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"Talking"

"Thought"

Twinleaf Town: 10 years later.

The town was a complete ruin. The sky was dark and raining, the houses were dusty and empty and all the grass and trees turned into just plain ground and pale sticks. In the center of the town, a man wearing a helmet was riding on a black motorcycle through the wet ground chased by a car driven by a woman. The woman pulls out a gun from her belt, opened the window and started aiming at the man.

"Stop right there!" She starts shooting at the man rapidly. While about 4 shots were missed cause of him dodging them, the women shot one more and it managed to hit the coil to the engine, making it lose the oil. The man panicked as the oil was falling to the wet ground, making the motorcycle lose its speed.

"Damn, at this rate she's gonna catch up, guess I have no choice." The man left his right hand off the handle and broke the glass between the handles marked 'CB' that had a set of numbers and a red button.

He punched in some random numbers and pushed the red button, making the motorcycle's lights turn around, showing some crystals gripped tight by some machinery, and it started glowing and finally blasted some ray of light in the direction he was facing.

"D-Don't tell me he's…" The woman was shocked to see as the ray of light turned into some sort of gate that shows an image of a group of tress. The ray stopped as soon the gate opened up and the man drove as fast as he can, till he drove through the gate, disappearing into the image.

"Like hell I'm gonna let you go again!" The woman stomped on the pedal as she gains speed to reach the gate, which was now started to shrink rapidly. She yelled as she drove right through the gate, just when it about to close, leaving the deserted Twinleaf town with silence.

Outside of Twinleaf Town: 10 years ago

The day was shining at the outskirts of Twinleaf Town where many wild Pokémon were running through the vivid grass and trees, in the trees lays a campsite where 3 young trainers were there, as also their Pokémon running around.

One of them was a trainer named Ash Ketchum and his trusty Pikachu. The other one was a breeder, Brock. And lastly the only female coordinator's name is Dawn, and also her partner Piplup. Ash, Dawn and Brock were preparing lunch while their Pokémon enjoys a nice nap.

"Hey Ash, can you bring some dry firewood? I need Dawn to help with the stew." asked Brock wearing an apron and holding a ladle.

"Sure thing Brock, come on Pikachu!" Ash called on his Pikachu, who just woken up from his nap and went running to his partner.

"Pika!"

"Ash, make sure you don't get lost!" said Dawn worried that he might actually does.

"Don't worry Dawn; I'll be completely fine with Pikachu by my side."

"Pika!"

"Well, okay."

"Come on Pikachu!" Ash dashed into the forest. As he walks through the forest for firewood, he started talking to his old buddy.

"Can you believe Dawn was worried over something like this? I always know my way around the place."

"Pikachu…" Pikachu remembers the time they got into the maze in their journey and Ash was practically calling for help because he made six dead-ends.

"Okay, okay, I get it. But I know that I know my way through forests!"

"Pika, Pika…" Pikachu shook his head with his hands in the air, giving up correcting Ash, but as they went farther into the trees to look for dry wood, Ash spotted something near a tree a couple of meters away.

"What's that? Ash ran to the tree and picked up a black broken wheel belonging to a car.

"Did someone crash? …The wheel feels very warm." Ash started looking around to see if the car, or driver, was around. He stood up and went looking for the missing driver.

"I hope the guy's all right, even though he was probably drinking, stay alert Pikachu."

"Pika"

"Still, there was no way that the driver was drunk enough to go here, so mayb- What the?" When he stopped, he has found an area where there were some random car parts, destroyed, and he found an injured woman on the ground unconscious. Ash ran to the unconscious woman and lifts her head up to check if she's breathing.

"Hey lady wake up! Are you alright?" Ash shook her head a bit so that he won't fracture anything important, but the woman was still unconscious so he shook harder. Finally the woman woke up and looked at Ash and Pikachu.

"Oh thank god, you alright lady?" said Ash in a worried tone

"A-Ash…?" But before she could say further, she fell into unconsciousness again, making Ash surprised and worried.

"Wha- how does she know my name? Ash was puzzled at when she said his name, but Pikachu mentions him to hurry so he put the woman on his back like a piggy ride and slowly walked to the campsite.

"Don't worry, you'll be just fine." As he said that, the woman's eyes opened up a bit before knowing she was being carried, she put her head on his back and felt his warmth, and remembered and old memory where she was having a piggy back ride with a man she knew a long time ago, and went back to sleep.

Meanwhile, back at the campsite…

"Man, how come Ash is taking so long to get some firewood?" Dawn finished helping Brock make his special stew, and wondered what happened to Ash.

"Remember Dawn, yesterday's rain was pretty bad, so finding some dry wood might be tough for Ash." Brock put a cover on the stew so that it won't spoil.

"Oh right, a sudden heavy rain happened yesterday, but I wonder why?" Brock handed out some poke-food to the Pokémon, since their lunch it's not ready yet.

"Probably a wild Pokémon did a rain dance or something." Brock joked while stretching a bit due to lowering his back many times.

"Come on Brock. Well since Ash won't be coming for a while, I guess I can train a bit on the appeals. Come on Piplup!"

Dawn started calling for piplup, but something catches Dawn's attention as she looked ahead and saw Ash carrying a person on his back with Pikachu helping her by fanning her face with his tail.

"Wha-? Ash who's she? And what's wrong with her?" Dawn was surprised that Ash carrying an injured person, and thought that she was dead.

"Agghh… She… she needs help, she's hurt big time."

"Hold on, I'm coming!" Brock went ahead and helped Ash carry the woman to the campsite, while Dawn prepared a sleeping bag on the ground and helped Ash and Brock set her down in it. Brock then looked for his first-aid kit and started treating her wounds, then checked her temperature, to see if she has a fever.

"So Brock, how is she? Is she gonna be fine?" said Ash in a worried tone.

"Well, she got a big cut in left arm, but it's not deep, also she got some bruises all over her head and upper body, but don't worry, they can all be treated if I can get a clean towel and fresh water, then I'll take care of everything else."

"I can get the water, Piplup found a nice clean pond that's a bit away from here," said Dawn as she stood up and pointed the way where the river is.

"Good, please get some, while we help her as much as can."

"Alright come on Piplup, let's go to the place that you found."

"Piplup!" Piplup then lead the way to the pond with Dawn following him. Meanwhile Brock and Ash were helping the woman.

"Hey Brock, before she got knocked out, she said my name, as if she knows me or something." Ash said reminded of that time.

"Really? Mmh, now that I look at it, she does sorta look like Dawn, so maybe she's Dawn's relative?" Brock tilted his head when wondering who she was.

"But why would one of Dawn's relatives know my name? The only family that I know is her mom, Johanna."

"Maybe Johanna told her about you, and maybe me and Pikachu too. But still…" Ash and Brock were left wondering

Meanwhile back at Dawn; she was still following Piplup to the river that has taken quite some time.

"Piplup, don't tell me we got lost."

"Piplup!" piplup was against what she said, because he forgot where it is.

*Sigh* "If you're saying that you forgot instead of being lost, I'm sooo gonna take away your food for a week!"

"P-Piplup." Piplup is now desperately searching for the pond so that he could eat, but what he saw was quite different.

"Piplup!" Piplup pointed at what he saw and wanted Dawn to see it.

"Piplup, you know, I'm not really gonna taking away your food, it was just a joke, don't need to be so serious." While Dawn was giggling, she noticed what Piplup was pointing at and dropped her mouth.

"Whoa!" Dawn saw a man in a helmet on the ground, groaning with his motorbike on top of him.

"Q-Quick Piplup, we gotta help that man." Dawn and Piplup went for the crushed man and tried to pick him up, but the bike was in the way so Piplup used Bubblebeam to move the bike, so Dawn was able to pick up the man and put his arm over her shoulder to help him move.

The man started picking up his feet to walk and opened his eyes to find Dawn and Piplup helping him.

"Yo- You… who are you?" asked the mysterious man. The man was wearing a high collar black shirt with no sleeves, black pants and boots and his chest is covered by two straps, held in place by a mysterious badge. But his face wasn't known since he was wearing a dark helmet.

"My name's Dawn and this is Piplup."

"Piplup."

"Dawn…" The man turned his head down once hearing her name and then faced her again.

"Can you tell me what year is this?"

"What? Man, you really hit yourself hard in the head." Dawn said, surprised to hear a question like that.

"Right, sorry… Thank you for helping a total stranger like me."

"Hey, No need to worry, my mom says that we should help the people in need whenever we can." Dawn smiled at the man.

"… No need to worry… that's when I get worried the most…" said the man turning his head down.

"Wha-? How do you know the counter-catchphrase my mom and friends know?" Dawn was totally surprised when now everyone knows her counter-catchphrase.

"…I heard it from a friend a long time ago."

"Oh, I see. Is your friend with you?"

"…I lost her a couple years back."

"Oh… I'm sorry, I didn't mean to-"

"It's fine, and thanks again." Dawn and the man walked back to the campsite for help. Meanwhile…

Back at the campsite, the woman at the sleeping bag was moving and groaning, having a nightmare. After the nightmare, the woman woke up gasping and checking her surroundings.

She wears shorts with a black ribbon on each leg, and she has a cape tied onto the shorts in a bow in the center. She wears a sleeveless white shirt underneath a sleeveless black vest with a zipper. Finally she has long blue hair that reaches partway down her back.

She tried to stand up, but her treated injuries didn't let her as the pain quickly raced through her left arm. She noticed that it was bandaged, but that didn't stop her from checking the place out. While she tried to stand up, she heard a voice from someone familiar, but it was Ash.

"Brock, look!" Ash pointed to the woman standing up, and run to her side for aide.

Ash, at the side, helped the woman stand up while Brock went to get the first-aid kit, just in case.

"You all right lady?" Ash said while letting go of the woman.

"Ash, don't say it like that. Are you all right ma'am?" Brock said, but politely.

"Uggh… Where am I?" The woman was still dizzy from the bruises, as she staggered a bit while standing.

"You're at our camp; we were resting a bit before we head to Sunyshore City." Ash leads the woman to the stump to sit.

"I see." The woman looked at Ash for a while, then at Brock.

"Umm, is there something on my face? Brock checked his face with his hands.

"No no, it's just that… you looked familiar."

"Familiar?"

"So does that mean you know us? You said my name when we first met." Pikachu went to Ash's side to meet the woman.

"Pikachu!"

"Pikachu…" She looked at Pikachu with a dazed stare that lasted a bit, while making Pikachu and Ash weirded-out

"Ummm" Ash nervously said.'

"Pika…" The woman instantly realized what's going on and snapped back to reality.

"O-Oh! I'm sorry, I just… you reminded of someone I know."

"Really? But how you know my name?" Ash went back to the last question.

"He uhh… had the same name."

"Really? What's he like? Was he a pokemon trainer? Ash started to make tons of questions, which made the woman uncomfortable.

"Well…"

"Ash, stop trying to pressure her, she doesn't have to tell if she don't want to, especially since she's still hurt."

"I wasn't pressuring her, right?" The woman laughed awkwardly as she saw the hyperactive Ash, but she smiled at his antics.

"So what happened? I heard from Ash that you crashed." When Brock said that, the woman remembered what she was doing in the first place and stood up.

That's right!" That sudden shout scared Ash, Pikachu and Brock altogether.

Meanwhile…

Back at Dawn and the man, the man looked around the place as they were headed back to the camp.

"This place… seems familiar." The man spoke after a while.

"You don't know where you are?" Dawn asked, surprised that he should have known before crashing.

"Piplup?"

The man looked down before answering, and told her: "…Well, before I crashed, I forgot to bring a map, then I got lost."

"Oh, well we're in the outskirts of my hometown, Twinleaf." Dawn smiled.

"Twinleaf Town…"

As they talked more, Dawn and the man has reached near the camp, where her friends are.

"Alright we're here!" Dawn jumped out of excitement, but with still holding his arm, she made the man's injuries hurt even more.

"Ow! Be careful." The man pleaded.

"Oh, sorry." Dawn giggled. When they made it back to camp, she called out to Ash and Brock.

"Hey guys! This man needs help."

"What? There's more?" Brock took his first aid-kit and ran to Dawn.

"Dawn, did you get the water? Ash said, still worried over the woman.

"No, sorry, I thought the man needed help, so I didn't find the water." Dawn and Piplup put the man down slowly so that Brock can treat his wounds.

"Oh man, he looks like he just got crushed by a rock slide." While everyone tried to help the man, the woman took a look of who he was, and thought that he might be someone she's looking for.

"Is that…" The woman spoke, and the man looked beyond past Brock to see who was there, but the soon he did, he eyes widened.

"Oh no, why are you here!" The man stood up, startling Dawn, Brock and Piplup.

"You! Finally I found you! There's no way that you're getting away this time!" The woman stood and reached for her pocket, to find a weird, sci-fi looking gun in her hands.

"Holy shit!" The man and Ash screamed.

"Sh-she's got a gun!" Dawn and Piplup went for cover as they knew what the situation will be.

"Take this!" The woman aimed at the petrified man with her gun cocked, and shot a weird, electrified bullet at him. The man dodged the bullet with his quick-like reflexes and started running back where he came from.

"Hey! Come back here!" The woman kept shooting at the poor man while chasing him.

"Like hell I'm gonna come back!" The man ran around the campsite as the woman kept shooting at him. The man managed to evade all of them, but the bullets made an entire mess in the camp.

Ash, Brock, Pikachu and Dawn with Piplup at her side, can only crouch under the table and watch the mayhem their causing.

But the mayhem stopped as the man got caught by a broken table they caused and fell down. When he fell the helmet rolled away, showing his tanned face, with his raven black hair. The woman took this chance to get the man.

"Alright! I got yo- Hiii!" Unfortunately, she collapsed to the ground right near him due to her injuries.

"D-Damn, so close." The woman and the man were groaning in pain due to the excess running, making the wounds feel worse. While the coast is clear, Ash and the rest got out of the table and stood up to see the mess they made in their camp.

"What the hell is wrong with you two!" Ash and Pikachu were angry since they practically destroyed the camp, and their food.

"Why was that lady shooting at him!" Dawn screamed with her hands on the side of her head.

"Tell us, who are you guys and why are you doing this?" Brock demanded answers and the man and the woman, since they couldn't move, looked at each other, then they look at them, and answered:

"We're not from around here." The man spoke to the children.

"Yeah, I know that you live somewhere far away." Dawn said, thinking that he meant that.

"No, he means that we're not from around here… at this time" The woman looked seriously when she said that.

"Time?" Brock questioned.

"What do you mean?" When Ash said it, the woman struggle a bit to sit on the ground to face them.

"I mean that… I'm Dawn, from 10 years in the future."

Then the man lifts himself up, sat down with his legs crossed, and told them.

"And I'm Ash… from 10 years in the future."

Brock, Pikachu and Piplup gasped at what they said, while Ash and Dawn's eyes widened: "WHAAAAT!"

Ash, Dawn and the gang meets their future selves, while wondering why one of them tried to shoot the other. Find out at the next chapter!