"I've been thinking about Felicity's nightmare, and I thought I could step in..." Cherry said. "After all, I can walk into the dreams of others."
"Awesome." Vincent smiled.
"I thought only Princess Luna could do that?" Estelle replied.
"I was actually her personal student like your Aunt Twilight was for Princess Celestia." Cherry informed.
"Do you think one of us might have the same power as you and Princess Luna?" Estelle asked.
"I never considered that, but I was always told by Drell that it skipped my mother and went to me and her biological father had the gene," Cherry replied. "I never thought about any of you. Who's been hit?"
"Ash and Emi." Akito frowned, feeling sorrow.
"Ah, yes... Emi is very important to you..." Cherry replied before taking out a magic thermometer. "Let's hope it's you then."
"What does that mean?" Akito asked.
"Someone has to go in and help them..." Cherry said before holding out the thermometer. "Say 'aaahh'."
"Aaahh..." Akito opened his mouth as wide as he could.
Cherry then stuck the thermometer in his mouth. Akito soon closed his mouth after it was in.
"I don't know much about these Ketchum kids, but I know how much they mean to you all..." Cherry said.
"Aww... Aunt Cherry cares about us." Estelle smiled.
After a short time, the thermometer went off and where it didn't come out positive. Cherry took the thermometer and shook her head, then came to Estelle, wiping the thermometer after it failed. Estelle then opened her mouth and closed it for her turn once Cherry gave her the thermometer. Unfortunately for her, the same thing happened.
"This isn't gonna hurt, is it?" Vincent asked.
"It shouldn't." Cherry said before checking him next.
"Oh, uh, Miss Cherry, if you don't mind, I can help?" Brock smiled as he came up behind her.
Croagunk soon came out and poison jabbed Brock from behind. After a short time, it came out as positive, meaning that Vincent was the one.
Cherry gasped as she took out the thermometer before turning dramatically. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but..." she then said before pointing at Vincent over-dramatically. "It's you!"
"M-Me...?" Vincent asked.
"So that means you'll be coming with me." Cherry said.
"Uh... Okay... I guess I can do that..." Vincent replied.
"You remind me so much of your father... You look just like him, but you have your mother's eyes." Cherry said.
"So, how do we do this?" Vincent asked.
"Please... Allow me..." Cherry said as she walked to the side.
Everyone looked to each other and soon watched her.
Cherry soon put her hands together and spread them out to her side and somehow made a door appear and it opened to show a black and white chamber with many colorful doors on the inside like a long, long hallway of a hotel floor. "Well..." she then said, taking Vincent's hand and pulling him beside her. "Come on!"
"Here we go." Vincent said.
"Stay close to me." Cherry said.
"Wait! We can't go with you?!" Estelle asked.
"Sorry, too dangerous." Cherry said.
Vincent soon went with his aunt into the Dream Realm and the door shut behind them.
"Now, we'll have to find Ash and Emmy's doors." Cherry told Vincent.
"How will we find their doors?" Vincent asked.
"They usually have a special design that symbolizes them," Cherry replied. "I've memorized them during my high school days when under the wing of Princess Luna."
Vincent followed her around until they soon stopped.
"Ah... Here we go." Cherry gave a small smile.
They soon opened Ash and Emi's doors. The doors glowed at first and they stepped inside. Ash and Emi appeared to be where they all just were, but no one else was there which frightened them. Not even Pikachu seemed to be there.
"Where did everyone go?" Emi frowned.
"Hey, this isn't funny..." Ash added nervously.
A bright light came out before a dark shadow towered them and engulfed them in darkness.
"Oh, crud." Emi gulped.
"Oh, man, what's going on?!" Ash cried out.
It seemed like they were going to be attacked until the Dark Pokemon soon floated in front of them.
"Darkrai!" Ash glared as he stood protectively in front of his sister. "Darkrai's doing this. Stand back, Emi, I'll handle this," he then said, taking out his Pokeball. "All right, Turtwig, I choose you!"
But since this was a nightmare, Turtwig didn't come out. It seemed worse when Ash tossed the Pokeball and it seemed to fade away. Emi frowned, she then took out her Pokeballs and tried the same only to have the same result as her brother.
"Aunt Cherry, how do we wake them up?" Vincent asked.
"Hm... This seems more severe from that Pokemon..." Cherry paused to think. "I would suggest a shock from the outside world."
"I know just the Pokemon to shock them awake." Vincent smiled.
"Yeah, that Pikachu." Cherry replied.
"You know much about Pokemon?" Vincent asked his aunt.
"Well, there's Pikachu... And the red one... And the orange one... And the green one... And..." Cherry smirked jokingly since she was an adult.
Vincent simply rolled his eyes at that. "Come on, we better get Pikachu to use Thunderbolt." He told his aunt.
"All right, follow me." Cherry said.
Vincent and Cherry then left while Ash and Emi suffered and it was quite depressing, but at least they were together.
Once in the Real World, Vincent told Pikachu what to do.
"You sure?" Pikachu asked.
"Yes!" Vincent urged. "Do it for the love of all that is holy!"
"But first, we should get these two somewhere comfortable," Cherry suggested, stopping Pikachu at first. "Is there a doctor around here?"
"There's a Pokemon Center." Alice told them.
"Let's go there then." Cherry said.
They soon went over to the Pokémon Center, and told Nurse Joy everything, and she let them in right away.
"You look so familiar..." Cherry said wearily to Nurse Joy on the way inside.
Nurse Joy was confused as to why she looked familiar to Cherry.
"Come on, let them lie down." Cherry said.
Ash and Emi were soon being put to lie down in bed to get comfortable.
"All right, now should be good." Cherry said.
"She's like Sleeping Beauty now..." Akito whispered about Emi.
"Alright, Pikachu use Thunderbolt." Vincent told the electric mouse Pokemon.
"All right..." Pikachu said before using Thunderbolt on the Ketchum siblings. "WAKE UP, GUYS!"
Ash and Emi both yelled out as they felt that within their dream and soon woke up in the Pokemon Center, holding onto Pikachu.
"Pikachu?" Ash asked before smiling and hugging the Pokemon.
"Ash! Emi!" Pikachu smiled back and hugged him and Emi back.
"Knew that would work." Cherry said.
"Oh, Akito, aren't you a sight for sore eyes?" Emi smiled wearily.
"I'm so glad you're okay, and not gone in another world." Akito replied.
"You're kids! Who talks like that at that age?!" Cherry complained in the background.
"Wait, where are we?" Emi asked.
"The Pokemon Center." Dawn smiled.
"You're alive!" Chansey spoke up.
"You were both having terrible nightmares after Darkrai put you to sleep." Nurse Joy told the Ketchum siblings.
"That's right, he hit us with Dark Void." Emi said.
"Nightmares, huh? That means... It was all just a dream." Ash added.
"Creating bad dreams in Darkrai's special ability," Nurse Joy informed. "If you ever fall asleep near Darkrai, you'll have terrible nightmares."
"You were both really in a bad way." Brock told Ash and Emi.
"By any chance, have any others been attacked by Darkrai by the same attack?" Emi asked Nurse Joy.
"Darkrai doesn't normally come out when people are around." Nurse Joy replied.
"I dreamt about Darkrai, but... I don't know why..." Felicity sulked. "It was very effrayant."
"Maybe your dream was a warning." Vincent said.
Felicity shivered as she felt badly shook up from the dream.
"It's all right, Fliss, it was just a dream, it can't hurt you." Cherry told her daughter gently.
"R-Right." Felicity shivered.
"I don't think the townspeople are liking this a bit either." Brock commented.
"Because of all those nightmares, even the other Pokemon stay away from Darkrai." Nurse Joy frowned.
"Well, no one wants to have a nightmare, right?" Dawn smiled sheepishly.
"Who would want to have a nightmare?" Estelle asked.
The kids then looked over to their aunt.
"You're all hilarious." Cherry deadpanned.
"If I ever come across that Darkrai again, I'll give him a battle, but good!" Ash glared, shaking his fist.
"But maybe we should try and find out why he's attacking now." Akito suggested.
"But how?" Felicity asked.
"I'm sure you can all figure it out," Cherry replied. "You're a bunch of smart kids."
"Yeah, and then there's that strange gust of wind." Estelle said.
"This is an incredible force, enough to actually warp space," Tonio commented as he observed the room. "I have to look at more data!"
"Why are you shouting?" Cherry asked in his same tone.
"Uh, sorry." Tonio said.
"Are there any Pokemon that can actually control space or something close to that?" Vincent asked.
Tonio muttered to himself as he began to leave.
"Tonio?!" Alice cried out.
Tonio muttered and soon ran into the wall, passing Chansey.
"That is so him..." Alice smiled. "Once he starts thinking about something, that's that."
"He must do that a lot then." Vincent said.
"Kinda reminds me of Sci-Twi actually." Cherry told her daughter and godniece and nephews.
"Same here." Akito said.
"Hm... Maybe I should go home now." Cherry wondered.
Felicity pouted as she didn't want her mother to leave yet.
"Please stay." Estelle begged.
"Aw, you want me to stay?" Cherry replied.
"Uh-huh." Estelle nodded.
"Sil vous plait, Maman... After all, you are the walker of dreams..." Felicity added.
"Aw, you remind me of a very young Starfire..." Cherry smirked before sighing with a shrug. "All right, I don't see what the fuss is, but I'll stay for you little kiddies."
"Yay!" The kids smiled.
"Anyway, I hope your friend Tonio will be all right..." Cherry said. "Looks like the typical absent-minded professor."
"Sure does." Vincent said.
"I wish I could help Ash and Emi about their nightmares." Dawn pouted.
"Do they sell dream-catchers around here?" Cherry asked.
"Not that I've seen, but there are Lunar Wings you can buy in the morning." Alice said.
"Lunar Wings?" Cherry asked. "What are those?"
"They say that they can help make bad dreams a thing of the past." Alice replied.
"Nice." Akito said.
"You can get some in the morning, it's late over here." Alice replied.
"Yes, this is the time of day for someone like me." Cherry smirked from the darkness of the night.
"Of course it is." Dawn said.
"I'm a little scared to go back to sleep..." Emi frowned.
"Would you like some company?" Akito asked.
"Well... I wouldn't mind actually..." Emi said.
"That might protect her from nightmares..." Cherry had to agree.
"Se mettre d'accord." Felicity nodded in agreement.
"Don't worry, Emi, think of me as your knight in shining armor to the rescue." Akito soothed.
"That does sound pretty good..." Emi said softly with a small smile.
Akito smiled back.
"Okay..." Emi said to him.
Later that night, everyone decided to get some sleep except for maybe Cherry who just stared out into the night sky. While there, she noticed a fog all around outside of the city.
"Hm... That's queer... Where did that fog come from?" Cherry asked herself. She soon went out to see how far the fog went.
Cherry glared as she followed the fog since it seemed to come from nowhere, but little did she and the others know, it was from a case of evil or maybe was just a way of hiding from Pokemon who could control time.
"What is going on here?" Cherry grumbled as she explored. She began to through the fog only to end up in another part of the city. "Now where am I?" Cherry sighed to herself. "I should go back... Only... Where is back?" She soon had a theory as she ran back through the fog.
Cherry sighed before sniffing around with her vampire senses. "I'm not alone, it seems..." she said to herself with a gaze and she brought out her gun for just in case.
Once she ran through the fog, she found that she somehow got back to where she had started.
"WHAT IS GOING ON?!" Cherry yelled out, feeling frustrated. "Ugh..." She had a feeling this had something to do with a Pokemon. She just knew one thing for sure: she was mildly annoyed and looked like she was going to mentally snap, and she soon saw three figures.
Cherry cocked her gun and moved slickly among the three figures, looking ready to shoot when necessary. After all, that's what Selene taught her. She soon saw that it was just Cassidy, Butch, and Raticate and from what her niece, nephews, and daughter told her they weren't really much of a threat. "Oh... It's just you guys," Cherry said. "For a second there, I thought the young ones were in danger."
"You ain't no prize yourself, lady!" Butch glared at Cherry.
"By the way, you guys are going to fail at stealing these Pokemon like always." Cherry said before leaving them.
"We will not fail!" Cassidy glared. "You take that back!"
"Whatever you gotta tell yourself..." Cherry rolled her eyes. "Goodbye, Cassidy, goodbye, Rat Thing, goodbye, Brando."
"IT'S BUTCH, YOU WITCH!" Butch yelled.
Cherry smirked to herself as that was always somewhat amusing.
"Who was that lady?" Raticate asked.
"Oh, she's just a nuisance, don't listen to a thing she says," Cassidy glowered. "She's just jealous she can't be as glamorous as I am~"
"Don't you mean hideous?" Raticate whispered.
"WHAT?!" Cassidy hissed violently.
Cherry soon began to go back to check on the kids as she rolled her eyes about Team Rocket, and she even found their antics somewhat amusing as Cassidy started to chase Raticate around out of anger. Cherry cupped her mouth with a small smirk.
"Can't ya take a joke, Cassie?!" Raticate cried out.
"Oh, you call that a joke?! I'll give you a joke and guess what, it has a punchline!" Cassidy exclaimed.
Cherry let out a small laugh like it was the first time she laughed in a thousand years.
"Uh, go on then?" Raticate nervously said to Cassidy about her joke.
"How do you send a Raticate flying?" Cassidy glared.
"Hmm... I don't know, how do you send a Raticate-" Raticate replied.
"Oh, no..." Cherry whispered with a small smirk, cupping her mouth as she felt like she saw where this was going.
Raticate was soon sent flying as he was hit by an uppercut.
"YOU HIT IT WITH AN UPPERCUT!" Cassidy glared.
Cherry soon burst out laughing which made Butch and Cassidy look to her. "P-Pain is hilarious!" she said in between laughs.
"You are strange." Butch said.
"Thanks, Bruno." Cherry smirked, walking off.
"IT'S BUTCH!" Butch yelled out, sounding like he was about to have an aneurysm.
"Whatever." Cherry rolled her eyes.
Butch growled as Cherry soon left.
"Thanks for the laughs, I really needed that." Cherry smirked.
"She's freaky." Butch said.
"Don't trust her." Cassidy said.
"Fair enough." Butch replied.
The next day soon came. Cherry had bitten into an apple, sucking the red juice out with her fangs. Soon enough, the kids woke up.
"Ah, good... They're awake..." Cherry said.
Felicity shook a chill with a small pout.
"Did you have a nightmare?" Cherry sighed.
"Darkrai... He scares me..." Felicity frowned.
"We'll protect you." Vincent told Felicity.
Akito and Emi soon woke up together.
"Any nightmares?" Akito asked Emi.
"None that I remember anyway..." Emi blushed.
"Great." Akito smiled.
Felicity sighed and pouted.
"I'll go get that Lunar Wing." Dawn decided as she had some money.
"I'll come with." Felicity said.
"Go ahead..." Cherry allowed.
Felicity then went to go with Dawn. Mismagius then came out of her Pokeball.
"You too." Cherry told the Pokemon.
Mismagius nodded.
"Did you sleep okay, Aunt Cherry?" Vincent asked.
"I don't sleep." Cherry replied.
"Oh, right." Vincent said.
"Amateurs..." Cherry muttered slightly.