Expect the Unexpected

Chapter 2

Hey everyone! Firesong The Scorbunny here with another chapter of Expect the Unexpected for you all to enjoy. Before we get into the story, I just wanted to give a huge thank you to Storywriter21 for the help with this chapter. You should go check out there stories and follow them. Anyways, with all that out of the way, I hope you enjoy reading this story. Now, without further ado, let's take flight.

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The next morning Chloe woke up early, and looked at a sleeping Eevee, before remembering the night before and searching the room, until she found the pokeball from last night.

"Was that real?" Chloe asked before deciding she had to check.

With that she quietly snuck to Ash and Goh's room with the pokeball, and cracked open the door, seeing they were still asleep, with Pikachu on Ash's chest.

"Sorry Ash," Chloe whispered, not noticing she had woken up Pikachu as she held up the pokeball. "But I need to know last night wasn't a dream. Return."

As Chloe had half expected a beam of red energy came from the pokeball, and absorbed Ash's sleeping body, before Chloe left, not noticing Pikachu following, desperate to know how Ash was caught by a pokeball.

Once they returned to Chloe's room, Chloe pointed the pokeball at her bed and released Ashley, who had returned to Zorua form, and was still shaking, but not as much as when she was first captured.

"Zor!" she said before turning into a copy of Chloe. "Why did you return me? It wasn't as bad as when I was first caught, but still terrifying."

"Sorry, Ashley," Chloe said. "I needed to make sure it wasn't a dream."

"I can understand that," Ashley agreed. "Finding out that the female Zorua you caught in the middle of the night is also your male friend Ash's true form right before you go to sleep does lead to a dream."

"PIKA PI!" Pikachu yelled in shock, eyes bulging so wide that you could see the bottoms, and jaw literally touching the ground, after hearing that from his hiding spot.

The yell woke up Eevee who figured out what happened after seeing two Chloes, and remembering the night before. And she jumped down to talk to Pikachu with Ashley joining after changing back to a Zorua.

Chloe watched them talk until Pikachu tackle hugged Ashley, who then turned back into a copy of Chloe, with Pikachu climbing up to her shoulder.

"Why did you change between forms to talk?" Chloe asked.

"I told you my charm makes it harder to detect my illusions," Ashley explained. "Since humans can't understand Pokémon, when I illusion as a human neither can I."

"Oh," Chloe said as her father opened the door.

"Chloe? What was that loud noise?" he said worried something had happened, only to pause when he saw two Chloes. "I thought the clone experiment was a failure. Oh I can't let anyone know it worked. I got it! I can say your Chloe's twin. I can use the name Soleil by callingnin a favor with Princess Soleil, now to get you enrolled in time for school today."

With that he ran away to get Chloe's 'twin enrolled' before they could tell him that it was a Zorua.

"Great now we need to tell Goh why there is two Chloe's," Ashley complained. "I wanted to keep me being Ash a secret. Also when did he make a clone experiment?"

"Well, we might be able too," Chloe said, getting Ashley to look at her. "We can tell him I caught a Zorua last night, but not tell him it is Ash. Also, I don't know when he made a clone experiment, but I will be yelling at him later for it."

"And when he asks where I am?" Ashley questions. "And can I help?"

"We tell him you got a call and had to go help someone," Chloe said. "If we say the help they need doesn't do well with electric types, you can even keep Pikachu with you by saying you asked us to watch him. And yeah, you can help."

"Alright," Ashley agreed.

•••

"There was a what running around the lab last night?"

Ashley and Chloe glanced to one another with knowing smiles on their faces.

"A Zorua," the maroon-haired girl answered Goh's question, though she was way more calm about the whole situation.

Goh blinked and his eyes went wide in shock. Then he noticed the person standing beside Chloe.

"Huh? Soleil? What are you doing here?"

Ashley opened her mouth to retort, to tell him that she wasn't Soleil, but a knowing look from Chloe made her shut her mouth.

"I'm Zorua you bird-brain!" she crossed her arms over her chest and stared at Goh with an unreadable expression on her face.

"Yeah, sure you are!" said Goh with a look of disbelief on his face. Chloe facepalmed and the other girl just glared at him.

"Look up Zorua in the Pokédex if you don't believe her," Chloe told him with an exasperated sigh. Goh sighed at his friends snarky tone but did as she had instructed him to do.

"And where is Ash?"

That question made Chloe and Ashley glad they had come up with an excuse.

"He got a call and said he had to leave to help someone." Chloe said.

Goh blinked and turned to stare over at Pikachu, who for some odd reason was perched on Soleil's shoulder, well, at least, he thought of this Chloe look-alike as Soleil.

"Pika Pika? Pikachu?" Pikachu questioned, blinking and tilting his head in confusion. "Pika Pi?"

"Then why is Pikachu still here?" Goh asked.

"Ash asked us to watch him. Apparently whatever he needs to help with doesn't mix well with electric types." Ashley said.

"Then why not ask me?" Goh questioned looking worried.

"Um, I'm not trying to interrupt anything important, Goh, but we'd better get going." Chloe said, laughing nervously and pulling her look-alike along with her as she went.

"Wait, you're going to school? But you're a Zorua!" Goh exclaimed, blinking and staring at the Zorua disguised as Chloe.

The Chloe look-alike blushed and rubbed the back of her neck with a sheepish grin. "Professor Cerise thought I was Chloe so he ended up enrolling me into the school." Ashley explained while making gestures with her hands to get her point across.

"Wait, but Chloe!" he tried to call out for her to stop, but she kept on walking without looking back. Goh sighed softly and scratched the back of his head with a thoughtful look on his face.

"What the heck just happened?" he quietly muttered to himself while staring up at the ceiling.

•••

"So, uh, Ashley, if you're gonna pretend to be Soleil, you'll need an Espeon and an Umbreon."

Ashley smiled and pulled out two pokeballs. And in two flashes of light, Espeon and Umbreon appeared. "I caught these two when they were Eevee's, I saved them from some Pokémon hunters."

Chloe's eyes widened and her jaw dropped open in shock. "Oh wow, that's sounds awful!" she exclaimed, covering her mouth with a hand. "Are they scared of humans?" she asked Ashley.

Ashley had just opened her mouth to respond but another voice spoke up before she could get a word in.

"Hey, Chloe, over here!" the girl in question looked around and spotted her best friend, Mika, who was waving to her from the entrance of the school.

"C'mon, Soleil!" Chloe winked at Ashley before motioning her to return Espeon and Umbreon to their Pokeballs. Getting the hint given to her, Ashley quickly returned her two Pokémon and followed Chloe inside the school where a blond-haired girl was waiting for them.

At the sight of Ashley, Mika's eyes bulged and her jaw fell slack. She tried to speak but no words would come out. Ashley giggled a little at the absolute stupefied look on the other girl's face.