Chapter 7: I like you!

Hello guys, hope you enjoyed Jake! He is going to be part of Plot C. Not going to tell you what Plot C is going to be about though! So without further ado.

His legs felt stiff as he looks at his wife, who was still looking at the spot where her son stood. Serena looks at Ash then and embraces him. He returns the embrace.

"You two are back! You guys will never believe that the team that Ben made." A voice behind them said, turning around to see that it was Brock. They stopped hugging.

"Team?" Both of them asks in unison, glancing at each other with surprise. They see Brock grin and ushers them forward. They head to a room where a yellow sign says "Warning: Ben's Team Ahead.", Brock opens the door. An Axew appears running towards Brock and jumps onto him.

"Wow an, Axew!" Ash yells loudly before looking over to see Pikachu, chatting with a Croconaw.

"Hey, he has a Eevee," Serena suddenly yells before rushing towards the Eevee. "and a Pidgey. Wow, he has a lot!"

"He catches them during his missions, and they appear here, in the future. He caught Axew and yet these guys haven't been caught yet. They are going to though." Brock says, smiling at the thought of his nephew catching a Onix. "When they evolve in the past, they evolve here, like Charmeleon evolved to Charizard."

"Ash, are you okay?!"

"He has a Pidgey! Which means-" Ash started but Brock interrupts him, smiling.

"Yup, he is going to compete in the Pokemon League."

"Oh my goodness, Ben is turning into another Ash." Serena jokes, as the two males laugh.

In the past

"Charizard, if you don't settle down right now, I am afraid that you will have to miss the party."

"Row!"

"You heard me right! Please, just let Axew and Pikachu be the ones running around." Ben pleads to his starter, that was giving him the saddest face. "Nope, not gonna let that face slide pass me."

While this was going on, Ash, Serena, Clemont, and Bonnie were all getting ready for the dance that evening. They weren't thinking about the events that might occur during or after the dance. Ben was the more nervous one out of all of them. He and Bonnie were going to be dance partners and that alone, made Ben even more nervous. This caused his heart to speed up when he thinks about it.

"Do you like the yellow one, Ben?" Ben snaps out of his daydreaming to look at Bonnie. His face was frozen.

The lemon haired girl has the a yellow poof up dress, that sparkles a little (the same yellow dress that Bonnie had on in the anime), the girl laughs at Ben's face. Ben shakes his head, snapping out of his trance and smiles at her.

"You look beautiful." Ben whispers as Clemont spits out his juice that he was drinking. "Bonnie, you look amazing."

Bonnie blushes and grins at him, "Well, you better pick out a suite for yourself, mister. It won't be long until the crowd takes over the room."

"Yea, I'll do it right now." Ben mumbles before leaving to go get his suite.

"I need to talk to him." Clemont says, coming out of the changing room with his suit and tie on. Bonnie was going to argue but decided against it. Her older brother starts to walk away. "Ben probably doesn't know where its at."

Ash stays with the two girls as the inventor leaves. He decided to pass the time with Serena and Bonnie.

"Serena, how about we give some advice to Bonnie?" he ask looking at the two girls.

With Ben and Clemont

"How could I be so dumb!" Ben yells inside a locker, in the dressing rooms. He has already found a suite for him that Bonnie will love but he also doesn't need any girls coming up to him either.

He sighs before running his hand through his hair. He frowns at how long its gotten since he arrived in the past. He didn't like when his grandmother cuts his hair, she complains too much. So he got up and walked out of the dressing rooms.

And immediately crashes into a person, Clemont.

"Ow, sorry about that mister! I thought you were-" Clemont started talking but stopped before blinking again. "Ben?"

"That's the name." The boy says as he puts his hand out for the older boy to grab, which Clemont took. "Do you know where I could get a haircut real quick?" he asks suddenly.

"Yeah, follow me and we can talk." the lemon haired boy says with a smile as Ben nods.

The two boys were walking down the cobbled stone path where a hairstylists had their shop. A breeze sweeps the leaves away from the two boys as they walk. Suddenly, a horn blew a way in front of them.

"HEY!"

Ben shoves Clemont away just in time before a dark van hits them. It didn't go unnoticed by Ben at all as he throws Charizards pokeball and releases him. The big flame pokemon growls and his trainer jumps on his back. They took off after the truck. Clemont releases Luxray and follows them.

"Charizard, use flamethrower on the tires!" The twelve year old yells as he holds on as the fire type increases in speed.

"Not gonna happen, kiddo!" A voice above him shouted as a hyper beam was commanded at him.

"Luxray, Thunder!" Clemonts voice rang out as a bolt of lightening slams into Dragonite.

"God, dammit!" the voice of Kale yells as his pokemon yelps in pain. "Get a grip, Dragonite!"

Ben could see the truck getting closer, but he noticed the tires were drawing up smoke. He smirks as a plan was forming in his mind. He urges Charizard to fly faster as he gets on his knees.

"Pikachu, iron tail!"

"Briaxen, flamethrower!"

"Dragonite, dragon rage!" Kale tries to counter but he screams in pain as he was slammed onto the ground by the force of the attacks. Ash and Serena arrives in time to see Ben jump onto the back of the van. His Charizard flying over head as Ben starts to bang his fists on the van.

"Ben, they have Bonnie! She is in there!" Ash yells at his friend before turning towards Kale, Serena at his side.

"Axew, come out and use duel chop on the vans hood!" Ben yells as the tusk pokemon did just that. Moments later, they were making pogress as the steel roof begins to crumble under their weight. "I'm coming, Bonnie! Axew keep going!"

Suddenly, a light blinded Ben and the others as the van stops moving. It starts taking form. Kale yells something at Ben, but the young Ketchum didn't hear it, the light took form of a legendary pokemon with red eyes. Ben's eyes widen as the light suddenly rips the van in half, and using telepathy lifting up a unconscious Bonnie. Ben opens his arms as the strange creature hovers Bonnie over to him.

This is your chance to change the future, Ben. Don't mess it up. A voice inside the boys head whispers. Ben closes his eyes and when he opens them, the figure of light was gone.

"Darn it, kid, you and your puny friends had to mess things up again! You will pay for this tonight!" Kale yells as he disappears after recalling his Dragonite. Ben watches as Charizard lands on the ground and helps him getting off the van.

"Thanks, buddy." he whispers when he felt cement under his feet again, and recalls the fire type. He then notices Axew calling to him to catch him. Ben smiles and catches the tusk pokemon with his other hand.

"Ax Axew!"

"Your welcome, Axew." Ben says to the dragon type before recalling it. By that time, Serena, Ash, and Clemont were all running over, as Bonnie was waking up.

"Ben?" the lemon haired girl asks before getting hugged by the group. "Umm, guys I need air to breath."

Ash laughs, rubbing the back of his neck, "Well we were scared that got lost, so we rush to find you, only to find out that Kale was behind all of this."

"We couldn't have defeated Kale, without the help of Ben though!" Serena chirps in elbowing Ben in the side. The poor boy was almost the color of his Charizard as Bonnie was looking at him with stars in her eyes.

"Y-yea , your welcome." Ben mumbles, getting tackled to the ground by Bonnie.

"Thank you for saving me, Benny!" the girl yells and hugs him tighter. Behind them, Ash, Serena, Clemont, and Pikachu were trying to hold back their laughter.

"Benny? Since when did you start calling me that?" Ben asks hugging Bonnie back so she knows that he was thankful. "Never mind that, I like it." the future Bonnie never calls me this, I would've loved it.

"Oh, I was hoping you noticed the hint?" Bonnie mutters, but Ben heard it, because he tilts her head up to face him. "What are you doing?!"

"Bonnie, you know that I am from the future right? The Bonnie I know, she never gave me a chance to make up for what I did, she left and never returned. Bonnie, I know we are too young for this but I really like you. I liked you ever since I came to the past." the twelve year old whispers and smiles. "I understand that your brother doesn't want you to date yet, because you told me that in the future, but I just want you to know that I will be always waiting for you."

Bonnie gasps as she heard that last phrase. He actually told her his feelings! The girl takes a deep breath before wrapping her arms around Ben and puts her head on his shoulder. "Took you long enough, idiot."

Ben couldn't stop smiling as he looks at his friends who were staring at them. He gets up and holds onto Bonnie's hand. "I think we have a dance to get too?" he annouces as Bonnie smiles, but he remembers that his hair was in need for a cut. "Before that, does anyone have a pair of scissors?"

The castle was massive inside as the group walks in. Bonnie and Ben were wearing matching dresses and suites. They were also a lot happier now that they have their feelings known. Ben was really excited when Serena cut his hair and was really amazed at his new hair style. He felt that his hair was lighter on his head now.

Next was Ash and Serena (they were wearing the same outfits they had in the anime) who were slightly nervous because they never really told each other about their feelings either. They were dancing away as they were also on alert for any Team Rocket activity.

"Guys," a gasping Clemont yells behind them, "you better keep it PG!" he turns towards Bonnie and Ben and said that.

"Oh, big brother," Bonnie giggles, happily placing her head on Ben's shoulder, "you worry too much! Besides we are just kids, not teens!" She adds smirking as she points at a couple who were dancing a few feet ahead of them. That couple was being a little too lovey dove for Bonnie's taste, but Clemont sighs in defeat.

"Just don't do that! Ben I'm counting on you!" the inventor says walking away. Ben nods and Bonnie mumbles something under her breath before another song starts.

"Your brother is very protective, I wish I had a brother or sister like that." Ben says, looking down at Bonnie.

"Shut up." she says playfully as they start dancing again, but Ben pulls her closer to him. "Ben?"

"Shut up and dance with me!" He sings and spins her around.

"This is not the song, Ben!"