"Hellllloooo everyone and welcome to the Hearthome City contest!" Marian announced happily, "We have a nice day out today. Let's begin with our first coordinator, May from the Hoenn region!"

May had rushed out ready to go, "Okay take the stage Blastoise!"

"Blastoisssssssssseeeeeee!" The giant blue turtle type pokemon roared.
"Okay Blastoise, Hydro Pump!" May commanded.

Blastoise had used Hydro Pump in the air and was ready for it's next move.

"Rapid Spin!" May said happily, she was ready to be finished.

The Blastoise had started to spin around and the water from the Hydro Pump had begun to fall down. The water had fallen on Blastoise and now it's spalshing around and it look like rain after it hits your cieling.

"Good job Blastoise!" May said tossing it a few Poffins she made yesterday. It was over quickly. This was one of May's weaker performances, but she had forgotten to train for it.

"Not the best, but still pretty good." Nurse Joy said trying not to hurt May's feelings.
"Remarkable." Mr. Sukizo said blandly.
"You could have done better, but it was wonerful either way." Said Mr. Contesta.

May had walked off of the stage feeling so dissapointed. wondering if she was going to make it to the next round or not. She passed Drew on the way back, they met in the hallway since he was next.

Drew could see the dissapointment in May's eyes. He handed her a rose, "Cheer up May and don't worry. You'll make it into the next round, I promise."

May smiled and smelled the rose as Drew kept walking along ready for his performance.

"Now Everyone! Please Welcome Drew from LaRousse City!" Marian said happily announcing the young green haired coordinator. Everyone cheered loud and crazy. Especially his little fangirls. They were in love with him.

"Roserade!" Drew said with a quiet type of softness in his voice that the girls loved. They were all quiet for this performance since it was Drew.
As the Roserade came out of it's pokeball roses had joined the entrance. It was a stunning sight.

"Roserade, use petal dance!" Drew said with the same voice he used to call it out.

"Rose Rose!" Roserade had started the Petal Dance Progress. Flowers had started to bloom from it's hands and Roserade had lets its hands up to let the flowers move around.

"Now Roserade, sweet scent!" Drew said. The powerful grass type had whipped up a sweet scent, which had captivated all people and pokemon. Everyone was mesmorized at how good this coordinator was. Since they were new to Sinnoh, people were starstruck to this new face. The only people that knew who he was in the audience were Solidad, Harley, and his fangirls from Hoenn. The roses petals and the sweet scent made this thie perfect appeal move.

"Remarkable!" Mr. Sukizo said with an energetic expression on his face.
"That was very wonderful!" Nurse Joy also said with a good expression on her face.
"Nice technique with the petals and scent. Fantastic!" Said Mr. Contesta.
"And that was Drew ladies and gentleman!" Marian announced as he walked off.

Drew met back up with May in the waiting room.

"You did great Drew." May said happily momentarily forgetting that she thought she did horrible.

"So did you, May. You just need to believe you did good to feel good." Drew said reassuring her even more.

"I sure hope you're right." May said now thinking of her disappointing appeal.

"Okay everyone! It's time to tell you guys who have made it to the next round!" Marian announced.

May and Drew were watching the screen carefully. May was ready for the worst. Drew was ready to be her knight and shining armour and help her out if she didn't make it. The pictures showed up. Of course, Drew was first, then a few more. More and more came and May was getting more dissapointed by the second. Until there it was, the last picture was to be called.

CRASH. BOOM. BAAAHH. The power went out before they reaveled the last person. May still couldn't breathe.

"Drew?" May asked moving her arms around for him.

"May. It's okay, I got you." Drew said graabing her wrists

Everyone that had a pokemon that could light up the room let them out.
"Come on out Blaziken!" May said as the fire type roared, "Blaziken let there be light."

"Blaze Blaze!" Blaziken had started a small fire at his hands and made sure no one was around so they wouldn't get burnt.

On the outside of the waiting room, there were a group of people that Sinnohians didn't know.
"Prepare for trouble..."

"...and make it double!"

"To infect the world from devastation!"

"To blight all people in every nation!"

"To denounce the goodness of truth and love!"

"To extend our wrath to the stars above!"

"Cassidy!"

"An Butch, of course!"

"We're team Rocket, circling Earth all day and night!"

"Surrender to us now or you will surely lose the fight!"

May had recognized that motto, but it wasn't Jessie and James, that's for sure. Who were Butch and Cassidy?

"May? Are you okay?" Drew asked nudging her. She looked so focused on trying to figure out who it was.

May looked at him, "Drew. We need to get up there!" She grabbed his hand and Blaziken followed them as they needed the light. Everytime May touched Drew, he knew he felt like he was blushing.

By the time they got up there, a line had been made and everyone's pokemon were out. Even Harley and Solidad's.
"Guys, what's going on?" Drew asked as they saw them in line.

"These Team Rocket thugs told everyone to get in a line and hand them your pokemon." Harley said looking like he was about to give up.

"What?! And you're ready to give up and hand your pokemon over? Drew. Back me up here. We need to get them to stop!" May said already walking off.

"Let's make a stand then May." Drew said suggestively May knew exactly what he meant since she had just said it, but that wasn't gonna make her start to argue with him.

Drew was the one to take May's hand this time and march up to the front of that line.

'C'mon. Keep them coming." May and Drew could hear the muscular voiced man commanding the people to give them their pokemon.

"Hey! Cassidy! Birch! What do you think you're doing?" May asked trying to take control of the situation.

"IT'S BUTCH," he said angrily taking another pokemon from a short little pig tailed girl. She started to cry. Drew watched and observed until he finally said something.

"Butch, Cassidy, Double Battle. We win and you have to give all the Pokemon back and leave. You win and you can get all the pokemon you took." Drew said looking sternly at Cassidy.

"C'mon Butch, we can take on these wimps." She said gesturing them to the battle. All the people in that line had gone back to the stands, stumbling and falling down as they tried to find there seats.

"Are you sure about this Drew?" May asked.

"Always." Drew said smirking and flicking his hair.

"Solidad..." Harley starts as they are still in the dark.

"What?" Solidad asked still mad.

"I'm sorry." Harley said.

"For what?" Solidad asked.

"Making you feel like a hypocrite. I know what I said took it too far, and I'm sorry." Harley said.

Solidad searched around for his hand, remembering that little game they had, "No. Don't be. I was taking that joke too seriously. I said things that were off the bar too. I'm sorry."

Harley blushed, it's a good thing they couldn't see in the dark, "Are we good now?"

"Yeah. We're good." Solidad said smiling.

"Are you smiling?"

"How did you know?"

"I just know you too well Soli."

"Okay Venusaur. Come on out!" May said throwing her pokeball in the air, "think of this as a contest battle, the judges are wathcing." That was true, since the only light had they had in the Contest Hall was the spotlight on the battle.

"Let's go Flygon!" Drew said as the Dragon Type flew out of her pokeball flawlessly.

"Okay Mightyena, time to fight!" Butch announced as he let out his dark type.

"Houndoom time to howl!" Cassidy says as she let's out her dark and fire type.

"I'll go! Mightyena use crunch on Flygon!" Butch says.

"Flygon, Fly!" Drew said focused.

"Venusaur, Sunny Day!" Said May.

"Houndoom! Flamethrower!" Cassidy yelled, she was way into the battle. Houndoom was aimed for Venusaur and May knew, she didn't know before or else she wouldn't have used Sunny Day to make the Flamethrower even more powerful and effective than it already was. Drew knew it was aimed to Venusaur too.

"Flygon! Get to Houndoom and stop it!" He said said frantically trying to protect his crushes Pokemon. He giant green pokemon got down and used it's move on Houndoom, it's made the Houndoom let out the Flamethrower on it, but it wasn't very effective so it was okay.

"Venusaur! Solar Beam on Mightyena!" May said pointing tothe dog looking pokemon.

"No! Mightyena, Quick Attack on the lumpy Venusaur!" Butch said adding extra fuel to the fire. Mightyena was about to dodge the powerful attack with it's own, but as it was evading as quick as it could, the Solar Beam hit the side of Mightyena.

"Houndoom use Take Down!" Cassidy said pointing the Flygon this time.

"Flygon! Wing Attack!" Drew commanded just wanting to stop this battle from continueing. Houndoom kept going to Flygon no matter how many times Flygon kept using Wing Attack.

"Venusaur! Petal Dance!" May announced as the sunny day was still going. All the brightness of the battle could light the whole hall up.
"Okay. Let's end this now May." Drew said annoyed at the fact the battle was still going.

"How?" May asked.

"Mightyena! Tackle!" Butch said pointing between the opposing Pokemon, so Drew and May didn't know which one he was going to hit.
"Dodge it!" May and Drew said at the same time.

"May, I'm going to use Earthquake. Get ready." Drew said.

"Right." May agreed nodding her head.

"Okay Flygon! Use Earthquake! Give it all you got!" Drew said. Flygon had set it's feet on the floor, ready to make the floor shake. The dragon and ground type had shook the floor, everyone was unsteady and scared of what Drew could do.

"Now! Venusaur, use Solarbeam on all of them!" May said.

"Venusa aurrr" The creature roared. It got the beam of light and liad it upon the unsuspecting opponents.

"Wait! Houndoom, use Fissure!" Cassidy yelled in anger and frustration hoping this move would work. A giant rock slide with fire like a volcano appeared about Flygon, Venusaur, Drew, and May.

The Solar Beam hit Butch and Cassidy, "Looks like Team Rocket is heading off again!"

The rocks had come down like rain and May didn't know it was above her since she was so focused on Venusaur and how proud she was.
"May! Lookout!" Drew said, but it was too late, and the both got pelted with rocks. And so did their Pokemon.

A few minutes later, Drew got up, "May? May!" He yelled out for her. The lights had come back on, and everyone was glued to what was going on in the stage. It was like a Soap Opera to them.

Drew saw a faint green bandana and the top of Venusaur, "May!" He got to where he saw it and tried to let go of the rocks.

May quickly got up and saw the light, "Drew. Did I make it?" She asked softly as she was in pain. More pain than Drew because the Fissure was aimed for her and Venusaur.

Drew looked up at the board, he smiled a big smile to see that May was the last picture, "Yeah. You did."

"Yes!" May said putting her fist up in the air. Her fist came back down when Drew noticed she had passed out.

"Nurse Joy! We need some help over here!" Drew yelled out.

"It's okay Drew. It'll be okay." Nurse Joy and her Pokemon said getting the injured Pokemon. Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny got a stretcher and put May on it.

"Don't Worry Kid. You're girlfriend will be alright." Officer Jenny said.

"She's not my girlfriend..yet." Drew said mumbling and silently.