Disclaimer: My name's certainly not affiliated with Pokémon –not unless I want to be sued .
Story: "…Or that's what they want to name the season," his secretary said. Or in which Giovanni is forced onto a dating reality show for PR reasons, and ends up with Ash on his season.
Set after Kalos~
Spoilers: I don't think so.
Warnings: Genderbending, perverts, raunchy humor, weird humor, craziness, etc…
Pairings: Giovanni/Ash: ShatterShipping.

The Bachelor: Italia Amore!
Chapter Fourteen: Play Nice With the Mice

She'd been prodded into telling everyone the whole gist of her journey through the regions…which meant almost everything was pried out of her. Her whole 'it's a long story' excuse wouldn't fly by anyone, and they all insisted that there was more than enough time for her to recount it.

Honestly, by the end of it, she and everyone else didn't know how she managed to fit everything. It really was a long and very weighty story. A lot of stuff happened after all.

"I'm exhausted from all this," Lisa practically dropped to the floor of the submarine.

"I'm tired just from hearing all that," Zachary let out a huge sigh.

"Are we going to be seeing these three idiot Rocket members you always see?" Harley asked hesitantly.

"Arceus, I hope not," Ash face palmed. She'd kill Giovanni if that happened.

"You didn't tell us everything, did you?" Wesley raised an eyebrow at her.

"Nope," she said unrepentantly. "Just about the Teams. Seriously, if I told you guys everything, we'd probably be here for hours. And some of it is just out of the world crazy kind of thing."

"This would make for a good movie," Roger mused aloud and Ash stared at him in horror.

"No…just no."

"I don't know," Rue started, smiling in amusement. "It actually does sound like a good movie or television show."

Ash was saved from answering to that, minus a twitching glare, by the fact they'd reached land and were now in the middle of 'parking' the submarine. Once they got out, Ash was suddenly ambushed.

A huge bouquet of roses were shoved into her face, which she irritably pushed aside to find a dramatically kneeling Maxie.

"My beloved darling! I hope you are well after having been in close quarters with that brute," Maxie beamed at her.

Ash stared at him blandly.

"In any case," he stood up sheepishly, shoving his glasses further onto his nose. "I am pleased to see you well and…unmarried," his smile became strained for a moment.

"Thank you, Maxie. I appreciate you helping everyone and getting your Team to fight Team Aqua, and stopped my unfortunate and untimely marriage to Archie," Ash forced out, giving him a fixed smile. "Now, we're leaving."

"What? You can't leave just yet," Maxie said in distress. "Why don't you stay for a bit –"

"PIIIIIKAAACHUUUU!"

Maxie was instantly fried and twitching on the floor, with Pikachu appearing and standing atop his body triumphantly.

"Pika!" he threw up a v-sign along with a playful grin.

"So, uh, I got Ash's Pikachu," Topher said hesitantly. "But uh, what did I miss and what's going on?"

Ash ignored him, while Roger and Lisa pulled him aside to catch him up and tell him why Lisa had called him to go to Pallet urgently and retrieve said Pikachu. Instead, she looked at her Pikachu in exasperation.

"Why're you dress like a Yakuza?"

Pikachu laughed nervously. "Pika pika?"

Ash sighed and took off the sheathed, short blades by his sides. She held them up and shook her head.

"No sharp blades in public for attacking. That's why you have Iron Tail and Thunderbolt for. These are for cosplay and home use," she told him firmly.

"I'd like to know why she even got her Pikachu short swords," Zachary muttered, watching the pair.

"Can we please head back to the hotel?" Ash asked, ready to just collapse onto a bed.

"Yes, please," the other women echoed her.

"Agreed," Wesley said, feeling exhausted too.

Thankfully, the group began the slow march back, leaving behind Maxie still on the floor.

Giovanni came back to the hotel, feeling like he was about to just yank his hair out. Though his face was normal and he continued to smile charmingly at Georgina, the whole day had been trying.

She wasn't the easiest woman of the group for him to be around.

An exhaustion seemed to seep into him, and he was close to practically just pushing her away and just storming up the rest of the way to his room.

But to his concern and shock, he found that everyone seemed to have grouped up in the main lobby, looking like they were tired out as hell and were all just sprawled on the floor and the couches. He was especially worried when he found Ash, having already passed out on an armchair and laying on it sideways.

"I just want to sleep it off," Harley complained.

"Me too," Lisa seconded grumpily.

"What on earth happened?" he asked, letting go of Georgina (thank Arceus) and striding forward.

Immediately, everyone's (except Ash) attention went to him and the ladies sat up, trying to look normal and smiling nervously at him. The producers were just staring at him in shock (and horror?).

"Ha…ha…haha," Zachary started out, the stilted laughter making Giovanni even more nervous. "N-never mind that. Let's just get to bed and go to sleep. It's a new day tomorrow! Time to rest up!"

Zachary stood up quickly and was the first to practically run out of there. To his consternation and further worry, everyone else followed suit. Before he could reach Ash, Wesley got to her first, picking her up and looking at Giovanni with a nervous smile.

"I'll, um, take her to the rooms and set her in bed. Goodnight, Giovanni. See you tomorrow!"

Giovanni was left feeling as if something had happened that he wasn't privy to, and it wasn't making him happy at all. He will get to the bottom of this…

He scowled heavily and stormed up to his room like he'd wanted to earlier.

And when the morning came, he wasn't feeling any better, especially with the crew being all jittery around him. His own Rockets were confused and he wondered if it had been a good idea for him to have allowed most of them to report back to the Rocket base nearby. He would have been able to find out what had happened had he kept them in the hotel, with a select few trailing after him, if his Team had been present and not trying to keep on the down low. The ones that had been present at the hotel wouldn't keep eye contact with him, which made ire rise more.

"What is going on?" he forcibly stopped the four main producers, staring coldly down at them.

Roger gaped while Lisa and Zachary shivered and backed away from him. Wesley uncomfortably shifted in place.

"We'll talk about it later," Wesley hesitantly said. "We've got the group date coming up and you need to be focused on that. Afterwards….afterwards, we'll catch you up."

Giovanni continued to give them a hard stare for a few more moments, before he was reluctantly conceding.

"After," he said firmly. "…Or else," the look on his face darkened.

The producers tried to subtly continue moving away.

As he traveled with the ladies on the group date, there was an undertone of anxiousness. He watched them all chatting amiably and yet he still couldn't shake off the feeling that they had been involved in whatever had happened. His eyes continually drifted to Ash, who caught him once, and had given him a small smile that didn't seem as bright and happy as her usual smiles.

He wasn't all too keen on waiting after the group date to find out what happened.

Eventually, he managed to get through the group date to afterwards, where he was spending time with all the ladies and talking to them. In all honesty, he just wanted to find Ash and talk to her, and see if she knew anything about what happened to make them all subdued and anxious. If she didn't, well at least he was spending time with her and talking to her.

Janelle currently was by his side and he listened with half an ear, watching her face and making sure he looked like he was at least listening to her.

"Janelle," he started, getting an idea. "I'm a little worried about everyone today." Mostly true since he was, though his worry also tended to gravitate towards Ash, along with him just being uneasy at how everyone was acting and him not knowing what was going on. "I'm not sure what happened or why."

Janelle let out a sigh, leaning onto him and holding onto his arm.

"You wouldn't believe the day we had yesterday. It all started after you left with Georgina…"

And then he was listening to the events with mounting fury and worry.

As soon as he managed to shake her off, he went around looking for Ash. To his luck, she was alone in a corridor and walking in a direction away from the group.

"Ash!"

Turning to him, she blinked in shock as she stopped short. He ignored that as he grabbed her shoulders and looked her over with a critical eye.

"Giovanni?" she asked in confusion.

"Are you okay?" he asked demandingly, feeling increasingly agitated. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

"N-no! Why are you asking?" she asked in alarm.

He looked her over one last time, before scowling and continuing past her. He whipped out his communicator and spoke into it angrily.

"All available units, report to my location," he hissed.

"G-Giovanni?!"

He stormed into the production room, where the producers and most of the crew were.

"Cameras off!" he shouted. "NOW!"

If Wesley had ever been afraid of a person, it would be right now as a furious Giovanni Rocketto burst into the production room.

"Anyone going to tell me that Team Aqua and Team Magma interjected themselves into our business yesterday?" he roared at them, glaring dangerously at the room at large.

"W-we ended up handling it," Roger tried to explain. It seemed to be the wrong thing to say as Giovanni's glare turned to him.

"Handled? It shouldn't have needed to be handled!" Giovanni snarled.

He took out some sort of communication device.

"Five units out in the open," he growled into it.

To Wesley's consternation and horror, five groups of Team Rocket agents appeared suddenly in the room, surrounding everyone. Worse, a few of the production crew (cameramen, assistants, etc.) revealed themselves as part of the Team.

Oh dear God, those rumors of Giovanni being the boss of Team Rocket were true.

"This is what's going to happen," Giovanni furiously continued. "My Team and I will take over. They will make sure no more 'mishaps' happens. There will be no more of this 'Teams are invading the show' business. I will –"

The doors burst open and Ash rushed inside, and Wesley wanted to warn her, tell her to-to-to back off and run away –

Only she didn't do that. Instead, she took off her shoe and launched it at Giovanni's back.

"Stop tormenting them, you-you brute!" Ash shouted at him.

Everyone stared at her in shock and terror, while Giovanni blinked and stared at her blankly.

"If they'd been doing their jobs, you wouldn't have been taken away yesterday," Giovanni spat out.

"Look, it's not their fault," Ash said pleadingly. "They don't know how much of a trouble-magnet I am. Heck, you only managed to find that out recently!"

"I had an idea," Giovanni grumbled. Still, he glared around the room. "My Team is still taking over and commandeering what needs to be done, in order for things to be going smoothly. I expect full cooperation," he added with a warning tone.

"Fine, fine!" Ash strode over, laying her hands on his arm. "Just –just calm down. Okay? Okay. You don't need to terrorize everyone."

"Did you two know each other before the show?" Lisa asked and Wesley felt a ping of disappointment, because that sort of compromised the whole premise and the two of them forming a relationship from being on here.

"Yeah? Sort of?"

"Does it count if it was just one time, face to face and briefly? I mean I knew of her because she tends to interfere with my Team a lot…"

"I don't really think that counts. Or that meeting in Unova –you were trying to kill me."

"No, no –you were interfering again and I threatened to kill you if you didn't stop. I wasn't actually trying to kill you."

"Same thing! Plus, you were a total asshole to Meloetta! And what was that with trying to take over Unova and use Legendaries and stupid mysterious –and probably dangerous! –artifacts in weird rituals? The taking over the world and using Legendaries thing is everyone's schtick. You usually scheme for profit and get away with everything! That's why everyone else is stupid and get caught."

"That's…a backhand compliment, if I ever heard one. And mind you, I almost succeeded in that plot, if it hadn't been for you interfering. And Team Rocket's ultimate goal is to take over the world. We just usually avoid the whole overblown Legendaries plot and all."

"Exactly! That's why you lost and almost got caught in Unova, idiot. And almost gotten yourself killed and possessed!"

"You know, I don't think I ever thanked you for saving me for then."

"You're welcome –"

"I honestly just need time to process this," Zachary interrupted, holding his head.

Wesley agreed.

Giovanni and Ash coughed and looked at each other before looking to everyone.

"So…technically this is the first time we actually 'met', being on this show," Ash said sheepishly.

"I formally introduced myself here, as did you, finally. And this is the longest we've ever been in each other's presence," Giovanni loftily continued.

"Civilly at that," Ash mused. "We're not at each other's throats, trying to save –" "Take over," Giovanni interjected with a smirk. "Trying to save the world," Ash finished what she was saying without a blink to Giovanni.

"Pika!" Pikachu appeared, seeming to agree.

"When did he get here?" Giovanni asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Yesterday, after the whole fiasco," Ash waved him off. "Pikachu, meet Giovanni. Giovanni, this is Pikachu."

"Pleased to meet you," Giovanni eyed the cute thing, remembering the odd statements from Jessie, James, and Meowth about how the cuter the Pikachu appeared the more dangerous it became.

"Cha~" it smiled adorably at him.

Giovanni watched it closely, noting its tail showed it was a male, and nodded to himself.

"He's going to be Head of Security," he declared. "You'll be working closely with my Team," he told Pikachu.

"Pika pika!" he cheered, a glint in his eyes that showed Giovanni he made the right choice.

"Wait! You can't do that," Ash protested.

"Don't worry about it," he told her. He looked back at Pikachu. "Go with Archer. He'll get you set up."

The light blue-haired Executive appeared quickly, letting Pikachu climb up onto his shoulder before turning to Giovanni and giving him an acknowledging nod. Then he left with Pikachu.

"Team, you know what to do," he addressed his agents shortly, giving them a sharp look. He turned to Ash, giving her a soft look. "Let's head back. We still have the rest of the night to film and I have to give a group rose out."

He held out his arm and she hesitated before taking it with a light blush. He swept them out of the room and then it was just the rest of the production crew left, with a few straggling Rocket agents around to keep watch and work there.

"They belong together," Roger shook his head. "Seriously. Not including their obvious attachment and development in this show, the fact that they can practically try to kill each other and still end up like this…"

"It's a match made in purgatory," Wesley pinched the bridge of his nose.

Started 10/4/17 – Completed 10/7/17

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