"Alright everyone! We made it to Santalune City!" Ash cheered.
"Yay!" Yui jumped.
"It's so beautiful." Giselle said.
We heard a snap and saw a woman with a camera.
"Always the same expression."
"Excuse me?" Misty asked.
"Everyone who sees the town for the first time. They always have the same expression on their face." She said.
"Who're you?" Satoshi asked.
"Where are my manners? My name is Viola. I'm this city's gym leader." She extended her hand.
"Hi there, my name is Ash Ketchum. This is my twin, Satoshi Ketchum."
The group all exchanged greetings.
"So what're you all doing here?" Viola asked.
"Well, we were actually on our way to your gym." Ash said.
"Really? Well, why don't I go back and set up this new piece of mine and then we can have a match?" Viola asked.
"We do need to get to the pokecenter." Leaf said.
"Awesome, I can open my gym at eleven thirty." Viola said.
"That's perfect." Hatsune smiled.
"Okay guys, let's head to the pokecenter." Ash said.
The group walked into town and, with the knowledge Serena has of the city, found the pokecenter easily.
"Here we are." Serena smiled.
"Wow, it looks different from other regions." Leaf said.
"Yeah, we had our pokecenters add a special Kalos touch to them." Korrina said.
The group walked in and checked into two rooms.
About half an hour later
The group walked out of the pokecenter and headed for the gym.
It took about five minutes to find it, but the group managed to find the gym.
They walked inside to see Viola was looking at the picture she had taken of the gang on the wall. It was huge.
"Oh there you guys are. So who wants to go first?" She asked.
Ash and Satoshi looked at each other.
"Why don't you?" Ash asked.
"Well if you insist…" Satoshi cracked his fingers.
Later
Outside, Ash and the gang were on the sidelines while Satoshi and Viola were on opposite sides of the field.
"I promise not to go easy on you." Viola smirked.
"I can definitely make the same promise." Satoshi said.
"GET HER SATOSHI!" Hatsune cheered.
"Let's go Surskit!" Viola threw the pokeball into the air and the ice/big type appeared on the field.
"Let's go Charizard!" Satoshi yelled.
"I-Is that a bug type?" Misty asked.
"It's okay Misty. I'm here for you." Ash held her hand.
Serena saw this and smiled.
'He still cares about everyone.' Serena thought.
"Surskit, let's make the floor a little chilly." Viola said.
Surskit began to use ice beam on the ground and seemed to skate across it.
"Nice try. I've heard of you and what your Surskit can do. Charizard, let's heat things up." Satoshi said.
Charizard used flamethrower on the ground and made a circle around himself.
"Smart. Surskit, use ice beam on Charizard!" Viola said.
Surskit shot the beam and froze Charizard solid.
"Charizard!" Everyone except Hatsune yelled.
"It's okay, Satoshi knows what he's doing." Hatsune smiled.
"Charizard. Overheat." Satoshi said.
The ice began to turn red before it exploded and steam flew off of Charizard.
"Charizard, take this bug out with flamethrower." Satoshi said.
Charizard focused his gaze on Surskit and shot a massive flamethrower at Surskit.
When he was done, Surskit was out like a light.
"Well done." Viola clapped.
The gang cheered.
"Now then, I believe my next match was with you." She pointed at Ash.
"Don't you need to-"
"I got one more Pokémon." She tossed a pokeball in the air.
It released a vivillion.
"Alright then." Ash said as he hopped over.
"Good luck." All the girls said.
"Get her big brother." Yui cheered.
Ash walked past Satoshi and patted him on the back.
"Good luck." Satoshi said.
"Thanks." Ash said.
He stood where Satoshi and tossed his pokeball into the air. When the light faded, Lucario was in his battle stance.
"Let's go Lucario." Ash said.
'Yes master.'
"Vivillion, use sleep powder!" Viola said.
"Lucario, use aura shield!" Ash said.
As vivillion made specs of sleeping powder fall, Lucario formed an aura bubble around himself and protected himself from the attack.
"Use, aura sphere." Ash said.
Lucario shot an aura sphere, but the vivillion dodged it without a single sweat.
"Charge a solar beam!" Viola said.
'Gotta get her down.' Ash thought to himself. 'Maybe we can try to do what we've been practicing.'
"Use solar beam!" Viola said.
"Use an aura sphere! After that, use aura volley!"
'Aura volley?' Everyone thought.
Vivillion shot the beam and Lucario shot his sphere. The explosion made a cloud of dust, but inside that cloud, there were about twenty blue dots. When the dust cleared, everyone saw that the dots were floating aura spheres.
"Collide!" Ash yelled.
Lucario clapped his paws together and all of the aura spheres collided all around vivillion.
When the explosion died down, vivillion fell.
"Well done. Well done." Viola clapped before she returned her Pokémon.
Inside
"Ash and Satoshi Ketchum, you both have shown that you two have strong Pokémon and a strong bond with them as well. I see great things in you all and I hope you two carry these badges with pride." Viola said as she handed the twins two Santalune city gym badges.
"All right!" The two said.
The girls all cheered and hugged the guys. They all stopped when they heard a camera flash.
"I think I'll call this one friendship." Viola smiled.
When the gang left, Viola looked at the photo.
"What a funny group." She chuckled as she walked over to her wall.
Later that night
Ash and Satoshi were relaxing with the girls, watching a movie. It wasn't quite as adventurous as Ash may have wanted, but it was good enough for him after today.
"Hey Ash?" Serena asked.
"Yeah? He asked.
"Can I talk to you privately?" She asked.
Ash lifted Yui and placed her in Satoshi's lap. She was so focused on the movie, I don't think she noticed.
Ash and Serena walked out of room and stood in the hall.
"What's up?" Ash asked.
"Well… Ash… I like you." Serena said.
"Satoshi mentioned something about that." Ash scratched the back of his head.
"Ash." she got closer to Ash.
Ash looked at her and saw her lean in and kiss him.
"Mind adding one more?" Serena asked.
Ash smiled.
Inside
Ash and Serena came back in, arms interlocked.
"YOU ARE SO LUCKY!" Satoshi said.
Everyone laughed at that.
"Am I not good enough for you?" Hatsune asked in a haunting voice.
"Yes you are, you mean the world to me, please don't kill me." Satoshi said.
Everyone laughed and went back to enjoying the movie.