It had been a few weeks since the Shadow Stripe ended and know students were truly settled into the life at the academy. So naturally it was time for them to take a slight break from the academy work that they had been doing.

It was time for the Academy's annual freshman trip.

Soon all of the freshman students that were in the Orientation Hall were waiting for Gary to show up to do his usual thing.

Right on cue, the headmaster showed with a few of his Pokemon: Blastoise, Umbreon and Electivire and he began to address the freshman.

"Students. I hope that you all are doing well and that your classes haven't been too brutal on you guys. It is time for the annual trip that freshmen at the academy here take and after careful consideration, the faculty and I have chosen the place we will be going to." Gary said as he turned to the screen.

Soon the screen, a picture of Circhester soon expanded to encompass the entirety of the Galar Region as many students looked in awe of what the where going to visit.

"We will be heading to the beautiful Galar region, where we will make our landing in the beautiful snowpointed tips of Circhester where we will soon first listen to a special lecture from Professor Sonia. Then you are free to do as you wish for the rest of the week." Gary said to them.

The students soon roared with excitement the possibility of visiting a region as beautiful as Galar finally made them roared with excitement and thrills.

Soon the teachers began giving out a list of what plane that each student who signed up as Gary hoped to himself that he made the right decision with this.


"Man I am bored!"

Kazuma yawned as he sat in his seat in Plane 1, he had signed up for the trip in the hopes of meeting some strong trainers but right now he was bored by the fact he was just sitting in the plane.

"Can you pipe down? We haven't even left the academy." The girl next to him said as she was swiping through her phone absent-mindedly.

This was Lillian Ramos, another freshman student at the academy and one of Kazuma's few friends that he has made at the academy.

"Don't start Lilian, I know you want to see your cousin in Galar just as much as I want to battle someone there." Kazuma snarked back as Lillian glared at him.

"That maybe true but I am at least not complaining like a spoiled child like you are. Take a nap if you are so bored." Lilian said.

"Hey guys mind keeping it down, you guy's arguing is ruining my beauty sleep." Felix muttered to them finally getting them to stop arguing.

Meanwhile on the other part of the plane, Tyson and Robyn were sitting together with Robyn looking really excited to visit her home once again.

"Man I can't wait to introduce you guys to my parents. They are going to really love you guys!" Robyn said bursting with energy.

"Man I hope, and I hope I can get a new Pokemon on this trip as well." Tyson said as he looked out of the window.

Kenan meanwhile was looking for his seat, he hadn't really traveled by plane many times so he was a bit lost in the process. Soon he finally found his seat though admittedly he was taken aback by the person who was going to be sitting next to him.

Lyna was sitting in the seat next to him as she looked out the window before looking left as seeing Kenan next to her.

"Oh. Um hi." Lyna said with hints of a pink blush on her face.

Kenan also blushed as he took his seat next to her.

"Hello, fancy seeing you here." Kenan said.

"Indeed, I was hoping that I could have sat with my friend Ema but she, unfortunately, got assigned to a different seat. No offense of course." Lyna said quickly.

Kenan chuckled a bit.

"None taken, I am Kenan by the way. Trainer Course I assume you know." Kenan said to her.

"Nice to meet you, call me Lyna. Performance Course as you know as well." Lyna said smiling.

Soon they felt the plane moving as everyone soon got excited as the plane took off and headed for the Galar Region.


After a couple of hours, the plane touched down in Circhester with all the students eagerly getting off.

"Alright follow me students, we will get you situated at the hotel and then we will head to Professor's Sonia lecture which takes place tomorrow morning." Dawn said as she led the students to the hotel.

Kenan smiled as he turned around and saw the people and Pokemon playing the snow-covered city and smiled.

This was going to be a good trip.


In another part of Circhester, Cassidy and his team were preparing for their operation tomorrow.

"Alright so here is the plan. We sneak into the lecture and right after it ends we sneak up on Professor Sonia and take her notes. If she decides to resist, you have my permission to knock her out and take her hostage. But I repeat do not kill her, the boss explicitly told us not to do that. If anything goes wrong, we will be forced to abort the mission." Cassidy said to them.

"Question, I heard that there are students from Pokemon Trainer's Academy attending the lecture. What happens if any of them decides to interfere with our mission?" One of the grunts said to him.

Cassidy sighed. That was a high likelihood of that happening.

"If any one of those brats decides to interfere then I will deal with them myself and let them know why that is a bad idea but hopefully they will understand why that is a bad idea in the first place and back off instantly. Alright everyone ready?" Cassidy said to his group.

His grunts all nodded as Cassidy smiled.

"Alright, Fist Squad roll out." Cassidy said with a cruel smile.