The Fudo and Forte families had been traveling for a while as they were on their way to the next Pokemon region and they ended up in the Plaza Hotel to stay for a little while with their favorite friend, Eloise who always had special treatment since everybody loved her mother and nanny so much, and of course, a special someone they never saw at the hotel until the winter season of Christmas, who was actually coming along to surprise her little sister who was now with her favorite friends in the Hotel's playroom with her hotel playmates: Yuko, Margarita, Bruce, Bobby, and Tyler.
"I have a feeling something great will happen." Estelle said.
"Like anything great ever happens to Eloise and those cousins of hers." Bobby muttered.
"Bobby!" Bruce glared to his twin brother.
"Brucey!" Bobby smirked.
The Applewitz twins soon got into a fight with each other which was nothing new, though a certain teenage girl was coming into the hotel lobby and came to the front desk while the kids played together which relieved much of the hotel staff that they were busy.
"Do those two ever stop fighting?" Vincent sighed.
"Eventually..." Eloise sighed herself. "I try my best to keep them in line, but they're 'rawther' difficult sometimes."
"You can be one too, Ellie..." The teenage girl said as she came into the playroom.
Eloise gasped and ran up to the girl before jumping into her open arms. "Giselle! You're here..." she then smiled up to her big sister. "But, it's not a holiday break."
"Must be a special occasion." Estelle smiled as the Applewitz twins' Pichus came out of their Pokeballs and used their Thunder Shock to stop them from fighting.
Bruce and Bobby yelped and soon fell to the floor in a daze from their Pokemon. Giselle hid a small giggle to that.
"So, what are you doing at the Plaza, Giselle?" Eloise asked her big sister.
"Well, I was wondering if you would like to visit Cameran Palace with me," Giselle invited. "There's a special celebration going on in honor of the one they called Sir Aaron. Everybody in my school was talking about it, and, of course, I was able to join in. Pokemon of course are also invited, and I know how much you love to dress-up Eloise, so you might become a princess."
"Yay!" The kids smiled.
Giselle giggled to them. "Now, Ellie, how about you say we call up some people out of New York and let them know about a new Pokemon adventure?"
"Yeah!" Eloise beamed, grabbing her older sister's arm and pulling her up to the elevator to go up to their suite.
"I can't wait to tell Emi." Akito smiled.
"Plus, we get to dress up for this event," Estelle smiled back. "I wanna look like a princess."
"And you'll look perfect." Vincent said.
"Oh, thanks, Vincent." Estelle smiled as she hugged her big brother.
Vincent smiled down to his little sister and even patted her on the head.
Of course, Eloise had all sorts of clothes, and her own princess outfit, though Giselle wondered what to wear, so Nanny decided to bring the teenage girl into her room to let her borrow something, and where Akito was able to call Emi.
"Nanny, could I use the telephone?!" Akito called out.
"That's fine, dear, but please, absolutely no, no, no long distance!" Nanny called back.
"Yes, ma'am!" Akito replied as he then dialed the number for the Ketchum residence until he suddenly remembered that Ash and Emi were still traveling. "Um, hey, Mrs. Ketchum..." he then said. "Uh... Emi wouldn't happen to be home, would she?"
"Oh, I'm sorry, Akito, but she and Ash are with Brock, May, and Max..." Delia told him apologetically.
"Oh, right, forgot." Akito said.
"It's good to hear your voice though." Delia replied.
"It's good to talk to you too, sorry to bother you, ma'am... Okay, bye..." Akito said before hanging up the phone and slapped himself on the forehead. "That was so awkward!"
"You forgot?" Estelle smirked.
"Yes, I forgot..." Akito groaned.
"Were you daydreaming about Emi as your princess?" Estelle teased.
"Maybe." Akito smiled sheepishly.
Estelle giggled before she took out a purple princess dress that almost looked like Sofia's that Elizabeth had made just for her. "What do you think?" she then asked. "I asked Grandma Elizabeth to sew it for me."
"It's perfect." Akito said.
"Grandma Elizabeth is amazing when it comes to sewing," Estelle smiled. "I wanted to get a dress like Sofia's."
"And it suits you." Akito smiled back.
"Thanks." Estelle smiled back.
The Pokemon came to their trainers.
"Time to play dress-up!" Estelle smiled to the Pokemon with her brothers.
"Yay!" The female Ralts smiled.
"Dress-up?" Pupitar complained. "That's for girls!"
Teddy was soon shown to be dressed up.
"That's even worse..." Pupitar muttered.
"Oh, Teddy, you look so handsome~" Estelle smiled to her Pokemon.
"Aw, thanks, Mama." Teddy smiled back.
Soon enough, there was a large limo brought in by Eloise and Giselle so they could go to the next region for their next Pokemon adventure.
"This is the butler," Eloise told her cousins. "He usually takes me and Nanny to places around the world since Maggie can only take us around New York."
The kids then greeted the butler who smiled to them and waved to them, politely. "Next stop, Cameran Palace." he then announced as he began to drive them away from home to their next Pokemon adventure.
"Wahoo!" The kids smiled.
"So, Bruce, Bobby, are you guys enjoying your Pokemon?" Akito asked the brunette twins.
"It's pretty cool," Bruce smiled. "Especially since Eloise helps us out a little."
Bobby rolled his eyes about having Eloise helping them out since he didn't like the girl unlike his twin brother, and where his Pichu seemed to act the same way.
"Well, we did tell you that you'd get your own Pokemon eventually," Estelle smiled to the male twins. "Plus, now you can go on a journey with us."
"So, this girl Emi is Akito's girlfriend?" Yuko asked as she brushed Espeon's fur.
"Yep, yep, yep." Eloise smiled.
"Ugh, why does Eloise have to be the most special kid in the whole hotel and in New York?" Bobby complained. "I'm sick of it! What makes you so special, Eloise?"
"Bobby, don't make me tell your parents you've been badmouthing my sister..." Giselle scolded the young boy.
Bobby grumbled and folded his arms.
"Ah, don't listen to him, Eloise, he's just jealous cuz you're so special and an amazing girl." Bruce smiled.
"So, do you two have nicknames for your Pichus?" Vincent asked the Applewitz twins.
"We're still thinking about it, but I was thinking of calling mine Sparky." Bruce said as he hugged his Pichu while Bobby's Pichu just glared and looked grumpy like his trainer on a good day.
"I'm calling mine Surge." Bobby said.
"Sparky and Surge," Vincent replied. "Those names might be fitting."
"Thanks, Vincent." Bruce smiled.
"My first Pokemon journey..." Giselle said to herself. "Well, I do have to admit, I'm pretty excited... Especially with the dress that Nanny let me borrow."
"And where you'll have Eevee with you." Estelle smiled.
"Oh, yes..." Giselle replied. "Can't forget Eevee... What a first meeting we had."
The others giggled to that as they remembered when Giselle first met Eevee. Eevee soon came out of her Pokeball in excitement.
"Oh, Eevee!" Giselle gasped.
"I'm sorry, but I could not wait!" Eevee beamed as she latched onto her trainer. "I am so excited that my fur is standing on end!"
The butler glanced at that, but just had a small chuckle as he continued to drive until they made it to the Palace.
"I understand." Giselle giggled.
"Ah, is that the wonderful Eevee then, Giselle?" The butler smiled to the teenage girl.
"Yes, it is," Giselle smiled back to the butler. "When we visited Mother in Paris, she just fell in my lap, quite literally."
"Well, then you'll have to see which Eevee Evolution it'll evolve into." The butler said.
"What do you mean?" Giselle asked out of confusion.
"Oh, Giselle, don't you know that Eevees evolve into different types and not just the same kind?" Felicity asked the girl.
"I guess I never thought about that." Giselle admitted.
Akito soon brought out a book all about Eevees and their evolutions and how to evolve them.
"Ah, so many Eevee evolvtions..." Giselle said.
"I like the Sylveon," Eloise smiled. "It's absolutely and positively pink!"
"Yeah, and it's a fairy type." Estelle also smiled.
"Sylveon does look lovely, Eloise," Giselle told her little sister. "I like the Flareon."
Eevee looked into the book with the two city hotel sisters to see what her future could possibly look like due to her Pokemon species. Each evolution had its own unique hairstyle. The butler drove for quite a while until they made their destination.
"We're here, girls." The butler told Giselle and Eloise.
"Thank you very much for the ride." Giselle smiled as she was going to pay him.
"Miss Giselle, you know you don't need to pay me." The butler smiled back.
"I know, but I thought you'd like to buy yourself something nice." Giselle insisted.
"Well, that was nice of you." The butler smiled.
"No problem." Giselle smiled back.
They soon came out of the car and were at Camaran Palace which excited all of them, even Bobby and Surge. Many people who were there were already dressed up like aristocrats.
"I can't wait to get dressed." Eloise smiled.
"Me neither!" Margarita beamed.
"I really hope the kimono Mother and Father let me borrow will be suitable." Yuko added.
Even though everyone was in a crowd, Akito looked around as he thought he heard Emi's voice, and where he could see her and where he saw a big strong man with them with yellow spiky hair.
"So, I guess as part of the festival, everyone's dressing up in traditional costumes." May told the others with her.
"What?!" Max replied to his older sister. "We don't have any costumes!"
"It says here you can get 'em at the Palace." Brock informed as he looked through a guidebook.
"So, then what are we waiting for? Let's get inside." The yellow spiky-haired man said.
Emi looked distracted.
"Emi?" Ash asked his sister. "Are you okay?"
"I feel like... Akito is here..." Emi replied like she had a hidden sense.
"Really?" Ash asked.
"Are you okay, Miss Emi?" Lt. Surge asked the girl.
"I just feel like someone I really love and care about is somewhere near us." Emi told him.
"You feel like Emi is near us?" Estelle asked her twin brother. "I wonder how that can be."
"I just know it." Akito said.
"Akito?" Vincent asked.
Akito soon took a deep breath and zipped past the group like he was Mario the Plumber given an Invincibility Star and he rushed to find Emi since he knew that she had to be around here somewhere.
"Whoa." Estelle said.
Emi seemed to also be running and she and Akito soon stopped as they saw each other. They looked into each other's eyes before sharing a reunion hug.
"Hey!" Lt. Surge glared as he grabbed Akito by his collar. "Get away from her!"
"It's okay, Surge, it's just Akito," Ash told the man. "He's a friend of ours."
"Oh, sorry, didn't know." Lt. Surge said as he set Akito back down on the ground before standing back up to his eight foot tall height.
"Uh... Hi..." Akito blinked.
"Akito, this is Lt. Surge," Emi introduced. "He's the Gym Leader of Vermilion Gym, and specializes in electric Pokemon."
"And possibly the strongest man in the world." Lt. Surge smirked as he flexed his arms.
Akito cupped his mouth and snickered to that.
"And what is so funny?" Lt. Surge asked him.
"Sorry," Akito smirked. "It's just... When people say that, I just have to compare them to my dad."
"I'd like to meet him sometime, and test his strength." Lt. Surge smirked back.
A Pokeball soon opened and there came out Raichu as he flexed his own arms with Lt. Surge.
"So, uh, is he like your bodyguard or something?" Akito asked Emi.
"He said he needed to come with us over here about an emergency." Emi replied.
"And what might that be?" Akito asked the strong electric type gym leader.
"It's a bit private..." Lt. Surge replied.
Akito was curious, though he knew he would have to find out later.