Welcome one and all to another chapter of Pokemon SVTA and today, we aren't focusing on the gang today, we will be focusing on Team Rocket today where Jessie's Lechonk is determined to outshine the other Pokemon at an Artazon competition because of a snob Trainer and his Oinkologne but will this competition split Jessie and Lechonk up or will this be the start of a new adventure? This is the first Team Rocket Episode and decided to do another episode right away because the previous one was so short.

Without further ado, let's begin!

James's Grafaiai's moveset from Chapter 40: Tera Blast, Metronome, Poison Jab, Slash

Cover Story 49: Chloe's Internship 1: The Right Path to Choose:

Chloe was one who wasn't sure of her path and still isn't. She's a childhood friend of Goh's who though more grounded in reality, still cares for Goh deeply not wanting him hurt and eventually became friends with Ash accompanying the two on their adventures to find herself and eventually catching an Eevee who herself isn't sure who she wants to evolve to or if she wants to evolve at all and Chloe accepts that but feels angst that she isn't like Ash or Goh when it comes to their skills and feels empty as a person despite her parents and brother's insistence and to cheer her up, they went to the town of Balloonlea to see the sights reuniting with the Galarian Ponyta she encountered and catching her feeling she's at least getting somewhere.

It was back in Kanto at her school where she missed Goh as he was on a new adventure but also was missing out on the school's annual 'Career Year' where students get to talk to famous individuals and even possibly go on an adventure to find their calling and it's one of the few times where the students can bring their partner Pokemon in the school which normally doesn't allow this so Eevee and Ponyta joins her to look around. At the school, there were hundreds of choices from a mechanic, military, Gym Leader's, Elite Four, office worker, so much more even her dad and assistants were there to teach about being a Pokemon Professor and being her dad, he accidently embarrasses her but genuinely asks if she's having issues.

Chloe tells her dad that no matter how much careers there are, she just doesn't know and worries that she'll be left behind and be seen as boring, but Professor Cerise tells her it's ok to not get it right away but to take time. As he was saying that, Eevee hears excitement coming from outside causing her to check it out and causing Chloe to run after Eevee and that's when they notice a battle happening outside between a girl who looked to be in her late teens or early 20's with an Eevee on her shoulder and used a Mega Venusaur against Lance, the Champion of Kanto using Mega Salamence.

Lance orders Salamence to use Fire Fang while the girl tells Venusaur to stand by and block the attack surprising everyone due to their Grass typing but as Professor Cerise reveals, this is due to their Thick Fat Ability making Fire and Ice attacks do neutral damage against Venusaur and with Salamence right where the girl wants them to be, she tells Venusaur to grab Salamence with her vines and slam them which she does before telling Venusaur to use Double Edge sending Salamence flying and knocking them out and causing the Pokemon to revert back to normal leaving Chloe impressed.

Cerise reveals to Chloe that the girl is Leaf, a trainer originating in Pallet Town and a graduate of the school and of Naranja Academy. She's here to teach everyone about her adventures on 'Career Day' which makes Chloe interested and Eevee interested as she walks towards Leaf causing Chloe to chase after her. Leaf shakes Lance's hand thanking him for coming by for a battle but before she could continue, Chloe's Eevee goes to greet her and her Eevee causing Chloe to scold her, but Leaf says it's alright and it seems that her Eevee in interested too so much so that Leaf's Eevee wants to battle.

Chloe says she's not that experienced in battle but can see Eevee's interest and agrees to a battle and Leaf will guide her. They both stand on the opposite sides of the battlefield with the students, teachers and others watching in anticipation as Leaf says when starting battles to focus and Chloe nods. She remembers how Ash battles, focused and steady and so she does so. The moves that Eevee knows are Alluring Voice, Copycat, Quick Attack and Bite which Chloe memorizes. She tells Eevee to use Quick Attack and so does Leaf as both rush at each other clashing with one another and Leaf follows up on this with Trailblaze to avoid Eevee's oncoming attacks.

Though not experienced in battling, she saw Eevee learn Alluring Voice upon watching a battle on TV and in that battle, the trainer was patient in using Alluring Voice but she didn't know why due to leaving for school so she decides to test it as Leaf's Eevee prepares to strike with Trailblaze and Chloe tells her Eevee to use Alluring Voice launching a musical note towards the opponent and due to Trailblaze's speed boosting effects, it confuses Leaf's Eevee and Chloe follows up on this with Bite sending Leaf's Eevee back. Chloe appears to be impressing the crowd and gaining fans much to her surprise.

Leaf isn't letting up, so she tells Eevee to use Mud Slap causing Eevee to launch mud from the ground towards Chloe's Eevee's direction and Chloe tells her to use Copycat but to her surprise, Eevee stomps on the ground releasing an energy from the ground resembling a pink tornado of sorts surprising everyone and Leaf to take interest as Chloe tried scanning what the move was but had nothing to show. Leaf decides to stop the battle having taken an interest in Chloe and her skills and Cerise and his assistants immediately putting the information into their devices.

Leaf says that there are certain Eevee and Pikachu who can tap into particular moves that no other Eevee and Pikachu know making Chloe's Eevee unique. Leaf asks Chloe on what her future career or job is for the future to which Chloe says she's unsure, she's always unsure, she's not a battler like a certain friend of hers (she didn't want to say Ash to avoid too much attention), she doesn't aim to finish a Pokedex like Goh or is a wiz at Pokemon like her father, she's just Chloe Cerise, daughter of a professor and that's all she'll ever be.

Leaf reassures her though that there's more than just being the child of someone famous and to not compare herself to her friends because Chloe is herself and she should try to be herself to determine your future. Leaf felt the same way back then unsure but overtime with her journey, she became sure of what she wants to do and even though that is being a trainer, she still has some thoughts about her path but nothing to make her feel down. This gives Leaf an idea and asks if Chloe could come by tomorrow as she discusses things with the school to which Chloe says yes.

A day later, Chloe arrives to the school to see Leaf with a stall about 'Leaf's Path to the Future'. Leaf reveals she's planning a camp adventure of sorts where for the next week or 2 exploring Kanto, they go on a journey of how Leaf had so many paths in life and felt unsure but ultimately figured it out by the end. It's an experience that should help students find what they want to do in life and how you want your life to be. Leaf asks Chloe if she wants to find her path in life and Chloe thinks to her time at summer camp and her fun there and thought about her adventures with Ash and Goh and nods accepting the journey.

The next day, the bus arrives at her house and her family tells her to have fun and though Chloe's a bit nervous, she knows it's going to be fun and gets on the bus where she sees Leaf along with 6 other students as her self-discovery journey begins and starts in Pallet Town.

TBC

Cover Story 50: Hau and Friends Bizarre Adventure B Side 2: Otherworldly Girl

It was another day in the Alola Region with Mallow having received two Pokemon Eggs from Tapu Bulu and Hau, Lillie and Anabel dealing with a crazed alternate universe Lusamine at the moment, let's focus on another one of Hau's classmates Sophocles. He's an interesting boy who likes to tinker and make machines, he was inspired to do so being a fan of sci-fi. He cares for his friends but was reserved but after Ash arrived to the Alola Region to join their school, Sophocles started to come out of his shell a bit and started to get along with everyone more and gaining a bit more confidence in himself.

Still, he feels some self-esteem issues feeling as if he's not as good as everyone despite what his friends and family say. He doesn't want to dwell on that thought forever so he decides to take a walk throughout Hau'oli city with his Togedemaru, Vikavolt and a new Pokemon he caught Alolan Golem who he caught as a Geodude some months after Ash left. He questions if he could be as cool as Ash, as confident as Kiawe and Hau or as eccentric and unique as Lana, Lillie and Mallow. Vikavolt encourages him to not think about that by nudging him and Sophocles chuckles sadly.

As he was walking, he accidently bumps into a girl falling to the ground, the shadow of the girl covers him as she reaches out to him with her hand and Sophocles accepts her hand getting up with him apologizing for bumping into her before being stunned towards the girl who was around his age (14) with orange braided hair, light blue dress, dark blue eyes, pale skin, a bracelet of some sorts with an Alolan Raichu next to her as Sophocles and the girl blushed.

Both apologized with Sophocles explaining he didn't notice her while the girl explained she was trying to find her way through town being a new resident exploring the town before trying to find the Pokemon School where she'll join next week. Sophocles in his mind is saying to show her the Pokemon School but when he says it, he says that he can show her around town causing him to blush immediately, but the girl accepts, and Sophocles decides to show the girl around town introducing himself as Sophocles while the girl introduces herself as Zoey (not to be confused with Zoey from the Diamond and Pearl Anime).

They go around the town showing the expansive mall, Mallow's family restaurant, the city square, the beach with TR's Mareanie, Mimikyu and the Bewear and Stufful who took care of TR having fun on the beach. They decide to stop for Malasadas with Zoey's eyes sparkling towards its deliciousness and the two begin to talk with one another with Sophocles revealing he likes to invent stuff that can help the class and their lessons while Zoey talks about her previous home though she sometimes stumbles speaking when talking about her home of Circhester, Galar and how she never got freedom in life always trying to meet her parents expectations or tasks with strictness in life so when she got an offer of the Pokemon School, she happily accepted to get away but doesn't know how to live that life.

Sophocles says she shouldn't have to feel restricted in life and that the Pokemon School provides fun, learning and a chance to make a name for yourself there which gets Zoey interested and hopes this new life will be good. They're about to leave for the Pokemon school but Zoey sees a poster of Ash and Pikachu about them being an Alolan and World Champion to which Sophocles explains that's his friend Ash and Zoey asks if he's that cool of a Champion. Sophocles says that Ash is more than just cool, he's extraordinary as an individual and wishes to be like him one day.

They arrive to the Pokemon School and Zoey is left in awe about it revealing its openness and fun to be had here, they were about to explore the inside, but Sophocles receives a call from Lillie saying that there's an emergency at Kakui's house and that Mallow, Lana and Kiawe are there, she describes it as an 'Ultra-like emergency' causing Sophocles to nod and that he'll be there soon. Sophocles tells Zoey that he has to go which she understands but before he leaves, she thanks him for the guide and kisses his cheek hoping to see him again once she's at the Pokemon School.

Blushing, Sophocles nods and couldn't think of his words as he waves goodbye and runs off to see what's happening at Kakui's. Togedemaru smirks to which Sophocles blushes even more questioning if he has feelings for her. Meanwhile, she goes into the forest out of sight from the others and presses what appear to be buttons on her bracelet turning her skin to a lighter blue, her light blue dress turning into some sort of blue and white suit and her blue eyes turning to a light blue with light orange scelera. Her Pokemon shakes revealing a Shiny Poipole to who she apologizes to for hiding them in the Pokeball for so long and gives them a Malasada.

She brings out a diary named Zossie's Daily Plans and opens it to reveal multiple 'OPERATIONS' with 'OPERATIONS: Escape' being crossed out and begins to write in the book about how she finally made it to Alola escaping from this Megalopolis and now wanting to live human life at this Pokemon School but before she closes it, she also blushes and adds an extra 'OPERATION', OPERATION: Confession, goal, to get along with Sophocles.

END

Main Story

On their way to Mela's Scheder base, the gang take in the beautiful day by setting up camp, we see the gang's Pokemon playing and we see Ash has brought a new old friend of his from Professor Oak's, Torterra who was taking in the sunlight as Ash rubbed some sort of oil on him.

"I didn't realize this oil helped Pokemon with shells get more sunlight with this oil." Ash says.

"Terra." Torterra said in agreement.

"They say it's to help them feel a bit agile in battle while taking in the sun easily, a Squirtle despite its Water typing can get heatstroke when it doesn't have the necessary oils." Nemona says.

"So, you conveniently had an oil to do such a thing?" Ash asks.

"My family owns a 5% stake in a lotion company, we Banderas's always come prepared with such lotions in our backpack 24/7." Nemona says as Penny relaxes on the grass with her newly evolved Floragato, Greavard and her evolutions as she smiled and felt relaxed.

"You guys feel like fluffy pillows and blankets." Penny says as her Pokemon agreed as Ash and Nemona also laid down on the grass before Arven also joins.

"You know, today is a nice day today, a very relaxing day, why not we rest for today and we can get going tomorrow?" Arven suggested.

"That sounds good." Ash says yawning as they all relaxed.

Oh, well, I guess with that, the chapter's over.

END- wait a minute, what's Team Rocket doing right now?

We swing back over to Artazon where we see James, Meowth and Jessie and their Pokemon admiring the town's beauty and art as they wandered around the place.

"So, this is your plan after we earn our Tera Orb? We go explore and not find the twerps or heading to Uva?" Meowth asked as Jessie then shakes her head back in reality.

"Of course not! We're just taking a detour a bit, it's likely those twerps already left town, but we'll find them eventually." Jessie says as James and Grafaiai smile in happiness over each other over their bottlecaps.

"And that's alright with me, because we're rolling with bottlecaps and all I had to was slather myself in Sitrus Berry goop while reciting the national Paldea anthem in reverse. Look Grafaiai, Klawf, I found two bottlecaps based on you two! Aren't you two the best?" James says as Grafaiai smiles and pokes James with his poisonous stinger and Klawf grabs him happily with Vice Grip before sending him flying in the air. "I love you too!" James yells out before disappearing in the sky with a twinkle.

"Speaking of which, how are we still out here. Aren't we supposed to be at our jobs?" Meowth asked as Jessie snickered.

"You remember that fan meetup for our radio show the other day?" Jessie asks.

A couple days ago.

We see the disguised TR Trio plus Wobbuffet at a fan meetup in Mezagoza where they were signing autographs for the fans, and we see one of the fans being Language teacher Salvatore.

"Hola, I'm a big fan of your show and your episode about walks around the world makes me want to travel again during a holiday. Honestly, I'm a bit nerveux about meeting a celebrity like you." Salvatore says as Meowth chuckled.

"We get that too, just remember to breath in and clear your thoughts and you can take on the whole world in front of you!" Meowth says as Salvatore chuckled and shook his hand and gave him an autographed shikishi board and Salvatore walked away happily as a group of 3 people who looked identical to TR with their own Wobbuffet (who is female) as the two groups blinked twice out of disbelief and an idea brewed in Jessie's head.

"So, you used the 4 as replacements while we're gone? You better be paying them well." Meowth says as Jessie nods.

"I know, I know, I did so this morning." Jessie says as she smiled and turned to Wobbuffet who was wearing a Sunflora headpiece, "Aww, aren't you cute? Lechonk, do you want one as we- where did you go?" Jessie asked as she looked around to see Lechonk admiring some dresses made for Pokemon as Lechonk posed in the 3 dresses trying to look cute until she accidently bumps into a Tsareena who a blue scrunchie on her head who scoffs.

"Eww, watch where you're going ugly." Tsareena said in a valley girl voice (poke-speak of course) as Lechonk was taken aback.

"I'm not ugly, my trainer loves me for who I am." Lechonk says as Tsareena laughs.

"Or maybe they're just saying those things to make you happy, maybe she would like a Pokemon that's primmer like my trainer's Oinkologne. Face it, you'll never get anywhere with your appearance. hahahahaha." Tsareena says laughing as she walks away upon seeing her trainer. Lechonk covers her eyes with her floppy ears and looks away as Jessie looked on worried for her Pokemon and Meowth looked angry,

"What did that Tsareena say to my Lechonk?" Jessie said as Meowth sighed.

"To put it in simple terms, that Tsareena said that Lechonk is ugly and your just saying nice things to make Lechonk happy." Meowth says as Jessie gritted her teeth.

"Gee, now that sounds like what I did with Gourgeist a long while ago." Jessie says feeling saddened by the revelation.

"What's up now?" James asks falling back to the ground.

"Remember how I attempted to trade my Pumpkaboo for the king's Pumpkaboo in Kalos? Well after that whole shenanigan and Pumpkaboo evolving into Gourgeist, I defended her size and things went back to normal, but it wasn't until after I realized how much of a jerk, I was to Gourgeist by not considering her feelings and one night, I saw her cry near a lake and that's when I decided to apologize to her and compliment Gourgeist everyday while in Kalos to make up for my ignorance." Jessie says.

"Jess." Meowth says.

"I know that I act like a jerk and don't consider everyone's feelings but if I found out I broke someone's heart like that without considering their feelings, I'll never forgive myself. I failed to realize that in Kalos or when it came to Wobbuffet early on, but I don't want the same thing to happen again, not to Lechonk, not to Gourgeist, not to Wobbuffet, not to anyone!" Jessie says with confidence as she walks over to Lechonk and kneels down as Chonk slightly opened one eye which had tears dripping down her face as Jessie softly smiles.

"Lechonk, are you ok?" Jessie asked as she gets no response, "Look, I heard about what happened and you shouldn't let them doubt you like that. You should be proud of who you are as an individual and not let others tell you otherwise. If you fall into that trap of theirs, you start to doubt yourself, thinking you can't make it anywhere and you're stuck in an endless dark hole for the rest of your life. I felt that way too about myself and my long hair, but my mother told me to be proud of what I have and not let others deter you. She has passed a long time ago, but I still remember her words like it was yesterday." Jessie says as Lechonk lifts up her ears and started to smile.

"Chonk?" Lechonk asked.

"I mean it, c'mon, have an Oran Berry and I'll find you a good dress for you!" Jessie says as Lechonk oinks with joy and enjoys an Oran Berry but just as things were getting happy, they hear obnoxious laughing and look to see some snob rich folk with their Pokemon one of whom is a young man with the same Tsareena as before and a male Shiny Oinkologne and he resembles Horacio, Sophocles's rival and the Chargabug racer with the Shiny Chargabug turned Vikavolt possibly even the man's relative like a brother or cousin.

"C'mon, you gave her that speech and give her the lowest of berries? Absolutely comical, not even Sitrus or Figy, you are really poor raising that 'thing'." the man says as Jessie gritted her and stood up to confront him.

"So, your Tsareena's trainer, I want an apology for how your Tsareena treated my Lechonk!" Jessie says as the man scoffs, and his entourage laugh.

"Really, a commoner asking me to apologize. How comical." the man says as Jessie gritted her teeth and grabbed the team's Rotom Dex to scan Oinkologne which displayed two Oinkologne but in regular colors.

"Oinkologne (Male form), the Hog Pokemon and the evolved form of Lechonk. Oinkologne's cologne is so fresh, it makes everyone fall down in awe and surprise." the Dex said in a German accent.

"So, your calling my Lechonk disgusting yet you have a Pokemon that evolves from Lechonk, the same Pokemon your making fun of, aren't you a hypocrite." Jessie says as the man scoffs.

"My Oinkologne is different, literally. He has the smell, the beauty and smugness that made me catch him to make others jealous. Your Lechonk looks like they want to roll in mud all day, my Oinkologne relaxes in the finest of jacuzzies, hangs out with the richest of Pokemon and has a better fashion than your entourage." the man says as Meowth and James grit their teeth in anger.

"How dare you insult them! C'mon Lechonk, they aren't worth it... Lechonk?" Jessie asked as Lechonk stared up at the Oinkologne and Tsareena angrily.

"I'll make your pathetic trainer regret what you said you low life!" Lechonk says as Oinkologne had a vein on his head.

"You're the low life!" Oinkologne says growling at Lechonk as their trainers made them step back from each other.

"If you're so insistent on proving me wrong you mud roller, then how about you come over to the 5th annual Artazon Stars competition tomorrow afternoon, not like you'll win anyway." the trainer says as Lechonk huffs.

"Chonk Chonk!" Lechonk said in agreement.

"She accepts." Meowth says to Jessie.

"Alright fine with me, I'll show you how wrong you are about treating us!" Jessie says as the rich man and his entourage walk away with Lechonk determined to prove them wrong.

"So, I see you got harassed by Horace Bourbon and his entourage. Bad luck to encounter him." a low female voice was heard surprising the group as they turn around and jump to see a gothic girl with long black hair and a black and red dress with a Gothitelle by her side and an emotionless face.

"Ahh, don't scare us like that!" James said spooked as the girl tilted her head slightly.

"Oh sorry., name's Rin Oscura" the girl said with what little emotion there was as possible.

"So, who is this Bourbon anyway?" Jessie asks.

"He's the son of famous Alolan CEO and business tycoon Horatius Bourbon who owns Gear Shift Inc, owns a variety of hotels throughout the world and founded this festival Artazon Stars. Horace acts like he's this town's king to be recognized and he won this town's Artazon Stars competition 4 years in a row and because he lives here, he acts like we all have to respect him." the girl says as James looked annoyed at this Horace.

"Sounds like a typical rich parent rubs off on rich kid scenario." James says having experienced this in the past as Rin shakes her head.

"Quite the contrary... Well ok maybe not entirely false. His father is noted to be very kind and has given to many charities over the past couple years but apparently acted snobbish and aloof a long time ago. Whether that's atonement or not is up to-" Rin was interrupted by a Kantonian Vulpix wearing a veil of flowers causing Rin's eyes to sparkle and smile. "Oh, hi Vulpy, you're looking so cute, adorable and I could eat you up you cute little-" Rin kept going with her cute compliments and happy demeanor surprising the group.

"I was not expecting the perky goth." Jessie says as Rin stops and changes her expression back to an emotionless state and held Vulpix in her arms scratching her belly while keeping the stoicism.

"Oh, where was I? Oh right, Horatius acted like a typical rich, aloof sleezebag until around 6 years ago when he founded this festival and became much happier and joyful, but it seemed that richness rubbed off on Horace and now acts like a prince with no morals. He wasn't always like that, he was kind of a dreamboat back in high school, I liked him for who he was and now he's become a different person that I knew. I'm entering in hopes of changing his morals but if you're hoping to get back at him then your Pokemon will need serious determination and training but that's up to you." Rin says with a lack of emotion as she walks away with her Pokemon leaving them stunned.

"Wow, I need to look at gothic clothing in the future. Anyway, Lechonk you know you don't have to-" Jessie stops upon seeing Lechonk's determined expression looking at a window containing her reflection as she nodded with determination.

We see TR at a hotel battlefield where we see James, Klawf, Grafaiai, Wobbuffet and Meowth look on as Lechonk practiced her skills by trying to act cute, displaying her fighting skills and the sorts against a training dummy waiting for Jessie to get back.

"I can't believe she's serious about taking on those rich sleezy jerks, I feel like ignoring them was the best option." Meowth says but James shakes his head.

"Nah, I believe she's in the right. Calling out some rich scum's actions may not affect them personally but by outshining them, it will affect the public's view of them and I'm saying this as someone coming from a rich family. All Lechonk needs to do is to do her best." James says as Wobbuffet nods.

"Wobbuffet!" Wobbuffet says as Meowth nods.

"You said it, where do you think Jessie went?" Meowth asked.

"She said she had to call someone real quick or maybe she's shopping." James says as Jessie comes out through the doors holding out three outfits and accessories and a confident expression as Lechonk turned to her trainer and ran towards her.

"Sweetie, I bought you the cutest dress of them all for this competition and I brought some help." Jessie says with confidence as Lechonk and the gang looked confused.

"Some help, with what?" James asks as Jessie counts down from 3 with her fingers as a Pelipper flies down dropping a metal container onto the field.

"Your help is Rental Pokemon?" Meowth asks as Jessie shook her head.

"Nope and plus, I decided we need to use our own strength for this adventure and not rely on random Pokemon for this adventure and besides, I didn't catch anything last time unlike you and Morpeko." Jessie says sadly looking at 'you' in particular.

"What're you looking at?" James asked as Jessie shrugs.

"Oh nothing, but our help is someone we know or should I say, people we know." Jessie says opening the box which contain two Pokeballs picking them up and releasing them to reveal Jessie's Yanmega and James's Inkay as James and Meowth look on in shock and happiness as Inkay flies to James's open arms happily.

"Inkay, I missed you pal! What's changed?" James says happily as Inkay smiles and releases a Flamethrower from his mouth comedically scorching James's face, but it didn't matter as James hugs him some more. "I missed you too pal! But how were you able to get our Pokemon so quickly?" James asks as Jessie snickers as she hugs her Gourgeist.

"Never underestimate Pelipper and his speed of delivery. There is a caveat however, due to rules within TR Pokemon Boxes and how they deliver outside of Regions, it costed a huge fee so I agreed to a rental agreement where we agreed to keep our Pokemon for 2 weeks but we have to return them to base." Jessie says comedically shocking James, Meowth and Inkay.

"No way!" James and Meowth say but Jessie sighed.

"Not finished. It's disheartening but they allowed us to rent another Pokemon for another 2 weeks, the cycle continues so it doesn't mean they're gone permanently. Plus, it's a good way of catching up with our Pokemon after a while, isn't that right Yanmega?" Jessie asks the Ogre Darner Pokemon who nods.

"Mega, Mega!" she says as Jessie nods.

"Then shall we get to work?" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and turns to Lechonk who looks on intrigued, "Lechonk, this here is Yanmega. She was my partner while in the Sinnoh Region and there, we worked together for Pokemon Contests displaying her cute talents to Sinnoh and the world and I believe she may be able to help you out, but it requires courage and focus to make it through. Are you ready to teach those rich snobs a lesson?" Jessie asks as Lechonk nods with courage and Jessie smiles.

"Then let's get started." Jessie says.

We see Jessie, Yanmega and Lechonk in their new outfits with Jessie wearing a blue dress with frills, Yanmega wore a sun hat with a bow and Lechonk wearing something similar to an idol costume as all 3 are prepared to practice with Meowth holding out a manual.

"Alright, we're ready, Meowth, what are the competitions at this event?" Jessie asks as Meowth nods.

"There are 3 events. The first is somewhat akin to a Pokemon Coordination being a move contest with two Pokemon and you have to impress the crowd by combining moves together that appeal to the audience. The 2nd is an appeal contest where one of your Pokemon has to impress the crowd with tricks and such. Lastly is just battle, no tricks or nothing, maybe rich folks like battles to the death or something." Meowth says scaring Lechonk causing her to run behind Jessie and for Jessie and Yanmega to give disapproving looks with Yanmega slapping Meowth with her wing.

"Don't scare Lechonk like that. Don't worry Lechonk, there's no death involved, just a friendly battle now let's work on your skills together now. Let's see, your moves are Mud Shot, Headbutt, Disarming Voice and Bullet Seed, definitely not a whole tone of variety but I've made moves like that work." Jessie says as she looked to Yanmega and scans her, "As for you, oh my! You've been training a lot while we were away, Bug Buzz, Air Cutter, Dual Wingbeat in addition to your Ancient Power, impressive." Jessie says as Yanmega blushes, but Lechonk feels worried that she won't be able to catch up, but she wanted to try to impress everyone as Jessie looks to her

"Lechonk, are you ready to handle this, I won't blame you for backing-"

"Chonk!" Lechonk said serious as Jessie noticed her determination and nodded.

"Then let's get started!" Jessie says with determination.

We see Meowth set up a training dummy in front of the two Pokemon as Jessie stood from behind thinking of a plan while James and his Pokemon launched from the sides.

"Alright Lechonk, this is serious in order to get through this first part, cooperation and thinking of the good combination of moves to work with which isn't an easy task but we'll start off simple and clean, Lechonk use Mud Shot and Yanmega Air Cutter!" Jessie says as the Pokemon nodded and Lechonk launches a sludge of mud in the air while Yanmega launches an X-shaped slash towards the mud sludge which breaks apart slathering Meowth, James and his Pokemon while also covering Jessie's face as she struggles to get it off.

"Eww, eww, eww, get it of-" Jessie stops upon seeing Lechonk's saddened face and shakes it off. "Nevermind, it was at least progress, we just need to work on focusing on our objective. Let's try again, whenever I feel like I need to focus, I think of a place that I want to go to cool off, what place did you have in mind?" Jessie asks positively as Lechonk thinks of various places but thinks of the beach and the ocean to relax and make friends.

"Chonk, Chonk!" Lechonk says as Meowth nods.

"She says the beach." Meowth says as Jessie claps.

"There we go, now what do you have in mind when it comes to the beach?" Jessie asks as Lechonk launched a large spurt of water towards Meowth's direction causing him to be covered in water and covers himself leaving Jessie confused. "I didn't think spitting comes to mind." Jessie says as Meowth shakes his head and shivers.

"It didn't feel like spit, it felt like a Water Gun but freezing." Meowth says freezing up as James grabs a book and flips through the pages.

"Ahh, here we are, your Lechonk learned Chilling Water, it's a move that the user launches towards an opponent that's so cold that it reduces their attacking spirit." James says as Jessie's eyes sparkle.

"You learned a new move, that's amazing!" Jessie says as Lechonk got an idea and turns to Yanmega.

"Chonk, Chonk." Lechonk says as Yanmega nods.

"Mega." Yanmega says as Jessie gets confused.

"What are you two talking about?" Jessie asks as Lechonk sung and Yanmega buzzed as Jessie got an idea of what they're trying to say.

"Oh... you want to star in a musical?" Jessie asks as her Pokemon shook their heads, "Oh, Bug Buzz and Disarming Voice. Alright then, Lechonk, use Diarming Voice and use Bug Buzz Yanmega!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches a musical note while Yanmega launches a vibration wave-like effect towards the music note which exploded into sound deafening everyone nearby, but it seemed like a success to Jessie.

"I thought that was successful!" Jessie says leaving the others confused.

"WHAT!" everyone says not being able to hear her not even Jessie heard them.

We see Jessie and Lechonk with their audience which consisted of Yanmega, James, his Pokemon, Wobbuffet and Meowth as Lechonk looked away from the audience and breathed heavily nervous as Jessie tried to encourage her.

"Hey, there's no need to be nervous, we all get nervous when it comes to the crowd. Just think about how you want to impress the crowd. Do you want to go for a 'cute' approach? A 'cool' approach? Or maybe even a 'swift' approach? Point is, if you want to impress the crowd, you need to do so with style so show us what you got young lady!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and breathes in.

"Chonk!" Lechonk says as she jumps in the air to face the audience to wink cutely but unfortunately, she falls face first onto the ground as Jessie looked concerned.

"Ouch." Jessie says as Lechonk got up feeling dazed but shook it off.

"Chonk, Chonk!" Lechonk said determined as Lechonk launched several seeds in the air with Bullet Seed and attempted to juggle the seeds by standing up but couldn't stay standing up for long as she fell to the ground with the seeds falling on her head causing her to snort in disappointment. Jessie was worried about her but didn't want her to give up the fight.

"C'mon, we at the Team Rocket house never give up the good fight so come on and get back up! Don't you want to get back at the snobbish rich brat and his Oinkologne and Tsareena!?" Jessie says as Lechonk remembers their snobbish laughing, their disgusting grins causing Lechonk to be angry and get back up and looked to Jessie in determination.

"Chonk! Chonk! Lechonk!" Lechonk says as TR cheers on and Jessie looked to her in determination.

"Then let's go!" Jessie says as she gave a small fist bump to Lechonk and continued forward.

We then see Jessie and Lechonk across from James and Inkay who were ready to fight with Meowth in the middle.

"Alright, listen here! The 2 winners of the 2nd round will go on to the 3rd and final round, I don't know why we have a short number of participants but no matter! This will be a test battle testing strength, endurance and how well you do, no Terastalization. This battle will stop when I say so, begin!" Meowth says as Jessie smirks and nods.

"Alright Lechonk let's give it our all! Use Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk rushes in to tackle Inkay who was floating about.

"Alright Inkay, Foul Play!" James says as Inkay rushes in to strike Lechonk as both clashes together trying to outdo each other.

"How about some water? Chilling Water!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches a spurt of water towards Inkay's face causing him to be sent back and shivers allowing Jessie an opportunity, "Now Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and rushes at Inkay tackling him and sending him to the ground, he gets back up determined to fight again.

"Inkay, you ok?" James asks as Inkay nods and floats back up with James breathing a sigh of relief, "That's good, now spin and use Slash!" James says as Inkay nods as his white tentacles glow and he proceeds to spin really fast towards Lechonk's direction.

"Quick, Bullet Seed!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches several seeds towards Inkay's direction as he reflects them with his spin attack as Jessie gritted her teeth, "Jump back!" Jessie says as Lechonk hops back letting Inkay land to the ground as Jessie sees an opportunity.

"Quick Inkay, get up!" James says as Inkay struggled to get out of the ground.

"Disarming Voice!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches a musical note towards Inkay who was sent flying from the attack to which Meowth saw that and smiled with confidence.

"And scene!" Meowth says as he looked to Lechonk who had sparkles in her eyes, "I think you're ready for the event tomorrow." Meowth says as the team smiled and Lechonk smiled ready to get her revenge. In the distance, we see the Shiny Oinkolgne from earlier, but it looks like he's rather jealous of them as he walks away to let them be.

We head to what appears to be a stage and behind the stage in a dressing room were Jessie, Yanmega and Lechonk dressed up for the occasion as Meowth and James were also disguised to appear as their agents. Jessie was applying lipstick to Lechonk who was ready to go while Meowth had a list in his hands.

"Alright, there will be 4 other challengers, your goal is to make it within the top 3 to make it to the next round. The first round is to impress the audience with a combination of moves like a Contest Battle. You're awarded points for how impressive the move is and how creative it is and no repeating moves. This will go for 2 rounds for this first event." Meowth says as the 3 nod.

"We'll do just fine; we had a hearty breakfast and Lechonk has been practicing and got rest this morning! Isn't that right Lechonk?" Jessie says as Lechonk nods as a knock on the door was heard.

"Come in." all 3 TR members says as a woman in a suit opens the door.

"Hello Jessarina, the first event will be starting in 10 minutes, please prepared if you're wanting to go on." the woman says as she closes the door leaving the 3 to it, Jessie looks to Lechonk who was looking in a mirror and nodded in determination.

We see Jessie and Lechonk along with 4 other contestants, Rin with her Kantonian Vulpix and Gothitelle, the same rich jerk from before with Shiny Oinkologne and Tsareena, a young man with a Gardevoir and Whimsicott and an older woman with an Annihilape and Breloom as a man walks up to the stage with a microphone.

"Ladies, gentleman and non-binary alike, welcome to the 5th annual Artazon Stars contest where people like you can get a shot to impress the world through these 3 events to show what your Pokemon are made of. I'm Mr. Grayson and let's meet today's hosts who will observe the event. First is our city's lovely Nurse Joy giving out positivity wherever she goes!" the host says as the audience claps and sees Nurse Joy, but it appears as if she's in pajamas and looks out of it with a coffee mug.

"Sorry, I haven't had my coffee yet." Joy said.

"But it's only 12:22?" Grayson says as Joy ignores him and sips her coffee.

"Oh well, our 2nd host is this city's stoic and focused Gym Leader, Brassius!" Grayson says as the audience claps but it appears that Brassius is happy which surprised everyone. "Oh, Mr. Brassius, you seem rather happy today, what's the occasion?" Grayson asked as Brassius nodded.

"A trainer the other day has helped Ringnite my artistic spirit through Sunflora and battle. I never felt more alive today, Grayson!" Brassius says as Grayson was surprised yet gave a confident smile.

"Well, that's good. And now for or 3rd host, the founder of the Artazon Stars contest himself, Mr. Horatius Bourbon who is also known as the founder of the Gear Shift Inc in the Alola Region and owns a stock in Poketch and 5% stock in Rotom-oto. How are you this morning sir?" Grayson asked fearing his presence as Horatius laughs and smiles.

"No need to fear me boy, it's a wonderful day for everyone to show off their talents to the town!" Horatius says as Grayson breathed a sigh of relief.

"That's good to hear, speaking of everyone, let's meet our contestants. Noted for her 'how-to' videos and her videos about goth fashion comes the lovely and spooky Rin Obscura with Vulpix and Gothitelle!" Grayson says as the girl with gothic clothing walks up with an emotionless look and waves.

"Next is the... son of the Horatius and 3-time winner of the Artazon Stars contest, Horace Bourbon with his Oinkolgne and Tsareena!" Grayson says as the crowd goes silent until he glares at them causing them to clap except for the judges especially Horace's father who looked on sighing and shaking his head as if something's up.

"Next, a wandering music star who sings the smoothest of blues comes Veggie Mite with his Gardevoir and Whimsicott!" Grayson says the crowd claps and Grayson moved on to the older woman.

"Next we have- my landlord Nulle!?" Grayson says shocked.

"Your late on the rent." Nulle said with a deep voice as Grayson scurred along to Jessie.

"And lastly, a newcomer onto the stage that isn't my landlord comes the lovely Jessarina and her Lechonk and Yanmega!" Grayson says as the claps on as Lechonk looked on in awe causing Jessie to smile and lean down to Lechonk's level.

"You see that Lechonk, they're cheering for us, and you'll get plenty of fans by impressing everyone so let's do our best!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods as Horace scoffs.

"So, you actually made it to the contest, I thought your Lechonk was going to run away and cry under the bed." Horatius says walking towards Jessie as she scoffed.

"Lechonk came here so she can put you in your place and teach you and your Pokemon a lesson about curtesy and respect." Jessie says as Horatius scoffs and laughs.

"Sure princess, me and my Pokemon are going to wipe the floor with you that is if you make it to the top." Horatius says as Lechonk's cheeks puff up in anger and Jessie looked to his Pokemon who looked jealous of Lechonk.

"Oh yeah, then why isn't your Pokemon excited, they seem tired or that they don't want to do this. Even my Pokemon when tired will at least try to face the day with new possibilities and determination, yours look like they hate it or haven't been getting appreciation." Jessie says as Horatius had a vein on his head.

"What was that?" Horatius says as Grayson with a confident unmoving smile steps between the two to stop the fight.

"Now, now, I know the crowd loves a good ole showdown but that can wait later or you'll both be disqualified! Do I make myself clear?" Grayson says as both reluctantly sighed.

"Yes sir." both say as Grayson nods.

"Good because first up is our combination contest. Much like a Pokemon contest, you combine moves to make a visual spectacle, heck, there's even one styled after both a contest and a battle coming up in Levincia soon where you'll see me in person. Here is the rundown of what to expect in this first event, there will be 2 rounds to display your style and the 3 trainers who earn their points will move on to the next round while the other 2 are out! Now, for our first contestant, welcome Rin for the first round!" Grayson says as the crowd claps for the gothic girl.

"Vulpix, use Fire Blast in the air." Rin says as Vulpix nodded and launched a Daimonji of flames in the sky as Rin nodded to Gothitelle, "Use Psychic to control the Fire Blast." Rin says as Gothitelle nods and controls the Fire Blast as if it was a toy moving it around and moving the points like parts of a body impressing the crowd and making Lechonk nervous.

"Expand." Rin says as the Fire Blast expands to be as huge a Wailord, "Shorten." Rin says as Gothitelle shortens the star before she plans on one last attack.

"Now Vulpix, Energy Ball." Rin says as Vulpix nodded and launched an Energy Ball towards the Fire Blast, "Now let's conclude things by surrounding the Energy Ball with the Fire Blast with Psychic." Rin says as Gothitelle nods and controls the flames to surround the Energy Ball creating mesmerizing patterns.

"Now implode." Rin says as the Fire Blast implodes destroying both Fire Blast and Energy Ball but creating sparkles that were the result of Energy Ball as the crowd awes.

"Now that was impressive folks but what do the judges have to say about this with the points ranked from 1-100!?" Grayson says as the crowd waits on as the 3 judges put down their scores of 90, 95 and 91 making Rin's total 276 as Rin smiled.

"Now that woke me up really good!" Joy says as Brassius nodded.

"It was certainly artistic; she could be my future protégé." Brassius says as Horatius nods.

"Indeed, flames controlled by Psychic and ending with sparkles was certainly intriguing." Horatius says as the crowd claps.

"Good scores all around folks, next we have Horace with his Tsareena and Oinkologne." Grayson says as the crowd reluctantly claps for him, and he smugly smiles.

"Thank you, thank you! Let me show you, my prowess. Use Tera Blast in the sky Oinkologne." Horace says as Oinkologne launches a white blast of energy in the air and snaps his fingers, "Trop Kick it Tsareena." Horace says as Tsareena jumps in the air and kicks the ball and jumping back up to do the same thing again as Horace smirks.

"Seed Bomb in the air Oinkolgne." Horace says as Oinkolgne nods and launches 3 large seeds in the air through the Tera Blast exploding into sparkles as the crowd looks on in awe.

"Oh, my what a wonder from our winner 3 years in a row, let's see what the judges have to say about this?" Grayson says as the crowd watched on as the judges put in their scores to display an 87, 90 and 85 on the electronic board making his total 262 as Horace got worried.

"I will say, it's quite sparkly." Joy says now fully awake.

"Not as flashy as Rin's but it works." Brassius says.

"It's shiny and sparkling at the same time but I feel it needs a bit more of that 'heart and soul'." Horatius says making his son angry as Grayson looked to Jessie.

"Alright, it's our time Lechonk, ready to show them your stuff?" Jessie asks Lechonk as she looked a bit nervous but looked to Oinkologne and her nervousness changed to a serious and determined expression.

"Chonk!" Lechonk says as Jessie nods.

"That's the spirit! Let's aim for the stars above." Jessie says as they stepped forward as James, Meowth and Wobbuffet watched from the back giving good luck to Jessie as Jessie thought of what to do.

If we want to impress the crowd, I have to be more stylish than the nice girl and the smug brat. So, let's try this. Jessie thought to herself as she nodded.

"Alright Lechonk, use Chilling Water in the air!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and launches a bubble of water in the air as Jessie followed up on that, "Now Yanmega flap your wings real fast to keep the water going like a Tailwind!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and flaps her wings very fast creating an almost tailwind effect that keeps the water flowing in the air as the water appeared to soften up as Jessie calls upon her next attack.

"Alright Lechonk use Disarming Voice and launch it into the water!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches a music note towards the water which goes into the softly as Jessie calls upon her final attack. "Now use Air Cutter on the bubble!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and launches an X-shaped slash towards the Disarming Voice-infused Chilling Water which splits into 4 bubbles with music notes with them and pops open to unleash a pretty singing voice from Disarming Voice and sprinkles of water towards the audience making a rainbow appear amongst the crowd.

"Well folks, it was almost like a mini–Sparkling Aria but will the judges say the same!?" Grayson says as Lechonk's stomach was full of Butterfrees waiting for an answer as the judges displayed some numbers on the board 95, 92 and 90 making Jessie's points 277 which made Jessie, Lechonk and Yanmega happy.

"Lechonk's singing voice was as lovely as the sea and the sprinkles afterward were of a nice touch." Joy says as Brassius nodded.

"It's like going to a beach on a nice day and seeing the rainbow emerge from the sky." Brassius says as Horatius nodded as well.

"Indeed, I think this year, we have our strongest candidates the question is, will one of them take home the Gholdengo?" Horatius says in a cheeky matter as the crowds praise Lechonk and her eyes sparkle in excitement as Jessie softly smiles towards the Hog Pokemon.

"You see that Lechonk, that's your fans who will support you along the way." Jessie says as Lechonk got curious.

"Chonk, Chonk?" Lechonk asked as Jessie nods.

"Yep, ready to continue facing the world ahead of you?" Jessie asks as Lechonk nods with determination. "That's the spirit!" Jessie says as Horace looks on in jealousy towards Jessie and Lechonk.

We then see the next 2 challengers try their thing with an uninterested Nulle calling out Bullet Seed from Breloom towards Annihilape who then grabs them with multiple Rage Fists before throwing them to Breloom who uses Protect to knock most of them away. This left the crowd uninterested as she scores 34 53 and 43 for a total of 130 points but Nulle just wanted to know Grayson's rent. Mite's Whimsicott launches a Moonblast towards Gardevoir who uses Double Team and Light Screen to make the Moonblast reflect off each other before Gardevoir uses this as an opportunity to launch the ball in the air as Whimsicott breaks it apart with Fairy Wind making it dissipate into wind and drifting off. This left Mite at 84, 85 and 85 with a total of 254.

We moved on to the next round where Rin steps forward with her two Pokemon to perform their next move.

"Vulpix, Energy Ball towards Gothitelle!" Rin says as the crowd looked surprised as Vulpix launched an Energy Ball towards the focused Gothitelle before Rin calls out her next move, "Now use Expanding Force to surround the Energy Ball." Rin says as Gothitelle's eyes glow and creates a square from the ground that rises above the ground and surrounds the Energy Ball before Gothitelle proceeds to pull the square down and make it disappear and reappear throughout the stage before Rin decides to finish things once and for all.

"Implode Expanding Force." Rin says as Gothitelle nods and implodes the psychic square making it explode into sparkles that stuns the audience. The judges work on their scores as the electronic billboard displays 95, 90 and 88 respectively putting her score at 273 putting her total score at 549.

"Exquisite." Brassius says.

"I wasn't expecting that, I was scared for Gothitelle but it seems Rin knew what she was doing." Joy says as Horatius nodded.

"Indeed." Horatius says as Horace went next gritting his teeth before slapping himself to keep his composure in check.

"Tsareena, Rapid Spin!" Horace says as Tsareena nods and spins quickly as Horace calls out his next attack. "Tera Blast towards Tsareena Oinkologne!" Horace says as Oinkologne launches a beam of light towards Tsareena which swirls around her like a drill of sort made out of light.

"Now Dazziling Gleam!" Horace says as Tsareena creates a gleam of light while spinning that dissipates that surrounds Tsareena and the Tera Blast drill before expelling the Dazzling Gleam away which also pushes away Tera Blast creating a sparkling light that made the audience intrested as the judges put in their final scores of 90, 84 and 82 making his score 256 and his total score 518.

"I will admit, kind of flashy." Joy says.

"The drill was unique, but it needs some work." Brassius says.

"It just needed a bit more flare." Horatius says as Horace's gritted his teeth as Jessie went next and struggled to think of what to do next as Horce looked like he was smirking towards Jessie's potential defeat.

We did our best the first time by how can we outdo ourselves with what we have? Jessie thought to herself as Jessie's hair began to float confusing her as she turns around, "Yanmega, could you not play with my hair with your Psychic." Jessie says seeing Yanmega with glowing eyes before Jessie realized something.

"You learned Psychic!? I may have a plan after all." Jessie says as the 3 walk towards the stage and prepared their plan of action. "Lechonk, launch a large Chilling Water in the air!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and launches a splotch of water in the air as Jessie nods.

"Use Psychic to control the water Yanmega!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and her eyes glow causing the water to stop in the air, "Now form it into what I'm doing." Jessie says as she poses like a muscleman and the water forms into a muscleman figure surprising the audience before Jessie points to the stars which the water also mimics and she kept doing this until she got tired.

"Alright Oinkologne, Disarming Voice against the water!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and launches a musical note towards the water which exploded into sprinkles which covered the audience from the rain while hearing Lechonk's singing voice. The judges began making their scores displaying a 90, 86 and a 88 making her score 264 and her total score 541.

"I never suspected Psychic to be used in that scenario." Joy says.

"Most agreed, it could be useful when creating art to have a Psychic influence." Brassius says as Horatius nodded.

"Indeed. I will say that it felt the same as last time but still tremendous." Horatius says as Lechonk jumped into Jessie's open arms praising Lechonk's actions while Horace scoffs. Nulle went next by announcing her leave finally getting her rent thus dropping out of the competition while Mite uses Whimsicott's Fairy Wind alongside Gardevoir's Icy Wind to create swirling winds that blow over to the audience but wasn't as flashy as he only received a score of 85, 80 and 78 making his score 243 and his final total being 497.

"With that folks and my money gone, we shall now move on to the final scores and with a total of 549 from her two scores of 273 and 276, Rin has earned 1st place!" Grayson says as the crowd and Jessie clapped while Horace scoffed. "In 2nd place with a total of 541 from her 264 and 277 we have Jessiarina!" Grayson says as the crowd claps and Rin clapped but Horace scoffed a 2nd time.

"And in 3rd place with a total of 518 with the scores of 256 and 262, Horace." Grayson said without enthusiasm as the Horace glared at the crowd forcing them to clap as Jessie scoffed. "Ahem and lastly in 4th place with a total of 497 with the scores of 243 and 254, V. Mite!" Grayson says as the crowd claps again.

"And with that, Rin, Jessarina and Horace will move on to round 2 after this break!" Grayson says as the crowd claps once more.

We head back to the dressing room to see Jessie, Lechonk and Yanmega celebrating their win during the first round with Wobbuffet cheering them on and James and Meowth having taken a walk around the area.

"You were amazing out there you two! You really shown everyone who's the boss and who's the queen around here especially you Lechonk. You'll show that rich jerk off in no time!" Jessie says.

"Chonk, Chonk!" Lechonk says as the other 3 nod.

"Well now we have to work on your cute poses for the 2nd round." Jessie says but before they could work on it, a knock on the door was heard and it opens to show the woman in the suit from before with a more serious expression on her face.

"Ms. Jessarina, it seems things will change for this round, we will be skipping the 2nd round and moving on to the 3rd round where you'll be fighting Horace in a Pokemon battle." the woman says baffling everyone in the room.

"Moving on? What happened?" Jessie asks.

"Well, from the reports we got, Rin's Gothitelle was poisoned via Toxic, or some other Poison move from an Amoonguss and as such Rin decided to step out of the tournament to focus on her Pokemon." the woman says surprising Jessie.

"If that's the case, why don't we call Officer Jenny to investigate the incident?" Jessie asks.

"Apparently Rin requested not to, she looked like she seen a ghost or something's haunting her when she said that. Due to this interruption, we will continue in 20 minutes, please be ready by then." the woman says as she closes the door leaving everyone confused.

"Rin's Pokemon poisoned? Frightened? Where is James and Meowth!?" Jessie says as she and Lechonk leave the room. They wander the halls until she finds James helping Rin's Gothitelle by mixing together berries into a medicine of sorts and feeding it to Gothitelle.

"Thank you so much for the help, you didn't have to do that for me." Rin says gratefully as James shook his head and smiled.

"It's the least I could do." James says.

"There you are you two! Where have you been? I've been worried for you." Jessie says as James and Meowth looked scared for some reason, "Hey what's wrong, it's like you've seen a ghost or whatever." Jessie says.

"We can't say it." Meowth says confusing Jessie.

"C'mon, you can tell me." Jessie says.

"Actually, they can't but I can." a smug voice was heard Jessie and Lechonk turned around to see Horace and his Pokemon walking over to the group.

"Horace! What did you do?" Jessie says as Horace laughs.

"Well, I can't have too much competition around here." Horace says as Jessie put the pieces together.

"You poisoned Gothitelle, she and Rin did nothing to you." Jessie says as Horace laughs.

"I know, but I just want to humiliate you myself." Horace says as Jessie and Lechonk grit their teeth.

"How could you! You act so smug around everyone acting like you're a king when you're not! Hasn't your father taught you to be responsible?" Jessie asks as Horace's smug look turned into an angry frown.

"I wanted to be like father, a king who doesn't care, he was like that back then but then he became weak and pacifistic, not appreciating all the hard work I did for the past couple of years with those competitions. I'll show everyone who wronged me, that I'm better than them." Horace says as his Pokemon became worried but when he glared to them, they had the smug look again which everyone took notice of.

"I bet you're just doing this because you don't want to leave you." Jessie says as Horace froze up but scoffed.

"Lies." Horace could only mutter.

"No matter, I'll just go report this to the sta-" Jessie didn't finish as Shiny Oinkologne and Tsareena blocked Jessie and Lechonk's way.

"Oh I don't think so. Now what was your friends name, Jameson or should I say James Blauschild. His family owns a stake in my company so I know his family well, you don't want me telling them about your location, they can have your so-called arranged marriage here. And what about that Meowth, he's talking while trying to hide that with his disguise. Would be a shame if your friend were to say, get experimented on." Horace says as Jessie froze up unsure of what to do as even James and Meowth didn't say anything out of fear.

"If I stay quiet about this, will you leave us alone?" Jessie says as Horace nods.

"I got my eye on you, hope you're ready to lose." Horace says walking away leaving the 4 in shock.

"You can talk?" Rin asks.

"Another time. How could he do that to you all?" Jessie asks.

"Well, we were just heading to the bathroom when we saw Horace's Amoonguss use Toxic on the Gothitelle but it seems Horace caught us before we were able to tattle." James says as Rin looks down sadly.

"I thought he would like me, but I guess he was really self-absorbed." Rin says making Jessie grit her teeth.

"That rich son of a- he's that petty that he'll take down the competition and that's saying something coming from me." Jessie says as she gritted her teeth in anger over the whole scenario.

"Look, don't worry about us, focus on the competition." Meowth says.

"But-" Jessie didn't finish as James and Meowth shook their heads.

"No, you need to put Horace in his place for his bullying. Plus, it seems that Lechonk's got that fighting spirit." James says pointing towards Lechonk who displays an aura of confidence, determination and anger to stop Horace and Jessie acknowledges this determination.

Lechonk wants to protect us by fighting back against the greater evil, right, I'll do just that for her. Jessie thought to herself as she nods as Meowth smirked and brought out a camera.

"And plus, my eyes weren't the only things that caught what happened." Meowth says as they continued discussing with one another and while they were doing that- what's this, a Pokemon's watching them from behind a box. A Chewtle? He was watching the group, and it seems this Chewtle is familiar, but I can't pinpoint where.

We see Jessie head out on stage which changed to a battlefield where everyone was watching and where James, Wobbuffet, Meowth and Rin were sitting in the crowd as Horace walked up to the stage with that disgusting smirk. The crowd were watching in anticipation towards the upcoming fight while James and Meowth felt nervous, but Meowth knew he had a plan and just needed an opportunity to strike.

"So, you did show up after all, are you prepared to be humiliated?" Horace says as Jessie smirked and shook her head.

"The only one being humiliated is you, I'll show you why you don't mess with others including my beloved Pokemon." Jessie says as Horace scoffs.

"So be it." Horace says as Grayson walks upon the stage with an energetic look on his face.

"Ladies, gentlemen and non-binary alike, welcome to the final round of this competition. Who will come off on top this year, the newcomer or the old winner? Let us find out shall we! Here are the rules, the challengers will be able to use 2 Pokemon, Terastalization is allowed, and the user may use any Pokemon from their team including those who have not participated. Now let's begin!" Grayson says as the crowd cheers on and both grab their Pokeballs.

"Yanmega, flutter your wings!" Jessie says as she throws her Pokeball to show Yanmega who was ready to go.

"Yanmega!" Yanmega says as Horace scoffs and grabs his Luxury Ball.

"Grimmsnarl, show your fury." Horace says as he throws his Pokeball to reveal Grimmsnarl ready to battle.

"Grimm, Grimm!" Grimmsnarl says as Grayson waves a flag.

"Very well! I shall do a coin toss to determine-" Grayson was interrupted by Horace with a confident smirk.

"No need, I'll allow her to go first." Horace says 'politely' as Grayson blinked twice.

"Oh, ok then. You may go ahead Ms. Jessabelle." Grayson says as she nods.

"Very well, Yanmega, Dual Wingbeat!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and her wings glow as she rushes down towards Grimmsnarl who smirked and immediately pleaded for his life confusing everyone and causes Yanmega to stop. "Hmm, does Grimmsnarl not want to be hurt?" Jessie asks as Horace smirked.

"False Surrender." Horace says simply as Grimmsnarl's hairs extend out of his back and towards Yanmega's direction, but Jessie was quick to the scene.

"Block it with Dual Wingbeat!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and hits the hair with her wings but it seems to have entangled her body.

"Slam her." Horace says as Grimmsnarl slams Yanmega to the ground injuring her.

"Yanmega!" Jessie yelled out.

"Spirit Break." Horace says as Grimmsnarl's right arm glows pink and rushes towards a downed Yanmega as Jessie didn't want to give up right then and there.

"Use Bug Buzz!" Jessie says as Yanmega nodded and her wings glow and releases a loud buzzing sound that both damages Grimmsnarl and causes him to stagger letting go of Yanmega and allows Jessie an opportunity. "Now Dual Wingbeat!" Jessie says as Yanmega strikes with her wings twice sending the Bulk Up Pokemon back by a margin. Horace gritted his teeth in anger.

"So, you're that desperate to take my popularity ehh." Horace says as Jessie gritted her teeth.

"I'm not interested in this 'popularity' thing at the moment. I'm here to teach you and your Pokemon a lesson about treating others like they're nothing including my Lechonk, I want an apology." Jessie says as Horace scoffs.

"You kidding me, that's it? How weak, I'll be better than everyone because that's how the rich are supposed to be unlike my weak father." Horace says.

"Or are you just saying that because you're using that as an excuse for your loneliness and how everyone treated you lowly." Jessie says as Horace stops maybe even a moment of realization before he shakes it off.

"Pathetic! Use Burning Jealousy!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl creates a flame in his left hand and launches a swirl of flames towards Yanmega's direction causing Jessie to act quickly.

"Air Cutter!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and launches an X-shaped slash towards the flames creating a buff of smoke as Horace grins. "Bug Buzz-" Jessie attempted to say but Horace interrupted.

"Throat Chop." Horace says as Grimmsnarl rushes through the smoke and strikes Yanmega's throat before she could launch Bug Buzz and couldn't launch anything due to Throat Chop's effect of preventing Sound moves. The crowd winces towards Grimmsnarl's brutality.

"That Grimmsnarl sure is harsh with his attacks." Meowth says.

"That Horace isn't taking any chances." James says as Horace continues his onslaught.

"Burning Jealousy!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl launches a swirl of flames towards Yanmega.

"Yanmega no- no, use Psychic against the flames!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and flies back up with her eyes glowing controlling the flames in front of her forming it as a shield leaving the audience and judges stunned.

"What's this!? Jessiana is using Psychic not as an attack but as a shield of sorts? Either way, it's a unique way of using Psychic against a Dark type normally immune to those attacks." Grayson says stunned.

"Now Air Cutter!" Jessie says confidently as Yanmega launches an X-shaped slash towards Grimmsnarl who was damaged by the attack. "Now Dual Wingbeat!" Jessie says as Yanmega nods and rushes towards Grimmsnarl and manages to get a strike in, however.

"Grab the Pokemon with your hair before she strikes!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl nods and grabs the Yanmega stunning Jessie, "Now False Surrender and hard!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl nods and extends his hair encasing Yanmega in the air and prepared to slam her to the ground.

"Bug Buzz!" Jessie says as Yanmega launches one last buzz attack towards Grimmsnarl which hurts him, and a blue light surrounds Grimmsnarl indicating a defense loss but didn't bother Grimm enough to slam Yanmega to the ground as the dust appears. As the dust disappears, we see Yanmega's eyes swirl indicating her defeat as Grayson checks and nods.

"Lechonk is unable to battle, Grimmsnarl wins!" Grayson says as the crowd were forced to clap by Horace's glare as Jessie gritted her teeth but sighed returning Yanmega to her Pokemon with a soft smile on her face.

"Yanmega, thank you for coming back to visit, get some rest, you'll have your chance next time." Jessie says as she nods to herself grabbing her Friend Ball, "Lechonk, this is what you've been waiting for. Show Horace what you got." Jessie says with determination as she throws out her Friend Ball to release Lechonk who was ready for battle and Horace takes notice of her.

"My it seems the little runt is that determined to teach me a lesson." Horace says laughing but compared to the day before where she was left in tears over Horace and his Pokemon's cruel demeanor, she was determined and ready to fight for what's right. "Very well, go ahead." Horace says as Lechonk scoffed and Jessie noticing her determination nods.

"Use Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and rushes towards Grimmsnarl.

"False Surrender!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl falls to the ground pleading which causes Lechonk to stop in a screeching holt causing Horace to smirk but then Lechonk jumps backwards in the air surprising Horace.

"Chilling Water!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches a cold-water bubble towards Grimmsnarl splashing him and doing damage.

"What the-" Horace says as Jessie smirks.

"She knows what's at stake so we're not letting down, use Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk's head glows and strikes Grimmsnarl with her head sending him back.

"Not taking chances eh, very well, Spirit Break!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl nods and creates a pink aura around his left arm and prepares to strike at the small Hog Pokemon.

"Use Disarming Voice on the ground!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and launches a music note on the ground creating a veil of dust and dodging the attack by going to the side. "Now Bullet Seed!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches several seeds towards Grimmsnarl's direction causing major damage.

"Stop this you swine! Burning Jealousy!" Horace says angrily as Grimmsnarl launches a swirl of flames towards the Bullet Seeds.

"Chilling Water!" Jessie says as Lechonk launches the cold water towards the fire creating a puff of smoke as Jessie sees an opportunity and grabs TR'S Tera Orb out of her pocket. "Lechonk, it's all or nothing with this battle, so let's Terastalize!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and Jessie stays focused.

From what I saw, just hold your arm out, focus and throw when it glows right? Jessie thought to herself as she breathes in and holds out her arm with the orb as it glows with a bright light and throws the Tera Orb at Lechonk who crystalizes and James, Meowth and Rin look on impressed as the crystals clear away to show Lechonk's Tera Hat was a flower bouquet meaning she's a Grass Tera Type.

"You're such a beauty Lechonk! Now Disarming Voice!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and prepares to sing.

"Throat Chop!" Horace says as Grimmsnarl rushes through the smoke and strikes Lechonk preventing her from using Disarming Voice as Horace smirked and thinked he won but Grimmsnarl could see Lechonk being resilient as Jessie saw it too and nodded.

"She's not going to give in to the fear, use Bullet Seed!" Jessie says as Lechonk's Tera Hat glows and launches several seeds towards Grimmsnarl who was staggered and hurt by the attack.

"No you-" Horace didn't finish as Jessie snickered.

"Now for your grand Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk rushes in and strikes Grimmsnarl's stomach sending him flying in the air and next to Horace with swirling eyes indicating Grimmsnarl has fainted who Grayson checks and nods.

"Grimmsnarl is unable to battle, Lechonk wins this round!" Grayson says as the crowd cheers on causing Lechonk's eyes to sparkle in joy while Horace returns his Pokemon.

"You're so confident in everything, you get fans, you get respect while I'm left in the dust. You really have come to ruin me." Horace says as Jessie has a vein on her head out of annoyance.

"How many times do I have to tell you, I'm not interested in stealing your so-called 'spot'. I want you to apologize to my Pokemon and teach you how blind you are for not realizing you're hurting everyone around you, pushing everyone away from you. Your 'fans' don't like you; they fear you!" Jessie says as Horace appears to be trembling but shakes his head denying it.

"Lies, they love me, and I won't apologize to your ugly Pokemon. If I lose the people who respect me, I'll be nothing! I understand that, my Pokemon do as well." Horace says.

"Do your Pokemon really agree or are they going along with what you're doing so you can respect them for acting like you? Someone selfish." Jessie says as Horace stops before denying it by shaking his head and grabbing his Luxury Ball.

"Lies and I'll show you, Oinkologne, smack them down a peg!" Horace says as he throws his Pokeball releasing Oinkologne who sparkles due to their Shiny. Lechonk stares up at Oinkologne who scoffs as Lechonk was prepared to fight her rival. Horace brings out a Tera Orb too intend on winning, "Oinkologne, Terastalize!" Horace says as the Tera Orb glows and throws it towards Oinkologne who Terastalizes into a Fighting Type ready for battle.

"Lechonk, use Headbutt!" Jessie says as Lechonk nods and rushes towards Oinkologne.

"Iron Head my dear." Horace says as Oinkologne's head shined like metal and clashed with Lechonk's more softer head causing Lechonk to be flying with serious damage.

"Lechonk!" Jessie says.

"Tera Blast." Horace says as Oinkologne's Tera Hat glows and launches a series of blasts that resembled fists towards Lechonk attacking her for serious damage as she tried to get up.

"Bullet Seed!" Jessie says worryingly as Lechonk launches a series of seeds towards Oinkologne.

"Seed Bomb." Horace says as Oinkologne launches a series of larger seeds that overcome the Bullet Seeds eventually landing onto Lechonk and though they weren't effective due to Lechonk's Grass Tera Type, they still hurt.

"Le- Chonk." Lechonk said in pain as Horace kept up the merciless attacks.

"Lash Out!" Horace says as Oinkologne's front legs glow a dark aura and using his hooves, his smacks down on Lechonk multiple times with his hooves as Lechonk was struggling to get up severely injured from Oinkologne's attacks causing Jessie to worry and the gang and audience to be unsure of what will happen at this point.

"If Lechonk keeps fighting in this state, she'll only go down." James says but Rin shakes her head.

"No, I can see it, even through all that, Lechonk still wants to fight for what's right." Rin says not giving up on Lechonk. Jessie on the other hand seemed worried.

"Lechonk! You don't have to keep this up, you proved yourself already. Let's just go and forget about-"

"Chonk, Lechonk!" Lechonk says with determination towards her trainer as she gets up fully though shaking through the injuries.

"Lechonk." Jessie says surprised as she looked to the crowd when she hears one small 'Lechonk' amongst the members.

"Lechonk." one person said.

"Lechonk!" another says with fiery determination.

"Lechonk!" everyone else says cheering her on.

"LECHONK! LECHONK! LECHONK!" the crowd continues cheering on Lechonk as she looked on surprised towards her fans and Jessie is surprised too. Lechonk's reminisces about her life prior to Jessie always trying to impress her fellow Lechonk and Oinkologne but they always just laughed at her causing her to run away from her passel. She was wandering around through the Capo Poco outskirts depressed until she noticed TR and more specifically Jessie. She admired Jessie's beauty and wanted to be like her but in her mind, she thinks she's too ugly to join them and just moved along until Jessie's Friend Ball got reflected by Spidops and hit Jessie and the Ball fell on Lechonk catching her.

Upon being released, she looked up to Jessie who's eyes sparkled in amazement much to Lechonk's surprise.

"You're so cute and you smell so well!" Jessie said surprising Lechonk as she felt happy to be welcomed and how day to day, she was complemented on her beauty and cuteness when no one else would've said the same. It didn't matter to Lechonk how others felt about her especially the day prior, she was proud of who she was on the inside and if she had close friends that treated her well, she felt happy they respected her.

"Lechonk." Lechonk said with a smile towards her trainer who also smiled.

"Right. Let's do this together, let's take on the world ahead of us!" Jessie says with determination as Lechonk nods.

"Chonk." Lechonk says as her body starts to glow a light blue that surrounds Lechonk as everyone watches stunned.

"Lechonk's evolving." James, Rin and Meowth say in surprise as James looked to Meowth.

"I think now's your opportunity to show your footage to the judges." James says as Meowth nods and slips away.

"Lechonk, you're evolving." Jessie says as Lechonk's body changes becoming a bit taller with her tail becoming longer and resembling a spring and whose tail resembled a tassel and the light clears away to reveal Oinkologne but compared to a regular Oinkologne which was more violet or dark blue, female Oinkologne was light brown with the head and a dark brown with the body.

"You evolved into Oinkologne!" Jessie says as her Oinkologne nodded.

"Oink, Oink!" Oinkologne says ready to continue the battle.

"Enough of this padding! Use Iron Head!" Horace says as his Oinkologne nods and his head glows a shiny steel and rushes towards Jessie's Oinkologne. Jessie's Oinkologne starts to glow a brown which Jessie doesn't notice at first.

"Headbutt!" Jessie says as Oinkologne glows with a brown aura and rushes at Horace's Oinkologne with full power and to Jessie's surprise, it sends Horace's Oinkologne flying back seriously damaged from the attack.

"Seriously, you evolved and learned High Horsepower, unforgivable! Tera Blast!" Horace says as his Oinkologne launches a series of fists towards Jessie's Oinkologne.

"Use Bullet Seed on the ground and dodge!" Jessie says as Oinkologne launches seeds towards the ground creating dust as Horace's Oinkologne looked on focused until he didn't notice Jessie's Oinkologne jumped to Horace's Oinkologne's left leaving him and his trainer blindsided.

"What the-"

"Use Chilling Water!" Jessie says as her Oinkologne nodded and launched a bubble of water towards Horace's Oinkologne splashing him and a blue aura surrounds him but Horace smirks.

"No, it's alright, Lash Out!" Horace says and compares to the previous Lash Out which had the same dark aura from before, this one was even stronger due to the effects of Lash Out with intense aura. Boosting the power of the attack when it's offensive, defensive or speed power has been lowered. Horace's Oinkologne rushes at Jessie's Oinkologne but both wern't going to give in there.

"High Horsepower!" Jessie says as Oinkologne nods and rushes at Horace's Oinkologne clashing, and it seemed like Horace's Oinkologne had some sort of advantage pushing her back.

"Guess you weren't strong after all." Horace says as Jessie scoffs.

"Nope. Bullet Seed!" Jessie says as Oinkologne launches a flurry of Tera boosted Bullet Seeds towards Horace's Oinkologne up close which pushes him back not giving him a chance to attack.

"Get ahold of yourself, Iron Head!" Horace says as Oinkologne nods and rushes through the haze of Bullet Seeds as Jessie had a plan.

"Aim for the legs with Bullet Seed!" Jessie says as Oinkologne nods and launches 3 Bullet Seeds towards the legs causing them to hit and made Horace's Oinkologne almost trip as Jessie saw her chance. "Finish things with High Horsepower!" Jessie says as Oinkologne nods and rushes at Horace's Oinkologne with her massive strength sending Horace's Oinkologne flying in the air and landing on the ground knocking him out with swirling eyes shown as Grayson checked and nodded.

"Oinkologne- erm, Horace's Oinkologne is unable to battle. Jessiana's Oinkologne wins and the winner of the Artazon Stars Competition this year goes to Jessiana and her Pokemon!" Grayson says as the crowd claps and cheers on for them, but Horace wasn't accepting the results placed in front of him.

"NO! NO! NO! It's not fair! I just wanted the respect and love, I don't want to be alone!" Horace says.

"Then I have myself to blame for it." a deep voice was heard as Jessie and Horace turn to Horatius, James, Meowth and Rin walk up the steps of the stage as Horace scoffs.

"Oh, hi father. Here to make fun of me?" Horace says as Horatius shook his head.

"No, I came here to reprimand you for your actions, asking to you to apologize for your behavior and most importantly, I wanted to apologize." Horatius says confusing everyone.

"So, you found out, didn't you?" Horace says as Horatius nods.

"What you did was unacceptable and outright cheating and endangering others. I was going to stop the match but I could see that Jessiana's Oinkologne was determined to wake you up to reality, so I watched, and my point was proven. I'm going to take away your awards for your actions." Horatius says.

"So why are you apologizing to me?" Horace asks.

"Because I turned you into a person, I didn't want you to be, someone who acts high and mighty because of their position. I turned you and your Pokemon into that because of me and I'm sorry for what I've done." Horatius says bowing as Horace scoffs.

"Is that why you gave up on who you are and became senile?" Horace says.

"There's more to it if you're willing to listen." Horatius asks as Horace scoffs but nods. "Here's a story for not just you but to all the crowd about who I was as a rich man. I grew up poor hoping for aim for the biggest of stars and eventually, I did, I founded Gear Shift Inc, I became rich, acquired companies and married the most beautiful woman in the world, your mother. But at the time, I didn't think about the smallest of things and only thought about the big picture and not for the humanly attachments to the point where I almost forgotten my 6 children and my wife. My wife left me because I was so 'busy' I forgot the one thing most important to me, the reason I made it to the top, family. I didn't think about it at the time and continued my life but then there was one person I met who changed my views, who I thought of as a rival but he helped cause me to wake up, Rolo Banderas." Horatius says as the crowd talks amongst themselves, but Horace looked shocked about something.

"The butlers and maids always told me my mother passed away around that time, she left me because she hated me didn't she." Horace said with hidden anger in his voice.

"She never hated you; she loved you, she just needed to clear her head of some issues and doubt but ultimately, she did pass before she could ever think about her path forward in life. I went to Rolo's daughter's 10th birthday party and thought about how happy she and her siblings were with her parents and I began thinking about how strange that was when looking to other rich folks and that's when I woke up to reality when your mother died right after the party and when I learned of her death. I finally realized that she meant so much to me, so much and I only put her to the side for my own ambitions and that I only pushed everyone away or caused others to act like me because they thought it was right, I'm the monster. You know, he was my rival and yet after I explained my issues and how I acted so smug, I was expecting him to run away from me for being heartless, he offered a stock of his company to me." Horatius says chuckling fondly.

"Well, that's certainly something." James, Meowth and Jessie say as Horace looked interested but at the same time, he was unsure.

"He certainly is an interesting man, but I got to hang out with him more and realized how much he hated the idea of a heartless rich person because to him, he feels if they act like that, they're just using everyone as tools towards their further goals, but he took interest in me because I was able to realize my error and gain a new outlook on life. He became my friend, when he lost his wife, he also almost loss himself but I helped remind him of what he told me and he started to cheer up but still felt sad about something, something about an argument with his daughter but at the time, he was able to cheer up. I offered him a stock in my company for his help in reshaping me and even he chuckled towards how that happened but accepted. It was when he mentioned his father-daughter argument that made me realize, I needed to patch things up with my children. Carrie and Micheal didn't want anything to do with me after their mother left, Mira and Terry followed their mother's advice and continued their lives normally and then there's you and Horatio, you acted like me to be like me even know what I did was wrong." Horatius says.

"So what are you saying!?" Horace asks as Horatius sighs.

"I'm saying you shouldn't act like me because of what I did. I'm sorry I turned you into me, I didn't want you acting spoiled or acting like a king because in the end, it would make you feel 'entitled' or act your above everyone. I wanted you to be normal, so you make friends, find a career you like and be a good trainer and yet because of what I did and how I never noticed at the time, I only pushed you towards that path. What I did is never an excuse and I just want you to live your life normally or be who you want to be!" Horatius says as Horace looked down upon himself and looked to his Oinkologne and Horace's Pokeballs. He wanted his Pokemon to act like him so they can act on top but never considered how they might feel. He looked to Rin, someone who liked him back then for who he was, but Horace was blinded by his actions to realize that and looked to the crowd who was afraid of him.

"I never made friends; I made them fear me." Horace says coming to grips with reality. Sighing, he brought out Tsareena, Grimmsnarl and Amoonguss and talked with them before he and his mons turned to TR bowing.

"I know you may never forgive me for what I've done but me and my Pokemon want to apologize for what we said to you, for threatening your friends and treating your Oinkologne like she was nothing. I was wrong and I know it's going to be a long time before anyone forgives me, but I ask if you forgive for what I've done!?" Horace says tearing up with his Oinkologne and Tsareena apologizing to Jessie's Oinkologne. Jessie looked to Oinkologne who sighs but nods.

"She forgives you and I forgive you, but there are still others you need to apologize to you know." Jessie says as Horace nods and turns to Rin.

"Rin, I acknowledge for a long time, you've token interest in me and I only hurt you for and your Gothitelle because I was jealous of the competition. I want to apologize for my actions, I want to apologize for not taking notice of you and apologize for being a dick. Do you accept my apology?" Horace says.

"I acknowledge you feel remorse for your actions and have taken notice of me, but I can't forgive you right now nor am I interested in you anymore. You hurt my Pokemon for the sake of competition, but I will say, you at least acknowledged what you've done but it's going to be a long while till I forgive you." Rin says as Horace sighs and nods.

"And I accept that consequence." Horace says as he turns to Jessie, "If you're interested-"

"I'm not dating someone like you!" Jessie says but Horace shook his head.

"No not that!" Horace corrected himself and displayed a card, "If you and your Oinkologne are interested in joining my club where I'll work on improving myself, you're most certainly allowed." Horace says making the offer which gets Jessie interested but she shakes her head but notices her Oinkologne's interest which made her think that Oinkologne wanted to leave which caused Jessie to grab her Friend Ball which TR took notice of.

"Jess?" James asked but before she knew it, Oinkologne goes running to her surprising Jessie.

"Oinkologne?" Jessie asks as Oinkologne happily squeals.

"She's saying she doesn't want to be a part of some club, she just wanted to teach them a lesson and that she's happy where she is. With you." Meowth says as Jessie's eyes teared up and smiled hugging Oinkologne.

"You're my beautiful star no matter what you want to do." Jessie says as Oinkologne squealed happily. And so, our first adventure with Team Rocket in the Paldea Region wasn't about some sort of evil scheme, plan or whatever, it was about accepting oneself, standing up for what's right and growing as a person something unique for TR but will those values carry them through the Region? Who knows.

END

Hoo boy, that was a long chapter, and I thought it was going to be short. I don't have too much to add here other than similar to Ash, TR will bring back their old Pokemon for the ride and adventure to see how they've been doing.

Until then, Hasta La Vistar!