Rock Slide

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The Surfloatzels have the prison caravan in their sights.

They are ready to strike, hoping to steal on board and gain access to Formia’s notorious high security prison - that is until they discover they have an extra crew member for this particular mission - Brandi’s mysterious new boyfriend Tallahassee Bingeworth, the cowboy denim enthusiast with a penchant for telescopic ten gallon hats. Brandi had apparently met Tallahassee during the month prior and has begun a questionably advised romantic entanglement, much to Theo’s chagrin.

The mission proceeds, but not as planned. Kenny is sidetracked when Fray, the leader of Team Mystic, appears to him in a vision and implies he should join her cause. Theo fails to infiltrate a prisoner car when they accidentally shrink their head using an experimental Minimize powder, and both Kenny and Brandi fail in combat to hold off the escort of the caravan - The Warden of the Core Prison herself, Vypen.

After these failed attempts, the gang end up getting imprisoned themselves, Kenny in a high security car, Brandi, Theo and Tallahassee with several other Pokepowered prisoners.

Theo and Brandi attempt to rally the Pokepowereds: Blarb, Farb, Tallulah and Tallulah’s non-powered boyfriend Rhodri to escape, but only end up disturbing a stampede of Coalossal who live in the nearby mountains. This stampede attacks the caravan, knocking over Kenny’s high security car; with the self-hating and dangerous Pokepowered in the car with him, the Weezing-Powered Luanne, who expels her gas and causes Kenny to experience an odd time travel event.

In it, he visits ancient Formia, meets the Fire Shaman, Gratuitous Candle, and attends a Shamanic Council attempting to decide what to do with the King's Rock. Kenny is tasked with helping the Shamans at the council, having gained Gratuitous Candle’s trust. Kenny communes with Slowking, and ends up causing the King’s Rock to disappear - much to the fury of the council. Kenny avoids a rage-filled attack from Gratuitous Candle which was, unbeknownst to him, the thing that set the Ever-Burne Tree ablaze, and is ripped back to the present time.

Meanwhile, Brandi and Theo escape their prisoner carriage and quell the rampaging Coalossals with a well-used Slowpoke's Rain Dance, managing to save Warden Vypen’s life in the process. The Warden thanks them by turning a blind eye to the events that have just transpired, and informing the trio about a secret way into the Core Prison through something known as the ‘Wild Area’, an underground layer accessible through the Carkol Tunnels. She warns them however, that if she ever sees them in her prison, she will have to treat them as escaped criminals.

Brandi bonds with a Carkoal from the stampede, nicknaming him Lightning McQueen, and adds him to her team. The new acquisition helps her process the traumatic loss of her Inferncape during the stampede.

Kenny returns to consciousness and helps Luanne process her grief. It transpires that she caused the infamous ‘Ohara Incident’, a deadly gaseous explosion at the Pokemon League, and blames herself, despite also revealing that Fray had a hand in the incident.

Luanne and Rhodri, it turns out, are mother and son respectively. Kenny helps the two repair their relationship, one that had been damaged by Luanne’s self hatred and subsequent abandoning of her son after the Ohara Incident.

Our trio leaves Blarb, Farb, Luanne, Rhodri and Tallulah to forge their own path. They declare that they see Kenny as a Pokepowered worthy of emulating, and vow to form a group known as the ‘What Would Kenny Dos’.

Brandi, Kenny, Tallahassee, and Theo head back to the Flash Mullet to lick their wounds, and plan their entry to the Core Prison using the intel gathered from Warden Vypen - and begin to enter the 'Wild Area'.