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Dawn, while Ash had been battling Fantina in the gym, had competed in the Hearthome contest, doing a witch production, being in the same group as Ursula, who'd been looking to battle her, only to find herself matched with Zoey, a girl with short Red hair, and an energetic personality.
"No matter, some girl like her won't be much of a challenge." Ursula said, confident that she could take Zoey, no problem. However, she was completely unprepared for her, and Ursula was surprisingly defeated, as Dawn went on to win the contest, earning her third contest ribbon.
"I heard that Solaceon Town is having a Pokémon contest. Plus, it's not that far until Veilstone, where the 4th gym is." Yuuko pointed on the town map, as the three left Haerthome, and got out onto route 209. After some training, two evolutions happened at the same time.
"This is something." Ash said, as his Gible evolved into Gabite, and Yuuko's Ralts evolved into Kirlia.
"Hey, Yuuko, what gender is Kirlia?" Dawn asked.
"Male, something I wanted to make sure was certain." Yuuko responded, as she had a certain Pokémon in mind, having caught a second Ralts and evolved that one. Coming to Solaceon town, once the three went to the Pokémon Center, they saw quite a figure.
"No way!" Ash cried, as he found his old friend, Pewter City Gym Leader Brock!
"Well hello, Ash, nice running into you, here." Brock greeted, getting introduced to Dawn and Yuuko.
"How've you been?" Ash started, as Brock brought out three Pokémon: Happiny, Bondly, and a Tropius.
"Huh, so you have something not native to this region." Yuuko analyzed, as the four walked around Solaceon, finding there's a Pokémon contest being held.
"Ooh, and it has a theme after this town. Country yet mixed with glam and glitz." Togepi noted, fondly thinking of the many ways of combining the two types of fashions.
"Country? Glamor? Sounds like two things that heavily contrast one another." Pikachu wondered, as Dawn registered, only to find a woman with long Magenta hair done in pigtails also having registered.
"Oh? Never seen you, before. Who might you be?" Dawn said, the woman turning to see her.
"I'm Jessilina, nice to meet you." Jessilina introduced, as Dawn shook hands with her, not knowing ghat it was Jessie in disguise.
"She's in, and once the girl wins, we'll go after the Pokémon she has." James, a member of Team Rocket, said to their companion, Meowth.
"Yeah, and once that happens, we'll take the Pokémon contest scene by storm!" Meowth plotted, rubbing his paws together. As the contestants began getting their props ready, Jessilina and Dawn received the list, finding that Jessilina was the first to go up.
"Wow, I'm first." Jessilina said, as she went up, and presented a production with her Yanma, earning her 37 out of 50 points.
"Not bad, now for someone else to score higher so we can steal their Pokémon." James said to Meowth, as 3 other contestants went up, all scoring under 40.
"Man, they're pretty underwhelming. I hope Dawn actually makes a pretty good performance." Yuuko sighed, as it was now Dawn's turn.
"Okay, let's show these people what we can do." She mentioned to Togepi and Piplup, as the performance started. Playing a miniature banjo, Piplup used their newly-learned Bubblebeam to create an image of a couple dancing. Seeing how the crowd started getting impressed, and began dancing, it was becoming a smash hit. Performing a song in a glitzy and glamourous 2-piece suit, Dawn was on fire!
"She's really having a time!" Ash shouted, as Dawn received her score: 50 out of 50!
"A perfect score!?" James cried, shocked at the number. As the top 2, Jessilina and Dawn were to do battle, Jessilina sending Yanma, and Dawn sending Togepi.
"A mere Togepi? This will be easy." Meowth purred, as James fired up the machine, and grabbed Togepi.
"What's this? An interruption? Yes it is!" James announced, as Jessie got rid of her Jessilina disguise.
"Team Rocket? What are you doing here?!" Ash cried, as he couldn't believe that Team Rocket would seriously follow him all the way to Sinnoh.
"Well, let's find out how tough they are. Togepi, metronome!" Dawn instructed, as Togepi acted, the metronome producing FLAMETHROWER, knocking out Yanma in one hit.
"Absolutely random, indeed!" Togepi laughed, until she began to shine, signalling evolution.
"Eeee I've been waiting to see this!" Dawn squealed, excited at Togepi evolving, as she turned into her 2nd form: Togetic, gaining a flying subtype.
"So it gained some pretty wings, that doesn't matter!" Meowth laughed, until Togetic used her newly-learned Moonblast to send the three villains blasting off again. Being awarded the ribbon, Dawn was on cloud 9, her Togetic being the icing on the cake.