Disclaimer: My name's certainly not affiliated with Pokémon –not unless I want to be sued .
Story: Giovanni gets de-aged and more doors are opened for him. And yet the first thing he chooses to do is harass Ash Ketchum. Ash is just WTF?
Set after Unova, in the first episode of X and Y, a little around the time Ash first steps foot in Kalos.
Spoilers: I don't think so.
Warnings: Genderbending, perverts, raunchy humor, weird humor, craziness, etc…
Pairings: Giovanni/Ash: ShatterShipping.

Like a Boss
Chapter Sixteen: Home Sweet Home

"They're here?" Ash asked incredulously.

"According to the Lumiose Police, they're here," Archer answered affirmatively.

"Hm, I didn't think pokémon could go to prison," Giovanni said as he raised an eyebrow.

"Me either," Ash mumbled, staring at the entrance of the prison for Pikachu and Persian to come out.

And come out they did.

Tattoos covered Pikachu's arms and face and all along Persian's back. They strutted out of the prison with attitude, sunglasses covering their eyes and background music in full power.

Ash giggled while Giovanni grimaced. Archer, new to the inanity, looked caught off guard and stared a bit.

"I think our pokémon's gained street cred," Ash tried to keep from grinning. "They did time, so now they're tough shi –"

Giovanni covered her mouth. "Language, dear. We're with my prim and proper subordinate." He tossed a look at Archer, who straightened up with a frown at him.

Giovanni hid his smirk. Serves him right, trying to take Giovanni's woman and talking nonsense about pre-nups and all that…

Ash scooped up Pikachu and then roughly began using her sleeve to clean off Pikachu's face.

"Pika!" Pikachu cried out, struggling cutely to get away.

"The ones on your arms can stay for now. The ones on your face, no," Ash said firmly.

Giovanni tilted his head, lightly touching Persian's back to examine the ink, and earning himself a growl. He rolled his eyes.

"So they're temporary?" Thank Arceus. Persian may be going through a phase, but both he and Giovanni were going to end up regretting the ink if it didn't eventually come off. The two pokémon grumpily nodded.

"We have to meet Serena and Lysandre at his café, so we can say goodbye," Ash told him. "We should head there now."

"Hm, the police are still trailing us, right? Making sure we don't do anything crazy?" he asked aloud, glancing at said police cars a few yards back.

"Correct, sir," Archer answered him. "I believe they are also hoping to make sure you don't take too long and to make sure you get out of the region quickly."

"Why do we have to be kicked out of the region?" Ash grumbled.

"It's only for a little bit," Giovanni soothed. "We'll be back soon enough and in time for you to compete."

"I better," Ash huffed. "Alright, let's go see Serena and Lysandre and then get out of here. Might as well. At least we won't have a police detail in Kanto."

"Don't jinx us," Giovanni mumbled, starting to walk.

"What was that?" Ash asked as she fell into step beside him.

"Nothing, nothing."

With their luck (especially his wife's), he wouldn't be surprised if Kanto ended up just as screwed up as Kalos had, because of them.

When they walked into the café, Ash had to hold back on her smirk as she saw Serena kissing Lysandre sweetly, and the older man amusingly turning bright red and clashing with his hair. Fortunately, her husband didn't have the same compulsions.

He cleared his throat loudly and smirked nice and wide. "It's magnificent to see wonderful examples of Public Displays of Affection. PDA is usually so protested against. Stupid really."

Serena and Lysandre leaped back away from each other, and Giovanni and Ash shared a lewd look. Archer shook his head. No wonder these two were married. They were just made for each other.

"W-what happened to those two?" Lysandre asked faintly and they turned to see him looking at Pikachu and Persian, still covered in tattoos.

"They were in prison," Giovanni said nonchalantly.

"They've got street cred now," Ash said proudly.

Everyone else in the room stared at the couple strangely, while the talked about pokémon preened.

"I don't even know. I just don't," Lysandre muttered, still unsure how he got involved with this group. Still, he met the quirky, pretty Ash, who introduced him to his lovely, sweet girlfriend…

"Anyway, when are you two going to get married?" Ash asked and Lysandre nearly fell off his chair while Serena choked on the milkshake she'd been taking a sip of.

"Not just yet," Lysandre's smile twitched.

Serena smiled brightly. "I'm not in a hurry to marry yet. But it would be nice and I don't picture anyone else but Lysandre at the altar."

Lysandre brightened up. Maybe he should invest in a ring soon…

When he looked at Giovanni, the other man gave him a knowing look and he had to look away, cheeks bright red again.

"What about recruitment?" Serena asked curiously.

"Fantastic! We've gotten a lot of recruits since that PR video I made came out, and there's been a bunch that's jumped ship from Team Flare after the whole debacle and arrests. And I hear that the whole of the Kalos League have joined up!"

Lysandre started to twitch.

"I've had to persuade the gym leader Ramos to stick around and not retire just yet," Archer smoothly cut in. "He's holding out for one more year with the Kalos League before retiring and focusing full-time on our Team."

"Aw, really? I knew I liked that guy!"

Now, if only she could get Giovanni to do that Team Rocket PR video that she'd brought up before and they had briefly talked about. She was definitely sure they'd gain a whole damn region full of recruits! Maybe he'd be more willing if she agreed to do it with him, half-naked and all?

They could be the half-naked bosses of Team Rocket.

She giggled at that, earning looks her way, but that was just fine. Because she kind of liked that idea and thought it was absolutely freaking hilarious.

"So now that we're in the air, we're set to head back to Kanto, right?" Archer confirmed with his boss..es. Bosses. More than one boss. Because he had two bosses now.

"Mmhm," he was answered with by Ash, who had seemingly brought up with her a small unit of Team Flare personnel, who began to take out bags and set up something.

"Dear," Giovanni said and Archer tensed, wondering if his original boss would become upset at the new twist. "Why are there remnants of Team Flare here?"

Ash blinked at him as she sat down and one of her hands had nails begin being filed by one of the said Flare members.

"They're my new stylist team. Remember Tina from the power plant? She does my nails now, like she did then. And David of course," she waved towards the man starting to fixatedly work on her hair.

Archer stared while his boss just sighed and shook his head.

"Oh and Marianna is waiting to do my makeup." She pointed over to the other Flare member standing back and waiting her turn.

"Hi," Marianna waved weakly.

"What about him?" Archer pointed to the one guy standing back from the group and who looked lost.

"That's Tony. I felt sorry for him, especially after I knocked him out twice with the snow rifle."

"Of course you did," Giovanni said in amusement and Archer decided that this must be something he should get used to.

"So we should let Mom and Sam know we're heading home," Ash started. "I'm sure, even if I'll get a kick out of it, that we shouldn't just drop in on them and surprise them like this."

"Good idea," Giovanni said and Archer handed him his phone, watching the Flare grunts warily while keeping an eye on his bosses and being ready to help if needed.

The dial tone sounded aloud through the plane as Giovanni put the phone on speaker. Then they waited for a bit, until it was answered and Professor Oak spoke.

"Hello?"

"Hi, Sam!" Ash greeted from her spot and Archer had to scrunch his eyebrows together. Professor Oak was Sam? And Ash was close enough to the professor to address him so familiarly?

"Hello, Oak," Giovanni greeted as well.

"We're heading back home," Ash suddenly announced and they heard a loud "WHAT?" in the background. "We kind of got kicked out of Kalos for a bit, so we're heading back to Kanto in a little while. We're on a plane right now."

Oak sputtered, sounding caught off guard. "Kicked out…coming home…Ah…O-okay? I'll inform your mother. Yes, that's what I'll do. As for you, young lady, keep out of trouble! You're on a plane…there shouldn't be much for you to do and get in trouble with though…"

"Yeah, okay!" Ash told him cheerily. "See you soon!" she ended with as she hung up.

"I thought you were going to break it to him slowly," Giovanni continued to be amused. By then, Archer was beginning to get an understanding of things, particularly of his new boss. She was strange, yes, but he found himself enjoying that and her antics.

"Psh, Sam's probably used to me dumping info on him by now. Or he should –look at all the times I just blurt things out about what happened to him, like that time when we were in jail and I could have a phone call so I called him and told him we were in jail. He took that pretty well."

Archer and everyone else in the plane doubted that.

"So, like he'd said, there's nothing much to do on board," Ash said. "What do you feel like doing?"

Archer watched a very mischievous smirk spread across Giovanni's face.

"You wanna join the Mile High Club?"

Archer's cheeks pinked and he watched incredulously as Giovanni strode over to her, pushed passed the shocked Flare grunts and grabbed her hand, yanking her away from there and leading her to the back where there was a single room.

"Is this kind of thing going to be a regular occurrence?" one of the others, Tony Archer thought it was, asked faintly.

"…I-I think so…" Archer answered dazedly.

"Her hair," David sighed.

"Well, at least she'll probably have sexy sex hair after," Tina tried to say comfortingly.

Archer decided that he'd have to get used to his boss' new active libido and to not stare at his new boss so often, especially at times like this.

Cut scene~ Go to my Ao3 account for uncensored version.

When Oak hung his phone back up, he stared at it and tried to sort out his thoughts. While he was glad Ash was coming back, he still was trying to wrap his mind around everything that had happened to her.

Jail. Really! And then this thing about that snow war she'd started against Wulfric. And don't get him started about her being married! And of all people, it was to Giovanni Rocketto. Honestly, that boggled his mind. How did the two even know each other? How they'd get involved in the first place?!

He shook his head. Madness.

"Hey, Gramps! Did I hear right? Is Ash coming back?"

Well, that was one good thing to come of this. Ash could deal with Gary and he could stop fielding off his grandson's questions and stuff.

"Yeah, that's right."

Still, processing the news now, Oak began to feel exceedingly happy. He did miss the girl after all this time after all. He couldn't wait until she came back home.

"I'm going to go tell Ash's mother, alright? I'll see you later," Oak told Gary before he left his home in a hurry.

Ash had been gone for a long time, some years in fact. Kanto was her home. Pallet Town was where she grew up.

He knew that Delia would be just as excited as he was that she was coming back home.

They were nearing Pallet Town's airport and they were all getting ready to take off from the plane. In the midst of this, Ash finally got her stylist team to change into their new outfits.

"I approve!" she said brightly, examining them in their new Team Rocket outfits.

Now decked out in the new and improved Rocket uniforms, the former Team Flare grunts kept their blaring red sunglasses, though they were going to be outfitted into the new Rocket Spectres technology that the others now wore. They also kept their fire engine red hair, though they were contemplating dyeing it something else or keeping it as is as staples of being specifically assigned to Ash.

"Very good choices, Ma'am," Archer complimented her. "I fully endorse your move to change and update the Rocket uniforms."

Ash nodded surely. "They look much better, don't they?"

"Yes, Ma'am."

Giovanni glowered at him.

Just then, the pilot announced that they were landing so everyone sat down to prepare for the touchdown. Several bumps later and then the plane fully stopped. Everyone gathered their things and then moved in a line behind Giovanni and Ash out of the plane and then onwards towards the airport, where a crowd of black and red clothed people were standing around. At the sight of Giovanni and Ash though, they broke out into loud applause and shouts.

The Idiot Brigade, as Ash and Giovanni had dubbed them, pushed themselves to the front of the crowd and stood in front of them.

"Heya, Bosses!" Meowth grinned. "Welcome home!"

"We wanted to give you a proper homecoming!" Butch followed up, turning about to show off the group as he gestured to the rest around them.

"Yeah!" Jessie pumped a fist into the air. "Especially after conquering Kalos and throwing down Flare like that!"

Cassidy flipped her hair back with a smirk. "Never doubted our Team would reign supreme."

Ash looked around the "empty except for them" airport.

"Did you guys clear out the airport?"

"Yep," James beamed at her.

"Nice," Ash clapped. "Good job, my minions!"

At Ash's look, Giovanni sighed and said, "Yeah, good job."

The five of them happily basked in the praise. Ash then turned towards her stylist team, who looked awkward, especially since they still had signs on them that showed they'd previously been part of Team Flare.

"Welcome to the Family!" Ash told them, throwing out her arms in welcome.

Her stylist team's eyes watered and they started sniffling and crying.

"Yes, Ma'am! We'll serve you well!"

Giovanni sweatdropped and thought that once again his wife earned more fanatics to follow her.

Gary was with his grandpa and Ash's mom, waiting in the (surprisingly) empty parking lot of the airport. There were, though, a few large black double decker buses parked off to the side. As for themselves, they were there to pick Ash and her…husband up, and bring them back home.

Tch! Husband? Since when did that dork even get married? And why would she! She's only –what? Sixteen? She's way too young to be married. And who was it anyway? Anytime he asked his grandpa, he would dodge his questions.

Well, even if she was married, Gary was sure that she'd realize what a mistake she'd made. She'd realize that she was too young to be married and that the guy was probably some loser anyhow. Then maybe Gary could talk to her, maybe get her to see him in a different light, and then who knows…

The doors to the airport opened and a sea of black and red clothed people streamed out of it, causing him to gape. Unnoticed to him, his grandpa and Mrs. Ketchum just sighed and looked on in amusement. After the sea of people cleared out, all of them trekking over to the group of black buses, that was when Gary saw Ash and who he guessed was Ash's –husband?!

"What the hell is Giovanni Rocketto doing here?!" Gary practically shrieked.

He missed the pitying look his grandpa sent him.

Started 10/4/16 – Completed 11/29/16

A/n: Haha, I'm back! Again! The last part of my birthday updates (finally) XD So we're finally back in Kanto (next season is totally Alola and their honeymoon, hurr hurr). Let's just say Kanto is not prepared. Not at all. Heh! Anyway, please remember to review! They always cheer me up and pull me out of my funk, so I love getting them and reading them!

Anon Reviews:

1. fan: Hell yeah, like a boss! Right? Haha.

2. KitKat: I know, right? But those restaurants are really in the game XD It's funny!

3. Elizabeth: Aw, thanks! I'm glad you love my partiality of Ash collecting gym leaders and bosses xD I can't help it though, but I'm glad people like it, even with its weirdness!

4. Madhatterscat: Will do! (salutes)

5. Guest 1: Poor cake, lol! But unfortunately, more laughter (I hope) coming your way! Enjoy!

6. Guest 2: More reactions coming up though! Sam just can't take it, but Gary though –he's going to keep on spit-taking and freaking out. Oh, it will be glorious XD And Delia knows her daughter, so of course she'll be like whatevs~ Lol, yeah –they couldn't find Ash and so she never got arrested or had to give her statement, lucky her. That's totally canon!

7. Guest 3/Lynn: Only Ash alright! Giovanni will never regret not doing a prenup, he'll just learn to grovel to keep her by his side XD And takeover of the gym? Try takeover of the entire Team! And haha, I should do that –have Ash accompany 'Jessalina' to a Pokémon showcase and then have units of the Team hiding in the audience and voting XD

8. Guren: They always have sex XD Though if you're talking of the explicit version, I have those chapters in my Ao3 account~

9. Pokémon Fan: You and Gary both with the spit takes, huh? But funnies coming your way!

10. Vashne: Thanks! Wow, that's awesome to hear. Glad you enjoyed this story that much. I'm definitely continuing, so don't worry~

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