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But there were 12 of them......

........12 agaist 1 - THAT'S FAIR!!!!!!

The aether foundation's Pokémon were: Lurantis, Arbok, Arcanine, Houndoom, Shellgon, Primape.... And many, many more....... You get the idea......

Lillie, Melon, Alan and Ricky: "Don't worry ash, we'll help you!!!!!!!"

Them joining in made it easier..... But alas they were still losing.........

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Pikachu was low on health.............

Just then................. The aether foundation employee's Lurantis got ready to use leaf blade on ash's pikachu...... WHENNNNNN .......... Just then another Lurantis jumped and landed from the sky Infront of them and blocked the attack using slash and simultaneously saved pikachu!!!!!!!!!!

"Synthesis!" A familiar voice cried confidently before the Lurantis shimmered in a green light.
The squad turned around to find out who the voice and Lurantis belonged to...

"Riley!!" The gang exclaimed, relieved to see the blonde haired girl they all knew and loved.

"......." Gladdion walked into the room next to her.

Gladdion, sent out umbreon and Riley stayed with lurantis. Just as that happened two more familiar faces joined the squad...........

"Hi guys!!" Serena cheered running in.

"Huraahhh!!!!!" Miss poshy washy cried in turn flicking her golden brown hair.

Next the professor sauntered in like a cool guy and sent out rockruff, Serena sent out her fox Pokémon and miss poshy wash sent out Flareon.

Almost everyone was here to make this an even match....... They just needed two more Pokémon trainers..............

"Sophocles?!?!?!?!" Mallow, Lana and kwaii said in unison.

"Who??" Ash questioned.

And then the last person walked in........

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"Heyyyy guys.......... Hau's the name!!!!!" A seaweed-haired boy walked in.

"Ummm I would normally question who on earth you are.... But right now I really don't care!!!!" Ash yelled, focusing on the battle at hand.

Now with the combined strength of 12 friends - well, we don't really call hau a friend now do we? But now ash and the gang used their power to defeat the evil aether employees and the gang go up the lift.........

"Whoop whoop we did it!!!!!!" Ash cried.

"Yaaaaaayyyyy, high fives all around!!!!!!?" The seaweedette male replied.

After everyone high fiving each other and then.....

"Wait who even are you??????" Sophocles said to Hau.

"Says you!!!!!" Ash screamed. "Who the freak are you??!?!??!!"

"Ash...." Lana whispered. " That's Sophocles..... He's been traveling with us the whole time..."

"Oh....... Well like you said Ryan .... Who the freak is the seaweed boiiiiiii????"

"Yeah???" Kwaii added.

"The names Hau, Hau Seaweed!!!!"

"Right but who are you?" Serena said emphasising the 'who'.

"Anyway...." Lana says dramatically.

"What's going to happen now?" Miss poshy washy questioned with a worried expression on her face.

"We're going to infiltrate the aether paradise, find the mean boss and I'll defeat them and then I'll save the day and I'll have saved Alola from the invasion." Ash said proudly.

"Yeah!! And we can all help!!!" The professor said cheerily.

".... Hau about no." Ash said bluntly. "Only I save the day because after all I'm the main character!!!"
"Sure ash... Sure..." Lana said.
"Let him dream." Said Riley to Lana.
"Hmmm." Lillie said. "Gladdion ... You don't think......"

"......yes Lillie ... Mother...."

"What the freak?????" Mallow cried with no happy expression on her face.

"You see after some recent investigation....... We discovered that the head of the aether foundation's plan is........... Luzamine..........."

"Oh........" Lillie whispered.

"Lillie!" Mallow yelled sympatheticly.

"Don't worry we'll save alola from these ultra beasts!!!" Ash said encouragingly, while stroking lillie's luscious locks. At this gesture Lillie immediately blushed a bright red, redder than ash's signature cap.

"Yes. Don't worry darling!!" Miss poshy washy cooed.

"We're all her for you!" Lana chirped.

"Yeah... Everything will be fine!" Sophocles said.

"Did someone say something....?" Ash said with his eyes squinted, looking around the lift.

"..." Everyone face palmed.

"We're all going to work together!!!" Mallow cheered.

And at that they all put their hands in the middle - gladdion was reluctant, standing with his arms crossed watching everyone else, but Riley just grabbed his hand pulling him forward and put it on top of the others. They all cheered and lifted their hands in the air in a celebratory fashion.

"GO TEAM!!!!!!!!!!!!" They yelled causing the lift to shake.

"So what's the plan??" Kwaii asked in a cool, calm and collected voice.

"Hmm I'm not sure..." Serena said thinking.

Gladdion began to speak. "Well we need to get to the lab.... That's where Faba will be..." He explained.

"Flabby??" Ash asked.

"No. F a b a." The blonde punk replied sternly.

"Flabbion???" Hau asked.

Gladion simply face palmed at this, "Now there's two of them....." He muttered to Riley who- completely horrified by this interruption- dead panned.

"Ok, so we find flabby, then we BATTLE!!!????" Ash said.

"No." Began Riley, intimidating the impulsive capped kid. "We need to shut down the machine that he controls. This machine will absorb the energy from the Pokémon to activate the ultra wormhole." Riley explained clearly.

"Boiiiiiii!!!" Hau exclaimed, slightly scared by what was just said, but trying to lighten the mood.

"Ok!" Lillie said confidently. "That means we'll need a distraction..."

"Yes all of you distract Flabbion and Luzamine while I shut down the machine and save the world." Ash replied.

"No Ash." Gladdion said.

The professor started. "Hmmm what we should do is..........."

"Lana is speaking now. Riley will say the plan." Lana said.

"Whatsssupp with talking in 3rd person says mallow." The seaweedette female said.

"Thank you, ocean blue. Lillie distracts Lusamine as she is her daughter. It'll create more time easier- of course only if Lillie is okay with it. While she does that, all of us fight off the inevitable bunches of aether foundation employees. And then—"

"—then the main character... Being me will shut down the machine thus saving the world!!!!" Ash declared.

Riley just stared at ash intensely... Smiling.... But still staring........ VERY intensely.

"No Ash..... A small group of us will then go to shut down the machine....... Incase flabby- or whatever they're called - attacks us." Ryan explained.

"Does anyone hear something speaking?" ash replied.

"Sounds like a plan!!" Miss poshy washy agreed.

"Yeah boiiiiiii! let's go!!!!!" Hau screamed.

"Hau you must chill!!" Lillie said.

"Hmph." The blonde revel replied.

"Cool." Said kawii.

"Lillie? Are you ok with this??" Serena asked.

"Yes!" Lillie said confidently.

Riley gave gladion a smile and for once, Gladdion returned it................................ This should work. He thought to himself.

Just then the lift came to it's final stop..................

A/N: oooohhh suspense....... Let me know is you're excited for the next chapter because it gets pretty crAzY!!!!