This is probably one of my shortest chapter that I've done, but I just don't have the time right now to update so you have to forgive me :/

Anyway, I would like to thank (As usual) Justicez for checking over my story and correcting every chapter (So if you like it, don't forget to blame/thank him too!)

Drew fans be warned (Not that I think that it's so many here :P) There will be Drew-bashing in this story... too...

There's nothing more than say:

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"I'm back." Were the only words the trainer, in a dark brown Stetson hat and trench-coat, said before he got tackled to the ground by all his pokemon.

"Looks like they're happy to see you, boss." The cat snickered slightly as he saw his master being crushed by all his beloved pokemon. "You might have trained them a little too well."

"Meganium!" The plant pokemon cried out happily as she rubbed her head against her master, he hadn't been to the Oak Ranch in years!

"It's good to see you guys too." Ash coughed as he finally got away from Snorlax. "Unfortunately, I can't stay very long... I need to get to a wedding..."

His pokemon sighed in frustration and sadness, and Ash didn't feel too good either.

"Look, I don't want to go... but I need to go for it." He shook his head, he knew that neither of that made sense, he couldn't even explain why he had traveled to attend the wedding in the first place... but there was something, some unknown force that was pushing him towards it. "I need to pick some pokemon, who's in?"

All of his pokemon roared and lined up, none of them wanted to be left out when there was a possibility for battling; it's a shame that Ash could only bring six with him.

"Let's see..." The trainer seemed to think as he walked forth and back in front of the line. "Pikachu and Meowth are for certain."

His pokemon nodded, they knew that he didn't want to leave either Pikachu or Meowth here on the farm for different reasons, and they accepted that.

"I think that I can use Garchomp a little more." Ash nodded and recalled his dragon type. "But the last three…."

"Excuse me?"

Ash jumped slightly and his pokemon started to glare and growl as they watched the little kid in front of them.

"What?" The darkness in Ash's voice made the little child to tremble, he seemed to only be around ten years old or so.

"I... I came to pick my first p...pokemon." He whole body shook as the trainer eyed him. "D... do you k...know where I... I can find P...professor O...Oak?"

"He isn't here at the moment." The death glare Ash sent him made the little boy almost wet his pants and ever choosing this day to become a trainer. "He's away at a wedding in Pewter City."

"Pika!" The rodent agreed and jumped onto the man's shoulder, causing the boy's eyes widen in surprise.

"Excuse me, but is your name Ash Ketchum?" The child had seemed to forget all his fear and nervousness as he looked at the shady man. "THE Ash Ketchum? The one that got Pikachu as a starter?"

"Who's asking?" The man's voice seemed to be a little softer, but it didn't help that his pokemon hadn't let their guard down just yet. "I said: Who's asking?"

The boy snapped out from his thoughts and looked directly at the man's face which was partially hidden by his hat.

"My name is Peter, and I want to be a pokemon master!" Peter stood proudly with his back straight as he looked to the sky. "The people of Kanto shall know my name and when they hear it and they will..."

Ash had stopped listening to him as soon as he heard his name, he only yawned and randomly recalled three pokemon and said a quick goodbye to his other pokemon before he got on his motorcycle and took off in an unknown direction... all that while the boy stood there by himself and continue to talk about how he was going to defeat everyone in his path... unfortunately, only a Caterpie was listening to his speech.


"I told you we should have taken the train here!"

Brock winced slightly at the harsh tone of the voice as he was about to open the door, he didn't know who the voice belonged to... but it wasn't someone he wanted to piss off at the moment.

"Well, if you didn't spend three hours doing your hair we would've been here by now!"

Brock smiled as he recognized the female voice, he had to admit that it sounded much sweeter compared to the first time he met her.

Brock opened the door with a big smile and saw Harley, Zoey and May.

The 'male' of the group was wearing his usual Cacturne-costume with his long purple hair, he looked as feminine as ever... however he was about a half head taller than Brock.

One of his female companions had red hair that reached down to her neck, she had stopped wearing it in a 'bush' and had it straightened, she was also wearing a costume that was more for a man than a woman... you could say that she was the most masculine in the group.

And the third, Brock was glad that he had gotten over his womanizing, otherwise he would've fainted when she saw the girl with brown hair who had just reached the age of 18.

She was dressed in a black skirt that reached her knees, as well as a blue and white tank top that showed enough cleavage to make every guy, even the married ones, to stare(and possibly faint) when she walked past them.

She had longer hair though, and instead of it falling on either side of her head as it was in the past, it fell over her back and almost reached her waist in such way that some people would say that she was an angel. In other words: She was smoking hot.

"Brock!" May cried out and jumped on him as she enveloped him in a bone-crushing hug. "It's so good to see you!"

"Yeah, same here, May." Was all Brock could muster to say as he slowly took his hands off the brunette. "How have you been?"

"Great, thanks!" May smiled as she then made a gesture towards her companions. "You remember Zoey?"

"How could I forget?" Brock smiled as he shook the fire haired coordinator's hand. "How are you?"

"Good, Brock, thanks." Zoey smiled as she nodded and stepped behind the male of the group, bringing him into view.

"Brocky!" Squealed the... man?... as he threw himself on top of Brock and hugged him with all his might. "How is my favorite man today?!"

Brock could hear a lot of heavy coughing as he saw Zoey and May trying to stifle their laughter. He got up from the ground and brushed himself off before he glared a little at his soon to be siste... brother in law.

"First of, would you please get off me?" Brock begged him with pleading eyes as May and Zoey broke down into laughter. "Second, I'm fine, thanks for asking."

"We need to see Holly at once!" May commanded with an excited voice as she pushed through Brock and was followed by her companions. "It was nice seeing you, Brock!"

"Hold it!" Brock cried out and managed to grab onto Zoey's arm, the others had already disappeared into the kitchen. "Where's Barry? I thought that he was going to come with you."

The coordinator got an annoyed look, it was clear that she wasn't too fond of the blond trainer.

"He had something 'important' to do... so he said that he would come later." Zoey shook her head. "Seriously, Brock, I have no idea why you invited him."

"Neither do I." The breeder laughed lightly before Zoey disappeared into the kitchen to greet the other guests.


"This is so wrong!" Shouted the man in his loud voice as he lifted a boulder that would normally take three men to do. "How come we're the only ones that need to work!?"

"Because they want us to take our quests to heart and..."

"If you EVER say that line again I will personally neuter you!" Lt. Surge roared at the former Pewter City gym leader. "They only want to make this wedding so it would suit a fa..."

"I dare you to finish that sentence, Surge." Said a cold voice that made every male in the room feel a shiver down their spines. "Remember that there are minors in the house."

"What are you going to do? Mess around with my brain?" The former army lieutenant smirked. "Do that, and see if you find anything you like."

"I'm not interested in your perverted thoughts." Sabrina the gym leader stated as her eyes started to glow. "But I can do much worse things to you."

"What the hell!?" Surge roared as he was lifted up into the air by an invisible force. "Let me down!"

"Hi, guys!" Came a more cheerful voice from a certain brunette. "I'm sorry, I don't think we've met."

The girl walked towards the floating Surge and shook his hand. "My name is May Maple, I'm a friend of the bride!"

"Nice to meet you, miss." Lt. Surge's eyes never let the psychic master. "Can you tell that brat to put me down?"

"Sabrina," May begged as she looked at her new friend. "We're not here to start a fight; can you please let him down?"

"May!" Another brunette yelled, but this one was male.

The female brunette looked around and saw the new Professor Oak approach her with at high speeds, he looked kinda spaced out.

"Hi, Gary," May smiled with a smile that could make any guy's heart melt. "How have you been?"

"You look great."

"Sorry?"

"I mean..." Gary quickly regretted his words as he started to blush and look around for support, but Sabrina, Flint, Surge and Paul all stood there with smirks on their faces. "Good?"

"Don't scare away our guests, Gary." Brock laughed as he entered the gym and patted him on the back. "Who thought that you would be the one to turn out as a the next Brock-Junior?"

The whole room laughed at that sentence and made Gary's embarrassment even greater.

"Yeah, he has always been lucky with the girls... it's a shame to see that it isn't like that any longer."

"Don't start that, Misty!" Gary shouted furiously at the newest arrival. "You don't have to be like that just because you finally got a date!"

"What was that!?" A strange, red aura seemed to surround Misty and her eyes seemed to have a fire in them as she glared at the researcher. "Say that again!?"

"I... I..." Gary slowly started to back away, but he backed straight into the tall blond man.

"Hold it, kiddo." Lt. Surge smirked. "I think we deserve a little show after all our hard work!"

"It's funny." He then continued. "There's only one person that's missing... what happened to the guy with the Pikachu?"

Deafening silence followed that question, Gary and Brock looked at each other nervously, Sabrina seemed to smile a mysterious smile, Misty looked around curiously, May had a strange look on her face that nobody could read... and Paul only smirked.

"Speaking of Ash..." Paul's voice broke the silence. "I met him a while ago... you remember him, May?"

"What makes you say that!?" May snapped, the power behind her voice was so strong that it somehow caused Lt. Surge, Misty, Flint and Sabrina to leave for different reasons... some forced, some not.

Only Brock, Gary, Paul and May were left in the room, two of them trembled, one of them smirking and the last one also shaking, but it was due to a different reason.

"I don't know, you tell me.... heart-breaker." The taunting smile on Paul's face made May to stomp over to him... but before she could reach the Pyramid Master she was stopped by Brock and Gary.

"Calm down, May!" Gary cried out. "Remember what you said, we're not here to start a fight!"

His words seemed to calm May down as she stopped in her tracks but she didn't avert her hateful glare from the Pyramid Master.

"Tell me, coordinator." Paul continued to speak. "How does it feel to break his heart? It took me years to try and beat him physically in Sinnoh, and even after that I didn't succeed... and yet it took you a few minutes to break his heart... I'm impressed."

"Shut up!" May roared at him in pure anger. "You don't know anything!"

"Why don't you tell us then, May?" Brock tried to reason with her as well as to calm her down. "Why do you and Ash hate each other?"

"Y... you know?" May asked with her eyes wide.

Both the breeder and researcher nodded slowly and had slightly ashamed looks on their faces.

May glared at the Pyramid Master, she suspected that he had told them, she then sighed and started.

"It's quite simple." She shook her head. "We had a little argument, we departed and when I tried to look him up to talk... he called me things that nobody wants to hear... then he threw his half of the ribbon in my face and stormed off."

"Did Ash really do that?" Gary asked with his eyebrows raised, why did Ash not mention that before? "Are you sure that you're not missing anything?"

"It was years ago!" May shouted at him. "He acted like a jerk towards me both times we met! What should I have done!?"

"Stop being such a bitch..." Paul was lucky that only Brock heard that line.

"I still don't believe that he would do such thing..." Gary seemed to hesitate. "I remember how he treasured that half ribbon... he would never just throw it away like that."

"He wouldn't?" May frowned as she reached inside her fanny-pack that she still wore and took out a ribbon... a ribbon split in two. "It seems pretty certain to me."

"But... can't you just forgive him?"

"Why should I!?" May shrieked, it took a minute before she calmed down. "He hurt me! He called me things! He threw something we had won together right in my face! He betrayed me! That short, immature, little childish jerk abandoned me!"

After those words she inhaled heavily before she stormed off, leaving Brock, Gary and Paul in an uncomfortable silence.

"That was.... interesting?" Gary said after a moment, Paul only nodded lightly.

"Every story has two sides to it; sometimes they can be really different though." Brock shook his head. "I don't know who I should believe anymore... what do you guys think?"

"I'm sorry..." Gary sighed. "But I think May's right... I can't picture May doing the things she did in Ash's story."

"Ash was right." Paul only said as he walked pass the breeder and researcher to exit the gym. "On both accounts."

"And what's the second thing?" Brock demanded to know as he followed the battle brain's every step.

"His 'friends' are really weak minded."

"What's that supposed to mean!?" Gary's temper had gotten a hold of him again and he walked towards Paul. "What do you mean 'weak minded'!?"

Paul only sighed tiredly as he looked at the researcher. "Aren't you supposed to be the smart one?"

"Please, tell us." Brock groaned, he was tired of the fact that everyone was talking in riddles.

"You never thought as to why May had both parts of the ribbon in her bag?" With those words he left the two males to their thoughts.

After a moment of silence Gary decided to speak. "Why DID she have the ribbon anyway?"

"Does it matter?" Brock sighed. "I'm going to get scolding from Holly and mum when I exit the gym..."

"I feel for you, pal." Gary patted him on the back. "I'm planning on taking the back door."

"You're not going anywhere!" Brock growled as he grabbed the back of Gary's sweater. "We're both equally guilty and are going to face the music together!"

He then dragged Gary off and ignored the researcher's pleading and whining as he was being dragged out of the gym... there were several women with death-glares, waiting for them just outside.


"What did you do?!!?" Was the collective shout of the twenty odd women who were waiting for the poor researcher and breeder, Paul had somehow managed to escape their death grip. "What were you thinking?!!"

"What DID we do!?" Gary shouted back, he had enough of all this unnecessary yelling. "Tell us what we did and we will explain!"

"How about how you made May tear up by mentioning you-know-who?" Holly asked with her arms crossed, several others were mimicking her. "Don't make me choose between my fiancé and my best friend."

"And don't make me choose between my fiancé and MY best friend!" Brock had enough of all this, he stood up and faced the army of girls, looking much braver than he felt. "May is your best friend and she's like a sister to me too, but Ash is like a brother to me and has saved my life for as long as I can remember! He has been prepared to sacrifice his life several times for us and our world! And what did this world do for him? Huh? What did it!?"

Gary watched with wide eyes as his friend stood up for somebody that he wouldn't really class as a friend now, then he shivered a little as he thought of the reactions of the girls... he slowly turned around to face the herd of bloodthirsty females.

"Brock..." Was everything Holly could say. "I.. forgot, I'm sorry."

The breeder only nodded and they both subsequently crushed each other in a hug.

Gary was dumbfound, what just happened here!? And why are the other females not surprised at all!? He was going crazy... he knew it.

Suddenly, they saw a long, white limo that had just arrived... it completely ignored the fire hydrant in front of the house and parked by the gate, it was also blaring very loud music that could be heard from outside the limo.

Everyone crowded around the limo and all the single girls started to check their hair and clothes, because the person who owned the car had to be rich!

The door opened and revealed a green head, but the hair was greasy and looked like it hadn't been washed for days and was pointing out in every direction in a very un-sexy way... some of the girls had lost interest by this time, but there were still some that seemed to ignore that and look excitedly towards the door.

They waited, waited and waited and.... waited.

But the person couldn't move! The driver quickly ran to the person that and gave him a helping hand.

Now everybody could see the person's round face that was red and covered with sweat due to the physical exertion of just getting out the car.

He wore some kind of black kimono, but that didn't help in hiding his really unfit body as he strode....more like waddled.... towards the group with a confident smirk.

By now, all the girls had lost hope and only looked with disgust at the over-sized greenette that was walking towards them with a look that nobody could take as nice.

"Drew..." Brock mumbled dumbfound. "What's he doing here?"

Gary could see that Ash had been wrong, he wasn't as 'big as a house', but he wasn't too far off though…

"I got your invitation." Came a voice that caused some girls to choke in disgust, some of them even them tried to sneak away from the man in front of them. "It's after all no surprise that somebody like me would have gotten an invitation to such a big social event!"

"T... thanks..." Holly seemed to hesitate, but Brock knew him, so that means that he couldn't be all bad... right? "W... why don't you make yourself comfortable inside?"

"A wonderful idea!" The former coordinator nodded as he took out a walking stick to help waddle his way to the house. "I shall lighten up your house with my presence!"

"Thanks?" Holly was feeling really awkward as she tried to ignore the stench of sweat mixed with expensive perfume that followed the man as he was walked past her. She didn't know how in the name of Mew that Brock could've met up with someone like that!

"Holly!" She was snapped out from her thoughts by her fiancé. "Why did you invite Drew?"

"I... I thought he was a... friend of yours." She stuttered slightly as she tried to hide her embarrassment. "He wasn't?"

"No," Brock regretted his words then. "Or, I didn't talk to him enough to know him and..."

His words were halted by the screams of children from inside the house... the kids had probably just laid their eyes on the green abomination that was dressed in a black kimono .

Brock and Gary were about to run inside and assist the children... that was until they heard a loud roaring sound that seemed to be getting closer and closer.

They turned around and saw...

End of chapter 7


Hadn't used a cliffhanger in a while, so I decided that it was time to use one XD

It looks pretty clear whose side Paul has taken... will the wedding be divided into to sides with one that supports Ash and the other one May? Will Ash even come to the wedding? Will I ever stop asking questions that I already know the answer of?
Stay tuned for the next chapter!

It's better to review later than never and I'll be seeing you in the next chapter!

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(P/s: I've put up a hidden review-limit in my head... so you better review, all of you!)