Hello everyone, I hope you enjoyed the last chapter of the story.

I am glad that most of you were very understanding of my situation and patiently waited for this chapter.

This chapter is about episode 10 and further. I obviously won't include the filler, at least not most of it, rather using the space for stuff like training or when I need to help the plot. There will obviously be deviations when I do use fillers, but I don't want to make it too confusing. Just talking to Professor Sycamore then on their way to the next city!

I also made an important decision. I am going to make it so that performances and performers don't exist. Instead, there are contests.

I don't want to make many new characters that I will have to personally develop. I know I am not that good, at least not yet. They will either suck or be way too godlike.

I have people like Aria, Miette, Shauna who already have a base personality which I can alter, but still keep them similar.

Oh Yeah! Aura Mega Evolution starts after they leave Lumiose which, in Pokemon time, is in a day or two. Not exactly during the first session, but Ash will start to experiment before Cyllage, which is in two to three more chapters.

Anyways, let's get this party started!

Ash and Serena were sitting in a cafe, both discussing, or rather arguing, on what to do next.

"We should go to Cyllage City so we don't miss the contest," Serena argued against her crush.

"We have a week left to get there. It should only take us three days, four if are sidetracked. We'll stay here for a day. Besides, I need to talk to Professor Sycamore about Mega Evolution and it'll be useful for you later too. Besides, you can train for the contest at the professor's lab since we won't be moving a lot, unlike when we're going to Cyllage City," Ash countered.

That wasn't exactly true. If they left for Cyllage, both of them would be training faster and longer, but learning about Mega Evolution was much more important than a few hours of training.

Serena sighed as she lost the argument. He was right. Nurse Joy had said that there were two weeks until the contest started. They had gotten to Lumiose within five days. They had around eight or nine more days to get to Cyllage and it only took two to three days to get there. She just wanted to hurry so she could practice in a good place without having to worry about not being there on time. Besides, she could learn and see more Pokemon in the lab.

A waitress came up to them and asked for their orders. After placing their order, the woman left.

"So what's Mega Evolution anyway?" The honey-haired teenager asked.

"I don't know much about it. Professor Sycamore told me that it was when a Pokemon evolves again after they are in their final evolution form," Ash answered.

'Of course, I don't think they have to be in their final form, at least, not if we can use our aura instead of the keystones. I need to see the mega evolution before I can start though. Can the Professor do it? Lucario should also look at it, just in case,' the black-haired teenager thought.

The same waitress came to them a few minutes later, a tray in her hand. On it were Serena and Ash's order.

Ash took out some money and paid for it before they left the cafe.

"Hello Ash, Serena, what can I help you with?" the researcher asked, quirking an eyebrow in curiosity. Hadn't they left? They were together so they must have been traveling together. Did they know each other?

"Well, since Serena and I decided to stay here for the rest of the day, I thought why not come over to visit?" Ash lied. "So what were you and Sophie talking about?" he asked.

"Well, you see, a Chespin has been eating a lot of food and is getting overweight. We're trying to think of a way to get him to lose some weight, but if we make him exercise, it wouldn't be fair to the other trainers because he would be stronger than normal," the researcher admitted with a sigh.

"Well, couldn't you just make all of them exercise? I'm sure they would all love to get exercise and have stuff to do. You could also hide junk food, or at least most of it. Just have healthy things for them and vitamins without side effects," Ash proposed.

He really didn't see a problem. So what if the Pokemon was stronger? People could train to make their own stronger either way.

"Yes, that could work. We need to make sure the food is locked away, at least the junk food," Sycamore said. He couldn't believe he didn't think about that. "Guess I was just overthinking it, huh?"

"Chespin!" Sophie yelled. A minute later, a slightly chubby Chespin ran into the lab, only to trip on his foot and roll to Sycamore.

"So, why did you decide to visit?" he asked them.

"Professor? Can I go see the Pokemon in your yard?" Serena asked. She didn't want to be with Ash and the researcher when they talked about Mega Evolution. She'd much rather watch some Pokemon. Maybe one would give her an idea for a contest? Besides, she would just have Ash explain it to her later.

When he nodded, the honey-haired teen left, leaving the trainer and researcher.

"So Ash, do you want to learn more about Mega Evolution?" Sycamore asked.

He wasn't an idiot. He could only think of a few reasons Ash would be here and if he had to pick one, it would be the idea of Mega Evolution. He knew it was a very exciting concept. Ash was very interested in the idea and could possibly help the professor learn about it.

Too bad he had left before they could go deeper into the conversation.

Ash had interesting theories and questions, like why were the keystone and mega-evolution stones needed to do it? After all, if it was the next form of Pokemon, shouldn't they be able to evolve into it?

"Yeah, sure," Ash grinned at the older, black-haired man. "Can I see the Mega Evolution? I saw the Mega Stone in your bracelet," Ash asked.

"So you saw that? Sure. Come outside, I'll show you Garchomp's Mega Form," he told the teen. The Mega Evolution researcher led the Pokemon master aspirer to the battlefield in the back.

"Garchomp, come on out!" Sycamore exclaimed as he threw out Garchomp Pokeball.

Ash had also let Lucario out to observe with him and Pikachu the inner workings of Mega Evolution.

The professor was curious as to why Lucario had come out but decided to do the Mega Evolution for Ash.

'Yes, master?' Lucario telepathically asked.

"Guys, watch carefully. Lucario, activate Aura Vision so you can see what happens during the process. Pikachu, you observe physically, 'Kay?" he whispered to them, trying to make sure that the Kalosian hadn't heard.

Both nodded slightly as Ash and Lucario used Aura Vision, both of their eyes glowing blue but hidden from the view of the man in front of them.

"Alright, Garchomp, Mega Evolve!" he shouted, showing the Mega stone on his wrist. The stone started to glow brightly, along with the Garchompite around the Mach Pokemon's neck.

They started to discharge multi-colored beams as a white beam shot from the two stones before binding together.

Garchomp was then surrounded by a white light until his body began to change.

With Ash, at the start of the process, he saw the stones start emitting aura before the keystone and Garchompite started to channel their owner's aura and the connection with each other before they the aura transformed, turning it from blue to lavender blue. It then rushed to Garchomp and entered its body, transforming it.

Lucario saw it more in detail. At the beginning, the keystones and Garchompite began emitting a small aura. Then, they began to absorb a tenth of their owner's aura. After that happened, the two auras came to each other before trying to meld together to form a lavender blue aura. For a few seconds, both tried to overcome each other before melding together. This caused the aura to change, creating a half human half Pokemon aura.

After that, the fused aura tried to go back to their originals, but since Garchomp had more than the human, it went to him. After that happened, the aura began to meld with the rest of Garchomp's aura, increasing it as the hybrid aura began to slowly dissolve due to the amount Garchomp had. When that aura began to dissolve, it didn't just disappear but was absorbed into Garchomps organs.

Due to the aura of a human in a Pokemon's organs, the organs began to evolve into a better version. This also happened to the outside appearance, causing Garchomp's physical features to change.

Ash and Lucario quickly stopped channeling aura into their eyes and looked at the Mega Evolved Pokemon.

Ash still couldn't believe it existed. A temporary evolution that could be triggered and reversed whenever you wanted and made the Pokemon multiple times stronger? It was so unbelievable yet here he was, witnessing it with his own eyes.

When Sycamore looked at him, he was proud to see the awed face of the teenager.

Mega Evolution was a secret that not many people outside Kalos knew. Only the champions, elite four, very famous people, and the leading professors of other regions knew.

He was proud of the research he had done and what he had discovered. Every time he saw someone gaze at a mega evolved Pokemon with awe, he felt himself smile in pride.

Serena was looking at all the Pokemon around her, her hand filled with Pokemon food that she had found at the entrance.

She was staring at all the adorable Pokemon. She hadn't met many that were cute. Fennekin was cute and so was Ralts, but they were the few that were.

She was observing the Pokemon around her. Some were small, some were large, but there were very few that were powerhouses like Pikachu and Charizard, but these Pokemon couldn't even match them.

She still remembered the mock battle they had a few days ago. She had almost been blown away by the shockwaves and she was so far away from them.

She had been scared and shocked, but knowing that they were Ash's Pokemon had calmed her down, though questions still ran.

If that was a mock battle and she was almost blown away, how strong were they in reality? When they went full out?

The honey haired girl was pretty sure that they weren't the only ones as strong as that.

She had seen Aria in one of the contest's battle stage and if Ash and she would have a battle, she would be able to beat Ash, not easily, but still would and this was a coordinator! Someone who didn't try to focus on power like Ash did, but beauty, yet was still more powerful than Ash.

'I need to train. I need to do better! Ash has tried to become stronger almost every chance he has and what am I doing? Looking at cute Pokemon! He takes the chance to learn something that would make him and his Pokemon several times more powerful while I'm just sitting around doing nothing but looking!'

Serena was knocked out of her thoughts when a worker came through the lab door.

"Serena-San, Ash-San just came back from his chat with Mr. Sycamore and says that he is about to leave," the man finished with a slight, foreign accent.

Serena nodded to the man and called her first and second Pokemon.

"Ralts! Fennekin! Time to leave!" she yelled out. A few moments later, Fennekin came running through the trees, Ralts riding on the fox's back.

When they got close, Ralts got on her shoulder while Fennekin walked alongside her.

Unfortunately, many of the Pokemon had been a bit intimidated by Rhyhorn so she had to return him after releasing him.

Ash was right there when she went through the automatic doors, ready to leave the city.

While he may have said that they would stay for a day, that was only if they had problems. Serena knew that and as such, was ready and packed to leave at any time.

As both headed out, they waved to the adults until the door closed behind them.

With that out of the way, the two Pokemon trainers left for Cyllage City. After a few hours of traveling the two agreed on setting up camp.

Now, Ash was watching over Serena as she started to train for the contest.

His own Pokemon were also watching. No point in always training. All work and no fun was bad for your health after all.

Ash decided to look through Serena's performance and give her any advice he could.

"Fennekin, use Meteor Dash!" Serena commanded.

Fennekin quickly got to work, sending out multiple blue balls of energy then launching a stream of fire.

The Flamethrower came into contact with the Hidden Power, causing it to turn into a meteor-like attack before it exploded in a shower of crimson and light blue particles.

Ash grinned at the attack. It was creative, he gave her that. While a bit typical, it was more unique than popping a bunch of bubbles to create a small sprinkle that he had seen many amateur coordinators do.

"Great Serena! Now, aim the attack at a tree!" Ash encouraged.

While the teen was confused as to why she should, she followed the suggestion, ordering her first Pokemon to shoot the attack at a tree.

When the attack hit the tree, Ash's smile turned slightly.

The tree wasn't very affected, slightly charred and a slightly encased in ice, but not much.

"Serena, the move is cool looking, but try to focus on the power too. If you use the attack in the battle portion, it would help a lot," Ash advised.

The attack, considering raw power, was weak. If Flamethrower and Hidden Power became stronger, the damage they did would be much better.

Contests were more than beauty, but also power. What would happen if the attack did a lot of damage and looked beautiful at the same time? They would cause the opponent to lose a lot of points.

"Quilava, can you help Fennekin make the Flamethrower stronger?" he asked the Pokemon beside him, loudly for Serena, Fennekin, and Ralts to hear.

The Pokemon nodded. "I'll help with her other fire attacks too," the Volcano Pokemon told his trainer.

Ash then looked at Serena. "Serena, is that okay with you?"

Serena nodded, happy for the extra help. She didn't know how to make the attack stronger, but another fire Pokemon did.

After the two fire Pokemon left, Serena turned her attention to Ralts and Rhyhorn. The blonde hadn't trained the pale-skinned Pokemon or the large Pokemon yet so this was her first time.

The honey-haired teen suddenly realized that she didn't know any of the Pokemon's moves.

Wanting to rectify that problem, she took out her Pokedex and scanned the Pokemon.

"Ralts, the Feeling Pokemon. Ralts is the pre-evolved form of Kirlia. It can use the horns on its head to read human emotions. Ralts rarely shows itself to humans, but may occasionally approach when it senses positive or happy feeling. Ralts is a female. Her egg move, Confuse Ray, is locked. She has the hidden ability Synchronize. Ralts currently knows the moves Draining Kiss, Magical Leaf, Teleport, Double Team, and Psychic."

"Rhyhorn, the Spikes Pokemon. Rhyhorn recklessly charges straight ahead, trampling over anything that gets in its way. This Rhyhorn is a male and has the egg move Fire Fang but is locked. His hidden ability is Reckless with the ability of Lightning Rod. The moveset of Rhyhorn is Tail Whip, Smack Down, Stomp, and Scary Face."

Serena was confused. She couldn't think of any combinations to use with the current attacks.

Ash slightly frowned at Serena, seeing her thinking expression. She was trying to think of something advance when she should be working on the basics. What good were advanced moves if the attacks that made them were weak? She should train their power first, not new moves.

Ash decided not to say anything except that she should be focusing on something else besides advanced moves.

He loved to help her, don't get him wrong, but he couldn't guide her through her own training nor could he give an answer to her every question.

Serena was perplexed by the advice. "Focus on something other than advanced attacks" was what he had told her before walking away.

Focus on what? She obviously had to work on the basics, but shouldn't she focus on good moves so that she could win at the contests?

Ash heard the sound of skin slapping skin as he was walking with the others, trying to figure out how to connect their auras.

He knew why his childhood friend wanted to use flashy moves and all. At the start of his own journey, he dismissed every basic he was taught and used complex moves, not trying to understand the basics of it.

He was different now, knowing that basics were the most important. Sceptile was a master of it, using normal basic moves such as leaf blade to deal heavy damage.

Of course, Sceptile used complex moves as well, but only after mastering their basics. Even then, until he mastered the advanced attack, he didn't use it unless practicing.

'I'm so stupid! Ash told me the answer and I just dismissed it then! He gave me a way to get much better and I forgot it within seconds!' the young woman growled at herself.

"Ralts! We're gonna practice your moves to make you better at using them and make the attacks stronger, 'kay?" Serena asked the Feeling Pokemon. "You too Rhyhorn!"

Ralts and Rhyhorn were confused when their trainer had frozen for a minute before having smacked herself hard, confusing the tiny and large Pokemon even more.

When she finally spoke in a cheery voice, Ralts and Rhyhorn quickly agreed, not wanting the older girl to hurt herself more.

Ash walked a fair distance from Serena. He didn't want her to find out about his aura yet. He knew she would not tell anyone, having no reason to, but he still didn't want her to know, not yet.

She didn't know much about aura yet and until she learned and he eventually taught her about it or she learned, he would only show it slowly.

He would teach her everything he knew on their journey, everything about the world, aura, the legendaries, how the world can to be, and all the other stuff.

He didn't want her to know what the books said as a lot of times, they were inaccurate, purely because the writer didn't have any experience or real knowledge about it, probably making their own theory or just having seen it, not feeling it.

He wasn't saying that everything was wrong, many things were still correct, but the inaccuracy was still there a lot.

As he taught his crush more, the more he would show her, the more he would tell her about his journey that he didn't tell her, like his meetings with legendaries or his own powers.

"Alright, guys, time to train!" Ash yelled at the remaining Pokemon with him. Pikachu, Lucario, Froakie, Servine, Bulbasaur, Swellow, and Fletchling.

"Alright, Fletchling, Swellow! You two are training together. Swellow, your speed, endurance, and resistance are pretty good so we will focus on the power of your attacks. You will go full out on Fletchling. Fletchling, you need to be faster without Flame Charge, you need a higher repertoire, as well as a higher resistance and endurance. I want you to try and dodge Swellow's attack. Swallow, use a variety so Fletchling can learn new attacks too, got it?" he asked, looking at them judgingly.

The two quickly nodded their heads. They knew their weaknesses and strengths and knew what they needed to train and Ash had just given them the perfect opportunity with each other.

"Servine, we need to work on your physical conditioning like speed, strength, endurance and everything else. Bulbasaur, you need to do the same. Servine, you Razor Leaf to cut down some rocks before using Vine Whip to keep it on and run around okay? It will build up your speed. Bulbasaur, you do the same," Ash told the grass Pokemon which they quickly acknowledged before heading off to train.

While Bulbasaur was very strong, he had not trained in the Oak Rance much due to having played peacekeeper there. This hadn't given him much time to train in anything except his moves which he used to hold other backs while talking to them.

"Froakie? You wanted to evolve right?" the future Pokemon master asked.

The Pokemon nodded. He had told the other Pokemon, wanting to get stronger and seeing evolution as a part of it and eventually, it reached Ash's ear.

That said, Ash told Froakie that he should evolve when ready, after learning what he could in this form.

Froakie, realizing the wisdom in that, became a maniac, trying to become faster, stronger, and more moves.

He was closer to the goal, very close. After a week or two, Ash saw that Froakie would evolve, so why not speed up the process?

"Lucario, you and Froakie will both need to learn hand to hand combat. I want both of you to spar, go all out, get creative, whatever you want. You need to get better with regular fighting, both weapons and normal. It will help in the future, understand?" he asked them.

Froakie would, when he evolved, become more humanoid, allowing him better ease in taijutsu. Froakie didn't realize this, but with this, he would learn more in an area that would become critical in the future, more critical than his skill set or his attack's power.

If they both used taijutsu, they would become unpredictable to others as almost no one used hand to hand themselves. With that, they would eventually use weapons which they would manifest using their elements or aura, allowing them both a unique style of fighting.

It would be great for both as Lucario would get experience fighting like that and Froakie would learn something early that would benefit him much later as well as a good chance to evolve, fighting stronger opponents to grow stronger

The two Pokemon nodded before they both left towards an isolated area for their spar.

Ash went back to thinking of what to train his starter in.

'Pikachu is already fast, abnormally so. His strength his too. His endurance, durability, dexterity, moveset, skills, raw power, all are good. What can I train him in?'

"Pikachu, is there anything you wanna learn? I got nothing," the trainer questioned the little mouse.

Pikachu was proud of his strength, not enough to be arrogant or blinded, but still pretty proud. He could think of nothing that would make him stronger. Speed? How would they train that? Nothing they could get was good enough to train it. Strength was in the same boat. He had plenty of stamina, endurance, durability, dexterity, skill, power, and moves. The only two things he could think of was expanding his move set or strengthening his electricity. The others would take way more time than they had.

"What about my movesets? Or my electricity. We could make my electricity stronger too," the electric rodent suggested, thinking the same way as Ash.

"Moveset. I just got a few ideas," Ash said to his electric starter, thinking about some things for both defense and offense.

Pikachu just raised an eyebrow and prepared himself for Ash's idea, excited at what he would be taught.

"Come on!" Ash called out, heading into the forest and away from any living creatures.

Pikachu quickly caught up with him, jumping onto his shoulder.

Eventually, they both got to an area Ash deemed worthy as no one was near them.

"Ok, first, we need a better defense besides Counter Spin and protect," Ash started. "Remember when you and Swellow used Thunder on yourself to protect yourselves?" the young trainer asked.

Pikachu nodded, remembering riding on the Hoenn bird's back as they fought against Solrock and Lunatone.

"Well, this time, we're using it as a defense. Cover yourself with electricity," Ash said. He wanted to start with the basics and build on it. Right now was just electricity with cover.

Once Pikachu surrounded himself in lightning, like when using Volt Tackle, Ash told him to condense it so that it was solid.

Electricity now covered Pikachu in a golden glow, crackling all around him.

"Good. Let's test it," the Pallet Town trainer said as he grabbed a small rock and tossed it at Pikachu.

As soon as the small rock hit Pikachu's armor, it was sent flying back at high speeds, rushing past Ash's ear before tearing through a few trees.

The aura user smiled, happy that his Pokemon best friend had a defensive technique of his own that could be offensive.

"Now, can you make it emit static to paralyze others?" the teen asked.

Pikachu did it, nodding. Deciding to test it, Ash touched the electricity, before feeling his arm go numb.

Forcing aura into the right arm, the paralyzing effect left.

"Good. Now we just have to train it to make it stronger!" Ash exclaimed.

"So what's the other move?" Pikachu asked as the armor of electricity vanished.

"A weapon attack," his best friend replied. "Can you make a spear or a sword using electricity?" Ash asked.

The electric mouse shrugged before trying to focus electricity into his arm and changing the shape, causing a long baton to appear.

Ash smirked before telling the Mouse Pokemon to throw it.

Pikachu complied with the command and threw it at a large boulder, piercing through it before exploding in a large blue light.

"Awesome. I say Lightning Spear and Thunder God's Armor. You?" Ash asked.

"Really? Thunder God's Armor?" the tiny mouse asked in amusement.

Ash smiled sheepishly, acknowledging that it was kind of arrogant.

"Fine. What about Bolt Shield?"

"That sounds stupid," the starter said, deadpanning at his trainer.

"Thunder Guard?" he suggested.

"Let's do that," the electric mouse said.

"Glad you like it, you picky mouse," the black-haired boy scowled. He felt that Thunder God Armor sounded better.

"Alright. How about a spar?" Ash asked, channeling his aura to his body, even though he knew he would lose.

Done. Boring this chapter I know, but it is important to the plot. I couldn't think of anything to have a battle or a moment.

Slightly OOC Serena, but I do want her character to be different from canon.

About Aria beating Ash, I believe it true. She has years on Ash and while she does focus on beauty over power, that doesn't mean that she isn't strong. Weaker than Diantha yes, but not that far below.

At the moment, Ash with his best Pokemon would be destroyed by Diantha, beating one or two of her Pokemon, maybe three, but If she used Mega-Evolution, well, yeah.

Remember, Champions are champions for a reason. They are one of, if not the, strongest people in the world or at least their region.

Even with Ash's aura, his connection with Pokemon, their training, he wouldn't be able to defeat monsters like Cynthia yet.

I give Brandon the power level of slightly below an Elite Four. Ash has beaten Legendaries, but they were one of the weaker ones. The users of such legendaries also weakened them.

The strong ones like Mew, Groudon, and the others would destroy Ash's strongest in one attack.

Anyways, people like Lance, Cynthia, Alter, Diantha, etc… would also defeat the ones Ash defeated, and easily so.

Anyways, reviews.

Rebmul-Ok, a good chapter but I've noticed when you have his Pokemon do all these amazing things you don't show the others being shocked. serena has never seen anything like Ash's Pokemon the most she has seen in action is on the tv so she would be in awe. when you had him release his Pokemon at the lab the people watching should have been impressed and commented on it since one was a gym leader and the other his sister. when Charizard and Pikachu fought there is no freaking way they all couldn't hear them Serena should have been scared out of her mind and asking ash what was going on since the equivalent of 2 legends were going at it.

Me: I dislike it when people get shocked at a lot of things and I believe it is unimportant. Obviously, they would be shocked, common sense. Excluding that, Serena has seen Pokemon like Ash's on Tv, not as strong or big or fast, but still has seen them. I haven't included that she has, but this is a lonely nine-seventeen year old at home in a new place and is very depressed from moving away from Ash. You would watch tv in this case. A friendless teen with no friends, familiarity with the area, and depressed would watch tv to calm down or for comfort. As Ash wants to be a Pokemon master, she would naturally be drawn to ones with Pokemon battles or at least with Pokemon. So she would have seen strong Pokemon in a decade or so. As for Clemont and Bonnie, I don't think people would recognize them as the gym leader or his sister seeing as no one ever came to Clemont about the gym in the anime. He was probably new so either their father was the one known, as such, he would be known, but not as a gym leader, or, as I like to believe, he was never shown or announce as the gym leader and the ones who have seen him are in a different town. As for the last one, I have said half of what happened upwards, but Serena never felt their full power. They were having a mock battle a mile away from her and in the sky. She knew who it was as she saw them leave that away so she knew they wouldn't hurt her as they were Ash'sPokemon.

ultimateCCC- is there a chance that Serena can catch an Absol?

Maybe. I am going to get like 50 suggestions and pick 7 randoms and 7, excluding Canon Pokemon, that I like. Absol is another suggestion there so I am getting closer, but not quite there yet. Also, Serena will probably have around 20-30 Pokemon total.

Also, Guests from now on need names for replies.

While I appreciate the reviews where it is said that I do a good job, I will not reply to them or the ones who request updates. Thank you for your time.

Serena's planned Pokemon: Fennekin, Ralts, Rhyhorn, Pancham, Eevee, Milotic, Amaura, Emolga, Floette, Teddiursa Ninetales, Absol, Meowstic, Zorua. I want a bunch of suggestions! I will put them all on a random wheel and pick the first five. The above are definites.

Ash's planned Pokemon: Kingdra, Fletchling, Noibat, Goomy, Froakie, Clawitzer, Lucario. I would also like suggestions here as well. I also might do one legendary(decided) but it will be near the end. I will also make her weaker than normal so she can be trained.

I don't need to explain others so Goodbye everyone!