"Adena? That's a nice name." said Misty.

"Oh… thank you."

"What is it you came back to warn us about?"

"Well… There's no nice way to put this…"

"Just tell us, what is so bad that you came back in time to warn us about it?"

"You know how Team Rocket tried to steal Omegamoah a few weeks ago?"

"Yes… and I imagine they still are."

"Yes… a few days from now Team Rocket will launch an all-out assault in attempt to take him from you..."

"Do they succeed?"

"No… The Pokémon G-Men have this place under surveillance and have more than adequate forces on standby to counter them… but… the fight won't be without casualties… Misty your baby is in danger!"

"What?!" exclaimed both Ash and Misty.

"In the battle you get caught in the crossfire and you suffer a miscarriage. I don't want that to happen."

Ash couldn't take his eyes off the small but unmistakable bump on Misty's stomach.

"What do we have to do?"

"You must leave this place as soon as possible. Team Rocket only cares about Omegamoah, not you. Once the battle is over their organization will be all but crippled and it won't be long until Giovanni is back behind bars where he belongs, and your baby will be safe. I'll even stay behind to make sure that happens."

Misty looked from her stomach, to Ash, and then to Adena.

"Thank you…"

When asked why Adena had come back in time to save Misty's baby she said that she knew Ash and Misty in the future, and that she knew what grief the death of their child caused them, and that she would to anything to make things right. Suddenly something came across Brock's mind.

"What happens to me in the future?! Do I meet the girl of my dreams and marry her?!"

"Uh… I… can't say."

"Huh? You hesitated there, is there something I should know?"

"I told you I can't say."

"Why not?! This is my future wife we're talking about! For the love of God tell me what you know!"

Both May and Dawn bashed Brock in the back of the head.

"Thank you."

"Really Adena, is there something you're not telling us?"

"I do admit there are some things I'm not telling you, but that's only because time travel is a very dangerous business. I trust you've heard of the butterfly effect?"

"I know what you're talking about!" said Max "It's just like in the movies, where changing any small thing in the past can alter the future in ways you can't imagine."

"Yes, and I don't want to mess with the timeline too much."

"Aren't you messing with it right now?" asked Dawn.

"Yes, I'm breaking like a hundred rules just by being here. But that's only because some things should be changed, but it would probably be preferable if other things did not."

"And the best way to ensure that they didn't would be for Brock to find out on his own?"

"Precisely."

Mrs. Ketchum didn't seem too troubled having yet another person in the house. In fact she seemed very interested in Adena and asked her a lot of questions. Of course Adena politely refused to answer any questions about the future save for what she had already told them. With Adena there were now five people sleeping on the lower floor in sleeping bags. Ever since she found about Misty's condition, not only was Mrs. Ketchum insist that Ash and Misty sleep in the same room, she told them to do so naked, saying that she read somewhere that it helps create a stronger intimate bond. A few months ago when Ash won the Indigo Conference a little misunderstanding led Delia to think Ash and Misty had gone skinny dipping and accused them of being a couple when they were really just having a Pokémon battle. Now that Ash and Misty had a baby on the way and were due to be married she was actually encouraging them to be intimate.

"I want one thing understood; you're going to live together, you're going to eat together, you're going to sleep together, and you're going to bathe together. Get used to it!"

"But we're not even married yet."

"You might as well be since she's carrying your baby."

At first it felt really strange for Ash to be sleeping in the same bed with a girl, let alone that they were both naked, but as the weeks went by he had to admit he felt a little happier every day. The sight of Misty curled up in bed beside him was as intoxicating as watching her swim, but tonight both their eyes were fixed on her stomach.

"It'll be fine; she said she can change it."

"Somehow… I know."

It was then that Ash noticed something strange.

"Wait a minute… You and Adena have the same eyes!"

"I know Ash… I think she's our daughter."

"Our daughter? She can't be, in her time you have a miscarriage."

"I know, but last week I decided I was going to call our baby Adena if it was a girl."

"Well… Now that you mention it, she kind of looks like me... only without a Y-chromosome and with waist length hair."

Adena was lying on the ground wide awake. Seeing her mother this young was so weird, and the last memory she had of her father from her own time was of him threatening to destroy an entire city if they didn't hand her over, and here he was looking like any ordinary teenage Pokémon trainer. Her mother's words echoed in her ears.

"You father wasn't always… the way he is… I met him when he was only ten years old. He was the most stubborn, rash, arrogant, and headstrong person I had ever met, but I could tell his heart was in the right place. As the years went by I watched him grow both physically and in maturity into the man I feel in love with. He wanted more than anything else to be the world's greatest Pokémon Master, but I also knew that he'd do anything for me, and for his child."

Adena hadn't been lying when she told the others that Misty would suffer a miscarriage because of Team Rocket's vain ambitions to reacquire Omegamoah, but she hadn't told them that the grief caused by the death of Ash's unborn child drove him mad. After all the things that had happened to him it was the straw that broke the camel's back. Throwing Giovanni back behind bars wasn't enough, when Ash confronted him he was out for blood, and he succeeded.

"YOU'VE TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME!"

"What can I say boy? An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth."

"You're right…"

"AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!"

However Giovanni's death did nothing to ease the pain that he and Misty felt after losing their child. Ash went into the world looking for a way to make things right, and it quickly became clear that the only way he could do that would be to turn back time. Only two Pokémon in the world can manipulate time: Celebi and Dialga. Ash had encountered both these legendary Pokémon before and intended to find them again, but his heart was no longer in the right place because it was stained with Giovanni's blood. After two years of fruitless searching he returned briefly to Pallet Town, and it was during that time that Adena had been conceived, but Ash never knew of his second child because he still had not recovered from the loss of his first, and by the time Adena was born the man that Misty had loved was long gone.

Ash continued to search in vain for the legendary Pokémon Celebi or Dialga, but he never found them, and the desire for power can corrupt even the noblest of persons. As he traveled he ran into more monsters like Giovanni, it never stopped, and there was nothing he could do about it… or was there? Overtime Ash's quest for power gradually went from saving someone he loved to realizing that he could control the world. Seduced by what power he had obtained during his travels, the self-appointed Lord Xanrai began his quest for world domination. With Omegamoah leading his forces cities fell under Xanrai's rule one by one, but there were some who resisted. The first brave stand was made by Brock in Pewter City, but Xanrai showed no mercy, not even for his former friends. Adena couldn't bear to tell Brock that his greatest fear would be realized, if she failed in her mission then he was going to die a virgin.

It wouldn't be just Brock who would suffer. Survivor reports stated the Lord Xanrai kept certain female POWs for his own personal playthings. Among the women Adena knew suffered this horrible fate were May, Dawn, Jasmine of Olivine City, and others. Instead of striking fear into any possible troublemaker like he intended, the atrocities of Xanrai continued to rally people against him. The resistance was led by Adena's friend and mentor Cynthia, but it takes more than strong leadership to win a war. Any battles the resistance won were met with as many casualties as their defeats. After months of effort they finally killed Omegamoah by exploiting a weakness that Cynthia found in his armor during her battle with Ash. Xanrai was furious, but even so his forces had no choice but to retreat. However the damage that had already been caused could not be undone.

During the battle Adena met Suicune, who then took her to Celebi. Adena wanted more than anything to change the fates of her family and friends, even though there was a chance that changing the past might prevent her from ever being born, she felt that it was a risk she'd have to take. Because of this Celebi agreed to take her back in time. Now that she saw the kind of person her father used to be she wanted more than ever to help him.