Dawn and Zoey eyed each other from across the field, there was a hint of anger between them. Ash knew that Dawn is upset just because Zoey was supposed to exclude him from contest talk, and instead was excluding her. If they were in their respective bodies, this fight would never have happened.
"You sure about this guys?" Ash yelled out to both coordinators.
"YEAH!" both of them called back.
Pikachu came and ran up to Dawn's side. He was confused by this coming challenge. He would be fine if this was a normal battle, but this is a contest battle, and 'Ash' had issued the fight. What has the world come to?
"Lets make this a one-on-one battle!" Dawn proclaimed to everyone.
"I didn't realize you wanted to lose so fast!" Zoey agreed to the terms.
Dawn grabbed a pokeball off her belt, enlarged it, "Pokemon! Spotlight!" she threw the ball.
"Gliscor!" The gliscor popped out of the ball, landed on his tail and spread his pincers out. He turned around and gave a Dawn a teary eyed look of appreciation. Ash never really trusts gliscor with important or unique challenges such as this, so him being used meant a lot to him, good thing he didn't know it was an accident.
"Uh..." Dawn forgot that she was using Ash's pokemon and not hers. Ash realized this as well, but there is nothing that can be done now. Dawn is going to have to think on her feet.
"Interesting..." Zoey thought to herself, she never really got to see what gliscor is made of. "Okay glameow! Curtains!"
The glameow came out the pokeball with a spin and landed majestically. Gliscor wasn't intimated, being used to trainer battles he didn't realize how much that little move worked for her.
Dawn went over gliscor's attacks in her mind. He knew screech, x-scissor, fire fang, steel wing. How could she use such attacks to my advantage.
"Gliscor... Fly up high" Gliscor did as he was told.
"Stay glameow" Zoey commanded her pokemon, who obeyed and sat down watching.
"Now come down as fast as you can while using screech. Gliscor did as he was told, he was using screech as he was plummeting down as fast as he could. He stopped right in front of the glameow.
"Now glameow use your night slash!"
The glameow raised her darkened hand ready to strike, gliscor saw this and started to put his teary eyed expression on, when she was suddenly stunned from a blinding sound. Zoey was shocked, gliscor looked up and recovered from his teary state.
"What happened?" Ash asked.
"It seems that when gliscor used screech and fell at the same time, he moved faster than the screech attack. So when gliscor reached glameow it must have set her in a false sense of security, making her more vulnerable to the screech attack when it caught up to him, which was even more higher pitched than usual, thanks to the Doppler effect" Brock reasoned.
"Quick Gliscor use your x-scissor with a twist!" Dawn commanded.
Gliscor was never asked to add a little something extra to his attacks but he gave it a shot. He successfully used x-scissor on the glameow, it didn't do as much damage as it normally would if he did it normally. It also made gliscor dizzy. In a contest that would have made gliscor lose points.
"Glameow! You okay?" Zoey came to her pokemon's side. The cat pokemon got to her feet immediately.
"That was good Ash. I never expected something like that. Seems like your pokemon could use a little more grace." Gliscor was insulted by this. Ash as well, but he couldn't show any emotion. "Glameow use shadow ball.
Gliscor feeling dizzy couldn't dodge this hit. Glameow charged with a shadow ball, laid back on her coiled tail, and shot herself toward Gliscor while launching the shadow ball. The force of the explosion, shot him to the sky. He recovered and hovered himself in the air.
"What to do next..." Dawn said to herself.
"Gliscor come down on Glameow, fire fang!" Dawn called out to Gliscor. "No way you can take another hit Zoey" She called out playfully to her opponent.
"Glameow use bounce and counter with night slash!" Glameow did as she was told. "Let's see how well you can take another hit Ash." She said this almost spiteful.
The glameow came out with the force of a bounce attack. Not only will it negate the impact of fire fang, but it might overpower it.
"Gliscor since your attacking with your fangs, try using steel wing at the same time!" Dawn shouted.
A particular gust of wind happened at the same time gliscor used his steel wing. It made him spin, gliscor didn't try to direct himself, he was too busy struggling to keep two different attacks going at the same time. It was a good thing too. If gliscor would have tried to stabilize himself, he might have just canceled himself out instead.
Glameow didn't know what hit her. The complete impact of both of the attacks made her faint before she even hit the ground.
"Glameow!" there was worry in Zoey's voice. "You did good, have a nice long rest" and returned her to her ball.
Gliscor was flying overhead in circles happy of his victory.
"Interesting..." She thought to himself. "Who are you?" Zoey called out Dawn.
"What do you mean?" Brock was confused, Dawn and Ash had some worry in their minds.
"The way you battled, it's not like you."
"I have no idea what your talking about. I just used some of the stuff I learned from Dawn."
"You commanded your pokemon as though you have been training your pokemon for contests instead of battling, but your pokemon haven't seemed to have been training for contests, as evident when your gliscor got dizzy when it attacked. Your not Ash. Who are you?"
Dawn bit her lip, she looked to Ash, who also had a look of worry.
"Okay Zoey..." Dawn looked down to the ground, "the truth is..."
"I have been secretly watching Dawn while she trains" Dawn looked up to Zoey. "I wanted to get better at contests, so that I will finally be able to impress you." There was actually honesty in her last statement, she as Dawn wanted to impress her. But when it comes out of Ash's mouth, it made Zoey turn a little red.
"Oh..." Zoey turned away to hide herself, she felt a little embarrassed. "Well... See you guys later." She felt uncomfortable with this new Ash.
She walked off as fast as she could without turning it into a run. Ash walked up to Dawn.
"First things first. Congratulations on winning and all that. Second, what are you doing?" he was looking to reprimand her. "you are giving Zoey the idea that I like her."
"What are you talking about?"
"First with the hug, then with saying your trying to impress her. You sent the woman out to travel in the dark!"
"Oh I'm sorry. I wasn't really thinking."
"Yeah you need to practice that more often."
Dawn inhaled to make a comeback, but Brock cut her off.
"Congratulations Ash, who knew you were that good at contest battling."
"Thanks Brock. But I couldn't have done it without Dawn, her superior teaching has helped me with that battle in ways I couldn't have done myself."
"Oh please Ash, you are too modest, one of your many good traits. I didn't help you gain that natural born talent you have with everything you try." Ash said smugly.
"Okay? Well I'm going to call it a day, and get up early. Night guys." Brock made his way into the tent.
As soon as Brock entered his tent. "So what's your problem Ash Ketchum?" Dawn came at Ash.
"What do you mean my problem?"
"Every time someone has to give me a complement, you reword it so it makes me look bad, or like I didn't do anything at all."
"You do it too. In fact you started it first!" Ash was getting worked up.
"I do it more subtle so I can try to keep your usual pompous attitude."
"What attitude, I'm like the best person I know!" said slightly sarcastic and slightly joking.
"You just showed it right now!" her anger was now being suppressed, his little joke made her want to laugh.
"Is it my fault I'm so perfect." He was now teasing Dawn by pinching her cheek. "I mean just look at me, did I hear someone say greek god?"
Dawn laughed at that. "I really can't stay mad at you."
"I can't do the same either."
"But you know, you have short comings too." She was teasing him back now.
"What you talking about. I have none" Ash playfully defended himself.
"Oh please, I have seen your short comings."
"OH NO! That was below the belt Dawn." Ash couldn't help but laugh at her little perverted joke.
"Maybe I went a little too far with that one." Dawn laughed with him.
"Well it is getting late" The sun had been set for some time. "I'm gonna hit the hay." He was walking past Dawn. "I think I hear something that sounds like..." He gave Dawn a quick little spank. "Greek God"
"Hey!" Dawn turned red from the spanking. "You can't do that."
"It's my body, I can do whatever I want to it." He turned to face a red Dawn with a gloating face.
"Well then that goes for me too." She actually grabbed Ash's ass, much to his surprise.
Bad timing is a common thing for Dawn. Brock came out at the that moment to get a glass of water and saw what 'Ash' did. That one was going to be hard to explain.
The previous chapter and the beginning of this one needed more humor. So the ending was wonderfully comical. Anyways, from this point on I needed to hint more at the pearlshipping instead of just gender jokes. It's also at this point in my author fanfiction career that I began to wonder what makes a fic successful and all that and how to make a fic better. Not just good, but beyond that. Anyways. Not much to say here later.