~Coumarine City~
Our heroes finally made it to Coumarine City. Bonnie saw an ice cream machine and ran towards it pointing at it.
"I want some ice cream!" Bonnie cheered.
"Okay, I'll go get you one." Aichi replied, while walking with Bonnie to the ice cream got a Vanillite shaped ice cream cone.
"It looks like a pokemon." Bonnie pointed out.
"It looks like a Vanillite." Aichi added. The others walked over to them.
"There is a lost Vanillite in town, I wanted to make a Vanillite ice cream theme for the Vanillite." The ice cream man explained.
"There's a missing Vanillite? Where is Vanillite now?" Clemont asked.
"Vanillite's in the Pokemon Center right now. Vanillite is sweet and really enthusiastic so I think Vanillite will be glad to meet all of you." The ice cream man answered.
"Let's go I want to see Vanillite!" Bonnie cheered.
"Yea." Everyone else said. Everyone started walking and Aichi said thank you before leaving.
At the Pokemon Center, Aichi and the others watched a Vanillite flying everywhere out of control. Nurse Joy was trying to catch it.
"We should help out." Aichi suggested.
"Yea." Ash agreed.
"I'll calm down Vanillite. You make sure no one gets hurt." Aichi said as he walked towards Vanillite. "Calm down, Vanillite."
"Vanillite~?" Vanillite stopped and floated to Aichi. Vanillite floated around Aichi and played with him. She was blowing out a blizzard in the Pokemon Center and it was freezing cold. Aichi reached out for her and hugged her tight to stop her from making a whole snow storm inside. After she stopped, Aichi let her go. His arm was a little frozen. Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie were making sure the sick pokemon weren't hit by the snow from before.
"You were just having fun weren't you." Aichi giggled. "You were just playing with Nurse Joy."
"Vanillite~" Nurse Joy walked over to Vanillite and Vanillite apologized.
"It's fine Vanillite. You don't need to apologize." Nurse Joy said. She faced Aichi. "Thank you for your help. I've heard a lot of rumours about a strong trainer that can talk to pokemon, you must be the one they were talking about." Vanillite played around with Aichi and Azelf joined in as well. They attracted a lot of attention.
"Come on... Stop, we are attracting a lot of attention." Aichi said. They pause then continued. Aichi sighed, then some kids startled him.
"Look it's an Azelf! That means he is the super strong trainer!" A little boy shouted to his friends, everyone started crowding around Aichi.
"Wait hold on." Aichi said.
"Battle with me please!" A bunch of trainers said.
"Battle my brother. He was the first to notice you!" The little boy shouted.
"Okay, there is a lot of time to battle. I'll battle all of you." Aichi replied.
"Aichi seems really popular here." Serena pointed out. Vanillite started crying and Aichi hugged her.
"I'll play with you after the battles okay?" Aichi suggested. Vanillite smiled. "Let's start our battles. Vanillite, do you mind staying with Ash, Bonnie, Serena and Clemont until I come back?" Vanillite nodded with enthusiasm.
He turned to Azelf. "Azelf do you mind staying with Nurse Joy and help her catch up on the pokemon she was taking care of?" He asked.
"Azelf~"
"Vanillite~" Vanillite floated towards Nurse Joy and said bye. Aichi walked with a group to the battlefield.
Outside, Team Rocket was listening to their conversation.
"While that twerp is gone we can steal that Vanillite." Meowth suggested.
"Why would we want that little thing?" Jessie asked. Meowth, Jessie and James thought.
"Vanillite, can be our mascot. Also we can use Vanillite to lure out Pikachu and that blue twerp." Meowth answered.
"We'll probably get a huge promotion out of this catch." James agreed.
"Let's get our promotion into motion." They cheered.
Aichi was on the battlefield, battling his opponents. He was battling with is Azumarill and Gardevoir.
"Good job. Azumarill and Gardevoir." Aichi said with a smile. The trainer on the other side seemed upset.
"I lost." He said with tears running down his face. Aichi walked over and picked up Plusle from the middle of the battlefield. He handed Plusle to the trainer.
"Keep on training with Plusle. Once your bond grows you will be in more sync." Aichi suggested. He heard a commotion inside the Pokemon Center and hurried inside. "What happened in here?"
"Aichi!" Nurse Joy called.
"Nurse Joy." Aichi replied. "What happened?"
"Some thieves stole Vanillite. They got away." Nurse Joy answered. Aichi ran out of the Pokemon Center and Charizard came out of his Pokeball. Azelf was helping taking care of a pokemon and missed what happened.
"Charizard. We need to find Vanillite. Can you help me?" Aichi asked.
"Charizard~" He replied. He flew and Aichi was on his back, looking for Vanillite. After a while, they spotted Ash and the others and flew down. They were in a cage.
"Aichi!" Serena called.
"Aichi! It's a trap!" Ash shouted. Aichi looked behind him. A net was shot at him and he got stuck. Charizard returned to his Pokeball without Aichi's command.
"What's this?" Aichi asked. He tried to move but he couldn't. The net just kept tightening around him.
"We got a catch; Five twerps, one Pikachu, all of the twerp's Pokemon and one Vanillite." Team Rocket sang.
"Vanillite~!" Vanillite called. In a cage.
"I'm fine Vanillite." Aichi reassured. The net was tightening on his skin, then stopped after Aichi groaned in pain.
"We can leave the rest of the twerps and take the blue twerp and all their pokemon." Meowth said, while stepping on Aichi with one foot. "Let's go." Team Rocket's balloon appeared and they jumped in with Vanillite and the bag of pokemon.
"Ash, Clemont, Bonnie, Serena!" Aichi called, before being thrown in the balloon and they took off. "You won't get away with this." Aichi tried to move but he got shocked. He saw a weak part in hot air balloon's structure, weak enough to make a hole in it if he body slammed it hard.
"Vanillite~" Vanillite sounded worried.
"Vanillite, it'll be okay. Pikachu, are you there?" Aichi whispered.
"Pikachu~" Pikachu confirmed quietly. The bag moved to show that he was in there.
"Okay Pikachu. Get ready for a bumpy ride, I'm going to get us out of this balloon." Aichi warned. He was talking really quietly so that Team Rocket couldn't hear him. He moved a little and managed to grip the bag and Vanillite's cage quietly. As he was doing that, he was trying not to the scream from the shock. He body slammed the surface of the hot air balloon, on the weak spot in a corner and it broke as they fell. Team Rocket looked down.
"That twerp!" Meowth said. They flew the balloon down and all three were reaching for Aichi's net. When they made contact Aichi dropped the bag and Vanillite's cage and moved a lot and all of them got shocked. All of them fell and Aichi fainted from the electricity. The balloon fell another direction.
They fell on the ground hard and Vanillite's cage broke a little. Vanillite used Ice Beam and smashed the cage broken. Vanillite looked at Aichi first before untying the electric proof bag.
"Vanillite~" Vanillite pointed at Aichi and they both ran to him. Pikachu pulled one of the net's chains and it shocked Pikachu. Pikachu looked at Aichi's belt and Charizard's pokeball was missing they looked around. They couldn't find it. They couldn't move Aichi so they just stayed there, hiding in the bushes.
They heard some footsteps as Pikachu took a peek, it was Team Rocket.
"They couldn't have gotten far. The twerp can't move, Pikachu is in an electric proof bag and Vanillite is in a cage." James said.
"They must be here somewhere." Jessie said.
Pikachu and Vanillite stayed quiet as Aichi woke up. He heard Team Rocket and he heard footsteps getting closer to them. They were looking through bashes and soon they were spotted. Aichi got up.
"I won't let you have all these pokemon." Aichi said. His aura flared and Meowth got scared because he was the only one that can see it. "If you know what's best for you…" Aichi started walking towards them as the electricity accelerated. "You will leave." They all got scared and ran off.
"Pikachu~" The glow came back as the chains broke. The light dissolved as Aichi felt slightly stronger and a mark appeared on the back of his hand, Cray's flag.
"Dominance." The D turned blue.
"Let's go." Aichi said picking up the bag of pokeballs. He looked at his belt and Charizard was missing. "Have you seen Charizard's pokeball?" They shook their head.
~With Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie~
Aichi and all the pokemon were taken by Team Rocket.
"What do we do? All of you don't have your pokemon and Aichi was taken." Bonnie asked. Serena spotted something on the ground.
"Hey, what is that on the ground?" Serena asked pointing at the object. It was small. Ash and Clemont looked a little closer.
"Hey! It's a pokeball. It must be Aichi's." Ash answered. "But it's so far. How are we going to reach it?" He tried reaching for it, but it was out of his reach. Clemont walked forward.
"I'll just use my Aipom arm to get it." Clemont said. The Aipom arm extended and got it, Clemont took it and held it up. "Come out."
"Charizard~" Charizard came out of the pokeball. He was outside the cage.
"Charizard, Aichi's in trouble can you get us out of here?" Serena asked. Charizard nodded and used Dragon Claw. It took two Dragon Claws to break it.
"Thank you, Charizard." Clemont thanked.
"Charizard~"
"Let's go find Aichi, Vanillite and the rest of our pokemon." Ash said. Everyone agreed. Serena, Clemont and Ash flew on Charizard's back and Bonnie was in the arms of Charizard looking around. After a while, they heard a bang.
"Charizard, go towards the sound." Serena said. When they got there they saw Team Rocket.
"Team Rocket! Where is Pikachu, Vanillite, Aichi and all our pokemon?!" Ash asked. They looked scared and they had terrified eyes.
"What happened to you three?" Bonnie asked.
"His terrifying aura. I never seen anything like it." Meowth answered.
"His? Aichi's?" Serena asked. They nodded. "Where are they?"
"We don't know." James and Jessie said together.
"Okay, let's go." Clemont said and they left. "Charizard, let's go." They hopped on and went searching.
~Back To Aichi~
They got back to the place where Ash and the others were before and saw the broken cage. He looked at the broken part and analyzed it.
"It looks like a Dragon Claw. I think Charizard broke them free." Aichi explained. They saw something flying in the air, Aichi felt Charizard's aura. "Hey!" Aichi started waving both hands to them. They landed and Aichi petted Charizard.
"Good job Charizard." Aichi said. "Thank you for helping Ash and the others."
"Charizard~" They heard a rumbling sound a machine came out and captured Vanillite and there was also a Vanillish and Vanilluxe.
"Vanillite!" Aichi called. He noticed the Team Rocket 'R' on the robot. "Team Rocket!"
Team Rocket intro.
"Give us Pikachu and the blue twerp or we'll freeze all of you." Meowth said.
"We won't go with you! Give up, we will get Vanillite back and help Vanillish and Vanilluxe escape." Aichi refused.
"Then be prepared to freeze!" Jessie and James declared. The machine used Vanillite, Vanillish and Vanilluxe's energy to create a blizzard.
"Stop!" Ash shouted.
"You're hurting them!" Aichi and Bonnie shouted together. Ash, Clemont, Bonnie and Serena all started to freeze.
"Charizard! Counter it with Flamethrower. Use mega evolution to make it stronger!" Aichi said as he started to freeze. Charizard mega evolved and used Flamethrower and countered the Blizzard. "Glaceon, come out!"
"Glaceon~" They ran to the machine and started climbing it.
"Aichi, what are you doing?" Serena asked.
"Stop the blue twerp!" Jessie shouted. The blizzard directed towards Aichi.
"Alright, Glaceon. Use Ice Beam in the hole where the blizzard is coming from." Aichi commanded. Glaceon followed the command and the machine overloaded. Vanillite, Vanillish and Vanilluxe started panicking. "Glaceon Ice Beam and Charizard Dragon Claw afterwards." They followed the command.
"Get some rest you two." Aichi said and he returned them back.
"Aichi, get out of there." Everyone shouted. Aichi was busy focusing his Psyqualia on the Vanillite, Vanillish and Vanilluxe.
"Calm down. It's okay." Aichi comforted. They were all calm, that was when a Psybeam and three Shadow Balls hit him on the back and he started falling.
"Aichi!" Everyone called.
"Gogoat, Vine Whip!" A voice commanded. As Aichi was about to fall on the ground the Vine Whip out there on time. "Such a troublesome group." Aichi fainted on the floor. Team Rocket got out of their machine.
"We can at least capture that twerp for our boss." Jessie said. "Pumpkaboo, Shadow Ball."
"Inkay, Psybeam." James commanded. They followed Jessie and James's orders and used their moves. Intercepted by Gogoat and an old man.
"Oh, my what do you want with such a young boy." The old man asked. Ash and the others were still stuck in ice.
"Aichi!" They shouted.
"Gogoat, Horn Leech." The old man commanded. Gogoat used Horn Leech and Team Rocket was sent flying. The grass was all covered by snow and Ash and the others were frozen. Aichi body was aching, he was could feel an overwelming pain.
~Aichi's Back to his World~
"I haven't felt like this since I was Reversed. My whole body hurts." Aichi thought. He opened his eyes and he saw Kai, Leon and Ren in front of them unconscious.
"Kai! Leon! Ren!" Aichi called. He tried to move but his arms were chained by chains from above him and chains nailed to the floor were keeping his legs from moving. "Wake up!" They slowly started to wake up.
"Aichi! You're awake!" They all called. Aichi tried to move closer, but he couldn't. Ren, Kai and Leon tried to help him out, but there was like an invisible barrier around each of them. They heard a laugh coming from the distance.
"Seems like everyone's awake." Void said. He threw Chris into a barrier as he got up.
"Chris!" Aichi shouted. Chris faced Aichi and he looked back to normal, but he looked like he got beat up pretty badly. "Chris, you're back."
"What do you mean I'm back? The Chris that Void created wasn't me at all." Chris replied. Void floated closer to Aichi as their auras collided creating an energy burst.
"Aichi Sendou. Your aura has got stronger because of the other world." Void commented.
"Get away from Aichi!" Ren, Leon, Kai and Chris shouted. Aichi struggled as Void started getting closer. Void's aura started overpowering his again.
"Let me go!" Aichi demanded.
"What are planning on doing with Sendou?" Leon asked.
"The more people fall into my control. The more weaker they gets. His main source of power at the moment is the energy of Cray that flows through him. The more clans fall the weaker he gets and the more strong I get. I already have enough power to make Link Joker rage again. I can also conjure up Reversed versions of all of you." Void explains. He took a body form and stood in front of Aichi holding his chin up so that they were face to face.
"Tell me that you can feel it, Aichi Sendou. Your body is damaged so severely after one measly blast. You are getting weaker, even in the other world." Void said. "You've even met Reversed Takuto at one point, I'm planning on doing your friend, Kai next. But this time he will be under my full control."
"Don't you dare!" Kai replied.
"I can also bring back the Leon that was consumed by me and the Ren and Aichi that were consumed by corrupted Psyqualia." Void added. They all gritted their teeth after he rubbed all their mistakes in their faces. Ren seemed to be in his serious for out else he would've made a joke like; 'Kai wouldn't appreciate me turning back into that, he won't like meanymore if you do, do that.'
"I have all the power in the world and there is no one to stop me now. Not the 5 people that possess Psyqualia, not any of your friends. No one." Void declared. All of their friends entered.
"No! Misaki, Ratie, Gaillard, Neve, not everyone." Aichi cried as tears streamed down his eyes.
"Miwa, Jun…" Kai muttered.
"Asaka, Tetsu. No way." Ren called.
"Jillian, Sharlene." Leon said.
Void laughed. "I love watching you all in despair. Of course you, Aichi Sendou." Tears dropped on the floor. "It doesn't take much to make you cry. How are you the King of Cray, if you can't even take a little heartache?" Emi stood in front of him.
"Emi." Aichi said.
"I thought my brother was smarter and stronger than this. I should've known that you will still be like this even now, still so weak and I always need to take care of you." Emi giggled.
"Emi, you're right. I do need you, but I've grown up and I cherish every friendship I made so far. I still feel sad when I see this has happened to all of them." Aichi replied.
"Such a disappointment, Aichi. Act more grown up, since you are a King now." Emi said.
"Aichi, don't listen to her." Chris said.
"Yes, Sendou. I agree ignore her, don't fall to despair." Leon agreed. Jillian and Sharlene walked into his barrier and hugged him.
"Leon, we need our leader. Join us." They said together.
"I refuse. There is no way I'll side with the Void. I am never going to fall in Void's hands every again." Leon refused.
"Void, what is your motive in doing this? You will never make us join you." Aichi asked. Void started getting closer to him and he tried to move backwards away from him. He held his hand in front of Aichi's chest and pulled out a blue light, Aichi screamed in pain and the chains disappeared. His appearance changed back to normal before he received the necklace.
"Aichi!" Chris, Leon, Ren and Kai called.
"What did you do to him?" Kai asked.
"This is his Psyqualia. This is how weak he is without it, he gets so weak that the chains feel like they aren't needed." Void answered.
"Give that back to him!" Kai demanded.
"Yes, Sendou need it." Leon agreed. Aichi was sweating and breathing hard.
"But he's freed, he can run if he can." Void replied laughing.
"Stop this isn't funny." Ren said
"Give it back to him." Chris demanded.
"I can't hold it anymore anyways." Void said and put it back in him. The chains reappeared and wrapped around his arms and legs again. Aichi let got a short screech, then a sigh. He opened his eyes and he glowed changing him back to before.
"I'm going to send you back to the other world now." Void said. He waved his hand in front of Aichi and a purple light appeared and Aichi became unconscious.
"Aichi! Wake up!" Chris, Ren, Kai and Leon called.
~Pokemon World~
Aichi was shifting around like he was having a nightmare.
"Aichi, he's been like this since we got back to the Pokemon Center." Bonnie said. Something started to glow in his chest and came out and he changed back to how he looked like before receiving the necklace.
"What is happening what is that?" Serena asked.
"I don't know, what is that?" Ash asked.
"Ramos, do you know anything about it?" Clemont asked. The old man, now known as Ramos shook his head.
"Sorry, but I don't know anything about this." Ramos answered. Azelf went close to the light, but was pushed back by a dark aura and fainted. Aichi looked like he was in pain. He was sweating and breathing really hard. Bonnie got closer to him and was also pushed back.
"Bonnie!" Clemont shouted.
"I'm okay." Bonnie reassured scratching her head. "What is happening with Aichi?"
"Kai… Leon…" Aichi mumbled while in pain.
"Who is Kai and Leon?" Ramos asked.
"We don't know, it must be 2 of his friends that we don't know." Ash answered.
"Ren… Chris…" Aichi added.
"Since I saved this boy, I felt something strange about him. There must be something that makes him different." Ramos said.
"Well, Aichi is from another world and he has a strange power from that world. In our world, that power grants him the ability to understand and talk to pokemon." Ash explained.
"I reckon that, that light is his power." Ramos thought outloud.
"Do you think that his consciousness is in his world right now and his body is mimicking what is happening to him right now?" Serena asked.
"I promise… I am… Going to become… Stronger… To save you… All of you!" Aichi said. The light re entered him and he changed back to his usual form. He sprung up a minute later, breathing hard.
"Aichi!" Serena, Ash, Clemont and Bonnie called. Aichi rubbed his eyes.
"Hi Ash, Serena, Bonnie and Clemont." Aichi greeted. He noticed Ramos behind him. "Did I cause you any trouble?"
"No, I'm glad you are alright boy." Ramos answered. Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie all looked concerned.
"What's wrong?" Aichi asked.
"You were tossing and turning while you were asleep and you a light came out of you. We couldn't touch you until the light went back in you." Bonnie explained.
"What? What did I do Bonnie?" Aichi asked.
"There was this light that came out of you and you were calling out the names; Kai, Leon." Serena answered.
"Also Ren and Chris." Clemont added.
"Before you woke up you said. "I promise I am going to become stronger to save all of you." Ash added. Aichi looked at them with a smile.
"Sorry for worrying all of you. I was just back in my original world and…" Aichi paused. "There is a conflict there that I need to take care of it as soon as possible." He scratched his head.
"You don't have to be concerned about it. I don't want any of you to get involved with my enemies." Aichi added. Azelf woke up and flew around him.
"Azelf~"
Aichi laughed. "Sorry for worrying you Azelf. I'm fine now." He replied. He petted Azelf on the head while she sat down with him.
"Before I forget to tell you, we are having a Pokemon Appreciation Day tomorrow." Ramos informed.
"Pokemon Appreciation Day?" They asked at the same time.
"Yes, a day where you give your pokemon a present. There is going to be a tree and you leaves you gifts there until nighttime. Then you give them to your pokemon." Ramos explained.
"That sounds fun. How about we participate?" Aichi asked.
"Let's do it." They agreed.
"I wish I had my own pokemon. I want to give presents to pokemon too." Bonnie cried.
"Bonnie, if you don't mind. Can you watch our pokemon while we get gifts? It wouldn't be a surprise if they know what we were getting them." Aichi asked.
"Bonnie, that is a big and important job. That can be your gift to the pokemon." Clemont added.
"Okay, I'll do it. It sounds fun." Bonnie agreed. Aichi stepped off of his bed and almost fell over if Ash didn't help him.
"Are you alright, Aichi?" Ash asked.
"I'm fine, just a little dizzy." Aichi answered with a reassuring smile. He sensed something nearby, with a dark aura.
"I don't think you should go shopping Aichi." Serena suggested.
"Maybe you're right, but I want to participate in the Pokemon Appreciation Day." Aichi replied determined.
"Stay here, your pokemon will be worried if you go unstable without them." Ramos pointed out. Aichi sat back on his bed.
"Fine, you all have fun." Aichi said.
"Okay, rest up Aichi." They all said waving goodbye and closing the door behind them. Aichi still sensed the dark aura, it was really close now.
"Azelf you should also go and play with the other pokemon. I'm going to rest." Aichi suggested. Azelf nodded and left the room.
"I know you're there." Aichi said outloud. The person came out from the shadows and he instantly recognize the person. "Kai…"
"Which Kai?" He asked evilly.
"Reversed Kai. I didn't expect you to be here so quickly." Aichi answered. Reversed Kai walked towards him, and Kai knew Aichi was too weak right now to go against him.
"You aren't the least bit afraid of me?" Reversed Kai asked. Aichi shook his head.
"No, you can't do anything to me in this world. This is a world where you're powerless." Aichi replied. His eyes were filled with confidence. Reversed Kai got closer to examine his eyes.
"Those eyes, I want to see them in despair again. I want to see them when they know they was helpless and defeated again." Reversed Kai commented.
"Too bad, you'll never see that." Aichi replied. Reversed Kai backed away so that they weren't directly face to face anymore.
"What a shame. You are too confident for the position you're in right now, the old you would've been scared." Reversed Kai said.
"I'm not the person I use to be anymore. I know that I have to be strong for my friends, new and old." Aichi replied. He started feeling a little tired and he started getting really dizzy, dizzy enough to fall asleep.
"At least I know you are still capable of being affected with intense and extreme dark auras, last time you saw the Void he was holding back his aura so that you wouldn't faint. But I'm not holding anything back. That's a start in figuring you out, but it is time I leave." Reversed Kai said, before Aichi dozed off. Reversed Kai disappeared.
~A Few Hours Later~
Aichi woke up, he got out of bed and stood up.
"I feel better. I wonder what happened before that made me so weak. Did Kai do something?" Aichi thought out loud. He walked outside his room and saw Azelf and all his pokemon. They were having fun with Bonnie and Serena, who just came back. Aichi didn't want to disturb them so he went outside through the back door.
"The town sure is festive today." Aichi thought. He was looking at all the lights outside, there were lights everywhere. He walked to the front of the Pokemon Center and he saw a gigantic tree. "A Christmas Tree. There isn't any snow, but I think this Pokemon Appreciation Day is Christmas back in the Vanguard world."
A little boy walked up to him. "Have you seen a trainer that can talk to pokemon? I want to ask him about my relationship with my pokemon." He asked. Aichi thought a little then shook his head.
"I'm sorry, I haven't seen the trainer you're talking about. But I think you can figure out your relationship on your own, without that trainer's help." Aichi answered.
"Okay, thank you. Bye." The boy waved and ran away.
"I should find a gift before it's too late." Aichi thought and ran looking for stores. As he was walking on the sidewalk, his surrounding turned dark and a light appeared in from of him. He reached for it and when he brought his hand out of the light he was holding a mega stone.
"A mega stone?" Aichi asked himself. His surroundings changed back to normal and it was as if time froze for a second for him to take the stone. He placed it in his pocket and continued looking for presents. He heard something near the center of town and ran towards to sound. He saw a Electrike alone without a trainer, the Electrike seemed sad. He walked towards Electrike and he went on the offensive.
"Are you okay? Where is your trainer?" Aichi asked. Electrike went back to being sad and jumped into Aichi's arms.
"Electrike~"
"Your trainer abandoned you?" Aichi asked to clarify. He softly smiled and lifted Electrike up in the air. "If you don't mind I'll be your trainer. I promise I'll take good care of you."
"Electrike~" He agreed.
Aichi held out a pokeball. "Whenever you're ready." Aichi said with a smile. Electrike smiled and touched the pokeball and went in. "Okay, Electrike, welcome to the team!" He threw Electrike's pokeball. Electrike came out and climbed on his shoulder.
Aichi walked back to the Pokemon Center and right in front of the entrance, he returned Electrike and walked in. "Hey." He greeted when he saw all of his friends looking for him.
"Aichi! Where were you?!" Serena asked angrily. Azelf looked mad too.
"I'm sorry. I just had to find a gift for my pokemon." Aichi apologized. They still looked mad. "I got the perfect present for all of you." Aichi threw a pokeball and Electrike appeared.
"I got all of you a new friend." Aichi continued. "I also got this." Aichi took out the Mega Stone.
"A Mega Stone? Where did you get that?" Ash asked.
"It came to me, just like Charizard's Mega Stone. The problem is, I don't know which stone this is suppose to belong to." Aichi answered.
"How did you know that Mega Stone belonged to Charizard?" Clemont asked.
"A friend told me, but I only get to talk to him once and awhile." Aichi answered. "I wonder if Takuto can tell me this again. With all the chaos in the other world, I don't think, he will have time or the power."
"Can you contact your friend again?" Bonnie asked.
"I'm not sure, I need to use Psyqualia, but it might take awhile to get in contact." Aichi answered. Clemont thought of an idea.
"We should get in contact with Professor Sycamore. He would know." Clemont shared. Everyone returned their pokemon.
"Isn't the Professor busy? Would we be bothering him?" Aichi asked.
"We wouldn't know unless we tried." Ash said. They walked to a communicating computer and called Professor Sycamore. After a while he picked up.
"Ash, Aichi, Serena, Clemont, Bonnie. How have you been?" Professor Sycamore greeted.
"Hey Professor Sycamore." They greeted back.
"I have a new Mega Stone, but I don't know which pokemon this Mega Stone is for." Aichi informed. Professor Sycamore thought for a while.
"I can run it through my machine and it will tell us which Mega Stone it is, but you are all the way at Coumarine City and I'm at Lumiose City." Professor Sycamore replied. Clemont looked inside his bag.
"I thought of a situation precisely like this one. Clemontic Gear On." Clemont announced. He took out a small machine. "I invented a teleportation device that can teleport anything to the Lumiose Gym. But since it can only teleport a small object. I never got a chance to use it."
"Wow! Science is so cool!" Ash said.
"Are you sure it won't explode, big brother? Mega Stones are really valuable." Bonnie asked.
"Bonnie…" Clemont replied.
"It's okay. I'll let Clemont do what he does best." Aichi laughed. He handed Clemont the Mega Stone and it just fit the maximum size.
"Professor, if you don't mind. Can you go to the Lumiose City gym and take the other machine connected to this one and bring it to your lab? I think if Aichi keeps on getting these Mega Stones that will be helpful." Clemont suggested.
"Sure thing." Professor Sycamore answered. After a while, Professor Sycamore returned with the small machine.
"Alright, Professor. I'm going to sent the Mega Stone to you now." Clemont said.
"Alright, Clemont." Professor Sycamore replied. They sent it over and he successfully received the Mega Stone. He ran it through his machine and got his results.
"According to the machine. This Mega Stone is a Gardevoirite. Used by Gardevoirs to mega evolve." Professor Sycamore informed.
"Cool! Now Gardevoir can evolve too!" Bonnie said.
"Yes, but you can only Mega Evolve one pokemon at once. So you will have to choose which pokemon you want to mega evolve." Professor Sycamore said.
"Okay. Thank you, Professor Sycamore." Aichi thanked. Professor Sycamore sent back the Mega Stone.
"Not a problem. I hope you will come visit again soon. I want to get some information about Mega Gardevoir up close." Professor Sycamore replied.
"We'll visit when we have time." Ash said.
"Bye! Professor Sycamore!" Bonnie cheered.
"Bye." The rest said together and the call ended. Ramos walked into the Pokemon Center and they greeted him.
"Hi Ramos!"
"Have all of you put all your gifts under the giant tree?" Ramos asked.
"Yes." Ash and Serena said together.
"I've already gave my pokemon their gift." Aichi said with a smile as Electrike jumped onto his shoulder.
"It's time for trainers to give their presents to their pokemon. Please go to the tree." Ramos said and left the Pokemon Center. They also went out and saw how festive it looked.
"Wow! It's so pretty!" Bonnie pointed out in surprise.
"Yea! It's more pretty at night." Serena added.
"Ash, didn't you go on a lot of adventures? We should meet with all your friends sometime." Aichi suggested. Ash thought for a while.
"I would like to see everyone again, but they are probably busy right now. Maybe we can all have a meet up after the Pokemon League." Ash replied.
"I might need to go back to my own world, before or right after the Pokemon League." Aichi said sadly. Serena, Bonnie, Ash and Clemont looked at him sadly.
"Maybe we can meet up sometime in our journey." Ash replied. "They are all good travelling people and I still remember all of our adventures like it was yesterday."
"I hope I get to meet them before I go back to my own world." Aichi said. He remembered what they were going to do before. "Oh! Let's hurry to the tree!"
"Yea let's hurry." Clemont agreed. They all ran to the tree when they got there they saw a Team Rocket Machine sucking up all the gifts into a sack.
"Team Rocket! What are you going?!" Aichi asked. Team Rocket introduction.
"Team Rocket!" The others shouted.
"We get all these gifts for our award and we also want 2 more gifts." Meowth said. He pressed a button and an arm extended towards Pikachu. Before the hand can get him, Aichi pushed them out of the way and they were all on the floor. The hand went back to the machine.
"Are you 2 alright?" Aichi asked, helping them up. The hand came again and Aichi pushed them away again. Before, the hand went back it got a hold of Aichi's right arm. Electrike fell off of Aichi's shoulder. Aichi struggled to break free.
"We got the twerp!" James and Jesse cheered. Aichi reached for his pokemon.
"Meowth! Don't let him use his pokemon!" James pointed out. Meowth pressed a button and another hand held Aichi's left wrist.
"If I can drop one of my pokemon. If it's Gardevoir, she can use her Psychic." Aichi thought. He flipped around so that he was on the arm. "I need to reach it." He touched a pokeball and hoped it was the right one, he also dropped the Gardevoirite.
"Electrike! Catch the stone!" Aichi shouted. A hand went for Pikachu and Electrike caught the Mega Stone.
"Serena! Clemont! Bonnie! Release the pokemon inside the pokeball." Aichi ordered. Serena caught it and released the pokemon, luckily it was Gardevoir. Electrike handed Gardevoir the Gardevoirite.
"Meowth!" Jesse shouted pointing at Gardevoir and Aichi.
"Gardevoir, Mega Evolve and use Psychic!" Aichi commanded. Gardevoir mega evolved and did as told. The hand released Aichi and he started to fall. The sack was released. Gogoat caught him again with Vine Whip. "Thank you, Ramos. Again." Ramos nodded and Aichi stood on his feet.
"Aichi, Ramos, let's do a link attack." Ash suggested. Aichi nodded. "Pikachu, Thunderbolt!"
"Electrike, Thunderbolt. Gardevoir, Dazzling Gleam" Aichi commanded.
"Gogoat, Razor Leaf!" Ramos ordered. All the attacks made contact and Team Rocket went flying.
"Good job, Electrike and Gardevoir. You did good." Aichi commented with a smile. He was petting both of them.
"Let's get the presents for our pokemon." Ash suggested. Serena and Clemont nodded and looked for their presents. Once they found it they give their pokemon their presents.
"Even though Team Rocket almost ruined the celebration. It was really fun." Aichi said happily. "This is the perfect day before challenging a gym leader, we get to bond with our pokemon."
"Yea! I can't wait until tomorrow. I wanted a new badge for a really long time now." Ash agreed. "I really want to meet the gym leader!"
"Well, you already met the gym leader." Ramos said. They were all shocked except for Aichi.
"Are you the gym leader?" Ash, Clemont, Bonnie and Serena asked in sync.
Aichi giggled. "I should've known that you were the gym leader. You are really strong." He said.
"Yes, I am the gym leader. I'm looking forward to our battle." Ramos answered and he started to leave.
"Bye, Ramos. We will have our gym battle tomorrow!" Ash and Aichi shouted together. The all waved.
The journey continues.