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The Explorers are the main antagonists of Pokémon Horizons. It is a mysterious organization that has as target, Liko and most importantly, the mysterious pendant she possesses.
Biography[]
Background[]
Originally the Explorers was a group made of friends of Lucius. Although neither their purpose nor ensuing fate are known, the organization managed to exist in the present, well after Lucius found Laqua.
At some point in the past, Hamber joined the Explorers and approached Diana, an old friend of his, with an offer to join the organization under the pretext of introducing her to someone who could aid her adventures. However, this was actually an attempt to obtain her pendant, which she refused to hand over. After that, the Explorers decided to pursue the pendant until they found out that it was in the possession of Diana's granddaughter Liko, at which point they decided to find her in order to take it. Eventually, they were able to find Liko attending the Indigo Academy in the Kanto region.
The Explorers also became associated with a Paldean company called Exceed, which they covertly used to conduct research on a sample of Rakurium.
Pokémon Horizons[]
The Explorers debuted in The Pendant That Starts It All (Part One). One day, Amethio approached Liko at Indigo Academy's dormitories and, while under the guise of a representative of Diana, lied about being entasked to pick up the pendant in order to return it to her grandmother. Feeling something was amiss, Liko attempted to escape from him and his cohorts, Zirc and Onia, but ended up cornered in a rooftop until Friede swooped in at the right time and engaged Amethio in a battle. Upon witnessing the collateral damage the battle was causing, Liko tried to run away and almost got hit by a stray Psycho Cut if not by her pendant suddenly generating an energy field in order to shield her, which Friede used as an opening to escape with her to the Brave Olivine. The Explorers, however, did not give up and followed them to the airship, even amidst a vicious thunderstorm. There, Friede and Amethio clashed again, albeit briefly, as this time, Liko stepped in, having her Sprigatito unleash a Leafage powerful enough to break the barrier around the battlefield and expose everyone to the unrelenting weather. This forced the Explorers to retreat, but not without taking the Grass Cat Pokémon as a hostage.
In For Sure! 'Cause Sprigatito's with Me!, Amethio battled against Friede once again; this time, however, the Professor was just distracting him to allow Liko to find Sprigatito in the warehouse where they were hiding. While this was happening, Zirc managed to plant a tracker on Brave Olivine's hull. This allowed for the Explorers to follow the ship all the way to Roy's island via submarine, where both parties clashed once more in Found You, Fuecoco! and The Ancient Poké Ball. As Liko's Sprigatito and Roy's soon-to-be Fuecoco were being overwhelmed by Amethio's Ceruledge, the girl's pendant synced with the boy's Ancient Poké Ball, which finally opened up. From the artifact, emerged a mighty Black Rayquaza, who indiscriminately rained devastation all over the the beach with a singular Draco Meteor, forcing the Explorers to retreat. Later, during a meeting with the other Explorers's higher-ups, Gibeon, the organization's leader, removed Amethio from the mission of collecting the pendant and assigned it to Spinel. Afterwards, Amethio communicated to Zirc and Onia that he was going to pursue the Black Rayquaza from now on, believing its connection with the pendant to hold the key to the mystery behind it.
In The Future I Choose, it was revealed that Spinel was spying on the Rising Volt Tacklers during their time in Paldea in order to learn more about them. The knowledge he acquired was put to use over the following episodes, as he commenced his attack on them. First, in An Unexpected Picnic!, he positioned his fleet of Magneton around the Brave Olivine to create an electromagnetic interference to mess with the data array of the ship, rendering it powerless during a system reboot. After successfully scaring them away at the beginning of the following episode, Friede followed one of the Magneton all the way to Levincia, where he was ambushed by it and Spinel's Beheeyem, which were being commanded from a distance by their Trainer, seemingly in order to have his strength tested. The next day, Spinel created a false advertisement for some Spicy Herba Mystica to lure Liko into a back alley in Levincia. There, he had his Beheeyem put her on a trance with its psychic powers, allowing him to collect her pendant without any mishaps. Over the next episode, a dazed Liko was left wandering around the city while the Rising Volt Tacklers were caught on a web of misinformation laid out by Spinel, which pointed her whereabouts to Artazon instead. At the end of the day, with the collective efforts of Roy and Dot, she was able to fully regain her memory.
In Quaxly, We Can Do It, Friede and the young Rising Volt Tacklers begun their counterattack to find the culprit and get the pendant back. The Professor went after a leaving cruise, where he was greeted and challenged by a mysterious man—this, however, was one more red herring from Spinel. While this was happening, Dot and her Quaxly managed to pinpoint the pendant's location to a docked cargo ship and alerted her friends. The three of them battled against Spinel's Magneton and Beheeyem and won, but were not match to his Umbreon. At that moment, backed up against a wall, Liko's feelings begun resonating with the pendant, which shone brightly and gave Spinel's hiding location off. After Sprigatito returned the item to her Trainer, the pendant activated again and released Arboliva of the Six Heroes from its Ancient Poké Ball. Then, the group grabbed hold at the Olive Pokémon's arms before it jumped overboard, leaving Spinel at the ship with the understanding that Liko herself is the key to the pendant's secrets.
In The Lonely Hatenna, Amethio, Zirc, and Onia arrived in Galar after tracking the Black Rayquaza to Galar Mine. In the following episode, their path once again crossed with the Rising Volt Tacklers's: Amethio immediately engaged Friede in battle, while Zirc and Onia faced off against Roy, Liko, and Captain Pikachu. However, the battles came to a rather abrupt end when a Galarian Moltres with an Ancient Poké Ball appeared and started attacking them. At the end of the next episode, it was revealed that the Explorers had witnessed the recapture of Moltres and Liko's pendant turning into a mysterious Pokémon, with Amethio deciding to go after the Rising Volt Tacklers in order to steal it.
In Reunion at the Ancient Castle!, Amethio, Zirc, and Onia reported their findings to Hamber, which quickly contacted other Admins to head with him to the Galar region: he recruited Coral and Sidian, as Spinel and Chalce were occupied in the Explorers's laboratory. Amethio's team followed Liko, Roy, and Friede to an ancient castle near Hammerlocke, where they surrounded them in order to take the mysterious Pokémon away. The confrontation extended into the following episode and ended up with Amethio's first official loss to Friede. Meanwhile, Hamber and his Dusknoir arrived at the place and confronted Diana, who questioned him about the Explorers's motives to target them. Then, a commotion provided by the arrival of Coral and Sidian allowed for her to escape the scene, as well as for Amethio's team to leave before being caught in the crossfire. The two Admins cornered Liko and Roy, only for Captain Pikachu to arrive and rescue them, fending off her Glalie and his Garganacl at once. This, however, made Coral snap and recklessly order her Glalie to use Self-Destruct, allowing the Rising Volt Tacklers to escape and leaving the ancient castle in ruins.
In As Long as I'm with My Friends, while the Rising Volt Tacklers had been once again caught in false information spread by Spinel, the Explorers Admins had a meeting to discuss their next move. They eventually concluded that the best course of action would be pursuing the Black Rayquaza itself instead of Terapagos in order to stay ahead. In Roar of the Black Rayquaza, Amethio's team detected that the Black Rayquaza in the Lapras Sea, and as such they immediately went after it. However, despite his best efforts, he lost very easily when trying to battle it. Amethio also witnessed Terapagos transforming into its Terastal Form as it conjured up strength in order to protect Liko. In the following episode, after asking Hamber to train him in order to become stronger, they held a training match between their Ghost-type Pokémon, which ended up with a victory to Hamber after he Terastallized his Dusknoir. Afterwards, he gave a Tera Orb to Amethio and set him in the direction of mastering the Terastal phenomenon in order to draw out its full power.
After Amethio's failure, Spinel came up with a new plan to catch the Black Rayquaza, aided by Coral, Sidian, and Chalce. Prior to the forty-second episode, the Explorers led the construction of a tower on an island near Levincia as part of the plan, which the Rising Volt Tacklers were made aware of in the forty-third episode and started being enacted in the forty-fourth episode. The tower itself was a red herring; its true purpose was to separate Friede from the rest of the group. The real plan involved attracting Rayquaza by simulating Terapagos's energy signature through a resonance generator, wearing it down by attacking him with powerful, super effective moves, and finally catching it in an Ultra Ball. The Rising Volt Tacklers managed to stall the Explorers for time enough to allow Dot to create a shutdown program and disable the resonance generator, allowing Rayquaza to free itself from the onslaught of attacks. Once again, Coral let her temper overcome her better judgment and commanded Glalie to use Self-Destruct, which collided with Rayquaza's Dragon Pulse. The resulting explosion was powerful enough to blast the Legendary Pokémon directly into the hull of the Brave Olivine. In the following episode, the four Admins retreated. As Liko, Roy, and Friede were battling against the Black Rayquaza, Amethio arrived at the scene and worked in conjunction with them. Despite his Ceruledge and Friede's Charizard having Terastallized, they ended up defeated by a single Dragon Ascent. At the end of the episode, the admins had another meeting and were instructed by Gibeon to stay low and wait for the Rising Volt Tacklers to gather the Six Heroes for them, but to still keep their eyes on them for the time being. Gibeon then claimed that his and Lucius's adventure was not over yet as his Zygarde watched.
In the forty-sixth episode, Chalce is shown to be undercover at Naranja Academy as a teacher and forged enrollment papers for Coral and Sidian as students under the fake names of "Sandwich" and "Onigiri", so they can also help her with their unknown, undercover mission at the school. In the following episode, "Sandwich" attempted to challenge Katy for her Terastal Training, but she lost to Liko in a cake-baking contest and was disqualified. At some point, "Sandwich" and "Onigiri" were approved in the Terastal Training after battling Kofu and Tulip, respectively. In the fifthieth episode, "Sandwich" and "Onigiri" were briefly noticed by director Clavell while they were watched Liko, Roy, and Dot making their way to Dot's battle with Iono.
In the fifty-fourth episode, while Friede was investigating about the Eternal Blessing in the Exceed company that he once worked in, Spinel made his efforts useless and stole himself the Eternal Blessing, which is in reality a piece of Rakurium. In the same episode, it was revealed that Amethio was Gibeon's grandson and that his father had failed the organization in the past.
In the fifty-fifth episode, "Sandwich" battled Larry from Paldea's Elite Four, alongside Kofu while "Onigiri" battled Rika alongside Tulip, but they were both defeated. Chalce watched their battles. During Liko's battle against Rika in the following episode, Dot discovered that Chalce was being spied on by Penny after discovering that Explorer's profile was illegally placed in the Naranja Academy system under the pseudonym "Agepan". After a brief conversation with Dot, Chalce returned the Scarlet Book to the academy's library and left.
Members[]
Leaders[]
- Master Gibeon - Defacto leader
- Hamber - Second-in-command
Admins[]
- Amethio
- Spinel
- Coral
- Sidian
- Chalce
Grunts[]
Trivia[]
- The Explorers are first evil organization created specifically for the Pokémon anime.
- The names of the members of the Explorers are all based on gemstones and rocks used in the creation of jewelry.