Hello readers!
I appreciate the feedback I got for my last story. Thanks a lot! This is my second Advanceshipping fic based on the Pokemon Advance episode "The Bicker The Better" which is one of the episodes that gave many hints at an AshxMay romance. If you haven't seen it, check out the episode guide at serebii.
Here you go!
Narrator: Today we join our heroes still on their way to Fortree City and Ash's next gym battle. Ash and May have put aside their differences since their argument a few days ago, and decide to rest at a nearby Pokemon Center...
Ash and May just finished another plate of food while dining at local Pokemon Center on the way to Fortree City. Their traveling companions, May's little brother Max and the former Pewter City gym leader Brock were astonished at how much the pair could eat. Pikachu however, wasn't paying any mind to the trainers as the electric mouse was enjoying a bottle of his favorite condiment, ketchup.
"Jeez, haven't you guys had enough yet?" Max asked. Brock agreed.
"Yeah, shouldn't we be getting a move on to get to Fortree?"
May took a break from eating to respond, "It's always important to have a good meal when your on an extended trip, isn't that right Ash?" Ash nodded his head in between bites of chicken.
"You got that right, we can take are time anyway. I've got tons of time to get the rest of my badges to enter the Hoenn League. Can you pass the rice May?"
May passed as the bowl of rice from across the table, "Of course, here you go."
Ash smiled, "Thanks."
"First they argue like they hate each others guts, and now their best friends." Max sighed.
"Well, at least once this is over will be right back on schedule." Brock said.
Max looked skeptical, "I hope your right."
Two Hours Later...
Ash and co. exit the Pokemon Center and start heading towards their next destination. However they run into some familiar faces...
"Well if it isn't our two favorite lovebirds!"
The group turned around to see a young man with long green hair in a blue suit accompanied by a young girl with long blond hair and in a frilly pink dress. Everyone immediately recognized them as...
"Oscar and Andi!" Ash, May, and Max gasped in unison. Brock however screamed Andi's name with little hearts in his eyes. Oscar and Andi are a pair of tag-battlers who were deeply in love and had recently defeated a bickering Ash and May in a tag-battle.
"So how are you two?" Oscar asked, directing his question to Ash and May.
"Have you learned to embrace your love for each other?" Andi followed up.
Max looked at Ash and May and waited them to immediately deny this (Brock was too busy staring at Andi to look at his friends) or be insulted at the very idea of them being a couple but to his surprise, Ash and May looked away from each other and blushed.
"Oh, look at that Oscar they blushed!" Andi gushed.
"It seems there love his developing." Oscar observed. "Remember when we were like them Andi, so young and afraid of show our feelings for each other."
"Oscar of course, I remember like it was yesterday..." Andi said as the couple held hands and gazed into each others eyes. Ash shook his head to regain his composure when an idea crossed his mind.
"Hey forget all this love stuff!" Ash began. May felt a little insulted, would people thinking they were a couple really be that bad?
"We want a rematch!" Ash demanded. This shocked everyone, except Brock who wasn't listening.
"WHAT!?" May and Max gasped. Pikachu fell of his trainer's shoulder in shock. Ash went up to May and tried to persuade her to participate.
"C'mon May. We trust each other right?" he asked.
May hesitated, "Yeah, but..."
Ash grabbed May's hands, mirroring the way Oscar held Andi's hands, "We can beat them, as long as we work together and have faith in each other."
May was bright red from her and Ash holding hands, and found that she couldn't turn him down.
"Okay, let's do it!"
"Very well my friends but be warned, your love still has a long way to go before it can match our own!" Oscar warned.
"Oh, this will be so fun!" Andi squealed.
"Yeah, yeah, let's just start the battle!" Ash urged the couple.
"Oh no, please not again you guys!" Max begged. "Brock we've got to do something.." Max looked at the space where Brock was standing, but the former gym leader was not there. He was next to Andi on one knee while holding both her hands, hearts in his eyes.
"Sweet and beautiful Andi, it would be my honor to judge this battle once again!" Max knew that this was a lost cause.
"Why!?" Max yelled at the sky.
"Pika, pikachu..." (Today was almost a good day...) Pikachu sighed.
That's Chapter 1! I promise the story will get better. I already have a plot laid out and plenty of shippy moments with Ash and May. Also in the next chapter I'll be writing my first pokemon battle, which will be the first of several in this story. I've never done that before but I'm going to try my best. Please review this story and tell me what you think so far.
'Till next time!