The intro began with the camera panning across the island to the locations of all 38 contestants. One part of the island reveals Jo's Heracross using Megahorn to send Brick's Pinsir flying. On another part of the island, Alejandro's Gardevoir is doing her best to impress Heather's Gallade.A couple miles away, Bridgette's Vaporeon and Geoff's Cloyster look at each other in confusion while their trainers make out, B's Magnezone uses Zap canon, cannon to send Scott's Raticate flying, Mike and Zoey are floating downstream towards a waterfall, while their Flareon and Jolteon run to meet them, on a log, Lightning is working out with his Machoke, Harold gets a lift on the water with his Kingdra, Ezekiel who is training with his Sandslash, accidentally angers Eva and her Venusaur, who sends Zeke and his Sandslash flying with a Solarbeam, Tyler, Lindsay, and Beth who are running to catch up with their Eevee, Vulpix, and Growlithe, happen to see Ezekiel and his Sandslash flying over the horizon, DJ is shown decorating his Pachirisu with props, Courtney and her Ninetales look at Duncan with unamused looks on their faces as they watch Duncan teach his Electrode to be destructive just like him. Noah and Dawn, who are sitting on rocks train with their Alakazam and Lucario. Trent, who is riding on his Arcanine, slows the furry brown canine's pace down to dismount and meet Gwen and her Sneasel, Dakota, who happens to be right near Anne Maria, is giving her Articuno a fresh manteau of blue feather dye. After a long swim, Zoey and Mike finally make it on to dry land, where Flareon is happy to see Zoey and Jolteon is happy to see Mike. Sam, who is nearby, feeds his Scyther some berries. On an above ground platform, LeShawna takes on Cody's Marill and Sierra's Pichu with her Electabuzz, which manages to take out both Pokemon with Volt Tackle. Cody and Sierra look on in shock, but then return their Pokemon to their Pokeballs. Izzy, not even seeming to care, lets her Totodile hitch a ride on her hair. Mike and Zoey, who happen to be walking par with their Jolteon and Flareon, look at her with disturbed looks. Anne Maria who finally notices Dakota standing suivant to her, commands her Purrlion to get Dakota out of her sight.