Friday, May 21st; five days after Lillie's father, Mohn, was found and brought back to Alola with the addition of the newest member of his family, Nihilego Lillie, the heroes are now on a large ferry heading for Ula'Ula Island instead of school (Lillie, in particular, being in brighter spirits with her reunited family as her sister-in-law joined her and her friends so she can further acclimatize her to more of her new tropical home region). This time, they were joined by Hiccup and his friends, the Riders of Berk (save for Stoick, Gobber, and Zenna's parents) along with Sarah's adoptive and blood family, the little princess having arranged a full weekend in Ula'Ula's capital residence of Malie City.

Much of her family along with Race's decided to stay behind at the Pokemon Dragon Heart Dome with only Link (who was running on the water alongside them), Zelda, the Night Lights (including the younglings), Rapidash, Ponyta, the Eevee Squad, Duke, Mai, Oshawott, Snivy, Tepig, Kit, Ella, Latios, Latias, Flameaconda, Donka, Donkapa, the Jungle Guard, Chien-Pao, the Fidough Sisters, Shiny Shaymin (whom Sarah decided to officially name Seth), Zacian, Zamazenta, and Eternatus (whom, despite his reluctance, was dragged along once again so he can get to know another part of Alola he had no idea about).

"I can see it now!" Kiawe called, seeing Ula'Ula's capital city coming into range in the distance.

"There it is, gang! Over there, see?" Sophocles said to the Viking Teens as they joined the two Alola boys along with an excited Ash and Pikachu.

"So, that's Malie City you guys wanted to introduce us to, huh?" Hiccup quipped.

"Nice place you have here," Zenna added.

Ash blinked as he noticed something strange about Malie City the more he looked at it since there are no high rise buildings and no contemporary settlements and shops anywhere and it was mainly a series of Japanese-inspired buildings that make up the city itself, "Wow, you know, it doesn't even look like Alola."

"You're right! I've read about it in a book once; Malie City's urban design is inspired by the Johto Region and the heavy cultural influence of Japan's Kansai Region which is rooted in the nation's traditional past. That explains the abundance of traditional Japanese architecture, historical palaces, temples, castles, shrines, and exotic gardens," Lillie grinned.

"Is that so?" Nihilego Lillie cooed to her human sister, sounding awestruck.

"Of course, Lillie! Apparently, there are Worker Pokemon at Malie Garden, the city's main cultural hub, who serve food and drinks to tourists!"

"For real?"

"FOOD!" Fishlegs and Meatlug gasped, their mouths watering with delight.

"Yeah, it's a lovely place and the Pokemon working there were really friendly. My family and I came here during our outing for my birthday and Aunt Lucy was given something by the Froslass working there," Race added in remembrance.

"Speaking of birthdays, don't forget I helped Sis arrange not just the weekend but a full week here to celebrate her godfather and my Mom and Dad's birthdays!" Asha grinned brightly.

"That's awesome! I really want to check out Malie Garden!" Ash beamed.

"Yeah! And, we'll be having their birthdays there as well!" Lillie perked up excitedly.

"Fun, fun, fun!" Snowy cooed excitedly.

"There are also tons of restaurants that serve unusual food, can't wait!"

"Me, too!" Mallow and her Shaymin grinned.

"That's cool! Right, Sandy, Primarina? Sounds like a lot of fun!"

"Sure does!"

"Way past cool!" Lana, Primarina, and Sandy cheered.

"Malie City... What exactly are your friends on about, baby girl?" Doug inquired his daughter.

"You'll see, Dad. You, Mom, Granny, Gramps, and Tsukumaro will find out soon once we dock," Sarah smiled to her father.

Today, our heroes are visiting Malie City on Ula'Ula Island for the week in celebration of Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro's birthdays. What kind of adventure awaits them? We're all set to find out.

[New Theme Song - Drunken Lives (Young Hero Fong Sai Yuk - ft. Johnny Ip) {Roughly Translated Ver.} (Updated Ver.))]

(The opening begins when we see legions of Pokemon trainers and their Pokemon training in a giant stadium and amongst them, Sarah, Ash, and the Pokemon School gang are training with their own Pokemon now with the addition of (Asha, Race, Proud, Ziracon, Robbie, and Bella), preparing for the most important chapter of their lives before the trainers and their Pokemon stood at attention and the gang got into a group fighting pose as the song begins. They will eventually take part in the finalized Alola League to determine who is the top Pokemon Trainer in the entire Alola region)

When life is rough and too dark to see, my regrets wash over all of me~

Pain is immense but don't you cry or pout, you'll very soon find your way out~

(In small recap snippets and previews of what's to come or will be happening now, we see Pokemon Trainers and their Pokemon registered for the Pokemon League running to the stadium including Sarah, her friends, Asha, and Race before we see a brief recap of Sarah, Silvally, Dia, and his Zeraora blasting Guzzlord with Shiny Tapu Koko's help and sending him through an Ultra Wormhole after beating him. Sarah and the gang continue training for the Alola League with the boys prepping at Kiawe's training camp and the girls with Tsukumaro at Lillie's mansion before we see Lillie and Nihilego Lillie standing together as the latter was accepted as part of her family in gratitude for saving her father, Mohn)

Live a life worth living, make it beautiful, and work hard to be strong and happy~

In the mortal world, your life is so meaningful, so go and prove your own mettle~

(Lillie, Sarah, and their families search the Crown Tundra before finally locating Mohn and helping him overcome his amnesia before the scene changes to the two of them and their friends and Race and Asha learning some Pokemon Baseball as part of a school assignment with help from a world-class baseball player and coach)

So, who would you connect with to meet up with me as friendly voices cut through the peaceful sunny crest~

Your heart is now mine forevermore, your sincerity shines at its best~

(Sarah and her friends, Race, and Asha make their entrance at the Alola League as either she or Ash prepare to battle against Guzma, Sarah and Poipole (now evolved into a Naganadel) briefly reunite in the midst of fireworks an the closing ceremonies after Guzzlord somehow enters the former's world and they and their Alola family and friends defeat him, and they and everybody in Alola send off lantern boats with their prayers and happy thoughts for the future. Delilah and Doug dance happily together, Tsukumaro and Sarah continue training together in swordsmanship while her family watches on, and she and the gang try to help a golf player and her Toucannon out of a slump they're in)

So, who would you connect with to meet up with me as friendly voices cut through the peaceful sunny crest~

Your heart is now mine forevermore, your sincerity shows me your love I can't detest~

(Sarah and the gang wrap up a few final Ultra Beast/Ultra Pillar encounters before Guzzlord eventually comes into the picture, take part in the Alola Pancake Race against Nina's Alolan Raichu with her and Pikachu sparking a short-lived rivalry between them, and Sarah spending some time alone with Link, Zelda, Chien-Pao, and Muffin so as to get to know them and their old home region further before coming face to face with a weakened Koraidon and Miraidon before the princess fed them some sandwiches and they powered up)

(In a short instrumental, the heroes' Pokemon are then shown getting themselves into crazy situations such as Meltan, Mallow's Shaymin and her brother, Seth, Sandy, Sho, Breezeon, and Donka exploring Malie City unsupervised as they tried to get Mallow's hair ornament back before meeting Team Rocket and Pikachu (with his team) and Blitz (joined by some of his brothers and sisters and his mate, Curly) go on an adventure to find Ash, Silvally, Sarah, and Torracat who have traveled back in time and met Kid Kukui as he prepares to go on his Pokemon journey that'll lead him to becoming a Pokemon Professor specializing in Pokemon moves)

So, who would you connect with to meet up with me as friendly voices cut through the peaceful sunny crest~

Your heart is now mine forevermore, your sincerity shines at its best~

(Some of the heroes' Pokemon (in a new Pikachu Short) traveling with Klefki, Meloetta, and Hoopa across time and dimensions to 1997 at Walt Disney World to see the Happy Easter and Remember The Magic parades as Turtonator tried to enter one of the shops with the others but couldn't because of his size as he got stuck in an opening as they had fun with Kommo-o eventually crossing paths with Minnie Mouse (in a royal gown) in the midst of the excitement as they were then seen together with the former holding a parasol above him to shield him from the sun's rays)

So, who would you connect with to meet up with me as friendly voices cut through the peaceful sunny crest~

Your heart is now mine forevermore, your sincerity shows me your love I can't detest~

(The Power Rangers Ultra Rescue face off against Evox and his forces in their and the Power Rangers Beast Morphers' final missions against him, Guzma faces off against either Ash or Sarah as one of them tries to pry into what Kukui knows about him, and one of them facing off against Kukui and Tapu Koko in a full Pokemon battle. The opening ends with Sarah, in human form, unsheating her family's Sun Sword and holding it high above her before she is joined by Link, Zelda, Blitz, Curly, and Silvally along with Cresselia, Xerneas, Zygarde (10% Forme), Zacian, Zamazenta, Rayquaza, and Giratina on a mountain cliff and the main titles appeared below them)

Pokemon Sun & Moon - The Warrior Princess

Eventually, the ferry docked and all of the passengers, including our heroes, disembarked as they prepared to explore Malie City (with Link joining them as soon as he landed on the dock despite getting some odd looks from the other passengers and the citizens and tourists in the area). Ash excitedly rushed off ahead of them and stopped at the road leading to Ula'Ula's capital city with Rotom-Dex floating beside him as he marveled at the sight of the Johto-influenced buildings that make up the main vicinity of it.

"So, this is Malie City!" he said in awe.

"Thanks to Sarah and Asha, we're having a one week i.e. 7-day, 6-night tour here and I'm going to record every minute of it while we're here!" Rotom-Dex agreed happily, snapping pictures of the city already.

"Make way, dude! I'm hoping to make some humunga-dunga waves while we're here and do it all in traditional Japanese Kansai fashion!" Rotoscope grinned as he joined his predecessor.

"Wow, look at all those buildings!"

"We don't have anything like those back home," Hiccup and Astrid smirked, both of them impressed.

"I guess the people here really aped off of Johto," Asha chuckled with Sarah's Pokemon with the group and the dragons looking in awe at the city.

"Not bad, not bad at all," Eternatus then admitted.

"Wow!"

"Look, big buildings!"

"New place!"

"So cool!" the Fidough Sisters barked happily as they jumped up and down, eager to explore the city.

"Well, now... I knew Alola jumped in with the times while keeping things that are distinctly Alolan but never did I imagine they'd pull off something uniquely Asian with all of that," Tai Lung quipped in surprise as the rest of the Jungle Guard nodded in agreement.

"Apart from Poni Island, you won't find anything any less global let alone uniquely Alolan yet distinctively Japanese from Japan's own Kansai Region, Tai Lung," chuckled Sarah.

Of course, given that they still have much to learn about modern human society and how Alola works in modern times, David, Donna (former queen), Delilah, Doug, Tsukumaro, and Absol were once again experincing some culture shock (but, thankfully, not a whole lot this time). Seeing this, Sarah and Mulan went over to them and gave them reassuring smiles (and nuzzles in the Shiny Absol's case) as the former told them, "You'll do fine, all of you. You'll soon get the hang of things around here just as you did with home."

"...If you say so," Tsukumaro gulped, still feeling antsy.

"It's not all bad, this is one of our favorite places to go to in Alola."

"Just stick close to us and don't get lost staring," Nikki and James replied. "Yeah, it's not too bad once you know your way around."

"We'll be your tour guides while we're here for the w-AH! My hat!" Mallow and Lillie reassured in agreement before a strong wind blew Lillie's hat off her head.

Duke and Nihilego Lillie gasped as they flew after it and caught her hat before it could be blown away, safely giving it back to Lillie.

"Here, Lillie."

"Here you go, Sister," they told her, getting a thankful smile out of the Ice Type sudent as she accepted it.

"Thank you, Duke, Lillie!"

"Gee, wind's looking pretty strong today."

"Yeah, I wonder if there's a storm coming soon," Mallow and Sophocles pondered.

"Don't worry, guys. The sea is smiling, it's just giving us happy breezes to let us know it's having fun," Lana reassured with a grin.

"I guess your last lessons with Ida paid off since you now know what the sea could be like," Sarah chuckled.

"Apparently, sudden gusts can come up at this time of year given we're in the middle of spring and nearing the threashold of summer. But, we should be fine with the tour and our stay here as long as the wind doesn't play up," Kiawe replied.

But, Ash was still eager to get to Malie Garden as he prepared to run to the other side of the road once the walklight is green, "Okay, then! Let's get to Malie Garden, quick!"

"Ash, what's the rush? Malie Garden's not going away, you know. We got plenty of time so just chill out, will ya?"

"Asha's right, Ash. She and Sarah arranged everything for us regarding her parents and Tsukumaro's birthday and we have to meet up with our tour guide first, remember?" Asha and Kiawe chuckled.

Mai and Sandy, curious as they were, looked around the new sights they've never seen before. Since the female Mimikyu obviously spent much of her life at the Thrifty Megamart after it was abandoned and before its refurbishment, and the male Eevee and his parents lived in Melemele Island since their arrival, the two of them didn't get to see more of Alola in greater detail (let alone wander off to other places without her father's permission, in Mai's case).

A man pulling a rickshaw and a woman selling hair ornaments passed by them on opposite directions, prompting them to wander after him or jump out of Lana's arms to follow him before they stopped and noticed the hair ornament woman, getting everybody's attention and causing Ash to stop hopping in place as a result.

"Sandy, Mai!"

"What's up?" Lana and Ash blinked in surprise.

"Groovy!"

"Wow, I've never seen anything like those before!" they gasped in awe and wonder.

"Sandy and Mai sure are full of curiosity," Mallow grinned.

"Well, this is Mai's first-ever time being on the northeastern side of Ula'Ula, especially since she's lived her entire life in the south," Kiawe smiled.

"Sandy, Mai, be careful!"

"Don't wander off too far without us!" Sarah and Lana warned only for their warnings to go on deaf ears as Mai continued to look around curiously before she unknowingly walked onto the street and Sandy just jumped straight into it.

"Sandy, Mai, be careful over there!" Kiawe gasped in shock.

"Sandy/Mai!" the Water Type student and little princess cried in fear just as the Shaymin Siblings jumped out of Mallow and Delilah's arms and stopped them before shoving them back and Nihilego Lillie grabbed the quartet with her tentacles just in time before they could get hit by a passing car.

"Whoa, dude!"

"Nice save!" gawked an amazed Ruffnut and Tuffnut.

Sandy and Mai weren't hurt but they were startled as the latter saw the car and realized they were nearly run over in a hit and run even though the former didn't take too kindly to Shaymin, Seth, and Nihilego Lillie's rescuing them as he shoved Shaymin off and glared at the trio.

"Hey, watch it!" he snapped.

"You watch it, you and Mai were nearly run over by a car!" Shaymin snapped back at the male Eevee just as Sarah, Lana, Boltund, and Delcatty rushed over to the four Pokemon and Lillie's sister.

"Are you okay, Mai?" Seth asked as he and Nihilego Lillie looked her and Sandy over.

"Yeah, thanks," Mai thanked, trying to get her bearings and calm down from the near miss she and Sandy had.

Nihilego Lillie and Seth sighed with relief as well before they scolded the pair, "What in the name of Queen Naganadel were you two thinking? You know it's absolutely dangerous to walk or run on the street like that without waiting for a green light or looking both ways!"

"Next time, try to be more careful next time before crossing so your dad won't have our heads chewed off, okay?"

"Sorry," Mai whimpered apologetically to them.

"Oh, Mai, thank goodness you're okay. Please don't do that again, you scared me!" Sarah breathed as she held her Mimikyu gingerly.

"I'm sorry, I was trying to get used to the new sights and sounds up here," she apologized.

"That's fine. Although, it's understandable since you've never been up here before."

"Son! Thank heavens, what were you doing going off on the street like you did?"

"You and Mai could've been killed and if you pull one of your toes out of line, we'll have Lana bring you striaght home!" Boltund and Delcatty scolded their son, making him realize his mistake as he whimpered under their worried and disappointed gazes.

"Boltund and Delcatty are right, Sandy. It's dangerous for you and Mai to cross the street like that without warning, don't do that again," Lana agreed as she picked up her Eevee, looking relieved and disappointed in him.

"Sorry," Sandy apologized remorsefully.

"Shaymin, Seth, Lillie, thanks so much!" Lana thanked Nihilego Lillie and the Shaymin Siblings who chirped and cooed happily and bashfully back.

"You're all so sweet, especially you, Shaymin!" Mallow grinned as she picked up Shaymin, Sarah took Mai and Seth in her arms, and Nihilego Lillie rejoined her sister and Snowy.

"No problem!"

"Yeah, glad we can help."

"Oh, it was nothing," they replied humbly.

"That was really brave of you to do that, Lillie. But, Shaymin, you and Seth were just as brave and smart out there," Lillie praised the Shaymin Siblings and her sister.

"Well, Seth's been a big help around the house and at the dome helping to babysit my younger and baby Pokemon just as he did with his sister before the two of us met them at Poni Island," chuckled Sarah.

Mallow couldn't help but agree as she remembered her Tsareena being a big influence on Shaymin as she taught her how to clean the tables with a rag, "It could be because of Tsareena; when I'm in the kitchen and too busy to look after Shaymin, Tsareena keeps an eye on her for me."

"I suppose Shaymin's learning a lot of things from a wonderful teacher in your partner, Mallow," Delilah replied, smiling at her and Shaymin as everybody now crossed the street after the walklight turned green for them and all traffic halted.

"I am, I am!" grinned Shaymin.

"Hey, Mallow, where is your Tsareena, anyway?"

"Yeah, I thought she would be with you two joining us for Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro's birthdays for the week," Zenna and Fishlegs asked, realizing that Mallow's partner isn't joining them and the rest of their party.

"Tsareena wanted to help Dad out at our restaurant back home, I'll have to bring back lots of presents for them when this is over," Mallow explained to them as they finally made it inside Malie City only to realize that the tour guide they're waiting for wasn't around to meet them.

"Where's the guide, I wonder where he could be?" Kiawe pondered as they waited.

"He's right here," a male voice called, getting the boys' attention while the girls talked although they couldn't pinpoint where it was coming from.

"Did you say something?"

"Not me," Sophocles and Kiawe shrugged.

"He's been here, all along," the voice said as Xena, Toothless, and Stormfly sensed and heard the voice sounding extremely close which was near the wall Kiawe, Ash, and Sophocles were standing close to.

The Night Fury puppy-like dragon waddled over with Stormfly and Xena close by as he gently patted it, feeling like something was behind it via a cloth of some sort.

"Hmm... Interesting," Xena pondered before he picked the corner of some paper that had been pressed on the wall and pulled it down, revealing a man wearing a blue and red ninja outfit which startled Pikachu as he saw the man and screamed in alarm. "Found him, he's been here the whole time."

"Hmm, whoa!" Sarah gasped in surprise when she saw the man.

"What's wrong, budd-AHHH!" Ash screamed as he noticed the man as well as did a frightened Kiawe and Sophocles as they also screamed.

Soon, everybody else saw the ninja and they also gawked in surprise as they all blurted out, "A ninja/a ninja?!"

"Are you a ninja?!" spluttered an equally-surprised Rotom-Dex as he snapped pictures of the ninja while he posed.

"So, this is what you humans call a ninja. Fairly impressive if even if doesn't have the combat training you mentioned to back it up."

"How very peculiar," Link and Zelda remarked curiously as the looked the ninja/tour guide over.

"Oh, please," snorted Eternatus, unimpressed.

"Hold on, you wouldn't also happen to be..."

"Our tour guide during our visit, right?" Kiawe and Sophocles blinked in realization at the ninja, putting two and two together.

The ninja guide nodded as he introduced himself to the group as, "That's right, I'm Ninja Guide Charlie Charma!"

"A real-life ninja!"

"That's so cool!" Ash and Lana gushed, leaving Sarah to sweatdrop awkwardly as she didn't see anything exciting about the guide.

Even Xena couldn't help but raise a skeptical eyebrow at Charlie as he whispered to Sarah, "You seriously don't think he's a real ninja as they did even though Toothless, Stormfly, and I picked him out earlier, do you, Princess?"

Sarah shrugged, sharing her Greninja's sentiments and skepticism as Charlie continued, "This here is Malie City, I dress like this when I'm an attendent for our ever-loving tourists!"

"Wait, wait, attendant?"

"Thanks for showing us around, Charlie," Kiawe and Mallow replied.

"Of course, I've heard you all talking before so this is nothing new and you practically gave yourself away. But, if you want to go into Malie Garden, you're gonna have to change clothes first. I believe our honorary guests from the Hoenn Battle Frontier and his family should know this very well since they've been there before for his birthday outing, right, Master Race?"

"Yes, Charlie, that's what you've told us when we first met you weeks ago," Race nodded to him knowingly.

"Change clothes?" Ash asked, puzzled.

Minutes later, Charlie brought them inside Malie City to its Pokemon Center as he explained to them, "Now, this is where you will find and borrow your costumes."

Soon, they were greeted by Malie City's Nurse Joy who wore a custom pink and white Malie City Pokemon Center uniform made like a Japanese Geisha kimono, the pink robe having the badge of the Pokemon Center fixed to its left side held together by a large pink sleeve rope in the middle.

"Alola, friends, do come in," she greeted warmly.

"Nurse Joy!"

"Wow, you sure do look wonderful dressed in Malie Style!" Ash and Mallow praised.

"Aw, thanks! That's nice of you to say that," Nurse Joy smiled happily before she muttered quietly to herself, "But, compared to my sisters who look fabulous no matter what, my appearance is so very boring..."

But, she shook off her jealousy as she grinned again and added with a wink, "I'm the third of Alola's Four Nurse Joy sisters and I'm very pleased to make your acquaintance!"

"Boring?" Zenna echoed, raising a skeptical eyebrow.

"Her personality is much bigger than the rest," Sophocles added awkwardly.

"Ditto," quipped Snotlout.

"And, through that door to my left, you'll all find your loaner clothes, a Malie City tradition," Nurse Joy gestured to the door to her left.

"Thanks!" Ash and the gang said.

"We really appreciate it, Nurse Joy," Sarah finished with a bow before she along with Asha, her parents, Race, and the others save for the Viking Teens and her blood family (since none of them know much about fashion in modern human society compared to 500 years ago and in Berk) went into their respective gender-exclusive rooms to change into their loaner clothes.

In the men's room, while Kiawe, Sophocles, Race, James, and Ash were changing, the Kanto trainer called for Meltan and Rowlet, "Rowlet, Meltan, get up! We're heading out."

"But, Mr. Ash, Big Brother's asleep," Meltan chirped, making Ash see his Alola Grass Starter continuing to sleep in his backpack.

"I guess we should just let Rowlet sleep," he slumped in dismay.

Eventually, once they were finished, the gang, Sarah, Asha, Nikki, James, and Race were now in their respective outfits for their stay in the city with the girls and Nikki wearing bright kimonos that suited their own individual styles and their hair done in varied uptop buns while the boys and James had different rurouni-like and male Japanese citizen outfits on.

"How's this?" Mallow asked, showing off her new kimono.

"It looks great on you, Mallow!"

"That's a nice hair appointment you have!" Lillie and Lana praised, liking Mallow's Malie Style.

"Gee, Sis, you look great with that kimono," Sarah admitted, impressed by Asha's kinomo.

"And, your hair looks so beautifully done, my baby!" Nikki cooed, pinching her daughter's cheeks lovingly as she gushed over her new Malie Style.

"Mom! Thanks but seriously, you're embarrassing me!" Asha blushed heavily as she gently swatted her mother's hands away and turned away, getting a giggle from her and her little sister.

"I wonder if I got this on right?" puzzled Ash, looking at how he got his outfit on.

"Is that belt supposed to be up there," quizzed Sophocles, looking at Ash's belt awkwardly positioned at his chest.

"You know the belt is supposed to go on your waist, you muppet," Race shot the Kanto trainer down, raising an eyebrow at him.

"You got a long way to go before you become accustomed to Malie City's ways with these robes, my boy," chuckled James.

"This top feels a bit stiff," Kiawe complained slightly, feeling his vest and seeing that it restricted his upper body movement a bit.

"Now, all of you look simply fabulous!" smiled Nurse Joy.

"Guess so, looks fine to me," added Charlie, not as impressed.

But, everybody soon noticed the elephant in the room as they discovered that the Viking Teens and Sarah's blood family were blushing or looking awkwardly at them and they weren't even in their own loaner clothes while they got themselves ready.

"Uh... Guys, Your Majesties, why aren't you all in your loaner clothers?" Mallow asked in confusion.

"Don't you guys want to go to Malie Garden with us?" Lana agreed.

"Mom, Dad, what's wrong?" Sarah asked her parents.

"Huh, oh! Well, uh, it's not really that, but... Well, girls, baby, you see, uh... Oh, dear," Doug replied, feeling a little awkward.

"You see, dear... It, uh, appears that, well, uh... We don't know how to adjust to this strange tradition and we decided to go as we are, with our normal clothing," Delilah added, gesturing to her, Doug, and their parents' royal clothing and Tsukumaro nodded as he preferred to stick to his original royal robes.

"Yeah, those nice duds really suit you but us, well... Not really our thing, really," Fishlegs admitted.

"We don't know anything about clothing in your society and we never had any reason to change out of our own outfits," Zenna agreed. "Sorry, not changing my outfit," Astrid agreed.

"What?! But, you have to! If you don't change into these clothes, you won't be able to come with us to Malie Garden! Please!" Ash whined beggingly.

"Now, Ash, dear, be reasonable. We and our children haven't been home for some time and even though we've grown accustomed to the ways of you youngsters, there are still some things about your society that we can't wrap our heads around yet," Donna (former queen) soothed.

"I understand you and your family's concerns, Your Highness. But, it's a special tradition for all of us in Malie City to wear this kind of clothing here in Malie City," Nurse Joy replied sympathetically until she gave a rhy smile as she thought of a workaround for the royal family and the Vikings. "But, since you're all here on account of your granddaughter and Asha planning your family's advisor and Nikki and James' birthdays, I suppose we could make an exception."

"Yeah, it's fine. Besides, it's not often we have the honor of hosting the royal family in Malie Garden," agreed Charlie.

"Now's the time, for a grand commorative picture!" Rotom-Dex buzzed as he and Rotoscope prepared to take a group photo.

"Alright, dudes and dudettes! All set? Watch the Pikipek and say, 'Cool Eevees'!" Rotoscope grinned.

"Cool Eevees/Cool Eevees!" the gang, the royal family, the Vikings, and the Pokemon gathered with them smiled as Rotom-Dex and Rotoscope took their pictures, all of them now ready to go to Malie Garden (which got Ash totally stoked).

"Alright! On to Malie Garden!"

"Let's party!" Ash and Pikachu cheered.

Moments later, after getting through the paparazzi of the tourists and locals seeing the royal family coming, our heroes were led by Charlie to Malie Garden which was a massive park studded with locals and tourists and Pokemon alike mingling together as they explored the place, complete with a mass expanse of grassy fields and hills amidst a giant lake, the area modeled after a mountainous Japanese Kansai lakeside country field (with some things like lake bridges, lake shrines, and cherry blossom trees amongst many other things as far as the eye can see and a hint of Ecruteak City's Bell and Brass Towers). The heroes marveled at the sight where they'll be hosting Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro's birthdays as they and Charlie watched everything from the observation deck they're on.

"You can see all of Malie Garden from this observation deck," Charlie said.

"It's huge!"

"A beautiful sight!"

"And, the breeze smells so good!" Mallow, Rotom-Dex (who was taking pictures), and Lillie grinned.

"This is amazing!"

"Fascinating, I can see why you and your sister wanted to celebrate her parents and Tsukumaro's birthdays here, m'dear," David smiled at Sarah.

"Ponchita, you and your sister have outdone yourselves with this place."

"I'd love to have our and Tsukumaro's birthdays here," James and Nikki praised their daughter.

"Thanks, Mom, Dad... We thought you both would like it here," Asha said, smiling softly at them.

"Here, take a look," Kiawe said to Ash, handing him his telescope.

"Okay!" Ash replied, taking the telescope before he saw, amongst the Worker Pokemon, a small 2-Passimian passenger escort and then a Hariyama running a rickshaw in the garden down below. "Wow, there they are! That's awesome!"

"Heh, you think that's awesome? Check out those Froslass in that concession stand over there," Race chuckled at Ash, pointing him to where the Froslass working in the park are. "That's where my family and I went for a break while we're having my birthday outing. One of the Froslass gave Aunt Lucy some shaved ice shaped like a Glalie."

"So, those are the Worker Pokemon?" Ash asked Race who nodded with a proud and knowing smile.

"Come on, let me see!" Sophocles grinned as he took the telescope and looked at the Worker Pokemon, also impressed with what they can do. "Yeah!"

"Sure wish Solar was here to see this," Sarah admitted, wishing her Beast Bot is with her and her family right now.

"Yeah, but like he mentioned the day he and Athena left for Grid Battleforce, they have to help Nate and the others at his and Commander Shaw's request with an extended errand an Coral Harbor and to help them with whatever Evox is throwing at them. But, it would've been nice if I could share this with her as well," Race replied before he gave a sentimental smile at the thought of Athena while the young couple looked down at the garden below.

Suddenly, Sandy and Pouncer sudenly notice something from behind them and their entire group and surprising Lana and Sarah again (as Mai did prior), the two of them jumped down to the floor and saw a small line of five transgendered male Eevees parading from behind them. All of them were wearing different-colored kimonos and had a flower in their giesha hairstyles coupled with golden charms on the left side of their hairdos.

"Helloooooooo, nurse!"

"Groovy ladies!" Sandy and Pounce swooned, the latter pulling off a wolf whistle as he did so.

"Oh, wow! Look at that!"

"It's an Eevee parade!"

"And, they're all so cute!"

"The little darlings!"

"How sweet!" Lana, Mallow, Lillie, Delilah, and Donna (former queen) gushed.

"This calls for a picture!" Rotom-Dex cried as he excitedly took pictures of the Geisha Eevee Parade.

But, Sarah's Shiny Eevee, however, looked on in confusion at her normal-colored transgender counterparts and the outfits they were wearing before she looked at her human mother and asked, "Mommy, am I supposed to look like that while I'm here?"

"What? No way, Eevee, there's no way I would ever put you in something like that. You're just fine the way you are and in whatever I make for you to wear," Sarah snorted kindly to her Shiny Normal Type, not wanting to think of putting her Evolution Pokemon in a geisha outfit.

Things, however, took a turn for the worst as Meltan noticed the shiny gold charms the Geisha Eevees were wearing on their hair and attempted to waddle over to them so he can eat them. However, because he was so small and so slow compared to them, he couldn't keep up with them. That was until Sandy decided to "help" him by picking him up on his back and giving him a ride, consequently running into the Geisha Eevee Parade and disrupting it while giving the Eevees in question a fright.

"SANDY, STOP IT!" Lana shrieked in anger at Sandy before a whistle was heard and everybody stopped and turned to the owner as two familiar lion-like and Pyroar-inspired Beast Bots emerged but in custom Japanese outfits made for them.

"Alright, who's the wiseguy responsible for sending the garden's Geisha Eevees into a tizzy?" the blue lion-like Beast Bot questioned.

"Anybody responsible for ruining the Geisha Eevee Parade we've worked on with Charlie, the volunteers, and the Worker Pokemon here, stand before us and please say 'Aye', now!" added the Pyroar-inspired Beast Boy firmly.

Sandy and Meltan froze before they sheepishly crawled forward and said to the Beast Bots, "Aye."

"Sandy?!" blinked the Beast Bots in surprise and recognization before they chuckled.

"Boy, some things never change and here I thought Lana would've had you on a leash by now given your energy while we were gone. You may have ruined the Geisha Eevee Parade but you were just trying to have fun in your own wild and rambunctious way."

"And, you're still the fun-loving and adorable little ball of fluffy curiosity we all know and love. So, who's the new guy you were carrying on your back?"

The heroes all blinked in shock and surprise to see the familiar arrivals appearing before them as the Pyroar Beast Bot went to tend to the Geisha Eevees and the lion-like Beast Bot was reuniting with Sandy but also now giving him and Meltan a firm talk about restraint and being on their best behavior so they don't get into trouble and be kicked out for behaving so badly behind everybody's backs.

"Solar/Athena?!" Sarah, Ash, and the others gasped in total bewilderment, catching the Beast Bots' attention as they smiled brightly at their families and friends, particularly Sarah and Race.

"Race, hey there!"

"Hey, Sarah! We've been kept busy waiting for you to finally come for the last three days, this place is great! Where've you been?"

Moments later, it was time for Charlie and the heroes to part before they begin with the tour. He's going to leave them to their own devices in Malie Garden while he goes off, deciding to let them have fun exploring the place and reunite with Solar and Athena who were currently working as special volunteers in the garden after finishing whatever business they had with the Beast Morphers Rangers and Grid Battleforce.

"Time to go, we'll part for a short while," Charlie announced, bringing out a smokebomb before he looked at Athena and Solar. "Thanks for helping out at the garden with the Worker Pokemon, Solar, Athena. I'll see you guys later."

"Goodbye, Charlie."

"Thank you, Charlie."

"Thanks for everything," the heroes and Beast Bots thanked.

With that, Charlie threw the smoke bomb on the ground and to everyone's surprise, he vanished as there was no trace of him to be found.

"He vanished!"

"That's what a ninja does!"

"A force to be recloned with!" Ash, Sophocles, and Lana gasped getting some awkward and annoyed sighs and shrugs from Sarah and Xena.

"Alright, everybody, let's go and check out the garden!" Kiawe suggested with a bright smile with everybody cheering in agreement.

And so, Sarah and the gang went off to explore Malie Garden to begin their sightseeing tour of the place with Sarah, Nikki, James, and Solar showing the Viking Riders, Tsukumaro, Asha, David, Donna (former queen), Doug, and Delilah everything around the garden as carefully and slowly as they could so they don't become overwhelmed. Of course, there were some moments of paparazzi with the tourists, locals, and their Pokemon when they took notice of Sarah and her birth family but they were nonetheless happy to see their region's reunited family and the last of the original Alolan Royal Monarchy back together as some of the volunteers eagerly helped to show them around more of the garden.

As they went about the tour, Sarah turned to her Beast Bot and asked, "So, what have you been doing, man? You and Athena were at Grid Battleforce longer than we expected and you ended up here at Malie Garden helping the volunteers, the Worker Pokemon, and Charlie."

"Where are we supposed to start? Not only do Nate and Commander Shaw want our help in testing and refining the effectiveness of the Beast Morphers arsenal and deliveries of Morph-X and food for the workers at the Morph-X Towers in the area but we also had to help him with a matter involving his parents, help save Ravi and Roxy's anniversary after a misunderstanding regarding their anniversary gifts to each other, and don't even get me started on how Nate tried to make Steel a human and they ended up switching bodies during that time," Solar replied with a small chuckle.

Sarah blinked in surprise and bewilderment at the thought of Nate trying to make his Beast Bot brother as she echoed, "Whoa, whoa, wait, hold up... Nate was trying to make Steel into a human before Evox and his minions switched bodies on them for a short time, like in Freaky Friday? Could it really be possible?"

"Search me but you know how life has been for the guy ever since Steel came into his life, you know, when he told Athena and I that he came to life through Evox's intended body and his human DNA along with Scarab Beetle and Mantis DNA he gathered made him the Silver Ranger. He's been wanting a brother all his life given that he was once an only child."

"Geez, sounds like you guys went through a lot while you were gone," Race sniggered, trying to stifle his laughter.

"Yeah, it was great and believe it or not, Steel was quite the singer! We even recorded the whole thing on video, we'll have to show it to you later," laughed Athena, getting more laughs from the other three over the thought of Steel singing while he was in Nate's body.

The rest of the sightseeing tour continued as the group crossed over one of the lake bridges and took in the sights and sounds of the garden, seeing gold statues of Octillery shooting out water which were actually Octillery-shaped water spouts.

Hiccup, Fishlegs, Sophocles, and Togedemaru were enjoying a ride aboard a cart escort, carried by the two Passimian they saw earlier with Toothless and Meatlug happily following them. Astrid, Mallow, Lana, and Lillie were having fun riding a rickshaw being pulled by the same Hariyama carrying two tourists/locals from before with Ash, Pikachu, Sandy, and Rotom-Dex running and flying after them.

Snotlout, Deino, Hookfang, Fishlegs, Dratini, Meatlug, Sophocles, Kiawe, and Tsukumaro took in the sights of the lake while Rotom-Dex photographed them just as a fake Gyarados popped out, spooking the young sextet while Rotom-Dex and the old advisor looked in confusion at them without noticing the prop.

Then, Zenna, Sarah's human family, Lana, Lillie, Mallow, Sandy, Shaymin, Seth, and Snowy joined Race at the concession stand where they were being served some tea and frozen treats by a Froslass (which was the same one that served Race and his family during their last visit on his birthday outing). Ash, Pikachu, and Meltan were with them at another table but while the Kanto pair foolishly ended up having a case of brain freeze after eating their own frozen treat too fast, the little Hex Nut Pokemon instead helped himself to a table spoon they managed to get for him.

While they all looked around and enjoyed themselves, Rotom-Dex and Rotoscope took pictures of a golden Altaria statue with Lillie, Lana, Mallow, Sandy, Snowy, and Shaymin watching from below. And, later, Pikachu and Sandy found themselves examining a Darmanitan statue while Meltan decided to have a nap on its head.

All too soon, their time exploring Malie Garden was over and the heroes returned to Malie City to continue exploring more of the place until Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro's birthdays.

"Malie City really is a remarkable place and it's unlike anything else in Alola, not even Olivia's hometown of Konikoni City at Akala Island can match the distinctly Japanese and Asian feel here. When we were sent here after we finished helping Grid Battleforce on their end by accident, it was like we traveled back in time even though we're still in Alola, almost like that reconstruction of the Hisui town we visited in Calavine City."

"In a way, this place and Poni Island and the rest of Alola are very much like Kanto and Johto; two areas from two different worlds living together in perfect harmony," Solar and Athena grinned as they walked ahead of the group along the city streets just as Ash's stomach growled.

"Aww, I'm starving after all that walking," Ash stated.

"Why don't we eat something?" Kiawe decided.

"I know, there's only one food here that spells 'Malie City'!" Sophocles suggested brightly.

However, as the heroes were about to have lunch given that the tour around the city and Malie Garden took the entire morning since arriving, unbeknownst to them, Team Rocket was also on the scene as they brought their Masalada truck to Malie City. They were trying to sell their latest Combee 3-in-1 Masaladas to some potential customers but like before, the customers they wanted weren't lining up to take any orders for them.

"Welcome, welcome! Hurry, step right up!"

"It's a feast wrapped into one you won't want to miss!"

"Our 3-in-1 Combee Masaladas are a guarantee to hit whatever spot you've got and make your day!"

"That's right! Hurry, hurry!" Meowth and Wobbuffet hollered, trying to advertise the group's new product but to no avail.

"So far, not a single sale today like before," sighed Jessie, feeling a little down.

James frowned in agreement, confused as to why they were not getting any sales at this time, "Isn't that odd? Hmm, I was sure my 'Operation Wide-Open-Purse-Strings-in-a-Tourist-Trap' made us mounds of money...during a simulation."

"There may be massive oodles of tourists and locals in Malie City but these oodles are more into noodles than Masaladas," Meowth pointed out, knowing what sets their food product apart from their competition right now.

"He's got it there," nodded Wobbuffet in agreement.

"Or, for another example... Octillery's Special Breakfast Balls have the whole city lined up for miles! Tourists come from all around to have these cuties for breakfast, lunch, and dinner! The super-sweet and spicy sauce is from a secret recipe, passed down for generations! Wow... I could eat a million!" the talking Scratch Cat Pokemon continued, gushing at the stand that had an Octillery Chef cooking up some Takoyaki unique only to Malie City.

"Mmmmm! Me, too!" Wobbuffet gushed as his and Meowth's mouths watered over the thought of having the Special Breakfast Balls they're thinking of wanting so badly.

"Three sticks of Breakfast Balls, please!"

"And, I'd like five, please! No, six!" two tourists called before Ash and Pikachu along with Sarah and Blitz and Curly, Race, came to the stand.

"Yeah, I'll have ten."

"**Me, too!**" Ash and Pikachu ordered.

"**And, how many for you, your family, and your lucky man, Princess?**" the Octillery Chef smiled at the little princess as Race joined her.

"My family and I have 65 Pokemon and nine dragons on my end so ten large boxes, please."

"Thank you," Sarah and Race smiled back as Sarah paid him with three gold bricks.

"**Oh, ho-ho-ho-ho! Brilliant, my friends, you must be very hungry after the excitement you all had at Malie Garden from what I've heard!**" laughed the Octillery Chef heartily after completing Ash and Pikachu's order and he and his fellow workers quickly completed their own and handed the boxes to them before he added two more boxes for them as his compliments. "**And, here you are with two boxes from us to you, on the house! Now, eat up before they get cold, there's plenty more where those came from! Ho-ho-ho-ho!**"

"Thank you/**Thank you**!" the young couple, Blitz, and Curly thanked as they took the boxes (seven between the two humans) and went over to their families.

"IT'S THE...!"

"TWERPY AND ROYAL TWERPETTE!" Jessie, James (Team Rocket), and Meowth gawked as they watched the entire group including the royal family and the Pokemon School Gang happily eating their Takoyaki together.

"What are they doing here?"

"Probably to sightsee since it's their first time being in Malie City."

"And, don't look now, the Royal Family Army's here, too, two generations of kings and queens and the rest of the twerpy party with the Viking Twerps."

With the heroes, they were all enjoying their Takoyaki immensely and even the dragons and Pokemon in the royal family couldn't get enough of the Takoyaki Sarah ordered for them while she removed the sticks to keep the Night Lights from poking their mouths with them.

"So good!" Asha gushed with delight as she ate one of the balls.

"We had a feeling you'd like them! Sophocles really knows how to follow his nose since we've been thinking the same thing! Our old friend makes the best Takoyaki unlike any other in the world!"

"Yeah, we knew Octillery's Famous Malie Takoyaki would be the best but he and his friends running the place just keep getting better and better with them since the day we and your sister first tried them!" Nikki and James grinned as they ate.

"You know what, this is delicious!"

"What's in their fabulous sauce? I sure would love to know!" Kiawe and Mallow beamed.

"I'll have ten more, please!"

"Me, too! 26!"

"Two more for me, please! "Ash, Sophocles, and Lana called to the chef.

"Now, just be careful, Ash, Sophocles. Try not to eat the place out of house and home before we have to go through with the tour again," Ghost (Dragapult) warned the Electric Type student and the Kanto trainer as he and the rest of his family enjoyed their Takoyaki.

The younger Night Lights along with Aegis, Haze, and Gale pawed their food curiously as they looked at Dart, Pouncer, and Ruffrunner (who decided to go with their human caretaker while their parents stayed at home for a break along with their other dragons so they can spend some quiet family time alone with each other and their younglings) as they happily ate their stick-less balls before Dart noticed them not eating yet and nudged one of her balls over to the Night Light family, getting their attention.

"Hungry?" she quizzed while grinning at them along with her brothers, soon getting the younger Night Lights, their parents, and the elder to try the Takoyaki out and getting satisfied hums as they ate with Sarah watching over them.

"Like 'em?" the princess asked the younger Strike Class dragons, smiling.

"Mmm!"

"Yummy!"

"Delish!" Zap, Splattertail, and Goggles chirped with happy nods as they and their family ate away.

"Here, Lillie. Try these, these Breakfast Balls are really good, you'll like them!" grinned Lillie to a rather hesitant yet curious Nihilego Lillie.

Taking her human sister's word for it, Nihilego Lillie helped herself to one of the Takoyaki balls and gave a satisfied and happy coo as she enjoyed the taste of them before she helped herself to another ball, making the Ice Type student and Snowy very happy for her.

"This is great, you guys! New and great!" Fishlegs smiled brightly.

"Yeah!"

"I can go for thirty more sticks all day!" Dratini and Meatlug gushed as they ate their balls.

"What about you guys, tasty? Compliments to the chef?" Sarah asked the rest of her Pokemon family as they all gave hearty cheers while they ate their balls.

Team Rocket blinked in shock at the sight of the new arrivals to Sarah's family as well as the addition of Nihilego Lillie with Jessie spotting Guardeon and his family, Duke, Link, Zelda, Nihilego Lillie, and Tai Lung as she balked, "Look at all those creatures and Pokemon! Such rare Poke-riches like those razor-faced metal heads! There's a white Zeraora, a Shiny, and wherever those creatures are! And, the power and unknown beauty of those Suicune and Virizion lookalikes, they're new ones to me, too!"

James (Team Rocket) was equally shocked as he looked at his Pokemon Handbook and looked at the new Pokemon with the heroes more closely, "I think the armored Pokemon and the others with it are brand new Eeveelutions never known to anyone and barring the Shiny Umbreon that looked like a full-grown panther and that tiny Shiny Eevee, they're the same size as the other Eeveelutions the Royal Twerpette has with her. The Shy Twerpette has herself an ultra-rare Ultra Beast and-EGADS-the Royal Twerpette and the Green Twerpette are also in possession of two incredibly rare Mythical Pokemon, Shaymin, one of them being a Shiny! But, the lookalikes are a mystery to me, must be new species. Who knew we'd see them in a tourist trap?"

"The nerve! All those twerpettes, especially the Royal Twerpette, are flouting all of those rare Pokemon including the unique and special creatures they have on them when Team Rocket should have the lot! But, I especially adore those Eeveelution babes with her," Meowth ranted, going lovey-dovey for a second when he briefly laid eyes on Umbreon's daughters.

"Let's get 'em!" Wobbuffet added in agreement.

Back at the heroes' end, they've had their fill and are ready to begin the next part of their tour. Sophocles and Ash, much to the worry and chagrin of Togedemaru and Pikachu when they saw how fat they'd become from eating so much Takoyaki, stuffed themselves even though their hunger was satisfied.

"Ahh, couldn't eat another bite," Ash grinned as Ghost and Tyson looked at the fattened pair in amusement.

"Well, well, well, looks like we got ourselves some big Malie Takoyaki fans out on the street."

"I warned you to not eat out of house and home with Mr. Octillery's but you two have gone overboard as expected. I'm gonna have to ask your mother and Mr. Kukui to put you two on a diet until the Pokemon League," they chuckled, getting pale looks from Ash and Sophocles.

"So, gang, where are we going next-bzt?" Manteon asked while Sarah thanked Octillery for his kitchen's food and service with a few more gold bricks and was given a roll of paper that he secretly gave her to show his and his friends' gratitude for their kind words of praise and enjoyment over their Takoyaki while they had a quick friendly whisper between them before the heroes had to go.

"It would be a good idea for us to visit the library and start planning Nikki, James, and Tsukumaro's birthday parties!" Lillie suggested as she read a brochure of Malie City she took up.

"Or, maybe there are hot springs around here!" Lana put in just as another strong gust of wind blew in.

"NOT AGAIN!" shrieked Rotom-Dex as he was blown a few feet away from the group after getting caught in the gust.

But, Rotom-Dex wasn't the only thing being blown away as some posters next to the group were also blown away and what's worse, as Mallow was right next to them and in the middle of the gust, to Shaymin's horror, she saw that her human friend's hair ornament was lifted off her and was being blown away.

"Oh, no! The ornament!" she cried in alarm before she chased after it. "Come back here!"

"Uncle Sandy, look!" gasped Meltan as he and Sandy noticed Shaymin running after Mallow's ornament and decided to chase her to help her.

"Shaymin, hey! Wait up!" the male Eevee shouted, getting Breezeon, Donka, Sho, and Seth's attention as they saw the three Pokemon running after Mallow's hair ornament much to their shock and horror of what it could mean if they wandered too far off on their own.

"Sissy!"

"Hey, guys!"

"W-W-where are y-you g-go-going?!"

"After them, quick!" they screamed frantically as they gave chase, trying to keep up with them so they can help get the ornament back as well but also ensure that they don't get lost should they have to return to their party.

The others that stayed behind shielded themselves from the gust as best they could until it died down seconds later and they weren't hurt but unlike before, they were feeling even more winded compared to what they went through regarding the first gust they experienced upon entering the vicinity of the city.

"Everybody okay?" Sarah asked everybody gathered.

"Just peachy," Hiccup called as the other Viking Teens and their Pokemon and dragons gave affirmative signals and calls that they were unharmed.

"It finally died down," commented Sophocles.

"That was some strong gust," Kiawe admitted, a little baffled.

"I must admit, that gust of wind was strong for how brief it was."

"You humans must have the strangest weather coming into these parts at times," Link and Zelda added.

"For sure," chuckled Mallow before Lana and Lillie saw her going pale as she felt her hair. "Oh, no!"

"What's the matter, Mallow, dear?" Donna (former queen) questioned worriedly as she turned to the Grass Type student before everybody noticed something missing from her Malie City hairdo.

"My hair ornament, it's gone!"

"Maybe the wind got hold of it?" gulped Lillie, making her Grass Type best friend panic as she screamed in horror.

"What'll I do now?!"

But, that would be the last of everybody's problems as they soon discovered that Seth, Shaymin, Donka, Breezeon, Sandy, and Meltan are all gone, not knowing that they were chasing after Mallow's hair ornament without their knowledge.

"Hold on, Meltan?" Ash blinked, seeing his newest Pokemon companion gone as he and Pikachu looked at and under the bench.

"What's wrong?" Kiawe asked.

"I don't see Meltan anywhere."

"Anywhere?"

"You know what? Shaymin's gone, too!"

"And, Sandy!" Mallow and Lana freaked as Lillie also gasped in horror, realizing that Sandy and Shaymin are gone.

"AHH/WHAT?!" shrieked a horrified Boltund and Delcatty, seeing no trace of their son.

"Daddy! I don't see Breezeon, he's gone!" shrieked Thundereon in shock, seeing no sign of her Flying Type brother.

"Hey, where'd he go?!" gasped Brawleon.

"He just vanished!" added Freezeon.

"Breezeon! Son?" shouted a worried Guardeon.

"D-Donka, my b-b-baby!" wailed Donkapa, seeing no sign of her daughter as well.

"Impossssssible! SSSSSShe couldn't have disssssssappeared sssssso eassssssily behind our backsssssss!" blasted a stunned Flameaconda.

"Seth, Sho?!" cried Sarah, seeing no sign of her Shiny Shaymin and Arrietty's son. "Oh no, what am I gonna do?! Arrietty will kill me if she found out I lost Sho!"

"THIS IS AWFUL! How could this have happened, we have to go and find them now before they could get hurt!" Rotom-Dex panicked as he reappeared and saw no trace of the missing Pokemon as well.

"How are we gonna do that? Malie City is a big place in and of itself and they could be anywhere no matter where we look!" Solar put in doubtfully.

"Allow me. Appare Vestigium!" Tsukumaro replied as he took out his wand and pointed it forward, the wand emitting a gold swirl as he cast his spell and waved it forward, allowing the group to see a series of six different footprint trails and what happened prior.

Thanks to what his and Delilah's old friend and advisor had done, Doug understood the situation, "So, that's it; it appears, Mallow, that your hair ornament got blown away by that previous gust of wind. When Shaymin realized this and saw it happen, she gave chase with Sandy and Meltan not far behind when they saw her. Apparently, this also got Breezeon, Seth, Donka, and Sho's attention and they hurried off to find them and hopefully, bring them back once they do after retrieving your ornament."

"But, why would they do that? It's too dangerous for them to go off on their own!" Delilah fretted, worrying for their safety.

Knowing what they have to do, Link then took the initiative by sniffing the ground before he went off on his own to look for the missing Pokemon, catching Sarah's attention as she saw him leaving while continuing to sniff around, "Link, where are you going?"

"I get it; he's sniffing the ground to look for them since he has a much stronger sense of smell compared to Suicune's. In that case, Lycanroc, I choose you!" Ash deducted, seeing where Link was going and bringing out his Lycanroc to help him. "We got seven missing Pokemon on our hands! Let's go and find them fast!"

"Got it!" Lycanroc nodded.

"I'll go with you, Ash. Like Skystorm, Stormfly's got a strong nose being a Deadly Nadder so she can pinpoint them in a flash, right, girl?" Astrid offered as she then turned to her dragon who gave her a knowing nod.

"Do you mind if we search the skies for your son, Guardeon?" asked Hiccup to the Jungle Guard's Eeveelution co-commander.

"Much obliged, Breezeon is the largest of my children so he shouldn't be too hard to find even from the air," the Steel Type Eeveelutoin thanked.

"And, we better do it fast because look who's set up shop here!" Buneary added worriedly, pointing everybody to Team Rocket's Masalada truck.

"Team Rocket?!"

"Why would they come here?" gasped Frosmoth and Fennekin, fearing for Sho, Seth, Shaymin, Donka, Sandy, Meltan, and Breezeon's safety even more.

"I think they somehow saw us while they're having their tried-and-tested sales of a new Masalada they've come up with. We won't have much time before they spring into action knowing that we've got seven missing Pokemon on the loose," Amber noted.

"I'm surprised none of us knew about them being in Malie City to begin with but this does pose a problem for us should they be on the hunt for our little ones now," admitted Zelda, looking just as concerned despite her robotic look.

"I say we split up, form a grid and start checking every square inch of the city and inquire to the tourists and locals if they've seen them and always keep our eyes and ears open for Team Rocket should they strike," David suggested, getting knowing nods and affirmative calls from everybody.

"And, to make it easier for us, I have just the thing that can help," Sarah replied as she brought out her wand and conjured up a small Gracidea Flower before she used Avensegium to enchant it and it took off for Shaymin and Seth's current location.

"Good job, Princess!" Tsukumaro praised, allowing Sarah to nod knowingly to her godfather.

"Let's go!"

"Find them, please!" pleaded Mallow as the group then split up while calling out to the missing Pokemon as they looked for them with Nihilego Lillie donning her "Lillie' disguise to join in on the search, going off on her own as she planned to join Link and help him search on his end.

As the heroes split up, despite knowing that the Jungle Guard was now suspicious about them, Team Rocket smirked as they said, "Hear that?"

"Clear as a bell."

"Well, well, well."

"Too, too, easy."

"A catching we will go and seven of you no less!"

"YES/YES!"

(Pokemon POV)

As everybody was desperate to find Shaymin, Seth, Breezeon, Donka, Meltan, Sandy, and Sho before Team Rocket cuts them off, one of the Pokemon in question was continuing her frantic search for Mallow's hair ornament before the wind could cut her off and blow it away from her instead.

"Where is it, where is it? I've got to find Mallow's hair ornament before it's blown away for good!"

She looked all around her current location until she turned to her right and found it resting next to a bucket.

"Where...? There!" she cried, rushing over to it but being milliseconds too late as the wind picked up and blew it away from her before she could grab it, prompting her to chase after it again. "No! Come back!"

Finally, the wind died down yet again but unfortunately for Shaymin, the hair ornament ended up being stuck on part of a roof on one of the buildings on her right (specifically, on a bit of wood sticking out that's like a tinier roof which held a small plaque).

"Come on, where did you...go?!" she squeaked worriedly, eventually seeing it on the small roof bit.

Realizing that she would have to reach up to the top to get it down, she tried to climb up on a well so she can get close enough to grab it. But, despite her determination to help Mallow recover it, her initial attempts were all for naught as she quickly realized that she was too small to get up to the top no matter how hard she held on or how fast she tried to run up as she slid down to the ground.

"I hate being small," she sighed in defeat.

(Pokemon POV Pause)

Meanwhile, Lana and Lillie returned to the Pokemon Center to tell Nurse Joy the bad news, bolstered by their own unsuccessful efforts to find Sandy, Shaymin, Meltan, and Mallow's hair ornament along the way.

"Oh, my! That's terrible, I'm so sorry this happened to you," Nurse Joy soothed until she gave a reassuring smile. "But, just leave it to me. I'll take care of it, we'll find them in a jiffy!"

"Thank you," the girls thanked, relieved for the help.

Nurse Joy was true to her word as moments later, she pitched in as she made the announcement to everyone via a microphone call, "*Attention, Malie City Citizens and Visitors, we have seven lost Pokemon...*"

While Nurse Joy made the call, Rotom-Dex was with Meatlug, Fishlegs, Snotlout, and Hookfang along with Dratini and Deino over Malie Garden, looking for any signs of the Pokemon in question.

"Searching, searching, searching..." Rotom-Dex buzzed.

"Hey, kiddies!"

"Hello!"

"Shaymin, Breezeon, Sandy...!"

"Children!**"

"Are you guys out here?"

"Where are you~?" Fishlegs, Snotlout, their dragons, and their Partner Pokemon.

(Pokemon POV Resume)

However, if all seven of them from their current position had even bothered to fly down to the garden, they would've noticed Breezeon, Sandy, Meltan, Donka, Seth, and Sho already inside the garden. They had lost Shaymin as well as the hair ornament while running after her and not knowing where she could've gone, they decided to return to Malie Garden and ask any of the Worker Pokemon if any of them had seen her go by.

"Have any of you seen a Shaymin looking like my friend, Seth, pass by here while trying to find a hair ornament?" Sandy asked the Passimian Escorts, gesturing to Seth as he and Breezeon are with him since the six Pokemon just split into two groups.

"You mean a hair ornament like the ones we're wearing? Nope, not that we've seen any."

"Sorry, friend, no other Shaymin like your friend's been through the garden as of now," the Passimian Escorts replied.

"Have you seen one of our Shaymin friends, Sir?" asked Meltan to the Rickshaw Hariyama with Sho and Donka joining him.

"Nope, sorry!" Hariyama replied with a stomp of his foot, spooking the trio.

Then, they went to the concession stand to see if the two Froslass waitresses know about Shaymin and the hair ornament's current whereabouts.

"Pardon us, ladies, but have any of you seen a female Shaymin that's like our young friend here but with bright green fur on top?"

"S-S-S-She was c-chasing a hair o-o-ornament when it g-got blown a-a-a-away."

"And, we need to find her fast before she gets hurt. Did she pass by the garden?" Breezeon, Donka, and Sho asked the waitresses as the six Pokemon regrouped.

"Oh, dear, we haven't. Sorry, dearies," the Froslass Waitresses denied kindly.

With their own search for Shaymin and Mallow's hair ornament proving fruitless and after thanking the Worker Pokemon for trying to help them (with their blessings and best wishes given to them by the workers), the six Pokemon left Malie Garden and tried to figure out where else in the city they would've gone off to.

"Well, we know now that Shaymin and the hair ornament aren't at Malie Garden," Sho sighed.

"We got to keep looking, my sissy could be in trouble if we don't find her soon!" Seth fretted, feeling worried for his sister.

"But, where do we look now?" Meltan asked as Sandy and Breezeon then tried a different tactic which is following Shaymin's floral scent as they both sniffed the air for her given that they know she and her brother smelled differently as was the case with two different types of flowers.

"W-W-What are y-you d-d-doing?" Donka asked the male Evolution Pokemon and the Flying Type Eeveelution.

"...There," Sandy replied, he and Breezeon looking down to their right.

"Yes, she must be... She was just here, maybe... Come on!" Breezeon nodded as he and Sandy led the way with Meltan on the latter's back and Sho, Donka, and Seth following close behind, all of them heading west as they realized they finally know where Shaymin could be.

(Pokemon POV Pause)

Back with the heroes, their own search for the missing Pokemon was proving fruitless. No matter where and how hard they all looked, there was no sign of Shaymin, Seth, Breezeon, Donka, Sho, Sandy, and Meltan in the city.

"Hey, Meltan!" shouted Ash as he, Pikachu, and Lycanroc came up with nothing.

"I don't see any of them under here," Kiawe muttered worriedly, looking under a nearby car outside the city.

"Oh, where could they all have gone?" Sophocles wondered as he and Togedemaru searched in a field but found no trace of the Pokemon they were looking for.

"Hello, are any of you in there?" Lillie asked as she and Snowy checked out an empty building.

"Sandy!"

"Sandy!" Primarina and Lana cried worriedly to their little Eevee brother by the sea.

Mallow checked the entrance with Sarah's human family but she was growing more frantic and worried for her by the minute, "Shaymin? Shaymin! Shaymin, where are you?"

"Now, now, Mallow, don't worry. We'll find her," soothed Donna (former queen) as she gave her a gentle hug and she accepted it, wanting nothing more than to pray for her beloved Gratitude Pokemon friend's safety and for Team Rocket to not find her first as she tried not to cry.

With Stormfly and Link, they were having much better luck; the male Paradox Pokemon and the female Deadly Naddler belonging to Astrid had finally locked onto Shaymin's scent and they were now following it to her and the other missing Pokemon.

"That's it, Stormfly! Good job, Link, we can do it! Keep going, we're almost there," the tomboy Viking teen praised, knowing that the three of them are now hot on the trail.

In the skies above, Toothless, Zenna, Stryka, and Hiccup were keeping their eyes and ears open for the missing Pokemon as well as Team Rocket.

"See anything, bud?"

"What about you, Stryka? Team Rocket in range?" the former Viking underdogs asked their partners.

"Nothing yet."

"But, they're close. We can feel it, both Team Rocket and them."

(Pokemon POV Resume)

Returning to Shaymin, she hadn't given up on trying to reach the hair ornament. But, as she tried to climb onto the bucket for the umpteenth time, she fell down once again and realized she now was in a rut.

"Now, what am I going to do?" Shaymin fretted, out of options and needing help.

"Hey, Sissy!"

Shaymin gasped as she recognized the voice that called her and she turned to find her brother, Sandy, Meltan, Sho, Breezeon, and Donka coming over as they finally found her, much to their relief.

"T-There she i-i-is!"

"There you are, Shaymin! You're safe!" Donka and Breezon cried with relieved smiles.

"Yeah, Sissy, you had us worried sick! We've been looking all over for you!" Seth breathed as he nuzzled his baby sister lovingly. "Why did you run off like that earlier?"

"I'm sorry, Big Brother. You see, I tried to get Mallow's hair ornament but it was blown all the way up there and I can't get it!" Shaymin explained, pointing to where Mallow's hair ornament is.

"Okay, that could be a problem," Breezeon admitted, seeing what Shaymin was on about.

"Man, sure makes me wish there was a Gracidea Flower patch back at Malie Garden so we can use our Sky Forme to get it," lamented Seth, knowing he and his sister could get it in Sky Forme if they had any Gracidea Flowers on them.

"I can get it down for you," Sho offered, surprising the other six Pokemon with him.

"You can/You can?"

"Sure! My species, be it Hisuian or Unova, aren't just tricksters and illusion specialists for nothing! Watch!" the Hisuian Zorua grinned as he jumped into the air and transformed into a Staraptor, easily grabbing the hair ornament before it could be blown away again and placing it onto Shaymin's body as he flew back.

"Oh, thank you, Sho!"

"That was groovy!"

"Way cool!"

"You da man, Sho!"

"W-W-Well done, S-S-Sho!"

"Fabulous work, my boy! You and your species are the kings and queens of illusions!" Seth, Shaymin, Meltan, Sandy, Donka, and Breezeon praised as Sho changed back to his old form.

"Aww, it was nothin'. Now, let's find the others and fast!" replied Sho, humbly smiling before...

"WAH/GAH/WHOA/ZOINKS/AHH/WHAT/HEY!?"

A cage suddenly came down upon them and clamped shut, trapping them inside just as a series of familiar cackles caught their attention, leading them to face their familiar klutzy foes: Team Rocket. True to the heroes' fears, Jessie, James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet found them first and this time, they were confident that they would succeed in their mission to capture the heroes' Pokmon before they could come to their rescue.

"Oh, no!"

"You again!"

"N-No!"

"Team Rocket!" Shaymin, Sandy, Donka, and Seth whimpered or seethed as they and an angry Breezeon and Sho glared at them.

"Oh, boy," Meltan gulped.

Prepare for trouble in groups of seven!"

"And, make it double, just one you'll see!"

"The beauty so radiant, the flowers in bloom hide in shame! A single flower of evil in this gleaming world, Jessie!"

"The nobly heroic man of our times! The master fighting back against this heroically tragic world, James!"

"It's all for one and one for all. Dog it, while Meowth takes flight!"

"Team Rocket! Let's fight!"

"That's right!"

"You bet!"

Breezeon seethed in annoyance as not only was their motto grating to him but he realized that he and his group were tailed by them after they somehow knew about their being in the city, "I should've known you'd be here to capture us somehow, you stubborn little rocket freaks!"

"Oh, so you also have a big mouth like me, eh, Breezy?" Meowth smirked with an evil laugh. "So, what if I can? This is only natural for Pokemon such as myself, my brothers and sisters, and my father in Okoya Jungle."

"Well, that makes it all the more sweeter 'cause in just a short transport, you and your posse are going to be sweet gifts to the boss!"

"Not happening!" Sandy spat defiantly as he tried to bash the cage open with Tackle, only to earn a big bump on his head. "Owchie..."

"That has to hurt. Now, who would use a breakaway cage this time?" sneered Jessie as she mocked Sandy for trying to break open the new cage.

"Not us! Hard as nails, Laser Head couldn't munch its way out!" smirked James in agreement, unknowingly giving Meltan an idea as a spark went off in his head while Shaymin whimpered fearfully and her brother shielded her protectively along with Sho, Sandy, and Breezeon, while Donka stood behind them alongside the female Grass Type.

"You really are a bunch of weasels!" the male Shiny Shaymin seethed.

"Nails? Metal? Ooh, yummy, yum!" Meltan cried, skillfully chewing at the bars of the cage as he quickly made an opening big enough for all of them to break out, much to Team Rocket's horror when they saw this.

"WAH! Metal Head sure has got an appetite!" Meowth balked as Meltan finished his work.

"Yes, I got it!" the Hex Nut Pokemon cheered.

"You did it!"

"Sweet!" praised a grateful Shaymin and Sandy while the others looked on with impressed smiles.

"Good work, Little Meltan! Now, everybody, follow me to safety!" Breezeon smiled at Meltan before the seven of them made their escape with the Flying Type Eeveelution leading the way.

"Not so fast! Mimikyu!"

"Mareanie!" Jessie and James spat, sending out Mimikyu and Mareanie to cut them off and help them surround them before they can get away from their enemies.

"W-W-We're trapped!" cried Donka fearfully with Shaymin and Sandy hiding behind Sandy who stepped up to defend them.

"Mareanie, use Sludge Bomb!" James called, allowing his partner to fire Sludge Bomb at them as Sandy braced himself only for his larger Flying Type Eeveelution friend to get in front of the trapped Pokemon and use Steel Wing to counter the attack before he used Air Slash on Team Rocket.

"You measly Twerp Pokemon! You wanna play hardball, let's see how you take my Fury Swipes!" Meowth roared as he darted forward with Fury Swipes and Breezeon countered with Quick Attack to show off his speed and agility before he used Duel Wingbeat on him, however...

"Surprise!" smirked Mareanie as she recovered and fired Sludge Bomb at him.

Breezeon gasped in shock for he realized that while he managed to disorientate Team Rocket and kept his attention on Meowth, he left himself wide open for a swiftly-recovering Mareanie to fire her Sludge Bomb attack again but without his Steel Wing getting in the way.

"Watch out, Breezeon! DAH!" Sandy bellowed as he jumped forward and took the Sludge Bomb attack and he crashed into Breezeon before they were forced back to their party, the male Eevee becoming poisoned in the process as he soon passed out. "Wow, that's strong stuff, ugh..."

"Sandy/Sandy!"

"Oh, no!"

"Little Sandy!"

"No!" Shaymin, Seth, Donka, Sho, and Breezeon screamed in alarm.

"You'll pay, meanies! Flash Cannon!" boomed Meltan as he fired Flash Cannon at Mimikyu only to miss as it dodged while he fired twice before rushing back to the poisoned Sandy as the others checked on him. "Mr. Sandy! Mr. Sandy, are you alright?!"

"Sandy!" Shaymin cooed fearfully, realizing that Sandy protected everyone on their side and got poisoned because of her.

"Sandy, come on, man! Don't die on us!" Seth begged.

"P-P-Please stay w-w-with, us, Mr. S-Sandy!" cried Donka, already shedding tears for the male Eevee as Sho tried to nudge him awake.

This was the last straw for Breezeon as he growled with fury at Team Rocket and looked at Sho, getting his attention as the Flying Type Eeveelution and Hisuian Zorua gave each other a knowing glare and nodded, preparing to make one last stand against their enemies for Sandy's sake.

"Fiends! You should be ashamed of yourselves, how can Pokemon and their human trainers such as you fall to the dark side and sink so low by hurting and capturing Pokemon like our friend here for something cruel such as to make dirty money?!"

"I oughta press every last one of you morons into Jerk Takoyaki!" Sho agreed fiercely.

"That goes double for me if you think you can take my Sissy and our friends away without a fight!" Seth added, joining in.

"It's quite simple!"

"We're Team Rocket heroes first and evil and disobedient people and Pokemon such as you runts second!"

"I ain't even a people!" Team Rocket sneered again, irking the three male Pokemon as they prepared to fight, making Shaymin see this and realize that she and her party are in a tight spot and need help.

"MALLOW, SOMEBODY! HELP US!" Shaymin screamed, hoping Mallow and the others would hear her and come to their rescue until hope finally arrived when she finally saw her trainer appearing with Sarah's blood family.

"Shaymin?! Where are you?" Mallow cried as they passed by.

"Mallow?" the female Gratitude Pokemon smiled in relief, getting the group's attention as they found her and the others and smiled in relief but also become shocked when they saw Team Rocket.

"Shaymin!"

"Wait! Team Rocket, it's you!" David shouted, halting Mallow before she could reach Shaymin and glaring at Team Rocket, his voice catching Sho, Breezeon, and Seth's attention along with Meltan and Donka.

"Hey, you guys!"

"Uncle, Auntie, Gramps, Granny!"

"Your Majesties, Ms. Mallow!" the three male Pokemon preparing to fight gasped with relieved smiles.

"You found us!"

"T-Team Rocket were t-t-trying to c-capture us before w-w-w-we could r-r-return to y-you!" Meltan and Donka added.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Mallow roared angrily at Team Rocket, realizing that their enemies found their lost Pokemon first.

"What does it look like? Stealing primo Pokemon, of course," sneered Jessie.

"You're so awful!"

"You're all a disgrace to Pokemon and Pokemon Trainers everywhere including those within our family's kingdom!" Doug spat furiously.

"The nerve of you and your horrible syndicate, trying to steal other people's Pokemon just so you and your boss can make money out of them and for whatever horrible reasons he may have! You'll all pay for defiling our kingdom with your presence!" Delilah shot angrily, sharing her husband and Mallow's sentiments.

"Finders keepers, losers weepers, as they always say. Too bad for you we don't have time to play with you anymore 'cause we're about to make a fast-track trip to headquarters so we can-WAH!" James snorted in amusement before he, Jessie, Meowth, Wobbuffet, Mareanie, and Meowth ended up being blasted with Hydro Stream before Link suddenly appeared from behind them and blocked their only exit out.

"I don't think so, that's why I'm here," he glared at the evil trio before he jumped forward and flipped, landing in front of the seven Pokemon, the royal family, and Mallow as they got up. "You'll have to answer to me first if you want the little ones."

"Uncle Link!/Mr. Link!" the Shaymin Siblings cheered.

"So, you're the prehistoric Suicune, huh? Well, that makes it easier for us to go big or go home! Mareanie, Sludge Bomb, go!" James snapped as he got his Alola partner to fire Sludge Bomb at Link.

"Stormfly, Spine Shot!" Astrid shouted as she and Stormfly appeared above them with their fellow riders and their Pokemon and dragons before the female Deadly Naddler fired her spines and countered the Poison Type attack just as Guardeon and Lycanroc appeared and bashed Jessie on the head with a double pounce from the roof.

Breezeon was shocked yet relieved when he saw his father with Lycanoc as they joined Link in protecting him and his party as a gold Gracidea Flower floated around the former-missing Pokemon, "Father!"

This shocked James, Meowth, and Wobbuffet as they shrieked in alarm, "I know you two!"

"You're the Twerps and the Royal Twerpettes!"

"JINKIIIIIIIIES!"

"Excellent job, Link, Guardeon!"

"Good going, Lycanroc!" Sarah and Ash called as they, Pikachu, Blitz, Curly, and Lana along with Flameaconda and Donkapa arrived and got the attention of the former-missing Pokemon.

"Kidssssss!" Flameaconda hissed.

"Ms. Conda, Ms. Donkapa, Mom!" Seth gasped.

"Mommy!"

"Princess!" Breezeon and Donka shouted, the latter rushing to her mother.

"M-My baby!" Donkapa cried in happiness and relief as she nuzzled her daughter.

"Ash, Sarah!" smiled Mallow thankfully once she and Sarah's blood family saw them, Rotom-Dex, Lana, and the Pokemon with them coming.

"And, the culprits!" the Living Pokedex called, seeing Team Rocket with their missing Pokemon.

"Team Rocket, you were behind all this!" Ash snarled at his old enemies.

"No surprise given that you've somehow heard us and then cut us off before we tried to reach them!" added a pissed-off Sarah as she glared darkly at Team Rocket.

"We're totally disbanding you and your stupid syndicate someday!"

"Yeah, I'm so over you three and your fellow stooges!" Blitz and Curly concurred angrily.

"It's over now, you're through!" agreed an angry Lana.

Jessie and Meowth just continued to sneer while giving off malicious chuckles, the former wiping her face after Guardeon and Lycanroc's double pounce which told the heroes that they don't plan on quitting while they still have a chance.

"Now, Meltan, use Headbutt-!"

"Stand aside, Mr. Ash! Go, Sokka, Battle Dance!" Doug ordered, bringing out Sokka as the battle-hardened Samurott stood at attention. "Use your Razor Shell on Mareanie!"

"Yes, Master!" Sokka nodded, standing on his hind legs and rushing forward before he grabbed his shell from his left hind leg and slashed forward in a Batojutsu stance but with his left hind leg forward akin to the Amakakeru Ryu no Hirameki (the Ultimate Attack of the Hiten Mitsurugi Style in Rurouni Kenshin).

"Mareanie, use Sludge Bomb!" James ordered before he was subjected to his partner's crush on him as she clamped on his head and happily poisoned him in compliance with his word before she attacked. "Fast pack served..."

"Alright, you overgrown samurai, take this!" Mareanie shouted, blasting Sludge Bomb at Sokka only for him to cut through the attack with his expert swordsmanship, not wanting any of the young Pokemon to fight and endanger themselves further.

Rotom-Dex was impressed by what he was seeing as he recorded everything and detailed, "Even though he's a Water Type and not a Steel Type like Meltan, with master swordsmanship like that, Poison Type attacks are nothing to Sokka and his Samurott species!"

"Daaaaaaaa-WAAAAGGHHHH!" Mareanie shrieked in panic before she was hit by Sokka's Razor Shell.

As he and Mareanie fought, Shaymin and Seth quickly used Aromatherapy to heal Sandy and managed to dispel the poison in him from Sludge Bomb.

"Huh? Thanks!" smirked Sandy, appreciating the help.

"Ah! Sandy, thank goodness!"

"Welcome back, Sand-meister!" Shaymin and Seth cheered, sharing Sandy's smirk.

Lana, feeling just as relieved and thankful once again to Seth and Shaymin for their help, also smirked as she then told Sandy, "Alright, here we go! Use Double Edge on Mareanie!"

"Yeah! And...PAYBACK TIME!" Sandy roared as he jumped into the air and used Double Edge, shooting down like a comet on the now-panicked Mareanie as she couldn't dodge in time.

"Uh... That's all, folks-WAAAGH!" she blurted before she was hit hard and finally knocked out on her trainer's body, groaning in pain as she had swirls for eyes and felt as though she was hearing Pikipeks chirping around her.

"End of show!" gulped James (Team Rocket) as he and Meowth looked on and realized what this meant.

"Not while I'm still standing, it's not! Okay, big guy, let's see you take this touch cat on for size! HAAAAAAA!" Meowth spat, glaring at Link and making his stand against him before he charged with Fury Swipes only for the male Paradox Pokemon to give an unimpressed snort as he used Dragon Claw (only at a quarter of his power) and swiped at Meowth, overpowering him and resulting in a one-hit KO. "WAAAAAA! I guess it's curtains up, ugh..."

Jessie also realized she was on her own now as she quickly turned to Mimikyu for her help but then noticed she wasn't around, "Not quite, there's Mimikyu! Mimikyu-huh?"

"Huh?! Jessie, there she is!" Wobbuffet gasped, seeing the Team Rocket Disguise Pokemon walking away from the battle and looking uninterested.

Mimikyu's refusal to battle unless there was a Pikachu around once again grated Jessie as she snapped at her partner and pointed her to Pikachu, Blitz, and Curly, "Hey! Where are you going?! The Pikachu Triplets are here, do you hear?! They're right over here!"

"Pikachus?! Finally..." Mimikyu realized and turned to the three Pikachus from Ash and Sarah with malicious glee, the three Mouse Pokemon glaring back as they also prepared to fight their evil Disguise Pokemon counterpart.

"Let's finish this!" Pikachu spat as he went first.

"Agreed!" Mimikyu agreed as she went up against him and they clashed with Wood Hammer and Iron Tail, ending up in another stalemate before they pushed each other back and Blitz and Curly went next.

"You may not be Mai but you'll never match up to the real deal as she can!" Blitz spat at Mimikyu, striking her with Thunderpunch as she used Wood Hammer again, forcing each other back as well before Curly faced her now.

"Anything you stupid and cocky Pikachu can do, I can do better! You all can't even begin to match my power, unlike that traitor who buddied up with you copycats!" sneered the evil Ghost Type as she and Curly used Wood Hammer and Iron Tail as before with Ash's Pikachu.

"Can't we?" mocked Curly as she glared at Mimikyu while in her deadlock with her as Ash and Sarah watched.

"Curly, you, Blitz, and Pikachu got this one?" Sarah asked her Pikachu's mate.

"Go for it!" Curly called, getting a nod from the little princess and allowing her to extend her sentiments to Ash, causing him to nod understandably as they returned their glares to Team Rocket.

"Well, Team Rocket, your time's up!"

"You got nowhere to run, our Pokemon are back where they belong, and you're back to square one as usual!"

"Give it up while you can!" Hiccup, Sarah, and Ash warned.

Team Rocket, of course, realized that they were once again in a real bind but things only got worse for them when who should appear with a Bewear-shaped kite at hand but Stufful, Bewear's own son.

"Excuse me?" Jessie began before they saw Stufful.

"Eh, what's up, Auntie, Uncles?" Stufful cooed happily while holding his kite.

"It's Stufful!"

"And, it's schlepping with a giant-sized something," James and Meowth quipped in surprise.

Jessie gulped as she realized who else arrived in Malie City with the little Flailing Pokemon in their unorthodox family, "If you're here, then that means..."

The trio, Wobbuffet, and Mareanie (who had recovered and noticed Stufful as well) looked behind them, and there, with a happy screech over her and Stufful having found them, Bewear appeared once more, supposedly to 'save' them as the heroes blinked, gawked, and hummed in awkward surprise.

"Right again!" Jessie panicked before Bewear took the trio with her and she wrapped them onto the Bewear-shaped kite, much to their displeasure.

"Wow!"

"Some!"

"Kite!"

"Ditto," Team Rocket groaned while Stufful laughed, knowing that he and his mother will have them playing with them again for the day.

But, not all of the heroes were staring awkwardly at Team Rocket because Snotlout, Ruffnut, Tuffnut, and their dragons were laughing their heads off as they found Team Rocket's latest predicament absolutely hilarious.

Of course, they couldn't leave without having all of Team Rocket with them for their little playdate because while she was in the midst of her rivalry with Pikachu, Blitz, and Curly, with her and Pikachu now clashing in an Iron Tail/Wood Hammer sword fight, Bewear swiped Mimikyu away and attached her to the kite. The three Mouse Pokemon were startled when they saw this as they realized that the evil Disguise Pokemon's rivalry with them was put on hold once more, the Pokemon in question groaning as her latest chance to settle her rivalry with them was thwarted.

With everyone on their end ready, Bewear and Stufful take their leave with their family as the former happily pulled their family on their kite along the breeze with Stufful riding on the tail given that she was super light and can easily ride on it given how strong it was made.

"Goodbye, friend-friends! I'll be seeing you!" Stufful cheered to the heroes as he enjoyed the ride.

"This thing can actually fly!" Meowth yelped.

"Are you kiddin' me?!" Wobbuffet grunted in panic.

"Sure, it can, dearies! Perfect weather for kite-flying! Come on, let's go home!" smiled Bewear as she ran while holding the kite string and another powerful gust blew, blowing them all the way back to Melemele Island, much to poor Team Rocket's dismay.

"We're off with a new blast..."

"Again. We need a vacation, ugh..."

The heroes continued to stare awkwardly at the unorthodox exit Team Rocket made with Bewear and her son but Snotlout, Hookfang, Barf, Belch, Ruffnut, and Tuffnut were still having the time of their lives as they laughed even harder, and even the three Viking Teens' Pokemon couldn't help but join in as they laughed at Team Rocket's predicament.

"...Okay, that was weird," Breezeon admitted, sweatdropping awkwardly after a moment. "What, was that?" Lycanroc asked in bewilderment.

"Baby, is there something we're missing about that Bewear and her Stufful?" Doug asked, he and Delilah looking awkwardly at an equally awkward Sarah.

"Don't ask. That Bewear and her Stufful just as much a mystery to me as well," Sarah sighed.

"We said it before and we'll say it again, they should've auditioned for America's Funniest rather than signed up for Pokemon Poaching with those two about," blinked a baffled Blitz with an equally stunned Curly nodding in agreement.

"I see... I guess we now know why Nikki and James don't want your Stufful to evolve," Delilah nodded to her daughter who just nodded.

"Honestly, I like her just how she is, Mom."

Delilah nodded again before Sarah remembered their Pokemon as she turned to Breezeon and his party, "Breezeon, Sho, Shaymin, Seth, Meltan, Sandy, Donka, were you all hurt bad?"

"We're okay, Princess."

"Yes-yes-yes, we're fine!" "We're fine, Mom, we were just looking for Sissy after she went after Mallow's hair ornament," Breezeon, Meltan, and Seth nodded.

"And, I helped her get it back after we found them!" Sho grinned.

"You h-h-had me w-worried, young l-l-lady! W-What were y-y-y-you, t-t-thinking?!" "You're all in a lot of trouble for running off like that worrying ussssss, misssssssy!" scolded Donkapa and Flameaconda to a sheepish Donka.

"S-S-Sorry, Mommy, A-A-Auntie," Donka apologized shamefully as she hung her head.

"We were so worried about you! Your parents would want a word with you about this, too!" added Lana with a scolding glare as she held Sandy.

"Yes, but everything's okay now!" Sandy replied reassuringly.

"Shaymin, thank goodness!" Mallow cooed happily, nuzzling her Gratitude Pokemon with glee. "Are you alright?"

"I'm good, now that you're here!" Shaymin cooed before her trainer turned her over and noticed her missing hair ornament on her.

"Oh, look! My hair ornament!"

"I've looked everywhere for it and I only got it back because of my brother and my friends with him!" smiled Shaymin as Mallow took the hair ornament and placed it back on her head, smiling gratefully at her.

"Sarah was right, you left because you were looking for it! Oh, thank you, Shaymin!" Mallow grinned thankfully before she turned to Breezeon, Seth, Donka, Meltan, Sandy, and Sho.

"Thank you, Breezeon, Sho, Seth! You too, Dinka, Meltan, and Sandy! How can I ever thank you for helping Shaymin and finding her?"

"Aww, shucks, it was nothing," Sho remarked humbly as he simply wiped his right cheek and blushed while the others chuckled.

"Breezeon, I'm so proud of you for taking the initiative to do what a big brother can do," Guardeon praised his son.

Breezeon chuckled as his father proudly nuzzled him and he replied, "Thanks, Father."

Guardeon smiled as he pulled away and then gave a soft but firm glare as he then told him, "But, next time, when you go after your fellow Pokemon like that even if it's to make sure they don't get lost themselves, let us know immediately before you run off. Please, try and remember that next time."

Breezeon sighed as he nodded and gave a soft smile back as he said, "Yes, Father. I'll tell you before I go off on you and the princess again."

Just then, Kiawe, Sophocles, and the others arrived, looking very relieved as they saw the missing Pokemon found and reunited with their saviors, the worried Pokemon in question happily reuniting with their loved ones but also being given small scolding sessions for their running off as they did.

"Hey!" Kiawe called.

"You did it, you found 'em!" Sophocles grinned.

"Yep, there was a little snag with Team Rocket when they cut us off but we took care of them albeit with some unexpected help from a Bewear and her Stufful who wanted them to return home on a playdate," Sarah chuckled just as Sophocles' stomach growled.

"Gosh, all this running around and searching and rescuing is really making me hungry."

"Yeah, me too," moaned Ash as his stomach also growled, earning them eye rolls and deadpanned glares from Sarah and her entire family.

Either way, everybody went back to Octillery's Breakfast Ball stand as Ash and Sophocles ordered a giant plate of a large pile of Malie Takoyaki and started chowing them down, much to the embarrassment of everyone else despite Lana helping herself to a few more of her own.

"Slow down, you two," frowned Kiawe and Mallow, unamused.

"You know, if you keep this up, you're both going to spoil your dinner," Lillie stated.

"Honestly, you two, you're not being fair to everyone else who would want to have such a delicacy unique to Malie City. Don't you boys know your manners, if any?" scolded Delilah, unimpressed.

"Nah, we're saving room," Ash and Sophocles grinned in response, not caring what everybody else thought.

But, Nihilego Lillie (still in her "Lillie" disguise) blinked in surprise as she realized who the Malie Takoyaki they were eating should really go to as she gestured to her human sister to watch what she had in mind. Immediately getting her plan, Lillie gave a cheeky smile in agreement and simply watched as Nihilego Lillie cutely went forward and took the plate before the hungry Electric Type student and Kanto trainer could have another bite before giving it to Stormfly, Guardeon, Breezeon, the other dragons, and Link.

"Wow, thanks/Whoa, thank you!" the dragons and Breezeon thanked with glee.

"Thank you, Ms. Lillie," smiled Link as Nihilego Lillie nodded cutely and allowed them to indulge in their reward just as Sarah came over and winked at her before she gave the dragons, Link, Guardeon, and Breezeon two more large Malie Takoyaki boxes she ordered for them, Sho, Sandy, Shaymin, Seth, and Donka.

"Hey!" Ash and Sophocles whined indignantly.

"I guess my sister knows exactly who that Breakfast Ball plate rightfully goes to," Lillie giggled cutely in response.

"Yes, I did!" Nihilego Lillie cooed with a cute giggle as well, getting hearty laughs from everybody gathered while the Pokemon and dragons involved happily ate their fill, leaving Ash and Sophocles to groan in their misery.

Despite the whining Ash and Sophocles put up, as dusk fell and after wrapping up their first wild 'n crazy day in Malie City, everybody returned to the Pokemon Center to relax and tell Nurse Joy the good news. When they got there, they soon met up with Charlie Charma who was also with her after hearing the news about the heroes' lost Pokemon from her.

"Welcome back!" Nurse Joy greeted, feeling happy and relieved for the heroes.

"I heard all about it, I'm so glad you guys were able to find everybody," smiled Charlie.

"The main thing is, you're all safe and sound!"

"We certainly didn't mean to make you worry."

"We're sorry," Mallow and Lana apologized as Ash and the gang bowed apologetically to the pair while Sarah and her family nodded, getting an understanding nod and giggle from the Pokemon Nurse.

Grateful that everyone was present and accounted for again, Charlie then proudly stated, "Alright! Tomorrow, for Day 2 of your week-long stay, I'm gonna show you all a really interesting place!"

"What interesting place?" puzzled Kiawe.

"It's called the Kantonian Gym, I just happen to be a trainer there."

"Yeah, is that really a Pokemon Gym?!"

"Seems like it, that's totally our bag!"

"Alright, I wanna go now!" Ash and Pikachu grinned, eager to start battling now.

"I knew it was only a matter of time before this happens," sighed Sarah as she folded her arms and gave a deadpanned glare at Ash and Pikachu.

"Let me guess, you'll try and smoke everybody there. What'll you and Pikachu do when any of us battle you besides Charlie, Ash, leap before you look as usual according to my sister?" smirked Asha, getting irritated glares from the Kanto trainer and Mouse Pokemon in question from her poking fun at them.

"Good, then it's all decided!" Charlie confirmed with a smile, eager to see how the group fares in the Kantonian Gym.

"Yeah/Right!" the group agreed, eager for the rest of their week in Malie City to begin.

Although it was a challenge, wasn't it great that our heroes' lost Pokemon all combined their skills to get out of a tight spot? Now, our heroes are looking forward to another exciting day of sightseeing in Malie City!