This proves to be a poor decision, because immediately after they leave Ash, another crystal absorbs Brock, May, and Max. And yet another movie goes by in which everyone except Ash is written out of the script.
Eventually, Ash and Lucario find Pikachu, Meowth, and Mew, and Kidd meets up with them again, having escaped the crystals. I especially love how Ash doesn't ask why Kidd isn't with his friends, and she doesn't volunteer the information that she watched them all get eaten by crystals. I mean, eventually Ash thinks to ask, but it takes him an enormous amount of time.
Well, despite this happy reunion, Ash and Kidd still get eaten by crystals, and Kidd and Ash send out their pokemon to escape. Ash's pokemon are broken up by watching their master be killed (the Weavile are just kind of "Dammit"), so Mew gets all of the crystals to spit out the humans they absorbed, and convinces the Regis to leave. Kidd now realizes that Mew and the Tree are symbiotic and depend on each other for survival, even though nothing implies the Tree would be in trouble without Mew and indeed, from Irene's story earlier, Mew frequently leaves the tree.
The effort of forcing the tree to free the humans sickens Mew, and the crystals start turning to dust. Banks tells Kidd that the Tree's ecosystem is breaking down because the transfer of energy has been disrupted because of Mew's reversal, and "the Tree is going into shock," because you can definitely go into shock without a nervous system.
Barely conscious, Mew leads Ash, Kidd, and Lucario to the Tree's heart, in which Lucario finds Sir Aaron's gloves, in perfect condition despite laying around for centuries. Now those are some gloves. I guarantee you that if you went over to Home Depot and bought some gardening gloves, those things would turn to dust in only a few decades. Sir Aaron's body is encased in a crystal, and they find another time flower.
Sir Aaron gave Mew his power of aura to use to stop the armies from fighting, but the effort of it cost him his life and forced him to be encased in crystal. Mew tells Lucario that it can save the tree by using its aura, and Kidd warns Lucario that if it uses aura to save the Tree, it'll end up in the same crystal as Sir Aaron. She can't possibly know that's true, but whatever.
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Started: July 6, 2005