Following the pokémon contest, Ash and friends decide to take a break. While they rest, they decide to have a tag battle since Lyra and Khoury have to return to Johto soon. However, before that happens Team Rocket shows up and steals Pikachu and Piplup, putting their plans on hold.

The time for the Lilypad Pokémon Contest has finally arrived. Dawn is excited for the contest since she still only needs one more ribbon in order to get into the Grand Festival. Meanwhile, when Jessie gets sick, James takes her place in the contest. Who will win the contest?

While on the way to the Dawn’s contest, Ash and friends encounter a wild Gible, a very rare Dragon-Type Pokémon. Ash and Khoury are both interested in capturing one, and they both go after it. Who will catch Gible?

Lyra and Khoury have joined Ash, Dawn, and Brock on their journey in order to see the Sinnoh region. While on the way to Dawn’s next contest, the group stops near the Valley Windworks for Dawn to do some training. When Marill goes missing, the group heads into the windworks to find it, but once inside they are attacked by wild Pokémon and become trapped. Will they be able to escape the building?

Ash and friends arrive at a festival promoting the Johto region where they meet two trainers from the Johto Region. Lyra is the spokesperson for the festival and introduces her friend and their starters, Chikorita and Totodile. At the festival, Dawn and Lyra have a battle over a Pokémon egg. However, Team Rocket also has their eyes on the egg.

The Twinleaf Town Festival has concluded, and Ash and friends continue their journey to the town hosting Dawn’s next Pokémon Contest. The three soon fall into yet another one of Team Rocket’s traps. However, things are not what they seem. A mischievous Togepi stirs up trouble for everyone and in the end they must work together in order to stop Togepi.

Ash and friends find out that the main event for the Twinleaf Town Festival is a battle tournament, and the winner gets to have a battle with the Sinnoh Battle Frontier Brain, Palmer. Excited about that, Ash enters the tournament with hopes of battling him.

Ash and friends are enjoying the festivities of the Twinleaf Festival, when they suddenly run into Barry. Wanting to see how Ash has improved, Barry challenges him to a battle. Plans are put on hold, however, when Barry sees the mysterious Xatu fly by and decides to follow it. Ash and Dawn go after him, and they all arrive at a solitary festival tent with Psychic-type Pokémon performing out front. Before they can think to do much, a clown comes out of the tent and beckons them toward it, where they’re hit by a bright flash of light and put to sleep. When Ash, Dawn, and Barry awaken, they’re separated from their Pokémon and each other, and to make matters worse, they were somehow shrunk down to the size of a small Pokémon! Will Ash and the others be able to find each other and return to their normal sizes? And what connection does this certain Natu have with the whole situation?

After Dawn’s loss to Johanna, Ash and friends are pleasantly surprised to hear that Professor Oak will be arriving soon to begin the Twinleaf Town Festival with one of his lectures. Trouble starts brewing, however, as Oak is running late, and Team Rocket is taking advantage of that by taking over the lecture with an old plan: to disguise James as the professor to steal Pokémon. Will Ash, Dawn, and Brock be able to find him in time to stop Team Rocket? And what do Politoed and Quagsire want with Oak?

Ash and friends go to Dawn’s hometown of Twinleaf. Upon arrival, they find that they made it in time for the Twinleaf Town Festival, where a Pokémon Contest is about to be held. Dawn decides to enter, and it isn’t long before she finds herself facing none other than her mother, Johanna, in battle. Knowing that Johanna won the Grand Festival in the past, will Dawn be able to defeat her?