A few minutes before the attack at the stadium, Lilian was on the videophone talking with her cousin in the Pokemon Center.

"I hope I get to meet you soon, my class has free reign after this presentation so I can take a Flying Taxi to Hammerlocke to meet you." Lilian said to them.

"Right, and maybe bring some of your friends with you as well. I would love to meet them." The voice said back to her.

Lilian was debating that but before she could say anything back to her cousin, three Fist Squad goons soon came into the Pokemon Center.

"Alright nobody move! This center is now under our control!" The grunts said as they released Tyrouge, Pancham and Mankey to show that they mean business.

Lilian sighed as she hung up and soon released her Dragapult and turned to the grunts.

"Well Dragapult, wanna have some fun?" Lilian asked with a slight smirk on her face as she went to confront the grunts.


Meanwhile, in the stadium, Cassidy was cursing up a storm.

He thought that he and his squad were in the clear especially after he just defeated Kenan and Lyna, but Gloria's arrival soon complicated things.

They had to retreat for now.

"Fall back everyone!" Cassidy ordered as he recalled Conkledurr.

Soon one of his grunts pulled out a smoke bomb and smashed it on the ground. A giant smoke cloud soon covered the whole area making everyone cough and when it dissipated, all of them had disappeared.

Gloria groaned as she and Cinderace soon went over to Sonia who lying on the side of her podium, clearly having been shaken up by the attack.

"Professor Sonia? Are you ok?" Gloria asked her up as she helped Sonia up.

"I am fine Gloria, though I have to admit I wasn't expecting that to happen. I thought security for this stadium was airtight." Sonia said clearly confused.

"Yeah me too, I guess I am going to have to talk with Gordie about tightening up stadium security." Gloria said.

Sonia soon nodded as the professors that were in the stadium soon went to check on the students.

"Is everyone ok!?" Nikandr asked as his Boltund soon helped any student that was injured by the attack.

Most of the students responded with either good or fine. Despite being caught off guard, they had been able to hold their own against the grunts for the most part. Their injuries mostly came from the explosion and one student who tried jumping over the guardrails and ended up scraping his knee.

A furious Dahlia soon went up to Solana who was helping students and their Pokemon that were injured.

"What the hell Solana! I thought you said that these jokers weren't in the city! What happened?" Dahlia said screaming at her.

Solana glared at her as she helped a final student with their injuries and soon turned to the irate professor.

"Listen clearly they overcame our intelligence. All we can do know is help the students who were hurt and their Pokemon as well." Solana said in a firm tone back.

Dahlia was shaken by the firmness of the voice Solana had addressed her with and soon agreed with that and apologized. She soon volunteered to look at the various Pokemon and see if there was anything wrong with them.

Gloria meanwhile went up to Kenan and Lyna who were holding onto their Pokemon respectively and soon went down to them.

"Hey you two and your Pokemon soon battled pretty bravely against those guys. However I think it will do us a world of good if we got them to the Pokemon Center." Gloria said to them.

Kenan and Lyna soon nodded as they joined their fellow students in exiting the stadium.


Soon at the Pokemon center, many students were having their Pokemon checked out while also chatting about now what the trip was going to be like.

Lilian soon met up with Felix and Kazuma who were drinking some water in the lobby.

"Hey, where were you when the attack happened!?" Kazuma asked her feeling slightly pissed that she wasn't there with them.

"Relax man, I was in this center talking to my cousin when three idiot grunts tried taking it over. I was able to deal with them with my Dragapult and them off to Officer Jenny before they could do anything." Lilian said as she sat down.

Meanwhile, just outside the examining room, Kenan and Lyna were watching over their Pokemon as Gloria was with them.

"They will be fine, I know Nurse Joy is very capable of doing her job here." Gloria said.

"Um Miss Champion, the guys who attacked the stadium… who were those guys?" Lyna asked still confused about the whole thing that happened.

"From what I have been able to gather, you guys were attacked by the Fist Squad. A Fighting-type division of a much larger organization that has been making waves recently: Team Chaos. But who they are and what they want is beyond us right now." Gloria said to them.

Kenan squinted his eyes at Stella being treated and soon turned around to face Gloria. But the Galar Champion beat him to the punch for what he was going to probably say.

"No." Gloria said simply.

"What? But I didn't say anything!" Kenan said to her.

"You were probably going to ask if you could join us in tracking down the Fist Squad from were they are hiding. And while I appreciate the sentiment, I think this is something that you best leave up to us adults." Gloria said to him.

Kenan wanted to argue but soon he felt a hand on his shoulder.

"Kenan, I think she is right. Besides, my Swablu and your Braviary need us to be their for them now. Not running off and confronting bad guys who are way out of our league currently." Lyna said to him.

Kenan soon saw Stella who was currently looking a lot better and soon agreed with her and they sat down and looked over their Pokemon.


Meanwhile, the Fist Squad was in a warehouse close to the edges of Circhester as Cassidy was reporting their status to a machine with the automated voice that everyone feared.

"What do you mean you didn't get it?" The voice asked irritated and quite angry.

"We were in the process of retrieving them when the Galarian Champion showed up. So we made a tactical retreat and came to this warehouse." Cassidy said hoping that this would placate the voice.

The voice thought about this, the Galar Champion showing up had put a wrench in their plans. But not an impossible one.

"Fine, but I want those notes by sunset tomorrow night. To help you deal with your predicament, our ally is willing to lend you some more manpower." The voice said to Cassidy.

Cassidy was about to thank the voice but before he could the voice spoke again.

"However, I expect total success this time. Failure again will result in the most unpleasant of punishments I am sure you know." The voice told him as it signed off.

Cassidy soon sighed as he looked outside wondering if this was the right decision he made… before telling his men to move out and head for the Pokemon center.