Dawn the stalker....

If there is one word that can describe Dawn's day, that word is panic. She has been panicking since the star of the day. She panic when Ash suddenly disappeared from his bed early in the morning, she panic when Ash took a long time to return to the Pokémon-centre from his walk, now she was panicking because Ash when AWOL on them and didn't came back for dinner.

"Where is he, where is he, where is he?" Dawn asked for the hundred times tonight as she walk back and forth, not even touching her food.

Brock, whom was greatly irritated by his blue haired friend, decided to try (and probably fail) to calm her down. "Dawn please calm down. This is not the first time Ash disappears for a long period of time and if the smile that he wore in his face is evident enough for us to know that he would probably be gone the whole night. So please calm down and it your dinner it is getting cold." Brock said feeding the Pokémons of the group.

"But Brock it's already late and Ash never disappears at night. And he never and I mean never miss dinner." Dawn said in panic.

"I know that but whatever Ash is doing right now is probably so important that he would forget food." Brock stated the impossible.

"Brock, are you even listening to yourself. Ash forgetting about food, Nurse Joy would sooner date you before that will happen." Dawn exclaim at what Brock said.

"Maybe," Brock said before realizing what the other part of that statement contains. "Hey what is that suppose to mean?" Brock yelled in outrage which causes Croagunk to give Brock a Poison jab in the gut. Naturally Brock fell down with a thud, pain overcoming is senses.

"See, even your Croagunk agrees with me." Dawn said in triumph before going back in panic mode.

After a minute, Brock recover from the poison jab and sweat drop when he saw Dawn still walking back and forth but this time her Piplup and Buneary is accompanying her.

'How did I stay sane while travelling with her?' Brock asked himself as he stood up.

"Hey Brock, could I ask you something?" Dawn asked suddenly appearing in front of him, causing Brock to fall down in surprise.

"Don't do that Dawn." Brock yelled at her.

Dawn flinch a bit after Brock yelled at her but nevertheless apologizes and help him up his feet. "So Brock could I ask my question." Dawn asked in a low tone.

"Sure." Brock said nonchalantly.

"When did Ash began disappearing like this?" Dawn asked in a serious tone.

Brock was bit shocked about Dawn's questions but he began thinking hard to answer his annoying friend. "I could remember Ash disappearing since the time I joined him in his journey but those times he disappears because of an accident that separates him from the group. Well now that I think about Ash started disappearing during our journey through Hoenn but it was rarely and short and every time Ash appears..." Brock said thinking hard.

"Well what..." Dawn asked a bit excited.

"Every time Ash appears after disappearing he has the brightest mood and the biggest smile I have ever seen. He was always in a blissful mood after disappearing. It became frequent during our travel through the battle frontier, it became twice or sometime three times a month and Ash disappears the entire day. The strange thing about it is that Ash always smiles before and after disappearing, like his happy to disappear." Brock said remembering those days when Ash disappears from the group.

"Have you guys ever wondered what happens to him every time he disappears?" Dawn asked finally calming down.

"Well after a couple of months during our journey, May was the first person to notice Ash's disappearance and we notice it too after she pointed it out. We followed him once but, well it didn't end up pretty well for us." Brock said rubbing his chin, it suddenly aches.

"Why...?" Dawn asked once again.

"Ash discovered that we were following him and he end yelling at us and he knock me out with a right hook." Brock said shuttering, he could still feel the power of that punch that Ash gave him a year ago.

"He punched you..." Dawn said not believing what she was hearing.

"Yeah, I could still remember that day; I lose a tooth because of that punch..." Brock said as he tells Dawn about that day.