Pocket Monsters: The World Tournament Series Volume One

Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Action, Fantasy, Science Fiction


Chapter 01: The Unexpected Visitor Part IV


It is almost afternoon as a certain cab passed through various roads within Lumiose City. Within it are two passengers feeling worried while observing the surroundings filled with sorrow and hope. One of them - the orange-haired young lady - now felt sleepy this time for some certain understandable reason. The brown-haired woman asked the lady:

"Are you alright?"

"Y, Yes, madam... Somehow, it will take time before I could adjust from this."

"That's understandable. After all, we are on the other side of the world... where our mornings will be our evenings and vice-versa."

"Y, Yes... I see..."

So this is what had really happened here. I hoped my son and his friends should be fine," said the certain brown-haired woman as she carefully observed the surroundings, including observing a certain uniquely-curled purple-haired dark-skinned woman and her two Meowstic of opposite genders helping the others in rebuilding certain establishments, such as the Lumiose Museum of Arts, a large white building that houses many paintings of people and Pokemon.

"D, Do you really know where to find Ash now, madam?"

"No," said the woman, shaking her head slowly, "we may not able to find Ash much faster. But we can definitely know where he would possibly go if he stayed here."

"Do you mean that tower?"

The young lady curiously points her right index finger to a certain large nearly-fallen tower still far away from where they are at this time.

"Yes, it is."

After some time of noticing the city's current condition, the cab driver had decided to take the two passengers to a certain street near the mentioned tower, much to their worries and thanks at the same time. As the cab had left them behind, the young lady spoke while looking at the tower in awe.

"So this is the Prisma Tower, huh?"

"Yes. My son told me in one of his calls that it also functioned as a Gym too, like the Striaton Restaurant in the Unova Region."

"This Gym is owned by one of his companions, right?"

"You're right, dear. But for now..."

On that time, the pony-tailed orange-haired young lady and the brown-haired woman looked up at the nearby currently-reformed Prisma Tower. This well-known landmark in the Kalos Region is also reconstructed by the cooperation of both humans and Pokemon like most of the establishments in the city.

"It is really too bad. We can only walk from where the cab had stopped by."

"It can't be helped. The roads isn't in good condition too, so that's understandable anyway. But you know, this must be the best place to find my son."

The woman can't really helped but to make a weak smile at the young lady, who had changed expressions from worried to surprised.

"W, What do you mean, madam?"

"That's...!"

""Huh?""

Such voice is clearly came from a certain young man rather either of the two newcomers to the Kalos Region. Thus, their reactions are understandable.

"Pikapika?"

"Denedenne?"

"Who are you referring to, big brother?!"

"Hopbee?"

"Mimiro!"

"Rimari?"

"Yacha?"

"There she is, Bonnie."

The two newcomers then searched the source of those voices, only to find out that such voices came from the nerd-looking young man, his outgoing younger sister, a normal-looking young lady in glasses and six certain Pokemon who are seemingly just came out of the Prisma Tower, based on the newly-repaired electronic doors slowly closed. Notably, a Chespin and a Pancham still felt jealous seeing a happy Buneary with the responsible Bunnelby. Eventually, everyone but the Gym Leader himself are happily waving their hands towards to the woman as well as shouting her name. The Gym Leader only felt glad to see said woman. The woman also waved her right hand in return.

"Who are they, madam?"

The orange-haired lady confusingly asked towards the woman. However, the woman only felt excitement as she finally saw one of those people whom she wanted to see here in the Kalos Region.

"Like you, they are my son's travelling companions too. So let's go and meet them."

"Eh? Do you mean...? O, Okay!"

With that, the woman and the young lady had properly had finally met two of Ash's travelling companions, the siblings Clemont and Bonnie, along with a certain young lady, Lillia. [1] Misty eventually felt unsure upon seeing Lillia's appearance at first. However, she shrugged it off and only smiled afterwards.

"Pika? Pikachupi!"

Just after the two newcomers came towards the golden-haired siblings, the already-excited Pikachu felt much more of that excitement as it immediately jumps towards the orange-haired young lady, who then hugged the yellow rodent back, much to everyone else's surprise.

"How are you now, Pikachu? You are still strong and full of energy, just like your trainer," said the young lady as she gently touched the happy yellow rodent's head.

"Chaa!"

"Uhm... We are glad to personally meet you here, Mrs. Delia!"

"Me too! I'm really happy even if this is unexpected!"

"Denne!"

Clemont, Bonnie and Dedenne said these as they finally get to meet the woman named Delia. The confusion apparently joined into Lillia's thoughts though because of that.

"You're right, Clemont, Bonnie. This meeting is truly unexpected. Seeing the headlines about the incident in this city made me worry about my son," said Delia while giving off a joyful smile.

"Clemont, who is that woman?"

"Ah, I forgot to tell you as it was really unexpected that this happened, after all, Lillia," said Clemont who only scratched his head and weakly smiled with the unexpected meeting, "Lillia, this is Mrs. Delia, Ash's mother."

"Nice to meet you, Mrs. Delia. I am Lillia, the daughter of the president of the Orange Logo," said the smiling brunette while introducing herself to the woman.

"Orange Logo, huh? I heard on the news that it is the world's number one robot manufacturing company, didn't it, Lillia?"

"Yes, it is, madam."

While the conversation between the woman Delia and the young lady Lillia continued, the orange-haired young lady, on the other hand, was still seen to be embracing the Pikachu, much the others' amusement.

"Pikachu must be really glad to see you... Uhmm..." said the golden-haired lad as he realized he had never met that orange-haired young lady. The little sister nodded and followed her brother.

"Uhmm... Who are you, big sis?"

"Oh, I forgot to introduce you to her. Anyway, this is Misty, Cerulean City's Gym Leader and one of Ash's old friends," replied Delia, introducing the orange-haired young lady to them.

"I am Clemont and this is my sister..."

"Bonnie! This is my little Dedenne!"

"Dennedene!"

"Once again, I am Lillia."

"Chama!"

"Rima!"

"Hopbee!"

"Miroro!"

The orange-haired young lady immediately shook hands with the three residents of the Kalos Region and their Pokemon, who gave off smiles in return.

"Nice to meet you, Misty," replied Clemont while he and Misty shook one another's right hand. He continued, "you must be one of the former companions of our friend Ash, mustn't you?"

"Yes, I am. I was able to travel with him and someone else for quite a while from Kanto Region to Johto Region to improve myself in becoming a competent Water-type trainer that I am today. With that experience, I am able more able to give difficult fights to the different trainers in order for them to get the Cascade Badge from them. Right, Pikachu?"

"Pikachu!"

Misty said such words proudly enough to show her prowess as the Cerulean City Gym Leader, which made Pikachu to answer proudly as well.

"You are like my brother when it comes to Pokemon battles as a Gym Leader!"

"Huh?"

Bonnie immediately joined the conversation between the two Gym Leaders, feeling excited on her interest towards Misty's compassion towards Pokemon battles.

"He also gives difficult battles to his opponents whenever he entered one, especially when the trainers are aiming for the badge!"

"No, that's not the right statement, Bonnie. Gym Leaders give their every important strategy to their battles so the trainers who also give their best will felt satisfied on defeating us as well. That's what I experienced when Ash fought me for the Voltage Badge few months ago. Do you remember that, Bonnie?"

With that, Bonnie then immediately took a thought about what her older brother had told her. She remembered Ash's battles against various Gym Leaders, including her brother.

"I don't understand what you say, big brother... But even if I do not know about the experience of battling against trainers, I witnessed every Gym battle Ash encountered where he and the Gym Leaders are always smiling at the end of their battles. Is that what you mean?"

"You're correct, Bonnie," replied Clemont which then followed by Bonnie giving a genuine smile, "am I right about that one, Misty?"

"Yes, you're right. That's what I always felt whenever I got to challenge trainers."

As the conversation about experiences for Gym Battles continued, Delia immediately interrupted such talk as she curiously asked:

"By the way, where's my son now? Is he here? I hope I could see him here now."

"Our friend Ash is in the city hospital, Mrs. Delia," replied Clemont showing a thoughtful smile, "he needed some rest after everything that had happened these days."

"Do you mean Ash is the person who saved the day then, Clemont?!"

Misty immediately entered the conversation once again as she heard Clemont's answer.

"Huh? Y, Yeah, kinda like that."

"But from what I saw in the television, some of the well-known strongest trainers in Kalos had participated in that one particular fight. That was too great and interesting to see those people fighting together to save Kalos. I wish I could fight too like Clemont did," replied Lillia, feeling envy about what she's talking about.

"Don't worry, Lillia. For as long as you know the actions while that happens, you are still helping anyone as well."

"Thank you, Cle-"

"Denenene... Nenenenenenenene!"

Dedenne immediately jumps towards Lillia's cheeks and then rubs its cheeks repeatedly until the little mouse generates static electricity, which made the mouse to nuzzle its cheeks against Lillia's, shocking her afterwards. As Dedenne got away from Lillia and jumped back to Bonnie through her hands, Lillia only felt paralyzed afterwards, much to everyone else's worries.

"Dedenne! How could you do such thing again?! Apologize to her!"

Naturally, Clemont felt anger about what Dedenne did to Lillia once again.

"Denne!"

"A, Are you alright, Lillia?"

"I, I am fine, Clemont. Do not worry about this. I am quite used to this now. Hahaha..."

"Chama-chama?"

"Rimarima..."

"Hopbee, hopbee?"

"Mimiroll..."

"Nice one, Dedenne," said Bonnie in a murmured yet satisfied tone, secretly complimenting Dedenne in a certain task only the two of them knew. After all, she had a history about one of her attempts to have someone marry her older brother that ended up creating backfire on her. Such attempt involved the Orange Logo's president's daughter, Lillia. Even now, Serena's Pancham, Clemont's Chespin, Clemont's Bunnelby and Lillia's Buneary also felt clueless about that matter.

"Denenne!"

"What happened, Clemont, Lillia?"

Delia immediately asked about it, feeling completely clueless with that.

"We don't know. But Dedenne immediately came in like that to Lillia just like first time we, Ash and Serena met her-"

"Serena?!"

""""Huh?""""

"Pika?"

"Denne?"

"Miro?"

"Hopbee?"

"Rima?"

"Yacha?"

The one who immediately called Serena's name was Misty, much to everyone else's surprise. Clemont then immediately asked her:

"Misty, do you know something about Serena?"

"Huh? Ah, no... I mean, I just remember about her. Maybe that's why I am somewhat feeling uncomfortable seeing Lillia."

Lillia only felt confused about it which made her to asked something:

"Huh? What do you mean about that, Misty? What's wrong?"

"I thought you were one of Ash's companions here in the Kalos Region. I got it wrong though."

"No," said Lillia as she shook her head slowly, "I traveled with Clemont and his companions for a short while for some reason. But I never had made travels with the four of them for quite a long time similar on what you said on your travels with Ash in the regions of Kanto and Johto."

"I'm sorry, Lillia," said Misty as she bowed down her head towards the still-confused Lillia.

"I, I understand."

"Now that Misty mentioned Serena... Where is she?"

Delia immediately followed suit, asking a certain question about her. Bonnie excitedly answered such question, showing off a sly grin to others, including Misty had her head up already.

"Serena's alone with Ash, since she's his guardian after all!"

"Denedenne."

""Huh?""

"Bonnie means that she stays behind to take care of Ash while we are working for the recovery of the city," said Clemont, trying to give Misty and Delia a better answer.

"I see. You know it would be a big surprise for Ash and Serena to see me, Ash's mother, visiting them."

"I agree with that, Mrs. Delia."

"I wonder how Ash will reacted once he saw me there," said Misty in a mellowed tone, slightly bowing her head down in excitement and blushing. Such tone is much different to the usual energetic tone that she had before, "I guess he should be happy about this."

"Hmmm..."

On that time, Bonnie noticed that action from Misty, which immediately surprised her a bit. The only other time she noticed someone doing that towards Ash is none other than Serena, whom the little girl knows that the Pokemon Performer harbored feelings towards the Kalos League Conference's runner-up. She eventually came up with one inference on the orange-haired lady's actions, after all.


On that afternoon, a certain yellow-haired lady in white dress named Lusamine went to the front of a certain store owned by the father of Lumiose City Gym Leader, Meyer and watched a certain segment of a certain talk show on television:

"Ultra Beasts? Do you believe in their existence, Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet?"

"Yes. Even if that might look like a theory to anyone else, We already knew about it. In fact, We... no, many have found evidences about that matter for a long time."

"What do you mean, Professor Kukui?"

"It is quite confidential that I cannot really show such evidences to everyone on-screen. But most importantly, those evidences are living creatures too, knowing the will to survive the laws of nature is an important factor to them as well."

"I see."

"Hmmm..."

Lusamine felt interested in this topic called the Ultra Beasts. However...

"So who's the lucky guy, Katherine?!"

"Huh?! Why are we going to talk about that, Blossom?! I thought we are going to talk about designing more clothes for the lost children here in Lumiose City. Just like that little girl whom got lost from her parents during that incident."

"Just tell us, Katherine."

"Huh?! You too, Kali?! Please help me, Linnea!"

"No way. Just the guy's name is important, Katherine."

"Hmmm..."

The four furisode-wearing girls who worked under Valerie in Lavarre City Gym as fashion designers slowly approaching towards her as they talked about an important matter for the three of them, much to white-haired furisode's dismay. Notably, this group of fashion designers now wears casual clothes instead of the usual kimono that they wore during their working period.

"Okay, I lost to the three of you then. It cannot be helped though," said Katherine, feeling defeated after all of the eventual actions of her friends. She then stopped walking and immediately blushed as she continued:

"His name is Ash..."

As the guy's name was revealed, everyone near her, including Lusamine, eventually paid their attention to her, which then gave her butterflies in her stomach. Then, Kali then proceeded:

"Ash? Do you mean the Kalos League Conference's runner-up?"

"Huh? Yes, he is," said Katherine maintaining such soft voice since the reveal of the guy's name to the other co-workers, "is there any problem with that, Blossom, Linnea, Kali?"

"No. You know what, I already have expectations that you might like that guy, Katherine. A great trainer and a hero that he is, like our manager."

"He really is, Kali! If it wasn't from the work there in our Gym, I might be able to personally watch all of his battles in the Kalos League!"

"Then ask him for a date!"

"Wait!"

Katherine's clearly bouncing off the walls saying those words. But her expression changed as she continued:

"I could have also tried that but right now, I don't even know where to meet him. Isn't the live coverage cut off during the battle against that giant moving Zygarde? I only wanted to give him a big thanks if I could meet him somehow."

"You should have asked the manager about that. She might knew Ash's whereabouts right now."

"I know. I... just forgot to do so, Blossom."

"Do you really mean to meet Ash? I knew where that person is right now."

The yellow-haired lady then confidently entered to the conversation, much to the surprise of the four girls.

"Is it really true, Miss-?"

"Lusamine... In fact, I am also about to go to meet him there too."

"Then, I will go with you, Miss Lusamine!"


"We're almost there, Mrs. Delia, Misty!"

"I know about that, Clemont. I wonder what Ash's reaction looked like when he saw his mother coming here in Kalos Region."

"Me too, madam."

As the sun was about to set, Mrs. Delia, Misty, Clemont, Bonnie, Lillia and some of the Pokemon are now heading towards the hospital in the city where Ash has gone for recovery as well as Serena taking care of him. Notably, Lillia's Buneary was now seen being accompanied by Clemont's Bunnelby and Chespin and Serena's Pancham - different from the situation that had happened before - with all of them expressing happiness to one another, which made Ash's Pikachu and Clemont's Dedenne felt satisfied as well. Eventually, as they are about to enter to the hospital...

"Look! It's Professor Sycamore and the others!"

""""Huh?""""

"There they are!"

While the others wondered for a bit for the sudden change in their conversations, Clemont happily points his finger towards a certain group of familiar people, with two of them - Professor Sycamore and Mairin - happily waving their hands back to Clemont's group.

As the two groups finally meet up with one another in the entrance to the hospital, the Pokemon Professor immediately proceeded to start a new conversation.

"It has been marvelously quite a while, Clemont, Bonnie."

"I felt the same too, Professor."

"Me too! Me too!"

"Rimarima!"

"Rimarimarimarima~"

"Pikapika..."

Clemont's Chespin also excitedly shook its hands to Mairin's Chespie who only felt dizzy while doing so in return, much to the other Pokemon's dismay.

"Oh, it seemed we got some new faces here, Clemont."

"Yes. You're right, Professor," said the Lumiose City's Gym Leader as he quickly introduced the two groups to one another, "they are Mrs. Delia, Ash's mother, and Misty, Cerulean City Gym Leader in Kanto Region. Misty, Mrs. Delia, they are Professor Sycamore, the Pokemon Professor of the Kalos Region, Sophie and Alain, two of his assistants, and Mairin, a rookie trainer."

"Nice to meet you, everyone."

"It is an honor to meet you too, Mrs. Delia. Even though I did not travel along with Ash's group, I myself had witnessed his development in our region."

"Yes. Then first of all, I really thanked you for guiding my son in his journey here. We had been exchanging calls since he travelled here and he had told about the Pokemon Summer Camp here in Kalos." [2]

"Oh, the Pokemon Summer Camp. Yes, I led the summer school to the same goal as the one with Professor Oak of the Kanto Region."

"'To build an even deeper bond with your Pokémon through your interactions with other trainers', right, Professor?"

"Aside from replacing trainers with young children in Professor Oak's case, you're right."

"After all, aside from running the Pallet House in our town, I was also one of Professor Oak's students, so I am well-aware of his works."

"I remember Ash and Serena telling me and Bonnie that they both attended one of the Pokemon Summer Camps when they were younger," said Clemont, recalling a certain past where Ash, Clemont and Bonnie met Serena in Santalune City (or in Ash's case, it is his and Serena's second meeting). [3]

"Yes. There are a lot of things that had happened there, but the most important part is that every child had experience what they needed to learn in the camp. Hence, the reason on my son's love to Pokemon."

"I see. So that's how it goes, Mrs. Delia."

While the others are making conversations about the summer camp, Misty realized something about one of the members of the other group - the raven-haired trainer, to be specific.

"Aren't you the winner of the Kalos Region Conference, Alain?"

"Yes, I am."

"That was such close battle between you and Ash."

"If it wasn't for my Charizard's fortitude in that battle, Ash's Greninja could have won. But that's really a close battle for the two of us to get the same goal for different reasons."

"Different reasons?"

"That's a different story, Cerulean City Gym Leader."

"But, Misty, that was also one of the only times I saw Alain felt very satisfied in any Pokemon battle," added Mairin feeling excited on her thoughts.

"I see. Then, can we have a Pokemon battle later, Alain?"

"What do you mean?"

"Your Charizard and my Gyarados... That's what I mean," said Misty while showing off a certain catalyst to Alain who then felt slightly excited once again upon showing such catalyst - the Keystone.

After some time, Delia then proceeded to talk to everyone about something.

"Shall we proceed to meet Ash now, Professor?"

"Yes, I agree. The evening made an appearance already."


"Shhh... Be quiet or else Ash will not be surprised with this."

"Big brother, you're the one who was noisy, you know!"

"Dene!"

Clemont speaks cautiously to the two groups as they are about to get into Ash's room on that hospital where they met one another, much to the dismay of his younger sister. However...

"Pika? Pika Pikapi..."

Pikachu felt unease about something as it hurriedly leaps away from the door of Ash's room for some reason. Misty then followed the yellow mouse.

"Pikachu, where are you going?"

"Pika... Pika... Pika..."

"Misty? Pikachu?"

"I'll be right back, madam. I'll get Pikachu," said Misty waving her hand to the others as she followed Pikachu elsewhere.

"Okay..."

"Alright! Here it goes! One! Two!"

Clemont excitedly proceeded to open the door to Ash's room.

However...

"That's not Ash who was stayed there, Clemont."

"NO WAY!"

Just like Ash's mother had said, Clemont made a mistake...


After some time, as a certain show was shown in the television of a certain hospital room...

"After ten years, the Pokemon World Tournament will be once again going to happen four months from now. The following rules for this..."

"A, A, Ash! C, C, Can I invite you to have a date with me?!"

It was a certain white-haired lady named Katherine who shouted such words towards the patient of that room, much to the surprise of everyone else - everyone but five, that is, who happened to be the yellow-haired lady in white dress named Lusamine who only sighed on Katherine's actions; the white-haired girl's friends, Kali, Blossom and Linnea, who only smiled about that moment; and Pikachu, who was rather clueless about what had happened as it just came to the door of Ash's room - the real deal. However, the ones who were most shocked about it...

""D, Date?!""

... were the guardian of the patient Ash, Serena, and a certain newcomer, Misty.

"This is not good, I think," said Lusamine in a weak voice even if she smiled about the moment.


Next Chapter: Chapter 02: A Small Link To The Past


REFERENCES:
[1] Pokemon XYZ Episode 21: A Bride for Clemont!? Bonnie's S'il-vous-plaît Panic!
[2] Pokemon XY Episode 39: Pokémon Summer Camp! Enter the Rival Trio!
[3] Pokemon XY Episode 05: The Santalune Gym Battle! The Magnificent Vivillon's Dance Battle!