They had gotten to the forest with many pokemons playing around. Denise smiled at the sight, remembering the first time she went in here. Lucario went deeper in than last time, but she still followed as years after she started her journey last time, she was able to come back and see the deeper parts of the peaceful forest. "Aura Sphere!" they heard someone shout and a little boom followed afterwards. Lucario snickered as they got close to the source of the sound. A mostly tall riolu was in a fighting position and there was a broken tree trunk in front of him. The little aura pokemon turned to them in an instant. "Father, who's that human with you?" Denise snapped a bit. That voice was very familiar... A younger version of what she always used to hear...
"Riolu, this girl here is named Denise. She's our guest for today, so tell your siblings and mother about her, okay?" Lucario said to his son and Riolu nodded before running away. That's who he is... It's AL while only a riolu. Denise thought. AL was the oldest of the riolu siblings as a pokemon and was the only one to learn Aura Sphere at an early age or level. Denise turned to the broken tree trunk for a bit. "Lucario, was he training here?" she asked. "Yes. As he is the only one capable of using a move that is supposedly learned as a lucario, Riolu does extra training than his siblings just for him to improve on that move." he answered.
They moved on to a den with a female shiny lucario with three riolus. One of them was of course Riolu. The other two were shorter than him, but the second tallest was a girl. The youngest one had a red bandanna tied to his leg and a little cut on his 'ear'."Oh! You must be Denise, as Riolu told me. My name is Luca. You know Riolu already, my girl here is Rioly and the youngest one is Rio." the shiny lucario said. Denise nodded... Though she thought it was strange. Why was the youngest one Rio instead of Rilu and where did the red bandanna come from? But she tried to act normal.
Riolu kept on staring Denise for quite some time and Denise soon noticed that. ". . . . . Wait, Denise?" he said, like as if he had just realized..."As in... Denise Trinidad with her starter as a charmander and... the one who had experienced the last timeline of events?" Riolu smirked. "! You remember, AL...!?" Denise said with surprised. She really thought that it would have taken him longer to remember his past life, especially as he was only a pokemon this time. The rest of his family got confused as riolu nodded. Lucario thought that his son was with Denise in that past time line that she had talked about, and with their help, he explained about the last timeline and Denise and Riolu told them that since Riolu was also a human, named Armor Lightning, both of them had his two siblings as their pokemon. Rioly perked and jumped with glee. "I want to go on an adventure! Can we pleeaase go with her, daddy!? Pleasepleasepleasepleaseplease!" she exclaimed. "S-sister... S-stop being too j-jumpy..." Rio tried to calm down his sister.
". . . . . Okay. All three of you can go with Denise. As long as you stay safe." Lucario said. Denise perked a bit. "All three of them!? B-but, Lucario, I only have two party spots left..." she said, slowly lowering her tone down. Riolu stood up and cross his arms. "Who said that all three of us are gonna be in pokeballs? I'd rather being out than in one." he said with a smirk. "B-but what if other trainers try to catch you...?" Denise said and he sighed with disappointment. "What happened when you gave Johnathon and Sarah the device when they were still pokemons?" Riolu said and Denise remembered. She met them as pokemons... Yet after she had gave them the special device, they had turn into humans just because they were originally humans before. "It may work on me too... Just saying, it is just a possibility." Riolu said and Denise started to try to make a duplicate. When the second appeared, he immediately grabbed it and placed it on his left arm and started to glow while changing. Denise was a bit surprised at the result though.
"AL, you look different than before! For starters, your clothes are better than before! And your hair isn't blue anymore~" she exclaimed and AL sighed. "Do you really have to mention about my hair being blue before...? ...!" he got surprised as he realized that his voice sounded a bit deeper than just a few moments ago. "Whoa! Brother, your voice!" Rioly exclaimed. "It's like you've became a lot older..." Rio kind of whispered. "... It is kinda weird... Oh, I have one empty pokeball... Like last time, Den?" AL smirked at Denise. "Okay, you have Rio, I get Rioly~" she said cheerfully as she got out a pokeball from her pocket. The two riolus were a bit confused, but AL explained that they would be their pokemon now. After they had gotten the two in the pokeballs, they took them out along with Denise's charmender and butterfree. AL noticed that the two were at a higher level than before.
"... How much training did you put these two in, Den? They're stronger than I remember..." he asked and she just giggled for a bit. "I got charmander from the lab~ This time, things are going great for me so far~!" Denise said cheerfully. They waved goodbye to the two lucarios and left with their pokemons leading the way.