The next morning, after everyone had got some sleep, Ash lined up opposite Clemont on the Lumiose Gym battlefield.

"This should be of interest," Clembot said. "Our designer is a skilled trainer, and Ash Ketchum is technically classified as a natural disaster."

"A natural disaster?" Dark Clembot replied. "Is he not created by a human? Would that not mean that he is an artificial disaster?"

"No known human has taken responsibility for any part of how Ash Ketchum is," Clembot replied. "Mew has taken responsibility for part of how Ash Ketchum is. Since Mew is Mew, then if something created by Mew qualifies as artificial then nothing is natural."

"Correction accepted," Dark Clembot said. "Why do you say our designer? I was designed by Belmondo."

"Incorrect," Clembot told him. "Your design is so similar to mine that any differences are cosmetic. If you were designed by Belmondo then Ash Ketchum was created by Clemont because Clemont talked to him this morning."

"I have a significant amount to learn," Dark Clembot decided.

"All right!" Clemont said. "So, this is going to be a three Pokémon a side battle! I'm not imposing any extra rules, except… actually, I am going to impose an extra rule, your team can't all be fully evolved. I know that's not going to make any difference but it just occurred to me that my planned team fits that. Ready?"

"Yeah, I'm ready!" Ash agreed, getting a Pokéball ready.

"Begin," said Blaziken Mask, handling referee duties.

Clemont sent out a Magneton, who emerged in a flare of white light, and Ash opened with Goodra.

"Good luck, Goodra!" he said. "Begin with Dragon Pulse!"

"Thunderbolt!" Clemont retorted. "Hit that Dragon Pulse!"

The two attacks collided with a bang, sending green flames and fat blue-yellow sparks cascading down all over the place, and Goodra looked back at Ash for a moment. "Was that okay?"

"Great!" Ash replied. "Keep it up – Twister!"

"Electromagnetic Light Screen!" Clemont ordered.

Magneton's magnets began to rotate, forming a shimmering electrical shield around itself that deflected away the Twister, and Ash frowned as he thought.

"Try using Dragon Darts!" he decided.

Goodra bounced back, his tail helping him remain stable as he landed again, then did a wind-up and threw a vague blob of purple energy. It developed wings, steered slightly, and went ting through Magneton's shield to hit the Steel-type.

"Fire back!" Clemont decided. "Sonic Boom!"

"Clanging Scales!" Ash countered, and Goodra struck a pose and flexed. The movement made a visible shock wave of sound blast outwards, hitting the Sonic Boom and unravelling it, though the shockwave itself was reduced in power by the time it hit Magneton and only pushed the Steel-type back a bit.

"We need a way to get a direct hit," Ash said to himself. "Goodra! Use Dragon Drop!"

"Dragon Drop?" Clemont repeated. "I haven't heard of that move!"

Goodra crouched, then jumped into the air, and twisted in mid-air before coming down elbow-first onto Magneton. The impact forced Magneton not merely into the floor but into a newly created crater in the floor, and Goodra bounced up before doing a roll and sliding into position to attack again.

"Tri Attack!" Clemont decided. "What is Dragon Drop?"

"Oh, it's just Bounce," Ash replied. "Goodra just seemed to learn it better if I called it that."

"I-" Clemont began, then shook his head. "We don't have time. We don't have time."

"Great idea!" Ash said, as Goodra ducked underneath a Tri Attack before taking a hit from the next beam. "Goodra, Roar of Time!"

Goodra went "blaar", but what hit Magneton was a pulse of sound that went BLAAAAAR and knocked Magneton out through the wall.

"Was that okay?" Goodra asked, turning to Ash. "I did my best roar, then amplified it like I'd spent a lot more time doing it?"

"That was great!" Ash agreed.

"I think we're going to need to repair this place before we're done," Blaziken Mask said.

Clemont's second choice was his Luxray, while Ash switched out Goodra for Tepig.

"Why do I suddenly have a terrible sense of foreboding?" Luxray asked.

"It's called pattern recognition, I think," Pikachu provided helpfully.

"Luxray, open with Electric Terrain!" Clemont called. "Then use Discharge!"

"Earth Power!" Ash replied, and Tepig sketched himself a little armband with a cable attached to it. When the Discharge hit, it made the strap glow brightly but the attack didn't actually do anything to him.

"Okay, what," Luxray stated. "Firstly, what is that, secondly, how is that, and thirdly, why."

"It's earthing the electrical power with Earth Power!" Ash answered. "It's actually sort of an antistatic strap, I think, one of those things you wear if you're working on electronics!"

"I should probably get one of those," Clemont said to himself.

"And it's because Tepig knows Sketch!" Ash went on. "I know he's not using it in quite the same way other Pokémon would, maybe? I've only met a few Pokémon who can use Sketch and they each do it in a different way. But the whole point of Sketch is using a really wide variety of moves all branching off from just Sketch itself, and it works for him!"

Luxray's tail flicked.

"I'd ask for the answer to my third question but I'm not sure I want to," he said. "What now, Clemont?"

"Oh, right, the battle," Clemont agreed. "Swift!"

"Iron Defence!" Ash countered, and Tepig drew himself an old-fashioned metal iron to hide behind. Then he drew himself a newer electric iron, plugged it into the Electric Terrain, and used it to puff out a blast of steamy Mist that obscured where he was.

"Keep using Swift!" Clemont advised. "That move can't miss! Then – Ice Fang! Go for the Earth Power!"

Luxray prowled forwards, flinging Swift attacks at Tepig and hearing a whunk as Tepig repelled them with a nicely decorated Flower Shield, then darted in to bite at the antistatic cable still linking Tepig to the ground.

Quick as a flash, Tepig drew himself a jet-ski and whizzed off to the side.

"Okay, explain that!" Luxray demanded.

"I think it's Aqua Jet," Chespin provided helpfully.

"Oh, not you as well," Luxray groaned, then focused. "Discharge!"

"Copycat!" Ash called, and Tepig drew himself a Mew-shaped balloon. He hid behind it, sending most of the electricity from the Discharge bouncing off the surface, then followed it up by whipping out a piece of cardboard and drawing three arrows on it – one pointing up, one down-left and one down-right.

"Triple Arrows!" he explained, and hit Luxray over the head with it.

"Max Strike!" Ash called.

To Luxray's complete bewilderment, that turned out to prompt Tepig to draw a model of a pre-teen boy before using it as a bludgeon to hit Luxray in the side.

"Not bad, but I think you got the hair wrong," Pikachu called, as Luxray rolled to a dizzy halt.

"I only met him once that I can remember," Tepig replied, already ready to sketch again. "Teatime!"

Fifteen minutes of tea and biscuits later, Luxray was calmed down a bit again and Mega Blaziken had taken a break from his previous role (i.e. holding up Bonnie on his shoulders so she could have a good view) to repair the hole that Magneton had left in the wall.

"Not that I don't mind, the rich tea was quite nice," Luxray admitted. "But I seem to remember we were in some kind of battle."

"Of course," Tepig replied, and Sketched up a Bulldoze.

Luxray looked up at the large piece of earthmoving equipment, already making ominous revving noises, and sighed. "Is it all right if I concede before the floor gives way?"

"My turn!" Heliolisk said proudly. "This is going to be fun!"

He tilted his head a little, looking at the Pokémon Ash had sent out to battle him. "What's that?"

"I'm Giratiny," Giratiny introduced himself. "Have you heard of Giratina?"

"Umm…" Heliolisk began. "No?"

"Well, I'm like Giratina, but tiny," Giratiny clarified. "Also shiny."

Heliolisk nodded. "So what's Giratina like?"

"Like me, but big," Giratiny explained. "And not shiny."

"Thank you, that gives me everything I wanted to know," Heliolisk said. "Wait, almost everything. Are you a boy, a girl, or something that isn't either of those choices?"

"I'm probably a boy," Giratiny replied.

"Right, thanks!" Heliolisk said, then deployed his ruff. "Ready for battle!"

Clemont beckoned Clembot over. "What moves did you teach him?"

Clembot responded by printing something out, with the print strip coming out of his mouth like a tongue.

"Wow," Clemont said, as Clembot handed him the list. "I actually forgot that I installed that… it's amazing what you put in a robot at 3 AM when you can't sleep."

He checked the list, then pointed. "Dark Pulse!"

Heliolisk fired out a pulse of unlight, and Giratiny responded by calling up Phantom Force to blow him out of the way. The Dark Pulse disrupted some of the Phantom Force, but enough was still left to pull Giratiny to the side.

"Watch out, Giratiny, he's Normal type as well as Electric type," Ash said.

"Ice Beam!" Clemont called. "Now, Charge Beam!"

Heliolisk's ruff flashed with charging energy, and the lizardly Pokémon pivoted and tracked as he tried to hit the elusive Dragon-type. Even the missed shots helped power Heliolisk up, though, and after a long moment Clemont tapped a command into his control panel.

The mechanical arm on his backpack snapped its fingers.

"Lock On!" Clemont instructed.

"Look out!" Ash countered. "Ominous Wind, compress it to form a smokescreen! And hide!"

Giratiny swirled up a cloud of black smoke around him, and Heliolisk's dish lit up with strobing red laser patterns as he flashed LIDAR beams into the smoke. Then they went green.

"All the moves you can think of!" Clemont said, covering his ears, and Heliolisk opened fire.

There were Ice Beams, Hyper Beams, Charge Beams and Solar Beams. There were Thunderbolts, Electo Balls, Dragon Pulses, Dark Pulses and Signal Beams. There was a Scale Shot, and a Surf, and a Swift.

What there wasn't, once the barrage had died down and the craters were visible, was a Giratiny.

"Okay, now!" Ash called, looking at the shiny reflections on his Key Stone, and Giratiny pounced out of a tiny Reverse World portal before using Double Kick.

Since he was in the middle of changing back to Origin Forme and had more than the usual amount of legs, the Double in Double Kick turned out to be a misnomer.

"He was hiding in the Reverse World!" Clemont gasped, as Heliolisk bounced a few times before coming to a halt. "Okay, Heliolisk, deploy and let's use another attack!"

Several another attacks later, Clemont returned Heliolisk.

"You did great," he told his Pokémon, even though they were probably too unconscious to hear him. "I really thought you had him, up until that bit where he dropped a girder on you."

"I wasn't actually intending to do that, but the Reverse World's gravity is weird," Giratiny apologized.

"It's okay, just call it Steel Beam," Pikachu advised. "You need a move that can handle Fairy types anyway."

"Right!" Giratiny said. "I'll work on it, then!"

AN:

It can't be denied, Mew is a copy cat.