Chapter 13:
New location, same problem - Women

A few weeks since their matches with Perfecto Prep the trios attachment to Ash has only gotten stronger due to the praises that he gave them. Weather it be a generic statement, a pat on the back, or a thumbs up the girls liked them all, but there was one problem - there was one of him and three of them. That meant that only one could have him in the end, and they were all anxious to have him. “And I know just what to do.” All three said aloud in their respected homes looking themselves in the mirror. At school the next day Ash caught a glimpse of something odd.

“That’s funny. I’ve never seen her before.” Ketchum said aloud as he caught a glimpse of a new pink bird in town. It wasn’t until Drama class that he found out that she was known as Sean Swan and she was a one day student.

“Hello young children.” Witch Hazel said ending in her traditional cackle. “I’m playing the part of your drama teacher, and with our student I thought we could try: Swan Lake. Since I also run the cafeteria I know how you all are, so I know exactly who for what.” The sorceress informed and quickly scribbled a list of parts which excited one of them in particular.

“I am sorry, ma`am, but I’ve never heard of Swan Lake before.” Ash informed after seeing that he got the role of the male lead. Without a second to waste their teacher handed all of them a script of the play in question.

“I don’t care if you use the scripts on set or not since this is only for fun.” The witch informed which eased Ash a bit. With nothing else needed to be said they began and the swan was on cloud nine due to the closeness that she was getting with the MVP of the school.

“All right, Bugs this is the 1,001 game and then we have to get to teaching.” Lola informed as the two of them sat in the teacher’s lounge playing an old game: Rockem Sockem Robots. The female hare was about to clench this unending tie until something caught her eye from the open door.

“Yes! I won. I finally beat you at this game.” The principal shouted out joyfully once he took advantage of her distant mind. At the moment the woman shrugged his words off, and decided to follow this bird. By the start of the next day a new pink creature came into the school which cemented to the older bunny what was going on.

“Okay class this is a simple one if you are a cat, but since our last class that mean ol putty tat is in the hospital we’re going to have to have a substitute.” The yellow canary informed them, and a lot of kids were hoping and expecting Penelope, but instead the flier pointed over to the new girl. “Kat Minx, step right up.” He shouted out happily, and as if on cue the dog came into the room and started to chase after her.

‘This is going to be very painful.’ Kat thought as she ran as fast as she could around the classroom away from the beast. Seeing this as cruel instead of funny Ash decided to deal with this.

“Rath!” The big buff tiger shouted out in anger, and just like that everyone ran to all the corners of the room. By now they all knew hw this one acted once he was out in the field. At the same time Little Beeper sped out and came back with several bags of popcorn - which he sent in all of the students in the room.

“Well, I think we’ve learned another thing, Tweety. Never make Rath mad.” Buster informed as the nurses left with the dog body on a stretcher and the tiger roaring with great rage.

“Let me tell you something small yellow bird of innocence! Rath doesn’t care if this is a classic toon bit none of Rath’s friends get hurt while Rath is around!” The brawn only hero shouted out before changing back to Ash.

“Sorry again about all this, but whenever I’m Rath I just can’t control myself.” Ash admitted while rubbing the back of his neck in embarrassment. With that he excused himself to see his victim while the Minx decided to powder her nose.

“Bout time you got here…Babs.” A voice said from one of the stalls. The owner of the voice walked out and it was Lola holding a very stern look on her face.

“You must have me confused with someone else. I’ve never heard of a brilliantly talented student by that name.” The pink fuzzy one commented back to the female hare. The glare intensified, so much so that she decided to spill the beans.

“Look, I know that you and two others have been taking a special species swap class. I also know that you are all doing this to get close to Ash, but what I have to ask is this: is it right?” Lola informed and then questioned before calmly waiting for an answer.

“I don’t understand what you mean.” Babs questioned back while using her natural voice. The fellow long eared one face palmed herself before going into detail.

“Is it right to try all of these animals on Ash, and don’t even give me the excuse of the Ultimatrix since you know all of those are Ash. Sadly he is a little thick when it comes to others in disguise.” The older woman informed before adding, “So, as I said it this right to do to Ash?” With that she walked off and let the Minx be alone with her thoughts.

‘This has to be the right way…right.’ The pink bunny in minx skin thought to herself before deciding to use one last form, and then return to her bunny roots. The next day a pink fox walked the halls and she seemed rather shy.

“Maybe choosing a fox form was a bad call.” Fiona Fox muttered to herself since she had seen on other sights that many ‘fans’ of foxes preferred to put them in…mature sort of ways. With that she feared what her fellow classmates thought of her.

“Hey, you seem lost. Would you like some help?” One of the classmates asked from behind her, and with her new scene of smell she knew who it was right away: Ash. “Come on. I’ll show you around, and if it would help I know another great tour guide for you: Babs Bunny.” He said as he gently pushed her along.

“Who might that be?” The canine asked as she genuinely kept up the shy girl vibe since she was still a little cautious of them in this body.

“She’s a new friend that I have made here. I may not know that much about her except that she is exceptionally loyal to her friends, and that’s one thing I like about these new friends of mine.” He explained which she enjoyed listening to such high praise.

‘Maybe Lola’s right. Perhaps it’s best if I just be myself instead of these two fakes.’ Babs thought to herself, and decided to do just that - go back to being a bunny and his close friend. Unfortunately for her the skunk decided to try her move out the next day.

‘I pray no one will recognize me as a raccoon.’ The former skunk thought to herself before walking in, and saw that even in this form she did manage to turn a few heads. Sadly there was only one main head that she was interested in turning.

“You must be another one day student. Mind if I help you to get to your first class.” Ash from the raccoon’s left side offered, but since he came over so silently it caused the young one to jump out of surprise. “Sorry didn’t mean to scare you.” He apologized, but was grateful that she didn’t fall over.

“That’s my fault; don’t worry about it.” The new purple girl commented back before looking at her paper. “Looks like my first class is a recycling seminar. I should be okay with that. I just need to find it first.” She said back before looking at all directions for just the right path to her class.

“I’ll show you the way.” Ketchum informed and did just that. Unknown to either of them on their way to that class they went passed a room that was occupied by a cat: Penelope - who was currently playing paper football by herself.

‘Even she is doing this.’ Penelope thought to herself after hearing what had happened with Babs Bunny not to long ago. The next day the school was awarded the sight of a purple lion which again cemented the teacher’s feelings about this. She was shown to her class - Villain wooping.

“Careful teach, remember what happened last time.” Ash warned the teacher.

“On second thought - let’s just skip this activity.” Their teacher said as he felt very scared for his life. Once that was done Lana Lioness went to the bathroom, and was confronted by Penelope in the same way as her friend was. Again she tried one last form: a Kangaroo.

‘What are the odds: a new purple student and Fifi called in sick.’ Ash thought as he spotted the new girl at gym class: participating in the vertical jump and long jump exercises. This ended in the same way as the fox did with Ash admitting that he enjoyed Fifi’s company, and then disappearing the next day. This was only changed with a beautiful white stork.

‘Perhaps I should have chosen a different animal.” Stephanie Stork muttered to herself as she continued to walk the halls. Since she got here a lot of her fellow classmates have been giving her a hard time about delivering babies and things around that subject which all suddenly changed.

“All right, guys. That’s enough of the baby lines, okay.” Ash said to the large group surrounding the bird in question. He saw that some of them were about to say something, so he decided to cut them off, “How about this - either stop or you will receive some harsh punishment from anyone of my forms.” To show off that he wasn’t bluffing the monster tamer started to dial it up causing all to flee.

“Thank you…for doing that for me.” The long beaked one stated as she carefully walked closer to him. In this body she felt a stronger attachment to this welcoming sight, but was able to play it cool.

“No problem at all. If there’s another problem like this don’t hesitate to find me.” Ash informed her with a kind smile before walking off to get to his class. Unlike the other two times that happened with one being in the teacher’s lounge this meeting happened in the cafeteria.

“Okay, Tina. Heads - I pay for lunch that Road Runner is coming back with. Tails - you pay for it.” A familiar black duck informed the copy room caretaker, but she seemed interested in the white feathered one.

‘Please tell me that you aren’t dumb enough to pull what they pulled.’ Tina thought out of anger since she thought a fellow waterfowl wouldn’t pull such a lame move to be near Ash even more than they already were. As for Daffy he saw that the coin on the back of his hand was heads, so he swiftly changed it to tails.

“Looks like your paying for it, Tina.” The shot at super star stated, but was easily ignored as she rose out of her seat. By that time the older speedster with a long neck doing his traditional tongue bit.

“Daffy, pay the man since I saw what you did.” The brown haired one stated.

“What do you mean it was---” Daffty was trying to counter her, but received a very harsh glare as her answer which shut him up. The woman than returned her sights on the stork.

“You - stork. Bathroom. Now.” Tina whispered before walking off which out of fear the fellow feathered one followed her. “I thought that you were supposed to be the smart one. How could you have pulled something so incredibly dumb.” Tina almost found herself shouting. In truth she didn’t mean to be this angry, but she also knew that Ash was too nice of a guy to have this sort of thing happen to him.

“I’m sorry. Really I am, but I saw the others do it, and I want it too. Mine is that I really want to give these bodies a test run. Ash’s involvement is coincidental. Could you at least let me use two more forms like they did.” Shirley informed and begged the copy controller.

“Okay. I’ll let you do that, but you three need to tell him, or the three of us will.” Tina said in a threatening tone before walking off. With that the young girl decided to use two forms that she was best at, and prayed that she was able to control her better than the others.

“Now class since any and all classes involving attacks on cats have been barred how about a good old fashioned bucking bit.” Porky offered with his stuttering tone as he nervously looked at Ash. Man in question nodded in acceptance before speaking.

“I know just the one for the job - the new girl: Mallory Mare. I know that she has the leg strength to kick any one of us straight of this building.” Ash informed while glancing at the blond and white figure in the back of class.

‘Man, he knows how to compliment someone.’ The masked loon thought to herself before going in front of the class, and doing exactly what he offered. Everyone in class was subjected to it - even Ash, but he was already used to such treatment thanks to Ponyta not liking him at first. The next day Shirley tried her last favorite form, but prayed that she could control her beast side. According to Fifi it was real hard for her not to visualize her fellow students as an all you can eat buffet.

“That was one heck of a workout, Charley.” Ash shouted out breathlessly as he and another temp new girl - Charley Cheetah just ran on the track for the past three hours, and just now were they exhausted.

“Yeah, I know what you mean. Haven’t ran that hard in a while.” She responded, and really meant it since she used to be on the run all the time with Elmyra. Since re change though, thanks to Ash, no one really had to worry about that part of their lives anymore. When they were cooling down by the fountain Charley felt someone watching her, and when she glanced over her shoulder it was Tina - glaring at her. Out of fear she wrote a note that said: I’ll tell him. She read and nodded in acceptance before leaving.

“Girls, none of them are going to tell. Sure they stopped changing, but they won’t tell Ash.” Penelope called, three way style, to the others about this development. The duck and the bunny were in agreement.

“Right. I doubt that they will since they probably prefer to save face when it comes to Ash.” Tina responded back from her end and she hated them for it since it wasn’t very friendly to keep that secret from someone - especially if that someone was of a simple mind.

“Don’t worry. I’ve got this covered.” Lola said back to them, and the that they hung up and prepared for the night. Early at school Lola’s voice was heard over the loudspeakers, “May Ash, Fifi, Shirley, and Babs please report to the principal’s office.” At that moment the three girls in question grew terrified.

‘Oh, man. We said to them that we had this handled.’ The three girls thought at the same time even though deep down they knew that they were never going to tell him that those three figures were them. It was mostly out of fear - since they believed that he would shun them for trying something like that.

‘That’s odd. Why am I needed at the principal's office. Maybe he needs me to do something.’ Ash thought since he didn’t know the true reason why he was being sent to such a foreboding room. Still, the honorable man did as he was told and went to the designated room. Once there he went inside and saw three teacher types and three of his classmates.

“Glad that you came, Ash.” The older female bunny commented as the raven haired youth entered the room.

“No trouble at all, Ms. Bunny. I just want to know why I am here. Did I do something I wasn’t supposed to?” Ash informed and the questioned back at her showing great confusion on his face.

“It has nothing to do with you, Ash. Far from it.” The feline of the six assured him with a soft tone. “It is mostly of what these three young ones have done.” She added to her first comment with a rather harsh tone.

“What? You mean how they used the species spin technique to sped more time with me?” Ash asked with an all knowing smile on his face. This revelation surprised them all. “Something wrong now?” He asked with concern since that was not the reaction he was going for.

“How? How did you know that?” The six asked him in a unison voice, and that was when he understood their surprise. The monster tamer then decided to explain himself to them.

“Simple. That was the sort of technique that Jessie and James used on me to steal Pokemon near me. They used it so often that I got used to it, but I don’t understand why you three changed species so often. Personally I think you three look just fantastic the species that you already are.” Ash informed and then commented to them causing the three in question to become red in the face.

“You like us the way that we are.” Babs questioned as she now found herself fiddling with her ears while genuinely feeling bashful. He just nodded with a smile before ending this conversation with:

“No, I don’t hate you or anything. So, why don’t we just say that you were giving the species spin a field test, and end this with a big hug.” Needing no other words the three young ones raced over and gave him a hug. The adults liked how this was going until Ash looked at them as well. “Come on, join the hug.” He offered and they accepted as well.

‘This feels nice.’ The six thought as they all were enjoying this group hug with Ketchum, and some were grateful of their strong sense of smell to enjoy his scent. Unknown to anyone, Ash included, someone new was watching this whole thing.

“Hmm, strong, agile, fast, good accuracy and control. Not interested in being treated special. Now showing strong signs of compassion. Yes, Ash is the one I seek, but there’s still one thing wrong with him.” The man said to himself as he continued to watch this gentle moment.

Copy Rights:
Ash Ketchum, and the others, are owned by Gamefreak/Nintendo and Cartoon Network.
Tiny Toon Adventures, and the others, are owned by WB.
Ultimatrix, and all forms, are owned by Man of Action and Cartoon Network.
Species spin came from - https://www.deviantart.com/jose-ramiro