"Well Kenny, you are her childhood friend, you should know her the best." offered Brock.
"That is true, but lately she seems so, detached from me." Dawn looked at him for the first time since he brought up this topic. He seemed so sad. "But maybe things are looking up. I called her Dee Dee earlier and she didn't get mad or anything."
Oh the careless mistakes made by Ash, Dawn didn't want Ash to make Kenny think he has a chance.
"Hey Kenny. You never really told us why you call Dawn Dee Dee." Brock asked with much curiosity.
"Oh that!" he turned around to see where Ash was at. "Well you see, the reason I call her Dee Dee is-"
"NONE OF OUR BUSINESS!"
Kenny and Brock looked strangely at Dawn for her sudden outburst. Dawn was standing when she said this and now started shrinking back in her chair from embarrassment.
"What Ash? I thought you always wanted to know." Kenny started joking.
Dawn wasn't in the mood for Kenny to be blabbing her big secret.
"Well I just thought that...Dawn has been acting strange lately, and maybe she has something else on her mind besides being called Dee Dee", trying to get back on topic.
"Well like what?"
I could think of one thing "I don't know, I'm not that good with girls" The irony...
"I know thats right." said Brock. Even though Dawn was in Ash's body she felt a little hurt from that statement, but what hurt? Her manliness!
"Anyways..." Brock continued. "Maybe you should-"
"Hey guys what's going on" Ash called over, walking toward the group. Everybody became silent.
"Um nothing much, just talking."
"Okay. Man am I tired" Ash sat down in a very, unladylike way. Kenny instantly turned red.
"Um Dawn", there was an angry undertone in the way Dawn said this, "that is not the way a young lady should sit", Dawn then went and closed Ash's legs.
"Oh sorry about that", he himself was a little embarrassed.
The gang got up first thing in the morning. Kenny left an hour earlier since he didn't have to pack for three people and said good bye to everyone, especially Ash, much to his embarrassment.
"Well Dawn maybe we should head toward that contest Kenny was talking about. You do need five ribbons after all" Brock mentioned while traveling. Dawn completely forgot that she still needs a couple more ribbons.
"Normally I would Brock, but I think its best if we-" began Ash until he got interrupted from Dawn.
"Yeah Dawn, we need you to get those ribbons, and we need you to get into the Grand Festival. Isn't that what you need?" Dawn was emphasizing the needs.
"Yeah, but still I would like to-" Dawn still couldn't believe Ash's denseness, leaned into Ash and hissed into his ear.
"Ash stop being stupid. I need these contests, so you have to do them in my place, at least until we see manaphy" Ash sighed.
"Okay. Brock lets give that contest a chance. I do need ribbons" he also stressed the need mockingly.
"Good then" Brock responded, "now check your poketch for the nearest town."
"You got it Brock, now let me just..." Ash looked at the gadget on Dawn's tinier wrist. Ash never really was much into technology like this. He had no idea how to work the poketch.
"Whats wrong Dawn? Forgot how to use your own poketch." Brock joked.
"Here let me help you out" Dawn reached over and took Ash's arm. Ash blushed slightly from this, wait, why was he blushing, she is just looking something up on her own poketch, when did he become so sensitive?
"Okay according to the poketch the nearest town is Elmok, we just need to take the next left on this trail."
"Thanks Ash, I didn't know you were handy with gadgets like that", quipped Brock.
The gang had to spend one more night on the road, but the next day they finally made their way into town.
"Okay guys I'm gonna go check into the pokemon center, you guys could go find the contest hall and sign Dawn up." Brock made his way to the pokemon center, and in the distance you could hear a faint "Oh Nurse Joy!"
"Well now that Brock is busy, how about we sign you up." Dawn made for the contest hall. Ash followed, he was a little nervous, he has competed before, but never to really win.
"So Dawn, is winning really all that important to you ha ha?"
"YES! Yes it is, I need to get into the grand festival so I can prove that I could be a great coordinator like my mother before me." Her look of determination made Ash more nervous.
"Dawn, I need your help then, I have seen all your contests, but is there something new you want to try this time so you can tell me."
"Well maybe a new combination or two", she got lost in thought, "but first we need to sign you up."
Ash and Dawn arrived at the contest arena and signed up Ash. "Okay now lets go do some real training." They both went to the local pokemon park and got out all of Dawn's pokemon. Buneary went crazy when she saw pikachu hitching a ride on Dawn's shoulder. Pikachu just sighed.
"Okay there is something I wanted to try with ambipom. Then with buneary."
The pokemon were confused that 'Ash' was giving out the orders for the contest combinations, and also teaching 'Dawn' how to be a coordinator. They still listened to 'Ash' though being that they trusted him and obviously 'Dawn' did too.
The contest was today. It was still dark though in the very early morning, Ash woke up and couldn't fall back asleep. He felt great pressure to win this contest for Dawn.
"Piplup?" Ash turned around and saw that piplup was standing right beside him, looking up at him.
"Hey piplup, what's up"
Piplup chirped at him. Ash really had no idea what piplup was saying, it was slightly easier to understand him than it was before he switched bodies, just as he was beginning to understand less of what pikachu would be saying at any given time.
"Piplup I'm gonna be honest, I am scared about this contest, I know I may have done many contests before, but this time I..." Ash couldn't continue without letting out the secret he shared with Dawn. "Piplup how do I normally calm myself down before a contest?"
The little penguin pokemon then rushed toward the bathroom and beckoned Ash to follow. Piplup then turned on, and set a nice, hot bath complete with bubbles. Ash understood, but that was really girly, to keep the manliness in him, he couldn't get into that bath. However the stress is something that he has never really felt before, and maybe Dawn was onto something here with taking a bubble bath before a contest...
Ash began to strip. He always blushed whenever he had to do anything that would expose parts of Dawn to himself that Dawn wouldn't allow him to see.
He began to ease himself slowly into the bath, and wow. It was very relaxing, he could feel all his worry and doubts melt away. He barely saw piplup leave and go back to sleep after he got in.
Dawn woke up first this time. He looked around and saw that Ash wasn't in the bunk opposite of her. Normally Ash usually sleeps in, he must have gotten an early start. Dawn got up when Ash came out of the bathroom. He spent the night in there as he fell asleep in the bath.
"Ash? Whoa! You clean myself up nice"
It seemed that after Ash woke up there wasn't enough time to go back to sleep and he decided to get dressed and groom himself or Dawn's self.
"Well I had some time this morning and decided to get dressed early."
"Wow thats...that is very unlike you." Dawn checked out her body. Ash did a good job cleaning herself up, her blue hair was brushed and kept neatly, her skin looked clean and smooth it really brought out her eyes that seemed to shine like sapphires, and her lips, oh her lips, those luscious...Wait whats going on. She went from checking herself out to falling in love with herself? Not just the vain type of loving yourself but more of a lust. She is really creeping herself out. She had to leave Ash, as she couldn't take looking at her body anymore.
"Did I clean something wrong?" Ash called out at her while she left.
original authors comments
"I have been reading some hoennshipping fics, and it amazes me that many people don't know that brendan doesnt have white hair and its a cap. Well now i am going to try and upload a new chapter of my oc story, nay, epic and a chapter of either this one or my other fan fic. You know i only started playing pokemon again since like a month ago, i finally beat the diamond story and am starting to make my team, right now all i have is roserade, gliscor, but i want an arcanine, a vaporean(because of wish) and I'm undecided about the last two."