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Hounded / The Sorceress' Apprentice.Hounded: While on a picnic with the girls, Kaz, and their pets, Zac misses his dog Rocket and wishes that Rocket was in Zahramay Falls. As a result Rocket is summoned to Zahramay Falls where he reunites with Zac, the girls, Tala, and Nahal. However Parisa, Kaz, and Zain are frightened by Rocket as they have never encountered a dog before due to them being native to Leah and Zac's world and not Zahramay Falls. While Leah manages to calm Parisa, Rocket ends up scaring Kaz and Zain who flee when the dog playfully chases them to the marketplace. Meanwhile, Princess Samira takes her staff to the Genie Jeweler to have it polished, while Zeta hides with Nazboo nearby planning to steal it again. As Rocket chases Kaz and Zain into the marketplace he scares the other genies who like Kaz are unfamiliar with dogs and mistake Rocket for a monster. Zeta and Nazboo also mistake Rocket for a monster though are not frightened by him and Zeta decides to use him to scare the Genie Jeweler to steal Samira's staff. Meanwhile girls and Zac follow Rocket, Kaz, and Zain to the marketplace where they find Kaz and Zain hiding. They remind Kaz of how people where scared of Zain at first, convincing him and Zain to give Rocket a chance. Zac decides to think like a dog by acting like one which he is very good at due to having learned from Rocket. Meanwhile Zeta manages to use a Lasso Potion to tie a rope onto Rocket which she uses as a leash, though Rocket ends up pulling her and Nazboo around the marketplace, though she manages to get him under control and uses a banana to lead him into scaring the Genie Jeweler, allowing her to steal the staff. However, Zac, Kaz, the girls, and their pets manage to arrive and Zac uses a toy dog bone to make Rocket run around, wrapping Zeta up in the leash lasso tied to Rocket who retrieves Samira's staff. Samira arrives and knowing Rocket is Zac's pet dog thanks to having observed Shimmer and Shine's adventures in Leah and Zac's world, thanks them for retrieve her staff by permitting Rocket to accompany Zac to Zahramay Falls whenever he wants, though a frustrated Zeta hopes that it won't be all the time.
The Sorceress' Apprentice: After learning that Zac managed to create a really difficult potion while helping Kaz and the girls, Zeta decides to use magic to make Zac forget his identity, so she can convince him into believing that he is her apprentice in the hopes he can help her create potions that will make Zeta all powerful. However unbeknownst to Zeta, Nazboo failed to get the right kind of flower to create her Forget-Me Potion to remove Zac's memory and it is later revealed that Zac had not lost his memory and accompanied Zeta of his own free will as he thought it would be fun. After Zeta is rescued from an out of control Storm Potion, Zeta is touched when Zac reveals he played along as he considered Zeta a friend.