Parallel to Daisy’s reaction, Ash’s mom, Delia, shrieked his name and pulled him into her bosom. Once more Ash was smothered between two big breasts, only there was no uncomfortable arousal from this embrace. Ash tried to return the hug, but his mom had her fingers wrapped around him, pinning both arms to his sides. Ash grimaced at his mother’s roughness; apparently owning tiny shrinkee males hadn’t shown her the proper way to handle them yet. Just when Ash was starting to black out, his mother pulled him from her chest and affectionately rubbed his head over her cheek.

“Oh Ashley, I was so scared that some horrible woman would find you and do terrible things to my helpless baby, or even worse, a man could try and take advantage of my vulnerable baby.” virtually weeping, Delia kept rubbing Ash against her cheek like a mother animal would do with its young. Ash was out of breath from his near suffocation in his mom’s bazooms, so all he could do was pant for breath and try and regain his bearings.

“Mom!” Ash cried when he was finally coherent. “You’re embarrassing me in front of my friends!”

“I’m not embarrassing you, honey,” she said before taking him away from her face and smiling at him affectionately. Her only child had returned home and she was overjoyed, finally she could protect him from all the wicked people out there that wanted to abuse and harm little shrinkees like her son. As soon as the outbreak started, her motherly instincts kicked in and she secretly wanted her son home. He hadn’t shrunken yet, but with so many men already affected, she was certain that her little Ashy would get even smaller and she had been right!

“Oh Ashley, I’m so happy you’ve come home.” Delia looked up at Ash’s friends, who were desperately trying not to crack up. “Why don’t you dears come in and rest your feet, I’m sure the journey here wasn’t easy.”

Delia stepped aside to let the girls into her house with a big friendly smile. Sabrina and Casey walked in immediately, but before Misty did, she tried to take Ash back. When her hands went out to Ash, Delia impulsively wrenched back with Ash in hand. Misty couldn’t be sure, but she would swear that she saw Ash’s mother scowl at her.

“Coming in, dear?” Delia asked sweetly. Nodding Misty walked into the house and convinced herself that she had imagined Delia’s reaction. There was no reason for Ash’s mother to react so harshly to her, right?
Taking off her shoes, Misty joined the girls in the dinning room, where they were sitting around a big round table with Delia hovering over them. Ash had been let go and was standing in the middle of the table listening to his mother talk about something. When Misty sat down, Delia looked up at her and gave her customary motherly smile that she was famous for. Somehow, Misty felt that it seemed forced when she looked at Misty.

“I’m going to bring you some nice cookies from the pantry. You make yourselves at home.” When Delia had left the room, Sabrina and Casey couldn’t hold it in any more and burst into laughter. Ash looked down blushing and wishing that he had been left on the doorstep alone to avoid this humiliation. He had to have had the most over protective and embarrassing mother in the world.

“Did she really say that she was afraid a guy would abuse you?” Casey said holding both sides as another round of laughter erupted from her. Even Misty, who was feeling uncomfortable after the confrontation at the door, got the giggles. She got a mental picture in her head of some handsome guy trying to force himself on Ash and she broke into full blown laughter.

“It’s not funny, my mom worries about everything. She can be very overprotective of me and has a tendency to worry about everything. She wouldn’t even let me pet a Pokemon until I started my journey. It’s a wonder that she even let me go, I was afraid that she would have followed me from town to town when I first started.” Ash sat down n the table dejected that he had to deal with his over loving mother. He loved her and would do anything to please her, but sometimes he just wanted to crawl under a rock when she got like this.

Seeing how upset Ash was, Misty went to his defense.

“Delia is just being a good mother. A lot of parents disown their children after they shrink; she’s just being a caring parent. Isn’t that right…” Misty turned to Ash, “…Ashley?” Everyone broke into fresh laughter as Ash collapsed to the table and covered his head in mortification; he’d hopped they missed that.

“What’s everyone laughing about?” Delia asked as she walked back into the kitchen with a big plate full of cookies.

“Just a funny joke,” Casey lied. Nodding with a smile, Delia put down the plate of cookies and sat down in front of Ash. She took a cookie and broke it into little pieces for her son. She fed him out of her hand and watched with joy as he ate every bite. He looked so frail and weak that it almost broke her heart. It was a miracle that he had survived so far and she promised never to chance Ash’s safety again. He would spend the rest of his life in her house and he would be safe from all the wicked people out there that could hurt him. The girls would understand, after all, she was his mother and mother always knows best.