"Ugh, me and my big mouth," Dawn says, exhausted from barely walking up the winding tower.
"It's not that bad Dawn, honestly stop complaining, we've walked further than this in a day, and there isn't a rush." Harmony points out not nearly as winded as the others.
"Come on Harmony, race you to the top!" Ash calls out to Harmony who grins at him.
"Oh yeah? You're on!" she calls out laughing as she chases after Ash.
It was a while later when Ash started lagging behind Harmony that she turned around to check on him.
"Oh, man...Me and my big mouth," Ash complains.
"Oh come on, you're already tired. This is child's play, Ash Ketchum! We can make it to the top without being this tired!" she says, but then again her adrenaline is pumping as it had been forever since she had gotten to do something this exciting.
It was then that she overheard Ash complaining more when the others passed them in a hot air balloon. "Oh, it is so on now! Come on Ash, we can totally beat them!" she says with a lot more determination than before.
It ended up with Harmony having to ditch Ash as he was being too slow as she finally got to the top, a few minutes before even the group had with the balloon making her grin.
"You guys were kinda slow, but then again, Ash was even slower." She teased.
"How did you get here so fast! I thought we had you with the balloon!?" Dawn cried out with a small pout.
"My Dearest Dawn, I hate to inform you but there are loads of stairs in Galar, especially in Hammerlock, meaning this is easy and nothing will compare to that," Harmony says with a wide grin.
"Godey built the Space-Time towers as a beacon of hope for the happiness of people and pokemon," Alice explains as Dawn follows her to the machine in the middle.
"The happiness of people and pokemon," Dawn says glancing around with Piplup happily by her side.
"And here's our own beacon of hope right now," Brock teases as Ash who looked exhausted finally got to the top of the tower.
"Fiiinallly!" Ash cries out looking ready to collapse making Harmony giggle.
"I guess you finally made it Have a nice climb?'' Harmony teases him as he pants and Pikachu lays spread out making Chu shuffle over to him worriedly poking the other Pikachu's cheek in concern.
"Normally it's set to play automatically at the hour, but if there's something special you want to play…" Tonio states getting the machine ready to put a new disc in.
"You put the discs you need," Alice finishes, as Dawn grins, placing the disc she had chosen in the spot happily.
"Brock, would you mind?" Alice asks, handing the other disc to Brock.
"Not at all," Brock says taking it as Alice gets the machine going playing the disc Dawn had just put into the slot
"You see, this tower is the largest musical instrument as well," Tonio points out as everyone looking around listening to the music lay in awe.
Thankfully, to Ash's happiness, the group all took the hot air balloon to get back to the ground.
"You know, balloons rock!" Ash points out.
"Well unless its Team Rocket, theirs isn't that great," Harmony points out, earning a nod from Ash.
"That is true, those guys are the worst," he mutters.
"If it isn't Ash and Harmony!" Kai states the trainer they had battled before making Harmony grin.
"Hey Kai! Ready for another loose so soon?" She teases with a wide grin on her face
"Oh, you read my mind!" Kai says with a laugh making her grin widen even more.
I need someone to play with Torterra!" Mauray calls out, his Torterra right by his side.
"Come on! Me too!" Allegra calls out, tossing her Pokeball in the air letting her Infernape out.
Harmony calls out to Alice, her Ampharos to battle with Kai, while Ash and Dawn battle Mauray and Allera's pokemon.
Halfway through the battle Harmony's head started to pound and her arm suddenly started burning as if she had been hit by something super strong making her wince as she nearly fell to her knees letting out a small cry. "Ahh, bloody hell that hurts!" she cries out one arm grabbing her arm while also trying to hold her head as she shut her eyes. What she didn't notice was a pink light shining around the town and strong winds to blow through the town.
As soon as the light disappeared Harmony relaxed a bit as the headache stilled a bit not throbbing as much, but she still fell to the ground with a groan of pain that was still in her arm.
Harmony! Are you okay!" Ash called out, rushing to her side as he helped her up, worried in his eyes as she leaned against him with a small moan of pain.
"What was that?" Dawn asks curiously and scaredly.
"Mmm, hurts, don't know why." Harmony mutters her accent thickening up slightly with the pain she had felt.
"The sky just lit up," Dawn says, still worried with Piplup agreeing with her.
Make them go away!
A gruff voice heard from behind them, making Ash and Harmony turn around.
"Huh?" Ash calls out confused.
"Darkrai!" Ash and Harmony call out, the other feeling slightly better and was able to stand back on her own, Chu, Pikachu, and Alice, the Ampharos, got into a battle position.
"Ah-ha! Lickilicky!" Alberto calls out, a camera crew who looks awfully familiar filmed by his side."There is no escape! Alright, Lickilicky Gyro-ball!" he calls out his Lickilicky following its trainers' command.
Darkrai dodges and uses a mass Dark Void which hits many of the Pokémon on the street, including Dawn'sBuizel and Brock's Sudowoodo.
Harmony and Ash take of racing towards Darkrai as it tried to speed off.
"Pikachu! Chu and Alice! Use Thunderbolt!" Ash and Harmony call out to their Pikachu's and Ampharos who charge up thunderbolts only for Darkrai to get into the shadows making them miss.
The duo raced into the alleyways of the town hoping to find Darkrai to get some sort of answers until they suddenly stop when the two see what looks like a Bibarel mysteriously floating through the walls, as Darkrai reappears but continues to dodge Pikachu, Chu, and Alice's attacks.
"Look Darkrai! The only one leaving here is you!" Ash calls out angrily.
No! I stay, they leave!
Darkrai states his ghostlike finger pointing towards Harmony as if she had something to do with what was going on, making her frown at why Darkrai was directing its words at her in the first place.
"What?" Ash calls out confused as he looks at Harmony who still looked just as confused as he did.
"Let me handle this!" Alberto calls out cockily as he and Lickilicky walk-in front of Ash and Harmony. "Darkrai is mine!"
"It's the Baron!" Ash says with almost a bit of relief.
"Lickilicky use hyper beam!" Alberto calls out pointing towards Darkrai, who easily dodges and uses Dark void once more this time at Lickilicky.
Alberto checks on Lickilicky as Darkrai disappears again. As the floating Bibarel reappears, more strange occurrences start happening as Alberto turns into a Lickilicky, and he screams at the sight.
"Uh...well then, that is scarier than what Darkrai has been doing that's for sure," Harmony says with wide eyes grabbing hold of Ash's arm to make sure this wasn't just some weird dream.
Rushing back to the Pokemon Center Harmony and Ash call out "Guys! We have a huge problem
"...er no not huge that's rude Ash, more like uh big?" Harmony tries to clear up not wanting to offend the Baron based on his new...size.
"We've got a problem here too," Dawn says worriedly.
"Really? Well excuse me, people, you don't even know the real meaning to problem!" The Baron-Lickilicky says sassily.
"Since when did Lickilicky talk!?" Dawn cries out in a panic pointing at the Baron.
"That's not Lickilicky! That's Baron Alberto!" Harmony hisses making Dawn put her arm down "Dawn, that's rude." she whispers.
"No way!" Dawn says with a gasp.
"Quick Tonio, turn me back at once!" Antonio states clearly distraught himself as he moved up to Tonio who had been looking at his computer.
"You act like Alberto…" Alice says hesitantly.
"He's telling the truth!" Ash pipes up from Harmony's side, the three electric type pokemon nodding in agreement.
"He turned into Lickilicky right in front of us, even the group with the camera got it on film I think," Harmony points out.
"And us, we saw the thing with our own eyes," The camerawoman says, huffing as they collapse with the real Lickilicky on the floor.
Tonio was looking at his scans on his computer, "The real world merging with the dream world," he says with a gasp.
"What are you talking about?" Alice asks.
"All of these pokemon are dreaming that they are being chased by something frightening," Tonio points out.
"And, what about me!?" Alberto cries out.
"I guess Lickilicky dreamed about turning into you," Tonio points out making Harmony slightly snicker.
"Say what!?" Alberto cries out as if offended by it.
"The space around our city is being acted out by a powerful force creating a space-time anomaly, resulting in all the strange things we've been witnessing," Tonio points out.
"But why?" Alice asks.
"I don't know," Tonio responds.
"It's that Darkrai!" Alberto states, "Every time it appears strange things happen!" he points out, "Don't you see!"
"Perhaps…"
"Lickilicky you must wake up this instant and defeat Darkrai!" Alberto calls out to his pokemon, though of course, it wasn't going to do much to do that.
Kai, Maury, and Allegra rush in concerned, "Listen people we're stuck!" Allegra points out.
"It's the craziest thing!" Maury states.
"We're trapped in the town and can't leave!" Kai points out making Harmony gasp.
"How, what moved us?" she says tugging Ash along as they rush to the edge of the city.
Investigating, Allegra brings out her Honchkrow and has it use Defog, but the attack does nothing. Ash and Pikachu try to run through the fog to leave the town, but end up back on the other side of the street instead.
"Ash? I guess it's true, we're stuck in a loop or something maybe?" Harmony tries to theorize a bit confused and slightly scared, she quickly checked her phone, which Roto sadly responded with no signal making her freeze.
"Guys...I think we're not anywhere in Sinnoh anymore, Rotom can't get a signal to send any message….which could only mean that we aren't near any place that has a signal, which is impossible as this is a town…"
"It's that Darkrai! No doubt about up to one of its evil tricks! And nothings going to change unless we destroy the nasty demon!" Alberto states.
"Pokemon trainers, lend me your ears. Your strength and expertise! We must destroy this loathsome and evil Darkrai! And now, follow me into the fray!"
"Right!" most of the trainers around them call out but Harmony grabs Ash's arm.
"I think something else is at play Ash, and I don't think it's Darkrai causing this, it just doesn't add up…" Harmony tells him.
"I agree with Harmony, I don't think Darkrai is behind this." Alice points out making Harmony smile a bit.
"Huh?"
"What? But it must be Darkrai!" Dawn says with a confused look on her face.
"No, it's a bit too early to be certain," Tonio points out looking at his computer, "You see, back when I was a boy, Alice and I were playing together in the garden…" he starts to explain that he witnessed Alice falling off a cliff, and Darkrai appeared to save her.
Oh, Tonio" Alice says softly her face falling a bit at the confession.
"Godey's journal also says that it was your grandmother Alicia who opened up Darkrai's heart. I don't believe that Darkrai's evil either," Tonio admits.
"Then why is Darkrai fighting with everyone?" Dawn points out.
"Someone's making it so that no one can leave the town!" Ash says, still slightly frustrated.
"I don't have all the answers yet, but for now we just hang on," Tonio points out, making Harmony sigh.
"So we need to try and find some clues then? Maybe it will lead us to solving this before everyone can attack Darkrai…" Harmony points out.
Back at the Pokemon Center Tonio points out something he had found.
"That couldn't be... isn't that Palkia?" Harmony whispers tilting her head in confusion before gasping, "I had a dream about them the day before we got here, it was not just Palkia, but it was Dialga too!"
"That's what was in my dream!" Ash calls out.
"Yes, it's said that Palkia lives in between dimensions and rules space, a pokemon that has been called a deity, supposedly formed from the original one," Tonio explains.
"A diety!" Dawn says with a gasp.
"Cynthia mentioned this on the tablet a few weeks ago, remember Dawn?" Harmony points out.
"When the garden was turned to a waste-land it was a sign of Palkia's appearance, Darkrai sensed what was about to happen, it was at the moment when the sky lit up that Palika burst into the town, " Tonio explains.
"But Darkrai was the only one who saw or knew what was happening," Harmony says with a gasp.
"Right," Tonio agrees.
"Darkrai was telling us to get Palkia to go away, but he singled me out later in the alleyway," Harmony whispers, "That is something I don't understand, I keep hearing him tell me to make them go away, as if I can solely stop them." she whispers, "I didn't say anything because I thought you heard it too, but I guess that wasn't the case," she says with a frown.
"That's what Darkrai's been trying to tell everyone's pokemon, in the dream, like he did with mine!" Ash concludes.
"But that means Palkia's here!" Dawn says with a gasp.
"But where's that?" Brock says as they look at Tonio's computer trying to find a single point.
"The towers1 It has to be the towers!" Harmony cries out, "That's where it looks like it's emitting! Let's go!"
The group rushed from the Pokemon Center to the Space-Time Towers in order to see if Palkia really was there.
Not only was Palkia there, but Darkrai was there too, once again trying to put a stop to this by going for an attack towards Palkia only to get pushed back by some force-field and slammed into the ground.
"Darkrai!" Harmony and Ash cry out with concern for the Dark-type who had fallen.
They then turn to look up at the tower, "So that's Palkia?"Ash says with his teeth grinding against each other a glare on his face.
Darkrai continues to try and attack Palkia yelling for it to go away but that seems to only anger Palkia more to the point where the fog around the town disappears only to reveal they were in Palkia's dimension.
"The town is floating in another dimension," Tonio points out as he shows everything off on the screen of his computer.
It was then that Buizel and Sudowoodo came racing towards their trainers much to their delight.
"Everyone looks to be awake!" Harmony says with a grin, glad to have the pokemon back.
"Of course, Palkia transported the town to another dimension," Tonio starts to explain the in and out of why they were all awake due to being in a dimension that couldn't support both the dream realm and reality.
It was then that Palkia came crashing down onto the ground with a loud thud calling out angrily before his arm sparked which caused Harmony to let out a hiss and clutch her own arm in the process.
"It looks like Palkia's hurt," Alice points out.
Darkrai and Palkia continue to battle, but however, they were suddenly stopped as they were pelted by another move which made Harmony wince a bit, her head starting to pound somehow even more.
"What? Darkrai!" Ash calls out with worry in his voice.
Dialga suddenly appears and attacks the two, but as they battle, the outskirts of the town begin to fade away.
"Dialga" Harmony whispers with wide eyes, "But why is he here?" she asks.
"Palkia and Dialga must have battled between dimensions," Tonio points out, "And so the wounded Palkia must have fled here sealing the town in yet another dimension attempting to hide itself from Dialga!" he explains.
"Two entities that never should have met, their areas should be too far apart for this to happen," Harmony breathes out rubbing her head to try and rid herself of the headache that was getting worse. Worst of all she kept hearing two voices, ones she couldn't recognize.
"The nightmare I read in Godey's journal, it's happening here and now," Tonio says with a gasp.
"Wait you're saying Godey was dreaming about future events?" Alice asks, turning to look at Tonio.
Dialga and Palkia seem to start storing energy for big moves making Tonio gasp as his computer catches wind of it, "Tremendous energy!"
The two moves collide causing a massive white light to shine upon everything, the town starting to disappear at a more rapid pace than before.
"Is everyone okay?" Alice asks everyone worriedly.
"Yeah, I think so," everyone responds.
At this point, the moves were attacking the gardens and everything around them and Alice was through with it, "Stop it!" Alice cries out to the two legendaries, "Stop firing right now!"
They of course didn't listen, still attacking one another to the point where Dialga got the upper hand and was pushing Palkia directly towards Alice, only for Darkrai to jump over her and aim a move at the two pushings them back.
Darkrai steps in and uses Dark Pulse to send them backwards, saving her. Attempting to stop their fighting, Darkrai gets hit by Dialga and Palkia's attacks, sending it flying through the trees.
"If they keep this up they're gonna destroy the town…" Harmony murmurs, "I'm going to try and redirect them away from each other, Braviary let's go!" Harmony says letting her pokemon out.
"Harmony that's dangerous!" Ash cries out grabbing her arm to try and stop her.
"Not as dangerous as what might happen if they don't stop Ash." Harmony tells him, "They were fighting in my dreams, far before Darkrai warned us, there's something I don't know and I want to try and solve this." she tells him softly, her eyes looking into his brown ones, "I'll be careful okay? Plus you guys need to go help Dakrai!" she tells him.
Ash seems to bite his lip, still hesitant to let one of his friends do something so reckless but he paused and sighed, "Fine...just don't hesitate to try and come back down, they're huge and a whole lot more powerful." he points out, making Harmony smile.
"Just the kind of battle I want to do!" she cries out, "Alright Braviary let's go!" she says hopping on the bird pokemon's back flying up.
Once up there she could, much to her surprise, hear the two arguing as they tossed and fought, talking about territory and brother which confused her greatly.
"It doesn't matter what they're talking about, we just need to get them to stop." Harmony murmurs "Get me closer Braviary."
Once closer she was able to get Braviary to fly between the two enraged beasts. "Stop it! You two are causing so much damage, it's not helping either of you by fighting!" she cries out to the two, them pausing for a second before who she assumed was Dialga to butt in.
Sister this is not your fight, it is between our brother and me!
It hisses the word out very upset and made Harmony freeze at being called sister of all things.
It's not her fault, but you are right, you went into my territory and I am going to win
She heard Palkia state as it shifted in the air, obviously still in pain.
As if, I am just as strong if not as strong as Father! Dialga pointed out with a growl.
And I will not have you stand in my way!
"That is not fair! You're putting hundreds of pokemon and humans' lives because of this argument! It's terrible!" she tried, but the two were no longer listening to her as they charged up another set of attacks, her Braviary ducking down as quickly as it could to avoid getting hit, landing at the tower top with a huff of annoyance.
"I'm sorry Braviary, I really thought it would work...I hope Ash is okay with Chu. But I still wonder...why did they call me sister? I'm not a pokemon nor could I ever be related to them…" she whispers looking up at the two who were still fighting wincing in a bit of pain if either one got hit. "But could it be why I feel their pain?" she wonders out loud.
Harmony moved to peek out the side gasping once she saw what was going on with the rest of the group,
They were in Alice's hot air balloon in the air, but the Dialga and Palkia's attacks had caused another shock wave, making Piplup fall out, only narrowly being saved by Ash's Sta
"Okay they're trying to get up here, but why? Braviary go try and help, think you could fly?" she asks turning to her lying type who caws and nods flying down to swoop in and save Dawn and Ash because a gust caused the two of them to fall nearly l onto the tower itself, followed by their Pokémon.
"Oh...hi Braviary, thanks for the save," Ash says carefully gripping onto the flying type while Dawn shrieked as she grabbed hold of it. Braviary making it up to the towers to let them off on the stairs all the pokemon and the two teens were a bit too heavy to carry up with the wind to fight off.
Ash brings out Aipom and Turtwig and has them climb the tower with him. As the buildings of the town start to disappear, Ash's Pokémon needed to work to deflect Dialga's attacks. Eventually, the stairs of the Tower begin to disappear too, and Dawn brings out Buizel and Buneary to create new steps out of ice.
As the Tower continues to disappear, Ash falls out, only for Braviary to quickly duck and grab him by his shoulders carrying him up to the top where Harmony was pacing out in nerves, Chu sitting by the controls anxiously awaiting what was going on.
"Harmony?" Ash calls out with a small of as Braviary drops him, Dawn and her pokemon rushing up from the spiral stairs panting.
"I tried! They wouldn't stop, called me meddling, that I shouldn't, I figured that the best bet was here, it just felt like the right place.
"Well good thinking, because we need to play the song, Dawn has the disc," Ash tells her, moving closer to her and going close to Dawn getting the song prepped.
They soon realize that Oración's music disk does not fit in the same spot as the others, "I don't get it, it should fit!" Ash cries out, "We don't have time for this!"
Eventually, Dawn noticed one slot in the middle of the music machine, but the machine does not have enough power.
"Okay if there isn't enough power we'll give it a boost!" Harmony says, tossing a Pokeball up, "Alice time to shine, let's use our stored up power and help charge this thing up!" She says her Ampharos appears in sparkles as it nods, Chu and Pikachu joining her in order to power up the machine.
As the two legendaries fought Harmony's head was getting more in pain, but she kept pushing it to the side, his was far more important, she'd think on it later for sure.
As the electric types powered up the machine it started to work playing the song, everything started glowing and this made Dialga and Palkia stop their moves and Harmony sighed in relief moving just a bit to lean against Ash, feeling slightly exhausted but calm due to the song playing.
The whole Tower shines, forming huge golden wings, as Palkia's injury is finally fully healed and Dialga returns to its own dimension. Ash, Dawn, and Harmony call out to Palkia to restore everything to the way it was before, and it obliged, returning the town to the real world before disappearing.
With everything finished Harmony lets out a sigh of relief before falling to the ground onto her knees."It's over right? No more adventures for a while," she mutters, moving a bit asAsh swamped to her side in concern.
"You said something happened back there, but you didn't say what, want to explain?" he asks her gently.
"I don't know, but I...they mentioned something about me being a sister to them, I don't know how that would be possible, it's something to look into more though, and I hope it doesn't lead to more problems with our journey," she whispers. "They said something about their father, but isn't their father the first one? Like Cynthia mentioned, how could that be my father as well, he was human, my mom married him, until he just disappeared," she says with a whisper.
"We'll figure it out, I promise Harmony, maybe it was just a fluke, maybe something else they were talking about," Ash says trying to get her to stop, making her nod.
"Yeah, something else, must have been something else…."
With the sun setting, and the disaster averted everyone looks out to the lake with sadness in their eyes thinking about Darkrai who had sacrificed itself to save them all.
"Thank you Darkrai," Alice says her eyes glittered with tears, "for everything,"
"I'm sorry, Darkrai," Ash begins to say, "I should have known, you were just trying to do the right thing," he says, already breaking into tears.
Harmony moved to his side, her hand resting on his arm, "It's okay Ash, we couldn't have known, and I bet it doesn't hold it against you," she tells him softly.
However, as Harmony and Ash walk away, Ash notices a mysterious shadow on the cliff face. "Wait is that?"
"Darkrai!" Harmony calls out with wide excited eyes, he had survived the hit after all or at least was restored by Palkia.
The other race back to the viewpoint with a gasp as they too notice is.
Tere it was, a shadow being cast by Darkrai, fully healed and stood on top of the Tower.
"Darkrai! You're okay!" Ash calls out happily.
When everything went back to normal Dawn decided against wanting to do the contest but Harmony was still all for it. "I'm still doing it, no matter what happened, I need to win, and I'm confident Pip, Cursola and I can win, even after all this." she says with narrowed eyes, "The contest is still on so I want to compete, if you want to leave then I'll catch up. My mum can send me Hatterne and she'll teleport me to Hearthome City after okay? Don't worry too much." she says moving a bit to wrap her arms around Ash and Dawn's shoulders.
"I'll see you at Hearthome City. How about that? That way we can compete against each other Dawn? That's where the next gym is and I heard there is another contest there too!" Harmony says, pulling away from her friends who were hugging her back.
"Alright, if you're sure…" Ash says not really liking the fact that they were splitting up.
"I'm sure, it'll give me some extra time to train on my own, no offense but I really need to have someone on one with my team and we really miss spicy curry that I can't make for you all." Harmony says sheepishly.
"Alright, be safe then!" Brock tells her and she nods.
"Course I will! I'm always safe. I'll stock up on stuff here and head out after, bye guys!" Harmony calls out, patting Cu who was pouting and nuzzling Pikachu before sending sparks at him as a goodbye, see you later type thing.
"And the winner of the Almos Town contest is Harmony Sword!" Mariam says after the timer went off making Harmony cheer and rush over to her pokemon. "Cursola you and Pip did it! I'm so proud of you two!" she says happily petting the ghost pokemon as it seemed to actually smile, the usually emotionless ghost type usually had was gone.
Holding the newly acquired ribbon Harmony grinned, "Alright team let's get some training in! Hatterene we'll head to Hearthome City in a few days and catch up with everyone."