When Ash got back to the apartment, he found that Dawn was fast asleep in one of the beds. She was in the pajamas that she brought, and she was turned to the left with some of her hair laying over her face.

Ash looked at her for a moment, he actually found her to be adorable.

Gosh, now that I'm not trying so hard to not pay attention to that. I'm even finding my friend to be attractive. Now I'm looking back to Sinnoh when I found her just another girl. I was so focused on May I wouldn't even look at Dawn like that. Ash decided to end those thoughts for now and suggested to himself that he should get himself some sleep for tomorrows round.

Then Pikachu jumped on his head from his shoulder and pushed Ash's hat down. Pikachu was obviously playing as Ash tried to grab him. Pikachu jumped from his head to the bed and spread out his body as much as possible.

"Your not hogging a whole bed again, especially when we hav a guest" Ash grabbed the electric mouse with both hands and shook him wildly. The rodent pokemon gave him a slight shock so he'd let go as Pikachu then recaptured the bed and then jumped at ash, tackling him.

Ash fell back but used his arms to make sure he wasn't landing on his behind. He jumped up and picked up Pikachu once more and threw him by mistake; near Dawn. Pikachu landed on Dawn's bed up against her back. That's when Dawn turned over and was facing Pikachu. Her arms moved over the yellow pokemon and held him in.

Pikachu was now under the predicament of being held tight by Dawn; he couldn't even begin to get out of it without waking her. Kind of Ironic because all of that noise from didn't wake

Ash however found victory in this. "I win Pikachu,"

Pikachu sighed. Then Ash went to sleep.

In the morning, Dawn woke up in the predicament, as she found an electric pokemon asleep in her arms. She looked to Ash's bed where she found that he was missing.

Must be training already, She thought. She slipped out of her bed wanting not to wake Pikachu.

After a quick shower, she found Pikachu awake waiting on her.

"Say Pikachu, I noticed where you were." Dawn fastened her bracelet.

Pikachu looked down as if he had failed her, "Pikachu…"

"It's okay," Dawn smiled as she rubbed his head. Dawn in fact, enjoyed having Pikachu there. But she wasn't going to begin to say that.

Pikachu lead Dawn to where Ash was obviously training. It was a certain facility inside the hotel that had a blue-padded floor. Ash's Garchomp, and his Lucario were facing off in pitch combat. Garchomp appeared to be winning. While Heracross, Charizard, and Crawdaunt watched on the sidelines.

"Lucario, Aura Sphere! Garchomp defend!" Lucario quickly prepared a shining blue ball; it was launched at Garchomp who put his wing up to defend against it. When the aura crashed into the wing; Garchomp was pushed back a little but the energy from the attack was gone.

"Excellent work my friend. Now let's try a focus blast." Lucario began to prepare the blast.

"Ash?"

Ash shifted his head to see his good friend. "Ah you finally woke up; I guess you were surprised about Pikachu's presence?" Lucario's focus blast dissipated when he took notice of the coordinator approaching with Pikachu.

"Actually yes."

"It was actually pretty funny; Pikachu and I were roughhousing when I threw Pikachu accidentally in your direction. You twitched when he fell next to you; you actually pulled him in during your sleep."

Dawn slapped herself, "Sorry Pikachu," she realized she was part of the problem as well.

"Pika!" Pikachu accepted her apology.

Dawn tried to redirect the conversation, "I didn't know you had a Lucario, or Garchomp."

Ash smirked, "This is kind of funny too, I was training Crawdaunt and Charizard in Coronet two years ago when I saw Riolu (or Lucario) running from a small group of Gible. They were trying to attack Riolu with using dragon rage. Of course I stood up for him, Crawdaunt and Charizard made short work of them. I decided to capture the leader of the Gible, who is now Garchomp. When I said farewell to Riolu, he actually followed me. At first I thought he was just heading in the same direction, which was until he started tugging on my pantleg. I offered him the chance to come with me, he was overjoyed, since I didn't have a spare poke ball on me; Pikachu tagged along with him until we got back to a pokemon center."

"That's a cute story," Dawn complimented, Lucario was a little embarrassed from it. As Lucario turned around facing away from everyone else, out of embarrassment.

"Of course, Lucario doesn't like to be reminded of it, just because it dates back to a time he was helpless."

Dawn remembered this kind of event once before, it came a little late to her mind but she remembered. "That sounds a lot like how Paul found Chimchar."

"Infernape now; but yes, Lucario and him are actually really close friends,only natural right?"

Dawn thought of the fire monkey that once helped her and Ash out a long time ago back in Coronet. I'll be looking forward to seeing him now.

"Hey Ash," Dawn asked.

"Yeah?"

"Why don't you have Infernape with you?"

"Actually, he will be here soon, since I'm facing Paul I might as well show him how great Infernape really is. Professor Oak is actually tending him reight now at the Lab. That way he's battle-ready when he gets here."

"That's cool, can't wait for the battle then."

"Neither can I, everyone has come such a long way since when I first got them, and I'm proud of every one of them. Speaking of which, Heracross will be heading back with Charizard to swap out for someone else as well.

"Who?"

"You'll find out soon enough."

Then Ash's phone could be heard from his pocket, apparently a text message was sent to him. Ash pulled out his phone to see the message.

"Looks like Drew, Leaf, and May are in the parking lot."

"Really? Awesome!" Dawn was excited she couldn't hold back the idea of seeing on of her friends again. She rushed out the door of the Gym and headed down the hall right for the exit. And that's when she saw May and Drew. She didn't care for Drew that much.

May was in an ensemble of a Red tee-shirt, black denim shorts that were obviously cut a short space above the knee-cap. You could tell, they were cut because of the loose strings at the cut point were in a fuzz. She wore black socks that went up about a few inches and she had on red and white clad shoes.

Drew on the other hand was wearing a blue vest with a white undershirt, He had on full brown pants. He was wearing glasses, which probably meant that he was maybe a businessman now or something, because his eyes must have been damaged from looking at a computer too long. But there was also another girl with Drew, A girl Dawn also remembered, she had long brown hair, a blue tank top, blue tube socks with white sneakers, and a White hat that couldn't be mistaken, It was Leaf. Another friend of Dawn's, Dawn ran up to them.

"Hey Dawn! How's it going girl!" May and Dawn high fived and began rambling on girl talk that most men probably wouldn't understand. That was until Ash showed up trying to catch up with Dawn.

"Geez Dawn, you can run, why did you need a bike when we traveled, again?" Ash panted leaning forward putting his hands on his kneecaps to catch his breath.

Dawn winked at Ash with this, "oh you should know."

What is she talking about? Then again, I don't understand half of what girls say in the first place. Why now? Ash scratched his head in wonder, then Drew started to talk to Ash.

"You missed it," Drew told Ash.

"Missed what?" Again Ash was confused

"The Wedding between Leaf and I, didn't you get my invitation?" Drew was upset.

Ash then realized something, "You didn't send it to Greenfield did you?"

"Yes I did, why?"

"Don't you know the competition switches locations every week?"

"Are you serious? I though you just got here today?" Drew mentally punched himself for being such an idiot.

"No I've been here all week actually, sorry I wasn't there though…" Ash felt bad for Drew, knowing he had wanted a friend of his there at the happiest day of his life.

"Can't be helped, just for heads up where the competition moving next week?"

"Alamos Town, they're going to use the beautiful contest hall for the final rounds of the tournament."

"Ah yes, prime location I guess, that and the Battle Tower in LaRousse."

"I heard something was damaged there, so the Tower is actually malfunctioned?"

Drew had a look of concern, "Yes, it was a minor terroristic threat, if you can call it minor. The energy routers were overloaded by the voltage only an Electivire could put out. Also there was a sudden attack of nature, huge vines started digging right through the building all over the place. It's a mess right now, and I'm really irritated about it whoever this maniac is, we'll find him; and bring him to justice." Drew tried to remain calm.

Ash could only nod to his statement, "Best of luck, and congratulations for your marriage with Leaf."