Disclaimer: This is an alternate fourteenth season of the Pokemon anime with some crossovers of XD Gale of Darkness game and the anime version of the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon specials, all set in the, believe it or not, Sailor Moon Universe which I titled, "Sailor Moon Continuum", which is a head-canon universe of the slight-alternate story-line of the fifth season of Sailor Moon, which is explained in the first volume of "Sailor Moon Continuum" story I wrote earlier.
Author's Note: I don't own anything here. Except some Oc's that will appear.
CHAPTER 5: TRAINING.
After travelling for several hours since leaving the HQ Lab to head for Agate Village, it wasn't long before the group decided to take a break before continuing on. The young heroes were still troubled with the experiences they and their new friends had encountered today since coming to Orre. But not as so as to both Ash and Dawn. For Ash, it was his new ability to see into the future. For Dawn, it was for her and Piplup learning about Grovyle's past and about a new world that wasn't even discovered by humans yet.
Then...Gurgle, gurgle, gurgle.
"Man, I'm starving." Ash grumbled, as he placed a hand onto his belly which much the gurgling sound, demanding for food. He said this as he helped up set up camp for the night, putting up the tent, while Dawn set up the blanket for the Pokemon to eat on as Brock had set up the table, and was now cooking up one of Ash's mother's recipe's; Pizza puffed pies, Ash's absolute favorite. All in all, Ash's worries over his new strange ability that he decided not to tell his friends about was the least of his worries now.
Next was setting up the Pokemon food, including some berries they found along the way. Dawn was a little worried on Grovyle's appetite, but didn't say anything.
Testing the pies, Brock nodded, sastified, and announced, "Dinner is ready. Let's eat, guys."
At this cue, the three trainers released the rest of their Pokemon, throwing all of their Pokeballs in the air and in a flash of light, out came all teams.
Ash's team now had Pikachu of course, along with Infernape, Staraptor, and Buizel. Dawn's team, including Piplup, had Togekiss, Cyndaquil, Mamoswine, Buenary, and their new team member, Grovyle. Brock as usual had Crogunk, Chansey and Sodowodo.
(~Treasure Town-PKM: MD EOT&D-Anime version~)Excluding Pikachu and Piplup, the rest of the team's Pokemon noticed a new member who looked at them in return. Grovyle was admittedly surprised to see a bunch of other Pokemon with him and his new friends. This would take some time in getting used to.
"Everyone, this is Grovyle." Dawn introduced. "He's new to the group and I made a promise to help him find his close friend. Say hi."
Getting aqquinted to this new member, all of the other Pokemon said their hellos, and Grovyle, feeling a bit awkward but at the same time, welcomed, returned the greeting with a smile and a hello as well.
"Looks like Grovyle's gonna get along with everyone just fine." Ash thought, smiling. It made him think of his Sceptile who was once a Grovyle a long time ago before the Battle Frontier and during the adventure in the Houen Region. Pikachu and Piplup and all of the Pokemon present were quickly getting along with Grovyle already.
"I'm surprised, considering." Brock admitted. "It's almost like Grovyle's done this sort of thing before or that he's just happy to have some good company."
Dawn smiled, while deep inside, she flinched. She knew, however, that Grovyle had spend most of his time with his human partner in the future that no longer exists in trying to change history, and both of them, along with friends of the past in their world, had succeeded, with prices and risks, and miracles, and then unexpected more prices. She thought back on the mysterious figure that was blurry even in her own vision. That one that attacked Grovyle and Celebi.
Shortly afterwards, the group sat down and ate. Grovyle was surprised that the Pokemon food actually tasted declious, especially since he learned that it was again Brock's recipe which the other Pokemon enjoyed so much and the gecko Pokemon could see why.
(~End Treasure Town~)While eating, Pikachu looked up at Grovyle and asked, "(So, Grovyle, I heard that you got separated from your trainer. What was he like?)"
Grovyle paused, and, while he too did not reveal his past, he did, however, admit, "(He was my best friend. He and I went so much together. He certainly had a gift in making friends without even trying.)" he looked fondly at Pikachu and Piplup, adding, "(Both you, Piplup, Ash and Dawn remind me so much of him.)"
"(Really?)" Pikachu asked, then thought, "(He sounds like a great person.)"
"(He was a great friend, even as a human. He is the reason how I realised that humans have spirits just like we Pokemon.)" Grovyle nodded.
Piplup, who was hearing the conversation, joined up with his friends and told Grovyle, "(Yeah, well, not all humans are good. Like those guys today who kidnapped Professor Krane for example.)" before admitting, rubbing the back of his head, "(I still don't get this whole Shadow Pokemon stuff or hearts being closed up thing.)"
He then looked at Grovyle and asked, "(Can our hearts really be closed up?)"
The gecko Pokemon was silent for a moment, then he sighed, and replied, "(I cannot say for sure. This whole idea of Shadow Pokemon is new to me. However, I can tell you that our hearts are more unpredictable than beyond our imaginations.)"
"(Even human hearts too?)" Pikachu asked, curiously.
"(All life forms hold hearts. My friend and I have done quite a lot of research together, before our separation.)" Grovyle admitted.
"(I'm surprised considering. Does that mean even Ghost Pokemon have hearts too?)" Piplup asked, before mentally slapping himself. That was probably the dumbest thing he's ever said in his entire life.
Pikachu and Grovyle both formed sweatdrops on their heads, staring at Piplup with blank expressions.
(~Time Gears-PKM: MD-anime version)While the three Pokemon were talking, the three humans were having a conversation themselves as they ate Brock's cooking. "I'm still surprised that the Unown let you and Piplup see into Grovyle's mind." Ash was saying.
"Yeah, me too." Dawn agreed. She then remembered something, and reached for her back-pack, pulling out the Pink Crystal orb the Unown gave her and showed it to her friends, placing it onto the table, adding, "It even gave me this crystal."
Ash and Brock were stunned, as the latter asked, "What is that?"
The female trainer shook her head, admitting, "I don't know. But," she frowned, adding, "For a weird reason, it reminds me of Mesprit." thinking back of the legendary Pokemon that is connected to her heart, shared her personality, and being the Pokemon of Wisdom.
(~End Time Gears~)"Maybe the Unown found out about how we stopped Team Galactic and saved Dialga and Palkia, and decided to reward you?" Ash suggested with a shrug. He was met with skeptical looks and sweatdropped, and he added sheepishly, "Just a thought."
"Anyway, I'm really glad that those awful people didn't kidnap our Pokemon or the Unown, but I'm really worried about Prof. Krane." Dawn continued.
"Me too." Brock agreed.
Even Ash, getting back to the situation at hand, sighed, "I still can't believe that Shadow Pokemon even exist. I thought all that turning Pokemon into monsters were gone when Cipher was defeated five years ago." then suddenly, another thought occured to him, and sadness began to be noticed in his eyes.
"Ash, what's wrong?" Brock asked, noticing his friend's suddened sad look.
Startled a bit, Ash then sighed, "It's nothing. Just another memory came to me."
"What kind of memory?" Dawn asked.
(~Max's Feelings: Forina-PKM: Jirachi Wish Maker~)"I never told you guys about my dad, did I?" Ash replied, sadness growing, but he tried to hold it in. "Not that I knew him that much anyway." he added with a shrug.
At the shake of heads that indicated, 'no', Ash sighed, not used to talking about his father that much. He heard a lot from his friends through his travels and their families-Dawn's father passed away just before she was born, Brock's parents, well, they were a bit crazy in their own ways but good people, May and Max's parents-except for Misty's parents and she only had her three older sisters, and Tracey who, come to think of it, didn't talk much about his family either, but Ash only talked about his mother most of the time.
Sighing again, he decided that he knew that this day would come when he would talk about his own father. "I only heard most stories from my mom, but I heard that my Dad was an awesome Pokemon trainer and he went on many adventures when he was my age. After he became a Pokemon Master, he kinda retired after he married my Mom and then I came along." Ash explained. "Then, just before my fifth birthday, I vaguely remember him saying something about going on another adventure and that he promised he'd home in time for my birthday..."
"But he never came back, did he?" Brock figured, already having placed a hand onto Ash's shoulder to comfort him.
Ash shook his head, concluding, "Mom and I were only told that, some time after he left, he just disappeared, never to be seen again."
"Ash, I'm so sorry." Dawn thought, feeling tears form in her eyes as she listened to her friend's tale of his supposedly late father. Emotions swelled up inside her chest, and she tried so hard not to cry. It was already terrible enough that she never knew her father, but for Ash to lose his at the age of close to five, it was terrible. She must've choked or something, because Ash noticed this and he panicked.
"Wha-hey. Dawn, please don't cry." Ash told his friend. "I didn't mean to make you upset." he didn't even realise that reliving the past of his father would make Dawn upset. He knew about her father's history which was told by her mother, but then he realised that he must've triggered that memory all over again.
"Right. Sorry." Dawn wiped away her tears, and did her best to calm down.
"That was five years ago, wasn't it?" Brock asked.
Ash nodded again, "Yeah. Mom and I didn't talk about him that much, except some good memories." He then smiled sheepishly and admitted, "Mom said that I beat Dad's record in getting to Viridian City, since it took him four days just to get there. It took me only a few hours, but then again, I was rushing to get Pikachu to the Pokemon Center."(~End Max's Feelings-Forina~)
Unaware of the group, hidden behind bushes not too far from them, Team Rocket, who had managed to escape from transforming into pin cosins by the Beedrill, while having found the 'twerps', and were forming another plan to steal their Pokemon, had listened to the conversation, and, while Jessie was interested in Dawn's new treasure item and Grovyle, even she wasn't immune to Ash's story. James and Meowth were both completely emotional.
"I'm surprised that the twerp's father would just disappear like that." Jessie thought, and while she was thinking that Ash's father 'ditched' his family, in the back of her mind, she doubted it. When she first joined Team Rocket, she learned of her real mother's history and had not expected to have even thought of it. Besides, upon hearing that Ash's father had gone on many adventures, and most likely some heroic ones, she had a feeling that Ash's heroic streak came from his father as well.
James and Meowth on the other hand, were crying comically with waterworks shooting out of their eyes like fountains. "That's a sad story that twerp was telling!" Meowth cried.
"That's the saddest story I've ever heard!" James cried.
While Jessie was emotional herself, for once she wasn't as bad off as her two partners in crime, and only rolled her eyes in exasperation, grumbling to herself, "Men are such babies, whether they're human or Pokemon."
"Wobbuffect!" Wobbuffect appeared out of it's Pokeball as usual, only to be shushed so that they wouldn't get noticed by their enemies, and the blue Pokemon sank back away apologetically and disappointment.
The next morning, the group packed up but were not quite ready to go out just yet. Instead, they opted to do some training for their future challenges of Colosseums, Contests, meeing other Pokemon trainers, or fighting against evil enemies. The Pokemon were training themselves, as Grovyle agreed to get used to preforming in battles as well with a trainer. He already had a fair idea on how it works, witnessing the example yesterday.
Dawn agreed that she would ask for Grovyle's help as well, and now, they were pairing up against Ash and Brizel for a practice run.
(~Wild Pokemon-PKM-Original Anime~)"Buizel, use Aqua-Jet!" Ash commanded. Buizel shot out and water formed all around it's body, shooting like a jet-plane towards Grovye who stood his ground, waiting.
"Dodge, Grovyle and then use LeafBlade!" Dawn commanded. Grovyle, as instructed, leaped into the air, dodging his opponent's attack before he withdrew his leafblade attack and twirled towards Buizel, hitting straight home, and sending the water-weasel Pokemon plummeting to the ground, but, being a stubborn Pokemon, got back up quickly, as Grovyle landed safely as well.
"(Hey, not bad. You got nice moves.)" Buizel admitted.
Grovyle smirked in return, "(Thanks. Your abilities are impressive as well.)" he admitted as well. It wasn't often that he spoke casually with opponents without having to struggle to survive. He could get used to this after a while.
"Ice Punch attack!" Ash called out.
Buizel summoned up his Ice-Punch and leaped straight towards Grovyle who, by Dawn's instructions again, dodged it each time his opponent tried to hit him, ducking and moving from side to side to avoid in being partiually frozen by the ice-punch attack, while, under her commands, tried to counterpart with Leafblade, though Buizel, like Grovyle, was also dodging the attacks in similiar fashion.
"Wow, Buizel and Grovyle sure are getting in the heat of the battle." Brock thought as he, Pikachu, and Togekiss were watching, while Piplup was practicing his Bubble Beam attack in Contest style, though there were a few times that he got interrupted by Cyndaquil, but glad that he didn't have to cope with Gible's failing Draco Meteor anymore, which was the plus side of things of travelling. Though Gible had mastered Draco Meteor as shown at the Sinnoh League, Piplup was still on edge of the attack.
Team Rocket, who didn't have a good night's sleep, were hiding behind trees, witnessing the battle, and yawning due to the lack of sleep.
"That Grovyle is more impressive than I thought." Jessie thought, then yawned tiredly, covering her mouth with her hand.
"I wonder where that twerp managed to catch one so quickly." James thought, exhausted, as he ruffled his messed up hair.
"It ain't normal for Treeckos to evolve without trainers." Meowth muttered, rubbing his eyes tiredly. "But the Boss would love to have that Grovyle."
The battle continued on, with the final commands of Buizel using another Ice punch and Grovyle using another Leafblade, both attacks colliding, causing a miniture explosion of attacks and dust flying everywhere. When the dust cleared, both Pokemon were out cold, their eyes swirling all over the place.(~End Wild Pokemon~)
Ash and Dawn both immediately rushed over to their Pokemon, helping them up and made sure that Buizel and Grovyle were alright, which, thankfully, they were. Brock came over and handed the two Pokemon potions to heal them up, which, again, was new to Grovyle and he winched a little at the stinging sensation of the potion that was sprayed on him.
"A shot of that and some rest, and you'll be good as new in no time." Brock told the gecko Pokemon who no longer felt the stinging and was stunned at the work of the potion.
"You were great, Buizel." Ash praised his Pokemon who nodded his thanks. The ten year old then looked at Grovyle and added, "You were awesome too, Grovyle."
"He's right." Dawn agreed as she helped Grovyle up. "You were amazing. I'm so proud of you."
The other Pokemon, Pikachu, Piplup and Buizel especially, all praised at Grovyle as well, and he couldn't help but blush in slight embarrassment at the compliments he was getting.
"That Grovyle was amazing, alright!" a familiar and not so very welcoming voice called out, causing everyone to look at the trees behind Brock and the other Pokemon, with Pikachu exclaiming, "(Not again!)", Piplup groaning, "(Not them!)" Grovyle crying out in confused shock, "(What the!?)"
Team Rocket came out of hiding to attack...or were trying to look threatening, but Meowth was the only one who managed to fully wake up, while his two human companions were still tired and exhausted, which was a ridiculous sight.
"...A Grovyle that is unusual..." James tiredly said.
"...Simply amazing." Jessie added, sleeplily.
Meowth rolled his eyes and snapped at his team-mates, "Would you two lazybones wake up already!?" much to Grovyle's surprise.
"(He can speak human language!?)" Grovyle asked, astonded. Meowth is the only Pokemon he'd encountered so far since coming to this world that can speak to humans, even in human language.
"(Yeah, it's getting him to be quiet is the hard part.)" Pikachu sighed, like this was an everyday annoyance.
Grovyle glanced at Pikachu, slightly disturbed, "(You seem awfully calm about this.)"
"Let me guess," Ash sighed at Team Rocket, "Lack of sleep, right?" really not in the mood to put up with the bad guys again.
(~Team Rocket Motto-PKM DP-Begins slowly and off-key~)"Is that an annoyed tone I hear...?" Jessie yawned.
"It speaks to me loud and clear..." James tiredly muttered.
(~Team Rocket Motto gets Cut-off loudly~)"Not Team Rocket again." Brock grumbled, interrupting.
Grovyle, who understood what Brock was saying, asked to Pikachu and Piplup, "(Who are these three?)"
"(They're Team Rocket, and they're the bad guys. They try to kidnap all Pokemon including us, but they're a bunch of losers.)" Piplup explained.
"(Sometimes they steal other stuff too, including food.)" Pikachu added. "(Not to mention that they're hard to figure out.)"
"Hey! Who says we're hard to figure out!?" Meowth exclaimed to Pikachu angrily, overhearing the conversation.
Jessie and James looked at their Pokemon companion curiously and James asked, "What did they say?"
"Pikachu and Pipsqueak just explained to Grovyle who we are and they called us losers and hard to figure out." Meowth translated before exclaiming again, "What're we, a bunch of Spindas!?"
"You're right!" James agreed with Meowth, "That's an complete insult!"
"Do you twerps know how hard it is to be part of the community!?" Jessie shrieked.
As Ash, Brock and Dawn had learned what their Pokemon were saying through Meowth, Dawn exclaimed back, "Maybe that's why everyone hates you!"
Hurt by the girl's insult, Team Rocket lowered themselves in hurting and sulking, muttering, "That was just mean." while Wobbuffect appeared again, echoing the sulking.
At this sight, Grovyle sweatdropped, then muttered to Piplup and Pikachu, "(You're right. These three are hard to figure out.)"
(~Rowdy Rumble-KH2~)Then as quickly as they sulked, Team Rocket stood up again, determined and holding out Pokeballs for a battle, with Jessie declaring, "We're here for your Pokemon!" before calling out, "Go, Serpiver!" throwing her pokeball and out came her Serviper who hissed, ready for yet another challenge.
"Come on out, Carnivine!" James did the same, except, as usual, Carnivine lovingly tried ot bite his head and he yelped and comically cried out, "Not me! The twerps!" as Jessie and Meowth both sighed in exasperation at the sight, which has gotten so old. James never had any kind of luck with his loving Pokemon. Viteribell and Cacnea were both the good examples earlier on before Orre.
"Serviper, use Poison Tail!" Jessie commanded, and her snake Pokemon lashed out at the group's Pokemon who, along with their human trainers, all dodged quickly to avoid in getting hit, causing Serviper to miss, much to it's frustration.
"Piplup, use Drill-Peck! Lets go!" Dawn quickly told her Pokemon. Piplup summoned up the drill-peck and he hit his mark on Serviper's head hard, causing the snake Pokemon to cry out in pain and with an added Bubble-Beam attack caused Serviper to flinch back.
"Carnivine, Bullet Seed!" James commanded, and the Carnivore-Plant Pokemon fired multiple Bullet Seed attack on everyone who tried to shield themselves.
"Grovyle, use your Bullet Seed too!" Dawn requested her new companions.
Grovyle nodded, determined and leaped into the air and fired his own Bullet Seed attack, hitting Carnivine hard, which was immediately more powerful than it's Bullet Seed and the attack also rained on Team Rocket who clumsily and comically danced all over the place to avoid in getting hit by the Bullet Seed attack, crying out hysterically in panic mode.
"Hey! Enough of the raining bullet seeds!" Meowth shrieked, narrowly avoiding another bullet seed rain attack.
"Crogunk, use Poison Sting!" Brock commanded, which Crogunk fired multiple Poison Sting attack which rained down along with Grovyle's Bullet Seed, adding to Team Rocket's panicked dance and they screamed even louder.
"We don't need to go to the hospital, thank YOOOOU!" James squealed like a girl.
"Now, Pikachu, give them some Thunderbolt!" Ash concluded, and Pikachu, knowing what to do, jumped into the air and unleashed one of his powerful attacks and blasted electricity at Team Rocket who were elecucted by Pikachu's Thunderbolt.
"Talk about a bad WEATHER!" Jessie shrieked as the electricity made her voice vibrate, before all three attacks caused a small explosion that was enough to blast her and her group, skyrocketing them straight into the air, where they screamed yet again.(~End Rowdy Rumble~)
"That's weird." Meowth thought, "Looks like Grovyle's been trainin' before he was captured by that girly twerp."
James whined, "And it's Bullet Seed was stronger than my Carnivine's."
"What is it with the twerps and them managing to have Pokemon to defeat us?" Jessie moaned.
Wobbuffect appeared out of it's Pokeball again while being blown in the air along with it's companions, going, "Wobba Wobbuffect!"
"TEAM ROCKET'S BLASTING OFF AGAIN!" Team Rocket all cried out in unison and disappeared into the sky yet again as usual.
As the Team Rocket disappeared, Ash and all of his friends and Grovyle cheered and sighed, before Ash grumbled, "Team Rocket will never learn."
"I can't believe they came to the Orre region." Brock sighed, "Don't they have anything else to do?"
"Well at least we don't have to worry about them for a while." Dawn pointed out.
Through congratulating the Pokemon, the group relaxed a little. During the relaxing, Grovyle again asked to Pikachu and Piplup, "(Do Team Rocket always attack like that?)"
"(They've been trying mainly to capture me ever since Ash and I first encountered them on the first day of our journey, because they think I'm a vauleble Pokemon. I still don't get way, but I figured that they want to take me to their evil boss of Team Rocket.)" Pikachu explained.
Piplup sighed, admitting, "(You gotta admit, at least Team Rocket don't go and turn Pokemon into Shadow Pokemon.)" which Pikachu and Grovyle both realise that he's right. Even Jessie, James and Meowth come out as harmless at the moment.
Few hours later, after recalling all Pokemon except for Pikachu and Piplup back into their Pokeballs, Ash, Dawn and Brock continued on their journey towards Agate Village. According to Brock's calculations and the Orre region map, they were only another hour away in reaching the village where they would meet the retired Pokemon Master Eagun and learn about the mystic Relic Stone.
"I wonder what the Relic Stone is like?" Ash thought out loud.
"They said it's supposed to open up the Shadow Pokemon's hearts and turn them back to normal Pokemon." Dawn remembered.
"Well, after so many things that aren't normal we've encountered in all of our adventures, I'm not surprised, but the Relic Stones sounds cool." Brock thought.
Ash's thoughts then shifted to Eagun and he added excitedly, "Not to mention that I get to meet a retired Pokemon Master. I can't wait!" as he had planned on asking for the best advice on becoming a Pokemon Master. Pikachu echoed the excitement as well, while Dawn, Piplup and Brock just laughed. They half-expected Ash to be excited in meeting a Pokemon Master, even if Eagun is retired.
(~Ciper Peon battle-PKM: Gale of Darkness~)Suddenly, they heard a scream above them, "HEEEELLLP!" alarming them. Looking up, the group gasped in shock as an over-sized Skarmony was holding an eleven year old girl with orangey-black hair, blue eyes, wearing a sleeveless pink tank top with a white collar, black shorts, white socks and black shoes with pink laces, captive as she struggled to free herself from it's clutches.
"Somebody please! Help me!" The girl continued to scream.
"Oh no!" Dawn gasped in horror.
"She's in trouble!" Brock cried out.
Ash knew what to do and pulled out Staraptor's Pokeball, calling out, "Staraptor, I choose you!" throwing the ball into the air and out came his bird Pokemon who shrieked. "Staraptor, use wing attack on Skarmony!" Ash told it.
Staraptor quickly flew up and summoned it's attack, hitting the steel-bird who saw too late and was hit hard, causing it to limp in pain and accidently lets the girl go. As she fell, screaming, Staraptor quickly caught her by the arms in it's claws and as quickly and gently as it could, flew back down. Ash rushed over and his Pokemon gently dropped the girl into his arms, Snow White style.(~End Ciper Peon battle~)
However, upon contact, Ash felt the same strange sensation in his mind, and jerked, and he cried out, "Not again!" as suddenly, everything went black, before light appeared, and in front of him, was a new image again.
A boy who was eleven years old, having bluish-green hair, blue t-shirt, brown-gray shorts, black socks and red shoes, was falling backwards off a platform in mountains towards the deep carven and ravine down below, and he was screaming.
Like before, the vision ended, and things then returned to normal and Ash was back to reality, and he blinked. Shaking his head again, Ash turned his attention to the girl in his arms who looked at him, curiously. "Are you okay?" he asked, as Pikachu, Dawn, Piplup and Brock rushed over, while Staraptor landed next to them.
"I-I think so." said the Girl, as she was gently placed back to her feet, standing with Ash's help and he sighed. Stunned that this boy and his Pokemon had saved her life, not to mention that thinking that Ash is quite handsome, despite him being a year younger than her and that he looked quite familiar, she smiled, saying, "Thank you for saving me."
(~Peaceful Times-PKM: MD-EOT&D~)"Thank Staraptor. He's the one who saved you." Ash stated, patting his bird Pokemon proudly, saying to Staraptor, "You were great, Staraptor." who thanked him in Pokemon language.
The girl smiled and giggled, rubbing the bird Pokemon's back, saying, "Thank you too, Staraptor." and the Pokemon smiled, liking this young girl already. She then turned to Ash and added, "I was on my way to Agate Village to visit Mr. Eagun when that Skarmony kidnapped me and took me away. I had no idea why that happened and I couldn't even call out my Pokemon for help."
"You were gonna meet Eagun in Agate Village?" Ash asked.
"Uh-huh." The girl nodded.
"We were gonna meet him too." Dawn pipped up.
Excited, and, forming an idea, the girl suggested, "Then why don't we go meet him together? I know a way from this part of the woods now that I have a fair idea where I am." causing Ash and his friends to glance at each other, then shrugged as this was her way of showing her gratitude. Plus, she seemed very nice.
"Sure, why not?" Ash replied.
"Awesome!" The girl cheered, then caught herself, and giggled in embarrassment, "Oh, sorry. Where are my manners? My name's Tasha, and I'm a Pokemon trainer." Tasha introduced herself.
"Hi, I'm Ash, from Pallet Town." Ash introduced himself.
"Pika Pikachu.(My name's Pikachu.)" Pikachu introduced himself.
"My name's Dawn." Dawn added.
"Pip Piplup.(I'm Piplup.)" Piplup added.
Brock nodded, "Nice to meet you, Tasha. My name is Brock."(~End Peaceful Times~)
"Nice to meet you guys." Tasha smiled, then became startled and turned to look at Ash, asking, "Wait. Did you say you're from Pallet Town?" as a sense of deja vu entered her mind.
"Yeah, why?" Ash replied, a bit puzzled.
"Um, just outta curiousity," Tasha began, "Do you know someone named Alistair?"
Ash gapped in shock at the name.
A/N: Tasha is a new Oc character based on me...well, short of. This is the last chapter I'm writing for a while, as I'm leaving on the 5th next week on a two week vacation, returning on the 18th of November. Please continue your reviews and I'll see you again when I get back after my holiday. Sorry to leave you with a slight cliff hanger, but I promise you, it's not as bad as it seems.
See you all then.