Hello everyone! This is my first fanfic and I hope you all enjoy! I'm a big amourshipper, like a BIG BIG BIG one. This fanfiction is re-doing the last episode from Pokemon XYZ and making the Alola region completely brand new. I don't know about you, but I haven't liked how the anime show ended and how Sun and Moon is going, so pretend like you never saw Sun and Moon if you have, rethink the last scenes, and you're good to go!

Episode 1

This starts after Serena makes up her mind about going to the Hoenn region to do Pokémon contests. She, Ash, Clemont, and Bonnie are in the airport, watching her go down the escalator to the boarding line. Everyone is waving goodbye, but Ash decides to go after her. He leaves Pikachu with Clemont and runs down the escalator after her and catches up to her. Serena hears him calling her name and stops but doesn't turn around.

"Serena!" Ash says. "Please don't go."

Serena, still with her back to Ash, says, "I can't. I already made up my mind to go to the Hoenn Region. It's what I want to do."

"But what if there was a way to do that with me? I'm going to the Alola region, but I thought you were going to go with me, so I got 2 tickets. I still have the other one with me." Ash pulled out the tickets and showed them to Serena as she turned around. "We could go back to my home in the Kanto region and see if they have a Pokémon performance program. Then go to the Alola region and do what you want to do there!"

Serena was definitely considering this. "But what if they don't have Pokémon performances there? Then what will I do? I want to do this, since it is something I care about deeply."

Ash responded, "Then we'll make a program. Find out what we can do and make a program. I will help in any way I can, even before I earn a single badge." Ash knew that it was saying a lot, to not go out to challenge Pokémon gyms until they accomplished the task.

Serena looked at the tickets, but instead of agreeing, she turned her back and cried, "But this is something new! It is what the professional recommended to do! I don't want to disagree with her not one more time!" She hurried and ran to get back in line to depart on the flight to Hoenn.

Ash know that he lost this battle. It was an important one for him, though, but he had to face the fact that she wanted something different. He took his time getting to the escalator, walking slowly, with his head down. He looked up and saw Clemont and Bonnie's faces, full of confusion.

"What did you just do?" Clemont asked as Pikachu jumped back on his shoulder. He only saw them part ways, catch up, talk for a bit, then part ways again. "Did you ask her to join you on your journey or something?"

Ash got to the top and nodded sadly. "Yea, I did exactly that. She wanted her own journey more than mine." He sighed deeply and started walking slowly towards another gate section. "I made her a promise at the beginning of our time in the Kalos region. She asked if we would stay together, and I said yes. I assumed she meant other journeys as well…"

"…and I did mean that." Serena said. She had snuck up on Ash and his friends, abandoning the line to the Hoenn region. Ash turned around, very surprised. Serena continued with her head slightly down, "I'm very sorry, Ash. I did mean that then, but I forgot when I was caught up in my passion, my dream." She said these words with exasperation as she lifted her head back up. "Back in line after you talked to me, I realized that it is important to follow my dreams, but to spend those times with friends is also important, too. I just was leaving behind everyone to do exactly what I wanted. But I need to have flexibility, so, I'm sorry."

Ash could not speak at the moment, so he only took out the tickets wide-eyed and asked, "Serena, will you go to the Alola region with me?"

Serena could only laugh slightly and say, "Yes. Yes I would. I would gladly." She took a ticket from his hand and a tissue from her pocket and wiped her eyes dry from the tears forming. The final call for the Hoenn region was alarming, but she waved it off and started walking to another gate section where the ticket was scheduled to depart, with Ash, Clemont, and Bonnie behind her.

After saying goodbye to their friends, boarding, and taking off into the sky, they finally, but slowly, started up conversation.

It started when Serena asked a question, "So I explained why I wanted to go with you, but you never explained why you wanted to go with me. You came to me and asked if I wanted to go with you, but only said that you thought I wanted to go with you. I feel like there is something more. Why did you come to me?"

Ash was silent for a moment before responding. Sighing, he responded, "I don't know what came over me. I remember all my journeys from other regions, and every time I left, we all agreed to meet up with each other and see each other someday. I always started my next journey alone, and I saw that pattern about to repeat when you went down the escalator. I have never seen them again except for one. So I decided I needed a stronger friendship; one that would last longer. And seeing you go down just made me crack."

Serena wasn't satisfied enough. "But why me? Why didn't you crack on your third journey or sometime else before this? Why did you crack when I left?"

Still confused at the specific conversation Serena was bringing up, he countered, "Is there something you want me to say?"

Serena was scared to death about what was going to happen next, but didn't show it. Instead, she asked simply, "Remember right before I went down those steps the first time? The first time." She watched Ash's face expression go from concentration, to surprise, to shock, and then realization and more concentration thinking about past experiences.

Ash sighed in disbelief. "How did I not see it before?" he wondered out loud. "You were . . . and then . . . lots of signs . . . and it was . . . all along . . ." Serena just sat looking at him with a bit of uncertainty in her expression. She didn't want to say anything right then as if it would jinx the whole experience.

"All this time. At the bottom of the cliff during Pokémon Summer Camp, shopping for that festival, and after my loss at the ice gym." He finally looked to Serena, who still had that slight frown on her face, as if Ash was about to shout at her. Ash spoke to her directly, "So that has confirmed all my wonders and doubts about opening up. I mean, that is why I asked you to travel with me way back when."

Serena spoke so softly that it was almost a whisper. "So, does that . . . mean that . . . you . . . I mean, uh . . . do you . . ."

"Love?" Ash said, finishing her sentence? "Do I love you? Well, that is what you wanted me to say, I guess."

Serena brightened her face with hope, asking the final question. "You know my secret for you. So, do you share that secret for me?" Ash only smiled brightly, signifying the same feelings for her as she did for him. Serena gasped happily as she fell into his arms, and they hugged very tightly. "You have no idea how long I have been waiting for this." She said while laughing and crying at the same time. They held hands the rest of the flight with Pikachu on his arm.

When they got off the plane, Ash was glad to be back in the Kanto region. He stretched his arms and legs while Serena called her mom and told her that she was going with Ash to the Alola region. Then Serena stretched and filled her pack with some food for a long walk while Ash called his mom to say that he made it safely and he and Serena were going to travel together to the Alola region after stopping at home.

They left the airport in the direction of Pallet Town, Ash's home. They would go there to say hi, rest up for a day, and head out for the Alola region. Both were very excited to start new adventures.

Ash and Serena were walking for several hours, and night was creeping on them. There was still a definite sunset, though, and they picked up more conversation. It started when Serena was eyeing Ash several times, as if she was waiting for him to act.

Before she could speak, Ash said, without looking her in the eye, "I know what you are thinking, Serena." They continued walking, and Ash looked her in the eye. "We have to promise something. We have to promise to be patient."

Serena knew what he meant, but she asked anyway. "What do you mean by patient?"

Ash answered quickly. "I mean that we can't go through all the phases of love too quickly. Like, um, you want us to stay together, don't you?" Serena nodded encouragingly. "So in order for this connection to last, we must tread slowly on the path, and then things will work out. Okay?"

Serena said, "I'll do whatever it takes for us to stay together." with a smile.

She said this right as they walked to the top of a big hill that overlooked Pallet Town. They both gasped and said things like, "I'm home!" and "Looks just like Vanaville Town!" The next few minutes they ran as fast as they can to Ash's house. Since Serena didn't know where it was, she just followed Ash so they couldn't have a race. Both of them got tired when they got on the right street so they walked the rest of the way up to the front porch.

Ash opened the unlocked door and spoke in a voice not too loud but not too soft, "Mom! I'm home!

[End of episode 1]