The pair trudged through Pallet town towards a house.
"It's six A.M. Will anyone still be awake?" May asked.
"Probably not but if I know my mom the front door is unlocked." Ash replied. "Come on. We'll grab a bite to eat, get some sleep and visit professor Oak later."
"Yeah, yeah okay. Food sounds good. So does a little sleeee…" May began before she fell asleep in Ash's arms.
"She couldn't wait until we were inside. I guess long range teleporting does that to you. But still. How did she get us from Cerulean to here. I thought she could barely teleport 3 feet. Oh well. I'll ask her when she wakes up." Ash said as he picked her up, his right hand supporting her back while his left hand sat under her knees. "Come on. I'll let you sleep in my bed."
He walked to the door of his house and tried the knob.
"Huh? Mom finally locked the door. Great." Ash looked around for another way in. He looked up at his bedroom window. "Ha ha. Mom must've left it open to let a breeze through. Well, let's see if I can jump like a Lucario as well." Ash told himself before he bent his knees and pushed as hard as he could.
He made it up onto the window sill and slinked under. He walked over to his bed and lowered May onto it. "Sleep tight sweet." Ash whispered as he closed the window. He tip-toed down the stairs and settled onto the couch. He awoke a few hours later to his mom and Professor Oak standing over him. "He mom, hey Professor. What's up?"
Ash's mom quickly hugged him as tight as she could. "Oh my baby are you all right? You're not hurt?"
Professor Oak just stood there and chuckled.
"Mom let go. I'm fine. But I won't be if you keep choking me." Ash said starting to gag.
May heard the commotion downstairs and woke up. "Where am I?" She walked out of the room she was in and headed down the stairs where she found Ash being choked by his mother and Professor Oak laughing under his breath. "Uhhh. What's going on? Should I leave for a bit?" May asked.
"Mom for the last time let go." Ash said as his face turned blue.
"Oh I'm sorry honey." Delia said as she let go of her son.
Ash rolled off the couch and began gasping for breath. "May… I see… you're… awake."
May used her powers to pick Ash up off the ground and put him back on his feet. "Mmmhmm. Kind of hard to stay asleep with all of you down here making a racket."
"Sorry. Mom got kind of excited after I woke up." Ash said before his stomach demanded attention.
Everyone laughed until Mays stomach made its presence noted as well.
"Come on I'll make you some breakfast." Delia said.
"Keep mine in the fridge mom I've got to ask a favor from the Professor." Ash said as he turned to Oak. "You once told me you were working on something that weakened Pokémon energies to make them easier to study."
"Well yes but why do you ask?" Professor Oak stammered.
"I need two of them." Ash replied.
"Pikachu's getting a bit much to handle is he? Speaking of which where is he?" Oak asked.
Ash looked down. "I don't want to talk about it." He said.
Gary arrived at Cerulean hospital.
"That took slightly longer than anticipated. Huh?" Gary exclaimed as he noted a large hole in the side of the hospital. "Swellow. Down there." He ordered his steed.
"Swellow!" Swellow bellowed as it dove toward the hole.
Gary spotted Pikachu as he got closer. When swellow landed he picked up the electric type and noticed the hole through its head for the first time.
Pikachu twitched and opened his eyes. "Pika pi. Pika pi. Pika pi." Was all the mouse Pokémon had to say before he closed his eyes again.
"This is Ash's Pikachu. Come on Swellow. To pallet town." Gary ordered but his bird Pokémon was tired and could barely lift its wings. "All right Swellow you take a break. Come on Arcanine." Gary called back his Swellow and released the giant dog, Arcanine. Hopping on its back he quickly ordered it to take him to Pallet town. The dog complied and jumped out of the hospital before it began to race towards Pallet town.
"You all right Dawn?" Brock asked as his friend came to.
"What happened?" Dawn asked, a little shaken.
"You tried to jump of the top of the Pokémon centre. I caught you though." Brock told her.
"Why? Why did you catch me? I wanted to die. I still do. My life is falling apart. Zoey abandoned me as a friend, Ash somehow escaped the region, May isn't dead and I can't win a contest for the life of me." Dawn broke down into tears again. "I just want to end it all." She said as she jumped out of the bed Brock placed her in and ran towards the cafeteria.
"Dawn wait!" Brock called after her.
Downstairs, Dawn found a knife and was holding it to her throat. "Giratina take me and Arceus receive me." Dawn murmured as she dragged the knife across her throat. Her vision went dark as she saw her own blood hitting the floor. Followed by Brock running in just as she began to fall. Quickly her vision faded to nothing as her breathing stopped.
"Dawn! Dawn wake up!" Brock yelled at her lifeless body.
"Are ya sure we're getting da right people?" Meowth asked.
"I hope so. The twerpette left a note in the basket with names." James responded.
"I hope we're almost done. It's getting crowded up here." Jesse scowled.
"Here you go. Two energy inhibitors. Mind telling me why you need these now?" Oak asked.
"No time." Ash said as he charged and aura sphere before breaking a hole in Oaks wall. He ran back to his house as quickly as he could.
May finished her breakfast just as Ash got back.
"Here May. Wear this around your wrist. If I'm right it should absorb some of our power and release it when we take them off." Ash said after he caught his breath.
"Meaning?" May asked confused.
"Meaning. We put them on, become weaker." Ash said as he strapped his on before he whispered the rest to May.
"Sounds good to me." May said as she took hers and put it on.
"On that subject. How did you teleport us all the way here?" Ash asked.
"I guess I absorbed some of your energy and that gave me the boost I needed." May guessed. "And if you want to know. Pikachu said he was okay dieing the way he did cause he knew you would do the same for him. He just wants one thing in return. For us to take down Misty."
Tears filled Ash's eyes. "He truly was my best friend. I'll do it buddy. I'll do it for you."
"GRAMPS!" Gary called out. "I GOT SOMETHING TO SHOW YOU!" he jumped off Arcanine midstride and skidded to a halt. He recalled Arcanine before he ran up to the hole in his grandfathers lab and stepped through it.
"We got everyone Jess?" Meowth asked.
"Looks like it. Now we just hold until the fireworks show tonight apparently." Jesse said as she read the instructions may had left them.
"Why would they be celebrating when they're on the run?" James asked, not getting it as usual.
"What that means, boytoy, is that there will be an explosion of some sort. We drop in then." One of the passengers clued him in.
"Look!" Another passenger pointed out.
"Jenny's." Zoey scowled. "And there headed for Pallet town.
"Isn't that where one of May's boytoys lived?" The first passenger asked.
"Doesn't matter. We'll knock 'em all out of the park!" a third passenger responded.
A parade of Jenny's marched through Viridian forest, bearing down on Pallet town. "Shoot to kill! Leave no one alive!" The lead Jenny ordered.