Fighting Dreamers

by Holdonlupin

After becoming the Alola champion Ash receives an invitation to participate in the Galar league, and while exploring the region he meets with Bea, a girl with plenty of secrets. What kind of adventures (and other girls) are waiting for this fighting dreamers? Let's find out! (mainly Ash x Bea) (eventual Ash x Harem)

50. Blue Sky Rhapsody

CHUCHU YEAH!

Hey, remember when I said Nexomon was the best Pokemon-like game out there? Well, I finally got a chance to play Coromon and it definitely took the spot. The pixel style is amazing and I love most of the designs and it's just an incredible game overall, go give it a try if you can.

CHAPTER 49! PEOPLE! And we passed 400 follows and favs, my god.

This chapter has some hot scenes, ok? I'm warming up for that.

Once again I have unintenionally broken my word record, this chapter is 20k words long, so I hope you're sitting or in bed.

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Our story today starts with Ash and Elaine, two recent discovered siblings, the two were alone together in a room, Ash was sitting on the edge of the bed, while Elaine was sitting on his lap, both looking into each other's eyes as Ash caressed her cheeks.

"A-Ash... it's okay." Elaine whispered.

"Why you?" He asked. "Why my sister of all people? ...Maybe if we had the chance to grow together I wouldn't feel this way... I'm such a sick person..."

"Y-You're not sick... I feel the same way. We both feel the same, we can have this."

"Are you sure this is what you want?" Ash asked. "Once this happens, there's no turning back."

"I'm totally sure, I've been waiting for this..." She replied getting their faces closer. "I-I'm not gonna ruin it with some emotional moral crap."

"Good girl..." Ash smiled. "Now shush and follow my lead."

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"Elaine, you there?" Mina talked to her sleeping friend back in the real world, the two had slept in a motel on Route 1 after being pushed back from their travel due to the damage caused by the Ultra Beasts.

"W-Wait..." Elaine whispered. "You're so big, Ash..."

"ELAINE?!" Mina shouted again and the girl suddenly opened her eyes to look at Mina and her female Pikachu and then took a deep breath.

"...Please don't tell me I was sleep talking." Elaine said.

"Pikapi." The mouse nodded.

"Maybe a tiny little bit." Mina said. "Who knew you'd be into that kinda stuff."

"It's not incest if I just met him four days ago!" She shouted.

"I'm totally sure that still counts." Mina giggled.

"Why is this happening?!" Elaine shouted again. "He's my brother! He's quite older than me and he has a bunch of girlfriends already! Why do I like him?!"

"For the same reason all those girls agreed to share him, I guess. Ash is just... kinda cool." Mina said. "But if it makes you feel better, with all the girlfriends he has up to this point, I don't think he'd mind his sister joining in."

"That doesn't make me feel better at all!" Elaine exclaimed.

"Well, whatever, you can't just keep avoiding him." Mina insited. "Even if you managed to get away from him until he leaves Alola, he promised to go and see you in the Kanto League."

"Mina, I do want to spend time with him, he's my brother, but... I don't want to end up saying the wrong thing and ruin our relationship before it even starts."

"I can be with you during the whole thing if you want." Mina suggested. "I don't like being a third wheel, but it seems like you need a bit of support."

"Third wheel..." Elaine trailed off. "That's it! You have to join Ash's harem!"

"Ha! Good one!" Mina smiled, but seeing Elaine's kinda desperate face she then took a serious expression. "Oh, wait, you're serious..."

"Just think about it, Mina! I think my brother is real handsome and I think you're also really cute, if you both get together then maybe these thoughts would disappear from my head!"

"How did you even get to that kind of conclusion?" Mina asked.

"Please, Mina, I'm begging you!"

"Sorry, little one, but I'm not going to date your brother." Mina replied. "Like, the harem thing, the fact that he'll have to leave Alola, I don't know..."

"B-But please, the way you looked while you were drawing that sketch of him, you were blushing, I saw it!" She exclaimed again pointing at the painter. "You looked totally hypnotized by that drawing, you're seriously telling me you don't feel anything for him?!"

"Listen, physical attraction is just a chemical reaction in your brain, you can't trust it." Mina answered. "Nevertheless, just like two thirds of the females in this world I do think he's quite nice, but-

"Then please be his girlfriend!" Elaine exclaimed again. "M-Maybe that way I'll be able of getting over my feelings!"

"Is this whole request a way of saying that you wouldn't share a boyfriend with me?" Mina asked. "Quite a rare insult."

"Did you hear that?!" Elaine suddenly shouted.

"Hear what?" Mina asked.

"Someone's coming! Don't open the door!" She said hiding underneath her bed, a few knocks were then heard at their door and Mina went to open it.

"Don't do it, it could be Ash!" Elaine continued, but Mina simply opened the door and found Delia carrying Lei in her arms.

"Good day, you two!" Delia greeted them.

"Hey there, Miss Ketchum." Mina replied to then look at Elaine. "Right, I forgot to tell you she called me to make us a visit."

"Oh, thank god it's just her." Elaine sighed relieved.

"Good to see you again." Delia said. " I was wondering if you would like to accompany me to pay a visit to Ash."

"Sure." Mina smiled.

"No thanks!" Elaine shouted going underneath the bed again causing Lei to laugh.

"Hmm... Mina, can you hold this angel a second?" Delia asked her.

"Of course, leave him to me." She nodded and Delia left Lei with Mina to then walk next to the bed.

"Is there a problem, Elaine?" Delia asked kneeling next to the bed and raising the sheets to see the girl.

"I-I'm sorry, Miss Ketchum, I don't mean to disrespect you, but I really don't want to see Ash right now." Elaine answered.

"But why not?" Delia asked. "I mean, you two barely spent any time together after the revelation, I know you said you had a lot to think about, but maybe that's the point, you and Ash could talk about those things together."

"S-Sorry, maybe another day." Elaine covered herself with the bed sheets again and Delia stood up with a sigh.

"Fine, it's not like I'm gonna force you." Delia said.

"You know what? I'm still going with you, Miss ketchum." Mina said returning Lei to her. "Elaine here has turned a bit shy with Ash because she can't find the courage to tell him something important."

"T-That's not true!" Elaine shouted coming out of the bed.

"So, I suppose I'm going to pay a visit to Ash and give him the message for you." Mina continued.

"Not if I get to him first and tell him what you want to tell him!" Elaine shouted again and then ran to the bathroom, quickly changing from her pajama to her usual attire to then take her Pikachu and run out of the room. "I'll tell him everything!"

"She fell right into it." Mina smiled as Delia and her began to walk behind Elaine.

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Meanwhile in Stow-on-the-other-side.

"Nothing brightens the dark room like a light from a window!" Allister said to himself on his house while he walked to a window. "Time to open the window...AAAAH!" The boy opened the window and was surprised by a Froslass, the Pokemon then offered him a purple ticket and Allister took it.

"A Ghost ticket?" He asked and the ticket then illuminated in purple light to show an hologram of a Marshadow.

"Greetings, Allister Tamanegi." The Marshadow talked. "My name is Mr. Marsh, and it is my honor to invite you to the 'Ghost Type Strongest Battle', congratulations in being selected."

"Wait, wait, a what?" Allister asked.

"We'll give you more explanations later, the important thing you shall know is that the winner will get a special wish as a reward, so, are you ready to participate?"

"Uh, no?" Allister said.

"...Too bad." The Marshadow answered.

"STICKY FINGERS!" A voice suddenly shouted a giant zipper appeared behind Allister.

"What the- Hey!" Allister was about to say something, but the zipper opened and sucked him inside to then close again and disappear.

"Well, that's already the third of our excited contestants, let's keep gathering the rest." Mr. Marsh said. "And who's next?"

"Morty Mortimer from Ecruteak in Johto." The Froslass answered with a list in her hands. "And is it really necessary to continue with the introductions? I mean, none of them so far have been willing to participate, but we dragged them anyway."

"I'm just trying to be formal." Mr. Marsh said. "But if it's too much of a bother I guess I'll just ask Banette to open a portal without asking, let's get going."

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Back with Ash, Selene and Skyla.

"You heard her, Selene." Ash talked to her. "I... I have a harem, it isn't just Gloria, the rest of those girls you saw when you first were here, along a few others that I think you might know already, I have seven girlfriends so far."

"...The what?!" Selene shouted.

"So far..." Skyla trailed off. "That means I have a chance? Do you accept my challenge?"

"Well, Skyla, you already came all the way from Unova to Alola." Ash replied. "Yes, I'd love to have a battle with you."

"T-Thank you!" Skyla suddenly hugged him, but parted away from him just as sudden. "Sorry, do you, uh, need time to prepare?"

"Yes, give me a few minutes, I'll go inside to tell the girls and I'll make a quick call to adjust my team and give you a good fight."

"O-Of course, then I'll be waiting here." Skyla nodded.

"What about you, Selene?" Ash looked at her and she blushed harder to then look away.

"A-Ash, I... I'll also stay here, I need to think." She answered.

"Fine, Ill be back in a moment." Ash returned his Pokemon and walked back inside the mansion along Pikachu, leaving the two girls alone.

"..."

"..."

"Ah... nice to meet you." Skyla offered a handshake to Selene and she accepted it. "If Ash explained you the whole thing then that means you're not one of his girlfriends, right?"

"No, I'm not, I'm... I'm just an old friend of him." Selene answered. " I didn't know he had something like that going on, I thought he only had one girlfriend."

"And why were you laying on top of him while kissing him a few moments ago?" Skyla asked.

"B-Because I also like him, I-I wanted to be his girlfriend."

"Oh, so you're trying to join the harem as well?"

"N-No! I mean... I-I... he has seven girlfriends, how am I supposed to... and what about you? Are you really okay with that whole thing?"

"Well, of course my original plan was to try and being his only girlfriend, but the problem was that with all the girls that like him I had a big chance of getting my heart broken, but now that I now he's multitasking then that means I have a bigger chance! And I'll show him that I'm a great option for him!"

"An option? You're making it sound so easy..." Selene sighed. "You must know Ash a lot."

"Well, I met him for 2 days and I haven't seem him for 3 years, so there's that." Skyla answered with a nervous laugh.

"...2 days?! 3 years ago?!" Selene shouted. "Are you out of your mind?! How can you even consider that?!"

"Because I love him!" Skyla smiled. "Just like you do, I'm totally infatuated, but it feels so amazing, I feel so warm and cozy every time I merely think about him, I can't let all those feelings go to waste... but I suppose you know him better by the way you reacted."

"Y-Yes, we're from the same town, we've been friends since we were pretty young, thought I haven't seem him in some time." Selene replied. "This is... This is so much and... and I already get along real bad with one of his girls, I don't even want to imagine what could happen if I try with the other six."

"I guess you'll find out what happens soon." Skyla said.

"Why is that?" Selene asked.

"Because they're coming." Skyla pointed behind her and they saw Ash returning to the scene along his seven girlfriends.

"Alright Skyla, I'm ready." Ash told her. "These are the girls, Bea, Nessa, Peonia, Gloria, Acerola, Mallow and Lana."

"It's a pleasure to meet you all!" Skyla approached the girls and shook her hands with each of them while Selene took a few steps back from the whole thing. "My name is Skyla Stahl! I'm a Flying Type Gym Leader from Mistralton City in Unova... Hey, I know you!" She pointed at Nessa. "You're the girl form Galar that goes to some of the shows that Elesa makes."

"Yes, that'd be me." Nessa smiled. "Ash told us about your little suggestion, so if you beat him in a battle then you'll be joining us?"

"Y-Yes!" She sttutered. "I hope you're all okay with that."

"You know that's not necessary though, right?" Peonia asked. "I mean, none of us had to get through some kind of trial to join."

"I-I know, but I still want to prove myself to Ash." Skyla answered. "I feel like you all have been in the need to demostrate your value to him, right?" The girls then looked at each other and smiled.

"Fine Skyla, do your best." Bea said.

"Thank you, that's exactly the plan." Skyla said.

"You..." Gloria glared at Selene.

"Hey there, Gloria." Selene answered without looking at her.

"I told you what was going to happen if I saw you again, didn't I?" Gloria

"Of course and now that I know about Ash's girlfriends, well, I suppose I was right..." Selene finally looked at her. "You weren't enough for him."

"I'm gonna-"

"Cut that off, you too!"Ash suddenly stood between the two girls. "Gloria, Selene, please, I understand you girls had a rough start, but I'm totally sure you'd get along if you give it a try."

"Problem is that I don't want to give it a try, so you better keep in mind that you're not gonna be with Ash!" Gloria continued. "While talking with the girls about future girlfriends, we made an accord, everytime a new girl wants to join, all of the current girlfriends have to be okay with it, so, everyone is okay with Skyla joining if she beats Ash?"

"Please say yes, please say yes, please say yes!" Skyla exclaimed prostrating herself in fornt of the girls.

"Well, you seem really motivated so I suppose it's okay." Bea said.

"Sure thing." Nessa continued.

"We'll welcome you in!" Acerola said.

"Like I said, this is not necessary, but if you insist go ahead." Peonia said.

"Of course, it's no problem." Mallow said while Lana just nodded.

"And I'm fine with it too!" Gloria shouted to then look at Selene. "But I am not fine with YOU!"

"Gloria, I'm not sure about what happened with you too, but Selene's a great girl." Lana said.

"Yeah, she has even helped me a lot in the restaurant along her brother." Mallow added.

"Sorry, but that's a no!" Gloria insisted sitting in the floor with arms and legs crossed.

"If you're the only one who doesn't want me to join in that'll make it a six against one." Selene said. "Would they seriously leave me out just because of you?"

"Yes, we would!" Gloria said. "You don't seem to understand how this kind of relationship works out, we need all the family to really work together and it would only take one girl, just one girl, to throw a wrench in that and make things a lot harder than they need to be."

"Well, I never said I wanted to join for sure." Selene said. "I'll admit I'm... considering it... But, did you all really just accept this whole situation since the beginning?"

"Honestly, at first it did take work to keep adding girls." Bea said. "But I guess that now we just look at how many we are and we accepted it, Ash is just that kind of guy."

"He does his best for this to work, so the least we can do is our best as well." Acerola added.

"But there are still some things who can cause trouble, like you! So I'm not letting you in! I won't let you ruin this!" Gloria exclaimed.

"Alright, Gloria, calm down." Lana said.

"Well, Ash... what do you have to say about all this?" Skyla asked. "Selene told me she's an old friend of you, she seems to know you a lot, and if you're willing to give me a chance despite not knowing you that much then it's only fair you do the same for her."

"If I have to be completely honest..." Ash doubted a moment, but then looked firmly at the girl. "Selene, you're a important part of my childhood, it has been amazing meeting with you again and seeing how you've grown and changed... you're so beautiful, I... of course, I'd love to have you as my girlfriend."

"Ash, all those things we did together when we were younger shaped the person who I am today." Selene smiled with a blush. "Still, I know you're just trying to say that you liked my kisses the best, heh."

"YOU KISSED HIM AGAIN?!" Gloria was about to throw herself over Selene, but was stopped by Acerola, Mallow and Lana.

"E-Easy there, no need to get violent." Peonia told her.

"Just let me do it! Is nobody on my side here?!" Gloria shouted again.

"You two actually remind me of how much Bea and I hated each other before we agreed to share Ash." Nessa said.

"Hehe, yeah, I was ready to punch her face more than once." Bea replied. "But her feelings for Ash were always sincere and I eventually got to understand that, so, take it easy Gloria, maybe Selene isn't as bad as you think."

"Well, it seems like the whole family is on my side." Selene smiled at Gloria.

"I'm gonna get some god damn cider and then I'll splat your face to the ground!" Gloria continued.

"Listen, Ash, before I make up my mind with all this, I think you have a bigger problem at the moment." Selene pointed at Skyla. "So take care of her first, maybe seeing your battle will help me get to a conclusion."

"Let's do it then." Ash nodded. "All ok, Skyla?"

"I'm ready for take-off, Sir!" She saluted him and ran to the battlefield while Ash did the same. "You know, Ash? The Stahl family has a motto, 'Volo pro veritas', it means 'I fly for truth', and honestly, I didn't do that for a long time, you don't understand how ashamed and embarassed I am every time I remember those air battles, you and Cilan were right, I was failing my duty as a Gym Leader, but most importantly I was failing my family, I wasn't allowing trainers to show me their true selves, neither was I showing them my own, that's why actual Pokemon battles are so important, you get to see sides of both a trainer and their Pokemon that you would never see at first glance, now I totally understand my grandpa Miles was so disappointed, I'm glad you showed me I was wrong, at least I could clean my name, at least he saw some more of my actual battles before he..." Skyla slowly looked at the sky and smiled.

"Wait, Miles is-

"Don't you dare cry, Ash." She interrupted cleaning a few tears from her eyes and smiled again. "Let him laugh in silence, wherever he is... ready for this? I'm gonna show you my truth!"

"...Come at me." Ash answered and she nodded.

"Alright, then, this will be 4 on 4 match with switchs allowed and no Z-Moves." Bea explained taking position as the referee, while the rest of the girls walked to the stands, with Ash's Rowlet sitting on Selene's shoulder again. "If Skyla wins then-"

"T-Then I'll get to be one of Ash's girlfriends!" She exclaimed excitedly.

"Well, yeah." Bea said. "So trainers, take your positions and release your first Pokemon!"

"Unfezant, I choose you!" Ash was the first one to call out and release his female Unfezant who instantly recognized Skyla, who was surprised to see her as well.

"Like I said, I made a quick call." Ash said to Skyla. "I thought you'd want a rematch with her."

"Nice to see you again!" Skyla waved at the Pokemon who waved as well with her wing. "If that's the case... take flight, Unfezant!" Skyla then called out her male Unfezant who looked at Ash's and smirked, Skyla's Unfezant then quickly flew closer to Ash's, who prepared herself for an attack, but instead of that Skyla's Unfezant started to dance around the female.

"...What's going on?" Acerola asked.

"Well, uh... looks like he's trying to court her." Nessa said.

"Yeah, I have watched our battle quite a few times with them." Skyla said. "I guess my Unfezant was really impressed by yours. She beat both Swoobat and Swanna after all."

"Did you hear that, Unfezant? You're popular!" Ash commented with a laugh but his Unfezant sighed and slapped Skyla's away with an annoyed look.

"Well, Unfezant, don't you think it'll be the best to show Ash's Unfezant how strong you are? That way she'll surely fall for you." Skyla told him but her Unfezant shook his head and continued to dance around Ash's Unfezant who slapped him off yet again.

"If I had to guess I'd say he doesn't want to hurt her." Lana said.

"Fine, I think I have an idea then." Ash said. "Unfezant, stay back with the girls, I'll call another one of my Pokemon to fight Skyla's Unfezant instead, that way we can continue the battle and he can show you what he's capable off."

"That sounds like a great idea!" Skyla said.

"Zant." Ash's Unfezant nodded and flew off the battlefield landing next to the girls, Skyla's Unfezant then returned to his position and winked at Ash's Unfezant, while she simply sighed again.

"Fine, Staraptor, I choose you!" Ash tossed another Poke Ball and the Sinnoh bird came out flying with a mighty cry to then landed firmly with his talons on the ground.

"Fezant!" Ash's Unfezant chereed on Staraptor who smiled at her while Skyla's unfezant growled in jealousy.

"If both trainers are ready then the battle begins now!" Bea gave the order.

"Let's begin with Pluck!" Skyla ordered and her Unfezant took flight aiming at Staraptor with his beak glowing to stab him with it, but Staraptor simply stood still and raised a talon and grabbed Unfezant by the neck to stop him.

"Close Combat!" Ash shouted and Staraptor smacked Unfezant to the ground to then toss him up to the air and kick him repeatedly with his talons mid-air. "Steel Wing!" Staraptor's wings then illuminated with a metallic light and he slashed Unfezant with them, making him fall to the battlefield. "Now Brave Bird!"

"Use Heat Wave!" Unfezant quickly stood up and flapped his wings creating a hot wind that damaged Staraptor, but that wasn't enought to stop him and Staraptor still landed his Brave Bird on him.

"Ash is totally going to win this!" Acerola cheered on.

"D-Dual Wingbeat!" Skyla stuttered as Unfezant recovered from the hit and both his wings illuminated in white light.

"Steel Wing!" Staraptor responded and the impact of his own wings was far greater and easily beat out Unfezant's Wing Attack.

"Hyper Beam!" Unfezant flew away as his mask illuminated in red light and then fired a white and red beam from his mouth.

"Ominous Wind!" Staraptor smirked and quickly spun on his place creating a purple tornado that absorbed the Hyper Beam and neutralized it. Staraptor then flew off the tornado and flapped it to Unfezant who couldn't move away since he was recovering from using Hyper Beam, Unfezant braced himself for the impact, but the Tornado didn't even damage him because of its typing and while he was distracted Staraptor dived down with another Brave Bird and knocked out the Unovan bird.

"Unfezant is unable to battle! Staraptor is the winner!" Bea said while Staraptor landed again and Ash's Unfezant cheered on him.

"Argh, that was too easy... in fact, that Staraptor could solo my whole team if he keeps up like that... fine..." Skyla sighed and returned her Unfezant to then pull out a Premier Ball. "I... I'm not going to waste my chance, I'll show I'm a different person!" She shouted at Ash. "I'm not playing around... Take flight! Tornadus!" Skyla tossed the Premier Ball and the Legendary Pokemon came out of it in his Therian Form with a roar, leaving everyone around speechless.

"...You have a Tornadus?!" Mallow shouted.

"Yes! And it's a long story and I'm trying to focus, so I'll explain you later!" Skyla answered.

"T-That's a Legendary Pokemon!" Gloria shouted.

"The what?!" Acerola exclaimed.

"Boy, she really wants to be in the harem." Peonia said.

"..." Ash simply stared at the Tornadus who then nodded at him. "So it's the same..."

"Use Flying Wish!" Skyla ordered and the Legendary roared again summoning a light blue mist that surrounded the whole battlefield. "This is a Flying Zone, it's gonna boost every Flying Type Move we use, it should make things more interesting."

"Ready for this, Staraptor?" Ash asked and the bird gulped to then nod.

"Hmmp, U-Turn!" Skyla shouted and Tornadus quickly flew at Staraptor surrounded by green energy, he then headbutted him and returned to his Premier Ball. "There, as you can imagine, Tornadus is the best I have right now, I want to save him for last."

"Fine then, that should give us some time to prepare." Ash said, he then noticed that Staraptor took plenty of damage from the hit of that U-Turn so he decided to return him and then looked at Unfezant who quickly understood and returned to the battlefield.

"Sorry that my Unfezant disappointed you." Skyla said. "I hope this one will do better, she's been also wanting a Rematch. Take flight, Swanna!" She exclaimed calling her ace, who instantly traded some glares with Ash's Unfezant.

"Let's go! Air Cutter!" Skyla ordered and her Swanna flapped her wings creating a huge x-shaped wind blade that was powered-up by the Flying Zone.

"Air Slash!" Ash answered and his Unfezant made a similar move, creating a single huge wind blade that clashed with Swanna's Air Cutter and both moves cancelled each other.

"Hydro Pump!"

"Night Slash!"

Swanna fired off the stream of water from her mouth as Unfezant's wings were covered by dark energy and she slashed her way through the Hydro Pump until she made it to Swanna and landed a cut on her face. "Now Swift!" Unfezant took flight again and many white stars appeared in front of her, she then flapped her wings and all the stars rained over Swanna.

"Aqua Ring!" Swanna covered herself with her wings and many water rings appeared around her to block the stars, the rings then spun as saws and flew at Unfezant exploding against her and knocking her out out the sky. "Ice Beam!" Swanna fired the attack from her mouth and froze Unfezant solid while she was falling, Unfezant the crashed onto the battlefield and the ice around her broke into pieces, she then tried to take flight again, but there was still ice scattered on her wings that stopped her from doing so.

"Well, well, looks like you won't be flying for a while." Skyla said.

"Who said we need to fly?" Ash asked as Unfezant nodded and began to run at high speed towards Swanna ending up with a flying kick on Swanna's neck.

"Hydro Pump!" Swanna attacked but Unfezant quickly jumped from side to side and avoided it, landing yet another kick as she began a quick succession of attacks with her speed. "Aqua Ring!" Swanna defended herself and the rings pushed Unfezant back, the rings then flew toward Unfezant just like the last time, but she jumped through them like hoops and kicked Swanna again, with her wings finally thawing out thanks to the body heat cause by all that movement.

"Use Gust!" Ash ordered and Unfezant made a single strong flap that powered by the Flying Zone caused an immense wind and launched Swanna up in the air. "Night Slash!" Unfezant took flight in the same direction and charged the attack with both her wings as she was being driven by the same wind she created.

"Ice Beam!" Swanna made the move, but Unfezant crossed her wings in front of her, letting them being frozen, but still being guided by the wind, Unfezant crashed the ice right onto Swanna's face, ending with a double Night Slash in an X pattern once her wings were free, Swanna then fell out of the sky with swirls on her eyes and Unfezant landed exhausted in front of her.

"Swanna is unable to battle! Unfezant is the winner!"

"My neck is already hurting from looking up at these fights." Nessa said.

"That was amazing, Unfezant! Take a rest." Ash said while recalling her.

"That's two already..." Skyla sighed. "You really have grown stronger, but it's seems like I haven't done the same."

"Don't be down, Skyla. The battle isn't over yet." Ash said. "I know you still got more things to show me."

"Fine..." Skyla smiled returning her Swanna. "Let's keep flying!"

"Rowlet, I choose you!" Ash called him and the bird flew off Selene's shoulder and to the battlefield.

"You can do it, Rowlet!" Selene cheered on him and Rowlet smiled.

"Take flight, Swoobat!" Skyla exclaimed calling upon the Psychic Type. "Here it goes, Charge Beam!" Skyla once again gave the first order, Swoobat's ears illuminated in yellow light and quickly shot an electric beam from them, landing a clean hit on Rowlet. "Now Air Slash!" Just like Unfezant before, Swoobat flapped her wings to launch a giant air blade that grew in size thanks to the Flying Zone.

"Brave Bird!" Rowlet charged with his move powered by the Flying Zone as well and easily broke through the Air Slash and crashed a strong hit onto Swoobat.

"Venom Drench!" Swoobat's fangs suddenly turned purple as she opened her mouth to land a huge bite on Rowlet.

"Feather Dance!" Rowlet quickly flew backwards leaving a husk of feathers in his place causing Swoobat to bite the feathers instead almost choking in the process.

"Use Seed Bomb!" Rowlet prepared himself and fired off the everstone from his mouth as a projectile that hit Swoobat right on her forehead and then bounced back to Rowlet.

"Swoo?" The bat quickly used her psychic energy and stopped the rock mid-air before Rowlet could swallow it, Rowlet then tried to grab the stone, but Swoobat kept moving it away. "Bat..." She grinned to then use the psychic energy again and guided the rock to smack against Rowlet several times, leaving him beaten up in the floor, once the attack was over, Swoobat let go off the everstone and started to laugh while Rowlet slowly walked to the stone and swallowed it again, the owl then flew off to the battlefield and to Selene's arms trying to hide his face.

"Uh, easy there, you did great." She said while rubbing Rowlet's head and trying to confort him.

"Guess someone lost the will to fight." Nessa said while patting his head.

"Don't worry Rowlet, we'll try to handle the rest." Ash said.

"Sure, but that wasn't a full knock-out so he can return to battle if he wants to." Skyla said.

"Thank you, now let's keep going. Corvisquire, I choose you!" He exclaimed calling the Galar bird.

"Hmm... that's not an usual Corvisquire..." Skyla trailed off noticing the silver feathers. "Well, let's see what he can do! Heart Stamp!" Swoobat's nose fired off a pink heart-shaped projectile, but Corvisquire avoided it without much issue.

"Behemoth Bash!" Corvisquire was surrounded by a silver shield and quickly flew at Swoobat crashing against her with a direct hit. "Agility!"

"Use Venom Drench while he's doing that!" While Corvisquire was spinning to boost his speed Swoobat quickly flew at him and bit him, poisoning him, dealing damage and lowering his stats all at the same time, but Corvisquire pushed her away with a kick.

"As I thought." Skyla said. "Most of the Rookidee line go with the good old Agility to Power trip, but Swoobat here while keep lowering your stats so I suggests you to think of something else.

"Fine, Brave Bird!"

"Air Slash!" Swoobat used the move multiple times and managed to stop Corvisquire before he could reach her, she then took the chance again and bit him with another Venom Drench.

"Behemoth Bash!" The shield that appeared pushed back Swoobat and Corvisquire tried to reach her again, but with his stats lowered, Swoobat was easily outspeeding him and Corvisquire had to eventually stop the charge due to the energy that requires the Behemoth Bash.

"Venom Drench again!" Swoobat laughed and again bit down Corvisquire pushing him down and making him fall to the ground. "Heart Stamp!" Swoobat then fired off another huge heart projectile that caused a big pink explosion and left Corvisquire defeated.

"Corvisquire is unable to battle! Swoobat is the winner!"

"Finally!" Skyla cheered on. "That was great, Swoobat! We can still turn this around!"

"That was quite unexpected, I'll admit it." Ash said. "Rowlet, want to try again?" He asked, but the owl shook his head. "Alright, Staraptor, I choose you!"

"Venom Drench!" Skyla exclaimed trying to repeat the scene once Staraptor was out.

"Close Combat!" Staraptor quickly attacked back and forth with his talons, but while he was doing that, Swoobat landed a Venom Drench bit on one Staraptor's legs, altough she still received a kick and was sent flying back.

"Heart Stamp!"

"Steel Wing!" Staraptor quickly made a movement with his wings and cut the heart in half to then fly at Swoobat and land another Steel Wing on her chest, but Swoobat took another chance when he got close enough and bit again, causing yet another Venom Drench effect.

"Ominous Wind!" An angry Staraptor grabbed Swoobat by her chest with his talons and started to spin around the battlefield, creating another purple tornado to then fly out of it and throw a dizzy Swoobat with force onto the tornado, causing the whole thing to collapse onto her in an explosion that knocked out the bat.

"Swoobat is unable to battle! Staraptor is the winner!"

"Argh, damn it!" Skyla exclaimed and then sighed while returning Swoobat. "So, we're three on one, but you already know who's my last." Skyla tossed the Premier Ball and her Therian Landorus took place in the battlefield again.

"Staraptor, can you keep going?" Ash asked and Staraptor smirked with a nod despite being poisoned and having some stats lowered. "Then Brave Bird!" Staraptor quickly flew at Tornadus and landed a clean hit, but he only managed to slightly push back the Legendary.

"No more hiding! Bleakwind Storm!" Tornadus started to flap his wings and created a frigid wind that pushed Staraptor back, the wind was felt around the whole battlefield, freezing most of the floor.

"So this is the power of a Tornadus..." Gloria trailed off.

"Ash has told me about this one, but as always, it's more impressive to see it in person." Bea said.

"Argh, cold! I hate cold, I hate it!" Selene exclaimed while hugging Rowlet close to her as they both shivered.

"Wow... that was really something." Ash said.

"I know, right?" Skyla asked. "I don't use him for Gym Battles because of how one-sided he can turn things some times, but this battle is different, you are different."

"Hmm... You okay, Staraptor?" Ash asked and the bird nodded again as he tried to stand up with difficulty covered by frostbite injuries that were just adding to the poison.

"Nobody here needs a break! Focus Blast!" Skyla ordered and Tornadus formed the move between his wings to then swing it at Staraptor while Ash's pokemon was unable to avoid it due to his injuries, the attack caused a massive explosion that sent Staraptor flying again, but he still stood up despite that.

"Staraptor, that's enough, I'll call you off the battle." Ash said, but Staraptor shook his head.

"RAAAPTOR!" Staraptor shouted and raised his wings as a giant red star appeared behind him, the star was then absorbed by his body as he turned fully red and flew at high speed towards Landorus, the Legendary tried to stop him with another Bleakwind Storm, but Staraptor kept going and crashed against Tornadus with a huge shockwave and a explosion that managed to throw the Legendary to the floor covered in injuries, but Staraptor fell defeated after the impact.

"Wow... uh, Staraptor is unable to battle! Tornadus is the winner!" Bea said.

"That was a Final Gambit..." Ash sighed while returning him. "Really reckless, but thank you, could be what we need."

"Talking about strong winds..." Skyla smiled as her Tornadus stood up again. "That's the first time someone ever knocks down Tornadus since I got him, can't expect less from you."

"Thanks Skyla, but Tornadus really has some power backing him up." Ash answered. "Unfezant, I choose you!" Ash called the Unova bird again who quickly recognized the Force of Nature, just like Tornadus recognized her.

"Ah, yes, these two have some story together. Use Swift!" Ash ordered and Unfezant summoned the set of stars to then flap them away at Tornadus.

"Bleakwind Storm!" Tornadus once again summoned a cold wind, this time freezing the stars and sending back at Unfezant as solid projectiles.

"Night Slash!" Unfezant prepared the attack and cut down most of the frozen stars, but some of them still hit her right on her chest and she was eventually pushed back by the wind.

"Focus Blast!" Tornadus made the move again, but Unfezant gracefully dodged it and made her way to Tornadus, cutting through him with a quick succession of Night Slashes. Unfezant then flew away and Tornadus began to chase her, eventually biting her down to then smack her with his tail and use another Bleakwind Storm from up-close pushing Unfezant all the way down to the battlefield and freezing her solid to the ground. "End it off!" Skyla ordered and Tornadus formed another Focus Blast and tossed it to the floor, creating an icy explosion and leaving Unfezant defeated.

"Unfezant is unable to battle! Tornadus is the winner!"

"Now you only have one left!" Skyla jumped in the air. "I may win, but it seems like you'll be taking the prize." She giggled. "I wonder what kinda stuff we should do when we get some time alone, I could do a special 'private show' for you."

"Hey, that was my idea!" Nessa complained.

"Well, Rowlet, you're all we have left." Ash called him, but both Rowlet and Selene were both still trembling by the cold.

"R-Row!" He exclaimed shooking his head again while looking in fear at the Tornadus.

"Come on, Rowlet, I need you here." Ash said.

"Go on, f-f-fluffy one, I know you can do it." Selene said.

"We believe in you, Rowlet!" Lana said.

"We know you're much more than what you look like." Mallow added.

Rowlet then looked at Ash and sighed to then fly at the battlefield, standing in front of Tornadus. "Row..." Rowlet simply looked back at Ash with a worried look.

"Give us your all." Ash said.

"I know Ash usually does great in this kind of situations, but are we sure that the little guy can handle this?" Nessa asked.

"Don't understimate Rowlet." Mallow said. "He managed to defeat a Decidueye, his final evolution."

"Mallow's right, I say he has a fair chance of winning." Lana added.

"Let's make it quick, Bleakwind Storm!" The gust of cold wind efortlessly pushed Rowlet back, but the little owl did his best to keep flying. "Focus Blast!"

"Dodge it with Brave Bird!" Rowlet quickly moved out of the reach of the attack and landed the Brave Bird on Tornadus, but he didn't do much damage, Rowlet then tried to fly away, but Tornadus slapped him off to the floor with his wing. "Seed Bomb!" Still in the floor, Rowlet fired off his Everstone, but Tornadus caught the stone with his teeth and crunched it into pieces with a single bite.

"Roooow!" Rowlet cried desperately, but Tornadus simply smacked him away with his tail, Rowlet rolled along the ground and ended up on Ash's feet, with his trainer picking him up after that.

"Hey, you okay?" Ash asked and Rowlet looked down to then stare angrily at Tornadus. "That stone was really important for you... Maybe we should call off the battle, don't push yourself, I'm sure there's a replacement somewhere over there." Ash then hugged Rowlet, but the bird's body started to illuminate and in just a few seconds the shine died off and Rowlet had evolved into a Dartrix. "W-Wow, I-" Ash was about to say something, but Dartrix began to shine again, he then softly left him in the ground as the figure grew taller and a Decidueye was now standing in front of him. "What the-"

"He evolved twice in a row?!" Peonia exclaimed.

"Well, he's been holding that Everstone for quite some time." Mallow said.

"Guess all that exp was there ready to make him evolve, but the stone didn't let him." Selene said.

"That kinda explains what happened against Hau." Lana added.

"Decidueye, the Arrow Quill Pokemon. In a tenth of a second, it can nock and fire an arrow quill, piercing an opponent's weak point before they notice what's happening." Ash's Rotom Phone informed. "Decidueye's Moveset has been updated: Spirit Shackle, Leaf Blade, Brave Bird, Low Sweep."

"Two evolutions in a row!" Skyla exclaimed. "Geez, wonderful things always happen to you, don't they?"

"Decidueye..." Ash trailed off and the owl nodded, the newly evolved starter then looked at Tornadus again and took a hold of his vines, pulling them to close his hood.

"That's something they do to concentrate!" Selene told Ash. "He's ready to go all out!"

"Then what are we waiting for? Spirit Shackle!" Just like the Pokedex said, in less than a second, Decidueye took one of his quills and fired it off to Tornadus causing an explosion on contact. Decidueye then repeated the move and Tornadus caught the second arrow with one of his claws before it could reach him, but the quill still exploded and pushed him back.

"Take the sky!" Skyla ordered.

"Arrow to the floor!" With both of them remembering their battle with Hau, Decidueye fired off an arrow to Tornadus' shadow, preventing him from taking off. "Now Leaf Blade!" Decidueye flew at Tornadus as both his wings were surrounded in green light, once he was close enough, he slashed Tornadus several times, but the Legendary pushed him away with a kick, Tornadus then tried to take flight again, but the effects of the Spirit Shackle still didn't let him.

"Wait, that arrow! Try to stomp it!" Skyla shouted and Tornadus did as ordered, freeing himself from the restraining effect and finally taking flight.

"He already figured it out, let's go after him them!" Decidueye nodded and shot several arrows at Tornadus while he tried to avoid them and the arrows began to follow him.

"Dive down!" Skyla ordered and Tornadus aimed at Decidueye with his talons.

"Low Sweep!" Decidueye jumped off and kicked Tornadus on his stomach, pushing him back to the arrows that were following him and leading to another explosion that finally caused the Legendary to slow down.

"Focus Blast!" Tornadus once again fired off the move, but Decidueye simply stood still and took the hit, which didn't damage him at all.

"He's a Ghost now! Tough luck." Acerola said.

"Argh! Then Dark Pulse!" Tornadus roared and a beam of dark energy was shot from his mouth finally landing a clean hit on Decidueye. "Bleakwind Storm!" Tornadus once again summoned his cold wind, but Decidueye quickly shot an Spirit Shackle that broke through it and caused another explosion onto Tornadus.

"Brave Bird!" Decidueye's body became covered in blue aura as he charged the move, but instead of taking flight, Decidueye prepared an arrow and the energy of the move was transfered to it.

"That's his Long Reach Ability!" Selene exclaimed. Decidueye then smirked and let go off the arrow, which took the shape of a drilling tornado and went right through Tornadus knocking him out of the sky, but he was still concious.

"Spirit Shackle!"

"Dark Pulse!"

Both moves were fired at the same time, but the arrow redirected itself to dodge the attack and crashed onto Tornadus while the Dark Pulse continued to Decidueye, but the owl avoided and flew at Tornadus, landing a Leaf Blade with his wings just a second before Tornadus hit the ground and once that happened the Legendary was finally defeated.

"Tornadus is unable to battle! Decidueye is the winner and the battle goes to Ash!"

"And That's that." Ash said as Decidueye walked back to him. "Congratulations... but I guess you won't fit in my backpack anymore, right?"

"De..." The owl shrugged shoulders.

"Thanks a lot, you all did your best." Skyla said to Tornadus and returned him while Ash walked to her.

"Great battle, Skyla, that was crazy." He said.

"Heh, you bet." Skyla replied with a weak smile. "You just keep getting stronger, don't you?"

"You also seem to have improved." Ash said. "Now, can I know how did you end up with a Tornadus?"

"Well, listen to this, I caught him roughly four months ago, but it all started when I was a child, I was in a plane with my parents and I first saw Tornadus there, altough no one believed me back then, however I think that was what started my fascination with planes and flight, seeing him so graceful yet violent when he was flying in the middle of a storm... back to what I was telling you, four months ago there was this huge storm close to Mistralton, it had been going for several days, people and Pokemon were force to fleed and I thought I knew what was causing it, I took my cargo and Tornadus was there, simply flapping his wings stationnary, my team tried to take him down so he would stop the storm, but he beat them quite easily... he looked at me and... I dunno, he simply left, then he kept making storms in different parts of Unova and I kept 'visiting' him everytime he did so, I guess... that after all that time we spent flying together we eventually learned to trust each other... and well, the catch wasn't as dramatic as one would expect, it just happened on day."

"That's an amazing story..." Ash replied.

"You think so? It wasn't much big deal honestly, his capture is kind of a symbol for both of us, I let him roam free most of the time and I only use him in Gym battles when things get really bad or if I need to teach a lesson to some arrogant trainer... I brought him to Alola to help us with the Ultra Beasts, but I guess it wasn't necessary."

"I see... Now Skyla, about that little deal with had-"

"Sure, you won." Skyla sighed. "I'll leave you and your girls alone, b-but thanks for giving me a chance."

"No, Skyla, wait." Ash suddenly took her hand. "I think we can still do that."

"But I... I lost." Skyla said.

"Yes, you did, and honestly..." Ash sighed. "If you had won, I'm not totally sure I would have just accepted you."

"You... Right, I-I guess I'm not girlfriend material, am I?"

"It's not that Skyla, but, this relationship I have, it's not something that I'd decide with just a battle." He answered. "It must be something about you and me, about how we both feel, especially considering we didn't get to know each other that much."

"T-That's why I've been doing all this." Skyla said. "To get to know you better, to become closer and be your... you know. But if that's the case, why did you accept that battle?"

"I accepted your offer exactly because of that, because it has been a long time since we last talked, I wanted to see how you changed over the years." Ash said. "It was never about who's a better trainer, but about what kind of people we are."

"Well, I definitely just fell harder for the kind of person you are, I love everything about you, Ash." She replied while the blush growing in her face only made her smile wider. "But... do you like the person I am now?"

"I do. You can be sure of it." He answered. "You looked so motivated during the whole fight and you came all the way from Unova to help me after all, you reeeally want this to happen, don't you?"

"Heh, yeah..." She answered getting close enough to him so her breasts would press on his chest and then winked. "I also lost my beloved plane, soooo... maybe you're feeling a bit guilty about that?"

"Skyla, would you like to be my girlfriend?" He suddenly asked.

"...YES!" She shouted after processing the question for a few seconds and then gave him a big hug that almost knocked him down. "Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes! Thank you! I promise, I'll do... I'll do... I-I'll do fricking everything for you and for the rest of the girls! You're not going to regret this!" She exclaimed to then grab his cheeks and give him a deep kiss on his lips. "Heh... that was even better than I imagined!" Skyla smiled holding her own burning cheeks to then look at a blushing Ash. "You look so so so cute! I... W-Wait, I just kissed you."

"Uh, yes, you did." Ash smiled.

"...AAAARGH! THAT WAS SO STUPID! WHAT'S WRONG WITH ME?!" She shouted. "I MEET WITH THE MAN OF MY DREAMS AFTER THREE YEARS AND THE FIRST THING I DO IS IMMEDIATELY CHALLENGE HIM TO BATTLE TO FORCE HIM INTO BEING MY BOYFRIEND AND THEN EVEN AFTER I LOST HE ACCEPTED ME AND THE FIRST THING I DO AS HIS GIRLFRIEND IS KISSING HIM WITHOUT CONSENT! HE'LL THINK I'M SOME SORT OF NYMPHO!"

"Skyla, there's nothing wrong with kissing, I reallly like i-"

"OH MY GOD, I KISSED A BOY!" Skyla continued "OH MY GOD, I HAVE A BOYFRIEND! OH MY GOD, HE HAS 7 OTHER GIRLFRIENDS! WHY DO I KEEP TALKING WITH THOSE FLYING METAPHORS?! I'M OBVIOUSLY THE LEAST INTERESTING OF ALL HIS GIRLS! WHAT IF HE GETS SICK OF ME AND DUMPS ME! OH MY GOD I'M SUCH A CRINGELORD! I WANT TO JUMP IN A HOLE AND DIEEEEE!"

"Seems like everything hit her together just like with Mallow yesterday." Peonia giggled, while Ash smiled again and gave Skyla another hug.

"Skyla, it's fine, please calm down." He insisted.

"A-Are you sure?" She asked and her answer was another lip kiss from Ash.

"I'm totally sure." Ash answered. "Girlfriend."

"...C-Come here you!" Skyla suddenly took Ash's head and pulled him to bury his face between her breasts. "I'm all yours from now on, so make sure to check the goods!" She added and then noticed Ash wasn't moving. "...You okay?"

"Sure..." A blushing Ash trailed off without resisting. "It's like... two big soft pillows."

"Yes!" Skyla smiled.

"Well, that was fast." Selene said.

"At least Nessa doesn't have the biggest boobs anymore." Gloria said.

"Damn it." Nessa complained.

"And Mallow's third by not much." Lana said. "Everyone else here is kinda flat."

"You just had to say that." Peonia said.

"I mean, it's hard to compare with Skyla." Acerola said. "That girl has some serious curves."

"Hmmp, Cinderace wasn't joking with those thights." Bea said.

"Yeah, that's bountiful bouncy bosom isn't half bad either." Lana said.

"Eh, to change topic, its funny how your numbers doubled since you made it to Alola." Mallow said.

"Pfft, yeah, if it keeps us like that we'll be ten in no time." Skyla said.

"Well, you'd be tenth if... nevermind." Ash said.

"You're really comfy there, aren't you?" Skyla stroked his hair without letting him move away from her breasts. "I'm gonna pamper you lots!"

"Ok, fine, I have to pamper you as well." Ash said separating a bit from her. "What would you like me to do?"

"Some things that we shouldn't do out in the open." Skyla giggled.

'This one will get along with Flannery at least.' Bea thought.

"But well, while we're here... Would you... Ash, would you like to stroke my hair?" Skyla asked finally letting go off him, Ash simply smiled to then place a hand over her hair and began to stroke it while Skyla hugged his chest.

"That feels great...I feel so safe in your arms..." She trailed off. "I'm melting... P-Please keep going, Daddy!"

"Daddy?!" The girls exclaimed.

"Uh..." Ash stopped a moment due to the embarassment.

"AH?!" Skyla shouted as well.

"Not that girl too now..." May trailed off as she saw the scene from afar. "You really didn't understand anything, Ash... I could just take a picture of this mess and tell everyone what you're doing... I'm the World contest champion, they'll have to believe me and then they'll have to separate you from those girls... but I'm not going to do that, just like Dawn, I'm still your friend, I'll help you realize you're doing the wrong thing, I'll find another way to make you dump them... or maybe they can dump you instead..." She added with a smile. "That way you'll run back to me."

---

Meanwhile in Kanto.

"Miss Erika, is this legal?" Shauna asked.

"When there are no cops around, anything's legal." She answered.

The Gym Leader and her new apprentice were now in Pallet Town, right next to the Ketchum residence, after their talk with Ash, Erika told Shauna that her next class would be accompanying her there and she had no choice but to agree.

"Why are we doing this again?" Shauna asked.

"Just follow my lead." Erika said. "I checked Miss Ketchum's social media and she's also in Alola along her Mr. mime so the house should be all alone. Now, let's do as we planned." Erika then released her Victreebell and Shauna called her Ivysaur, the girls then told their Pokemon to use their vines to open a window on the second floor of the house, once they did so, the Grass Types then raised the girls with their vines and helped them get inside the window and the trainers returned them once they were safely inside.

"Alright, this seems like Miss Ketchum's room..." Erika walked to the closet and opened it while Shauna stayed behind, Erika kept tossing some clothes around until she finally found what she was looking for. "Here it is!" She exclaimed holding a long orange dress. "This was the one he wore!" Erika then brought the dress closer to her nose as she blushed profusely and gave it a big sniff. "So this is how Ash smells like..." Erika smiled enamoured by the scent as her mind drifted off.

"What's going on here?!" Shauna suddenly shouted bringing Erika back to Earth.

"Ah, right, I suppose he doesn't comment it much." Erika giggled while hugging the dress close to her. "Ash disguised himself with this dress in order to challenge my Gym again after I banned him... he looked so cute..."

"We trespassed a home only so you could get your hands on a dress that Ash wore?!" Shauna exclaimed.

"Yup." Erika nodded.

"I'm really starting to regret asking to be your apprentice." Shauna sighed. "...But well, since we're here we might as well check Ash's room, I'd like to see what's inside there."

"That's a wonderful idea!" Erika exclaimed.

"Hey Erika, what are you doing in my Mom's room?" A male voice suddenly called from the door and the two girls saw Ash standing there while looking at the scene with his Pikachu on his shoulder.

"A-A-ASH!" Erika shouted while trying to hide the dress behind her. "This is not what it looks like!"

"It looks like you broke into my house along this girl to steal that dress." He said.

"...Ok, maybe it is what it looks like." Erika said. "B-B-But please, don't be angry, I just wanted to... I wasn't totally honest during our call, Ash, I fell in love with you! I-I wish to be your girlfriend!"

"Whaaaaaat?!" Shauna shouted.

"I see..." Ash trailed off. "But that's still no excuse for you and this girl to come here like nothing!"

"I-I know, I'm sorry, you must be so disappointed in me." Erika continued while protrasting in front of Ash.

"Wait, why do you keep saying 'this girl'?" Shauna asked. "Why don't you call me by my name?"

"Uh, w-well, that's because..." Ash looked around for a second. "Because I'm angry at you!"

"You recognized Erika because she's a Gym leader, but I'm not from this region..." Shauna trailed off as she approached Ash. "And you couldn't have made it all the way from Alola to here, we talked with you roughly an hour ago!"

"We did?" Ash asked.

"You're not Ash!" Shauna exclaimed releasing her Ivysaur again. "Who are you and what you doing here?!

"...Sigh, fine, you're good, girl, I'll admit it." Ash took a few steps back and laughed. "Might as well, just show myself! La imitadora! Maximitadora! No limitadora!" He exclaimed in a feminine voice making a quick spin "It's Duplica!" She posed back in her usual clothes holding Ash's attire in her arms while her Ditto smiled in her shoulder.

"...Who?" Shauna asked.

"Uh, she's an actress and impressionist, she owns a theather here in Kanto." Erika explained. "Thank Mew it wasn't really Ash... but man, was that a wasted confession."

"So you're in love with Ash?" Shauna asked.

"Yes, but I don't think that's the topic we should talk about at the moment." Erika replied looking at Duplica. "I feel obliged to ask what are you doing in Ash's house."

"Not sure if you're in place to ask that." Duplica giggled. "But well, I've always been good at imitating Ash and since he got so famous I've been getting a lot of requests to inpersonating him more, I decided to pass by his house and check the original source in order to make good enough dupes."

"Odlly specific." Shauna said.

"At least I didn't come here to steal an old dress." Duplica said.

"Leave the dress out of this!" Erika shouted.

"Sure thing, Weirdo." Duplica continued.

"Don't act like this is the first time you come here, Duplica." Another voice called and the girls looked at the door again seeing a young woman in a schoolgirl attire.

"Oh, hey Giselle!" Duplica greeted her.

"And this is?" Shauna asked looking at Erika.

"Well, Giselle is a top graduate of the Pokemon Technical Institute and the current Gym leader of Viridian City." Erika explained.

"Well, if it isn't Erika." Giselle said. "May I know what are you doing here?"

"I could ask you the same." Erika answered.

"We could all ask each other that question honestly." Shauna said. "Seriously, none of us should be here."

"Hmmp, I just came to check my future mother-in-law's house." Giselle replied.

"What?" Shauna asked.

"Why, of course, as Ash's first and only crush it is my duty to prepare myself to be his wife." Giselle said.

"Ah, yeah, she's totally delirious with the idea that Ash still loves her." Duplica said.

"Of course he does!" Giselle shouted.

"His 'crush' in you was almost 8 years ago." Duplica giggled.

"Uh, Miss Erika, since we already have the dress I think we should just leave." Shauna said.

"That's actually a good idea." Erika agreed and Shauna began to lead the way to the door, but she was stopped by yet another young woman that stood in front of her.

"...Do I have to ask?" She talked looking around at the rest of the visitors.

"Misty!" Erika shouted.

"Misty..." Giselle trailed off glaring at her.

"Uh, Hello there?" Shauna said.

"Oh, hi, Misty!" Duplica greeted her. "You also came to sneak inside Ash's house?"

"No. Miss Ketchum left me an spare key and asked me to water the plants." Misty answered. "So, all of you, to the living room. NOW!" She shouted and started to walk away, but then noticed the other girls weren't following her. "I SAID NOW!" Misty shouted again and the four girls accompanied her to the living room, with all of them sitting in the sofa while Misty held her head.

"Fine, explain me, one by one, what are you all doing here in Ash's house?!" Misty shouted.

"I just wanted this dress..." Erika trailed off.

"I'm Erika's student so I had to follow her." Shauna continued.

"Just looking for some inspiration." Duplica said.

"Once again, I came here to prepare myself to be Ash's wife." Giselle said. "After all, you never forget your first crush, we know that I'll always be his one and only true love, I bet he dreams about me every night and spends the days thinking of me."

"...I seriously think you're exaggerating with that." Shauna said.

"Ah, sure! Now that he's famous you want him for you!" Misty shouted at Giselle.

"I always loved him!" Giselle answered. "But he was too young to understand his feelings and my own, now that he's a man, I know he's waiting for me."

"What did I say? Delirious." Duplica replied rolling her eyes.

"He isn't waiting for you, you heartless monster!" Misty continued. "Do you have any idea how much he's cired over you? He finally moved on! Ash deserves to be happy, you should be ashamed! You're SICK!"

"...I feel like you're both exaggerating with that now." Shauna said.

"Ash deserves something better than you!" Misty shouted pointing at Giselle.

"Like who? You?" Giselle asked. "Don't make me laugh, Ash needs someone who at least acts as a woman. I'd rather have him be with Erika."

"Uh, Thanks?" Erika said.

"As a second wife with less rights than me, of course." Giselle ended.

"I ALSO LIKE ASH!" Shauna shouted. "I can't with the pressure, I can't stand it!"

"I can always ask dibs once you end your fighting." Duplica raised a hand. "Pfft, imagine if we do it while I'm dressed as him. That'd be weirdly hot."

"I won't be able of taking that picture out of my head for a while." Misty said.

"Like I said, Ash needs a real women." Giselle continued.

"Now I'm wondering if he'd be rough." Erika trailed off.

"Listen girls! I'd like to not imagine Ash in suggestive situations at the moment and you're not helping!" Shauna shouted.

"Will you all just shut up for a second?!" Misty shouted. "Argh! I can't with this! You're all going to clean this place until it looks better than when you arrived. Then you will leave, and never come back, understood?!"

"Pfft, or what?" Giselle asked.

"Or else I'm telling Miss Ketchum and Ash about all of you and what you did here!" Misty shouted.

"...That's actually a pretty good menace." Duplica said.

"This is so ridiculously stupid!" Misty shouted. "How come four girls decided to break into the same house the same day?!"

"That's five actually." Giselle said.

"I didn't break in! I have the key right here! Psyduck is still watering the plants!" Misty shouted and then pointed at the her Pokemon who had a sprayduck on his hand while watering a plant in the living room.

"I wasn't talking about you." Giselle said. "There was this weird pink haired girl in Ash's room when I got here, but she ignored me when I tried to talk with her, she was also saying some pretty weird things to herself so I decided to just leave her alone.

"Wait, what?" Misty asked.

"Uh, yeah, she had twintails and huge boobs, you didn't see her?" Giselle asked.

"Pink hair, twintails and huge boobs?" Duplica asked. "I think I've impersonated someone like that before."

"That kinda sounds like..." Erika trailed off.

"WHITNEY?!" Misty shouted and ran to Ash's room, the other four girls acompanied her, but there was no one in the room, altough the window was open.

"Are you sure it was her?" Erika asked.

"Give me a sec..." Misty looked to where Ash places his badges, setting her sights in the Johto ones and noticing the Plain Badge wasn't there anymore. "Yeah, it was definitely her... but what does Whitney want with Ash?"

"...So, can I keep the dress?" Erika asked.

"NO! YOU CAN'T!" Misty shouted.

---

Meanwhile in the Vermilion Port.

"My, that was a long travel, but it was well worth it... I knew he was keeping it dearly." Whitney smiled with Ash's Plain Badge in her hands and gave it a small kiss. "Don't worry, my dear Ashy, I'll give it back to you, when we meet again, this badge will represent the start of our new relationship... You'll soon see how much I love you... and how much a women can do for her love."

---

Back with Ash.

After the little moment with Skyla and a better introduction with the rest of the girls, the group decided to have another reunion, this time including their newest member, so they left Ash and Selene outside the mansion while the rest stayed inside to talk.

"Well, that was quite the scene." Selene said.

"I'm sorry if this is all making you uncomfortable." Ash answered.

"No, it's fine, they're your girls, it's only fair to let them show their affection." She replied. "And I guess it's a good idea to share the day with them, you know, as some kind of free trial for when I... for when that happens."

"So you made up your mind?" Ash asked.

"I'm still thinking... I just want to spend some time with you for now, is that okay?"

"Of course, and I'm sure the girls won't mind having you tag along for the moment."

"Yeah, with the exception of Gloria, they all seem nice." Selene smiled. "And speaking about that..."

"What?" Ash noticed Selene was looking behind him but before he could turn and see, someone's hands covered his eyes.

"Guess who?"

"Aside from the voice, those breasts pressing on my back are more than enough clue, Skyla." He answered.

"Pfft, what a mood killer." She giggled before giving him a kiss on his cheek while still covering his eyes. "Listen, the girls and I already talked and we decided to take the rest of the day easy, we just want to spend some time with our loving boyfriend in the private beach of the mansion, how does that sound?"

"S-Sounds great." Ash stuttered a little already guessing what would happen in that beach.

"That's great! You can join us if you want, Selene." Skyla continued.

"Sure, I'll just go change myself first." She answered to then walk inside the mansion.

"As for you, Ash, I'm gonna put you on a little blindfold, the girls and I want to surprise you, so I'll take you to your room so you can change clothes and then you'll put on the blindfold again so I can take you to the beach, okay?"

"Fine, I guess I'll play along." Ash smiled and Skyla put on the blindfold on him to then take him to his room, Skyla let him go inside and closed the door, Ash then took off the blindfold, and just like she suggested he changed himself, now wearing only a pair of blue swim trunks with a white stripe running down both sides, he was about to put on the blindfold again, but his Rotom Phone ringed with an unknwon number so he answered the call.

"Uh, hey there, Hapu!" He greeted her.

"Nice to see you, Ash." She answered while blushing a little as she noticed he was shirtless, but she tried to ignore that topic. "Uh, Kukui gave me and the other Kahunas your phone the other day, hope you don't mind."

"Don't worry, it's fine, how's everything in Poni island?"

"You mean after the invasion? Luckily no casualties, we're already rebuilding, glad you stopped the whole thing rather quickly tho."

"Guess it's kinda my job as a champion." Ash laughed.

"Speaking of that, I'd like to invite you for a rematch." Hapu said. "A more detailed battle between you and me, without improvised Soak this time, okay?"

"Sure, I accept your challenge." Ash answered.

"Thank you, I suppose we also got a few things to talk about." She smiled. "Can you come today?"

"Sorry, but it'll have to be tomorrow, I'm kinda busy at the moment."

"Of course, I understand, see you tomorrow then, in Poni Breaker Coast, just like the last time."

"I'll be right there." Ash smiled and cut off the call, he then put on the blindfold again and knocked the door to tell Skyla to open it.

"There, we going to the beach now?" Ash asked while Skyla took one of his hands.

"In a second." Skyla giggled. "The girls told me I could have a little moment for ourselves first."

"Uh, Skyla-"

"Chill out, I'm not going to take advantage because you're blindfolded, when that happens, I'll make sure you see everything." She answered giving him a deep kiss right on the lips. "But until then... I don't see a problem with stimulating your other senses... A-Ash, if you don't want to do this right now, just tell me and I'll stop."

"Well, you say we're alone and the girls gave you a moment so... wait, you're wearing a bikini, right?"

"I was, but I decided to take it off while you were changing." She bluntly answered.

"SKYLA!" He shouted in embarrasment.

"Hehe, you haven't seen any of your girls fully naked from what they told me, and well, it's not like I want to steal that first spot, but..." Skyla took both of Ash's hands and guided them to her breasts. "I just want you to know what you're messing with, now that we're together, I'll be quite some more straight-forward... you're feeling them right?"

"Y-Yes, they're... they're r-really big and soft." He stuttered with a massive blush. "But your, uh... they're hard, you know?"

"Oh, what? My nipples?" She grinned while he flustered even more. "Yes, they are, and they're not the only hard thing here." Skyla giggled looking down. "Again, none of the girls have seen you fully naked either, I wonder for how much time this family will stay pure?" Skyla then moved Ash's hands to her hips and buried his face between her breasts again, but this time they were both blushing far more than before thanks to the direct skin contact.

"Y-You're... really warm." Ash said.

"You too, I love it." She answered. "This is the embrace of a woman who loves you, can you hear it? My heart? It's running wild because of you... hehe, fine, we should get moving before the girls get worried. Hopefully next time this happens you'll get to use your eyes." Skyla finally let Ash go and put on the bikini again, she then gave the still blindfolded Ash another lip kiss and started to guide him to the beach with their hands joined until they were in front of the rest of the girls.

"And Tada!" Skyla took off the cloth from his eyes and Ash saw all the girls in swimwear, Bea had the same black bikini with orange outlines and white flowers from that time in the cruise, Nessa's bikini was red and she had a black towel around her waist, Peonia's bikini was green with red outlines, Acerola's was purple and Skyla's was light blue with white outlines, Mallow had her usual green swimshorts and bandeau patterned with red flowers, while Lana was wearing her usual one-piece swimsuit and Selene had a Bikini with blue and white stripes.

"My life... has no regrets." Ash whispered.

"So, I guess this is the fun part of having a harem, isn't it?" Peonia begin with the tease while hugging one of his arms.

"I bet you were just dying for a moment like this." Nessa asked kissing one his cheeks.

"W-Well, you all definitely look amazing." Ash said.

"Well, you can imagine swimwear is kinda my thing." Nessa replied giving him a lip kiss. "Glad I'm getting you excited."

"I feel a bit awkward with this honestly, but I'm glad you like it." Peonia said. "Like, you know I'm from the Crown Tundra, I've lived most of life in the middle of snow and cold, wearing tropical clothes is one thing, but a straight-up bikini? well, it feels like I'm... wearing nothing at all." She whispered to his ear and smiled happy to see him blushing.

"W-We wanted to try some bikinis too, but we thought you'd prefer us in our usual stuff." Mallow said.

"I'll admit you do look somewhat different while wearing them now that you're my girlfriends." Ash said. "Even considering Lana pretty much lives with that swimsuit on."

"You know me well, don't you?" Lana asked.

"I was saving this for a special ocassion too!" Acerola smiled.

"I-I honestly brought this one on my way to your house, it was in case that the battle failed." Skyla said.

"So you were going to try and seduce me?" Ash asked.

"Is it working?" Skyla stuck out her tongue and pressed her breasts out between her arms.

"Yup, definitely." Ash nodded remembering what just happened between them and Acerola then hugged his free arm.

"What about me, Ash? Am I seducing you too?" She asked.

"I don't know... you look more cute than anything." He answered.

"Not the answer I expected, but I'm satisfied." Acerola said. "And I'll grow soon, so wait for it, I can already tell you're a boob addict... the more kids you give me the more they'll grow."

"Hey, I'm not a boob addict." Ash said feeling an urge to look at Bea, who blushed while remembering that moment they shared back in Galar.

"Really?" Peonia asked with a raised eyebrow. "Nessa, Mallow, Skyla, come here, okay?" The girls understood the idea and the three stood in front of Ash with Skyla in the middle while she hugged them from their sides so their breasts would press against each other.

"That's not fair..." Ash trailed off hitting his blushing limit while finding himself unable to look away.

"I already got two wins and it's my first day as girlfriend!" Skyla smiled.

"Ash Ketchum, you pervert." Nessa giggled at him. "But you don't have to feel bad about seeing us that way, we're your girlfriends after all."

"This is a bit embarassing, but I'm glad to know we have that effect on you." Mallow said.

"Aight, enough. Cool down, y'all." Lana suddenly tossed a trio a bucket of sea water and then did the same to Ash, wetting Acerola and Peonia as well.

"Yeah, you should cut that off before his heart stops." Selene told them.

"I'll give him CPR if that happens!" Nessa smiled.

"I'll rejoin his soul with his body if that doesn't work!" Acerola smiled as well. "Phoebe told me how to do it."

"S-Sure, I... Selene, you also look great." Ash told her.

"Thank you." She answered with a blush while looking away. "Like you said, I think I'll tag along for the moment."

"Of course, and I'm glad to see you wearing that bikini again, Bea." Ash continued. "I... I really thought you looked amazing with it since the first time."

"Heh, thanks, now let's hope that what happened the last time I was wearing it doesn't repeat." Bea said.

"Oh, you mean when you killed Ash?" Acerola asked and everyone stared at Bea. "Phoebe told me about that."

"You did what?!" Selene exclaimed at Bea.

"It was an accident!" Bea said. "I-I pushed him to a pool and... well..."

"But Phoebe saved me and it's all alright, no one got hurt in the end." Ash said trying to calm down the girls. "Like I was saying you all look beautiful... hey, wait, where's Gloria?"

"I'm here!" Gloria called behind him wearing a short blue sleveeless shirt accompained by a blue sarong, a wrist scrunchie and a pink flower in her head. "I... Marnie and I bought a pair of these back in Galar some weeks ago and I finally get to use it, how do I look?"

"Gloria..." Ash slowly walked to her and caught her in a hug. "You look so precious."

"Yeeees!" Gloria whispered.

"Alright, we got a whole day for us!" Nessa smiled. "First things first, I'm teaching Peonia how to swim!" She said while grabbing the aforementioned's arm and dragging her to the ocean.

Oh, I can help with that too." Lana said following them.

"Hey, wait, wait! We don't have to do that now!" Peonia exclaimed to no avail.

"Well, what are the rest of you going to do?" Ash asked.

"Oh, can we look for some Sandygast in the beach?" Acerola asked. "You know, for safety."

"I was thinking I haven't trained in a while." Bea said. "Maybe you can help me with that?"

"Why don't we try the classic sunscreen on the back?" Mallow suggested.

"I'll do anything you do, Ash!" Gloria smiled.

"How about you bring your face here for another bit, boyfriend?" Skyla asked pointing at her breasts.

"ASH!" a voice suddenly shouted and the group looked back to find Elaine running at them with her Pikachu on her head, but she stumbled and fell with her face first on the sand a few steps away from Ash.

"Elaine! You okay?" Ash asked helping her stand up.

"S-Sure, thanks." She answered coughing a bit of sand. "I just... Why aren't you wearing a shirt?!" She shouted looking at his chest.

"Well, we're on the beach so-"

"Cover yourself!" Elaine demanded covering her eyes.

"What? But I can finally watch him shirtless without nose bleeding!" Gloria complained and stared at Ash for a few seconds before covering her nose. "Well, almost."

"Hello there, guys!" Mina walked into the scene along Delia and Lei.

"Hey, Mina, and Mom!" Ash greeted them.

"...MOM?!" Skyla shouted and suddenly prostrated in front of the woman. "I-I'ts an honor to meet you, Miss Ketchum, my name is Skyla Stahl, I'm from Mistralton City in Unova and I'm the eighth girlfriend of your son, I-I hope you accept me just like you have accepted the rest!"

"Uh... Nice to meet you, please stand up." Delia answered and Skyla straightened herself in front of her. "Don't need to be nervous darling, now, you said you were eighth so... can the rest of Ash's girlfriends please come here?" Delia asked and the girls in question got a bit scared and quickly went to stand next to Skyla, while Selene, Mina and Elaine stayed behind next to Ash, with the younger sister still covering her eyes.

"I-Is there a problem, Miss Ketchum?" Nessa asked.

"Don't worry, it's not because of anything bad, I just want to make sure I know you all correctly, fine?" Delia said. "Now, let's see if I get it right... I already met with Bea, Nessa, Peonia, Gloria... Acerola, I'm so glad you got to make it on your own."

"Thanks a lot, Miss Ketchum!" She answered. "I honestly wouldn't have made it without your help."

"You two are Mallow and Lana, right?" Delia asked and the two tensed up and simply nodded. "Of course, I know you two are great friends of Ash, nice to see you're in as well."

"T-T-Thank you!" Mallow stuttered.

"We won't dissapoint you, Miss Ketchum." Lana nodded.

"And Skyla, you're the lastest addition." The mother continued.

"Yes, that's me." Skyla nodded.

"You truly have been expanding your horizons, right Ash?" Delia asked with a laugh while her son approached her.

"I guess you can say that." Ash answered and then looked at Lei. "And what about you, little guy?" He asked taking him on his arms and Lei began to laugh.

"I decided to bring him with me, that way Kukui and Burnet will finally get some sleep." Delia explained. "Those two haven't closed an eye since Lei came by. I also left Mimey in their house to take care of them."

"Oh? So you've been staying with Burnet and Kukui?" Lana asked.

"That's right, I still hope they're not seeing me as a third wheel though." Delia said. "They're truly amazing people and I owe them a lot for taking care of my Ash for over a year, helping them as first-time parents is just a way to show my gratitude."

"Well, I can see where Ash got his kindness from." Skyla said.

"Since we're doing introductions..." Ash walked to Elaine, who was still covering her eyes and guided her to the girls. "For those who don't know, this is Elaine, she's my sister."

"You have a sister?!" Mallow and Lana shouted.

"Yup, well, half-sister, it's a long story." Ash replied while uncovering Elaine's eyes. "Isn't that right, Elaine?"

The younger girl simply stared a few moments at him and then blushed again. "...Argh, damn it! Ash! Mina wanted to tell you that she wants to join your harem!" Elaine exclaimed.

"Uh, really?" Ash asked the painter.

"Nope, sorry lad." Mina answered. "Elaine is just trying to deviate your attention since she's got too shy to tell you something that she's been hiding since you met."

"That's not true! Don't listen to her!" Elaine exclaimed. "Go ahead! Kiss her right now with those... t-those lips that look so... AAAARGH!" Elaine ran away and started to kick some sand. "Why is this happening to me?!"

"...She'd like to have a battle with ya." Mina said to Ash.

"Oh... right, that's a good idea." She said. "Please let me show you my battle skills, brother!"

"I'd be happy to show you mine as well." Ash said returning Lei to Delia. "Also, Elaine, you know you can just call me Ash, right?"

"Y-You mean like how your girlfriends call you?" She asked blushing.

"Uh, more like how everyone else calls me." Ash answered.

"Oh, this will be fun." Mina giggled.

While the whole scene unfolded, Selene walked to Delia, looking down while she rewinded the whole day with Ash and the girls

"Is everything okay, dear?" Delia asked her.

"Miss Ketchum, can I ask you something?" Selene raised her head and looked at the mother.

"Oh, please Selene, you don't need to be so formal with me." She smiled.

"Well... you know him the best so... what do you think is Ash's ideal type of woman?" Selene asked.

"Ah, well, I think the answer to that should be obvious." Delia giggled. "Ash's ideal type of woman is just any woman that he can make feel special, look around and you'll see, there's beautiful girls, cute girls, sexy girls, small girls, clever girls and even some not-quite-so girls... Ash's sincere love for all types of woman is pretty evident, don't you think?"

"I guess that's a way of saying that... Ash is naturally gifted at seeing the best in women." Selene said.

"Correct, and I'm sure he wouldn't mind having you as well." Delia smiled while Selene blushed.

"I'm not sure, Miss Ketchum." She answered.

"Listen, I know I may sound like I just want my Ash to have all the girlfriends possible so I can be swarmed by grandkids, but I really think you'd be both happy with each other, I still remember how close you two were with when you were younger."

"I guess that's true..." Selene trailed off looking at Ash again, but Gloria suddenly stood in front of her.

"Would you stop staring at my boyfriend?" She asked at Selene."

"Gloria... I'm really sorry about everything." Selene said.

"Ah, sure! Now you want to be nice with me only to join the family!" Gloria exclaimed. "And once you're in, you'll continue to fight with me, right?"

"...Gloria, how did you meet Ash?" Selene asked.

"What?"

"I mean, you told me that you were his biggest fan, now, since you know I met him during his childhood, I'd like to know how it was for you, since you seem so close to him." She explained.

"Hmm... I first saw him during a broadcast of his battle against the Frontier Brain Brandon back in Kanto." Gloria answered and looked back at Ash, who was still talking with Elaine and Mina. "I wasn't much interested in battles or Pokemon at all before that, but I stumbled onto that broadcast and it changed me forever, it's because of Ash that I am a trainer today... then I finally met him in Galar and... well, lots of thing happened up until this point."

"And so it seems..." Selene gave a sincere smile. "Ash also changed me, the way he was always talking about becoming a trainer back when we were kids eventually led me to become one too, and seeing his victory in Alola motivated me even more, so I came here to take the trials, I'll be sure to give him a battle that he remembers... in the end, the two of us are what we are now thanks to Ash, I guess they're right, you and I are not so different."

"...If you're really as important as Ash says you are..." Gloria trailed off to then sigh. "Fine, you have my permission to join, so I guess is up to you now."

"...Thank you, Gloria." Selene smiled and tried to give her a hug, but Gloria suddenly pushed her away and made her fall to the sand.

"Don't be exaggerated, we aren't friends yet." Gloria said while she walked back to Ash.

"Well, that's a start, she'll warm up to me." Selene said while Delia helped her stand up.

"Glad to see you motivated." Delia smiled. "In all honestly, Selene, back when you lived close to us, I would have definitely liked to have you as Ash's girlfriend.

"Hehe, thank you, Miss Ketchum." Selene smiled to then look at Ash again. "I guess I have an answer already..."

---

Meanwhile in Shalour City, Kalos.

"I feel like Ash is thinking too much abouts boobs recently and I'm not there to take advantage of it." Flannery said.

"I screwed up Flannery, I screwed up so so bad." Korrina said while they were both at the Ice Cream Shop in which Malva was working, Flannery and Korrina's Pokemon were all trying to cheer her up, but there wasn't much they could do.

"Oh, please, you don't gain anything just giving up like that." Flannery said. "You just have to call Ash and explain him everything."

"Explain him what?!" Korrina shouted. "That I didn't want him to reencounter with his best friend because I was jealous of her?!"

"...It does sound quite bad when you say it like that." Flannery admitted.

"Are you two going to order something already?" Malva asked behind the bar.

"Yeah, in a moment, we're trying to give Korrina some emotional support here." Flannery said.

"What am I going to do now?!" Korrina continued. "I had so many things planned for our rencounter! Our battle was going to be legendary! Lucario, Mienshao, Machoke, you all have been training so hard! But now there's no way Ash will come to visit- AH!" Korrina suddenly stood up and slipped with her skates, but a Poke ball opened and a shiny Golett appeared and caught Korrina on his arms before she hit the floor.

"Huff, thanks." Korrina said standing up again. "...Wait, who are you?"

"I think he came from your pocket." Flannery said pointing at her skirt, Korrina then looked inside the pocket and pulled out an opened Dusk Ball with a note on it.

.

-H-Hey Korrina!, Uh, I was going to visit you today to give you this, but, uh, I saw you crying on the streets, you looked sad, so, I decided to just leave it on your pocket without you noticing! You know I'm good at sneaking. This is Golett, he likes to roll a lot and that reminds me of you, please take care of him!-

With love, Hexy.

.

"My, thanks a lot, Hexy." Korrina smiled looking at the Golett who gave her a salute.

"Who's Hexy?" Flannery asked.

"She's a good friend of mine, altough she's really shy." Korrina said handing Flannery the note. "You've probably seen her walking around here in Shalour, pale skin, long black hair, black cobweb dress... kinda big boobs... like yours."

"Ah, yeah, I think I've seen her." Flannery said. "Also, did she sturtter in her writing?"

"Like I said, she's really shy." Korrina added. "But well, at least her boyfriend Calem and his girlfriend Evelyn are there to support her."

"Uh, what was that last part?" Flannery asked.

"Oh, yeah, Hexy's boyriend, Calem, is also dating another girl called Evelyn, but both Evelyn and her know and agreed with the whole thing." Korrina explained. "Hexy assures me she's happy and I've met Calem, he's nice, I haven't met Evelyn, but Hexy told me she's also shy so I suppose Calem has a thing for that kinda girls, and it's not like I'm someone to judge them... still, just try to picture that, two girls sharing the same guy, that must be chaos."

"Why do I suddenly feel a cold wind?" Flannery asked.

"Are you seriously asking that?" Malva raised an eyebrow.

"Hello, everyone..." Drasna waved at them as she walked inside the store with a serious face.

"Hi, darling." Malva said closing her eyes and waiting for a kiss, but her wife simply stood in front of her with her arms crossed."

"We need to talk." Drasna said opening her eyes, something that scared both Flannery and Korrina.

"W-What did I do now?" Malva stuttered slightly scared as well.

"It's not about what you did, but rather what you didn't do." Drasna continued. "Listen, I've been reading quite a nice book titled 'Setting Limits for Your Out-of-Control ex-criminal wife'."

"Well, that's... really specific." Malva said.

"Yes, someone called Brendan wrote it." Drasna said. "Whatever, I think it's time for you to stop this unhealthy behavior."

"What unhealthy behavior?" Malva asked.

"Everyday you simply come to work and go home to eat alone in your room and sleep!" Drasna complained. "You haven't spend time with us since we're married! You need to take responsibility for our life together and that starts by helping me raise our daughter!"

"..."

"..."

"..."

"...I'm... sorry...?" Malva said. "I literally have no idea what you're talking about."

"The teen orphan you adopted during our wedding, remember?" Drasna asked and Malva shook her head confused causing Drasna to sigh. "Tina, could you come here?" She called and a slim and fit teen girl walked inside the shop, she had tan skin, orange eyes, and slightly messy short red hair kept in place with a black headband. She was also wearing a sporty outfit consisting of a black athletic top, matching black athletic shorts, and an orange and white long-sleeved jacket that was partially unzipped along athletic orange shoes, while also being accompanied by a Flareon.

"Uh... Hi?" She waved at them.

"...Hello?" Korrina answered.

"YOU HAD A DAUGTHER!" Flannery shouted.

"What?! No?! Do you even understand how that works?!" Malva shouted. "W-W-Who is this supposed to be?!"

"You really don't know?!" Dransa complained.

"No! Where did she come from?! " Malva continued. "Only our friends and family where at that wedding!"

"Uh, Miss Drasna-"

"No, don't you worry Tina." Drasna interrupted her as she grabbed Malva by the neck of her uniform. "To begin with, only friends and family were at that wedding, but you got drunk and disappeared for like an hour!"

"Ah, yeah, I remember that." Flannery said.

"So let me explain you what happened during that hour!" Drasna exclaimed.

---

Some weeks ago at their wedding.

"Hey, where did Malva go now?" Blaine asked.

"Eh, she probably got drunk and started wandering around." Kabu said.

"That's quite the problem, considering that crazy woman always had the weakest tolerance to alcohol of the family." Mr. Moore added.

"We've been married for 30 minutes and she already abandoned me." Drasna sighed.

"Shouldn't we go after her then?" Flannery asked.

"Nah, she'll be back." Kabu said. "Drunk Malva is like a boomerang, she always returns to where she sent off."

"Or so we thought!" Drasna narrated back in the present time. "Malva rode on top of her Pyroar and ended up in a beach of Ambrette, our girl Tina here is a Track and Field runner and she had just ended winning a race in that town while she was returning to the orphanage where she lives in and stumbled upon a drunk malva in the beach."

"Miss Malva?" Tina asked recognizing her.

"Oh, hiiiii!" Malva smiled mostly lost in the alcohol. "Are you a fan? You want a picture?"

"Oh! That would be great!" Tina smiled and pulled out her Poryphone to take a selfie with Malva.

"Here we go! Party face!" Malva smiled while making a peace sign with her fingers as Tina took the picture.

"Whoa! Thanks, Miss malva!" Tina exclaimed.

"Call me Malvs, dear." She laughed again.

"Hey, are you okay?" Tina asked.

"I'm just so jazzed to meet you, girl!" Malva giggled. "What's your name?"

"M-My name is Tina, Tina Sazanka, I live in an orphanage quite close from here."

"Oh, so you're an orphan..." Malva trailed off. "My, poor girl."

"It's fine, don't worry." Tina said. "In fact, I pretty much work there, helping the caretakers with the younger ones, I've been thinking of setting off in a journey, but I'm not sure..."

"Hey, do you want some advices to get adopted?" Malva asked.

"Oh, yes, that'd be nice." Tina nodded.

"Listen, teeth whitener is a good idea." She started and Tina quickly looked for her Poryphone again and started writing.

"Teeth whitener..." She repeated.

"Aha, also eyeliner and learning a foreign language can help." Malva continued.

"I already know some languages tho."

"You should also get experimental surgery to make my eyes larger and more vulnerable-looking." Malva said.

"That sounds a bit too extreme..." Tina said.

"Well, you want to be adopted, don't you?" Malva asked.

"Y-Yes, but-"

"Listen, what can you do now?" Malva interrupted her.

"Uh, well, I'm a Pokemon trainer, I'm also good at cooking, driftwood art and I'm a skilled Track and Field runner and gymnastic."

"That all sounds super cool!" Malva exclaimed squeezing Tina's cheeks. "Listen, gal, I just got married and my wife and I talked about how we'd like kids... do you think you'd be interested in letting us adopt you?"

"...YES!" Tina shouted.

"Greeeeeat!" Malva smiled again.

"Oh my god, t-this is so great! great! great!" Tina started jumping in the air. "Because all I ever want was to get adopted, so I can finally stop being..." Tina looked at Malva again and noticed she had fallen sleep in the sand. "...alone." She whispered sitting next to her.

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Back in the present time.

"Then Tina called me with your Rotom Phone and stayed there in the beach to make sure nothing happened to you until Blaine, Kabu and I found you." Drasna continued to explain. "She later explained us everything that happened, we confirmed it with the audio of a nearby camera and I thought it was a good idea so I filled the papers and we took her in."

"JUST LIKE THAT?!" Malva shouted.

"Yup, she's been living with us for the past weeks, but you're so lost into your own world that you didn't even notice it!" Drasna shouted.

"Heh, and I didn't want to visit you for a while to give you two some privacy." Flannery laughed.

"This isn't funny!" Malva shouted.

"It is quite comical actually, and I must say, I've grown rather fond of the young lady." Drasna continued hugging Tina close to her. "You should get to know her, you and her have a lot in common... she lost her parents at a very young age. Doesn't she deserve a chance for someone to take her under their wing, as I took you under mine after what happened with Team Flare?

"...Drasna, you've been watching way too many Lifetime movies while drinking Berry juice." Malva said.

"It's tea." Drasna answered.

"Whatever it is." Malva sighed and then looked at Tina. "You... fine, I still don't fully understand what happened, but you look like a nice girl and I do wanted to adopt eventually, so welcome in."

"That's so great!" Flannery exclaimed hugging Tina. "I've always wanted a sister! I mean, you're technically a cousin, but we'll get along, my name is Flannery, pleasure to meet you!"

"Uh, t-thank you." Tina smiled.

"And are you really okay with all this?" Korrina asked Tina.

"Sure! I mean, it's better than being orphan." Tina answered. "Miss Drasna is really caring and, had I not accepted, I probably would have stayed in the orphanage my whole life, I never had luck with adoption interviews anyway."

"How many of those did you have?" Flannery asked.

"One hundred twenty-four." Tina answered with dead eyes. "Besides, I'm turning 17 next year, and it is really hard for a teenager to get adopted. I thought I had no future and that no one wanted me, but I'm glad I found Miss Malva."

"Heh. Guess I was good for something after all." Malva said.

"I'm proud of you, darling." Drasna said and gave her wife a kiss, while the Pokemon were all greeting Tina alongside Flannery and korrina, however Flannery's Lampet suddenly heard a suspicious noise and he floated to the front door.

"Something wrong, Lampet?" Flannery asked him and the front door suddenly opened sending Lampet flying back to his trainer.

"Korriiiiiinaaaaa!" An angry Serena shouted entering the place along Miette.

"Of course." Korrina sighed.

"You and I need to talk!" Serena pointed at the skater. "I just talked with Ash and I know he was covering you! Why didn't you tell him about my welcome back party?!"

Korrina did her best to try and find an appropiate answer, but before she could talk, the front door of the shop slammed closed and turned into a zipper.

"Uh, is that a giant zipper?" Tina asked.

"Pretty sure that's a giant zipper." Korrina nodded.

"Lamp!" Flannery's Lampet exclaimed happily.

"Oh girls, you're in for a show." Flannery smiled.

"I don't care if this shop turns into pants, you're gonna answer me!" Serena shouted at Korrina again.

"Serena, I actually think we should be a bit more concerned about this." Miette suggested.

"STICKY FINGERS!" A voice shouted and the zipper opened to then absorb Flannery, Korrina, Tina, Serena, Miette and their Pokémon inside of it, the zipper then closed and disappeared as quickly as it came, leaving only Drasna and Malva in the Ice Cream shop.

"...You just saw that too, right?" Malva asked.

"Yup." Drasna nodded.

"Should we call the police?" Malva asked again.

"Nah, I got the feeling that they'll be fine, let Tina have her first adventure." Drasna answered.

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Meanwhile in the Distortion World.

"Did we really need all of them?" The Froslass asked. "I thought you only wanted that Lampet."

"Yeah, but they were too close to the zipper, so it's their fault." The Marshadow answered. "Besides, the more contestants, the more fun, right?"

"I still feel like we're being too irresponsible with this whole thing." Froslass said.

"Oh, please, what's the point of having god-like powers if you can't use them to mess with the mortals?" Giratina said appearing behind them. "You should have seen Arceus back in the day."

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Back in the day.

-Arceus! aunque tu madre lo oculto, era aquel fontanero!-

-Sexy Sax Noises-

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"Ok, enough." Froslass said. "Now we're only missing Shauntal Buckland, Phoebe Uhane and Acerola Ketchum, all of them are in Alola."

"No place like home." Marshadow said. "Let's go for them."

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Meanwhile in Twinleaf.

"Ursula, are you here?" Dawn asked entering her house seeing how the place seemed intact but most of the decorations looked different.

"Yes, we're in your room, come up!" Ursula answered and Dawn walked upstairs to go to her room, finding her Ursula along Chloe and Regina, with the latter carrying Akari's Zorua in her arms.

"So... it's true." Dawn trailed off.

"I'm sorry Dawn, I checked every centimeter of the house, there's not a clue." Ursula said.

"Ursula explained us what she knew, we asked the neighbors but nobody knows where they are or what happened." Chloe added while going to give her friend a hug. "I'm really sorry, Dawn.

"It's okay..." Dawn answered trying to hold her tears. "T-Thank you for coming anyway... you must be Regina."

"Yes, that's me. Pleasure to meet you, altough I wish it could have been in better conditions." Regina answered walking to Dawn. "And I suppose he's yours." Regina tried to give Dawn the Zorua, but this jumped away from Dawn and to Regina's shoulders.

"Zorua... what happened?" Dawn asked, but the Zorua simply sat down on Regina's shoulder and closed her eyes.

"Alright, Dawn, we need some explanations." Ursula said.

"Like, to begin with, this is a Hisuian Zorua." Chloe said. "I didn't want to say it during the call since it is a complicated topic, but you seem to know about it, how did a Pokemon that's been extinct for centuries suddenly appear in the present? What does it have to do with you and who does it belongs to?"

"...This Zorua belong to one of my ancestors, her name is Shō Akari." Dawn started to explain. "She's the first girl of my family that came to Sinnoh, she was teleported by what I suppose was a time portal to the present time, she's currently around my age and we look extremely similar, she has been staying with us for a few weeks before I left to Alola."

"Well, that whole thing is a problem." Regina said. "Having your ancestor abandon their original place in time before they could give birth to their sucessor is already a tight situation... you say she was living with you for a couple weeks, how were you planning to send her back to the past?"

"I'm honestly not sure, I just thought we'd find a way somehow." Dawn said. "And I was also going to explain my situation to Ash, in hope that he could help us."

"And where is he?" Ursula asked. "Why didn't you bring him with you?"

"Ash and I had... a big discussion back in Alola, I couldn't even tell him the problem with Akari." Dawn sighed. "Nevermind that, I think I know what happened with Mom and Akari. Danika must be behind it."

"Wait, Danika?" Chloe asked.

"You mean that chaser that was visiting you the other day?" Regina asked.

"A what now?" Ursula asked.

"Chasers are somewhat elite Pokemon Rangers and researchers, they also work for many law-enforcement organizations like the Interpol." Regina explained.

"Danika's specific division, M.E.W. Of project RKS, is investigating Legendary Pokémon to understand the origin of the species, and she is also one of the most experimented chasers in the world." Chloe continued. "She's... uh, a friend of my ex, that's how I got to meet her..."

"And how did you meet her, Dawn?" Ursula asked.

"I guess I'm responsible for that." Chloe said. "I asked her to give Dawn a visit after she asked me if I knew about time portals... you were talking about Akari back then, weren't you?"

"Yes, I was." Dawn answered. "When Danika came here she told me there was some kind of time crisis here in Sinnoh, that must have been what brought Akari here, but... I didn't tell Danika about her."

"Why not? She could have helped." Chloe said.

"I don't know, there's something weird about her, I knew you send her, but I wasn't sure if I could trust Danika." Dawn said. "I believe that after I left to Alola she found the truth about Akari and tried to take her away."

"And Johanna, being who she is, definitely tried to defend her." Ursula said.

"That would mean Danika arrested her as well." Chloe said.

"Well Chloe, you know the most about this Danika, where would she take prisoners after something like that?" Regina asked.

"The Interpol has a set of Headquarters with a prison section here in Sinnoh, they take the most dangerous things there and that place is also the base of RKS, so it must be the first place where Danika thought of taking them, it's on the foot of Mt. Coronet." She explained.

"Then I'm going there." Dawn said.

"Wait a second, Dawn." Regina replied. "Even if that was the correct place, you still aren't even completely sure if Danika was the one who took them way."

"Well, there's only one way to find out." Dawn said with Rotom Phone on hand.

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Meanwhile in the foot of Mt. Coronet

"Let me go!" Faba complained while he was being thrown inside a glass cell which was then locked. "Why are you doing this to me, Gladion?! I'm still the head scientist of Aether Paradise! I have my rights!"

"Those rights only apply to citizens respetful of the law who don't help aliens try to conquer our civilizaton!" Gladion answered. "And you better be sure that you're more than fired, Faba."

"Argh, you can not do this!" Faba shouted.

"Well, you wanted your very own kingdom, so make this cell one of those." Gladion answered. "That guy over there could be your advisor."

"What guy?" Faba looked behind him and his blood froze once he recognized the man sitting in one of the beds of the cells. "Cyrus..."

"And you're Faba, from what that young man has said." Cyrus answered.

"So the rumors are true... you're back and alive." Faba continued.

"At least for the time being." Cyrus said.

"It's... it's quite an honor honestly." Faba took a short bow. "The unifying theories that you proposed before you created Team Galactic, they were correct, we could harness the power of time and space, even if it wasn't at its fullest, most of my carrer has been devote to your ideas."

"Hmmp, at least we'll have a lot to talk about now that we're locked together." Cyrus said.

"I'll leave you alone to meet your idol or whatever." Gladion rolled his eyes and walked out of the cell section to then meet with Danika.

"Thank you for bringing him all the way here." She said.

"It was the least I could do, his existence has been pretty much a problem for my whole family for quite a long time." Gladion answered. "But are you sure it is safe to leave those two in the same cell?"

"Cyrus has been surpringsily cooperative since we captured him." Danika said. "We asked him to play being his friend, hopefully Faba will reveal some things regarding the invasion, we need to know more about the Lightbane in case they return."

"I hope this works then." Gladion nodded before starting to walk away. "I'll take my leave, my family is returning to Alola soon and there's someone who I need to talk very seriously about that."

"Good luck!" Danika waved at him as he left and then felt her Rotom Phone ring, she sighed once she saw who was calling her but answered immediately despite that.

"I suppose you already know." Danika said.

"Danika..." Dawn glared at her. "What happened to my family?"

"...They're fine, if that's what you're asking." Danika said. "They're locked here, I'm sorry things had to escalate to this, but Akari is dangerous, the time anomaly she represents accidentally sent a trainer named Lucas to the past."

"L-Lucas was sent to the past?" Dawn asked.

"Yes, and I don't know to how many people something like that could happen. I need to control this, Akari has to stay locked."

"And what about my Mom?" Dawn asked.

"Not only she resisted, but she's been with Akari too much time, I don't know what kind of effects that could have on her."

"You can't just lock them like that until the situation resolves!" Dawn shouted. "There has to be another way!"

"This is the only way!" Danika answered. "Besides, you lied to me, and you were also exposed to Akari, be thankful that I didn't arrest you as well back in Alola."

"I'll show you thankful!" Dawn shouted. "I'm going there and I'm going to rescue my family!"

"Dawn, I'm obliged to give you a warning, if you dare try to come here and take them out, then my partners and I are going to respond with force." Danika answered.

"Then I'll have to answer harder." Dawn replied to then cut the call.

"...That family is full of crazy people." Danika said.

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"Well, there goes the surprise effect." Ursula said.

"Chloe, I'm gonna need the location of those Headquarters." Dawn said.

"Are you crazy?! I'm not letting you go there!" Chloe said.

"Listen to me, Koharu." Dawn put both hands over her friend's shoulders. "I have to do this. If it was your family, wouldn't you go despite the danger?"

"You just had to play that card." Chloe sighed. "Fine, I'll transfer the location to your Rotom Phone. But I... I can't go with you."

"I understand." Dawn assured. "This is something really dangerous... besides, if something goes wrong it'll be the best to not let Danika know that you helped me, you should return to Galar as quick as you can."

"I'm going with you, Dawn." Ursula said.

"Urs-"

"Save your words." Ursula interrupted releasing her Garchomp. "I'm doing this for Johanna, after all, this whole situation is your fault, you could have simply tell Danika what was happening... Just don't slow me down."

"...Sure." Dawn looked at Regina and then tried to grab Zorua, but this continued to avoid her. "What's the matter?"

"If you allow me..." Regina hugged Zorua closer to her. "Zorua feels betrayed... she feels like you abandoned Akari."

"I guess that's somewhat true..." Dawn sighed. "Worst part is that in the end I left Sinnoh for nothing."

"I'll go to this mission as well." Regina said. "I'm quite a skilled battler, I could be of help."

"Thanks a lot." Dawn said.

"Speaking of battle, if you want to raid that place, I think you should really call Ash for help." Ursula suggested.

"I know, but I don't want to." Dawn said. "Like I told you, we had a big discussion, I don't feel like I have the right to ask him to do something as big as this, he has better things to do than me."

"Whatever you're gonna do, we should get out of here." Chloe said. "Danika knows where your house is and could come here or send someone to stop you before anything happens, we should find another place to stay while we prepare this attack."

"What about your house, Ursula?" Regina asked.

"I mean, we could go, but I live in the Resort Area, which is quite far." She answered.

"Isn't there a closer option?" Chloe asked. "Maybe we could rent a room in a nearby hotel, but considering that Danika could have access to the security cameras that could not work. Don't you have a friend that can help us with this, Dawn?"

"Let me think a moment." Dawn said. "Kenny and Barry's houses are pretty much next door, but I don't think we should stay this close, Salvia's castle is a bit too far, Zoey isn't in Sinnoh right now... I think I got it, let's move everyone, we're going to Solaceon."

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And that's it!

So Rowlet didn't evolve in the anime because of marketing? We ain't doing that here, people! I've been unsure of evolving most old mons, but I love everything about Decidueye, as cute as Rowlet is, I had to do it.

Next chapter we'll have the battles against Elaine and Hapu, the lemon with Ash and Bea is 90% sure coming and there's a few other surprises.

And what is this whole 'Ghost Type Strongest Battle' thing?

We'll find out soon enough!

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Of course I was gonna add Tina to the fic, damn it, there's also a few other Pokemon Masters references in this chapter. I redownloaded Masters just for this event with Ash and it was great, it's been a while since I played and it has changed a lot, the whole game is nice, I seriously love the remixes, my favorite is Wally's, but you can tell the devs are a bit biased with the alts.

Whatever, I liked Tina since the 'Camilla' days, so yeah, she's in the story, let's see how this turns out. Though I doubt I'll do anything else with Pasio or its original characters.

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Been a while since Ash had a trainer battle, how was it?

Skyla made it! Of course she was going to, she has always been one of my favorite Pokémon girls and crackships with Ash, so, yep. I thought I'd have to wait for the Unova arc to add her, but I managed to take her to Alola. Now Ash has 8 girlfriends, with 6 more being confirmed for the future.

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The Dragon Maid reference in this chapter's title reminded me that it's been half a year since I last updated the Zinnia fic, damn it, I know how I want the 4th chapter to be like, but you guys know Fighting Dreamers has been going through some importants changes and I've been wanting to prioritize this, probably after the Ash and Bea lemon we'll get a short hiatus so I can get out that 4th chapter.

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Iris vs Cynthia was amazing, of course, like most people I think Ash should have gotten at least a bit closer to Iris while she was crying, and you can say Goh was also worried, but did he really need to be there?

As for Ash vs Steven, it was okay, not as good as the previous two though, I don't like how Ash had to rely so much on that Z-Move, but well.

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Now for the reviews:

ashylabto

HA! Yes, there's an insane amount of thinking I have to do every time I write a new chapter, not only to imagine future scenes, battles and characters, but also to make sure I don't have any contradictions, but at least it's fun to do.

Poke'boy24

I've considered most of the characters you mentioned, and one of them will debut next chapter, hope you understood the reference.

Dragon King Ryouga

I'm really considering Cynthia to join, not only would she cover the champion section, but Sinnoh is also the only region without a confirmed girlfriend so far and that's something I just noticed:

Kanto: Erika.

Johto: Jasmine.

Hoenn: Flannery.

Sinnoh: ?

Unova: Skyla, Roxie.

Kalos: Korrina, Valerie.

Alola: Acerola, Mallow, Lana.

Galar: Bea, Nessa, Peonia, Gloria.

We need at least one girl from Sinnoh!

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I think that's it, I'll see you next time in "He Mele No Lilo" (Lullaby of the lost), it'll be the 50th chapter so I'll try to make it special, quick preview:

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"...Mom?"

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Holdonlupin is out!