3. RPA High

The Ugliness in the Beauty

On the next day, everyone has gone back to school and they are surprised to see Gladion sitting with Ash and Lillie. Insey asks, "Brother? Why is he here?"

"He realizes his mistake and he apologizes to both of us. Right now he promises that he won't be acting like a jerk he was and I ask you guys to treat him nicely." Ash says.

The others are happy for Lillie to have her family back, and then they decide to get to know more about Gladion. As they are chatting, Nate asks, "By the way, I didn't ask you before, what is that Pokemon you have?"

"This is Silvally." Gladion says with a frown, "And to tell you the truth...he is my Father."

This causes everyone to gasp. "Your father?" Mark asks. "How?"

Lillie says, "It is a long story, but our dad died because of a betrayal of one of the members of the Aether Family."

"Yeah, and then an Arceus saved him by changing him into a Pokemon." Gladion says, which causes the Ketchum siblings to look at each other with confusion, as they have no idea that they did something like that, even Ash.

Lillie knows that it is not appropriate to tell her brother that Ash is Arceus as well as his siblings, she says, "But ever since that happened, I was being neglected by the family and eventually you know what happened."

Gladion is feeling guilty as the others understand. But the bully gang notices them and they aren't happy about it.

"How come he gets along well with them?" Misty says.

"Yeah, now he also betrayed us." Gary says.

"But what should we do? In here we can't do something to them since those are prohibited." Iris says.

"I don't know...by the way, where is Serena?" Trip asks.

"No idea." Paul says.

The said girl is still in her dorm room, she is in a worry as she says, "Where is it?"

She places all her uniforms and books on the bed and the boxes on the floors, and as she reaches the last box, she finds that the pen is underneath the box.

"Ah! Here it is..." Serena says. "Now I can use it to the class."

As she quickly put the stuff away, she notices a blue handkerchief on the floor, she picks it up and says, "Huh? Where did this come from..."

Just then, she starts to recall a certain memory.

(Flashback)

"Where is everybody? Where do you all go?" A younger Serena was looking around in the forest worriedly.

Suddenly, a Poliwag appears, which causes her to fall on the ground and hurts her knee. Then she starts to form tears.

"I knew I should have come to this Summer Camp..." Then she cries out for her mother sadly.

Just then, she hears someone says, "Poliwag, where are you?"

Then a younger boy emerges from the bushes and then notices her. Then he says, "Are you alright?"

As the boy stops in front of her, he says, "I am Ash. What's wrong?"

Serena says, "I hurt my leg..."

Ash notices the blood coming from her knee, then he takes out a handkerchief and then ties it around her knee. "See, it is better, now watch this, Pain Pain go away!" He says as he waves his arms.