GoH002

**Trio Magic** (蜃気楼とウィンディゴ？！最初の戦い, *Mirage and the Windigos?! The First Battle*?) is episode 2 of season 1 and the 2nd episode of the *Guardians of Harmony* series overall.

## Summary

*Now that Quilina and Samu helped Cindy change her ways, their Trainers are planning to start travelling around the world. But, at the orphanage that Victoria and Arcturus lived in, something has gone wrong...and somebody is needed! Just what can the trio do at this rate...?*

## Plot

Continuing from where the previous episode left off, Victoria is confused about "the contract thing." Kyubey reveals that the God of Destruction will soon come to shred the Multiverse into darkness, and Victoria's berserk button is accidentally turned on, forcing Arcturus to stop her. Cindy, on the other hand, apologizes to Quilina and Samu, and the three Pokémon start a friendship.

Meanwhile, an evil teenager named Mirage is walking along the path and looking for the perfect place to summon her Windigos. She decides she has to find somewhere with plenty of arguing, but cannot find much arguing. However, she suddenly spots a bunch of kids fighting at the orphanage Victoria and Arcturus used to live in and creates a whole bunch of Windigos to grow stronger and feed off their negativity. The sky goes dark as the Windigos multiply.

Back with the heroes, Victoria, Arcturus, and Kiara notice the sky going dark and are terrified at the ghostly horse-like creatures swirling above, and Kyubey says this is why they need to make a contract with her. Victoria thinks they're ghosts and shrieks, terrified, and realizes they're right above the orphanage she and Arcturus used to live at. The trio rushes to the orphanage and sees the yellow-haired girl laughing evilly and having her Windigos feed on all the kids' arguing, terrifying the other kids. Kiara demands she stop, but she refuses and introduces herself as Mirage. Victoria and Arcturus also demand she stop, but she still refuses, says she doesn't take orders from "idiots," and uses a giant Windigo to knock them back. Mirage then grabs Kyubey and starts to squeeze her to get the heroes to surrender.

Victoria quickly realizes that her deceased childhood friend Lizzie once got into the same mess. She and the rest of the trio, with no other option, tell Kyubey that they're going to make a contract with her. She agrees and their Power Necklaces grant them their Harmony Gems, one for each. With them, they manage to transform, shocking and horrifying Mirage who is now furious. Extremely eager, Victoria tests out her new powers and shoots flower projections at a Windigo. Kiara tests out her powers and shoots fire blasts at another while Arcturus finds he has superhuman strength. However, they realize they have to get the kids to stop arguing and fueling the Windigos. Victoria yells at the shocked kids to stop their arguing to get the Windigos to weaken, but Mirage says that's not going to happen and launches an attack of her own. The new Guardians dodge and the kids in the orphanage realize their fighting is super tasty to the Windigos, so they stop. With them weakened, the Guardians easily dissipate them and force Mirage to flee. However, she tells them she'll be back soon before teleporting away.

With the battle over, the kids thank the Guardians and promise to resolve their conflicts in a better way. The trio heads on their way while Arcturus says the battle was epic, and Kyubey says she's very proud of them. Soon, word of mouth has spread the news of Victoria, Arcturus, and Kiara becoming heroes who fight evil all around town, and while they get asked for a public interview in the town square, they politely decline for now but say they will soon.

## Major Events

* Kyubey reveals the reason why Victoria needs to make the contract.
* Victoria, Arcturus and Kiara meet Mirage (the same Mirage from HapChaPreCure) and the Windigos for the first time.
* The trio of Trainers make the contract, become Guardians of Harmony and have their first battle.
* Kamado, Cyllene and Hunberct realize that Victoria and Arcturus are extraordinary children.
* Victoria, Arcturus and Kiara join the Galaxy Team as their own sub-division, the Multiversal Guardians.

## Characters

### Guardians of Harmony

* Victoria Daisy
* Arcturus Porter I
* Kiara Takanashi

### Pokémon

* Rowlet (Victoria's; Quilina)
* Cyndaquil (Kiara's; Cindy)
* Oshawott (Arcturus's; Samu)

### Secondary Characters

* Lizzie (flashback)
* Kamado
* Cyllene
* Professor Laventon

## Trivia

* The **Harmony Color** announced before the ending is **Porter Blue**.
* Hunberct admits that *he* was the one who left the note for the trio of Trainers that was seen in the previous episode, confirming he forgot to sign it.
* The 4th wall is broken twice:
	+ When Arcturus says he's going to shoot Mirage and the Windigos and is about to whip out a gun, Victoria stops him and blushes furiously while says "One, this is a family show, and two, guns don't even exist in the era this season takes place!"
	+ Mirage tells the heroes "I was a last-minute addition, because you can't have this stupid, pathetic show at all without ME!"

### Errors

(Please wait until animation is revealed!)

### Easter Eggs

* Mirage is the GoH counterpart of Queen Mirage from *Happiness Charge Pretty Cure*, but is instead a human who is magically constructed out of dark energy like Michiru and Kaoru but is otherwise fully sapient. However, just the fact she is a teenager around the same age as the protagonists hints that she may eventually be the team's "sixth ranger."
* All of the transformations will have elements from *Puella Magi Madoka Magica* and *Yuuki Yuuna wa Yuusha de Aru* starting from this episode.
* Like Akari and Rei from *Pokémon Legends: Arceus*, Victoria, Arcturus and Kiara agree to join the Galaxy Team, but unlike said two characters, it was on the condition that they create their own sub-division (the Multiversal Guardians).
	+ Victoria and Arcturus themselves take the place of Akari and Rei since they look vaguely similar to them and are the same age as them, and since including said two characters would be redundant.

### Runes

* The wall of the orphanage Mirage attacks reads "Enemy Approaching" in runes, using the Archaic font style.
* A kid at the orphanage has a (looking appropriate for the era) sewn doll with Archaic runes on its belly that read "Love."