By the time they reached the first trial site, They would come across Sashia talking to a young man with pink hair. "Really?, Kahuna Hala asked you to be the captain of Verdant cave, I remember when you and I first did the Island challenge trial. It was certainly a lot of fun" Sashia said to him which made him chuckle. Sashia then noticed her friends approaching the first trial so she waved to them.
Mike was in the pokemon centre bring all his Aloha team from the professor, with Ryu very much looking forward to reuniting with a lot of his old friends.