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**The Princess and the Kanto Warrior** (美と戦士, *Beauty and the Warrior*?) is episode 4 of season 1 and the 4th episode of the *Guardians of Harmony* series overall.

## Summary

*Princess Emilia is from Waterfall City, taken over by the evil Skull and his soldiers. She meets the Guardians of Harmony, along with a boy named Liam Brennan. When what appears to be a forest fire occurs, Liam realizes that he should never argue with a Pokémon, especially with a Fire-type!*

## Plot

The episode starts with the Unicorn from the previous episode reading the last few pages of the "Legends of the Beginning" book. She, after finishing reading, becomes shocked at the revelation, and she, Twilight Twinkle, looks at the sky. She now knows that there may be a Multiverse out there, and decides to trot around.

In Waterfall City, meanwhile, an orange-haired girl with a ponytail and green eyes being told by her mother to immediately leave the city and live a normal life as Pokémon Trainer. She protests, but they say it's to protect her from Skull that has taken over the city and it's for her own good. Her mother then forcibly sends her and her Eevee Scarlet to a waiting Rapidash-drawn carriage, and the coachman drives out as the queen watches sadly, silently heartbroken at her decision to send her daughter away.

Princess Emilia and Scarlet sadly get out of the carriage, distraught. The former doesn't know where to stay or what to do since she has been sent away from her home and wanders around aimlessly. They both then meet Flutter-chan the Butterfree in the forest when she was injured and tried to help her. When they manage to heal her, Flutter-chan wanted come along with the Princess cause she likes Emilia and she accepted it. Meanwhile, Victoria, Arcturus, Kiara, Ellis, and Joy are wondering about the location of the next Chosen One and ask Kyubey. Kyubey says there are two she senses at the moment, and one is near Waterfall City. Victoria decides to head there and the whole group teleports to the first location.

After teleporting, the group sees the redhead girl with green eyes being attacked by a Nidoking, and Victoria furiously uses Daisy Punch to save them. After realizing she's Princess Emilia of Waterfall City, Joy (oblivious to her situation) immediately runs up to her and starts asking numerous questions and demands her autograph. Shake slaps her and tells her that the princess is clearly not in the mood for that. Victoria asks why she isn't in her kingdom, but Emilia tearfully says her mother sent her and Scarlet away because of Skull taking it over. She says she has no idea where to stay at all. Arcturus tells her that since she's a Pokémon Trainer, she could travel with them for the time being.

Meanwhile, Liam is exploring a forest with a Charmander. He knows he's a Kanto Warrior, but is unaware that he'll become a Guardian. However, Mirage creates an elaborate illusion from afar of the whole forest suddenly catching on fire and starting to burn down, complete with realistic crackling sounds, the smell of smoke, and Pokémon running for their lives. Liam is shocked and immediately blames Chaz and accuses him of brushing his tail in the wrong place, but Chaz swears he never did anything. Liam refuses to believe him when she's the only Fire-type in the forest and the two start to argue in the middle of the illusory "fire." Mirage smirks to herself and is glad the two of them are arguing in what they believe is a real life-or-death situation, unaware the forest isn't actually on fire at all. The Guardians and Emilia suddenly see the illusory smoke and flames coming from a forest nearby and rush over. While Liam and Chaz argue in the midst of the "fire", Mirage uses the opportunity to create a huge amount of Windigos and appears before the heroes. The Guardians transform, but Arcturus recklessly runs into the "fire" (knowing he's invulnerable but not knowing it's an illusion, and much to Victoria's horrror) to go save anycreature trapped inside. When he touches the flames, however, the entire illusion dissipates, revealing the fire to be an illusion.

Liam and Chaz get out of the forest and realize their arguing was pointless, and the Guardians express relief but say their arguing fueled the Windigos. Mirage boasts about how she tricked them with her extremely elaborate illusion powers, leaving Liam furious that he was fooled and tricked into arguing for no reason while Emilia says that's wrong (only for Mirage to tell her to stop spouting nonsense and call her a "kicked out princess," much to her anger). Kyubey shouts that they need to make a contract, and after much condseriation, Emilia and Liam agree. At that moment, their Power Necklaces grant them their Harmony Gems, one for each, allowing the duo to transform. Curious, Liam tests his new powers and ends up shooting an arrow made of light and flames (much to everyone's shock). Emilia tests out her new powers, and instead of some cute Eevee-like powers she expected to get due to her costume design, she summons several vicious giant man-eating plants that end up eating several of the Windigos. Mirage uses her staff and shoots a ray of dark magic, but Liam counters with a glowing arrow while Emilia covers the ground with hungry venus flytraps. She creates more Windigos to swarm them, overhwleming the Guardians, and creates a powerful earthquake with dark magic to startle them, only for the ghostly creatures to punched with Daisy Punch at the last second. Joy distracts them with a scoop of tasty ice cream and then blasts them with a bolt of ice when their guard is down. At that moment, Emilia summons an enormous man-eating plant that nearly devours Mirage, forcing her to flee.

The Guardians return to normal offscreen, and Emilia is starting to legitimately enjoy traveling with the Guardians to take her mind off her home. Liam, on the other hand, says that he realizes that it's pointless to argue over something that you aren't responsible for and both of them then agree to join the Multiversal Guardians as part of the Galaxy Team. As the episode ends, meanwhile, Twinkle finds herself in a different forest from what's she familiar with and suddenly passes out.

## Major Events

* The Unicorn who has been reading the "Legends of the Beginning" book is revealed to be named Twilight Twinkle.
* Princess Emilia and Liam Brennan make the contract, transform for the first time, and join the Galaxy Team.
* Twinkle blacks out after getting into a mysterious accident that traps her in the Pokémon world.

## Characters

### Guardians of Harmony

* Victoria Daisy
* Arcturus Porter I
* Kiara Takanashi
* Princess Ellis
* Joy Cherrysnow
* Princess Emilia
* Liam Brennan
* Twilight Twinkle

### Pokémon

* Rowlet (Victoria's; Quilina)
* Cyndaquil (Kiara's; Cindy)
* Oshawott (Arcturus's; Samu)
* Gardevoir (Ellis's; Radiance)
* Eevee (Ellis's; Sunshine)
* Ninja Dragonet (Joy's; Jenna)
* Miltank (Joy's; Shake)
* Eevee (Emilia's; Scarlet)
* Butterfree (Emilia's; Flutter-chan; new)
* Charmander (Liam's; Chaz)

### Secondary Characters

* Kamado
* Cyllene
* Professor Laventon

## Trivia

* The **Harmony Color** is not announced at all in this episode.
* This is the first time in the franchise that a life lesson is given out. In this case, Liam learns to "never argue about something you're not responsible for."
* Princess Emilia's power in this episode is a Plant/Darkness Elemental with the power to summon man-eating plants. One of the made-up fans, as such, ended up calling her "Emilia the Dangerous," much to the admins' annoyance.
* The Japanese dub title is a reference to the popular French fairy-tale *Beauty and the Beast*, while the English one is a reference to *The Princess and the Pea*.
* This is the first time a spell is used when a Guardian is not transformed.
* The 4th wall is broken for the third time in a row. In this case, Kyubey flat-out says that she doesn't make witches, causing Joy to say "You're unlike Puella Ma-" only to be slapped by Victoria.

### Errors

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## Videos

【Debut PV】Council ｜-holoCouncilThe original version of the council introduction