I know this is a bit small, and yes I admit its due to rewriting the chapter not once but twice. I kinda hit a creative wall ok. Enough of my problems lets move on with the usual openings. First a thanks to the readers and those that favorite, and/or follow the story. As said before you all give me the drive to write. Also, a thanks to the reviewers Amourshiper35, Ri2, saptarshiban2003, and Guest for taking time to review the story. Now then on with the story.

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Prism Tower was of course closed by the time they had gotten there. As it was getting like group decided to head to the Pokemon Center to check in instead. The Lumiose City Nurse Joy had a smile on her face as she handed the group their room key. "Sorry, it took so long we've had a lot of visitors from other regions."

Looking all around they could see that was an understatement. Dozens of them were talking with each other or staring at both Serena and Ash whispering with one other. The knowledge of mega evolution it seems was making Kalos a rather popular region. "This won't happen to be a room with a single bed would it?"

Anabel raised an eyebrow as she felt both annoyance and acceptance from both Serena and Ash. Her eyes widened as she realized that this meant it must have happened before. Nurse Joy shook her head at this. "Oh no, I would do that." She stopped before a question arose from the Nurse's mouth. "Wait, you three aren't in a relationship together are you?"

The three of them blushed their eyes widen in shock. All around them trainers whisper to each other as rumors were about to spread. Serena got over her shock and yelled out her face beet red. "No! Why would you even ask that!"

A nervous laugh escaped Joy's mouth as she held up her hands in defensive. "I'm sorry it's just when you asked about a room with a single bed, and I thought that you know." Joy looked away taking a step back as everyone in the lobby looked at her. "You three are together in a relationship."

"Well we aren't," Serena rolled her eyes before clarifying the situation for her. "Only me and Ash are in a relationship, Anabel is just our friend." Serena's words stun ever so much into the psychic's heart. Reminding her of what she didn't have yet again.

Pikachu wanted to laugh at this turn of events. After all, it was hilarious that the Nurse thought that the three of them were in a relationship. Yet when he looked at Anabel instead of annoyance he could see the conflict written all over her face. That alone caused him to no longer find this funny. 'Arceus, this feels unnecessarily cruel.' The electric rodent felt the need to speak up for her or something.

Deciding to put all of that behind them Serena pulled out her pokeballs. In a flash, she let each, out one by one, while Anabel watched as appearing in order were, Braixen, Absol, Audino, Pancham, Sylveon, Zoroark, and finally Popplio. The Frontier Brain knew that something was up, 'Wait counting Gardevoir that's eight Pokemon with her.'

Zoroark looked at the new girl with a questioning look on her face. The dark type turned her attention to Gardevoir as she asked about Anabel, "Ok what did we miss?"

"A lot actually." Gardevoir inform motioning to Anabel as she was the most relevant right now, "This Anabel she's going to be traveling with us for the foreseeable future."

"Serena," The Frontier Brain decided to push the issue of why she had eight Pokemon with her. She had heard about extensions in time of emergency, or as rewards in certain tournaments and competitions. "Why do you have eight Pokemon with you?"

Serena sighed as she spoke apart of her still annoyed at the Kantonian Professor's actions. She was rather happy yes but still, "Because Professor Oak updated both mine and Ash's Pokedex using a weird loophole that allows us up to eighteen Pokemon."

Anabel knew the loophole she was talking about. The infamous Kanto Couples loophole which again drove him to her that Ash was taken. Braixen turned to Gardevoir whispering to her honorary sister as she noticed the shift in Anabel's mood. "What's the matter with her?"

Anabel sat down lost in her thoughts as she just sat it in silence reflecting on everything that had happened. "Hey, Anabel why don't you have your Pokemon join us?" She was brought out as she realized that Ash and spoken to her.

She pulled out the one pokeball she had with her. "Oh alright." The rest of her team having opted to stay back at the Battle Tower. With a flash, it burst open as Espeon appeared looking at the group in front of her.

The psychic eeveelution looked at the group of Pokemon before her. The Sun Pokemon paused when she faced Pikachu. She couldn't put her paw on it but she felt like she had seen him somewhere before. She was brought from her thoughts when Mawile introduced herself. "Hi I'm Mawile it's nice to meet you!"

Mawile held her hand out for her with a friendly smile on her face. Espeon was taken back by the suddenness of this but gave her paw and shook with a smile on her face. "Nice to meet you Mawile, I'm Espeon."

"Espeon that's the dark type Eevee evolution right?" Mawile was unsure as she asked that while Espeon didn't know what to say about this.

Espeon was just about to correct her when someone else beat her to it. "No that's an Umbreon, Espeon is the psychic type evolution." Sylveon cut in as she sat next to Espeon with an apologetic look on her face. "Sorry about that, Mawile once asked me to explain what Eevee's turned into a while back, and I guess I wasn't very descriptive."

Espeon waved her paw dismissing this as she gave Sylveon a smile. "No worries."

Sylveon returned her smile as she introduced herself to her fellow eeveelution. "I'm Sylveon by the way."

"Nice to meet you." Espeon looked at some of the others her eyes looking at Krokorok with a raised eyebrow. She motioned to the sunglasses on his face. "Why are you wearing Sunglasses?"

Krokorok adjusted the shades over his eyes with a hint of pride. True he did get them from an old run down store in Unova but that didn't matter to him. "I like them ok." He crossed his arms with a smirk. "They make me feel cool."

Fletchinder turned to Sceptile after hearing Krokorok explanation. She pointed her wing at the twinge that was usually in his mouth. "Is that why you keep that stick in your mouth?"

Sceptile rolled his eyes at the question. He didn't have it for some weird sentimental reason. Actually, if he was honest this was the fifth twinge he went through this month. "It's a force of habit I picked up from my father." He pulled the twinge in question out of his mouth. "I actually replace this after a week or so."

Pikachu knew something was strange with the twinge he had in his mouth. Well, Corphish was the first one to point it out. Everyone else just thought that was the twinge he also had on him. Thinking back to it it was just unreasonable to think that would be the case. Pikachu stopped as he caught Espeon staring at him out the corner of his eye. "Is something the matter?"

Espeon couldn't place it but she knew this Pikachu. Finally, it hit her just who he was. "Your Ash Ketchum's Pikachu," She turned her head around to the trainers her eyes going wide as she saw him. The man who her trainer had fallen in love with. "He's here in Kalos?"

Her words caused confusion among most of the Pokemon there, save for Pikachu and Sceptile. Mismagius floated over to the psychic type with confusion present on her face. "Wait you both know Ash?"

"Of course he challenged her twice and my trainers been thinking about him ever since." Espeon had tried to encourage her to track him down given how much she thought about him. "She's in love with him."

As soon as she let those words slip Pikachu face pawed. The rest of the Pokemon just stared at her while wide eyes before they mentally cursed themselves. They knew they had forgotten something. Espeon just stared back at them confused by what she unknowingly had just done. "Our trainers can understand us." Frogadier informed her, "Literally Serena understands us when we talk and Ash had a power that translates everything we say to him."

Naturally, the eeveelution didn't believe it at. "Your kidding right?" They didn't laugh they only looked at her, their faces completely serious. Espeon's eyes widen in horror as she realized what she had just done. 'Oh no.'

True to their words both Ash and Serena stared at Anabel. Ash was dumbfounded at Espeon's revelation. Serena, however, was the tiniest bit jealous of this. The feeling of jealousy past as she realized that Anabel had basically had her heartbroken and crushed without either her or Ash realizing it.

The fact they were staring caused Anabel to feel slightly uncomfortable. She could feel the brief moment of jealousy from Serena followed by pity. From Ash, she could feel a whirlwind of emotions. Finally, she turned to Espeon who held her head in shame. Focusing she spoke to her with telepathy. 'Espeon what is it?'

The psychic type sighed in her mind as she spoke to her through the telepathic link. 'I let it slip that you're in love with Ash.' Anabel didn't know what was so bad about that. 'Ash and Serena can understand Pokemon.'

Anabel could feel no deception with her words. She looked at both Ash and Serena as she realized why they were looking at her. She didn't want to believe it. She spoke low and soft fear consuming her. "You know," She hesitantly got up from her seat. "I should… go."

She took off as Ash tried to reach for her only for Serena to hold him back She got up looking Ash in the eyes with a determined look. "I talk to her." Serena got up and raced after the psychic.

Sylveon placed a filler on Espeon's shoulder. Everyone could tell that Espeon blamed herself for letting this happen. Truth is the others felt like they were to blame for not telling her. Gardevoir looked down as Popplio got her attention by pulling on her dress. "Does this mean Ms. Anabel won't be traveling with us?"

Tears fell from Anabel's eyes as she couldn't believe her luck. It was bad enough to know she lost Ash, now her feelings were known all because of a stupid slip up. She cursed at herself, wishing that she had taken off to follow Ash or something. 'It's not fair why is it she gets him?!'

"Anabel wait!" Serena raced up to her. The psychic finally stopped running as she stood on the street corner allowing Serena to catch up. Anabel didn't turn to her as she clutched her fists trying to fight back her tears. "Anabel listen I'm sorry, I know this must be upsetting for you."

Serena words were right it was unsetting for her. She wanted to blame all of it on the Kalosian girl but she knew she couldn't do that. It wasn't her fault Ash was with her. It was more her own fault for being unable to let Ash go. "How long have you both been together?"

The honey haired girl was taken back a little by the sudden question. With some hesitation, she gave her answer. "A few months, we actually confessed to each other just before Tobias decided to spring the attack on the Sinnoh League."

The psychic figured that was the case. She just wanted to hear it from her mouth. She turned around whipping away her tears. "I should leave, I should-" Serena brought her into a hug surprising her.

Silence fell over the two of them as Anabel just stood there. Finally, after what felt like an eternity to her Serena pulled back and looked into her eyes. "Listen Anabel I know that your hurting but please don't just leave because of your feelings for Ash." The honey-haired girl held Anabel's hand as she gave her a kind smile.

Anabel was surprised by how sincere she was with her words. The girls looked at one another before the violent hair girl sighed, "I guess I can still travel with you both." A concerned look formed on her face as she thought about what this could do to her. "But what if I can't get over my feelings for him?"

Silence gripped them as Serena realized that was something they had to worry about. Serena didn't want her to spend the whole time hurting, and she didn't want to lose Ash either. "We'll burn that bridge if it comes to it."

It was enough for the Frontier Brain, it was the best she could hope for. Anabel wiped away the tears from her face as she gave Serena a smile. "Alright." The two of them walked back to the Pokemon Center in silence.

The morning sun glowed through the Prism Tower windows. The gym had open rather early owing to its gym leader having spent the night in the gym small bedroom. Something that Clemont didn't use offend given how old the mattress was. 'I should look into getting it replaced.'

Clemont typing in the programs for his latest invention. Since getting back he has been having much to his surprise fewer problems with his devices blowing up. Perhaps it was luck, or perhaps he was getting better at making sure that never happens again. At the scene, he got a notification of an email.

Clicking on it his eyes went wide as he saw it was from the Lumiose Institute of Technology. He opened the email and wasted no time reading it out loud. "Dear Clemont Volta, I recently looked at a few of your submitted inventions from the Lumiose patent offices. I am impressed and I would like to invite you to help me with something I am currently working on that will change the world in ways we haven't seen. If you choose to meet me at Lysandre cafe tomorrow at ten am. Sincerely yours, Professor Xerosic."

He couldn't believe it. The Xerosic one of the leading scientific minds in all of Kalos. The man who was responsible for making the Kalos Power Plant a reality. Now he was asking him to help with a project that the esteemed Professor was working on. It was a dream come true for him.

Perhaps Xerosic would be willing to help him with a few projects his projects as well. In his celebration, he didn't notice Clembot entered the room until he spoke almost causing him to jump back on reflex. "Sir someone named Serena is here to see you."

For a moment he wondered if it was his friend Serena but he pushed that back. After all Bonnie had called him three days ago from Bonnie with both Serena and As from Shalour City. At quickest it should take them a week maybe two. No this was most likely a person with the same name as her. "Thank you Clembot."

Walking onto the field he paused as shock formed on his face as the "Serena" that Clembot was talking about was actually Serena! He tried to think of a logical solution for this but stopped when his eyes landed on Gardevoir. That explained it she teleported to Lumiose. "Hey, Clemont long time no see."

Clembot walked up next to his creator as the trio's eyes looked at it in awe. Ash plenty of amazing machines, mostly the mechs that a certain trio of rocket agents made, and yet he was still amazed by it. "So that's the robot you built to take only the gym for you when you're busy?"

"That was his original function after I took back the gym I decided to completely upgrade Clembot." It wasn't like he had any other choice with that. Clembot's body was badly damaged and his CPU was fragmented or broken. He salvaged with he could from both of them and rebuilt the rest. Clemont stopped as he noticed the second girl standing just behind the two of them. "Who's your new friend?"

Anabel gave the young inventor and gym leader a smile. From what she was told Clemont was an old traveling companion of Serena. The psychic girl introduced herself. "Hello I'm Anabel, it's nice to meet you."

Clemont thought she looked familiar but brushed it off. Seeing how she was here the inventor figured this was the best time. "You mind waiting here for a second? Seeing how you're here I might as well give you your Sinnoh Badges back."

"Well, that was the reason we came here in the first place actually."

Clemont knew that Serena wasn't doing gym battles. Bonnie had made that very clear when they ended up meeting Serena again, but Ash was doing the gym challenge. He did expect the Kanto Trainer to face him at some point after all. "Alright then give me a minute."

As Clemont went into the back room to retrieve the badges, Anabel took a moment to look around the gym lost in thought. From what she recalled Prism Tower was built centuries ago to commemorate the Third Kalos Empire. "So how did this become a gym?"

Serena having asked that question herself years ago went ahead and explained it to her new friend. "Well, it was built both as a symbol but also has a gift to the city." It was a very common thing really. The rulers of Kalos for centuries would commission something in celebration and hand it over to the place it was built. Many of which still stood to this day. Statues of fallen heroes, works of art hanging in museums, even whole castles, and towns. "The city decided to turn it into the site of their gym about a hundred years ago and it's been that way ever since."

On the side, Zoroark raised her claw to add one extra rid bit. "It was also remodeled twice, the original structure was mostly made of iron and formed a change that gives the modern one its shape." Several of the Pokemon turned her each wondering how she would know this. "I watched a documentary on it."

"You know I have to ask why do you like history so much?" Pancham was sure he had watched her spend hours watching the tv screen while they were at Shalour all on history.

Zoroark looked at the Panda-like Pokemon with a shrug. The dark type just liked to watch them. Absol turned to her with a curious look asking, "You won't mind if I join you the next time you want to watch them?"

There was a brief pause from the Illusion Fox as she looked at him. Zoroark didn't expect anyone to want to join her in watching her history documentaries. 'You know he does have A rather nice coat.' A light blush formed on her face at the thought. "Sure if you want."

Clemont finally came walking back in the four Sinnoh Badges Serena had let him borrow in hand. As he returned the four badges to their owner he held a thankful smile on his face. "Thank again for helping me take back my gym."

"No problem that's what friends are for." Serena pulled out her Sinnoh badge case and put the four of them back in place. Next time she visited her mom she was going to have to give her the case to put up next to her three Johto ribbons.

Clemont turned his head to Ash before adjusting his glasses. Seeing how he was already here the inventor figured it was only right. "So Ash how many badges do you have with you?"

"Three." He knew that Clemont did have a four badge rule. During there second pass Lumiose City Serena made sure to explain it to him. "I know you have a four badge rule after all."

Clemont turned to Clembot as the robot picked up on the current social interaction. "Well if you want you can challenge me once before getting four badges," It was apart of his stipulations and why he made it optional. "So what do you say to a three on three?"

Seeing how Clemont was offering to have a battle Ash was all for it. Both Serena and Anabel flashed him a supportive smile and with that, his mind was settled. "Sure if you want to battle let's battle."

Giovanni looked at Archer with a neutral expression as he thought over the report that Archer gave him. He didn't trust Archer's report, after all, he knew the man had ambitions that could very much come into conflict with his own. However what he had told him was troubling if it was true. "Thank you, Archer, I'll be sure to send someone to look into this."

The Team Rocket Executive left the room with a wick smile his face. As he walked out Giovanni's secretary walked in with a raised eyebrow. She looked at the Leader of Team Rocket before asking the obvious question, "What did he want this time?"

The boss of one of the most successful criminal organization had a smile at this. It was almost a joke between the two of them with all of Archer's growing requests. "Surprisingly it isn't him trying to strengthen his power base, at least I don't think it is." He petted Persian as his loyal partner laid in his lap. "Apparently we have a mole for Team Flare within our ranks."

"Really who might that be?" She asked curious, as to who it was Archer suspected.

Giovanni looked at her in the eye. Out of everyone at the base, he had more trust in his own secretary then he did with all the executives and admins in the Team. After all, betrayals were a bit more common when you give criminals more power. "He thinks Luther is the mole for Team Flare." He wasn't inclined to believe him but there was something that he was meaning to look at. "When was the last time that Luther reported in?"

His secretary looked on her tablet at all the reports. As the organization grew into other regions besides Kanto and Johto Giovanni had started to delegate a part of running the organization to her. It showed a rare amount of trust he had for someone so close to him. "I'm afraid not sir not since he left for Kalos."

That sent warning sounds off in Giovanni's mind. Luther wasn't known for not reporting on time. His gaze hardened as he wondered if what Archer had told him wasn't just bitter hatred but a genuine possibility of a plant within Team Rocket. "I'm going to need to speak with Domino."

Giovanni lately had used Domino to spy on suspected traitors within the organization. She had just finished up with her last assignment not long ago according to her report. "Very well sir." With that out of the way, she handed him the folder he wanted and walked out the room.

Left to himself Giovanni sighed as he read the latest reports from his more legitimate business practices. The Boss of Team Rocket didn't want to admit it but he was getting a bit tired of constantly having to run the organization. Oh, he could take a vacation whenever he wanted it's just he didn't seem to trust anyone while he was gone. 'Although, I might be able to spin it in such a way to give the illusion I'm still running Team Rocket while I'm on vacation.'

Wouldn't be the first time he nearly pulled that oh his organization He already had a plan on where he was going to go. As he thought about this his mind also wondered to someone he had been meaning to contact for years, Their dear old father had told him that she was moving to a small town in Kanto just before he passed on. If he wasn't mistaken he had also told she had married a powerful trainer and he had been an Uncle for quite some time now. "You know Persian, maybe I should pay my half sister a visit? I am curious as to know how she has been doing all these years."

Olympia was packing her belongs ready to check out of the hotel she was in. Suddenly stopped her body starting to glow as her a wave of unexpected visions hit her. She barely had time to realize what was happening as the images flash before her eyes.

The first image was a metal arm a Key Stone edged into the backhand. The figure it was attacked to touched the Key Stone as a blinding light surrounded her vision. A crescent-shaped creature flew right past the figure and forward into a green blaze. From this blaze, a serpent-like a figure arose to meet the two of them.

The next vision was figures dressed in red walking out in a crystal orb in one of the member's hands. The sigh of the crystal ball caused fear to flood her mind. The ball was placed inside something that wasn't finished next to a stone glowing in a mix of colors. A dim light showed the outline of someone watching as they did all of this.

Fire and Water spun around two figures who's outlines Olympia recognized. One a Delphox and the other a Greninja. The fire and water made it hard to properly see what was happening yet she could see them changing physically, almost like they were going through Mega Evolution. The fire and water dissipated as a Water Shuriken and Magical Fire covered her vision.

The last vision was the most detailed to her. A young man stood in front of a group of three trainers and their pokemon. He gave them a glare of hatred while several other figures line up around him. A large Hydreigon flew behind the man roaring as it let loose three attacks, each one fire, electricity, and ice.

With that, she fell over a bit breathing heavily as her mind processes all that she had seen. The visions were clouded difficult to decipher and the interpretation was all over because of it. The problem with seeing the future as it was. Her visions could be nothing more but a snapshot of a possibility for all she knew. 'I have to get back to my gym and make sense about this.'

So I really do hope I handled Anabel well this chapter. Oh, and yeah I just had to have Ash and Clemont battle out seeing how he is a gym leader. Now seeing how I don't really have any questions last chapter I don't know what else to say. If you have a suggestion or a question let me know I'll try to answer them in the later, though maybe I should look through the reviews?

I'll cya all next chapter have a great day, and a fun weekend.