Omega: I- I- Wha- Who names these places?!

Faux: *sigh* Yeah. HopHopHop Town is just too weird of a name.

Mizuro: *spit take* WHAT TOWN?!

Seishin: I know, right? It's almost as bad a name as *shivers* Toadally Awesome.

Ohirume: *groan* Why didn't they just keep it as Treatoad?

Omega: I'm sorry, what?

I don't own Pokémon or Ben 10.

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Trashy Titles & Terrible Town Names (T4N)

Or

Unfortunate Aliases of Confusingly Labeled Townships (Seishin: Oh, Rob. Why? Ohirume: Yeah … not every JoJo reference is a good one.)

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Ash and his friends continued on their journey. Their destination: Fuchsia City for Ash's sixth Gym badge. There were currently cutting through-

"Pleeeeaaase." Clefairy whined as she pushed up against Ash's head.

Ash looked at her with a sad smile, "I'm sorry, Clefairy. But we can't work on Dazzling Gleam yet."

Clefairy pouted, "Why not?"

"There are too many people around." Ash responded, "We can practice in a forest, like usual."

Clefairy smiled brightly, "That's great!" She pointed into the distance, "There's a forest right there! Let's go!"

Soot looked where she pointed and smiled sadly, "Sorry Clefairy, but that's a park. It's still too public."

Clefairy slumped forward, "Aww."

Ash smiled softly and pet her.

Misty snickered. She looked over to the Gym Leader holding the map, "Hey, Brock. Where are we anyway?"

Brock looked at the map and sweat dropped, "Uh, HopHopHop Town?"

Pikachu looked back and stared in shock. Misty stared as well, "Are you serious?"

Ash sweat dropped, "Unfortunately, he is. The founder was pretty … eccentric."

Misty snapped out of it and looked at Ash in surprise, "Did you study this place?"

Ash chuckled, "Not exactly." He pointed back, "We passed a statue of the founder earlier and the plaque was, uh, interesting."

Brock raised a brow, "Who was this guy?"

Ash sweat dropped, "I'm not even sure how to pronounce it. I think his first, middle, and last names were over three syllables and had the honorifics 'Sir,' 'Lord,' and 'Esquire'. And to make it weirder, 'the fourth'."

Omega: That explains it.

Brock, Misty, and Soot looked at him in shock. Clefairy looked at Pikachu in confusion. The mouse just shrugged.

"I, uh" Misty said in a daze, "I don't even know how to respond to that."

Ash sighed, "Yeah. No one really knows why he named this place HopHopHop Town."

Soot smirked with a raised a brow, "With a name like that, you'd expect this place to be loaded with hoppip."

Ash chuckled, "Yeah. Or spoink."

"Arnold!"

Everyone turned to see a woman with brown hair running towards Ash.

"Arnold!" She cried out as she pulled Ash into a hug; knocking Clefairy and Pikachu off his shoulders, "Where have you been Arnold? Mother's been so worried."

"Huh?" Brock, Pikachu, Clefairy, and Misty said in confusion.

Clefairy blinked in surprise, "Why is that lady calling Ash 'Arnold'?"

Pikachu raised a brow, "And hugging him?"

Soot sweat dropped, "Uh, not sure." She sighed, "But I've got a pretty good guess."

Ash struggled and managed to say, "I'm sorry, ma'am. But you have me confused with someone else."

The woman looked closer and let go in surprise, "Oh! I'm so sorry. I thought you were my son, Arnold." He looked down somberly, "You look so much like him."

Ash smiled softly and waved a hand, "It's okay. This happens more often than you may think."

Misty blinked in surprise. She crouched down to Soot and whispered, "Is Ash serious or is he just being polite."

Soot sweat dropped again, "He's serious, alright. Dad has a very common face."

Brock looked at her in surprise, "Really? How many times has this happened?"

"I stopped counting over a year ago."

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**Time Skip**

Everyone sat at, and around, a set of benches.

The woman looked down somberly, "I'm just so worried about my son. He's been missing for three days."

"And you haven't heard from him?" Brock asked.

The woman shook her head, "Not a word."

Ash frowned, "Could he have gone on a journey? Maybe he said something about becoming a trainer?"

"He never said anything like that. Plus, he isn't old enough to become a trainer."

Misty spoke up, "Do you think he might just come home soon?"

She looked down somberly again, "Arnold isn't the only child to have vanished so suddenly." She looked over to a nearby wall, "See those posters?"

Everyone followed her gaze. Their eyes all widened upon seeing line up of missing persons posters.

The woman continued, "Those are pictures of all the children that have disappeared."

Misty stared in shock, "Whoa."

Brock gulped, "Just how dangerous is this town?"

Ash, Soot, Pikachu, and Clefairy just stared; speechless. Ash and Soot snapped out of it when they noticed Officer Jenny putting up another poster.

The pair quickly ran over to her; with Pikachu and Clefairy still on Ash's shoulders, "Officer Jenny."

The cop looked back at them, "Huh?" She blinked in surprise upon seeing Ash and looked down at one of the posters. She looked back at Ash and smiled, "Oh, there you-"

Ash raised a hand and deadpanned, "I'm not Arnold. I just look like him." He looked down at the poster and blinked in surprise, "apparently."

Soot looked down at the poster and back up at Ash, "Huh, I can see the resemblance."

Clefairy looked at the poster and back at Ash repeatedly; shocked, "B-but I thought-" She looked at Ash, "How many of you are there?!"

Pikachu stared at the poster then down at Soot, "Are you sure you're an only child?"

Soot stared at Pikachu and deadpanned, "You don't know that much about humans. Do you?"

Jenny looked at Soot in surprise. She looked back at Ash and raised a brow, "You're the boy that helped with the Squirtle Squad and caught that scammer in Maiden's Peak. Right?"

Ash chuckled, "I'm guessing your relatives said something about a talking mightyena?"

Officer Jenny smiled brightly, "That was you! My cousin's cousin in Maidens Peak said you helped stop one of the biggest threats to this year's festival."

Ash blinked in surprise, 'That was the biggest threat to the festival? Gastly really knows how to keep a low profile.'

Soot sweat dropped, 'Cousin's cousin? What the Yvel is their family?'

Brock blushed and smiled goofily, "This one's the most beautiful one yet."

Misty gave him a sideways glare and mumbled, "They're all exactly alike."

Brock ran up to the cop; shoving Ash aside in the process, "It must be terrible searching for all these lost children." He took hold of her hands, "I would be very happy to help you in your search."

"What?" Jenny said in surprise.

Brock's smiled brightened, "We can work together hand in-"

He was cut off when Misty started pulling on his ear and dragging him away, "Come on, you."

"Ow! Ow!" Brock whined, "Misty, come on! That hurts!"

Jenny blinked in surprise.

Ash walked back over, "We actually would like to try and help."

Soot nodded, "If it's okay with you."

Jenny perked up, "Of course! With your help, we should get to the bottom of this in no time."

Clefairy smiled with a determined glare, "Yeah! I'm sure we'll find them!"

Pikachu nodded, "It'll … be-" the mouse's ears drooped, and he fell forward.

Ash's eyes widened and caught him, "Pikachu!"

"What's the … mat-" Clefairy fell forward too.

Ash grimaced and caught her too.

Brock and Misty overheard and hurried over.

"What's wrong?!" Brock asked in alarm.

Ash frowned, "I-I don't know!" He put a hand on Clefairy's head, "No fever." He nudged Pikachu slightly, "Pikachu, say something!"

"don' wanna." Pikachu groaned.

Clefairy rolled over in Ash's arms, "sleepy."

Ash sighed in relief, "They aren't hurt."

Jenny frowned, "Still, we should get them to the Pokémon Center."

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*Center

The group ran through the front entrance and straight to the front desk.

Nurse Joy noticed them and smiled, "Welcome to the Pokémon Center. How may I-" She saw Pikachu and Clefairy, and frowned, "Oh, no. Not again."

Ash blinked in surprise, "You've seen this before?"

The nurse nodded somberly, "I'm afraid so. All of the Pokémon in town have been acting strangely." She turned and motioned them to follow, "Come look."

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*Back room

Everyone stared in shock at the lineup of drained Pokémon. An oddish sat with a tie expression and leaves drooping. A cubone just laid on the table; looking half asleep.

"Just look at Cubone and Oddish." Joy said before placing a magikarp on the table, "Even Magikarp is affected and it's usually so full of life."

The fish fell over.

Misty stared in shock, "I never thought I'd see a magikarp that wasn't splashing."

Soot frowned, "Poor guy."

Joy looked back, "The flame on this Charmander looks like it could go out any minute."

Everyone looked over and frowned at the sight of the weakened reptile.

Ash clenched a fist; being reminded of Damien. Soot gritted her teeth.

Nurse Joy brought up a psyduck, "And this one's been in terrible shape."

"Psy-y-y" Psyduck called out as he held his head.

Soot cocked her head, "He seems fine to me."

Jenny looked at her in shock, "How does that seem fine?!"

Misty sweat dropped and deadpanned, "Because it's a psyduck."

Ash nodded, "They're known to have perpetual headaches until they evolve."

Joy blinked in surprise and looked down at the duck, "That would explain why he's been like this for so much longer than the others."

Soot sweat dropped, 'Isn't she supposed to be an expert, or something?'

Brock looked at the nurse, "So, aside from Psyduck, how long has this been going on for?"

The nurse frowned, "Three days, now."

Everyone's eyes widened.

"Just the like the missing children!" Misty said in shock.

"That can't be coincidence." Soot said.

Joy blinked and looked at Soot in confusion, "Come to think of it, how come you don't seem affected?"

Ash frowned, crouched down, and put a hand on Soot's back, "Are you feeling okay, Soot?"

Soot snickered, "Dad, I'm fine." Her eyes widened in realization and she looked back at the nurse, "Have any Dark-types shown these symptoms?"

Nurse Joy scratched her head and looked up thoughtfully, "I don't think so."

Brock snapped a finger and pointed at Soot, "You're thinking this might be a Psychic-type's doing."

Soot smiled and nodded, "Yeah. It would make sense."

Ash frowned and his eyes narrowed, "Unfortunately, that would mean that someone is causing all of this to happen."

The nurse's eyes widened, "Who would do such a thing?!"

Jenny's eyes narrowed, "That's what we're gonna find out." She put a hand to her chin, "If only we could find those lost kids, we might find the source."

Soot looked up at the cop, "Have you tried tracking their scent?"

Jenny sighed, "I thought of that, as well. But we would need something that belonged to one of the children and a Pokémon to do the tracking."

Ash raised a brow, "Like something from the mother of one of the children?"

Soot sweat dropped, "And a canine?"

"Well sure, but where am I supposed to find-" She perked up, looked at the pair, and sweat dropped, "Oh."

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*Edge of town park; one minute later

Brock looked up at the trees in surprise, "So, they've just been in the park this whole time?"

Ash raised a brow, "I guess so. The trail leads through here."

Jenny's eyes narrowed, "Now hold on a second. Do you have any idea how unlikely it is that someone would hide a bunch of children in the middle of a park? It's way too out in the open."

Soot glanced at her, "Did you check?"

Jenny sweat dropped, "Well…"

Misty sighed and started walking, "Come on."

Everyone followed.

They came to a clearing in the middle of the park with a large pond. And all of the lost children. Completely unharmed but not at all normal.

All of them were running around and acting like Pokémon. Thankfully, the only "Water-type" was splashing in a puddle.

Jenny stared in shock, "I don't think anything could have prepared me for this."

Misty blinked in surprise, "Why are they acting like this?"

Soot looked around, "Maybe it's some kind of hypnotism? That would support the psychic influence theory." She frowned, "But I'm not seeing a possible culprit."

Jenny walked forward and clapped loudly, "Alright, wake up, everyone! It's time to go home!"

None of them listened.

Jenny walked closer and grabbed a girl acting like a magikarp but the hand, "All of your parents are worried sick!"

The girl pulled away with a frown and went back to splashing.

Jenny frowned, "It's no use."

Ash crossed his arms, "If this really is a psychic's influence, then snapping the out it won't be that easy."

Brock perked up and looked at Ash, "What about Intimidate."

Jenny looked at them in surprise, "What?"

Ash raised a brow, "Why do think that would work?"

Brock smiled, "Remember Saffron City? It looked like you're Intimidate negated Sabrina's psychic abilities for a second."

Misty smiled, "Oh, yeah!"

Jenny's eyes widened and she looked at Ash in shock.

Ash frowned and rubbed the back of head, "It wasn't that. Intimidate -the ability and mine- are design to frighten or shock the targets at a subconscious level. Which is why Pokémon put more strain on themselves when using attacks. Sabrina just lost her concentration."

Soot's eyes widened, "But, it might still snap the kids out of whatever trance they're in!"

Ash looked at her in surprise and put a hand to his chin, "You have a point." He looked ahead, "I'll give it shot." He walked towards the kids.

Jenny blinked, "Wait, what are you talking about?"

Misty looked at her, "Just, uh, cover your eyes." She followed her own instructions, "Trust me."

Jenny blinked in surprise and looked at Brock. He was doing the same.

The cop raised a brow, "What could be so-" She looked ahead, and her eyes widened.

Facing away, Ash stared at the large group of children with Intimidate. Jenny started trembling in fear and breathing heavily as Ash's ability spread throughout the area. She flinched when Misty put a hand in front of her eyes. Jenny quickly moved her own hand in front of her face and glanced at Misty.

Misty pulled back her hand and glanced at her with a sly smile, "Told ya."

Ash continued with Intimidate. But the children didn't seem to notice.

Ash's eyes narrowed, 'What the?' He cut off the ability and put a hand to his chin, "Hmm."

The humans stopped feeling scared and moved their hands out of the way. Though, Jenny was still staring at Ash in shock.

Soot looked around in confusion, "How did that not work?"

Misty crossed her arms, "Maybe it's because they're acting like Pokémon?"

Ash shook his head, "That wouldn't do it. As far as we've been able to tell, my Intimidate locks on to human brain-" His eyes widened, "waves."

Brock raised a brow, "What is it?"

Ash looked back with a smile, "I think I just found out what's been going on!"

Jenny snapped out of it and blinked, "What?"

Ash smirked and raised a finger, "Mental transference. The Pokémon in the Center aren't just being drained of their energy. They're very brainwaves are being transferred to the children. That's why Intimidate didn't work on them. Mentally, they don't register as humans. That would also mean that all of this really is connected."

Misty raised a brow, "Isn't that a bit of a leap?"

Ash shrugged, "It's more of a theory."

Soot looked around, "That would also mean that none of these kids are the culprit."

Jenny looked at her in shock, "Why would you even consider that a possibility?!"

Soot's eyes narrowed, "I didn't mean on purpose. Not every child Psychic has a perfect grasp on their abilities. One of these kids could have done this without even knowing it and thought it was some weird game. They also would've reacted to Intimidate if they were faking."

Jenny sweat dropped, "Oh."

A strange buzzing started sounding throughout the area.

"Oh!" Jenny reached around.

Misty looked over, "Is that your radio?"

Jenny shook her head, "Nope." She pulled out a large, handheld device and held it out, "It's a sleep wave detector."

Brock raised a brow, "Sleep waves?"

Jenny nodded, "Wavelengths that induce sleep."

Ash's eyes widened, "Like Hypnosis! That could be what's causing all of this!"

Jenny blinked in surprise, "Now that you mention it, I've only been picking them up recently. Since all of this started, in fact."

Soot gave Jenny an incredulous look, "You've been picking up these signals ever since the children went missing and the Pokémon started losing energy and never once thought that it might all be connected?"

Jenny blinked, "Um." She pointed the detector into the distance, "The sleep waves are coming from that direction." She ran off, "Let's hurry!"

Everyone shared a look, sighed, and followed the officer.

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**Time Skip**

They tracked the source of the sleep waves to the roof of a skyscraper. What they found made less sense than the town's name.

Ash stared in shock, "What the actual Yvel?"

"A mansion on top of a skyscraper?" Brock said in shock at the sight of the structure.

"This day just keeps getting weirder." Misty said; wide eyed.

Jenny pointed her device ahead, "The sleep waves are coming from in there."

"All right." Ash said before he and Soot ran towards the door and each put an ear to it; eyes closed.

Everyone else followed.

"What do you hear?" Brock asked.

Ash frowned, "Well over twenty- no, thirty." He grimaced, "They're moving around too much. I can't get an exact number."

Soot opened her eyes and glared at the door, "Taking into account all of our Pokémon and assuming they each have at least one, we're outnumbered by around four to one. If we're lucky."

Jenny's eyes widened in shock.

Misty glared and brought out four pokéballs, "Then, we need to be ready."

Jenny looked at Misty in surprise.

Brock nodded, "Right." He pulled out three pokéballs.

Jenny stepped forward with a worried expression, "Wait a second. This could be dangerous. You could all be hurt."

Ash looked back at her with a determined glare, "Whoever's inside is responsible for everything that's been happening." He glared back at the door, "We're not backing down."

Soot smirked and shifted her eyes, "Ditto." She looked up at Ash, "Dad, go for it!"

Ash nodded, grabbed the zipper buckle on her back, and pulled.

Ash crossed his arms and the strings shot out and attached to him, "Soot, Marionetter!"

Officer Jenny stared in shock as Soot moved to her hindlegs.

Ash moved a few fingers and Soot tore off her right foreleg.

Jenny flinched, "Woah!"

Soot glanced back, "Don't worry. I don't feel pain while I'm like this." She looked back at the door, "And honestly, the arm thing wouldn't hurt anyway." Soot grinned, "Hey, dad. How about we try the new move?"

Ash smirked, "Sounds good." He crossed his arms over his head, "Les Arts Martiaux!"

Jenny blinked in surprise, "Is that Kalosian?"

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*Inside the mansion; moments before

"Soot, Marionetter!"

Everyone in the mansion looked at the door in surprise and started murmuring.

"What was that?"

"What's a marionetter?"

"Did they say 'Soot?'"

"Where have I heard that name before?"

"Les Arts Martiaux!"

Everyone flinched as they heard furious scratching at the door. It burst and everyone shied away as splinters, and the doorknob, flew everywhere.

"Swirling Tiger!"

Everyone looked up and gasped in horror. Standing there was something that would give them all nightmares.

A mightyena with eyes like a banette stood over the splitters on only its hindlegs. The nightmarish part was the fact that it was holding its own severed arm and its waist was twisted into a knot that defied all laws of biology … and decency.

The Pokémon stood there with a frown and its eye twitching. Though, it seemed to be more uncomfortable than in pain.

Without warning, the Dark-types upper torso began to spin rapidly as her body righted itself.

"Waaaahhh!" She shouted as she spun against her will.

Everyone flinched again.

Soot stopped spinning but, to her, the room didn't.

"You okay, Soot?" The voice from before asked in worry.

They all turned to see a boy from black hair and brown eyes; wearing a red baseball cap. He held his arms out in front of him with purple, translucent strings stretching from his fingers to the Dark-type. A few people's eyes widened upon seeing him.

"I'll live." Soot said in a daze, "But dad, we either need to practice that more or make it a series of pirouettes."

Ash chuckled, "Noted." He moved a few fingers for Soot to reattach her arm.

Misty looked at Ash in surprise, "When did you learn how to do that?"

Soot looked back at her, "We got the idea from Gastly. Arlequin Yin used that technique to beat me." She sweat dropped, "Although, his was a lot more efficient."

Soot looked ahead into the room and blinked in surprise, "What the Yvel?"

Ash, Brock, Misty, and Jenny looked around at the large group of people in upper-class garb. In the middle of the room sat a hypno and drowzee on a table.

"What is this place?" Brock asked in confusion.

Misty followed, "What's going on here?"

Jenny stepped forward and glared, "Alright! You all have a lot of explaining to do! Why are there sleep waves coming from this location?!"

Soot deadpanned and sweat dropped, 'Seriously?' "It's the hypno and drowzee." She glared at the group, "What I want to know is why you're using them to hypnotize the town's children and drain Pokémon."

A brown-haired man in a suit and glasses frowned, "What are you talking about? We've only had them help with our insomnia."

A man in a top hat nodded, "We've been using these Pokémon instead of sleeping medication."

Brock sweat dropped, "Couldn't you have just gotten a Pokémon that knows Sleep Powder? Most Grass-types -even common one- can learn it pretty easily."

The guy with the glasses chuckled nervously, "It was mostly a heat of the moment sort of thing." He gestured to the taller Psychic-type, "You see, our hypno only evolved from a drowzee three days ago."

Jenny's glare deepened, "The exact same time the children went missing and all of the Pokémon started losing their energy!"

The man waved his hands defensively, "I assure you; we have no idea what you mean." He gestured to the room as a whole, "We're all member of the Pokémon Lovers Club."

Misty blinked in surprise, "Pokémon Lovers Club?"

He nodded, "Precisely. You see, all of our members absolutely adore Pokémon, and well, Hypno has become our favorite." He gestured to Hypno again, "All of our hard work paid off when Drowzee finally evolved. Living our lives in the city can be very stressful and all of us suffer from insomnia, so we've come to rely on Hypno's powers to help us get to sleep at night."

Ash frowned, "Unfortunately, your 'solution' has been doing more than that." He turned his back to Misty, "Can you get them?"

Misty nodded and opened his backpack before pulling out the exhausted Pikachu and Clefairy. They laid there with uncomfortable frowns on their faces.

Misty looked up and frowned, "The same thing happened to all of the Pokémon at the Pokémon Center."

Soot nodded and crossed her arms, "Yeah. And a handful of children in town have been hypnotized into thinking they're Pokémon. They were all reported missing."

Many of the club members gasped in shock.

The man they've talking to the whole time frowned, "Oh dear. How could this have happened?"

Ash sighed, "A hypno's non-attack hypnotism is designed to only work on Pokémon. Rerouting it to affect humans must be causing this massive side effect."

The man looked back at hypno; somberly, "To think we caused such a terrible situation." He looked back at the group, "Please. If there's any way we can help, just say it."

Ash moved Soot's arm to point at drowzee and he said, "You could let us borrow him."

"Drowzee?" The man asked in surprise, "Why him?"

Soot smiled, "All of this is being caused by Hypno's dream waves. So, we might be able to counteract it if Drowzee can send out an opposing signal."

The man blinked in surprise and put a hand to his chin, "That might just work." He perked up, "Let's try it!"

Ash nodded, "Alright." He moved his fingers again and Soot ran forward before hoisting the Psychic-type to her shoulders.

Soot smirked, "Let's hurry!"

Soot, Ash, Misty, Brock, Jenny, and Glasses ran out of the building.

Misty looked at him in surprise, "You're coming too?"

He nodded, "Drowzee is the club's Pokémon. While I do wish to help, I also want to make sure Drowzee stays safe."

Ash smiled softly, "Fair enough."

Something gleaming in the sky caught everyone's attention.

The man looked up in surprise, "What is that?"

"Whatever it is, it's coming this way." Jenny said with a hand above her eyes.

Ash squinted before sighing, "Them again."

Brock, Soot, and Misty heard him and groaned.

Team Rocket glided down to the roof, landed, and looked at the group with cocky smiles.

Jessie pointed at them, "Prepare for-"

"Nope." Ash and Soot said as Ash aimed one of Soot's paws at them.

Soot unleashed a massive swarm of Shadow Balls from her paw and mouth.

Team Rocket screamed as they exploded and shot into the distance; their gliders shredded.

Jessie glared down at them, "Okay, that was uncalled for!"

James pouted in a fetal position, "We didn't even get to try plans A or B."

Meowth grumbled and crossed his arms, "What goes up mus' come down."

The humans looked at him with raised brows.

Meowth looked back at them, "What? I couldn't think of anythin'."

Omega: You had him say that because you couldn't think of anything. Didn't you?

Ohirume: *sigh*

"We're blasting off without a chance!"

Jenny blinked in surprise, "What was that?"

Ash looked back, "Something we don't have time to worry about." He and Soot ran towards the exit with Drowzee still on her shoulders.

Everyone followed.

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*Park

The group made it back to the park, deactivated Marionetter, and the Psychic-type got to work on sending out the counter waves. In a matter of seconds, all of the children had completely fallen asleep. As did Pikachu and Clefairy; who were laying on Ash's shoulders.

"It looks like it's working." Ash said with a smile.

After another second, Drowzee stopped moving his arms and clapped. Almost immediately, all of the children started stirring awake.

"Hey, how did I get into the middle of the park?" One boy asked in confusion while looking around.

Another boy held his head, "It's so weird. Last thing I remember I was studying for my journey."

The magikarp girl looked down at herself in shock, "Why am I all wet?"

"Excuse me!" Jenny said with a raised hand; catching the children's attention, "I know you all must be confused, but know that everything is okay now. Please go back to your homes. Your parents have been worried."

The kids looked around in confusion before shrugging and running home.

Pikachu and Clefairy came too after a moment.

Pikachu shook his head and blinked, "What happened?"

Clefairy looked around, "Are we in a forest?" She smiled brightly and looked at Ash, "That means we can work on Dazzling Gleam, right?!"

Ash chuckled and pet her, "Glad to see you guys back to normal."

Pikachu blinked in surprise, "Wait, what?"

"Arnold!"

Everyone looked over to woman from before running into the park.

Misty smiled, "It's that mother we met."

Soot blinked in surprise, 'How did she know to come here?'

A young boy -likely Arnold- ran over and hugged her, "Mommy."

Brock stared in surprise and looked back and forth between Arnold and Ash, "I can see how she got you guys mixed up."

The gentleman smiled softly, "I'm happy to see all of this resolved." He looked over at Jenny sheepishly, "I hope we're not in too much trouble for all of this."

Jenny crossed her arms, "Well, all of this was an accident, so I'll let you off with a warning. But this better not happen again."

The man smiled and nodded, "Thank you, Officer Jenny. And, rest assured, we'll look for another method of curing our insomnia. One that doesn't include hypnotism." He paused and looked at Brock, "Come to think of it, you said something about Sleep Powder, right?"

Brock nodded, "Yeah. Sleep Powder naturally works on Pokémon and humans alike." He rubbed the back of his with a sheepish expression, "But I'm not really an expert on Grass-types."

Ash smiled and spoke up, "Your best bet for an early fix will probably be bellsprout or tangela. Even the hatchlings from both species can learn the move within a month. Though, bellsprout will take a bit more work. Also, you can try for a bulbasaur or petilil if someone in your club has connections. Bulbasaur learns around the same time a bellsprout, petilil learns faster than either them, but none of them learn as fast as tangela."

The man smiled brightly, "Thank you, Mr. Ketchum. We'll get to work on it right away."

Ash smiled, "Good to hear." His eyes widened, 'Wait, did I ever give him my name?' Ash deadpanned, 'Oh boy.'

Jenny's eyes widened in realization, "Wait a second! I just remembered! We still need to cure the other Pokémon!" She looked over to the man, "Would you mind if I took Drowzee to the Pokémon Center real fast?"

Brock ran up next to her and smiled brightly, "And I can go with her to make sure everything's okay!"

Soot and Misty sweat dropped.

The man smiled softly, "I suppose that would be alright. I only ask that you bring him back to the club as soon as you're done."

The cop saluted, "Can do." She walked over to Drowzee and grabbed his hand before leading him to the Pokémon Center.

Brock waved at Ash and Misty with a bright smile, "See ya guys later."

The three of them disappeared into the distance.

Misty sweat dropped, "That can't end well."

The man looked down at Soot, "I know I may not have much of a right to ask this, but could you do us at the club a favor?"

Soot looked at him with a raised brow, "What's the favor?"

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*P.L.C. mansion

Ash, Misty, Soot, Pikachu, and Clefairy stared in shock at the bulletin board covered in pictures and articles about Ash and Soot. The two of them were just thankful that all of the pictures were from newspaper and magazines … and that none of them were candid.

"Um, wow." Was all Misty managed to say.

"They really went all out." Pikachu said.

Clefairy was speechless.

The man smiled brightly at Ash, "As you can see, we are also very large fans of you and the Phantom Child." He pulled put a notepad, "So, we were hoping to get a few autographs and/or pictures."

Ash and Soot looked past him to see the other members smiling brightly with a camera and/or paper. The pair shared a sideways glance.

"I mean," Ash started, "I guess we kind of owe you for destroying the door."

Soot sighed, "Yeah." She looked past the man again, "Who's first?"

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**Time Skip**

The group made their way out of the town. Although…

"So, why is he following us?" Soot said as she looked back at Psyduck.

Brock cleared his throat, "Well, Nurse Joy still concerned about Psyduck. So, I may have given her my word that I would take care of him." He looked over to the Cerulean Gym leader, "Maybe you should take him, Misty. Water-types are your specialty."

Misty walked backwards as she looked at Psyduck and sweat dropped, "I'm not sure. Psyduck aren't exactly the easiest Water-types to trai- Whoa!" She didn't notice the rock in her path. She also didn't notice one of her pokéballs fall out of her bag.

Ash intercepted and caught her, "You okay?"

Misty smiled and nodded, "Yeah. Thanks."

The sound of a pokéball enlarging caught everyone's attention. They looked over right as Psyduck tapped the ball again and … caught himself.

Misty stared in shock, "Di-did that really just happen?"

Brock scratched the side of his head, "Um, congratulations Misty?"

Misty sighed and walked over to pick up the pokéball, "Thanks, I guess." She smiled softly, "Maybe this won't be so bad. Afterall, it'll be pretty cool to have a golduck."

Soot snickered, "Yeah. If he ever evolves."

Misty rolled her eyes with a smirk, "I'm sure it won't be that bad."

Faux: *groans*

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Omega: What about the Chemicritters?

Ohirume: Chemical Beast.

Omega: Zoodiac?

Ohirume: Zodiac Beast or Juunishishi. Also, most, if not all, of their personal names were changed.

Omega: What about That Grass Looks Greener?

Ohirume: Lawnmowing Next Door.

Seishin: Aaaaand.

Ohirume: *sigh* Right. Before the official reveal of That Grass's English name, there was a scare about it having a name worse than Toadally.

Mizuro: What was it?

Ohirume: *groans* The Grass Is Always Tastier On The Other Side.

Seishin: *shivers in disgust*

Omega, Mizuro, Nuevo, Illavera, Faux, Luke, Pike, Laura, Mewtwo, Pearl, Peridot and even Gem: *group cringe*

Laura: Wow. Sounds like that game has a lot of trouble with translating.

Seishin: It's not just Yu-Gi-Oh. Other franchises get names ruined all the time. Mostly due to copyright.

Ohirume: Yeah. Like JoJo.

Mizuro: Deadly Queen isn't that bad.

Seishin: Actually, he was referring to things like Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap. A.K.A. D4C.

Mizuro: *shivers* Oh, right?

Luke: What did it change to?

Ohirume: *sigh* Filthy Acts At A Reasonable Price.

ALL (Except Ohirume and Seishin): *Blank/Shocked stares*

Nuevo: *snaps out of it and deadpans* Oh. That explains the title.

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I know this one is a little short. Especially taking into account that it took three weeks to post. I originally planned for this and the Scissor Street chapter to be the same chapter, but that half was longer than I thought. Although, I've made enough progress on it that I'll have it up by next Sunday.