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Chapter 9: A Meet Up With Your Rival

Ash's POV

New Age(s):

Sawyer: 16

The four of us were now on our way to Snowbelle City for my eighth gym badge. After that it would be off to the Kalos League. I hear from Sawyer that he is a very powerful person now. But we will definitely win. We were going to meet up with him somewhere along our route so we could have lunch together and so I could battle him. He hasn't seen me and Greninja do the form. It is time to show him.

"Hey Ash?" Clemont asks as I snap out of my thoughts.

"Yeah Clemont." I say.

"I know this is out of the blue, but what are you going to do after the Kalos League?" He asks. I was really hoping he wouldn't ask that. Really only one thing comes to mind: Going back home to Kanto. And maybe Serena could come with... But I said,

"Well I would have no reason to be here so I would go back home to Kanto." I said and I immediately regretted it as Serena looked taken aback and then looked away from me as I sense anger in her aura.

"No no Serena I didn't include you in that reason. You guys are the only other reason besides the Kalos League I would stay here in Kalos." I said hoping it would make things better. That made Serena happy and she slowly cracked a smile and so did Bonnie and Clemont.

"Aww thank you Ash. I hope you could stay. Although I- no we can't force you." Serena said. I smile at her. It would be great to stay here.

"If there isn't another region for me to explore I would stay here and hang out." I say. Everyone smiles at that. Serena came over and gave me a hug. I returned it.

"Aww Ash. If you do though we will miss you." Serena says. But I could tell she didn't want me to leave. Clemont and Bonnie nodded in agreement. I smile. I would miss these guys a lot too. It makes me sad when I think of leaving these guys. But, like I have thought before, I should enjoy it while it lasts. But I could tell that Serena really wanted me to stay even though she said that it would be ok with me leaving. We'll just have to wait and see until after the Kalos League. But considering that Olympia back in Anistar City said that our fates were tied to a Kalos disaster, I feel I will be staying here longer. And nothing has happened yet. But I wonder if those Team Flare figures are connected to this.

"But I am nervous about that Kalos disaster that Olympia talked about before my gym battle with her." I say. Everyone then turned nervous as well.

"We all are Ash. Olympia did say we were connected to all of this." Clemont said a little anxious as well.

"And that new power Grenin-" I suddenly stopped talking and walking as well. Everyone looked shocked and concern. I also felt it too.

"What's wrong Ash?" Clemont asked clueless.

"The transformation. That was what she was referring to." I said in an epiphany state.

"Something that has never been seen before." Serena said quietly.

"That's so cool!" Bonnie said excitedly. That made me smile. I then turn serious again as I thought of something else that Olympia said.

"But she said to not take it lightly. We must learn to control this power and not have it used against us." I say.

"It seems like a Mega Evolution." Bonnie says.

"It does. Although it doesn't require the stones. Maybe it's an undiscovered Mega Evolution. I mean Alain did say that his Mega Ring showed it as a Mega Evolution." Clemont states. I continue walking. Everyone catches up with me. We would be at the clearing where we would meet Sawyer in about 5 minutes.

"There is one thing that I do know. That water veil around Greninja when he transforms isn't the end. I know there is more to it." I say.

"Are you saying that it's an incomplete transformation?" Serena asks.

"Yeah let's put it that way." I say a little glumly.

"I would really like to master it, but I know it won't happen in a thought it takes practice." I say. I then snap out of my little bit of hopelessness.

"Ahh what am I doing? Getting down about it isn't me at all. Me and Greninja will definitely get this form." I suddenly say upbeat. Everyone seemed shocked that I changed my attitude, but smiled as my true self came. Serena came and held my hand and we smiled at each other.

"We should be hitting the clearing soon and Sawyer should be there." Clemont said. We continued to walk in silence and Serena and I hold hands. Soon there was a break in the trees and a huge and I mean like a gargantuan clearing appeared before us. We walked a little further and I could see a person with a Sceptile sitting on the grass beside him up ahead on the trail. The trail continues past the clearing and into the woods, but of course we were going to stop here.

"Sawyer!" I yell while cupping my hands around my mouth to project the voice. He looked up from his notebook looking around trying to figure out who called him. He then catches his eyes on us and I wave at him and smile. He stands up and does the same. We then walk towards him.

"Hey everyone!" He said as we got closer to him. He is 16, but is very mature for his age. It shows in his battling.

"Hey! How are you doing?" I ask him.

"I'm doing great how about yourselves?" He asks us.

"Doing awesome." I say.

"The same as Ash." Serena says as she puts her arm around me.

"Both of us are doing fine thank you." Clemont said.

"Awesome! How has your gym battles been going along? I take it you are ready to challenge Wulfric?" He asks facing me.

"Yep. Olympia and I had an amazing battle." I said.

"Great! Can we have a battle? It's been a while and I have gotten a lot stronger since we last seen each other." He said.

"So did we. We even have a secret weapon too." I said. I was going to reveal the form to him, but I wanted it to be a surprise.

"Alright! Let's go!" I said in excitement as I headed to the field, but a loud rumbling from my stomach stopped me in our tracks. I then turn around embarrassed and everyone chuckled at me.

"Well. You can't battle on an empty stomach." Serena says with a smile.

"Guess you're right." I say. I turn back to Sawyer who was up ahead of me.

"Don't worry I'll wait for ya." Sawyer said. I smiled at him.

"Hey why don't you join us?" I ask him invitingly.

"Yeah. We'll have extra food so don't be shy." Clemont says behind me. Sawyer hesitated a bit then agreed.

"Sure." He said as he then ran back towards us.

Time Change

Everyone was enjoying a plant burger that Clemont made. He really is a good cook.

"Clemont this is the best. Thank you!" I said gracefully.

"Yeah thanks." Everyone chimed in. He smiled at all of us.

"Glad you like it." He said.

"Say Clemont did you take any cooking lessons?" Serena asked curiosity in her aura. Woah. I can sense people's auras now. My aura really is starting to manifest.

"Actually no. I mean if you want to count me watching Pops do it all of the time and picking up his cooking skills from him I guess, but I've actually had no formal cooking lessons." He said. We all looked at him in awe.

"That's awesome Clemont. Your dad must be a really good cook." Sawyer said.

"Yep. That's Poppa for you." Bonnie said excitedly. I smile at her. Sawyer then turned to me.

"So Ash. Has anything happened recently for all of you guys?" He asked. I was going to tell him everything that happened after the last time we met, but of course I'm going to leave the form out of it until I show him in battle.

"A lot yeah. Serena won up against the Kalos Queen Aria a couple of days back and got two princess keys." I say taking my last bite of my burger. Sawyer's eyes lit up with happiness.

"Awesome! Congratulations!" He says happily.

"Thanks." Serena said blushing out of happiness.

"Yeah. Anything else?" He asks.

"Hmmm. Well Frogadier evolved into Greninja about a week back." I say.

"Cool! My Grovyle evolved just two days ago in my battle up against Wulfric. If it wasn't for Grovyle evolving we may have lost." Sawyer said turning to his Sceptile happiness on his face.

"I wanted to win that battle so much I had to evolve." It said. I forgot that I can understand Pokémon.

"I bet you did Sceptile. I wished I could've been there to see your battle." I say. Sceptile looked at me in shock.

"What's wrong Sceptile?" Sawyer asked looked back and forward between me and his Sceptile.

"You can understand me?" It asked shocked. I just smiled.

"Yep. Oh yeah Sawyer my aura manifested yesterday afternoon and I can understand Pokémon and read people's emotions based off of their aura." I say.

"Ash that's incredible! That reminds me a lot of Sir Aaron and his aura." He says.

"Yeah!" I say.

"Wait Ash that second ability you didn't mention before." Clemont said.

"Oh yeah it manifested earlier today I just forgot to tell you guys." I said

"Oh I see." He says back. I then looked at Serena and then my hand on top of hers.

"Oh and Serena and I are dating now." I say happily. I look at her smiling and she returns it.

"Oh nice! It was about time." He said teasingly. We both blushed in slight embarrassment.

"You could tell I liked him?" Serena asked embarrassed. Sawyer snickered a bit.

"Eh I know a little something about love." He says cooly.

"Huh." Serena said and gave me a teasing smile which meant she was making fun of my denseness. I roll my eyes and smile.

"But you guys make a good couple!" He said happily.

"Thanks." We say collectively as we smile at him and then smile at each other.

"Yeah!" He says. I then wipe my mouth and clean up my mess and put my garbage in a trash bag that Clemont carries around.

"Alright Sawyer you ready?" I ask pumping my fist.

"Let's do this!" He says as we run to the clearing we were before. I then look over my shoulder and see Clemont cleaning by himself as Serena and Bonnie follow me. I stop.

"Hey Clemont do you need help cleaning?" I ask him. He looks up and smiles at me.

"Thanks, but don't worry Ash I've got this. I'll be there in a minute." He says and I nod as he continues to clean. I run across from where Sawyer is and decide my Pokémon. We would have a 2 on 2 match. I look up into the sky. There were white puffy clouds and the sun was near its highest position.

"Ash I've gotten a lot stronger for my gym battle against Wulfric so brace yourself!" He yells across the clearing.

"We won't hold back either!" I yell back determined. I don't know how he got his badge before me, but- oh that doesn't matter I will get that eighth badge soon.

"Serena. Do you wanna referee while Clemont finishes up cleaning?" I ask.

"Uh sure." She says hesitantly. I know why. She hasn't refereed a match before.

"You'll do fine don't worry." I say reassuringly. She nods with determination.

"Ok! This will be a 2 on 2 battle between Ash and Sawyer." She says. I give her a thumbs up.

"You're a natural." I say and she blushes and chuckles nervously which sounds like angel and I get lost in her chuckle.

"Ash!" I hear Sawyer say and I snap out of my trance.

"Huh." I say.

"You alright?" He asks.

"Yeah. Let's go." I say and I bring out Hawlucha.

"Alright Hawlucha let's do this." I say smiling with determination and he pumps his fist while looking back at me with the same look.

"Alright Clawitzer, let's do this." He says while bringing out Clawitzer.

"Alright battle begin!" Serena shouts and then, Sawyer makes the first move.

"Alright Clawitzer use Crabhammer!" He commands it. Clawitzer's claw turns into a bluish-white color as it races towards Hawlucha.

"Alright Hawlucha draw it in and use Karate Chop on my go." I say. It nods as he watches Clawitzer closely.

"Alright now!" I say as it quickly dodges and then swings with a Karate Chop, but to our surprise Clawitzer sees it coming and ducks.

"Now! Aura Sphere!" Sawyer shouts as Clawitzer charges up the blue sphere of aura.

"Wait on my command then use X-Scissor." I say. Hawlucha nods as he looks at the Aura Sphere which is now being launched toward Hawlucha.

"Now!" I say as he jumps to the side of the sphere and hits Clawitzer with a perfect X-Scissor.

"Huh. Well I wasn't expecting that." He said smiling.

"I have been training a lot lately with my Pokémon. I get stronger with my Pokémon." I say. He looks at me for a moment then smiles.

"You are an amazing trainer Ash. Clawitzer you alright?" He asks it.

"Yeah. Let's continue." It said.

"Alright now Clawitzer use Hydro Pump!" Sawyer says. Clawitzer then opened its claws and a massive jet of water raced toward Hawlucha.

"Alright dodge then use High Jump Kick." I say as he dodges and then his leg lights up white and then jumps into the air and then brings his knee down towards Clawitzer.

"Dodge it!" He says and Clawitzer swiftly, but barely dodged the kick. Hawlucha then landed to the ground hard. I know that had to have hurt him.

"Ahh." I say as Hawlucha gets up slowly. I know that had to hurt.

"Are you ok Hawlucha?" I ask him.

"Yeah. Let's continue." He says and I nod. He then stands getting back into fighting position.

"Alright let's head in with caution and use X-Scissor!" I say as a purple "X" appears in front of Hawlucha as he races off toward Clawitzer slower than normal.

"Alright now Clawitzer use Hyper Beam." Sawyer says. Then Clawitzer focuses its power into its claw and opens it as a powerful beam of energy races toward Hawlucha.

"Grr. Hawlucha move to the side and continue running towards it with X-Scissor." I say as it moved off to the side and kept running toward Clawitzer with X-Scissor still active.

"Move it to the left." I hear Sawyer say and then I look at his facial expression as it shows that he has a smirk. Oh no!

"Hawlucha no!" I say in despair as Hawlucha reacted quickly and jumped. It grazed him and fell down in pain. At least the Hyper Beam is over with.

"Hawlucha are you ok?" I ask him.

"No matter. Let's continue." He says.

"Alright. Then use Flying Press and use it fast." I say as he then jumps into the air and prepares with his finisher move.

"Use Lock-On." Sawyer says and I then panic.

"Oh no. If Sawyer uses a strong move like Hyper Beam or Aura Sphere it'll be over." I mutter under my breath. But I snapped out of it as Hawlucha then slams Clawitzer into the ground.

"Clawitzer I need you to hang in there ok. Now use Hyper Beam!" He says. Oh no here we go. I then think back to the time when Brandon used Lock-On and Hyper Beam on my Sceptile. An idea just popped in my head.

"Alright now Hawlucha start running!" I command it. Sawyer started to laugh a little bit.

"Ash no matter how much your Hawlucha runs you won't be able to avoid it." Sawyer says smugly.

"Ash there is no point. Hawlucha is going to get hit no matter what." Clemont says. He must've been standing there for a bit then.

"Oh I know Hawlucha is going to get hit." I say with a smirk. Sawyer's smug look faded a bit when he heard me talking.

"Run around the battle field then make a loop and run straight at me." I say to Hawlucha as he does what I tell him.

"Huh? Just what are you up to Ash?" He asks perplexed as to what is going on.

"You'll see. Now do it make the turn!" I say as Hawlucha does it and runs straight toward it. Hawlucha was running fast so Sawyer has less time to react to the attack. Clawitzer was in the path of Hawlucha and the Hyper Beam and then it struck Clawitzer making a big explosion of smoke and probably going to knock it out. But as I expected it would be a tie. After the smoke cleared it was revealed that both Pokémon were down.

"Uhh. Both Hawlucha and Clawitzer are unable to battle. This round is a draw." Said Serena hesitating at first, but making it flow later on.

"Hmm. That was well played Ash I didn't think that you would pull something like that. But you are Ash. You are full of surprises." Sawyer said with a smile.

"Thanks Sawyer. I always train to become better." I say. He just smiles.

"Alright Clawitzer return." He said while retracting Clawitzer back into its ball.

"You too Hawlucha. Take a nice long rest." I say as I return Hawlucha.

"You battled great." Sawyer said to Clawitzer's Pokéball. I smiled at that. I like how he treats his Pokémon with care.

"Alright time to ramp things up! Sceptile I choose you!" He says as he tosses Sceptile's Poké Ball. And Sceptile lands in a fighting position awaiting for my strongest Pokémon. I take out Greninja's Pokéball and look at it for a moment. We would show them now.

"Alright Greninja let's do this!" I say loud as Greninja pops out. The Poké Ball then comes back and I return it to my belt.

"Alright time to show you how much I've been training. Alright let's start this off with Leaf Blade!" Sawyer says as the leaves on Sceptile's forearm light up green as it races towards Greninja.

"Greninja use Aerial Ace!" I say. Then Greninja raced off toward Sceptile and the two attacks clash. The clashing goes on for a couple of moments before Greninja then finds an opening and struck Sceptile in the stomach. Sceptile then skids back toward Sawyer and shakes off the attack.

"Wow that was a super effective move. Your Sceptile is strong." I say satisfied.

"Thanks. Me and Sceptile have worked on its endurance in battle." Sawyer says. Hmmph. Sounds like he's really been training.

"Awesome! But we aren't done yet. Greninja use Water Shuriken!" I say as Greninja creates a sharp shuriken of water and hurl it towards Sceptile.

"Alright Dragon Claw!" Sawyer says as one of Sceptile's arms glow green with a massive claw extending and cuts through the shuriken.

"Wow such power." I hear Serena say from the sidelines. He managed to destroy that thing like it was nothing. I gritted my teeth a bit.

"Alright Greninja use Cut!" I say as he brings a white blade and goes racing off toward Sceptile.

"Alright Leaf Blade let's go!" Sawyer says as Sceptile races in with both leaves on its arm arm glowing green.

"Greninja be careful you only have one blade he has two." I say.

"You got it." He says back. The two attacks then clash with each other and Greninja looks to be struggling a bit.

"Go Sceptile hit him!" Sawyer says and it clashes one leaf blade against the cut and uses the other to hit Greninja. Greninja then slides back cringing in pain.

"Ahh. Greninja are you ok?" I ask.

"I've had worse." He says as he gets up a little slow.

"Alright time to show them." I say.

"Let's do it." He says.

"Alright Greninja let's battle together. We'll show them what we're made of!" I yell in determination as my body temperature rises and my heartbeat gets faster.

"Let's go!" He yells and instead of the torrent rising from him he runs around extremely fast confusing even me and creating sand spots. Could this mean a new part of our transformation? I don't know. But I think not because I wasn't able to connect to him. Sceptile looked around nervous and Sawyer was looking shocked.

"Come on. Come on." I say gritting my teeth while focusing on Greninja. I can't feel any connection. Then he slowed down and then stopped running. He just looked like a normal Greninja.

"It didn't happen." He said looking at himself.

"I know. I wonder why." I said. I stood there thinking and looking at my hands. How did we do it before? What were we doing wrong?

"Huh? Sceptile use Leaf Storm!" Sawyer says as it then faced its tail towards Greninja and a cone of leaves spinning fast races towards Greninja. I couldn't react in time as Greninja then got picked up by the tornado of leaves and got suspended in the air.

"Gah. Greninja no!" I say.

"This hurts this hurts." He says cringing in pain.

"Alright now slam Greninja into the ground!" Sawyer yells as Sceptile then slams Greninja into the ground.

"Greninja are you ok?" I asked concerned.

"Let's go. I can continue." He said.

"Alright then use Water Shuriken!"

Clemont's POV

Hm I wonder why they weren't able to transform. Looks like I have to design a device that will track their heartbeats and brainwaves. I'm thinking that when they do transform both Greninja and Ash's brainwaves are synchronized and their heartbeats are synched together. I then went back to the trail, put my bag on the ground and a big table cloth, and sat down and began pulling out stuff out of my bag and began working.

Ash's POV

I don't know what is going on, but I feel like I should try the form again. I wanted to show Sawyer.

"Alright Greninja let's try again." I say. He looks back at me and nods.

"This is weird how we're not doing it." He says back.

"It's ok. Let's give it another try." I say as I then close my eyes and try to connect to Greninja. Screw it let's go.

"Alright Greninja let's get much, much stronger." I say as my heartbeat gets faster and my body temperature rises. I pull my fist in front of my face like I've done in the past.

"Let's do this!" He yells. This time he mimics my movements. We then pull our fists back and let out a battle cry and then the only thing that I wanted to see happened as the torrent of water rises from Greninja. But something was off. The torrent then dissipated and then disappeared. Greninja looked back at me worried and disappointed a little bit.

"It still didn't work." He said as he looked normal.

"Uh Ash. What are you guys doing?" Sawyer asked confused.

"Huh. Oh I'll tell you after the battle." I say loud enough for him to hear.

"Oh alright. Ok Sceptile use Leaf Storm!" Sawyer says as Sceptile then faces towards Greninja with his tail and the cone of leaves race towards Greninja.

"Alright then Greninja Double Team!" I say as Greninja then makes multiple copies of itself.

"Dodge them and go in with Leaf Blade!" Sawyer says.

"Alright use Aerial Ace!" I say and Greninja's find light up white as he then races off towards Sceptile. The two clash for a little bit and I then find an opening.

"Already know Ash!" He said as he then struck Sceptile in the face.

"Alright Water Shuriken!" I say as he creates a shuriken and then tosses it at Sceptile while jumping back.

"Sceptile no!" Sawyer yells as I saw Sceptile on the ground. He was down, but not out.

"Wow. He is still in this. You really did train well Sawyer." I say in shock and a little panicked. If we faced in the Kalos League then it would be a battle of the decade. By then me and Greninja would've been prepared and have perfected the form I know it. I then looked at Sceptile and I immediately went into more panic. Sceptile was glowing green and that can only mean one thing. Overgrow. Putting Sceptile to its last bit of endurance has brought out its greatest power.

"Oh no Sceptile has activated Overgrow." I hear Serena say concerned. I then heard Bonnie talk, but she became background noise as I focused on the battle. Sawyer then had a look of extreme determination on his face. Nothing I have seen before.

"Sceptile. Let's do this." He says and I can feel the power emanating from them as Overgrow increases. This was going to be tough and we might lose.

"Greninja be careful. His Grass type moves will be much more powerful than before so heads up." I say. He nods.

"Alright now. Sceptile use Leaf Blade!" He yells and Sceptile's leaves grew twice as long and twice as big than before. It then races off towards Greninja.

"Greninja use Aerial Ace and use it fast!" I say and Greninja's fins once more lit up and he raced toward Sceptile with blazing speed. The two attacks clash and I can immediately see that Greninja was getting out powered. He then gets pushed back.

"Alright Leaf Storm let's go!" Sawyer yells with power in his voice and Sceptile turns its tail towards Greninja and released to what appears to be a hurricane of leaves this time. It goes racing towards Greninja.

"Uhh Greninja use Double Team quick!" I say and Greninja makes multiple copies of itself.

"Cover the battlefield. Use all of your power I believe in you!" Sawyer calls out. Sceptile then yelled out as the hurricane of leaves then gets much larger and the copies of Greninja start disappearing. It then hits Greninja and Greninja then starts falling to the ground.

"Finish this with Dragon Claw!" Sawyer yells and Sceptile created it and raced towards Greninja and strike him twice. When I looked I saw Greninja on the ground where he was and felt worried and very bad for him. I then looked at his chest. He was standing up, but was struggling.

"Uhhh. Gr-Greninja?" I ask hesitantly. The smoke cleared and he was still standing. Then after a couple of moments he then fell to the ground with swirls in his eyes. Serena looked sad, but made the announcement.

"Oh no. Um Greninja is unable to battle so the winner is Sawyer." Serena said glumly.

"Greninja. Are you ok?" I ask as I run up to him.

"I've had worse moments. But it's weird how we could not activate the form." He says lying on the ground. I then reach my hand out to help him up and he accepts. I had to put my arms around him when he stood so he doesn't fall right back down.

"Yeah. I wonder what's wrong. I don't know, but we'll figure it out soon. Promise." I say. I then give Greninja a high five. I look up at Sawyer. He just returned his Sceptile. I walk up to him.

"That was a great battle Ash. Thank you." He says. We shake hands.

"The same. Thank you for such an awesome battle. But don't get used to beating me though." I say playfully and he just chuckled.

"Say I was wondering if I could tag along for your final gym battle and cheer for you?" He asks.

"Of course you can tag along. It might be a couple of days, but I'm pretty sure we'll get there fast." I say.

"Ash!" I hear Serena say and I face her direction. She comes up to me and touches my arm.

"Are you ok?" She asks.

"Yeah. I think today was just an off day for me and Greninja." I say.

"Do you know why the transformation didn't happen today?" She asks curious.

"I honestly don't know why and neither does Greninja." I say.

"If I may, what is going on? What is this transformation you are talking about?" Sawyer asks facing towards me.

"Umm well it's kind of hard to explain. You see right after Frogadier evolved we were able to pull out a transformation that is sort of like a Mega Evolution that happens. I don't know how it works, but I think it has to do with our bond being so strong. The thing is though is that when he is transformed I feel the pain he feels in the exact same spot. And also sometimes at the end of the form we get tired out and yeah. The whole thing is confusing I would say. I would love to master it before the Kalos League because that will be our "Mega Evolution"." I say with air quotations.

"That sounds awesome. I'm sorry I wasn't able to see it today." Sawyer said sympathetically.

"Oh it's not your fault. We'll figure it out right Greninja?" I say.

"Yeah!" He said pumping his fins.

"I'm going to get a Mega Stone and Keystone soon. I was able to talk to Korrina's grandfather and he was able to hook me up on Sceptilenite and a Key Stone." Sawyer says.

"That's awesome Sawyer! Can't wait to battle you with that!" I say excitedly. He then smiles, but then looks around confused.

"Yeah. Say where is Clemont?" He asks. I look around.

"Actually I don't know. Did he go back to the trail?" I ask.

"Oh yeah I see him! It looks like he's working on something!" Bonnie says.

"Let's go check it out." I say as we then walk over to Clemont.

Mini Time Change

"Hey Clemont!" I say. He then looks up from his work. He has a holo video screen and two bracelets he's working on.

"Oh hey Ash." He said then went back to working.

"What are you working on?" I ask. He rarely builds on the go so it must be very important.

"It's to see what is going on between you and Greninja when you transform. My theory is that whenever you guys do the form I think that your emotions are in sync because of your brainwaves are the same wavelength. I also think that your heartbeats synchronize also." He says.

"Ahh I see. Yeah I'm pretty curious to what is going on. It may not answer the question of what is this thing that happens to Greninja, but at least we would get to find out what happens when we do it." I say. Everyone murmured in agreement.

"Well we'll wait for you to complete that and then we'll be on our way to Snowbelle City." Serena says politely.

"Thanks guys. It won't take much longer I promise." He says.

"Say Clemont. What caused you to make this all of the sudden?" I asked.

"When I saw that you guys weren't able to transform to today I got to thinking what happens when the transformation is successful. And I decided to start building a machine that will track your brainwaves and your heartbeats." He says.

"Awesome Clemont! We'll be able to know soon enough!" Bonnie says. I smile.

"Yeah. Give me a few more minutes. I'll use it next time Ash is in a battle with Greninja. But you'll both have to wear these bracelets I made which track your heartbeat and your brainwaves. The red line is Ash and the blue line is Greninja." He he points to the screen. He hands me both bracelets. I put mine on and then I bring out Greninja.

"What's happening?" He asks getting in fighting position although he looked beat from the battle. I will have to use a Hyper Potion to get him back to near full health.

"Clemont is making a machine that will track our brainwaves and heartbeats. He thinks that when your transformation happens our brainwaves are the same length and our heartbeats are synchronized. Here. This is the bracelet you will wear for the tracking." I say as I hand him the bracelet while healing him.

"Awesome! I hope that it gives us the answers that we need." He says while putting on the bracelets. I then turn to Clemont.

"Thanks Ash for healing me." Greninja says.

"No problem Greninja." I said as I then turn back to Clemont.

"Say Clemont? Why do we have to wear them now?" I ask.

"Two reasons. One, so I can see if my machine works and two, so we won't have to hassle in the future." He says. Seems valid.

"That's cool." I say while somewhat admiring the bracelet on my right wrist.

"Ok there and there. Alright I'm finished, but before we leave let's test it out to see if it functions properly." He says. He then switches it on and the faces of me and Greninja appear, but that's it. I'm on top and Greninja the bottom. But as I look closer I can see a large chunk of the hollow screen being filled with some sort of graph. That is where the wavelengths will show up at. Then four lines appear on the graph and sure enough the color correlates with our names. Blue line for Greninja and red line for me. The lines were flat though, but were moving from right to left until the line reached the left side of the screen. There were two for each of us. The line that was on top and the thickest said that it was brainwaves and the smaller one on the bottom was heartbeat.

"It seems that the lines work, but what about our heartbeat and brainwaves?" I ask.

"Oh. I just have to set the connection to open and see if it'll work." He says as he makes a couple of adjustments to the holo screen and then he flipped a switch on it.

"Alright I need you both to flip the switch which is on the right side of bracelet." He says as we both do it. Then we look at the screen and waves start to appear for all four lines. My heartbeat and brainwaves were different than Greninja's. Mine have longer waves and Greninja's had shorter.

"Awesome! It works." Serena said happily.

"Say Clemont, how did you make this so fast?" I asked realizing how fast he made this and astounded that he was able to make it that fast.

"Well I kind of was working on something like this before, but for a completely different reason. I didn't need it so I kept it stored until I really needed it and today was when I did." He said.

"Cool." I say.

"Well we'll test it when you battle with Greninja again. I assume that would be up against Wulfric."

"Yep." I say. Clemont then packed his stuff up and then stood.

"Alrighty then well let's going." He says. And the 5 of us continue on the trail to Snowbelle City.