Oliverqueen01- * looks at calendar * Thursday again?! I- I- I- nevermind. Anyway as of this moment there's only 6 chapters left at the time of right this. 5 real chapters and the epilogue. Yes this little tale of mine will be coming to a close soon and then break time but fear not cause you'll have the power to choose what comes next more on that near the end. So enjoy this week's chapter which is sure to be eventful as always and as usual reviews/questions will be handled at the end along with the update to the japanese airing of the episode.
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Chapter 20: Plans.
Sunday Afternoon at the mall we find the boys hanging out doing something they dreaded but they knew they had to do or else the girls would get mad and drag them there themselves.
"Boys, tell me something. When we were all asking the girls about going to prom with us.. were we all in our senses or did some alien possess us and made us go insane? Because this is torture. I hate shopping." Gary exclaimed
The boys sighed at Gary's statement. It had been a week since each one of them asked their respective partner to prom. They had finally went to go buy their suits after enough pestering from the girls. The girls teased them at the fact that they had already bought their dresses which would be revealed night of the prom.
The boys entered a suit store and were greeted by a shop keeper who looked like he was in his mid 40s with a bit of a stubble and some visible grey hair.
"Welcome gentlemen, how can I be of assistance to you today?"
"We're here to come for our suits for prom." Ash firmly told the man.
"Ah, well then right this way gentlemen I believe I have an assortment of suits which fit to your liking."
The boys nodded as they followed the man into the back to the store. When they got to their destination they sat down as the store owner went to retrieve various suits from his inventory. They all wondered what the girls were doing at the moment. Some of their guesses included watching a sappy chick flick or making fun of them that they had to guess what colour suit they had to buy.
At Jesse's House...
The girls were eating chips and hanging out while the boys were at the mall trying to find their suits.
"So what do you think they're doing?" Serena asked while eating a chip dipped in sauce.
"Either they're actually buying their suits, sitting at one of their houses playing video games, at some fast food restaurant pigging out or all sleeping at home." Leaf said jokingly.
The girls laughed at Leaf's comment.
"Well I don't know about you but I'm sure whatever they buy will look good on them, after all we spent good money on these dresses and I'll be damned if Ash decides to show up in that cliche blue ruffle suit." Serena joked back.
They laughed at the thought of any of the boys showing up in the cliche blue ruffled suit like they had seen in movies. They really hoped that none of the boys would be that stupid and actually buy a suit like that. The worse they could do would to not buy their suits at all and waited until last minute to get it.
"So much do you want to bet it's going to be either Drew or Ash? buying a suit like that?" asked Dawn
"My money is on Drew, Ash wouldn't be that stupid." May joked.
1 hour and many suits later...
The boys had finally gotten their suits and headed home. It would have ended sooner but Drew had to be a goof and pick the classic ruffled suit. All the boys knocked him in his head leaving a huge bump. They then picked out a suit for him and they left the store. Drew mumbled something about why was he friends with them in first place as he was walking back home holding his picked out suit.
Ash however didn't go home straight he instead found himself in front of a dance studio. Ash was in front of the dance studio for one simple reason: He could not dance to save his life. He wanted to ensure that Prom night was going to be extra special for Serena and if this what he had to do then he would do it.
May, Dawn and Leaf left after a while to go home and do some housework leaving Jesse and Serena alone.
"So how are things between you and Tommy?" Serena asked.
Jesse blushed before she spoke.
"Well, the other night he made an entire meal for me and then for dessert he baked a chocolate cake and we ate it together it was so good. I swear it's like he's trying to kill me with all this sweetness. Although at one point while he was in the kitchen with his Charmander helping him, he tripped over it's tail and sent a bag of flour on top poor Charmander's head.
Both of them laughed.
"So, how's you and Ash?" Jesse asked coyly.
Serena laughed before she spoke.
"Well the other day..." Serena began.
Flashback
Ash and Serena were at Serena's house doing a project for Well's English class and were in the middle of taking a break. Ash decided to ask her about a certain topic. When Serena heard his question she started to turn a light shade of red and deny an answer to his question.
"Ash no way. I'm not telling. Nope, no chance no way no how." She told him firmly.
"Come on Serena please I'm your boyfriend for the love of Mew you won't even tell me?" he asked
"Nope, your just going have to guess." she told him.
Ash sighed. For hours he was trying to guess what kind of dress Serena was going to wear to prom. He finally decided that if she wasn't going to tell him directly then he would have resort to other methods. He got up from his spot and stood behind Serena. She immediately noticed what he was going to do. However she was prepared for it.
Ash took his hands and started to tickle her sides which caused her to start laughing uncontrollably.
"Ash! St-st-op it! You know you won't win! I'm not going to tell you what colour the Haha dress is. Just ha give up." Serena said in between laughs.
"Oh really I won't get to see it? Not even if I was to do I don't know this?" He tease her
Ash picked Serena up and dumped her on her bed. Both of their pokemon looked at them with confused looks on their faces minus Fenniken and Froakie who were in the corner blushing at each other as Froakie while helping Fenniken groom herself. Pikachu looked at them both and sighed and thought to himself
"Like trainer Like owner."
End of Flashback
"So did you give in and tell him?" Jesse asked
"No, he gave up after a while and then we just watched tv, went for a walk and then he went home."
"Oh, your so cruel, make him suffer like that." Jesse teased.
The two of them laughed at Jesse's comment. True Serena could have thrown Ash a bone and shown him her dress for Prom but she wanted to keep it a surprise for him so that way when he saw her that his jaw would drop to the floor.
2 hours later...
Ash came out of the dance studio exhausted. He thought that learning to dance was going to be a piece of cake but it turned out more like to be a piece of ice. He was on his way back home when he saw Tommy sitting on the bench outside. He walked up to him.
"Hey, I thought you left." He said as he sat down
"Na, still waiting for dad he's running late. What about you? I thought after we all knocked Drew on the head that you went home."
"Na, I needed to do something." Ash explained
"Oh?"
"You'll see I kinda want to keep this a surprise. Anyway how's it going for you with Jesse?"
"Good, she and I um we had a dinner date the other night. I made all the food by myself and of course Charmander helped out with serving it. Although I think he might be a bit miffed because I dropped a bag of flour on his head by accident." Tommy sheepishly admitted while rubbing his head.
"How did you manage that?"
"I may or may not have been looking at Jesse when it happened."
The two of them laughed. Ash knew the struggles of raising a Charmander when he was younger, how it loved him and when it became a Charmeleon it became very disobedient even when it evolved again into Charizard and it only shook off it's traits after a Poliwrath almost put out it's tail flame and Ash spent all nursing him back to health so he knew what Tommy was going through with his own.
"You going to let him evolve or keep him forever as a Charmander?"
"I don't know, he actually brought it up to me once and I told him it's up to you if you want to evolve. I'm not going to force you to do anything except be my best friend." Tommy said with a cool tone.
Ash nodded at the younger boys answer. For someone who was younger than Ash, Tommy proved to be a very wise boy. The two of them stared at the sky until Tommy broke the silence that had quickly formed.
"So how's it going with Serena?"
"It's going well, I tired to get her to tell me what colour is her dress that she's going to wear, but she wouldn't budge about it. She told me I have to wait until Prom to find out." Ash explained.
"Man, you too? Jesse told me the same thing. You know I think when the girls did their shopping last week I think they made a pact to not tell any of us except for themselves on what colour their dresses are going to be, If all those movies we watched growing up had taught me anything."
Ash and Tommy laughed. A horn suddenly honked breaking them out of their laughter. A orange sedan pulled up to the curb. Tommy got up from the bench and turned towards Ash and spoke.
"Well there's Dad, I gotta go. See ya later Ash."
Tommy picked up his suit and fist bumped Ash as he got in his Dad's car and went home. Ash then picked up his suit and went home smiling to himself along the way. He hoped that Serena would like his suit. He also made a mental note to himself to pick up the corsage before the week was over or else he would forget.
Leonard and Mick were at a fast food restaurant eating burgers and fries. Mick had wondered why Leonard had called him after what happened last week, part of Mick wanted to kill Leonard but part of him knew he had to give Leonard a chance to explain himself.
"Okay Mick I've noticed you've been staring at me since we got here. So if you got something to say say it." Leonard said with a hint of anger.
Mick calmly collected his thoughts before he spoke.
"For the past week I've sat at home wondering this. I dismissed it at the time because I didn't want to hear your voice but I'll ask you anyway: Why did you call me that night after our argument?"
"You were right Mick." Leonard said quietly
"I'm Sorry what was that I couldn't hear you."
"I said You were right." Leonard said more audibly.
"Oh, good. I told you I was right. Wait right about what?"
"Everything. After I left the house that night I went for a walk and I ran into Hikari er Dawn as Oak jr calls her. Anyway I um yelled at her told her that the only thing she knew about me was the fact that she liked me. Then she tore me a new one and told me about her past and that I needed to wake up and accept the help from the people around me like she and her mother did. I guess what I'm saying is after she told me all that and walked away with her Buneary my heart ached for the first actual time in years since that night."
Mick had a smile on his face. Finally after years of him and Lisa trying to get through to Leonard, He was happy that Leonard had finally wanted to move on from that night.
"So what now Leonard? What's the big plan to win her heart?"
"What are you talking about?"
"Well you want to make things right with her?"
"Yes, but I have no idea how. If I go near her she might call Oak and friends to come after me, and I doubt you want to beat up anyone."
"Ya, I kinda want to keep all my body parts."
The two of them sat in silence until a idea hit Mick. Leonard smiled at Mick's Idea and told him to go ahead. Tomorrow would serve to be a very interesting day.
The next day...
"All right everyone finish whatever question your currently on and hand in your paper." Prima said to everyone as the bell for lunch was currently ringing.
Ash was the last one to get up and handed in his test paper after double checking his answers making sure that he did the equations right. Once he handed it he turned towards the door before Prima spoke to him.
"You know Ash, ever since I paired you up with Serena to tutor you your grade has actually went up. Heck it's almost an A now."
"Well, it's thanks to you. If you hadn't partnered me up with Serena then my grade could have gone back to D- minus territory." he said to her with a lopside grin on his face.
"I see, well then go enjoy your lunch, I'm sure she's still waiting outside for you."
Ash nodded and thanked Prima as he exited and joined back up with Serena. When he got to Serena he took his hand and intertwined it with Serena's.
"So, how did you think you did?" Serena asked
"I think I did good for the most part, except question 5. I got y= 7. I'm pretty sure that's not even the right answer." He joked.
Both of them laughed at their math test answer as they headed to their usual spot to meet up with the others, they stopped at their lockers first to get their lunch and then went to the big tree, When they were the first ones there and eventually the others started to show. Once everyone was assembled they began to talk amongst themselves.
"So you boy's got your suits right?" asked Leaf
"We did, but we had to knock Drew on his head. He tried to buy that ugly blue ruffled suit but we all decided to just pick out a suit for him before Amanda would kill him upon seeing that suit. That and we still need the salt master of rage for gaming nights."
Everyone laughed at Tommy's comment while Drew was mumbling something about I hate all of you or something to that effect. Once the laughter died down. Brock spoke.
"So now the only thing left is to buy the flower thing or as you girls call it the corsage."
The girls nodded at Brock's statement. It was the one thing left aside from the shoes and accessories that the girls would need that night. Everyone was laughing having a good time until a chill came over them. When they moved their heads they saw Leonard. The boys went into defensive position over the girls.
"What do you want Leonard? Can't you see we're busy?" Gary asked in a very harsh tone.
Leonard scoffed.
"Relax Oak. If I wanted to pick a fight with you or little fan club I would have done it already or Mick would have picked a fight with you in gym class but he didn't do that now did he? Now to answer your question I'm here to see her."
Leonard pointed his finger towards Dawn. Which caused the boys to get more tense before Dawn spoke up and calmed the guys down.
"It's okay guys you can back down. Now what do you want Leonard? Did you come here to yell at me some more because you're pissed off with the world or do you want me to tear you another new one?"
"I came here to make it up to you and I think you'll like this idea, even your crew here can't disagree to it and if they do then they're bigger idiots than I thought."
Everyone growled before Dawn spoke.
"What idea?"
"Well Mick came up with the idea, usually his ideas either are extremely stupid and I end up hitting him or they end up being somewhat genius. This one however is really thought out even for him."
"Then out with it. What's this idea the two of you came up with?"
"I challenge you to a pokemon battle after school. One on one with no substitutions and if you want one of them can be the referee."
"Fine, but what happens when one of us is declared the winner?"
"Well if you win, you can decide what my punishment for being an ass to you and your friends since I've known you should be."
"And if you win?"
Leonard's answer shocked everyone including Dawn. She had to clean her ears and pinch herself to make sure she wasn't dreaming.
"If I win, then you have to go to prom with me."
Oliverqueen01- Ohai so about the episode from this morning had the introduction of Lysandre and Marion to the main series cast and by that I mean to Ash and Co. Based off the last pokescans we got and the new summaries we got I'm just going to say this: the Team Flare arc looks like it's going to be the best team plot since Team Galactic and let's face it in the game the Team Flare plot was bland I'm glad their get more chances to shine. Anyway just 6 chapters left before this story comes to an end. So let's recap boys got their suits? Check. Some bonding between characters? Check. Shocker at the end? Check. Amourshipping moment? Check. I think I covered everything. Any who I'm looking more forward to next weeks episode because FINALS WOOOOOOOOO! so on that note let's get to the review responding!
Reviews/Questions
Espeon44- They will I don't see why not? I mean who doesn't like May? After all she was the first new female companion after having Misty for two regions.
49ers (Guest)- Will they dance? Yes. I mean it's not like they're not going to dance together after all to a girl Prom is the one magical night during the school year.
Monkeyboy0118- Your happy? That's good. Well I think I just turned Dawn's life up top her head once again after the events of last chapter. Not going to lie I went to mine single and it was good just don't ask about the next morning all i remember is getting up 3pm the next day XD. Your going to a dance? Have fun and remember whatever you do don't drink the punch :p
Amour guest- Yes yes, keep up the amourshipping stuff and all that good jazz. I will don't worry about that :p and yes the hope will live on:p
random guest- thank you for the review. Will Selina get pregnant? No. not in this story as mentioned at the time is going up there's only 6 chapters left and then I'm taking a break for a while but that will all be explained in the final chapter.
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