counterpart giving him a gentle determined smile and nod.

"Of course."

"We'll do whatever we can to help you," Diane and Johnathan agreed.

"Team Rocket's a menace and they need to be taught a lesson!" Luna (Midnight Lycanroc) growled determinedly.

"Those fools have picked the wrong people, Pokemon, and creatures to tango with," Terrakion agreed.

"Yeah, no way we'd leave this world hanging when it's in need of some heroes to save it!" Jax concurred.

"Your world is in danger and we're the only ones who can help you and all of humanity along with the surviving creatures and Pokemon still standing!" added Smash.

"And, if we let Team Rocket continue to torment you all and this world, there won't be anything or anyone left for you guys to protect," Cruise nodded.

"Hold up! Are you sure you know what you're doing, can you all really go up against Team Rocket knowing what they can do to you just as they did to us?" Alternate Sarah reminded doubtfully.

"If we let them run rampant, we wouldn't be standing here today. We've taken out some of their drones and a whole platoon of twenty grunts when they found us at that junkyard where we rescued your pups, Amber, and Sunlight and we've taken some of their weaponry. I'm sure it's nothing we can't handle after everything we've been through in our world," Sarah replied, showing Alternate Sarah, Prince, and Alternate Race the surviving Electric Net Blasters and Wrist Net Launchers they confiscated from the grunts.

"Oh! So, that's why we saw some grunts falling from the sky earlier that looked as though they had a bad hair day," Prince quipped as he stared between the heroes and the gadgets making up the Capture Guns. "I didn't realize they were finally meeting their match when we found out they came across some folk who don't give a flying Rattata's bee-hind about what they do and gave them a whompin'."

"It's the least we can do since we had a feeling they had something to do with your world being a downright mess," Cyborg smiled softly.

"Oh, yes. This world has been through so much trouble ever since we crossed over from our dimension and into yours, we want to be of necessary assistance to you the moment we were forced to fight those horrible men and women that have tried to capture us," Starfire (Teen Titan) agreed.

"HA! Well, I'll be fried titan dog! I knew it was only a matter of time before those bad boys would be on the run!" laughed Prince, sharing a high-five with Beast Boy.

"You know it!" Beast Boy smiled brightly.

"Do you have anything else you can tell us before we finally arrive at Twinleaf Town, however long that may be?" Raven (Demon Wolf) asked as she padded over to the trio and their family for more information on Team Rocket's impending endgame.

"We've recently gotten reports of them having created genetically-engineered dinosaurs with powerful armor that allows them to withstand a considerable amount of blows, perhaps even the strongest and we couldn't hold our own against them for long enough before we had to retreat after they were brought out," Alternate Sarah informed.

"Hey, Race, show them the cards Izzy found," Hitch said to Race, realizing what Sarah's double was talking about as the former Battle Frontier Champion nodded and brought the new dinosaur cards out for her, his double, and Prince to see.

"Are these the ones?" he inquired, showing them the T'Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Brontosaurus cards, causing them to gasp in shock.

"Yes! That's them, that's them!" Prince shouted as he snatched the cards and looked at them in disbelief. "They're the ones: the T'Rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, and Brontosaurus!"

"Where did you get them?" Alternate Race breathed, stunned.

"Izzy found them amongst the drones that were destroyed before we had to leave the junkyard in case any more Team Rocket grunts heard the fight we had with that platoon and came our way," Pipp answered.

"You did?"

"Of course! He-he-he!" Izzy (unicorn) giggled.

"'Oi, leave it up to a horse from another world who takes too many happy pills to give us a hail mary at a time like this," Prince grunted despite Izzy (unicorn) being utterly oblivious to his blunt way of speaking.

"So, judging from what you told us, they were mainly used as tools of war and nothing more," Robin frowned as he pondered, scratching his chin in thought.

"Then, they're basically living weapons they made for themselves to give them the leg-up they needed to further establish their rule and take out Sinnoh as well as Alola and Paldea, if they could find them," Beast Boy responded.

"We're grateful to you but there's no way you can use them, they're too dangerous and there's no way for you to bond with them even if you can," Alternate Race quipped.

But, it seems as though Alternate Race's concerns, while valid, don't need to be found; sensing the cards that had been once used for evil near them and in Prince's hands, the Elemental Stones embedded in Sarah and Race's Dino Bracers glowed and the Bracers transferred their powers to the cards before they then coated their owners in the respective colors of their stones corresponding to the dinosaurs within the cards.

"What...?"

"What are those things?" Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah breathed before the auras touched them and Prince as well and they and their counterparts heard from the cards, "No."

Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah yelped in surprise and even Prince jumped as he dropped the cards on the table they were sitting around in surprise as they glowed, the Triceratops card telling everybody, "We have no desire to be used as weapons again."

The Stegosaurus card glowed as whatever was inside it spoke, "Our masters showed no loyalty to us whatsoever, we refuse to be used for evil from this day forward."

The T'Rex card then said in pained anger via the Fire Stone, "I'll make those rocket monsters pay but all we really wanted was to be free from the pain they've inflicted on us, please! Will you help us?"

Sarah frowned sadly as she brushed her right hand along the cards before she gave them a soft smile and said to them, "Sure, if it'll make you feel better, you can stay with us."

"Thank you," the Brontosaurus card whispered after a short moment as it glowed with the others and the shimmering stopped.

Prince immediately recomposed himself as he realized what the five of them just heard and remarked to his friends with a sly smirk, "Well, not as dangerous as you two once thought they'd be, huh?"

"Did we just, talk to the...dinosaurs in the cards?" Alternate Race spoke, looking completely baffled.

Race nodded as he should his double the Dino Bracer on his left arm below his Wrist Com, "The Elemental Stones inside these things are how only Island Girl and I can talk to them and hear their thoughts. They contain the spirit of every known dinosaur that lived on the earth in their time such as these four cards before you. This and our Dino Gadgets attached to our belts are what allow us to summon our dinosaur friends whenever we need them in combat."

"...I had no idea..."

"We didn't think it was possible for anybody to possess such technology or an ability," Alternate Sarah added.

"A lot of things are possible with the princess and her lad, M'dear," Tsukumaro quipped with a soft smile to his goddaughter's double before she then noticed the staffs her counterpart and Race had with them.

"Hey, what are those things in your hands?" Alternate Sarah questioned, pointing at the staff.

"These? We just found them near Pezor while he was napping, didn't think anybody would want them," Race answered.

"Those aren't just any staffs, you two found a pair of Palismens!"

"Palismens?" Race and Sarah echoed.

"Those staff thingies Uncle Race and Momma have?"

"Like the ones in that Disney TV show, The Owl House?" Cyndaquil and Skiddo asked.

"Yes," Alternate Sarah confirmed as she and Alternate Race revealed their own Palismen staffs with both of them in Full Wood Form as created after a white lion and the other after a black wolf. "These are what we used in this world to cast our enchantments protecting Alola and Paldea and once you've bonded to a Palismen, they're linked with you forever. My Palismen is of the white lion while the other is of the black wolf."

"Palismens, eh? Hmm, I remember reading about those one time during my time at Hogwarts. If I recall correctly, I believe the Palismens are be the equivalent of a magical staff, housing their own source of power and being capable of using the magic stored within them," Tsukumaro pondered thoughtfully.

"Exactly, and they're capable of changing between Full Wood Form to Live Form depending on one thing," Alternate Race noted with a confirming nod.

"And, what's that?" Race asked his double.

"...You have to tell them what you really want, show them your greatest wish/your deepest dream."

"Our greatest wish?"

"Our deepest dream?" Sarah and Race echoed again as they looked at their Palismens in their hands.

Alternate Sarah nodded again as she then explained, "If you are able to tell them your greatest wish and your deepest dream, as long as it's pure of heart and void of any evil, the Palismens in your possession will answer to you, always."

"But, I don't really have a wish. I have everything I need," Sarah admitted, unsure. "I mean, sure, my wish was to find my real family after so long but after finding them within the Altar of the Sunne back home, what else can I wish for?"

"Ditto, my childhood may have been a wreck before Dad came along and found me after I was abandoned but after everything I went through, I'm happy now. I don't need to make a wish to help me with anything, I'm fine enough with everything I could ever want including the girl of my life," Race added in agreement.

It seemed like nothing but after hearing the royal couple's sincerity in their voices and their genuine refusal to make a wish so as to make a difference in them and their lives with how happy they are now, the Palismens glowed for a moment before the wood eventually retracted and they achieve their Live Forms which meant they're now an actual cat and dog.

"Aww, look at those Palismens!" Cadence (Rainbow Pup) cooed cutely.

"Look at them, they're tiny like me when I'm using my Mighty Pup powers," Tuck added, smiling.

"And, cute!" Skye gushed.

"Far out, dudes!" Zuma praised in awe as the cat and dog looked at their new owners before they nuzzled and happily licked the pair.

"Looks like you made a real first impression out of them," Alternate Race smirked as he watched.

"But, what about yours?" Sarah asked in return.

"We found and bonded with ours two years ago when we both wished for everybody that died in the war with Team Rocket to come back and live their lives again and to protect the ones we loved. The latter can also be said on behalf of our girls along with Prince," Alternate Sarah responded.

"Are you referring to Amber Light and Sunlight Burst?" Diane questioned, getting yet another nod from Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah. "How on earth did that come about?"

"Well, it's not as pretty as what my man and girl just told you. When the evacuation took place two years ago, after they found their Palismens, we found six children that are badly wounded, left behind by their own families with no guardians or anybody else to protect them, two of which were Amber and Sunlight. When it was clear their old families wouldn't come back for them, they decided to use their staffs to transform them into the fillies you know now," Prince explained.

"No..." gasped Twilight in horror.

"Left behind?"

"...Y-Y-You mean, they instantly adopted six children including Amber and Sunlight during the chaos of the evacuation to Twinleaf Town and you had to raise them by yourselves in the process, ALL ALONE?" gawked Meadow and Axe in total bewilderment.

"And, while all of them are fillies?" added a shocked Henna.

"Yeah, they're the only things along with our pups that kept us sane throughout this ordeal along with the Pokemon they have on them including Cupcake and Hippy," Alternate Sarah confirmed with a soft smile.

"And, believe it or not, those little rascals can put a smile on her face better than me and her man can alone," Prince chuckled.

"So, what's your story, then?" Raven (Teen Titan) inquired.

"Oh, me? I was another tool by those rocket morons but they broke me out along with Luci when I was just an egg and they hatched me so after that, I've imprinted them in my mind as my parents and myself as their son," Prince spoke.

"Luci?" everybody echoed curiously.

"Eh... She's a little more complex than I was if you want to put it that way, you'll find out once we get home."

"And, what are you supposed to be?" Fluttershy asked.

"I think you're what's called a Titan and not the giant man-eating beasts born from humans via a serum that can fight like animals or act as intelligent beings from the Attack on Titan anime since you might be King's double, I think. But, rather, from the Disney animated series, The Owl House, that I showed to the younger Pokemon in my family recently as Fennekin and Skiddo noted, right?" Sarah interjected.

"Bingo," Prince nodded with a snap of his paws.

"I remember reading about those kinds of Titans but few records said anything more about them apart from them having potent magic and that it can be commanded through the power of Glyph Magic similar to that of Rune Magic. All done by creating a spell circle that has a certain symbol in the middle, it's also said that a larger spell circle would strengthen the spell," Raven (Teen Titan) recounted.

"Yeah, and they're mainly centered on Elemental Magic including what Sarah and Race have on them now," Twoie nodded in concurrence.

"This could work in our favor because now that you two have your own Palismens, you'll have access to more advanced Elemental Magic and you can start learning how to use Glyph Magic," Alternate Sarah smiled softly to her and Alternate Race's counterparts.

"We can?" the aforementioned pair asked, looking at each other in confusion.

"Duh, of course, you can. When we get a chance, we'll teach you everything we know. We'll walk or run you through it should you have to learn in a hurry if Team Rocket doesn't let us catch a break."

"There we go," Prince chuckled, feeling satisfied as he saw his human mother smiling more.

"That does make sense, I suppose your new training session would come in handy so as to give you greater control of your Elemental Magic," Faraji realized.

"All done!"

"Come and get it, you guys!"

"Dinner's ready!" Cadence (alicorn), Edge Blade, and Luna called, having finished cooking dinner with Izzy (unicorn) having given them a hand when the work became too much for them.

"Alright/YEAH!" the young ones cheered as Nikki (who was driving at the moment as the humans in Sarah's party agreed to take turns driving the way to Twinleaf Town and around the wasteland) parked the motorhome and joined the others in their current resting place.

It was getting dark by the time the heroes and their new friends decided to stop for dinner and the three alicorns and Sunny's best friend had cooked up such a hefty meal with lots of Pokemon food for the Pokemon including Cupcake and Hippy, tons of fish for the dragons, and a grand feast for everybody else that there was more than enough for them to go around and help them last until they get to Twinleaf Town. This prompted Sarah and Race to bring out their mythical creatures from their suitcases so as to give them their dinner as well but even they had to be calmed down when they were taken aback by the sight of the wastelands before them before they were told everything and they agreed to help out with the plan to save Alternate Race, Alternate Sarah, and their family destroy Team Rocket and save their world as well as Dialga and Palkia.

As everything became peaceful around them, for once, everybody gathered happily indulged themselves in the feast the four ponies had prepared for them and even Sarah and Race's cat and dog Palismens happily chowed down on some dog and cat food together.

"Not how we wanted our visit to my double's Sinnoh to go about even though we're on a rescue mission, huh?" Dawn commented.

"Well, look on the bright side. At least things are looking up now that we have some new friends helping us, right?" Pinkie Pie replied.

"So, guys, about our Palismens, are there any more around here or are they the only ones in existence?" Sarah asked her and Race's doubles.

"Funny you say that, really. We actually carved these two from the Palisman Wood we grew back home in Twinleaf Town and took them with us when we heard about our pups, Amber, and Sunlight going missing two years prior," Alternate Race replied, bringing out two more Palismans that were laying dormant in their Full Wood forms.

The first before them was of a pink hummingbird that had a white underbelly and small black talons connected to what looked like a black staff. The second, on the other hand, was modeled after the cardinal character, Flapjack, except the cardinal was brown and had a scar where its left eye should be, light-brown feathers that sported dark-brown wing tips, an orange beak, dark-brown feet, and a black face connected to a brown staff.

"A hummingbird?"

"And, a cardinal," Nikki and James observed as they came over to inspect the Palismens before Sarah and Race's doubles took the staffs and then presented them to the couple.

"...Why us? You both have no idea what we can do with these winged sticks," James quizzed suspiciously as the pair before them just smiled.

"You may not look like much but you both have a lot of potential in you. You two don't look like much of a threat to Team Rocket despite the fact that you and your Pokemon can fight but if they try anything funny or if anybody gives you any trouble when we get to Twinleaf Town, you can at least use these to give you some leverage on them. The same can be said for the Palismens belonging to your girl and her man since no naysayers and no other person of immense authority has tried anything funny with us ever since we've awakened our own Palismens."

Nikki and James were speechless but realized that Race's double meant well and after getting a confirming and trusting nod from Alternate Sarah, they took the Palismens as Nikki remarked, "Strange, we've never met before, and yet, you trusted us with a power beyond our understanding without fear of what can go wrong for all of us..."

"That'll help since compared to the other adults and the girl and her boyfriend here, you're more wimpy and vulnerable than a newborn foal-" Prince remarked before he was cut off with a startled yelp.

"Excuse me?"

"I resent that, you sneak!" Nikki and James growled, glaring at the startled Prince as they immediately came up to his face and he held his claws up in surrender as he giggled nervously.

"All jokes aside, you both have a lot in common with my adoptive parents. I'm sure when they hear about this, they'll trust you as we have," Alternate Sarah reassured knowingly.

"Uh... How did you know that?"

"Y-Yeah, how do you know we're, uh...? Uh, well..." Sarah and Race asked their doubles, blushing.

"...They're married, didn't you know that?" Prince deadpanned, making the two's eyes bug out in shock before they turned to their doubles and they nodded.

Alternate Race then sealed the deal as he cleared his throat and said, under no uncertainty, as he jabbed a thumb to Alternate Sarah, "She's my wife."

That did it for their counterparts as they fell over in absolute shock and they blushed even harder as they screamed, "YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT YOU'RE BOTH HUSBAND AND WIFE?!"

"YOU'RE BOTH ACTUALLY MARRIED AS YOU ARE?"

"I'm only 27 and she's 24 unlike you teenagers with attitude, and besides, we already tied the knot during our two years of hell looking for the kids. Got a problem with that?" Alternate Race's rebuttal broke Sarah and Race and unwilling to fight their inevitable marriage, they gave up and fainted which drew several rounds of laughter from Beast Boy, Sho, Zorua, and Cyborg.

Prince chuckled as well before he frowned and warned, "Brace yourselves when we finally arrive home, though, kids. The commander's a real piece of work and an outright hardball despite the fact that she means well and cares for everybody's safety, too."

"Commander?" puzzled Doug, Delilah, James, Nikki, Tsukumaro, David, and Donna (former queen) in confusion.

It was finally dark by the time the entire group finished their dinner and they were all back on the move to Twinleaf Town. The mythicals were returned to their homes in Sarah and Race's briefcases (once the royal couple picked themselves up and calmed down) and Sarah was back in the driver's seat as he took over driving what would supposedly be the last leg of their journey in the wastelands. The nighttime air meant that the atmosphere wasn't as bad as it was in the day so it was safe to breathe for the time being once they step out.

With headlamps on and swaying as they rumbled through the desert, they came across another junkyard filled with more destroyed cars and vehicles along with traces of Team Rocket droids that were destroyed in a fight or two some time ago which was likely one of the instances where some supposed soldiers had to fight in that area during the evacuation. Past the junkyard, however, was a sight that made everybody breathe a sigh of relief as they saw the faint outlines of a dome in the distance; there, ahead of them, was the destination they were all hoping to arrive at: the domed city of Twinleaf Town.

"There it is, guys," Race noted, pointing towards the domed city ahead of the group.

"Wow, is that really Twinleaf Town?" Sunny breathed in surprise.

"Yes, Sunny, that right there is Twinleaf Town. Despite how conspicuous the name may be now, the entire town is actually one entirely domed city. It's grown in the past two years given that it's the only safe haven we all have left in Sinnoh ever since Team Rocket made their mark back then," Alternate Sarah confirmed.

Just as they finally made it, however, something then pounced onto the motorhome's windshield, startling Sarah as she screamed and slammed on the brakes, causing everybody to panic as they rocked about and face-planted on the floor, the jostling motions also rocking everybody inside the carriage from behind them while the larger Pokemon and dragons stopped in surprise.

"Oh..."

"My head..."

"Anybody got the license plate number...?" Fennekin, Cyndaquil, and Falcon moaned as everybody else groaned in pain from the sudden stop.

"...Hey, who's the wiseguy trying to kill us just now?" grumbled Dawn (Midday Lycanroc), groaning as he got up and shook his head to alleviate the pain he felt from the abrupt stop.

"What's wrong, Sarah?"

"Yeah, why'd you stop so suddenly?" Robin and Cyborg asked, worried that something went wrong.

"I'm not sure! It jumped out of nowhere and planted itself on the windshield and-! Whoa, is that...?" Sarah replied before she gasped in surprise at what the figure that plastered itself onto the windshield was after looking at it closer.

The figure plastered onto the windshield confirmed Sarah's arousing suspicions; it was a Pikachu but unlike Blitz, his parents, and Curly, this Pikachu was more of a mud-brown color but with two light-blue stripes on its back and its red cheeks were a blue-gray shade, the color also prominent with its front paws and its back feet. Its ears were tipped with gray and black rather than the normal all-black shade with its tail sporting the same color scheme that ended up looking browner at the tip. And, unlike Blitz, Curly, and his parents, instead of a Light Ball Bracelet on its right arm, there was a black fur collar around its neck.

Blitz, his parents, and Curly came up to the windshield and they were also shocked by what they saw as Blitz began, "Uh... Mom, Dad?"

"Yeah, Son...?"

"Have you ever seen a Pikachu like that in your life?"

"No, honey, not even Presley looked anything like that. It's nothing like us given its rugged appearance."

"Oh, my...!"

"Sarah, Race, are you in there?" a serious yet familiar voice rang out before the group then noticed Cynthia's double in military attire, complete with a hat and a longsword sheathed on her left side with a Shiny Garchomp by her side and several officers flanking them.

"Is that...?"

"I think so," Dawn and Brock said to each other, recognizing the similarities between the original Cynthia and her double despite the obvious differences.

Sarah and Race tried to meet with her but Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah stopped them and shook their heads so as to say to let them handle the Cynthia they know as the commander as they and Prince along with their pups, Amber, and Sunlight joined them outside.

"Commander," Sarah and Race's doubles replied while saluting her.

"Commander?" Cyndaquil, Phanpy, Fennekin, and Buneary muttered quietly, looking between the commander and each other in confusion.

"I see your search for your children and your pups finally bore fruit, good. Although, you have some explaining to do tomorrow with what just happened; I thought we detected something akin to bio signs approaching the dome but I didn't think you'd have company as well and of the exotic kind," Cynthia said (voice actress/inspiration - Eda (Disney's The Owl House)).

"Yes, we ran into a few guests that lost their way while looking for shelter after Team Rocket ravaged the entire region. Lucky bunch they are to have gotten away from those Pokemon-hunting grinders, that they are," Alternate Race answered.

"Oh? And, are they in that strange mobile and car you came back in, by any chance?"

"They are."

"...May we have a look at them?"

"...Yes, of course," Alternate Sarah replied before she turned to the motorhome and carriage as she then said, "Come out!"

This was the signal for Sarah and her family to get out and join her and Race's doubles and Cynthia as they filed out of the vehicles and made themselves known to the commander, the guards preparing to take action as they became wary of them until the commander made them stand down and back up so she can deal with the matter herself as she narrowed her eyes at them, trying to make sense of who they are.

"Commander, it's alright, we know them well now," Alternate Sarah said to her.

Alternate Race nodded in agreement as he added, "They held their own against a Team Rocket platoon that came after them and we think they can help us put an end to the syndicate and their grip on the world, for good."

"...What makes you sure they can do what we've been trying to do?" Cynthia questioned as she continued to glare skeptically at Sarah and Race along with their family, making the royal couple uncomfortable while their Palismens frowned and started to growl and hiss at her.

"Dawn! Hey, Dawn!" shouted a familiar voice as everybody saw a greatly relieved and ecstatic Piplup in the hands of a familiar figure towards the heroes as the real Dawn (trainer) gasped and her eyes lit up in surprise and relief once she saw her partner in her double's hands.

"Piplup...?" she called, stunned as she saw her partner and her double coming from behind the commander's soldiers as everybody else with her gasped in shock and looked between them.

"No way!" Burnet gasped.

"She does look exactly like you!" Brock cried, looking between the Dawn (trainer) with him and the heroes and the Alternate Dawn before them.

"In everything but the clothing with the lavender shade, I might add," Discord pointed out.

"DAWN!" Dawn's Piplup cried happily as he jumped out of Alternate Dawn's arms and jumped into her partner's before he hugged her.

"Piplup! Oh, thank goodness! I was so worried for you!" Dawn (trainer) shouted happily and in relief as her partner whimpered apologetically.

"I'm sorry! I didn't mean to run away from you like that or sleep on you guys! I won't do it again, I won't ever leave you! I'll help you guys with the contest tomorrow when we get home, I promise!"

Everybody on the heroes' side smiled as they saw Dawn and her partner reunited and with the spunky Penguin Pokemon in one piece as well but Dawn's double didn't know what to think as she looked at them for a moment before she grew forlorn over the whole situation.

Once she was told why they had come to her world, Alternate Dawn sighed sadly as she said, "I see... You all traveled through a gate to this parallel world."

"Gate, you mean that weird portal thingy we went through back in our world?" Mai questioned.

Alternate Dawn nodded as she continued, "Gates are doors that allow one to pass from this world directly to yours but I suppose you already know that by now, especially since Sarah, Race, and I are exactly the same as you and your friends along with everyone else except we lived different passions and lives that aren't like yours back in your world."

She then turned to her real counterpart as she apologized for the whole incident involving her Piplup, "I'm sorry, I know I took Piplup from you without warning and I had no idea how much he really meant to you. I owe you a big apology for that, I wanted to give him back to you the moment I saw you and realized he already had a trainer but once the gate closed and he became trapped in my world, it was no longer possible. It's made even worse that he had to live in the city for his own safety so he wouldn't have to be subjected to Team Rocket and the wasteland beyond here."

Tsukumaro nodded sympathetically as he told her, "We know; your friends, both the princess and Sir Race's doubles, have already informed us about what Team Rocket of your world has done to you and everyone else. Our deepest condolences to every last one of you..."

"I only wish we could do more to help you shatter Team Rocket's criminality record for good," Race offered in agreement.

Commander Cynthia hummed thoughtfully before her glare softened as she said, "We never saw other life forms throughout the war, not even the likes of your dragons and those creatures with you all. Not even ghosts that looked like ponies and a toy factory mix-up from what I can see, really. And, pray tell, why are there mythical creatures here and a dragon the size of Mt. Coronet, by any chance?"

"For your information, I'm a dragonequus, M'am. The mythical creatures with us are the Six Spirits in the form of a Sun Dragon, Jui Wei Wu, ShiShi, Qilin, Hippogrif, and Griffin: Sol, the Spirit of Knowledge; Rajhu, the Spirit of Life; Nuraiah, Spirit of Peace; Spirit of Luck, Jhayli; The Spirit of Prosperity that is Zjhiben; and the Spirit of Order, the noblest of the spirits, my counterpart, my savior, Ashia," Discord introduced, albeit a little incredulously as he eyed the commander while looking between her and the Six Spirits.

He then introduced the others in turn, "The ponies, my friends-old and new: Princess Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Celestia, Luna, and Princess Cadence who are the Guardians of Harmony; Sunny Starscout, Hitch Trailblazer, Izzy Moonbow, Zipp Storm, Pipp Petals, Edge Blade and her baby sisters - Tempest Sparkle, Glimmer Glow, and Snowdrop Winterfell. The dragon mistresses themselves, meet our Sarah's seer - Reader; Queen Ruby with our Sarah's SkyWing guardian, Cyrus; Queen Moorhen, Queen Coral, Queen Glory, Queen Snowfall, Queen Sequoia, Miss Jewel, and Queen Thorn and her adopted children - Qibli, Smolder, and Blaze."

"My name's Brock and you've met our Dawn," Brock introduced.

"Sarah Tomoe, the counterpart of your Sarah. My entire family including all the Pokemon and dragons with me including both my mom and dad-Doug and Delilah Tomoe-my godfather: Tsukumaro, my granny and gramps: David and Donna, my in-laws and sister: James, Nikki, Asha, Johnathan, and Diane; my pets: the Dragonstone Patrol - Harmony, Jazz, Aurora, Meadow, Zoey, Cam, Arcia, Brooke, Mei, Blue, Axe, Trooper, Barley, Hayden, Heart, and Tail, the Cat Pack: Wild, Shade, Rory, and Leo, and my Dachshund: Liberty," Sarah nodded.

"Race Konami, your Race's counterpart; my partners: Robbie and Bella, and my Kitten Rescue Solders: Tommy, Chuckie, Phil, Lil, Kimi, and Dil," Race nodded, his partners and kittens greeting in turn.

"I'm Zayto. These are my friends: Aiyon, Amelia, Ollie, Izzy, and Javi. And, this Solonosaurus is our good friend, Solon," Zayto nodded in greeting with his team.

"Devon Daniels, my team and friends: Zoey, Ravi, Nate, and Steel. And, these three are our Beast Bots: Cruise, Jax, and Smash," Devon put in as the Beast Morphers team greeted the commander, her soldiers, her Garchomp, and Alternate Dawn as well.

Even the Jungle Fury Rangers greeted them as Casey said, "My name is Casey. This here's Lily, Theo, our master: R.J., Dom, and our former rivals: Jarrod and Camile."

"Hiccup, that's me, and my best friend: Zenna, along with our dragons: Toothless and Stryka," Hiccup added, introducing himself, Zenna, Toothless, and Stryka.

"These guys and their dragons there along with those two bigger Vikings are our friends: Astrid and Stormfly, Fishlegs and Meetlug, Hookfang and Snotlout, Tuffnut, Ruffnut, Barf, and Belch, Gobber, and Hiccup's dad, Stoick," Zenna introduced before she introduced Henna and Edgar, "And, these two here are my mom and dad."

"Henna, Your Honor."

"Edgar, at your service."

"Hello, Commander, my name's Ryder, and these pups with me here are the PAW Patrol of our world: Chase, Skye, Marshall, Rocky, Zuma, Rubble, Sweetie from the city of Barkinburg, Everest, Tracker, Skye's cousin: Coral, Rex, Tuck, and Ella," Ryder introduced.

"And, we're the Teen Titans. I'm Robin, this here's Starfire, Raven, Beast Boy, and Cyborg," Robin finished, introducing himself and the rest of the Teen Titans.

Commander Cynthia nodded but kept a firm look at them but her officers weren't as patient and open as she could be to an extent as one of the male officers snarled, "Give us one reason why you're not Team Rocket spies posing as citizens just to get the jump on us..."

Another officer was just as adamant and suspicious as he spat, "What makes you runts think you can break us all free from Team Rocket after what they did to destroy our world and kill us all?"

"You shut up, you don't know what you're blabbing about!" Alternate Sarah spat back in response as she continued to gesture and look between the commander and her officers and Sarah, Race, and their party. "These two and the ones with them are more than meets the eye and they told us they've taken out a platoon of twenty rocket grunts and destroyed the drones they took with them. They chased off the whole lot!"

Alternate Race nodded in agreement as he added, "None of them stood a chance even with those drones of theirs, all of them were destroyed before they could even land a blow on them. If you don't believe us, get a look at the surviving Capture Gun equipment they snagged after they won that brawl and the story from them and you'll know. Even that little Rowlet resting on my wife's double's head, as we're told on the way back, cooked up a Gust so powerful that it blew those grunts off to kingdom come."

"They even told us that they planned to capture me and my family upon finding us but four of them caught my friends and took them all hostage and along with finding and rescuing the Piplup belonging to my friend, we came to this world to rescue them," Sarah went on.

"And, we've recovered the dinosaurs Team Rocket used against you while they simultaneously switched alliances on them to fight alongside us," Race said as he showed the dinosaur cards Izzy found and unconsciously snagged from Team Rocket.

"What?" the officers gasped upon seeing the cards.

"Hmph, if they had to take the fall for you all, they did a poor job protecting you when they failed to capture you if you're all that important," huffed Commander Cynthia as she turned away. "Anybody knows that whoever's beyond the dome is beyond our reach and help, you of all people should know that. I'm sorry, especially to the dinosaurs you now claimed as your own but you must get rid of them immediately."

"Jerk!" Silvally spat, insulted.

"Told you she's a total hardball," Prince shrugged with a sigh.

"What are you saying?!" Race demanded, insulted over what he and everybody else heard.

"How could you say that?"

"Can't you help us save our friends knowing that they're in danger?" Dawn and Brock pleaded, stunned.

Commander Cynthia wasn't moved, "Your friends are a lost cause, there's nothing we can do for them as long as the lives of everyone in the dome are our top priority. I'm sorry but your friends are doomed, Team Rocket claimed them so it's pointless for you to stay..."

"Hey, that's not fair!"

"You don't even know us!"

"Meanie!"

"Who do you think you are?!" Fennekin, Phanpy, Cyndaquil, and Buneary snapped angrily at Commander Cynthia, making the officers tense up in shock until Solar stood in front of them and moved the four baby Pokemon back, glaring back at the officers.

The heroes were at a loss for words as they realized that in fighting a war that doomed humanity for two years, this world's Cynthia ended up becoming a far different person who's cynical, conservative, demanding, and too logical for her own good and nothing like her kindhearted, gentle, and wise counterpart they all know and love from their own world. None of them knew what to say next in their stunned silence until...

"...No," Sarah retorted, making Cynthia look at her even as she didn't move from her position.

"Nobody's beyond help, in my mind. You might think those beyond that dome are a lost cause and I'm sorry if you think it's hopeless. My family and I don't understand what you've gone through and how much you've paid to get to this point as my and Race's doubles have but even a small thing such as an act of kindness including rescuing the people I know and love can make a difference. The dinosaurs we got didn't ask to be tools for war, they only wanted forgiveness for everything they did under Team Rocket's reign of terror. How are you any different from them if you leave everybody else out here in the dust and let Team Rocket do as they please with them?"

Commander Cynthia and her officers were shocked that they were being compared to Team Rocket and she whirled furiously to Sarah as she spat, "Don't you dare compare me or my soldiers to those murderers! We paid for what happened to this world and the people we know and love more than most and we had to deal with them for two years straight knowing what's at stake here! Anybody who's been left behind outside of Twinleaf Town is a lost cause, there's no hope for them after they're stranded in the wastelands and end up beyond our help! Once Team Rocket gets their hands on them, they're history, that's it! We tried to hold on to hope that things would work out for the better but they ended up costing us nearly all of humanity and the Pokemon and creatures we failed to protect after they died, all of them! Aside from the people, Pokemon, and creatures we have left, there is nothing else left for us to fight for!"

By now, Commander Cynthia started to cry but she held firm despite the tears that threatened to flow from her eyes while her officers were looking just as heated and flustered as she is over Sarah's pleas and comparison of them to Team Rocket. Even Alternate Race and Alternate Sarah along with Alternate Dawn couldn't help but look on in shock and bewilderment as they saw the commander unload on the little princess for what they can only assume is the truth and what she believes from her heart.

"Urgh! You fool, why are you saying all of this? Why don't you get someone from your family or your foolish friends with you to pull off your futile rescue?" the commander continued, still angered as she wiped away her tears.

Sarah sighed as she held firm and told Cynthia, "That's the thing; I care too much for them to let them take such a gamble. I'm not the type of leader who wants to sacrifice them willy-nilly no matter how much I want to rescue my friends if I can't look danger in the eye and face it myself. My friends are not expendable even if you think they are."

"My friends may not be much; they may be ordinary citizens and Pokemon trainers who want to live their lives to the fullest and maybe they're not cut out to be my bodyguards let alone heroes after they got captured protecting me and my family. But, you know what, I'm okay with that; I trust them to protect me in their own ways just by them being themselves and not who anybody else wants them to be. I owed a lot to them, even my life, by them doing just that and I can't imagine what would happen to them if my family I leave them behind. They sacrificed themselves for us, especially me, to do what they must in order to protect me because they love and care for me in return and I'm not going to let them down because of that. I'll help our new friends end this war and destroy Team Rocket, even if I must die in order to do so in order to bring them and my friend's Piplup back home."

"We all would," Race nodded in agreement, glaring at Commander Cynthia and her officers with everyone else in their party doing the same.

Commander Cynthia was silent as she and her squadron glared at the heroes before them for their hopeful delusions and insolence but not before she inquired to the little princess, "What is it you're saying?"

"My sister's telling you that life and hope always find a way; it's never too late to do the impossible because, to those who believe in the good of the world and in protecting the ones we all know and love, anything is possible," Asha replied.

"We all love those kids and if our Ponchita chooses to do the impossible and rescue them herself, we'll go with her, with or without your help," James added firmly.

"Our child believed in her friends just as they believed in her and that makes them a noble cause worth fighting for and people worth saving," Nikki agreed with a glare as her and James' Palismens soon glowed in response and they came to life as a real hummingbird and cardinal appeared and happily chirped while nuzzling their new owners' cheeks.

The soldiers and Cynthia balked at seeing this but Sunny them stepped forward, frowning sympathetically at them as she told the commander, "Commander, please, trust us. We can help bring back what you lost, our new friends told us the amount of cruelty Team Rocket inflicted upon you and all of humanity along with the creatures and Pokemon here, we're sorry for your loss and we really mean it."

"None of us can say we understand you given we've never went through something like this even though we did come close in our own times but it's okay, Sarah and her family brought back hope we didn't know we lost and they'll do it again in a heartbeat," Hitch replied in solemn agreement before he nodded to Sunny to reveal her power.

Sunny agreed and she began to sparkle as she concentrated on the Magic of Friendship she's drawing from Hitch, Izzy (unicorn), Pipp, and Zipp, revealing her temporary wings and horn as she accessed her alicorn form, red and white flowers sprouting from under her hooves as she tapped into her Earth Pony magic which further shocked Cynthia and her officers as they gasped in shock and bewilderment.

"Commander, that should be more than enough proof for you and your men. They did us a huge favor by finding the Secret Six, Hippy, Cupcake, Sunlight, and Amber after we left home and searched for them for two years, they now have Palismens on their side, we've see what they could do even if it's not much but it's more than enough to give us hope," Alternate Sarah pleaded.

Nate then stepped forward and gently told the commander, "I know, we know this may not seem like much to you, Commander. But, there's a ray of hope to be had in everything we've shown and told you. As someone as wise as Sarah once said, 'We all do things in life that we regret. But, if we don't learn from them and move towards a brighter future, we pay twice'."

Cynthia's shock and glare softened as she frowned sadly and told him and everybody else gathered, "I've paid more than most."

Sarah nodded as she shared Cynthia's sad frown and replied, "I know you did given what we've been told. If we had found out about this and if my family and I could've accessed the Space-Time Continuum via Dialga and Palkia's powers long enough to undo what Team Rocket did had we found out sooner, we would, for your sakes... But, we can't now that what's past is past and they're in danger as well as you..."

There was silence as everybody wondered what the commander would do next in response to the validity of that harsh yet truthful statement until she finally asked, "...Can you and your family really help us deal with Team Rocket and end their reign?"

"That's all we can do if only to help you take back what you've lost."

"...Then, help us."

Sarah nodded one last time as her resolve hardened and from that, the commander eventually nodded in agreement and ordered her men, "Open the gate and dome and allow them in. We'll offer them shelter until the plan to save their friends and crush Team Rocket can be set in motion."

"But, Commander!"

"How will we know they'll keep their word?"

"Who knows what they could be plotting?"

"We can't trust them with anything regarding our operations!" some other officers objected in shock at their commanding officer.

"Do we have any other choice now that Team Rocket's got our backs against the wall?" the commander retorted, leaving the baffled officers to stutter as they failed to come up with a response before they resigned themselves to silence and proceeded with her orders.

With the commander and her officers along with Alternate Sarah, Alternate Race, and their family leading the way through the open gate and dome (both closed and activated again once they were all inside), the heroes entered and took notice of the entire area that made up the domed city of Twinleaf Town, fresh green grass growing, generated clear skies, and many buildings that were left untouched by the destruction around the place.

"Incredible..."

"So, this is what the domed city of Twinleaf Town is like..."

"And, it's all intact," Chen Li, Mae Ling, and Glaceil breathed in stunned awe as they and their entire family along with Alternate Dawn and Alternate Race, Alternate Sarah, and their family to the barracks as they prepared to go to sleep.

With Sarah's larger Pokemon, Drogon, and Zephyr, they all slept outside while the Eight Queens, Cyrus, Thorn's adopted children, and Reader all slept near the motorhome and carriage.

"Well, guys, it's gonna be a long day tomorrow. We should try to get as much sleep as we can," Sarah said to everyone as they prepared to turn in for the night.

"With Team Rocket most likely making a plan as we speak, we should hope to prepare a counterattack for them before things go from bad to disastrous," Starfire (Teen Titan) reminded.

"We will, Star. And, if Team Rocket does attack again, somehow, we'll be ready for them," reassured Robin.

"Well, not exactly five-star or R.J.'s pad but hey, it's to be expected with military conditions," Theo quipped as he looked around the barracks.

"Five-star, you say? Well, my ranger, I got just the thing for a good night's sleep," Discord replied as he snapped his fingers and the military beds were all turned into more comfortable beds one might find in a civilian home or hotel.

"Smashing! Now, these ghastly sheets look more like real beds," Rarity smiled as Spice, Ginger, Azure, Warner, Aster, Tempest, Glimmer, and Snowdrop cooed and claimed one of the beds, fluttering over to it and babbling happily as they tested it out.

"Sweet, way to chock up the magic, Big D. These beds will really give us, the commander, and her officers a slick break from their military worries and tomorrow, we'll be spring chickens," R.J. praised, impressed.

"But, what'll we do with the others and Uncle Ash?" Mai asked, worried.

"They'll have to hold out on their own, for now. Trust me, Mai, we won't leave until it's over," Sarah soothed.

"Okay..." Mai sighed as she crawled onto the bed with Blitz and Curly as they and Sarah went to sleep along with everyone else, all of them out like a light as they drifted off to dreamland.

Meanwhile, while the heroes, Sarah, Race, and Dawn's doubles, and the commander and her soldiers slept, at what looked to be Team Rocket's base somewhere in another part of the Sinnoh Region, the Alternate Team Rocket grumbled over reports over one of their platoons being taken out fairly easily by the princess and her family which caused something of a minor setback in their plans (a setback they knew they should have to rectify if they were to succeed) as they reported everything to their leader which was an Alternate Giovanni.

"Ugh! This is ridiculous, those fools really slipped up on this one! How is it that that worthless platoon let itself be punked by the princess and her family and some of the friends she has with her the moment they had them in their grasp?" Alternate James seethed in disgust while Alternate Jessie paced around, fuming.

"She is more foolish and much more powerful than we thought," Alternate Meowth thought darkly, recapping what they found out. "Coming here immediately after the warning we've given her regarding the prisoners, she's got spunk and even her lizards are no slouches either."

Alternate Giovanni thought for a moment and smirked as he addressed his top agents, "And, yet, she knew what it meant for her and her family but arrived regardless in response to the threat you've sent her? She's just as annoying as the Royal Rebel herself but if it's possible we can use that to our advantage, it'll be all over for them and everybody else aligned with them soon. But, still, she's a clever girl and a bright one for her age... Somehow, she managed to keep the gate you went through open and they all charged in without a second thought and eventually, she'll come to learn of our plan involving Dialga and Palkia."

Alternate Meowth nodded but he then growled as he faceplanted himself while ranting, "If only her army hadn't outwitted the platoon we sent after them and if those weak-hearted buffoons hadn't gotten so cocky playing into her sister and ragdoll's hands, we would've had them. But, those scouts failed us by letting themselves be beaten while they didn't bat an eye and stealing our dinosaurs, we'll make sure they don't come out of this one unpunished if it's the last thing we do!"

"Patience, Meowth, those weaklings will get their due for their failure. But, still, that poses a problem for us as you've implied; the situation is now dire given that the Royal Rebel and her husband had already destroyed Iron Feathers, our greatest weapon and asset, in the two years we've been fighting them and the resistance that are holding themselves up in Twinleaf Town. With the arrival of the princess and her family and allies, no doubt their next plan of attack would be to rescue the prisoners and put an end to us and our entire operation."

"What does it matter, Boss? The manpower and the drones we have at our disposal will no doubt put them in her place, nobody besides the Royal Rebel and her man have ever been able to last long against our forces no matter how hard they try to push us back. If they want to make trouble, we should let them-" Alternate James said, undeterred about the threat being posed to their syndicate.

"Quiet!" retorted an unimpressed yet determined Alternate Giovanni, giving Alternate James the stink-eye as he shut him down before he continued.

"If the princess and her strange army really are as powerful as those scouts claimed when they foolishly returned without her, the resistance will be bolstered. And, not only will we lose the prisoners as well as Dialga and Palkia, if she and her family and allies succeed, our plans will be all for naught and we'll have a full-scale war on our front that will surely see the salvation of this world and the end of us!"

"Luckily for us, Boss, the prisoners in the prison facility are locked up nice and tight. If the resistance tries to send her and others to break them free, we'll be ready for them. Once they make a turn and swim into the shark's belly and enter the lion's den, they won't know what hit them when we pounce," Alternate Jessie reassured as she faced her master and Alternate Giovanni nodded with a growing evil smile, knowing exactly what she was thinking as she returned the smile.

To be Continued...

Authors Note: Secret Six Infromation

Sunlight Burst Bio

Amber Light Bio