Cha. 49

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Homesickness was not a trait Ash had. However, he did miss his old bed. Even though Pokémon Centers one are comfortable, it wasn't until he woke up the next morning when he was reminded how much cozier his bed was.

Lying there, looking at his Pidgey-style alarm clock displaying an ungodly time right after five, he yawned and tried to go back to sleep.

His eyes trailed over a silhouette, and his mind instantly registered something as being wrong. He was familiar with every aspect of his room, and he confirmed that his mother did not change any significant design while he was gone.

He didn't remember the shadow being there.

Focusing harder and dispelling a major thought of his brain yelling for him to just go back to sleep, the shadow became clearer.

A… tree… growing out of the… floor… Ash sighed. What kind of trick is the legendaries pulling on him now?

Overpowering his desire for sleep, Ash grudging walked over to investigate. This better be good, he thought, and caught sight of two present boxes at the bottom of the tree.

Ash raised an eyebrow. A noise sounded from behind him. The Ketchum boy turned around to see Domino stretching in the top bunk. He smiled. "Already up?"
"Yeah, you woke me." Domino huffed. "You make too much commotion everywhere you go, literally."

Ash rolled his eyes. Her image, hair a bit untamed and eyes slurred from the hibernation, appeared adorable as hell.

"No, I don't! You just detect even the slightest movement." He countered.

"Sorry for being psychic." Domino stuck out her tongue. "It's not you. It's me."

Her sight then flown onto the giant tree standing in the middle of Ash's room. She cast a questioning glance at Ash. "I'm not sure how I didn't notice this yesterday, but your architectural design is quite… eccentric."

"I'll show you what eccentric is!" Ash grabbed onto the blonde, already climbed down from the top bed, and gave her a long kiss…

Which was what Pikachu had to wake up to.

On the other hand, Zorua, right next to him, had to wake up to a thousand volts flowing through her body from Pikachu's surprise.

Sorry Pikachu. Looks like you're about to have a bad day.


Ignoring Pikachu's cries as Zorua tied his ears into a double half hitch, the humans broke apart and walked to the tree.

Domino knew from past experience that Zorua HATED being interrupted in her sleep… which didn't make sense since she was a Dark Pokémon… so shouldn't she enjoy the DARK?

Shaking the random thoughts out of her hand, she bent down when something at the bottom of the tree caught her eye.

She rose back up with two boxes in her hands.

"To Ash." She read aloud and deposited one box into her boyfriend's hands. Then she confirmed that the other package was indeed hers and ripped the wrapping paper apart.

"'From Santa', huh?" Ash hummed. "Guess he figured he would give us something for helping his Jynx."

"This better be good." Domino whistled. "At least good enough to make up for getting up at five."

Ash tore his box apart first. A hat appeared in front of his eyes. Shaped like a cone, it was dyed red throughout, with a white ball trailing at the end.

Ash opened his mouth, then closed it, like a suffocating fish. Domino fell back, laughing. "Wow! You got a Santa hat! That SUCKS!"

The boy's eyes narrowed. "Well let's see yours, and then we'll trade!"

Ash snatched for Domino's present, who evaded him and threw herself onto Ash's bed. "Let's see. Mine's probably so much better…"
Her jaws dropped at what poked out. Ash gave a look, and another look, and another look.

A piece of coal.

Ash clutched his stomach and collapsed on the floor, laughing so hard snot came out of his nose, soon joined by Pikachu and Zorua. Domino's eyes flashed a dangerous red and resisted the urge to break… things.

Growling she picked up the coal, and shook it, trying to see if there were some sort of trick involving this… nope.

She looked helplessly at Ash, still on the ground, and tackled him.

"Stop laughing!" She demanded.

"I… I can't." Ash fell into fits of roars again.

The Elite pouted. "Do you still want to trade?"

"Hell no!" Ash shouted with a wide smile. "Ms. No-present-can-be-better-than-mine disappointed?"

"NO!" She puffed out her cheeks. "I'm just disappointed at your lame ability to make comebacks."
"OH really?" Ash smirked at her and forced her off of him. "Naughty girl who got coal?"

"Yes, I have been naughty." Domino blushed and whispered into his ears seductively. "What are you going to do about it?"

A chill trickled down his spine. He pushed her back down onto his bed, and his lips headed straight for hers.

Pikachu sighed. "Zo, wanna go get breakfast?"

"Sure." She shrugged. "It's gonna be another half an hour before these two can communicate again!"


"Going back on the road already?" Delia asked, concerned. She wanted Ash to stay back so desperately… and that was with Ash not yet telling her about the dimensional warp.

However, she knew better than asking him to stay. A boy needed to grow up… even though Ash had already had eight years of head start, which rendered him even less likely to stay. She was grateful enough that he already came back to spend the week of Christmas and New Years with her, unlike last timeline.

In fact, he made a pact with both Domino and Moltres that no one shall tell his mother about this, and he made them swear on their most prized possession.

Moltres swore on her psychic powers, and Domino swore on Ash, which earned her another hour of cuddling and making out…

Oh details, details.

"Yeah, mom." Ash nodded and gave the Ketchum matriarch a hug. "I still have a few events to go through, and then I'll come back to train at Pallet. I promise."

Delia smiled. Ash did finish the entire routine A LOT faster than last timeline. Afterall, not everyone has a psychic who could teleport across hundreds of miles in the blink of an eye.

"You'll take a care of my son, right?" She smiled to Domino. She liked the girl more and more. If it wasn't for her, Ash was probably out in the forest somewhere, getting lost, even with Dexter on him.

"Of course, Delia." Domino beamed at her. "I'll keep him in line."

"Look who's talking." Ash grumbled and took her hand.

Domino smiled and leaned slightly on him. The duo began to walk toward the door.

"Your little princess?" Domino stared at him with kitty cat eyes, making Ash's heart melt.

"How about we make that title official?" Ash grinned. "The Princess Festival starts in two days."

"It's too easy." Domino waved. "Even Misty didn't want to do it… it'll be boring, plus the first place prize is so cheap! I can probably get ten sets with a swipe."

Ash shrugged. He didn't have an opinion about the Festival. If they did go, he would get to see Domino in a dress. If they didn't, he didn't have to carry the bags… though he did have an enchanted backpack of unlimited space, he would need to maintain a constant aura expenditure to put up with the weight.

They walked out of the Ketchum household. Ash had his right arm wrapped around Domino, who was wearing Zorua as a hat. On his left shoulder was Pikachu, and to his left was Lucario.

Misty and Brock were already waiting for them at their lawn. Ash smiled to himself. He wouldn't trade these friends for the world.

Misty and Brock did a quadruple take at seeing the distance between Ash and Domino… or the lack of distance.

The two's face shone with the radiance of a young couple in love, seemingly able to wash away any clouds in life, whether it was stained dark by the streets of the Viridian slums or an abandonment by his father.

Ash smirked. "Surprised?"

Brock hopped on over and highfived Ash excitedly. "You finally worked up the courage to ask Dom out!"

He turned to the Elite. "How did he do it? Tell my all the dets (details)!"

"Brock, you sound like a girl." Misty groaned, but she peaked up with the same enthusiastic interest. "But yeah, what did we miss?"

Ash shot a look at his mother at the front door waving at them. He coughed. "Princess, an you teleport us all to the Viridian Center?"

The two Gym Leaders cooed at the pet name.

Ash rolled his eyes. "I called her that before we started dating."

"Even cuter!" Brock remarked.

"And before, that was half sarcasm, half true love." Misty grinned.

Domino, on the other hand, was enjoying this attention to the fullest. If it was by her choice, she would let the entire world know about her relationship with Ash.

"Sure. Let's go!"

In a flash, the group arrived at the center and filed into a corner table.

"Okay, tell us!" The older trainers asked.

"Well. Let's start by saying," Domino held Ash's hand under the table. "After you guys left that day by the Arctic Sea, Ash died and I got called 'blondie' by Professor Oak."

"WHAT!? That's insane!" Misty and Brock's jaws hung wide open. "That's not possible!"
Misty shouted. "Professor Oak would never call you that!"

Ash threw up his hands. "Did you not hear the FIRST part!?"

Brock sighed. "Ash, you die all the time."

"True that."


"Coal and hat?" Arceus deadpanned. "You can't be any cheaper?"

"Yes, he can!" Dialga came over holding a sock, with his nose blocked off with a torrent of time energy. He flipped it so the hole at the bottom is showing. "At least those two got something new."

Palkia came over and took a sniff of the dirty, and promptly passed out in front of them. Santa sighed and dangled a mistletoe in front of the Spatial Dragon's face. "Here we go again…"

"How long had that sock gone since you last put it in the washer?"

Santa looked confused. "What's a washer?"

A Jynx came over and bowed. "Sir, the carriage is all ready."

Santa nodded. Arceus snorted. "See you never."

"You too!" Santa looked around the Universe. "This place is too under-appreciative of me."

With that, the man flashed onto a cart pulled on eight Stantlers, each having a Jynx on top.

In front of it, a hole opened, and the contraption rode straight into the Continuum.

Arceus released his breath of relief. No Gods like another God intruding their territory. They could cause way too much damage.

Looking at the direction Santa had gone in, Arceus uttered a good luck to the nearby Universe built by The One Above All and turned back to the Bubble Realm.


"Say what!?" Ash shouted. The Mossdeep Space Center scientist nodded his head.

"Clefairy disappeared?" Domino shrugged. "They probably found to way to communicate to Cresselia, who took them back."

"CRESSELIA!?" The scientist yelled. "There was no way she could've gotten into the lab. It's TOP SECRET!"

"Well… then you've obviously never seen what legendaries can do…" Domino sighed. "Plus, your so-called top secret isn't so valuable. I don't think deep space travel is too much of a challenge for them."


Molly Hale tiptoed out of her bedroom, past her parents' bedroom, and down the stairs. She lightly opened her front door. A beam of moonlight shone down onto the carpet. She sneaked out of the house quietly and brought the door to close behind her.

The honey-haired girl searched for the hole in the garden that her parents had discovered a while back.

Ever since that day, she had been having dreams… dreams that prompted her to go to the hole, as if there were something prized, rewarding in the hole.

She felt someone, something whispher to her, to go back.

Tonight, she finally worked up the courage to disobey her father's warnings and investigate. Spencer had built a cage around it, so she couldn't get in.

But the hole was releasing some sort of auroma. Just by being next to it made her feel tranquil and mesmerized.

She stood there for a minute. The minute turned into an hour, and then the entire night.

The scent stopped right before dawn. An pulse of energy surged out and warmed her, making her feel not at all tired at standing for hours.

Molly looked longingly at the hole, and then she sneaked back into the house.


"It's time, people!" Professor Oak articulated. The room drowned him out with the scientists' relentless talking.

Oak's face darkened. "I shall declare this regional meeting to start."

The room continued with the chatter. Oak's face twitched more and more. Reaching into the desk drawer, he pulled out his secret weapon.

He reminisced to himself for a second how well behaved he was when he attended the meetings compared to them, and he snapped.

"I hereby call this meeting to session!" Professor Oak banged his gavel and shouted into a megaphone.

The room roared back at him, overpowering even the gavel.

"SHUT UP, NERDS!" The Kanto Professor roared, this time finally calming most of the room down. "I motion to call this meeting into session."

Dr. Fuji looked at him curiously. "Why are you making this seem like a legislative meeting?"

"Because people don't LISTEN!"

Oak glared across the room. Though most of his temper was soothed by his growing old age,, Oak still had an aggressiveness in him that was naturally entitled to an ex-Champion.

"First order of business." He said. "Is Dr. Akihabara's postulate on a Digital World."

"This is a man without the need for an introduction." Oak remarked. "I shall welcome Dr. Akihabara."

The computer genius stood up from the front row in which he was sitting. The audience groaned.

"NO, this time will not be like before." The man held up his hands. "I actually prepared some good slides."

He went to the monitor and typed in a few lines of code, and the projector screen turned into a flashing blue.

A few seconds later of continuous blinking, it stablized to form a pure blue.

Then, a flash came out of the the projector, and a three dimensional hologram appeared in front of the audience.

The scientists' attention was completely hooked. The Doctor smiled.

He could see the future of DigiWorld boom.


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Bulbasaur stared at the newcomer at the Ranch. "Why are you not surprised… or freaked out… or schizophrenic?"

The shiny Moltres shrugged. "I've seen something way crazier in the past week. This is nothing compared to that."

She peered at the sight of Dragonite playing volleyball with giant Jigglypuff…

By that, it means that Dragonite was using a sleeping Jigglypuff as a volleyball…

The Seed Pokémon sighed. "You have a very strong heart."

She looked at Wartortle fly by, surrounded by a ball of water that was launched with Raikou's Thunderbolt. "Although I still haven't figured out why they can do that yet, I think I might soon."
"Really? Tell me once you figure it out. I haven't seen the day I arrived." Bulbasaur sighed and sat on the Grassy Terrain he made for himself. "I think I'm the only normal one at this Ranch."

As he stopped speaking, the grass under him lit up on fire due to his own Flame Breath. "This winter is getting kind of cold."

Moltres raised an eyebrow. Normal… yeah right.

She smiled. The psychic shiny felt that this was exactly right. This was where she was destined to belong.

Only in a crowd of these weirdos could she find a spot for herself.


"You did well, Matori!" Archie smiled and pat her shoulder. "No Magma could take any accursed Fire Stone from my turf!"

The said girl smiled and bowed. "Thank you sir."

"You are promoted to senior officer!" The Aqua Leader nodded. "Keep up the good work!"


"Where is this place?" Arceus asked.

"I don't know." Sir Aaron shrugged as he scanned the entire planet with his senses. "I think it is a place without any powers. Just another completely normal world."

"You really should stop randomizing." Palkia gestured at Mew 1. "Besides that one time, we never got anywhere interesting."

"Fine! Let's go back." Mew sighed and went back in, followed suited by the others.

Only a few hundred feet away, Muhammad of Jerusalem stared bug-eyed at the hovering legendaries disappeared.

"I think I just saw God…"

He didn't know how right he was. He just didn't exactly see the God of HIS universe.


"And this is DigiWorld, or at least the current progression of it." Dr. Akihabara pointed at the lively view. "Any sort of activity can be done here, from studying weapons of mass destruction to just laying on the beach when it is winter outside."

"Therefore, this is most definitely a project we should invest fully on."

The computer Doctor stepped down from the podium after his speech, animated by the hologram, and roaring discussion immediately broke out.

After a period of debates, the room split into two clear side, with neither being a clear majority.

A scientists from the more conservative group asked as soon as the session was back on officially. "This idea is nice, but it requires nearly all of our technological support, which will draw in a significant portion of our programming. However, its effect can't be shown immediately."

"Plus, if the program crashes, we loses our entire drive. The entire Kanto region would be wiped with a dramatic downsize in Internet. This is a risk we can't take."

"This is not a risk we can't take." Dr. Fuji stood up right after the opposition speaker. "In fact, this is a risk we have to take!"

"Our human technology has been stagnant for way too long." He gave a look at the people around them. "There had been no new development that shocked the world after the nuclear weapons and cloning machines were discovered thirty years ago. We are living in a static world right now."

"We know it could fail, but only one hundred failure could lead to a success. If we continue to hide in this shell we have built for ourselves, we cannot move. If one day a disaster hits, we will be screwed."

"We are the most brilliant minds that think for the future. We cannot be the ones doing the screwing. That's the government's job."

"Dr. Akihabara's project is hard. It is almost too ambitious." Fuji took in a breath. "But we're not gathered here to discuss what is easy. We are here to fomulate a plan to advance in the path of science."

"We're not doing this because it is easy. We're doing this because it is hard." The cloning expert concluded. "Thank you."

When the vote settled, Akihabara's proposal for developing a DigiWorld with the aid of League science materials passed with a two-thirds majority.


Cresselia's psychic projected across New Island, and instantly she formulated a plan on how to sneak in.

Before she could move though, a flash of pink rose in front of her. An incomplete psychic illusion stopped her, popping her connection with her destination.

She stared into the purple eyes of Mewtwo, growling. "What are you doing here!?"

Mewtwo raised his eyebrow. "I should be the one asking YOU that!"

The Lunar Pokémon huffed. "I came down to find the three who saved my Clefairy and personally thank them."

"With what!?" Mewtwo took a look at her hands. "You don't have anything on you."

"SO!?" She chirped defensively. "You're so materialistic!"

"Okay…" The clone gave her a look of doubt. "What are your retribution then?"

Cresselia thought fast. She fluffed her rings and adjusted herself. "I was going to protect them for fifty days, since they save fifty of my Clefairy."

Mewtwo casted her a wary look, eyes staying a little longer on her beautiful ring-like anatomy. "In that case, follow me."


Professor stood up and took the podium. "And now, I will continue the discussion of the potential of the digital world."

"However, unlike Dr. Akihabara, I would be focusing on a recent development of artificial intelligence from these Pokédex that I invented."

Oak pulled out a blank Pokédex and placed it on the table. "These devices are a guide for beginner trainers that help them identify Pokémon and their strength and weaknesses."

He poked a button and pointed at a Magikarp painting next to him.

The Pokédex beeped. "Magikarp, the Fish Pokémon. They are Water types. Not prone to attacks. When provoked, they seek to evade and hide."

Oak nodded. "A few months ago, two of my Pokédex suddenly gained intelligence from an excess of information and a power that we are currently investigating and has not yet identified."

"These new intelligence are called Porygon, and they can battle and behave just like normal Pokémon." The Regional Professor continued. "In fact, the owners of the Porygon have a great relationship with them and treat them just like normal Pokémon, with reciprocal feelings."

"Therefore, I propose a motion to grant Porygon temporary Pokémon status, allowing them to officially battle and compete with these AI." Oak paused. "After our study is complete and has demonstrated the networkings of the mysterious power, I will apply for permanent Pokémon status.

"Do you have any proof of said Pokémon?" A scientist raised her hand. Professor Oak nodded. "Yes, a slide show of them."


"Umm… well… this is awkward." Domino looked at the Ghost Dragon that had just popped out of Mew's Pokéball. "Hi, Giratina."

The Renegade Pokémon stared at her. Seeing her confused face, he groaned. "Mew never explained anything, did she?"

"Uhhh, explain what?" Domino casted him a perplexed glance. "Why is she gone and why are you in her ball?"

"Basically, long story short, Mew went up to the Bubble Realm to visit Arceus. She said she was going to return today…"The legendary sighed. "The day's almost ending, and I have no clue where she is."

"Wait, so why are YOU here?" The girl questioned.

Giratina looked at her, puzzled. "What do you mean?"

"I mean why did you come and take Mew's place?"

"How bad of a teacher is Mew!?" Giratina let out a huge moan. "Did she not tell you that since you are the Queen, you need at least a Formation or Cosmic by your side at all times, at least before you obtain that power?"

"No." The Elite deadpanned.

"Well, I think I just got tricked into this teaching job…"


Giovanni twirled the little map in his hand. "I think it's time to take out the treasure."

Hunter J shook her head. "You don't have the KEY!"

"No, I do not." The Rocket Boss shook his head. "But I think I can borrow it from someone who does have it."

The master thief looked at him skeptically. "Did you just say 'borrow' with an actual serious tone?"

Giovanni sighed. "I know. Surprising, isn't it?"

"Why not just steal it?" Hunter J questioned. "I can get that done in a second."
"That is a very, very bad idea." The Boss stood up abruptly. "Because we had been friends for over forty years, I'm going to let you in on a secret."

"Three months from now, a trainer by the name of Ash Ketchum is going to shock the world with his Pokémon, and he would become a beacon of power in the upcoming years."
"Whatever you do, DO NOT mess with him." Giovanni finished. "And HE is the one with the key."

"Why don't we eliminate the threat right now?" Hunter J raised an eyebrow.

"Because he's my future son-in-law, and the most suitable I could find." Giovanni closed his eyes. "The best part is, he's on the 'good' side."


The Masked Marauder came up behind the group of Magma and released his Tyranitar.

The Armor Pokémon slammed down in the fields. The group turned in fear as they saw the pseudo legendary.

"RUN!" The officer cried. "This isn't anything we can battle!"

The Rocket Elite gave an exasperated sigh. "My name is the Masked Marauder. Why do you think you can run away from me?"

"Tyranitar, Sandstorm!"


Shaymin poked her head out from the Sky Base and sniffed.

She frowned. "Why is Giratina in this realm? Shouldn't he be in his Reverse World?"

The Gratitude Pokémon turned into Sky Form and lifted off towards Kanto. "Great, now I have to go purify everywhere he walks. Way to make me miss the concert."


Dear Diary,

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

SO MANY THINGS JUST HAPPENED AT ONCE!

Ash finally asked me out! *SQUEAL*

I've been waiting for, like weeks. He finally did it! Granted we had to get lost in some interdimensional Storm for him to work up the courage, but still!

This is the best thing anyone has ever done for me!

Okay, now I'm just rambling, but I don't care! This is my diary!

Also, Giratina is giving Ash the big boy talk right now. I'm laughing my ass off as I am writing this.

He looks like he literally wants to die in a hole. This is the best prank ever…

What? I can still prank my boyfriend. No one dictates that love has to be nice!

Signed,

Princess

P.S. Ash just ran off into the distance after Pikachu fired a Thunder at Giratina. Now Giratina is trading Shadow Balls for his Thunderbolts.


A/N: Dribble Drabble. Next update shall be the great Viridian Gym Battle. It's only Ground Types though… I'm not sure how to make the battling epic, but no, Mewtwo would not suddenly materialize in the middle of their battle.

Hmmm, challenges, challenges.

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