A Real Shocker of a Photoshoot!

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**A Real Shocker of a Photoshoot!** is the thirty-third chapter of Pokemon Academy: Preparations. As well as the first chapter of Pokemon Academy: Preparations - Volume 3: Adventures in Kalos.

## Plot

After getting an old call from a friend, Zemrick, Eli and Nathan go to Lumiose City to check out a photoshoot. There they meet Zemrick's old childhood friend Ikue who is a specialized Pikachu trainer. However, after an accident happens at the photoshoot, the Pikachu all get lost!

## Characters

#### Humans

* Eli
* Zemrick
* Nathan
* Ikue *(first appearance)*
* Utah
* Team Magma:
	+ Courtney
	+ Tabitha
	+ Maxie
	+ Zinnia *(first appearance)*
	+ Team Magma Grunts
* Photographer
* Citizens of Lumiose City

#### Pokemon

* Pikachu (Rock Star; Ikue's)
* Pikachu (Belle; Ikue's)
* Pikachu (Pop Star; Ikue's)
* Pikachu (Ph. D; Ikue's)
* Pikachu (Libre; Ikue's)
* Smeargle (Utah's)
* Pikachu (Nathan's)
* Litten (Nathan's)

## Trivia

* The chapter is a pun on the phrase *"it's a real shocker.".*
* This chapter was published onto the Pokemon Academy wiki on October 1, 2018.
* This is one of the longest chapter of Preparations.
* This is the premiere of Pokemon Academy: Preparations - Volume 3: Adventures in Kalos.

## Full Chapters

The Team Magma members get out of their helicopter. The group had a long flight from Hoenn to Kalos, but it was worth the ride. Zinnia, Courtney and Tabitha, the three admin leaders of the group where the ones who the grunts were following behind. As they reached the end of the building, Zinnia who was holding a suitcase opens it up and begins typing. “Communication to the boss is almost set.” Zinnia said.

After the coder of the group, Zinnia did what she did best when it came to her awesome computer skills, Maxie ends up popping up on the computer screen with a Litten in his lap. Team Magma puts their backs up straight as they got more serious for their boss. “Sir, arrival to the Kalos Region is fully complete.” Zinnia bowed down to her boss.

“Good,” Maxie said.

“Litten, Litten.” Litten purrs and rubs its head up against her trainer. Litten was the very first Pokemon that Maxie every had. Maxie had gotten Litten as a starter Pokemon when he was in the Alola Region as a child.

Maxie clears his throat. “Now, while I want the three of you to head to Nature Island because the legendary Pokemon we need for our goal, Moltres, Zapdos, and Articuno reside there. There’s something you need to do first.” Maxie explained to his fellow underlings. The plan that they wanted to do was a lot more complexed then how simple it seemed.

“What is that Maxie sir!” Tabitha shouted.

Courtney rolled her eyes. “Such a suck it up.”

Maxie turns around and looks at a computer screen. He begins typing and the large computer screen pulls up a button load of documents that had information on the very important legendary Pokemon that Team Magma wanted. “You see, hidden in the Prism Tower is the Chain of Light. It was hidden under there centuries ago. The chain of light is what’s needed to summon Zapdos, Moltres, and Articuno. However, the only way to open said light is to find the Key of Destiny. Rumor has it that it’s found somewhere near the Pokemon Academy Honors Camp. So, I want one of you to go to the Honors Camp while the others break into the Prism Tower to try and find where the hidden location of the Chain of Light is.” He explained.

Zinnia thought for a second and came up with the perfect idea. “You know what…I have a plan.” She gives Courtney, Maxie, and Tabitha a very sinister look as Courtney and Tabitha turn around to look at her.

On a bright sunny day in Cyllage City, Chroma, Alexander, and Myska where running down the road of the city that was near a beach. The nice Seabreeze swayed back and forth as the strong summer heat was burning the people up. The students had just received some good news from their teacher Professor Ben Spruce, and everyone was excited to go out and achieve their dreams while still attending the camp. “Hurry up! I’m ready to get my first badge!” Chroma shouted. Out of everyone who was happy about the news, Chroma was the one who was most excited.

“I am!” Alexander said. The boy who was usually tired got rid of his tiredness after learning the good news. However, like always he was still feeling a little sleepy about the boy yawned.

“It was a good thing the Pokemon Academy School Board lifted that rule and all Pokemon Academy students from across the regions are allowed to participate in gyms, contests, showcases, Pokéathlon, fashion shows, and musicals and all things that relate to the sort,” Myska repeated. She too was happy to go out and do some traveling. She had been wanting to get some badges from a while but couldn’t because of the rules. They all thought back to yesterday when they learned the thrilling news.

-Flashback Begins-

The campers were all lined up in the outside auditorium area of the campgrounds. The campers were all sitting in logs, as it had only been a few hours since they’ve arrived back to Kalos after their field trip to Unova. Some of them hadn’t finished unpacking yet, while others were a little bit tired and some just wanted to catch up with some old friends that they hadn’t seen in a while due to having so much free time in Unova. But even though they had so much free time, they still had a ton of time to learn stuff. “Campers, I’ve called you all here because I have some very important news to tell you.” The Professor introduced.

“What is Professor Spruce?” Tara asked.

Ben got really angry when he said that and he stomped his foot on the ground. His face turned red and steam blew out of his ear. “I hate being called by that, call me Professor Ben!” He shouted at all of his students as Ben was blowing out strong winds from his yelling.

“Okay, have a cow…” Tara regretted asking that question and slowly started to move back, away from the Professor. She didn’t want to piss him off any more than she already did.

“Okay then, now I can tell you my news.” He clears his throat. He stands in a straight position and rubs his hands together. He had big news and started giggling like a little kid. “You guys can now go out and collect badges, ribbings, princess keys, and all things related to the sort, along with having full teams!” He announced with enthusiasm.

For a second the students all stood there and looked at each other. But after a little while, they all became happy as this was something that they’ve always wanted to do. The campers get up, cheer and start celebrating this recent discovery. “Yeah!” All thirty-one of the campers said.

“I’m going to go and capture me some Pokemon!” Eden said with his fist balled up.

“I’m going to go and collect some badges.” Babs bragged in an elegant way as she was holding a fan to fan herself off because of the hot temper.

Logan and Joe hug each other. “This is the best news ever!” They both said.

Ben Spruce was enjoying seeing his students were all happy. But since he was a sadistic one, he had to ruin there little moment. He cleared his throat and looked at his students. They all sat down, as they knew that whenever Benjamin Spruce cleared his throat it was time to pay attention. “But there’s one thing that you have to do…to keep this rule a float. All of you when you’re on your own adventures have to film a Who’s that Pokemon segment? With backgrounds, special effects, a random Pokemon and music, said scene has to be played randomly during your adventure...and you have to report it to us If you don’t then you get expelled and banned from ever collecting Pokemon, along with being blacklisted from the world and sent to another dimension.” Ben finished.

After the students heard that, they groaned a little, as that was something that they didn’t want to do. But they knew that if that meant going out and getting badges, ribbons, etc. they could stomach through that even if they didn’t like it one bit.

Professor Ben wasn’t done tutoring his students with the downside of the news that he had to share. He knew that the next thing he had to say was going to make the students mad even further. “Not only that but every single Pokemon Academy student from across all the regions and different dimensions, you guys have to film theme songs and endings at the start of every new volume or just one theme for one story, sung by one of you along with promos too. The same rules apply.” Ben finished. He was finally done with saying all that exposition.

The just shrugged it off and continued all with their cheering. They didn’t care one bit and was just happy that they get to finally go out and do some things that would work towards there dreams.

-End Flashback-

Chroma, Alexander, and Myska, stopped thinking back to yesterday and continued thinking about the present which was a good thing because they really wanted to challenge the Cyllage City Gym. “Yeah, me too,” Alexander responded.

The three of them stop running, however, when they see a dark-skinned man with jewels in his hair and a black long sleeve shirt standing in front of the gym, having a backpack attached to the side of his shoulders. They didn’t know who this was, so they turned stopped and questioned it. “Huh?” They asked. “Are you the Cyllage City gym leader?”

“Yeah, I’m Grant.” The man wasn’t so shocked to see the trainers, as he had been getting trainers all day. But Grant was tired of battling so many trainers and just wanted to do some relaxing by studying.

Chroma rudely pushed Myska to the side and stood in front of Grant. Chroma was determined to challenge the Cyllage City Gym Leader, as this was one of the first steps to achieve his dream. He put his hand over his heart and swallowed his spit. “Well, my name is Chroma and we are all here to challenge you to a gym badge. This will be my first gym battle ever and I’m excited to battle you.” Chroma didn’t hold anything back. He was a straight shooter.

“Sorry, but I can’t battle you.” Grant felt sorry that he had to reject his request.

Chroma became curious and grinned. “Why not?”

Grant was happy to explain why he couldn’t have a gym battle right now. Even if he wanted to, he was just super busy. So much so that it prevented him from doing something that he loved and that was doing gym battle. “You see… I'm studying for a bit because in two weeks I’m going to be teaching at the Kalos Honors Camp for Professor Ben Spruce’s campers.” He said.

“Oh, dang it.” Chroma sighed and looked down at his shoes. He felt heartbroken. But he quickly went back to normal after understanding why he couldn’t.

Myska was impressed by the fact that Grant was going to be teaching them soon. Myska squealed like a little girl as she found learning to be quite fine. “Cool, we attended that camp too.” She explained.

“Awesome, nice to meet all of you! But I have some studying to do.” Grant waved and turned to the side, as he had to start walking. Grant started to leave, as the trio watched him walk away.

The three trainers wave goodbye to the gym leader, as they continued watching him walk away in the distance. “Alright, Grant! Can’t wait till you teach us!” They said their farewells, but they weren’t done quite yet, as they wanted to say goodbye to Grant fully. “Bye, Grant.” Alexander and Myska shouted.

Chroma shrugged his shoulders. He was still feeling a little salty over the fact that he can’t have a chance to battle the gym leader. “Whatever…” He rudely said. “Ugh, I can’t believe we don’t get have a gym battle.” He stomps his foot on the ground, throwing a little mini temper tantrum.

“Luckily, there are other gyms in Kalos.” Myska reminded him.

Chroma quickly got out of his funk as he knew that she was right about that. He snapped his fingers as he found something that could keep him preoccupied. “Oh, you’re right! I’m going to go challenge them, goodbye!” Chroma rushes off in a hurry, not even saying goodbye to his friends.

“Bye, Chroma…” Myska sweatdropped, finding him to be weird.

With Chroma gone, Myska and Alexander were left there alone. As they stood there, Alexander thought about where Nathan and Eli went. He looked up at the sun, as he continued to think about his two friends. “I wonder where Nathan and Eli went?” Alexander asked.

“What do you mean?” A confused Myska responded with a question.

Alexander stopped focusing on the sun and turned around to look at the girl. He thought that giving her an explanation would be a good thing because he knew that she wanted it. “They said that they were going to with Zemrick to Lumiose City for some photoshoot with some old friend. I wonder how that’s going…” Alexander explained.

Eli and Nathan decided to go with Zemrick to the Lumiose City, PR Studios. Zemrick had gotten a call from his old friend, about a photo shoot that she was doing with her partner Pokemon Cosplay Pikachu’s. Since the campers had a day off of camp activities, they thought that coming back to Lumiose City would be a fun time. Eli and Nathan had their hands folded as Zemrick was writing some things down in his notebook. The trio was watching a blonde hair girl with pigtails along with her Cosplay Pikachu’s standing in cutesy poses having their pictures taken inside a studio.

Nathan rolled his eyes, as his Litten was standing on the side of him. “Why did I agree to come here?” He regretted, finding the whole thing to be boring. “I could’ve been doing something more productive with my time, like training.”

“As if you don’t do that enough.” Eli criticized, rolling her eyes. Eli held on to Emerald tightly and played with her fur. Eli thought that it was a good idea for Emerald to get some time away from the campsite, even though they’ve been away from there for a while. Eli walked up to her boyfriend Zemrick and put her head on his shoulder. “Besides, I wanted to come and see my boyfriend, at his job.”

Zemrick blushed. But was also concerned because he had never seen his girlfriend speak like that. “Wait…did you just compliment me…are you okay? That’s completely out of character…”

Eli shrugged. She balled up her fist and punched her boyfriend in the shoulder. “I can’t stay brooding and cold all the time. That’s not giving layers to a character at all.” She insulted while walking away because she felt he ruined the moment.

Zemrick rubs his shoulders because the punch hurt. “I didn’t know you knew focus Punch attack.”

The blonde hair girl with pigtails turned around as she was wearing a yellow shirt with a Pikachu on it, and a yellow mini skirt with long black boots. “Pika, pika, pika!” The girl did a spin as her five Cosplay Pikachu’s followed along with her in doing the exact same spin.

Pikachu Rock Star was getting mad at all of the attention that Pikachu Belle was getting. The camera was all up on her and not only that but Ikue was very close towards her too. Pikachu Rock Star didn’t like this one bit and dashed towards the Belle Cosplay Pikachu and tackles her out of the frame. “Pika, pika.” The Pikachu laughs.

Pikachu Belle glares at the Rock Star and then proceeds to cry like a little baby. “Pika, pika, pika.”

Pikachu, Ph. D grinned at Rock Star and went over towards Pikachu Belle too see how she was doing. “Pika, pika?” She asked.

Belle was okay. “Pika.” But she was still angry at Pikachu Rockstar for what she was doing. “Pikachu, pika, pika!” She covers herself in her own electricity, and the electricity floats towards Rock Star.

But Rock Star dodges the attack and hides behind Ikue. Ikue ends up getting shocked by lighting. After getting shocked her hair turned into an afro with the hair being surrounded by electricity. “That was a real shocker, pika, pika,” Ikue said. Ikue coughs up some black ash and she collapses onto the ground.

“Pika, pika?” All five of her Pikachu’s asked. They worried about her because she was their trainer. They had all between with Ikue for such a long time, that the group pretty much because a family who deeply cared for and love one another, despite the differences they may have from time to time.

PIKACHU.

The airplane landed at the Lumiose City Airport and the passengers of the plan began boarding off after a little while. One of them was Utah. Since his defeat at the funeral by Davey and Jeremiah, his monstrous forum had calmed down and he was back to his regular human self. Utah looked a little different, however, his hair was a little curlier and he was now sporting a white tank top with brown dress pants and long black boots. He decided to change his outfit up to look more menacing than he normally did.

"I think I heard something? Did it sound like a bug type Pokémon buzzing? You're just in luck because I'm not in a mood to get fussy." Utah recited the start of his usual generic motto that he came up with years ago, at the Pokemon Hunter academy. He slowly begins walking down the stairs of the airport as he pushes and shoves the people on the side of him. Utah starts to jiggle his sunglasses.

When Utah lands on the ground he does a spin, while he removes his glasses and winks his right eye. He sticks the palm of his right hand up into the air and everyone at the airport stares at him. "Soaring through the skies and looking like a flying type." Utah thrusts his right arm out and balls up his fist. As people surrounding him started to sweatdrop. "Exploding in a cave, and sending things flying like dynamite."

Utah puts his foot on a rock and looks down at the two teenagers. "Pokemon Hunter Utah is the name so don't wear it out! Or else I'm going to be ripping you apart like wearing the same pair of jeans because they are wearing out." Utah puts his glasses back on and smiles, so he could show off his shiny white teeth that give off a shine.

A white flash appears from out Utah's Pokeball and the normal type Pokemon Smeargle comes out. "Smeargle, smerg."

Utah was happy to be back in Kalos, his hometown and where he was born. Things haven’t been happy for the dude, however, because of the return of his vicious Pokemon side. He’s lucky that his anger has calmed down and his form was no longer as bad as it once was, but he still didn’t want that side of his form to come out again. “I’m home.” Utah looks at his hand. “But, I gotta do everything in my power to make sure that, it doesn’t come out again.” He thought to himself and sighed.

FROAKIE.

Zemrick got his head out of his ‘homemade Pokedex’ after hearing the crash from the girl. “Ikue! Are you okay?” Zemrick asked concerned for her friend. Nathan and Eli also showed concerned look on their faces, and the three of them all run up towards her just to check on her.

Despite falling onto the ground, the girl didn’t feel much pain. In fact, she sort of like falling on the ground because it reminded her of the same way that Pokemon faint after losing a battle. “Yeah, I’m fine.” She slowly gets up, and holds her back, as there was a little pain come from there, but it wasn’t bothering her all too much. “I was just shocked a little!” She admitted. “Tee-tee, Pika, pika.” She laughed, ending her sentence like a Pikachu, as she liked doing that to make her feel more like a Pikachu.

Everyone laughed but Nathan was a little confused about the behavior of the Pikachu. He scratched the back of his head as his Litten climbed up his shoulder. “Do they always do this?” He curiously asked. Litten, on the other hand, was just licking its paw, something that the Litten species usually does.

Ikue sweatdropped and blushed a little bit, feeling very embarrassed. “Yeah, my Pikachu’s can get a little rowdy. But that’s why I love them!” She grabs Pikachu Libre and hugs the Pokemon as Pikachu Libre nuzzles her head up against her.

“How long have you’ve been collecting Pikachu’s for?” Zemrick curiously asked. Zemrick had been wanting to do some more research on the Pikachu species as a whole, so he felt lucky that he had this chance to meet up with her. Since Zemrick’s goal was to make his own Pokedex, worthy enough for Professor Oak to help, he wanted to make sure that everything was perfect.

Ikue thought that was a good question. She puts Pikachu Libre down on the ground and placed her hands on her hips. Her demeanor changed and became more serious. But after a while, she couldn’t hold it anymore and became giggly. Her eyes turn into hearts and she folds her hands together while rubbing her hands on her cheek. “Glad you asked, Zemrick. I’ve been doing it ever since I witnessed a Pikachu save my life. Since then, I’ve made it my mission to go out into the world and collect as many different Pikachu that I can.” She thought back to the days that she met all of her Pikachu’s individually.

Zemrick was in heaven. He’s never seen so many different Pikachu’s in one place, and he loved that. Pikachu was one of the boys favorite Pokemon, he even had a bunch of Pikachu merchandise back at his house. He would never tell anyone that because he knew that some people would find that embarrassing. “What’s fascinating about these Pikachu’s is that these ones can learn different moves, depending on what they wear!” Zemrick started writing in his Pokedex Notebook all the information about the Pikachu as he was examining them close fully. “I love it so much!” Zemrick said.

He starts touching Pikachu Pop Star, but she was shy and didn’t like being touched by a stranger. The female Pokemon felt uncomfortable and her face showed it. She decides that in order to get Zemrick off of her she thought that shocking would be the best option. “Pikachu!” Pikachu said. Pikachu quickly regretted doing that and went to see if he was okay.

But that shock didn’t affect Zemrick at all and just like Ikue, he enjoyed being shocked by Pikachu. That was one of the things that they had in common and that was their deep love for Pikachu. “Wow, that was amazing! I’ve always wanted to get struck by a Pikachu!” Zemrick shakes off all the dust he was covered in. “I need to write this down!” Zemrick wrote the information down in his notebook.

“Such a nerd.” Nathan rolled his eyes.

After hearing Nathan talk, Zemrick got the best idea. He couldn’t believe that he didn’t think of this earlier, from all the time that they’ve been here in the studio. “Hey, Nathan! You have a Pikachu of your own. Why don’t you let it out?” He begged. His eyes turning into stars as he folded his arms together.

Nathan felt a little uncomfortable as Zemrick was all up in his face. Nathan caves in and grabs Pikachu’s pokeball, he did the usual thing and Pikachu’s Pokeball became bigger. “I guess… if that’s something you all want to see.”

The Pokeball open up and Pikachu is unleashed after the white light dissolves. “Pikachu, pika.” Pikachu was a little tired because it was sleeping inside of it’s Pokeball. But at the same time, Pikachu was happy to be outside of it’s Pokeball. It had been a white.

Pikachu Belle gets one look at Nathan’s Pikachu and quickly falls in love. She found the masculine Pikachu to be very dashing. Belle blushes and hides her head in her shirt. She was both shy and excited to see him. “Pikachu, pika, pika.” She greeted him as she walked up closer towards him.

However, Pikachu Rock Star wasn’t a fan of this and got jealous. Little bits of static came out of Pikachu’s red cheeks as Rock Star glared at the two Pikachu, who looked like that the two of them were getting closer towards each other. “Pika, pika, pika.” Pikachu stormed off towards them.

Nathan’s Pikachu blushed. Pikachu was a little uneasy with Belle being all up in his personal space. He slowly tried to back away but Pikachu Belle wouldn’t take no for an answer and she rubbed her head up against Nathan’s Pikachu. “Pikachu?” Nathan’s Pikachu asked, wondering what she wanted.

“Pika, pika.” Pikachu Belle didn’t beat around the bush and explained to Nathan’s Pikachu that she wanted to marry him. She got down on one knee and grabbed him the hand. She blushed hard, with her face turning cherry red as Nathan’s Pikachu sweatdropped.

“Pikachu, chu, chu, chu.” Pikachu rejected her offer. He just wasn’t ready to get married and slapped her hand away. He slowly backs away and hides behind Nathan’s leg.

Pikachu Belle started crying. But she wasn’t going to give up. She runs up towards Nathan’s Pikachu, grabs him by the arm and starts trying to kiss him, but he tries his hardest to reject him. “Pika, pika.” She begged him to marry him.

The humans didn’t have any idea on what was going on. But that didn’t stop them from wondering what was, especially Eli. “What do you think they're saying?” Eli asked as she stood there with her arms folded. Even though they couldn’t understand what they were saying, they still couldn’t understand what was going on because of their body language.

“I have no idea….it’s Pokelangish…” Nathan commented.

Rock Star had enough and grudging splits the two up. He glared at both of them, while aggressively grabbing Belle Pikachu. In Rock Star’s mind, he and Belle were together. Well, they did use to date each other but Belle broke up with him because of his aggressive attitude.

“Pika, Pika!” Belle told Rock Star that she wasn’t interested in him and that she was now in love with Nathan’s Pikachu. Belle walks up to Nathan’s Pikachu and rubs her head up against his body, which Nathan’s Pikachu didn’t like one bit. He started to not only blush but sweatdrop too.

Rock Star Pikachu grinned and started to pull on Nathan’s Pikachu. The jealousy that Rock Star had for Nathan’s Pikachu was at an all-time high, and he wasn’t about to let Nathan’s Pikachu get with the girl of his dream. “Pika!” He threatened Nathan’s Pikachu to stay away from his girl.

Nathan’s Pikachu explains that he wasn’t interested in the girl. But Belle slapped Nathan’s Pikachu away and got up in her ex-boyfriend’s face telling him to leave her alone. The two Pikachu growl at each other. “Pika!” They both said.

Both Pikachu shock each other, but that came at the price of creating a huge explosion. “Pikachu!” They said in pain as everyone along with the humans where shocked. The dust cloud dissolves and the Cosplay Pikachu along with Nathan’s Pikachu begin flying in the air.

“Pikachu!” All six of the Pikachu asked for help from their trainers as they break the ceiling and creating a huge hole. The Pikachu blast off and their trainers became worried for the Pokemon as they looked up in the air.

“Oh no, they disappeared!” Eli pointed out in shock, she even used her index finger to point at the hole.

Nathan turned around and looked at Ikue. “Where do you think they went?” He asked.

Ikue said. She had a worried look at her face, but on the inside, she was mostly concerned. Those Pikachu where the bread and butter of her life, and without them, she didn’t know how to live. She and those Pikachu had been through thick and thin, and she wasn’t the only one who felt that way. As Nathan felt the same for his own Pikachu too. “I have no idea but we have to find them.”

“Right.” The others followed and they rushed off to go and try and find the Pikachu’s.

Somewhere in the center of Lumiose City, the horde of Pikachu’s landed on the ground, face flat. They were lucky they landed somewhere safe in the city which was considered the biggest in the Pokemon world. The clouds were starting to come in, as it was getting ready to rain. None of the Pikachu had sustained any major injuries, which was a sigh of relief.

Nathan’s Pikachu woke up from a massive headache. No, the headache wasn’t from the fall, but instead, it was from Rock Star and Belle Pikachu. Who Nathan’s Pikachu found super annoying. Nathan’s Pikachu realized that they had got separated from their trainers as ran began to fall. “Pikachu, pika, pika.” Nathan’s Pikachu explained to the Cosplay Pikachu’s that they were lost.

The Cosplay Pikachu’s slowly began to wake up. Each one of them headaches and started to rub their heads. After a while, they all looking around and noticed that they weren’t in the studio and Ikue was nowhere to be found. “Pika, pika?” The Pikachu all wanted to ask where they were at.

“Pika, pika, pika, pika!” Nathan’s Pikachu explained that they most likely got separated from their trainers.

Rock Star Pikachu refused to believe that. He thought that Nathan’s Pikachu might’ve had something to do with it and he glared at Nathan’s Pikachu in anger. “Pika, Pikachu?” He asked, wondering if he was lying. “Pika, pika, pika, pika, chu, chu, chu.” Rock Star ranted letting him know that he didn’t believe a thing he said.

Nathan’s Pikachu rolled his eyes and told Rock Star that he was being ridiculous. “Pika.” Nathan’s Pikachu diverted his attention from Rock Star to something more serious and that was trying to find out where their trainers were at. “Pika, pika!” He shouted, letting them know that they had to hurry up.

“Pika, pika, pika, Pikachu!” Pikachu Ph. D was a little nervous being without her trainer. She hid behind Pikachu Libre, and Pikachu Libre comforted her and tried calming her down. But Pikachu Ph. D wouldn’t stop crying.

Belle liked the way how Nathan’s Pikachu took charge and nuzzled up against him once more, which made Nathan’s Pikachu highly uneasy again. “Pikachu, Pikachu, Pika, pika.” Pikachu Belle told Nathan’s Pikachu about how much she loved him. “Chu, chu, Pika, pika.” She continued on and on about it.

Nathan’s Pikachu slowly backs away. “Pika, pika!” He turns around and begins thinking of a way so that they can try and find their trainers. “Pika, pika!” He snapped his hands. He thought of the perfect idea in order to find them.

“Pika, pika!” He explained, letting them know that the best way to find them was to try and tract there sent.

All the Pikachu thought that it was a very good idea and even smiled in the process. But Rock Star Pikachu was a little bit skeptical. But that was mostly because he was jealous of Belle and Nathan’s Pikachu forming a close relationship. “Pika, chu, chu, chu.” He explained to him that the idea he had sounded stupid.

“Pikachu.” Nathan’s Pikachu puts his hands on his hip and stuck his head out. He was proud of his prediction and knew that he was going to find a way for them to get back to their trainers.  The four Pikachu start moving and began their voyage down the streets of the big city.

Utah was walking down the streets of the city, after leaving the airport. He turns his head to the right and sees the six Pikachu running. That made Utah very happy and gave him an idea of what he wanted to do. “I’m going to get me some Pikachu’s!” Utah had a new goal and began thinking up new ideas to try and catch them.

-Begin Who’s That Pokemon Segment?-

A pink background appeared with a silhouette of a Pokemon appearing on the side. Below it, it said the words “Pokemon Academy XY: Preparations – Adventures in Kalos”. The Pokemon was very tall and it looked like it had three heads. Behind the silhouette of the Pokemon was a blue background, as it was up to the readers to guess who the Pokemon was. “Who’s that Pokemon?” Utah, Nathan, Eli, Zemrick, and Ikue said together.

Pokedex Hint: It has been said that Alola is the best environment for this Pokémon. Local people tend to take pride in its appearance, saying this is how Exeggutor ought to look.

The screen goes to black.

The screen returns and everything about the layout were the same. “It’s Exeggutor (Alola Form)” Utah, Nathan, Eli, Zemrick and Ikue said together. The black silhouette returns to Alola Exeggutor. “Exeggutor, tor.” The Pokemon said with a deep voice, as the screen disappears which means that it was time to get back to the chapter.

-End Who’s That Pokemon Segment?-

Ikue, Nathan, Zemrick, and Eli walked down the sidewalks of Autumnal Avenue. Autumnal Avenue was home to some famous shops as the Poké Ball Boutique where trainers can by Pokeballs and Juice Shoppe, where people can buy all types of juice mixes. Passing by them where cars riding down the street and humans along with their Pokeballs walking on the side of them.

The group had been searching for the lost Pikachu’s for three hours now, and they weren’t ready to give up. Well maybe except for Nathan who was getting a little. “Ugh, where are they? Why can’t they just pop up? I’m ready to go home and I’m getting hungry.” He said holding onto his stomach that was rumbling.

“Ugh…how despicable! Zemrick’s Pokemon is missing and all you care about is your stomach. Such a little kid!” Eli shrugged her shoulders.

“We're both the same age! That makes no sense!” Nathan nagged, become frustrated.

Zemrick turns to Ikue, wondering if she had an idea on where the Pokemon had gone. Zemrick didn’t have any ideas on where the Pokemon could be, but he hoped that she at least did. “Where do you think they went?”

Ikue was busy trying to smell the scent of the Pikachu. Not only did Ikue love Pikachu, but she also thought of herself as a Pikachu. After a few seconds, she thought that she had gotten a good whiff, and thought that she found them. “I don’t know, but I think I found them!”

“Huh?” The others asked confused.

“Wait you found them?” Nathan asked. Nathan missed his Pikachu and wanted to see him again.

“Yeah. Follow me!” She responded. She turned around and started running towards the scent that she smelt. She hoped that the scent would leave them to the right place, and they all began running.

The group of Pikachu was still walking on the same street in the same avenue of the Lumiose City, trying to find their trainers. But they were getting a little distracted as Pikachu Belle kept looking through the windows, wanting to shop. “Pikachu, pika!” Pikachu Belle sees a bunch of nice dresses in the window. She thinks about her and Nathan’s Pikachu getting married and her wearing a dress and Nathan’s Pikachu wearing a tuxedo. She noticed that she was getting left behind as she turned to the right and she followed after them. She wraps her arm around Nathan’s Pikachu, and she blushed.

Nathan’s Pikachu didn’t like that and he sweatdropped. “Pika, pika.”

Rock Star Pikachu growled at them as he had enough of this. Rock Star Pikachu wanted his girl and he was going to get her no matter what. “Pikachu, chu!” He shouted, letting Nathan’s Pikachu know that he was going to act. Rock Star Pikachu balled his fist up.

Nathan’s Pikachu got nervous. “Chu, chu, chu.” Nathan’s Pikachu explained to Rock Star that he didn’t like her one bit. “Pikachu, Pikachu.” He continued on to explain how he thought she was annoying. Nathan’s Pikachu’s speech wasn’t working as Rock Star balled up his fist, getting ready to punch him.

But before he could do anything, Utah walks up to the Pikachu with a smile on his face. “Why hello there little Pikachu’s!” He said. He sounded very warm, calm and nice. The Pikachu’s turned around to look at the man. Nathan’s Pikachu thought he looked familiar but he couldn’t put his finger on it.

“Pikachu?” He asked, wondering where had seen him before.

Pikachu Libre didn’t touch the man one bit. “Pika, pika?” Libre asked, wondering what he wanted.

Utah smiled. “I want to help you guys, it seems obvious that all of you are lost,” Utah said. “Do you guys have trainers? Maybe I can help you find them!” Utah tried to get their trust, as he clearly had something sinister up his sleeve.

The Pikachu all looked at each other, wondering if it was a good idea if they can trust him. “Pikachu, pika, pika?” Nathan’s Pikachu asked wondering if it would be a good idea.

“Pika.” Belle thought that following him would be good, as that way not only could they see their 0trainer, but the Utah guy seemed like a nice guy to her.

Rock Star agreed with her. “Pika!”

The shy and nervous, Pikachu Ph. D agreed. She mostly just agreed because she missed her trainer a lot. “Pika, pika, pika.”

Pikachu Libre was still suspicion and kept his thought to himself mostly. “Pika, pika.” He started to say, letting them know that they should follow him, but be extremely careful.

It was all settled, they were going to follow Utah. “Pika, pika, pika!” They all said.

Utah smiled. “Follow me little Pikachu…” Utah said as he led the Pikachu. Utah was walking and the Pikachu were following behind him. However, there was something Pikachu Libre felt about Utah that he knew didn’t seem right. Utah walked over towards some cages. “Now, now, Pikachu all get in the cage,” Utah ordered. All six of the Pikachu go into the six different cages. The six Pikachu where all confused.

Utah reaches into his pocket. “Now just stay in there and I’ll go find you’re Pokemon…” Utah pulls out a tiny device with a big red button and he slams his index finger on the button. The cages close and the Pikachu were surprised by that. Utah reaches and grabs his Holo Caster. He dials his boss number, as he wanted to explain to her about his recent success.

After a while, she arrives appears on the phone, and she wasn’t happy to see Utah. “I see you’re back to your human form and no longer being a rude little brat!” She shouted at her boss. Her Purugly was resting on her shoulder, snoring heavily but since she had good scent, and hearing. She knew all.

“I’m so sorry Miss Vanjie for everything that I did!” Utah apologized. He turned the Holo Caster around and in front of the Pikachu. “But to make it up to you, Miss Vanjie, I have five very rare Pikachu that when they wear a costume, they can use very rare moves that Pikachu can’t normally wear.” He went to explain.

Miss Vanjie thought for a second and began thinking about rather or not if she should have these Pikachu’s in her collection. “The fact that they can learn new moves, is a good thing!” She finally made her mind up. “You know what, I want those Pikachu or else I’m going to snatch your a wig!” She shouted.

“Yes, Miss Vanjie.” He nodded. He hangs up the communication, puts the Holo Caster back into his pocket and looks at the Pikachu.

“Pikachu!” The scared Pikachu, Ph. D shivered, crying out for help.

“Pika, pika!” Nathan’s Pikachu grabbed the bars of the cage as Utah turns around with a dark and sister look on his face. Nathan’s Pikachu was really angry. Pikachu clenched onto the bars and electricity started to form from Pikachu’s cheeks. Nathan’s Pikachu releases a jolt of electricity to try and break the cage, but he couldn’t do anything.

“Electric-type proof cages. It’s the latest in Plot Device Villain Technology.” Utah laughs. Utah turns around as he heard some footsteps coming. He had a feeling that the footsteps were from someone important and he couldn’t wait to see them.

The sun was beginning to set, and the traffic of the city was starting to dwindle down. “I sense them!” An edger Ikue said. She missed her poor little Pikachu’s and wanted to see them now. She was fast, faster than Nathan, Eli, and Zemrick who was trying there hardest to catch up. Ikue’s sense gets closer and she felt the need to turn a corner behind an alley. “There you are!” She said as Utah turns around with an even more meaning look on his face.

Utah folds his arms. "I think I’ve been shocked? But does it look like I’m The Rock." Utah began saying his motto, which was something that he really liked saying. He didn’t care about the fact that he had already said it, he just wanted to say it. Utah turns to the right, trying to maintain a more serious pose, as he knew that no one took him seriously, so he wanted to prove them wrong. "I may have caught all the Pikachu’s, but does it look like I’m going to tickle you!”

Utah wasn’t done with saying a new version of his motto as he put his right fist on top of a crate and balls his fist up. "Pokemon Hunter Utah is the name so don't wear it out! If you try to do something, you’re going to be in an electricity drought!”  He threatened by using his motto. Grabbing these Pikachu and impressing his boss was his number one mission and he was going to do that no matter what.

Utah stood there not paying attention and out of nowhere, a white flash appears from out Utah's Pokeball and the normal type Pokemon Smeargle comes out. "Smeargle, smerg." Smeargle tried to mimic the same pose that Utah was making, as he really loved his trainer.

Utah was finished saying his motto, but not everyone was impressed with it. “Was that really necessary?” Nathan asked.

“Yes, it was! All the plot device villains in our world have a motto!” Utah felt insulted by her comment. He got so angry that he decided to grab two of his best Pokémon’s Pokeballs so he can battle her. “Now, let’s stop talking and let’s getting to battle!” He said.

“Who is he?” Ikue asked, having no clue what was going on.

Eli rolls his eye. “It’s Utah! He’s an annoying pest who has been following us since we were in Unova!” The girl explained to him. “He’s a low-class Pokemon Hunter who has nothing better else going on but stalking children.”

“Low-class Pokemon Hunter! You’ll regret that!” After Utah said that his two Pokeballs open up and the water type Pokemon Quagsire and the grass type Pokemon, Snivy come out of their Pokeballs.

“Quagsire, sire, sire.” Quagsire had a derpy look on his usually blank face. Quagsire didn’t know if it was happy to be out or if it still wanted to be. “Sire, sire.”

“Servine.” The serious and sassy Servine was ready to battle.

“Alright, battle time! I haven’t done this in a while!” Eli said. She grabbed Emerald’s Pokeball as Zemrick did the same thing by grabbing Solsis’ Pokeball. They both wanted to have a battle against Utah and his Pokemon.

But Nathan and Ikue stepped in front of them with Pokeballs in their hands. “No need. These are out Pikachu’s and we should be the ones to protect them!” Nathan said as Ikue was thinking the exact same thing that he was. Ikue was a lot more unique as the Pokeball that she had in her hand was a Cherish Ball.

“Bummer, I wanted to battle…” Eli complained.

“Litten, I choose you!”

“Spiky-eared Pichu, I choose you!”

The two trainers tossed there Pokeballs and they both opened up. While Nathan’s Pokeball released a generic white light, Ikue’s was more special in that her ball released a bright red light. Nathan’s Litten and Ikue’s Spiky-Eared Pichu where released. “Pichu, Pichu!” Pichu said.

Everyone looked at the strange Pichu with a weird looking ear, as it was something that they hadn’t seen before. “What kind of Pichu is that?” Zemrick asked. He grabbed his notebook and started writing thing down. “Now I gotta write all the information about this Pokemon that I can!” He said. He was writing a lot of information down and didn’t want to miss a thing.

The girl wearing Pikachu merchandise stuck her head out as a way to signal an attack. She was happy that everyone was paying attention to her special Pichu. “You see here, this Pichu here was my starter Pokemon, pika, pika! Now, Pichu use Thunderbolt!” She ordered.

“Pichu, chu!” Pichu releases a bolt of electricity, that goes over towards Servine.

“Litten use Ember!” Nathan ordered.

“Litten!” Litten spits out tiny fireballs. The fireballs and the electricity circle each other and combine with one another, turning the electricity red. Servine and Quagsire look at the incoming attack as they were ready to battle, meanwhile, Litten and Pichu where hoping that the attacks would land so the battle would be over with.

Servine and Quagsire doge the attack. Litten and Pichu’s attack end up shocking the ground and disappears. Servine and Quagsire had sinister looks on their faces as the two of them were ready to attack. “Quagsire!”

“Servine!”

Utah balls up his fist. “Servine use Toxic and Quagsire use Whirlpool!” He ordered. He was determined that he was going to win this battle since he felt like he knew attacks that would give him the upper hand.

“Quagsire!” Quagsire raises both of its arms up in the air and a wall of water starts to form. The water turns into a vortex above its head, as he spins around in a circle. Quagsire throws the vortex of water at Litten and traps the Pokemon in a circle, that it couldn’t get out of.

“Litten!” Litten screams as it was getting soaking wet and couldn’t breathe in the spinning vortex.

“Litten!” Nathan cried out.

“Servine!” Servine spits out a gooey stream of thick purple liquid from its mouth and shoots it at Pichu. Pichu gets hit by the liquid, and a purple static surrounds the Pokemon, as it was now badly poisoned.

Utah starts laughing as he had both trainers cornered. “Well, well, well. Looks like you’re trapped, so that’s the end of that.” He clapped his hand and started to laugh like a Saturday mourning cartoon villain. To make matters worse he sticks out his tongue and points his index finger at them.

With them being trapped, it didn’t leave the duo with many options. So, there was only one thing that they could do, even though it was something that they didn’t want to do. “Return!” Both Pichu and Litten are returned back into their Pokeballs as Utah’s attacks dissolve.

Ikue looked up and she balled her fists up. She and her Pikachu had been through a lot. She wasn’t going to let this be the end of her and her Pikachu’s time together, so she was going to do something about it as she got teary eye. “I’m not going to sit here and let you take my Pikachu’s, Pika, Pika! Pikachu’s please, hear me out. I know that you all can try you’re best to get out of those cages.”

The five Pikachu’s nod their heads as they heard the cries of their trainers. Pikachu Belle takes in a deep breath. She releases a very strong wind. The wind turns into clumps of ice that grow humongous while forming into large sharp icicles. The icicles hit the metal bars and break it. Pikachu Belle escapes. “Pikachu, chu, chu!”

Rock Star’s hand glows yellow as a weird star shape surrounds it. Rockstar thrusts its arm while looking like a meteor crashing down on earth. Rock Star punches the bar, breaking it as its hands dissolve and she escapes. “Pika!” As he did that Pikachu Belle noticed how hot Pikachu Rock Star was and she fell in love with him.

“Pikachu, chu.” Pikachu Pop Star plants a lovely kiss on the bar. The kiss from the bar was super strong, enough to break the bars in half and causing them to fall apart. “Pikachu, chu.” She climbs out of the cage.

“Chu, chu, chu, chu!” Libre said. Libre Pikachu jumps into the air. The lines of Pikachu’s body turn white as Pikachu slams into the metal bars and breaking them. They turn into tiny little pieces. Libre Pikachu knew that it had to save both Nathan’s Pikachu and Pikachu, Ph. D so it did the same thing twice, breaking both of their cages.

All the Pikachu’s where now free and they all lined up together with not so friendly looks on their faces, ready to take Utah on. But before they could do that, Pikachu, Ph. D broke out of her shyness after being silent for too long and she lets out multiple bolts from her body that were made out of electricity and it surrounds the whole entire area. The reason she did that was so that she can power up their electric type moves.

Ikue and Nathan give each other a high five as they were ready to have there Pokemon finish up their attacks. “Now, use Thunderbolt!” They both said. The six Pikachu’s jump into the air, while holding their hands. They use all the electric powers in their body and release a large bolt of electricity.

Utah and his Pokemon hug each other as they became scared. The electricity hits Utah and it creates a huge dust cloud. The electricity disappears along with the dust cloud, but Utah nor his Pokemon where nowhere to be seen. “Missed me!” Utah said as his shoes that served as rocket boots were flying in the air. “Next time you won’t be so lucky!” Utah jets off, as he had returned his Pokemon back into their balls before getting hit.

“He got away!” Nathan said in anger.

“It doesn’t matter, pika, pika.” Ikue walks up to her five Pikachu and they all tackle her. “Because I got my Pikachu back.”

“Pika, pika!” The five Pikachu nuzzle her and she begins to laugh.

Pikachu jumps into Nathan’s arm as Nathan was happy to see his Pikachu. “I’m glad you’re back Pikachu! I never want anything bad to happen to you again.” He said.

“Pikachu, pika!” Pikachu was glad to reunite with his trainer. However, he looked over at Pikachu Belle and noticed how attractive she was, something that he hadn’t noticed earlier. Nathan’s Pikachu had gained a crush on her and wanted to go and ask her out because he knew that she liked him.

Nathan’s Pikachu climbs off of Nathan and walks over towards Belle Pikachu. “Pikachu, chu, chu.” He said confessing his feelings for the girl and letting her know that he had seen the errors of his way.

Pikachu Belle wasn’t impressed. “Belle.” She kindly rejected him and ran off, finding him to be so yesterday, as she had found someone else that she was in love with.

Nathan’s Pikachu felt heartbroken and he turned completely white. He started to cry, as he had never felt the pain of rejection before. “Pikachu, pika.”

Pikachu Belle grabs Rock Star Pikachu by the arm and the two rest their heads against one another, forming a brand new couple. Rock Star was happy that the girl of his dreams had come back to him, and Pikachu Belle was happy to be in a new relationship. “Pikachu, Pika!”