*Smack!* *Smack!*

"Ah!"

Ash screamed and woke up, he started panting heavily and smiled wearily remembering his dream.

"Ash, are you alright?" Serena who fell asleep on the sofa approached Ash.

Looking at Serena who has a worried look on her face Ash smiled and replied, "I'm fine, looks like I got out of control huh?"

Serena sighed and gave Ash a hug not caring about what he will think as she closed her eyes feeling Ash's warmth.

Feeling the warm hug Ash smiled and after a few moments, he stood up breaking the hug away, and said while stretching his arms, "You are really daring Ms. Serena, we aren't kids anymore be careful at your actions or else you will have to bear the consequences."

Hearing Ash teasing her Serena blushed and kicked him on the legs as she stormed her way out of the room.

Seeing Serena running away with a reddened face Ash chuckled and stared at the window curtain, "What are you doing there? Do you think you can hide your aura from me when I know that you are in the vicinity?"

As soon as he finished talking, Mew's head popped out of the window curtain and stuck her tongue out at Ash.

"Don't act all high and mighty when you fell asleep with just a twist of my finger," Mew said as she swung her tail hitting Ash's cheek and landed on his head.

"What a sassy little pokemon," Ash murmured as he exited the room and went to the backyard.

"Master!"

"Master, you're awake!"

"Are you okay, Master? who made you angry? I'm gonna fry him up!"

As Ash steps out of the door all of his pokemon rushed towards him with a worried and fierce look on their faces.

Seeing all of his pokemon Ash smiled and felt warmth in his heart, they may be the only pokemon he has left but at least they are the ones that will fight for me to the death as I will do the same for them.

"Okay, okay, calm down everyone let's not talk about what happened," Ash said trying to calm down his pokemon especially Charizard and Garchomp the two hotheads.

'Hmph, Garchomp already told me about that Gary guy Master met yesterday maybe he will know who offended Master.' Charizard thought as he cast a knowing glance at Garchomp.

Garchomp seeing this nodded his head, 'We will surely interrogate that bastard later,'

After calming everyone down Ash decided to bond with his pokemon this day because the fight for the semi-final round will be tomorrow.

Ash sat down on a patch of grass with Bayleef sitting beside him while Samurott was trying to persuade Ash to let him fight on the semi-finals only to get smacked away by Infernape.

Noivern being the weakest of them all was asking when his training will begin and was restless because he didn't want to be left behind by the others.

Sceptile and Greninja were standing behind Ash acting like his bodyguards while Charizard, Garchomp, and Alakazam were secretly plotting a kidnap operation on the sides.

Experiencing this beautiful and warm atmosphere Ash closed his eyes as he enjoyed this moment of peacefulness.

"Ash"

Opening his eyes Ash glanced at his mother who just called him, and asked "Did you also know about the video?"

Delia smiled not answering, she then approached Ash, and out of the blue, she smacked Ash on the back of his head stunning everyone.

"Heh, you think that you're all grown up now huh? who do you think fed and changed your diapers when you were younger?! I even have to run around the house just to give you a bath! and you dare give me that look like I am your enemy?!"

*Smack!*

Ash was baffled as he received continues smacks on his head, he ducked and tried to escape when his mom grabbed his arms and took a stick not knowing where she got it and started hitting his butt.

"O' Arceus!"

"Master's mom is a lot scarier than Big Sis."

"Let's go, we should at least preserve Master's dignity."

All of his pokemon including Mew backed away and left.

After punishing Ash, Delia who was panting heavily went back inside the house and said as she passed the door, "Come inside, I will tell you everything you want to know."

*Pheeew*

Ash sighed in relief seeing that his mother was gone, he didn't expect his mother to transform into an Ursaring and started beating him up.

"Haha..hahaha," Ash laughed loudly as he laid down on the grass and stared at the blue sky.

Serena who was inside and peeking out through the window smiled seeing Ash laying down with a relaxed look on his face.

"Why is that idiot son of mine laughing crazily?" Delia asked with an annoyed tone.

She then looked at Serena and asked, "Aren't you gonna approach him?"

Serena shook her head and replied, "I think he needs some time alone to process everything that he just learned."

As Ash was still all alone laying on the grass his 3 mischievous pokemon were already gone.

"Alakazam, can you sense that Gary guy?" Garchomp asked after describing Gary's features to Alakazam.

Alakazam who was trying to concentrate replied angrily, "Can't you just shut up? I am concentrating here!"

Garchomp was angered by this and was about to lash out when Charizard held him back.

Seeing this Alakazam snorted and started concentrating again trying to pinpoint Gary's location.

"Haha, I found him! let's go." After searching for a few minutes Alakazam finally found his location and teleported all of them.

Poke Hotel

Gary just finished eating his breakfast and was currently watching the replay of the quarter-final fights when suddenly three pokemon appeared in front of him.

"Ah!"

Gary was about to take out his poke ball when Alakazam used psychic locking Gary's movement.

*Swoosh!*

All of them then teleported out of the room and reappeared in a random forest.