Twinleaf Town: 2 years later from the last replay chapter.

It was a deserted town, filled with ruins of buildings and dead plant life. Before it was a peaceful town, filled with kind people coexisting with their Pokémon, until the day came when the 2nd J appeared in the midst of finding celestals, the power source of time-traveling, and burned the town and everything in it to the ground. The people and Pokémon that lived there has either ran away from the horror of the 2nd J or… been caught up in it. Now it is only an empty ghost town, filled with broken memories of the good life that used to be here.

Now standing at this very town was a former resident of it. A beautiful young woman with long blue hair adorned in black clothing. It was Dawn, wearing her usual dark outfit that specifically belongs to the ACE, a newly created police force who swore to protect against illegal time-traveling. Dawn stood there, in front of her old home, now in ruins, bathed in the memories of her childhood here, as well as the people that lived there.

"Why did Twinleaf Town have to get involved…?" said Dawn, who put her hand on the wall of her old, ruined house.

"Mom… how are you doing? Are you okay…?" Dawn whispered to herself, praying that her mother, who was part of the chaos in Twinleaf, is alright.

"I'm sorry that I wasn't here when it happened… I could have prevented all of this… But I know you would say that there was nothing I could do, or that you're glad I wasn't here at all." Dawn was almost ready to cry as she kept praying.

"But I couldn't take it. So I quit being a coordinator." Dawn slowly stroked her house with sadness shaking her soul. "Please forgive me… but I have to; in order to capture the one responsible for all this." she said as she turns her hand into a fist, and gripped it tight in anger.

However, while praying, she sensed something strange in the air as if it was warping, and went around her burned house only to get shocked by the sight. It was a giant warping gate that was surrounding the entire backyard of Dawn's house. Dawn took a step back from the gate, but then realized what it could mean.

"What the? Could this be a time gate! But I never heard of someone time traveling from HQ! Then could this be an illegal travel?" Dawn saw as the warping gate was forming more and more, making Dawn get her gun from her holster that was placed at her side.

"I-I will not back down! As an ACE operative, I must track down illegal travelers and take them to justice!" she said to motivate herself, she closes in to the warping portal, and aimed her gun at it.

"W-Whoever coming out of there, you are under arrest under the C-Law, stated that whoever does unnoticed time-traveling will be punished under the court of law! Come quietly or else I will use force! (Even though this is my first bust…) " Dawn said and thought, while her legs were shaking from fear of who it might be. The gate has stopped warping, as if now it looked more stable, and soon something came out of it. However it wasn't a human foot or hand that Dawn thought of that might come out, but rather a gigantic paw that goes along a more gigantic body, making the gate extend up to the very sky, and of course making Dawn fumble and fall to the ground.

"N-No way... I-I-Is that…" Dawn stuttered as the sight she was seeing was too much. The gigantic body was a dinosaur typed Pokémon, with its body mainly covered in dark blue and various light blue lines with some gray metallic portions, which is it's chest plate, which has a diamond in the center. Upon looking at it, she knew exactly who it was from her journey when she was a kid.

"Dialga!" Dawn screamed, as the Dialga came out of the gate. Then Dialga roared with pride, but then another gate has appeared near the Dialga.

"W-What? Another one?" Dawn screamed as the other gate was also warping, then another gigantic foot came out of it as well as the rest f it's body, extending the gate it was coming out of like the first one in the process.

"A-And now it's…" Dawn noticed who it was, as the Pokémon has a light gray, white coloring with linear sections on its body being purple. Its arms and shoulders are covered by large armor plates, and each hand holds five nails. The round plates on its shoulders each have a large pearl in the center.

"Palkia!" The Palkia roared as well from getting out of the gate.

"W-W-Why is the two legendary Pokémon appearing in this town, mainly in front of me!" Dawn screamed, getting flipped out from the mayhem that's in front of her.

"Do not be afraid of us." said a loud booming voice from somewhere, making Dawn forget about her meltdown for a second and stood up to see where it came from.

"W-What the? Who's talking?" shouted Dawn, only to be responded by the same voice, and this time she knows where.

"I am." Dawn's eyes widen when she realizes who is talking to her, and pulled her eyes to the giant legend who seems to be the culprit.

"C-Could it be… Dialga?"

"That is correct Dawn." Dialga spoke with a big, booming voice, which made Dawn fall over again to the ground.

"Hahaha… what's more now that Dialga can talk… Hahaha and here I thought I seen it all from my journey." Dawn laughed weakly at the mighty presence of the two legends of Sinnoh.

"I understand that this shocks you, Dawn." said Dialga with its booming, but surprisingly gentle voice.

"Well duh! You think any human would be cool seeing us like this?" said now the Palkia with its booming, rude voice.

"Well that does it. I'm insane." said Dawn mumbling to herself after hearing that Palkia talks as well.

"No you have not gone mad Dawn. The both of us are able to speak like this a long time ago."

"T-That's telepathy isn't it?" said Dawn, getting herself up before the legends.

"Yes."

"O-Okay I understand that, but why are you both here, in this place? And how do you know my name?"

"Well we knew you for a good while now Dawn."

"A-A while? Why?" Dawn said dumbfounded.

"Because we believe that this whole mess involves you Dawn." Dialga spoke with dignity, but Dawn wasn't following him at all.

"Wait a minute, mess? What are you talking about?"

"He means this whole deal of people time traveling whenever they like!" Palkia spoke rudely, throwing a fit as he shouts and wails his arms around.

"Time traveling? You mean that's the mess?"

"W-Well, yes." Dialga said, taken aback from Palkia sudden screaming.

"But, what's wrong with it?" Dawn said, but quickly realizes as she speaks again.

"Could it because of the fact we time travel, that we're the ones causing the mess?" said the firm Dawn, causing the legendary duo to look at each other.

"Wow, this human's pretty sharp." said the rude Palkia, actually giving a compliment.

"Like I thought, I knew we could trust you." Dialga said, making Dawn blush from their comments.

"F-For what?" Dawn said, going back to the matter at hand.

"Well, during the time when the celestals were discovered and known as public knowledge, the time stream was turned unstable."

"N-No way! Already?" the surprised Dawn said in shock.

"However, with the strict C-Law, It made things easier for me to maintain its stability."

"And the space didn't seem to be affected much by this either." said the Palkia.

"I- I see." Dawn realized that these were the legendary Pokémon of time and space after all.

"However…"

"However?"

"We thought we could manage our work, but before we realized the time-space continuum was slowly ripping itself apart!" shouted Dialga.

"Y-You're joking?"

"Trust me, he's not." Palkia said.

"Getting back on topic, it seems that there was something that was purposefully messing up with the time stream, causing the space itself to warp unnaturally."

"S-Something?"

"Or someone…"

"Y-You mean to say that there's someone literally messing up time for some reason, and causing the space-time continuum to fall apart?"

"In a nutshell, yes."

"N-No way… This is all just too much for me…" Dawn fall down to her knees, trying to sort all of this in her mind to figure out.

"T-Then why not use your powers to find this guy and give him what for?" said Dawn, smashing her fist into her other hand.

"We tried, but this human is infected by celestal energy. When I tried to find out this human, the energy he's producing from constant time traveling is interfering with my powers, enabling me to find out who it is." Dialga said, lowering his head in shame.

"And without Dialga's powers, we can't do anything about it." Palkia said, this time being serious.

"N-No way…" Dawn lowered her head, but then quickly thought another plan.

"W-Wait! If you guys are the beings of time and space, then wouldn't it be easier to go back in time with Dialga's power and asked Celebi to stop itself from making the celestals! Then this whole thing would be done! (That would certainly make things easier for me…)" Dawn said, since she absolutely hated the celestals.

"We thought about that, but when we did, we couldn't find Celebi anywhere."

"Wait, what? Couldn't find Celebi?"

"Yes. It is strange really, no matter what I try, I can't get a lock on him." said Dialga.

"Well it is pretty difficult to find him after all." said Palkia.

"But still…" Dialga ponders, making Dawn worried about their current situation.

"Then what do we do now? And I still don't get why I am involved in this." asked Dawn.

"What we do now is ask for your help." Dialga spoke calmly, but Dawn couldn't believe her ears.

"M-My help? Why in the world would YOU guys need MY help?" Dawn said, emphasizing you and my.

"Because, we believe that you, Dawn, will lead us to the ones responsible for this mess."

"But… how does that work?"

"Well, I'm not sure myself, however I think it has something to do with relating to another person in this."

"What? You mean another person is related to this, not just me?" shouted Dawn.

"Well who is it?"

"I…can't say."

"What? Why not?"

"Because the guy's completely covered in celestal energy just like the one causing this whole mess!" said Palkia, throwing another fit as he gets annoyed by this.

"Oh great." Dawn slapped her head at another question failed. "For legendary Pokémon, you guys are pretty useless…"

"T-That is-! I-I mean…!" Dialga stammered.

"W-Well we could do something! I-it's just that…!" Palkia stammered as well.

As the legendary Pokémon kept stammering, they suddenly quiet down and hung their heads down, making dark clouds of depression appearing above their heads raining down on them.

"Ah! I-I didn't mean to offend you guys! It's just that there's gotta be something to do..!" Dawn said, however it wasn't enough as they kept sulking.

"Well… This is the only thing we could think of, and that is to join your party, and lead us to the culprits." Dialga said, and both he and Palkia suddenly glow bright red.

"I see… well I guess I'll use whatever I have to help you guys to… Eh?" Dawn talked, but suddenly her eyes widen as the legendary Pokémon's forms changed into orbs of red light, and those orbs slowly went down to Dawn. Dawn put up her two hands, and those orbs of light landed on them. The orbs then turned into Pokéballs, making Dialga's ball a Timer ball, and Palkia's a Heavy ball.

"Wha- I totally don't understand what's going on… but it seems that these legends are counting on me to fix this…" Dawn stared deeply on her new Pokémon, but suddenly a loud song was playing in the air. That song was "Pokémon Dance" as it was coming from Dawn's cell phone. Dawn was quickly startled, but then briskly picked up her phone to see what it was.

She turned on her phone, causing the screen to project a hologram menu, which showed something was beeping on the top left corner of the screen. It was a text message with the official words "HQ" on it, which Dawn touched the beeping button in the corner of her projected screen in a hurry, causing the menu to go dark, and then showing the new test message she received from HQ.

"All personnel from squad 10 are to return to HQ for mission briefing. All other matters are to be put aside until conclusion of said activity."

"Headquarters is calling all of us for a new mission? Wonder what it is…?" Dawn turned off the phone, causing projected screen to disappear as she puts it away back to where it came from. Dawn then gave a second glance at the spot where the two most known legendary Pokémon was just standing on.

"Somehow… it made me wonder whether that really just happened… or it was all just inside my head." Dawn then gave another second glance at her ruined home.

"But… If this is true… then there might be a chance that all of this will be fixed." Dawn, now holding baseless hope, got out of her hometown and got into her car, issued by the ACE of course, and ran to where the HQ was placed, Veilstone City.

About an hour later, Dawn had finally reached Veilstone city, the home of the ACE Headquarters. A couple of years ago, a team called Team Galactic used to hold their hideout right here in Veilstone, until it was unknowingly abandoned by them. Since Team Galactic has already broken up years ago, the building was a perfect place to become ACE Headquarters.

Dawn walked through the town to enter the said building, which on the outside had a design that was like a normal police station, but with a sign signifying "ACE" in bright, gold letters. On the inside, Dawn could see that the lobby was as busy as ever. The station in the middle hold a man with a black getup talking to some pedestrians while other workers were walking around, with either reports to tell or tons of papers for evidence, with their Pokémon helping them ease their workload. There was also a group of kids on a field trip walking around led by another worker, as he was showing the kids around at how ACE works.

"Oh, I didn't know today was the day we had a field trip day. Wish I had a memo from this…" Dawn thought, but shrugs it off knowing that she had important matters to attend to. As she walked to her destination, everything went dark as a pair of hands suddenly covered her eyes for sight.

"H-Hey!" Dawn yelped out of surprise.

"Hehe, guess who~?" said a voice in a playful tone.

"No way… Maylene?"

"Yup!" Maylene let her hands off of Dawn, allowing Dawn to see her old friend Maylene. She as usual had pink hair with spikes coming from both ends at left and right of her head, with a sleeve-less black shirt with a yellow like across her chest. She also wore a long, green pants with the same belt made for her two holsters, and also green gloves that reach over her forearms.

"Wow! It's been so long!" Dawn was overwhelmed with emotions that she suddenly hugged her old friend. Maylene, sharing the same sentiments, hugged back as well.

"I know right? How long has it been since we last saw each other?" Maylene asks.

"Umm, it was about 2 months ago when you went for that mission in Hoenn right?" Dawn answered, but Maylene got a frown from her face remembering her mission.

"Uggh so long! It's too long to be so far apart!" Maylene shouted.

"Haha. So how it went? Was it difficult like I heard?"

"Well it sure was! The stakeouts are too long and boring! Not to mention what a pain it was trying to find out clues of the guy we were snooping at doing illegal time travel." Maylene closed her eyes, and told Dawn of her time in Hoenn.

"But we managed to snag the guy right in the act! And he of course was delivered the justice he deserved from me! Hehehe." Maylene put her hands on her hips, making a victory pose with her index and middle finger forming a V.

"Wow! That's great!" Dawn congratulated with her both hands together to her friend.

"Hehe, so Dawn what's up with you?"

"Well I was just… Oh crap I forgot! We were supposed to go to get a mission brief from our chief!" Dawn put her hands on her head, forgetting the only reason she came back to the station.

"Holy-! Then we got to get a move on or else we get the kick!" Maylene yelled, causing Dawn to shiver at the word "kick". Leaving the "kick" alone, the two girls hurried off to their destination.

At the training grounds, where many ACE workers train their Pokémon and of course themselves for the service of the public, is where the 10th squad, where Dawn and Maylene are stationed, are standing in a formal like side by side, as the door across them opened, revealing a young woman with green short hair wearing a police hat, which of course has the letters ACE on them.

It was Jenny, but her uniform was made up of hunter green color, with the usual button shirt and tight darker colored pants that reaches to her ankles with high heel shoes. The woman who seemed to be very important walked towards the lined cadets and made a stance.

"Attention!" Jenny shouted.

"Good morning Captain Jenny!" the police put their hands on their foreheads to signify respect.

"Alright, you all must already know that you have been called up for on an important mission, which is to ensure that the stability of the world and the universe is protected."

"Looks like I'm the only one that knows that the stability is already messed up…" Dawn thought, recollecting the time before she got the call from HQ.

"Now for this mission… It is situated right in Jubilife City, and our purpose for this is to ensure that the new restaurant, the "Sweet L'amour" is to be protected at all costs." Jenny said, causing some of the listeners to scratch their heads in their minds.

"Ma'am, may I ask a question?" a random police saluted before asking Jenny.

"You may."

"Why do the ACE police have to protect a restaurant's opening?"

"Why? Because Brock, the owner of the restaurant, issued a warrant to the government to let him use his celestals, to show his accomplishments to everybody." Jenny said, causing everybody to gasp.

"Hold on, Brock?" Dawn shouted, unfortunately high enough to let everyone hear her.

"Dawn, know your place." Jenny sternly said, causing Dawn to shake in fear.

"Y-Yes ma'am."

"As I was saying, we were ordered by the government to protect this place's grand opening from any impending thieves, like the 2nd J, for example." Jenny said, causing Dawn to remember a glimpse of J's face from when her town was destroyed.

"Remember, there is no such thing as over prepared, so bring as many things that you can that don't slow you down. Whether this is just a patrol job or not, we must expect the unexpected."

"This mission will start at 1800 hours sharp at the restaurant! Dismissed!" Jenny swung her hand to the side, calling the meeting off.

Sometime later, Dawn and Maylene was walking by the town, checking the sights and also thinking about the new mission.

"So have you and Brock been in touch?" Maylene asks out of the blue.

"Well, from time to time, but not much recently. I thought he might have been busy from his work, but who would have thought that he was building a restaurant?" Dawn rubbed her head, not knowing what Brock is doing now.

"Well the name for his restaurant does sound like him. Although it sounds really cheesy!" Maylene and Dawn giggled at Brock's naming sense, but then quieted down until Dawn speaks up.

"Hey… Do you think that… Ash might come?" Maylene stared at Dawn for asking that question, but she then stared down at the asphalt of the sidewalk.

"I don't know Dawn… I don't know what Ash was thinking anymore after he quit being Champion…" The air stiffens around them after the name Ash was mentioned.

"But that's the reason why you joined, isn't it?" Maylene asked, making Dawn surprised of her knowing about it.

"W-What?"

"Oh come on, you and I both know that you're not the kind of girl to be in the force. If that's not it, then what is?" Dawn looked down at her question, and then raised her head to speak.

"I figured if, when I see Ash, then I can get my answers…" Dawn said, but Maylene knows there's more it than that, but decided to call it off.

"…Alright. Then before we meet him, let's both have some fun reliving old memories and eating all the food we could eat!" Maylene suddenly grabbed Dawn by the neck, trying to cheer up the mood by the sound of Brock's food.

"…Yeah!" Dawn smiled at her friend's optimism, and then Maylene thought of something good.

"Hey! Why don't we have a battle until the mission starts? That would be a good time killer don't you think?"

"Hey yeah! I haven't had a battle in so long! Let's do it!"

"Alright!" both the girls giggled at the busy schedule they placed themselves, and walked away to find a good spot to battle.

Meanwhile, somewhere far away lays a wooden, abandoned shack in the middle of a forest. However, it is a fake. Inside the shack lies a huge hidden hideout for the 2nd J's grunts and J herself. Inside a hallway, however, a door opens and a man came out, revealing to be Ash, wearing the dark outfit specifically made from J herself, to give him a new look for a new life.

Ash walked away from the hallway to find big, metallic doors in the way. Ash put his hand on a scanner beside the door, which made it glow and opened the doors for him. Ash enters to find tons of grunts with a red uniform with black belts, gloves and shoes at their seats typing in their own computers while a big computer screen was put in front of them, showing the quantity and locations of celestals. As soon as Ash came in, a grunt with his hair upwards for about 5 inches high with white skin and the same uniform as everyone else.

"Well if it isn't little Ash. How's your beauty sleep?" said the grunt mockingly.

"Pretty good, least I didn't end up having bed hair like you." Ash said mocking back, causing the grunt to have an angry vein on his head.

"Hey! Need I remind you that it took me hours to gel it up like this!" the grunt shouted back.

"Really? There's not much of a difference." Ash said calmly, making the grunt even angrier.

"Why you! Let's settle this once and for all with a-"

"Silence!" Before the grunt was able to increase the size of his pulled-out Poké-ball to battle Ash, the doors opened behind Ash to reveal J, who made everyone stop and looked back at them.

"B-B-Boss!" the grunt stuttered at the presence of J.

"…" However Ash just stayed there and kept quiet.

"We got a new gig to pull, so I'm gonna ask you nice and sweetly to stand down… Do you understand Keitaro?" J said in a calm manner, but giving off a vicious aura that meant "follow my orders or be punished", that was making Keitaro shake like a rattle.

"Y-Yes ma'am."

"Now then…for this new gig, our client, whose name is classified, wants us to steal celestals from a new building that just opened up and is preparing for its grand opening in Jubilife city. Rina, if you please."

"Yes ma'am." J ordered Rina, who had long crimson hair and with the same red uniform, to type in some codes on her computer, which made the big screen to show contents of the restaurant including the picture of the building, the schematics on the inside… even the picture of the owner.

"What?" Ash said as he saw who the owner was. It was Brock, his old friend whom Ash abandoned along with his other friends.

"Mmh? What's wrong Ash?" J said in a surprisingly caring tone, which made Ash freak out a bit on the inside.

"Uhhm, uhh…" Ash said without giving a proper response.

"If I remember correctly, this owner of the restaurant was your friend right? Surely you know that if you're feelings for your friends were to get in our operation's way, you will be severely punished." J said now in a cold manner, which made the other grunts shake in fear, but made Ash relieved that it was just a fluke about her being kind.

"Yea yea I know, don't worry. I'm going back to my room to gear up." Ash walked towards to metallic doors, which opened upon being close, and closed after he left the room.

"…Now then, on to the plan. Before we enter the building, we must…" As J continued to explain the plan to the grunts, Ash was walking in the empty hallway, and then suddenly stopped as he was in deep thought.

"I cannot let these feelings get to me. I got to reach my goal as fast as possible, no matter the consequences…"