"Everyone seems to be testing me just to see how much I will bend before I break…Sorry to disappoint them, but they won't break me." - J.D. Spoon

Ash, Serena and the teenager walked down a path from the hidden gate of the cave down to the village. As the three walked down the steps Ash and Serena looked around the entire area, seeing flying Pokemon soaring in the sky even though there is a ceiling above. As for on the grassy ground, adults along with bull Pokemon work together on the fields that looked like farms while the the kids and smaller Pokemon runs around in the meadow playing and having fun with one another.

Though as Ash looked closely at the village, he saw an area that had battlefields filled with trainers of various ages battling one another along side with their pokemon. His eyes glowed with excitement but it soon died down as a shard of memory stabbed his morale once again. He turned back towards the teenager as the three finally reached the bottom of the stairs.

"Mind explaining where are we?" Ash asked but it was more of a demand than question from his tone.

The teenager didn't turned around to look at Ash but he answered anyway as they headed closer to the village.

"I thought I already told you but I guess I'll say it again, we are in a hidden village that is for special people that were disgraced by the outside world, here we train together and prosper with one another while also still having a tiny bit of connection of the outside even though we never actually interacted with the outside," the teenager said.

Ash nodded as he finally understood the place's intention and purpose. Serena looked at Ash and wondered if he was okay, she hoped that his mind isn't still tied up because of what happened before.

"You okay Ash?" Serena asked concerned.

Ash only nodded back as he turned to Serena with a fake smile.

"Yeah, of course I'm fine…" Ash was about to make up a lie but instead was saved by a squeal and cries of joys from in front of them.

Ash and Serena both turned to the direction of the squeal and noticed children running towards them like a herd of Taurus.

"Oh Arceus, out of the way!" Ash cried as he and Serena braced themselves for the onslaught.

Luckily for them the kids ran around them and surprisingly none of the two or the kids were hurt. Though as for the teenager, he was surrounded.

"Older brother Kuroda is Back!"

"Oh my Arceus, is that the pokemon from the egg?!"

"What did you see on your journey?"

"Can I see your team?"

"Can I have a piggyback ride?"

"Please tell us what was the world is like now!"

Ash and Serena sweat dropped as they felt sorry for the teenager, who they now know is Kuroda, being bombarded by the energetic children as he was unsure how to answer, Even Pichu was on his head being wary of the smiling youngsters who wanted to pet her. Thankfully a voice called out to the kids saving his hide.

"Okay children, let Kuroda have a breather, he just got back from a hard journey," a feminine voice called out.

The kids turned around and said okay as they soon ran off to another direction to find something else to play. Kuroda sigh relief as he turned to a girl who walked towards the trio. The girl seems younger than the three as she was shorter than them wearing a pink glitter dress along with pink tights and green flats with a rose clip in her jet-black hair which is back-length, her skin is pale while her eyes are grey-blue. The girl stopped in front of the three and looked at Ash and Serena before turning to Kuroda.

"So Kuroda, who are these two?" The girl said.

Kuroda looked at Ash and Serena before sighing and looked at the girl.

"Great hello Tessa, anyway, these two are…." Kuroda stopped mid sentence as he sweat dropped.

"You didn't ask their names and you brought them here, nicely done Kuroda," The girl sigh as she shook her head with disappointment.

The two looked at Ash and Serena who understood what they want to know.

"Hi there, I'm Serena Yvonne, and the guy here is Ash Ketchum," Serena introduced the two of them with a small smile.

Tessa nodded and smiled as she returned the kind introduction.

"Nice to meet you Serena and Ash, I'm Tessa Sycamore, and the guy that forgot to ask your name is Kuroda…"

"*cough* ahem" Kuroda coughed loudly for Tessa to hear which she understood immediately.

"Um...yeah that Kuroda," Tessa said smiling nervously.

Ash and Serena nodded with small smiled but also were sweat dropping on why Kuroda cut tessa off. Though their thoughts on that were cut off quickly as Tessa asked them a sudden question.

"Soo, are you two a couple or something?"

Ash and Serena blushed red as they were caught off guard with that question.

"No!" They both cried.

Tessa held her hands up innocently as she did a 'calm down' gesture. Kuroda shook his head disapprovingly from tessa's action.

"Geez, Tessa, you are exactly like you father Sycamore," Kuroda said as he placed a hand on the side of his head scratching it.

Ash and Serena had eyes of surprise as they just realized something about Tessa.

"Wait, you are Professor Sycamore's daughter?!" They both cried out.

Tessa back off nervously with a nervous smile as she nodded.

"Um yes…"

"How come Sycamore never talks about you?" Ash asked.

Tessa's expression turned to a frown as the subject is a bit touchy to her. Serena noticed this and smacked Ash on the back of the head for his stupidity.

"Ouch what was that for?!" Ash muttered angrily.

"That's for asking a question that is a bit touchy to Tessa," Serena sternly said.

"No no, It's fine, though I can only say it has to do something with a family member of mine," Tessa replied.

As the four talked to one another in the village square another figure snuck up on Kuroda with a devious smile as he got closer. Suddenly, the next thing the figure knew was that he was held in a headlock hold.

"ACK!" the figure cried out.

"Zack, next time you try to sneak up on a person, try to be more stealthy," Kuroda said with a dark expression on his face as he let go of Zack.

"Geez man, it was just a joke, can you ever laugh when she is not around," Zack said disdainfully as he massaged his wrist.

Kuroda shrugged as the other three in the back looked at the scene with interest.

"Who is that?" Serena asked pointing out to the guy who just tried to sneak up on Kuroda.

"Oh, him, that's Zack, he is a bit of an antisocial, except towards me and Kuroda and little bit of others but that's it," Tessa said with a frown.

Zack straighten out his jacket as he turned to the two trainers with a dark look. Though his expression soon changed as he saw Ash.

"Oh my Arceus, It's YOU!" Zack cried out with a smile as he pointed as Ash.

"Huh?" Ash backed away stunned by the quick expression change of Zack.

Zack ran in front of Ash as he jumped up and down like a kid.

"You are the best man, I saw your battles and the way you treated people and pokemon, you are my Idol, my champion, my….ACK!"

Tessa got a tick as she grabbed Zack's hair and pulled on it as she dragged him away.

"How come whenever we are around you act sort of friendly and when Ash just comes in, you suddenly become happy like a kid getting a present," Tessa growled as she dragged Zack to somewhere else leaving Ash, Serena, and Kuroda sweat dropping at the scene.

"Okay, well that was interesting," Ash said nervously as he chuckled a little.

Kuroda didn't say anything as he turned to Ash and looked at him for a while thinking on what Zack just said. Though his thought was cut off as Zack and Tessa came back with Zack rubbing his head in annoyance and pain.

"Okay, well I got to do something, I think Tessa will show you two around," Kuroda said as he was about to leave but Zack stopped him in his tracks.

"Oh no you don't, you and I have a promise to fulfill," He said as he grabbed Kuroda's arm.

"What?" Kuroda said with an eyebrow raised at Zack.

"Battle field, now," Zack demanded.

Battlefield

Kuroda and Zack are on the battlefield opposite ends of each other while Tessa, Ash, and Serena were on the sidelines watching the two trainers.

Ash though, showed a sad and uninterested look as he watched the two trainer take out their pokeballs and enlarged them, but something about this battle made Ash want to see it.

"So what is this little promise that Kuroda and Zack agreed on?" Serena asked Tessa.

"Apparently, Before Kuroda left on his journey five years ago, He and Zack agreed that when Kuroda comes back, the two will have a battle to see who is the strongest," Tessa said.

"FIVE YEARs ago, wow that is a long time….wait, how old is Kuroda and Zack..and you?" Serena said.

"Well lets see, Kuroda and Zack should be your guys' age, so they probably are fourteen years old, while I am 12 now," Tessa said calculating the years and ages.

"Wow, so that means they made that promise when they were both nine years old...wait, doesn't that means you were seven years old at that time?" Serena asked.

"You are right on target Serena!" Tessa smiled.

"HEY, Can you two girls stop chit chatting and one of you be a referee!?" Zack yelled.

Tessa huffed and walked over to the referee box as she raised a hand up.

"Okay, this is a…?" Tessa looked at the two boys with a questioning look as she doesn't know what type of battle this is.

"Let's just have this be a one on one battle, I rather not waste anymore time than I should," Kuroda said as he tossed the pokeball in his hand up in the air while catching it and repeating it again.

"Okay, this is a one on one pokemon battle, no substitution, winner will be decided once a pokemon is defeated, now send out your pokemon and battle begin!" Tessa yelled as threw her hand down signalling the battle has begun.

"Okay then, Gardevoir, show him how much we grown from the past!" Zack yelled as he sent out his pokemon.

Gardevoir landed on the battlefield softly as particles sparkled around her, not just that, Gardevoir's color is blue instead of green, shocking Ash and Serena.

"That's a shiny!" Ash said with awe.

Kuroda looked at Gardevoir before smiling as he replaced the pokeball in his hand with a different one. Zack's eyes widen as he realized which pokemon Kuroda is about to choose.

"No way, is that…." Zack said nervously.

Kuroda only nodded as he threw the pokeball in the air. Out of the pokeball, a Charmeleon landed on the battlefield and slammed his claw in the ground cracking it a bit as he opened his eyes and looked at his opponent. Ash and Serena eyes widen as they noticed that the Charmeleon is not normal or shiny.

"Wait..That Charmeleon's fire is blue, and his eyes are golden…."Ash said worriedly.

"That is Kuroda's Charmeleon, he is a bit different from your average Charmeleon, in fact, it is genetic mutation if you get my drift," Tessa explained.

On the battlefield, Zack gulped but still has a determined look as he clenched his hand into a fist. Kuroda on the other hand has one hand in his pocket as he put on his hood hiding his upper face while his other hand is hanging on his side.

"First move is your's" Kuroda said emotionless shocking Ash and Serena again.

"Shit, okay then We'll have to go out strong then, ready Gardevoir?" Zack said as he pulled up his sleeve revealing a bracelet with a rainbow orb embedded in it.

Gardevoir turned to Zack and nodded as she also revealed having a bracelet with an orb on her wrist as well.

"Okay then, Gardevoir, beyond evolution and extra power, sync with my mind and heart, MEGA EVOLVE!" Zack yelled as Gardevoir yelled back in response.

Light emerge from the two as Gardevoir started to mega evolve, Once the light faded, Gardevoir's dress is more bigger and her stub on the center of her chest enlarged to have a huge crest on her chest.

"So you really are scared of losing," Kuroda said with a poker face.

"Shut up, I am beating you like before except this time, I know what Charmeleon is capable of," Zack said gritting his teeth.

"In that case, no holding back then, Charmeleon, Molten Claw!" Kuroda placed a hand out as he sent out his first command.

"Gardevoir, Shadow Ball!" Zack yelled.

Charmeleon's claws turned into metal signalling a metal claw but except the claws started to heat up and turn red with steam as they were heating up. Gardevoir focused her mind as several black orbs formed around her. Charmeleon charged at her with speed that is incomprehensible but Gardevoir also launched volley after volley of shadow balls at Charmeleon's direction and was about to hit him full on like a machine gun.

"Cut them all down," Kuroda said.

Charmeleon's eyes started to glow a bit brighter as he dodged the orbs and also cutting some that were in reach of his claws neutralizing them.

"Gardevoir, use Psychic and launch Charmeleon away!" Zack yelled.

"Don't even try," Kuroda said emotionlessly to Zack's shock.

Gardevoir's eyes glowed pink as she placed her hands out towards Charmeleon but to her surprise, Charmeleon slammed his heated claws into the ground exploding the ground around him with rocks flying around him and smacked the rocks at Gardevoir hitting her in the face and cancelling Psychic causing Zack to become a bit angry.

"Urgh, fine then, Gardevoir, can you still go?" Zack called out to his pokemon as she was wiping the gravel and dust from her face.

"Garde-voir!" Gardevoir nodded as she looked at Charmeleon with a new look of impression.

"Okay then, let's use our special move, Shadow sneak into Giga Impact!" Zack yelled.

Gardevoir dissolved into the ground as she snuck into Charmeleon's shadow and popped up behind him.

"Protect," Kuroda said.

Charmeleon placed his arms in an x forming a green bubble in front of him as Gardevoir charged at him in a pink aura surrounding her. She directly ran into Charmeleon's protect but with the amount of impact placed into her attack, Charmeleon was launched a few meters away taking some minor damage.

"Ha, we got you now, use moonblast!" Zack yelled with a smirk.

Kuroda stood there not talking one bit as Gardevoir charged up a white-pink orb in her hands and prepared to launch it at Charmeleon who was getting up slowly.

"Checkmate, let a rip Gardevoir!" Zack yelled.

Gardevoir threw the orb at Charmeleon with force, as the orb almost reached Charmeleon, Kuroda made a quick command.

"Extreme speed,"

As the attack reached Charmeleon, his form was suddenly a blur as he dodged the attack and appeared back in front of Kuroda.

"What?!" Zack yelped in surprise along with Gardevoir.

Kuroda then took off his hood as he smiled with a type of energy in his eyes which gave a chill to Zack.

"Time's up Zack," Kuroda said as he held a hand out to Charmeleon and closed his eyes and began focusing.

"Urgh, Gardevoir don't him have a chance, use shadow claw!" Zack yelled worriedly.

SideLine

"Wait aren't the maximum of moves a pokemon can use is four?" Ash asked.

Tessa gave him a look of confusion which he looked back at her with a questioning look.

"What?" Ash asked.

"You didn't know? Pokemon actually can learn more than four moves, but it is on the trainer's memorization and also trust in their pokemon's abilities that decides the amount of moves a Pokemon can use," Tessa explained.

"Oh cool," Ash said awed as his mood changed slightly.

"Um guys, when was there a crowd?" Serena asked.

Ash and Tessa turned behind them and noticed the people of the village and also the kids were watching with interest at the battle ongoing.

"Woah…" Tessa said with a smile and an eyebrow raised before turning her attention back to the battlefield.

BattleField

"Come on Gardevoir you can do this, use shadow ball!" Zack said desperately.

"Too late now," Kuroda said as his body is radiating a green and blue aura while Charmeleon glowed dark blue.

"Crap...Gardevoir use Calm Mind three times and charge up a hyper Beam!" Zack yelled.

"Okay Charmeleon, let's do this, power among the evolved, wisdom from the young, and bond between trainer and partner, Unleash power that is beyond evolution, Mid-Megavolution!" Kuroda yelled as he held out a hand in front of him towards Charmeleon with his eyes turning from green to golden green.

Charmeleon roared as he is engulfed in a fiery orb and his form changed. His arms grew small wings near his wrist, his one stub turned into three stubs with the middle longer than the other two on the side, his mouth then formed blue fire on the corners and his eyes turned to golden green as Kuroda's. The fire orb exploded revealing Charmeleon as a blackish and orange Charmeleon with the features of mega Charizard x and y.

"What the heck?!" Zack yelp in surprise at the form of Charmeleon.

"Surprise? Now Charmeleon, use Dragon Call!" Kuroda yelled as he reached out with one hand like he is sending energy to Charmeleon as Charmeleon's surrounding suddenly formed fire as he absorbed them around him.

"Crap, crap, Gardevoir Ready that Hyper beam and use Psychic to speed it up!" Zack yelled.

Gardevoir was now nervous but carried on her attack as now the orange and white ball of energy above her head is larger than one of the meteors of draco meteor.

As for Charmeleon, fire is now circling around him as his eyes then started to glow even more and the fire also took shape above him into a large silhouette of a Charizard.

"Fire at Will!" Zack yelled.

"Launch full strength!" Kuroda yelled.

Both pokemon launched their attacks simultaneously as Gardevoir's Hyper beam took shape of a spear thanks to Psychic and sped towards Charmeleon at blinding speed with Charmeleon's charizard silhouette flying towards Gardevoir with the same speed. The two moves scraped against each other as they continued towards their targets, hitting them both directly and causing a massive explosion.

"Gardevoir!"

"..."

Sideline

"Arceus Crist!"

"What an Explosion!"

"MY EYES!"

"AAHH!"

Everyone on the sidelines covered their eyes and braced themselves as the wind picked up and blew at them with such power that adults had to hold onto kids to keep them from flying away. Serena, Ash, and Tessa covered their eyes as well to prevent the dust from getting into them.

"What power!" Serena cried as she had one hand down at her tattered dress to keep it from flying upward.

"You can say that!" Tessa yelled back in reply as she did the same with her dress.

"Dang….These two sure are tough," Ash said as he held onto his hat while also using it to cover his eyes.

BattleField

The wind finally calmed down as the explosion as well started to end along with the smoke also about to disappear.

"Who won…" Zack muttered as he slowly put his hands down from his face seeing that Kuroda had his hands in his pocket and his eyes closed.

Suddenly Kuroda yelped in pain as he fell down on one knee holding his chest tightly. As for Zack, he saw two lights on the battlefield glowing momentarily before disappearing along with the smoke.

"No way…" Zack said awed.

There on the field Gardevoir and Charmeleon are back to their original forms but were on their knees gasping of exhaustion as the two were stubborn on not losing.

Tessa walked up to the referee line and was about to call out that it was a tie but then Gardevoir fell down onto her hands and gasping in pain with Charmeleon struggling to get up on one knee.

"Um...I guess this is now depending on who forfeits…" Tessa said nervously.

Zack looked at Kuroda who looked like he was still in pain but he gave Zack a weak nod which Zack understood.

"I think we both know who won the battle, it was a tie," Zack said with a shrug.

"This battle is officially done, Both sides lost and forfeit so it is a tie!" Tessa announced.

On the sidelines the audience cheered and clapped as they got a well deserved battle and entertainment from their usual daily lives. Though it ended shortly as everyone walked back to whatever they were doing and it seems like the battle was just a short event except for the kids play pretending like they were battling as they ran along.

Tessa, Ash and Serena walked over to the two boys as both Kuroda and Zack returned their pokemons thanking them for battling then Zack helped Kuroda up since he was still a bit too weak to stand up on his own.

"Was that Bond Phenomenon?" Ash asked Kuroda who looked like his life was sucked out.

"Not really...it is in the general area but it does have mega evolution in the process as well," Kuroda said.

"Huh, interesting…" Ash said awed.

"Yeah…." Kuroda said before he collapse into unconsciousness.

"KURODA!" everyone cried.

Though their worries were replaced with relief as he was snoozing with one arm support of Zack.

"I think it is best if you guys do something else, I will bring Kuroda to the Medical Center, besides, we both need to heal our pokemon anyway," Zack said to the others as he carried Kuroda alongside with him and both walked into the village plaza which is not that far from the battlefield.

"So what now?" Serena asked.

Tessa looked at the two before smiling and clapped her hands together.

"Time for a shopping spree!"

"Really, okay!" Serena smiled in response.

"...oh boy…" Ash muttered with a look of 'this is not good'.

Preview of next chapter(notice-previews are to be like a little beta of what next chapter is like, so don't really believe that the theme of next chapter is actually in preview)-

Ash, Serena and Tessa walked around in a store that was located somewhere in the village and were picking out new clothes for the two so that Ash and Serena can change out of their old ones. Though just as Serena was about to pick an outfit from one of the hangars, a blue and purple cloud puff popped out from it.

"Pew-Pew!"

"Aaahh!"

"Serena!" Tessa and Ash ran over only to find Serena on the ground with the bue and purple cloud puff floating above her looking worried.

"Pew?"

"Nebby?" Tessa said looking at the pokemon.

"Pew Pew!" It cried happily as it floated into Tessa's arms.

"Nebby! Where are you!" a voice cried out worriedly.

"Lillie?" Tessa questioned.

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