Valiant Knight Skarmory is an animated series created in 2012 staring the titular Valiant the Skarmory as he fights to keep Goldenrod City safe from his arch-nemesis "The Truck." The series begins with an hour long special in which Valiant's - then an ordinary Skarmory - trainer and his team-mates are kidnapped by a sentient eighteen-wheeler truck. Vowing to save them, Valiant travels to the nearby Ecruteak City to seek training from none other than the Legendary Phoenix Pokémon - Ho-oh himself!