Hi everyone, DisneyAnimefan94 here and welcome back to Serene Performance Team Up. So thanks everyone for your support on the first chapter, so let's keep this fanfic rolling shall we? So as always enjoy everyone.

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Chapter 2: Return of the Dragon Trainer

Ash and Pikachu were surprise to see their old Unova traveling companion standing right before them.

"Hey Ash, what's up?" Iris said as Ash smiled and got up and shook her hand.

"It's great to see you Iris." Ash said as Iris smiled.

"You too Ash." The dragon type trainer said as Ash looked to the others.

"Guys, this is Iris, my friend and travel partner from the Unova region." Ash said as Serena narrowed her eyes at Iris. "Iris, this is Serena, Clemont, his sister Bonnie, Nini, Shauna and Miette." He said.

"Hi everyone, it's awesome to meet you all, especially you Serena." Iris said as Serena was surprised.

"You are?" Serena asked.

"Yeah, I saw your performance against that Aria girl on TV." Iris said as she looked at the other three girls. "In fact I saw all of you on TV at the Master Class when I got here to Kalos." She said as Ash then looked at her.

"So Iris, what brings you to Kalos, last time I saw you, you were going to Blackthorn City in the Johto Region to meet up with Clair." Ash said remembering on what Iris told him on the last day they traveled together.

"I was." Iris said. "But long story short, I started following Rayquaza, then I went to Hoenn Region where I ran into a friend of yours, and then we came here to look up any information on Mega Evolution." As everyone was confused.

"Mega Evolution?" Bonnie asked.

"What for?" Clemont asked as Iris reached into her back pack and pulled out a picture.

"Check this out." She said as everyone stared at the picture of Rayquaza.

"It looks like Rayquaza in its Mega Evolution form." Clemont observed while Iris nodded.

"Yeah, I was in the mountains where there was some kind of glowing light when Rayquaza suddenly changed forms and then disappeared. I later learned through a guy named Birch it was because of Mega Evolution and told me to come here to Kalos and find a guy named Sycamore to find out more so here I am." She said with her arms extended out as well as Axew mimicking his trainer. "Oh yeah, by the way this is my friend Axew, him and I are training to become a Dragon Master duo, right?" She said looking down at the little green dragon.

"Axew ew!" Axew said happily as Dedenne and Squishy hopped out of Bonnie's purse and started to play with Axew along with Pikachu.

"Anyway, I saw you guys going to the Pokémon Center, when I heard you guys talk about the Flower Garden Trope." Iris said as Shauna nodded.

"Yeah, that's what they called themselves." She said as Miette and Nini nodded.

"It seems to me you and Ash know a lot about this trope." Clemont said as both Ash and Iris nodded.

"Sure do." Ash said recalling their previous encounter. "It was when Iris and I along with another friend named Cilan were off to the Unova Championships. We ran into them and they called all of our Pokémon unattractive." This made Miette clinch her fists.

"Yeah, those girls said the same thing about our Pokémon." She recalled the words of their leader Moira still ringing in her ears.

"Yeah, and it didn't settle well for Iris here and Iris isn't one to let go of a grudge." Ash said as Iris laughed nervously.

"You got me there Ash." Iris said scratching the back of her head. "So the three of us challenged them, however they would only let girls in so…" Just at that moment Ash covered Iris's mouth with his hand.

"Okay Iris, I don't think you need to tell them that!" He said quickly as Iris pulled his hand away from her mouth.

"Oh Ash, don't be such a little kid, it's not that big of a deal." Iris said as Bonnie was in a thought.

"Hold on, if Iris said only girls could challenge them, then that must mean…" Bonnie then stopped as a smile crept on her face, the same with Miette, Shauna and Nini trying to hold back laughs, thinking the same thing as Bonnie.

"What does it mean Bonnie?" Clemont asked wanting to know what his little sister was thinking.

"Yeah, tell us." Serena chimed in as Bonnie motioned them to come closer as she whispered something to them. Ash could only helplessly look on as both Serena and Clemont's faces turned into shades of red a look of disbelief on Clemont's face while Serena covered her mouth in astonishment, until she uncovered her mouth. "Ash, did you really dress up as a girl?" She asked slowly, as Ash could only nod his head in defeat as bursts of laughter came out of the mouths of Clemont, Bonnie, Shauna, Miette and Nini, while Serena could only picture Ash in a dress wearing a fake wig, her face getting redder at the thought of it.

"Oh my… gosh… Ash!" Clemont said trying to stop himself from laughing. "That…must've…been… so embarrassing!" The gym leader went back to laughing as tears came out of the fives eyes, Serena's face still red from her thought of a cross dressed Ash.

"See, told you it wasn't such a big deal." Iris said as Ash shot her a mean look. Not wanting to face the Kanto native's wrath, she cleared her throat, as everyone began to calm down. "Any way, yeah Ash and Cilan had to dress up as girls in order to enter the girls H.Q. and that was when we showed those girls a lesson." She said.

"Yeah, and we almost joined their trope as well if we didn't get out of there so fast." Ash said.

"Still, I wonder why they would come after us." Nini said as everyone was thinking about it as well.

"I can answer that for you." Nurse Joy answered as they all looked up at her. "Many years ago, the Kalos Showcase committee had invited the Flower Garden Trope to perform at a Master Class Showcase." She began explaining. "When they were finished their performance, they got a huge ovation from the crowd, but when it was time for the showcase, each showcase performer as well as the Kalos Queen got the same amount of reaction from the crowd, maybe even bigger. That didn't please the trope one bit since they always saw themselves as crowed favorites where ever they perform, and saw the showcase performers as nothing more but amateurs. So then they put them in the same string of events just like they did to you three, and while the Flower Garden Trope won a few of the events, the showcase performers powered back getting mud on each of the trope members, and since then there has been a rivalry between the Flower Garden Trope and the showcase performers of Kalos." She said as everyone was astonished by the history.

"I guess that's why they went after us." Shana said as Miette and Nini could only nod.

"Ah there you are." A new voice, but another one familiar to Ash rose as they all turned towards the voice to see a girl with brown hair with bangs in the front wearing a headband with a red bow and white stripe on it, a red tank top with a black shirt under it, white shorts, black bike shorts, yellow sneakers and wearing a yellow and green waist-pack.

"It's May!" Ash said.

"Pika!" Pikachu exclaimed, as May smiled brightly at the two.

In the words of Hoopa, where you surprised to see May? I wanted to bring her along since we could see her again, since you know they introduced Lyra from the Gen II remake of Gold and Silver for the Diamond and Pearl series. So stay tuned folks because the third chapter will also be uploaded alongside this chapter.

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