GC117

==Synopsis==
Rachel puts on a cooking show.
==Summary==
Rachel is almost ready for the Maisie Island contest. She has reserved a kitchen area at the Pokemon Center to perfect her unique appeal with Skitty. She performs the routine for Justin who genuinely has no notes. Justin says that Rachel's performance is unlike any other performance usually seen in Hoenn. He believes the judges will appreciate Rachel bringing energy from Kalos into her performance. Furthermore, Rachel's Poke Puffs are delicious. 
Rachel's cooking draws attention from the other Pokemon at the center who follow the scent and wish to devour her cooking. Having researsed so many times, Rachel allows the Pokemon to eat her food. The respective trainers apologize for their Pokemon wandering. Among the Pokemon is a Manectric, and Rachel happily feeds him. Manectric belongs to none other than Andre, who is on Maisie Island for his fifth ribbon. 
Andre is icy and rude to Justin and Rachel. He bans Manectric from eating any more of Rachel's cooking. Against Rachel's wishes, Justin goes out to speak to Andre. He hopes Andre will someday change his view of Rachel. Andre doubts he will and shares his equal contempt for Justin. He asks how Justin could allow Rachel to profit from his ideas. Justin admits he was wrong to spoon-feed Rachel appeals. Justin reminds Andre that he may be mentoring Rachel, but it's not as if he's a professional mentor. He made mistakes and Andre was right to call them both out. However, Justin informs Andre that he and Rachel have changed their mentorship dynamic. Justin promises Rachel's performance will be all her own. Andre sarcastically hopes so, as he has no intention of losing to a fraud. He then leads Manextric away. 
Justin return to Rachel where is, and she is showing how to cook Poke Puffs to the trainers with her Skitty. Rachel shows off the new recipes she's developed based on Hoenn's Pokeblocks. Justin calls out Spheal and picks him up. He mentions that he does not know the little ice Pokemon's favorite flavors of foods and hopes they can find out. 
That evening, Justin playfully asserts his role as Rachel's mentor to get her to stop practicing so she and Skitty can rest. Since seeing Andre, Rachel has had Skitty practicing for hours against Swellow, Combusken, and Shuppet. Rachel admits she's stressed to face Andre again in a Contest. She's more irritated by the fact that he not only alled her a fraud but he was right. She wants to prove to herself that she's changed and he would not be wrong. Justin refers Rachel to her performance in Lilycove City as a reminder that she can win contests with her Pokemon on her own talent, ideas, and accord. After this assurance, Rachel collects Skitty and they all go to sleep. 
The next day, the Maisie Contest is held. Justin sits in the stands with Eevee, Plusle, Minun, Spheal, and Shuppet, the two latter enjoying their first Contest. 
After some early appeals, Andre is entry 6 and he calls on Manectric. Per his style, Andre has Manectric put on a light performance of Electric Terrain. Manectric releases multiple bolts of yellow electricity from its body, causing its body and the surrounding area to glow yellow. The electric light reflects back on Manectric showing off its well-groomed body in an excellent appeal. 
Rachel later performs with Skitty. Rachel has a special arrangment. She rises from the ground on a platform with a cooking set. Rachel and Skitty execute their performance as a dance while cooking. Skitty first creates a shower of ice sparkles with Blizzard as Rachel begins making the cream after placing three Poke Puff in the oven. Skitty then uses Iron Tail to spin a bowl of cream with perfect balance while Rachel chops berries. With the Poke Puff is done in the oven, Skitty uses Double Slap to juggle the chopped berries then toss them to Rachel once she adds the layers of cream. Rachel catches the berries on the place with the Poke Puffs. The berries decorate the desserts, and Skitty performs a final Blizzard that gives the Poke Puffs a gentle icy coating.  The appeal is complete to the applause of the audience. 
Rachel then presents the Poke Puffs to the judges who ejoy the delicacy. They ask Rachel about her appeal, and she shares that Poke Puff making is a common theme performance in Kalos Showcases. Since her Skitty loves cooking, she decided to make Poke Puffs her appeal. The judges believe Rachel did an excellent job and give her a very high score. 
Justin and their Pokemon are very happy for Rachel. Andre looks on the back. The other coordinators think Rachel did extremely well. Andre looks at the back stage screen but then walks away. 
The four Coordinators for moving onto the battle rounds include Andre and Rachel. Rachel and Skitty are very happy and intend to win. Andre snides Rachel for being confident. He asserts that her Skitty won't remotely handle Manectric's electrical power. 
==Major Events==
*Justin and Rachel encounter Andre, who has earned his fourth ribbon
*Rachel and Andre enter the Maisie Island Contest, and they advance to the battle rounds
For a list of all major events in this anime, please see Major Events (Grand Conquest). 
==Characters==
===Humans===
*Justin
*Rachel
*Andre
*Trainers
*Coordinators
*Civilians
===Pokemon===
*Eevee (Justin's)
*Plusle (Justin's)
*Spheal (Justin's)
*Minun (Rachel's)
*Skitty (Rachel's)
*Shuppet (Rachel's)
*Manectric (Andre's)
*Belossom
*Gengar
*Natu
*Togepi
*Espeon
*Meowth
*Ursaring
*Kecleon
Category:Grand Conquest
Category:Episodes with Contests