Pokémon: Dreams Come True Starting in Sinnoh

It's the second day again, breakfast time.

The continuous travel over the past few days has caused Ash and his friends to fall into a slump. It should have been the most refreshing morning, but both Ash, who had just woken up, and Brock, who had been up for a while and was preparing breakfast, looked sleepy and kept yawning.

"Good morning~ What are we having for dinner today?" Xiao Zhi asked sleepily.

"Ha~ Let's keep it simple today, fried bacon, fried eggs, and a bowl of hot soup." Xiao Gang, also yawning, wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and asked, "Hasn't Xiao Guang gotten up yet?"

"Huh? But I just heard a noise coming from Dawn's tent." Ash looked at Dawn's tent and called out, "Hey! Dawn! Are you awake?!"

"You're awake! I'm currently battling my hair! If breakfast is ready, you can eat first!"

"..."

So Xiaozhi still couldn't understand why someone would style their hair so meticulously when they were already wearing a hat. No one could see it, right? Or was it considered proper etiquette to put effort into things that others couldn't see?

"Don't look at me, I don't know either," Xiao Gang said while chopping onions. "After all, I haven't had any female friends to talk to about this kind of thing before... Waaah~"

Are you crying?

"The onions were so spicy they made my eyes water!"

Whether he was telling the truth or not, Xiao Zhi felt that Xiao Gang was still harboring some resentment, as evidenced by his sudden increase in the speed at which he chopped vegetables.

"Click—"

"Huh?!"

Before Ash could even process what was happening, Brock exclaimed in surprise, and the onion in his hand flew toward Dawn's tent.

"Ash! Take this!"

"Leave it to me!"

It was just an onion, nothing serious. Even if it fell on the ground, it could just be washed off. But when Ash saw this, his spirits instantly lifted, and he took off running after the onion.

"I'll do it! I'll do it!"

Ash aimed for the onion's landing point and raised his hands to catch it, but at the same time, a commotion came from the tent behind him.

"Bogarman, Bubble Ray!"

"Eh?"

"Poga—!"

As Piplup roared, countless bubbles surged out of Dawn's tent. Ash, who was standing directly in front of the tent, was not so lucky and was knocked backward by the power of the bubble beam.

boom--!

With a scream, Ash collapsed to the ground, his hat, which was already loose, flying into the air.

"Pikachu~!"

For some reason, even though it was just a hat that flew off, and it wouldn't matter if it was ignored, Pikachu excitedly predicted the trajectory of the hat. With a leap, it caught the hat in its mouth, then did a few somersaults and flips in the air before landing smoothly, looking dashing and cool.

I don't know what it's for.

"Pickup!"

Pikachu proudly put the hat on its head, while Ash, lying on the ground, said speechlessly, "Do you think I'm less important than a hat? So the hat is my true form?"

“Pikachu…”

Pikachu stood up, scratching the back of its head, looking a little embarrassed. Just like Ash wanted to show off catching an onion falling from a great height, Pikachu just wanted to show off its hat-catching skills.

As for Xiao Zhi?

So what if you fall? The Rockets fall from great heights every day and nothing happens to them, right?

Just as Ash and Pikachu were complaining, no one seemed to notice the rustling sound coming from the bushes nearby, and a small figure moving through the bushes.

.......

Hikari, who was inside the tent, naturally heard the commotion outside. She came out while combing her hair, which was wet from the foam beam, and asked, "What's wrong? Why are you lying on the ground, Ash?"

"You... never mind..."

Ash reluctantly got up, after all, he was partly careless in this matter, and it didn't seem like Dawn was to blame.

"Oh, right, Xiaogang, your onions!"

As Ash spoke, he threw the onion that had fallen to the ground toward Brock's position. Unfortunately, Ash used a little too much force, and the onion drew a perfect arc over Brock's head before falling toward the head of the Delinquent behind Brock.

"Hey! You naughty frog! Watch out!"

Seeing that the rascal was neither dodging nor avoiding, Xiao Gang reminded it, but Xiao Gang's reminder seemed to have no meaning to the rascal. After all, the rascal had already made its move when it realized that the onion was about to land above its head, and it knocked the onion away again the moment it fell.

"Pikachu!"

This time, the onion headed towards Pikachu again. Although I don't know why it's such a big deal to make such a fuss over an onion, it feels like we've lost if the onion just lands like that.

Pikachu seemed to realize this as well, and just as Pikachu spotted the onion and was about to jump, a dark shadow leaped into the air before Pikachu, catching the onion that was about to fall to the ground, and then landing gracefully.

"Curly ear fungus?!" xN

Seeing the figure holding an onion, Ash and the others couldn't help but call out its name.

"Mimi~"

Facing the astonished looks of Ash and the others, Brillant seemed very generous, or rather, indifferent.

It simply walked up to Pikachu and handed it the half-cut onion. Just as Pikachu thanked it, the curly-eared creature, which had seemed very generous a moment before, suddenly looked shy, pulling up the fur on its waist to cover its face.

"Eh..."

Seeing this, the crowd, who were already surprised by the appearance of Curly Ears, became even more astonished.

"I was saying, isn't this curly-eared cat...?"

"You've fallen for Pikachu?"

Ash: "......"

Pikachu: "???"

The expressions on everyone's faces were different, but Pikachu, the person directly involved, was probably the most shocked.

Upon hearing Xiaogang's guess, or rather, his conclusion, Pikachu almost dropped the onion in its hand, its expression revealing a pervasive sense of bewilderment, as if asking, "What happened?"

.......