(Hi Everybody, sorry for posting this late, I… Let's just say things haven't been going for me in RL for a time… So I apologize for the delay and hope you guys like this chapter as well as had a good "May the 4th be With You" this past Saturday. And Hopefully have good times going to your goal like Ash has been going since he first started his Pokémon Journey all those years ago.

So without further ado enjoy this chapter.

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The fox-like Maximal, Foxfire, is an OC Maximal made by my friend, Stone-Man85, in his "Beast Wars" story. Please look at his story if you get the chance.

"Talking"
'Thinking'
"Communications"
"COMPUTERIZED VOICES."
"{Pokémon language translation}"

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[Ch3: The Prison Bottle Terror]

After introductions were made, as well as their stuff brought back, Ash and his friends were talking about what to do. And the tower that Serena brought up, Dahara Tower, would be the first thing for the kids to see first. That's when Meray revealed that's where she and Hoopa were going to.

Suddenly, Bonnie suggested, "Why don't we all go by ring?"

Clemont smiled, "That's a great idea!"

It would certainly save much time and money for them to use Hoopa's ring to go there.

Hoopa smiled as it then used a Ring that made a portal to the Tower. Pikachu, Dedenne, Bonnie and Serena went through. Though, when Hoopa tried to go through, it was forcefully bounced back and skidded on the ground. Ash and Clemont stared, shocked at what happened while Meray asked, "Hoopa, did you forget?"

Serena and the others poked their heads through the ring and asked, "Guys! Something the matter?"

Bonnie then waved, "Hurry up already!"

"We can't! Hoopa can't go through the ring!" Ash said back concerned about his new friend.

Rhynox saw the tracker showing the sudden change from the cliffside overlooking the city to the tower, and back to the cliff outside of Dahara City again. He wondered what was going on.

Everyone stood as Meray and Hoopa sat on a bench as the woman explained, "Unfortunately, Hoopa can't travel through its rings just yet."

Hoopa exhaled disappointed at this, really wanting to travel with its new friends. Ash felt sorry for it and said, trying to cheer Hoopa up, "That's easy! We'll just walk there!"

Serena went over and opened her case of Poképuff donuts and assured, "This'll cheer you up. Then after we can go."

After that, Hoopa stared, surprised by this before it became very happy at seeing the treat, "Ooo, Donuts!"

And began to eat them. Smiling Serena asked, "Is it good?"

"It's yummy!" Hoopa cried out, happy by how tasty the Donuts are, flying around as it did. It then began to eat more Donuts.

The kids smiled, seeing this, before Hoopa's expression suddenly became one of shock. This made them confused even as they saw Pikachu and Dedenne hurrying out where to they saw a man, on top of a Braviary approach. The kids, and Meray followed. Hoopa lingered back, feeling very nervous…

The Braviary landed and the man got off. He was dressed like Meray but had a red cloak over him with a red turban, dark grey pants and shirt over his tunic. Meray seem to know the man and the bottle in his hand, as she exclaimed, happy, "You found it! You found the Prison Bottle!"

The man ignored her, as he had his Braviary return to his Pokéball then faced the group holding the bottle tightly. Holding it up, the man opened it and it glowed.

Meray was confused by this and asked, "What are you doing?!"

Soon a dark smoke flew out of the bottle and flowed into Hoopa, who was frozen by an energy. Once it made contact with Hoopa, the little Pokémon began to scream as if in pain. The smoke enveloped it. It's body darkened before its eyes became empty red. It then flew out of the Donut shop and grew in size. Ash and his friends couldn't believe their eyes as they saw Hoopa changing shape and size like that. Hoopa had grown gigantic, almost the same height as Regigigas, with two legs, a tail and more mature looking face with spiky purple hair around the base of its head the arms seemed to have vanished while it's body seemed to resemble the bottle in a way.

Bonnie said what they were all thinking, "Hoopa got really, really big!"

"It's huge! But why?" Serena asked, shocked by this.

Clemont then asked, looking at Ash, "Did… did Hoopa evolve?"

Meray smiled looking at Hoopa and explained, "No, this is actually Hoopa's true form."

Hoopa turned and looked at its friends as Ash asked, "This is Hoopa's true form!?"

Meray smiled up at her old friend and called, "This is amazing, Hoopa! You're finally back to normal!"

Soon the sides of Hoopa with six rings came out and became arms, as Hoopa exclaimed, in a deeper voice, laughing happy, "Yes! Yes! This Power! Hoopa is strong!"

Meray then looked back to the man, who collapsed, concerned, Meray hurried over calling, "Baraz!"

The man, Baraz, looked at Meray and asked, confused, though tired, "Meray? What's going on? How did I get here?"

"What are you talking about? Don't you remember? You found the Prison Bottle." Meray said to him.

Baraz looked at the bottle in his hand and asked, still confused, "I found the bottle?"

"Yes." Meray answered looking at him, concerned for her brother, "But, should you have opened it here?"

"I…I don't remember…" Baraz admitted, holding his face in his hand, "What's going on?!"

Meray then looked at Hoopa, concerned for her old friend. Hoopa continued to celebrate the return of its power, "True power flows throughout Hoopa! Hoopa is magnificent!"

It then flung its tail, crushing the donut store behind it. This shocked the two siblings as they saw Hoopa rolling on the ground making the kids run towards them, scared. Then once they were gathered, the same dark smoke came out of Hoopa, its eyes now red again. It made a lunge in their direction with one of its arms!

They all gave a shout before the bottle glowed and put up a sort of barrier that protected them all! Hoopa roared angrily while Baraz realized, "Hoopa wants the Prison Bottle."

All of them looked to see the ring on Hoopa's wrist fly off and going to town below slowly lowering itself to a small tower. The minute the tower passed through the ring, it vanished. They looked up to see it coming out of the ring before Hoopa's hand where it twisted off and used it to throw at Ash and the others.

Ash quickly ordered, "Pikachu, Thuderbolt, hurry!"

Pikachu did as ordered, destroying the building, as the debris flew away from them. Hoopa roared angrily, glaring at them with glowing red eyes. Baraz approached and shouted, "Everyone out of the way! It's the bottle that Hoopa wants!"

Meray approached her brother and began, worried, "But Baraz…"

"It was too early…" Baraz told his sister. Meray then pleaded, taking the Prison Bottle from her brother, "Please let me do it! it was my plan in the first place!"

"Look out!"

Everyone looked to see Hoopa tearing another tall building apart and throwing it at them. They ran for their lives as they went to avoid being crushed by the out-of-control Hoopa. They kept running till they reached the cliff viewing the city, out of places to run. Meray then held the bottle up high, which made Hoopa freeze in place, as if it could not resist. She then took the top off and pointed it at Hoopa. Immediately, Hoopa began to change back while the smoke from before had been pulled away from Hoopa, shrinking it down until it returned to the form that the kids knew it better as. As soon as she replaced the lid some sort of energy forced the bottle out of her hand as it fell to the ground. Baraz caught his sister, before she could get hurt.

Hoopa fell as well, but was caught by Ash who called, "Hoopa! Are you okay?!"

Hoopa looked up at Ash scared and answered, "Hoopa… afraid…"

Baraz and Meray came over and asked, "What did Hoopa say?"

The older man, looking for the bottle, then saw Serena about to grab the bottle. He quickly shouted, "Don't touch it!"

Baraz approached, held out a hand and said, "The bottle contains a great darkness within."

'A great darkness?' The kids thought as Baraz approached and explained, "I know because it controlled me. It's probably why Hoopa went on a rampage earlier."

Closing his eyes, he kept his hand before him and warned, "Touch it, and it will control you too."

Meray was worried hearing her brother say that. Clemont then began to chuckle before he exclaimed, "All right then. The future is now, thanks to SCIENCE! CLEMONTIC GEAR: ON!"

Everyone watched as his Aimpalm Arm activated and pulled out a device from his backpack. It unfolded as he told them, "I call it, my Anti-Grav Container!"

"Well… at least you're getting better with the names." Bonnie admitted, silently thanking Rhynox for teaching her brother to keep the names short, easy to say, and to the point.

"I designed it to replicate the Pokémon Move 'Magnet Rise'. After examining some technology, I saw while with some friends of ours, I also added the function of it being able to contain the energy within to keep it safe as to also not affect those holding the container." Clemont explained, before showing a demonstration, "Observe!"

He then had the mechanical arm take the device over and the beam between the two points enveloped the Prison Bottle, safely lifting it into the air while also making sure no one touched it. He lifted the device up as the bottle remained perfectly still despite it being suspended in air, showing how completely contained it is he presented the result to his friends, "Complete success."

Everyone, minus Baraz who was stunned, stared amazed by the success of the device as Ash cheered, "Science is so amazing!"

Baraz silently agreed before he looked to the group, and apologized, "I got you all involved in this. I'm sorry…"

"I'm more worried about Hoopa." Ash said looking at his new friend, before passing Hoopa to Meray and told her, "It looks really tired."

"Hoopa, are you okay?" Meray asked Hoopa, worried.

Hoopa looked at Meray and Baraz and repeated, "Hoopa is afraid…"

What the Pokémon said made Meray shocked while Baraz theorized, "It's all because of that bottle."

"Disappear…" Hoopa let slip, making the two siblings shocked as Hoopa explained, "Everything is dark. So afraid… Hoopa is disappearing…"

It then remembered the feeling of it and whimpered looking away, hoping to not be seen by those eyes.

"Oh no, Hoopa needs to rest." Meray told them, very worried now.

"There should be a Pokémon center here." Serena spoke up, as she got the map of the city out and looked, "It should be across the river."

"But if… Hoopa loses control again, the same thing that happened a hundred years ago will happen once more!" Meray said concerned for Hoopa.

"A hundred years ago?" Ask asked, confused, wondering what Baraz was talking about...

(Ash and his friends had a scare today when Hoopa's power came out and the former mischief Pokémon lost control. So in the next chapter we'll get to learn more about Hoopa's past and how it connects to the present with both Baraz and Meray.

So until then, Stay safe, stay healthy(from Allergies and others) and stay tuned for the next chapter.)