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Chapter 16: Setsuna's past

Sir Aaron frowned; he had never expected something like this to happen at all and especially as he had just started as an Aura Guardian, no less. "I don't believe it, Setsuna…" he said to himself, still left completely shocked at what the woman whom he had befriended with had suddenly gone this path. "How could this have happened?"

'Sir Aaron!'

The newly appointed Aura Guardian turned towards faithful companion Lucario had come to check up on him, all while having a look of concern on his face. 'Is something that matter?' Lucario asked as he approached Sir Aaron, noticing his friend was not happy ever since becoming an Aura Guardian.

"It's nothing…." Sir Aaron replied, although he was certain that his companion would attempt to use Aura to find out that he's lying, so it would be best for him to come clean. "I was just thinking about Setsuna that's all."

'Oh? Is that right?' asked Lucario as he looked at his partner, having a feeling it would be concerning her given how they've known one another for quite some time before Sir Aaron began his training in becoming an Aura Guardian. 'If I didn't know any better, I'd say you were actually developing feelings for her.'

"What no, that's not true at all Lucario," began a flustered Sir Aaron, who was dumbfounded at the fact the Fighting/Steel-type would even jump to this conclusion. "Why would you even think that?"

'You often talk about her whenever you were going through with your training,' Lucario replied as he crossed his arms, looking Sir Aaron in the eye before continuing. 'Not to mention that sometimes it causes you to actually get distracted when you're actually supposed to be training to be an Aura Guardian from what I've heard.'

There was nothing but silence coming from the new Aura Guardian, especially as he was blushing like mad and decided it'd be better if they decided to change the subject right now before Lucario continued getting the wrong idea. "I've heard that something bad has happened," he said as he wanted to tell the Aura Pokémon about the news he learned not too long ago when talking to Queen Rin. "It turns out that Setsuna is the cause of it."

'Huh?' Lucario was completely dumbfounded by what Sir Aaron was telling him. 'What do you mean?'

"It pains me to say this, but sadly from what I found out Lucario. There were recent sightings of what appear to be hybrids between Pokémon and normal Human beings," said Sir Aaron, as he now wished that it wasn't all true. Especially given how a part of him had got torn away when learning who the culprit behind this was worried, Sir Aaron. "Some have said that Setsuna was sighted nearby, wearing what appears to be some kind of amulet."

Lucario didn't like this, wondering why she was doing this, but he looked at his friend. 'So, what should we do then?' Lucario asked as Sir Aaron was soon in deep thought over what they should do about Setsuna.

Sir Aaron sighed as he knew that the first step was finding out why she is doing all of this and then stop her. "I have no idea Lucario," Sir Aaron said, looking at his friend as the new Aura Guardian was now deeply lost in his thoughts.

"I know that we need to stop her," Sir Aaron said, looking in the distance, as the two rushed over to where she would likely be right now, and Sir Aaron was hoping he could find out what Setsuna was doing.

It took less than an hour to reach the location, and the two could hear the screams of the people in the distance. "What is she doing to them?" Sir Aaron thought, becoming more concerned when he heard the cries of people.

"No, please stay away from me!" a female voice cried out in fear as Lucario and Sir Aaron looked at each other neither said anything to each other as the two began running to the woman that was crying out for help.

As the two arrived, the two watched as the poor woman was now finishing her transformation. The poor young woman had transformed into a Golem hybrid, her clothes on the floor. "Ahh, yes another success," the hooded woman said with a smile.

"I feel good," the young woman said with a smile as she then looked at Setsuna. "Who are you?"

Setsuna smiled and rubbed the Golem girl's head. "I am your creator, my dear."

The Golem hybrid had a confused look on her face, while Setsuna smile and was getting ready to leave when she heard a voice calling out to her.

"Hold it right there!"

The hooded woman turned around and noticed that she was getting confronted by Sir Aaron and his Lucario, both of whom were determined to stop her from turning anyone else into hybrids. "Well, well, what do we have here?" she asked, rather intrigued to see that an Aura Guardian had managed to find her just when things were starting to get interesting.

"Setsuna, you need to stop this right now!" Sir Aaron quickly spoke to the woman whom he was developing feelings for, causing the young woman to be left shocked upon hearing the voice of the newly appointed Aura Guardian.

"N-no… it can't be…" she muttered in absolute disbelief, recognizing the voice of the newly appointed Aura Guardian that was standing right before her. "Aaron?"

Sir Aaron nodded his head slowly, taking off his hat to show that it was indeed him. "Yes, Setsuna it's me and it's Sir Aaron now…" he replied, hoping that he would be able to talk some sense into her without needing to have to take her down despite his duty to his homeland.

"Why are you here?" Setsuna asked him, revealing her face and revealing the expression that it now had the more she observed Sir Aaron, especially with what he's currently wearing and the Pokémon that stood by his side to boot. "Now that I think about it, why are you are you dressed like an Aura Guardian?"

Sir Aaron had a frown on his face and looked at Setsuna. "That's because I am one Setsuna," Sir Aaron began looking at the woman and the poor girl next to her. "What are you doing?"

Setsuna had a smile forming on her face as she looked at her old friend. "Oh, nothing much Aaron my dear friend," Setsuna said with a smile as she looked at the new hybrid she had created.

"What are you doing, Setsuna?" Sir Aaron asked once again, but he could see the smile on Setsuna's face. Sir Aaron watched as Setsuna continued to rub the Golem hybrid woman's head, and she didn't seem to care. "Setsuna, I'm going to ask you one more time. What have you done?"

Lucario then decided to speak for her since it's clear she wouldn't answer the question. "She transformed this woman into a hybrid, most likely through forbidden magic," he said with some venom in his voice, which left Sir Aaron completely speechless. "After all, the last time we saw her, she didn't originally have that amulet in her possession."

"W-What?!" he asked of the male Fighting/Steel-type before turning his attention back towards Setsuna, who wasn't exactly pleased that Lucario managed to figure out what she had done almost immediately. "Is this true?"

"Maybe, so what if I am?"

There was nothing but silence coming from the newly appointed Aura Guardian, feeling as if a knife had just stabbed him right through the heart, and it hurt even more than it already did. "Why?" he asked in a completely devastated tone. "Why would you resort to something like this anyway?"

"Do you have any idea how much pain I've suffered ever since you left to go on your training and the fact you never told me that you were planning to become an Aura Guardian?" she asked, feeling similar betrayal the more she looked at him in the outfit he had on. "All that time, you never once sent me anything to inform me about how you're doing?"

Sir Aaron saw how upset she was becoming and lowered his head. "Listen, I'm sorry that I hadn't been responding to the letter you sent but…" he tried to speak, but she's having none of it and glared at him more than ever, which increased his growing concerns when noticing her tears.

However, Sir Aaron looked at his old friend seeing the twisted smiling forming on her face as the tears soon vanished from her face. "I also did this for another reason, too, my old friend," Setsuna said with a smile. "I also finally saw the sickness of humanity," she said with anger in her voice as both Lucario and Sir Aaron looked at her with concern.

Hearing this from Setsuna caused Lucario and Sir Aaron to look at her, seeing that this wasn't a joke. "Setsuna, please, this isn't right you need to stop this!" Sir Aaron yelled to his friend, but Lucario could see that Setsuna was still smiling.

'Sir Aaron...' Lucario began as he knew that his friend tried talking to Setsuna, but he could tell that talking to Setsuna wouldn't help. 'I don't think that talking to her is going to help,' Lucario said, seeing the pain that's on his friend's face.

Sir Aaron was still shocked to see what is happening as Setsuna smiled and moved closer. "Think about Aaron. No more wars, nobody using Pokémon for their own selfish desire," Setsuna said with a scowl on her face as she looked at the humans who failed to change. "As you can see, I failed a lot in turning the humans to become better."

Sir Aaron looked around, seeing many dead humans around her, each one of them having a horrified look on their face with their bodies only half transformed into hybrids, but it seems that it didn't work for them. Lucario and Sir Aaron could tell that Setsuna wasn't going to stop. The two could already see that she wasn't ever going to stop what she is doing.

The two knew that they would need to fight Setsuna, and for Sir Aaron, it was something that he didn't honestly want. "Setsuna please, stop this, you know that you can't fight us," Sir Aaron tried telling Setsuna, but she didn't listen.

"Sorry, my old friend, but I won't stop. I have to keep on with my mission," Setsuna said as she looked at Sir Aaron and his Lucario. "Don't worry you both shall become reborn once I'm finished."

Sir Aaron sighed as he looked at Lucario and his friend nodded as the two charged towards her, knowing what he needed to do, even if it was something he hated. "I'm sorry Setsuna," Sir Aaron began in a low voice that she couldn't hear.

Setsuna looked at her old friend, watching as both Sir Aaron and Lucario wondering what they would try and do to her. "It won't matter. I cannot stop my mission, not now, not ever," Setsuna thought, her eyes looking at the two as a smile formed on her face. "Yes, I think I know what I can do with them."

Sir Aaron could see the smile on his friend's face as he looked at Lucario. "We have only one way to stop her, my friend."

Lucario thought about it and knew what sir Aaron was planning, but they needed to act fast and have the right timing. "I agree, but we need to reach Setsuna and I think she will transform us like she did that poor woman," Lucario said as the two looked at the Golem hybrid, who is now getting to her feet.

The Golem woman had a smile on her face as she looked at the two. "It's not all that bad, you two," she said with a smile as Sir Aaron and Lucario looked at her, shocked to hear this. "I'm happy with the new life that mistress has given me."

Sir Aaron and Lucario were shocked to hear this from the poor woman, as she didn't care, and Setsuna began to laugh with joy before her eyes fell on the two. "Can see Aaron, my old friend, she's so much better now, and she enjoys her new life. So tell my Aaron why take it away from here?"

"I don't want to be a stupid human again," the Golem girl told the two as Lucario knew that dealing with Setsuna had now become harder."Please, you should join us. Mistress will make the world better, no more wars."

Sir Aaron said nothing as he closed his eyes. "I'm sorry, Setsuna, but I need to stop you," Sir Aaron said with deep sadness in his voice as he soon started running over to his old friend.

Setsuna wondered what her friend would do to her, and the young woman scoffed at what Sir Aaron was doing. "Can't you see I'm trying to improve the human race!" she yelled in anger as she jumped away from Sir Aaron.

The Golem hybrid could see that her mistress was in danger and soon decided to attack the aura guardian. "NO!" the Golem hybrid cried out in blind rage. "I will not let you harm my mistress!"

The Golem hybrid soon used the attack Rollout on Sir Aaron, followed by another attack, this time, it was Rock Blast. "Damn, they can use the attacks too," Sir Aaron said, showing a frown on his face.

Lucario quickly joined his friend as the Golem hybrid stood next to her mistress, as Setsuna had a smile on her face. "It won't hurt Aaron. Once you embrace the change, I'm sure that you will love it," Setsuna said, looking at Sir Aaron and Lucario. "Hmm, I think maybe I could even change Lucario as well, that would help us even more."

The two didn't like what Setsuna was telling them, knowing that it wasn't humans now in danger but also Pokémon. "You know that is something I can't let you do, Setsuna," Sir Aaron told her, knowing he needed to get close to her. "I'm sorry for whatever has made you like this, but this is where your madness stops."

"No, this is where things will come to an end for you!"

It was then that her eyes started glowing blood red as it's clear that she was not going down without a fight. 'Careful Sir Aaron, she looks really mad now,' informed Lucario as he watched as the amulet she had in her possession was starting to glow at the same time her eyes did.

"Yeah, tell me something that I don't know," he told his companion as they knew they were going to be having the biggest fight of their lives and more so sooner than they originally anticipated. "We have to stop her no matter what, hopefully without having to resort to drastic measures."

Lucario nodded his head. 'Although I feel that drastic measures might actually be needed against the likes of her,' he informed the newly appointed Aura Guardian, getting his attention before continuing. 'Odds are even words might not be enough to stop this.'

"What are you saying?" asked Sir Aaron as he couldn't believe what he was hearing from his most trusted companion.

'I'm saying that with how things are right now, reasoning with her is completely out of the question here,' Lucario told Sir Aaron, hoping he would understand despite having some remaining attachments to the woman who was causing trouble for everyone. 'I know it hurts hearing it from me, but it needs to be said, not just for our sake but for the entire world as well.'

"But I…"

'You may still be new to this, but having emotions clouding your judgement is not a wise decision, especially during this kind of situation,' Lucario continued, not wanting to be harsh on Sir Aaron. Still, it needed to be said before something worse happened. 'She needs to be stopped no matter what, you have to understand this.'

Soon enough, Setsuna cleared her throat to get their attention. "If you're done, why don't we proceed? Shall we?" she said before turning towards Sir Aaron, specifically with hatred in her eyes. "This is between you and me, Sir Aaron."

"Damn it," said Sir Aaron, biting his lip as he prepared himself for the worst, and without even flinching, she proceeded to charge directly at the Aura Guardian, determined not to allow her plans to be ruined no matter what.

Lucario attempted to assist Sir Aaron, but the Golem woman from earlier soon blocked his path. 'Get out of my way!' he yelled as he didn't have time to waste with the likes of her.

"I can't let you stop what my mistress wants," The Golem hybrid said as she looked at Lucario. "I will make sure you don't hurt her!"

"Damn it, she's more persistent than I thought!" thought Sir Aaron to himself, trying his best to evade the blasts that came his way, although one managed to graze his left shoulder, and he gritted his teeth upon experiencing the searing pain he was now feeling. "FUCK!"

"Don't worry, the pain won't last for long," Setsuna told Sir Aaron, knowing that the two of them will be together no matter what and, at the same time, refused to allow her experiment to come to an end so easily. "All you have to do is admit that I'm the superior of the two."

"Sorry, but I can't do that…."

"Oh, and why not?" she asked as she glared at Sir Aaron, her eyes shining red the more she gave in to her growing resentment. "Are you that hell-bent on staying fateful to a group of people, who want nothing more to separate the two of us permanently?"

Sir Aaron said nothing looking at Setsuna, still frowning at her. "I'm sorry for doing this, Setsuna, but your plans are not good for the world that we live in, and the Pokémon that live beside us as friends, but you're doing something that's crazy."

Setsuna said nothing as she sighed, her eyes looking at her former friend. "Then I will make you see," Setsuna said with a smile as she looked at Sir Aaron. "I will make you into a hybrid."

Sir Aaron continued to watch, seeing he needs to act fast and had to seal her away. "After all I can't kill her, and I'm not sure that would even more," Sir Aaron thought, as he then noticed a few more men arriving.

"There she is!" one of the male soldiers cried out as he fired a bow into Setsuna, making her growl in anger and pain. "Keep at it men we need to stop her!" he yelled as he fires another three arrows into Setsuna.

Setsuna only laughed as she looked at the soldiers who arrived and laughed at them as she turned to face them. "You think that will stop me!" she yelled with a crazed laugh before taking three more arrows in the chest. "You are nothing to me!" she yelled once again, and Sir Aaron watched as his old friend outstretched her hand to the men. "So, now you'll join me in this new life!" Setsuna yelled as many could tell her rage had taken over. "With this new world I'm making!"

"Setsuna, don't do this!"

Unfortunately, Sir Aaron's warning came too late as Setsuna used her powers to transform the men in question into hybrids, and to his horror, their genders had also changed in the process. "No, what you done to them?" he asked in absolute disbelief as he witnessed the newly transformed hybrids enjoying their new bodies.

"I've opened their eyes and showed them what they're real selves truly are," Setsuna replied with a shrug as she knew it wasn't going to be enough to convince Sir Aaron to join her, so it would be for the best that she make him understand the hard way. "And soon you're going to be exactly like them, whether you like it or not."

Her attention was now towards Lucario, who was doing all he could do against the Golem Hybrid and how it wasn't going to be easy despite him having the upper hand for the most part, which made her give an evil smile when witnessing that battle. "After all, your partner is currently being preoccupied at this moment and you being new to your role further gives me the advantage," she informed, wanting to make sure they were together.

Sir Aaron gritted his teeth, knowing that there's now only one way for him to stop her, and he didn't like the idea of it either. "I'm sorry old friend, but if it has come to this then I have no choice but to fulfil my duty as an Aura Guardian and stop you," he said solemnly.

Drawing his sword, he prepared himself to take on Setsuna once again, and she frowned. "You really think you're going to threaten me with a sword?" she asked somewhat sarcastically, given what she had already done to the men who came to assist him earlier. "Besides, you're completely outnumbered now and even you have your share of limits."

"Maybe, but that doesn't mean I won't give up without a fight!" said Sir Aaron, as he knew Setsuna was right about the odds being against him right now. However, the newly appointed Aura Guardian needed to prepare himself for anything she and her hybrids could throw at him, more so should the amulet she possessed revealed more dark hidden surprises to him. "So if you want me so badly, then come and get me!"

Setsuna laughed as she charged towards her old friend, ready to make him see this new world. "I shall show him, soon Aaron. You will become reborn as a lovely Hybrid, and then you can see the world I am making," Setsuna thought with a smile.

However, Sir Aaron closed his eyes, knowing what has to happen; if he let Setsuna do this, and then it means he failed as an aura guardian. "Sorry Setsuna," he said with a whisper as he sees her jump into the air.

"This is it, old friend!" Setsuna cried out with a smile, but she noticed too late that Sir Aaron was planning something, and she knew what he would do to her. "No don't!"

However, Sir Aaron didn't have a smile on his face, something that Setsuna could see. Lucario also watched as he soon heard Setsuna scream in pain, as Sir Aaron had stabbed Setsuna in the stomach. "I'm sorry but I need to do this, may you find peace in the next life?" he said, ready to end her and stop her madness.

Setsuna was feeling the blade in her stomach, blood soon leaking from her mouth. "No, I can't die, I need to make the new world," Setsuna thought weakly, only to scream as Sir Aaron pulled out his sword. "You can't do this to me!" she cried with rage as she throws her arms in the air, and Sir Aaron knew what she was going to do seeing the neckless around her glow.

Seeing what Setsuna was planning and knowing what she was planned he used his aura to try and stop her, but this only caused an explosion that had damaged Setsuna even more, leaving cuts all over her body. Setsuna breathed in deeply as she fell to the ground as her creations rushed to help her, seeing the pain their mistress was in, and it filled them with rage.

The Golem hybrid could see the cracks on her skin and the burn mark on her face, not only that she had lost an eye. "Hurry, we must have our mistress!" she cried out to the former males who nodded.

"No, stop," Sir Aaron said, seeing the four flying hybrids all take off into the air as Sir Aaron fell to the ground while Lucario rushed over to help his friend.

Present-day

Lucario sighed as he finished telling them all about Setsuna and Sir Aaron and the fight they had. 'Sadly, we never saw her or the ones that Setsuna changed, but seeing her now, it seems she dies from her wounds but kept her spirit here,' Lucario said with a frown.

"I see…" began Ash, becoming more worried than ever. It is especially because their encounter with her ultimately resulted in them not only Iris giving in to her new self but also Cilan, who had ultimately fallen victim to the malicious spirit. "There has to be something we can do to stop her."

'Unfortunately, as you are right now, none of you stand a chance against her,' Lucario replied sternly, remembering how reckless Ash could be at times even before becoming the hybrid she currently was right now. 'She couldn't have decided to make her move at the worst possible time too, especially not wanting to allow me the chance at training you to master Aura.'

"You can still train me, can't you?"

Lucario sighed when Ash asked him that question. 'Even if I did, it requires a lot of discipline Ash. Also patience, and focus to even learn Aura let alone master it,' Lucario told her, still frowning that she's still very determined in learning this despite her fatal flaw. It's something she also needed to overcome if this trainer was to be successful. 'Sadly, you lack all three at this moment, more so as you have mainly focused on continuing on with that dream of yours and how your reckless nature nearly doomed the whole world at one point.'

After hearing this, it made Ash sigh, knowing that he was referring to when she was possessed by the King of Pokélantis back in Kanto. "You had to bring that up…" she muttered, although somewhat surprised that Lucario even knew about it. "Still, this is an entirely different situation, especially since unless we stop Setsuna now, she might do to the rest of the Pokémon World what she did to us here only worse…."

"Ash is right!" added Tracey as he looked towards Lucario, although he was still speechless at the fact that he was talking to a dead Pokémon but now wasn't the time to dwell about it. "I mean, you have seen what she was capable of earlier, and how she's slowly regaining her powers with each passing second."

"I agree with Tracey on this. Plus from what he told me Ash once saved the world during their travels through the Orange Islands," Clemont vouched for his friend as well, knowing that the longer they waited, the chances of hell breaking loose continued to increase. However, a part of him still suspected that his younger sister had developed a crush on Max. "You should at least take that into consideration despite what you said about him almost dooming our world."

The male Fighting/Steel-type frowned again, especially when there was no talking them out of it, especially not Ash. 'I want to ask you this just once, are you certain that you will be willing to follow my exact instructions and without slacking off?' he asked Ash specifically.

"If it's to stop Setsuna and get everyone back to normal then yes, I'm certain," the Pikachu girl replied as she looked Lucario in the eye with determination on her face. "I still feel somewhat responsible for helping her in converting most of my friends into what they are so at the very least I should be able to start redeeming myself by learning Aura."

Lucario sighed as he looked at the Pikachu girl seeing the sadness on her face. 'Okay then,' Lucario said, looking at Ash, knowing she wanted to save her friends and stop Setsuna. However, Lucario knew that Setsuna might have plans right now to stop Ash and her friends.

Ash then looked at the others, thinking what Tracey Clemont and his sister should leave the forest. "Look, you need to leave this forest, you three. I mean, it's becoming too risky now for you, and I don't want to lose more friends."

Tracey and Clemont looked at the Pikachu hybrid seeing the look on her face but noticed that Mallow and Anabel had the same looks on their faces. "What, Ash please no!" Bonnie said, looking at Ash since she wanted to help save her friends. "Please, Ash, we all want to help save our friends," Bonnie said with tears in her eyes.

Mallow and Anabel looked at the three humans, the two knowing that they should leave and warn the world what's happening within this forest. "No, you shouldn't. You three need to warn the world what's happening," Anabel said as the three looked at the Espeon girl, shocked by what she told them.

Lucario sighed as he looked at the three friends that Ash wanted to keep safe. 'Ash is right, sooner or later, Setsuna's power will change you three into hybrids, and it's nothing short of a miracle that you three are all still human,' Lucario told the three remaining humans, hoping they would pick wisely and leave this place.

Anabel then turned her attention towards her Espeon, Alakazam, and Metagross. "You three need to go with Tracey, Clemont, and Bonnie so they'll be able to make it out of this forest in one piece," she told the three Psychic-Types in question, leaving them completely speechless at what their mistress was telling them.

'Are you sure?' Espeon was the one who asked the now female hybrid with concern on her face, more so fearing the possibility of her possibly falling victim to Setsuna's magic and giving in to her new form's desires to mate with others.

"I'm positive, besides it's better for you to assist Tracey's Venonat, Marill, and Scyther as even Pokémon aren't safe from this place so at least if you're with them, their chances of helping their trainer and his friends would greatly increase," Anabel said before noticing the expression that Mallow had since this might be the last time she'll be seeing the three humans in question until they either stopped Setsuna, or they fully succumbed to her power. "Is something wrong?"

"I really don't know what to make of all this, especially with the fact that there's a chance we might never return because of what she's done," informed Mallow with a look of concern on her face and especially since Mallow was worried about her friends and family from her home region. The thought of forgetting them scared her even to this day. "There are a lot of people I know back in Alola, so it scares me that sooner or later I may not remember anyone there at all, especially my late mother…."

"Wait your mother?"

Mallow nodded as she sighed, missing her mother, knowing that if she lost her mind, she could forget about her late mother. "I don't want that to happen to me," Mallow thought, making sure she didn't show her fear. "Look, let's not worry about that, we need to stop Setsuna," Mallow said as Anabel and Ash nodded their heads.

Tracey and Clemont continued to look at Ash and the others; the three still wanted to help, but they knew Ash and the others are right. "Okay, we'll go and warn others what's happening," Tracey said, looking at Ash as the Pikachu girl smiled hearing this.

Anabel smiled as she hugged her Pokémon, knowing this might be the very last time she would see them. "Please, all of you look after each other," Anabel told her Pokémon as they all nodded.

Bonnie was in tears as she looked at Ash and her friends. "I hope that you can win," Bonnie said as the Pikachu girl nodded.

Ash deeply sighed; the Pikachu girl knew that deep down, Setsuna could win, but she didn't care. "I need to make sure my friends are safe from that bitch," Ash thought since she hated what Setsuna has done to her and all her friends.

Lucario could sense how angry Ash was at Setsuna, and he couldn't blame his old friend. A part of him wished that Setsuna had died that day when fighting Sir Aaron; who knows, it could have stopped all this pain. 'I hate that this happened to my friend my you need to have hope we can fix this,' Lucario said, looking at Ash.

The Pikachu girl sighed as she looked at Lucario. "I know, but with what you said Setsuna can do," Ash began thinking of the outcomes that would happen if they didn't win.

Without anyone else saying much else to each other, the two groups left. One group leaving would go and fight Setsuna and end the threat she would bring to the world. The other group would leave this forest and tell people what's happening. "Don't worry, I know we'll see them again once we've stopped Setsuna," Anabel said as she could tell Ash was becoming worried.

"I hope so Anabel," Ash said before looking at Lucario. "I do wonder can I even learn Aura still?" the Pikachu girl asked, seeing how she is not even human anymore. "I mean, look at my body, what if I can't use Aura?"

Lucario frowned hearing this, and Ash had brought up a good point; he knew if Ash had lost his skills in using Aura, then this whole mission to stop Setsuna and her plans would ultimately be for nothing. 'For all your sakes, we better hope you haven't,' he told her after taking the time to think about it. Still, they needed to try and prayed that it wouldn't be the case, nor would there be any more interruptions to possibly further hinder any chances of undoing what had happened to them. 'We must begin as soon as possible, so you better brace yourself for some hard work.'

"Okay," Ash nodded her head, although there was another thought that occurred before they officially began the training. "I can only hope Team Rocket wouldn't show up right now since they often did so when we least expect it."

'Team Rocket?'

"Trust me, you don't want to meet them and at a time like this," added Anabel, knowing what Ash was talking about as they noticed the confused expressions that Mallow and Lucario had on their respective faces. "Hard to believe they're still at it after all this time."

"Yeah, and while so far we haven't seen them. That doesn't mean they won't make their presence known again sooner or later," explained Ash as she always had the many times that the trio arrived to try to steal Pikachu. Or try other crimes that usually ended in utter failure most of the time ever since meeting them at the Viridian City Pokémon Center all those years ago. "There are actually other members of Team Rocket, ones even you don't even know about."

"Wait, what?" asked Anabel as she, Mallow, and Lucario all looked at Ash the moment she mentioned other members of Team Rocket out there aside from the ones he was familiar with the most. "Is this true?"

Ash nodded her head silently, although it was something that she preferred to talk about later once it's all over and Setsuna was defeated. "I'll tell you later," she said to Anabel since they didn't need to waste any more time since they didn't know how long it would be before the three eventually succumbed to the effects of the forest's magic completely. "For now, I best get ready to get my training started before it's too late."

"Okay," said Anabel, understanding where Ash was getting at, and then looked towards Mallow, feeling it would be best if they kept an eye out mainly to be on the safe side. "We'll be keeping watch; you know better safe than sorry as they always say."

"If worse comes to it, we'll come back and let you know," added Mallow despite knowing that there was going to be a risk to this task but hoped it'd be worth it in the end, and they could all return to their normal state sooner alongside the Pokémon that was sadly also taken from them. "Is that okay with you, Ash?"

The Pikachu girl started smiling at the two female hybrids when hearing this. "Alright, thank you," she replied before watching Anabel and Mallow leaving. However, her attention was back towards Lucario himself, as it's clear he wanted to make certain there wouldn't be any distractions.

'Now, if we are done talking… I think it is time for you to begin your training,' Lucario told Ash, knowing that it was about time they started focusing on the Aura training right away. Now praying to Arceus, the former boy turned female hybrid still had the means to use the power despite being transformed. 'But believe me, I'm not lying when I said that you better be ready for some hard work as slacking off is not an option here.'

Meanwhile, Team Rocket continued loading more cages with the hybrids they've captured. "Hurry it up already!" one female Team Rocket agent said.

"Let us out!" the Charmander girl with blonde hair cried out with anger.

However, the Team Rocket agents said nothing to the hybrids. "Shut up, we're leaving this fucked up place and your coming with us!" a female Team Rocket grunt yelled at the female hybrid.

None of the former humans cared about this, all of them looking at Team Rocket with utter hatred in their eyes. "You'll never get away with this, you know. Our mistress is coming, and you will all join us," said a Golem hybrid as she began laughing.

However, the leader of the task force leader scoffed, hearing this from the hybrids. "Like we care soon we'll leave this place, and then use you to find out how we can use this power," he said before walking away from them.

Brook looked at her lover Blissey and the rest of her Pokémon all separated. "Come on just let us out!" the Rockruff woman wanting to get out of the cage.

Blissey looked at her lover, seeing the distress in her face. "Brook, it's okay, my love," Blissey said with a soothing tone to her voice as Brook looked at her. "We'll get out of this, and then we'll all make Team Rocket pay."

The Team Rocket trio was starting to become concerned. "Jess, this is becoming more messed up," Meowth said, looking on at the hybrids and hearing this mistress that they kept talking about; who was she.

James nodded, agreeing with Meowth he didn't like what the hybrids were saying. "Yeah I want to leave the forest now," James said with fear in his voice.

Jessie had to agree with the two looking at the hybrids that they have captured. "Maybe your right," Jessie said with a worried look on her face.

The two nodded as they wanted to leave before this mistress arrived that the hybrids were talking about in the first place.

The three knew that if they were going to leave this cursed place. "Okay, then we'll leave," Meowth told the two humans with a whisper.

The three soon made a plan to leave the forest without the Team Rocket task force behind. "And we'll leave when they have no idea."

The three all nodded, knowing this could be their last chance to escape this forest. "Well, the pickup will arrive in an hour," the female grunt said, looking at the one in charge.

The leader only smiled, hearing the news that they would only need to wait one more hour. "That's good, keep it up agent," he told the female grunt.

"What do you want us to do?" Jessie asked, hoping to leave with her teammates. "I mean, more hybrids could attack us."

"Yeah, Jess is right," Meowth said with a large grin on his face. "You heard what the freaks said this mistress is coming here."

The hybrids only laughed and looked at Meowth with a smirk. "The talking cat is right. You better let us go and then change like we have," the Bulbasaur girl said, looking at the humans. "You need to give in and let our mistress change you into what we've become. And what our Pokémon also became."

The trio had a feeling the female hybrid would say something like this, as it's only another reason why they wanted to leave. "Yeah, no thanks I like to stay human," James said, looking at the female hybrid.

"Aww, don't be like that," the Meowth hybrid said as she giggled, looking at the three. "You have no idea how good it feels getting reborn. And it's all thanks to our mistress," the former human said as she soon giggled, but she didn't take her eyes off the trio.

"Yeah, no thanks," Jessie said, looking at the former human, seeing the crazed look in the Meowth hybrid's eyes. "I think we'd all like to stay human."

Meowth nodded, looking at his hybrid counterpart. "Yeah, the last thing that any of us want is becoming hybrids that just mate all the time," Meowth said while the two humans nodded.

"Aww, don't be like that. Once you transform, you'll love it," the Meowth hybrid said, looking at Meowth and then looking at the two humans with a smile. "And you can be with ones that you love. Isn't that something you'd like? Don't you want to be with the ones you love?"

"Yeah, I'm with Blissey, and my Pokémon," Brook said with a giggle as she looked at the Pokémon.

"Come on Brock, this isn't like you," Meowth said, looking at the former male. However, taking a closer look, the three could tell that Brock didn't care as she huffed.

"Why do you all keep using our old names?" Brook asked as she frowned at the trio. "We have new names now, new lives within the forest we call home," Brook told the trio as she giggled.

"Oh boy she has lost it completely," Meowth said while Jessie and James nodded all three looking at the Rockruff hybrid.

"Kinda like the twerp's Pikachu when he lost his memories back in the Hoenn region and used that to our advantage," added James as he remembered when the trio had Pikachu on their side. However, this ultimately didn't last in the end when the male Mouse Pokémon recovered his memories.

"You had to bring that up."

"Well, it's basically similar to what the older twerp is going through right now," James replied to the annoyed Jessie, hoping she would understand that he was making a good point right now. "Okay, maybe not exactly the same thing but you know what I mean right?"

Jessie and Meowth continued glaring at James, then after a while, the trio heard a phone ringing, and they realized what that sound meant. "Oh great," muttered the magenta-haired female Team Rocket member before she answered the communicator as it's clear that their boss was contacting them to see what's going on. "Hello?"

It was then that Giovanni's voice came through, sounding rather annoyed that Jessie had been the one to respond to him. "Jessie, what is going on?" he asked of the young woman. "And don't you or James perform that motto of yours because I'm not in the mood right now."

Meowth looked at both Jessie and James, rather confused. "Wait, you did our motto the last time you talked to the boss?" he asked of his human partners in crime.

"It was back when we were stranded on that island," James replied as he and Jessie recalled the time that they were all unfortunately stranded on what they believed to be a deserted island. One full of giant Pokémon, only to find out that said giant Pokémon were machines. "Then again, some things were better left unsaid."

"Agreed."

Immediately Wobbuffet popped out of his Poke Ball, and he too was confused by what happened regarding Jessie, James, and Giovanni in question. "Wobbuffet!" he said, standing next to Meowth.

"Wait, you want to know about this too?" asked Meowth as he looked at the Psychic-type from the Johto region to which his fellow Pokémon nodded silently, and it resulted in both human Team Rocket members falling flat on their faces anime-style.

The male Scratch Cat didn't say a word, knowing that he and the male patient Pokémon would have to speak with Jessie and James later regarding the matter at hand. "Well, I'm waiting!" Giovanni was starting to lose his patience with the trio as he wanted to hear their response right now.

"Well, uh…" began James, trying to come up with something to tell Giovanni without making him angry, and yet nothing came to mind the more he thought about it. "You see…"

"James, just let me do the talking," said Jessie before turning back towards the communicator she had in her possession, feeling that it's her responsibility to try and smooth things out with Giovanni. "What James was trying to say sir, is everything's going according as planned."

Giovanni said nothing, as he only stared at the three. "Fine, just make sure everything is ready. I don't want any mistakes do you understand me?" he asked the trio, who all nodded in fear at Giovanni.

The trio watched as the video soon stopped leaving the trio far more concerned than before. "This is getting worse Jessie," James said, looking at the red-headed woman.

Setsuna was looking at the sky. Part of her was furious that Ash and the others got away. Another part knew it's only a matter of time before that eventually changed since Iris and Cilan were now among the rest of the female hybrids in this forest. "I know you're out there somewhere; Aaron and you'll have to show yourself sooner or later," Setsuna said to no one as she still retained the feeling of betrayal when she fought against the one whom she might've developed feelings for over 1000 years ago. "Why are you having your Lucario do all the work of helping them?"

As much as she wanted to try and move on from him, Setsuna could never do so unless she got the satisfaction of making him see how much she had suffered when he confronted and killed her all those years ago. The memories of when she got stabbed that day were still in the back of her mind. No matter how much she wanted to forget that day. And the fact he could never understand how much she wanted to create her new world or how much he meant to her before they became enemies when he joined the Aura Guardians and broke her heart. "Mark my words, Aaron… we will meet again before this is all over, and you'll regret what you've done to me," she growled in anger, tightening both her hands before slamming it onto a tree.

Being dead, she didn't have to worry about physical pain, but the pain she was feeling was deep within the core of her spiritual form, and she hated it even more. "Damn you…" she said to herself once more, showing absolute hatred the more she thought of her time with Aaron during their younger days and wanted nothing more than to be rid of this feeling for good, which would only happen once she had dealt with her former friend.

"My lady…"

She heard a female voice interrupted her thoughts, and she looked up to see Lisa was standing near the same tree she'd been resting under a while ago. "Are you okay mistress Setsuna?" the young female hybrid asked of the spirit, noticing that her mistress had been in deep thought for a while.

"Oh? Yeah, I'm alright," she replied to Lisa as she was hiding the troubles that she had following their encounter with Ashley, her remaining friends, and Lucario not too long ago. "I've been a bit on edge lately that's all."

"I see," said a frowning Lisa, becoming concerned for Setsuna but at the same time wondered what to do to help her feel better over what happened. "You know, I found three young women from the Sinnoh region who just so happened to have come to this very forest, and they've recently become like us in case you wanted to know."

"Oh, have you my dear child?" Setsuna asked of the female hybrid, becoming rather curious about whomever these women from Sinnoh were and how it would help make up for Ashley not rejoining them during that confrontation. "Did you happen to get their names by any chance, Lisa?"

"Yes, I did," Lisa replied with a smile on her face, showing relief that her mistress was starting to feel better upon learning of the news she brought. "They're names are Spring, Summer, and Autumn plus you're going to love the formers they're currently in right now."

Setsuna nodded her head. "I'm certain I will, and they'll look absolutely sexy too," she said before remembering something else that needed addressing as while she wasn't powerful enough to take matters into her own hands right now, she needed clarification that nothing would ruin any chances of her doing so. "Is the necklace still where it's hidden by any chance?"

"It is."

"Good, because I can't risk anything hostile getting their hands on it," Setsuna replied as she knew it was for the best that nobody found out where her amulet was still safely hidden. Setsuna was now aware of the consequences that would come should anything happen to the amulet before she could regain her full strength. "After all, it's very important not just to me but to all of us."

Lisa didn't say a word; she often wondered about what purpose the amulet had but quickly shook those thoughts out of her head since now wasn't the time to be dwelling on things. "There is also more news that I wish to share with you, my lady," she said as she started frowning. "We've received word that a few of our fellow hybrids have gone missing for quite sometime."

"Missing?" Setsuna asked in dismay, knowing something like this couldn't have happened without any explanation and wanted to make certain it wasn't a bad joke. "What do you mean, missing?"

"I mean they've vanished without a trace just like that," explained Lisa as she wished she knew all the details. However, Setsuna had gotten informed about why the disappearances were happening in the very first place. And how it would ruin the good mood from the previous revelation from before, and Setsuna wouldn't let it get her down. "Some of our kind revealed the culprits responsible for this to be members of Team Rocket."

"Argh, those fools, it seems that have prevented the gist that many others have embraced dear Lisa," Setsuna said as she looked at the Vulpix girl with a smile. "Call in everyone we shall deal with the fools that have come here."

Lisa nodded as she still hated that she had lost Ash and knew the others who are mates with her didn't know. "Should I tell Misty and Melody what's happened to Ashley?" Lisa asked, feeling the pain deep within her heart.

Setsuna smiled, seeing the pain within Lisa's eyes. "Yes, Misty and Melody have no idea what's happened to her. So go to your home and tell them what has happened to dear Ashley."

Lisa nodded, knowing that Misty was still with Melody and the others should be at their home. "Yes, mistress Setsuna, I'll do it right away."

Without saying anything, Lisa soon left to find her two lovers and tell Misty and Melody what's happening with Ashley. The Vulpix girl started hoping they could all save their mate from what's happened to her mind.

"I still need to deal with Lucario, and make sure nothing stops all that I've worked so hard for," Setsuna said, frowning knowing Ashley would cause her problems. "In time she'll join us again," Setsuna said with a smile.

Not wanting to say anything else with a mission that needed to get finished, Setsuna began walking deeper into the forest; she knew that Team Rocket needed stopping. "I'll make them pay for taking away all my children from me," Setsuna said with a small laugh.

Meanwhile, Misty had arrived back home with Melody, and the two hybrids looked around the two girls, only seeing Dawn and Zoey. Misty noticed both Buizel and Lopunny girl hugging each other while sleeping.

"Hmm, I do wonder where the others are right now?" Melody asked, knowing that Ashley should have come back with their new lovers from what Misty told her.

"I know, something isn't right," Misty said as she frowned, looking at Melody. "We need to go and find the others and then see what's happening," Misty said, looking at Melody.

The Jigglypuff hybrid nodded, seeing that Misty was starting to get worried. "Yeah, I hope we can find the others," Melody said and then looked at Zoey and Dawn. "We also better wake them up too."

Misty nodded with a smile forming on her face, as she knew that while both looked so cute sleeping, they needed everyone's help. The Azumarill hybrid walked over to the sleeping lovers and started shaking the two hybrids.

"Dawn, Zoey come on you two," Misty said, hoping they would wake up and help them. "Something has happened."

The two hybrids soon started opening their eyes and looked up to Misty and this new girl. "Misty, what's going on?" Dawn asked as she yawned, not happy she got woken up like this. "I wanted to sleep with Zoey here until Ashley and the others came back home."

Misty only frowned as she looked at Dawn and Zoey. "I know Dawn, but that's the problem," Misty began as she looked at the two. "Ashley is still missing."

Hearing this, both Zoey and Dawn looked at Misty. "What!" they cried our shocked at hearing this news. "I thought she would have found Anabel and this new girl?"

"Same here, what do you think happened?" Zoey asked as she pulled Dawn into a hug, as she wanted her mate back right now.

Misty sighed, unsure how to answer her two lovers right now. "I wish I knew that you two, but I don't, but it's not just Ashley missing," Misty said, looking at the two. "I can't find the others either. Carol, Lisa, May Serena Lillie all of them are missing."

"I know what happened to them," Lisa said, happy she was home, but the Vulpix hybrid looked at her mates.

"Lisa?" Misty asked as she ran over and hugged her mate before kissing her. Lisa only smiled as she brought her mate into the hug and kissed her back, wanting to forget what's happening, but she knew she couldn't. "Misty, look all of you need to know what has happened."

All four hybrids looked at the Vulpix hybrid and could tell something was wrong. "Lisa, what happened?" Misty asked, holding her hands seeing the frightened look on her face.

Lisa sighed, now fighting back the tears, and looked at the four. "Yes, Ashley, she somehow got her human mind back," Lisa said as she cried over losing her mate.

The moment they heard what happened to Ashley, the four hybrids stared at each other. "No, we need to help her!" Dawn cried out, not happy to hear the news.

"I know but what can we do?" asked Lisa as she heard about what happened regarding what happened when Setsuna encountered Ashley and the others earlier on. "From what the mistress told me, she only got Iris and Cilan to join as well as someone named Gabrielle."

"Gabrielle?"

"Yes, although she originally went by another name prior," said the Vulpix girl, taking the time to think about it for a moment to remember Gabrielle's original name from what Setsuna mentioned during their conversation with one another. "I think it was Jerry, or maybe it was Harry, or…."

"Or Gary?" Misty, Dawn, and Zoey immediately realized who she was talking about, which made them rather surprised the moment she mentioned it. The bluenette was even more surprised that Iris and Cilan had joined them, which wasn't a complete loss even though she wanted to help those who had gone missing.

It made Lisa surprised at the fact three of the four girls knew the name. "That's the name, how did you all know that?" she asked of her fellow hybrids; both she and Melody were rather curious about how they were all so familiar with Gabrielle back when the Umbreon girl was originally a male human.

"I meet him or rather her now several times when I traveled with Ashley and Brook throughout Kanto and Johto," explained Misty as she had been the one to have encountered Gabrielle the most out of the three hybrids present in front of Lisa. "She once had a group of girls who cheered for her back then."

"Wait, a group of girls who cheered for her?" Zoey asked, with Misty nodding her head to her, Lisa, Melody, and Dawn, which surprised them even more as they never really expected Gabrielle to have a group cheering her on in Kanto and Johto. On the other hand, Melody was the only one of the four to have not met Gabrielle at all, given how Ashley's former rival never traveled through the Orange Islands. "I see, I hadn't really met her until after I became the sexy hybrid I am right now, and it was a shame she didn't change when I went after her as she would've made a wonderful mate."

"Is that right?" began Dawn, thinking about when she met Gabrielle back in the Sinnoh region, and she never saw the group of girls who cheered her on there at all. "I met her when I traveled with Ashley and Brook through my home region, and I have to admit that she's a pretty damn good Pokémon Researcher during that meeting."

"Yeah, plus she used to be a Pokémon Trainer until Ashley defeated her in the Johto League," added Misty as the other hybrid girls looked at her in disbelief.

"Are you serious?"

Misty nodded her head with a smile on her face. "Yes, you should've seen what Gabrielle was like back before she decided to become a researcher like her grandfather," Misty said, remembering how cocky Gabrielle used to be. As shown when they first met at Porta Vista during the Beach Beauty and Pokémon Costume Contest before Jessie, James, Meowth, and Brutella were ruining it by trying to scare away everyone present. "Her personality was completely different than what she is right now."

Lisa, Dawn, Melody, and Zoey all remained silent, having never expected to learn more about Gabrielle from Misty. Still, at the same time, they were grateful that she did. "Wow, you learn something new every day," commented the Jigglypuff girl with a smile as she thought about it for a moment, as did her fellow hybrids.

The others all nodded, laughing a little as Dawn looked at Zoey. "I know you wanted to mate with her," Dawn said, looking at her lover. "But I'm happy that you're with us, Zoey."

Zoey soon smiled as she looked at Dawn and hugged her mate. "Yeah, you're right Dawn I'm happy with this," Zoey said, and then she kissed Dawn.

Misty also smiled as she looked at the two. "Okay, right now, we need to work out how we can save Ashley."

"How am I going to explain this to Professor Oak and to Ash's mother?"

Tracey was frowning as he looked at Clemont and Bonnie, knowing they needed to get out of the forest soon before they soon started suffering the same fate that the others did. "They at least need to be made aware of it somehow," began the Gym Leader of Lumiose City as he too frowned at how things had been going from bad to worse since they've arrived at what they believed to be hell. "Then there's the matter of Misty's sisters to take into account as you said something about being engaged to one of them, right?"

Although this made the young man from the Orange Islands sigh, looking at Clemont. "You had to bring that up…" he said to Clemont even though he did make a good point because he knew how devastated the Sensational Sisters would be if anything were to happen to Misty.

"Sorry," Clemont spoke with a sigh.

"It's alright, don't worry about it," Tracey replied, assuring Clemont it wasn't that big of a deal since they had bigger problems to deal with anyway. "Plus, I'm sure Misty's sisters as well as Ash's mom and Professor Oak would love to meet you, Bonnie, and Serena when this is all over."

As for Bonnie, she had been rather silent lately since normally she would be quick to jump at the chance in asking if Lily or Violet would want to become Clemont's wife. After hearing about the lovely engagement happening between Tracey and Daisy, but because of what had happened before meeting Oak's assistant. Bonnie hadn't been talking that much, which surprised even Clemont. "Are you okay, Bonnie?" he asked his sister.

Not saying a word for a moment, Bonnie slowly nodded her head which caused Tracey and Clemont to become even more worried than ever. "Yeah, I'm fine…" she said after a while, which made both young men frown despite being relieved that she said something.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes, I just want to go home now…." Bonnie replied as she nodded her head again. "How long before we're finally out of this forest anyway?"

"We shouldn't be much longer before we reach the exit," Clemont assures his little sister despite the fact he didn't know how long it'll take till they make it to their destination and suspected he know why she was looking down lately. "You're thinking about Max, aren't you?"

Hearing this made Tracey surprised when Clemont had brought Max's name up, but he was even more surprised upon seeing Bonnie now slowly nodding to confirm this. "Wait, did I miss something here?" the young assistant of the famous Professor Oak asked in disbelief.

"It's a long story," Clemont told Tracey as he turned back towards Bonnie, who was lowering her head the moment Max's name getting brought up, and it made her even more worried than ever. "My sister had developed a crush on May's younger brother prior to… well, you know…."

Tracey was even more speechless than he was before as he, too, glanced directly at Bonnie. "Is this true, Bonnie?" he asked Clemont's younger sister; he wasn't going to tease her about it at all due to curiosity getting the better of him despite their current situation.

Bonnie said nothing as she had a small blush on her face. Seeing this on his sister's face also made Clemont smile, and he wanted to tease her.

However, he would leave the teasing for now until they had all left the forest. "Don't worry Bonnie you can tell me once we get out of this Forest," Clemont said, smiling at his sister.

Bonnie smiled as she nodded at her brother. "I hope Ash and the others can save our friends," Bonnie said with hope within her voice.

Tracey and Clemont nodded at this, hoping Ash and the others can stop Setsuna and end her threat. "Aww, but why should our dear Ashley stop this," a female voice said from behind.

Everyone turned towards the voice seeing it was May and her sister Maxine. The two hybrids looked at the humans, and Maxine smiled as she looked at Bonnie. "Hi Bonnie," Maxine said as she giggled.

The three humans looked at the Glaceon and Ralts hybrid, the two smiling at the three humans. "Hi Bonnie," the Ralts girl said with a giggle.

Bonnie backed away from Max as her brother moved to make sure his sister was safe. "You two stay away!" Clemont cried out, looking at the two hybrids.

However, the female Glaceon smiled at her human friends as she giggled. "Aww, don't be like that, Clemont," said May looking at all three. "My sister wants her future mate after all, and I want to help her. Isn't that right, Maxine?" asked May, looking at the Ralts hybrid.

The Ralts hybrid nodded as she giggled before looking up at her older sister. "Yeah, May, I do want Bonnie to join Ralts and I when we later become mates," Maxine said with a blush as she looked at Bonnie.

The moment Bonnie saw Max, she held onto her brother as both Clemont and Tracey knew that they would have to battle the two old friends. "Look, May Max, we are leaving this place. Ash will fix what's happened to you two," Tracey said, looking at the two hybrids.

"Aww, but we love what we've become, and you will too," said May with a giggle in her voice. "After all, do you think that we would come here all alone?"

The three eyes soon went wide the moment May told them this as all three humans looked around. "Hi you guys," Iris said with a smile, with Cilan by her side. "You should join us," she said with a smile before kissing Cilan.

All the three could do right now was watch as even more hybrids started showing up; many of them were their friends and Pokémon. "We're not going to let you leave this place," Serena said with a smile as she looked at her Pokémon.

Serena's Sylveon nodded and kissed her trainer. "Yeah, as we're going to change you, so you will become like us," Serena's Sylveon said with a giggle as they all began to move closer to the three humans.

Meanwhile, within another part of the forest, Latias had arrived, sensing something was wrong. 'Ash, I know something is wrong, many of us can feel it,' she said with concern but finding him wasn't that easy.

Latias sighed, knowing it was wrong that she had a crush on a human, and wished that there was some way they could be together. However, she knew that was something she could never have.

'I wonder where Ash could be here anyway and where he is in this forest?' Latias asked as she was flying around the forest, and soon she heard some giggles.

Before Latias could wonder what was happening, a Thunderbolt had hit her, sending her crashing to the ground. "Hi Latias," A Pikachu hybrid said as Latias looked at the odd creature. "Do you remember me?"

A/N Yes, this is an update; sorry that it has taken so long, but I was so busy fixing up the past chapters.

Anyway, I will keep this short as I have so much I need to do, so for many asking, yes, Latias showed up this idea was suggested by betrayed666.

What will happen, you shall see in the next chapter, so I'll see you all very soon, my dear readers.