pokemon Fighting Dreamers

"Ash...you kissed me." Bea broke the silence and looked to another direction as she blushed.

"Yes...I did." He answered doing the same.

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The two then looked at each other, centering their sight on their lips and blushing even more in realization of what they just did. "I'll go to my room! See you tomorrow!" Both shouted at the same time as they ran in different directions and entered their rooms, locking the door behind them.

"CINDERACE!" Bea shouted releasing her starter.

"What's wrong?" The rabbit asked.

"Cinderace, Ash kissed me!" She exclaimed with excitement.

"Did you have one of those weird dreams again?" Cinderace gave her a worried look.

"No, I didn't, he really kissed me! Right here in the lips!"

"He did?"

"HE DID!"

"Oh my god, what?!" Seeing Bea's excitement, Cinderace understood she was being serious. "H-How did that even happen?"

"I, well, Roxie and Gloria confessed to him and well, then I tried to kiss him but I cowered, then he...well, he simply did it himself, he took my face and..." Bea covered her face in embarrassment and sat on her bed. "Gosh, I feel like I could explode."

"I'm really happy for you, girl."

"I...I-I'm almost there, Cinderace, I can feel it!" The girl gave a hopeful smile and her Pokemon responded with a chuckle.

"That's so great..." Cinderace was simply rejoiced of seeing her smiling like that, but as much as she wanted, she couldn't forget Bea's little situation. "But..Bea, I don't want to break your moment, but you still haven't...you know..."

"You just had to..." Bea's smile died a little as she sighed. "It's kinda funny...Most of time I tend to forget about all those things."

"Bea...Saito." Cinderace called her by real name to get her attention. "Don't misunderstand me, I'm super happy for you and...and you don't know how much I hate to be the one that's always reminding you the bad stuff, but you can't just ignore it, if these things keep going like this...if you two do become a couple...I'm just saying, with all that Ash has helped you he has the right the know."

"He does, but...It's not fair...we are so close, the truth would crush him, I'd be taking all those steps back...why can't I just keep living this life?"

"It's not fair for Ash either, Saito...the more you two stay together, the more he loves you, the more it'll end up hurting him when he finds out, if you had just told him from the beginning you wouldn't have to worry, but you're so deep into this lie now...just think about it, he's going to feel so betrayed, he could lost his trust on you, he could even end up hating you, is that really what you want?"

"O-Of course not!"

"Then if you...if you don't do it then I'll do it myself."

"You what?"

"I'll tell Infernape, he won't let you get close to him, Ash will know something is wrong and when he ask you what is it you'll have to respond!"

"C-Cinderace!"

"Saito, I...I forgave you lots of things, I know you had a lot of hard times back home, I know you're really happy now, I thank Arceus everyday for that, for letting you escape safely, meet Ash and finally be happy again, but-"

"Aren't you happy too?" Bea interrupted. "Isn't being with Ash better than being home? ...What about Infernape? Won't he fell betrayed too if you tell him?"

"Saito, I am happy, yes, I...I love Infernape too...the last thing I want to do is to ruin this little 'family' we've all built...but you know this can't go on for much longer, just look at where we are! Stow-on-Side is just a few miles away, how can you be sure that your father or one of those idiots who work for him aren't close or even here?"

"I just prefer not to worry about that." She answered. "Besides we'll be going to Wyndon after Ash fight the Gym here, we won't even get close to Stow-on-Side." Bea continued in denial.

Cinderace simply lowered her head and sighed. "This will end poorly unless you stop it, you know it well, you want him to return your feelings so bad, but you're still trying to keep hiding all that from him...I'll give you two days to tell him."

"Y-You can't just do that!"

Cinderace ignored her and took her Premier Ball to return herself. "Two days, Saito." She said to her trainer before being recalled.

"C-Cinderace, that's not funny..." Bea took the Premier Ball in her hand and tried to release her Pokemon, but the latter refused to come out. "C-Cinderace?" Bea called again to no avail. "Don't you dare!" Bea tossed the ball with force to the floor but Cinderace stayed inside. "Fine...have it your way." The girl finally put the Ball inside her backpack and closed it. "She's just overacting... We'll be fine, Ash...Ash doesn't need to know, not now that we're like this." Bea touched her lips for a moment. "...But Cinderace is right...if I had just told him earlier... what's wrong with me?"

"Boy...I've done it now." Ash said to himself sitting next to the door. "Why did I do that? Why do I keep doing things like that? As if it wasn't enough back when I kissed Nessa in her cheek now I just took it too far."

"Kapi?"

"...Do you think I did the right thing?" He asked his partner. "Bea is kinda right, I've spent the most time with her, it would make sense that I choose her, but...what about the rest? ...is just like she said, I don't understand why I care so much about them, now Roxie and Gloria are part of the problem too."

"Chu?" The mouse sat next to him.

"It's the same thing happening again...Roxie's great, she's really assertive, confident and...god, she knows how to flirt... and Gloria's crazy in a good way, really energetic, a great battler, I can tell her heart burns everytime she fights...she somewhat reminds of me...yeah, I guess that was her point, wasn't it?" Ash laughed for a brief moment. "With all that she told me today, I can't imagine how she would feel when I...I don't even want to say it, that'll hurt her so much...I like you...how can three words mess me up so much? Mom said it's up to me, but I...I don't even understand myself anymore, Pikachu...what's wrong with me?"

Next day, both our heroes hesitated to leave their rooms, but eventually they gave in and met each other in the front door of the center.

"...Uh, good morning." They said together after a bit of silence. "S-Sorry, you go first...no, I don't want to... look, I'm sorry, could you just-..."

"Ash..." Bea finally talked first and Ash gave her a sign to go on. "Why...did you kiss me?"

"I...was it wrong?" He asked.

"That's not what I'm asking, I-I just want to know, you...was it some kind of payback for the teasing or did you really wanted to do it?"

"I...I wanted to do it." He admitted. "When you approached me to do it first I was...I guess I would have just let it happen and I was somewhat disappointed that you cowered, so I...I just did it."

"I...uh, well, I see." Bea took another deep breath. "But where does that leave us?"

"I'd like to know." Ash answered with a sigh. "...Let's just go to the Gym, ok?" Ash started to walk away.

"Hey, when I said I liked it, I really mean it." Bea called him again. "It was...it was something wonderful, I've never felt like that."

"...I liked it too, Bea...but I'm not sure if..."

"Not sure if what?"

"I'm...not sure if I should have done it." Ash then left the center and Bea stood silent for a minute.

"Not this again..." She said weakly.

Our heroes then went to the Stow-on-the-Other-Side Gym, they had to climb a huge set of stairs since the stadium was up in a mountain and they didn't say much to each other on the way there, aside from an occasional 'watch your step', once they made it to the top, they noticed the Gym was closed but there was someone standing in front of the main gate.

"Hey, hey! It's me! Ball Guy!" A tall man with a red shirt, grey pants and a Poke Ball for head greeted them as he blocked the entrance of the gym.

"Uh...nice to meet you, Ball Guy, my name is Ash, I would like to challenge the Gym."

"Well, of course you could, but the leader isn't here right now." The mascot explained.

"Do you know where he is?" Ash asked.

"Well, the kid loves to go to the cemetery, he's most likely there."

"Got it, we'll go there, thanks." Ash started to walk downstairs and Bea simply followed them.

"Have fun!" Ball Guy waved at them as they left the place.

Ash and Bea kept walking and they quickly made it to the cemetery, it was your classic Pokemon graveyard, graves here and there, plenty of ghost Pokemon floating around, although the place was really big, they couldn't even see the end of it in the distance.

"Finding the leader might take us a while." Bea said.

"For such a small town it seems a lot of people have died here." Ash replied looking around, there wasn't any other human besides them, the duo then heard a splashing sound that apparently cane from a nearby tree.

"Did you hear that?" She asked and Ash nodded, the two then walked to tree silently but there was nowhere to be seen. "Maybe it was nothing."

"I think..." Ash looked at the shadow of the tree and two yellow eyes suddenly appeared inside of it. "What the-" A shadowy figure suddenly rose jumped from the shadow of the tree and passed through Ash landing on his shadow instead, the yellow eyes now watched him from there, Ash tried to touch it, but his palm simply met the ground as the eyes disappeared. "Uh, you saw that too, right?"

"Yes, I did, looks like it's just a ghost type." Bea answered calling out her Gallade. "Hey, can you see if there's something inside Ash's shadow?"

Gallade nodded and used Shadow Sneak to turn into his shadow form, he then entered his hands on Ash's shadow taking out a lizard-like Pokemon with a wide black head that had two lateral horns and various yellow triangles on it.

"Hello there, my name is Ash." He greeted the Pokemon.

"I'm Bea, this is Gallade." She added as Gallade let go of him and returned to his normal form.

"And you are?" Ash asked taking out his Rotom Phone. 'Drakloak, the caretaker Pokemon, it battles alongside Dreepy and dotes on them until they successfully evolve. Without a Dreepy to place on its head and care for, it gets so uneasy it'll try to substitute any Pokémon it finds for the missing Dreepy...side note, this Drakloak is shiny.'

''But where is your Dreepy?'' Bea asked noticing Drakloak was alone, the Pokemon then gave her a sad look.

''...Maybe because he's shiny.'' Ash said.

''How so?''

''Maybe the Dreepys don't want to be with him because he looks different.'' He said as the Drakloak nodded, the latter then jumped back to Ash's shadow without saying anything.

"So he's an outcast." Bea said.

"Poor guy." Ash added still looking at the information in the Pokedex. "If things were like that for him as a Dreepy, then that means neither a Dragapult or other Drakloak took care of him, he must feel lonely."

"Hah! Well, well, well Look who it is!" Someone talked from behind of them and the duo looked around, it was none other than Bede, looking at them with a grin. "We meet yet again, Ash Ketchum!" He exclaimed pointing at him.

"...Do I know you?" Ash asked.

"YES, YOU DO!" Bede exclaimed. "I'm your rival!''

''...you are?" Ash asked again.

''Of course I am!"

"...Oh, it's you." Ash finally recognized him. "You're the guy who Rookidee fought back in Galar Mine No. 2 ...what was your name again?''

''I'M BEDE! How did you forget about me? Did you forget our battle too?!''

''I don't know, that one seemed pretty one-sided.'' Bea said.

"You piece of- Argh! I demand a rematch! three on three, come on!"

"Alright, I suppose we can do that." After hearing all the ruckus, Drakloak suddenly came out of Ash's shadow and stood in front of him. "Uh, Drakloak? ...do you want to fight alongside me?" He asked as Drakloak simply looked back at him and then to Bede again. "I'll take that as a yes."

"This will be a no-brainer, come on, Reiniclus!" Bede released the cell Pokemon who stood in front of him with a smile.

"Drak!" the Dragon roared as Ash scanned him again to see his moves.

"Dragon Claw, Shadow Ball, Hydro Pump and Steel Wing, got it."

"You don't even know the moves of that Pokemon?" Bede asked. "HAHAHAHA! Don't make it that easy, mate."

"Give us your best, Drakloak!" Ash cheered as the Pokemon gave an angry growl caused by Bede's laugh.

"If both trainers are ready, then the battle begins now!" Bea exclaimed.

"Psywave!" Bede made the first move as Reiniclus' eyes illuminated and he shot a pink energy beam.

"Hydro Pump!" Drakloak surprisingly obeyed and shot a huge stream of water from his mouth, outpowering the Reiniclus and knocking him back a little. "Now Shadow Ball!" Drakloak now formed the move on his tail and he waved it around tossing the attack to Reiniclus.

"Flash Cannon!" Reiniclus put his hands in front of him, the red orbs on them shot the attack and it broke through the Shadow Ball, but Drakloak used his speed to avoid it.

"Use Ice Punch!"

"Steel Wing!" Drakloak's head was surrounded by a metallic shine and he charged against Reiniclus, the metal easily broke through the ice and the hit Reiniclus right on his head.

"Dragon Claw!" Drakloak roared as his stubby arms turned into huge green energy claws and he slashed Reiniclus several times, Reiniclus then managed to stop him, grabbing the ghost with both his arms, Drakloak tried to phase through to escape, but the gelatinous substance that formed Reiniclus' body stopped him from doing so.

"You're not going anywhere! Psywave!"

"Shadow Ball!" Before Reiniclus could charge the Psywave, Drakloak used his free tail to attack with the ghost move which exploded right onto Reiniclus' face.

"Now Steel Wing!"

"Protect!" The cell put his arms in front of him summoning a pink screen to protect himself, but Drakloak simply phased through it and landed the attack cleanly, defeating Reiniclus.

"Reiniclus is unable to battle! Drakloak is the winner!" Bea announced.

"But how?!" Bede exclaimed.

"Drakloak ability is Infiltrator, he can get through that kind of things." Ash explained.

"I wasn't asking you!" Bede shouted returning Reiniclus. "Let's go, Rapidash!"

'Galarian Rapidash, the Unique Horn Pokemon, Brave and prideful, this Pokémon dashes airily through the forest, its steps aided by the psychic power stored in the fur on its fetlocks.' The Rotom Phone explained.

"So, it's part Fairy." Ash said looking at the horse's information. "Drakloak, that was amazing, but I'll call you out for now, okay?"

The Dragon simply nodded and jumped back to Ash's shadow causing a little splash.

"Alright, Lucario, I choose you!" Ash called onto the canine.

"Use Psycho Cut!" Bede ordered as the horse swinged his head around and a pink crescent blade came out from his horn.

"Metal Claw!" Ash quickly responded and Lucario slashed the move away. "Go get him!" Lucario then ran at Rapidash trying to hit him with the Metal Claws.

"Mystical Fire!" Rapidash neighed as his horn turned bright red and expelled a stream of fire from it, knocking Lucario back for a moment. "Easy and simple, do it again!"

"Bone Rush!" Lucario got up and formed the staff and spun it Infront of him dispersing the flames, he then ran at the horse again and smacked his head several times with the Bone Rush, the attacks left Rapidash on the ground, but he was still capable of fighting.

"What do you think you're doing?!" Bede exclaimed. "Get up! Get up!"

"Alright, Lucario, let's try something." Ash said while Rapidash recovered.. "You remember how we passed the Aura to the Metal Claws? Can you do something similar to the Bone Rush?"

Lucario gave a bark of approval and nodded, focusing the energy on the staff causing it turn blue and flow with Aura. Just as this happened Rapidash finally stood up again.

"Drill Run!" Rapidash's horn elongated and he ran at Lucario trying to use it as a spear, Lucario quickly used the bone to smack his face, creating a small explosion as he did so and stopping Rapidash.

"Play Rough!" Rapidash neighed again and was surrounded by pink energy as he ran at Lucario.

"Throw an Aura Sphere up!" Lucario tossed the move to the air to distract Rapidash, the latter looked up to it and Lucario took the chance to Slash him several times with a Metal Claw using his free hand, once the Aura Sphere fell down, Lucario used the staff as a baseball bat to hit the sphere sending it flying at Rapidash and creating another explosion that sent flying and defeated to the ground.

"Rapidash is unable to battle! Lucario is the winner!" Bea announced again. "Geez, these guys are falling like flies, how did you become endorsed by the chairman again?"

"Shut up! Tch, I knew trading my Indeedee for this thing wasn't worth it." Bede said. "That girl totally scammed me, whatever, go on, Hatterene!" He called onto his starter.

"Alright, thanks Lucario, last time I checked that Hatterene had Mystical Fire too so I'll call you back for now, ok?" Lucario nodded and he was recalled by his trainer. "Corvisquire, I choose you!" As always, the flying type landed on Ash's head as he was being called out.

"That stupid bird." Bede scoffed at them. "You won't get lucky this time."

"Let's start with Agility!" Corvisquire quickly flew to the battlefield and boosted his speed. "Let's go! Behemoth Bash!"

"Alright Hatterene, we've been waiting for this! This time it won't-" Before Bede could say anything the move landed causing an explosion and Hatterene was sent flying, falling defeated right Infront of him. "W-What?..."

"Wow..." Ash trailed off.

"Uh... Hatterene is unable to battle, Corvisquire wins..."

"I... T-That's impossible." Bede said weakly. "I'm the Chairman's protégé, this shouldn't be happening, how can I lose like this?"

"Bede, I-" Ash tried to talk with him.

"Shut." He interrupted. "This doesn't mean anything, this was nothing but a waste of time, I have better things to do, I came to this abandoned town for a special mission from Rose after all."

"And would that mission be?" Ash asked.

"You really think I'll tell you?" Bede returned his Pokemon and then walked away in silence.

"Boy, are you okay Corvisquire?" He asked at the flying type who nodded so Ash returned him, Drakloak then rose from his shadow again and looked up to him. "Thanks for the help, Drakloak, but the battle is over, we were glad to have you tho." Drakloak smirked and phased through Ash again, taking a free Poke Ball from his pocket and getting himself caught.

"Well, didn't I see that coming?" Bea said with a laugh.

"I caught a Drakloak!" Ash made his usual celebration.

"May I ask why you always do that?" Bea asked.

"I thought you liked it." Ash replied embarrassed.

"And I do." Bea assured him as they both laughed. "Hey, can we talk about that now?"

"I'd...Bea, I swear, I don't want things to be difficult between us."

"Well, things are definitely difficult as of now."

"You know this ain't much easier for me either, I'm...I really don't know why I did that to begin with."

"Why did you kiss Nessa back then?"

"I...I wanted to do it, but it wasn't just that, I felt...like I needed to return her feelings, show her that I actually cared, that I actually valued all those things she told me...that may be the reason why I kissed you, you were going to do it first after all..."

"Look, Ash, I can tell you care a lot for me, but…even after all this you're seriously still thinking about the other girls?"

"To be honest, in moments like this..." Ash took a pause and sighed. "Is in moments like this when I think the most about them."

Route 6, Galar.

Gloria and company were picking up their things after a night of camping, Gloria and Roxie had already finished and they were just sitting together waiting for Marnie and Victor.

"...It's so perfect." Gloria trailed off looking at the hat Ash gave her in her hands

"Girl, you've been staring at that hat for three hours." Roxie said sat next to her. "I'm honestly starting to worry."

"Roxie, don't you get it? This is one of the hats Ash used during his travels, this thing is unique, invaluable and irreplaceable! And he gave it to me of all people." Gloria then took the hat close to her chest. "This is like a dream, I have to grow stronger, I have to win against him!"

"Oh, right, you finally shouted your heart, geez, that 'then I'll be all yours', it leaves a lot for imagination to pick up, don't you think?"

"W-What do you mean?"

"I don't know, what were you meaning?"

"It's just that…After I've been looking up to him for years, not only I met him and battled him, but he's so kind and wonderful and…he really gave this to me, he told me I mean a lot for him…If I could be his…g-g-girlfriend." Gloria blushed embarrassed after saying that last word. "I'd just be the happiest girl on earth…I hope Bea forgives me, I told her I would help her, but after this?" Gloria looked at the hat once more. "I don't want to fight with her, but there's no way I'd just give up on Ash."

"Riiight, I guess you and I are rivals now, aren't we?" Roxie asked.

"Uh, yes, I suppose we are." Gloria answered. "But I don't want to fight with you either."

"Neither do I, you're kinda cool, Gloria." Roxie smiled at her. "So let's forget the brawl, okay? I'm sure Ash knows what he's doing."

Meanwhile in the other side of the camp, Marnie was packing up her things, Victor was watching her from afar, unsure of what to say after what happened in the mine.

"Alright, Vic...just go talk to her." He said to himself. "Be a little more confident on yourself, you know Marnie wasn't serious, what does Ash have that you don't?" Victor thought for a moment about all the things that Gloria always says that Ash does. "...oh, boy." Victor finally built up enough courage and went to talk with her. "Uh, Marnie?"

"Do you need something...Victor?" That was the first time in forever she didn't call him Vic, boy, was he screwed.

"I...l-look I'm sorry for-"

"For having those pictures of Melony?" Marnie asked sarcastically.

"I told you it's not what it looks like! I just respect her work!"

"You just respect her bust!" Marnie exclaimed.

"I-I don't mind that you don't have-"

"Victor Sodo Tsurutate, if you complete that phrase, I'll show you these heels aren't just for show."

"…Sorry, I-I really don't know why I doubted you…I was just worried for a brief moment, that's all."

"…I still feel distrusted." Marnie crossed her arms.

"I promise it won't happen again."

"…Considering you thought it would have happened, what would you have done then?"

"What?"

"What would you do if I left you for Ash or anyone else for that matter? Would you try to get me back? Would you fight for me?"

"I'd respect your choice." Victor quickly answered. "After all, I cant force you to love me if you don't want to, but most importantly if you left that would mean I wasn't good enough for you...and although I try to give you my all and be a better person for you everyday, I'm no experienced battler, I'm no expert traveler…I'm just Vic."

"...You are my Vic." She looked at him taking both of his hands.

"So…we good?"

"We good." Marnie answered kissing his lips.

"H-Hey, one last thing, back in the cave you were just trying to make me jealous?"

"Hmm…maybe, did it work?"

"Most definitely." Victor admitted.

Marnie then gave him a short giggle. "Then I'm satisfied…but you better erase those photos."

"S-Sure, I'll do it." He assured him giving her a hug. 'Great, now she will never suspect that my Rotom Phone has a secret vault to save the photos.' Victor thought.

'Great, now he will never suspect I actually think Ash is pretty hot.' Marnie thought on her side, well, every couple has its secrets, right?

Shalour City, Kalos.

Korrina was walking in circles in her room, since Ash told her he'd be going there she's been at full throttle, she needed to be ready when he arrived, she needed to train her Pokemon so they could give him a good rematch, and most importantly she needed to have both stones ready for him, she told her grandfather Gurkinn about it and he offered himself to make the key stone holder, but Korrina declined, she insisted that she would do it herself, she wanted it to be a special gift from her to Ash, the problem was that she had no idea about what she would do, her room was full of sketches, prototypes and scratched ideas, while her Mienfoo, Machoke and Lucario were simply watching her.

"Alright, let's recap." Korrina began with some sketches made both by her and by her Pokemon in her hand. "The first idea was to put it on that green spot of his cap, right? It'll be cool, I watched some of Ash's most recent battles and I know he has a Z-ring and a Dynamax Band so if he wears those two on each hand, it'll be kinda like a triangle of power, you follow me?"

All of her Pokemon nod.

"Great, but then I noticed something." Korrina took a pause and showed them a picture of Ash on his Gym uniform. "You see this? Ash isn't wearing gloves anymore soooo if I give him new gloves, most specifically, gloves like mine, that would make him think of me everytime he uses it, right?"

Her Pokemon nodded again.

"But then again, it'll kinda feel out of place, if you put it together with the ring and the band, all at the same time, so we'll be exploring some options." Korrina started to look at the sketches one by one. "The bracelet is obviously discarded, he already has two of those, the placement for an anklet seems a little weird, I guess we could use a bandana, but Ash has a hat, it'll also look weird, a ring wouldn't fit him, a pendant may work but…nah, scratch that too." Korrina sighed. "...I think I have an idea, listen to this...alright, so it's a tank."

"CA?"

"But a small tank." She continued. "And it has a skull on it and can talk to people, Ash will pull it out of his pocket and WHAT AM I EVEN SAYING?!" Korrina shouted after hearing herself and tossed all the sketches to the floor.

"Foo..."

"This has to be perfect!" She shouted again. "It'll be the first time we meet in two years! And he's coming all the way from Galar just for this! just for..."

-I don't feel obliged, I feel like I want to see you- The memory of her conversation with Ash has been living rent-free in her head since then.

"GAAAAAAH!" She screamed while she blushed. "I can't screw this up! Whatever the key stone ends up being I have to make sure Ash loves it! And none of you are going to sleep until we have something good enough for him!"

All her Pokemon sighed and started to draw some more ideas.

Nessa's Mansion, Hulbury.

Valerie was in her room, Nessa was fighting a Gym challenger so the Fairy expert was alone, alone with her thoughts, since Ash helped her, she has been kinda mixed, she's been making a lot of great designs, sure, but now she had another problem caused by that certain boy.

"Why am I feeling like this?" She asked herself looking at the dress Ash help her design. "Since he helped...since he saved me, I just can't help but think about him, Ash is so thoughtful, the fact that he helped so much despite barely knowing me...but that doesn't give me the right to be in love with him...I mustn't...If Nessa knew about this...to think her friend would betray her in such a way...how could I-?"

"Hey, Valerie!" Nessa suddenly entered her room.

"GAH! Nessa, I'm sorry!" Valerie exclaimed kneeling on the ground in front of Nessa, pleading for mercy.

"Uh...sorry for what?" Nessa asked.

"It's, uh...n-never mind..." Valerie stood up and tried to change the topic. "How was your fight?"

"Girl, I'm on a roll! I made another 3-0 swept, I don't know if that kiss gave me fuel or something, but gosh, I feel so alive."

"You and Ash will surely make quite the power couple together." Valerie said.

"I hope so." Nessa smiled with a blush. "But we still need to find you a boyfriend too, don't we?

"T-That's not necessary." Valerie stuttered, not trying to think about that certain topic. "Besides, I'm not much of a girlfriend material."

"Hey, don't be like that, you're as charming as one can be." Nessa said. "Tell me, how would you like your partner to be?"

"I..." Valerie though for a second before answering. "I would like someone that takes care of me, someone who will protect me and help me when I'm feeling down, someone who can cook would be nice too."

"That's sounds...kinda like Ash." Nessa said with a suspecting look.

"Uh..." Valerie's mind went blank after she heard herself. "M-Must be a coincidence."

"Valerie, is there something you're not telling me?" Nessa continued.

"I, uh..." Valerie looked around to try and find a way out. "H-Hey, you remember that little joke you made to Ash? W-When you proposed to him?"

"Yeah, what for?"

"I mean, if you really want that to happen, I could start making your wedding dress."

"W-W-WEDDING DRESS!" Nessa stammered blushing and completely forgot what they were talking about as she imagined the scene.

"Uh, yeah, how would you like it?"

"I-It has to be blue, okay?!" Nessa exclaimed.

"Blue it'll be, noted." Valerie sighed relieved as Nessa forgot her suspicions.

"C-Can it be something, uh, rather light?" The water expert continued to ask.

"Light? I guess it can be, but what for?"

"Maybe, I...uh, you know." Nessa looked on another direction as she blushed. "Uh, W-When we have our first night after the wedding and then-"

"Oh, so you-"

"M-Maybe, it's just a little fantasy of mine, I'd like to keep it on when it happens, so if you can, you know, make an easy access to the chest and all that.

"Uh, sure I guess I can do that." Despite the unusual request, Valerie still wanted to help her friend. 'It's fine, I'm sure that making this dress will help me forget about Ash.' She thought.

"Could you make it with a rather resistant material too?" Nessa asked again. "J-J-Just in case he decides to get rough and wants to-"

"Ok, ok! I get it!" Valerie stopped her before they both imagined the scene and passed out. "I'll start working on it, ok?"

"S-Sure, uh, thanks Val." Nessa then left the room leaving Valerie alone

"Get...rough..." Valerie then dropped herself on the ground and tried to hide her blushing face between her legs in fetal position. "...That didn't help, that didn't help at all."

Sonia's lab, Wedgehurst.

Sonia was preparing the final version of Dracovish's water breathing device, this one was much smaller, it had the size and shape of a computer chip, the young professor then received a video call from her Rotom Phone, her old friend Nessa was calling her.

"Hey, Sonia!" Nessa greeted her first.

"Well, look who it is." Sonia replied. "I thought you had already replaced me with Valerie."

"Hey, don't get jealous, you're both my best friends."

"Yeah, sure, what do you need?"

"What? Can I just call my friend to see how she's doing?"

"Nessa..." Sonia raised her eyebrow.

"It's nothing, really, I was talking with Valerie and well...I just need to clear my mind a little, how is everything?

''Oh, I'm fine, you know, just a bit of work."

"And what are you working on right now?''

''Its a little experiment for one of Ash's Pokemon, long story short, it's a combination of two fossils, it goes against all the laws of nature, but it's kinda precious honestly, it can't breathe out of the water, but it can't swim either, I'm making a little device that will act as some kind of mechanic lung, you follow me? If everything goes smoothly, this little chip will connect to Dracovish's skin and it will absorb the water droplets in the air to deploy then as water inside his body and keep him hydrated, isn't it fascinating?" Once she ended her explanations, Sonia noticed Nessa had fallen sleep, of boredom she supposed.

"...Are you serious?!" She exclaimed.

"Uh?" Nessa suddenly woke up. "Uh, sorry, your explanations are really boring sometimes."

"Why do you ask me what I'm doing if you're not going to listen?!" Sonia complained.

"Sorry, sorry."

"Sigh, where did I lose you?"

"Uh...long story short?"

"SO YOU HEARD NONE OF IT?!"

"Eh..."

"..." Sonia simply cut the call annoyed. "I don't know why I even try." She sighed as a pair of hands suddenly covered her eyes.

"Guess who?"

"Thank you for reminding me I need to lock the door, Leon." She answered to take his hands off and look at the champion. "One of these days it'll be an actual burglar."

"If that ever happens I'll come to your rescue." Leon answered with a short laugh. "Sorry, I haven't visited you in a while, have I?"

"Don't worry about it, I know the champion life keeps you busy."

"Hey, whatcha got there?" Leon asked looking at the chip.

"It's something for Ash, you see?"

"For Ash?"

"Yup, a little invention I made for one of his Pokemon." Sonia gave the device its final touches and smiled content. "Done and done, I hope this will help him on his journey."

"Why the sudden interest in that kid?" Leon asked.

"Is Leon the unbeatable champion who has a Charizard jealous of that kid or something?" Sonia asked back with a teasing look.

"Hmm..." Leon gave her a glare.

"Gosh, calm down, Leon." She laughed at him. "I'm just giving the rising star a little help, that's all, just like Rose, he gave him a VIP pass the other day."

"He did what?"

"What you heard, he actually gave him two, the other was for her friend."

"He didn't even gave Cynthia a VIP pass when she visited Galar."

"Well, I guess Rose really has faith in the boy then."

"...I have to go to Wyndon to talk with Rose." Leon suddenly gave a frown.

"Since you'll be doing that, can you give this to Ash?" Sonia offered him the chip.

"What are you talking about?"

"Rose said he wanted Ash to meet him in Wyndon so I'll guess he'll be there too."

"What? What for?"

"I dunno, he only said that he wanted to have a more private conversation with Ash, something about an offer he wanted to give him."

"Is that so..."

"So, can you give this to Ash?" Sonia offered the chip again. "It'll be easier if you go in my place."

"Sure." Leon took the device and then left the lab.

"Try not to get lost!" Sonia joked as he left.

'...What are you up to, Ash?' Leon asked in his mind.

Rose Tower, Wyndon.

Peonia was being guided by a Macro Cosmos Employee to her uncle's office to do some standard paperwork for new Gym Leaders, once they made it there, they noticed Rose wasn't in the office, so the employee simply left her alone, Peonia sat in one of the chairs in front of the desk of the office, after roughly 10 minutes her uncle still didn't appear and she started to get bored, the girl looked around at the place, pictures of Rose along the Gym Leaders and Leon everywhere on the walls, Recognitions and prizes for the Galar league, she then looked at the desk infront of her, a bunch of papers, a Wishing Star and a tablet were on it. "That tablet must belong to Uncle Rose." She said, a part of her had curiosity to see what it was inside, but that tablet belonged to her uncle, even more, her now boss, she couldn't do such thing, she had self respect...that was until the tablet received a message notification. Peonia then took the device in her hands to look at it.

"Project Brightest Night." She read the title of the notification, Peonia walked to the door of the office and looked at both sides of the hall, no one to be seen, she then went back to the tablet. "I don't want to be that guy, Uncle Rose, but that ain't a title you give to a ceremony or something...now what could your password be?" Peonia tried with Rose's birthday, with her father's and then with hers, but none of the three worked. "...it wasn't gonna be that easy...how about?"

'Password correct: Peonyisapeanutbraingarbageimpidimp'

"Called it." Peonia laughed as she opened the file, there seemed to be the blueprints for something. "Hmm...it looks like a modified version of the Hammerlocke Energy Plant...with Wishing Stars as the power source? That's pretty dangerous." Peonia then closed the blueprints and looked at the name of the person who sent the message. "Mr. G? What's this? An 80's movie?" The girl suddenly heard some steps approaching the door, she pulled out her Rotom Phone and took a picture of the blueprints, she then closed them and turned off the tablet, sitting back in the chair as fast as she could.

"Oh, sorry, my dear Peonia." Rose greeted her as he entered the office. "I didn't mean to keep you waiting."

"I-It's alright, no problem." She stuttered a little, but still tried to look as calm as possible.

"Uh, something wrong?" Rose asked her.

"No, not at all." She assured him.

Rose walked to his desk and noticed the tablet on top of it, he simply took it and put it inside one of the drawers of the desk, locking it with a key. "Hehe, I shouldn't leave those things there, employees can be quite curious when you aren't looking, right?"

"Uh, yeah, you're right."

"Well alright, let's get that paperwork done, shall we?"

"Can't wait." Peonia gave him a smile. 'Uncle Rose...are you hiding something?' She thought.

Malie City, Ula'Ula island, Alola.

The ex-member of the Hoenn Elite Four, Phoebe, had finally returned to her hometown, it has been years since the last time she was there, back when she moved to Hoenn because of her work she used to do frequent visits, but due to how far Alola and Hoenn were, her duties as an Elite Four left her less and less time and she eventually had to stop coming back, that was actually one of the reasons why she retired, Phoebe already went to her parents' house, they were really happy to have her back home, after catching up with them, she was now walking to the library of the city, where she used to work and tell stories to the kids that visited it before leaving to Hoenn, there was a person that she wanted to see there, her 'lil' sister'.

"Alola! Acerola, I'm back!" She called as she entered the library.

"Phoebe!" The younger girl who was reading a book to her friends, Pico and Nene, ran at her along her shiny Mimikyu and gave her a hug. "Alola! Welcome back!"

"Hehe, thanks for the welcoming." Phoebe said as she returned the hug.

"Hey, big sis." Nene called her as she stood next to Pico Infront of the two girls. "Who's she?"

"Well, this is my own big sis." Acerola presented her. "Guys, meet Phoebe."

"Alola, nice to meet you two."

"Alola!" They said together.

"Wow, so you're big sis' big sis." Nene said. "You're a bigger sister?"

"That's one way of putting it." Phoebe answered with a laugh.

"Guys, I'm really sorry, but I would like to catch up with Phoebe." Acerola said. "I haven't seen her in a while, we'll continue the story another time, is that ok?"

"Sure, big sis!" They said together as they left the library, Acerola then guided Phoebe to the living room of the library so they could talk.

"It makes me glad to know you took my place here at the library." Phoebe said with a proud smile.

"It was the least I could do, by the way, what took you so long?" Acerola asked. "I thought you'd be arriving yesterday."

"Uh, well...I ended up in Melemele by accident." She admitted.

"You what?!"

"It's been so long that I mixed up the islands somehow..." Phoebe then made an embarrassed laugh as Acerola pouted.

"Shame on you!" The purple haired pointed at her disappointed.

"Calm down, will you? Huff, how has been everything here in Alola?"

"Oh, you missed a lot, there were these weird Pokemon from another dimensions that attacked the region!"

"Eh?!"

"Yeah! But a group of posing superheroes in colorful outfits stopped them and saved the region! They even have they're own theme song! Theeeey got a power and a force than you've never seen before!" Acerola then played and air guitar as Phoebe simply laughed nervously.

"I...I think you've spent too much time in the science fiction section, but well, what about you? I can see you've matured and grown a lot."

"My thanks, I've been trying my best, I love taking care of the library, Island Kahuna Nanu also named me his second-in-command, although that mostly means scolding him when he's too lazy to do his job and I...well, there's someone..."

"Someone?!" Phoebe exclaimed excited. "Don't tell me you-"

"Yeah, uh, maybe..." Acerola blushed knowing what she would ask and Phoebe gave a wide smile.

"My little Acerola is in love!" She squealed hugging her. "Oh, I'm so happy, tell me who's the lucky guy, or girl, I don't mind as long as you love him, or her! Who is he? Or she? Gah! You get the point! Just tell me! Tell me!"

"He's a boy, you see, he passed all the trials! He defeated Nanu with a single Pokemon against three of his! He even became the first Alolan Champion!"

"The what?!" Phoebe exclaimed at that last bit. "Alola has a champion now?!"

"Yeah, we had a league and everything! I even participated, but I lost at the 16 best."

"Boy, I've missed a lot, didn't I? When did that happen tho?"

"Three months ago, more or less."

"Weird, I was still an Elite Four member back then, I wonder why they didn't tell us about that, I'll have to visit Kukui so I can properly catch up, anyway, back to the important topic, tell me who's your Boojiboo." Phoebe broke the hug and pinched Acerola's cheeks playfully causing her to laugh.

"Fine, fine! He is...his name is Ash, Ash Ketchum."

"Ash Ketchum? You mean messy hair, marks on cheeks Ash Ketchum?"

"That's him!" Acerola nodded with a blush. "Did you two met?"

"We did, poor guy almost died drowned."

"HE WHAT?!" Acerola exclaimed worried.

"Don't worry, girl, I saved him just in time."

"Thanks goodness, Mahalo, Phoebe."

"So, if he is the Champion that means he'll have to come back to Alola soon, any plans to charm him?" She asked as her pupil nodded.

"I got just the thing!" Acerola quickly ran to a shelf and presented a book to Phoebe. "I will make him a love potion!"

"Uh, well, I guess this is the part where I tell you that you can't force someone to love you."

"But it'll be a special potion!" Acerola then searched for another book. "I'll mix it with a curse that will make him die in a terrible accident if he doesn't returns my feelings!" She said all that with a smug smile.

"...He's gonna what?" Phoebe thought she didn't hear her clearly at first.

"You heard me!" Acerola exclaimed still with that smile on his face. "That way he'll surely be mine! Is this life or the next one."

"...That's definitely too much." Phoebe took the books and released her Dusknoir, she then gave him the books and Dusknoir ate them.

"But it was a flawless plan..." Acerola said with a pout.

"Look, let's start with something smaller." Phoebe looked for a green record player and released her Sableye, she then turned on the player and as the disc spun, she put one of Sableye's claws over it, she then opened his mouth and the music started to come from it.

-We can't go out together... with suspicious minds...aaa...and we can't build our dreams...with suspicious minds-

"There, just a bit of mood to help us." Phoebe then sat on the ground and Acerola did the same in front of her. "How about we try a confession? Imagine I'm Ash, ok?"

"Ok!" Acerola gave her a thumbs up.

"Hello, Acerola!" Phoebe began mimicking Ash's voice. "It's so good to see you again! Hey, your friend Phoebe told me you had something important to tell me, what do you need?"

Acerola nodded and then took a deep breath. "Ash! I love you! Please, please, please, marry me! I can get Nanu to be the Clergy! And your three girls can be the maids of honor! Or you can invite them to your bachelor party, I don't mind."

"Wait, what?"

"You know I'm a great big sis, I promise I'll be an even better mother! I want 5 kids! Two black-haired like you, two purple-haired like me and another one with a mix of both! We'll live both together happily and everyday when you return from your champion duties I'll be awaiting for you! We can even do those things from movies where you hug me from behind while I'm cooking your food and then you-"

"Hey, hey, hey! Slow down!" Phoebe closed Sableye's mouth and the music abruptly stopped.

"B-But I'm done yet!" Acerola complained.

"Uh..."

"I want our first daughter to be called Zarala! It's such a cute name!"

"I..."

"You didn't like it? Acerola asked while Phoebe processed all that. "We can name our second daughter Phoebe if you want to."

"...We have a lot of work to do."

Radish Farm, Poni Island, Alola.

"We have a lot of work to do." The Island Kahuna Hapu was gathering radishes in her farm along her Mudsdale and her Golurk, like he would normally do, however, as some other girls around the globe, her mind had been plagued with the image of a certain raven-haired boy. "Come on, not now." She trailed off annoyed.

"Muds?" Her ace tried to call her.

"He's just a kid..." Hapu said to herself, shaking her head to try and remove those images from her mind. "I have better things to do than thinking about him, I'm a Kahuna! I'm way too busy for that silly stuff!" She shouted taking a hold of a Radish and starting to pull it.

"I'm the leader of this island! I don't need love! love is for children!" Another image of Ash shot in her mind causing Hapu to lost focus and accidentally break the radish in half. "ARGH! What's your problem?!" She asked herself smacking the broken radish on her forehead.

"Golurk?" The automaton tried to approach her.

"DO! YOU! MIND?! I'M! SMACKING! MY! HEAD!" She shouted doing said action repeatedly as her Pokemon took some steps back scared of her.

"Hapu?" A voice suddenly called her from behind.

"EEK!" She exclaimed taking cover behind her Mudsdale until she realized who called her. "T-Tapu Fini?!" Hapu looked at the Legendary who was floating right in front of her. "W-What are you doing here?"

"I sensed that your heart beat was skipping." The Legendary explained. "Are you okay? Can I help you in any way?"

"Wait, wait, wait, how did you even-"

"Each Deity has a special connection with its Kahuna." She explained. "We didn't use to pay it much attention, but considering all that happened in Alola recently we decided to be a bit more aware of all of you."

"Oh, I...I see."

"So, can I help you?" The swordfish asked again.

Hapu blinked a few times, a god was asking if she could help her, would it be disrespectful to say no? Would it be disrespectful to say yes? "I...think so..." She finally said. "Tapu Fini, do you know anything about love?"

"Do I know anything about love?" Tapu Fini repeated the question as she looked at the horizon."I know love can fill your heart, but also leave it empty." The deity then shed a tear. "Yes...I know love."

"Uh, great."

"Then what do you need?"

"There's this guy...I can stop thinking about him, he's been infecting my mind, but...I've never been a people person hence I never cared for love and stuff, I don't know what to do or...more like, I don't know if I should do something to begin with."

"I see...I have been there, you remind me of myself all those years ago."

"You were in love before?"

"It was centuries ago, I did love him, but...he was more like a pet to me."

"A pet?" Hapu asked weirded out. "You mean like in a fetishy way?

"What? No! I, argh! Let me rephrase it, ok, ok, huff...I did love him, I would have done anything for him, but the reality of the situation was that I couldn't get too attached to him, it was inevitable that I would outlive him...and when that time came, I promised to him and to myself that I would remember him, but I had to move on to be happy."

"Wow...that's deep...I'm sorry."

"It's alright." The Legendary assured her. "I loved him dearly for the time I was with him and he loved me as well...and deep down, I've got the feeling that some day our fates will make us meet again, so I'll tell you this Hapu, love is a beautiful experience, so go for it and treasure it while you can, have fun as the humans say."

"But what if things don't work out between us?"

"Isn't the motto of the humans to always try despite having unfavorable circumstances? Isn't it always worth a shot? Isn't it better to love once than to never have loved? ...You already fell on the hole, you can't just give up on this."

"Wow..."

"Yes, that's how I reacted when he told me that."

"...Thanks, I'll try to do that." Hapu said.

"Then I wish you luck." Tapu Fini nodded and disappeared in a screen of pink mist.

"Next time we meet, Ash." Hapu looked at the sky confident. "I won't let you go that easily...Hey, wait a sec, since when Tapu Fini can talk?"

Ferris Wheel, Nimbasa City, Unova

Skyla and Elesa, best friends since they were both in kindergarten, Gym Leaders, tied for the most beautiful girls in Unova for 9 years consecutives, were sharing a day off together, right now they were at the Ferris Wheel, simply enjoying the view.

"Welp, you were right." Skyla said. "This wheel is just perfect, Nimbasa is so great, I wish Mistralton had more interesting things."

"Well, Mistralton does have its charm." Elesa replied.

"Eh, there's nothing much besides the cargo service, I'm trying to find a good attraction for the place but I'm still thinking...Hey, now that we're alone, can I tell you something?"

"What thing?" Elesa asked her.

"It's a secret, okay? It's very important and personal, promise me you won't tell anyone."

"Why, of course, I won't, I still owe you one for helping me with my PR makeover."

"Yeah, about that, no offense, but I kinda preferred you as a blonde, seriously, what's with those headphones?"

"I'm sure you'll get used to it." Elesa laughed.

"Fine...here goes, you remember Ash Ketchum?" That question caused Elesa to laugh. "Uh?"

"How I could forget that battle, geez, poor boy was...HAHAHAHA!"

"Heh, yeah, he has potential, but he's a bit of bad decision maker sometimes...kinda like me."

"Kinda like you, uh?" Elesa asked with a grin. "Don't tell me, my dear Skyla fell in love with Ash Ketchum?"

"I just can't get him out of my head." Skyla admitted as she blushed. "Unlike with you, we had a really intense battle, I had...I had forgotten how much I loved actual Pokemon battles, how I feel so high-flying when it happens, my heart pumping, my breathing getting heavy, I love that feeling, the unpredictability of the result even despite Type match-ups, I can't believe I made those stupid air battle things, not only I was failing my duties, I was getting rid of the fun for both the challengers and for me, I'm so glad Ash broke through it to show me how wrong I was."

"Well, he's kinda cool, don't you *cough* agree, Gus?"

"Elesa..." Skyla sighed tired of the bad puns she's been making all day.

"Yeah, yeah, look, I'm not saying there's anything wrong, but Ash might be just a bit too young for you."

"Y-You think so?" Skyla stuttered worried, her best friend was the last person she expected to judge her for that. "From what I've seen lately of him, he's on late teens, we have a 5-6 age difference at much."

"As I told you, I don't mind, you can do you, but well, you know what they say, everyone's a critic, especially for Gym Leaders like us, they always expect us to be perfect in every way."

"Yeah, I guess you have a point, besides, Ash must have better options than me, that girl Iris seemed like she liked him." Skyla then looked out to the window. "I...I'm sure I love him, but if I confessed to Ash, he'd probably just laugh at me..." Skyla got sad for a moment but then she blushed. "And gosh, push me to the ground and..." Her frown suddenly turned into a smile. "l-laugh at me some more and then..." Skyla finally remembered her friend was with her and tried to calm down. "Uh, what were we talking about?"

"...Down bad, astronomically."

"Anyway, you're right, maybe it is impossible."

"Great, now she will never suspect that I'm just trying to get Ash for myself." Elesa said.

"You what?"

"Now I just need to get Nessa out of the way and Ash will be all mine." The model continued.

"...Elesa, you just said that out loud."

"I know that she said I said that out loud, but there's no way I did, she has no idea what's going on in my super-mind."

"Super-mind?"

"GAH?!" It was at this moment, Elesa knew, she was done for.

"You like Ash too?!" Skyla exclaimed. "Y-You're even older than me!"

"Eh..." The Ferris Wheel suddenly stopped and Elesa then ran out of the passenger car. "We'll talk about this later!"

"GET BACK HERE, SHIRLEY!" Skyla shouted following her.

Lavaridge Town Hotsprings, Hoenn.

Ash and Flannery were both in a sauna, with only their towels on, enjoying a heated and sweaty kiss.

"You're so naughty, Flannery." Ash broke the kiss as they both panted. "You know someone could come through that door at any moment, right?"

"I don't care if they see us!" She shouted. "Show them I'm your property!"

"Oh, really?" Ash gave her ass a firm spank. "Are these my property?"

"Y-You know they are! SPANK ME HARDER!"

"Geez, what am I gonna do with you?" Ash then looked down at her breasts. "These big girls need some attention too, don't they?"

"Y-Yes, just like that." Flannery shivered as he touched her. "You're such a good boy, Ash."

"YOU HORNY HOUNDOOM!" Back in reality, May threw a bucket of cold water over a sleeping Flannery, the two were sharing a room in the Pokemon Center of Sootoopolis, May had to go there for some contest paper work and Flannery decided to accompany her.

"GAH!" Flannery woke up and jumped out of her bed. "M-M-MAY!" She shouted at the girl as she shivered by the cold. "W-W-WHAT'S YOUR DEAL?!"

"My deal is that you were sleep talking." She answered blankly.

"Oh..." Flannery's expression went blank as well. "...Uh...how much did you hear?"

"Quite enough."

"Uh, sorry, I-"

"Yeah, I really don't think I'll be able to sleep for the rest of the night thanks to you...hmm, I'll go make a call." May said leaving the room.

"Uh, well, sorry again." Flannery was left alone, she then changed the wet sheets of the bed and tried to sleep again. "...I wonder if I can get back to that dream where I left it." She wondered.

Temporal Tower, Sinnoh.

"Finally, we've made it to the top." Danika said leading the way with Quillon and Goh right behind her.

"I still can't believe that Domino decided to steal those Time Gears." Goh said.

"Well, the fact that time itself is embodied in physical objects that can be taken without trouble at all isn't exactly practical." Quillon replied holding one of the blue gears in his hands.

The ground suddenly shaked as red clouds with black lightnings appeared in the sky.

"Everyone okay?" Danika asked once the quake stopped.

"I'm fine." Quillon answered.

"Me too." Goh said as well.

"We have to be quick, this tower feels like it's going to shake apart any moment." The trio then walked until they made it to a blue wall with various scripts and five indentations on it.

"Five slots, five gears." Goh said taking the bag with the gears and walking to the wall.

"But what about the sixth gear that Domino took with her when she escaped?" Danika asked.

"Let's not worry about that for now." Quillon answered.

"This will be easy." Goh continued. "I only have to put them the-"

"Look out!" Tsurugi warned as a blue thunder fell from the sky, he took Goh out the way, but in the process the latter let the bag fall and the gears rolled away in different directions.

"You gotta be kidding me." Quillon said annoyed as the place turned darker out of a sudden. "Uh...not a good sign."

"SO! IT'S YOU!" A dismal voice echoed from above. "YOU SEEK THE DESTRUCTION OF THE TEMPORAL TOWER!"

"That's not true!" Danika quickly took a step forward. "We rescued the gears from a thief, we're here to bring them back! These things time are really important, without them time itself could collapse!"

"time...TIIIIIIIIIIME!" The source of that voice fell from the sky, revealing itself to be a Dialga, but with a darker blue tone and red lines around his body were orange instead of blue and the diamond on his chest had turned bright red.

"YOU! YOU DARE BRING RUIN TO THE TOWER!

"We already told you-"

"SILENCE!" The Legendary shouted with a roar.

"This can't be good, this can't be good." Goh repeated.

"FOR THOSE WHO THREATEN TEMPORAL TOWER...I WILL SHOW NO MERCY!" The Legendary roared again.

Somewhere else.

"Should I go down there and help?" Palkia asked himself while watching the situation. "...Nah, they'll be fine."

"It's no use, he's not listening." Quillon said.

"Dialga's losing control because of the missing gears." Danika said. "But it's not too late, if we put back the gears where they belong we could bring him back to reason!"

"Goh! Go get the gears! We'll distract him!" Quillon exclaimed.

"U-Understood!" Goh nodded and released his Scizor and Unovan Darmanitan to help him out.

Dialga's Diamond then illuminated with an orange light as a dark red orb of energy appeared infront of him.

"It's Roar of Time!" Quillon warned.

"Sawk!"

"Throh!"

"Double Protect!" The chasers said together as the fighters clashed their fists and a giant barrier appeared Infront of them, Dialga then shot his attack and while the barrier took most of the hit, it eventually gave in and exploded.

"Here goes nothing, Qui-" Danika was interrupted when Dialga tried to bite them down crashing his head against they ground they were standing, but the two managed to avoid it, Dialga then aimed again at Danika but the latter gave him a quick hook kick on his head, deviating the Legendary for a moment, she then ran back at Quillon.

"Did you just kick Dialga?" Quillon asked.

"You bet I just kicked Dialga!" She answered proudly as they released their Pokemon. "Durant, Ledian, Azumarill, Shiinotic!"

"Heatmor, Ariados, Quagsire, Lurantis!"

"WHO BROUGHT MY TOWER TO RUIN?! WHO TURNED THE FINAL PAGE?!"

Dialga then roared as a set of blue portals opened next to him, various Pokemon took presence next to the Legendary.

"Kleavor and Basculegion?!" Danika exclaimed recognizing the extinct species.

"But that's impossible" Quillon said. "...oh, right, Time God."

"Incoming!" Danika shouted pointing above them as a flock of Hisuian Braviary flying from some more portals and tried to attack them.

"What in the-" Goh trailed off and one of the Kleavor stood Infront of him, his Scizor quickly protected Goh and fought with the Rock Type. "Darmanitan, come with me, we need to get those gears!"

"THE TIME LORD IS undoing...I can feel my mind...succumbing to RAGE!"

"Dialga please, just let us help you!" Danika shouted.

"DEEP! Deep in the depths of my heart...I know what you're doing is right...But in darkness I'm BLIND...I'm trapped in my MIND! my body is compelled to...FIGHT YOU NOW!"

"Why is he singing?! Why is he singing?!" Quillon asked.

"Because his theme slaps." Danika answered.

"You're telling me he can't control his powers, but he can somehow sing and rhyme perfectly?!"

"WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE CRUMBLING UP IN MY TOWER?! DARE YOU DISRUPT MY TEMPORAL POWER?!"

"Here it comes again!" Quillon warned as Dialga shot another Roar of Time Infront of them causing a explosion.

"AND WHO ARE YOU NOW?! TELL ME! ARE YOU FRIEND?! ARE YOU FOE?! I DON'T KNOW! ...THE DARK BROKE TIME'S FLOW!"

"I-I got them! Goh exclaimed with the five gears on his hands as he ran back to the wall with the indentations, the earth suddenly shaked again but Goh held onto the gears, a Braviary tried to attack him, but his Darmanitan stood on his way and stopped him with a Fire Punch.

"Thanks, Darmanitan!" Goh exclaimed as he finally made it to the wall and started to put the gears on it.

Back with Quillon and Danika their Pokemon had taken out most of the Hisuian but they were already worn out as well, not to mention, Dialga remained pretty much untouched.

"What are we gonna do now?" Danika asked.

"We got to...wait, doesn't your Shiinotic knows Spore?"

"Uh...do you?" Danika asked at the fungus who nodded. "Uh, well, would you mind?"

Shiinotic then raised his arms releasing a stream of yellow pollen that put all their enemies to sleep, including the time Pokemon.

"...Well, that was anticlimactic." Danika admitted as her Grass type simply laughed.

"Yeah, but everyone used Sleep Seeds in PMD2, so there's no shame." Quillon said. "GOH! Get that thing done already!"

"I-I'm on it." Goh responded, despite having trouble to put them all in place cause the earth was still shaking, eventually he could still make it. "Done, they're all set!" He exclaimed, the gears in the wall illuminated, but the quakes just kept increasing.

"What did you do now?!" Quillon asked holding him by his collar.

"I-I don't know! I put the gears where they were supposed to go!"

"Could it be the sixth gear Domino took?" Quillon asked.

"But there's no place for a sixth gear here." Goh looked at the wall again.

"W-Were we just too late then?" Danika asked.

"No... you were not." Dialga answered as he woke up and regained his original colors, the gears started to rotate and a light blue energy then surrounded the place causing the quakes to stop.

"It's...it's over?" Tsurugi asked.

"It is." Dialga nodded. "And you have no cause for alarm, I have regained my reason...Temporal Tower has survived the crisis, time will return as normal." As Dialga said this, the Kleavor, Basculegion and Braviary were all absorbed by the portals they came from and these then closed.

"We made it!" Goh said happily. "We just saved the world, guys!"

"Geez, so this is how Ash feel everyday?" Danika asked.

"I told you there was no need to call him." Quillon said. "We solved the problem just fine."

"Allow me to thank you, humans." Dialga said getting closer to them. "You had the courage to stand up to me, even as I raged out...you've prevented the ruin of time...and you've earned my gratitude."

"If you're so grateful, can I catch you?" Goh asked with a Poke Ball on hand.

"I can kill you in eight different ways." Dialga answered.

"Yes, sir." Goh put down the Poke Ball scared.

"Hmm..." Dialga closed his eyes for a second.

"Is something wrong?" Danika asked him.

"I closed all the time portals that I used to fight you...but I'm afraid I'm not sure if I created more of them outside of here."

"You're saying there could be a bunch of people and Pokemon from another time wandering in the present?" Quillon asked.

"No, not "a bunch", If there were too many I'd definitely sense it, the portals should close by themselves, considering they're not close to Temporal Tower and they would absorb back what they brought here...unless those beings managed to get far enough...all I can tell is that my portals were all from the past, maybe one or two at much opened outside of here."

"So foreigners from before..." Goh said. "BEFOREIGNERS?!"

"Maybe? At much?" Quillon asked. "You're seriously telling us you aren't sure?"

"I'm afraid so...my powers were heavily damaged by my primal state, it's already taking too much of my energy to simply keep time flowing, I can't be totally sure...I shall leave, I'll try to fix this once I have regained my powers." Dialga then started to float away and disappeared in the distance as the trio watched him go.

"Great, what now?" Danika asked.

"Well, he said 'beings' so best case scenario it was just some Pokemon from the past." Quillon said. "He said he'd fix it later, it shouldn't be that bad.

"And worst care scenario?" Goh asked.

"...For now, let's just keep our eyes open." He answered. "And hope for the best."

Olivine City, Johto.

"Home, sweet home!" Jasmine exclaimed happily as the ship she was in docked in the port.

"Jasmine, welcome back!"

"Nice to see you, Lyra!" Jasmine ran at the girl to greet her. "Thank you for taking care of everything."

"No probs, hey, your battle with Ash was crazy!"

"Oh? You saw it? W-Well, it was good indeed, I'm glad I could get another chance to meet with Ash."

"You sure you only met? Clair told me something interesting about what you think of Ash."

"Oh, that's..." Jasmine blushed remembering the moments she shared with the boy, most specifically the locker room one.

"Hey, don't be ashamed of it." Lyra said. "Even I have to admit Ash is some solid boyfriend material."

"Really? What about Khoury?" Jasmine asked. "Aren't you going out with him?"

"What? Don't make me laugh!" Lyra exclaimed. "Who'd go out with a dork like him? He's just a friend! A friend!"

"Lyra is my girlfriend, guys, I'm totally not getting NTR'd." Said Khoury somewhere else.

"...Anyway, Clair is waiting for you in the Gym." Lyra continued.

"I'll go then, could you take Amphy to the lighthouse with Sparkle?" Jasmine offered the aforementioned's Poke Ball.

"It'll be my pleasure." Lyra took the ball and went to the lighthouse.

"Now let's see..." Jasmine went to her gym and entered it, where Clair was refereeing a sparring match between her Dragonair and her Kingdra.

"Until you make it." Clair looked at her as she returned both Pokemon.

"Didn't expect you to pay me a visit." Jasmine said walking to her.

"Look, I just wanted to left things clear." Clair walked to Jasmine and took a deep breath. "I DON'T like Ash."

"Uh...what?"

"What you heard, I don't like him."

"...You came all the way here just to tell me you don't like Ash?"

"Why, yes, I needed to do it face to face since you told me you like him that much, still, I don't understand why you would think I like him, just because I think he's a really well-looking person and an amazing trainer it doesn't mean that I like him."

"...Uh, Clair."

"That being said, I wish you two happiness."

"Well, thanks, but Ash and I aren't together."

"Why not? Didn't you wear the dress and everything?"

"I did, and he liked it, but love is more complicated than that, especially for someone like Ash it seems, but I'll still try to reach his heart."

"Is that so? ...Well, whatever, I forgot to mention that Whitney said she wanted to talk with you as well."

"Oh, she did?"

"Correct, she wanted to meet you in her farm at Goldenrod."

"...uh, well, Whitney and I had a little discussion some days ago, so I think I'll pass."

"You sure?"

"I am, I'll call her later, it surely wasn't anything that important anyway."

Goldenrod City, Johto.

"Welcome back to Whitney's blog!" The Normal type expert talked to the camera on her laptop recording a live stream. "I know it's been a while since my last video, but hey! I finally got some free time! I was going to receive a visit today, but it seems like she won't make it, what a shame...I wanted to...tell her some things...anyway, what should we do in today's video?...oh, I know! I could show you my house!"

Whitney took the laptop in her hand and started walking with it so the camera focused on where she was heading to. "First things first." Whitney walked outside of her house to show her family ranch. "Look at this, the MooMoo Milk farm! Isn't it cute? I just love this place, is so natural, Miltank, wave at the camera!" She called her ace who was sleeping on the ground and simply huffed at her. "Then, what's next?" Whitney kept walking around her house with the camera, she went to the Kitchen, to the living room even to the bathroom and so on, everything seemed like a normal house.

"And finally, my most important place! My shrine for Ash!" Whitney focused the camera on a wall with a bunch of pictures of Ash, next to the wall was a pedestal with a plushie of him in his original outfit along some candles, roses and chocolates, she also had a pair of Ash's boxers, how did she get those? Do you really want know? Do you want to know what she does with them?

"Look at him, isn't he the cutest boy ever?" Whitney took the plushie and hugged it. "I love him so much and I know he loves me too! It's been so long since we saw each other, six years is such a long time, but love endures! I'm sure next time we met we'll be a happy couple! He won't have any other choice!"

"You know? We should probably report this." A guy wearing a red hoodie, black shorts and a yellow and black backwards cap said to his Typhlosion while they watched the stream. "Nah, she's surely just joking."

"I think that's the last thing I have to show you, oh wait, I also have this, a little hunting knife." Whitney continued showing the blade. "Oh, don't worry it's just plastic." She laughed as she tossed the knife away and this got nailed in the wall. "It ain't real, but if it was, I'd like to use in all of those chicks that are trying to steal my future husband..." Whitney's iris suddenly turned bright red as she ended the video.

Back with Ash and Bea.

"...I have the weirdest feeling someone was just talking about me." Bea said.

"I got the feeling that...a lot of people were talking about me." Ash added and then spotted a person in the distance, talking with some ghost type Pokemon. "That must be the Gym Leader."

Ash and Bea walked to the person, the Ghost Pokemon, a Runerigus, a Polteageist and a Cursola, were the first to see then approaching and they all looked at them, the Gym Leader noticed this and turned around to see them as well.

"Greetings..." He talked first. "My name is-"

"SO CUTE!" Bea exclaimed.

"Uh, what?" Ash asked.

"You're like a living plush!" Bea got closer to the boy and raised him in her arms a little in front of her. "Hello! My name is Bea!"

"N-Ni-Nice to meet you, I-I'm Allister."

"You're so adorable!" Bea exclaimed with stars on her eyes. "W-What's with that Shy Guy Mask? It makes you look so cute!"

"Hmm..." Ash simply glared at him.

"Uh, I-I-I, could you-"

"Alright, Bea, leave him alone." Ash took Allister out of Bea's arms and put him on the ground.

"T-Thanks, I-"

"Fine, let's cut to the point." Ash interrupted. "Name's Ash, I challenge you to a Gym battle, fine?"

"Uh, of course, I was expecting you to come eventually, the Gym Leaders have been talking about-"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Ash interrupted him again. "What are your terms, where's the catch?"

"Uh, well, my condition shall be this...You must use 2 ghost types in a 4v4 battle, understood?"

''Sure, it'll be a pleasure to beat you.'' Ash said with a smile.

''W-W-What?''

''I mean, it'll be a pleasure to... meet... your Pokemon.'' Ash then gave him an awkward and forced smile.

"T-That's...great, I'll be waiting for you, our battle will be tomorrow when the night falls." After giving all the explanations, Allister walked away along his Pokemon.

''He's so cute and small.'' Bea squealed again as she looked at Allister left.

"Hmm..." Ash gave her angry look.

"Ash?"

''Yeah, yeah, he's adorable." He answered rolling his eyes.

"Are you okay?"

"I... I'm fine...wait, what was his condition?''

"What? You didn't pay attention?"

"I was... thinking about something." Ash looked away and Bea heard a *ping* in her head.

"Ash Ketchum, were you jealous?"

"No..." He trailed off.

"Ash?" Bea gave him a teasing look.

"I-I wasn't jealous!" He answered blushing giving Bea the answer she was looking for.

'This is your chance, Bea.' She thought with a satisfied smile. 'Take. Your. Chance.'

"I-I wasn't jealous! I-I just I guess I didn't like it when you... W-When he-"

"Ash, I'm gonna do the thing."

"Do the whaaaa-"

"And Bridal carry!" Bea smiled with Ash on his arms. "Well, you told me to warm you before doing it, feel better?"

"Bea..." No matter how many this happened, he would still get embarrassed.

"You were jea-lous." Bea sang that little bit to tease him. "Now you know how I feel all those times you've met with a girl."

"Fine, you win." Ash gave in as Bea giggled. "Maybe I was...a little bit."

"Come on, don't be like that, you have to admit Alister was kinda adorable."

"Uh, yeah, I guess he was."

"Yeah, but that doesn't matter, because you are way cuter." Bea then put their faces closer. "You will always be my little pogchamp."

"Gosh, you really said it." Ash covered his face with his hands in embarrassment and Bea laughed. "...Bea, please put me down."

"That just your catchphrase at this point." She laughed again. "But I want to do something first."

"What do-" The moment Ash moved his hands to look at her, Bea gave him a sudden kiss on the lips, it was shorter than the first one, but this time, after Bea broke the kiss, Ash was the one who looked like he would faint any second.

"And that's a two." Bea gave a wide smile as they both blushed madly. ''Well, you took the wheel yesterday so now we're even, alright?"

"A-Alright." Ash answered.

"Great, as for Allister, his condition was that you had to bring two Ghost Types for a 4v4 battle.''

''Two? But I only have Drakloak.''

"You don't have any other ghost back in Kanto?"

"I don't, I've never caught a ghost type before, kinda weird now that I think about it."

''What will you do then?''

''Let me think...''

''Hey, Ash!'' His Rotom Phone tried to call him from his pocket, but he didn't hear.

''Maybe...'' Ash continued to think.

''Ash, down here!" Rotom Phone tried to get his attention again. "I can fight if yo-''

''I know!" Ash said. "There's one person I can ask, but I'm not sure if she-''

''Of course I can let you use Haunter, Ash.'' A women wearing a long black and dark green dress and a black crown suddenly appeared Infront of them.

''GAH! A WITCH!'' Bea shouted getting in a defensive posture and accidentally letting Ash fall to the ground.

''Ouch." Ash said as he looked up at the woman. "Wait a sec...Sabrina?''

''GAH! A TEENAGE WITCH!'' Bea shouted again.

"Yup, it's me." She nodded with a smile and offered her hand to Ash helping him to stand up. "I'm glad you recognized me."

''Wow, it's been a long while...Sabrina, why are you wearing that?''

''Oh, this? Call me Magic Evil Queen Bellelba." Sabrina showed them a fan and covered her mouth with it as she laughed. "Kidding, kidding, it's just a costume from the movie I'm working in right now."

''Movie?'' Ash asked.

''Yup, after our encounter, I became a little more sociable, I finally got out of my gym, I explored around a bit, one thing led to another and now I'm working as a movie actress.''

''Well, I'm very happy for you.'' Ash said.

''I am too, I owe this all to you after all, Ash...you saved me from myself, but I never got a chance to properly thank you."

''Where did you even come from?'' Bea asked.

''Well, I simply teleported myself.'' Sabrina shrugged her shoulders.

''You what?!''

''Right, Sabrina was born with strong Psychic powers.'' Ash explained as Sabrina nodded.

''Correct, it took a while but I'm finally getting the hand of them."

"You serious?" Bea asked not quite believing it.

"Bea, considering all we've seen so far, a person with psychic powers isn't that Farfetched, is it?"

"Guess not." Bea admitted.

"Well, seeing is believing, so look at this." Sabrina put a hand Infront of Ash and raised him in the air above the two. "If that doesn't suffice, I could give you another demonstration." Sabrina then put Ash down and looked at Bea directly. "Why don't you tell me your deepest, darkest secret?"

"M-My what?"

"What is it...?" Sabrina continued.

'She's gonna find out!' Bea thought in her mind. 'I have to say something, anything.'

"You are..."

"I WANT ASH TO BITE ME AGAIN!" She shouted and then covered her mouth. 'That was the first thing you though?!' Bea scolded herself.

"Yeah, I suppose that was it, well, to each their own." Sabrina giggled as Ash looked away embarrassed.

''Alright, but how did you appear here right now when Ash mentioned you?'' Bea asked trying to forget what she just said.

''I had a vision about Ash some days ago so I was paying attention in his mind in case you needed me.''

''You were inside my head?'' Ash asked.

''Kind of; And let me tell you, Ash, I saw some interesting things in there.''

''T-Things like what?'' Ash asked.

''Oh, don't worry about it." Sabrina gave him a wink. "I won't tell anyone."

''Uh, sure, now back to the point, can I-''

''Of course." Sabrina interrupted knowing what Ash was going to ask. "He's right here.'' Sabrina released a Gengar that stuck his tongue out to Ash.

''So he evolved.'' Ash said.

''He did, Kadabra did too, although I had to trade them with myself since I...didn't have much friends back then...anyway, of course I can let you use Gengar for this battle, Ashley." That last bit caused Ash to cringe.

"Ashley?" Bea asked.

"H-How did you?" Ash stuttered. "You, uh, that was what you saw?"

"More like confirmed, Erika had already told me, she even took a picture too, she said you looked cute in that dress." Sabrina whispered the last bit to him so Bea wouldn't hear.

"Of course." Ash sighed.

"Wait, who's Ashley?" Bea asked.

"N-No one!" Ash stammered.

"Anyway, I'd like to ask a little favor as well, Ash."

''A favor?''

''As I told you, I'm working as an actress now, there's a movie I'll start filming soon and there's this role that I think will suit you perfectly, so can I count on you?"

''Of course, I've done some movies before, after all.''

''That's great; And I'm sure Gengar would be more than happy to join you in battle again.'' She looked at the ghost who nodded with a smile

''Thanks Sabrina, you're a lifesaver.'' Ash said as Gengar stood next to him and laughed.

''Don't sweat it.'' Sabrina gave him Gengar's Poke Ball and her phone then ringed. "Oh, it's my manager, sorry Ash, I'd love to stay but I'm quite busy right now, I literally transported myself in the middle of a scene, director's gonna be really mad, but I'll try to watch the battle on TV, give it your all Gengar.''

"Gen!" The Ghost nodded at her.

''By the way, here's my phone number.'' Sabrina touched Ash on his forehead 'putting' the number on his mind. 'You can call me when you're done, I'll get out of your head for now, good luck.'' Sabrina then snapped her fingers and she disappeared in a flash of pink light.

"... Seriously, who's Ashley?" Bea insisted as Ash cringed again.

Twinleaf, Sinnoh.

"Hey, May! Is there something you need?" Dawn asked as she received the video call in her phone while she rested in her room.

"Dawn...we need to talk, it's about Ash."

"Uh, what's the matter?"

"You like Ash, don't you?" May went straight to the point.

"Well, yes, but-"

"And I like him too, correct?" She continued.

"Uh, yes, I suppose you do."

"This is my plan, Dawn, let's join forces.

"Join forces?" Dawn asked confused.

"What I mean is...what if we try to get Ash together as a team? With our efforts combined, both of us will surely get him."

"Both of us..." Dawn finally understood what she was suggesting. "What?! M-May! Are you crazy?!

"Just think about it, Dawn, out of all those girls that like him, you and I have the deepest bond with Ash, don't we?"

"I...T-That might be true, but why do you want me into this? We may be close to Ash, but you and I are not that close, i-if you really want to do that why don't you go with your friend Flannery?"

"Look, I like Flannery, but her style is..."

-SPANK ME HARDER-

"...She's a bit too much." May sighed. "And as much as I hate to admit it, Ash did call you his favorite."

"May, you're... you're suggesting polygamy! Just think about it for a second, everyone will be against it! We could never tell our parents about it!"

"And who cares what other people say? In the end those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind."

"Don't try to play Baruch on me!" Dawn exclaimed again. "J-Just listen to what you're saying! Do you even understand all the demerits that come with polygamy?! Do you?!"

"Well, I mean-"

"We will always be worrying about which one of us he loves the most!" Dawn continued her rant while May tried to counter.

"I'm sure he can love both of us equally!"

"He would only spent half as much time alone with either of us!"

"Three people can have fun together!"

"You think he can take care of two girls in this economy?!"

"I mean, he's a champion."

"We couldn't get registered as a legal relationship! We will have a bunch of tax issues! We won't even be able of getting insurance! If one of us needs a surgery, he couldn't sign the consent!"

"Ok, Dawn, now you're just exaggerating."

"There's a mountain of problems! Why are you-"

"Because this is Ash we're talking about!" May interrupted her. "If he can go to hell and back like nothing, I know he can take care of both of us! I'm not sure if I can get him alone, but I know you won't either!"

"Quite a creative insult..." Dawn sighed. "I'll cut this call, fine? We obviously won't get in terms."

"You're not getting the point." May stopped her. "With all those girls that like him, Ash must be confused, imagine how would he be if we confess to him separately, he'd never want to break our hearts, if we both asked him to let us share him, I'm sure he'd have no doubts."

"That would...don't you feel like that would be forcing him into that?" Dawn asked.

"I wouldn't say force, but rather give him a little push, I'm sure that's all he needs."

"I know Ash would never want to hurt us, but if he only accepts it because of that...May, even if I wanted to, and that is a big IF , why do you think Ash would agree to such a thing?"

"You remember what he said when we asked him which one of us he'd choose if we both asked him to be our contest partner?"

"He said...'If someone asked me to choose between you two, I don't think I could'." Dawn repeated what Ash told them word by word.

"Exactly, I can guess Ash likes us both, and we both like him, if we try it together, all three of us, I'm sure we can make it work!"

"You're really basing all of this in that single sentence? ...May, those things are way too different."

"My offer stands, Dawn, think well, share him with me and get your happy ending or risk yourself to lose him forever with some of those strangers, I'll be waiting." May then cut the call, leaving Dawn alone with her thoughts.

"Lose him forever?" Dawn trailed off. "Ash...Ash wouldn't just forget about me if he finds a girlfriend,right?... right?...Argh! How can she...how can May just suggest something like that?" She asked herself. "...But what if she's right?"

Meanwhile downstairs, Johanna was calmly cooking the dinner, luckily, she didn't hear Dawn's rant, someone then knocked the door so she went to open it.

"Yes, can I help you..." Johanna stood still confused once she opened the door. "Dawn? I thought you were on your room? What's with that outfit?"

"Who's...Dawn?" The person in the door asked.

"Uh, mom, who are you talking to?" Dawn asked as she went downstairs, thinking her mother had called her, she then froze in her place once she arrived there.

"D-Dawn?" Johanna asked looking at her daughter while taking a few steps back from the person at the door. "Who's...this?"

"I...S-Salvia, is that you?" Dawn asked.

"No, I'm not" She answered looking at Dawn confused as well. "...Who...Who are you people?"

The girl asking seemed like a perfect copy of Dawn, her face, eyes and skin, even her hair, despite being just a little longer, were exactly the same, the only major difference was her clothing, a dark blue kimono-jacket tied with a black belt and a small brown bag, a tight black suit that could be seen under her sleeves, she was also wearing long dark blue pants with long white socks, brown hay sandals, a long red scarf around her neck and a white neckerchief in her head, a Pokemon similar to a Zorua but mostly white instead of black was being carried in her arms with a worried look.

"Excuse my-" The girl on the door stopped mid-sentence to held her head from a sudden headache. "It seems like I'm lost, there was this weird blue light, your house was the first thing I saw so I came here...uh...what area of Hisui is this?"

"Hisui?" Dawn asked back not understanding any of what was happening. "...What's your name?"

"A...Akari." She answered. "My name is Akari."