GOD DAMN IT GEN 9!
Could you stop revealing female characters for 5 seconds?!
How do you expect me to look at girls like Wakaba, Ohara, Perrin, Sango, and Celestine; and not add them to the harem? You're so unfair, damn it.
Whatever, we're back and 5 is now my least favorite number, why? Because I've had chapters split into 2 parts while in the works, that has happened some times, even into 3 parts, but this chapter was split in FIVE FCKING PARTS, what the hell?!
Oh, well, here's the first one.
Oh, right, PM GALS PALDEA BABY! WOOOOOOO! Though I'm almost sure I'll be shipping Juliana with Arven here instead but we can always leave Juliana's Mom to Ash. I'm taking name suggestions for her cause I really can't think of one
By the way, that inspired me to write a bit of spice in this chapter and we might also get a full lemon on the fifth part of this.
Let's get into it.
"Ok, I think we all need a recap to process this crazy day." Penny said with a chalk and a board on hand. "So today we went to the annual Paldean Food Festival which this year was held to help gather funds for the reconstruction of the Naranja Academy, we all had dates with Ash in different stands of the festival, although the rest of us were watching from afar, as for dates, well, mine was... eh, a bit improper. Ash then took Iono by surprise, Nemo got... a bit drunk, Dendra broke a table and Mela opened a bit more with Ash, then he had a date with Geeta who's-"
"Totally evil." Mela interrupted. "Yeah, yeah, we know, keep moving."
"So, after the dates, Ash gave Dendra a cooking lesson which ended with... Dendra stealing Ash's first kiss... AAAAARGH! Ugh, whatever, while we were scolding Dendra for doing that, Ash left the scene, apparently confused by his feelings, on the same, we also lost Pikachu from our sight, so we went looking for everyone's favorite electric mouse and it ended up being a trap made by Miss Delia Ketchum, Ash's mother, who, at some point while we were distracted by the dates, told Pikachu to guide us to her, since she wanted to talk with us about our relationship with Ash, she had been following us with Iono's videos and thanks to the polls in her channel, she also found out about the 'Harem ending' plan, a plan that I'm still processing, by the way, I mean, trying to court so many people is simply insane... and that I'd willingly join indicates I'm not in the right mind either, I... I cannot imagine myself loving anyone other than Ash, but... I cannot imagine you all not being part of that either, still, Miss Ketchum was really against the idea, she even wanted us to stop traveling with Ash completely, but after some discussion we managed to achieve an agreement, we can all still travel with Ash, but we can not give him our offer to share him, he is the one who has to suggest it to us, since, according to Miss Ketchum, Ash has been considering the idea as well, we later meet with Ash again and after a dinner we meet Mollie, Ash and her told us what happened between them... including the fact that Mollie got Ash's second kiss! AAAAAAAAAAAARGH! ARGH! So yeah, we met the Rising Volt Tacklers, went to Mollie's sister funeral, returned for the closing ceremony of the festival and now we're spending the night in a giant flying golden ship, all good so far?"
"No! Nothing's good!" Nemona replied sitting in the floor next to Mela who had Pikachu sitting on her legs while they all listened to Penny's recap. With all of the girls already wearing their pajamas.
"Hey, wait, where's Iono?" Penny asked.
"Over here." She answered laying on the floor in fetal position on a corner of the room.
"Uh, what's the matter?" Penny asked.
"WHAT DO YOU THINK?!" Iono shouted to then stand up and pull out her Rotom Phone.
"And you, Dionysia Elton Nigma, you're by far the worst of them." A recording of Delia's voice was heard from Iono's phone. "Just how dare you? How could you drag my son into your videos for some more insignificant views, we both know you're only using him to increase your popularity." The replay ended and Iono was now trembling in the verge of tears.
"I-Iono... you heard what Miss Ketchum said later, she didn't mean any of that. She was only trying to get on our nerves." Penny said.
"BUT SHE'S RIGHT!" Iono shouted now fully crying. "Sh-She was wrong about Mela, Dendra and Nemo but all she said about me was true, I only joined Ash for the views, I didn't care about him at all!"
"But you've changed since then!" Penny firmly answered. "I'm witness of that."
"T-That doesn't change how things started." Iono replied crying even more. "H-How could I do that to Ash? H-He gave me his full trust and I-I... I'm a monster."
"Iono, that's not true!" Nemona shouted grabbing the streamer by her shoulders. "We both know you care deeply for Ash now."
"Maybe now, but... I-I still tried to-"
"IONO!" Mela shouted and then walked to her, staring at her for a moment before giving Iono a sudden slap that knocked her onto the floor.
"MELA!" Penny and Nemona shouted to then go and aid Iono who was now crying even more.
"What is wrong with you?!" Penny shouted.
"What's wrong with me?! What's wrong with you all, idiots?!" Mela shouted. "Don't you see? This is what Delia wants, trust me, she meant everything she said and she wants you all to look down on yourselves, to think you're not good enough for Ash, but listen to me, you're all more than enough, you will be the best girlfriends Ash could ever have! Why would you even respect that deal after everything she said?! You should just give Ash your offer and have a goddamn orgy in front of the camera to boast it in her face!"
"Uh, what was that last part?" Nemona asked.
"You get what I mean!" Mela shouted to then sigh and offer her hand to Iono helping her stand up. "Iono, I understand you feel guilty about the things you did in the past, but look at me, I pretty much tried to kill Ash... there in the fire, I was ready to give up, but Ash told me that the things we did in the past don't have to define what we are now, so if I can redeem myself from burning down a whole school then you can redeem yourself from your silly streamer facade, which you already tossed long ago either way."
Iono stared at Mela in silence before taking her in a sudden hug that surprised her, but Mela still answered it either way. "Thank you, Mela... I needed that... hey, you say we three should give Ash our offer, but... what about you? Don't you wanna be Ash's girlfriend as well? You know you have our permission to join, right?" She asked and both Penny and Nemona nodded.
"Thank you, but... uh, well, I'm not saying I don't like him." Mela replied with a blush. "But I've been through far too many things these last weeks, I really don't feel ready for a relationship, let alone a relationship of that kind."
"But that doesn't mean you won't join us later, right?" Iono asked.
"I'll think about it, fine?" Mela asked. "Just don't tell Ash, I'll do it myself, maybe after the probation month is done."
"Speaking of that... what are we going to do about Dendra?" Penny asked. "I understand we were all pretty angry when she stole Ash's first kiss, but her feelings are sincere."
"Aha, Miss Dendra is a great person and she's been really struggling with her adult life." Nemona said. "She needs someone like Ash to watch her back."
"I still don't trust those boobs!" Iono said. "But since we'll let Mela join I guess it's only fair she also joins."
"And what about Geeta?" Mela asked.
"NI DE PUTA COÑA!" Penny shouted.
"Yey! Your first Spanish quote during our travel!" Nemona said.
"Ugh, we're not letting Geeta join, for real, I'm gonna prove somehow that she's evil, besides, we'll have enough with Dendra's childness, we don't need another insecure adult in the family."
"Come on, Miss Dendra isn't that childish." Nemona said.
Meanwhile in Dendra's house in Alfornada.
"I got Ash's first kiss!" Dendra exclaimed jumping on her bed while having a sleepover with Raifort and Tulip.
"Yeah, Dendra, we heard it when you said it the first 65 times." Raifort said as Tulip did her nails while they were both sitting in the floor next to Dendra's bed.
"And he said he'd be looking forward to the next one!" Dendra continued bouncing.
"We also heard that." Tulip added. "The part you haven't been mentioning as much was your little encounter with Miss Ketchum."
"Uh." That statement caused Dendra to lose focus and she missed the mark of her bed, ending up crashing onto the floor instead. "Ugh, I wasn't ready to meet her at all." Dendra sighed to then sit next to the girls. "Everything was going so great, but then she showed up and I got so nervous and... saying she got a bad first impression of me would be an understatement."
"Well, speaking of that... are you really willing to share Ash with all those girls?" Tulip asked.
"Of course I am." Dendra answered. "You guys just didn't see it, the way Ash acted during all the dates and how Penny defended us all, if they're willing to make it work then of course I am too."
"It's nice to see you so sure of something for a change." Tulip giggled. "But it looks like Ash will need more than two hands then."
"I really don't think that kid is worth all this trouble." Raifort said.
"Just wait til you meet him, Rai." Dendra said. "I bet you'll even fall for him too."
"Eh, I doubt it, but I do think he could be of some use to me." Raifort said. "That whole trouble magnet ability of his."
"Why do you always talk in such a suspicious tone?" Tulip asked and the group then heard a ring coming from the front door, the three then went to open it and found Miriam and-
"Lucca!" Dendra shouted to then hug a pregnant woman. "How's my favorite little sister?"
"I'm your only little sister, Dendra." She replied.
"Exactly." Dendra said.
"How was the visit to the hospital?" Tulip asked.
"Everything's in order." Miriam said. "Seems like Lucca will bring a healthy baby into the world."
"We also finally found out." Lucca said. "She's gonna be a girl."
"Yes! The Kihada legacy lives on!" Dendra celebrated.
"Easy there, she's a Matsumoto too." Lucca said.
"Ugh, but why? Alex left you the moment he found out you were pregnant, she shouldn't have his last name." Dendra said.
"He's still her father despite everything." Lucca insisted.
"Hmm, don't worry, we'll get you a real man soon enough." Dendra said.
"Speaking of that, have you thought of a name for her?" Tulip asked.
"Well, now that I know she'll be a girl I've been considering lots of names, but I think the one I like the most right now is..." Lucca looked down at her belly to then smile. "...Liko."
"That's a horrible name." Raifort said.
"Raifort!" Miriam shouted.
"Someone had to say it!" Raifort replied. "Going to the restroom, fine?" She said to then leave the scene and pull out her Rotom Phone to see a picture she had taken of Liko, Roy and Ann. "A really horrible name." She said to herself before making a call. "...Sada, I think I have something that might interest you."
Some months ago.
"O-Ok, calm down." Liko said walking around in the Uva Academy with her Rowlet in her shoulder. "T-This is just a weird dream, right? Hehe, I'm just getting unnecessarily nervous, everything's fine!" She shouted to then laugh out loud until she was interrupted by a scalchop hitting her head.
"Sorry about that!" Two trainers said walking to her accompanied by an Oshawott and a Cyndaquil.
"Our Pokemon were having a battle and my Oshawott's scalchop was sent flying."
"You're not hurt, are you? Uh, I'm Roy and this is Ann."
"A-Ann?" Liko asked to look at Oshawott and then back to the girl. "Aunt Ann..." She whispered.
"What did you-"
"AUNT ANN?!" Liko shouted. "No, no, no, no, this isn't a dream, is it? How did we get here? What are we supposed to do? How do we get back?" She asked holding her head while her Rowlet tried to comfort her.
"Did she just call you Aunt?" Roy asked to Ann.
"Hey... are you okay? What's your name?" Ann asked.
"My... My name is Liko Matsumoto Ketchum." She replied. "And I need help."
Back in the present.
"Do you need help down there, Ash Ketchum?" Mollie asked while Ash was sitting on the floor, with the girl sitting on his lap and pushing him to the wall, while holding both his cheeks after a quite long kiss.
"Uh, y-yeah, I'm just taking back some air." Ash replied and Mollie smirked to then take him into another lip kiss.
"Come on Ash, at least try to fight me back and make it more interesting."
"I-I'm doing my best." A blushing Ash replied looking away while Mollie simply giggled taking his cheeks again to then give him another lip kiss, after which she started nibbling on Ash's lower lip to then place both her hands on Ash's shirt to pull it up slightly.
"M-Mollie..."
"Easy there, I wouldn't go that far in our first night..." She smiled again. "Unless you ask me to... heh, come on, Ash, don't try to act innocent, you're barely one year younger than me." Mollie insisted. "Or is it that I ain't pretty enough?"
"Listen, Mollie, is not that I don't want this to, uh, to happen." Ash replied. "But I've been having lots of thoughts in my head these last days and you just confused me even more than I already was."
"Hmm... is Mela part of those thoughts, perhaps?" Mollie asked.
"Well, yeah, but we're not a couple if that's what you're thinking." Ash said.
"I see... so that's why you're traveling with so many girls."
"Well, yeah... wait, are we talking about the same thing?" Ash asked.
"Well, how about we take a short break?" Mollie asked to then stand up and offer her hand to Ash. "Let's go to the kitchen to get a drink, I mean, since it seems like we won't be getting much sleep tonight."
"Uh... yeah, let's do that." Ash agreed and stood up as well, the two then made their way to the kitchen and found Orla sitting on the table with a glass of milk.
"Huh? Hey there, guys." Orla said. "You couldn't sleep either?"
"More like someone didn't let me sleep." Ash said.
"Don't talk like you didn't like it." Mollie said kissing his cheek.
"Uh, but what about you, Orla?" Ash asked.
"It's nothing, I guess is more or less what Mollie was feeling earlier, albeit to a lesser extent, seeing Coco reminded me of lots of things." She explained. "Mind if I see him again?"
"Of course not." Ash replied to then release Skeledirge, who once again showed himself happy to see Orla.
"Hey there, big guy." She said patting his head.
"So you used to work for Professor Turo." Ash said.
"Yup, like I told you, I was his right hand mechanic, I worked with him for around 3 years."
"That's quite some time, why did you stop working with him?" Ash asked.
"... Professor Turo had always been interested in the far future." Orla began to explain. "He had the theory that Pokemon would eventually go extinct and humans would recreate them via robotic copies."
"Robotic copies?" Ash asked remembering his encounter with Miraidon
"Yeah, we even made some blueprints and scale models, but it was just an idea... or at least it was until that day...
Three years ago, Professor Turo's Lab.
"A Time Machine?" Orla asked wearing a lab coat and looking at some blueprints with Fuecoco sitting on top of her head.
"Yes, I believe you and I can make it." Turo replied. "I just woke up in the middle of the night with the idea of time traveling flooding my brain, these are some rough blueprints I just made, but I know we can turn it into something concrete, this could be our biggest achievement yet, like nothing Sada and Raifort could even aspire to, can I count on you?"
"Of course you can, Professor!" Orla assured while Fuecoco smiled.
"Then let's get to work." Turo said.
And so we did, day after day, failure after failure, but we kept trying, I honestly thought the idea of time traveling was really dangerous, but Professor Turo was really determinated to do it and I owed him a lot so I wanted to help him however I could, and then after a year it was finally time for our first major test.
"All systems ready, Professor Turo." Orla said handling a control panel with Fuecoco on her head and a safety wall in front of them, with a window that showed a closed room in which the time machine was in.
"And I'm ready as well." Turo replied in front of the machine wearing what seemed to be a purple space suit, with a metal cable that tied his back to the floor.
"Alright, if this works out you could be the first person to make an autonomous temporal jump... or the last one." Orla said.
"Flip the switch!" Turo said looking back at her through the window that separated them.
"Get ready for this, Coco!" Orla said initiating the activation sequence and the time machine began to power on and gather energy, forming a small orange portal that started to increase in size while the gravity in the room where Turo faded, making him float in the air.
"All ok, Professor?" Orla asked.
"Yes, a gravity loss was expected, the portal seems stable, I'm going in." He answered.
"Please be careful, Professor." Orla said and the man pressed a button on his wrist, which activated his rocket boots and guided him slowly towards the portal.
"I think I see something..." Turo said extending his arm to the portal, but the lights of the lab suddenly began to blink, until they went off all together and the portal suddenly closed, making Turo fall to the floor when the gravity restored.
"Orla, what happened?" Turo asked.
"I-I dunno, we've never had power failures before." Orla replied looking around the control panel.
"That is true... someone must be hijacking the system." Turo said.
"Just today? Right now? Could it be someone trying to stop us from doing the experiment?" Orla asked.
"But the only ones who know about this are Sada and Raifort." Turo said before the portal suddenly reopened, once again altering the gravity. "What?"
"W-What?!" Orla shouted. "But we still don't have power!"
"The starting pulse must've been enough to keep it open." Turo said. "But without the machine to keep it under control..."
The portal suddenly began to glitch and grew further in size, eventually starting to suck inside his surroundings, including Turo who tried to hold onto the floor, but the portal ended up taking him in, while the cable that connected his back to the floor extended until it finally tensed.
"Professor Turo!" Orla shouted.
"Coco!"
"D-Don't worry, everything's fine!" Orla said.
"Coco!" The croc complained.
"It's okay to lie if I'm scared!" Orla shouted again to then see how the metal cable was starting to break. "METANG!" She released her starter and jumped to his head while he broke through the safety glass as the cable gave in, but Metang held it with both his arms, the portal continued to grow and Metang pulled himself away with his psychic powers to counter the suction until the portal finally began to shrink.
"It's closing! Metang, pull him out quickly!" Orla exclaimed and Metang did a strong pull, taking Turo out of the portal just in time before this closed into an explosion that sent them all flying away.
...
"Coco!" The croc had that stayed behind ran to an unconscious Orla and headbutted her, getting her to wake up.
"Ouch...ugh!" She tried to stand up but was stopped by a piercing pain, making her notice a bleeding cut in her right shoulder.
"Fueco!" He exclaimed worried.
"I-I'm fine, don't worry." She said sitting on the floor to then take off her lab coat and rip off a sleeve of it to then wrap it around her injury. "That should do for the moment." She said to then place the rest of the coat over her left shoulder and stand up to look around all the debris, spotting her now fainted Metang to then return it. "I... Professor Turo!" She shouted seeing him in the floor and ran to him, taking off his space helmet to see the man with blank eyes.
"T-Turo, are you okay?!"
"You're running when it's too late." Turo whispered while looking at the roof still with blank eyes. "Won't hear you screaming for help... all these cages and chains... won't protect you from yourself."
"T-Turo?" Orla called him again and the man blinked a few times before his eyes returned to normal.
"...Orla, start the machine again." He said standing up.
"W-What?!" Orla shouted. "B-But-"
"I saw something inside there, but I didn't get a clear view, I need to go again." Turo continued.
"But Professor, look around, the machine exploded, it's-"
"Then let's start fixing it." He interrupted her.
"But-"
"I said we're getting back to work!" Turo shouted.
"WE COULD'VE DIED!" Orla shouted out loud. "W-We could've died, you, me, Metang, Coco, all of us could've died, Professor, this experiment is far too dangerous, I've been helping you because I know it's important to you, but we have to stop this."
"Orla, it only failed because the power went out." Turo replied.
"But what if the portal itself caused the energy failure? Have you considered that?" Orla asked. "Please, Professor, what would've had happened if we hadn't pull you out of the portal? you could've been trapped in whatever that was forever, this machine can't be worth the risk."
"What do you mean it can't be worth the risk?" Turo asked. "Orla, this is time, the strongest harness in the universe and we managed to harness it, this could lead to things never before seen by humanity, having control over time could lead to things like the secret of immortality or something even greater"
"Professor Turo, we can't keep doing this, no one is meant to compete with time and death."
"Well, I think we can be the exception, you and I." Turo said offering a hand to her. "Please, I need you, I wouldn't have gotten so far without my right-hand after all."
"I..." Orla was about to accept and raised her hand, but she was stopped by the pain coming from the cut in her shoulder, Orla stared at it and thought in silence for a moment before taking off her lab coat and hand it over to Turo. "I'm sorry... I've learned more than I could've imagined with you and I'm really thankful, but... I can't be part of this."
"Then what can you be part of?" Turo asked taking the bloodstained lab coat. "Orla, your amazing mechanic skills and intelligence will be wasted anywhere else, I gave you the opportunity to be more, to leave an everlasting print on this world and now you'll turn your back on me? ...Just like Sada did?"
"You know? You're always comparing me with Sada, saying how I'm better than her in everything." Orla said.
"And you are." Turo said and Orla gave him a weak smile before turning around and walking away.
"Goodbye, Coco, take care." She said patting the croc's head.
"Orla, I won't be able of rebuilding it without you." Turo said.
"That's the point." Orla said without looking back at him. "I'm not gonna stay here to see how my friend kills himself."
Back in the present.
"And then I left, I never returned to the Lab and I never saw Professor Turo again." Orla finished her story to Ash and Mollie while they were all still in the kitchen and then took off her shirt to show the scar in her right shoulder.
"Hey, Ash, you ain't lookin' at the scar." Mollie said.
"Sorry, uh, the orange bra is very distracting." A blushing Ash replied to then look away. "So, a time machine."
"Yeah, and I'm not even sure if it even worked to begin with." Orla replied putting her shirt back on. "But Turo did see something inside that portal and whatever that was, it changed him, he would've never insisted to put myself in danger like that, at least that's what I think... he was always kind and understanding with me, but it does makes me wonder... did he actually care for me or-"
Somewhere else in Paldea.
"Or was I only using her for my experiments?" Turo asked looking at a bloodstained lab coat nailed on a wall.
"Why did you even put that thing there?" Sada asked walking to him.
"I guess it was meant to be a reminder, to not lose my humanity." Turo replied.
"It's a bit late for that, don't you think?" Sada asked with a short laugh. "Nevermind that, look what I got here." She said showing a golden key with a purple skull and crossbones as it symbol.
"The Poison Tera Key." Turo said.
"Yup, looks like a few of these were dropped here in Area Zero." She said.
"Well, another key means another favor from the Explorers." Turo said. "You'll ask them to capture another experiment?"
"Nah, I think we can leave that to Ash and his fellows for now." Sada said taking her Rotom Phone. "There's something else that I'd like to ask our little privateers to do."
Back in the Asagi.
"Come on, Ash, just another smooch." Mollie said hugging him from behind and kissing his cheek while Ash simply blushed and Orla laughed at the scene while Skeledirge was sleeping next to her.
"Hey, uh, didn't you say we were gonna drink something?" Ash asked.
"Guess I did." Mollie giggled to give him another cheek kiss and then left Ash to go to the fridge.
"Hey, Ash, thank you so much for helping her." Orla said. "I've seriously never seen her so happy, you should give her a chance."
"Orla, of course I'd like to have something with Mollie, but I'm in a bit of a tough spot right now."
"How so?" Orla asked.
"Well, you see, the girls that are traveling with me, they-"
"They're all in love with you." Mollie interrupted returning to the table with three glasses of pink juice. "And you're in love with all of them."
"Uh, yeah, I suppose that's as simple as it gets." Ash replied and the three started to drink. "Mollie, I told you, I do like you, but I can't just leave the other girls behind, I... I'm going to ask them if they're willing to be in a shared relationship with me, I'm just waiting for the right moment to bring it up. I know it's a crazy idea, but-"
"I'm in." She interrupted again.
"You are?" Both Ash and Orla asked.
"Sure! I'm not letting you go, and all the girls seemed pretty nice during the funeral, so if this is the only way for it to work then I'll join with one little condition."
"And that is?" Ash asked.
"Orla has to join as well." Mollie said causing her friend to almost choke on her juice.
"ME WHAT?!" Orla shouted blushing madly.
"Come on, be honest, you also like him." Mollie said. "And Ash is probably the only guy who would date you because of your personality and not your pechonality. Or at the least he'd date you for both, right?"
"W-Well, I wouldn't complain about either." Ash said blushing as well.
"Listen, Mollie, Ash is a really great guy, but I'm not sure if I'd be fine with that kind of relationship." Orla said.
"Well, that's exactly why we'll be doing a little test." Mollie smirked.
"A test?" Orla asked to then look at the glasses. "What... did you put on these drinks?"
"Nothing you should worry about." Mollie said to then sit on Ash's lap meeting with his face again. "How do you feel?"
"A bit... hot." He replied still blushing.
"Gotcha." Mollie said to then take him into another kiss and Ash answered by hugging her by her waist to pull her closer into the kiss while he also finally started to 'fight back' with his lips, softly biting Mollie's.
"M-Mollie, what did you do?" Orla asked blushing even more finding herself unable to look away.
"Just sprinkled something soft." Mollie said separating from the kiss and Ash started to plant kisses and soft bites in her neck, seemingly in a trance. "I-It should be off in l-l-like 3 minutes, so we've got ourselves 3 minutes of playtime, ngh... hah, why don't you show us that scar again?"
"A-Are you crazy?!" Orla shouted.
"Your loss." Mollie said before Ash took her into a lip kiss himself while Mollie simply melted into his arms.
"T-That's... you shouldn't..." Orla kept staring at the scene for around 30 seconds and she eventually sighed. "Ugh, fine! But you and I are having a very serious talk after this." She said to then take off her shirt again, showing the orange bra that covered her voluminous breasts. "So, uh, Ash, do you, uh, prefer girls with, uh, front or behind? Cause, uh, you know, I've heard some people said they could get in the way during- EEK!" Orla suddenly squeaked when Ash made a quick movement to grab her right breast.
"Uh..." Orla's squeak was enough to pull Ash out of his trance and he simply blushed when he noticed what he was doing. "O-ORLA! I'M SORRY!" Ash shouted pulling back his hand.
"N-No, wait! i-i-it's fine, I liked it!" Orla exclaimed.
"You did?" Ash asked.
"Y-Yeah, you... you can do it again... I-If you want to, I mean." Orla added crossing her arms behind her back while she blushed even more. "J-Just be gentle, they're quite sensitive."
"Uh, W-Well..."
"Come on, she's pretty much begging you to do it." Mollie said kissing his cheek again while Orla simply stared at Ash with a pleading look to then smile and move her shoulders back and forth, causing her breasts to jiggle, which only made him blush even more, Ash then took a deep breath before softly grabbing her right breast with his left hand making Orla let out a small squeak, a sound which Ash was starting to enjoy, so he squeezed her breast slightly and made her do it again, while Orla started to drool lost in the sensation.
"Someone's not so shy anymore." Mollie said to then take Ash into another kiss and he slowly moved the hand he had around Mollie's waist to her ass, grabbing it softly and causing the Joy to moan between the kiss. "H-Hey, you... heh, so you're a 'both is good' type of guy, huh? Good to know."
"Hey, I want some attention too." Orla said to then get closer to the two, grabbing Ash's wrist with her hand to make sure he'd keep groping her to then plant a warm kiss on Ash's lips with Mollie smiling at the two and once Orla finished the two girls swarmed Ash with kisses all over his face, neck and of course, his lips, while he still kept a hand groping each girl.
"I... I really love you." Orla whispered grabbing Ash's face to then give him quite a deep lip kiss, leaving them both panting after they separated and pressing their foreheads together while Mollie simply smirked and got off Ash's lap to give them some space but he still let go off her ass. "And... I'm glad Mollie likes you too... something about this just feels right... I didn't want to hurt her feelings, but if she's really okay with this then... I wanna be your girlfriend too." She said to give Ash another lip kiss, hugging him by his neck, while Ash finally decided to move her hand under Orla's breast and get a full grip of her breast. "Y-You naughty boy."
"I KNEW IT!" Iono shouted bursting into the scene along with Nemona, Penny and Mela.
"Y-Y-You get off him!" Penny demanded while all the girls were blushing, seeing in the position they were in.
"T-This isn't what it looks like!" Orla shouted getting away from Ash and fixing her bra.
"It looks like you two were about to 'make too much noise'!" Nemona shouted.
"...Ok, maybe it is what it looks like." Orla said putting her shirt back on and take Ash's other hand off Mollie's ass.
"Hey! I was digging that!" Mollie complained.
"So that's why you asked us to spend the night here." Mela said. "You only wanted to get Ash."
"The bigger the boobs, the eviler the woman." Iono said. "Ash Ketchum, I'm so disappointed in you, if what you wanted was boobs then Nemo is right there!"
"I-I mean, they're not that big." Nemona replied blushing embarrassed.
"And Penny's got a nice ass too!" Iono continued. "You just don't notice it because of her backpack, take a look at it now."
"COULD YOU STOP SAYING THINGS LIKE THAT SO CASUALLY?!" Penny shouted with a massive blush.
"Well, Ash, what's your excuse?" Nemona asked.
"Uh, s-sorry, I got a bit dizzy and lost track of what I was doing." Ash replied just as embarrassed. "But well, I did came to my senses later, but... I guess I wanted to keep going, I'd like... to do that stuff with y'all, you know?"
"EH?!" The four girls shouted blushing at their limit.
"AH! N-No, no! Sorry, I didn't mean it like that!" Ash shouted blushing even more.
"Y-You, uh, you mean, lewd stuff with us?" Iono asked. "L-Like right now?"
"If, uh, you must, well, have a lot of stamina considering all the things we've seen you do." Nemona said.
"W-Well, it's not like we don't want to do that too, but it feels a bit early and... uh..." Mela simply looked away.
"I-I-I, uh... wait a sec, dizzy?" Penny asked to then look at the glasses in the table. "You... YOU DRUGGED HIM?!"
"WHAT?!" Nemona, Iono and Mela shouted.
"It is legally classified as medicine." Mollie said.
"AND THIS WAS LITERALLY AN ASSAULT!" Mela shouted
"Well, it's okay if a cute girl with boobs does it." Mollie said.
"You were the one who started!" Orla shouted.
"Cause you didn't enjoy it, right?" Mollie asked. "And you all, relax, it was just something soft to take out his inhibitions, it's not gonna harm him in any way and he didn't do anything that he didn't want to do deep inside." Mollie explained.
"That's what everyone says!" Mela shouted again.
"If Ash us gonna lick someone that's gonna be me!" Iono shouted.
"Well, at least we had the guts to do something with him." Mollie said. "Unlike you all who have been traveling with him for months and haven't done anything about your feelings!"
"Even if that was true, which is not, you have no right to do this!" Nemona shouted.
"And what makes you think you have the right?" Orla asked. "It's not like Ash belongs to you!"
"And he doesn't belong to you either!" Mela shouted.
The discussion kept going and Ash simply stood aside watching the girls rant while Pikachu jumped to his shoulder and Skeledirge was still sleeping on the floor. Ash simply thought in silence for a moment before walking out of the scene without the girls noticing since they were all too busy screaming at each other.
"Why do this kind of things keep happening to me?" Ash asked walking the halls of the Asagi. "And why am I running away? Shouldn't I stay with them and try to keep peace or something? ...who am I kidding? I'm not ready for this."
"Ready for what?"
"Huh. Friede?" He asked seeing the young man accompanied by his Alolan Raichu. "Uh, hi there, you couldn't sleep either?"
"Guess you can say that, but late nights are fine by me." He replied. "Now, don't change topic, what were you talking about?"
"Uh, nothing, just a little argument with my traveling companions." Ash said.
"Heh, I can imagine what type of argument that was. I mean, they surely look like more than traveling companions to me." Friede said. "You're truly a lucky fella, aren't you?"
"I guess..." Ash said. "Hey... I didn't want to say it earlier, but... that hat your Raichu is wearing... it's Drake's hat, isn't it?"
"...It sure is." Friede said with a weak smile. "Drake gave it to me but... I don't really like to wear it... I... don't feel like I deserve it... hey, how about I show you something?"
Ash and Friede were now in front of a giant golden vault and Raichu floated in front of a scanner that was next to the vault and this scanned the Poke Ball symbol on Drake's hat to then open the vault, which led to an empty room with nothing but a treasure chest covered by a black coat.
"Drake's coat." Ash said and Friede carefully took it off the chest, with Ash noticing that the coat seemed to have been sewn in the back. Friede then placed the coat over his shoulder and opened the treasure chest to show the six Tera Keys in possession of the Tacklers. Flying, Rock, Normal, Water, Ghost and Steel. Ash and him looked at the keys for a moment before Friede sighed and took the Flying one on his hand.
"Like I told you, Drake was my mentor and the original captain of the Brave Asagi." He said to Ash while looking at the Flying Key, which symbol were two angel-like wings. "I'll never forget him... that moment I met him, it changed my life forever."
Somewhere in Paldea, 5 years ago.
Back in the day... heh, I was nothing but a thief, simply stealing whatever quipped my interest, one day I bursted into an storage owned by Team Rocket, not too far from here actually.
"Draco Meteor!" A young Friede shouted and his Garchomp attacked and knocked out Two Rocket Grunts and their Zubat. "Heh, simple as that." He said fist-bumping with his Pikachu in his shoulder to then approach what seemed to be a treasure chest, his Pikachu used Iron Tail to break the lock it had and Friede then opened it, the chest was filled with Golden Nuggets, but in the middle of them seemed to be Golden Key with two white wings printed on it. "The heck is this thing?" Friede asked picking up the key.
"Hmmp, so what Agatha said was true." A voice talked behind Friede and he turned around to see Drake accompanied by his Salamence, looking at him from the entrance of the storage. "Would you be kind enough to give that key to me, lad?"
"Huh, you don't look like a member of Team Rocket." Friede said. "Who are you supposed to be?"
"Name's Drake, Drake Redaka, I'm a member of the Hoenn Elite Four." He replied. "But I'm branded as a pirate by the moment."
"Well, a fellow professional, it seems." Friede said looking at the key again. "Is this thingie yours then?"
"Not exactly." Drake replied. "But I'm afraid I need it, it's really important."
"I see..." Friede replied to then grin. "Then I better not give it to you! Dragon Claw!" He shouted and his Garchomp's wings were surrounded in purple light as he flew towards Drake.
"Hmm..." Drake stood still and pressed a stone in his belt and his Salamence was surrounded in light to then Mega Evolve in a burst of light and use Dragon Rush to knock down Friede's Garchomp in a single hit.
"What in the-?!"
"Would you like to continue?" Drake asked and his Mega-Salamence roared while Pikachu hid behind Friede's legs.
"Tsk... fine..." Friede said to then return his Garchomp and slowly walk to Drake until they were only a few steps away to then hand over the key. "Here, you can have it."
"... Why did you even try to fight for it?" Drake asked taking the key. "I honestly doubt you even know what this thing is."
"Well, you came to this place looking for it, didn't you?" Friede asked. "I imagine it must be worth some good money then."
"Perhaps, but I'm looking for something more than its material worth." Drake replied. "This is the key to something big, a treasure that's way bigger than both of us."
"Really? And what is that?" Friede asked.
"Heh, that's not the important thing." Drake replied as he turned around and began to walk away with his Mega-Salamence following him. "The important thing is that if you only care about money... if you give up on everything as easy as you gave up on this key... then you'll never find it... You'll never understand what a real treasure means..." He said to then stop walking and look to Friede over his shoulder. "But that decision is only yours to make."
"My decision, huh?" Friede asked as Drake continued to leave. "...Hey, old man, wait!" He exclaimed to then follow him and Drake smirked to himself.
Back to the present.
"He told me everything about the keys and the Greatest Treasure in Paldea and I followed him on his journey." Friede continued. "We traveled Paldea and the world looking for them... he taught me so many things... he showed me the importance of having a crew, a family, that there were other treasures aside from money... and when the time came he named me the new captain of the Asagi."
"But... I met with Drake some months ago." Ash said. "How did he die?"
"Well, that's..." Friede stood silent for a moment, but he was pulled from his thoughts by a red alarm that came from the roof. "Oh no."
"What's that?" Ash asked.
"Nothing good." Friede said to then place the key back on the chest and close it, leaving Drake's coat on top of it as well. "Everyone to the Living Room!" He shouted to his Rotom Phone while closing the vault and guided Ash through the Asagi until they made it to the living room, where the rest of the Tacklers and the girls were waiting for them.
"There you are!" Mela shouted to Ash. "Could you stop running away while we're having this kind of conversations?!"
"I'm sorry, okay?" Ash replied. "Can we discuss this later?"
"Orla, what happened?" Friede asked.
"Uh, W-Well, Mollie, Ash and I were-"
"He's talking about the alarm." Mollie whispered.
"Oh, right." Orla said picking up her Rotom Tablet. "It was the proximity alarm that we installed after Mollie joined us, something's coming, but don't worry, the Asagi is fully locked from inside, there's no way they'll get in." Orla's statement was followed by a loud thunder and a purple portal appeared in front of the group, with Amethio and his Ceruledge coming out of it.
"Amethio..." Mela whispered.
"Huh, quite the warm welcoming." Amethio said and from the portal later came Conia, Zir and a young woman of fair skin with short purple hair wearing a red jacket and high-tech glasses.
"Who's the new girl?" Mollie asked.
"Mitch?" Friede asked.
"Don't try anything, Explorers!" Murdock shouted. "We got you outnumbered 11 to 4!"
"Guess that's true... Richardo!" Amethio shouted and his Ceruledge made various quick cuts in the air that created several portals around Ash's group and the Tacklers, sucking them inside in different directions. "That should do."
"Now, remember what Jean told us, try not to have too much fun." The purple-haired said.
"Don't promise anything." Zir said cracking his knuckles and Richardo summoned five more portals, one for each Explorer.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"Hey, Mela, you okay?" Murdock asked.
"I... no." She shouted standing up after the fall. "But thanks for asking."
"Man, that really took us off guard." Murdock said. "We've had some battles with the Explorers, but this is the first time they attack us directly in the Asagi, why doing that all of a sudden?"
"There's only one way to find out." Mela said. "Let's get moving to stop them. As long as Amethio is here, I won't be fine."
"Hmm... you know the kid from somewhere, don't you?" He asked.
"Amethio... used to be my boyfriend." She admitted. "But we broke up some time ago."
"I see... and now you're blaming yourself for the damage he's causing."
"I guess." Mela nodded.
"Well, let me tell you something, blaming yourself for things that other people do is no good, I should know about that." Murdock said to then sigh. "In the end you can't do more for a person than what that person is willing to do for himself."
"Mr. Murdock..." Mela stared at him for a moment. "I... Mollie mentioned you had some stor... as someone who was very close to go... can I ask why were you in jail?"
"Well, I..."
"How about I tell you myself, kid?" Zir asked appearing from a portal along his roaring Rhydon.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"Perfect! This day just can't get any better!" Iono complained walking in circles while Ludlow was meditating in the floor along Ash's Pikachu. "Next thing you'll tell me is that that girl Conia, who's also busty as hell, likes Ash too! ARGH! W-Why does everyone... P-Penny, Nemo and I are his traveling companions! We're the ones who know Ash the most! We should've gotten his first three kisses! Not Dendra, Mollie and Orla! This all so unfair! ...Maybe it's fault? ...Penny and Nemo do deserve to kiss Ash, but I... after what I did... ugh, ok, ok, let's try to focus in not dying for now. What should we do, Mr. Drampa?"
"We wait." Ludlow said.
"Wait for what?" Iono asked.
"We wait." He insisted.
"But-"
"We wait." He said again and Iono made a small silent tantrum before sitting next to him on the floor with her arms crossed.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"I-Is anybody out there?" Penny stuttered.
"Uh, yeah, it's me, Dot." She replied with her Gimmighoul in her shoulder.
"Uh, sorry, I lost my glasses and I can't see anything without them, can you help me find them?"
"Sure thing. Jim?" Dot said and the Gimmighoul jumped off her shoulder to start looking for Penny's glasses.
"So, Dot." Penny said.
"Yeah, it's short for-"
"Gim!" Gimmighoul exclaimed with Penny's glasses in hand and Dot grabbed them to then give them to Penny so she could put them on herself.
"Huff, thanks." Penny said. "So you're Murdock's niece, correct?"
"Unfortunately." Dot nodded.
"Well, I wanted to talk with you actually, your uncle mentioned us that you never want to leave your room, why is that?"
"Ugh, he's always saying that to everyone as if he was the victim." Dot replied. "It's all his fault to begin with."
"How so?" Penny asked.
"...That doesn't matter." Dot replied looking away.
"Well, as a former lonely loner and fellow techmaster I think you should talk things out with him." Penny said.
"I've tried, okay?" Dot said. "But he'll never listen to me, he just doesn't understand, do you have any idea of how it feels to know that the one person who can help you with a problem won't do anything about it?"
"Of course I do..." Penny sighed. "And that's exactly why I think you should insist before things get too big to handle."
"... Let's just meet with the rest so we can stop the Explorers." Dot said.
"I'm sorry, nerds, I'm afraid I can't let you do that." Amethio said appearing from a portal along Richardo.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"Well, that was a pretty rough fall." Mollie said standing up to then look at Nemona. "You okay?"
"Y-Yeah, I just fell on top of my brace." Nemona said holding her right forearm while she stood up as well.
"Hey, is that a medical brace?" Mollie asked.
"Uh, n-no, it just helps me tossing Poke Balls, why do you ask?" Nemona asked slightly nervous.
"Well, you're on pajamas now, why are you still wearing it?" Mollie continued.
"Oh, that, eh, well, you see, it's very comfy and you, uh, you never know if Ash will wake up in the middle of the night with a battle mood, it has happened few times actually."
"Uh, sure." Mollie said seeing how Nemona's right hand seemed to be twitching, but her thoughts were interrupted by a purple portal that appeared in front of them, with Conia coming out of it along her Golduck.
"Well, look here, if it isn't Mollie." Conia said. "What happened with you back in the cave? Don't tell me I scared you."
"Nope, you didn't, but Orla surely scared you with that wrench, didn't she?" Mollie asked.
"Grrr, Hydro Pump!" Conia shouted and her Golduck shot the move from his mouth.
"Arboliva!" Nemona exclaimed releasing the tree who took the attack and activated her Seed Sower Ability, turning the area into a Grassy Terrain. "Leave this to me, Mollie." Nemona said to then return Arboliva and release her Quaxwell. "Sera duelo a muerte con patos!"
"Duelo a muerte con patos?" Conia asked.
"Yeah, I haven't been in Paldea for that long, my Spanish is a bit rusty." Mollie said.
"Pongámonos Quacklocados!" Nemona exclaimed to then pull out her Tera Orb with her braced hand and activate it, but while it was gathering energy, Nemona let out a grunt of pain and had to use her other arm to support it. "C-Come on, just do it." She said to herself before taking the orb with her other hand and toss it to Quaxwell, changing him to a Grass-Type. "Huff... here we go." Nemona said holding her right forearm again.
"What in the-" Mollie wondered while she saw Nemona's brace was seemingly sparking and her hand was twitching again.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"Orla! Orla, you okay?" Ash asked her.
"Ugh, yes, I'm fine." She replied while Ash helped her stand up.
"Where are we?" Ash asked looking around, seeing they were in a room filled with giant gears and coal machines.
"This is the Machine Room; or 'The Heart of the Asagi' as well call it." Orla said. "You need a lot to keep this big guy in the air.
"And what would happen if we give it a heart attack, Doctor?" A voice asked from a platform above them and Ash and Orla saw a young man with fair skin, red eyes and long green hair. wearing an elegant gray jacket, high boots, and a black sweater and pants.
"Spinel?" Orla asked.
"Ah, so you do remember me. I'm flattered." Spinel said.
"Friend of yours?" Ash asked.
"Not quite, back when Professor Turo was looking for an assistant, he gave tests to many scientists, Spinel Warzil here and I were the two finalists and-"
"And I've already heard that story." Spinel interrupted. "Don't really like how it ends."
"Spinel... you're with the Explorers, right?" Orla asked.
"What? No!" He shouted. "Who do you take me for?! That is such an offensive assumption- No, actually, yeah, I am. Toxic!" He exclaimed to then release a Beheeyem who shot six streams of poison from the spots in his hands.
"Metagross!" Orla called upon her ace, who blocked the attack with his typing.
"Shadow Ball!" Spinel continued and Beheeyem joined his hands to then toss the ghost orb.
"Sawbuck!" Ash released the deer who also blocked the move with his type.
"Oh, so you're that type of Trainers, that's just great." Spinel said. "Psyshock!"
"Lokix!"
Beheeyem shot a Y shaped pink beam from his forehead, but Ash released the grasshopper and blocked the attack as well.
"STOP! WITH! THE! GOD! DAMN! IMMUNITIES!" Spinel shouted stomping the floor.
"Professor Turo always said you were a bit unstable." Orla said.
"SHUT UP!" Spinel shouted again.
Somewhere else in the Asagi.
"AAAAH!" Friede shouted as he fell from a portal on the roof and landed roughly onto the floor while his Raichu and Garchomp descended floating. "Ugh, Otro aterrizaje perfecto." Friede said to then stand up with difficulty and turn around to see the purple-haired girl with both hands on the helm of the Asagi with a Salamence by her side.
"Out of all the places in the Asagi, you had to pick the Bridge?" Friede asked.
"Well, this is where it all started for us." She replied. "And where it ended too..."
"No, I'd say it truly ended on that warehouse." Friede replied and the girl seemed to tense for a moment before she let go off the helm to look at Friede directly.
"We both know this story is too far from over." She said.
"Seems like it." Friede replied. "I'd like to say I'm surprised you joined the Explorers, but we both know that would be a lie, Mitch."
"Don't call me that!" She shouted.
"Fine then... Michelle D. Amaras." Friede said and the girl took off her tech glasses to show her purple eyes. "The second-best Dragon Trainer in all of Hoenn after the man Drake Redaka himself... he was the only one who could call you Mitch."
"And he was the only one who could call you Fred." Michelle replied.
"I always thought he just couldn't remember our full names." Friede let out a short laugh. "But you never told us what the 'D' stood for, like, it can't be for Dragon, right?"
"I see you're still a clown." Michelle said.
"I'm giving you the chance to talk this out." Friede said.
"If you had given me the chance to talk when I asked for it..." Michelle took a pause as she clenched her fists. "Drake wouldn't have died."
"...I know." Friede answered.
And that's it!
There's the first drop of our five-parter, next chapter we'll have the battles against the Explorers along some other things. How do you think the matchups will play out?
And Michelle is here, she's a COTD from AG043 for those who don't know her, she's gonna be our Hoenn girl, wait til you see what I have in store for her.
And we also have Lucca here, Liko's Mom from Horizons, decided to relate her to Dendra since they're quite similar at first glance.
Speaking of that, I'd like to tell y'all a little anecdote today, Drake is the videogame character who I have the most respect for, why? Well, let's go back in time to 2008, Holdonlupin is a dumb kid playing his first Pokemon game ever, Pearl, I was doing fine, a cool team of Infernape, Graveler, Staraptor, Floatzel, Luxray and Lucario, all good, pretty balanced, until I catch Palkia, first thoughts, this is a Legendary, it'll be strong, right? Let's drop Graveler and then bam, Sweeped Volkner with Palkia and after seeing that I used ONLY Palkia for the rest of the game and somehow killed everything, only using the rest of the team to revive and full restore Palkia, defeating Cynthia herself with that strategy.
So, some months later, I get my second Pokemon game, Ruby, and the story kinda repeated, a team of Sceptile, Linoone, Swellow, Manetric and Sharpedo, leaving an empty spot for Groudon and so the same happened, get the Legendary, sweep Wally, sweep Sidney, sweep Phoebe, sweep Glacia, get sweeped by Drake- Wait, what? Yup, Drake literally said 'hell no, bitch', all of his mon survived a hit from Groudon and weakened him little by little until it was Salamence's turn and it was all over, I tried 10 times and each attempt was the same, Salamence always managed to live, kill Groudon and destroy the rest of my underleveled team, that was when I understood I'd need something more than brute force, after the tenth loss I Ieft Groudon on the box and with my mere knowledge of type advantage, I caught a Spheal and trained him along the rest of the team for around two weeks and we managed to beat Drake fair and square. Drake taught me a lesson and I learned it, hope I made him proud, so, in resume, Drake's my GOAT and as a Gokaiger fan, I think the role of Akared will suit him perfectly and I'm really excited to use him in this fic. Not everything has to be about the harem.
Still, back to the harem, like I mentioned in the other note, Gen 9 has been dropping characters like crazy, you can expect Ohara, Sango and Wakaba to show up here soon, (Wakaba specially fits perfect for a 'legacy' plot I wanted to do with Tacklers). Amarys, Lacey and Perrin will most likely have to wait for when we get to some DLC arcs, but we already got a short bit of Carmine here so who knows.
Path to the Peak was fucking beautiful, but I'm not that much into TCG, so I didn't understand even half of what was happening, anyway, I'd like to add Celestine here, but since Path to the Peak takes place in the 'real world' I'm not sure if my take on her (And possibly Ava and Joshua too) should be an Isekai plot or if I should just have them as 'actual' Pokemon characters with a Yu-Gi-Oh-kind-of card Gimmick, both ideas are interesting in their own way.
See you next time in 'Close all the doors that you want'
The working titles of the other three parts are currently:
Chips in my Pockets, Blood on my Hands
No one brought us here but me
Coming to step on your toes
Look forward to them!
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Now for the reviews:
AndyKurosaki98
Enserio me encantan tus reviews. Aguanta un poquito más y creo que tendremos algo más de delicioso.
KGBeastboy
Uncle Paul is an amazing idea.
And Liko will battle Ash at some point too.
Stella will be our Kanto girl! I honestly forgot about her, but as the Greatest fan of the Greatest Showman I think there's quite some material to work with her, we could have her side with Delia perhaps.
And Risa will be our Johto girl! I just rewatched the Power of Us movie after a few years and I've forgotten how much I loved this gal, she'll either be a Naranja/Uva Student depending on how I adapt her story, we'll see.
So that leaves the regional girls to:
Kanto: Stella
Johto: Risa
Hoenn: Michelle
Sinnoh: Marble (Forget what I said last chapter, she's 100% in)
Unova: Yancy
Kalos: An Aura user with a Hat.
Alola: Cerah
Galar: Marnie
Hisui: ???
RIGHT! We're getting a Hisui girl, who do you think it's going to be?
Really loved all of your ideas and some of them will happen in the story, but I think I'd rather don't spoil you guys.
Guest 1
Glad you liked it, I'm proud to be the founder of the Ash x Dendra ship, but we still need a name for it, heh. Knucklesandwichshipping anyone? ...no? ...Just me? ...ok, whatever.
Alan Jair Lopez Lopez
Muchas gracias, he visto muchos hispanohablantes en este fic, eh?
Rezenov
Someone said breasts?!
All the girls will meet eventually.
Dot will join for sure, but there's a little twist with her.
Since the chapter extended, we'll have to wait a bit more for the Kalos girl, but here's another hint: Ash didn't meet her in the anime.
TheSunTamer
So, the first draft of previous chapter had Delia actually fully accepting the girls, but I thought it didn't feel as natural as it should've so I decided to go with the 'silent war' theme instead and I think keeping Delia as some sort of looming threat will be great. And of course Ash will have to learn the truth eventually.
Yup, the Paldea lore in this fic is mine so far, but who knows? Maybe I predicted one or two things that could be in the DLC.
We'll get more spice after dealing with the Explorers.
Sorry this chapter took me quite some time.
Scooby Doo 150
We'll get Ash x Liko eventually, there's no use in denying it.
Dragonkeeper10
Yeah, I also believe Ash will show up in Horizons at some point.
References:
The title of this chapter 'The Never-Ending Night Sky is taken from the title of an episode of Jake and The Neverland Pirates.
"Trying to court so many people is simply insane... and that I'd willingly join indicates I'm not in the right mind either." - 100kanojo.
"NI DE PUTA COÑA!" - From the Spanish Dub of Fast and Furious presents: Hobbs and Shaw. Translates to 'No fucking chance!'
"I just woke up in the middle of the night with the idea of time traveling flooding my brain." - Meet the Robinsons.
"Alright, if this works out you could be the first person to make an autonomous temporal jump... or the last one." - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-verse.
"Flip the switch!" "Get ready for this, Coco!" - Lyrics from 'Jump Up, Super Star!" by Kate Higgins.
"It's okay to lie if I'm scared!" - Jurassic World.
"You're running when it's too late...Won't hear you screaming for help... all this cages and chains... won't protect you from yourself." - Lyrics from 'Life Finds a Way' by Nerdout.
"The strongest harness in the universe and we managed to harness it." - Overwatch.
"No one is meant to compete with time and death." - Justice League Unlimited.
"Well, I think we can be the exception, you and I." - In Time
"I can't be part of this." "Then what can you be part of?" - Man of Steel.
"I'm not gonna stay here to see how my friend kills himself." - Kung Fu Panda 2.
"So we've got ourselves 3 minutes of playtime." - Spider-Man.
"Something about this just feels right." - Lyrics from 'Put Me Back Together' by JT Music.
"Both is good" - The Road to El Dorado.
"AND THIS WAS LITERALLY AN ASSAULT!" "Well, it's okay if a cute girl with boobs does it." - Kanojo mo Kanojo.
"Late nights are fine by me." - Lyrics from 'Back for Another Bite' by JT Music.
The scene where Friede meets Drake is based on the scene where Marvelous meets Akared in the 16th episode of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger.
"I'm sorry, nerds, I'm afraid I can't let you do that." - 2001: A Space Odyssey.
"Sera duelo a muerte con patos." "Duelo a muerte con patos?" - From the latin-american Dub of Yu Yu Hakusho, translates to "It'll be a duel to the death with ducks." "Duel to the death with ducks?"
"Pongámonos Quacklocados!" - From the latin-american Dub of Breadwinners, a portmanteau of 'Quack' and 'Alocados(crazy), so it'll translate to 'Let's get Quazy', per the series original quote.
Keeping my trend with the Explorers being based on the Zangyack, the villains of the Gokaigers. Spinel's last name, Warzil, is taken from the villain 'Warz Gill'.
"What? No! Who do you take me for? That's such an offensive assumption- No, actually, yeah, I am." - MandJTV.
"And I've already heard that story. Don't really like how it ends." - Lyrics from 'Other Friends' from Steven Universe: The Movie.
"Otro aterrizaje perfecto." - Doki, translates to 'Another perfect landing'.
"We both know this story is too far from over." - Lyrics from 'Join Us For a Bite' by JT Music.
"We both know that would be a lie." - Lyrics from 'Goodbye' from The Amazing World of Gumball.
Like with the other Explorers, Michelle's full name, Michelle D. Amaras, is taken from another villain of Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, this time from 'Damaras'.
"But you never told us what the 'D' stood for, like, it can't be for Dragon, right?" - Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
That's all for today!
Holdonlupin is out!