"Professor Burnet is pregnant?! With Professor Kukui's son?!" Principal Oak squealed.

"Yep! And we're going to throw them a baby shower!" Ash answered cheerfully.

"A baby shower for the Professors?! I simply must come!"

"That's why we're inviting you!" Ash reached into his bag and handed him the first invitation: the one marked Samson Oak. Ash and Lillie had made all the invitations, and now they were out to deliver them.

He took the envelope. "An invitation to their baby shower?! This is truly an Umbre-honor!" He just couldn't contain himself. "I just can't Bayleef it! A Chance-y like this is once in a Char-million! There's no way I won't be Clef-able to come!" He hastily opened the envelope and perused the details. "I'd better stop my Weedling. All this excitement is making me Bulba-sore!"

"Alright, alright. I'm glad you're excited, though!" Ash replied. "Pika-ika!" his partner chirped.

"Why wouldn't I be?" he continued. "It seems like just yesterday you asked me to officiate for the wedding... and now they're having a baby? Of course I'll come to the shower!"

"Haha, that's nice, but we've got to go now." Ash picked up his Pikachu and turned around.

"And deliver more invitations," Sophocles added.

"Pika."

On the way back, Ash took out the next envelope and read the name. Molayne.

"This one's for Molayne." He offered the envelope to Sophocles. "Sophocles, take this to him, okay?

"Sure."

As Ash returned to the classroom, he took out the next invitation. The name—or rather, names —on it were Sima & Rango.

"This next invitation goes to Kiawe's family!" he exclaimed. "And the one after that is for Mallow's dad." He showed the second of the two to Mallow, who was closest to him. "Hey Mallow, can you take this to your dad?"

She took the invitation. "Sure, no problem."

After that, Ash headed straight for the fire trainer. "Hey Kiawe, go take this to your parents."

"Alright." He took the invitation, quickly reading his parents' names before taking out Charizard and leaving for home.

"Hey, Mom! Hey, Dad!" He ran to them. "Ash told me to give you this."

Sima took the envelope, opened it, and read the invitation. "A baby shower? For the Professors?"

"Mhm!"

"And all of us are invited? Me, your father, Mimo, and you?"

"Yep!" He paused. "Hey, where is Mimo?"

"I saw her in her room. She got a new book at the library while you were gone, one she's really been wanting to read."

"Oh, alright." Kiawe went to look for Mimo. As he was told, she was in her room reading.

"Hey, Mimo!" Kiawe climbed over to his sister. "Look at this."

Mimo took a look at the invitation. "Baby shower?" she read aloud. "What's that?"

Kiawe began to sweat a bit. This might take a bit of explaining. "W-well... the two Professors, Professor Kukui and Professor Burnet, are going to have a baby... so they're having a party, so we can celebrate and bring them gifts."

"Oh. Okay. Cool. I'm in!"

Whew. Kiawe let out a sigh of relief. That could've gone a lot differently.

Meanwhile back in the classroom, Ash noticed that Lillie was looking a little lonely.

"Hey, Lillie! You wanna help?" He asked her.

She snapped back into it. "Um... uh... what? Invitations?"

"There's only two invitations left! You can help me deliver them!"

"Oh... uh... um... sure!" she just barely got out. "L-let's see who the next invitation is for..."

Lillie took out the next envelope, glancing at the name on the back before handing it to Ash. "This one's for Mother."

Ash read the name on the invitation. Lusamine. Yep, that was her.

Aether Paradise was busy as always. A lot of the workers were busy caring for the Pokémon or responding to calls. The one who happened to be there was Wicke. "Oh, hello!" she greeted them, waving.

"Hey, Wicke!" Ash waved back at her.

"Can you take this to Mo—I mean, to the president?" Lillie asked as she offered her the envelope.

"A letter? For the president?" Wicke took the invitation, pushing up her glasses to see it. "Oh, of course! I'll take it to her now." Wicke took the elevator up to where the President currently was.

"President!" she called. "Your daughter came by. She wanted me to give you this."

"A letter?" Lusamine took the envelope from her, examined the name—her name—and then opened it.

"You, Branch Chief Faba, and Assistant Branch Chief Wicke are humbly invited to Professors Akela Kukui and Nala Burnet's... baby shower?" she read it aloud. "I didn't know Nala was pregnant." She rested her head on her hands and closed her eyes. "I remember my two baby showers... for Gladion and for Lillie..."

"So are we going or not?" Wicke squealed. "I love babies! We can't not go to this baby shower!"

"Of course we're going, Wicke."

"Yay!"

"A baby shower? " Faba groaned. "Seriously?"

"Yes, Faba. We're going."

Faba sighed. "Alright, then..." Faba knew that to keep his job, he had to comply with whatever Wicke and Lusamine told him. He'd just have to grin and bear it until it was over.

Back in class, Ash took out the next invitation. "And this one goes to..." He read the name. "...Gladion?"

"Mhm," Lillie told him, "I want him to come. He may not have been able to come to their wedding, or the gender reveal, but I don't want my brother to miss the baby shower."

"Alright, I'll go find him. I bet he's around here somewhere."

Ash went out and surveyed the coastline for him. Nowhere near this spot. Perhaps on another part of the island.

"Hey, Ash!" a familiar voice buzzed.

"Oh. Hi, Rotom." Ash looked over to the living Pokédex. "Have you seen Gladion?"

Rotom gave its "confused" sound. "Gladion? I haven't seen him in a while."

"Well, I'm looking for him." Ash stood.

Rotom gave its "confused" sound again. "What?"

"Lillie wants him to come to the shower, so I need to find him."

"Gladion? Gladion?" Ash called as he walked around the beach with Pikachu.

"Pika?"

"Gladion!"

"Pika-chuuu!"

There he was, all alone. None of his Pokémon were out, not even Umbreon.

"Hey, Gladion! Gladion!"

Gladion grunted. "Oh, Ash... What's up?"

"I wanted to give you this." Ash offered him the invitation.

"An... invitation?" He took the envelope and looked over it. "What to?"

"Open it and see!"

Gladion sighed. "Really?"

"Yeah!"

Gladion huffed before opening the envelope. "A... baby shower?" He held back a laugh. "You're inviting me to a baby shower?"

"Of course!"

Gladion grunted. "No, I don't think I will."

Ash stood his ground. "Gladion, you're coming."

"No."

"Please? Lillie's gonna be there, and she's looking forward to seeing you."

"Lillie..."

"Come on, she'll be really sad if you don't come..."

Gladion gave in. "Fine, I'll come."

"Yeah! That's the spirit!"

"You'll pay for this, Ash..." Gladion muttered as he walked away.

Now that that was out of the way, Ash returned to the classroom.

"That's all of them!" Ash remarked as he looked in his empty bag, grinning. "Thanks for helping, Lillie!"

She blushed. "O-oh, it was nothing, really... I just gave one to Wicke..."

"That's still helping!" Ash looked to the rest of the class. "Hey, you guys! Everyone good?"

"Yep!" Everyone gave a thumbs up.

"My family's totally in! They can't wait!" Kiawe exclaimed.

"And my father will happily help make food for the party!" Mallow added.

"Molayne's all in!" Sophocles cheered.

"Awesome!" Ash jumped with excitement. "Now we just need to wait until the day comes."