BP: Well, thanks to writing this at least I have the inspiration to start writing my PAL Chronicles and Dark Chronicles, but due to the length, I'll say it'll take a while before I finish both chapters.

I do want to post both chapters at once so you readers can enjoy them, but since I started school, things have been really busy. My classes are heavier now and there is practically no break from classes since I need the free time to prepare for the next class and my assignment.

I am not sure what pairing to choose, and I am not going to end it in a harem because it sounds too cliché.

It had been a few days since the girls had found out about their mutual feelings towards Ash, which kickstarted the 'War for Ash'. Their plans to impress or woo Ash had been side-tracked with their need to settle in their new school.

Much to their chagrin, Ash had classes in a completely different building and have been assigned a dorm near that particular building as unlike them, he was in the Main Course. This meant that do not get to see him as much, except at lunch time and after school. Even then, he was usually unavailable due to his schedule being more packed than theirs.

The girls were currently in class, listening to the teacher drone on about the analysis of Shakespeare's play in their Literature class. Inwardly however, they were planning on ways on how they could confess their feelings to Ash and pull ahead of their competition.

Misty was reading a magazine behind her desk on date tips, Serena was sketching a pastry that she planned to bake for Ash, May was daydreaming about the restaurant she can take Ash to, Dawn was mentally listing what dresses she had that she could wear to impress Ash, and Iris was simply daydreaming about her date with Ash, feeling that the best way to take him was out on a wild adventure, such as the roller-coaster or bungee jumping.

School life was especially hard for Iris, as even in the Opelucid Academy she struggled in school, and failed to make any friends or interact with any of the other students at the academy and Iris never felt compatible with the urban city life. But in order to win Ash over, she had to endure this hardship. Luckily this time, she had some acquaintances in the form of the other girls, though she acknowledged that they are her competitors for Ash's love. She placed her head on the table as the teacher talked, before drifting off to sleep.

Iris was eating an apple that Ash gave her happily. She felt that they had a good day, with them going to the amusement parks and trying on the most heart-stopping rides such as the roller coaster and even tried on the Haunted House. Iris was so glad that she pretended to be afraid just so she could cling to Ash.

Both of them were currently walking down the park, arm-in-arm. Iris knew this was the perfect time to confess her feelings to the 'little kid'. No, not little. He was now a grown boy.

"Ash, there's something I need to tell you." Iris said, clutching to his arm tighter to get his attention.

"Oh, I have something to tell you too." Ash replied.

Iris's ears perked up when Ash mentioned he had something he wanted to tell her. Did it mean Ash felt the same way as her? Whatever it was, Iris wanted to know. "Really? Do tell."

"I am so glad we could be friends. I hope you'll be there for my wedding as well." Ash chirped brightly.

Iris's jaw dropped. "What…I…Huh?" She couldn't seem to find the reply to his statement.

"Didn't I tell you?" Ash said innocently. "I have been dating my boyfriend for years."

"WHO? WHO IS-" Iris started to scream, when Steven Stone, the handsome Hoenn Champion floated down to them in his Mega Metagross. Meanwhile, Ash started at him with loving eyes and a goofy smile.

"Hi, Steven." Ash greeted him as he stopped next to Ash.

"I'm here, darling." Steven took Ash's hand and kissed it. "Shall we go?"

Ash nodded as Steven led him up on Mega Metagross while Iris stared at the scene in horror, apple dropping on the ground. Iris could only cry as the two of them rode into the sunset with Mega Metagross. She could swear that the Mega Metagross was laughing at her predicament.

"NOOOO!" Iris screamed and stood up. Much to her embarrassment, her classmates are staring at her with amusement in their expressions while the teacher was glaring at her. The other girls were also distracted by her sudden scream, causing them to look at her with shock.

"Iris, what do you mean by 'no'?" The teacher frowned. "Are you daydreaming again? Pay attention!"

Iris sat down, embarrassed as Misty hissed, "You idiot, what the heck is wrong with you?"

"Maybe she had a nightmare that she got the wrong present for Christmas." May sniggered.

"I'll tell you later." Iris sighed, as the teacher turned to glare at her, thinking she was talking again.

"Want to tell us what's that all about, Iris?" Dawn asked as the girls walked towards the cafeteria for lunch.

Iris nodded, as she explained to them that she had a dream where she went on a perfect date with Ash, only for it to end in the most horrifying way where Steven Stone took Ash away.

"Wow…that is tragic." Misty said, knowing she can't take the thought of someone else taking Ash away from her as they queued up in the jet line to get their lunch.

Iris nodded sadly. "I wasn't a happy camper, that's for sure." Memories of the dream hurt Iris' heart, even though it wasn't actually real.

Serena gasped, bringing the girls' attention to her. "Wait, there's something about Iris' dream that we didn't consider!"

"What? The fact that Ash would be taken away by someone else would be terrible? We know that, Serena." Dawn huffed.

"No! Worse!" Serena cried. "In the dream, Ash was taken away by Steven, right?"

Iris nodded, not seeing where Serena was going with this.

"What are you getting at?" Misty said impatiently.

"What if Ash's gay?" Serena yelled, earning stares from the people in the line.

Every girl's expression turned into a horrified one. How could they not have seen this problem? If Ash was gay, then he wouldn't be interested in girls and he'll never fall for one of them. In this case, they can kiss their dreams of happily ever after with Ash goodbye.

"NO! I refuse to accept that!" Misty screeched, causing some people to cover their ears from the sheer volume of her declaration. "I refuse to accept the fact that Ash would never fall for me!"

"Calm down, Misty!" Dawn said, embarrassed at the stares. "It's not even confirmed and even if it is the case, there is nothing we can do about him being gay."

"Like hell! I'll change his sexuality by force if I have to!" Misty clenched her fists. "I'll make him straight with my feminine charms!"

The other girls rolled their eyes. 'Is Misty hallucinating or something?' They thought in unison.

Serena was about to berate Misty, telling her she cannot change people's sexuality by force, when the lunch lady yelled, "Are you going to get your food or not?"

When they looked, they realized there is an empty space in front of them and the people before them had moved away after getting their food. The girls hastily rushed to the stall to get their food, wilting under the glares of the students behind them.

As they took their seats at a shared table, they heard two girls gossiping about the upcoming Celestial Ball that is held for Main Course students only, though Reserve Course students can go if taken by a Main Course student. Iris shushed the group as they listened in to the conversation.

"Wow, he asked you to the Celestial Ball?" A blonde girl asked.

"Yep, asked me a month ago. I want to see what the Ultimate students have prepared as the theme of the ball." A redhead girl squealed.

"What's the Celestial Ball?" Misty blurted out, surprising the two girls. The two girls looked at each other with fear in their eyes, knowing that Misty was the girl who was yelling earlier.

"It's one of the festive events Main Course students hold to let their hairs down. Arceus knows how busy they are when it comes to their studies. They almost don't get a break, so to them this is their way of having fun and at the same time, learn social etiquette." The redhead explained, not looking Misty in the eyes.

"But only Main Course students can go?" Iris frowned.

"That's right. Though us Reserve Course students can go if asked by a Main Course student." The blonde added.

The gleam in the girls' eyes intensified. They just knew this would be a great opportunity to be Ash's date to the Celestial Ball. After all, he likely did not know any of his classmates well enough to ask them, so he'll ask one of them!

But first…they need to establish whether Ash is straight or gay.

The girls staked out the Main Course building, waiting for the perfect moment to pounce on Ash. Rumour was that the Main Course students would leave the building to train their Pokémon or develop their talents in a more natural environment. They felt the rumour was true as they saw some of the Main Course students walking out, talking to each other about their plans for today.

And then they heard the very voice they are looking for.

"Thanks, Phillip! I had a really good time!" Ash said. He was currently wearing the Main Course uniform, which consisted of a black blazer and matching pants, a white button-up collared shirt, navy-blue tie and dark brown lace-up shoes. His Pikachu as always was on his shoulder.

'A really good time?' The girls thought, looking at one another in horror.

"No problem. I had fun too." A brown haired and baby blue eyed boy who must be Phillip replied. He wore the standard Main Course uniform as well, except unlike Ash his tie was scarlet, he wore lace-up boots and had a badge pinned to the left side of his blazer. The five eavesdropping girls were in a panic. What was this Phillip boy and Ash talking about?

"Ash, I was wondering something," Phillip said thoughtfully.

"What is it, Phillip?"

"If you are free, maybe we could..." Phillip was trying hard to speak up, but before he could ask his question, the five girls stepped out of their hiding places.

"Phillip, right?" Misty asked.

"Yeah?" Phillip looked nervous.

"We need to have a talk with you. Now!" May said as Iris and Serena grabbed him and started dragging him away, much to Ash's confusion.

"Let us borrow him for a second, ok Ash?'' Dawn said as she waved at him before following her friends.

Ash stood blinking after them. "What was that about?" he asked Pikachu, who merely shrugged.

Meanwhile, Phillip admitted he had never really been the bravest person in the world, but his time in this school helped him with it and now he was willing to stand up or even fight back. In fact, he had seen more than a fair share of angry women, thanks to his time spent with his female friends. So facing five extremely angry girls was nothing new to him.

As soon as Phillip had been dragged away from Ash to a secluded area, he was picked up from the front of his shirt and slammed against the wall by Misty, who had readied her other arm to pummel him with her mallet. Meanwhile, May had her Blaziken's claws right to his neck, Iris had Emolga ready to electrocute him, Serena had Sylveon tie him down and Dawn had Ambipom whose hands are hovering perilously over his family jewels.

While it was true all five girls were glaring at him with as much hate as they could muster, Phillip was not fazed as he had seen people who are scarier when angry, such as his female friends and knew these girls cannot really do anything to him. Before Phillip could say anything, Iris spoke with her voice laced with venom, "Stay away from Ash."

"What are you talking about?'' Phillip asked, voice laced with sass.

"You heard her, kid." Iris spoke up. Phillip looked ticked off at someone younger than him calling him a kid. "Stay away from Ash. He belongs to us. Understood?"

"What are you even implying?" Phillip glared at them.

"Don't even try to deny it!" Serena said, as her Sylveon tightened her ribbons at her nod. Phillip did not even seem fazed by it, or if he did, he did not show it. "We overheard your conversation from earlier and also your attempt at asking him out. We will not let you take him, so stay away from him, if you know what's good for you."

Dawn had Ambipom use Swift which hit the area next to his crotch, causing Phillip to glare at them even more.

"Are you girls stupid?" Phillip laughed at them, causing them to glare even more. "First of all, I'm not even interested in Ash like that at all. Secondly, I wasn't even going to ask him out."

"Don't lie to us!" Misty screamed. "We heard how you had been 'having fun' with Ash! Confess! What kind of disgusting and perverted things did you do to our innocent and adorable boy?"

"If you must know, I invented a game to make study sessions fun." Phillip rolled his eyes.

"...What?" all five girls asked in unison.

"I said a game to help us to study in a fun way, are you deaf?" Phillip repeated. "We would be quizzed based on various subjects and gain or lose points depending if we answer it correctly or not. Whoever gets the most points by the time the designated time is up wins."

"Then...what were you going to ask him?" Dawn asked, unsure if she could believe Phillip.

"Oh Arceus! Are you guys nosy or what?" Phillip rolled his eyes. "Whatever I was about to ask him, it is none of your business!"

"Why you little…" Misty was about to punch him, only for all five girls and their Pokémon to be electrocuted by some unseen force. Sylveon's ribbons also loosened, allowing Phillip to be free. He smirked as he looked at the slightly charred girls.

"Don't worry, Ash would be fine with us. At least I have this tidbit that you girls are all in love with Ash." With that, he chuckled and walked off. He knew he could use this to blackmail them if they wanted him to never reveal their secret feelings to Ash.

"At least Phillip isn't a contender." Iris groaned, rubbing her behind where Phillip aimed his electric attacks at.

May nodded. "Indeed. But it still leaves us with a few problems. We still don't know if Ash is gay or not."

"I guess we'll just have to ask him directly." Dawn mentioned, and the other two girls nodded. The five girls found Ash sitting on the bench, presumably waiting for Phillip. However, this time he was not alone.

Sitting next to him was a long black-haired, amethyst-eyed girl with the standard Main Course female uniform, which consisted of a white blouse with a black jacket that had white linings at the wrist area, outer area of the collar that ran down to the bottom of her jacket and the top of the pockets. Her jacket also had the school crest that is emblazoned on the left side of her chest. Her skirt was black with red lines that are drawn in lines that makes the skirt look like it was patterned with black squares that had red linings and the same pattern was seen on the ribbon around her neck area.

Ash looked up at his friends when they approached. "Hi guys. Did something happen with Phillip? Where did he go?"

"'Oh, nothing." Serena lied, plastering a smile on her face. "He went to his dorm to get something." Her face turned serious as she spoke again, "Ash, we need to talk with you."

Ash grew concerned. "About what? Is something wrong?"

The girls shot a look at the girl next to Ash, who shrugged and said, "See you later, Ash." With that, she got up which intimidated the other girls, for she had to be at least six feet tall. She walked off, presumably to somewhere else. The five girls looked around to make sure no one is around and they stood in front of him and looked at him with serious looks on their faces. Ash was starting to get nervous. He felt like he was in an interrogation for a crime.

"Ash, we need to know something very important." Misty said, emphasising on the word very.

"What is it?" Ash asked, looking at each of them apprehensively.

"Which way do you swing?" Iris asked.

"What?" Ash asked, complete confusion in his voice.

"Which way do you swing?" Iris repeated.

Ash didn't understand the question at all. "Do you mean how I swing a baseball bat?"

"No, Ash." Dawn shook her head. "What Iris meant was, what kind of company do you prefer?"

"Could you be a little more specific?" Ash asked, clearly not understanding what they meant. Understanding dawned on Pikachu, but he did not like where they are going with this.

"Do you prefer the company of guys or girls?" May asked.

"Er…both." Ash replied causing the five girls to look at him in surprise and joy. While Ash being bisexual was not exactly what they wanted, it was still better than him being gay, as at least in this scenario, they had a chance.

"Although I might prefer the company of girls because I like your company the most!" Ash said with a smile. If the girls were not overjoyed before, they are certainly over the moon now. Ash had just admitted that not only did he prefer girls, but he enjoyed being accompanied by them the most. Who wouldn't want to hear their love of their lives say that?

However, Ash's next words ended their little moment of happiness, "On the other hand, Brock, Cilan, Clemont and Max were great people to travel with too…"

The five girls exchanged glances, confused by Ash's words. Iris turned back to Ash. "Erm, Ash, what exactly did you mean when you said you preferred our company?''

Ash gave Iris a look that matched her expression. ''Well, you asked if I preferred the company of boys or girls, right? The thing is that while I like to hang out with you girls the most, I still miss the company of my other travelling companions."

The five girls groaned. Ash had misunderstood their question again.

''That's not what we meant, Ash. Hang on a second,'' Misty said and dug into her bag, knowing she had two books that was based on gender sexuality with descriptions on being straight or gay/lesbian she had received from Brock.

"Here's the thing, Ash. Which one do you prefer?" Misty asked as she found the books and opened them up and held it up for Ash to read.

Unfortunately, as she did not check the books beforehand, she ended up showing Ash two pictures, with one having a picture of a man and a woman being intimate with each other, while the other one had a similar picture between two men. In other words, what Misty showed Ash was something they called a porn magazine.

Ash immediately turned red and before he could say anything, a voice said, "What the hell are you doing, showing filth like this in public?"

They turned to see the girl from earlier stalk over to them.

"I'm just letting Ash read this to let him understand sexuality." Misty explained.

"Did you actually read it?" The girl asked, her face expressionless as she took the books from Misty with telekinesis and turning it to let the girls view the pictures Misty was showing Ash.

The girls' faces turned red as Dawn shouted, "MISTY WATERFLOWER! WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU SHOWING TO POOR, INNOCENT ASH?"

If the porn magazine didn't attract the attention of a crowd, Dawn's shout certainly did.

"I'd be careful of what you say if I were you." The girl raised an eyebrow, as they did not notice a crowd gather around them. But she did.

"You little...I really should skin you alive for this!'' May growled at Misty before taking another look at the book with the man and woman. "Actually, this is pretty hot. Could you lend this to me sometime?"

The girl facepalmed, as the crowd whispered what kind of books are these new students reading and how the girls were being perverts. The girls turned beet red upon realizing a crowd was watching.

"What is going on here?" A voice said. The crowd parted to reveal a man with a large and muscular build, dwarfing even the six-foot-tall girl that appeared before them. He had white hair and a full beard with russet brown eyes. He was wearing a black suit, white dress shirt with a matching tie and leather shoes. In other words, he had the look of a rich businessman in his older years.

Ash groaned. First day of school and it looks like he's already in trouble with the principal.

"Nice going, doofus." Dawn glared at Misty. All five girls were sitting in detention for showing porn to another student, although it belonged to Misty. All of them were currently writing the lines, "I must not show porn in public, or at least must be discreet about it." a thousand times.

Ash and the other girl, whose name was later revealed to be Pakura, served another detention as they were students of the Main Course, but had lighter punishments due to the circumstances they were in.

Ash expressed his unhappiness at being punished as well, but accepted it when the principal sternly told him he should have told them no instead of just trembling at his seat.

While the detention teacher was out, Misty was dialling the number of Brock's home, hoping to reach Brock. Her friend had some serious explanation to do for what had happened that got her in detention.

Forrest eventually picked up, which Misty told her to get Brock. When Brock greeted her with a "Hello?" over the phone, Misty started to demand an explanation.

"Brock, what the hell were you thinking!?" Misty asked her friend and fellow gym leader angrily. "Why did you give me pornographic magazines?"

"Well, you asked me get material to understand more about sexuality, right?" Brock began to explain. "When I got to the bookstore, all of the books left pertaining to that were novels with words on them, no magazine articles on it. Since I still want to get them for you, I thought the best way to do it was to get pictures of them. That way you would still learn about the difference in sexuality! Furthermore, you get some sex education as well. A pretty neat move if you ask me. Right?"

"Neat isn't exactly the word that comes to my mind!" Misty yelled angrily. "Not only did I get assigned a lot of detention for having porn on my person, I probably traumatized poor Ash!"

"What are you talking about, Misty?" Brock asked. "What do you mean, detention and Ash?"

Before Misty could say another word, a voice roared, "MISS WATERFLOWER!", causing Misty's body to freeze up and her eyes to go wide. She slowly looked behind her and saw the detention teacher standing there, looking angrier than anyone had ever seen her. "What do you think you're doing?"

"Oooooh! She's mad." May said in awe at the teacher.

The teacher immediately pounced on Misty, before saying into the phone, "Miss Waterflower can't speak to you right now because she is going to write a thousand-word essay as to why it is rude to talk in communication devices during detention." and hung up. She then tossed the Pokégear into the drawer, telling her she can have it back once she turned in both the lines and the essay.

"Wonder how Ash is doing in his detention…" Iris mused.

"I suppose he has it worse, since it is the Main Course. He may have gotten less detention, but it may be more intense." Dawn sighed.

''I'm sorry, Ash. Could you repeat that?'' Pakura said to Ash in the detention classroom, as both of them were enjoying decadent plates of sushi with their classmates. In fact, an expensive sushi spread has been laid out on an elegant tablecloth and some of their classmates were gathered around, eating inari and spicy tuna rolls.

"Is this detention?" Ash was incredulous, looking at his new classmates who had joined them once they saw what was going on in their classroom. Somehow, one had even brought alcoholic drinks to detention as a broad-shouldered boy with tawny eyes and blonde hair started singing some song about sailors. Even the student in charge of detention, a girl with blonde-brown hair tied in a ponytail and frosty cornflower eyes did not do anything to stop them. In fact, she was playing a game of poker with four others.

"Sure it is!" A girl who had her pink hair put into a curled ponytail and swept leftward with a white bow holding it up with azure eyes replied. She was wearing the typical girls' school uniform of the Main Course. To add, she was the principal's niece. "Uncle Archie's rationale is that we work too hard so it's a time to have fun! Wasn't it nice of him to order sushi for us?"

"So, Ash, continuing the girls' questions, are you straight or gay?" A boy with amber eyes and black hair with fringe swept to one side asked, as he leaned back on his chair and smirked.

"If you must know Jude, I prefer girls." Ash sighed.

"To say that the girls would be happy to hear that would be an understatement." Jude snickered.

"Yeah, we could combine every birthday and holiday that they had celebrated in their lives, it wouldn't even come near the joy they would feel if they hear that." A boy with black hair and a violet left eye and a right platinate blue eye pointed out.

"Well, there are a lot of great gals here, Ash!" A girl with short platinum blonde bob hair and maroon eyes said with a grin, leaning very closely towards him. "We know that you'll find someone here! And that someone might be closer than you think."

"Thanks, Lily…" Ash looked awkwardly at the extremely pretty girl, who did not seem to a sense of personal space, unnerved at the girl's declaration.

"I feel your pain." Phillip replied, as Lily pouted at him, and decided to pounce on his back instead.

"Hey! Get off my back, you're heavy!" Phillip yelped.

"Are you saying I'm fat, Phillip?" Lily tightened her legs against Phillip's waist.

Ash shook his head, but was interrupted with a "Yes, I found him!" from a boy with black hair and purple eyes just like Pakura, though his eyes were a shade lighter than hers.

"Alright, Shiki!" A beautiful blonde-haired girl with wide innocent blue eyes and curvaceous figure exclaimed. It was clear she was cheering for Shiki.

"Why is he so hard to find?" His opponent, a boy with black curly hair and hazelnut eyes grumbled.

"That's because if he was easy to find, the books would be called 'There's Waldo!'" Shiki retorted. Ash can't help but laugh at that remark.

"Don't be so stiff, Ash." The heterochromatic boy interrupted. "There's the Celestial Ball coming up. You should ask someone, find a date. Better ask soon, otherwise all the good ones are gone.

"I got an idea! Let's play Truth or Dare!" Sara suggested.

"Who'll even want to go with me?" Ash wondered, as he followed Stratos who dragged him to the circle where everyone sat waiting.

"Ash's going with me!" Misty shouted, as she scribbled her lines and wrote the essay.

"No, me!" May retorted.

"Who do you think you are, he's going with me!" Dawn clenched her fists.

"Oh no, you don't, he'll go as my date!" Iris joined in.

"None of you girls are good enough, Ash will accompany me!" Serena huffed, feeling she needed this chance more than the others as she missed having Ash as a date when Monsieur Pierre invited all Pokémon Performers to his dance party, in the condition that they had a date thanks to her shy Eevee. She hated to say this, but she still held a little grudge against her Eevee for that.

The detention teacher groaned as the girls started bickering again, even though she had told them to settle down for the 120th time within three hours. This was going to be a long detention indeed.

The additional lines given by the teacher stopped working some time ago because they would finish their lines quickly from the adrenaline from their argument. Currently, the teacher was only praying that the girls would stop bickering soon or that detention end time would come sooner.

Of course, she could let them out of detention early, but she had promised the principal that she would hold out until the end when she volunteered for the job. Now she was regretting her decision and was seriously considering to retire as a teacher of the school. The teacher inwardly pitied whoever this Ash boy was.

"Truth or Dare, Pakura?" Phillip asked.

"Dare." Pakura folded her arms.

"I dare you to call Nevryn, confess your love to him, and ask him out on a date." Phillip said. Ash vaguely remembered that name being the most popular boy in school.

"I hate you." Pakura glared at Phillip, as she took out her cell phone. "He's out of my league!" She sighed as she dialled the number, with Nevryn answering on the very first ring.

Pakura realized something, and grinned. With that, she said something in Japanese and hung up.

"What was that? You were supposed to wait for his answer." Phillip glared at her.

"You said to ask him. You didn't say I had to wait for his answer or say it in English." Pakura shrugged.

Pakura spun the bottle and it landed on Ash.

"Dare." Ash said before Pakura could even ask the question.

Pakura really didn't know anything for Ash to do, when Sara leaned over and whispered in her ear. Pakura grinned evilly.

"I dare you to call up Cynthia and ask her to the Celestial Ball!" Pakura grinned. "You must wait for an answer and ask it in English."

"I don't even have her number." Ash protested.

"I do." Sara said, giving him Cynthia's home number.

"Do I even want to know how you got it?" Phillip asked.

"Uncle Ark!" Sara said happily. "When you're the principal of this school and owns many businesses around the world, you can get anyone's number you want."

Ash grumbled and dialled, praying to whatever Legendaries that liked him that Cynthia was out. However, the Legendaries must be laughing at him right now, as Cynthia herself picked up.

"Hello?" Cynthia said.

"Hi Cynthia…" Ash groaned, glaring at some of his sniggering classmates.

"Hi, Ash! It's been a while. Do you need something?" Cynthia asked.

"DoyouwanttogototheCelestialBallwithme?" Ash said in a rapid tone.

"Sorry, could you repeat that?" Cynthia said. Pakura mouthed for him to repeat himself.

"You see, my school has an upcoming Celestial Ball. I was wondering if you'd go with me." Ash said through gritted teeth, glaring at Pakura.

He expected Cynthia to say no, but she said "Why not? I could use a break. When and where is the Celestial Ball?"

Ash groaned as he gave the details to Cynthia, before hanging up.

"See? Problem solved! You got a date, and it ends on a happy note for all of us!" Stratos said happily.

"Ugh…" Ash isn't taking the fact that he was taking Cynthia very well. After all, she was older than him and it was part of a dare. He wondered what she'd say if she found out.

"Well, let's clean up and we can go back." Sara announced. Just as they agreed and were about to, Pakura's cell phone rang. Pakura checked the name, only to groan when she realized it was Nevryn.

Ash grinned and grabbed the phone and answered, putting it in speaker mode. Time for a bit of payback. "Oh hi, Nevryn. I'm so sorry, Pakura said she loves you and she want to go on a date with you."

"No, I do not!" Pakura tried to grab the phone, but Ash ducked and held the phone out of reach.

"I accept!" Nevryn said. "Then, I'll take you to the Celestial Ball too."

"ASH!" Pakura snatched the phone and hung up. "I'm going to kill you!"

"Tit-for-tat, Pakura." Ash was a little frightened, but ran outright when Pakura started to run towards him, a sword in her hand.

Meanwhile, the detention teacher in charge of the girls' detention could swear she heard a male scream, but dismissed it as a hallucination as she had been hearing the girls scream at one another for a good several hours in detention.

'I should just get some good night's sleep.' The teacher thought.

BP: (Read here, it's important)

I finished this chapter quickly because I am still bummed at Ben losing to Green Lantern and the hosts giving half assed reasons as to why Green Lantern won because they left out things about Ben that they failed to take into account when animating the Death Battle.

Based on the comments, many people share the same sentiment. What do you mean none of Ben's OVER ONE MILLION aliens stand a chance against Hal Jordan but Alien X? What about the Omnitrix's fail safe ability to prevent Ben's arm from being cut off?

Also, when I watched the Q & A, I feel it is unfair for them to combine all of Green Lantern feats from differing timelines and universes into one while taking the Ben from one timeline and universe only.

I feel Omnitrix would have sensed it before Hal cut it off, negating reaction speed in this case. I hate the way they downplayed Ben, as to me it's a blatant favouritism of DC at this point (with DC winning 7 times in a row), and the Q & A just confirms it in my opinion. I really want a rematch or at least an alternate ending.

Moving on…

Ok, there isn't really a decided pairing and well, since this is a fun fic, I figured the funny part should be the fact that the girls keep arguing who should go with Ash, only to be deprived of it.

Pakura going with this boy called Nevryn is only a tentative thing, and I may or may not keep them as a pairing, likewise for Ash and Cynthia. I feel Ash should explore more "options" before he settles on one or more. Heehee. Who knows, I could even put in RoyalShipping, because I have not decided who should win the war.

The reason why it was Iris who dreamed Steven instead of Serena is because I figured she'd have a funnier reaction, knowing her hot-headedness and "childish" outbursts. Also, I chose Steven because he is just the dreamboat in universe. Also, when Ash said he preferred girls it doesn't mean he is outright straight in this story. It just meant that he would lean towards girls if he was dating. So for all we know, he could be bisexual. It depends on what my readers want, I suppose.

I'll try to show more of Ash's classmates, as N. Aepic Fael and I have developed them a lot in our "concept notes" and we would like to use them if we could.

If you have any suggestions for this story for me to make it even funnier, I'll welcome them in forms of reviews or PMs. This is just a story I write for fun, and of course there would be some OOC in it due to the humor I want to portray. It's a therapy writing to help with my writer's block. I didn't update this often because I was busy, not because of writer's block.

I am so sorry for lack of updates lately, but I promise as soon as my exams finish, I will try to update my other Pokémon stories you guys were waiting for, such as the PAL Chronicles or the Dark Chronicles. In fact, I already have started on the chapters for both of these stories, just that I haven't finished them. I have decided to finish PAL Chronicles within two more chapters and then I can work on Heartsong Symphony or PAL Academy.

If you can, do check out my latest story, Pokéronpa- Killing Graduation Trip.

I was hoping for more views and favourites for that story since I really enjoyed writing that first chapter and the reason why I did not put it as a crossover is because it is technically in the Pokémon world, just that I took on the story in a Danganronpa "gameplay" format.

As mentioned, while I will plan how the murders are carried out, YOU get to choose who lives or dies in the story, allowing you to participate more in my stories. Here's how it works:

At the start of each chapter, I would put up a poll to let you decide who gets to live past one Chapter, which would last in parts. I will check the polls every day and whoever has the least votes by the time I post the part where the victim is discovered would be the Victim of the Chapter, and whoever has the SECOND least votes would be the murderer. My story plot depends on this because the votes would allow me to decide the murder sequence from there and the execution planned for the killer.

However, I will not update until I get a clear number of votes for each of the students since I need the poll to see who would be taken out next, and so far, I have zero votes for 9 of the students. Hence, do choose wisely. In Pokéronpa- Killing Graduation Trip, I will emphasize that ANYONE can die, even Ash or Pakura if their votes turn out to be the least number of votes, because their fates are up to you!

Do review, Favourite and Follow!