A/N - I am SO sorry for not updating in like 3 weeks! I could say I had homework but that's only partly true. I really got lazy and never took any chance I got to write this chp. In fact, I wrote most of this on Sunday (yesterday). POLL IS OVER!! Thanks so much for the votes, I got a total of 23 unique votes and have decided to start things up. The festival should start up in the next chapter or two, along with the introductions to any OCs you guys add. This chapter has an intro to some other OCs I have and towards the end is the official switch minus two Pokemon which I'll add in the coming chapters.

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Disclaimer - I don't own Pokemon. If I did then you'd see reappearances of those one-time characters more often.

While Ash was in Jubilife City in search of panties and Pokétch clowns, Dawn, Brock, and Pikachu decided to revisit Pick a Peck of Flowers Shop. They had agreed to help out with decorations and the likes. The building seemed rather big for a flower shop; it appeared to be more like an apartment than a store. It was painted light purple and had a large pink-white striped porch. Two little berry trees were right outside along with a number of flowers. Brock quickly raced up and swung the door open.

Two girls were inside. One was at the counter while the other watering some of the many plants. They both looked up and simultaneously greeted, "Welcome back!" The girls seemed to be twins. Both had long, straight dark blue hair and happy black eyes. Brock ran up to the one watering plants but Croagunk quickly popped out and used Poison Jab before anything really happened.

Dawn sighed, "Wow...a new record?" she muttered before turning to the older girls. "Hi again! We came back just like we said!"

"That's great! Rosa was freaking out about moving all the flowers on our own!" said the girl by the counter. She was wearing a cream colored top with long sleeves, a long dark green skirt, and light brown shoes. The other girl, Rosa, huffed and crossed her arms. She wore a pink apron over her bright red T-shirt along with dark brown pants and black boots.

"I wasn't 'freaking out' over that, Holly!" she exclaimed. "I was worried about them wilting."

Holly laughed, "Of course you were! So Dawn, what happened to Ash? Did Rosa ban him from this place too?"

"No, he went to Jubilife to train for his next gym," explained Dawn as the three girls and Pikachu walked towards a number of boxes. "Are these the flowers?"

Rosa nodded and opened a box. Inside were a number of flowers in their pots. The petals were huge, about the size of a small child's hand. They seemed quite gaudy being bright hot pink and light blue in the center. Everyone seemed in love with them though. Rosa proudly picked one up and said, "These flowers will be placed everywhere! From the booths to the Contest Hall and even our little Colosseum! Floaroma Town will be covered with all of my sweet flowers!"

"Every year one of us gets to choose the flowers we'll use for decorations," explained Holly. "Actually it was our brother's turn, but he's been busy with other stuff. He's usually in charge of the festival too, but he gave the job to Rosa this year."

"Really? Why's that?" asked Dawn as she picked up a box and started walking out of the store.

Holly also grabbed a box and continued, "Dunno, but Rosa's really happy. She always wanted to run the festival."

Finally Brock showed up and went to grab the rest of the boxes. They placed them all at the back of a van and hopped in. They drove off towards the Floaroma Colosseum; they passed by James and Meowth who were building another booth. James motioned to the van, "That's the van from the flower shop. Those twerps were in it."

Meowth huffed and sucked his teeth, "Tch! Of coise they woul meddle in! We gots to wait then. Catch thems off guar and swipe Pikachu and those flowers!"

A short fifteen or so minutes later and they reached their destination. Floaroma Colosseum wasn't quite fancy; having been built only for the Floaroma Festival. It was a tad smaller than the Contest Hall in terms of height, but it was about two times as wide. There was a group of people and their Pokémon around; some were taking things inside while others preparing areas for flowers. Pikachu's ears perked up and he dashed towards a familiar girl with short green hair and her Roserade.

"Look Brock! It's Forsythia!" exclaimed Dawn once she realized who the girl was. Once again Croagunk jabbed Brock before anything happened. Dawn rolled her eyes before walking up to Forsythia, "Hey! Long time no see!"

"Dawn! Yes, it's been a while!" agreed Forsythia.

"You two know each other?" asked Holly as she and Rosa exited the van.

Dawn nodded, "We met when we first came to Floaroma. She taught us how to make Poffins!"

"You still have those lessons at your house? You know we can always give you a job at the shop," commented Rosa.

Forsythia smiled sheepishly, "No, no I'm fine! Shall we get the flowers now?"

"Oh! I'll get my Pokémon to help out!" exclaimed Dawn. Throwing the PokéBalls into the air, they burst open in flashes of white and soon Piplup, Buneary, Pachirisu, and Mamoswine were out. "Okay guys, let's help get this festival going!"

Brock, having returned from wherever Croagunk dragged him to, nodded and also released Happiny and Sudowoodo (Croagunk was already out of course). Suddenly Pikachu remembered the promise he made to Ash. It was let everyone know now. As everyone went to get the flowers out of the van, Pikachu jumped up a tree stump and made sure all the Pokémon had his attention.

'Okay everyone! I've got something suuuuper important to say! I'm gonna need help from all of you!' exclaimed Pikachu. As a second thought he added, 'Um, I guess you can hear this too Roserade.'

Buneary frowned, 'Something wrong Pikachu? Where's your trainer and our other friends?'

Forsythia's Roserade pointed out, 'Yeah! That kid with the baseball cap! I thought someone was missing."

'That's what I wanna talk about. Not many of you know this, actually just Piplup and I, but Ash was banned from this tournament thingy,' explained Pikachu while pointing to the Colesseum. 'But he's got a plan to get in. It's a weird plan but once back in Kanto he tried something like this. It almost worked too. He's....he's going to dress up as a girl.'

Pikachu went light pink once everyone started laughing. 'Okay! OKAY! Listen up! Ash seemed really determined to win this tournament and I'm gonna help him any way I can! If you think you see him then just ignore him! Pretend you never met Ashley and everything should go smoothly.'

Sudowoodo raised his hand, 'Not easy. Not easy. Happiny and Pachirisu. Might forget?'

Pikachu glanced at the two youngest Pokémon. They had been listening at first but quickly became interested in a little hole in the ground. The mouse quickly raced up and motioned them back to the group. 'Right....we'll just have to keep an eye on them.'

Piplup quickly stepped up and pointed a flipper to his chest, 'Piplup will watch over them! Yeah, watch over them like a Fearow! They won't ruin anything as long as Piplup is on the job! No need to worry!'

'Eh...that's kinda when I worry the most,' admitted Pikachu.

The next day Ash woke up bright and early. Only two more days until the festival. He needed to switch into his Ashley getup and trade Pokémon with Tracey today. He already planned out to only get four Pokémon from the lab and then maybe catch one around Jubilife or at the Catching Contest. Ash quickly swung his backpack on and raced downstairs to the phones. It didn't take long for him to start talking with Tracey.

"Hey Ash! The PokéDex is all set! Just need to add a picture and I can send it over with one of your Pokémon," explained Tracey.

Ash nodded, "I took a picture last night. Let's start the witch and I'll send it over with my Monferno." He turned to the PC not far from the phone and entered his PokéDex in a slot. On the screen appeared the words ASH'S PC which Ash selected (through touchscreen of course). Next the screen changed to a list which Ash scrolled until he reached DEPOSIT POKéMON. It changed again, this time reading DEPOSIT TO OAK'S PC. Ash pulled out a PokéBall and placed it on a PokéBall slot right under the monitor. "And that should be it," muttered Ash as he pressed YES. In a flash of light Monferno's PokéBall disappeared; only to end up in a similar machine in Oak's lab.

"Okay it's here! Send over your other ones and then tell me which Pokémon you want."

A couple minutes later and Ash had transferred all of his Pokémon. "Okay, so I've thought it over and decided to take four Pokémon with me. That's gonna be Cyndaquil, Totodile, Bayleef, and Kingler."

"Kingler?" echoed Tracey. "But you're taking Totodile. Why is that?"

"Well Heracross might start licking all the honey and that might be a dead giveaway. Noctowl's coloring is also obvious. Snorlax or a Tauros might be good, but I've used them during the Battle Frontier. And Muk...well I've heard he's gotten so attached to Professor Oak. I haven't used Kingler in like forever, he'll like a change of scenery."

"Well when you put it that way.... Anyway I'll just have to add them in Ashley's PokéDex. Oh, your from Johto. Silver Town to be precise."

"Got it."

Later that day Ash decided to get his plan into motion. He signed out of the PokéCenter and ran off in search of a place where he could change without getting attention. Realizing quickly that most restrooms were for seperate genders, Ash felt like hitting himself. He began to walk around idly, having no clue what to do now. Soon he realized he was heading to Route 203. "...I guess I don't have much choice now," muttered Ash as he jogged onto the path, heading towards the many trees and large bushes.

Yeah. I added the switch at the last minute really. Not totally great but you'll get to see all Ash's (I mean Ashley's) old Pokemon come out of their PokeBalls in the next chapter. Thanks for all the past reviews and hope you all continue to read!