pokemon Fighting Dreamers

Back to Bea.

"And that's the whole story, more or less." Bea finished the narration of her whole adventure with Ash while the ghost of her mother looked perplexed at her.

"Wow, all of that feels like taken straight out from a novel." She answered. "I'm so happy for you, Saito, knowing you got the chance to experiment all those things feels so great, even if some of them were bad, I'm sure all of that helped you grow as a person."

"It definitely did." Bea nodded. "It has been a really crazy journey, and honesty, I feel like it's far from over."

"That makes me glad... Hey... Can I ask you to make me a promise?"

"Of course!" Bea exclaimed. "A-Anything! I swear!"

"Saito... Bea, I know this may sound a bit sudden, but promise me that you'll be a great mother."

"Uh, what?"

"I know this is a little selfish on my part." She said. "Considering Habe forced you for your whole life to become what he wanted you to be, but... the only thing I could ask you is to do what I never couldn't, I'm sure you will, but, when you have kids, promise me you'll be a great mother... at least better than what I was."

"I-I can do that!" Bea answered. "I mean, Ash and I already agreed that we'd like to have children in the future, and of course, I know the basics, I mean, It's not... I promise, whether it's a boy or a girl, I'll never hurt them, I'll never make them feel worthless, I'll teach them good morals, but I'll let them make their own decisions and most importantly... I'll be there whenever they need me."

"...Geez, I really screwed up." Shirai dropped herself in the floor and Bea quickly did the same by her side. "You... You really needed me and I abandoned you."

"It's not your fault, you had no way to control what was going to happen." Bea answered taking her hand. "I'm just glad I finally get to see you."

"...You'll be the best mother ever, Bea." Shirai smiled. "I don't know why I even asked you... speaking of that, you should already go back with your family."

"B-But I... I'd like to keep talking with you." Bea said.

"But you don't have to." She answered as she sat down again. "I feel... like Tapu Fini simply wanted us to have some kind of closure, like what your friend Mallow had with her mother, but we both need to move on, you foremost... but you better know that I'll miss you every day."

"Me too." Bea replied as her mother started to vanish. "S-So... this is the definitive goodbye? There's still many things I'd like to ask you."

"It's not a goobye, Bea, it's a see you later." She said. "As for your questions... I'm sure you'll find your answers when the time comes... make sure to keep that happiness you got now and stay with the people who love you... you totally earned all that...good luck." Shirai gave Bea one last hug and finally disappeared, Bea took a deep breath as she tried to hold her tears, she then stood up and felt something in her leg, looking down to find non other than Ash's Pikachu.

"Pikachu... you, uh, you heard the whole thing?" She asked and the mouse nodded. "...Listen, I just want you to know that I never wanted to hurt Ash, I know I shouldn't have done some things I did, but I felt like there was no other choice, after everything I suffered... I just wanted to do anything I could in order to keep things the way they were, I just wanted to be with Ash at all costs... I know right now you'd prefer if Ash had every girl in the world as girlfriend except for me, but all I want right now is to make him happy and be happy with him, I swear I'll never lie to him again, I'm even going to confess the whole thing to the rest of the girls today, so... please, please, please, just forgive me, okay? You're Ash's best friend and knowing that you hate me... it makes me feel like I'm failing him."

"Pi..." The mouse sighed and jumped to Bea's shoulder, nuzzling to her cheeck and smiling, causing her to laugh.

"Thank you." Bea smiled as well and the mist that surrounded them started to disappear. "Alright then, let's find Ash and Mallow."

"Pika!" He pointed forward and Bea saw that the aforementioned were already running towards her. with Ash taking the lead and giving Bea a big hug once he reached her.

"Bea, are you okay?! What happened?!" He shouted.

"Ash..." Bea smiled at him and gave him a deep lip kiss. "Ash... ASH, LET'S HAVE A BABY RIGHT NOW!"

"W-What?!" Ash exclaimed.

"Sorry! I-I'm just a little moved." Bea giggled. "You're not gonna believe this, but I just met with-"

"Your mother, I know." Ash interupted. "How was she?"

"It was amazing." Bea assured him. "It was so great to talk with her, I told her our whole adventure and well, she wished us luck."

"See? I told you there was nothing to worry about." Mallow told Ash.

"Mallow..." Bea looked at her and gave her another hug. "Thank you for giving me the courage I needed."

"Well, what are fellow girlfriends for?" Mallow asked and they all shared a laugh, only for Tapu Fini to appear before them as well.

"...Thank you." Bea said to the Legendary. "I really don't know what else to say."

"Glad I could help you." Tapu Fini said. "Now please, follow me, Hapu is anxious for your battle and I'd be happy watching it."

Somewhere not far.

"The mist is finally subsiding..." Emmet said to the Chandelure and Eelektross following him. "I have no doubt that it was the correct one and Ingo was nowhere to be seen... that can only mean that he's still somewhere out there... but where?"

"STICKY FINGERS!" A voice echoed and a giant zipper appeared behind Emmet opening into a portal that started to suck them inside, Emmet quickly took hold of a nearby root in the floor while his Eelektross dug his claws into the ground, Chandelure tried to float away, but was quickly pulled by the portal.

"Chandelure!" Emmet shouted. "...No... there's no way I'm losing Ingo's Chandelure too!" He exclaimed to then let go off the root and was absorbed right inside the zipper, his Eelektross saw this and tried to do the same, but the zipper closed and disappeared before he could fall inside of it, leaving Eelektross alone in the place, the eel looked around for a few seconds before quickly slittering away in hope of finding help.

Team Rocket's Medical Area, somewhere in Kanto.

"So my arm isn't really broken, right?" Domino asked with a cast on her right arm.

"No, it is broken, right here." A Nurse Joy in a Team Rocket outfit answered while showing Domino an X-Ray of her arm.

"Just a hairline fracture, though." Domino continued.

"No, it's a clean break." Nurse Joy said.

"Slight, though." Domino said.

"Slight? No. It's broken." Joy continued.

"Broken-broken or just broken?" Domino said.

"It's a broken arm." Nurse Joy said.

"What was once one bone is now two half-bones." Millis said sitting on the other side of the room.

"Like your girlfriend said." Joy added.

"Hey, we aren't even friends!" Domino shouted.

"I know, I was joking." Joy smiled.

"Like you were when you said my arm is broken." Domino added.

"Should I amputate so you understand?" Millis asked wielding her Aegislash.

"Look, I alredy gave you some treatment, but you're going to be wearing that cast for at least two weeks." Joy explained and then yawned. "Now, if you don't mind, I haven't slept in 69 hours, so-"

"So you're a little loopy from lack of sleep, and that really isn't my bone. That's a piece of celery you snapped." Domino said.

"Domino, you arm is broken!" Millis shouted. "B'est cassé, brisé, pulvérisé! Just deal with it! Ketchum left you a little reminder gift."

"But I can't have a broken arm!" Domino replied. "How am I supposed to do my job?!"

"I mean, now that you're a Grunt you have less responsabilities, so I guess you can calm down for the moment."

"Perfect! This week just can't get worse!" Domino shouted.

"STICKY FINGERS!" A giant zipper appeared in the ceiling.

"You just had to say that." Millis glared at Domino while the two were dragged inside the portal Millis' Aegislash.

"...Like I said, I need to sleep." Nurse Joy yawned and left the room.

Meanwhile in Poni Breaker Coast.

"Ash!"

"Hapu!"

The two waved at each other once they got a glance of them in the distance and ran on their direction, with Hapu jumping to Ash and giving him a big hug.

"Uh... sorry about that." Hapu separated from Ash just as sudden and patted his chest. "I-I'ts been a while, how you doing?"

"I'm just fine, nice to see you again." Ash answered. "Sorry about the delay, we had a situation."

"Hey there, Hapu." Mallow greeted her.

"Name's Bea, pleasure to meet you."

"Nice to meet you too." Hapu replied. "Well, I wouldn't want to waste more time, we ready to start, Ash?"

"We are." Ash nodded.

"Fine, my only request, don't use your trickster Pikachu." Hapu told him as she walked to her position, Ash's Pikachu, who was still on Bea's shoulder, simply rolled his eyes as Bea went to the stands along Mallow, Ash then went to his spot in the battlefield as well, while Tapu Fini took place as the referee.

"I'll be acting as the mediator in this battle." She explained. "This will be a 4 against 4 battle, you may use a Z-Move and switch, now, let's begin!" She exclaimed while activing Misty Surge and surrounding the battlefield in pink mist.

"You're up, Mudsdale!" Hapu exclaimed calling upon her ace.

"Dewott, I choose you!"

"So, a Water Type." Hapu said. "Very well, I'll show you I can handle Type disadvantage just as good as you."

"Let us start!" Tapu Fini comanded.

"Bulldoze!" Hapu gave the first order and Mudsdale stood on his hind legs to then stomp the ground with his front hooves, causing the whole area to shake and sending various orange shockwaves towards Dewott.

"Aqua Jet!" Dewott jumped in the air surrounded in water, avoiding the shaking ground and shooting himself towards Mudsdale, the impact was enough to throw down Mudsdale, but the horse later became outlined with an orange aura.

"What's that?" Bea asked.

"Stamina, Mudsdale's Signature Ability." Mallow explained. "Everytime he gets hits by a physical attack it'll boost his defense."

"Don't tell me you forgot already." Hapu smiled. "Body press!" Mudsdale jumped into the air and tried to slam himself into Dewott, but this managed to move away in time.

"Razor Shell!"

"Double Kick!"

Dewott jumped with both blades in hand, but Mudsdale turned around and kicked him away. "Body Press!" Mudsdale again jumped on top of Dewott, succeeding this time and pinning the otter down with his whole body.

"Use Aqua Jet!" Dewott did as told, but the strength of the move wasn't enough to get out from under Mudsdale, who continued to press him down. "Fine, Trump Card!" Dewott's body became surrounded by red light and a burst of energy sent Mudsdale flying away, six glowing cards then appeared around Dewott and he picked one of them, the card then flipped to reveal the image of two arrows pointing in opposite directions, one of the arrows shot itself at Dewott while the other shot itself at Mudsdale, both Pokemon shined for a moment, but were undamaged after that.

"Uh... Iron Head!" Hapu ignored what happened and her Mudsdale's mane turned silver as he ran towards Dewott and headbutted him, however, once Dewott recovered from the hit, his body became surrounded in orange aura, just like Mudsdale's did before.

"Looks like we got lucky, Air Slash!" Dewott jumped again and double slashed Mudsdale, but the Stamina of the horse didn't activate.

"Wait a sec... they changed abilities?!" Hapu shouted.

"Apparently." Ash said. "Trump Card always has a random effect and this is what happened this time; And Dewott's ability is Torrent so I suppose you won't make much use of it."

"Hmmp, you and your tricks." Hapu smiled. "Fine, then I'll have to end this fast!" She shouted preparing her Z-Ring and Groundium-Z. "Tectonic Rage!" Hapu shouted and Mudsdale became outlined in orange energy, Mudsdale then stomped the ground with force and several cracks and craters opened with bursts of energy.

"Dewott, return!"

"What?"

While the earth cracked open, Ash simply recalled Dewott and changed Poke Balls. "Gliscor, I choose you!" He shouted releasing the bat who quickly took flight and avoided being affected by the Z-Move, the attack then finished and the battlefield returned to normal, Gliscor landed standing on his tail and stuck out his tongue while Mudsdale nieghed with a frustrated look.

"Ash ketchum..." Hapu trailed off.

"What? You thought I was just gonna let Dewott stand there and take it?" Ash asked with a short laugh. "Tapu Fini said switches were allowed."

"Indeed, I did." Tapu Fini added.

"THAT'S NOT FAIR!" Hapu shouted. "Y-You made me waste my Z-Move! You cheater!"

''Y-You know I can't resist that! You cheater!'' A memory resounded in Ash's head.

"That dream again..." Ash trailed off. "...Heh, sorry, Hapu, how about I don't use a Z-Move myself to make things more even?"

"Argh! Fine!" Hapu ranted.

"Cross Poison!" Gliscor's claws glowed with a purple light and he crossed them to form an X as he flew towards Mudsdale.

"Iron Head!" Mudsdale's mane became surrounded in silver light again and he used it to block the move and knock back Gliscor.

"Use Sand Tomb!" Gliscor nailed his tail into the ground summoning a sand tornado and then flying around it to guide it to Mudsdale, the attack landed cleanly and subsequently created a sandstorm, Gliscor diasppeared in the middle of the sand for a moment, but his two glowing red eyes were suddenly seen between it.

"Sand Veil..." Hapu trailed off.

"You know it! Acrobatics!" Gliscor came flying from the sand surrounded by white light, he then started flying around Mudsdale slashing him with his wings and pincers several times.

"Double Kick!" Hapu ordered, but Mudsdale found himself unable to aim as Gliscor kept dogging and attacking.

"Ice Fang!" Gliscor's mouth became surrounded in white mist and he bit down Mudsdale on his neck, the horse swayed from side to side in hope of sending Gliscor flying away, but Gliscor held Mudsdale's neck with his pincers as well and continued to bite as ice kept forming around Mudsdale.

"lt's a little deviant but that's kind of turning me on." Bea whispered.

"Uh, what?" Mallow asked.

"Nothing!" Bea shouted, meanwhile in the battefield, Mudsdale's upper body and head had been fully covered in ice.

"Acrobatics!" Ash shouted and Gliscor slashed through Mudsdale's head, breaking through the ice and making him fall down defeated.

"Mudsdale cannot continue! Gliscor is the winner!" Tapu Fini informed, while Hapu recalled her ace with a sigh.

"Here comes, you're next, Diggersby!" She shouted releasing the rabbit. "Super fang!" Diggersby jumped towards Gliscor as his fangs illuminated, Gliscor tried to jump away, but with another jump Disggersby made it to Gliscor's tail, landing the bite and tossing him down to the battlefield. "Hammer Arm!" Diggersby then fell down on top of Gliscor, keeping him down with his weight, to then start to punch him repeatedly with his ears.

"Ice Fang!" Gliscor opened his mouth and bit down one of Diggerby's ears, but the rabbit set himself free punching Giscor on his face with his free ear. "Sand Tomb!" Gliscor summoned another sand tornado, but Diggersby didn't mind it and continued punching him, eventually leaving Gliscor dizzy. "Now Super fang!" Diggersby bit Gliscor by his tail again and swung him around to then crash him onto the ground, leaving Gliscor defeated.

"Gliscor cannot continue! Diggersby is the winner!" Tapu Fini said as the rabbit made some poses flexing the muscle of his ears.

"How do you like that?" Hapu smirked.

"Not bad at all." Ash answered recalling Gliscor. "Thank you, now, Dewott, back to you! Razor Shell!"

"Super Fang!" Diggersby jumped aiming at Dewott and his fangs broke through the Razor Shell to then bite Dewott down on his chest, but the Stamina ability change was still active and boosted Dewott's defense again. "Argh, that thing again, then Mud Shot!" Diggersby put the paws of his ears together forming a mud orb between them, Diggersby then opened his ears and the orb multiplied into several orbs that he then tossed at Dewott.

"Air Slash!" Dewott quickly reacted and used the white blades to try and deviate the attack, but he was still by some of them, and due to not being a physical hit, the Stamina didn't activate. "Use Trump card!" Dewott summoned six cards again and the one he picked tossed itself to the skies, causing some thunders to rumble and starting a rain. "Great, we can use that!" Ash exclaimed.

"Don't think so! Wild Charge!" Diggersby rushed to Dewott surrounded in electricty and slammed himself onto the otter, creating an electric explosion and defeating Dewott with that hit, but still taking recoil damage.

"Dewott cannot continue! Diggersbby is the winner!"

"And that's a two!" Hapu exclaimed with a smile. "That trump thing didn't do much in your favor, now did it?"

"Guess you're right." Ash smiled returning Dewott. "Lucario, I choose you!"

"Use Wild Charge again!"

"Block it with Bone Rush!"

Lucario quickly formed a bone-shaped staff between his hands and used its Ground typing to block the Wild Charge, but the still ongoing rain helped conduct the electricity through the bone and Lucario was shocked by it anyway.

"Yes! That's how it feels!" Hapu laughed. "Still, a Steel Type? I knew it was too good to be true that you started with a Water and a Flying-Type."

"Don't you worry, we've been training for you." Ash replied. "Magnet Rise!" He shouted and Lucario stomped the battlefield, his spikes suddenly became surrounded in electricity and several pieces of the battlefield started floating in the air.

"Hammer Arm!" Diggersby tried to hit Lucario with his ears, but the latter jumped up and landed on one of the pieces of the battlefield that was floating up, standing on top of it as a platform.

"Hey! What do you think you're doing up there?!" Hapu complained.

"Staying away from you." Ash laughed. "Aura Sphere!" He ordered and Lucario tossed the attack directly from his hand onto Diggersby's face.

"Mud Shot!" Diggersby tossed his move, but Lucario jumped to another floating platform and avoided it, Diggersby then kept firing, but Lucario continued to dodge him by changing platforms.

"Bone Rush!" Lucario formed the staff again and used it to smack one of the floating platforms, sending it as a projectile that hit Diggersby.

"I'm getting tired of your tricks, Ash Ketchum!" Hapu shouted. "Jump to those platforms! Follow him!" She ordered and Diggersby jumped up, then landing in the platform that was in front of the one where Lucario was on. "Now Hammer Arm!"

"Bone Rush!"

Lucario tried to use the bone staff to block, but Diggersby's ears were far stronger and he pushed Lucario back, sending him flying and landing onto another platform, Diggersby then jumped again and tried to land on top of Lucario with a Super Fang, but the latter managed to move away and jump into another platform, while Diggersby kept going through the previous one and fell back to the battlefield.

"Time to go down, Lucario!" Ash ordered and Lucario nodded, he then raised his hands in the air and the electricity on his spikes sparked, Lucario then jumped up and pointed down at Diggerbsy making all the remaining platforms fly down to the rabbit at high speed.

"Mud Shot!" Diggersby fired off several mud balls that stopped the platforms and kicked up dust, but Lucario came flying from it on top of one last platform, he then jumped out of it and pushed the platform further with an Aura Sphere, with the move finally defeating Diggersby.

"Diggersby cannot continue! Lucario is the winner!" Tapu Fini said and Hapu simply took a deep breath, doing her best to not scream in frustration.

"You're next, Golurk!" Hapu exclaimed calling upon the golem.

"Magnet Rise again!" Ash shouted and Lucario stomped the ground again, rising up in the air along many platforms that came from the battlefield.

"I'll show you cheats! use Gravity!" The markings on Golurk's body and his eyes illuminated in orange light, he then pulled back his legs onto his body and crossed his arms as he began floating in the air, to then spin as a planet, taking Lucario and the platforms into an orbital track and making them spin around him. "Take him up!" While still spinning Golurk pulled one of his arms out and grabbed Lucario to then toss him up to the skies and use the Gravity to guide all the platforms he had created and send them to impact onto Lucario. "Now Fire Punch!" Golurk stopped spinning and aimed with his right punch while Lucario was falling and the whole punch was sent flying from his arm as a projectile that exploded once it reached Lucario.

"Ha! Get it? He fired his punch." Hapu exclaimed while the punch flew back to Golurk's arm. "HAHAHAHAHA!"

"Very funny..." Ash smiled while Lucario recovered from the hit and stood up again.

"Gravity again!"

"Metal Claw!" The spikes on Lucario's paws grew into three metallic spikes on each arm and he nailed them onto the ground to try and not be pulled by Golurk.

"Stay there if you want, Night Shade!" A dark purple ray suddenly bursted from the crack on Golurk's chest and exploded onto Lucario, causing him to lose grip and be pulled by Golurk's orbit. Golurk then started to spin faster and his orbit extended, guiding Lucario to fly through the columns in the outer part of the battlefield, the effect of the move then began to increase as Ash, Mallow, Bea and even Tapu Fini had to hold onto the ground to not be pulled as well, but Hapu seemed to be able of standing without problem.

"Center of mass, yada yada." Hapu laughed again. "Is this too much for you and your gang, champion?"

"I see you've also been training." Ash replied.

"Well, I wasn't going to disappoint you." Hapu said.

"Then I won't do that either." Ash answered. "Lucario! Try to use Magnet Rise on those columns!" He shouted and Lucario moved himself just enough to land with his feet on one of the columns and then push himself onto the next one and so on, the columns then broke from their base and rose up, being also dragged by Golurk's orbit, but with them flying in the air, Lucario could use them to boost himself towards Golurk, using a Metal Claw to slash him on his face, causing him to stop the Gravity and letting it return to normal, with all the columns falling onto the field.

"Magnet Rise!" Lucario punched the ground with both paws, making all the columns rise up and sending them flying to Golurk as giant spears.

"Fire Punch!" Golurk put both punches side by side and fired them at once, they went flying through a single column and both exploded onto Lucario, but the rest of the columns still crashed against Golurk and once the dust cleared both Pokemon were knocked out.

"Both Lucario and Golurk cannot continue! The match is a tie!" Tapu Fini said as both trainers returned their Pokemon.

"We're down to 1 on 1." Hapu said.

"Guess we are." Ash answered. "Melmetal, I choose you!" He exclaimed and the Steel-Type entered the battle flexing his arms.

"Hmm... that weird Pokemon of yours." Hapu said.

"I haven't seen one of those in centuries." Tapu Fini said. "The Melmetal of these islands used to help people to create weapons and the like, but they simply disappeared one day... very well, let's see the strength he posseses." She added before floating in front of Hapu to face Melmetal.

"W-Wait, what?!" Hapu shouted.

"I'll be assisting you today, dear." Tapu Fini added. "As for you, chosen one, you have already proved to Tapu Koko how powerful you are, I will like a taste of that strength as well."

"If that's what you wish then we're ready for you." Ash answered as Melmetal prepared himself.

"That's another Legendary for him to fight." Bea said. "And from what Ash has told me, he never got that much time to train Melmetal."

"That may be true, but Melmetal and the rest of his Alolan Team have been training like crazy since Ash left." Mallow answered. "They really want to help Ash stay on the champion spot he worked so hard to get, you better don't think it'll be easy to take him down."

"I'm trusting you, Hapu." Tapu Fini continued. "Nature's Madness, Hydro Pump, Moonblast and Smart Strike, got that?"

"S-Sure! I got it!" Hapu stuttered. "Then let's begin with Nature's Madness!"

"I must warn you, boy. You have chosen a bad place to accept a challenge from me." Tapu Fini said as several columns of pink water rose up from the coast and then were shot at Melmetal, pushing him back.

"Ice Punch!" Ash shouted and the hex nuts on Melmetal's arms were covered in ice as he swung them around, tossing two big chunks of ice at Tapu Fini.

"Smart Strike!" Tapu Fini closed on her shell and flew forward at high speed, with her horn piercing through the ice and then stabbing Melmetal. "Hydro Pump!" Tapu Fini opened her shell again and formed a water orb between her hands, expelling a huge blast of water that pushed Melmetal back again and almost making him fall into the water.

"Double Iron Bash!" Melmetal rapidly spun around and extended his arms landing two heavy hits on Tapu Fini.

"Hydro Pump again!"

"Solar Beam!" The hex nut on Melmetal's torso illuminated in green as it gathered light to then fire a gold beam of energy that evaporated the Hydro pump and exploded onto Tapu Fini. "Now Thunderbolt!" The hex nut that formed Melmetal's head was the next to illuminate, this time with yellow light to then shot an electric beam from his eye.

"Moonblast!" Tapu Fini joined her hands again and fired off a pink orb, but this wasn't enough to stop the Thunderbolt and she recieved the electric hit directly.

"I'm getting tired of this." Tapu Fini said.

"Nature's Madness!" Tapu Fini raised both arms and several columns of pink water rose from the sea again, she then used them to push Melmetal, and while he resisted, the Legendary ultimately managed to push him directly to the water and Melmetal quickly sunk down.

"Melmetal!" Ash shouted.

"Smart Strike!" Without missing a beat, Tapu Fini closed herself and jumped into the water diving as a swordfish to stab and slash Melmetal several times while he kept sinking, meanwhile the trainers went to the edge of the coast to try and see what was happening from there.

"Well, that was easier than I expected." Tapu Fini said once they reached the ocean floor and Melmetal was seemingly unable to move. "Now for the finisher!" She closed onto her shell again and went for another Smart Strike, but Melmetal stopped her with both arms.

"Denied!" Melmetal exclaimed as he was surrounded in red light. "We will not be destroyed!"

"What?!" Tapu Fini shouted.

Meanwhile with Peonia and Nessa.

"Come on, Nia, you're not doing your part." Nessa complained pulling the younger girl out of the water coughing after she had sunk for the tenth time that day.

"Nope! I'm done!" She exclaimed crawling to the back of her Carracosta, who had been accompanying them along Nessa's Drednaw. "I told you, everytime I try, I sink down as a rock, it's obvious this won't work, so stop it, I give up."

"We're Ash Ketchum's girlfriends! We don't know the meaning of the word give up!" Nessa exclaimed.

"That's easy for you to..." Peonia was about to continue complaining, but a bright red light suddenly came from the mansion. "What the- Carracosta!" She shouted and the turtle quickly swam back to the beach, being followed by Nessa and her Drednaw, the two girls then entered the mansion and saw their Dynamax Bands, along Ash's, Bea's and Gloria's, all of them floating in circles with a bright red shine, the bands then flew straight out of the mansion through the front door, while Nessa and Peonia barely avoided them and the bands then kept flying away together as a comet.

"Uh... Maybe this is an Alolan thing?" Nessa asked.

"Whatever it is we should follow it." Peonia answered releasing her Aerodactyl, she then hoped onto it along Nessa, and Aerodactyl took flight to follow the bands.

A few moments later back in Poni Coast breaker.

"Uh, you guys are seeing that too, right?" Mallow asked and the group looked up to see the five Dynamax Bands dive onto the water, followed by Peonia and Nessa on Aerodactyl, who landed in front of them a few moments afterwards.

"You guys okay?" Peonia asked.

"We're fine, but what was that?" Ash asked.

"Our Dynamax Bands came flying from the mansion all the way here." Nessa explained.

"Wait, I thought Dynamax only worked in Galar." Ash said.

"And it does, but Dynamax Bands tend to save enough energy on their insides to be used at least once outside of Galar." Peonia explained. "But that only works for normal Dynamax, Gigantamax needs far more energy."

"Uh, would five bands be enough for a Gigantamax?" Nessa asked.

"I guess so, why?" Peonia asked and suddenly another burst of red light came from the sea, being followed by Tapu Fini who was sent flying out of the water and then fell abruptly onto the battlefield. A huge golden hex nut covered in liquid metal then rose from the ocean and everyone stood speechless as a Gigantamaxed Melmetal walked back to the battefield, causing cracks and shakings with each step.

"... I'm kinda scared of asking." Hapu admitted, while Tapu Fini floated up again and fired off an Hydro Pump, but this wasn't able of even pushing back the giant Melmetal. "Looks like we're not done." Hapu and Ash returned to their places on the battlefield, while Mallow, Bea, Nessa and Peonia went to the stands.

"Max Lightning!" Ash ordered and the hext nut that formed Melmetal's head started to spin firing a massive electric blast from it, Tapu Fini closed onto her shell to try and block the hit, but she was still heavily damaged by it.

"Smart Strike!" Tapu Fini once again closed herself and went flying like a rocket aiming at Melmetal's head.

"Max Overgrowth!" Melmetal swung his arms around, summoning a huge storm of leaves that stopped Tapu Fini and damaged her, making her fall to the battlefield again.

"G-MAX MELTDOWN!" Melmetal himself shouted and both his arms turned into spike balls, he then swung them around and smacked them both against Tapu Fini, destroying the whole battlefield into pieces and making both Hapu and Ash fall onto the sea.

"Ash!" The four girlfriends in the stands shouted worried and all of them jumped into the water and swam where the battlefield used to be, except for Peonia who called her Carracosta and hopped on his shell.

"We're okay!" Ash exclaimed coming out of the water riding on Dracovish, with Hapu clinging to his back. "Melmetal?" Ash looked around worried and the Pokemon eventually came floating to the surface next to them, back in his usual form, ssimply looking up. "That was wild, great job." He said while returning him and afterwards Tapu Fini came floating up next to them with swirls in her eyes. "Guess I win again."

"Nothing like destroying a regional treasure in the process though." Hapu laughed nervously.

"Sorry about that. Not a very champion thing to do, right?" Ash said as the group and their Pokemon swam to the stands, which was the only place of the battlefield left standing, along some columns.

"Boy..." Hapu trailed off as she sat on the stands. "That was some crazy stuff, without a doubt the best battle I've ever had... gosh, I really wanted to win... but now that I think about it, who are all these girls?"

"Nessa here."

"I'm Peonia, we're Ash's-"

"Girlfriends." Tapu Fini interrupted as she returned to her senses and began floating up again. "These four girls are part of Ash's harem... sorry Hapu, I should've told you earlier, but I think this would have been better if it happened face to face between you two considering you situation."

"Situation? You also like Ash?" Mallow asked.

"I... I do." Hapu gave a shy nod. "I-I've liked you since you helped me with my Mudsdale, I noticed you were different, I wanted to confess, but I couldn't find the courage... and talking about different... none of you are denying it, so that means the harem thing it's true, but Tapu Fini said this was just a part, how many of them do you have, Ash?"

"I have 8 girlfriends, counting the ones here." Ash answered. "Lana and Acerola are two of them, along Skyla, a girl form Unova; and Gloria, from Galar."

"Well, that's quite the family, but I... I'm afraid I'll pass, Ash." Hapu answered.

"You sure?" Ash asked.

"I am." She nodded to then sigh. "I know I'm sounding sudden, and don't misunderstand me, y-you all look very happy, I can see you're all putting lot of effort into this, but... as much as I like you, I really don't think this is for me. I don't think I could be part of such relationship, knowing you're happy with other girls besides me... it'd honestly make me feel like I'm not enough despite the good intentions I know you have, so I think it's better that I say it clean right now, no offense."

"I undertand that... sorry to disappoint you, Hapu." Ash replied still feeling guilty about May and Dawn's reactions.

"No, please, don't feel guilty because of this, I assure you there are no hard feelings." Hapu offered her hand. "I really hope you and your girlfriends get to be happy, I guess you and I just weren't meant to be..."

"That reminds me, Hapu, did you ever have a dream about me?" Ash asked.

"W-What?" She stuttered blushing.

"Uh, I don't mean it in a bad way, I mean, some weeks ago I had a weird series of dreams, you were in one of them, Faba was leading an attack of Ultra Beasts just like what happened here, but in that dream an Ultra Necrozma also appeared, then you came to save me and we later escaped from Alola in your Golurk and then Kiawe told me... t-that Kukui and Burnet were dead... I also think we were a couple there, does that sound familiar?"

"It... it does actually." Hapu replied. "I've been wondering about it and I didn't want to comment it because I didn't want to make you feel awkward, but I had a dream about you some weeks ago, it was like just like you said, Ultra Beasts, Faba, and... while we were escaping on my Golurk I was talking with some blue-skinned girl, Zossie, right?"

"Yes, you were!" Ash exclaimed.

"And you... at the end of that dream you... you died." Hapu whispered the last bit.

"Yeah... it did feel like that near the end." Ash said.

"Seems like your two dreams were in sync." Nessa said.

"But are you totally sure that it was the same dream?" Mallow asked.

"Well, it sounds too specific to be a coincidence." Bea replied. "Any other detail there?"

"...Did I scracth your chin during your dream?" Ash asked Hapu.

"Uh, y-yeah, you did." Hapu answered embarassed. "I-I'm a little sensitive down there, p-please don't try anything."

"Then it was the same dream." Bea said. "How is that even possible?"

"Listen, I don't want to interrupt, but, uh, how do we get out of here?" Peonia asked.

"Leave that to me." Tapu Fini raised them all in the air with her powers and left them in a nearby coast. "I also wish you the best, chosen one... and sorry that things couldn't work out for you, Hapu."

"Don't worry, thanks for helping." Hapu replied and the Legendary floated away. "Hey... this whole talk reminded me of this old legend that says that dreams are windows into our lives in other realities." She explained to the group.

"That would mean that in an alternate reality that happened to us?" Ash asked.

"And that would mean that... I lost you in that reality." Hapu said. "I... I really don't want to happen, Ash, even if I'm not joining your harem, you and I are still friends, so, please visit me more often... I'll also try to aid you better... If those Lightbane return you can be sure I'll fight them alongside you... I may not be your girlfriend, but I'll be your girl friend, I'm not gonna lose you."

"Thanks, Hapu..." Ash replied with a smile.

Meanwhile with in the Hao'uli City mall.

"So let me recap the whole thing." Georgia talked to Skyla trough a video call. "Your plane was attacked by a horde of Nihilego and was then taken down and fell exploding in a beach, but you somehow got out unscratched."

"Yup." Skyla nodded.

"Ah, Sure, I'll inform everyone you're okay, but you still haven't explained me why you went to Alola just like that, I mean, you said you'd help me find that Hydreigon before Iris did so."

"I know, I know, sorry, but I met with Cynthia and some friends of Ash in the Mistralton airport, they had problems to get to Alola so I offered myself to help them and I took them here, we all helped Ash stop that crazy invasion."

"But you'll be coming back to Unova, right?" Georgia asked.

"Yes, but not right now." Skyla answered. "I'd like to spend some time in Alola, since I've only been here to drop cargo, I thought it'd be a nice chance to relax."

"Sure, if that's what you prefer." Georgia rolled her eyes. "I'll have to find that Hydreigon myself, I'm off to the Desert Resort, be safe." She told her before cutting the call.

"That's one problem solved." Skyla said.

"And who was that?" Selene asked next to her.

"Georgia is a good friend of mine, a Dragon Buster and the new Gym Leader of Icirrus City, since the previous one stepped down to return to his acting career." Skyla explained.

"She's also rival of one of Ash's compaions, Iris, so Georgia and Ash met and battled from time to time while he traveled Unova." Gloria added.

"Whatever, good thing you didn't tell her the actual reason why you stayed in Alola." Selene said.

"Of course, even if Georgia is a great friend my situation with Ash is not something I'd say out loud just like that, you two should also keep that in mind." Skyla answered. "...But to be honest, Georgia also likes Ash, and if I tell her about this she might want to join in for the sole purpose of annoying Iris, heh."

"Hey, Skyla!" Someone called behind them.

"What- Elesa!" Skyla shouted and ran to hug her friend to the other side of the mall, being followed by Gloria and Selene.

"Hey there, nice to see you survived the whole thing." Elesa told her.

"Ha! Sure, by the way, these are Gloria and Selene, girls, this is Elesa, my bestest friend." Skyla introduced them. "But what are you doing in Alola?"

"Nice to meet you two." Elesa greeted them. "To answer the question, you remember our situation with Ingo, right?"

"He still hasn't appeared?" Skyla asked.

"I'm afraid not, that's why Emmet, Bianca and I came here, there's this legend about the Legendary Pokemon Tapu Fini, who creates a mist that lets people meet with their loved ones who passed away."

"So... if Emmet finds Ingo there then that means-"

"Let's just hope he doesn't." Elesa interrupted. "Either way, that's why we decided to let him go alone, meanwhile I decided to distract myself here, what about you?"

"Like I told you, I came here to help against the invasion, I got kinda stranded since my plane exploded, but it's fine, I'll stay a bit here with Ash." Skyla said.

"Ah, sure, and how's your little dating program progressing with Ash, huh?" Elesa asked.

"Well, it makes me really happy that you ask that." Skyla grinned. "You wanna know why? Because I'm already Ash's girlfriend!"

"You what?!" Elesa shouted.

"What you heard! I'm his 8th girlfriend!" Skyla smiled proudly. "I've been doing plenty of girlfriend things with him, we kissed a lot and he just can't stay away form my boobs, he loooooves to be in between them, they're better than pillows, you don't believe it? Go ahead, squeeze them."

"Wait, wait, go back a second." Elesa stopped her. "Did you just say 8th girlfriend? Like, Ash has broke up with seven girls previously?"

"Pfft, of course not, Shirley." Skyla giggled. "That means I'm sharing Ash with other seven girls!"

"You just told us that we shouldn't say that kind of things out loud!" Selene shouted.

"What? Are you for real?" Elesa asked.

"Of course! Just look at Gloria here." Skyla pointed at the girl. "She's Ash's 4th girlfriend, and Selene here too! She's not a girlfriend yet, but she's been living with us and she also likes Ash, and Ash likes her, so I guess she's more or less an honorary girlfriend until it becomes official."

"...Is she telling the truth?" Elesa asked and the two girls simply nodded. "How interesting... I wonder if Ash would be okay with hanging out with me too."

"He most surely will." Skyla said. "I could take you with him, but he's in the middle of a battle right now, I also came here to the mall to get myself some clothes since I didn't bring anything to wear, might as well get something to 'distract' Ash."

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Elesa took Skyla's hand and started to drag her away. "I could also get some clothes to 'distract' Ash."

"Uh, seems like they got it covered." Selene said to Gloria as the two stayed behind. "What would you like to do?"

"...Why haven't you asked Ash to make you his girlfriend?" Gloria asked.

"What do-"

"I already gave you permission." Gloria interrupted. "All the other girls did, and Ash himself told you that he likes you too, you've been living with us for two days now, why don't you just make it official?"

"...Because I want to make sure that all of the family is really okay with me joining." Selene answered. "And that includes you, Gloria, I know you accepted me, but I feel like you only did so for Ash's sake and not because you wanted to, am I right?"

"Yeah... I guess." Gloria admitted.

"I want you to truly accept me, since you said we weren't friends yet, I want to make it count, I want us to be real friends... and then be real fellow girlfriends."

"Hehe, so this what Bea meant with her firendly rivalry with Nessa?" Gloria smiled. "I really misjudged you, I told you, you're really important to Ash... and that makes you important to me too, more or less... if you want my permission for real, why don't you buy me a bit of ice cream and cider and we call it a day?"

"Hmmp, it'll be my pleasure." Selene smiled back and the two left to try and find a shop that sold both ice cream AND cider.

Meanwhile with Lana.

"When is the wedding going to be?"

"How many kids are you going to have?"

"Can you name one after me?"

"And me!"

"Give me a break." Lana sighed while taking care of her sisters.

"How were your days in his mansion?" Harper continued.

"Well, it was great, the other girls are also nice." Lana replied.

"Wait, girls?" Sarah asked. "But Lillie still hasn't returned, only Mallow is there, right?"

"Hmm... listen you two, I'm gonna tell you something important, promise me, for real, that you won't tell anyone else what I'm about to tell you."

"Promise!" They said together.

"So... as you know, the original plan was for Lillie, Mallow and me to be Ash's three girlfriends, but he was already working into something like that, Ash had 5 girlfriends."

"Five?!" They both shouted.

"Aha, Mallow was quite hesitant, but we both joined, then another girl called Skyla came after us and now we're 8 girls in total, while still waiting for Lillie."

"Wooooow!" They both exclaimed.

"Oh, yeah, like I said, the other girls are nice, we're like a big family, I just hope Lillie will agree with the whole thing."

"I'm sure she will!" Harper said.

"So Ash is going to have 9 girlfriends!" Sarah added.

"Uh, seriously girls, you better don't run around talking about that." Lana continued and the trio then heard a knock coming from the front door of the house. "I-"

"I'm going!" Harper and Sarah ran to the door together and opened it, but there was no one there.

"Uh, that's-"

"SURPRISE ATTACK!" Someone suddenly shouted behind Lana.

"ARGH!" Lana exclaimed pulling out her foddling fishing rod and smacking it against the person who shouted, knocking her down to the floor, Lana then calmed down and saw who was going to attack her, a dark-skinned young woman with dark purple hair, wearing a white sleeveless shirt, denim shorts, a purple baseball cap and pink-tinted sunglasses.

"Ah! Sina! Are you okay?!" Lana exclaimed going to aid her.

"First, ouch." She answered. "Second, glad to see you have your reflexes on point."

"What the hell was that?!" Lana exclaimed.

"It was a test to make sure you were in good shape, and you passed." Sina explained. "I came from the window, by the way."

"You seriously never change." Lana sighed and helped her stand up while Harper and Sarah approached the two. "Ah, these are your sis2, good to finally meet them."

"I'm Harper!"

"I'm Sarah!"

"And I'm Sina, Sina Hautbois, beautiful name for a beautiful lady, wouldn't you say?" She talked to the girls. "I'm a friend of Lana, but most importanly, I'm a researcher from the Kalos region where I work with Professor Sycamore and I'm also an Ice-Type specialist."

"Wow, that all sounds super cool!" The twins said together.

"Oh, really? Well, that's not at all, you wanna hear a secret?" Sina asked.

"Oooh, another secret." They smiled looking at each other while Lana rolled her eyes knowing what was coming. "Yes, we want to!"

"Well, I don't tell this to anybody, but you're Lana's sisters, so I suppose I can trust you..." Sina looked around for a moment to then retun at the twins. "I am superhero." Sina whispered to them.

"You are?!" They both shouted.

"No, she's not." Lana said.

"Yes, I am!" Sina stood proudly while showing the girls a red mask. "I may look like a normal girl, but when the sun goes down, that's when I become... the Masked Defender of Kalos!"

"Listen Sina, I know your intentions are good, but the way you get into that kind of situations worries me sometimes." Lana said.

"Oh, please, I'm no idiot, in fact, I was in retirement, but seeing you guys in the invasion motivated me to get back in action and help!" Sina replied. "I may don't have a fancy suit with powers, but I can still hold my own."

"That reminds me, where's Dexio?" Lana asked.

"HAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sina laughed out loud. "We, uh, well, we decided we needed a-"

"You broke up." Lana interrupted.

"...Yes." Sina admitted.

"May I know the reason?" Lana asked.

"It's complicated." Sina replied.

"He cheated on you." Lana said.

"WITH A BACKPACKER!" Sina shouted. "But nevermind that, the dynamic duo is now the dynamic uno, I'm here to take a break of everything, I'm in vacation, and now that I'm in a place like Alola I'm sure I'll get the chance to meet someone even better!"

"Oh, maybe you can be with Ash." Harper suggested.

"What?!" Lana shouted.

"You mean the kid who gave that message to Alola during the invasion?" Sina asked.

"Yup, he's the champion of the region." Sarah said.

"I see..." Sina trailed off. "But I'm not sure if someone as important as that would like to date me."

"Uh, yeah, but-"

"I'm sure he'd like to, you look nice." Harper said.

"You're super pretty." Sarah added.

"Lana can introduce you to him." They both said.

"Really? You never talked me about an Ash." Sina told her.

"T-That's because-"

"He's her boyfriend." Harper and Sarah said.

"GIRLS!" Lana shouted and went to cover both their mouths.

"Ok, so, if he's your boyfriend, why are they suggesting me to date him?" Sina asked.

"Y-You know how toddlers are." Lana talked nervously, but Harper and Sarah freed themselves from her grasp.

"Ash has other 7 girlfriends!" They said at once.

"THAT'S IT! TO YOUR ROOM!" Lana shouted and they both ran away scared.

"Wait, wait, wait, your boyfriend has 7 other girlfriends besides you?" Sina asked.

"They're lying!" Lana shouted again with a massive blush.

"Judging by your reaction I honestly doubt that." Sina said.

"...Fine, it's true." Lana sighed. "Ash has 8 girlfriends, me included."

"So you're in like an open marriage?" Sina asked.

"Uh, no, not at all, we're all his girlfriends, but we're with Ash and only Ash." Lana explained.

"So a harem..." Sina said.

"That's right, but please Sina, I'm begging you, you can't tell this to anyone."

"Don't you worry girl. My mouth is shut." Sina said. "But I'd like a little... payment, you see, for my silence."

"I swear you're a bad person." Lana sighed. "Fine, what do you want?"

"I want to join the team!" Sina said.

"Uh, you want to join the Ultra Guardians?" Lana asked. "Sure, I guess I can ask Miss Wicke to get you in."

"Heh, that's not what I mean, silly, and you know it." Sina giggled.

"Wait, don't tell me you-"

"If you want me to be silent about your situation, then you'll help me join Ash's harem." Sina said.

"...This is what I get for trusting Harper and Sarah." Lana sighed again.

"Oh, please, if he's got 8 already how hard would it for you to get me in?" Sina asked.

"Well, to begin with Ash doesn't even know you." Lana said. "Why do you even want to share him with me and other girls?"

"Oooh, watch this." Harper said watching from behind a door. "Now she's gonna say 'you've got 24 hours to consider my request'."

"Don't think too much about it, anyway, you've got 24 hours to consider my request." Sina talked and the twins giggled. "Well, guess I'll leave you." Sina then went to open the front door to leave and found a Froslass waiting outside while looking at a list. "Ah, there you are girl!" She said while the Froslass sighed. "Seriously, where have you been? You left to wander like 4 days ago." The Froslass simply shook her head and started to float away while Sina followed her and Lana stayed behind processing what just happened to then glare anrgily at the twins.

Back with Ash.

"And this is the Hao'uli mall." Mallow showed Bea, Nessa and Peonia the place while they walked inside and Ash was following the girls a few steps behind them, happy to see that Pikachu, still on Bea's shoulder, seemed to be trusting her again.

"Things are finally calm at least." Ash said looking at his reflection on the water of a fountain.

"OUT OF MY WAY!" A voice that Ash recognized shouted from behind him, he quickly turned around to stop with a hug a running girl that almost pushed him to the fountain.

"And it's Bianca." Ash smiled at the Unovan girl who was panting exhausted. "Sorry, but that's not happening again."

"ASH?!" She shouted after realizing he was with him, and then blushed profusely once she noticed he was hugging her. "UHO!" Bianca shouted again and by reflex pushed Ash away from her, causing him to fall inside the fountain.

"...You know what? I'm not even mad, a part of me kinda missed this." He admitted.

"Oh my gosh, sorry!" Bianca tried to go and aid him, but ended up tripping and falling into the fountain as well, dropping on top of Ash.

"Ouch." Ash said.

"Are you two okay?" Mallow asked approaching the scene along the other girlfriends.

"ARGH! I'm sorry!" Bianca shouted still on top of him. "Of course the first thing I do when we meet after 3 years is knocking you onto the water."

"That's what they say about things never changing, but I think this is the first time you fall alongside me." Ash laughed as he adjusted her glasses, causing her to blush again. "Good to see you, you look... really different."

"I hope that's for the better." Bianca smiled. "You have also changed, but you still have that charming look of always..."

"Well, at least you're wasting no time, Bianca." Elesa walked into the scene along Skyla, with the latter's Pokemon flying behind them while carrying many shopping bags.

"Ah! Miss Elesa!" Bianca exclaimed and got out of the fountain, with Ash doing the same afterwards. "S-Sorry about the mess!"

"Good to see you, Miss Elesa." Ash greeted her. "I suppose Bianca and you came here together."

"Yeah, that's the thing, Bianca is my manager now, so wherever I go, she goes." Elesa explained to then look at Ash's group. "Hey, Nessa, it's been a while, you haven't been answering my calls."

"Uh, sorry about that, I've been a little busy." Nessa answered.

"Sure, busy, Skyla told me some things." Elesa grinned. "What's the deal of the harem?" She whispered.

"Uh, harem?" Bianca asked.

"These are some of the girls I'm sharing Ash with." Skyla said. "Bea, Peonia, Mallow and you know Nessa already... and Well, if you still don't believe it..." Skyla walked to Ash and gave him a quick kiss on his lips. "There, now girls, you can take a turn."

"I-I think I'm fine for now." Mallow answered embarassed.

"Yeah, don't feel like doing that in a public mall, you know?" Peonia told her.

"Skyla, why did you tell her?" Nessa asked.

"Sorry, sorry, but Elesa has been teasing me a lot about my crush on Ash, I had to tell her, boast it on her face." Skyla answered. "S-She told me Ash would think he's too young for me, but I knew he wouldn't mind."

"Of course I don't mind, but now that I think about it... how old are you, Skyla?" Ash replied.

"Hehe, right, I'm 21." Skyla answered. "So, just four years, right? It ain't much. Elesa on the other side is 24, she definitely is too old for you, right?"

"I'm hearing, you know?" Elesa asked. "By the way, Ash, how do you like my new style?"

"Well, you look great." Ash answered. "You also look quite different, just like Bianca."

"My, thanks, I decided to do a PR makeover with Skyla's help last year." Elesa answered. "Anyway, Ash, I was wondering if you could let me stay on your mansion to kinda get a free trail of the harem thing, like Selene is doing."

"You want to-"

"WHAT'S GOING ON?!" Bianca shouted and everyone in the mall stared at the group.

"I guess it'll better to continue the explanations in a more private place." Ash suggested. "Skyla, where are Gloria and Selene? Weren't they with you?"

"Uh, they were, but we separated when we met with Elesa." Skyla explained. "Haven't seem them since then, sorry."

"Oh, so Gloria finally met with you?" Bianca asked.

"A bit more than that, she's also part of this." Ash chuckled. "Right, I remember that she mentioned to have met you... hey, Bianca, it's true that you pushed me into the water on purpose?"

"W-What?! No! Those were just accidents! You know I'm clumsy!" Bianca exclaimed.

"Sorry, sorry, those are just things that Gloria told me." Ash replied.

"I-It's not my fault that I like to see you wet and shirtless! Who gave you the right to be so hot?!" Bianca suddenly shouted and then covered her mouth as she blushed to her limit. "So, uh, where is Gloria anyway?"

"FRIDOM!" Gloria shouted from the second floor of the mall and jumped from the border, but Selene released an Alolan Raichu who caught Gloria and softly took her to the first floor.

"Gloria, are you okay?!" Ash shouted as he ran to her along the other girls.

"I'M FINE AS EVER, YA PIPOL!" She shouted.

"Not this again." Bea said.

"Selene, did you gave Gloria cider by any chance?" Ash asked her once she approached them after going downstaris.

"Uh... Yeah, looks like it was a mistake." Selene answered nervously.

"How's the deal, Mista?! Did ya miss me?!" Gloria asked holding Ash by the collar of his shirt and then giving him a deep kiss. "Now that ya belong to me, I'm goin' to make some use of it!"

"Right, Selene, I know we didn't tell you this, but Gloria's really sensitive to the cider, these kind of things always happens when she drinks it." Bea explained.

"Then we really should calm her before she says something inappropiate." Mallow suggested.

"Yeah, we're already getting some eyes over us." Skyla said.

"And how do we calm her down?" Nessa asked.

"Pikachu, why don't you help us?" Peonia asked, the mouse nodded and suddenly jumped to Gloria's head and released a controlled discharge that shocked her and knocked her down.

"That'll do." Ash said to then carry Gloria on his back. "Alright everyone, we should head back. Elesa, Bianca, you can come with us as well, it seems like I should have a talk with you two."

Meanwhile with May.

Just like Zoey mentioned last time they talked, she was now May's agent and took a flight to Alola in order to meet with her and help her prepare for the concert, however, May wasn't in the mood of practicing and after plenty of insisting from Zoey she had no choice but to explain why.

"Well, that's quite the story." Zoey said after listening to May's side of the story. "I'm honestly surprised you'd tell it to me of all people."

"It's not like I have someone else to talk to since Dawn left." May sighed. "I really thought this arrangement would work out."

"It also surprises me that you wanted to share him with Dawn to begin with." Zoey continued. "Sure, I know you two were more or less friends, but that's such a big decision, I thought you'd have closer friends you'd rather share a boyfriend with."

"I do, but I needed someone who was as close to Ash as me." May replied. "Honestly... I feel like I was just using Dawn as a boost, I knew just how close Ash and her were, so adding me to that was kinda like a pincer movement, I thought that with all the options he had, Ash wouldn't reject a 2x1 deal from two of his best friends, even though Dawn was my first option, like, the only other one I could think of was Misty and there's no way in hell I'm sharing anything with her, so yeah, Dawn was much of a platform, not like I actually wanted to share Ash with someone else, but it seemed like the best course of action... I even would've found a way to push Dawn out of the trio if the situation demanded it."

"Wow, you're evil." Zoey said.

"I'm not a villain, I'm just passionate." May replied. "I'm a woman in love who had her other half taken away from her, I have to take back Ash, I don't care if I have to make him break the heart of all those girls."

"Yeah, sounds totally evil." Zoey insisted. "And no offense, but I'd definitely choose 8 girls over my quite aggresive friend."

"So you are a lesbian." May said.

"Not the thing you should be worrying about at the moment." Zoey said. "Next thing you'll tell me is that you have some sort of evil plan to separate them."

"What if I edit some pictures to make it look like his girls are kissing other boys?" May asked. "That way Ash won't trust them anymore, and it'd make sense! Ash has to split his time for them, they'll surely turn his back on him when they get the chance!"

"Yeah, you need help." Zoey sighed. "Listen May, if Ash and those girls love each other enough to agree with something like that, it's almost for sure that they'll stay that way, so if you don't want to join them so bad, then you should just distract yourself with something else, besides, if you really love Ash, you should let him be happy."

"He can't be happy like that!" May shouted. "Just imagine, he must be overworking himself for them, my poor Ash."

"Their poor Ash." Zoey said. "And dude's surrounded in kisses, hugs and boobs, so I suppose that's enough payment."

"Argh! Why am I even telling you all this?" May asked.

"Well, you said it yourself, you ended up all alone." Zoey replied. "Without Dawn, without Ash-"

"Shut up! Stop trying to make me the villain!" May shouted again and left their room slamming the door.

"May... that's something you're doing yourself." Zoey answered with a sigh. "And Dawn isn't answering my calls so I can't hear her version of this, I wonder what she's up to."

Some moments later in the Ketchum mansion.

"So that's what happened..." Ash was talking alone with Bianca and Elesa in the living room and they explained him the whole situation with Ingo, with the two girls sitting by his sides on a sofa, while they were on the way home, Skyla and Nessa gave more details about their story with Ash to Bianca and Elesa and the group met with Lana when they made it back to the mansion, Bea then said she had something important to tell them so the rest of the girls were in Ash's room.

"And where is Emmet now?" Ash asked.

"He left his phone with us, he said he didn't want any interruptions and that he'd only come back after he got a definitive answer." Bianca explained.

"We're still hoping for the best." Elesa said. "If Emmet doesn't see Ingo in the mist then we'll keep looking for him."

"B-But if he does..." Bianca trailed off. "I-I don't even want to think about it, but at least Emmet could get to talk with Ingo."

"Perhaps, but I'm totally sure he'd prefer to talk with a living Ingo, though I suppose it'd be better to just know for sure..." Elesa answered with a sigh. "Well, enough sad topics, Ash, are you sure we can stay here?"

"Of course, feel free to do so." Ash answered. "There's plenty of space and you told me that you have never been in Alola, so staying here, where you both have friends, seems like the most appropiate thing to do until you meet with Ingo again."

"Heh, you're giving some good arguments." Elesa grinned and then rested her head on Ash's shoulder. "But I'm sure you just want us to increase your girl collection." She commented while Bianca simply blushed.

"T-That's not the idea." Ash said. "But you did mention that you wanted a 'free trial', so I guess that means-"

"That I like you too." Elesa answered with a wink. "And Bianca also does."

"T-That's not true!" Bianca stammered. "A-And there's no way I'd agree to be part of a shared relationship!"

"Maybe, but as for me, Skyla and I have always shared everything since we were young, dolls, clothes, secrets, bathrooms, so going for a boyfriend doesn't sound all that bad." Elesa gave Ash a short cheek kiss to then stand up and stretch. "Either way, we'll see you tomorrow." She then started to walk to the room that Ash showed them ealier, while Bianca tried to not have eye contact with Ash and followed the Gym Leader.

"A-Ash..." Bianca stuttered still without looking at him. "I, uh, appreciate a lot your care, but we won't be here for long, Miss Elesa has a very busy schedule and we only came here to support Emmet, once he returns we'll be going back to Unova, hope you understand."

"Of course, Bianca, don't worry." Ash answered and the two girls left, leaving him alone in the living room. "Well, now I have 10 girls living under my roof. Usual stuff, right?" Ash said to himself and then looked for his Rotom Phone and called Acerola. "...She still doesn't answer, I've been calling her all day... I hope Phoebe isn't trying to pull her away from me."

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"Girls, I have to tell you something..." Bea was in the bed of Ash's room while Nessa, Peonia, Gloria, Selene, Mallow, Lana and Skyla were all around her. "We're all a family now, you all deserve to know the truth, my Name is Saito and I... I'm about to tell you my story, the real one."

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"And then we left Stow-on-Side..." She sighed finally finishing her tale. "If I hadn't meet Ash, I don't know what would have been of me."

"Bea, that was... t-that was all so horrible." Skyla stuttered.

"I knew Habe was strict, but to think he'd do all those things to his own daugther..." Peonia said.

"I completely understand why you were hiding all that." Mallow added.

"Yeah, I'm not totally happy that you lied to us, but that was more than enough reason." Lana replied.

"Shouldn't we call the police on him or something?" Selene asked.

"Ash and I thought that that would only complicate things for all of us." Bea answered. "I just want to leave all that behind..." She said while Gloria crawled to her and gave her a silent hug.

"I-I'm so sorry..." Gloria whispered.

"Bea... I think I have an idea to make your day better." Nessa told her.

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The girls then discussed for a moment and prepared some things, all of them then left Bea alone and after a few minutes Ash entered the room finding just Bea, wearing nothing but pink panties and bra.

"Well... Nessa left today's turn just for me." Bea started to explain as they both blushed. "The girls all thought it'd be the best after what happened today, so, I'll be as direct as I can right now, Ash ketchum... I want to have sex with you."