Hey guys I'm back, this story is pretty close to coming to a close, and that makes me sad. Well since this once is pretty close to coming to a close, I am gonna get on updating my Team Valor story. Well I hope you guys out there keep reviewing this story even after its finished.

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Chapter 20:

Ali quickly regained consciousness and looked around. "We made it back to the past," he muttered.

Ali just looked around, taking in the light, color and sheer beauty of the beach, staying in the future that was full of darkness for a long time tends to do that to a Pokemon (or in Ali's case a human turned Pokemon). He then decided to wake Chikorita up.

"Hey Chikorita," he said nudging her in the side and she stirred slightly so he came up with a more clever idea: tickling her. So he did just that and Chikorita woke and started to giggle madly because Ali was tickling her.

"Okay, okay, I'm up," she yelled through a fit of giggles and he stopped so she could catch her breathe.

Ali's antics also woke up Celebi and Grovyle who noticed that they happened to be very close together and they both blushed; Celebi more than Grovyle, naturally.

"Oh boy, we made it back to the past," Ali said happily.

"WE'RE BACK! WE'RE BACK!" Ali and Chikorita cheered as they danced ring-around the rosie style and they both laughed there heads off.

"Wh-Where are we?" Grovyle asked looking slightly confused and looked around.

"We're at the beach," Ali said looking around so he could familiarize himself with the new light and color.

"This is where I met Ali for the first time! Right…here," she said running to a spot and tapping it with her paw.

"So that's what happened to you, Ali," Grovyle said looking around. "I was sent to Eastern Forest the first time around. So we were all far away from each other…" Grovyle said with his voice trailing off.

"Hey Grovyle! There's still a lot I still don't understand and I want you to explain – but here is not a good place to talk about it. Let's go to the Wigglytuff's Guild," she suggested.

"Hang on," Celebi said. "Isn't Grovyle considered the worst criminal ever in the past?" Celebi asked with a frown on her face.

"Yeah, you're right, I forgot," Ali said with a little chuckle.

"What should we do then?" Celebi asked with her arms crossed.

"Oh I know! But we'll have to go through Treasure Town," Chikorita said with a sigh.

"Well, it shouldn't be a problem if we keep a low profile and make sure we don't attract any attention," Grovyle said, thinking. "Lead the way," he added to Chikorita who nodded and started to sprint as fast as she could to her spot and Ali, Grovyle, and Celebi did their best to keep up with her without attracting attention on to themselves.

I wonder what Chikorita was talking about when she said that she knew a good place Ali wondered to himself as he sprinted to keep up with Chikorita.

They sprint through Treasure Town with Grovyle hiding close to the ground with Ali and Chikorita hiding him from every angle and Ali took off his crown and armor and stuffed away so that no one would recognize him. Celebi had vanished completely from view so they had no idea where she went.

They had stopped at Sharpedo bluff and looked around again.

"We made it," Chikorita said quietly but cheerfully because no one recognized them because they had all taken off their armor and accessories.

"Good thing that you suggested that we take off all our armor and accessories," Chikorita said while smiling at Ali who nodded in return.

"Well, here we are," Chikorita announced and Celebi popped out of thin air.

"Whoa, where did you come from?" Grovyle asked.

"I just hid in another time period in the past until I heard Chikorita's call and came back," Celebi explained.

"Well anyway," Chikorita said, ending Grovyle and Celebi's conversation. She moved a bush out of the way and it revealed a set of stairs. "It's down here, I lived here before I met Ali and joined the guild," she explained to a curious Ali.

"Wow Chikorita," Ali commented. "This looks kind of dangerous, how'd you pull of living in here if it –" he began but he think of anything so he stopped it there.

"Hee-hee," Chikorita giggled. "It's actually not that bad, I thought it looked pretty awesome so I started living here, go on in," she said urging them all inside.

They all go inside to get some protection and Ali grabs the bush and seals the exit shut.

"What did you do that for?" Chikorita asked.

"I don't want anyone to spy on us," Ali said and she nodded.

"Whoa, this is where you used to live?" Ali asked.

"Uh-huh, it isn't very much but I hope you all like it," Chikorita said to everyone who nodded.

"Are you kidding, this is the one of the most awesome things I've ever seen," Ali said happily and Chikorita blushed at his praise.

Ali and Grovyle set up the beds while Celebi and Chikorita headed to another time period to gather some firewood so they can make a campfire. When night came, they built a campfire thanks to Ali's tail being on fire constantly but it burned hot enough so it can keep everyone warm but not hot enough to accidentally burn any of the grass types. They all sat in their respective beds and were ready to discuss things over some berries.

"But Ali…I never expected you to be the very same Ali…I mean, I'm actually taller than you for once…" Grovyle said.

"Yeah well, how many people or Pokemon do you know that share my name?" Ali asked.

"I don't think I know anyone else that shares your name," Grovyle admitted and Ali laughed.

"I'm sorry about the whole "I thought you were an evil Pokemon" thing," Ali said with a smile.

"Grovyle would you mind telling us a little bit more about your friendship with Ali?" she requested.

"Yeah, I want to know more about this myself," Celebi piped and Grovyle replied.

"Ali and I were best of friends, we'd never be apart from one another," Grovyle said remembering all the memories from his past about Ali. "We were investigating the planet's paralysis, using Ali's Dimensional Scream ability," he went on. "But it will only activate under two conditions: one, it only works on places tied to Time Gears, and two: t also only works in the presence of a trusted friend. That's why we worked together. With it, we were able to find out where the Time Gears were before we got to the past and the more we knew about what we would be facing the better," Grovyle finished.

"Then why was it set off after Ali and I met," Chikorita asked.

"Well, since Ali had amnesia, and you happened to be the first Pokemon to meet him after the incident, I'd say that you both earned each other mutual trust pretty quickly, Right, Ali?" Celebi suggested looking at Ali.

"Well when you put it that way…it's a little embarrassing," Ali said nervously.

"Aww, don't be embarrassed," Chikorita said winking at him but again he felt nervous but there was no way out this time.

"But the Dimensional Scream went off in places that had absolutely nothing to do with the Time Gears, too! Like that time with Hypno…and the waterfall…and…a bunch of other places," Ali said with a frown.

"I guess, that the ability works differently in the past, than in the future," Grovyle said with a frown and he started getting ready for sleep.

"Maybe that was why it didn't work in the future with that frozen water," Ali muttered to himself.

Grovyle: So after we found where they were, we took the Passage of Time. But on the way, we encountered some sort of turbulence, and we were separated. Maybe it was because of that that he turned into a Charmander AND lost his memory.

"That reminds me…Dusknoir did a really terrible job explaining this, so…can you tell me what I was like back then? Like, exactly where I came from, when you met me, why weren't there any other humans in the future…and anything else?" Ali requested looking at Grovyle who agreed.

"It might take some time though," Grovyle said.

"Alright, I just want to hear my life story," Ali said as Celebi fell asleep, as she had already known Ali's life story.

"There was a day nine years from where we were in the future, we saw a shooting star and at the time I was still a Treecko and I was a very lonely one at that, so I saw the star and wished with all my heart that I had a friend unlike any other, one who would help me out and someone to believe in me," he said. "Surprisingly a few seconds later I heard cheering and I found a young boy sitting on the ground looking at me curiously and I also saw your parents nearby but they were unconscious. I took you back to my house and took care of you and we'd play together all the time and you would help me become a braver Pokemon than I was before," Grovyle went on before Chikorita cut him off.

"I thought only baby Pokemon light Cleffa and Igglybuff needed parents?" Chikorita asked looking confused.

"Yeah well, apparently Ali needed them too. When Primal Dialga figured out that Ali's parents were trying to give him and themselves the Dimensional Scream and he sent them all to be executed. Dusknoir who was a Dusclops at the time took all three of them to the stockade and executed your parents first," Grovyle said, his voice cracking and Ali saw that he was getting tears in his eyes.

"It was lucky that they had saved you for last, or else I wouldn't have made it in time, so because of the desperation of the situation, I somehow evolved and sliced the ropes binding you to the stockade and carried your parents' dead bodies and we both had a funeral," Grovyle said sadly.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, I was the survivor of my family, because of Primal Dialga's commands?" Ali asked angrily and Grovyle nodded.

"I think they made you watch, because you were really scared. But then your Dimensional Scream ability worked for the first time, and by then, we decided to find out the truth. Over the course of the next five years, we traveled around the world, solving puzzles, finding out where the Time Gears were, and running away from Dusknoir. We even got lots of help from Celebi. And because you hated how everyone was betraying each other, you said "There's no point in working together without trust." So that became our motto, and now you know. I still think it's weird that we went into the past right on your 15th birthday," Grovyle said with a frown.

"This explains those feelings that I had before…" Ali said, recounting all of the feelings he had when he went to places that had to do with Time gears, when he got to see a Time Gear, the strange foreboding he got off of Dusknoir's laugh.

"Oh, I get it! It's muscle memory! Even when your conscious memories were erased…your body still remembers everything!" Celebi exclaimed.

"So all of those feelings Ali had were musical memory?" Chikorita asked and Grovyle and Celebi nodded in unison.

"All of this new information is so new to me, I think my head might blow," Ali said, rubbing his head.

"Speak for yourselves, this is all ancient history to me," Grovyle said with a smirk. "So Ali, you have NO idea how worried I was about you when we were separated. You're appearance may have changed…and you may have lost your memory…but despite that, you're still you. Oh, Ali. I'm so glad you're still my best friend…and that I could see you again," Grovyle said hugging his best friend, which he hugged back with vigor.

"I really wish I could remember my past," Ali muttered and Grovyle laughed.

"But enough about us, what about you two," Celebi asked looking at fire and grass type sitting next to each other.

Chikorita recounted everything that happened to them, from her meeting Ali on the beach up to the point of when they met Grovyle in a good light.

"Team Drive? I think that's a pretty good name," Celebi said with a smile.

"Really? Thanks," Chikorita said happily.

"Good night everyone," Chikorita said, who had started to yawn and Ali put out the fire while everyone else set up their beds for the night.

They all fall asleep on the spot and they are so tired that they all slept through the sunrise, the next day and the next night! But by morning of the following day, Grovyle wakes up (about time) and finds that Chikorita was not there. He starts to look for her and finds her out at the cliff's out at the ocean.

"Something wrong?" Grovyle asked, "Can't sleep?"

"I'm fine. It's just that…I think we slept for two nights straight!" Chikorita exclaimed.

"Wow, I knew we'd be tired but I didn't think we'd be THAT tired," Grovyle said looking visibly shocked. "Anyway, what are you doing here?" he asked.

"Just thinking about everything. Basically, what you told us about you and Ali…stuff like that. Oh! It's morning already!" she exclaimed looking out at the sunrise as it got brighter and brighter.

"Wooooww…After being in that future for so long…Wow! This is…Wow! The sun rises…then it sets…we all take that for granted, and that's only natural. But it's things like those…that are the most precious," Chikorita said wisely and Grovyle nodded in agreement.

"All I'd ever known was the future's world of darkness…So when I came here and saw the sunrise for the first time…Yeah. It was staggering. And it was right then that I knew…I just knew…that we had to turn history away from darkness no matter what," Grovyle said to a stunned Chikorita.

"One more thing, Vulpix. You know that time they ambushed us? Frankly, we had absolutely zero chance of winning, or even getting out of there alive. But despite all that…you didn't give up. Even I gave up. How'd you manage to do that?" Grovyle asked curiously.

"I guess I never gave up because, I had Ali with me, he was one to give me so much Drive and determination," Chikorita said thoughtfully.

"Ali, really?" Grovyle asked curiously.

"Yeah. I told you about how I made an exploration team with him. But I didn't tell you that before we met, I was too scared to even apply! With him, though, I felt like I could face anything…Just like that time, and that time, and all those other times…he had taught me so much, he even came up with a special combo where he and I work together to bring enemies down," Chikorita explained. "Kind of like what Ali and you did yesterday with your special combo," she added.

"Well that would make sense, seeing as he does have a tendency to make others around him feel good about themselves, The same reason why he was my best friend…You feel that same way about him too, don't you? Maybe even greater feelings," Grovyle said slyly and Chikorita blushed.

Yeah! All my life, I was looking for my prince…and all this time, he was right in front of me…" Chikorita said blushing all the while.

Grovyle images everything that Chikorita and Ali had told him, but most importantly, he pictures all the fun times that they had together; going on explorations, coming up with new combos, creating new poses, playing together with whatever they could and always end up laughing.

"Ali is…lucky…to be blessed with a friend like you," Grovyle said looking at Chikorita.

"Thanks for being his best friend all those years ago," Chikorita said with a smile.

The duo of grass types just stared at the sunrise, then come down so they could get ready. They found Ali and Celebi already awake and ready to go.

"Hey you two, did you sleep well?" Ali asked the duo and they both nodded enthusiastically. "Alright, when you're ready, we can work on our next plan of attack," Ali suggested as Chikorita and Grovyle freshened up for a day of exploring.

(Sora's theme starts to play)

"Okay, so do we all agree that we're going to collect the Time Gears again?" Grovyle asked and the other three nodded. "All right then, let's start with the one at Treeshroud Forest, is that okay with all of you?" he asked.

"Yes, and besides, there won't be anyone like Uxie guarding this one, right?" Celebi asked and the trio nodded.

(Sora's theme stops playing)

"Let's go," Ali said and they headed for the place in question while keeping a low profile and they get out the items that they need before heading out.

"Hey, I think I've been here before," Ali said, looking surprised.

"Yes we have. We came here in the future and your Dimensional Scream found it here," Grovyle explained.

"But I thought Ali lost all his memories," Chikorita said, looking confused.

"He still had musical memory, remember?" Celebi said looking at the trio.

"So that's why I felt like we've already been to Fogbound Lake and the desert and Crystal Cave! And those were our voices! We solved those puzzles then, didn't we, Grovyle?" Ali asked and Grovyle nodded.

"C'mon, I don't want to waste anymore time," Ali said as they all sprinted into the forest and quickly found out that Ali and Celebi can also do a combination together so they gave it a go and it made Ali and Celebi faster and froze all the enemies which allowed Celebi to come at them with Aerial Ace and Ali would come at the enemies with an Iron Tail and for the finisher, they would push off each other and slice enemies in a huge combo. It didn't literally slice them into tiny pieces, but it did do quite a lot of damage.

They made it to the deepest end to find that Time was still frozen.

"What!" the quartet exclaimed when they saw that Time had stopped moving forward.

"Well there's no point in not taking the Time Gear since it won't make a difference anymore," Grovyle said as he took the Time Gear.

Calm down. It's not like it'll make any difference. What I'm more worried about is why time was still frozen here. Chikorita, when we get back, I'd like you find out what's going on. But keep a low profile, okay?" he requested and she nodded.

They were all waiting for Chikorita to come and tell them what was going on, she came back and recounted what she had heard. I'm back. Here's the word. After we fell into the future, Uxie and friends put the Time Gears back to their places. Everyone was happy because they thought time would go back to normal. But…time was still stopped in those places. Even worse, it's spreading. Everyone's upset because they can't figure out what's wrong," Chikorita said sadly.

"Oh no, this can only mean that Temporal Tower has begun to collapse, this bad, this is really bad," Grovyle said grimly.

"Well what should we do?" Ali asked.

We have to hurry. Otherwise, the planet will be fully paralyzed. I told you we needed to place the Time Gears in Temporal Tower. Problem is, it's in a place called the Hidden Land. From the future, we were just there, but from this time...Anyway, we should split up. We'll find the Time Gears, while you two find the Hidden Land," Grovyle said.

"Gotcha, is it okay with you Ali?" Chikorita asked.

"Yeah, I'm game," said Ali.

"Anyway, since no one's discovered it yet, we have to assume it's far away. Maybe it's across the sea—who knows? I don't," Grovyle said grimly as he and Celebi left.

"Well, let's start by looking for a way to cross the ocean," Chikorita said and they dashed to the beach.

"So how are we going to cross the sea?" Ali asked.

" Ugh, this way too complicated to figure out on our own and we'll run out of time, that's it we need everyone's help!" Chikorita exclaimed.

"Huh, what are you talking about?" Ali asked.

"Alliiiiii, don't tell me you forgot about guild members," Chikorita said looking surprised.

Ali chuckled while rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.

"Do you think that they'll believe us?" Chikorita asked.

"If they don't I've got something to prove it, but before we do that, let's get our armor and accessories back on because I felt weird while I wasn't wearing them," Ali said as he put on his crown and his ribbons and Chikorita doing the same with her armor and her accessories.

"Ready?" Ali asked and she nodded and then they ran of to the guild.

"Well, here we are. Hope you're happy," Ali said with a smirk.

"This feels weird, whatever, I'll stand on the grate first," she said and soon the ground starts rumbling and the gate opens. A stampede can be heard. Everyone comes out and swarms them. Suddenly, they all stop and step to the side as Chatot and Wigglytuff come out and meet them. On the lower basement level, everyone's gathered in a circle to hear Ali and Chikorita's story. When they finish, Chatot asks if what they said was really true and they say so.

"That's the funniest thing that I've ever heard," Chatot said laughing.

"You gotta be kidding," Ali said angrily.

"The great Dusknoir, a bad guy, and thieving Grovyle, a good guy? Absolutely inconceivable! Is there any part of your story that's remotely plausible, a place called the Hidden Land, I've heard of no such thing and I am the head of intelligence for this guild," he said angrily.

"Just because you don't know about it doesn't mean that it is not there," Ali said coldly.

"We've been thrown in jail, tortured, almost shredded to pieces by flesh-eating sadistic Sableye, chased by Dusknoir, thrown off cliffs, learned about the future, totally ambushed, almost crushed by the whole army and Primal Dialga, and barely made back here!! We could've been stuck in that crappy place forever, or worse, eliminated! But Grovyle helped us all get out AND he told me about my past!!! Without him, no one would ever see us again!! You see!? YOU SEE!?" Ali yelled at the stunned guild members.

Everyone stares at Ali for a few seconds before saying that they agreed that Ali was telling the truth, much to Chikorita's relief.

"Well it looks like everyone agrees," Wigglytuff said happily, "Even Chatot," he added.

"Yup. You did believe them all along…right, Chatot?" he asked.

"Hee! Hee! Hee! Hee-heeeeee! Well, okay. There's no fooling anyone today. I believed them in my heart right from the start!" Chatot said and Ali and Chikorita sweatdropped.

"Okaay then," Ali said, who was clearly unconvinced but shrugged it off.

No one really paid any attention to Chatot's babbling like an idiot because they wanted to hear about their adventures in the future. All of a sudden, Ali's stomach starts growling and everyone laughed, Ali joined in too because it was funny.

Everyone! Now we know why time is stopping in more and more places insanely! Let's let everyone know about the truth…Uxie and friends, especially! In the name of Wigglytuff's Guild…Let's all find the Hidden Land for Chikorita and Ali! YOOM…TAH!" he cheered as they ran for cover.

Since Wigglytuff Hyper Voiced in his face, Chatot is as stone still as last time. When Ali and Chikorita talk about what they're going to do next, Wigglytuff pulls them aside.

"Torkoal the town elder might know something," he said thoughtfully.

"Let's go see him in the morning," Ali said as they all ran to the mess hall, paw and paw with Chikorita.

"Finally! Real FOOOOOOOOOOD!!" they cheered. They eat their first real meal in days, though it feels like it was in decades.

After dinner they head back to their old room, feeling glad, they got be back here after such a long time but they were too tired to do anything else and they both fell asleep.

Suddenly, a shadow appears in the room saying "Soon, my love, soon," she said looking at the two in bed.

"Hey, let me go!" Chikorita said angrily.

"Not on my life," the voice said cruelly.

"Help me!" Chikorita squeaked and she was dragged away, quickly losing consciousness.

Ali woke up the next morning to find that Chikorita was gone. He looked around everywhere but couldn't find her.

He had told Chatot and he said that he found a letter and he handed it Ali to read. It was another ransom note.

"Well, whoever this is, I'm not letting them get away with this," Ali said as he headed for Lunar Cave as was where Chikorita was going to be held hostage.

"Wow, I didn't think it would be that easy, if anything I would have expected it to be harder, but anyway, I can't lower my guard now," Ali said as he just ran as fast as he could and he made to the end of the cave and saw that the crystals were glowing red and looked around to see Chikorita unconscious on the ground.

"NO," a voice yelled, and Ali spun around to see Piplup approaching him.

"Piplup, what happened to Chikorita?" Ali demanded but she merely shook her head, a cruel smile forming on her face and that told him everything, but her eyes looked like she was longing for some love.

"I thought you and I were friends!" Ali said coldly. "I guess I was wrong," he said as he made to pick up Chikorita but Piplup fired a Hydro Pump at him. Ali rolled out of the way to avoid any further damage and she did Double Team and a water gun combo to create watery versions of herself. Ali grabbed one and spun it around and that took out the water clones. He managed to beat all fifty water clones in less than 30 seconds. This took Piplup by surprise and he quickly did a ground combo with a Brick Break Finisher.

Piplup quickly fired a Bubblebeam at him and he sprinted away. She also then used Bubblebeam to come down on him from above and he sprinted away from that too. Ali noticed that she had some more Water Clones now and he used them to stun her and do some more damage. He continued this process and occasionally slid up behind her and knocked her into the air where he would quickly do an air combo. She eventually got really tired and fell down unconscious.

Ali turned away from her and picked up Chikorita. Ali, though he felt a little reluctant to do so, also took Piplup and Chikorita quickly gained consciousness while Piplup woke up slowly and saw Ali there with an unhappy look on his face.

"Why, why did you do it?" Ali asked. Piplup felt ashamed to look him in the eyes.

"I was jealous of Chikorita," she confessed, I've had feelings for you and she got to spend so much time with you.

"Well, why don't we help you find someone to love," Ali suggested and she readily agreed.

As though on cue a Cyndaquil came in and looked a little nervous.

"Hi Cyndaquil," Ali said to the fire mouse.

"Hey Ali, she looks really cute," he added to Piplup who had started blushing.

"Hey why don't you two form an exploration team together," Ali suggested. Piplup liked this idea and so did Cyndaquil so Piplup thanked Ali for helping her and she and Cyndaquil left, flipper and paw with each other and Ali looked pleased with himself.

"Aww, that was nice of you," Chikorita said.

"Yeah, we'd better get to the Hot Springs Ali said and they ran to the Hot Springs and Ali dove in with a bottle on his tail again as Chikorita merely sat as the pool's edge staring at Ali romantically.

Once they were done they began talking to Torkoal about the Hidden Land and Torkoal told them that they needed a proof of some kind. Unfortunately, Torkoal has amnesia too so he forgot the details.

"Oh well, thanks for your help," Ali said kindly to the Torkoal who nodded and they left to tell the result of the conversation.

"So Torkoal didn't know much," Chatot said.

"That's not true, knowing that we need proof is quite a bit," Wigglytuff said with everyone agreeing with him.

"Why don't we call it a night, we can continue in the morning," Chimecho said as they all went to the mess hall and then to their respective rooms.

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