Leon sighs as he settles into the hot tub. "That's better…I wish all the pokemon can join. Make things better for them too," Leon says before looking down to see all his pokemon he had with him swim around in the pokemon baths. "How are you doing guys?"

"Mon!" Amber calls up to him as Beacon was doing the dog paddle around the pool.

"Careful with your flame," Leon calls smiling as he relaxes better.

"What? No greeting for us?" Gardenia asks behind him from the entrance.

"Didn't notice you entered," Leon says turning around before stopping at the sight of the three girls in their swimwear. "Uh…"

"Well?" Zoey asks moving her sunglasses.

"Uh…" Leon stammer as he keeps staring.

"Come on. Say something," Gardenia says as Lana gets right in.

Leon gulps as he looks over Gardenia black two-piece swimsuit with strings to wrap around her sides. "I…"

"Ah. This water feels good," Lana says floating around.

Leon could only turn his stare at her as she floats beside him. Her single one piece that he swears is in almost every Japanese anime and idea. 'What is that?'

"Something wrong?" Lana asks seeing him stare at her.

"No…nothing at all…" Leon tries to say as he kept staring at her outfit. "Actually, what is that swimsuit called? I have seen it a lot in my life, but don't know what it is called," Leon says.

"Oh, this is a Sukumizu," Lana informs.

"Oh…that explains a lot," Leon says, almost not getting it, but getting the idea. 'Damn Japanese and crazy ways we don't know about much.'

"What? You find her cute?" Gardenia asks getting in now.

"Well…um…" Leon tries to say.

"Gardenia," Zoey growls getting in as Lana giggles.

"Help…" Leon pleads.

"Relax," Zoey says getting in beside him.

"Thank you," Leon quickly whispered as he just looks straight up at the ceiling now.

"Oh, this is so cute," Gardenia says before Zoey splashes her.

Leon smiles as he hears splashing from both of them and relaxes back against the sides of the tub.

"So you have a battle plan for your gym battle?" Lana asks.

"Kinda. Working out the kinks," Leon answers as he sighs and leans his head back.

"Who is your lineup?" Zoey asks.

"That is a surprise," Leon says a bit cheekily.

"Cute. Now tell us. Maybe we can help…destroy the field of course," Zoey encourages.

"Alright. Tsunami will face his gyarados," Leon says.

"Match for match," Zoey says and leads Leon's head and gaze at her, letting him see Zoey's outfit of a black two-piece swimsuit.

"And…uh…" Leon tries to continue.

"Go on," Zoey says smirking.

"You look sexy," Leon blurted out and makes Gardenia snark and Lana drop herself into the water.

Zoey held a blank expression and stares at him.

"Sorry," Leon mutters weakly as he shrinks back while blushing furiously.

"As if it wasn't…" Gardenia started before getting splashed again.

"So…sexy, huh?" Zoey starts as she wades over to him.

"I think I have been in for long enough," Leon says quickly moving to get out.

Zoey just smiles and lets him go as she watches with Gardenia snarking in the background and Lana giggling.

"Oh, this is fun," Gardenia says.

Zoey giggles a bit as the door shuts. "He's always fun."

"You tease him quite a bit. It's almost like you are taunting him to have feelings for you," Lana says.

"He's fun to be around and great to have as a friend," Zoey sighs as she leans against the tub.

"She secretly wants him to ask her to be his girl like in a romance novel," Gardenia says smirking.

Lana giggles behind her hand.

"What did you say?" Zoey growls.

"Nothing," Gardenia denies while turning her head away.

Zoey scoffs as she keeps watching door where Leon left through.

"You guys have fun?" Leon asks laying on his bed as his pokemon came in.

They all cry out happily and start to settle in into their own places in the room.

"Good to hear. I'm going to sleep. Don't make too much noise, ok?" Leon asks as Beacon started playing with building blocks.

"Mon mon," Amber reassures as she pats his side.

"You want to sleep too?" Leon asks pulling open the covers.

Amber hums before climbing in and snuggles into his side. "Mon."

"You sleep we…" Leon starts when he noticed Crystal climbing up as well.

"Ralts," Crystal chirps as she crawls in and gets on top of them and snuggles in happily with a sigh.

"Seems we have one more for our company. Time to sleep you two," Leon said before covering them both up.

"Mon," Amber sighs sleepily.

"Ra…" Crystal snores on his chest.

"Leon," Zoey says entering his room in the morning.

"Shh…sleeping," Leon mutters in his sleep as he holds Amber and Crystal.

Zoey smiles as she makes her way in, stepping over Ippo and Omen as Beacon slept next to a house he had made out of his building blocks.

Leon snores quietly as she kept getting closer. "So…warm…"

Zoey smirks as she leans in before giving a small kiss on the cheek. Leon groans and rolls his head around a bit before opening his eyes to see her. "Hey…what time is it?"

"It's eight and now…" Zoey says bringing out a few Oran berries and sets one in front of both Amber and Crystal's noses before going to the other pokemon in the room.

Amber and Crystal both sniff around before opening their eyes at the berries and immediately snack on it, waking up.

"Hey there Beacon," Zoey says, softly petting his head.

"Flaf…" Beacon mutters in his sleep before opening his eyes. "Flaf…fy?"

"If you get up, you get an Oran berry," Zoey whispers into his ear.

Beacon immediately sits up and opens his jaw wide, wide awake now.

"Here you go," Zoey says smiling, placing it in his mouth.

Beacon happily chews as he dances around. "Take it easy with the berries Zoey…" Leon spoke up yawning.

"I just bought them," Zoey informs before going to Ippo and pats him calmly.

Ippo's sleeping bubble pops and he snorts awake, catching sight of the berry in front of him. "Ma?" he asks, pointing to himself as he sits up.

"Yeah. All yours," Zoey says before putting it in his hand.

Ippo hums before shrugging and eating it bit by bit.

"Hey there Omen. How are you doing this morning?" Zoey asks gently petting the absol.

Omen yawns as she picks her head up before turning to her smiling. "Ab."

"Hey there. The kids keep you up?" Zoey asks smiling at her.

Omen gives a chuckle and eyes the other pokemon.

"Here. To give you a bit extra pep for the morning," Zoey says before giving her the Oren berry.

Omen smiles and barks at her before biting into the berry.

"Alright, all of you. I will take you to see Fury while Leon takes a bath, ok?" Zoey asks.

They all cry out as they kept eating while Leon gives a yawn and Amber and Crystal give some supportive pats to his side.

"I will see you all at the front desk," Leon says yawning more heading for the bathroom.

"Come on guys. The big girl is waiting," Zoey says leading them out and holds the door for them as they kept eating in their own way.

"Thanks, Zoey," Leon says before closing the bathroom door.

Zoey gives a little wave before heading out and following the pokemon.

"Alright, I am here," Leon says walking out to the front desk to see the girls talking.

"Hey. So…you ready?" Zoey asks turning to him, his pokemon all chattering amongst themselves as they seem to be mimicking some of their moves to each other.

"The gym battle or something else?" Leon asks.

"We are going out to get you some more clothes. So you don't get chills." Zoey says.

"Oh…that bad, huh?" Leon asks, looking to his current getup.

"No, you shivered quite a bit on the journey," Zoey informs.

"She noticed because she was watching you closely," Gardenia says snickering.

"Oh," Leon could only say as he starts to blush.

"Yes. Out of concern," Zoey says with a forced smile as she digs her heel into Gardenia's foot.

"So which store?" Leon asks, tugging on his shirt.

"We will be shopping around for a bit," Lana says as Leon walks over and pets Fury as she was eating as much as she could.

Fury growls happily and nuzzles back.

"Ok guys. Into the pokeballs, ok?" Leon asks.

They all cry out happily as they were each sucked into the pokeballs until Leon finishes off with Fury. "Let's go," Zoey says leading the way.

"Who is going to lead us?" Lana asks.

"I'll follow her," Leon says following Zoey.

"Oh, then it is decided," Zoey says getting off Gardenia's foot.

Gardenia sighs in relief now and starts to follow them.

"Don't worry Gardenia. One day you will be the bride and not the bridesmaid," Lana jokes.

Gardenia just sticks her tongue out at her.

"Oh, she wants to get married?" Leon asks. 'Wait, what? I did not ask that!' Leon yells in his mind unable to say this.

Zoey stops in her tracks and turns to them all. "What?"

"She mentioned Gardenia wants to be a bride," Leon informs.

"No. That's bridesmaid. To who?" Zoey asks.

"I don't know. Lana said, 'Don't worry Gardenia. One day you will be the bride and not the bridesmaid'."

Zoey hums before turning back around and walks off.

"I feel like an idiot now," Leon says, finally able to speak freely now.

"Don't. She's just peeved at Gardenia," Lana reassures whispering as she leans over.

"She doesn't look mad," Leon says walking along.

"Girls tend to not show anger at times…they show it in different ways," Lana explains smiling.

"What about you?" Leon asks.

Lana just smiles at him, cutely but something under it.

"You scare me sometimes," Leon says simply.

Lana giggles and grabs his arm happily.

"Careful Lana or Zoey will get territorial," Gardenia says smirking.

"She won't mind me," Lana giggles as she hugs Leon's arm tightly.

"What do you have to say about that Zoey?" Gardenia calls and a tick mark appears on the back of her head.

"You don't have to answer," Leon quickly says.

"Thank you, Leon," Zoey says looking back and smiles at him.

Lana winks at him as Zoey turns back around and Leon blushes a bit happily. Gardenia was about to say something else, but Leon covered her mouth. "Please don't."

Gardenia just smiles and gives a small devious smirk.

"You coming?" Zoey calls.

"Yeah," Leon says, before being dragged along.

After a long day of showing, the group was heading back going through the docks to save time. Leon now sporting a black jacket with red buttons, lines on the collar, the bottom of the sleeves, and bottom, and red arm part of the sleeves. It also had an image of a pokeball over where his heart is and a larger one taking up all of the back with the words pokemon league around it.

"Okay, now the gym is what? Quick recap," Leon asks.

"Water-type," Lana reminds.

"What's going on over there?" Leon asks, seeing an unmarked boat unloading something.

"A boat doing the usual stuff," Zoey says as they watch the crates being moved. "Come on. We have to get to the gym," she says, pulling Leon along.

Leon though firmly plants his feet. "It can wait. Something is off," Leon says.

"Why am I going to slightly regret this?" Zoey asks herself as they all stop and watch the cargo being moved.

"Look at that," Leon says, pointing out an inspector getting a payoff.

"Okay. Now it's suspicious," Gardenia says, not liking the feeling

"I think we have come across something highly illegal," Leon says as Lana had a pair of binoculars and was watching them all.

"Almost all the same size…no tags or markings," Lana says, trying to see what was on the boxes.

"Who wants to go get the police?" Leon asks.

"I'll go," Lana says looking to them.

"Alright," Leon says borrowing the binoculars and stops. "Hang on. One of the covers fell off when they dropped one…it's full of teddiursas. They look scared and one is hitting the one who dropped it…no…he has a gun," Leon says.

"What?! Now we have to do something," Gardenia almost demands.

"You have a plan?" Zoey asks, stopping her from rushing in.

"Who would the police listen to the quickest? He is beating the man with the butt of the pistol as we speak," Leon says.

"That would be me," Gardenia says.

"Go now. He may kill him," Leon says, the need for haste clear in his tone.

"Got it," Gardenia says before running off.

"Lana, can your pokemon secure the boat and make it where it doesn't leave until the police get here?" Leon asks.

"I can do that," Lana says getting the pokemon she needs for this.

"Zoey, you think together we can distract or hold those on the dock while she does that?" Leon asks.

"Easy," Zoey says grinning now.

"Omen, Amber, come out," Leon says throwing his two pokeballs straight up.

The two pokeballs burst open and show the fire and dark type cheerfully as they look to him before noticing what the three or staring at and turns themselves to look and spot the crew. Both of them now getting what they need to fight.

"Now you two. You see those guys, right?" Leon asks scratching their heads.

They both nodded as they keep watching but they enjoy the scratching more and lean in a bit.

"Now, you see that one standing over the other. He cannot escape. If it is between him and a few others trying to escape, choose him," Leon says. They both nod and keep watching for a watch to move. "Now go. We'll catch up," Leon orders and they both run off in different directions.

"Should we make an entrance?" Zoey asks.

"Distraction?" Leon adds as they start to walk towards the area.

"More like a frontal assault. What do you think glameow?" Zoey asks.

"Meow," Glameow meows.

"That's a yes," Zoey informs.

"Care to open up for me on that? I already got the sides covered," Leon asks.

"Glameow, shadow ball," Zoey instructs.

Glameow smirks before opening her mouth and a crackling shadow ball appears and grows before it was fired off. The shadow ball flew towards an empty forklift and impacts it hard, sending it sliding into the sea with a burning scorch mark on it. Everyone on the dock looks over to where the shot came from and ends up seeing a glameow running at them who then jumps as its tail lights up while it spins forward, intending on crashing on the one with the gun. The man with the gun aims up at glameow before a burning ember hits his hand and makes him drop the gun and holds his hand in pain. Looking over to where the shot came from, he can see Amber grinning at them before glameow knocks the guy hard on the head with an iron tail, sending him crumpling to the ground.

Glameow meows as she lands on the ground before looking over at the rest and smirks before shadow claws appeared on her paws.

The rest of the workers tried to run and ends up being stopped by seeing Omen staring them down at the end of the dock.

"Ippo, Fury, Beacon round them all up!" Leon calls, throwing all but Crystal's pokeball.

All three pokemon come out running as they materialize. Ippo running up and punching someone in the gut as he runs by, knocking him out onto the ground. Fury flying close to the ground and then lands and skids across the ground, whipping her tail around and knocking two workers into the cargo and breaking them as they hit and land onto the ground. Beacon snickers evilly before sparking heavily and then letting off a thunder wave, hitting a few and making sparks dance on them as the attack stops, only a few shoves from Ippo running by sent them down to the ground.

Omen's horn blade lit up before she sent out a psycho cut, striking another forklift carrying cargo and making it drop it all as workers ran away from all of them now. Almost going nowhere as they seem to run right into them. Even Leon himself as he came up to a few running his way and punches them in the stomach and a kick to the knee for a few and then a punch upward into the jaw, sending them blackout cold onto their backs.

"I would have thought they would have put up a bigger fight, you?" Leon asks looking at Zoey.

"Yeah. It's almost like these guys are unsuspecting hired goons and only one guy is in on it…you don't think they keep a lot of them in the dark, do you?" Zoey asks.

"I thought there would be more guns even though they are very rare," Leon says. 'Wait. What guns are rare? How would I know that if it was true?'

"Considering the fact of what they needed to do, yeah," Zoey agrees as they watch the fight go on. Seeing how Amber kept jumping around and firing off ember shots before jumping onto someone and then twisting herself around to twist him into the ground. Omen jumping onto their backs and knocks them out when their heads hit the ground or jumping into them and smashing them against something. Ippo tussling with a few strong-armed workers who were no match for the bodybuilding pokemon who just tosses them up into the air after grabbing their arms and then smashes them hard against the ground. Fury grabs two by her feet and flies up into the air and over the water before dropping them into the ocean. Beacon still happily walking around and shocking anyone who got close with such a happy look on his face, sometimes even stopping when one of the others brings a worker in close and he reaches out and touches the worker, shocking him into paralyzation and walks on.

"Hey. Over there. What's this?" Leon asks noticing a crate cracked open and a small pokemon trying to crawl out.

Zoey blinks and looks as Leon walks over before trying to push the crate open more and lets the little fish like pokemon crawl out. "You okay little guy?" Zoey asks as they both leaned down to it.

The pokemon gets quite scared at that, obviously the humans that had shipped it was not kind. "Zoey, let me," Leon says sitting down and does not move, having recognized this as a wimpod.

The wimpod scuttles behind the broken box and hides from their view as the fighting starts to die down all around them.

Leon kept still just waiting, hoping to get its interest. The wimpod, after a while and hardly anyone left standing on the dock, moves and shows its face around the crate and eyes the trainer before starting to show more of itself when it realizes that he is just sitting there. Leon still refused to move waiting for it to come to him. Wimpod slowly made its way over to him until it stopped right in front of him and looks up. Leon slowly reaches out and pets the little guy before picking him up and places him on his shoulder.

"Not bad," Zoey comments smiling as wimpod seems to enjoy being out and free for once while enjoying the sea breeze.

"This is a wimpod. A pokemon from Alohal," Leon introduces as his team started coming up to him as he sees the police in SWAT uniforms starting to arrive one car at a time and joins in rounding all the criminals up and boarding the ship where Lana's araquanid was shooting out spider webs trapping as many as it could.

"Hey, you guys!" Gardenia calls running up.

"You got the cavalry I see," Leon says smiling as wimpod scuttles behind his neck from the excited woman.

"Well, they would have already deployed about twelve miles away from the city if I haven't used my authority and clout as a gym leader, they would never have turned around and come back to help," Gardenia says before picking up Beacon. "You did a good job shocking so many bad guys," Gardenia says hugging him, making him cheer happily.

"Yeah. You should have seen him. He just walked around like he owned the place," Leon says proudly. "In fact, you all did so well. I couldn't be prouder of any of you," Leon says patting each one of his pokemon with the same pride.

They all either cheer who smiles up at him as they wait for the cops to finish up.

"Wimpod. This is now your family. I hope you like them," Leon says to the little bug pokemon on him.

Wimpod comes out from behind him and looks over his shoulder at the smiling and waving pokemon before scuttling back down behind his back.

"Take all the time you need," Leon says not forcing him, waiting for Lana.

"Back! How did I do?" Lana asks as araquanid comes up behind her.

"Very well. Because of you two, they couldn't leave port when we started hitting them," Leon informs.

Lana smiles. "Thanks. So…we…is that a wimpod?!" she asks excitedly, seeing the pokemon on his back and making it scurry down more, hidden from sight.

"Yep, one of the family now, but till Wimpod is ready, give him space, ok?" Leon asks before they were approached by the police and gave some testimony of all that happened.

"That…was a cluster beatdown," Zoey says as they walk the streets now. "I don't feel up to the gym now. You?" she asks Leon.

"No. I also doubt it is still open," Leon says looking up at the moon.

Zoey hums. "Want to grab something to eat maybe?"

"Yeah. Back to the pokemon center. I now have a game plan for my gym battle," Leon says.

"And the late night dinner?" Zoey asks smiling at his enthusiasm.

"Pokemon center cooks or would you rather something else?" Leon asks smirking.

Zoey chuckles. "Maybe something fancy? Take a girl on a nice dinner date?"

"One, two, three girls," Leon says using his pokedex's calculator function, trying to figure out the price.

Zoey laughs at that as the others just smile.

"I think it is manageable, with all the backpay I got from the weeks we traveled on the route by foot," Leon says.

"Don't worry. We won't rob you of bank and home. I'm just thinking of a fancy buffet and we will all pay," Zoey says, the last bits to Lana and Gardenia who chuckle nervously and sweatdrop.

"Searching…oh one with a special seafood and sushi grill where they prepare it in front of you," Leon says getting all four of their attentions.

"I'm gamed," Gardenia says excitedly now.

"Someone has also come out," Leon says feeling wimpod.

Wimpod chitters nervously and sinks back down.

"Someone is going to get fed," Leon says to Wimpod making it peak out at him.

"That…is too cute," Zoey could only compliment.

"Wimpods are kinda like magikarp in some ways," Leon says patting the head gently.

"Though Tsunami wasn't like that in the beginning," Zoey pointed out.

"Wimpods are skittish by nature. Trust me, there is a reason I compare them to magikarp," Leon says making it happy as he kept petting.

Wimpod chitters and leans into the petting now as they start to walk to the restaurant.