Let me introduce the Not Really, Parent Trap!AU, or better known as Reversed Parent Trap!AU. I’ve yelled at a few friends over this, and it’s no where NEAR done for an actual fic to be posted about it since a lot of the characters aren’t completely fleshed out yet. be aware it’s long so it’s under the cut!
So ORIGINALLY this was supposed to be just a Summer Camp!AUÂ
That quickly derailed into a kinda Reversed Parent Trap!AUÂ
So this starts after the Sinnoh Arc, it’s just the start of summer
Ash comes back to Pallet Town and buys the Ranch, it’s literally double the size of Pallet Town+the surrounding farms and product fields that make up MOST of Pallet Town, and the Castle literally takes up around â…“ of the plot of land.Â
Ash successfully revamps the entire place and land, making it habitable for everyone on his team and himself. This also equals refurbishing everything with the best quality shit he can get
So Ash spends a VERY pretty penny for everything, though admittedly it doesn't make a HUGE dent in his bank account from how often he gets paid a shit ton during his travels and the added bonus of being the Orange Archipelagos Champion AND the Chosen One
Who knew dying for a Regions sin pays well?Â
He gets contacted by Gary a month later, it's near the middle of summer and Gary wants to re-open the Oak’s Summer Camp from their childhood. But he doesn't have a place to do it
Ash immediately offers his place, plus he has a plethora of Pokemon in and out of this Region they can use as example
They reopen the camp with just thirty spots available, no more than that since it’s just him and Ash for three weeks, teachers usually have up to a class of fourty at most so it will be fine
The kids come and they actually fall into two groups immediately, which ends up pretty easy for Gary and Ash to pick what group goes with who for most of the week
It ends up pretty odd group numbers though, Ash ends up with 18 while Gary gets 12 kids
Most of Ash’s kids already KNOW Ash, either from meeting him through his journey’s or knowing him from birth and up. Pallet Town IS small after all
They all range from ages (at the beginning of the summer camp ordeal) 5 to 11 ½ years old
After the first summer, the same group of kids always come back to Gary’s camp because it’s dope.
But having a Champion there as their “counselor” is doperÂ
Which makes Gary beg Ash to come back and help out at the summer camp every summer for three weeksÂ
Ash ofc says yes, it gets him away from Drake and Lance’s nagging and gives him a good break and spend time with Gary and his Pokemon
It does get out of hand at least once a day, but their KIDS there's nothing really Gary and Ash can do to completely stop itÂ
So like, Ash and Gary are around 15-16 ½ at the beginning. It originally started because Gary was feeling super nostalgic at the time and thought it would be fun to do it every other summer or somethingÂ
THAT plan quickly went out the window and both found themselves coming back to Ash’s ranch every summer to set up and do it
It quickly grows and becomes to be really famous from all the good reviews and how because a lot of top elite society people surprisingly came from Pallet Town in general *side eyes Lance, Drake, and Agatha*Â
But its mostly because a Champion is there and they get to talk to another Oak and stuff that’s more close to their ageÂ
I’m also adding in Ash/Raihan in here and forcible folding in the secret marriage!AU into here as wellÂ
Raihan and Lance knew each other through Lance training at Hammerlocke gym when the Champion was younger and Raihan soon came over to train with Lance during the off season for Galar, the summer and half of fall. Lance noticed that Raihan would stammer and get weird every time Ash was visiting the castle. So being the giant meddler of a Godfather that he is, Lance pushed and pushed until Raihan agreed to help Gary and Ash out during Camp timeÂ
Lance also makes it up and offers a visit, which both Ash and Gary happily agrees because they actually have a few kids thinking about going into the dragon tamer route later in life and it would be a great learning opportunity for themÂ
Soon Raihan isn’t spending time at the castle anymore, he heads straight to Ash’s ranch the same night the Galar League ends for the year. After party be damn! He has a summer camp to help set up forÂ
Raihans followers actually like the little cameo’s the kids have during a small vlog or a photo bomb with them doing something stupid before Ash or Raihan noticesÂ
Even if Ash is in the middle of a league, he will ALWAYS come back to help out with the summer campÂ
He even brings his friends with him and they help out as wellÂ
Ash’s Pokemon A D O R E the kids, even his more reserved Pokemon like Flicker and Sceptile like hanging out with the camp kids during the night and early morning when they calm down and get tiredÂ
The remaining 12 out of 30 kids always get put with Gary after both found out just how bad a lot of kids from the group of 18 home life is, Ash is more emotionally equipped to handle them and Gary wanted the more knowledge driven kids anyways
Raihan is permanently in Ash’s team as his second in command, but that doesn't mean Raihan can’t help Gary every now and then when Ash has everything handledÂ
The Group starts referring to Ash and Raihan as Mom and Dad respectively… but like on accident and then in private when it’s only to another Group member or to themselvesÂ
NEVER to Ash or Raihans face on purposeÂ
Fast forward four years from then. All the kids have experienced their first journey, and some even their third journey
Ash and Raihan are now secretly married. The ones that know are;
1) Mr. Goodshow because he officiated and ordained them on Ash’s-no, THEIR, Ranch.Â
2) Ash’s mom because she had become a mom to Raihan as well and its ASH”S MOM. she would maim him if he got married without her being there. Even though originally Ash and Raihan just wanted to sign the marriage license at Mr.Goodshow’s office in Sinnoh and leave it at that. No wedding, no nothing
3) Gary and Daisy because their practically Ash’s siblings and Daisy had physically and verbally threatened Raihan more so for Delia’s sake. She was the main driving force for a wedding, even though it felt like pulling stubborn, rotting, fractured teeth from both Ash and Raihan about the specific for their weddingÂ
Ash “ q u i t s “ the summer camp after the Kalos ArcÂ
More like Gary shoved him out and employed actual trained employees and counselors, also moving the camp to the old camping grounds Gramps used back then. Ash still lends a few of his more friendlier Pokemon at least once a full week out of the three for Gary to useÂ
also , mostly, because Chosen One and Champion duties are more important now since Ash is Champion of TWO whole set of islandsÂ
The camp group as a whole dwindled down to a measly 10-14 every year after the original OG 18 group had left for their journey
But Ash still always plans around the summer because all the kids still come to the Ranch for the FULL Summer now
Raihan makes it his fucking MISSION to always be in Kanto during the off season. Friends and expectation of the Galar League be fucking D A M N E D once those last round of fireworks are shot into the air. Raihan is out of the building and passed the reporters and interviewers in SECONDS and it always leaves everyone guessing what has him so worked up aboutÂ
Its because Raihan misses his husband and kids, dammit! Especially because they don’t call him as much as they do AshÂ
Yada, Yada, Yada - something happens and somehow everyone that’s been a part of each evil team past comes to stay at Ash’s ranch for some kind of “Group Therapy” which Ash was essential BULLIED into letting people stay at his ranchÂ
And it’s during the fucking S U M M E RÂ
When his fucking K I D S and H U S B A N D comes homeÂ
To say he’s peeved is the biggest understatement of the year
But Ash isn’t going to say NO to his kids! Their his kids!!! And he’s their safe haven besides traveling the world and most of them a still pretty fucking youngÂ
So the kids come, armed with the knowledge of everything that's going on and they don’t have to some at all because of the danger imposed by the evil team leaders being there
Surprise to EVERYONE else there, they come to the ranch fucking angry and pissed for Ash’s and Raihan’s sake
Also their encroaching onto THEIR turfÂ
Which is like… the BIGGEST fucking no in their bookÂ
But anyways, they continue and help Ash around the ranch like they always do. They just snark back at all the adults because their not Ash OR Raihan so they won’t listen to any of themÂ
Their not mom and dad so the group turns a deaf ear to themÂ
But before they came to the ranch that summer, one of the kids spot something flashing around Raihans neck during one of his gym battles they decided to watch out of pure boredomÂ
And so, as the little shit that they are, goes and screen shots and zooms inÂ
ONLY TO SEE A FUCKING R I N G ON A CHAINÂ
So they send it to the chat and one of them is likeÂ
“Holy-fucking-Arceus, that’s a fuckING WEDDING RING”Â
And so it isn’t until that summer that they see Raihan and storm up to himÂ
Did i mention Rose is Raihans dad in this? Because that’s also an important part of why Raihan only wanted the bare minimum of possible people to knowÂ
And they started begging and demanding if Raihan is marriedÂ
Raihan is internally panicking up a storm on the inside while trying to doge the questions
Also while trying to make everyone in the room as disinterested as possibleÂ
But the kid is persistentÂ
And everyone’s watching because it’s lunch time and 90% of the people there have never been to Pallet Town before so they don’t know what restaurants are goodÂ
“What ring? I don’t have a ring! You’re probably hallucinating from the het, why don’t you just go lay down or something?”Â
The kid reaches up on their tippy toes and flattens Raihans baggy shirt to show an outline of a small circle on his chestÂ
Que Raihan starting to show his panic because now the have EVERYONE’S attention and he and Ash don’t want to come out just yetÂ
Ash is outside with most of the kids since their helping him clean his PokemonÂ
But Raihan is saved by the kid declaring they WILL find out who he’s married to
Thankfully not outright guessing Ash in anyway, which is weird how he and Ash ACTUALLY legitimately adopted three kids out of the group alreadyÂ
So now everyone is watching Raihan and he damn well knows his reaction gave his lanky ass awayÂ
They, especially the Galar League members, start to grill Raihan but he keeps shut and runs away as fast as he can with his metaphorical tail tucked between his legsÂ
And after a week or two they spot Ash walking into the dining hall shirtless because one of his Pokemon accidentally ripped the shirt to shredsÂ
Ash being him, forgets he has the ring on his neck while walking into the dining hall during lunch since he’s so used to the weightÂ
Now the kid who spotted the ring first just dropped their plate on the table and before either Raihan or Ash could gently scold them, they start stammering while jerkily pointed to Ash’s chestÂ
“Ring! Ring!! Same ring!!!”Â
The rest of the kids, who were dragged into guessing who married Raihan and also who now know what Raihan ring looks like, lose their entire SHITÂ
They soon surround Ash and start congratulating him and Raihan, who’s upstairs on the third floor and putting some newly hatched baby dragon Pokemon to sleep, and Ash openly panics MORE than Raihan didÂ
One pipes up is Raihans last name is now Ketchum instead of RoseÂ
Ash goes from blushing to complete tomato red in the face the fastest anyone has seen it go beforeÂ
He soon ducks his head a mutters its Ketchum now and the kids happily start freaking out even moreÂ
Everyone ELSE on the other hand is in absolute shockÂ
Rose is filled with rage because Raihan was supposed to go to one of his biggest investors youngest daughter when they both reached the age of 25Â
Ash and Raihan are respectively 20 and 22 nowÂ
Rose also doesn’t “condone” LGBT+ people in the slightestÂ
So to have his own son, who Rose hasn’t seen in fucking years on the man’s own free time might I add, to go behind his back and betray his father like this?Â
Utterly shameful of his son to do soÂ
Though there IS nothing Rose can do because he no longer has the connections he had before and is still handcuffed on the dailyÂ
A bunch of other people are in the range of angry to sad because they had crush’s/were in love with Ash and to know Ash has been off the market completely for a VERY long time is actually… quite off putting because Ash never spoke up about itÂ
And when one of them speaks up and questioned Ash on why he never told them, or even INVITED anyone else to his fucking WEDDING ash juts kind of… laughed nervously and shruggedÂ
Saying something on the line that half of his friends wouldn’t believe him, or would bombard him with questions as they are nowÂ
He then breaks down everything, explaining that his marriage is a VERY personal thing to both him and Raihan. Both loved revealing in the fact that this is something that is just between THEM, including a few necessary people, and that they don’t HAVE to share it with the worldÂ
Ash also explains how the Galar Region isn’t really accepting of LGBT+ people, and how would they take it knowing that their strongest Gym Leader is gay and married to another man?
Also that if word had spread around enough, bad guys and evil teams would start to target Raihan since he’s Ash’s husband and that Raihan also works in a different leagueÂ
The kids soon feel guilty, the one that pointed out the rings feels even more so, but it’s quickly soothed a little by Ash who told them that he and Raihan were going to tell them anywaysÂ
“So can we actually call you Mom and Dad now?”Â
Raihan soon comes down and is greeted with a bunch of kids/teen waggling their eyebrows at him with smirks, a sheepish looking Ash, and a good majority of the rest of the people having existential crisesÂ
So he walks forward and sweeps Ash into a sweet kiss, soon pulling back and muttering how he’s been wanting to do that since the start of the summer.Â