The Power of Friendship

Our plan to sabotage the PML should be kicking off any minute now, huh.

Yeah. Every Team Break member on Pasio should be receiving instructions as we speak.

We're talking tons of operatives here, enough of us to blow our last assault on the arena out of the water.

Good! Lear mighta slipped away from us, but that won't matter once the plan's set in motion.

The PML's as good as gone!

What was that?!

Think we have intruders?!

Well, well! Look who I found!

Lear?!

Buffoons like you should consider it a privilege to be chased down by me.

You see, I never got to thank you properly for taking care of me! I figured now might be a good time.

Hah! Did you hit your head, man? You'd have to be pretty dumb to come right back to the place you just escaped from!

The prince thinks he's funny. Let's see if he's still smiling when we're through with him!

Everybody, move in! We're gonna capture him again, just like we did last time!

Actually...I don't think you are.

Rachel, Sawyer, lend me a hand!

Let's do this, Umbreon!

Counting on you, Honchkrow!

Tch! I see you brought some friends this time!

Doesn't matter, though! Last time you fought with three Pokémon, too, and we still crushed you!

Hmph. Fools.

'Scuse me?!

Rachel! You and Umbreon cover our backs!

Totes!

Sawyer! Have Honchkrow keep pace with Krookodile as we move in! Got it?

Ready when you are, young master!

Krookodile, you're our striker! Get ready to punch through this mob!

We can do this as a team! I believe in us!

Hah! Team or no team, there's no way you can defeat us!

Yeah! We outnumber you by like a million!

C'mon, y'all! Time to put the puny prince in his place!

Get ready to lose, Team Break!

Yeah, we'll execute the plan during the second round of the semifinals. Let the others know.

OK, now the word is out. Next...

The only thing left to do is make Hoopa bring us even more Pokémon. Then we'll be ready for anything!

What are you calling me for? Can't you tell I'm busy?

Sir, we have a problem! Lear's attacking us!

What?!

And he's way stronger than before! Quick, we need your backu...

Hey! What's going on? Answer me!

Lear came back?

Heh heh heh. In that case, I know exactly what to do.

Well done, young master!

It's, like, toootally our win!

Don't let your guard down yet. We still haven't gotten Hoopa back!

M-my apologies!

Hmph. So this is what it's like to battle together and put your trust in others.

It might...not be so bad after all.

Y-young master! Did you just say what I think you said?

N-never mind! Let's hurry and get Hoopa back!

There's no need for you to come to us!

You! You're that guy from before!

And...

Hoopa...

So is he, like, the boss or what?

We took care of everyone out here! This is as far as you go!

Don't be ridiculous! This is the largest Team Break hideout of them all! There's a lot more where they came from.

And furthermore...

Think about what might happen to your precious buddy here if you try to hurt me, hmm?

What a dirty trick!

Wahaha! It looks like this is as far as YOU go!

... ... ...

Hoopa, can you hear me?

Hmph. If you can't move, just listen to what I'm about to say.

H-hey, don't ignore me!

Shut up!

Hoopa...you...

You really saved me! And there's nothing I hate more than owing someone a debt!

Y-young master?

When I think about it...this is the second time you've saved me.

If I had never met you that first night you showed up...

If that never happened...

I probably would've been crushed by my own loneliness and left completely broken.

To think that you've saved me a second time...

I... I hate to say it, but...

You...you and I are...

...friends!

Young master...

Lear...

Hehehe...

Friends?! Are you kidding me? That's the last word I'd expect to come out of your mouth!

But if you're friends, you'll have to do your part to protect each other, won't you? Come here quietly so I don't have to hurt anyone!

Fine. I won't do anything.

In return...let Hoopa go.

Cheren!

Whaaaaat?!

Sawyer!

Hang in there, Hoopa!

Heh. Well done, Cheren.

What a troublesome plan...making just one of us act separately to save Hoopa...

But I'm glad it worked out.

Of course. I'm the one who decided what to do, and my plans are always flawless...

Argh! How dare you! Stop being so active! Go back to how you were earlier!

Heh. You really are a troublesome Pokémon.

It's not over yet! I-I'm still way ahead of you!

Come on out, Team Break!

With a group this big, there's no way we'll lose! We're taking you down once and for all, Lear!

What a stubborn bunch of riffraff. Come, then!

What's going on?!

Lear's sync stone is glowing?

Up until now, it wouldn't glow, no matter what we did...

This glow... I saw it the first time we met, too...

Which means...you and I are a sync pair? Of all the annoying things in the world, this surpasses them all. It's laughable.

But...this guy in front of us is even more annoying.

Let's take him down, Hoopa! Let's show them our power...

Our power as a sync pair!