Hey so it's been awhile but I've had writers block but then I came up with this and the update should be in a few days! I hope you like this fanfic! Review, fave even just reading, it all means so much!

Disclaimer: I do not own pokémon (I wish I did)

Getting Her Back

Chapter One

The sun was setting over the Kalos Region and our heroes, Ash, Serena, Clemont and Bonnie were on Route 13 on their way back to Lumiose City. Ash had just challenged Ramos the Coumarine City gym leader and been awarded the Plant Badge. The group had decided that now would be a good time to set up camp for the night so they would be refreshed and ready to handle any of Team Rockets schemes. Setting up the tents was the easy part however Route 13 (also known as the Lumiose Badlands) was basically a barren wasteland and there were no trees in sight for firewood. Serena and her twig-loving pokémon, Fennekin had volunteered to go find firewood, having a pokémon with a keen sense of smell for sticks sure is useful in times like these.

It had been a good fifteen minutes before Serena and Fennekin came across a tree. The tree looked dead and ready to crumble apart however when Serena went to break off one of its smaller branches it just wouldn't budge.

"Pancham, I choose you!" She called out, the little panda springing out ready to fight. It looked around confused at the lack of opponents. "Use Karate Chop on that tree please!"

"Cham!" Pancham nodded and jumped up powering up it's attack and... Nothing.

"Huh?! That should have worked!" Serena pouted. She heard someone snigger and quickly looked around.

"Prepare for trouble, you silly girl!" Jessie sung leaping out of the shallow canyon behind the tree.

"And make it double, you're supposed to use cut!" James chimed in, leaping out at the other side.

"To protect the world from devas-"

"Yeah, yeah devastation... I get it! Can we just battle and get this over with?!" Serena sighed. It was getting late and she didn't want the others to worry about her. Okay so maybe she wanted Ash to worry a little.

Jessie and James jumped back and hugged each other with wide eyes. "Meowth! You told us she was the weak one and that she'd just hand over her pokémon when alone!" The duo cried in unison.

Meowth clambered over the ledge that Jessie and James had previously jumped up from. "Quiet down you knuckle heads! She'll be easy to beat! She only has two pokémon and you have three plus me!"

"Ooh, good point!" The Team Rocket duo cackled, throwing out their pokéballs.

"Okay Inkay!"

"Pumpkaboo go!"

"WOBBUFFET!"

Serena took a step back, looking behind her making sure not to fall back into the canyon.

'Think, think Serena! What would Ash have his pokémon do?!'

"Kin!" Fennekin barked, spitting out an Ember at the Pumpkaboo.

"Pancham!" Pancham growled, charging up a Dark Pulse aimed at the Inkay.

"Pumpkaboo, dodge it and then hit it with a Shadow Ball!" Jessie called.

"Fennekin, uhm, dodge it and use Hidden Power?!" Serena was unsure of herself and wasn't that good at thinking on the spot. On top of that she had two pokémon to control, she was fine with one but she had never had a double battle, she had only ever seen them not to mention the fact that Team Rocket never played by the rules.

"Now Wobbuffet stop Hidden Power with Mirror Coat!"

"Inkay use Psybeam on that Fennekin!" James ordered, Team Rocket were teaming up on Fennekin.

"Pancham, umm... Help Fennekin by using Karate Chop on- No!" Serena was completely overwhelmed, she knew both Fennekin and Pancham couldn't withstand those attacks, Team Rockets pokémon were too fast! She stepped out in front of them both.

"Let's scram!" Meowth yelled, running off before they could be a witness to anything. There was a flash of white before Serena's eyes then everything went dark.

-30 minutes later-

Ash and Clemont were in their tent with a worried Bonnie. It had been nearly an hour since they had seen Serena and although they kept telling one another she'd be back soon, they were starting to doubt it themselves.

The winds had kicked up and the trio were huddled up, trying to keep warm until Ash finally decided to go and look for Serena.

"You two stay here, I'll use Fletchinder to find Serena," he crawled out of the tent with Pikachu on his shoulder before calling out Fletchinder to search the skies for any sign of her.

Ash pressed onwards on foot, walking against the wind, gripping onto his hat while pikachu gripped onto him.

"Chin!" Looking up Ash saw his bird pokémon had returned and followed it to where Serena lay. Her head was hanging off over the small canyon and her two pokémon were trying to pull her to safety by dragging her up by her feet.

"What happened here?!" Ash cried, helping the pokémon by moving Serena over.

"Kin kin!" Fennekin barked.

"Cham pan!" Pancham nodded waving its arms about.

Ash clumsily lifted Serena into his arms. He could see she was breathing and could feel her breath on his neck. His cheeks went a crimson colour as he followed his Fletchinder again back to the camp.

"Clemont!" Ash cried when he could see the tent. "Come quick!"

He reached the tents and Clemont was waiting confused with what was going on.

"What happened?!" Clemont questioned, frantically scrambling over to the tent which would have been used for Serena and Bonnie. He struggled to unzip it as he was worried.

"Is Serena ba- SERENA!" Bonnie ran up to Ash and grabbed one of Serena's hands which was hanging down. "Serena, no!"

"Sh-She'll be fine..!" Ash tried to reassure the younger girl though to be honest he wasn't sure she'd be fine himself. Clemont had finally unzipped the tent so Ash went and carefully laid Serena down. Fennekin and Pancham immediately ran over to their trainer, Fennekin licking her nose to try and wake her. It was all no use.

"Ash stay with Serena tonight, I'll take Bonnie into our tent," Clemont decided.

"Okay..." Ash nodded, worried for his friend. She looked so vulnerable. Ash went into her bag and got the pokéballs for Fennekin and Pancham and returned them. They seemed distressed and the pokéballs would stop them from getting even more worked up.

Clemont and Bonnie left to go to the other tent. Tonight they would just have to endure the cold.

Ash sat in the corner of the tent, he couldn't sleep. Pikachu had fallen asleep on Serena's stomach but Ash was worried, she still hadn't woken up. What if she didn't for days, he couldn't just carry her everywhere and the nearest hospital was in Lumiose City which would take at least another day to travel to and Serena was heavier than she looked (at least too heavy for Ash's - relatively non-existant - muscles).

He was nearly asleep at last when he heard it. "Mhmm..." He crawled over to Serena and sure enough she was awake. "AGH! WHO ARE YOU?!"

Ash shuffled away, his eyes wide and hurt expression covering his face. "It's me Ash, Serena are you okay?"

"Ash? I don't know an Ash..." She sat up and scooted to the other side of the tent.

"We went to Professor Oaks pokémon summer camp?! We're on this journey together?!" Ash tried to refresh her memory but suddenly felt his stomach twist into a knot. 'This is what it feels like to be forgotten, isn't it?'

"Who's Professor Oak?" She asked again, tilting her head cutely.

Ash reached into his pocket and pulled out the blue handkerchief. "Remember?!"

She tilted her head the other way, studying the handkerchief before slowly shaking her head. "Sorry, no... Should I? WAIT! Where is my mom?" She let out a gasp. "Are you a kidnapper?!" She moved further back into the corner of the tent.

"No I'm one of your friends! There is also Clemont and Bonnie and I found you outside passed out with your pokémon, I wa- WE were so worried!"

Serena raised her eyebrows. "I think I would remember my friends..."

'Ouch...' Ash thought. 'I forgot her too... Once...'

"Serena, I don't know what happened out there but please, trust me..." He begged staring into her aqua eyes from across the tent.

She felt a warm feeling inside but pushed it aside and crossed her arms. "Fine, but any funny business and I'm reporting you!"

Ash grinned. "We'll get your memory back in no time!"

'I hope...' He thought to himself afterwards.