Repairing Broken Bonds (Collab with Ray Chiu)

Chapter 18: Tour Around Sevestar!

(Welcome to the second part of the crossover of Repairing Broken Bonds with Ash's Story. Last time we had Ash Story AU's Ash and Lillie get caught up with what the Repairing Broken Bond AU group dealt with, and also had a double battle between the two Ash's. As I said last time, if there's two of the same character, I'm going to have the initials of the AU/Story the version of Ash is from in front of the name they go by, so AS for Ash's Story, RBB for Repairing Broken Bonds.)

(Also this is going to be kind of a semi-long chapter, so if you want, get some sort of snack.)

The next morning came, and Lillie was the first to wake up, followed closely by AS-Ash. They quietly left the guest room and found Goh and Chloe already in the kitchen, making breakfast.

"Morning, you two!" Chloe greeted the pair from the alternate world. "How did you sleep?"

"I slept like a princess," AS-Lillie said, stretching. "Ash slept pretty well too. How about you two?"

"We slept great," Goh replied, returning to his breakfast preparations. "We woke up early and decided to cook. It's still strange, though—first, Golly got dimensionally abducted, and now we have younger versions of Ash and Lillie visiting because of dimensional shenanigans."

"Well, I wouldn't call it that," AS-Lillie sighed. "More like we have to keep trying different ways to get back home."

Just then, they heard a door creak open and saw Snowy, Golly, and Lillie-Ver coming down the hall.

"Morning!" Snowy yawned, as a half-asleep Lillie-Vee followed Snowy to the living room.

"Good morning, you three!" AS-Ash chuckled. Noticing Lillie-Vee's tired demeanor, he asked, "Rough night, Lillie-Vee?" Lillie-Vee gave a thumbs-up with her front left paw before slowly waddling towards the couch and sitting down next to it. Her eyes seemed to be changing to a light green, matching her human eye color.

Soon, everyone was awake and gathered for breakfast. With Minami having the last battle of the first round scheduled for the evening, the group had most of the day to spend with the AS Duo. They chatted about their plans for the day as they enjoyed their meal together.

They started their day in Silkan City. The gang decided to visit a dress store while in the RPA Department. The AS duo had to disguise themselves to avoid being recognized by people from other regions.

"Psst, alternate world brother?" Mark whispered to AS-Ash. "There's something bothering me..."

"Oh? What is it, Mark?" AS-Ash asked. "I'm here to listen." Mark pulled AS-Ash aside to talk privately.

"Alright, see, recently I hurt Lillie-Vee emotionally, pretty badly. And she has something pretty serious," Mark began, glancing around to make sure no one else was listening. "Do you... know what Violet Depression is, perhaps?"

"Violet Depression?! That's what she has?!" AS-Ash gasped, his eyes widening in shock. Mark nodded in shame. "Oh no... first another version of Alice, and now another version of Lillie... how does this keep happening?!"

"What happened with Alice?" Mark wondered.

"Okay, basically she got bullied by 18 different people at school because she admired me in that world. Even after she became her world's Ash's fiancé and the bullies mysteriously disappeared, she still deals with the pain of it," AS-Ash explained.

Mark looked troubled, "I didn't realize it was that bad. I don't want Lillie-Vee to suffer like that."

"We need to support her as much as we can," AS-Ash said firmly. "We'll get through this together."