Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Church

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It was the evening with Ash, Serena, and Kaelyn still being in the Pokémon lab. Bonnie and Clemont were also there. Ash was still looking to see if Froakie would wake up anytime soon. Kaelyn and Bonnie were in the front lobby playing with the Garchomp. Serena was talking with Professor Sycamore and Clemont.

"I'm so honored to have met you today!" Clemont says happily with a smile. "Well that's really nice to know. I don't realize I have fans." Professor Sycamore says with a chuckle. "Professor?" Serena asks. "What is Mega Evolution?" When she says that Clemont looks at her strangely like she should know it.

"Well you see, some Pokémon, if you find two stones and have a strong enough bond, can evolve again. Then after the battle they can revert back to their original state." Sycamore says and then Ash looks over in surprise. "They can evolve then devolve?" Ash asks simply. "Yep that's the idea." Sycamore responds.

Ash looks back over. "Hey Froakie is awake!" Ash shouts excitedly and Sycamore stands up immediately. He looks inside the room to indeed see Froakie was awake. He entered the room and picked up the little blue frog. "We were so worried about you Froakie." Sycamore says and everyone looks at the Professor.

The Professor sighs. "This Froakie was given to a trainer to start his journey. Unfortunately this Froakie ran away whenever it had the chance. In fact he recently called saying he gave up Froakie." Sycamore says and everyone gasps. "Who would do such a terrible thing?" Serena says shaking her head. "This isn't even the first time."

All of a sudden there was a scream that came from the main lobby. Ash, Serena, Sycamore, and Clemont all got up and quickly headed down that way. When they get there Sophie was standing in the middle of the room, and someone was holding one of Bonnie's and one of Kaelyn's arms keeping them still.

"No leave Garchomp alone!" Kaelyn shouts trying to get her arm free. There was a loud growl and Garchomp Lands in front of the person holding the children's arms. "Let the kids go!" Sophie yells and the man smirks. Then a device Flys towards Froakie who appeared out of no where. Garchomp gets in the way and it gets around his neck.

Garchomp's eyes change to red and he growled loudly again. Obviously in pain. After a couple seconds he looks at the man and the children and fires a hyper beam. Pikachu immediately jumps into action and uses thunderbolt to stop the attack from hitting Bonnie and Kaelyn. The man mumbles something before he runs out the front door.

Garchomp shoots another dragon rage into the ceiling causing a hole to form, and he jumps through it quickly. "Is Garchomp gonna be okay?!" Kaelyn shrieks running to Ash and Serena. "She will be fine. But we really need to stop him before she hurts someone." Sycamore says and he opens the door.

Ash and Serena run out the door before anyone else. Bonnie, Kaelyn, and Clemont all follow behind them. As they are running explosions from more hyper beams were rocking the city and people had started panicking. Gary and Leaf haven't left the city and saw the 5 run by towards the explosions.

Officer Jenny was going around telling everyone to be calm. Usually it didn't help but it did eventually. After about 15 minutes of flying around, Garchomp lands on top of the prism tower. Froakie had managed to sneak out and was following. He was determined to help.

"Cmon we have to help Garchomp!" Bonnie yells seeing Garchomp cry out in obvious pain. "We are going to do that." Ash says and he runs to the tower. A lot of people were standing around the tower. "Clemont do you know how to get up there quickly?" Serena says following Ash.

"Of course he does! He invented everything on this tower!" Bonnie yells and she, Clemont, and Kaelyn run after them. Clemont leads them to a back door and lets Ash and Serena in. Kaelyn wanted to follow her parents but Garchomp fired another Hyper beam, and it was aimed at the door.

Clemont pulls Kaelyn back before the attack hit but the door collapsed. "Are you two alright?!" Clemont shouts through the rubble. "Yeah we are fine! We are going to get Garchomp!" Ash shouts and then there were no footsteps heard. Clemont and Leaf approaches Clemont and the two girls and pulls them away to watch and pray.

Ash and Serena quickly get up to Garchomp. "That's Ash and Serena!" Sycamore shouts horrified. "Professor they will be alright!" Leaf shouts determined with her friends. Then the little blue frog, also known as Froakie was in sight too. With Garchomp Ash and Serena try to approach the Pokémon, but he fires a hyper beam at them and flys to the very top. Pikachu stopped the attack.

Ash, Serena, Pikachu, and Froakie find a ladder and keep climbing to the top. When they get up there they are breathing heavily. "Garchomp listen you need to calm down! I know it hurts and I would be surprised if it wasn't!" Ash calls to the Pokémon but all he does is growl loudly again.

Back in Pallet..
"Delia, Grace,  you have to see this!" Professor Oak says turning her tv to Kalos News. "What's going on?" Delia asks absolutely confused. They see a camera circling a tower. It was prism tower. A hyper beam gets shot at the helicopter who barley manages to dodge it.

"This situation is getting very bad at this time! The Garchomp is ravaging Lumiose City!" A news reporter says quickly and the camera zooms in on the ground to show all the people. They saw Kaelyn, Leaf, and Gary all looking up. "There three of them are.. where are Ash and Serena?!" Grace and Delia say at the same time.

The camera then shows Ash and Serena approaching the Garchomp slowly trying to calm it. "Oh my god.." Delia whimpers seeing them on the tower. Red soon enters the room and sees what's going on. "What are they doing up there!?" He yells worried sick.

Back at the tower Ash and Serena get close to Garchomp. "Garchomp calm down please!" Serena shouts desperately. Garchomp takes a few steps back to the edge. Serena gasps and Ash runs to him. Froakie comes out of no where and uses his bubbles and it catches Garchomp at his feet.

Ash jumps on and puts his Arms around the Garchomp trying to keep him still. "Pikachu quickly use iron tail on the collar!" Ash yells and Pikachu follows orders. The attack is successful and makes the color fall off. Garchomp collapses to her knees and everyone lets out a sigh of relief.

"You did Great Pikachu! So did you Froakie!" Ash shouts happily. They all make their way over along with Serena who has her hands clasped in front of her. "That was amazing Ash." She says as she approaches him. Ash smiles but it quickly fades when the tower shakes. A piece of the tower falls under Serena and she loses her balance.

"Serena!!" Ash shouts running to the edge. Pikachu and Froakie turn around terrified. Serena falls and she starts plummeting down to the ground. Ash didn't think twice and he quickly dove off the tower after her. "Pika!!" Pikachu cries terrified seeing them fall off.

At ground level Gary sees this and his eyes widen. "No!" He shouts causing Leaf and everyone to look and see them falling. Everyone at ground level gasped seeing the two 16 year olds plummeting. In Pallet Town Delia's and Graces eyes fill with tears scared they were about to lose their children..

During their visit, Ash, Serena, Kaelyn, Clemont, and Bonnie chased after Garchomp who went on a rampage due to some device. They managed to save Garchomp, but because of some diminished structural integrity, Serena fell off the tower, and Ash dove off after her. See what happens, as the Journey Continues...

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Welp. Ash and Serena went off the tower instead of Ash and Pikachu. What shall happen.