Months went by. Diamond and Ash both got all of their badges, and were now getting ready for the Sinnoh League. Dawn got to the finals in the Grande Festival, but lost. Also, Dawn's Buneary evolved into a beautiful Lopunny. Diamond and the gang successfully stopped Diamond's father's plan, and Mesperit gave him back his emotions. Cyrus also returned home, where he promised to stop his plans, and spend more time with his family, to try and regain the years he lost. Diamond's soothe bell broke, but she still wore the collar, and kept the pieces of the bell in a jar. The Umbreon stayed inside of Diamond, and she knew why. Diamond had caught a Dratini and named her Skye, which she then evolved into a Dragonair, and Baby evolved into a Lucario. Ash's Aipom evolved into an Ambipom, he's Staravia evolved into a Staraptor, he caught a Hippopotas, which evolved into a Hippowdon, and he then caught a Skorupi.

Now Ash, as usual, was excited. He said, "Come on Diamond, we need to train." Diamond smiled and said, "Ok." She then ran off with him to train. They had Pikachu and Jake battle. The pokemon battled all day. Then, Diamond said, "Come on Ash. Let's get to bed. We have to get up early." Ash nodded his head and they went to their rooms. Ash was so excited, he almost couldn't sleep. Diamond, on the other hand, slept soundly, Baby and Jake sleeping on another bed close to her.

The next morning the Dawn, Brock, Ash, and Gary sat in the stadium waiting for Diamond's match. Then, Diamond appeared on one side, and on the other side, a boy trainer appeared. Dawn dressed up in a costume, and gave Lopunny, Prinplup, and Pikachu pompoms. They then started to cheer for Diamond. Then, the referee said, "Ok trainers, now you can only use three pokemon. Send them out." The boy threw out a poke ball yelling, "Come on out, Bibarel!" Out came the beaver pokemon. Diamond pulled out a poke ball, threw it, and out came Angel. The referee waved his flags and yelled, "Begin!" Diamond yelled, "Angel use ice beam." Angel started to send out the attack. The trainer panicked and yelled, "Bibarel water gun!" Angel ice beam just froze the water gun and hit the Bibarel.

Many rounds later

Ash said, "I can't believe I'm almost in the finals." Diamond shushed him saying, "Ash, look. Here comes the paring for the next match." The computer spun the pictures around. The pictures then stopped moving. Diamond looked for herself, while Ash looked for himself. Then, they found each other. Ash gasped. Dawn said, "I don't believe it." Diamond and Ash were to fight in the next match.