A/N: Hey everybody! Back with another installment of Finding Iris! Enjoy!
"Oh, yeah! I have some batteries from my friend Dawn's Pokétch." Ash spoke up.
In Jubilife City, Sinnoh...
"Hey, Brock! I took all the batteries from Dawn's Pokétch and put them in my backpack! That'll show her to eat my food while I'm getting firewood!" Ash exclaimed.
"Make sure that you return it to her and say it was a joke." Brock wisely said.
"Yeah, I will." Ash replied, too caught up in his prank. However, later that day, Dawn could not turn on her Pokétch and asked Ash what happened to the batteries. When he forgot where he put the batteries, he told Dawn, who did not take the news well. Ash had to buy new batteries and did not try to prank Dawn again.
"I should have known I put them in my backpack." Ash thought.
"Thanks for the batteries! Let's see if they work." Max said. As Max inserted the batteries, an electric shock came out of the handheld device and shocked Max. After being on the wrong side of Pikachu's Thunderbolt multiple times, Max had grown a resistance to electricity, so, although he did not feel the pain, his hair stood straight up. The Pokénav began to light up, indicating that it was on. It told Max that there was 75% of their battery power left. Satisfied, the group took off.
"Let's check the Pokénav," Max said. The Pokénav told the group that there were six exits, but they were not close to any of them. But then Ash and Cilan remembered that they had to find Iris, so Max looked up how big the cave was. The group found out that the cavern was twenty miles on each side, in that it was shaped like a cube.
"So how are we going to find Iris in this humongous cavern?" Cilan pondered.
"Where were you guys when she said that she would be finding the exit?" Max asked, sounding like a detective trying to figure out a murder case.
"We entered from Castelia City, and she went to the right." Ash recalled. As Max looked up the Castelia City entrance and the nearest exits, the Pokénav began to show a path. They would have to walk a mile south, then turn right, going until they saw the exit.
"Alright, let's go." May said. The team walked and walked, and eventually one of Ash's makeshift crutches snapped. Cilan replaced it, with a branch just like the one that broke; smooth and mossy. Ash thanked Cilan and kept walking.
"This is boring!" Max screamed after they were about halfway to where they started.
"Do you want to get out of this cave?" May asked Max, grabbing him by the collar, with a dangerous gleam in her eyes.
"Yes." Max replied, fearing for his life, breaking into a cold sweat. Max said nothing and kept walking, the moist moss squelching under every step that the group took.
"So, how was your journey in Johto?" Ash asked, willing to break the awkward silence that had slowly developed between the team.
"Uh, it was fine." May replied, still not giving out much detail. In reality, her journey through Johto was Harley pestering her. She remembered when he left, and it brought her joy.
In Blackthorn City, Johto…
"Harley! For the last time, I will not change my coordinating style!" May exclaimed after Harley asked her to adopt his coordinating techniques for the umpteenth time. Drew, who was traveling with May, asked Harley to stop repeatedly, but to no avail. Drew suddenly snapped and slapped Harley. May fell down, laughing, her face red, tears coming from her eyes as she laughed at the unusually dressed man who she thought of as a transvestite with a red hand mark on his right cheek.
After minutes of May laughing in this position, Harley got up and started to fight with Drew. They threw punches at each other, Harley flying back like a punching bag every time Drew landed a punch on him. After they were finished, Drew was unscathed and Harley was lying on the ground, with bruises on his face, smiling like a buffoon.
May giggled after remembering how Harley looked, and decided to tell Ash. After explaining this to him, he fell on the floor, laughing. Max also was chuckling along with Cilan. Max and Cilan pulled Ash up and put him back on his crutches. May was able to see that tears were coming from his eyes. Another Pokémon popped up and began to charge at Cilan, who was leading the group with the Pokénav in his hand. As May began to unclip a Poké Ball from her belt, Ash told her to stop, telling her that he would take care of the Pokémon. The Pokémon happened to be a Drilbur, the devolved form of Excadrill. It swung its claws at Ash, who was now leading the group, and called out his Pikachu. The furry mouse hopped down from Ash's shoulder, quiet for most of the time they were in the cavern, and got into a fighting stance.
As electricity sparked from the Pikachu's cheeks, the Drilbur charged at Pikachu. Ash told Pikachu to use Iron Tail, and the move caused a small crater to form with the Drilbur in it, swirly-eyed.
A/N: I know it's late... sorry. But remember to review, and thanks for staying with me this long!
