Kenan was stumped.
He was currently in his dorm room trying to think up a plan to help pass the Shadow Stripe. But so far he didn't have anything.
Rex came into his room and saw that he was still at his desk. "Dude are you still thinking about what do to for your Shadow Stripe?" Rex asked him.
"Yeah, this is turning out to be harder than I thought. What are you planning on doing?" Kenan asked his roommate.
Rex smiled mischievously, as he pulled out a Pokeball as he said "Let's just say, I already did it."
Kenan looked shocked and asked what he did.
"I'll show you, come on out Mack!" Rex said as he sent out his new Pokemon.
Soon Rex's newest Pokemon: A Alolan Grimer came out and greeted his trainer's roommate while moving to nuzzle Rex's leg.
"So you caught a new Pokemon? Interesting, I don't want to do that since I like my team now as it is." Kenan said. But as soon as he was in deep thought: His Paldean Wooper, Sydney.
"Syd! What are you doing here?" Kenan said as he saw Sydney playing with Mack as that suddenly gave Rex a idea.
"Hey, how about you try getting Sydney to evolve? I heard that her evolved form, Clodsire can be a beast in a Pokemon Battle." Rex said to Kenan.
Kenan looked at Rex and then at Sydney to see if she was up for the idea. Sydney seems to hear what her trainer and Rex were talking about and soon jumped in the air happy at the idea of evolving.
"Alright, I guess I know what I am doing for my Shadow Stripe." Kenan said as he wrote it down.
Rex smiled before saying he knew someone that could help him as they both exited the dorm with their Pokemon.
Soon Kenan and Rex headed back to the Trainer Course buildings, there on the battlefields they saw a young girl wearing a blue bandana with a smile on her face as she commanded her Pokemon: Blaziken to use Blaze Kick on her opponent's Eiscue.
Blaziken soon jump up and their leg on fire as it contacted the opponent's Eiscue and knocked it out, making Blaziken the winner.
The girl jumped up and down in celebration before running to her Blaziken and hugging them as their opponent recalled their Eiscue and left.
"You are still as powerful as ever aren't you Kasumi?" Rex said with a laugh with Kenan looking on in amazement.
"Rex! Long time no see!" Kasumi said as she ran over to Kenan's roommate and hugged him slightly. Kasumi soon saw Kenan and asked who he was.
"Right. Kasumi, this is my roommate Kenan and he needs help with his Shadow Stripe goal. Kenan, this is Kasumi Homura and she is a sophomore student here at the academy." Rex said as he introduced both of them to each other.
Kasumi looked Kenan up and down before greeting Kenan. "Kenan, nice to meet you! I remember doing my Shadow Stripe last year. It wasn't fun but ultimately it was a rewarding experience." Kasumi said as her Blaziken came up next to her and nodded.
"I see, what was your Shadow Stripe goal?" Kenan asked slightly curious now.
"Ah, well you see I decided to get Chun Li here who was a Combusken to evolve into Blaziken. It wasn't easy and at times I wanted to give up but eventually, we managed to achieve our goals right Chun Li!?" Kasumi asked her Pokemon who nodded in response.
Kenan was in awe. He knew how difficult it could be to get Combusken to evolve into Blaziken and yet Kasumi managed to do it.
Well… if she could do it then so could he.
"Well alright, I have the same goal: to evolve one of my Pokemon. Sydney come on out!" Kenan said as his Wooper came out.
Kasumi soon saw Sydney and nearly squealed out in cuteness as she petted the Poison/Ground type and soon asked "So I assume you are trying to evolve this little girl into Clodsire right?"
"That is correct." Kenan said as he tried to keep his composure in front of the sophomore student.
Kasumi soon closed her eyes and seemed to be in deep contemplation before she opened them.
"Well… it won't be easy but it is still possible. Alright, I can help you." Kasumi said to Kenan.
Kenan nodded in determination as he looked at Sydney before Kasumi pointed a finger at him.
"But if you want to get this right, then you need to follow my instructions to the letter got it?" Kasumi said to him.
Kenan nodded knowing that it would take a lot of effort to get Sydney to evolve but was willing to put in the work and effort to do it.
Meanwhile in the Breeder Course Building, Ava was checking up some Pokemon without Chris while she had her egg next to her.
Her Shadow Stripe goal had been to get her egg to hatch and then record the details of it when it did but so far it seems like it wasn't going to hatch.
Ava had been extremely careful with it, giving it her body heat and letting most of her team near it but it seems like nothing had been working.
Ava soon finished up checking on her current patient: a Bastidon and she had her Clefable, Stardust helping her out in case anything went wrong with Bastidon.
Thankfully nothing did, as she soon called Bastidon's trainer to tell him that she was done with his Pokemon.
Suddenly she heard a slight crack, and turning around she saw her egg start to glow as crack began to form in it.
She was stunned, especially given the how unresponsive that her egg had been the previous week when she was taking care of it.
She soon held her breath in a bated expectations and the egg finally glowed and hatched leaving Ava stunned in the process.
