.: Chapter 4 :.
"Shit shit shit!" Brock circled the puddle awkwardly, with his hands moving from his mouth to his head then to his eyes and back to his mouth again as he tried to figure out what to do. Nothing had ever gotten this bad before. Usually he would trust Ash to get out by himself, but this time, he wasn't sure...
Brock mentally slapped himself awake.
"Pull yourself together Brock!" He told himself. He had an idea of what he could do, but Dawn wouldn't be strong enough to help him with his plan. He was going to need two people too. Dawn could be one of them. Who else could help though? He didn't know anyone else in Sinnoh... or did he?
Then he bent down, finally with a plan stuck in his head. There was something weird sticking out of the liquid. Brock pulled it out and straightened it on the ground, causing a bit of purple smudge on his hand. Once it was fully stretched out, he could see what it was. It was a red bandanna.
...
The walls of the room May was in were fully white, no marks. No nothing. It looked like the place she used to go to in her dreams when she first started my journey. May guessed she'd never know why she actually dreamt about a white room. So this was obviously just a dream. This made her worry a little less because in dreams you can't really get hurt or worse. She just had to wait and soon I would wake up.
May tried to recall what had happened. Oh yeah. Her and her wandering hands had gotten her into this mess. She had fallen in this hell hole through the puddle and had no idea where she was. Right now she as wondering where Drew was and what he was doing.
"Oh come back Drew, I need your help" She screamed.
Bang
The room suddenly became brighter as a name appeared on the wall in large print. It was the name 'Ash Ketchum.' . Dawn's friend was called Ash and it took May a while to realise that. Anyway, what did this have to do with her? She had never even met him.
Bang
Another name appeared on the other side of the room, it was the name 'May Maple.' . She began pinching herself to wake up. Pinching turned to slapping. Slapping turned to attacking. Something told her to do this. It wasn't hurting, so she bit herself. That didn't hurt either. The names disappeared and she stopped with her fist halfway towards her stomach. The writing was replaced by a large screen of black, almost like a cinema screen. She went a little closer to it and sat down. Her mouth hung open as if she were trying to catch flies.
The video started with May riding to the lab on her bike, happily humming her favourite tune. She had no problem riding up the steep hill since she had thirteen years of practice before that. She used to visit Professor Birch just because she liked him, and she liked hearing his stories of when he travelled.
"I don't even like Pokemon" May snapped out of her daydream. It sounded like her now. She did like them, but she only ever started her journey because she liked to travel. When she arrived at the lab, an assistant told her Professor Birch was out in the mountains and that he had told me to wait at the lab. "Well I'll go find him then. I've never been much good at waiting." But May never remembered him being out in the mountains... Professor Birch was there when she arrived. What was going on here? She rode up the mountains, looking for Professor Birch, on the way she saw many pokemon, but none of them interested her, so she just rode past them. Even though she didn't like them, she tried not to hit them with her bike. She wasn't cruel. When she reached a small cliff edge further up the mountain she saw Professor Birch. He was being chased by a bunch of Poocheyena. May didn't remember this part either, but of course this was only a dream.
"Oh, May. Please, grab one of those Pokeballs in my bag." He called. After a bit of confusion, she chose one, and it turned out to be a Mudkip. She tried to get Mudkip to use water gun, but it used it on her face instead. May laughed because this seemed like something she would do.
Then bolts of lightning flew up from the ground. Since when did they do that? And Professor Birch went running in the direction of them, muttering that 'Pikachu might explode'.
When they arrived at the place we had saw the thunderbolts coming from, a boy was almost getting zapped by a Pikachu who was slowly trying to crawl away, except these thunderbolts were red and looked more powerful then anything May had seen before. The boy was wearing a blue and yellow hoodie, and a red and black hat. His hair was spiky and black, it was kind of cute. His arms were very tanned too. He was probably the same age as me, maybe a year older. The first thought that came to my mind was; 'Cute'
Wait, did I just think that?
The boys Pikachu ended up frying her bike, when attacking a giant robot that was trying to take it. Then the lid lifted and they revealed themselves. May was watching it like it was an actual movie, then something alerted her.
"What the heck!?" She screamed and stood up. They were the same people she had seen on the boat to Sinnoh yesterday. Jessie, Meowth and the Purple haired man. They were trying to catch Pikachu...
"Time to catch us a Pikachu!" Jessie punched the air.
Now she was really confused, what a strange dream. It seemed so real... It felt like things were pulling together to make something she was supposed to understand. But she didn't understand at all. After Pikachu beat Team Rocket, Ash went back to the lab to get Pikachu treated, and she was spying from the door. But, May being May, she knocked the plant pot and had to catch it, making Ash turn around and give her a funny look. She told him she just wanted to introduce herself. She looked so nervous... Then she persuaded him to join her, so they could travel to Petalburg together. And then it ended, and was replaced with pictures, like a slide show of memories that never happened. There was a picture of her and Ash smiling by a couple of Bulbasaurs. My Bulbasaur, and most likely his. There was also one of Ash and May swimming in the sea by some luvdisc, looking at each other. These pictures were bringing my heart to my throat and butterflies to my stomach. This had never happened.
Why is Ash in my dreams? How do I even know what he looks like. Maybe I just made this image up in my head, because he looks cute. Yeah, that's what happened.
May decided she was making all of this up, and Ash actually looked nothing like this. She only made him look this way, because she liked this look. She was making these memories up in her head. Nonetheless, she still sat and watched.
The next one was of Ash and her with a Lucario, and she was looking at him but he was looking at the camera.
Then an idea came to mind. She was dreaming about her prince charming!? May never wanted to wake up. She could of watched these pictures for forever and a day. The only problem was, if she was making this up, then there was probably nobody that looked exactly the same.
Then a new one came up. This one was of her, on a ferry, and Ash was waving goodbye to her. So was...
"No freakin' way..." The other boy waving was Brock... He was standing right beside the other boy. She held my hand out and touched the screen with the tip of my fingers. "Don't go..." She whispered as she pulled my fingers away from the video. She knelt down on the ground in front of the screen.
So she tried to figure out why it was showing Brock in this picture too. My mind must work in strange ways. And she had never travelled with Brock either. Her head must have been messed up. She panicked, what if she had hit her head? Maybe this was heaven... Maybe she was dead... May curled up on the floor and began crying. Not because she thought she was dead, but because all of this had happened so quickly. May didn't know where I was, what was happening to her body, and if she was okay. She knew that the Ketchum boy was down here too but he was probably fat or a snob like Dawn. Brock was okay, but he was on the surface, and she knew that she had fallen somewhere. Her head was throbbing badly and her heart was racing. Her bandanna was gone too, but that didn't matter right now.
Then Everything Stopped.
...
Brock turned another corner, running at what seemed like the speed of light. He had left almost a day ago and Brock needed to catch up with him. He needed his help and he could only pray that he was willing to do something for Ash just this once.
Brock finally spotted him a few minutes later, it turns out he was wrong and he had only just left for the next town.
"What are you doing here?" Paul asked him sternly.
"Ash needs your help, really bad." Brock said in-between breaths.
"Why should I help?" His face looked serious. He was serious. He really didn't care.
"Because he might die Paul." Brock finally caught his breath and crossed his arms, but Paul started to walk away. "You met the girl with the red bandanna right? May?" He called out and Paul stopped.
"What happened to May?" He turned to face me again. He had met her, Brock knew it.
"She is in the same condition, we need you Paul." Paul hesitated. He shuffled his feet a bit.
"Fine I'll do it, but only because I'm in a good mood." Paul walked next to me.
"Suuurreee." I laughed as we re-entered the city. One out of three complete.
...
May lifted my head quite suddenly and quickly. She wasn't dead.
She was in a strange place, buildings were coming from everywhere and violet clouds were floating around only a bit above the ground. Earth was staying in place, above her head. This place was the strangest area she had been too. She was still sitting on the floor, where she had obviously landed when she fell. May rubbed her head a bit. It felt fine and it didn't hurt. But something else did. Her left arm was what she had landed on and it was hurting. She groaned as she tried to stand up and she kept her left arm supported by her Right arm.
"HELP!?" She screamed, and began crying again. This was all making her emotional, more than she'd ever been. Then she remembered the dream and she wished she'd never woken up, making her cry even more. The tears flowed from her eyes and hit the floor. It seemed like she was crying for an eternity. What had she done to deserve this? May wished there was someone who could tell her.
With nothing else left to do, May decided to call Ash's name and prepared for the worst welcome. If he had travelled with Dawn he couldn't be much of a looker, and his personality probably sucked.
"Ash!" May called, cupping her hands around my mouth to make her words louder. "Ash?" She called again. Yet again, she was calling a person she had never met by their first name. He was going to think she was weird.
"You know my name?" A voice behind her sounded. She gasped and twirled around, and bowed before she had even looked at the boy. She straightened up and opened her eyes.
She had to blink a few times to register this picture into her mind.
The boy was the one from the pictures... She felt like she was going to faint. She realised she was finally happy, because the boy in her dream was real, and was Ash. She never wondered how she'd known what he looked like.
But it couldn't be. He was wearing a different outfit to the one in the photo's, his hair was still the same. As cute as ever. His rusty brown eyes were amazing, they seemed to be pulling her in somehow. He was so handsome. So adorable. She couldn't find words. It felt like my mouth was sealed.
"H-H-hi..." May stuttered. How come she had seen this boy in her dream?
"I didn't know there was anyone else down here..." His voice was cute too. Ugh.
"Yeah, I just kind of... dropped in..." She giggled nervously and looked away sweat dropping. He was giggling too. "I kind of heard of you on the news and decided to touch the puddle of liquid..." She found the confidence to make conversation. She realised her eyes were still red from crying and rubbed them viciously.
"Oh..."
"Yeah, I met Dawn too. And Brock. And Paul." She began. Ash's expression turned sour.
"You met Paul?" He asked.
"Yes, he tried to get me to travel with him but I wouldn't. He seems horrible. I take it you two don't get along so well. I don't understand how anyone wouldn't like you." She didn't think about what she was saying then, and it looked like he blushed... "Anyway, I'm May Maple from Hoenn. Nice to meet you" She stuck out her hand for him to shake.
He shook her hand then said, "I'm Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town."
"We need to get out of here. " His face twisted in pain and anger.
"Wait, did you say Pallet Town?" She asked. He nodded.
"And you said Hoenn...?" They both paused for a while.
"Why do I feel I should of met you already?" They spoke in sync, just staring at each other. It felt nice.
Please Read; ( Again :L )
I'm really not all that pleased with this chapter as I said before.
And about the two thinking they should of met each other. It's not part of the main story line. It's just a tiny bit of shippy-ness.
Ninja