There where some battles left to be completed, so Ash and company had some free time. The battles left were Xx_FancyCar_xX vs Nyoom and Yo-Yo Master vs It'sGettingHotItHere. After those finished, the first round would be over.

Having even more free time than he knew what to do with, Ash decided to train up his Pokémon some more. He found a practice field.

"You ready for some training, buddy?" Ash asked his partner Pokémon.

"Pikachu!" Pikachu responded. This translated as "Heck yes, my dude!"

Ash let out some more Pokémon, and gave them the memo. Training time, blah blah blah.

"Ash? Is that you?"

Ash turned his head 180 degrees to face whomever just spoke his name. The speaker took a step back in alarm. Ash turned the rest of his body to face her.

"Anabel! It's great to see you again!" Ash chirped happily. Anabel was quick to recover from Ash's terrifying head turn, and within moments it was forgotten.

"I watched your battle with Hugh," Anabel said. "It was good." Before she could say another word, her friend and fellow Frontier Brain, Greta showed up.

"Hello, Ash! Good luck with your next battle, whatever it is! You're lucky to have friends to help you out. I have -1 friends," she said cheerfully.

"But, Greta, I'm your friend," Anabel said. Greta laughed.

"Exactly!"

Ash had backed away and was watching his Pokémon. "Good work, guys! Keep it up and we might win it!"

"Ash, could we help in anyway? With training or anything?" Anabel started.

"Yes, anything~!" Added Greta before being roughly elbowed by Anabel, whom looked embarrassed. Ash missed the joke.

"Yeah, help with training would be great!" He replied in a rather generic way.