"Wait, so the psychic ball has to condense, expand, and THEN condense?"

"Yes. If you just straight on condense the ball, the trap would become extremely unstable because of the spatial energy that is in the ball. When it is put in actual space, the energy comes out and your cage blows up. If you expand it first, you let the spatial energy rush out, which stabilizes your psychic energy." Mew waved her tail in the air to help her explain, or just to show her excitement.

"Think about it like building a wall. When you take a scoop of concrete, you don't just dump it into the foundation. You compress the concrete first to make sure you get the air out. It's the same logic with Prismatic Laser, but the mechanics are a lot complicated, of course."

Domino took in the lesson. "So exactly how is this done?"

"Spoon Method 2 and 7 combined. You create the cage that traps people with 7, but deal with space rules using 2."

The girl nodded and her hands waved out. A pink ball appeared in front of her, and it started expanding rapidly.

"NOOOO!" Mew flew over and grabbed her, teleporting off. The pink ball that was in front of Domino exploded.

"You're supposed to do it SLOWLY! Why else would it even take ME a long time to charge?"

"Thanks Mew." Domino sheepishly scratched her head.

"Let's try this again. Remember, SLOW!"

A psychic energy pulsed out again, and another pink ball formed. It began expanding extremely slowly.

Mew rolled her eyes. "Okay, seriously, you can go a little faster. With your rate, your opponent could have released five Hyper Beams by the time you finished."

Domino increased her speed of expanding, and spikes began to pop out of the ball.

"SLOW!"

The blonde girl coughed at the ambiguity of the Mew's directions. She slowed down, and saw a small hole open on top of the spikes. Adding a brief trace of psychic to her eyes, she saw a black gas float out of the hole.

"Woah!"

"That's the spatial energy I was talking. You can only see it through psychic. At this point, you have to go extremely slow, or else the spatial energy explode from being compressed too much. That's actually why Dad's Judgment is so strong. And he had temporal energy and shadow energy in there as well."

"Aren't those all the energy of the Creation Trio?"

"And that's why they are so powerful. Their powers directly connect with the energies of the world. Now focus on the Prismatic Laser. We don't want another explosion."

Domino concentrated. The spikes on the pink ball began to die down. She bit her lip in response to how tiring this was. The ball stopped condensing for a while, and ended up being a sphere with a volume of about one-third of before.

"Now that you got all the energy out, form a cage with Method 7."

She did so, thinking that this would be the easy part.

As she tried controlling the condensed energy ball she just made, she felt a heavy tug at her senses. She looked to her teacher. "Why does this have so much… drag?"

Mew nodded. "This is normal. The spatial energy is out, so your ball became much denser."

The ball was stretched out again, this time a small pink construct with eight pillars on the side, with a top and a bottom.

The New Species Legendary coughed. "You call that a cage?"

Domino blushed in embarrassment of herself. She mumbled, "I'm a bad architect, okay?"

"Now just fire that at something. The cage will lock on and restrain them for a while if it hit."

The blonde girl looked around, and smiled mischievously. "Hey Ashy! Catch!"

Lucario fired a stream of aura into a steel ball Ash bought from a Cerulean blacksmith. The ball flashed blue, but stayed intact as Lucario carried a steady supply.

"Okay. So next part is to bring your aura into a cycle after filling the 'rock' with an amount you wished." Ash looked at Sir Aaron's notes.

"According to Aaron, there are pathways in any pieces of objects formed on this planet. He calls it meridian. You have to find these meridians and direct your infused aura through me to cycle around so that the aura will stay and not leak as fast."

"So use Aura Sight?" Ash nodded, and the Steel Type complied by closing his eyes. The aura flow stopped, and the blue hue on the ball of steel began to move around the ball in a circular pattern. After a while, the flow was steady, and Lucario opened his eyes back up.

"Holy crap is this hard! Not only did I have to use Aura Sight, I also had to rely on my inner knowledge of being a part of steel."

Ash continued with the process. "The last part is to seal a closing. Sir Aaron said to form a projection by compressing your aura into a solid and using it to block the opening you made to fill the object with aura in the first place.

Lucario scrunched up his face, and a big ball of blue energy lit up on top of him. The ball started to compress together. The action went on for about a few minutes, and Lucario began to sweat and grit his teeth.

All of a sudden, he slammed the ball that was now the size of his palm into the place his finger was previously in contact with.

The ball shone, and both trainer and Pokémon jumped back in fear of its blowing up.

To their surprise, the ball sat there, with a blue glow cycling through it, with no indication of an explosion.

Ash highfived his Pokémon. "YES! We got it right!"

A voice came from behind him. "Hey Ashy! Catch!"

Ash saw a pink ball flying his way. He reached out. "Hey, what is this th… WHY CAN'T I MOVE!?"

The pink ball blew up to knock him back and formed a pink cage around him, immobilizing him. Ash slammed a Force Palm into its side, and nothing happened. "Wait what!?"

Domino walked up to the trapped boy, laughing.

"Hey, Ashy! I heard that you like pies?"

Ash looked at her suspiciously. "Yes, I do. And why are you speaking that voice?"

Domino twirled her hair. "It's cute. And I'm about to give you a big gift."

She snapped her fingers, and her Mew came up to her with a present box. The blonde girl lifted up the top, revealing a giant coconut cream pie. "You want it?"

Ash nodded vigorously. Domino shrugged. "Well then, here you go."

She shoved the pie into Ash's face, who screamed in surprise. Domino bent down in laughter, and joined by Mew and Pikachu.

Ash narrowed her eyes. "Pikachu! You traitor! Thunderbolt her."

Pikachu was too busy laughing to comply. "If you don't, I am cutting ketchup for a month!"

Domino picked up the furry mouse. "Don't worry. I'll give you as much ketchup as you want if you Thunder him."

Poor Ash was restraint in a psychic cage, with pie on his face, and was struck by an insane Pikachu whom he helped mutate.

After the psychic wore off, he slid down to the ground and passed out.

A look of worry crossed both Pikachu and Domino's faces. Pikachu stuttered. "Did I do it too hard? I shouldn't have… I used the same amounts as before."

Domino kicked Ash, who didn't move. A look of panic crossed her face, and she kneeled down next to him and put her fingers below his nose.

Her face turned into pure horror to find him not breathing. She shrieked and glomped him, hand reaching for his wrist for a pulse. When her hand near Ash's, his strong hand suddenly grabbed onto hers and flipped the unprepared girl over, straddling her.

"AHH!"

Ash bent down to her neck and ran his tongue from the base to her chin, and the look of horror stayed on Domino's face.

"Gotcha!"

"ASH KETCHUM! DON'T YOU EVER DARE DO THAT TO ME! I ALMOST PEED MY PANTS!"

"Aww, is somebody worried about me?" Ash cooed into her face.

"YES!" Domino coughed. "I mean…"

"I always knew you cared about me." Ash held onto her hand.

"Hey you two!" Brock called from the temporary fireplace, "Stop flirting and it's time for lunch."

The two blushed heavily, especially due to Ash's previous impulsive lick and their current position. The two both tried to get up, tripped over each other in the process and falling on top of each other again, with Domino's face now only a few inches from Ash's face.

"Come on! You have all of Kanto!"

Ash (reluctantly) got up and pulled Domino up with him, both silently cursing Brock for finishing cooking early.

The four finished lunch and Ash looked at his Pokédex. "This is when Bill's Lighthouse thing happened."

"We should probably go there. Oak said Bill knows more than him in certain subjects."

"If we don't go," Misty added, "He would still be trapped in that Kabuto costume."

"Mew, can you get them to the Lighthouse? Domino and I are going to get Krabby first."

Mew nodded, took the coordinates from Dexter and blinked off with the two older trainers. Domino grabbed him, a move she had grown familiar with, and fond of, and zoomed off.

The couple landed near a beach, but since they are in the beginning of winter, no one was there.

The waves crashed onto the shore, and the roaring sounds of nature seemed so peaceful as the two strolled down the sandy ground. Looking at the ocean, Ash had an idea. He motioned to his friend to take off her socks and shoes, doing the same himself. Taking her hand, he ran near the ocean and beginning to trot with the waves at his feet.

Domino let him held onto her hand, and Ash squeezed her slightly. "This is so peaceful."

"Mmhmm." The blonde girl stared at his face, with now the sunset shining down, coloring him into a golden statue. She wouldn't deny the word handsome.

Ash continued as if not knowing her daze. "Stepping on the waves is one of my favorite things to do in Pallet. I used to run to the beach all the time and play with the water."

Domino grinned. "I like this too. It makes me feel calm, something even though I'm not used to, I desperately need."

His grip on her hand tightened, and he turned to her. He pulled her closer to him, while his eyes turned distant as he stood against the winds. He needed to do this, and he can't do it without his girl in his arms, encouraging him.

"I've never told anyone this before." Ash stared at a rock in the distance. "I don't have a father."

Domino reached out from his grip and touched his chest gently, whispering softly, "Ashy, everyone has a father."

Ash shook his head. "I denied his being my father when he betrayed us."

Domino looked at the boy with a complicated expression, as well as confusion. He continued. "In fact, my father was the biggest traitor in all of Kanto. He never left to go on a 'Pokémon Journey'. I wanted to believe so badly. However one day, I passed by my parents' room and I…"

Ash sat down on the beach, hard. "I can't do this Domino, not even with you here."

His eyes widened as he realized his mistake. "Did I just say that out loud?"

Domino sat by him and ignored his previous outburst. "Ash… I'll tell you something too."

"I don't have niether of my parents. Growing up, I lived on the streets. I lived off the streets. In fact, among the dark side of Viridian, all of the crime lords had grown to know me."

"I stole for them. That went great for a few years because I didn't get addicted to the action, or the drugs. I got a reputation of being the best thief in the area, but I just do it to survive."

Ash looked into her eyes. He thought he saw a trace of tears coming out, but she blinked them away. He placed his arm around his girl, and she didn't resist. In fact, she cuddled tighter into his hold.

"One day, a man hired me to steal from the Viridian Gym Leader, whom I later found to be Giovanni… I'll tell you the rest later. I think Krabby's here."

Ash looked at Krabby, and realized that almost four hours had passed since they were at the beach.

"Crap! Misty and Brock must be fuming."

Domino looked at the energetic boy, happy that she made him bounce back quickly from his past. She unclipped a Pokéball from his belt and held it up to him.

"Thanks." Ash went up to the River Crab Pokémon and touched him on his claws. A light flashed off, and his crab turned into a Kingler as he was reminded.

Ash pulled out his Pokédex. "Dexter?"

"On it. If you are hearing…"

Kingler blinked as he absorbed the recording. He spoke, in a surprisingly tenor voice, "Nice to see you again Ash! I guess this time around a lot more stuff would be happening?"

Ash nodded. "Indeed."

The Pincer Pokémon waved his bigger claw at Domino. "Hi, you're Ash's mate?"

Domino rolled her eyes and muttered. "Whatever."

A hidden smile sneaked its way onto Ash's face as he recalled Brock's opinion on the issue. He held on to her waist and recalled Kingler. "Next stop please, m'lady."

Domino blushed a bit from the hold, but flashed away nonetheless.

"Where had you guys been!?" Misty shouted from the door. "Do you know how long I've been standing at the door for you two lovebirds!?"

"Exactly four hours thirty-nine minutes and forty-five seconds when this message finishes."

Misty facepalmed, then lifted her face back up as she realized that the couple didn't have much of a reaction when she said 'lovebirds'. Seeing their close position, she gaped as a thought went to her mind.

"We talked about some stuff, like our past."

Domino added. "Nothing too major, Kingler took a while to surface."

They walked in shoulder touching shoulder. Misty stared after them, noting their transition that even they didn't realize, being in a newly intimate position. She sighed and locked the door, thinking to herself. They're getting there, even though it's taking forever.

The duo walked in, with Misty following closely. Ash noted the Kabuto costume sitting at the corner, and looked back at Brock and Bill at a table.

Bill stood up and held out a hand. "Hello. I presume you are Ash and Domino?" He looked at the boy, then the Rocket Elite. The couple shook his hand. "Glad to meet you."

Domino started. "We heard from Professor Oak that you are working on a few cool projects, so we came here to see if we can learn something."

Bill nodded and motioned the four to an elevator. "Oh really? I hope Samuel didn't reveal too much of the surprise."

Ash shook his head, pretending like he didn't know. "Nope."

"Come this way." Bill walked into the elevator and pressed a button to take them to the top. "I was conducting some research and I discovered a sound resonating in the ocean that is about the intensity of one produced by a Wailord."

"The fascinating thing is that it wasn't. The pitch was too high. Usually higher pitches belong to medium size animals. Therefore, this might be a previously undiscovered Pokémon."

"Have we discovered all of the Pokémon?" Misty asked beside him.

"Of course not. We humans still have a ton to learn. Way too much. There are yet unidentified species at the bottom of the ocean where very little can get to, or in the high skies that rarely comes down, in the depths of the planet, and in different types of extreme biomes like the Poles."

Domino elbowed Ash and whispered. "Is this the huge Dragonite that you were telling me?"

Ash nodded, and an idea came to her mind.

The elevator door opened, and Bill walked to a giant solar-panel-like device. He explained. "This is what I used to communicate with the creature. It doesn't have an official, scientific name yet, because I just threw it together a few month ago."

"You guys are lucky, because tonight's the night the creature decided to come for a visit."

He started pressing a few buttons, and a soothing pitch was sent out into the ocean.

The process continued for an hour without results.

Suddenly, with Aura Sight, Ash could sense a presence in the far south.

Domino snapped her eyes open at the same time, detecting a large pool of brain waves in the distance.

A dark green Dragonite appeared in the distance and started to push the water against its giant torso with ease.

The group stared at it. Nothing, except for certain legendaries, were this large. The shiny beast was at double the size of Pidgeot after her Mega Evolution, but his was constant and without the help of a Mega Stone.

"He must be coming close at the age of a millennium."

Lucario appeared next to Ash. "No, he's a lot older. Even though I survived that long too, I am truly only a hundred years old. Same with Spiritomb. We slept or were unconscious through most of the time."

Domino's jaw dropped slightly at the thought. She had stars in her eyes as she felt the power within those bulging muscles. "That Dragonite must be extremely strong."

"How do you know it's a Dragonite?" Bill turned to her.

"Welp…"

Ash pointed at the Pokémon that had come close enough to see his silhouette. "He's green, and that's the color of a shiny Dragonite. The wings are relatively small, and the two strands on its head are all signature anatomy of the Dragon Pokémon."

Bill nodded and then pressed another button. Suddenly, the shiny opened its mouth in the distance.

"Hello Chosen and Queen. It's been a long time since the last Chosen emerged. After Sir Aaron's passing away, there had been few who was pure enough to deserve the title." A mental wave swept through Bill's lighthouse.

The scientist gaped, not knowing what was going on.

"If I am right, that Lucario is in fact the last Chosen's."

Lucario formed a hand pose around his chest and bowed. "Lucario at your service. If I recall correctly, you must be the Slayer of Legends?"

A booming laugh came as the Dragon Type was now almost directly in front of the tower, and he stood as tall than the lighthouse. "Indeed, I cannot believe someone still remember my nickname from a thousand years ago."

Domino looked at him curiously. "Slayer of Legends?"

"Yes, my Queen. A few legendaries thought it was funny to destroy a sculpture that I was working on, so I decided to scare a few away."

Lucario coughed. "By knocking out all three of them in a three-on-one battle."

The beast shrugged. "What can I say? I was pissed."

"Oh yeah, I remember that day." Mew popped up in a flash of pinkness. "I had to come and Genesis Supernova your ass to get you to stop turning Articuno into cold chicken and Moltres into a turkey."

"Hello, Lady Mew. And they already are those things, so..."

"Okay, for real, why are you interacting with the land? You haven't for centuries after you fought Kyogre for a piece of her ocean rights."

The giant Dragonite bowed down to the group. "I sensed a disruption in the continuum, and the arrival of two of the most powerful humans in the course of time, and they had found each other. Remember the prophecy, Mew?"

Mew's face turned solemn. "Indeed."

"Yes, so I have come to follow the Chosen and the Queen in defeating this feen to restore the world to balance. If I guessed right, the world was already destroyed once, and you two were sent back by Arceus Himself?"

Domino was shocked. "How did you know?"

"There was a gap in space-time that didn't correspond with the world, and I felt it being a leftover from another part of a timeline. It's complicated."

Celebi rolled her eyes. "Tell me about it."

Mew looked to her. "You're not supposed to appear yet."

"Crap!"

"Anyways, here's my deal to you. I'll help you in your mission if one of you can beat me in a battle with your Pokémon."

Domino and Ash's eyes met challengingly with each other. They nodded in agreement.

"Rock, paper, scissor…" They both yelled.

"Shoot!" Domino's was a paper, and Ash's was a rock.

"Aww man!" Ash whined. The blonde girl wrapped her hand around his rock. (A/N: I had to do it.)

Domino then reached over with her other hand and pinched his cheek. "Haha, I won."

She looked to the huge Dragon. "Bring it, big guy."

A/N: I know you guys will hate me for leaving you with a cliffhanger, but a Dragonite battle will make this fic go on for way too long. I rather do an epic one, like the one will Lucario and Ho-Oh, and not a five-page crap. And plus, I update everyday in the summer, so it's not a long wait.

So yeah, enjoy! Domino's about to get another powerful Pokémon. Look out world, because here comes the…

Leave comments on what I should name the ship of Domino and Ash. The official name is Skillshipping, but I need a cuter name. Notice how they are transforming to the nickname phase and they are starting to not freak out at people calling them a couple... that much. And they don't mind touching each other, at least with hand holding. Haha, she didn't even object to Dragonite calling her Ash's Queen.

Remember how in the beginning, her first impulse would have been to punch him.