The gang only remained in shock as they watch the 2 legendary Pokémon in a battle between their future selves.
F/Ash's Pokémon is a huge, bird-like creature with white, shined feathers with blue on the edges. The lugia looked remarkably familiar from Ash's past.
F/Dawn's Pokémon is a dragon-like creature with purplish pink lines and a round pearl on its arm. It could be the same one that she saw before.
"Ho- How is this possible...?" Brock managed to say.
"I-I have a Palkia…? Dawn said.
"And I have a Lugia?" Ash said
"Pika!"
"Yo Brock! Ain't ya gonna call the battle?" F/Ash said impatiently.
"R-Right! Let the battle begin!" Brock stammered but he swung his hand down to start the battle.
"Lugia, use Aeroblast!" As F/Ash commands it, Lugia opened his mouth and made his blue scales drop down and a form of air appeared in his mouth and shot it to the palkia.
"Palkia, Protect!" Before it came to collide, F/Dawn commanded Palkia to protect by making an orb around him to take the Aeroblast. The collision of the attack was so devastating that the wind was bending the trees, even managed to get rid of some.
"Holy Crap!" said Ash taking cover with his own arms.
"So powerful!" said Dawn doing the same thing.
"Pikachuu!" Pikachu hid inside Ash's backpack to take cover from the ferocious battle between legendaries.
"Thi-this is too much!" Brock had the worst luck since he was in between the blast.
"Palkia! Use Power Gem!" Palkia did as she told and the powerful palkia lifted both his arms up in the sky and bright glowing gems appeared on top of his hands. Palkia then use the massive gems and thrown them to the Lugia, which took a direct hit.
"Lugia!" F/Ash cried as his lugia was falling to the ground with so much force, that when he crashed it practically made a huge crater.
"Alright! He's down!" shouted F/Dawn as Palkia roared in victory.
"But he's not out! Lugia, use Roost!" The fallen Lugia managed to get up from the newly created crater and uses his massive wings to cover himself, making his body glow green.
The glow seems to be healing the injuries as the wounds from the Power Gem slowly starts to heal.
"Oh no you don't, I'm not letting you heal that easily." F/Dawn then orders her Palkia to stop Lugia's Roost.
"Palkia use Power Gem again!" The Palkia lifted his arms once more and the glowing gems appeared again, but the gems then began turning smaller, and finally disappeared.
"W-what? What happened to Palkia's Power Gem? Palkia?" When the attack didn't work, F/Dawn looked at her Palkia. She notices that Palkia was panting frantically as the move took too much power from Palkia.
"Palkia, what's wrong? Are you sick?" While F/Dawn worries for her Palkia, F/Ash smiled and F/Dawn took a glance at him.
"Ash, what have you done to Palkia? F/Dawn said.
"Nothing, really." replied F/Ash.
"Then why he's so tired?"
"It's because of Lugia's ability." F/Ash stills smiles.
"Ability? You mean Pressure?"
"That's right."
"That's impossible, even if it is Pressure, there's no way that Power Gem could have used that much power."
"But… what if I discovered a way to strengthen his Ability?"
"Wha- what do you mean?" F/Dawn's face turned worried.
"Strengthen his ability?" Ash said as he watches the battle with Dawn and Pikachu under the table.
"Could there be such a thing?" Brock said as he watches at a safe distance, about 30 meters away.
"This method I found out lets me strengthens my Pokémon's Abilities, to make the Ability itself stronger!"
"W-which means!"
"Yep, with Lugia's 10x Pressure, Palkia's Power Gem is completely gone!" Everyone gasped, especially F/Dawn, on how Lugia could be the most fearsome Pokémon ever to be faced.
"T-That's amazing! With only just one move, the future me can't use it anymore!" Dawn's eyes widened while Ash only watches at how his future self found a way to strengthen more his Pokémon.
"No way… that's so freaking scary." Brock battled Ash once when they first met, so he's astounded at how strong Ash would be in 10 years time.
While everyone was surprised, Lugia used this chance to recover completely after that blast, as he uncovered his wings and flap them powerfully to show his perfect health with a roar that reaches on a 20-mile radius.
"Oh no! Lugia recovered!" F/Dawn starts worrying even more now that she can't use her Palkia's moves more than once.
"Lugia! Let's finish this battle with a Dragon Rush!" as F/Ash commanded, Lugia lowered his body with his legs, and then plunged into the air with strength enough to blast away every tree that's left.
When Lugia reached into the air, he put his wings behind him while his blue scales dropped down as his whole body is covered with a purplish pink and yellow lined aura. He spotted the Palkia as the target and immediately swooped down at a 180 mph to the Palkia. F/Dawn knew that with this much distance, one attack from that would take Palkia out.
"Palkia, Use Protect!" F/Dawn ordered Palkia to protect himself once more by realizing an orb around him. But the orb disappeared and Palkia was once again panting.
"Damn it! I forgot that I already used Protect!" F/Dawn tries to think of a plan before Lugia makes the impact.
"Oooh, I really don't want to use it, but I have no choice." mumbling to herself, F/Dawn decided to make a forbidden move.
"Palkia, use Spacial Rend!" And with that, Palkia was surprised and looks at her to see if she was serious. Palkia then put his arm in front of him while he charges all his power from his pearl to his arm to attack the upcoming Lugia.
"Spacial Rend?" F/Ash was surprised to see F/Dawn actually doing that move.
"Isn't that move kinda dangerous?" Dawn said to Ash.
"Well, from our experience at Alamos town, I would say… definitely." Ash remembered the time he first met Palkia at Alamos town along with Dialga and Darkrai.
"Palkia, now!" as Palkia finished charging, F/Dawn delivers the order to fire the Spacial Rend. The Palkia pulled his charged up arm back for some distance, then he swung it down to reveal a slashed like attack that was fired from the arm. The attack was heading for Lugia as he clenches his teeth to prepare himself for the collision.
"Lugia!" F/Ash screamed before the Spacial Rend and the Dragon Rush collided to make an explosion so huge it was like a nuclear bomb. Ash, Pikachu who was still in the bag, Dawn and Brock all covered from the rushing air that was hitting them with so much force.
After it finished, the entire battlefield, actually less than half of the entire forest was covered with dust smoke from the blast. F/Ash and F/Dawn was trying to see through the dust smoke to see who won.
"Lugia! You alright?" F/Ash yelled for his lugia, but there was no response.
"Well, I wouldn't be surprised if Lugia couldn't handle that much power." F/Dawn taunted as she smiles.
"Oh yea? You were pretty desperate by using that move. You sure you're confident about your Palkia?" Though F/Ash teases her, he's right.
The smoke was finally starting to clear as everyone, even Pikachu who got out of Ash's backpack, wants to know who won. As the smoke clears, it was obvious on what they saw.
The Palkia was down on the broken ground with eyes like spirals while the Lugia, who has some injuries from the Spacial Rend, stood standing in front of Palkia. Brock looked at the result and lifted his hand in the air to call the battle.
"U-Uhh… The winner of this battle belongs to Ash and Lugia!"
"Oh yeah! Way to go Lugia!" F/Ash cheers for his Lugia, who roared in victory while F/Dawn approaches her Palkia and petted his gigantic head.
"Well Palkia, you tried your best and that really counts. Thank you." The palkia looks at his trainer and roared softly while F/Dawn reaches for her Pokéball and shot out a straight, red of light and converted her Palkia into a red light and returned into the Pokéball.
"Well Ash, looks like your right. You won." F/Dawn said, congratulating F/Ash.
"Haha, it was fun battling you again!" Upon hearing that from F/Ash, F/Dawn's eyes widened as she seems to recall from a long ago memory…
It was an autumn day in Viridian city where two trainers were battling in an open field where it had many scars from battle. These 2 trainers were actually Ash and Dawn but slightly older and were batting with a Piplup and a Pikachu.
"Pikachu, use Thunderbolt!"
"Pikaaaaachuuu!" Pikachu did as he commanded and stored up electricity at his pouches at a rapid pace and launched a Thunderbolt at the Piplup.
"Piplup, you know what to do!"
"Piplup!" Knowing what Dawn means, Piplup open his beak and his body glowed light blue and a whirlpool of water came from his beak. He launched the Whirlpool to the Thunderbolt and was quickly vaporized by the Thunderbolt.
The Whirlpool's water was scattered beautifully as the droplets were everywhere, making it harder for Ash to focus and to stunned by the sight of it. But when it was over, the Piplup disappeared while Pikachu drops down to the ground, looking for the missing Piplup.
"Rrrgh, where'd he go?" grumbled Ash as he starts looking for the Piplup too.
"Pika…" Pikachu keeps looking for Piplup, but it was as if he was gone without a trace. However Pikachu's long ears popped up as Pikachu hears a whooshing sound from above. When he looked up, He found Piplup, plummeting towards Pikachu.
"Ah, up there!" Ash found the Piplup too.
"Now Piplup, use Drill Peck"
"PiiiPlup!" As Dawn commanded, Piplup stored power into his beak, making it glow white and then suddenly turned bigger than it was before. Then he corkscrewed around to make it stronger.
"Whoa! When it grew THAT huge?" Ash was astonished at how the Drill Peck grew longer than before he saw it.
"Before we fought, I trained Piplup a bit to face Pikachu. This time, he's going down!" Dawn shouted as Piplup was almost inches away from impact.
"Oh really? Pikachu, Quick Attack!" Just when Piplup was about to collide, Pikachu quickly disappeared as Piplup saw this and was terribly confused. Piplup crashed to the ground making it break.
"What the? Piplup!" Dawn's eyes widened as Pikachu was nowhere to be found and her Piplup crashed to the ground.
As the dust smoke cleared, Piplup stood up and rubbed his round head to ease the pain. Piplup realized and started to look for Pikachu quickly.
"Calm down Piplup. Pikachu haven't disappeared, he's just hiding in the trees." Reassured Dawn as she calmly looks for Pikachu where the trees with brown-colored leaves are.
Dawn looked everywhere, but she couldn't find Pikachu and Piplup was stumped. Then she looked at Ash, who wondered why he doesn't just attack already if he has such a big advantage.
"Is Ash trying to worn myself out from the pressure? Or is he just playing around?" thought Dawn as she continues to look for Pikachu. After a while Dawn spotted something brown in the bushes.
"Aha! That must be Pikachu's tail in the middle! That's gotta be it!" thought Dawn.
"Piplup, I found Pikachu, use Hydro Pump to the bush on your left!" As commanded, Piplup looked to his left and opened his beak to launch a powerful blast of water at the poor bushes.
The attack hits, but what got out of there wasn't Pikachu, but a brown-colored leaf that looks like the color of his tail.
"What?" Dawn was surprised that Pikachu use a decoy without Ash's command.
"…Now Pikachu! Use Volt Tackle!" Then out of nowhere, an urge of electricity plunged from the opposite tree to the unsuspecting Piplup. Piplup got a direct damage from the attack and was flying from it and managed to take out some trees that were in the way.
"Piplup!" Dawn went to help out Piplup while leaving Ash and Pikachu on the field alone.
"Uh oh, better check to see if he's alright." Ash said to Pikachu.
"Pika!" Pikachu ran with Ash to be at Piplup's aide, who's crashed into a boulder on his impact. Dawn found Piplup on the ground unconscious, even more worried.
"Piplup, are you ok?" Dawn lifts Piplup up who's still unconscious.
"Dawn, ya here?" Ash shouted as he and Pikachu got to Dawn's side.
"Is he alright?"
"I don't know, Piplup wake up!" Dawn slowly shook Piplup to try and awake him, which managed to work as Piplup was opening his eyes slowly and groaning from the pain.
"Piplup! Your Ok!"
"Piiii…" Piplup gently rubbed his round head to find out there was a big bump on his head, which greeted him with an excruciating pain.
"Oh man, that's a big bump." Dawn says with a worried tone.
"Man, we're really, really sorry that we did this to you!" Ash bowed down to Piplup with his hands together in the air to apologize.
"Pikachu!" Pikachu did the same.
"… Hahaha, no matter how hard we train, we'll never beat you Ash."Dawn laugh which made Ash confused.
"Huh? You're not mad at me?"
"Why should I? Cause I lost? If I was, I would be a whiner."
"But… Piplup is…"
"It's ok, thought something bad happened after that but Piplup seems just fine. Look!" Dawn showed Ash Piplup, who got out of Dawn's hands and did a proud pose.
"Piplup!"
"Ohh thank god." Ash sighed out of relief that Piplup don't have to get hospitalized.
"I thought that we would be strong enough to beat you, but I guess that's impossible since you are the new Pokémon league's Champion." Dawn sighed.
"Haha well I AM pretty strong!" After Ash said it, Dawn quickly pouted from that comment.
"Mhhp and you got pretty big-headed since you been one too."
"Hey!" Dawn laughed and so did Pikachu and Piplup as Ash blushed a bit from embarrassment.
"Even if I lost the battle, it was fun battling you again!" Ash smiled and laughed from the excitement, but that strikingly charming smile made Dawn blushing to her ears. She didn't noticed how matured Ash became, both personality AND body.
"Huh? Dawn you got a fever or something? You're red all over your face." Dawn quickly realized from what Ash said and puffed her face to hide them.
"O-Oh! It's nothing at all! I think it's just the atmosphere, yeah the atmosphere!" Dawn quickly made up a lie to fool Ash; and it worked.
"Oh then we should go back to my place, I'm sure my mom's making awesome food that'll help you out." Ash drooled from the imagination of what his mom would make for dinner; she's an extremely good cook.
"Yeah! Let's go!" Ash holds her hand to lead the way to his house, but that made Dawn blush more than usual, while Pikachu and the slow Piplup tried to catch up.
"W-what the hell is wrong with me? How come my head's all dizzy coming from Ash?" Dawn thoughts as she keeps blushing from Ash holding her hand as they go to Pallet Town for dinner…
Back to the present time, F/Dawn kept looking into outer space while it was around noon and the sun was blazing. Dawn was shaking F/Dawn to try to make her wake up. It looks like she's been doing so from the past hour.
F/Dawn's eyes widened as she woke up from her daze only to find the field completely empty and nobody was around.
"What the- where did everybody go?"
"Finally!" F/Dawn got startled on who shouted that, only to her younger self standing right next to her, exhausted from the constant shaking.
"Huh? Why are you sweating so much?"
"Because you wouldn't wake up from wherever the hell you came from! Do you know how long I was here? Everybody left because it was lunchtime and you wouldn't move a budge! So that's why I had to stay and wake you up!" Dawn panted after the rant she made to F/Dawn, who was surprised she was that pissed.
"O-Oh… sorry." She could see that F/Dawn was acting different than usual from the battle which made Dawn wonder.
"What you were thinking about anyways?"
"…Nothing, just a memory better forgotten." F/Dawn left the field leaving Dawn alone, making Dawn wanted to know even more.
"I wonder… if it's about Ash…" After that, Dawn left to to go to their campsite for Brock's lunch.
Sometime later, the gang and F/Dawn was sitting down together for lunch. F/Dawn looked around to see only Ash, Dawn, Brock and their Pokémon eating lunch, but F/Ash was nowhere to be found.
"Hey where's Ash?" F/Dawn asked, which made Ash raised his hand.
"Right here."
"Not you!"
"If you're talking about the future Ash, he's riding on his Lugia to a town that has a gas station."
"… How can you say that so easily Brock?" Dawn sweat dropped.
"I see… guess he wants to go back that badly huh?"
"Gah! I can't take it anymore!" Ash shouted, which made everyone drop their plates from the shock.
"ASH! What was that for?" Dawn stood up to see that her skirt was covered from the spilled food made from Brock.
"Sorry, but the damned secrecy is making me crazy!"
"What?"
"Dawn, I know that it's personal, but if it's including us I want to know!"
"What do I know?" Dawn shouted.
"Not you! The other Dawn!" Ash pointed at F/Dawn, who kept looking at Ash surprised.
"Actually… I want to know as well, I'm really worried about you two." Everyone looked at Brock from his statement.
"Me too, we know that you're not supposed to tell because of the law in your time, but I just can't take it anymore." Dawn also agrees.
"Pika."
F/Dawn looked at everyone, who were serious on finding out, and then looked down.
"… I can't." Everyone was shocked as she still doesn't tell.
"But why? Your us from the future right? We got a right to know!" Ash yelled at F/Dawn, who was still looking down.
"I know… but I just can't say."
"Why?" asked Dawn with a concerned face.
"Because it's just too… painful to say." Dawn quietly gasped at how F/Dawn was looking, she looked at the other side, with a painful-looking face.
"Bu-"
"Ash!" before Ash could continue, Dawn interrupted him by shouting his name.
"What is it Dawn?" Ash looks at Dawn for why she interrupted him.
"What's wrong Dawn?" asked the concerned breeder.
"We should just stop, if she, or I, doesn't want say it, then we should just let it go." hearing that from Dawn herself, the guys knew that it was real personal for F/Dawn.
"Alright, we're sorry." Ash sighed, he really wanted to know.
"We shouldn't have asked." Brock put his head down.
"No, it's alright. It's natural for you guys to want to know what's happen in the future." F/Dawn comforted the gang.
"Alright, well we should probably clean up; it's quite a mess here." Brock points to the floor which all of them caused cause of a certain trainer.
"Yea, Ash clean all this up." Dawn ordered.
"What? Why!" Ash asked.
"Who's the one that scared us and made us drop our food?" Dawn looks at Ash, obviously showing the suspect.
"Oh, right." Ash awkwardly laughed and gulped.
"Well, if anyone needs me, I'll be practicing near the pond." Dawn went ahead and took her bag with her PokéBalls and went to the pond.
"And I'll be going to the store for some groceries." Brock went ahead as well to the supermarket at Sandgem Town.
"And I'll be… cleaning this up." Ash lowered his head dejectedly and picked up the food from the ground, leaving F/Dawn to keep herself company.
"I can't tell, or else their friendship might break."