Good god! Two updates in one day! That's amazing!

"It's a good day for a battle!" said Ash to Pikachu, who was travelling next to him.

"Pikaa!" confirmed Pikachu.

"Well, let's go to the stadium, Pikachu," said Ash, rather cheerfully.

At the Stadium

"It looks like we'll be on an ice field versus Barry today," murmured Ash to himself.

"Excuse me, Satoshi?" a voice asked.

Ash turned around and saw Lance standing there, his arms crossed.

"Champion Lance! What a pleasure to meet you again! To what reason to I owe you this visit?" asked Ash in surprise.

"I just wanted to congratulate you with for your victory yesterday. It was quite impressive," replied Lance.

"Thank you. And I suppose that you won your battle?" inquired Ash.

"Indeed I did. If we keep this up, we might face each other sometime," answered Lance.

"Well, I hope to meet you again, Lance, except next time, it should be in the stadium," declared Ash.

"I do hope so, as well, Satoshi. Au revoir!" responded Lance, as he walked away.

"Is he French?" thought Ash to himself.

"Well Pikachu, our battle with Barry is about to start soon. Let's go!" prompted Ash.

"Chaa!"

A few minutes later, at the Shamouti Grand Stadium

"Here we go, again folks! This double battle of the D division will be between Satoshi from Agate Village in the blue corner and Barry of Twinleaf Town in the yellow corner! The automatically random machine will decide who goes first!"

After a tense couple of seconds of waiting, the light stopped on the yellow color and Barry yelled out, "Empoleon...Roserade! Let's win this!"

"Empoleon!" "Roserade!"

"All right, let's go Pikachu and Pupitar!"

The four Pokémon looked ready to rumble so the announcer shouted, "Let's begin!"

"This should be a piece of cake," said Barry, "Empoleon! Ice Beam on Pupitar and Roserade, Stun Spore on Pikachu!"

"Pikachu, Agility in a circle, now! Pupitar, Protect!!"

Pupitar enveloped itself in a sphere of crackling yellow-green energy and deflected the Ice Beam. Pikachu started to rush in a circle at blinding speed. Wind was blown upwards and moved the Stun Spore over towards Empoleon and Roserade. Now the water-steel and grass-poison Pokémon were paralyzed!

"Pupitar! Dark Pulse! Pikachu, Thunderbolt on Empoleon!"

Pupitar emitted a dark pulse of purple energy that travelled across the whole field. Pikachu jumped to avoid the energy and as the wave collided with Empoleon and Roserade, he unleashed a yellow-orange bolt of lightning onto Empoleon. Empoleon fainted on the spot.

"No!" yelled Barry.

"That was fast," mused Ash to himself.

"Roserade! Repetitive Poison Jab on Pupitar!"

Roserade unleashed a flurry of poisonous punches that all landed on Pupitar.

"Pupi...tar..."

"Pupitar! Hang in there!" urged Ash.

"Pupi...TAR!!!!!"

With that, Pupitar was bathed in a great white blanket of energy. Slowly, its shape formed and metamorphosed until there stood Tyranitar.

"Ooh. You are so screwed now..." chuckled Ash.

Pikachu climbed onto Tyranitar's head, cheeks sparking.

"Pikachu! Volt Tackle! Tyranitar! Hyper Beam!"

"Oh, shi-" said Barry.

Pikachu ran down Tyranitar's back and covered itself in bright yellow electricity and lightning. With energy surging through his body, Pikachu collided with Roserade and it was sent flying into the air. At that moment, Tyranitar finished charging his hyper beam and fired the massive white-orange beam of pure energy at Roserade. After the resulting explosion, Roserade fell to the ground, fainted.

"What a stunning performance! During the middle of the battle, Pupitar evolved into Tyranitar and helped earn the victory. Looks like Satoshi will be going into the top 16!" shouted the announcer.

Ash and Barry complimented each other and parted ways.

Later that evening

May walked back to the Pokémon Center ready to turn in for the night.

"That Satoshi is amazing at battling. Looks like Max won't be fighting him cause my little bro got knocked out second round. Oh, well."

"What you doing beautiful?" slurred a voice.

May whipped around to see a man in his 40s with a half-empty beer bottle in his hand.

"How bout a youse and me have a little fun together, eh?" rambled the drunken man.

"Don't hurt me! Stay back!" shouted May fearfully.

"Oh I won't hurt you, darling. In fact, I'll-" said the man, grinning.

He was interrupted by a fist that came out of nowhere.

"Stay away from her, you sick pervert!" said the unknown savior.

"Satoshi?!" thought May, with shock.

"And whas a punk like you gonna do to me? Huh?"

"Lucario! Force Palm!" commanded Ash.

Out of nowhere, a dark shadow fell down from the sky and struck the drunk man with a glowing palm of energy. Needless to say, the man fainted.

"Are you okay, May?" asked Ash, worriedly.

"I'm fine...thanks...Satoshi," replied May.

"Come on. I'll escort you back," asserted Ash.

"Thanks...again, Satoshi," thanked May.

"No prob," responded Ash.

"Satoshi is so dreamy...and kind...What am I thinking! Could it be possible that I actually like Satoshi? The last person I liked was Ash, and...he disappeared. Oh, I just want to sleep..." thought May to herself as she was led to the Pokémon Center.

After May has gone to her room

"Thanks Lucario," Ash said to the dark figure.

"It was my pleasure, master," responded the dark figure.

"Well, we better go to sleep. I'm going to use you tomorrow,"

"Of course, master," acknowledged the dark figure.

Then, Ash, Pikachu, and the dark figure turned in for the night.

Love is introduced at last! And it is also revealed that Ash now has a Tyranitar and a Lucario. Mystery!!!

As always, Read, Review, and Recommend!

Also, suggest some new Pokémon for Ash as well!

See ya next time!

-Legends Almighty