Omake


It was another perfect day in the region called Kalos. The sun was shining, the sky was almost cloudless, there was a convenient breeze, the Pokémon were peacefully living without a care in a certain forest.

There they were, our little heroes and heroines. They were resting in a calm forest just to relax once in a while. Because who doesn't want to take a small break once in a while?
But of course Ash being Ash means that there is still training even if it is rest day. The same could be said about Serena too since she didn't want to lose in the next showcase. So the two of them were training respectively for literally the whole day.

It was almost evening so the sun was slowly ascending to the horizon in order to ascend on the other half of the mysterious world of Pokémon. The intense heat was slowly turning into a mild 20°C. The perfect day was turning into the perfect evening.

"Hey Clemont, could you please take care of everything for today? I'm really tired because of the extra training. Uwah…" Ash asked Clemont while he yawned

"Yeah sure. Have a good rest!" Clemont answered Ash

And with that Ash went away to regain his energy for the next day by sleeping.

"Oh man, no wonder why he's so sleepy. He ate three plates of spaghetti." Clemont said to nobody in particular as he collected the empty and dirty plates and realized that there were three plates at Ash's seat. Having finished collecting them, Clemont put them into a machine.
Said machine was actually an invention of his. In fact, a really old one. He invented it even before he met Ash.

Flashback to the time before Clemont met Ash at Clemont's house located in Lumiose City

"Hey Clemont, could you help me out with the shop please?" Meyer asked his son, Clemont

"Of course dad. What should I do?" Clemont replied from his room which he shares with his little sister Bonnie.

"I'm currently in the kitchen doing the chores so I can't serve the customers so could you fill in for me as a cashier?" Mr. Meyer explained.
Indeed, Clemont's father runs a small shop which sells small electronics parts or just parts for anything, that's why Clemont can invent things to his heart's content.

"Thanks Clemont, you're such a great help." Meyer praised Clemont

And with that, Clemont ran stopped his current work on Clembot. Clembot wasn't still finished. His complete body was uncovered and his legs were missing. Clemont put the wrench down and walked out of the room towards the stairs. He went downstairs and entered the shop.
He walked towards the check stand and waited. Occasionally, a few customers entered the shop and bought some parts. While serving the cash, Clemont thought about lots of things but one thing couldn't leave his mind

'Dad seems to be pretty busy lately. I wonder what he's doing? I mean Bonnie and I are often at the gym so I don't know how many customers usually come. Anyway, I should help dad a little more often. But how? I have to run the gym and watch over Bonnie… Ah I know! I should invent something that helps him… but what? That's it Maybe I should build a cashier robot so he doesn't have to run the shop all the time.'
Clemont's sudden creativity led to an excellent idea but as fast as the creativity came so quickly it also passed. The first idea of helping his father was indeed good but the second wasn't the best. Clemont realized it too after remembering a certain event in the past.

Another Flashback

It was midsummer, the sun was always shining brightly during the day which increased the temperature, as the time of a day slowly elapses, the temperature falls by a few degrees and the normal but somehow special summer evening comes into being.
In all objectivity, it's really just something ordinary. But when you are experiencing one, it feels completely different. The color of the sky changes from mild orange mixed with a faint pink, some small clouds slowly disappearing behind the horizon and the staring at the night sky while thinking about anything. Be it something philosophic or remembering a certain thing like a forgotten promise or the memory of a time when you played with your childhood friend, and not to mention the fresh and balmy breeze which makes you feel somewhat nostalgic.
And right now, a certain lemon-haired boy was sitting on a bench in the park of Lumiose City. His little sister was playing around with his gym Pokémon. It was the perfect summer evening. The sun was slowly disappearing at the horizon, the sky above him revealed the vastness of the universe, also known as the notorious night sky which is able to create various atmospheres, be it a romantic one up to a mysterious one, it is to mankind the greatest mystery; however, the sky above the horizon was still shining orange-like/ pinkish. The sky was clear except for some small clouds and the breeze was carrying the waft of summer and whiff of the needed freshness.
Clemont was sitting on the bench leaned far back, while he gazed at the stars.

"Hmm…" Clemont hummed
"What a day, man. I had to run the shop again. It was so hot. We didn't even have an A/C in there. That was probably the reason for the not coming of the customers. What should I do? I don't want to stand two hours behind the check stand for nothing. I mean I'm glad that I can help dad but there's no difference if there's no customer or no customer and no cashier, as it is. What should I do?"

Clemont asked himself again leaned his head back by what he could only see the infinite void which is filled with an undetermined number of stars.
He looked, prayed, searched and wished for a solution. Then another this time slightly stronger breeze passed by and instantly, Clemont found his idea.

The next day, it was early in the morning and Clemont finally finished his new invention whose idea he found the day before, and which started building right after finding it.
Clemont picked his invention up and ran down the stairs and stormed into the shop. He passed by Meyer, as he was about to enter the shop. Meyer was clearly surprised when he saw Clemont so early in the morning and not to mention his new invention.

"Umm... Morning son? What are you doing?" Meyer asked clearly shocked.

"Morning dad! You will never guess what an idea I had yesterday! I thought of something that will help the shop's business."

"OH really? Then tell me what is it and what can it do." Meyer's interest was now completely piqued.

"Now see and marvel! This is the: 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000'!"

"Wow! If Bonnie was here, she would say that you'll have to work on the names for your inventions." Meyer just had to say that. He was already acquainted with Clemont's inventions and their fate but still, he believes in his son's skills as an inventor. That's why his interest gets always piqued by one of his inventions no matter how many exploded already.

Clemont put his invention down onto the floor. It was a round cylinder. It wasn't really tall but it was wide. Clemont pressed on the button which was on the top of his invention.
Then the 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000' was split horizontally into two parts. The lower part stayed on the ground but the upper part was rising up to Clemont's shoulder due to a small pole pushing it up, and then the upper part tilted so that it stood upright.
After that the upper transformed. At first it grew. Then it formed into a grid of a fan. And at last, rotor blades were formed.
The whole process took just a few seconds. The expression of Meyer was indescribable.

"Umm… Wow? Clemont, that was a … umm nice transformation! So what can it do?" To Clemont's dad it looked like a normal fan but he didn't want to say before he actually started it because he didn't want to pulverize Clemont's pride as an inventor. So he waited.

"Now look" And with that Clemont pressed another button which was on the back of the grid.
Slowly, the rotor blades started to move faster and faster. After a few seconds they reached their maximum and unsurprisingly, it cooled them down just like a normal fan.
Surprisingly, it did its job good if one considers the fact that it was built by none other than Clemont. It was rather silent for a fan.

He sweatdropped at seeing its function and asked Clemont: "Umm… Clemont is that all?" in the hope that it wasn't just some ordinary fan.

"Of course not! I built in some special functions." Clemont answered proudly. He pressed another button on the back and then the rotor blades stopped moving and the grid transformed back to its original form. It tilted itself back so that it was lying horizontally on the pole. After that, small openings were created on each side of it. Half a minute later, cool air was streaming out of the openings.

After feeling the cool air Meyer asked Clemont: "So it's also an A/C?", feeling his faith in Clemont's inventor skills returning.

"Yes you could say that but I prefer the name 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000'" Clemont said, sweat dropping.

"And as always, your names you give your inventions are just bad." Bonnie commented.

"Huh Bonnie when did you get here?" Meyer asked his daughter

"Not too long ago, I guess. I just saw how the fan transformed into an A/C. So it is basically a 2 in 1 air cooler, right?"

"No Bonnie it's the 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000' not some ordinary fan or A/C!" Clemont pouted

'It's just like the alarm clock he built for me, or better said just to wake me up. What was the name again? Nah, it doesn't matter' Bonnie thought.

"And also it has a small feature." Clemont added proudly

"And what is this 'feature'?" Bonnie asked quite interested

"Now wait and see or better…" Clemont pressed the button and let his sentence end like this because he didn't want to spoil the surprise for them.

At first, the two of them didn't notice something different but after half a minute, something changed

"Something is different than before but I don't know what I just have a feeling about it." Bonnie asked, thinking really hard about it. But in the end she couldn't find the answer

"Yes something really feels differently now. But what is it?" Mr. Meyer got curious as well

"Hu hu hu. You two can't find the answer right? Do you want a hint?" Clemont asked, feeling completely superior.

"Tell us!" Bonnie begged

"Okay, close your eyes." Clemont kind of demanded them.
And with that the two of them closed their eyes.
"Now imagine the clear and beautiful. The mysterious black/ blue the endless amount of stars and maybe but just maybe a shooting star.
Bonnie and her dad did as he told and then they completely knew what was different.

For them, it was like the extraordinary ordinary summer evening. They were imagining the beautiful night sky while the 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000' blew out balmy breezes, occasionally. And in addition, the air that came out of the invention, was scenting different. It didn't smell artificial. But it slightly had the summer fragrance in it but of course the air which was coming out of an invention, couldn't replicate mother nature's breeze.

Bonnie and Meyer were so engrossed I their own summer evening so that they didn't realize that they were there for almost five minutes.
For the first four minutes, Clemont didn't want to bring them back to the real world because which inventor didn't want to see the satisfied expression on the faces of his clients but as the fifth minute started Clemont got bored and had enough of their looks on their faces. So he tried bringing them back by saying: "Umm... guys? You can open your eyes again. You've been doing it for almost five minutes. If you stay like this any longer, you'll miss the real summer evening."

But his attempt was fruitless so he shook them but they were so deep in trance so that they didn't snap back. Seeing things as they were, Clemont didn't have any other option left so he pressed another button on his invention and in an instant it transformed into a heater.

*sigh*

"Sorry guys. I know that we're in the middle of summer right now but I didn't have any other choice left." Clemont apologized in advance

Slowly, the summer night feeling vanished and the summer day heat appeared. Clemont walked out of the room because he couldn't stand the heat in his blue jumpsuit.

The dream world of two certain people slowly faded away. After one minute they got back to reality.
They were already sweating like crazy.

"Daddy why is it so hot in here?"

"I don't know, Bonnie. How long have we been dreaming?" Meyer asked back

"No too long, I guess. Probably one minute?"

"Hey where did your brother go?"

Meanwhile

"Man the heat got me. I am so thirsty right now. I guess I'll get something to drink." Clemont just talked to himself completely forgetting his family.

Back to Meyer and Bonnie

"Daddy, we need to turn it off! Your customers are going to arrive soon!" Bonnie panicked

"Yeah I know" Meyer answered. He walked to the 'heater' and looked at its panel. Surprisingly, there were a lot of buttons. Meyer sweatdropped even more after seeing the ridiculous number of buttons. Not knowing where his genius of a son is and which button does what, Meyer just randomly pressed a button.

*click*

The temperature rose again.

"Umm… dad? Is it just me or did it get just hotter?" Bonnie asked

"I don't know which one the button to turn it off is. There are so many."

"Umm… dad? Could it be… a customer?" Bonnie asked Meyer again sweat dropping much more, partly due to the heat.

"Oh oh, I guess we're screwed."

"Just press some more buttons! We don't have time to lose here!" Bonnie demanded.

So that's the reason why Meyer pressed all of the buttons. At that moment the customer entered the shop

"Hell- "

*Boom*

The invention exploded just as the customer greeted them.

A lot of smoke left the shop through the door which was opened by the customer, who by the way lies groaning on the ground.

"lo" The end of his greeting

The three of them had afros instead of their usual hair style, even Meyer, who was wearing a hat.

"What happened?!" Clemont asked as he entered the shop. He was completely shocked. He heard a loud explosion and immediately rushed towards the shop. Three persons were lying on the ground midst destroyed distorted parts. They were covered in soot and had afros while a bit smoke left their mouth. But what shocked him the most was that the thing which caused the explosion, was his own invention.

"No way…" Clemont muttered

"Big bro… Back to the draw board…" Bonnie said with swirly eyes right after dropping onto the floor again.

"Oh Clemont, what did you do this time?" Meyer asked him but Clemont didn't know how to answer, feeling ashamed

The two of them just were just sitting there in silence until…

*cough*

The two of them looked instantly to the source of the cough. It wasn't Bonnie. She was still lying on the floor. The two of them exchanged glances and said: "Oh crap..."

"Dad what do we do now? There's a customer lying on the floor" Clemont asked his father as he panicked, cold sweat was running down his face as he realized that e hurt a customer

"What do I know?! Okay We've got to calm down first… Clemont!"

"Yes?!"

You take care of Bonnie and I'll take care of the customer." Meyer got his composure back and found because of that the solution, but yes it was a quite simple one

"Understood!" And with that Clemont picked up Bonnie and left the shop.

"So what should I do now? …I guess I'll just carry him over to the couch and wait for him to wake up" So Meyer picked the customer up and carried him over to the couch in the living room.

Now, he was sitting there… He didn't take a closer look at him up until now. The man was wearing a white coat with a blue shirt under it. The man had black hair was actually quite tall but surprisingly pretty light for his height. He wore really tight looking jeans and he had a pretty weird hairstyle but still one could say that he was somehow good looking. Anyway, the man looked familiar to Meyer but he couldn't find the answer.

Then after a while the man regained consciousness and instantly asked, "Huh?... What happened?"

"Ah I see you are finally awake. And here I was wondering when you'd ever wake up. Ok First things first, I really sorry for causing you trouble and injuring you. It was just an accident. And you are in the living room of my house. You were for quite a while unconscious. So I brought you here?"

Ah it's no problem. You see, it happens actually quite often to me. So it's no big deal. Let's just forget about it, ok?" While saying that the mysterious man sat up and stretched out his hand.

"Ok!" Meyer took his hand and tightly shook it

"Ah! How rude of me, I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Sycamore."

"Nice to meet you, Mr. Sycamore. I'm Meyer"

The two of them continued their little conversation. Sycamore asked some more questions about the incident and other stuff.
So that's how Meyer and Sycamore became acquainted with each other without Clemont, who admires the famous Pokémon professor Sycamore, knowing that this was his first encounter with prof. Sycamore and secondly that his dad's friends with him since then.

Back to the other flashback before Clemont met Ash at Clemont's house located in Lumiose City

'Now that I think about it again, I don't think that it is a good idea. I mean, a customer got involved in the accident with my 'Improve the atmosphere, regulate the temperature in order to get more customers 3000'. So I better don't do something which involves customers for a while. But I still wonder who that customer was. I never got to see him afterwards. Anyway, back to the main problem. How can I help dad?
So I need something which can help dad but it shouldn't help him with the shop. Then is dad doing when he's not busy with the shop?'
Clemont was still wondering about what to invent in order to help his dad.

Clemont kept thinking, 'What can I build to relieve him of a burden? What is he doing else other than watching the shop?' although the solution was actually quite simple, Clemont couldn't find it.
But then he heard plates breaking*crack*. Instantly, Clemont rushed to the kitchen in order to see if everything's all right. He ran through the hallway right to the kitchen a d barged in and instantly asked: "Dad, are you alright?".

"Yeah Clemont, I'm fine. I just dropped some plates." Meyer replied, scratching the back of his head, seemingly embarrassed.

"And here I thought that something happened to you."

"Nah don't worry, son. That plate just slipped out of my hand while I was cleaning it."

At that moment Clemont had a sudden inspiration. It was a great yet easy idea. However, Clemont felt completely overwhelmed by his own inspiration.
Thereupon, Clemont exclaimed: "That's it!" and ran into his inventing, leaving his father alone again.

Back to the present

"Ah maaannn… That is how I invented that thing. I built it even before I met Ash. So it is actually one of my older inventions. It's a miracle that it is still working without exploding even once. Hmm… What was the name of it again?" Clemont talked quietly to himself.

"Huh the name? I think it was something like: 'Wash the dishes without breaking it Mark 1!'" Bonnie added

"Oh yeah that was it! Thanks, Bonnie! Wait! How long have you been standing there?"

"Not too long, I guess. Come on Bro, it is getting late let's get to sleep.

"I guess you're right. I am even finished with the cleaning. I was just thinking about the old times."

"Yeah I know. I heard it. And since when did you start talking to yourself?" Bonnie giggled after she said it.

"Come on Bonnie, I was just thinking about the old times." Clemont felt kind of embarrassed because of Bonnie watching him while he talks to himself.

"Yeah yeah, tell that yourself next time."

After a few seconds the two of them broke into laughter. The two siblings laughed and laughed until one couldn't take it anymore. After a while the laughter died down and Clemont and Bonnie didn't feel tired anymore. So both went back to the tables and sat down.
They talked about the most various things. Be it small stories of the past, Clemont's ideas for future inventions or Bonnie's small Pokémon talk. The two of them were just having fun and enjoyed the rest of the evening.

Summer evenings are just great. There's nothing one can complain about it. But those summer evenings aren't just there to feel somewhat nostalgic. They're there for one so that one can create some memorable small memories of your youth shared with your friends or family.

The next morning; Ash's P.o.V.

Zzzzzzz….

Mmmmm…

"What is this sensation?"

"My hand is grabbing something soft. What is it? It is also warm"

"Ash, be gentle" I heard Serena whispering

"Huh?"

I squeezed the weird thing, which was under below my hand palm. It felt soft and was so warm and also a bit…

"CHUUUUU!"

Electric

Instantly, I opened my eyes. I was still inside my tent. I looked to the left and saw that the sleeping bag was already empty. Wait I was shocked, wasn't I? I looked to the right and saw that my partner Pikachu was under my hand. He looked mad. Probably because I squeezed a bit too hard.

"Sorry Pikachu, I guess I was dreaming something weird. I still don't know what the heck I was dreaming about?"

Our main Heroine; 3rd Person

Suddenly Serena, who was lying sleeping and dreaming inside her sleeping back, jumped up with a full face blush.

"Dreaming about kissing Ash?" Bonnie, who was sitting beside her and played with Dedenne, asked Serena teasingly

"N-not really" Serena hid in her sleeping bag again to avoid eye contact with Bonnie, fearing that she might find something out. However, a giant question mark was hovering above Bonnie's head. So she decided to let things be and left the tent.

Girls hit puberty earlier than boys, simple biology.


Hey guys! Sorry that this isn't a real chapter. You know this some kind of Author's note. But 'cause I really hated those empty updates, I decided to at least write something in here. So I called it Omake which means extra or something like that. It is basically just a one-shot. But I just wrote something, that was in my head, in here. And the last part is kind of cliché, I know that.

Small message of this Omake: It is summer and most of you are young. So don't spend your whole summer with reading fanfics or staying at home. Go out and just do something with your friends and occasionally with your family. Enjoy your youth wisely. Trust me you will regret it if you miss something and just lose your time by watching tons of anime/manga/fanfics/books etc. Just purely enjoy your life at its best time, guys. Anime etc. can until you really have nothing to do, 'kay?

And here is the author's note: The next chapter of the story will come later than expected. I'm having a hard time writing it somehow. I don't know why. It was actually quite easy to write this. I wrote the words freely in here only with a few breaks for thinking but when I try to write chapter 8, I have lots of breaks. So it may even come out at the end of summer. But I will try my best finishing during my vacations.

And of course, thank you guys for more than 6000 views. Never expected that. Also, 23 favorites and follows, tha's quite the feat for me. It kinda makes me proud.

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So again thanks guys and enjoy your vacations!