Disclaimer: If I owned the show it would have Ash mentioning all his old journeys Duh! ;)


*Sometime before Kalos League*

Brock is visiting Kalos for his Doctor training when he sees an old friend Ash sitting under a tree.

No way!

"Hey Ash is that you!?" Brock asked in shock.

Ash looks around and gets up at the sight of his old friend. While his Pikachu climbs onto its favorite perch.

"Hey Brock! How are you?" Ash says while waving to his old friend.

"I'm fine. How are you and Pikachu?"

"Fine. Just collecting badges and meeting new people."

"So the usual then."

"Yeah. Pretty much."

While the two were talking, Clemont, Bonnie, and Serena were walking up behind them.

"Hey Clemont, do you know who that is?" Bonnie says tugging on her brothers pant leg.

"No idea. Do you Serena?" She shakes her head.

"Let's ask Ash?" They all walk up to Ash. "Hey Ash?"

Ash turns around and sees his new friends and promptly smacks his forehead."Where are my manners? Brock this is Clemont, Bonnie, and Serena. Guys this is Brock. He traveled with me through Kanto twice, Johto, Hoenn and Sinnoh."

"Nice to meet you." The Kalosian's say in unison.

"You too."

"So what are you doing in Kalos? I thought you were training to become a Pokémon Doctor." Ash asks with curiosity.

"I am. I need to study some of the pokémon here for my studies." He hesitates to continue. "I've also been told that if I ran into you I was supposed to deliver a couple of messages from our friends."

"Which friends?"

"Let's see. Gary, Tracey, Max, and Cilan all sent one message, while Misty, May, Dawn, Iris, and Bianca had another and so did your Mom."

"Really what's the message?" Ash says so clueless to his fate.

"You sure you want to know?" Brock asks hoping Ash can sense he should say no.

"Sure." Ash says cautiously.

Brock sighs and punches Ash in the arm REALLY hard five times. Everyone except Brock is shocked.

"OW! WHAT WAS THAT FOR!" Ash exclaims as he grabs his arm.

"That was from Misty, May, Dawn, Iris and Bianca for scaring them to death when you jumped off Prism Tower. They actually wanted me to slap you, but I can't do that." He shrugs. "They also wanted me to warn you if you ever do something that stupid again they were going to come here themselves instead of sending a messenger."

"Well I was not expecting that today. How about you Pikachu?" Pikachu shakes his head no.

"Who are are all those girls Ash?" Serena asks afraid they are ex-girlfriends.

"They're all girls I traveled with. We're all great friends. Even though half of them like to punch me on a daily basis." Ash grumbles the last part. "I honestly was expecting them to do something like that but I thought I was safe until I left Kalos."

Brock clears his throat to get Ash's attention, "You should be thankful. Gary, Tracey, Max, Cilian, and I calmed them down so that punishment could have been a LOT worse. Your Mom wanted me to tell you that next time you come you are going to be grounded and all the usual thing she minds you of." Brock winks at Ash here, who scowls. "And while the guys didn't really have much to say, but that you owe them big time for calming down the girls… Gary wanted me to tell you, "Stop doing so many stupid things Ashy-Boy or else!" and then he started talking about being rivals until you're old and grey or something… I don't know."

Ash just shrugged.

Curiosity got the better of Clemont. "Who's Gary?"

"An old friend of mine from Pallet Town. We've known each other practically since we were born and we've been rivals since before our journeys. He just likes to heckle me at any opportunity he can get." Ash turns to Brock. "So you want to join us for lunch?"


Edited 7/19/19