Featuring:

Otto Somppi - Squirtle

Jonne Tammela - Persian

Ryan Lohin - Glaceon

Taylor Raddysh - Charmander

Libor Hajek - Lapras

Brett Howden - Pichu

Yanni Gourde - Vulpix

With Special Guests:

Jonathan Drouin - Umbreon

Brendan Gallagher

Andrew Shaw 

Jimmy Vesey

+ Rescued Lightning Players

**

The Baby Bolts find themselves back in Thunder Alley, in the center of the three lightning bolts. They all share a look of curiosity with one another and then begin to walk toward the arena. But before they can make it out of the structure, the three bolts spark to life and trap them in the middle. They all gasp in fright and watch as three electrical surges race up each of the Bolts toward the top.

"Tammy, if this is the end, I want you to know that your chirping sort of turns me on and I don't ever want you to stop!" Brett wails, grabbing onto Jonne.

"I'm really jealous of your awesome hair, Brett!" Jonne screams back. "And I used Yanni's toothbrush to clean my dog's teeth with!"

"JONNE TAM--!" Yanni begins to shout, before a concentrated beam of electricity shoots down at them, zapping them all.

They black out, crumpling to the ground as a wicked laughter echoes in their ears.

Some time later,

Yanni finally blinks awake, finding himself lying on the hard concrete of Thunder Alley. As his vision clears more, he can see one of the lightning bolts, back to normal. He gets up, moaning and turns around, saying, "Guys, are you...okay...?"

The others all groan and wake up, but Yanni gasps.

"Cool, I'm a Charmander!" Taylor exclaims and then mimics Charmander's voice. "Char! Char!"

"You're all...Pokemon..." Yanni continues in disbelief.

"OMG! Everyone look at Brett!" Jonne calls out, snorting with laughter.

"What?" Brett questions, attempting to look at himself.

"He's a Pichu!" Taylor remarks. "The unevolved form of Pikachu! And Tammy's Persian, the evolved form of Meowth."

"Makes sense..." Jonne hisses. "I'm as cunning as a feline! And wait, that means..." He looks to Brett and smirks. "You're a mouse and I'm a cat!"

'Pi-CHU!' Brett suddenly squeaks and sparks to life, zapping Jonne, the Persian, who yelps in pain and backs off.

"Puck!" Jonne howls, whimpering and licking his paw, where the electric attack had hit him. "Never mind, man!"

"Electric mouse, mind you!" Brett snaps back. "You can't eat me, Tammy!"

"I wasn't! I was just gonna play!" Jonne says, still hastily licking his paw. "This is so nasty... fur... yuck.. I'm gonna be coughing up furballs for a week!"

"We're all Pokemon!! Yanni, you're a Vulpix! Ryan's a Glaceon! Libor is a Lapras! And Otto's a cute little Squirtle!" Taylor says, holding his head up high. "Brett's a Pichu, Tammy's a Persian and I'm a Charmander!"

"So, we're all Pokemon now? Are we sure this is Gally's plan or is this more Taylor Raddysh the Pokemon Go Master's?" Ryan the Glaceon remarks, getting down into an attack ready position.

"You're really gonna attack me, Ice Eevee?" Taylor questions.

"I no like this," Otto whimpers. "I want human again!"

"Well, the only way for that to happen, is for you to successfully find and rescue Jonathan Drouin!" an all too familiar voice sneers. "You'll have to guess WHICH Pokemon he is and where he is. Careful this doesn't take too long as you know...Vladdy....the closer day turns into night, the less time he has to live!"

"Gallagher!" Yanni remarks, spreading his paws out to get an anchoring stance.

"A Vulpix, Pichu, Persian, Squirtle, Charmander, Lapras and Glaceon...how precious," Gallagher's voice continues to sneer. "Good luck."

"Come on out and fight, Hab!" Taylor snarls, running into the open.

"You think that wise to egg Gally on?" another voice growls. "Just do as you're told and maybe you can find Drouin!"

Taylor continues to look around for the source of the voice, but he doesn't see anything. But he cringes as a helpless squeal sounds halfway, before getting cut off. "They're in the arena! Come on!"

Ryan and Jonne leap up with ease, followed by Yanni and then Brett and then Taylor and Otto. Libor doesn't move and he calls out, "Uh, guys, I don't think I...I think I'll just stay here! It's difficult to move..."

"Oh, right...water Pokemon!" Taylor growls as they all make it to the top. "That's fine Libor, you can just watch the arena from the outside. Maybe some rain will come to wash you into the arena or something!"

"Very funny, Rads!" Libor responds.

"Somebody should stay with him!" Yanni states, barely missing whacking Otto with his one... well six tails.

"He's not Brett, Tammy, Otto or you now, Yans. Libor'll be fine alone!" Taylor responds, flicking his flaming tail behind him. "Now, let's get in there and find Jo!"

Yanni grumbles but turns. "We'll see you soon Libor, stay vigilant!"

"You got it!" Libor's response comes.

With that, everyone minus Libor enters the arena. They halt as soon as they are inside the darkened, eerie arena. It is much different from when they'd been there earlier. A light flickers over them and the door slams shut.

"Come on..." Yanni whispers and steps forward.

They walk toward the first fan entrance tunnel and gaze down at the ice. There is nothing down there, except for a lone puck. It suddenly explodes, kicking up a bunch of ice and everyone gasps as they see that through the ice, there is now a medium-sized care that might hold a labrador puppy.

As the ice clears, they can see into the cage clearly.

"An Umbreon!" Taylor gasps.

'Umbreeeee!' the Umbreon whines, pawing at the cage's bars.

Suddenly the JumboTron sparks to life overhead and the group is startled to see Gallagher's face come up on the screen. He backs away and strikes a Charlie's Angels' pose, smirking. "Prepare for trouble!" he says, reciting the famous Pokemon villain trio, Team Rocket's leader, Jessie's line.

"Make it double!" Andrew's voice hisses like James', before he too shows up on the screen and then backs away to where Gallagher is, striking the same pose.

"To send the NHL into devastation!"

"To unite all peoples within our nation!"

"To pronounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Gallagher!" Gallagher snarls, scowling at the screen - at the Bolts in the arena.

"Shaw!" Andrew adds on.

"Team Montreal, blast off at the speed of light!"

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight!"

"Jimmy Vesey! That's right!" the familiar voice of the Harvard prospect shouts out, before popping up from the bottom of the screen. "Hi losers!" He mockingly waves at the screen, smirking.

"Don't get cocky Vesey!" Gallagher snaps.

"It's Gally and Shaw!" Yanni exclaims, planting his paws on the ground once more to anchor himself. "One tail is good enough...but six?!"

"And Jimmy Vesey!" Jonne snarls, flicking his tail back and forth, hitting Brett in the head.

Brett sighs and zaps Jonne's tail, sending the Persian sailing into the air and flying onto the ice. He lands, sprawled on the ice in a weird way and gives a painful, 'Mrrrow'. The others dart down the stairs and launch for the boards, leaping over the tops and onto the ice, while Gallagher and Shaw snicker evilly.

"Forget about Team Rocket, Team Montreal knows just how to capture Pokemon! Say hi to Jonathan Drouin!" Gallagher hisses, before a spotlight shines on the cage with the Umbreon in it.

'Umbreeee!' the Umbreon says, scared.

"That's Drouin?" Ryan remarks.

"Can't be!" Taylor remarks. "Umbreons are normally fearless!"

"Not this one, Rads," Brett states.

Jonne scrambles up to his paws and snaps his head to the side to give Brett a glare. "Don't. poke. the. kitty. cat. Brett."

"Next time, mind your tail! I know you can feel it hitting me on the head! You did that on purpose!" Brett snarls.

Yanni bounds forward toward the cage, only to halt as a series of spikes rise up from the ice at the blue line, trapping him in the center of two of them. He manages to glance up at the JumboTron. "Gally, Shaw, this isn't funny!" He kicks back at the ice and tries to pull free. "My Vulpix shape needs to lose weight!"

Gallagher snickers and snaps his fingers. At once, Yanni vanishes and then reappears in another cage to the side of the Umbreon. "Good try Yanni Gourde, but like a I said, you're a pathetic excuse for a leader!"

Otto steps forward. "You take back! Yanni, good!"

"Oh, look, Shawzy, the little guys is trying to say something...he's too quiet though. SPEAK UP SOMPPI!" Gallagher snarls.

Otto backs up, whimpering, 'Squirtle...'

Jonne and Brett step forward. "Leave him alone!"

Andrew snaps his fingers and Jonne and Brett vanish and then reappear in a cage together.

"GET OFF OF MY PAW!" Jonne howls.

"GET OFF OF MY TAIL!" Brett retorts.

"Get your own cage, Brett!" Jonne snaps back.

"You're no basket of roses either, Tammy!" Brett snarls.

"Of course not, I'm a Persian!" Jonne howls.

"Knock it off both of you!" Yanni snaps from his cage. "GET US OUT OF HERE!"

Taylor looks at Otto, who looks back at him. And then they look at Ryan, who grumbles, 'Glace!' and then shoots ice from it's mouth right at the spikes. Then he charges forward and slams into the ice wall, causing it to crumble and leave a hole. He skids across the ice, before getting to his feet. But before he can, a net falls from the JumboTron overhead and lands directly over him, before pinning him in place with tacks.

"RYAN!" Yanni gasps.

Otto and Taylor both leap through the hole to see Ryan in the netting.

"I tried..." Ryan gasps.

'Umbreeee!' Jo whimpers again, before producing a shadow ball and attempting to blast the cage.

Instead the attempt backfires, literally blowing up in his face and doing no damage to the cage. Jo collapses inside of the cage in pain.

"Taylor! Otto! Get him!" Yanni panics.

"Somps, you gotta be brave and you gotta use water gun with my flamethrower!" Taylor remarks.

Otto looks at Taylor and they both nod. Then they both aim at the Umbreon's cage with fire and water. Then Taylor jumps up into the air and then uses fire fang, bursting the cage open. Overhead, Gallagher, Andrew and Vesey share a look and then vanish.

"Triplet time," Jonne hears them say, before the screen blacks out and they disappear from sight.

Otto stops his water gun and gets the net off of Ryan, who both then work to free Jonne, Brett and Yanni. Taylor remains hovering over the Umbreon, who is in a great deal of pain. The others turn to see them and go over.

"The shadow ball attack really hurt him!" Taylor reports. "That move can have serious repercussions if used wrong. It backfired and got him good."

Yanni gawks in disbelief. "No, not another one." He looks down.

Jo opens his mouth, only to say, 'Umbreeeee...'

"Wait! He can't speak English like us..." Brett points out. "Is he even Drouin?"

"He's gotta be, I mean Gally said so..." Yanni replies.

The Umbreon looks at them and nods his head up and down. 'Umbreee...I am Jo.' Then he struggles to his paws. "I'll be fine, guys. Gallagher and that no good assistant of his had me locked in the locker room here for a while, before they finally came and transformed me into this...uh, you said I'm an...Umbreon?"

Taylor nods, speechless.

"And then instantly trapped me in a cage. I tried to tell them to stop and let the others go and then they took my voice. For a while, all I could say was 'Umbreeee' but you all got me out and because I am free, the spell has worn off. Thank you." Jo dips his head in respect to Taylor.

"You're lucky I have vast Pokemon knowledge."

Jo chuckles still in his Umbreon form. "You should battle JT. I know he's a big player of the Pokemon Go game!" He then looks down at himself. "So...how do I get back to human form? Or am I stuck as this Umbreon? If so, I don't know how I can play hockey..."

"I honestly don't know, since setting you free, by now we should have all changed...and you should be..." Yanni begins to say, before he trails off as a herd of people burst from the tunnel and onto the ice.

"Hey, Pokemon!" a familiar voice states. "Maybe Lexi was right, I should lay off the game..."

Yanni gasps as the Baby Bolts in the arena find themselves looking at JT Brown, Steven Stamkos, Andrej Sustr, Ryan Callahan, Slater Koekkoek, Alex Killorn, Brian Boyle, Anton Stralman, Victor Hedman and Braydon Coburn.

It is all the Bolts that they'd saved.

"Oooh, an Umbreon! Cally, look!" JT remarks, picking the still injured Jo up. "Oh, it's hurt...did one of you guys hurt him?"

"HEY! PUT ME DOWN!" Jo wails, flinging his paws about to get free.

"Whoa!" JT gasps. "It sounds like Drouin!"

"I am Drouin!" Jo snaps at him. "I'm Jo!"

"Uh...Jo?" JT looks back at the others.

"Jo...and...?" Steven questions, looking at the other Pokemon (the Vulpix (Yanni), the Squirtle (Otto), the Charmander (Taylor), the Persian (Jonne), the Pichu (Brett) and the Glaceon (Ryan)), who gather together.

"It's true. Stammer, what do we do? This is weird, Jo hasn't vanished and we haven't turned back to humans yet... what is going on?" Yanni exclaims. "And what are you all doing here? We still haven't saved the Triplets or Vladdy yet!"

Jo slips free of JT's grasp and lands on the ice, before crumpling in pain. 'Umbreeee!' he yelps in agony.

"Jo, please, you're hurt?" JT calmly says.

"Yeah, I used shadow ball to try and get out of the cage and it backfired!" Jo groans. "My shoulder..."

JT kneels down and picks Jo back up. "It'll be okay, we'll get that tended to."

"Hey, where's Libor?" Steven suddenly asks.

Yanni looks, startled, back toward where they had entered from. "Outside."

Just then, Libor the Lapras flies into the arena and skids across the ice to them. He screams, before coming to a stop at Callahan's feet. "Gallagher and Shaw, they told me that this is the end. They have all they need to know and this is the final chapter!"

Yanni gasps. "What's going on? What happened? Are you okay, Libor?"

There is a sudden bright white light that shines and all the Pokemon and hockey players shield their eyes. Then Gallagher's echoing cackling rings around the arena, before they are plunged into a darkness.

"This is the end, Baby Bolts! Let's see if Vladdy's still alive...!"