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Chapter 4: Caught In The Act!

A few days later found the gang in Mossdeep City for Ash's next gym battle after May won her contest in Lilycove City.

The others were still suspicious of what was going on with their friend as he kept up his strange behavior as they traveled.

They had worked on a plan to find out the truth from him since they knew that he wasn't just going to tell them what was wrong.

Once they had finalized the plan, they decided to put it into action the next day since it was late at night and he was already asleep with Pikachu next to him.

(The Next Day)

They had decided that they would help Ash out with training before heading for a restaurant for some lunch.

They noticed how he was somewhat being careful about what to eat since he knew that it was going to hurt later not matter what he did.

They glanced over as he did eat everything that he had ordered before they noticed that he didn't order more food like he usually does.

They exchanged small looks at each other as they finished up their lunch before paying for their food and continuing to training with their friend.

While Brock and May were training with the raven-haired teen, Max had snuck into the room to see if he could find anything in his friend's backpack that could help with finding out the truth.

He was going through the raven-haired teen's backpack when he noticed the package of laxatives in his bag before finding another package of laxatives.

"This must be what he's taking as soon as he sits down to eat with us. Brock and May need to know immediately!" thought Max, putting the stuff back into his friend's backpack as best as he could to make it look like no one messed with his things.

He hurried back to battlefield as they were finishing up with Brock training with Ash before May came in as a substitute.

Once Brock had sat next to Max to watch the training session between Ash and May, Max started to tell him what he had found in the teen's backpack.

Brock nodded while he heard this and came up with an idea.

(Later That Night)

They had gone to dinner and noticed that Ash had taken his laxative that he told them was a vitamin as soon as he sat down.

They ate dinner together before they noticed that their friend was getting a bit fidgety as they thought that it was because the laxative was starting to take effect.

Before they knew it, he had excused himself and rushed to the room.

Brock got up and followed him while May and Max looked at each other before finishing their food and heading to the room.

(With Brock)

Brock hurried into the room without a noise and quietly shut the door behind him.

He slowly made his way to the bathroom door and listened as he heard his friend start to cry from some kind of pain that he was in.

He listened for a little longer before the toilet flushed and he stood there with his arms crossed as the door opened.

As soon as Ash saw his friend standing there, his face paled and felt sick as he knew that he had been caught.

"H-hey, Brock…" said Ash, forcing a smile and acting nervous.

"I think you have some explaining to do." said Brock, looking down at his friend as he also noticed how thin the chocolate-eyed teen was compared to a few weeks ago.

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 4! Happy Easter everyone! See ya later!

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