"Pichu, come on out!" Serena exclaimed as she took the small electric mouse out of her pokeball. The small mouse had her ears folded over her eyes and then made them go up so that she could see her trainer's blue eyes. The honey blonde performer was in the other side of the forest next to the campsite in which the gang had set up camp. Serena was trying to get to know Pichu a little better as she just caught her. "So Pichu, what was your home like?"

"Pichu?" Pichu looked at Serena with a surprised tone looking at how sweet Serena was being to her. She wanted a trainer to look after her, but in the end, she seemed to be more than just a trainer, she was more like a… friend. Pichu then remembered a very faint memory that dealt with a Pikachu helping her when she was in trouble due to some people in orange suits. "Pi.. Pichu?" Pichu said sadly.

"Huh? Pichu?" Serena asked worryingly as she looked at the pokemon's deep black eyes. She noticed there was some depression in those eyes, it was like Serena had seen someone remembering a tough memory to swallow. "Pichu, I am sorry if I asked something that I shouldn't have." Serena replied while embracing the small mouse.

Pichu then got some confidence and said something to Serena, "Pi pichu pi pichu!" Pichu then released herself from Serena's grip and said in a manly, "Kapi pika pikachu!"

Serena just stared at Pichu with wide eyes, "Did you just talk like if you were a Pikachu?"

Pichu rolled her eyes and made herself look bigger, "Pichu Pi pichu pi!" Pichu explained while finally putting on a small blush in her face as she reenacted something grabbing her hand up from the ground.

Serena then went wide eyed and giggled, "So you met this one Pikachu that you helped and you grew a crush on?" Pichu blushed as she looked at Serena and put her head down with a small smile and slowly nodded. Serena then giggled, "You know, I have a similar experience and I did grow a crush on someone because of that… You know, maybe we are more alike than I thought Kapi."

"Pichu?" Pichu asked as she suddenly heard someone call her… Kapi?

"It sounds cute doesn't it, do you want to be nicknamed Kapi?" Serena asked with a smile and a small blush while kneeling in front of the small mouse. Pichu looked at the ground and smiled back at Serena with a nice smile. "I'm glad!" Serena replied while Pichu… I mean, Kapi, got on Serena's shoulder as Serena let out a couple of pokeballs. "Braixen, Sylveon come on out!:

"Braixen!"

"Veon!"

"Hey guys, I want you guys to meet Kapi!" Serena said with a smile as Kapi got down from her shoulder to meet the fire fox and the ribbon pokemon.

"Pichu PI!" Kapi replied as she looked at the other pokemon with glee. The other two smiled and replied back with welcoming statements as Serena looked at the interactions and smiled at them.

Serena then saw that the three pokemon had well acquainted themselves and decided to take it a step further, "Ok you three, how about we train a little bit!" The other three pokemon then gave out a small battlecry as Serena smiled and signaled for the three pokemon to start. "Ok, braixen use fire blast! Sylveon use moonblast and hit the middle of the fireblast!" Serena then pointed towards Kapi and exclaimed, "Now use thundershock!"

"Brai...XEN!" Braixen grabbed her wand from her tail and exploded a jet of fire with five prongs in the end towards the air which Sylveon added in a colorful beam of light to it. Suddenly, Kapi looked at the combining moves with huge sprinkling eyes as she collected some electricity in her cheeks.

"PI...CHUUUUUU!" Kapi exclaimed as she tried to shoot the electricity at an accurate shot. Suddenly, the electricity missed the exploding combined moves and started to go rampant. Kapi stopped her attack only so see that she had everyone around her covered in soot… Including herself. "Pichu…" Kapi said sadly as Serena came up to the small electric pokemon.

Kapi was surprised to see Serena pet her in the head and say, "I guess I should have remembered that Pichu's have problems controlling electricity, right Kapi?"

"Pichu," Kapi replied slightly amused and with newly found confidence for what Serena told her.

A/N: Ok, so Kapi is the name that I have decided to give the female Pichu (credits to Asurax1). Anyways, with this I am planning to have something interesting happen, but it is probably for after the league, you you gosh darn have to be ready because Kapi will be supporting Ash and Pikachu with all she has.

Also, who is the focus of this chapter? Good question, but it will actually be your boy Sceptile. We need a little more development in the tree frog instead of the aquatic frog for once… I just noticed Ash has two frogs in his team… Ok, wait, lemme think: one mouse, three dragons, two frogs… Seems legit, but overpowered at the same time… Three dragons! Ash should be a dragonmaster! JK! xD!

Anyways, I am ready for the league… So ready… I just want to start writing it… But of course I have to finish this short arc first, so enjoy it until the league starts.

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon

Chapter 26- Tree skipping to defeat disasters! A reunion of two hearts!

Lumiose City:

Trevor was feeling the strong breeze wave his hair around as he looked over the giant stadium that was built in the Trainer's Village at the side of Lumiose City. The hexagonal beauty glistened in the clear sunlight that the day radiated among the entire heart of Kalos. Trevor was flying on top of his Charizard, the large dragon that had a glistening orange stone beaming on the sun as well. Trevor flew over the trainer's village to find it completely empty. Of course, it would only be allowed to be accessed with after the new Victory Road Challenge that different trainers have to go through. Trevor then redirected his Charizard to fly back down to the Paris-Based city and from there Charizard flew overhead a dancing trainer with his two water type pokemon.

Tierno was in the streets of Lumiose City and was dancing with his Blastoise and Ludicolo as he saw the fire dragon-like pokemon fly overhead. Of course it was a nice to see his friend riding around in such a powerful looking pokemon, but Tierno knew that he would need to be ready for any challenge that came his way so he was practicing his special strategy with his two strong pokemon. He would use this strategy to completely dazzle anyone that got in his way, and he would succeed when battling opposing trainers. Obviously, Tierno was ready.

Meanwhile, on the other side of Lumiose City, Shauna was making herself at home by drinking some tea at a cafe. It was a nice day and she was completely reclined in an outdoor seat with sunglasses watching over the calm and serene river that flowed next to the large city. "Oh Serena," Shauna started. "Your crush surely likes to take his time in getting here."

Shauna then sighed as she heard an explosion behind the cafe she was in. Of course she knew what was going on:

Calem was training with his entire team making sure that everyone was prepared to battle with everything they had. "Ok, Salamence, I want to make sure that if you use dragon rush, you make sure that it is strong enough to break through any head on attacks."

"Roar…" The massive dragon listened intently to Calem.

Calem then turned to his large tank and said, "Chesnaught, make sure that when you use roll out, it is effective enough to go through anything, I want to make sure you can take any hit." The large grass juggernaut pokemon nodded in agreement as Calem then turned to another pokemon, his ace. "So, I think Frogadier would want a rematch wouldn't he?"

"Gallade…" The blade pokemon replied.

Calem then smirked, "Then we will win together with mega evolution, no doubt that Frogadier had probably gotten stronger just to face us." The blade pokemon looked at Calem and smirked from his usually completely neutral expression. "Let's keep training." Calem then put his arms out, "Salamence dragon rush! Gallade dodge it and follow up into a strong short range psycho cut!"

"Roar!" The blue and red dragon exclaimed as he took flight and made a blue aura surround him that was shaped like the face of the dragon itself. At the same time Gallade prepared for the incoming attack patiently. "ROAR!" Salamence came down towards Gallade who was looking at the dragon head on with a good amount of muscle tone. When Salamence was about to hit Gallade, the latter jumped into the sky with swift movements and then put his blades in front of him and made them glow purple. Then in a strong downcut, Gallade came down in a cross like motion with a little bit of pink light from the blades reflecting off of the fighting type's face.

With Ash and the others at the campsite:

"Oooh man, what a great sleep I had last night," Ash said as he got up from his sleeping bag to the smell of Brock's breakfast. Ash noticed that Goodra was still out of his pokeball and when Ash woke up, Goodra also looked at Ash with a nice smile as in thanking Ash for letting him sleep outside with him. Ash looked to see Brock cooking and Clemont working on an invention. Bonnie was playing with her Dedenne which was very amusing for Ash to see. He did feel like the responsibility that Clemont had for Bonnie was something that Ash lacked… But is that really the case?

Ash grabbed four pokeballs from his belt and enlarged them and with one swipe up, he threw them up into the sky and a bright flashing light occurred revealing Sceptile, Greninja, Noivern and Charizard all looking very strong and ready for anything. Ash smiled as he walked up to the pokemon with Pikachu and Goodra. "Pika pikachu!" Pikachu shouted as he pointed at the pokemon food that Brock was preparing.

"You guys hungry as well?" Brock asked from his cooking station. The sweet aroma from the breakfast he was making was raining havoc on Ash and his team as well as everyone was in front of Brock sitting in the setup table with forks and knives ready to eat. "Wow Ash, since when did your pokemon learn to use utensils?"

Ash looked to his left and snickered watching his pokemon all eager to eat as well, "Oh man guys, you really are a lot like your trainer, Serena was right at Coumarine City when she told me that!"

"PIKA!"

"NINJA!"

"NOI!"

"GRUAW!"

"GOO!"

All of Ash's pokemon shouted with glee as Brock served them all. All the pokemon and Ash gave Brock very thankful looks as the pokemon doctor and breeder made food that was healthy and very attractive for the taste buds of all of Ash's fighting ready pokemon. The pokemon with a couple bites could not resist themselves and kept eating.

"Hey…" Bonnie said as she neared the table with Clemont who had recently finished and packed away his invention which was probably going to be used in the future. "Where is Serena?"

"Serena went to train this morning," Brock replied the smaller girl. "She wanted to get closer to her newly caught Pichu."

"Pika…" Pikachu's face lost all of its color remembering that Serena's Pichu (Kapi) was a certain pokemon he had met once before. It was not like Pikachu hated her, it is just that Pikachu was afraid that particular Pichu (Kapi) would judge him as a very weak pokemon because of what happened to Pikachu a couple of days after he met Kapi… When Pikachu lost his whole family. Pikachu still did not want to have flashbacks to those days when he lived in Santalune Forest since they all lead back to the day that Team Flare took over his habitat. He did not expect his habitat to be taken over since Pikachu thought that team Flare were only attacking the area where he met Kapi. Still, Pikachu was completely surprised when he got attacked and lost all of his family and friends. It was the fear of being judged by Kapi that haunted Pikachu.

"Something wrong Pikachu?" Bonnie asked as she noticed Pikachu go almost completely white at the mention of Kapi. "You have to meet the new Pichu that Serena caught? She is so cute!" Pikachu then looked away and blushed. Of course he found Kapi cute, but he was afraid of coming close to her again. It was as if Bonnie had figured out what Pikachu was feeling because she then taunted the electric mouse. "So, what if she evolves into a Pikachu? Maybe you two could you know…?" Bonnie then snuck a glance at Ash. "Like trainer like pokemon, I wonder if Ash feels the same way that Serena feels about him," Bonnie whispered to Pikachu who cocked his head in confusion. Bonnie then smiled at Pikachu and said, "Nothing!"

"Hey guys, let's train a little bit!" Ash said as he looked at his pokemon who were all stuffing their faces in food. Ash's pokemon all faced their trainer and put hand in the air as they gave a muffled battle cry. "Alright!"

With Serena:

"Alright guys, great job today, we will win the title for sure next time!" Serena replied as she recalled all of her pokemon except Kapi into their pokeballs. Kapi hopped on Serena's shoulder and the honey blonde girl smiled at the electric rodent in her shoulder. Suddenly, Serena felt the ground beneath her shake a little. "Kapi… What is doing this?" Serena asked completely nervous as she looked in the direction of the sound to find tons of Dodrio running at her direction. Serena quickly put herself behind a tree as the stampede passed her. Kapi was holding on to her shoulder with strong paws as the stampede passed. When the squawking and trampling ostrich like pokemon passed. Serena got out of her hiding spot with Kapi and smiled, "You know, when I was little, I used to enjoy watching Rhyhorn stampedes like- AH!"

Serena instantly dove to the ground while protecting Kapi to have a random fire blast pass right above her. "Grrrr…" Serena and Kapi heard from three growling sounds. Serena looked up to find three black hound like pokemon with red heads: Houndour. Serena then noticed that the Houndour charged up a flamethrower that was about to hit her. Serena instantly jumped out of the way with Kapi, but Kapi being confident in herself, she charged up a thundershock and attempted to hit the Houndour.

"Kapi look out!" Serena shouted as she went to grab Kapi that was straining against three dark pulses. The three dark gaia beams easily broke through the tiny electric current. Serena saw that Kapi was in trouble and instantly dove on top of Kapi to protect her. "Kapi I will keep you safe!" Serena shouted with a worried expression as she winced in pain when the three beams collided with her exposed back. Serena then became angry, she was going to stop this once and for all. Serena grabbed a pokeball from her belt and threw it. "Floette use moonblast!"

Back with the others:

"Ok guys, great training," Ash said as he recalled all of his pokemon. He was about to materialize Sceptile back into his pokeball when the tree frog jumped out of the way of the beam. "Huh, Sceptile?" Ash asked the green bipedal pokemon with a branch toothpick.

"Tile…" Sceptile said as he turned to the forest next to the camp site. Brock, Clemont and Bonnie were busy doing some things in the camp site so Ash and Pikachu were able to focus on Sceptile. "Scep…" Sceptile's eyes instantly went wide eyed as he stared into the forest in worry.

"BOOM!" Ash saw as smoke started to billow out of the woods.

Ash's mouth instantly opened agape as Pikachu and him turned to Sceptile and nodded. They ran into the forest wanting to check out what was going on. Sceptile instantly took the height advantage and scanned the trees as Pikachu got off of Ash's shoulders and started to lead in front of Ash. Ash kept a close distance with his two pokemon as he also scanned the area for any sort of pokemon attacks that could be flying his way. "Over there!" Ash shouted as he watched Serena, Kapi and Floette battling against three Houndour. Floette sent a moonblast in the direction of the three Houndour which interacted with three dark pulses. The attacks stayed suspended at a stalemate for some time until there was an explosion between the two. What Ash did see that Serena did not was that there was a Houndoom behind the three original Houndour and it had charged up a hyper beam at Serena.

Ash watched clearly as the beam then was launched at Serena and Kapi. "SERENA!" Ash shouted. Serena could barely process the moment when he did it, but he grabbed Serena by the waist and took her with him out of the way of the hyper beam while twirling her (Like how Alain saved Mairin once).

"Pika!" Pikachu shouted as he noticed how Kapi was not protected when Ash took on Serena so he decided to dive in after Kapi. Pikachu went in for the dive and grabbed the smaller electric rodent in his arms. Then he dove by where Ash was while rolling with Kapi. Once both mice stopped rolling, Kapi got locked in Pikachu's eyes as Pikachu ended up on top of Kapi.

"Pika pika…" Kapi magically said in Pikachu language while looking at Pikachu's big shiny eyes. Pikachu was afraid that this might have happened, but it was obvious that he needed to save Kapi.

"Pika... " Pikachu said as he got up from Kapi and helped her up.

"Ash…" Serena replied as she looked at who saved her. Serena then noticed that Ash was on top of her and slightly blushed, but Ash quickly got up from her and looked at the Houndour and the lone Houndoom. Floette had managed to reach Serena's side as she sat up and Serena thanked the flower pokemon and recalled her.

"Are you ok Serena?" Ash asked as he watched Pikachu climb up to his shoulder and Kapi walk up to Serena and get on her shoulder… Kapi was curious as to why Pikachu got on top of Ash's shoulder though. Serena slowly nodded to Ash's question and Ash used his hand to help up Serena who was sitting in the ground with some soot on her back, but other than that she was fine.

"Grrrrr… Doom!" Houndoom growled and flinched at his opponent. Sceptile stood between the fire predators and the trainers with their pokemon in a defensive stance. Sceptile kept a relaxed posture with good muscle tone as he made sure that the Houndoom did not take one step. Any time the dogs would attempt to take a step, Sceptile would also move his leg slightly to try and intimidate the pokemon.

Houndoom then looked like he had enough with waiting for Sceptile to attack so he ordered himself and the other Houndour to shoot a fire blast. The four pokemon charged and fired a beam of fire with five prongs at the tree frog that stood there completely relaxed as he saw the move come in. When the fire blast was within range, Sceptile made the lateral portion of his arms glow green and he put them in front of him completely slicing through the flamethrower with leaf blade. When the fire was over, Sceptile retreated his green blades and then made green scaly claws with his hands and charged the four pokemon with complete determination.

Ash and Serena along with Pikachu and Kapi watched in complete awe as Sceptile charged in on the three Houndour. The three dogs took out purple claws that had a black scheme to represent a shadow and made them collide with the green claws that Sceptile had created. Sceptile then back flipped and dodged the hit of one of the free paws of one of the Houndour and retreated his claws to form again a leaf blade. This time, he charged and he made sure that the pokemon would not get any sort of advantage over him, so with quick and swift movements, Sceptile made himself able to attack continuously the Houndour. He finally got a slash on one Houndour and then slashed the second Houndour. Both Houndour fell back in exhaustion and then there was one left.

"Serena, let's go see what is the meaning of this, Sceptile can take them," Ash whispered.

"Right," Serena replied as the two got up from their hiding spot and got out of the way with their electric rodents of the bipedal green frog with a toothpick on his mouth.

"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile shouted as he closed the gap with leaf blade with the last Houndour. This one fired off a flamethrower, but Sceptile easily slashed it as he got closer to the hound pokemon. As soon as the Houndour was in range, Sceptile took and easy swing and took down the Houndour…

All now that was left was the lead Houndoom who sent a chilling howl into the air and made a powerup sign with his howling move.

"Sceptile…" Sceptile warned as he kept his green blades in a defensive position.

"Grrrrrr…." Houndoom roared back at Sceptile and made a shadow claw with both of his paws. "Hound.. DOOM!" Houndoom shouted as he leaped into the air and charged Sceptile with his purple claw.

Sceptile did not look dazed and with a relaxed look on his face, he countered the shadow claw with his leaf blade. The sparks that flew out of the two pokemon moves was evidence that it was a large stalemate in power, but there was obviously one that was more calm and collected. "Scep… TILE!" Sceptile shouted as he exposed the tree on his back to make a wind with razor sharp leafs rushing towards Houndoom. Houndoom though, he did not hesitate and threw out a fire blast that interacted with the grass move. Suddenly, Sceptile made his hands glow dragon claws as he suspended his leaf storm. When he did that, Sceptile rushed out towards the fire blast's five prongs and went right through it at chilingspeed. After getting close proximity to the Houndoom, Sceptile slashed the Houndoom critically on its side.

Sceptile landed behind Houndoom with the toothpick on his mouth and a cool pose as an explosion enveloped Houndoom. Sceptile smirked as he saw how Houndoom fell to the ground unable to continue. Sceptile then engraved his fist into the ground and from the forest ground, a large plant surged out that grabbed the three Houndour and the Houndoom that were exhausted in the ground and suspended them in the air.

Sceptile took one last look at the battle he had just won and decided to find the others and stop the agitation of these pokemon, so he jumped into the trees and began to hop from one tree to another.

With Ash and Serena:

"Look," Ash pointed from the hiding place of the two trainers. Ash was motioning to a machine that was being ran over by team flare grunts. One was a woman with green hair and special goggles. She had next to her a Bisharp and she was fiddling around with the controls and causing green streaks from the trees to surge to a container next to the machine… Something Ash did not like as he gripped his scarf. "I should have known they would be going after the cells..."

"Pika…" Pikachu agreed with his trainer.

"Pichu!" Serena, Pikachu and Ash watched in shock as Kapi shouted as she saw how a surge of confidence went through her. "PI… CHUUUUUUUU!" Kapi shouted while blowing the cover of our heroes and attempting to connect a thundershock. The thundershock hit the Bisharp, but from the looks of it, it barely made a scratch. "Pichu…" The Bisharp turned to his trainer and nodded. Suddenly, Bisharp made his hands glow white blades and made a cross with them: Guillotine.

Ash's eyes widened as he saw this. Serena noticed quickly and got in front of Kapi in complete defence of the smaller pokemon. Ash though, he knew that Bisharp's attack would be fatal, "Pikachu counter it with iron tail!"

"Pika pika pika pika pika… CHU PI!" Pikachu shouted as he landed on the Bisharps white blades with his white glowing tail. The collision included a good amount of sparks flying out by both sides, but eventually, both pokemon retreated. Pikachu and Ash then stood in front of Serena.

"Stop taking those cells team Flare!" Ash shouted as he stared down the woman with green hair and the grunts who had no pokemon next to them, that must have been the Houndour and the Houndoom. Pikachu began to gather electricity next to Ash as he stared down Bisharp as well.

"Why should I?" The lady in green replied while touching her goggles. "The last thing I need is for you to get in the way of things!"

"Oh yea, let me get involved too! Braixen, let's go!" Serena shouted as she threw a pokeball that shaped itself into Braixen from a bright flashing light. "Use flamethrower!" Braixen pulled out her wand and expelled a jet of flames towards the Bisharp. Kapi watched in awe as her trainer used a great combination of moves.

The woman did not budge though, while putting her hand out she commanded, "Use focus blast!"

"Bi… SHARP!" Bisharp shouted as he made an orb within his hands and expelled it towards the incoming jet of fire. When the moves collided there was a decently sized explosion and then focus blast powered through because it was the stronger move.

Ash made quick calculations as he put his hand to the side, "Quick Pikachu, jump in the air at sixty degrees and you should come on top of the focus blast and use iron tail to slam it down!" Pikachu jumped into the air at the exact angle that Ash said and then made his tail glow white, with that the electric mouse hit down the focus blast into the ground and created a decently sized explosion.

"Guillotine!" The woman cried out while Ash gritted his teeth watching the Bisharp make his cross shaped blades glow white again. About to call for another iron tail, Ash was surprised to see a green blur hit the Bisharp by the side and make it tumble to the ground in front of the Team Flare admin. "What?!"

"Tile…" Sceptile said as he kept his green blades out as a warning and looking at Bisharp with great caution.

"Bi…" Bisharp grunted as he looked at Sceptile.

"Use thunder wave!" the team flare admin shouted completely making Sceptile and Ash look wide eyed at the scenario.

Bisharp took out his hand and made a couple yellow waves go towards Sceptile, but just as they were about to hit the tree frog, two yellow figures jumped in front of the attack and took in all of the electricity. "Pikachu!/Kapi!" Ash and Serena shouted in unison as they both watched their electric mouses jump in to take the electric paralysing move. Pikachu and Kapi both glowed yellow when the move hit them and since they are both electric the move did no damage. Both Pikachu and Kapi then landed in front of Sceptile with a large amounts of electricity stored in their cheeks.

"Pikachu…" Pikachu grunted attempting to keep all of the electricity in.

"Pi… CHUUUUUU!" Kapi was extremely impatient as she shot the supercharged electricity as a thundershock.

"Pikachu! Help her maintain control over her electricity! Redirect the thundershock with thunder!" Ash exclaimed as he put a fist out.

"Boost their power Braixen use flamethrower!" Serena commanded while raising her arm.

Braixen unleashed her wand as Pikachu took all of the electricity he stored from the thunderwave and shot it at the thundershock. The two electric beams combined and formed a larger beam while Braixen shot her jet of fire at the beam of electricity and also combined to amplify the power. Suddenly, the beam missed the Bisharp and hit the control panel the team flare admin was working on and the panel instantly exploded.

"What?!" The green haired Flare admin shouted in disbelief as she turned to her Bisharp. "Focus blast now!" Bisharp made with his hands a orange orb and shot it in the direction of our heroes and their pokemon, but Ash had different plans.

"Sceptile counter it with dragon claw!" Ash retaliated.

"Scep… TILE!" Sceptile shouted as he went head on towards the orange orb while summoning green claws in his hands and taking on the hit straight on causing small explosion with smoke. Sceptile then went through the other side of the smoke and slammed into the Bisharp with dragon claw instantly rendering Bisharp to the ground panting in exhaustion.

"Bisharp guillotine come on!" The team Flare admin exclaimed. Bisharp did not move though and stayed down completely exhausted. Sceptile retreated his green claws and looked at Bisharp in the ground while barely able to stand up. "Bisharp, Xerosic needs us to do this for Lysandre!"

Ash and Serena watched as Sceptile slowly walked up to Bisharp. Bisharp clearly in no state to battle was being completely overpowered. Sceptile then did something that surprised everyone and stuck out a webbed hand so that Bisharp could stand up with him. "Sharp…" Bisharp said resigned.

"Scep Sceptile," Sceptile called out as he grabbed the hand of the steel and dark type and helped him up.

"Pika…" Pikachu said with awe watching the actions of Sceptile. Kapi was also wide eyed as she ran up to her trainer.

"Sceptile…" Ash whispered to himself as he saw the kindness in Sceptile. Bisharp then turned to his trainer and smirked. Frustrated with her pokemon, the green haired woman recalled Bisharp to his pokeball.

The other grunts watched her look down shadowing her eyes. She then looked up and said, "Let's go get the Houndour and Houndoom back and leave… We won't win…"

"A-As you wish," the grunts replied as team Flare moved out of the area.

"Thanks Braixen, return," Serena said as Braixen got absorbed into her pokeball. "Ash, I think it is time we headed back to the others."

Ash then turned to Serena who had Kapi on her shoulders and said, "Yea, good idea." Ash then turned to Sceptile who had come up next to Ash while slumping next to a tree with a lowered gaze to add a cool look. Ash then looked at Sceptile and smiled, "You are so bada$$ Sceptile…"

"Tile," the grass type smirked and turned his gaze to Ash.

Ash nodded and pulled out Sceptile's pokeball to return the bipedal frog. Ash then turned to Serena as Pikachu got on his shoulder and said, "I agree, the others are probably worried."

Pikachu and Kapi then got out of their trainer's shoulders and lead the way back. "Pichu Pichu pi?" Kapi asked with curiosity.

Pikachu rubbed the back of his head and replied with, "Pika pikachu!"

Serena and Ash smiled from behind watching the mouses interact. Serena then made a realization… 'So Kapi's Pikachu crush was Ash's Pikachu? They met before, huh? Like trainer like pokemon…'

A/N: How was that? Was Sceptile awesome? I based off Sceptile to use his leaf blades like a Jedi and his quick reactions are awesome… Want to know who I really based him off of? Kit Fisto: Did you notice Sceptile taking on more than one enemy at a time easily, that is Fisto's duel style: Advantageous in one vs two or more people.

Anyways, the league is closer, like a couple chapters… Be hype!

Remember to R & R and I will see you guys next time!

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