-Fateful Encounter-

The awkward Squirtle walked towards the lonely Gardevoir as she enjoyed another spoonful of her Strawberry Sundae. He initially just wanted to drop this whole thing, but the Kirlia behind him insisted that he goes through with the whole thing.

"Why, what's the matter? You scared?" the Kirlia egged on.

The Squirtle scoffed at that notion. "Please," he replied, "Me? Scared? It's not like it's a Ghost Pokémon..." He walked towards the Gardevoir in a perfect line, but the Kirlia could see his tail wagging.

"Squirtle learned Tail Whip" she mocked as she set his things down on the table.

The Gardevoir looked up from her sundae and smiled at him. "You came."

The Squirtle looked at her and only returned half a smile. "Yeah.. I'm here."

The Gardevoir looked at the Kirlia and shooed her away. The Kirlia took the hint and resumed waiting tables. After she was out of earshot, the Gardevoir took another bite of her sundae and smiled.

"Oh... Strawberry Sundaes are simply to die for!" she exclaimed as she squealed. She took notice of the Squirtle's clean spoon and asked, "Why aren't you eating yours?"

She used her powers to push the second Strawberry Sundae towards Izumi, but he didn't even pick up the spoon.

"I'm not much of a fan of sweets," he replied as he picked up his coffee and took a drink.

"Oh?" the Gardevoir's eyes widened, "But this Strawberry Sundae is delicious! Please, try some." She used her powers once more, this time to lift up a spoon. She used the spoon to scoop up a chunk of ice cream and floated it towards his mouth.

The Squirtle gently pushed it away and responded, "No really, I'm good." He saw the sad look on the Gardevoir's face, and he instantly gave in. "Alright, alright, I'll try some." he quickly stuttered as he picked up the spoon from the air and took a bite. He did notice that the ice cream was very sweet, but it was also very delicious.

"Wow, that's pretty good."

"I told you!" she exclaimed as she finished off her sundae. She raised her hand to hail the nearest waiter and said, "Oh Oddish, please be a dear and bring me another Strawberry Sundae!"

The Oddish nodded at her, and went straight into the kitchen to get some more.

While she was waiting, she decided to use this time to get to know the Squirtle better.

"So, what's your name?"

"You don't even know my name?"

"Of course not, you just moved here after all."

The Squirtle took the spoon out of his mouth and stared at her. "How do you know that?"

She pointed to her floating spoon.

"Oh yeah..." the Squirtle answered, "But wait, then how come you don't know my name?"

She smiled at him, "I was hoping that you tell me yourself..."

The Squirtle blushed slightly.

"Your Special Defense went down." she joked.

"Shut up!" the Squirtle said out of embarrassment.

"Your Defense rose." she joked once more.

The Squirtle hesitated a minute before answering her previous question to calm himself down.

"My name's Yume... Yume Tsubasa."

The Gardevoir smiled upon hearing his name. "It's beautiful."

"Shut up..." Yume muttered once more before asking,"What's yours?"

"I'm..." the Gardevoir started, "Not going to tell you." She stuck her tongue out at him as her new order of Strawberry Sundae came in.

"Aw what?" Yume cried, "That's not fair! You know it's rude to ask for someone's name before you give yours!"

She just stuck her tongue at him once more, saying, "Well, you should've mentioned that sooner."

Yume was just about to argue again when a giant Charizard came in the restaurant. He slammed open the door, breaking it down. The Psyduck came over to talk to him, but the Charizard SLASHED him away, hurling him against the wall. The entire restaurant stood up and took noticed. The Psyduck felt no pain, and slid to the floor, waggling his feet as he tried to get up.

"What are you looking at!" the Charizard ROARED, causing everyone to freeze in fright.

"Like the door wasn't big enough...," Yume thought to himself. He rose to get up, but the Gardevoir beat him to it.

"Please," she told him, "Let me handle this." She started to walk towards the Charizard, but Yume stepped in front of her.

"Not a chance." Yume explained, "I'm a Water type... I'll handle this." Before the Gardevoir could say anything, Yume ran towards the fiery behemoth.

"What are you looking at runt!" the Charizard screamed as he spat EMBER flames at the charging Squirtle.

"Your face!"

Yume side stepped each one as they hit the floor, and used SKULL BASH to hurt the Charizard.

The Charizard got hit, but it was merely a flesh wound. But even that was enough to enrage him. He went into a frenzy and tackled Yume with RAGE. Yume was slammed into the floor. He looked up and stared into the Charizard's golden eyes. The Gardevoir, worried about Yume, got up from her seat.

"Sit down!" he shouted as he used FLAMETHROWER at her. A line of flames were making its way to her. It would've connected, but Yume jumped in its path, taking full impact.

At that moment, he had a vision: He saw himself, clad in armor, protecting a Gardevoir.

"Who the Magma was that?" he thought to himself.

The force of the attack slammed Yume back into the ground, this time, near Gardevoir's feet. The other patrons were too scared to do anything for Yume, and Yume was breathing heavily as the Gardevoir put her hands on his shoulders.

The Charizard looked at the weakened Yume and said to the other Pokémon in the restaurant, "Let this be a lesson for those who mess with me!" He breathed in a lot of air, and blasted out a huge kanji made of fire, FIRE BLAST, at the almost unconscious Yume.

"No!" the Gardevoir shouted as it stood in front of Yume, as if she was going to take the blast from him. However, an aura surrounded the Gardevoir, PROTECTING her as the blast scattered around her. The Charizard's eyes widened as the Gardevoir raised her hands, and used PSYCHIC to send a huge blast of energy towards the Charizard, blasting him outside the restaurant, leaving him unconscious.

And with that, Yume fainted, slowly closing his eyes as the Pokémon in the restaurant huddled around him.