Okay, chapter two is here and up for you to read, and I hope you're all liking this so far. Again I must say this is a back burner story that I'm doing. So sorry if this takes a while since I like to take my time to make chapters the best that they can be so that you can all enjoy them to the fullest. And just so that you all know, Serena is back in the chapter for you; all more girls Ash knows will show up in the coming chapters as well.

Chapter 2 looking for friends

Later that night, Sherry was resting on the bed that Ash had brought her to so that Sherry could rest up, while Ash was looking out the windows keeping an eye out, and so far, everything was quiet, which Ash was happy for that peace. "Man, at least we are safe here for now," Ash thought as he looked down below, one thankful thing that came with his new body as he could see in the dark and would know if anyone was coming up to the house.

"I hope Serena and the others are okay. The last thing I need is for them to be like I am," Ash said as he walked over to a nearby mirror and just looked at his body and gave a sigh. "Tomorrow, I need to find her and the others," Ash thought to himself, yet for now, Ash decided to try and get some rest as he knew that Sherry was already sleeping over in the next room.

Ash just gave a deep sigh as he lays down on the bed a looked at his former hands before he gaze went to look out the window, he could hear the screams of human, hybrids, and Pokémon, and Ash didn't even want to know what was going on out there. To him, it was better left unsaid and not even try thinking about it, and he would worry about that in the morning when Sherry woke up.

(Time skip to the next morning)

Ash was happy as he woke up and looked around his house. It was strange to think he was in a disaster zone, he started to get out, but something felt off. Once he entered the kitchen, he saw it. A human-sized and humanoid Lucario stared back at him, with claws and fangs bloodied with his friends' corpses around him. Each one had a look of horror on their dead and lifeless eyes looking right at him. Soon the beast that had done this lunged at him with a devouring pounce.

Ash woke up with a startled gasp as he looked around and remembered that he was still in Seafoam City during a viral outbreak. He lays back down and almost jumped at the sight of Sherry, the Pachirisu girl he had met last night.

What shocked him was what he was doing in bed next to her Sherry had her eyes closed as Ash could tell that she was at least sleeping peacefully next to him. Ash could even see a smile on her face. "Man, did I walk into her room in the middle of the night or something," Was all Ash could think of as he looked at her, and soon Ash couldn't take his eyes off her, but he also wonders did Sherry somehow come into his room.

Ash soon shook this thought from his head. "No, I can't think like that. I need to find my friends," Ash thought as he got out from the bed while making sure to do the best that he could without waking Sherry up as that was the last thing he needed right now.

Soon Ash made his way to the bathroom and decided to take a shower at least, "Well, at least I can hope that I can take one still," Ash said as he sighed. "Man, I hate this. I hate this so damn much!" Ash yelled and punched the wall in anger, which shocked him as he saw that he had made a hole in the wall. "Well, look like I am stronger." And Ash already knew that from what he had seen, he would use his new body to keep his friends safe from the crazed people that were outside.

"Once I find my friends, we need a better place than this to hide, but I better talk this over with Sherry as well," Ash said as he looked back the way he had come in, and once again, he gave a sigh hoping that she would be alright to move.

He started the shower to try and clean himself off as best he could. It was different than average since Lucario had fur that was as tough as steel or iron, but he still tried. The shower might help get his mind off what happened to him or give him an idea of where to go next. It wasn't a long shower before he stopped and went out to get his pants, at least.

After Ash had finished grooming himself as best he could, he returned to the room to check on Sherry, but she was listening to something as best she could.

"So, what's the plan?" Ash asked, curious as to what she was doing. She lifted a finger and kept her cheeks sparking every so often, a radio near her ears. She put it down after the most recent spark and looked towards Ash.

"Well, if we're going to the Pokémon Center, then we'll have to think of a new way to get there or how to get in. The S.P.D, Seafoam Police Department, pretty much issued a quarantine and evacuation from town. Any survivors and uninfected Pokémon are to proceed to the Police Station, and the Pokémon Center is too close to Brian Irons."

Ash nodded and knew what she meant that area would be deadly for them to go near. "Alright, then we'll head out, that's if you can still stand," Ash said as he looked at Sherry feeling a little worried for her. "I mean, if you can't walk, then I can go." He said as he watched her stand on her feet.

Once Sherry was on her feet, she just looked at Ash with a smile. "See, I'm alright now. Let's get going and find your friends," Sherry said as they both got what they needed, such as food and water from the house.

"We may need this," she said as she looked back at Ash, who was also grabbing all the food that he could carry.

"Uhmm, Sherry, I need to ask what are we going to do once we find them? Well, if we find them, that is?" Ash asked, knowing that they couldn't just stay here is was not safe here anymore, and he had a feeling that she knew this just as much as he did as well.

Sherry then puts one of her fingers on her right cheekbone and thought for a minute. "Hmm, there's a cabin on the outskirts of town that we can use, but I'm not sure if it's exactly safe."

"Why?" Ash asked, curious about Sherry's statement, and she looked at him in the eye.

"Because I don't know how far this virus has spread or if there's military personnel stationed miles out. IF the news of this infection has reached people outside of town, then there's likely to be a military blockade keeping us in and everyone else out. Then there's also the fact that we are stronger with our hybrid bodies, and someone else probably decided to claim it as their turf. Let's at least find your friends and pick up supplies." Sherry said before the two decided to leave and go back into the streets. It was daytime, which meant the nocturnal and most infected were probably still resting or had just turned in for the night.

"Alright, let's go and make this fast," Ash said as he opened the door and looked outside, and just as Sherry said, the streets were empty with no sign of life at all. "Well, looks like your right Sherry."

Sherry nodded and sighed from the looks of things, and everything was going right for them for once, at least. "Yeah, we just need to hope that it stays that way, and Ash, you should know that you may need to be ready for the worse when we get there."

Once hearing this, Ash just looked at her wonder what she meant by that, and from the tone of her voice, he knew that it wasn't at all good. "What do you mean, Sherry?"

"Look, even if we find them, they could be one of many things, Ash." She said and looked at him with a sad look on her face knowing that he needed to hear this. "They could be human, and in that case, they kill us because of what we are. The other is that they have gotten killed." When Sherry said this, she saw the darkened look that grew on Ash's face and knew she had to tell the last thing. "Or they have become like everyone else, and they are also infected. Which means one of two things, they could either want to mate or kill us." She said with a frown. "Look, I know it not what you want to hear, but it's a chance."

"Wait a moment; where's Pikachu?" He looked around and hoped Pikachu wasn't infected, but there was also the likelihood that he was infected and turned violent.

"I never saw a Pikachu with you, so either the Pikachu in question is infected and turned feral, or he escaped infection and is looking for you, or..." She let it stand as all of Ash's friends, and Pokémon can have gotten killed by the infected.

"Damn..." That was all Ash could say as he soon heard a noise that sounded like crying heading towards them. "Not good, Ash, we need to hurry and hide," Ash said with a whisper as the two soon took cover behind a wall.

"Why..." The voice said with a sniff as it got closer. "Why did this have to happen?" Ash knew the voice was female and soon saw a Fennekin girl with Honey hair walking out with tears coming down her eyes. "Where is everyone else?" She asked as she looked around and saw herself in the glass window of a shop. She soon looked back at what she had become with the look of anger on her face as she let loose a blast at the window in anger. "Look at me. I'm a monster!" She yelled.

"Wait, is that?" Ash thought as he started to take a good look at her. She was nude, with the closest thing to modesty being that Serena's flesh had orange fur covering her naked body. He decided to try and get a closer look until Sherry stopped him briefly.

"Are you crazy?" She whispered, trying not to get caught, but he wasn't going to get deterred like this.

"I think that's one of my friends, Serena. We were together when the outbreak happened." Ash broke cover as soon as he finished and spoke towards her, "Serena?"

Serena's eyes went wide with shock as she heard her name, and slowly she turned to the voice she knew all too well. "Ash, is that you?" She asked as Serena looked at Ash with tears in her eyes. "Ash, you're alive!" She yelled, happy to see him as; she hugged him tightly as she continued to cry.

"Hey..." Ash said as he smiled and was happy that she was alright. "It's okay, Serena, it's okay, I'm okay," Ash said as he pulled and knew that he had to ask if she had seen the others or not. "Serena, have you seen the others?" Ash asked as he looked at his friend.

"No, I'm sorry, Ash, too much happened all too fast." With a sniff, Serena said something that Ash noticed and was growing more worried as he remembered what Sherry had told him was going on with the males and what they had been doing to the girls. "Serena, no one touched you did they?" he asked, and he knows that it was an answer that he wouldn't like.

"Some tried if I think I know what you're asking. It was just so horrible, but I don't know what I did. I just used a Pokémon move, ember, I think, on instinct and ran," Serena said as Sherry moved nearby and tried to examine her at least, but Serena wasn't quite willing to let a stranger get near her and moved closer to Ash.

"It's okay. I'm trying to help. My name's Sherry. It's Serena, right?" Sherry spoke softly, but Serena just kept close to Ash. He didn't do anything to stop her from getting closer, but he was still processing what happened, to begin with, hoping this was a dream.

"It's alright, Serena, she's not going to hurt you," Ash said as he smiled at his friend while all Serena could do was keep looking over at Sherry with just a little fear in her.

However, Sherry couldn't blame the poor girl; after all Serena had been through, she knew that it must have been tough on her and what she had gone through since she had changed. "He's right. I want to help out."

Serena was still reluctant in doing so as she was still unsure of trusting the hybrid girl that had come with Ash, but she knew that she could also trust Ash. "Okay, Ash, if you trust, I will as well," Serena said and gave a light smile to Ash.

Sherry just smiled as she was happy that Ash had found one of his friends and knew that she was not like the others. "Well, now we found you, things seem to be going on in our favor at least." She said and looked around a little more. "Now you have found each other best we get moving. I don't like staying here any longer than we have to."

Ash nodded at this and looked at Sherry and knew that they would need to keep moving for now. "So all we need to do now is find a good place, Serena did you see anyone else?" Ash asked, hoping she had at least seen their other friends.

Serena could only shake her head at this and looked at Ash with a sad expression. "No, I don't. I mean, I tried looking for Bonnie and Clemont, and I'm worried about them both, Ash. I mean, what if there..." Serena began, but she could even finish as the thought alone made her sick to her stomach that both could be dead.

"Don't worry if we haven't found their bodies, then it means they could still be alive, yet I'm not sure if they have become like us or not," Sherry said; she looked at the two and saw Ash was a little happy at the news, but he was still worried about them.

"Poor Bonnie, she must be so scared at what been going on," Serena said as the Fennekin girl didn't want the little girl to go through what she or Ash had; after all, the transformation was painful for her, and she knew it must have hurt Ash as well when he had changed.

"Well, if they did change and they are siblings, as you said, then they will still look out for each other," Sherry said with a light smile as she knew that they would need at least some good news; after all, that's been going on.

Serena nodded and knew that was good news, but she knew from the way that Ash and this Sherry were talking that they couldn't stay around here for long, and she knew why after what had almost happened to her.

"Well, I say we should head back to the safe house we were staying at right now. Not many people left will be using it," Sherry said as she knew that that was for the best right now, and there she could tell them more on what was going on; she owned it to them after all. "Once we are back, I will tell you what I know."

Both Ash and Serena looked at each other, and then they looked over to Sherry as they nodded and knew that it was best to talk once they were at the safe house. "Okay, Sherry, but I want to know what going on," Serena said as she looked at her body while hoping that there was a cure at least.

Sherry looked over to Serena and Ash and nodded once more at them. "I will you two. You both need to know this, and Ash will tell you what he knows already."

With that said and hearing the cries of the infected getting closer, the three knew that it was now time to go before 'they' arrived. "Crap, we better get going now," Ash said and grabbed hold of Serena's hand.

Once the three had left, the hybrids all came out, and they could tell that someone had been here, but they didn't care as they would find them. But it was not just the hybrids that are currently there hiding in another building where three familiar criminals were hiding from the hybrids.

"Well, this is another fine mess that we've found ourselves in," Jessie said as she looked at both James and Meowth, who just looked at her.

"Now, hold on, Jess, you're not saying it's our fault we're stuck in this building with some freaky half-human and Half Pokémon things, are ya?" Meowth asked as he looked at his human friend with a frown of his own at what Jessie was implying.

However, all Jessie did was scoff at this and looked at the two of her team. "Oh, come on, if we had captured Pikachu, then we wouldn't have been in this city trying to capture that Pikachu, and now look," Jessie said as she heard the sounds that were coming from outside.

"Hey, be quiet, or they are going to find us, you two," James said to the two while making sure not to raise his voice in fear that raising it would make the hybrids find them, and he didn't want that, and that was something that he didn't want. "We've seen what they can do to humans and Pokémon as well, so let's just be quiet and then get out of here."

Both Jessie and Meowth nodded as they looked out of the boarded-up window seeing the different forms of hybrids out there, both young and old, feeding on the food they could find and also drinking from the water fountain just like a Pokémon would in the wild.

The three knew that right now, they needed to get out of the building they were in and then out of the city, but they all knew that was not going to be easy. "Maybe there are others that survived this," Jessie said as she looked over to Meowth and James and saw both were thinking the same as well right now.

"Well, for now, jess, I think we shall just lay low, and once they are gone," Meowth said as he pointed outside to where the hybrids were. "We make a run for it and out of this city, and we never look back."

"I agree with Meowth. I mean, there's no way that the twerps managed to survive this nor there Pikachu," James said, and as much as he hated it, he was not going to look for their bodies and take their Pokéballs.

Even Meowth felt the same; they may have wanted to get something out of this hell, but even they didn't want to take it from the dead. It felt just too wrong for them. Since this mess started, it had been hell for the three; they all thought they would capture Pikachu and the other Pokémon that the twerps had, but they were wrong.

Flashback to the day of the outbreak

The trio had followed Ash and his friends to the city, and the three just smiled as they made sure to have some disguises on so they could hide from everyone. The three just had one thing on their mind right now, and that was getting Pikachu, which they were going to do all in their power to succeed in.

"Okay, this is it the day we capture Pikachu and give him to the boss," Meowth said with a smile already forming on his face as he used binoculars to see where Ash and his friends were.

After a few minutes, Meowth was able to find them and smirked. "Well, there they are, and it looks like one of the old twerps is here as well," Meowth said as both Jessie and James looked as well but saw he was taken away soon after by Croagunk after jabbing him in the back.

The trio just continued to look over where Ash was and soon saw he went off with Serena and knew that this would be their best chance to get their Pokémon. "Okay, then let's get going." The three cried out as they gave a slightly evil laugh.

Without another word to say, the three Team Rocket members began to follow Ash and Serena as they waited for the right moment to strike the two. "Okay, they are sitting down. James, I think now's the time to get Pikachu and their other Pokémon," Jessie said as she gave a grin.

However, just as they were about to attack, they looked over and saw a man getting killed by a Poochyena, and they knew that Ash and Serena were also able to see this since Meowth saw Serena throw up. "This isn't good; we need to scram!" Meowth yelled as the three saw many people fail over in pain.

The trio could only watch by what they saw next as a woman screamed. "No, help me!" Cried the woman looking at her arm as it was changing shape. It was shrinking in length and forming into a large green leaf. As the other arms followed suit, her body thinned and thinned to the point where she was a thin as a stick, causing her to slip out of all her clothes, with only her breasts remaining their original size and remaining the same height. As her legs became twigs, her body turned a brown color, and her mouth opened into a large o shape, expanding almost like a snout and her face turning to a bright yellow color, though her green hair remained, while her once pretty eyes became two simple black dots.

The trio just looked around as they saw another woman had turned into a half-human half Bellossom. She still had a human body, but the lower part looked like a dress made of leaves. The upper body was black, and while her red hair remained, two large red flowers grew on each side of her head.

"We need to get out of here!" James yelled as they ran as fast as possible until they saw Serena on the ground and held her sides in pain. "Oh no, it's happening to the twerpette as well." And all they could do right now was watch as they saw Serena change right in front of them

Serena then cried in pain as she looked down at her hands. Serena noticed; they were now shaking as yellow fur was now growing on her hands and arms. "Fur...?" Serena asked, rather shocked. Serena thought she should try and maybe pull it off, but it hurt a lot, as it was her fur.

"No help, Ash, anyone! Help me, please, it hurts so much!" Serena cried out before the yellow fur was growing all over her body, which reached her chest and felt even hotter. "I feel so hot..." She gasped as the fur reached her legs.

"I feel too hot." Gasping at how hot she felt hot with the clothes she had on, she soon ripped them off and was at least thankful for her fur, which covered the lower part of her body.

Serena soon felt pressure in her tailbone as a bushy tail grew from her rear. It had an orange tip at the end of it. The fur reached her neck, and she had to close her eyes as the fur soon covered her entire face. However, one half of it was yellow, and the other was white. Her nose became black and soon stretched outwards with her mouth, forming a muzzle. Soon, her ears grow longer and move to the top of her head, and became pointy. A tuff of orange fur covered her ears to finish it off, making her a full Fennekin.

With the last of the changes over, Serena soon out cold from the pain of her transformation. That was when Team Rocket decided that it was time to leave, as they didn't want the same thing happening to them that had just happened to Serena. So all the Team Rocket Trio did was run, and they never even looked back at all, mainly out of fear at what would happen if they did look back, as the trio knew that they had also to find a place to hide.

End Flashback

The three didn't like what they had seen and wish they hadn't. "Look, whatever did this, I hope we don't become like the others either," James said with fear in his voice.

Jessie and Meowth both nodded at this and would for now wait till night had arrived to escape. It seemed that many hybrids were not around as much as they were during the day, so, for now, they would wait and make some weapons to defend themselves against the hybrids.

A/N well, I have got the chapter done, so sorry if it seems short, but I felt that this is where it should end, and I will say this next chapter, we shall see more of Ash's old friends and more on what the virus can do to a human as well.

As I said, I will list the girls who Ash will get so far and add more later on; this is to keep you all waiting and guessing and who will join, and remember Ash and the girls are no longer human.

Serena is one of the girls, and Ash will get more as I said, Sherry could be another, but that is up to you, the readers; if you want Sherry to join, just let me know in the reviews. Heck, ask as well if you want more girls to join but remember I will have the final say, and if I know the girl well, I shall add them in, and sorry for the mix-up in Serena's hair looked it up, and it's a Honeygold like from what her bio says.

So until next time, please leave a review on what you think of Serena's Hybrid form, as it's one I toyed with for a while. And yes, I know her Fenniken evolved, but I started this before that happened, so some Pokémon may not be like they are right now as they are in canon.

I fully fixed this chapter on 6/05/2021