"Max quit it I'm using a knife for goodness sake!" shouted May at her brother as he was teasing her while she was cutting a sandwich,"If anybody cares I'm watching the news!" shouted Norman to let everyone know what he was doing, he turned on the t.v. which had the volume cranked up. "dammit, who hides the remote? I can't even find it" he thought aloud. "Breaking News, a nightmare in pallet town?" asked the reporter "dang-at" said Norman still on the hunt for the remote, "May stopped cutting and dropped the knife she was using and rushed into the room as did everyone else knowing the were scheduled to be there in a couple of days. "A tragic story has unfolded at the Ketchum residence where a bomb that was apparently set by some men in dark clothes who escaped in a red and black helicopter earlier today exploded causing the destruction of the house and the confirmed death of Delia Ketchum, who was found outside of the residence after emergency teams responded and found her dead, it is suspected that 14 year old Ash Ketchum is also dead, though there is no body found, the E.R.T. member's think that the possibility of someone living through the blast and fire from the inside of the home is very slim."
May brought a hand to her mouth and gasped. "No!"she thought "it can't be true" she thought, the rest of the family members were in a dumbfounded silence, no one knew what to say. May then ran up to her room and lay down on her bed and begun to cry "They said that they didn't find the body" she thought "but chances of him surviving are slim to none" she thought again.
A few days later the Maples got a call from Brock, "hey in a couple of days we are going to have a funeral for Delia and I was wondering if you are going to come?" asked Brock "of course we'll be there, but what about Ash?" asked Norman "well we don't want to count our Torchics before they hatch since there is still the possibility of Ash being out there we aren't going to have a funeral for him until there is 100% proof of his death" said Brock "oh, okay, I was just wondering, well anyways we'll be there in a couple of days for the funeral, okay?" asked Norman "okay, good to know, goodbye" said Brock "bye" said Norman back as he hung up the phone.
