Guardians of Harmony: Lucar and the Mystery of Mew

**Guardians of Harmony: Lucar and the Mystery of Mew** (ハーモニーの守護者 ミュウと波導の勇者　ルカリオ, *Harmonī Yuusha de Aru - Mew and the Wave Hero: Lucario*?) is the 3rd movie of Season 6 of *Guardians of Harmony*. It takes place between two undecided episodes.

## Synopsis

*Hundreds of years ago, Camaron Palace and its people were saved by the noble sacrifice of Sir Aaron, a Guardian of Harmony and an Aura Knight. From that day forward the people have always honored his deeds with an annual festival. Of course, Ash isn't really much of a history buff—he's more interested in the Pokémon competition being held! Only when he wins and is asked to don the ceremonial role of Aura Guardian does Aaron's importance become clear—especially when Lucar emerges from Aaron's staff! Aaron isn't a hero to this long-dormant Pokémon—all Lucar remembers is the master that betrayed him!*

*Left out of the battle all those hundreds of years before, Lucar is asked to be a hero again—Mew has shown up and whisked the Guardians' Pokémon, Kyubey, and Meowth away to the Tree of Life, and only Lucar can lead the way! Can Lucar put aside his distrust of humans long enough to reunite the Guardians with thier best friends? And it seems like Melody and Arcturus are about to learn something about Elis and Jim that nobody seems to realize...*

## Plot

Lucar jumps from boulder to boulder to a spot overseeing a wide expansive valley. He senses something and uses his Aura to see the entire landscape. Lucar lets his sight travel about, going over more rocks and hills until he sees a large formation of a gigantic, red-armored Pokémon army, mixed with human foot soldiers, that is charging towards the middle of the valley. He looks to the other side of the valley and sees an equally gigantic, green-armored army, with equally powerful Pokémon of different species charging to the same destination.

As Lucar is comprehending the danger of the event, three Houndoom from the red army arrive at the scene, which Lucar evades and leaps away. He heads to a crystal formation on the ground, touching it and then speaks through the crystal to his master, Sir Aaron, an Aura Guardian and a Guardian of Harmony, who is at Cameran Palace. Aaron stands upon a balcony with Queen Rin that overlooks the entire land, and he hears Lucar's voice coming from another crystal formation on the balcony. It seems the palace is in imminent danger of being overrun; peace cannot be brought to the two warring sides. When Queen Rin asks him why he isn't getting the help of the other Guardians, Aaron says he can handle it himself.

The three Houndoom find Lucar and proceed to attack him. After being cornered, he is left no choice and fights back. Using his Aura to sense his surroundings (due to getting dirt in its eyes), he manages to defeat his pursuers.

Knowing that Aaron must leave, Rin explains she is obliged as queen to share the same fate as the castle. After their last exchange of words, Aaron transforms and hops a ride on his Pidgeot, Geo, to the valley. Aaron tells Lucar that he has abandoned the palace and the Queen and will not be returning. Lucar cannot believe what he is hearing and implores him to wait, but Aaron throws down his scepter, which absorbs Lucar into a jewel at its top; from within the jewel, Lucar can see Aaron going off and feels betrayed by his master.

Rin observes from afar that the Tree of Beginning is suffering from the conflict. The two armies clash in the middle of the valley. Outside of the tree, Geo flies away alone. With this, Ho-Oh returns to the Tree of the Beginning, revealing itself to be Mew.

Geo approaches Rin with the scepter in its beak, which she takes. Suddenly, Rin witnesses the sight of the tree starting to glow green, and soon every crystal formation throughout the land emits a beam of green light. As the light spreads further out, the armies stop their battle, in awe of the event that is taking place.

Hundreds of years later, in a modern-day flashback, Alice reads the story to her daughter Emily. According to legend, Queen Rin believed Aaron to be the hero who had used the power of the Tree of Beginning, where Mew is said to live. The two armies stopped their fighting, their hatred replaced with understanding and returned to their lands and peace was restored. Aaron became known as the True Guardian of Aura, without whom peace would have not been restored. To this day, the legend is commemorated every year in the town of Rota and the same Cameran Palace. When Alice leaves the room, Emily promises to herself (and her unseen ancestor Emilia) that someday, she'll be a Hero and also visit Rota so that she can experience what it was like in the past.

Back in the present, the Guardians happen to come to the town of Rota, and some of them decide to participate in a tournament to decide who will be the "Hero of the Year." All the Guardians walk along a bridge to Cameran Palace. They are dressed in their regular clothes while the townsfolk are in renaissance outfits. Meanwhile, a Taillow overhead lands on a window of the Palace, turning into a Pichu. In another room, the Guardians find a costume closet and decide to dress more appropriately. They later hurry to the tournament that is about to begin.

Before the tournament begins, Queen Ilene, the ruler of the palace along with her maid Jenny and her Pokémon Mime Jr., steps out to the royal box seat to officially begin the tournament. Ash and Thunders eventually win and Ash becomes the "Hero of the Year".

Ash then walks up to meet his opponent from the finals and is surprised to discover the Trainer is actually a girl. She introduces herself as Kidd Summers. Ilene then announces that there will be a ball and banquet in honor of the Guardian of Pokémon. Ash is presented to sit in a throne that overlooks the ballroom. Ilene presents Ash with Aaron's scepter. He and Melody suddenly hear a voice from the jewel crying "Why?". A confused Ash asks if anyone else heard it, but nobody did. Shrugging it off, the ball soon begins.

With the new company, Mew (in the form of an Aipom) takes Kyubey and the Guardians' Pokémon about through the castle. Meowth, who is helping himself to some food underneath the table, hears them and decides to follow them but is unable to. Mew directs the Pokémon to the attic directly above the ballroom chandelier and shows the Pokémon a few toys, which the group begins to play with. After a bit, Mew transforms from Aipom into a Vulpix and begins dancing with Fireshine.

Kidd slips away from the ball into the same direction Kyubey and the Pokémon went off to. She quickly slips out of her costume, sporting a pink-purplish wetsuit-like outfit. She makes her way outside from the window, Meowth noticing and follows. She climbs up to the rooftop before shooting a grappling rod to a tower across the castle grounds. She jumps off from one roof to the next. Meowth only goes so far, before he slips down the sloped rooftop. His tail grabs a hold of a decorative steeple rod, but he ends up swinging down and crashing into a window, ending up in the attic where the other Pokémon are located.

Ash sits upon the throne, a bit bored. He asks if he could get some food but Jenny keeps him down on the throne, telling him to act like the hero, Sir Aaron. Max notices their Pokémon are missing, until he spots Omnom (May's Munchlax) nabbing a plate of fruit and going back upstairs with it; Max follows Omnom to the top.

Kidd manages to get to a good vantage point on the roof where she can see through the broken glass Meowth made. She sees Mew and then puts on a pair of special glasses and begins reporting information to her boss, Banks.

In the attic, Mew takes on its original form, looking at Meowth to see if he is alright. Taking this chance, Kidd sends out two Weavile and orders them to place a tracking device on Mew. Both of them jump into the broken window and begin a swift attack at Mew. Mew dodges their assaults easily. In an attempt to stop Mew, both of them use Blizzard just as Mew flies towards the door. At the same moment, Omnom comes into the room and finds himself frozen in a block of ice. The door also freezes at its hinges and cracks.

Mew is soon held down though, and just when one of the Weavile is about to attach the tracker on Mew, Thunders shocks the Pokémon with a Thunderbolt. Mew escapes, but the Weavile try another Blizzard attack. Meowth, Kyubey, and Thunders dodge, but the attack hits the other Pokémon, freezing them. Kidd notices this and figures that the plan did not go as well as expected. Mew then flies over towards Meowth who is at a corner, and transforms into a Meowth. Mew switches itself and Meowth around to confuse the Weavile, but Meowth speaks and ruins the plan. Soon, the Weavile used their Ice Beam together to make it stronger, which sends Kyubey flying into Meowth's arms. Meanwhile, Max arrives and finds the door hard to open.

With Kyubey unconscious and the most of the Pokémon frozen, both Mew, Thunders, and Meowth are on their own. Mew transforms back to its original self. Max finally gets the door open, but only a crack as he watches what goes on. Mew soon turns into Fireshine to melt the ice and teleports itself, the unconscious Kyubey, and the Pokémon before the Weavile can do anything else. They teleport to one of the tower's steeples, and then Mew transforms into a Pidgeot and flies off, towards the Tree of Beginning.

## Major Events

* It is revealed that Rota is the only place that still trusts Arcturus, although not as much as when he was a Chosen One.
* Elis and Jim are revealed to be the reincarnations of Quilina and Samu, respectfully.
* The reason why Ash is capable of using Aura as a Guardian of Harmony is revealed.
* Nanette's Guardian outfit is upgraded for the first time, but it later reverts back to its original form.
* Melody unlocks her Almighty Goddess form.

## Characters

### Secondary Characters

* Professor Aurea Juniper
* Doctor Fennel Rosetta
* Sonia Magnolia
* Delia Ketchum
* Catherine Porter
* Elis Daisy
* June Porter
* Arcturus Porter I
* Sir Aaron Ketchum I
* Queen Rin
* Queen Ilene
* Jenny
* Kidd Summers
* Banks
* Freddy
* Butler
* Diane
* Mother and daughter
* Soldiers
* Referee
* Green bun girl
* White hat boy
* Alice Cooper (flashback)
* Emilia (mentioned in a flashback)

## Trivia

* This is the third movie in which a character dies and is not resurrected. The first was in *Synchroitcy* (although the heroes of Season 1 managed to survive), and the second was in *Guardians of Harmony - Heroes of Alto Mare: Latios & Latias*, where Latios sacrificed himself to save Alto Mare from a large tidal wave. Like the former, two characters died, Lucar and Sir Aaron. However, they are seen during the ending credits, in the afterlife.
* There are a few changes made from the original:
	+ The girls from S2 that are still alive help the Guardians out.
	+ Lucar talks like normal instead of through telepathy.
	+ In the past scenes, Aaron transforms but refuses to get other Guardians for help and decides to fight the war alone.
* Elfreda doesn't appear in this movie.

### Dub Edits

* In the English dub, when Ash asks Lucar if he would look for a lost friend, Lucar responds by saying he doesn't have friends and doesn't want any. In the original Japanese version, Lucario instead says the reason he went with Ash is because Queen Ilene asked him to.
* In the English dub, when talking about Aura, Max asks if Nanette can show him what it looks like, and Nanette snarks that it is probably supposed to be invisible. In the original Japanese version, Masato asks if she has "hadou" as well, while Nonomi snarks that it can also be known as Aura.
* In the original Japanese version, Marina wonders if what Lucario said about being abandoned is true, and Masato suggests that Sir Arlon sealed Ruca in the staff to save him. In the English dub, Marina instead says that Sir Aaron wasn't a hero and that he wasn't even around when the war broke out in ancient times, and Max deduces Sir Aaron must have abandoned Lucario (causing Elis to get angry and slap her daughter).
* In the original Japanese version, during the last vision of the past, Lucar merely says that he forgives Sir Aaron. In the English dub, Lucar instead says that he would have followed Sir Aaron to help out if he wasn't sealed in the staff.

### Easter Eggs

* The Rota castle is based on Neuschwanstein, a castle in Allgäu, Bavaria, Germany.
* The two armies of Pokémon, Red and Green, reference the original two versions of Pokémon, Red and Green.
* The Lapras music box at the Tree of Beginning plays the same tune as Jigglypuff's song.
* In the epilogue, Kidd appears to be exploring Forina, a location featured in *Jirachi: Wish Maker*. Two of the main characters from the movie, Butler and Diane, cameo in this scene, standing behind Kidd.

## Gallery

### Fanart

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