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Forty years ago, Sam traveled through the woods near [[Arborville]] and met a woman named [[Towa]] who told him about the "Voice of the Forest", and that if he did hear it, he should not move or else he would be sent to another time. Sam was also told about a rare Pokémon living there. With that said, Towa gave Sam a piece of bread as a parting gift. While continuing his travels in the forest, a [[Pokémon poacher]] went chasing after {{OBP|Celebi|M04}}, wishing to capture it. Sam defended Celebi from the poacher, and shortly afterwards, the Pokémon teleported itself and Sam into the future.

During the present-day, Sam lands in the same area that he got teleported from. {{Ash}} and {{ashfr}} arrive in the area and find Sam unconscious. Ash takes him back to Arborville, where Sam wakes up to find out that Celebi had disappeared. After an aged Towa explains the situation to them, and returns the sketchbook that Sam used, Sam and the group go to the forest and find Celebi where the [[Iron-Masked Marauder]] was destroying the forest. The Marauder encounters the group, but they escape.

The Marauder sends {{p|Scizor}} and {{p|Sneasel}} after them. Sam and Ash battle the foe's Pokémon and are able to defeat them. Sam and the group arrived in a foggy portion of the [[Lake of Life]] and are able to heal Celebi with the water. As Celebi {{m|recover}}s, Ash and Sam play with it, having fun. Celebi then leads the group to a Berry tree.

Later, Sam and the others encounter the Iron-Masked Marauder again. Despite their efforts, the Marauder manages to capture Celebi in a [[Dark Ball]]. Sam and Ash try in vain to get the possessed-Celebi to stop as the Marauder commands it to destroy the forest. Celebi prepares to finish off Sam and Ash, but {{OBP|Suicune|M04}} arrives and saved the two Trainers. Suicune gets attacked by a monstrous ball's tendril, which sends all three of them flying. They are caught by [[Jessie]], who tells them where Celebi is. Sam reminds Celebi about the time it had fun with him, Ash and his friends, despite Celebi relentlessly attacking them in the process. Awakened, Celebi breaks free from the Marauder's control, destroying its Dark Ball in the process.

However, expending too much energy drains Celebi's life force, and it falls unconscious and turns a withered brown color. Sam takes it to the Lake of Life to restore it, but the waters have no effect, even after Suicune uses its powers to purify the lake from the preceding destruction. After a brief period of mourning, however, the Celebi spirits from all across time arrive and succeed in reviving the fallen Celebi. The Iron-Masked Marauder emerges shortly after, and attempts again to capture Celebi, but is defeated at last thanks to {{AP|Pikachu}}, and subdued by the other Pokémon in the forest. Celebi then prepares to [[Time travel|travel back to the past]], and after exchanging farewells, Sam joins it and returns to his own time.

Sam briefly reappeared in a montage in ''[[M10|The Rise of Darkrai]]'', which chronicled the preceding nine movies.