Bianca's Chronicles

**Bianca's Chronicles** (ベルの悪い日！ウィッチアウト？！, *Bel's Bad Day! Witching Out?!*?) is the 54th episode of the 8th season of *Guardians of Harmony* and the (TBA) episode of the series overall.

## Summary

*After the incident at Nimbasa, our friends can finally get their well-needed break...and Bianca is asked out on a date by Cheren! During their time together, however, a jealous Neveah ruins it and poor Bianca gets seriously injured. Not only that, but her father notices what's going on and decides to forbid her from being a Trainer and a Guardian...and because he and Neveah are to blame, Bianca runs away and witches out! What's Cheren to do if he can't even gather the courage to fight?*

## Plot

While the other Guardians and their Pokémon are at the Pokémon Center relaxing after the fight with Dr. Zager in the previous two episodes, Bianca and Cheren are on a park bench getting to know each other better. After some hesitation, Cheren asks her if they can go on a "test run" date as friends, which she accepts. A little later, the two (who left their Pokémon with the others so they don't interfere) are looking at the map on their Rotom Phones, looking for a cafe for their "test run" unofficial date. They soon find one named "Josephina's Eats" and decide to go to that one. Cheren is a bit flustered as they walk in the door together, though he decides to wait to confess his feelings.

Meanwhile, the other Guardians and Pokémon in the Pokémon Center, express curiosity at Bianca and Cheren's outing. Nanette says she is happy for the two, and manages to bribe Julia into not interfering with or spying on the date by promising to buy her a strawberry ice cream cone if she manages not to. Suddenly, Nora appears with her robot and Ryan walks into the Pokémon Center, asking for help with her robot (NoraBot). Since there may not be a mechanic who can fix and upgrade it, Baelz decides to accept Nora's help. On the other hand, despite pretending to be calm, Nevaeh is fuming inside at Bianca stealing "her Cherry-chan" and decides to ruin the date by causing a scene. She eventually snaps and shouts at the others about how she wants to date Cheren and that she is going to ruin their date no matter what. Hilbert attempts to calm her down, and Nate adds that there are plenty of Magikarp in the sea. However, she refuses to listen, and when her Power Necklace and Harmony Gem don't react as usual, she instead closes her eyes, focuses, clenches her fists, and starts straining. Most of the Guardians don't understand what she is doing, and Nanette assumes she is in pain, thinking she has a serious stomachache and she rushes to get help.

Meanwhile, Bianca and Cheren are chatting and having a meal as the paparazzi watches from outside the window, snapping photos of the "cute couple." Cheren snarks that their date is going to be splashed all over the headlines, but Bianca says she is slightly annoyed but that is the price of being a famous superhero. Just as Cheren agrees and is about to take another bite of his food, a giant red heart projectile smashes into the restaurant wall and blows a huge hole through it, scaring the diners, including Bianca and Cheren. At that moment, an angry and jealous Nevaeh flies in, picks up Bianca and Cheren's table, flips it over, and throws their food on them while making a huge mess, to the customers' horror. She then points her bow and arrow right at Bianca, knocking her out cold with an arrow. Cheren immediately loses it, but his attention quickly turns to Bianca, and he calls the paramedics.

Back to the heroes, Cheren and a group of paramedics exit an ambulance and rush into the Pokémon Center, with the latter carrying an unconscious and badly injured Bianca on a stretcher. After she is handed to Nurse Joy and brought into the ER, the other Guardians ask why she is injured. Neveah (back in her civilian form) then walks in and states that she ruined the date and attacked Bianca on purpose so she can be Cheren's girlfriend instead, even running over and hugging him despite him being visibly uncomfortable (even calling him "Sweet Oshawott" to mock his nickname for her love rival). Cheren expresses anger at this, saying that isn't a way to get somebody to date you and that he'll never date a love-crazy 18 year-old woman who destroys dates to get what she wants, and that his true love is Bianca. After what Nevaeh says, all her friends walk out of the Pokémon Center in fury for hurting their friend on purpose, leaving her alone, and even Scarlet is upset and walks out with them.

Back with Baelz, Nene asks that there's any problem with her robot that needs to be fixed. Baelz find that there *is* damage. The robot says its battery is at 65%, so Ryan tells them to enter energy-saving mode, letting Baelz fix everything. While she is looking for damages at the back, they suddenly see all the angry Guardians and Pokémon walking out of the Pokémon Center, and Baelz immediately goes into silly mode and starts bombarding them with questions, causing Nora to get angry and pressing her Berserk Button as a result. Before she can go out-of-control, Ryan stops her and tells her to let Baelz continue to fix and upgrade her robot.

After Bianca is released from the hospital early thanks to Nurse Joy's healing spell, she heads home and greets her father. However, he is not happy, and says that since he loves her and does not want her to get injured again, he is forbidding her from being a Guardian or a Trainer ever again, or hanging out with any of her friends or Pokémon since they have powers that could injure her. Bianca protests that she helps protect the Multiverse from evil and was chosen to do so by the Magic of Friendship, but her father then blames Kyubey for making contracts with children under 18 and seeking them out to fight "like child soldiers." When Bianca tries to protest again, her father cuts her off, yells at her that she is not going to endanger herself fighting monsters again, and orders her to go to her room. Bianca cries, but complies, and stomps off to her room, and her father then uses a spell to padlock her doors and windows shut. In her room, she sobs and mutters to herself that she loves her father but can't stand how he's treating her like a helpless baby and trying to take her away from her friends despite his intentions being pure. She transforms, uses her enhanced strength to kick the door open, and runs out of her room while screaming her dissatisfaction with his unreasonable rules, finishing it with "I HATE YOU, DADDY! I HATE YOU!" Finally, she runs away from home. Aurea notices what just happened, and decides to talk with Bianca's father about it, having had enough. Meanwhile, NoraBot is finally upgraded and Nora thanks Baelz for her help, with Fauna learning that she can fix everything. Suddenly, Baelz detects something and gets a headache. Nora said what's wrong, only to learn that there's a witch barrier nearby.

Back with the others, Nanette is upset that Neveah hurt Bianca. After breaking the 4th wall, Glorysia notices that Hilda and Nate are fighting again, and quickly stops them. Suddenly, Cana (Bianca's Servine) rushes to Nanette and cries out that something bad happened to her Trainer. At that moment, the Dimensional Scream occurs. It is revealed that Bianca managed to run all the way to Pinwheel Forest, where she sits on a tree and detransforms, holding her tainted Harmony Gem. As she continues seething inside and cries, it fills up more and combines with her Power Necklace, explodes into a Grief Seed, and turns her into a witch. After the Scream ends, the Guardians are horrified, and Nevaeh instantly is remorseful and realizes what she has done. She tries to apologize, and while Elizabeth forgives her, Cheren cuts the latter off and says that "sorry" doesn't cut it. He says that she will *really* need to make up for all of this. As if on cue, Balez, Nora, Ryan, Fauna, Sana, Kronii and Mumei rush out of the Pokémon Center and realize that Cana is actually right. Out of respect, however, Balez and Cana choose not to fight each other, especially since it'll only make things worse.

The Guardians see a portal nearby, and realize that is a witch barrier. While the other Guardians quickly transform and go in, Cheren is too traumatized to go in and refuses, not wanting to see what horrifying appearance and personality his crush may now have. While Nevaeh wants to go in and help purify the witch to make up for her mistake, the two girls remember they can't just transform and that is essentially the same as a normal civilian wandering into a witch barrier. Aurea then encourages Cheren to go in, though he freezes up and says that he can't do it and is too afraid. While Cheren stands outside too afraid to go in and the two messiahs sit nearby having a talk while having some snacks, inside the barrier, the other Guardians confront the witch, who introduces herself as Duchess Pilut. However, she refuses to talk any further and flies away further into the barrier. When Hilda tries to talk to her, she binds her with vines that come out of the barrier's floor and starts strangling her before flying away. The Burst Guardians then arrive, furious at Hilda being strangled, and Elis then reports that Cheren has refused to transform and come help fight. The other Guardians get furious that he isn't doing his duty as a Chosen One, and Jim even suggests forcibly pulling him in, only for Nanette to slap him.

At that moment, Rosa begins to wander off. Hilda gets exteremly pissed, and chases after her, only for the others to shout that they'll *both* put themselves in danger. Finally, she loses control and Rosa gets hypnotized. Hilda faints right on the spot after seeing this, and a pissed Aurea takes her out of the barrier. On the other hand, most of the Guardians are starting to get hypnotized, and Jim tries for as long as he can to protect himself. Eventually, he realizes it's going to be difficult, and he kisses Nanette after saying "stay strong" to her, just before getting hypnotized. Back outside, Cheren starts to wonder if his friends are really doing alright fighting the witch, despite him wanting to believe so. He decides to check it out, and at the two messiahs' suggestion, transforms and goes in. However, he sees everyone except for a few of them hypnotized and attacking their own friends at the witch's command, and is horrified since he had deluded himself into believing everything was completely fine.

Baelz decides that she must handle the witch that she detected, and the Council, Nora, Ryan and NoraBot appears to face the witch. She says that the only way she can help is letting the Keeper of "Nature" face this. However, having no choice, Cheren tells her and everyone else to stand back and leave the fight to *him*. He takes a deep breath, and flies up to the witch, starting by yelling that while this *is* all Nevaeh's fault and her father's fault, she can't just take her anger out on everyone and attack them. She seems to be listening, and he then yells at the witch that he loves her, *but* also does not approve of her behavior at all right now. Duchess Pilut is then left stunned and speechless at the confession, instantly filled with remorse. Suddenly, the witch gets angry, calling the tulips to knock him out.

Mumei is attacked by the hypnotized Guardians while trying to get in here, while Nora is stunned by the Tulips who trying to face them. While hoping at the same time that the confession Cheren made really helped, Nora calls Ryan for the Rocket Punch to destroy it, NoraBot then appears, with the hands turning into cannon blasters and its eyes glowing. Once it reaches its target, the rocket and laser beams attack the Witch, meaning it worked. When Duchess Pilut is angry, she uses her vines to shovel the robot away from Nora and Ryan, unknowingly serving as a distraction for Nanette to find a perfect attack spot. Before she can react, Baelz tries to use Fury Swipes to slices off the vines, and Shadow Claw to slice off the Tulips. She calls the others to stay away (unaware Nanette isn't hearing her), but she is captured by one of the vines and one of the Tulips that are colored purple hypnotizes her, calling to capture the Guardians as her will. Suddenly, a half-damaged NoraBot appears again (due to Baelz secretly inserting a Baelz Detect Disk on NoraBot) and used Rocket Punch again to hit one of the Tulips, causing Balez to turn back to normal. At the same time, Nanette finally finds the attack spot and uses Daisy Punch to destroy it, making all the Guardians removed of their brainwashing. After realizing what she did, Nanette happily hugs and nuzzles Jim, glad her very close friend is alright.

Thanks to Fauna's feelings, Cheren activates Elemaximum and decides to finish the witch off before anyone else can get hurt. Fauna asks if she can help, and after some consideration, he agrees to let her help. The two, together, use a combo attack at Duchess Pilut and purify her. After Bianca returns to normal, the barrier fades and the other Guardians detransform. Surprisingly, Nevaeh even runs over and asks if Bianca is alright, checking for any injuries, and picks her up and carries her to Cheren. Bianca nods and then tells Cheren while blushing that she remembers his confession, and the two even share a kiss and hug as the others watch on. However, Nevaeh decides to keep her feelings to herself, but is secretly happy for them despite still having a crush on Cheren.

Later, Bianca returns home. Her father then immediately runs up and hugs her in relief and says that he has realized just how important the Guardians are to protecting the Multiverse and how important her friends are to her. He admits that he was wrong, and as Bianca cries, she tells him that she loves him and that she is sorry for telling him she hated him. Her father, however, says that *he* was the one in the wrong, and then replies that he loves her as well. As the episode ends, he invites the other Guardians, even Nevaeh (as he was impressed by her asking if Bianca was alright and carrying her, combined with her apology), over for dinner, which they accept.

## Major Events

* Bianca and Cheren have an unofficial date, but it is ruined.
* NoraBot is upgraded and learns a new ability from Ryan.
* Bianca is forbidden by her father from being a Trainer and a Guardian, but she later manages to convince him not to.
* Bianca witches out, but is later purified.
* Cheren confesses his feelings to Bianca, and the two of them have their first kiss.

## Characters

### Guardians of Harmony

* Nanette Daisy
* Marina Daisy
* Julia Dreamwalker
* Jim Porter
* Mikey Evoli
* Glorysia Melody
* Elizabeth Storybook
* Nina Aarden
* Ash Ketchum
* Will Brennan
* Emily
* Melody Harmadale
* Madoka Kamane
* Sayaka Miki
* Mami Tomoe
* Homura Akemi
* Kyoko Sakura
* Nagisa Momoe
* Natasha Flowerton
* Maya Aquaheart
* Hilary Lightfield
* Alison Garfield
* Hilbert Miller
* Hilda Mari
* Nate Miller
* Rosa Mari
* Bianca Tulip (witches out)
* Cheren Harkabune
* Madison Dansa
* Iris Scaleheart
* Neveah Riverton

### Secondary Characters

* Bianca's father
* Nora Leaffield
* NoraBot
* Ryan Snow
* Sana Tsukumo
* Fauna Ceres
* Kronii Ouro
* Mumei Nanashi
* Baelz Hakos
* Adam Shine (flashback)
* Professor Aurea Juniper
* Doctor Fennel Rosetta
* Sonia Magnolia
* Elis Daisy
* Catherine Porter
* Delia Ketchum
* June Porter

## Trivia

* The life lesson learnt in this episode is that children need room to grow on their own and be independent.
* In the made-up early magazine scan, the original Japanese name of this episode was **Bel's Feelings! Cheren's Friendship** (ベルの気持ち！チェレンの友情, ***Bel's Feelings! Cheren's Friendship***?).
* This is the first time that one *Wonderlands x Showtime* member (in this case, Nora) has their berserk button pressed.
* The only ones who dodged the hypnotizing were the Burst Guardians, Melody, Fauna, Nora, Ryan, Hilda, Mikey, Nanette and Marina. The following, however, are considered safe passes:
	+ Cheren (being too traumatized to go to his crush's barrier)
	+ The two messiahs (who don't go into the barrier or participate in the battle)
	+ NoraBot (having learned a new ability known as "Fury Swipes," making it get upgraded)
* This is the second time Rosa's immaturity resulted in *her* falling for a trap, the first being in "Crisis from the Underground Up!" In this case, she gets hypnotized.
* This is the third time Hilda gets so fed with Rosa's immaturity that something goes wrong, the first time in "Childhood Friends Reunited!" and the second being in "A Venipede Stampede!" In this case, however, it actually *helps* Cheren get over his trauma and stand up to the witch.
* Elfreda doesn't appear in this episode, and neither does the villainous quartet.
* This is one of the rare times where Nanette and Jim share a kiss despite being close (platonic) friends. In this case, Jim kisses Nanette after realizing he's going to have a hard time avoiding getting hypnotized.
* While Duchess Pilut *seems* like she is completely calmed down and is going to let herself be purified without a fight, unlike Behaver who was genuinely calmed down, the former sets the audience up and then *subverts it* by suddenly getting angry and trying to knock Cheren out.

### Dub Edits

* In the English dub, Nonomi thinking Nobuko has a serious kidney stone when she attempts to force herself to transform is changed to Nanette thinking Nevaeh is having a terrible stomachache.

### Easter Eggs

* Cheren and Fauna combining their powers for a combo attack in order to purify the witch resembles this part of a *Sailor Moon Supereme* animation.
* The witch purification is different from the usual animation.
* The scene of Bianca turning *into* a witch is very similar to the scene of Sayaka turning into a witch at the end of episode 8 of *Puella Magi Madoka Magica*.

## Gallery

### Fanart

"I HATE YOU DADDY! I HATE YOU!"Jim kisses Nanette (Bianca's Chronicles).png"I don't know if I'll make it... But please... Stay strong." (Note that the scene resembles *platonic* love.)Nuzzling and hugging (Nanette and Jim) (S8).png"You're alright!"Love Confession (Cheren and Bianca).pngCheren confesses to BiancaFirst Kiss (DualRivalShipping).pngNanette: *Good thing Julia isn't able to see it because of her getting scolded...*