Believe or not the mewtwo (dubbed greeny by eri) was more than willing to stay with the girl considering she had freed them

the eevee (dubbed fluffy by eri) was just happy to have someone to cuddle with

the next day it when it was time for ash's battle with saywer

ash was already preparing and the group was about to enter the stadium

"Hey serena!" Shauna said from behind the group "why didn't you guys sit with us yesterday?"

serena froze up immediately

"well I wasn't sure how she would take it." Serena said with Eri hiding behind her

"who's she?" Shauna asked

"do you have a girlfriend or something?" Trevor asked

"if you do we'll support you no matter what!" Tierno said

"no it's not that..." serena said blushing

Eri poked her head out

"mama who are they?" Eri asked

...

"WHAT?!?" The 3 yelled

"Shhh!" Serena said "she's a bit shy."

"oh right sorry!" Shauna said "so if you're the mom who's the dad?"

"100 pokedollars says it's ash." Trevor said

"deal!" Tierno said

"You know papa?" Eri asked

serena was redder than a pikachu's cheeks

"pay up!" Trevor said as Tierno payed up

"she's not mine biologically but i love her the same." Serena said

"awwww." Shauna said taking a knee to see eri "what's your name?"

"M-my name is Eri." Eri said

"nice to meet you eri! I'm your aunty shauna!" Shauna said

"aunty?" Eri questioned while tilting her head

"you are so precious." Shauna said "now come on we're gonna miss the match if we sit here messing around!"

the group headed to their seats


"Woah..." Eri said upon seeing ash greninja

seeing ash greninja fight sawyer's mega septile ignited a flame in her, a flame so bright that even if overhaul captured her again...

...it wouldn't be snuffed out

she wanted to battle

She wanted to do Pokemon battles

and as ash greninja landed the finale blow on sawyer's septile...

She smiled for the first time in years

(She's smiling!) serena thought to herself (ash you got her to smile!)

"hey mama?" Eri asked

"yes?" Serena asked still not used to being called mama

"could i do battles?" Eri asked "with papa?"

"uhhhhhhh..." serena said

Eri looked at her with a pleading look

"Go on you wouldn't refuse that!" Shauna said

"...If it's okay with him." Serena said

"yay! Thanks mama!" Eri said giving serena a hug

"falling into the mother life i see." Trevor said

"it's a good look on you!" Terino said


"That was a good match sawyer!" Ash said shaking his friend's hand

"thanks ash!" Sawyer said

"Papa!" Eri said as she ran and tackled ash with a hug

"woah slow down." Ash said

"Eh?!" Sawyer said

"You were super cool papa!" Eri said "I want to battle you!"

"You do?" Ash asked before thinking about it for a moment

well if he really was going to be Eri's adoptive co-parent then he better show her his interests

"Sure thing eri!" Ash said

"Pikapika!" Pikachu said clearly excited

"Eh?!" Sawyer said even more confused

then Serena ran over

"mama! papa said yes!" Eri said

"okay can someone explain to me what the heck is going on?!" Sawyer asked

"We'll explain it on the way to the picnic." Serena said

"Alright then." Sawyer said


"So this pokemon summoned you after Eri made a wish for a mother figure" sawyer asked while looking at hoopa

"yup that's the gist of it." Serena said

while this was happening ash and eri were getting ready for their battle

"papa can you use the blue one?" Eri asked

"the blue one? You mean greninja?" Ash asked

Eri nodded

"Alright then greninja come on out!" Ash said sending out the water type

"Go greeny!" Eri said as she sent out the mewtwo

"Alright first battle!" Green said as did a little stretch

"Who's that pokemon?" Shauna asked as she took out her pokedex

"Mewtwo the genetic pokemon. This pokemon is a genetic clone of the mythical pokemon mew, it is normally extremely violent and intelligent."

"well I don't think it's any of those." Terino said as greeny fell over

"DID THAT SAY MYTHICAL?!" Sawyer asked

"All right let's get it started!" Ash said "greninja water shuriken!"

"Greeny punch him!" Eri said

greeny grabbed greninja's arm and landed a mean right hook

everyone was stunned

"Uhhh eri sweetie you're supposed to say moves not actual punches and kicks." Serena said

"oh! Uhhhh? Thunder punch?" Eri said

greeny's hand surrounded itself with electricity and he punched greninja again

"Greninja use double team!" Ash said "and then close in!

greninja split itself into multiple copies and began to run at greeny

"Uhhh Rocks!" Eri said

Grenny used telekinesis to pick up a large amount of rocks and threw them at the clones making them disappear

"That's ancient power!" Clemont said

but the original got through the attack

"Greninja use night slash!" Ash said

"Uh Ka-BOOM!" Eri said

"Huh?" Ash said

greeny got hit by nightslash only for them to grab greninja and fire a point blank hyper beam

"That's hyper beam!" Clemont said "an extremely powerful move that needs time to recharge after use!"

"All right! Time to go all out!" Ash said as he and greninja's eyes glowed

Greninja then transformed into ash greninja

"all out?" Eri said before a memory flashed through her head

flashback

Eri's biological father was watching all might on tv with eri on his lap

the young eri looked at the tv with Awe and amazement

"You like seeing heroes?" Eri's father asked "do you want to be one when you grow up?"

the young girl babbled on in baby talk

"I'm sure that you can be a great hero, eri." Eri's father said as he lifted his daughter up "as long as you remember to "Go beyond! Plus ultra!"

Flashback end

"Papa..." Eri muttered under her breath

"Greninja use night slash!" Ash said

ash-Greninja rushed foward the blade in hand

"Greeny!" Eri yelled "GO BEYOND!!"

Greeny's body began to glow before mega evolving into it's mega mewtwo X form just as ash-greninja got close

"it mega evolved!" Serena said

"PLUS!" Eri yelled

Greeny ducked under the night slash and readied a thunder punch

"ULTRA!!" Eri yelled

greeny slammed his fist into ash-greninja's stomach sending the transformed pokemon flying and causing ash to fall on his butt

ash-Greninja transformed back into normal greninja

"ja..." greninja said unable to continue battling

ash was struggling to stay awake

"i...won? I won!" Eri said happily

"Good job eri!" Ash said as he got up "I'm glad you're smiling."

"thanks papa!" Eri said

shauna leaned towards serena

"so serena when's the wedding?" Shauna asked

serena flushed red

"huh? What does a wedding have to do with this?" Ash asked while Pikachu face palmed

"please tell me he's joking." Shauna said to clemont

"i wish." Clemont said

"Well you see ash parents are usually dating or married." Sawyer said

...

Ash immediately flushed red once he finally got it

"There we go he gets it now." Sawyer said

"About time!" Bonnie said "seriously you're denser than a bag of bricks!"

"I mean Serena literally blushes every time eri calls you papa." Shauna said

"wait then that means...Oh my arceus I'm an idiot." Ash said "serena has a crush on me and had no idea. And that also means i have a crush on Serena and i had no idea."

this caused pikachu to burst out laughing

"you have a crush on me?" Serena asked her face redder than eri's eyes

ash then realized what he just said

"i uhhhhhh..." ash said

Eri simply looked at her mama and papa confused

"Yes?" Ash said his face also red

"there we go now we got it!" Bonnie said


Elsewhere

the former pewter city gym leader was sitting studying to be a Pokemon doctor when he felt a disturbance

"well it's about time ash." Brock said

That's it for now the next few chapters will be focused on the Pokemon world

See you next time