"Onward to HopHopHop Town." Ash cringed as the words left his mouth. "I feel like my dignity just fell a level."

Domino placed her hand on his shoulder. "You don't have to worry about that. You don't have any."

"Hey! I resent that!"

Misty groaned. "Do I have to capture Psyduck again?"

"Actually Misty, your Psyduck is unusually stronger than others. It's partly because of his brain waves are so strong that it began to overload his brain, which causes the headache. With Mew here, we can probably figure something out for him."

Misty looked at Domino with a pleading look. "Can you?"

She shrugged. "Probably. If I can write a training course for Mewtwo, I can sort out a headache."

The wall of the dimension shook as a strong beam of Psystrike exploded. Mewtwo turned around and flickered his tail. "What happened?"

"Apparently, you were supposed ta use it slowly." Meowth raised his finger. "That's the nineteenth typo for today."

A wave of nausea hit Ash and co. as they walked down the street. "Oh yeah, there's that stupid group using a Hypno to sleep."

"Domino, can you give us an anti-psychic shield?"

"Yep." An invisible curtain formed over them.

"Dexter, do you have the coordinates of their hideout?"

"Yep. Here you go."

The door slammed open. "Are you guys mad, using psychic moves that have an effect on the entire city?"

The head of them looked back to find Ash walking in. "Do you know how much side effect there is?"

"Hypno! Use Hypnosis on that boy!"

Hypno pulsed, and nothing happened. Ash rolled his eyes and dashed forward, punching the Hypnosis Pokemon with a Force Palm.

"Why didn't you just ask a Grass Type to use Grass Whistle? Yawn? Sleep Powder? Spore? Why didn't you just seek the help of a doctor?"

Misty whispered. "I didn't know there were so many ways to put someone to sleep."

Domino added. "There are other ways, but they are all stuck in the Rocket base."

Misty held out a Pokéball. "I can't believe I'm doing this…"

She threw the ball at the yellow duck in front of her, who was captured easily. She released him, and then pushed Psyduck toward Domino. "Your turn."

Domino caught the duck and sat him down with her and Kirlia. "Now, just relax and not do anything."

Psyduck blinked at her blankly.

The blonde girl sighed. "Mist, is he always this creepy staring at you."

"YEP!"

The psychic sighed and pressed her hand against Psyduck's head. "Let's see, ways to extend a Pokémon's brain capacity. Maybe we can used Calm Mind?"

"Nope. That'll only solve the problem temporarily. Maybe we can suppress the brain wave down to a tolerable level until the Psyduck needs to battle."

Kirlia looked at her trainer. "How?"

"We need something that can suppress psychic energy. Is there any?"

"Hmm, Reflect?"

"No. It'll reflect the wave inside the brain, so nothing would happen."

Ash walked over. "Maybe I can help."

The blonde rolled her eyes. "What can YOU help with, Doughnut?"

Ash smirked. "Dark energy."

Domino and Kirlia blinked, then facepalmed.

"Okay Psyduck, this might feel a bit weird, but just accept whatever energy is going through your mind, okay?" Domino asked him. She shook her head. "Of course you're not giving me a response."

"Hand it over, Ash." Ash placed a TM into her hand.

"Here's Miracle Eye."

Domino pressed the Miracle Eye TM onto Psyduck's head, which decompensated into special energy and rushed into Psyduck's head. The two psychics opened their psychic senses, while Ash charged up Aura Sight.

The stream of psychic energy pressed into the Duck's brain and began to form into a mirror-like structure.

"That's GENIUS!" The Alpha Pokemon exclaimed from his lazyboy. "Why didn't I think of that when I made the species?"

As soon as the hollow mirror formed, a wave of psychic brain waves rushed into it due to a lack of space. The resulting energy was pulses of anti-psychic wave, which resonated off to neutralize the storming psychic waves in Psyduck's brain.

"How does that even work?" Sir Aaron looked over from baking chocolate lava cake.

"Since Psyduck is constantly filled with psychic energy that they can't control, Miracle Eye is constantly activated by it, which reflect off to form the counters of psychic. It balances the psychic waves that spilled out from his brain, causing them to not have a headache."

"What if the Miracle Eye stopped being powered after all of the extra energy is used up?"

"Then Psyduck won't have a headache. When the extra energy spilled out again, it will reactivate automatically."

Sir Aaron blinked. "That's freaking genius. No wonder she's the Queen."

"No sh*t. Queens are a lot smarter than the Chosen. The Chosen's job is to make the general guide for the rescue of the world. The Queen's job is to figure out the details and stop the Chosen from making rash decisions."

"I've never got a Queen…"

"And that's why you died after your dealings with the Tree of Beginning. I didn't plan to give Ash one originally either. Then Crator came and overpowered me."

"Psyduck?" Domino pet the Water Type. "How are you feeling?"

He blinked. "Wow. That felt… It's neat not to have a constant headache."

Misty pumped her fist in the air. "YES! He's cured!"

Domino stopped the happy trainer. "Hold on, something you two should know is that when you use the psychic energy to battle, since you can do that because you are a lot more different than the others of your species due to your overwhelming amount of brain waves, you must turn off Miracle Eye manually. That means that the headache will be back until the move re-activates.

Psyduck shrugged. "I'm greatly enough that 99% of my day isn't full of a raging headache."

Misty nodded. "Fine by me. Thank you Dom. So much."

The Rocket Elite smirked. "That's what friends are for, right?"

Misty smiled with her and grabbed her hand. "That's right. Friends."

Domino gave her a happy sigh. "You know, the feeling is interesting. I don't have a lot of friends in the Rocket headquarters."

"Now you do."

"A good place to find Keystone is within the depth of the Kalos Terminus mine. It contains many rare gems, including a ruby mine. Small pockets of Keystone can be found dotted along the cave under 3000 ft."

"What's that?" Gary looked up to find Giselle peeking over his shoulder at his research journal. "What's a Keystone?"

"Keystone is used to Mega-Evolve a Pokémon that is held by the trainer."

Giselle fell into silence. Gary looked at him expectantly and asked. "Aren't you going to ask me what Mega-Evolving is?"

Giselle shrugged. "Isn't it obvious? Evolving beyond a normal state to become more Mega."

"Wow, you're smart." Gary nodded. "It's evolving beyond the normal stages of Pokémon. You'll need a stone with an enormous amount of life force, which corresponds to each Pokémon who can Mega-Evolve."

Giselle nodded. "You already started the research process? How did you get the time?"

Gary rubbed his neck. "I'm… complicated. Let's just say in truth, I've been researching for a while."

Giselle looked down. "Too bad I still don't have a research topic. I mean, Pokémon cloning is cool, but there's not a lot of material."

"You'll get to it. Interest will come gradually." Violet said next to her. "When I first started with Pokémon, Daisy forced me into Pokémon battling to help her with the gym, after our parents disappeared. Now I love training Pokémon."

Giselle nodded. "I guess. We'll have to see. Definitely."

Ash and co. found themselves on Scissor Street, the famous Lane of Breeders. Brock went in a beeline for a beauty parlor for Pokémon. A woman came out, carrying her Eevee, decorated with light fur styles and a blue bow on her head.

"Are you all going to Suzie's salon? Let me tell you, she's amazing. She can transform anything into a piece of art."

Brock nodded vigorously. "I know. She's the best."

Misty dragged him into the shop, followed by Ash and Domino.

A voice spoke up. "Hello, how may I help you?" Suzie stood in front of them, smiling.

"Hello, my name is Brock." He said maturely.

WAIT! HOLD ON! Brock? Mature!?

He continued. "I'm looking to be a Pokémon breeder, and I hope you can give some pointers.

Domino whispered to Ash. "Why doesn't he think Suzie is cute?"

Misty sighed. "He does, but his love for breeding and his respect for her overwhelm the other… sexual desires.

"I would love to!" Suzie led them over to a few chairs. "But first, I have to ask. Do you guys have a Pokémon that wants to be remodeled?"

Zorua popped out of her Pokéball. "Oooo! Me!" She hopped onto a table next to Vulpix.

Suzie chuckled and placed a small curtain over Zorua. "People can't see my work process until I finish. Having people stare at my makes my design worse."

She picked up a pair of scissors. "Okay. I can work on her and talk. So in my opinion, breeding…"

"You guys ready?"

They nodded furiously, curious to see Zorua's finishing results.

(A/N: Link to the picture I had in mind: 396b/f/2011/239/a/c/rq_aurora_the_zorua_by_kawaii_ )

She flipped open the curtain, revealing Zorua in all her glory. Pikachu's jaw crashed down onto Ash's shoulder and started drooling. Zorua winked at the Electric Type and motioned him over with her paw. Pikachu mindlessly stepped forward, then crashed to the ground, forgetting that he was standing on Ash.

He quickly jumped up with Agility. Zorua covered her mouth and started to giggle. Pikachu trotted toward her. "Pika…"

Ash turned to Domino. "Did he just say Pika?"

"Don't know what that means either."

Misty coughed. "This reminds me some other scene… like, for example, their trainers."

Pikachu glomped Zorua, and the two rolled around the table happily.

Brock came over and looked at the mouse and the fox, shrugged, and placed a pot of the Pokéchow he just cooked on a nearby table. "How's this? I use your recipe."

Suzie came over and examined the food. "Hmm, not sure. We should get a Pokémon to try it. Since you said you understand Pokémon, we can then get its opinion"

Vulpix jumped over and wagged her six tails. Suzie's eyebrows raised up in surprise. "You want to try this?"

She looked up at Brock to clarify her previous statement. "It's not that I don't think it's good, but that she never ate anything that I didn't cook."

Brock motioned the Vulpix to the bowl. "No problem. It's your recipe anyways."

Vulpix took a bite, and tilted her head, as if judging the taste. She took another mouthful, and nodded furiously. "I think this is somehow better than yours, Suzie."

Ash translated that in disbelief. "Suzie, I think he just said he liked Brock's more than yours."

Suzie looked at Brock in skepticism. "You used my recipe?"

Brock nodded. "Maybe he's just hungry?"

Suzie shook her head. "No, this had happened for a while. I'm a breeder famous for my insanely good recipe, but my cooking skills are only mediocre. I'm assuming that you are an outstanding cook?"

Brock chuckled. "I have a bunch of younger siblings, and good cooking was part of the key to keep them happy."

Suzie nodded. "My cooking skills had been the thing dragging me down. I really wanted to go on a journey to learn more about it, but I can't find someone who can take care of Vulpix… Until now."

Suzie smiled at him and held his hand. "Brock, can I ask you a favor."

Brock was in a daze. "Sureeee."

"It's okay if you say no, because she is a lot of trouble to take care of. I want to ask whether you can take care of Vulpix while I go on a journey."

Brock stuck his finger in front of her, betting that she wouldn't use Bite.

Vulpix licked him lightly, and then curled back up.

Suzie grinned. "I think she likes you. So, what do you say?"

The Rock trainer smiled and nodded. "Of course I'll do it. Who doesn't want to be with this cutie?"

"In that case, Vulpix is yours." She picked up the Fox Pokémon and dropped it into Brock's lap.

"Suzie, I cannot thank you enough."

"No problem. Vulpix isn't mine. She can choose whoever she accepts."

Ash looked over at the Electric and Dark Types pressed against each other on the desk. "Hey, lovebirds. It's time to go."

Pikachu stuck out his tongue. "Lovebird himself says who's a lovebird?"

Ash and co. walked out of the salon, Brock cradling Vulpix. He looked at Ash. "Want to do the honors?"

Ash chuckled. "No one else can. Try to control her so she doesn't Flamethrower me."

"You've been through way worse anyways." Ash laughed with him and touched Vulpix with a blue-hand. At the same time, Dexter materialized.

Domino sat by Sableye. "So yeah, that was the story. What do you think?"

Sableye looked at her with his eyes of gems. "I think I need to train a lot harder and master at least one technique that is not supposed to be possible."

Kirlia nodded. "That's a good start. But eventually, we want to work our way slowly up to three or four. Also, manipulating the battlefield environment is very important too."

Zorua turned to her. "When did you say we are going to start the science lesson?"

Domino thought for a while. "Maybe after the next gym."

Spiritomb nodded. "That sounds fair."

Sableye cleared his throat, and the attention was back on him. "So what should my thing be?"

"Hmm, I would think something Ghost and Dark Type related."

Zorua rolled her eyes and poked Pikachu. "No really, Sherlock!"

Pikachu glomped her and wrapped his yellow arms around her. He stuck his nose into her purple hair wrapped around her head. The Tricky Fox purred under the touch and rubbed her nose against the Electric Type.

Kirlia raised an eyebrow. "When did you get here?"

Spiritomb shrugged. "Do you expect him somewhere that Zorua isn't at?"

"Good point."

Domino coughed. "Back to Sableye. I can suggest a bunch of stuff, but I would say to follow your heart. You can get a lot of motivation in battle, when you are super-concentrated and when an opponent had trapped you or given you an opportunity to knock him or her out, but you don't have the move."

"Or you can watch some anime. I'm pretty sure that's how Squirtle get his ideas." A pink fluffy cat materialized next to Domino.

She jumped. "When did you get back?"

Mew replied coolly and hanged herself by the tail a tree branch on top of them. "The Tree is good, so here I am. Did I miss anything too important?"

"Yeah, one thing. I got a giant Tentacruel probably over a millennium of age."

"Cool."

"Ash, a reminder that the Butterfree flock will start their migration in three days."

Ash sent out Butterfree. "Did you hear that?"

Butterfree nodded. "I'll miss you, Ash."

Ash waved a hand. "Don't worry about it. I'll call you back constantly. Remember that Crator is writing this, so he wouldn't just wipe you out like Satoshi Tajiri."

Dexter held up a miniature device. "Put this somewhere after you have made a home. It'll allow teleportation into your Pokéball if you sense Ash calling. Remember to visit the ranch if you have any problems. Oak would love to help and take the chance to do some research on the Butterflies."

Butterfree nodded. Ash continued teasingly. "Do you need any help with getting you your mate?"

Butterfree rolled his eyes. "Of course not. I am the strongest Butterfree probably in Kanto right now. On the other hand, do you need any help with getting yours?"

Ash coughed. "I have no clue WHAT you are talking about."

Ash and friends arrived at the ridge of the cliff that would lead onto Saffron City. A flock of Butterfree can be seen in the distance, flying their way.

He took Butterfree in his arms. "I really am going to miss you, Butterfree. I can still see that little Caterpie that I first captured eight years ago."

Butterfree smiled lightly. "We've both grown. We aren't going to cry. You know I will come back frequently."

Ash nodded. "I know. Take care of yourself, buddy. Really."

"You too. Try not to die… too many times."

Ash took a deep breath, and launched his Pokémon into the air. "Good luck!"

A drop of tear escape the Butterfly's eyes. "You too."

Pikachu waved into the air, holding a peace sign.

"Try not to get into too much trouble with Ash, alright?"

Pikachu sparked, showing his emotions. "Yep. Bye, friend."

With that, the Bug Type soared into the air, toward the incoming group. Misty, Brock and Domino waved together.

A beautiful cloud of pollen fell down around them. When Ash looked back up, he's gone, leaving only a scent of the sweet, comforting smell.

Like it was on him.

Ash looked at Primeape and Lucario. "Which one of you want to go for the P1 Grand Prix?"

"ME!" The two Pokémon echoed.

Ash sighed. "I knew you two weren't going to make this easy, so Domino and I came up with something."

He pulled out a coin. "Heads or Tails."

Lucario deadpanned. "You are not going to choose using Head or Tails."

"Of course not. I was involved in this decision." Domino put her hands on her hips.

"Heads." Primeape said.

Ash tossed the coin into the air, which came down to reveal a Tails.

"Okay. Primeape would be entered as my Pokémon. Lucario would be entered as Domino's."

Lucario gaped. "That's genius."

Domino coughed. "Again, I was involved in this decision."

Noah spoke up. "I shall warn you that the Winter Festival starts tomorrow."

"This place is truly amazing." Domino looked around. "I can't believe someone hadn't made Maiden's Peak into a tourist place yet."

"I know." Ash remarked. "Summer Festival is tonight. This is going to be so fun."

Misty pinched Brock. "Try not to fall in love with the Ghost of the Maiden."

He shrugged. "We have a crap ton of Dark Types right now anyways. The Gastly wouldn't be a problem."

Night soon arrived, and the streets lit up with lanterns and people rushed out. There were stores almost everywhere, selling random items. Fireworks exploded in the air, draping the colorful lights over the Peak.

Domino walked, abnormally close with Ash, shoulders touching. They had separated with Misty and Brock, who left to give them some time together. They, of course grumbling at the time, silently thanked their travelmates for the decision.

They walked through the crowded streets, to reach a secluded lake. Ash sat down on a bench at the side, with Domino following his action. She leaned into him, placing her head into the natural fit of the crank on his neck. She stared into the peaceful land and listened to the crickets chirp in the forest, not wanting to move at all.

Ash watched the blonde hair cascaded over him, feeling as if his skin had just been brushed by smooth silk. He tilted her head up at him, her amethyst eyes twinkling with a spark lighter than the stars. Purple met brown, they each got lost in a trance as a serene music played in their ears from the Festival. The sound of the slight echoes of the lake became a drumroll for them.

Ash started leaning in, letting his brain completely shut down and heart take over the following actions. Domino started to lean as well, but a abrupt consciousness enter her mind, making her turn her head and pulled out of Ash's grasp.

He stared at her, confused. "What's up?"

Domino sighed and looked up at the stars. She could see the Zangoose and Seviper hanging directly over them, shaped so similar to a mistletoe.

"Sorry," Domino didn't know why she was apologizing, or whom she was apologizing to. "Team Rocket taught me to never shut off, to never obtain tranquility."

Ash wrapped her to him. "Don't worry Princess, you're safe. You're with me."

Domino smiled and leaned into his hold, still looking at the clear water that seemed to reflect her heart. She snuggled deeper into him, as if there were any closer.

His grip tightened. "You want to go for a dance?"

"No, I'm fine." Domino yawned lazily, as the thought of sleep took over, lying in her Ash's arms. "Don't feel like moving."

Ash ran his hand through her hair, his eyes twinkling with a soft glow. "Okay. We'll stay here." A delight washed over both of them, being in each other's hold, as their eyes closed and listened faintly to the wave of the water, chirps of a nearby Kakuna, and each other's breath.

A/N: There we go. Some sweet scenes at the Festival. Primeape and Lucario are about to enter the fighting tournament.

Link to Zorua's picture: art/RQ-Aurora-the-zorua-255265504

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