第一节(第一章《天恩之忆》开始)

第1章
天恩之忆
神奥地区-双叶镇
嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！ 嘟！
“ ... Luuuuuup ...”
女孩的手伸上床头柜，触及姆克儿闹钟上的按钮。 蓝发协调训练师的懒洋洋地眨着眼睛，她挣扎着聚焦目光去看时间，发现此时还是清晨。
太累了……小光想到。 她把时钟放回桌子上，迅速翻转过来，挡住眼前的阳光，将脸埋入枕头。
床罩底部的移动表明，波加曼已从舒适的庇护所中爬了出来。企鹅宝可梦达成了目的，并伸展身体以避免睡落枕。 它打着哈欠抱怨着，完全从睡梦中清醒过来。 小光紧紧地闭上了眼睛，确定波加曼会回去睡觉或是自己走出房间。 不过，波加曼脚掌上卵形的肉垫反驳了这种想法，小光认为，如同它在深夜里所做的，这只水系小精灵只会在她身旁弯着身子睡下。
不幸的是，波加曼在小光的肩上拍打着它的圆形喙。 小光念叨着，“再等五分钟……”，但波加曼却继续用力地啄着她。 “再等一会，波加曼，求求你了…” 小光抱怨道，尽力使自己回到甜蜜的睡眠中。
波加曼叫声里有了怒意。 小光设置的闹钟，却把它吵醒了，但她自己却可以接着睡下去吗？ 显然，这是不能接受的。 企鹅宝可梦准备好啄击她，伸长了自己的喙，然后用打过以往力反复拍击，无情地戳打小光。
一，二，三啄，波加曼继续着动作。 小光终于猛地醒来，把床单扔向空中。波加曼也被抛起，重重地摔进房间另一侧的沙发里。 当波加曼落下时，小光喃喃地抱怨，在她凌乱的床头生着闷气，“没人敢像你这样吵醒我。”
然后，她的脑海里思绪流淌。 小光左右顾盼一阵，突然讶异地恍然大悟。 激动的心情驱赶走她的怒气，“ 波加曼，我都完全忘记，我们回到家啦！”
旅途历时一年有余，难怪她忘记了昨晚在自家床上的美梦。 波加曼忍住心里的激动，跳回床上，跟随小光起身到近旁的窗户，并同她一起推开。 这正是他期待中小光的样子！暖阳淌入房间，室内凉爽的空气弥散开来。双叶镇舒适的气氛迎接着他们，犹如他们对崭新一天的期待。
时间流逝，但还有人毫不知情。小光和波加曼高兴地跳下台阶，前者穿着她平日的连衣裙，白色绒线帽和发夹却消失了踪影，她在旅行中从未如此。 愉悦地，小光在房间里向伙伴们打招呼，“早上好！”
检查着墙上的家具，小刚站起身。 “早上好，小光！” 小刚应答。 皮卡丘翻过身，在找到的玩具球上试图保持平衡。 “pi-ka！” 它热情地问候小光。
“早上好，小光，” 彩子问道，“想吃早餐吗？”
“当然，妈妈……诶，大家知道小智在哪里吗？” 小光发问。训练师少年显然不在楼下。
“小智仍在睡着。” 小刚说。 皮卡丘从练习平衡的球上跳开。 小智仍在赖床这事，至少也是不足为奇的，但是皮卡丘醒着并不寻常。 皮卡丘再次向小光和波加曼打着招呼，发出些笑声。
“皮卡丘，早啊。” 小光打着招呼。 皮卡丘高兴地回应：“Pi-ka-chu！” 少女脑海里涌现顽皮的点子。 蹲下身，她同两只宝可梦对视，“咱们...现在去叫醒赖床的家伙！” 皮卡丘和波加曼兴高采烈地赞同着，此时彩子走了过来，手中的碗盛满食物。
“小光，就让他多睡会儿。” 彩子提议，但小光和两个小家伙已经走上楼梯，他们并不认可彩子的替代方案。 客房很快出现在眼前，门被轻轻推开一条缝。
小光想，应该是皮卡丘今早出房间留下的。 她轻轻地将门完全推开，眼前小智蜷缩着身子，睡成别扭的位置。 “哎，睡得真沉，好吧。” 小光笑得有些狡黠。 皮卡丘低声比划着，小光顿时会意，“皮卡丘，想被奖励吗？” 皮卡丘高兴地同意，小心翼翼地走进房间，靠近床脚。 小光和波加曼试图压抑自己的笑声，却接通电源似的难以停止。 皮卡丘的脸颊开始蓄电。
“ Piiiiii-kaa ...”皮卡丘空中旋转时发出滋滋声，释放出十万伏特，“ CHUUUUUU！”
“哇啊啊啊啊啊！”
还未清醒，小智径直跳下床，感觉到灼热的电流刺进了骨髓。然后他不受控制地落回床垫，细微的电火花环绕着身体。 皮卡丘跳上自己训练师的脑袋，高兴地呼唤着，刚才的一切与它无关，“Pi-ka-chu”。
“哈哈，皮卡丘。早上好。” 小智依旧觉得视线模糊。
“没有比皮卡丘更好的闹钟了，对吧，小智？” 小光揶揄着，走到床头，面朝小智凑过去，“不管怎样，知道现在是早餐时间吗?”
“早餐？” 小智喊道：“怎么不早说？皮卡丘，咱们快去吧！”
小智抱起皮卡丘，跳下床，距门两步是才勉强刹车，随后消失在拐角处，尴尬地笑着离开。 皮卡丘抱怨的叫声大概是说，这鲁莽的老搭档正把它拖着前行。 不出一会儿，他俩从楼梯滚下，滑过两组楼梯并撞到厨房的硬木地板，同时重重地撞击声传来。 小光和波加曼追着他们，赶到楼梯与地板的连接处。 “你还好吗，小智？” 小光关切地呼喊到。
“没事，不用担心！”
“小智，今天下午开往关东的船将要启航，所以你们千万不要迟到！” 彩子提示道。小智和小刚一同答应。
席间，小刚谈论着他的大家庭：“我想确保我为每个人都买到足够的神奥特产。所以，咱们早点出发，行吗，小智？”
“好的，好主意，小刚。” 小智说。
波加曼从宝可梦食物中抬起头，完全惊讶于被他的所闻。 小智和小刚要离开？ 但这，不可能吧？ “好的，但你们也不必太急着出发。” 小光建议。 她想尽可能多地待在过去一年的旅伴们身边。
原文
Chapter 1
Memories Are Made of Bliss!
Sinnoh Region - Twinleaf Town
Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep! Beep!
"...Luuuuuup..."
A female hand reached over to the bedside table and clicked the off button on the Starly-themed alarm clock. The eyes of a certain blue-haired Coordinator fluttered open lazily, and she focused her glance to see the time, finding that it was the early morning.
So tired..., Dawn thought. She placed the clock back on the desk and quickly flipped over, blocking the sun from her eyes and burying her face in the pillow.
Some movement at the bottom of the bedspread indicated that Piplup had crawled out of his cozy shelter. The Penguin Pokémon had indeed done so, and stretched out its body to work out the morning kinks. Piplup grumbled with a yawn, waking up fully. Dawn tightly closed her eyes, certain that Piplup would either go back to sleep or find his own way out of the room. The small padding of Piplup's ovular feet, though, disproved this theory, but Dawn assumed that the water-type would simply curl up next to her like he always did early on in the night.
Unfortunately, Piplup tapped its round beak on Dawn's shoulder blade. Dawn groaned, "Five more minutes..." but Piplup continued affectionately tapping her. "A little longer, Piplup, please..." Dawn complained, trying as hard as she could to fall back into the sweet release of sleep.
Piplup huffed. She would go to the trouble to set an alarm-which woke him up-but she wouldn't wake up herself? This, obviously, was unacceptable. The Penguin Pokémon readied its Peck attack, lengthening its beak in doing so, and then tapped repeatedly with much more force than before, poking Dawn relentlessly.
One, two, three pecks, and Piplup continued going. Dawn furiously woke up and threw the bed sheets up, sending Piplup soaring through the air and into the couch on the other side of the bedroom. As Piplup made an unceremonious landing, Dawn grumbled, sulking in her messy bedhead, "No one knows how to wake me up quite like you do."
Then something ticked in the back of her mind. Dawn looked to her left, and then to her right, and realization swamped her over. Excitement washed away her sulking, "Piplup, I totally forgot we were back home!"
After spending a little more than the past year on the road, it was no wonder that she had managed to forget that she had gone to sleep the previous night in her own bed. Piplup fed off her excitement and hopped back over to the bed, following Dawn to the nearby window and pushing it open with her. This was the Dawn he'd expected! Warm sunlight poured into the room, banishing the cool air inside. The comfortable visage of Twinleaf Town greeted them, as they got ready to greet the day.
The time sped by and before either one knew it, Dawn and Piplup were happily hopping down the steps one at a time, the former dressed in her usual outfit. Her beanie and hair clips, though, were conspicuously missing, something she had almost never done during her constant traveling. Happily, Dawn greeted the people in the room, "Good morning!"
Brock stood up from examining some of the furniture against the wall. "Good morning, Dawn!" Brock concurred. Pikachu suddenly rolled over, balancing on some kind of ball that he had managed to find. "Pi-ka!" he greeted energetically.
"Good morning, Dawn." Johanna said, "Would you like some breakfast?"
"Sure thing, Mom...hey, does anybody know where Ash is?" Dawn asked. The Trainer had been conspicuously missing from the downstairs floor.
"Ash is still fast asleep." Brock said. Pikachu hopped off of the ball he'd been balancing on. The fact that Ash was still asleep wasn't surprising in the least, but Pikachu being awake was unusual. The electric mouse greeted Dawn and Piplup again, giving a laughing purr.
"Wow, Pikachu, you're up early." Dawn commented. Pikachu answered with a happy "Pi-ka-chu!" and Dawn came upon a mischievous idea. She squatted down so that she was near the two Pokémon's eye level, "I say...we go wake up Mr. Sleepyhead!" Pikachu and Piplup agreed with a joyous cry as Johanna stepped over, carrying a bowl of food.
"Dawn, you could let him sleep in, you know." Johanna offered, but Dawn and the two Pokémon were already heading up the stairs, neither of them even acknowledging that Johanna had offered an alternative. The journey to the guest bedroom was quick, and the door was open just a crack.
That must be how Pikachu got out, Dawn thought. She gently pushed the door completely open, revealing Ash curled up in a position that couldn't possibly be comfortable. "Hmpf, sound asleep, all right." Dawn grinned deviously. Pikachu chattered a few words and Dawn immediately understood, "Pikachu, you wanna do the honors?" Pikachu happily agreed and carefully stepped inside the room, sneaking over to the foot of the bed. Dawn and Piplup tried to stifle relentless laughter as the electric-type smirked mischievously. Pikachu started to charge up a Thunderbolt.
"Piiiiii-kaa..." Pikachu purred as he spun around, releasing the Thunderbolt, "CHUUUUUU!"
"UWAAAAAAAAAGGGHHH!"
Ash jumped straight up out of the bed, feeling the scorching electricity shock him to the bone, before falling unceremoniously back onto the mattress, sparks of lightning crackling harmlessly around his body. Pikachu hopped up right next to the Trainer's head, chirping happily as if he'd done nothing wrong in his life, "Pi-ka-chu."
"Oh, man...hey, Pikachu. Good morning." Ash said dizzily.
"Nothing like a Pikachu-style wakeup call, huh, Ash?" Dawn asked, arriving at the bedside and cocking a hip outward, "Somehow I thought you'd like to know that it's breakfast time."
"Breakfast?!" Ash shouted, "Well why didn't you just say so? Pikachu, c'mon!"
Ash grabbed Pikachu by the hand and vaulted out of the bed, clearing the distance to the door in about two steps and disappearing around the corner, laughing as he went. Pikachu complained as the teen dragged him. A second later, there was a terrible crash as the pair fell down the stairs, rolling down both sets of stairs and hitting the hardwood floor of the kitchen. Dawn and Piplup ran after them, ending up on the landing connecting the two sets of stairs. "You okay, Ash?" Dawn called.
"Believe it or not, there's no need to worry!"
"Boys, the boat to Kanto leaves this afternoon, so you won't want to be late!" Johanna said. Ash and Brock answered with a shared affirmation, and Brock went on.
"I want to be sure that I buy enough Sinnoh gifts for everyone," Brock said, referencing his jumbo-sized family, "So let's get an early start, whaddya say, Ash?"
"Right, good idea, Brock." Ash said.
Piplup looked up from his bowl of Pokémon food, absolutely stunned by what he was hearing. Ash and Brock were leaving? But, this couldn't possibly be so, right?! "Well, you don't have to rush outta here too quickly." Dawn suggested. She wanted to spend as much time as she could with the pair who had traveled with her for the past year.