Volyrina's team is out exploring the western lands of the Mist Continent, in search of an access to the Redlands (an area that, ingame, can only be accessed in the postgame). Accompanying Volyrina and Feremiz are two recruits: Crana the Sandile and Cosito the Swoobat.

During the exploration, the team suffers an accident due to a landslide wiping them off the hillside, with only Cosito getting out unscratched. With the rest of the team hurt, they are forced to retreat back home, which necessitates them getting assistance from other explorers (Guest Starring _hop's Team Best Wishes).

Back at Post, Feremiz is instructed to stay at home due to his leg wound still needing time to heal. It is during this convalescence that he discovers that Volyrina has more or less turned their place into a half-office half-storage where she is sorting out various old outlaw notices, and he grows irked at this perceived disrespect.

The initial scene with the exploration and the accident takes place a (hopefully short) distance east from the Redland Reaches. a map in Gates… the player can reach after the Glacier Exploration plot flag. The team's failure to reach that location reflects the map's unavailability until the required plot flag is solved.

Most of the story afterwards takes place in or near the player's hut at to-be-Paradise in Gates….

Nothing in the story proper determines if the story goes before or after Espeon and Umbreon join the team; however in either case the story would take place at most a short time before the events in Making the World Go ’Round since that story does imply Espeon and Umbreon have been at Post Town for a while.