This is a Special. Just to tell you, this is an episode I skipped between XY Vanguard and XY & Vanguard. This has nothing to do with the actually timeline of the story. There is just a huge time skip in the Pokemon world when I'm transitioning back and these are one of the episodes I dropped in the process.

I had an idea for this episode, so I made it as a special. Enjoy!

Ash, Aichi and the group were walking through a desert. They've been walking for a while, Serena started to get concerned that they got lost.

"How about we take a break for now. We should try to find where we are." Serena suggested.

"Yea, I agree with Serena. We should get a break before continuing." Aichi agreed. Azelf was on his shoulder and she looked thirsty. Aichi scavenged his bag and took out his water bottle for Azelf and his mapping device to help Serena locate where they were.

"Alright then! I'll have to train then!" Ash said before releasing Goomy from his pokeball and started his training.

Meanwhile, Aichi, Clemont and Serena were analyzing the map. "Hum… There should be an oasis somewhere here according to the map." Clemont pointed out. He looked around, suddenly they heard Ash shout.

"Ash?" Serena asked when they turned to him. Ash got up from the floor and turned to them. In his hands was a Spoink that looked injured. Aichi ran to him.

"A Spoink? All the way out here?" Aichi asked. He looked at Spoink's wounds. "Are you alright, Spoink?"

"Let me help." Clemont said bringing his bag and using his hand to search through it.

Suddenly, Spoink jumped up and pointed in a direction. "Spoink wants us to follow. Let's go." Aichi informed as he started following. The others followed afterwards.

Soon they made it to the oasis and they walked through it. "Pretty!" Bonnie cheered.

"There is this much green in the middle of the desert?" Serena commented.

"What's wrong, Spoink? It doesn't look like anything is wrong here." Ash asked. He and everyone else looked around to see if there was anything strange.

"Wait… There aren't any pokemon here." Aichi pointed out. He then spotted a single Spoink picking a fruit and approach her slowly. "Hello, Spoink."

"Spoink~!" Spoink jumped backwards.

"It's okay, Spoink. We're not here to hurt you. I just want to know what happened here." Aichi assured. He continued to approach passively, but Spoink ran away. They followed the injured Spoink to a bush, they all looked through the bush to see a bunch of Spoinks praising a Grumpig. The injured Spoink started to get agitated.

"It looks like that Grumpig is the boss here." Ash pointed out.

"Is he the problem?" Aichi asked.

A Spoink tripped and knocked over the others like dominoes. The Grumpig got hit by the fruits and got mad. Aichi quickly ran out of the bush with Azelf and blocked the incoming attacks from making contact with the Spoinks.

"Hey! You can't do this to them!" Aichi shouted while brushing off the spot where he got hit by a Shadow Ball. His aura flared intimidating Grumpig. "If you're going to treat the Spoinks here like that, then you better leave because pokemon like you aren't welcome here."

"Yea! Aichi is right!" Ash agreed, everyone else were getting out of their hiding spot. Aichi reached for his pokeballs, but Grumpig used his controlling ability to control all the Spoinks first. The Spoink shot Shadow Balls at them and one hit Aichi's hand that was holding Charizard's Pokeball and he dropped it.

"Hey… The Spoinks. Why are they attacking us?" Serena asked. Clemont was the second to run.

"No time to ask questions. We need to run." Ash replied. He didn't have time to pick up Charizard's pokeball, instead he took Bonnie's hand and started running.

"Charizard's pokeball!" Bonnie cried turning back to see it on the ground.

"He'll be fine. We need to run right now." Aichi answered confidently. He wanted to make sure Bonnie didn't worry too much. Grumpig picked up the pokeball. "Glaceon. Let's make sure no one gets hit by the Shadow Balls. Bonnie, Serena, Ash, Clemont. Go to the cave, I'll be there in a second."

"What about you?" Serena asked.

"Just go!" Aichi ordered pushing Bonnie towards them and facing the Spoinks. Clemont took his sister's hand. They ran to the cave and some Spoinks followed. "Glaceon! We need to get to Grumpig. If he is defeated the Spoinks will be released from his control." He was dodging the Shadow Ball and Psybeam as Glaceon nodded.

"I'll try to calm the Spoinks down, you go for Grumpig." Aichi commanded, while activating his Psyqualia. His aura spread and the Spoink's attacks were significantly less.

"Hey! Blue Twerp!" A voice called from behind him. Aichi's concentration broke and he turned to the voice. It was Team Rocket.

"If you know what's good for the Spoinks, you will turn yourself in." Jessie threatened. They attacked the Spoinks in front of him.

"Glaceon!" Aichi called. She stopped her mid attack on Grumpig and walked to Aichi's side.

"Good to see you understand. We didn't even have to hurt the other twerps." Meowth commented. Aichi looked at the others in the cave and they were stuck in a cellar.

"What do you guys want?" Aichi asked.

"That's an obvious question. Hand over your pokemon and surrender yourself to us." James answered. Grumpig walked to their side with a smirk on his face and handed Charizard's pokeball to Meowth.

"Just in case you do your trick with pokemon. The boss sent us something to counter that." Meowth said. He held a pokeball case and locked Charizard's pokeball in it.

"Be a good twerp and place your pokemon in here. More Spoinks and the other twerps will suffer if you don't." Jessie threatened. Aichi squatted down Glaceon.

"It's going to be fine, Glaceon. I'll follow along for now." Aichi whispered quietly as he held Glaceon's pokeball in front of her and returned her. He placed the pokeball and his other 2 into Team Rocket's cases.

"Okay now." James said as he threw a box at Aichi and Azelf were enclosed inside it.

"At least let the Spoinks go! They shouldn't be slaves." Aichi demanded. He banged on the wall to make sure their attention was with him.

"Too bad there is nothing you can do. We have a Pikachu, Chespin, all the blue twerp's pokemon, the blue twerp and an Azelf to top it off~!" They sang. They took a key and threw Grumpig a key too.

"We'll leave guarding the rest of the twerps to you. We'll get Pikachu and Chespin later." Jessie said, before leaving. Aichi and Azelf's box floated behind them and Meowth held Aichi's pokemon in his hands.

"Why are you doing this to the Spoinks? They did nothing wrong." Aichi asked.

"Once we leave that dumb Grumpig, we'll take all the berries. He will be the ruler here. It's a win-win situation!" Meowth answered.

"A win for everyone except the Spoinks, Ash, , Clemont, Bonnie, Serena, Azelf, me and all our pokemon." Aichi rebelled.

"A twerp is a twerp. You never learn." James responded.

"Oh! Right. The boss wanted us to test your power. He funded us to make a machine just for that." Meowth remembered. They made it to their new huge machine in the core of the machine there was a space the same shape and size as the box Aichi and Azelf were in.

"That machine… Are the really planning sucking my power away and extract it into an attack?" Aichi thought. His cage floated to the core and locked in there. "Using my power in that way is dangerous." He warned.

"Yea, yea. We heard that enough times, twerp." Jessie replied.

"I'm not lying to you!" Aichi shouted. "If you use this machine, you might destroy this oasis! How about the Grumpig that you were with before? You are destroying his home." Wires started to move in towards him from the roof and the floor of the box and he and Azelf tried to swat them away. All three of the Team Rocket members were packing the machine's storage with fruits from the oasis.

"That loser? After we take everything we want from here, we're leaving him here. We don't need him anymore." Jessie replied.

"You can't do that to Grumpig! He might not be the kindest pokemon in the world, but he doesn't deserve to be betrayed like that." Aichi responded. One of the wire buds attached to his right arm, he tried to pull it out but it was stuck on him. Azelf also tried but failed. More wires followed attaching itself all over his body.

"Just be quiet and let us finish loading the machine. We'll be out of here soon and bring you and all your powerful pokemon to the boss." James said.

"Don't forget we also have Pikachu and Chespin." Jessie added. She placed the Aichi's pokeballs in their cargo and proceeded back to the cave controlling their machine.

~When They Got There~

Team Rocket walked into the cave area with the machine. Aichi and Azelf were still trying to get out of the box before they can do anything with his powers. But it was of no avail.

He started to see the cave and saw that Grumpig was defeated and everyone escaped. "Ash! Serena! Bonnie! Clemont! Run!" He shouted.

Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie looked to the direction of the stomping and shouting. They saw Aichi and Azelf in the core and saw that he was connected to wires that were connected to the machine. "Aichi!"

"That weak Grumpig is good for nothing. No matter, we get to try this out." Meowth said through the microphone that projected the sound through the speakers.

"Team Rocket! Let Aichi go!" Ash shouted. Meowth pressed a button and Aichi screamed. His energy was being pulled out and built up in the energy core of the machine.

"Ash! Serena! Clemont! Do something! This can destroy the oasis!" Aichi shouted in between his scream.

The beam of energy was shot out towards Ash and the others. Sliggoo stood in front of the group and got ready to endure it with Bide. "Sliggoo!" Ash called. Sliggoo made contact with the beam of energy and the floor started to crumble under him. He continued to be persistent and he successfully endured it.

"That Goomy evolved into a Sliggoo? How did that thing endure that?" Jessie wondered.

Meowth pressed the button again, holding it. The same thing happened but Aichi screamed louder, Azelf was trying to help but she couldn't help. Sliggoo countered it with Bide. This attack was stronger than the last and became equal with the Bide.

"Pikachu! Help out!" Ash ordered.

"You too Dedenne." Bonnie added.

"Chespin you too." Clemont commanded.

Serena took out Fennekin. "You too, Fennekin! We need to help Aichi!"

All the attacks combined, plus the Spoinks used Psybeam and pushed Team Rocket's attack back. The beam of energy was pushed and hit the machine making it explode. Aichi was also hit by the explosion.

"Azelf! Protect!" Aichi shouted. Azelf used Protect on the direction of the explosion and she held it as the machine collapsed.

"Aichi!" They shouted. Team Rocket was sent flying and it started raining fruit including Aichi's sealed pokeballs.

When the dust settled, they saw Aichi on the ground hugging Azelf and some Spoinks to shield them from an exploded machine part from hitting her. He was hit in her stead. "Aichi! Are you alright?"

"Azelf… Spoink… Please tell me you are alright." Aichi said. Azelf got out of his hands and used Psychic to lift the piece off of him.

"Azelf~"

Aichi slowly got up and everyone helped him. "Hey, if anywhere hurts don't try to get up." Serena said.

"I'm fine… I need to find Charizard, Glaceon, Gardevoir and Azumarill." Aichi replied as he stumbled as he tried to walk. Spoinks jumped to him with the sealed pokeballs, all five of them.

"Spoink~!"

"Huh? You found these for me?" Aichi asked. He sat back down on the ground, he felt very dizzy and drained. "Thank you. Protecting your friends wasn't a big deal." The Spoinks were jumping around him joyfully, he spotted Grumpig sneaking away in the background.

"Grumpig! You aren't leaving yet. You need to apologize to the Spoinks first." Aichi said seriously. Spoinks crowded the Grumpig angrily and he begged for their forgiveness.

"I'm glad, Grumpig learned something through this." Serena commented with a smile.

"Yea… But we need to stay here until Aichi recovers all his energy." Clemont said.

"I'm fine…" Aichi replied trying to stand up but falling instead.

"I don't think so, Aichi." Ash responded.

Clemont tried to open the seals on the pokeballs, but it was locked. "It's stuck. It looks like there is a lock on it, Chespin can you pick the locks? Like you did for the cage." Chespin worked on the locks and unlocked them with time.

The Spoinks brought fruits over to them and treated them like royalty.

~The Next Day~

Everyone got ready fairly early and Aichi was all rested up and full of energy. He picked up his bag and it was heavier than before.

"Wow…" Aichi gasped.

"What is it Aichi?" Bonnie asked.

Aichi looked in his bag and it was loaded with fruits. "Spoink… You didn't need to give us so many berries." He turned to the Spoinks and they were smiling and jumping. Azelf jumped on his shoulder.

"Spoink~"

Aichi sighed. "Thank you, Spoink. All of you treated us well here and helped me recover my energy." He walked up to the Spoinks and petted them with a kind smile.

"Aichi! We should get going!" Ash yelled from the forest.

"Okay, I'm coming!" Aichi answered. The Spoinks escorted them out of the oasis and they all waved good-bye.

The journey continued…

I hope you enjoyed the Special! 6 more days until Vanlotte is released!

Happy Birthday to one of Shadowmwape's Character, Mwape!

I wanted to write this because the character's name is Mwape and your username is Shadowmwape.

Very tricky stuff you did there, completely fooled m. By the time I found out it was just one of your characters. It was already May 23. Very embarrassing...

Anyways, whether it is actually your birthday or not. I hope you enjoyed the special anyways, maybe?

Apologies if it isn't, but happy birthday to your character anyways.