It was the day of Liam's exhibition match with Leon. Liam went down to the Dragon's Den and collected Goodra and Smaug the Charizard before heading to the Pokémon Center where his mother and father were waiting with Sherlock, Liam's shiny Alakazam. He had the two that he was bringing with him healed up real quick before his departure. Liam had a touching good-bye with his parents as well as Florance, the Blissey who was essentially his nanny growing up. His parents wished him luck, which was a sentiment that Florance and Sherlock wished for him as well. While on his mini-vacation, Liam had a couple more battles in the World Coronation, pushing his rank up to 2500.
Liam's mother, the Blackthorn Nurse Joy gave him a kiss on the forehead, his father and Florance each gave Liam a hug good-bye and Sherlock used Teleport to take Liam to the Goldenrod Airport where he would be boarding a flight with Shiranui to go to Wyndon.
"Good Luck," Sherlock said to his trainer telepathically before teleporting away.
Liam checked the Rotomdex and saw that there was still a few hours before the plane left, so he had time to kill. His phone buzzed and mentioned there was a trainer nearby that was participating in the World Coronation. He checked and saw it was Whitney.
"Hello, Champion Coleman," Whitney said with a smile. She readied a Pokéball in her hand.
Liam told her to hold on one moment while he transferred a Pokémon in. with the press of a few buttons on his Rotomdex, a Luxury Ball was transported to him, he then pressed "Accept" on the battle request.
A Rotom-controlled drone flew down and announced that the battle would be an official World Coronation Battle, and each trainer would use a single Pokémon and too send them out immediately.
"Clefablle!" Whitney called sending out the Fairy-Type with a smug look on her face.
"Dragalge! It's time to shine!" Liam called and tossed the ball the same time Whitney called out hers.
"I've never seen that before," Whitney said.
"Draglge, Toxic!" Liam called. the blob on poison launched toward the Fairy, badly poisoning it.
"Metronome!" Whitney called, getting Hone Claws in the process. Clefable's attack and accuracy increased.
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The damage from Toxic activated the Clefable's Sitrus Berry.
"Venoshock!" Liam called. The attack landed for increased damage since Clefable was already poisoned.
"Use Psychic!" Whitney ordered. The attack was super effective on Dragalge, but it wasn't enough as the Toxic finished Clefable off.
"Clefable is unable to battle, Draglge wins! This means the victory goes to Liam Coleman of Blackthorn City! the Rotom drone announced. "As of right now, there is a change in the standings!" The Drone flew off as Liam watched his number go from 2500 to 2488. Whitney watched hers go down to 2500 and Liam heard her begin to sniffle.
"Don't start crying Whitney," Liam said. "You did good,"
Whitney got to her feet and sniffled one more time before thanking Liam for the battle and leaving to go back to her gym. She was already on her way back from healing at the Pokémon Center after a challenger had come through.
With that Liam sent a message to Shiranui telling him that he was at the airport waiting for him.

Days prior, Shiranui had been participating in the Whirl Cup at Red Rock Isle and whenever his opponent also happened to be in the World Coronation, a Drone Rotom flew in to arbitrate a battle. He had made it to the final round and was up against a lady named Trinity—also a participant in the Coronation. The battle was a three-on-three per the rules of the Whirl Cup and both Shiranui and Trinity lost two Pokémon so far, each battle ending in a draw. "I hope you're ready for this one, Shiranui," Trinity said, "Gyarados, you're up!"
"Same with you, Trinity," Shiranui rebutted, preparing a Net Ball, "It's time to really put the 'Sea' in 'Sea Hero'! Kaijin, I choose you!" Shiranui's Net Ball opened and the light from the ball went under the Whirl Cup Colosseum before coalescing into a large silhouette that soon started glowing. Cumulonimbus clouds soon filled the sky and torrential rain started to fall as Kaijin—the legendary Kyogre formerly known as Kaishin—surfaced for all the nearby people to see. "Say hello to the being that created all of this," Shiranui continued, gesturing to the ocean and Maya—the Sea Priestess of the Whirl Islands—was impressed. Trinity didn't let the newcomer get to her as she ordered her Gyarados to use Thunder. Gyarados charged its attack and lightning from Kaijin's heavy rain struck the Kyogre. Shiranui ordered a rebuttal Thunder and lightning from the same source struck Gyarados into a one-hit knockout. Shiranui may have won the battle, but he decided to give the title to Trinity as he already had the title, much to her surprise and gratitude. His rank rose to 2467 after all was said and done.

When the day of Liam's exhibition match arrived, Shiranui exchanged his goodbyes with his parents and his father's Greninja, Mizukage, and with the help of Titania—his Gardevoir—teleported to the Goldenrod Airport with a party of three though only an Ultra Ball and a Great Ball were on his belt. "Hey Liam," Shiranui greeted.

While the others were coming over, Selina had been busy with tasks of her own. Due to some problematic issue, Selina had been unable to find out the whereabout of Maribella, plus whenever she tried to find her sibling there were no records of them, ever existing including in her home Village, the elder had hell her as best he could but alas nothing had been found.

The closest she had got to anything she could consider a hit was a woman called Mary Evens, who as well as closely resembling Maribella also owned the most popular Perfume chain shop in Galar, with a shop being in every town and village though they also sold Evolution stones and other trinkets as well. Her investigations though had lead her to dead end after dead-end.

After bashing her head against the wall more then once, she looked at the time and realised her friends were coming to Galar soon, she was a bit upset she had no soild information for them, but knew she would need there help. So she left home to travel to Wyndon. She also meet Mike's Fiancee Bianca who ended up being a blonde haired girl in a green outfit who worked along Professor Juniper of the Unova. Mike and Bianca had began their Pokemon Journey toguther with their friend Cheran, though Mike had been the only one to go on to be champion. Cheren was now a Gym Leader and Bianca worked with the professor.

The two girls were chatting away at the café nearby the Airport, Selina messaged Liam and the others to tell them that she was with Bianca and they were awaiting their arrival at Wyndon.

Once Chuck had gotten things settled at his new home, and was certain Hibiki was alright, he had Azriel teleport him to the nearby Vermillion City, and took the next ship to Galar, landing in Hulbury and taking the train to Wyndon. He only brought two Pokemon with him, Hibiki the altered Lopunny, and Omega the Type: Null.

Maui is pretending to be Jen sleeping under the covers to fool anyone tries to stop Jen fromm leaving the Alola region. Jen and Aura makes it to Hau’Ali City ton board the plane to the Galar region as she wonders when her mom is going to trust her. Aura looks at Jen and tells her, your mom is only protecting you. Jen pets Aura as they could not wait to see her friends as she spend some time to restore some of the habits in Alola. As her plane lands in Galar Jen Aura sees a dark aura around Galar as they both wojnder what could it mean or heat is caused ng the dark Aura.

"Hey Shiranui," Liam said. "I saw you won the Whirl Cup again." One of Liam's Luxury Balls popped open and Goodra emerged giving Shiranui a hug. Of course, due to Goodra's biology, it was a slimy hug but that could not be helped.
"Now, we just got to board the plane and we will be in Wyndon with our friends. Chairman Rose told me that he sent his assistant, I think he said her name was 'Olena' to pick us up at the airport and take us to Wyndon Stadium." Liam also told Shiranui about how he has just missed Whitney by like five minutes.

"I passed it on to the runner up since I had already earned the Sea Hero title," Shiranui replied before getting hugged by Liam's Goodra, "Hey Goodra." He was hoping the plane staff would allow him to board after getting slimed. "It was just as well I missed her," he stated, "The thought of tangling with her Miltank again gives me the shudders."

As Chuck left the train station, he could see the airport nearby and noticed Selina and another woman. "Hey Selina!" he said, taking a seat with them, acting casual. "I didn't know you were coming to Galar!" Under his breath he said to her "Find anything out for us?"

"I passed it on to the runner up since I had already earned the Sea Hero title," Shiranui replied before getting hugged by Liam's Goodra, "Hey Goodra." He was hoping the plane staff would allow him to board after getting slimed. "It was just as well I missed her," he stated, "The thought of tangling with her Miltank again gives me the shudders."

"Well, she thought she'd be slick and use her Fairy-type Clefable against me," Liam replied, recalling Goodra. "But, for now let's boar the plane to Galar."

"You don't have to tell me twice," Shiranui agreed, "Chances are the rest of our group are already there."

Once everyone was on the plane, it took off for Wyndon. While it was on route, Liam took some time to polish up the Luxury Balls he had with him, particularly Smaug's as it was going to be the one being used in the exhibition match. It was an uneventful flight buy and large and before long the plane landed in Galar.
"Ready to find Olena and go to Wyndon Stadium?" Liam asked his long-time friend and traveling companion.

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"Chuckie" Selina said cheerfully as she saw her friend hugging him and giving him a soft kiss on the cheek to further sell their "chance" meeting. "Well Galar is my home region so I would of thought we might meet again" She said leaning in to answer his question. "A few things but nothing ground breaking, once everyone here I'll tell them" She whispered to him, which made Bianca raise an eyebrow but chuckle softly.

"Aww, you two remind me of Mike and Me when we were young and falling in love" She said to them before properly introducing herself to Chuck. "I'm Bianca, Mike's Fiancé and assistant to professor Juniper of Unova" She said cheerfully, before lower her voice to whisper "Both Mike and the professor asked me to come down here to support you guys on your journey to protect and cure the expermental pokemon of their Berserker gene. Mei and Cammy are already searching for their tribe since they moved after the pouchers attack about 20 or so years ago"

Chuck blushed a bit at Bianca's comment about falling in love, but managed to compose himself. "About that, there's something I need to tell you about Hibiki." he said.

As the plane lands in Galar Jen grabs her bag and follows Aura off the plane and leaves the airport. She spots Chuck, Selina, and another woman talk about something important. Jen and Aura stops to listen as they wonder what happen to Hibiki.

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Selina saw Jen and stealthily waved her over to join them with Bianca introducing herself to Jen as well, before asking her if Mike's Dusk had gotten on well with Maui since Dusk had chosen him as her mate and had stayed in Aloha when Mike went back to Sinnoh, to be with her mate.

Selina on the other hand listained to Chuck but did not get to say anything as Zerina appeared near to Chuck and said in a threatening tone "What did you do to my sister?" Though was quickly calmed down by Gileta blue mist and went back to her guarding duties, while Gileta stayed with the others as she waited to hear what Chuck had to say about Hibiki.

Once everyone was on the plane, it took off for Wyndon. While it was on route, Liam took some time to polish up the Luxury Balls he had with him, particularly Smaug's as it was going to be the one being used in the exhibition match. It was an uneventful flight buy and large and before long the plane landed in Galar.
"Ready to find Olena and go to Wyndon Stadium?" Liam asked his long-time friend and traveling companion.

"Ready and raring," answered Shiranui, looking around at the new sights.

It was not that far out of the gate that blonde woman in a white coat stood holding a sign with Liam and Shiranui's names on it. Liam pointed her out to Shiranui. "That must be her," Liam pulled out his phone and sent a message to their friends to inform then that he and Shiranui had arrived in Galar.

"I have no doubts," Shiranui agreed. He went over to the blonde woman in the lab coat and introduced himself. "I'm Shiranui Tsukiko and this is my friend Liam Coleman," he said.

"While I was staying with my parents on the Sevii Islands, Hibiki contracted the Pokerus virus. She's since made a full recovery, however it seems the virus had an adverse reaction to the genetic modifications, causing a mutation to occur. She's now taken on a bluish tint to some of her fur, and appears to have changed typing from Normal to Ice." Chuck explained. "Her personality seems to have shifted a bit too, to fit her new typing."

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Selina listened to Chuck explain what had happen to Hibiki, though she was quite surprised to learn about what Pokerus had done to Hibiki. "That's quite surprising, I never would of thought Pokerus would do that, though it must be unique to Hibiki as both Zerina and Charmcaster once contracted that virus but had no averse effects to it apart from the norm" Selina said, pulling out her notebook to update it.

Both Bianca and Chuck would see it was a detailed notebook with all the stats, nature's and moves that the Expermental pokemon had with the ones owned by the group having pokeball next to their names. Each one also had a sketch of what each pokemon looked like, with Selima rubbing out Hibiki orginal picture and her Mega form before saying to Chuck "I would like to battle you and Hibiki to get a look at her new appearance, if you've still got Mei Auravall Flower necklace, I would like to see how Hibiki Mega form has changed too. Gileta will be your opponent as she's better suited for battling Hibiki in case anything goes wrong"