The maids found a photo album

Aelita walked up the stairs carefully on account of her pregnant belly with the help of the Asari guard; Aelita made a note to try to get her name from Valkyrie later if she could find her. Aelita continued following the elevated voices and ended up where she didn’t expect, James’ main collection.

“Wait. Is that you and James taking on a doubles league?” Aelita heard.

“Yes, it was the first time that the Sinnoh league decided to have a singles and a doubles route in that world,” Starfire cheerfully explained. Aelita fully entered the room and found Starfire sitting on the floor with Hinata and Kate looking through a dusty photo album. “Mother and Father in law knocked us out of the next round.”

“They decided to go on their Pokémon journey with him?” Kate asked disbelievingly. “That got to have been embarrassing for him. Pokémon journeys about being independent and having fun.”

“Only during the tournament, they had dropped James and I and his siblings in random places around Sinnoh and other regions. We even started following the Ash who became confused of all the siblings we ran into.”

“Knowing the average intelligence of an Ash, he probably thought James’ parents wanted a big family.” Kate shook her head. “I mean they wanted one but Ash probably didn’t realize that Daisy couldn't have so many.” Aelita decided that it was time to get their attention.

“Hello, I heard a commotion?” Aelita asked as she approached.

“Sister Aelita! We moved some of the counters and found James’ album of photos of our adventures in childhood and young adulthood. I was just availing them with the tales of the sixth Gardner Family Pokémon Quest.” Starfire showed Aelita the photo album filled to the brim with pictures and several souvenirs.

There were pictures depicting James and his twin riding velociraptors through a Jurassic World while Starfire and a Raven followed them on pterodactyls. A dinosaur tooth was taped in the book. Another set of photos showed James and Starfire transformed into anthropomorphic tiger cubs and getting chased in a Zootopia world. With the photos were two mugshots of the two, each signed by a Judy Hopps and Nick Wilde.

Another set later in the album showed James and Starfire fighting borg with a Mariner from Star Trek: Lower Decks; below that was a holo print of the Mariner in lingerie with the message ‘if the two of you are ever assigned to the Quito, hit me up XOXO’. As Aelita flipped through the photo album, she saw multiple photos of similar nature. There was a Liara straddling a Prothean artifact replica in a bikini, a Spidergirl overlooking a New York skyline, a Piper Wright from Fallout 4 wearing a Vault-**** outfit, a Laura Croft posing with a gold statue covering her naughty bits, a Ryuko from Kill la Kill in nothing but a thong, and etc.

“I didn’t know that James had this,” Aelita commented out loud.

“James would forget his kambinr if he didn’t use it everyday,” Starfire said as a way to explain. “It was in a drawer under the bat’leth he won from friend Mariner during Starfleet Academy.”

“I never realized that was a drawer,” Kate said embarrassed. “It looked like a part of the cabinet.” Aelita looked at the now open drawer that Kate indicated and agreed that with it being the same color as the cabinet and its lack of features, she probably would’ve missed it as well.

Looking back at the photo album and all the souvenirs and photos inside, Aelita smiled at the look into James’ childhood. Beyond what James had already told her, Aelita was curious at what else he had done.

“Why don’t we take this to the den and you can tell us everything?” Aelita handed the book to Starfire who nodded eagerly.

“What a joyous occasion! I will be honored to tell the tales of our adventures, so everyone will know how brave and strong James is,” Starfire cheered as she floated out of the room with Aelita by her side. After gathering a large group of the harem members, they were once again in the living room with everyone scattered around the room. Starfire scattered some of the photos around a center coffee table allowing some of the girls to grab and view some.

“Which adventure shall I avail you with first?” Starfire asked eagerly as she looked around the room. After some glancing around, someone finally answered.

“How about…”