CHAPTER 14

ANN1AMOUR IS BACK. I HATE ISOLATION, HONESTLY, BUT THAT'S URGENT RIGHT NOW. THIS PANDEMIC IS TAKING A DRASTIC TURN IN OUR SOCIETY, AND THIS IS ALL NEW TO ME, TO US. I DON'T KNOW WHEN THIS CRISIS WILL WILL BE ERADICATED. I'D JUST SAY ONE THING; I WISH IT WON'T BE VERY LATE.

BUT, WE SHOULD NEVER GIVE UP, UNTIL IT'S OVER, AND THIS MESSAGE IS NOT JUST FOR AMOURSHIPPERS, BUT FOR ANY PEARLSHIPPER, CONTESTSHIPPER, POKESHIPPER, ETC., I WANT YOU ALL TO BE AT YOUR BEST.

AND I'D ALWAYS BE THERE TO MAKE YOU SMILE.

Amourshipper35: Thanks for the review and yeah I hope Clemont's device pays off this time.

ENJOY THIS NEW CHAPTER.

STAY HOME. STAY SAFE.

A/N: This chapter includes the way the plan is being preceded.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN Pokémon

"Best of luck you guys"

Serena stated as she went ahead to hug Dawn,

"But be safe okay?"

"You can count on it. I know you don't love me as much you love him but I appreciate the thoughts" Dawn said with a smug look.

"O come on! You are my best friend, he's not. Well, no maybe you both are my BFFs or….." she blushed harder

"it's okay. I'll be safe" she assured her.

"time to go you two. Make sure you're close to the communicator and when time comes, use the red button for the last move, okay?"

"you bet." Brock added.

"see, Dawn, brock, this is the first time I'm giving away my device to someone else for the work, so keep it safe and use this," Clemont handed Dawn a dry towel.

"wipe the dust out occasionally from the screen, heck the whole thing in case it gets dirty, please do it often, and keep the machine on some….."

He was cut off by Dawn who placed her arms round Clemont's neck and pecked him on the cheek.

"Aw, don't worry I'd keep it safe, Clemont," she said in a somewhat seductive voice?

"I uh…hope….y-you will….um…safe….device…keep…..um"

Dawn knew her plan worked.

"Whoa whoa now what was that, Dawn. You can't do that." Gary hissed.

Dawn walked up to him and kissed his lips then caressed his cheek, saying, or whispering,

"It was just to make him stop dead in his tracks."

"oh," he was a bit relieved with that reply.

"wait but what the heck just happened?" Ash and Serena both blurted out.

Serena continued, seeing an unfazed Dawn,

"firstly, you seemed to flirt with Clemont, and I thought you two had something and then YOU KISSED GARY! I mean are you dating? And I was not informed?"

Dawn laughed a bit at this as did gary,

"oh Serena, we dated way earlier than we met you and Ash, Clemont knows it."

Serena turned her head to Clemont, to see he nodded.

The pieces came together, but they had more important matters to solve right now.

"I'm gonna get you for not telling me this till now, but good luck for the other task." Serena said to an amused Dawn.

"we'll see. But let's go Brock, bye ."

She headed out with Brock.

Serna shifted her gaze back to Clemont

"and do you love her."

"um…no….I just blushed at the close proximity"

He replied honestly.

She looked up at Ash who shrugged his shoulders, seemed to understand.

She went back to sit with her,

"well, at least I have you." she sweetly added.

"I'm lucky you have me."

They stared at each other's hypnotic gaze until it was Clemont

"Ahem, we better get ready for our next step."

"hey, Dawn can you hear 'em. I hear footsteps."

"I smell 'em, they're here."

Both of them hired a family closest to the high school, to slid in.

They agreed when Brock promised that their Pokémon would be safe

Some black-dressed men, five in number, entered with pistols

"give us every Pokemon in here, or I would be painful." They shouted from the living room.

"hey Clemont can you copy?"

"Yes," a mechanical voice replied.

"It's Dawn, they are here. I need luxray."

"You got it." As some Pokéball, popped out of the base.

"Thanks."

Meanwhile brock went out.

"Please leave us, I request you."

"Hand over the Pokémon!" he seethed.

"What if we don't?"

"Your not the one to chose kid."

"Then I hafta force my will, geodude let's go!"

Brock took out his geodude

"Okay then come on out blastoise!" the scruffy man brought out a blastoise

"You'll repent your decision kid, blastoise use hydro canon,"

He wanted to finish things off quickly.

But Brock had other plans.

"Geodude get outta that window, quick, rush into the backyard." He had to prolong the battle for Clemont's device to work.

Flash-back

"well Clemont what was the other use you were mentioning before." Ash asked.

"Yeah, this device has an extremely strong auto-rechargable electro-repulsive magnet which tends to exercise pole repulsion to anything that comes within it's massive magnetic field of 20 metres, except those under the base of the device or those touching it. The radar helps to communicate the group members even if one of them gets thrown out while not being in contact with the device."

Everyone present there gulped once to process the information.

"That can be a big help, Clemont you genius." Gary bumped into him as he said that.

Flash-back end

"hello Dawn do you copy" Brock whispered while returning the glare of his opponents.

"yes, what's it?"

"we have to get it worked, can you bring it here?"

"I'll try you keep them sidetracked till then."

"roger."

He headed to the back yard followed by two of the men, while the others entered the other sections of the house.

All of the house members were made to hide in the attic with their Pokémons

Except Dawn who was in the kitchen.

"now before you mad this lame move, blastoise use hydro canon!"

"count me in too buddy, go squirtle, huropump!" cried his partner.

Brock had to face two at one and the same time.

"this is unfair. But you won't listen geodude use dig."

"what!" they both shrieked

"now! Attack," the sudden appearance never gave a chance to the squirtle and blastoise to revert back, while they were being tackled harsely.

"okay, let's see how long you can do this, you git!" the man gritted his teeth.

Clemont's house

"Ash, gary, Serena and iris. You guys should go there. Matters have started to get hectic, there are too many in there for the two of ours."

"in case we need to communicate, take this."

He handed four communicators to each of the four.

"big brother I wanna help too." Bonnie whined.

"no, this is too dangerous."

"but please."

Serena wanted to do something for the little one.

"okay bonnie," she implied, making the girl turn her gaze

"do you promise to take care of our injured Pokémon?"

"oh yes yes." She beamed.

"then it's up to you."

She smiled.

"you can count on it."

Clemont emphasized,

"don't waste time guys, take care and go fast."

The four left.

While they made their way to the affected area, Serena slid her hands into that of Ash's and tightened it.

He smiled.

She felt safer like this.

"let's do this Serena."

Her eyes sparkled as she said,

"Yeah let's do this."

DING DING DING! AND DONE! ONE MORE CHAPTER.

I GUESS THERE WOULD BE SIX MORE BEFORE THE CONCLUSION.

ONE MORE WEEK UNTIL THE NEXT ONE. I HOPE THIS CORONA MANIA WOULD COME TO AN END BY THEN. FINGERS CROSSED.

UNTIL THEN,

BE SAFE. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, R&R

BYE. CYL.