I do not own Pokémon.
Chapter 1 Oh Great, You Again: May's POV
"I'm not sure, Misty." I say cocking my head to the side to keep the home phone balanced between my ear and shoulder. "But all I know is every time he's around you his eyes stay glued to you." I gush, giggling while I chopped up some potatoes.
"He does? When? I haven't noticed!" Misty demands. I smile and hold back a laugh. Misty has liked Gary since square one. Everyone always thought she liked Ash, but truth is she's always liked Gary. She is just really good at hiding her feelings.
"All the time! The last time I visited you his eyes were always on you!"
"Thanks May, you're the best." Misty says. I smile.
"You too. You should come visit me in Hoenn sometime." I really miss Misty, we had become really good friends over the past year and a half. Since Ash and Brock were traveling with Dawn, we both had no one to talk to, so I decided to call Misty one day. We've been good friends ever since.
"I want to! But anyways, how's Ash?" She asks in a flirty tone. I instantly blush and my lips form a straight line.
"Not sure, I haven't talked to him since he left with Brock… and Dawn." I say trying to get worked up. I shouldn't be jealous, Dawn is amazing and pretty and all but… yeah she's really pretty.
"Don't worry about it, May. I'm sure Ash would pick you before Dawn any day. I know I would." Misty says. I burst out laughing and she starts talking about how she didn't mean it that way, but I'm too busy laughing my head off.
"Thanks Misty, I know what you meant."
"Good because I like Gary and only Gary." I can already picture her sticking her tongue out at me.
"Darn I was hoping we could get together." I joked. Misty laughs hard.
"I swear we are two weird girls." She laughs. I laugh in agreement. Suddenly there was a knock on the door.
"Hey Misty, someone's at the door. Can I call you back?" I ask.
"Sure! Bye!" She hangs up. I put the phone down, as well as my vegetable knife, and walk over to the door. I answer it and standing before is a man in a red and black uniform with a big M on the front. He smirks evilly at me and I swear my heart must have stopped.
Team Magma… we stopped them a long time ago… what are they doing here?
Suddenly he grabs me roughly by my arms and drags me out of my house and down the front steps.
"LET ME GO!" I yell trying to shove and kick him away. He tightened his grip around my arms.
"Shut up. You're coming with me Miss Maple." He says sternly. We head towards a Team Magma van that was parked across the street. I twist and turn trying to get away from him, but I'm not very strong… at all. Well what can I say? I'm a 15 year old girl who loves contests. Sports and working out were never my thing.
"Oh no I'm not!" I say. I nudge Blaziken's pokéball out of my pocket with my elbow and it falls to the ground, a red light flashing and standing before me is my fire fighter. Well not actually a fire fighter, but you all should know who Blaziken is.
"Fine you want to battle? Then let's go! Come on out Mightyena!" The man calls releasing me. Out comes out a tall black and white dog, baring it's teeth towards Blaziken and I. "Mightyena, use Bite!"
The dog rushes towards Blaziken and I wait until the last second.
"Blaziken dodge and use Blaze Kick!" I command. She does and strikes the Mightyena hard onto the back, it falls to the ground hard, but gets back up.
"Counter attack with Bite again!" The grunt demands. The Mightyena charges and hits Blaziken this time. Blaziken slightly twitches, but the attack barely does any damage because it's not very effective.
"Now Blaziken, use Sky Uppercut!" I shout. Blaziken gets close to Mightyena and gets ready to kick.
"Dodge!" The grunts yells, but it's too late, the fire-fighting type already had a direct hit with the super effective move. Dust flew everywhere as the Mightyena fell to the ground. When the dust cleared, it showed the dark dog had fainted. "Mightyena return!" He calls pulling out a pokéball. The pokémon was pulled into the ball and the grunt shoved it into his pocket.
"Now! Come on out Numel!" He said throwing the ball into the air. The orange camel pokémon landed gracefully on the ground.
"Blaziken come back!" I said returning her into her pokéball. I search through my pocket of pokéballs and find the one that I want.
"Come on out Wartortle!" I said. The blue turtle with wing looking ears stood on two feet ready to fight.
"Numel, use Ember!" The fire-ground type opened its mouth and shot a hot flame towards Wartortle.
"Water gun!" I called. Soon the flame was washed away and the Numel was flying back, hit by the wave of water.
"C'mon Numel! Get up!" The man yelled. The little light orange pokémon slowly got back up on all four with one eye closed. I admired it for being so tough. "Now charge and use tackle!"
"When it gets close use Aqua Tail, Wartortle!"
When the Numel was about to strike, Wartortle whipped it's tail around quick and collided with the camel, finishing it off.
"Useless pokémon." The Team Magma member muttered while returning the pokémon to its ball. "Don't think this is over," He warned. "It has only just begun." And with that he ran off towards the van.
"Wartortle, Water Gun on the van!" But it was too late, the vehicle was already speeding away. I kicked the ground hard. They had escaped.
What was Team Magma up to? We had stopped them from capturing Groudon over two years ago… and why had they wanted me?
I let out Blaziken and hug her and Wartortle.
"Thank you both for saving me."
"Blaze." Said Blaziken.
"Wartortle." Called the turtle with its chest puffed out. Blaziken tipped it over with two fingers and I started laughing before returning both of them into their balls and running into my house to make a few calls.
I first called my parents and explained what happened. Next I called Ash's mother.
"Why hello May, it's great to here from you."
"Hi Mrs. Ketchum." I said. "Do you know where Ash is?"
"Yes, he's in Jubilife City with Dawn and Brock."
"Thank you. I will talk to you soon." I say hanging up. I look up the number and call the Pokémon Center there.
"Hello?" A nurse Joy says. Seriously how many are there in this world?
"Has Ash Ketchum stopped by anytime soon?"
"Yes, he's right here. I will put him on." A few seconds pass and I here a familiar voice on the other side.
"Hello?" I almost freeze. I haven't talked to him in over two years. He probably thinks it's really weird of me to call him all of a sudden, but I need his help if I want to stop Team Magma with whatever they are planning.
"Ash, it's May. They're back." I say clenching my hand into a fist.