Chapter 6: The Story

Red-haired 16-year-old Bill Darius crawled out of his tent and yawned. He heard a groaning sound to his direct left. When he looked toward that direction, he saw Dylan Cypher hanging on a tree with a rickety rope around his stomach. Bill remembered that he and Erica tied him up the night before because of the switch incident. "Dylan! Are you okay?"

"I will only be okay if I have some…some…candy," Dylan replied miserably.

Erica sitting next to the Oak tree that Dylan was hanging from said, "He's okay."

Dylan squirmed around and then begged, "Please give me some candy."

"Fine," said Bill. The 5'11" teenager walked to his tent and pulled out a rectangular bar that read "Milky Way Midnight". He pulled the candy out of the wrapper and placed it in Dylan's mouth.

Dylan, however, spat it out almost instantly. He angrily exclaimed, "You're still trying to torture me!" He squirmed very violently until the rope gave way and Dylan fell face first on the ground.

Erica giggled. "Wow, you certainly…"

Dylan just glared at Erica and she stopped words short. He did an evil laugh and his Sneasel climbed onto his shoulder and said, "Snea."

Bill ran up to Dylan and asked, "What do you mean we were still torturing you? I eat that type of candy all the time."

"How in the world can you stand that candy?" yelled Dylan. "It is the worst candy ever made!"

"Guys, can you keep it down?" asked Misty coming out of her tent. "We're still trying to sleep."

"It's time everyone woke up anyway. We're ready to tell you the rest of the story," said Dylan. He then reached his full arm into his metallic backpack and pulled out a yellow canister with a red top. He pressed the button located at the very top, and the container made a loud honking noise. Ash, Brock, and Diana all three immediately exited their respective tents.

After he regained his senses, Ash angrily asked, "What was that about?"

A voice from behind one of the bushes said, "Probably just to make a fool out of you." The bushes were moved to show a 6'0" young man with green hair and blue eyes. He wore a yellow T-shirt with a white oval in the middle of the chest and some elastic red and white shorts. Beside of him was a young lady with brown hair. She was wearing a red blouse, white shorts, eggshell white gloves, and a red bandana with a white pokeball symbol ranging just to the mid-right on the front.

Ash and co. was surprised to see their old friends. Ash was the first to say, "Drew! May! What are you two doing here?"

May responded, "Well, we decided to take a little break from coordinating in Duos Archipelago. What are you three doing here? And who are your new friends?"

"Excuse us a moment," Bill told the individuals from the past. "We'll let you get acquainted with each other." Bill then pulled Dylan away from the group. He asked, "Do you realize how bad this is now? If we explain that we are from the future in front of your parents…well…who knows how bad we could affect the space-time continuum."

Dylan placed his palm on his forehead and started shaking it. Then he said, "I realize that, yes, but you better account for the fact that everyone is in danger from some other time travelers. Perhaps we should tell my parents too."

"Are you sure you want to take the risk?" asked Bill.

"We must," replied Dylan. The duo came to the rest of the group. Dylan then turned to Diana and Erica and told them, "We will need to tell them most of what we know of the situation, without revealing theirs or our futures." He turned his face toward Bill and stated, "You start with what happened."

"Well," started Bill, "to start, my comrades and myself are from the future. Team Rocket from our time tried to travel to the past and change your future, our present. All four of us are trying to stop them now. Here's my story. I found out completely by accident. You see what happened was that I infiltrated the Team Rocket Headquarters in…" Dylan immediately coughed, signaling that Bill should not reveal the position of the Team Rocket HQ. He then continued, "Oh, um, don't worry about the details. Anyways, when I entered into the building, I took notice that no Rocket members were around. I traveled through the building until a guard came to me. We had a battle; he lost. I stood next to the door he was blocking and learned of a time travel experiment. Afterwards, I went to the only person that I knew that could stop this experiment, but it was too late. I then learned that this individual also experimented with time travel. He gave me the Time Travel Ball and some special goggles. Soon I ended up in this time to stop Team Rocket from ending this world." Bill turned to Dylan and said, "Your turn."

Dylan nodded his head. He told the eight that were there, "Well, you four know my secret. I was once a member of Team Rocket. I then betrayed Team Rocket. After our travels together, I started working for the officers of the law. I was given a very important assignment, spy on Team Rocket and see what their plans are. I learned of this time travel experiment and knew that I couldn't stop it in time, for, you see, the experiment was completed. Afterwards, the boss activated the device and sent us all back to the past. However, something went wrong with the machine, for all the members ended up in different parts of the region. I knew that with the remote that I had been provided with, I could reconfigure it to send others back into the future and into jail. Now, here I am." An explosion sounded in the woods. Dylan stated, "I'll see what's up."

"I'm coming too," responded Bill. The two went into the woods. Then two Team Rocket members covered in soot ran straight to the duo. One of the members looked at Dylan and said said, "Now we have you, you traitor."

"Oh really?" asked Dylan as he prepared one of his pokeballs. "May I ask how you can stop us?"

"Like this," replied the second rocket member. The tall yet plump member sent out a black pokeball. A large black bird with head feathers in the shape of a hat, a red crest on a white chest, and orange talons was sent out. The pokemon, Honchkrow, charged towards Dylan and Bill. Dylan threw out his pokeball and called, "Rise from the shadows, Sneasel." The black pokemon with a pink feather on its head and sharp claws, stood up with its body turned toward the left of his enemy, his head facing toward the enemy, and its right claw crossing over toward its left. "Now, Sneasel, use Shadow Ball!" The Sneasel placed its claws in front of itself and an electrostatic purple sphere was created in front of it. The Sneasel then reared it arm back and pitched the glowing sphere toward the Honchkrow. The Honchkrow quickly deflected it with a Whirlwind blowing from its flapping wings.

Dylan thought, "Argh, I don't want to use Kamaitachi…the negative effects are too great." Dylan then remembered one of his contest combos that were very useful in the art of battle. He commanded, "Sneasel, use Shadow Ball in the air." The Dark- and Ice-type pokemon created another purple sphere and tossed it in the air. "Now jump and use Metal Claw to give it some juice!" The Sneasel's left claw glowed a dark shade of purple. The pokemon jumped high into the air and slammed its claw into the Shadow Ball. At a great speed, Ghost-type move crashed into the Honchkrow before it could create another Whirlwind to deflect the attack.

Drew, behind Dylan, thought, "Wait a minute, that technique."

A flashback showed the Bliz Town Contest. May sent out her Glaceon, a light blue fox with two headpieces drooping from its head and a diamond shaped tail, against Drew's Espeon, a pink fox with a red jewel in the middle of its forehead and two tails. May commanded, "Alright, Glaceon, use Shadow Ball!" The Ice-type opened its mouth, and a black orb appeared in front of its face. Then, the ball rocketed toward the Psychic-type eeveelution.

"Deflect it, Espeon, with Psywave!" responded Drew. The pink fox opened its mouth and a sonic wave blasted out of its mouth. The distortion the wave caused was lavender. The Shadow Ball hit against the Psywave. The dark-colored orb was forced back to hit the Glaceon. May's contest points were nearly depleted.

She then had a plan. She commanded, "Glaceon, fire another Shadow Ball, but shoot it in the air." The light-colored Pokemon did so. May called, "Now, jump. Then, hit it with your Iron Tail!" Glaceon's tail started to glow a bright white. It leaped toward the Shadow Ball, flipped vertically, and hit the Shadow Ball with its tail as it completed its second flip. The Shadow Ball speedily hit the Espeon, knocked it out, and won the contest for May. The flashback ended.

Remembering that Dylan told them that he and his friends were from the future, Drew thought, "Ah yes, that technique…" he then noticed the attire that Dylan was wearing. He continued his thoughts, "with that bandana and those gloves. It could only mean one thing…" He then called, "You there."

Dylan turned around toward his future father and answered, "Yeah?"

"I think I figured out one of your parents," claimed Drew. "It is obvious that your mother is May. I mean you'd have to be mentally challenged to not see that." Both Diana and Bill hung there heads in shame for they could not figure out that Dylan was May's son when they met him.

Ash said, "I didn't want to say anything, but Drew does make a good point."

Dylan replied, "Ugh, you figured it out, well, my mother anyways."

Stars filled May's eyes. She exclaimed, "I wonder who will be the lucky man I will marry!"

"Probably some guy who gets really lucky…bad luck is luck as well," sneered a jealous Drew.

Ash started saying, "Well, I think his father is…" Dylan slapped him in the back of the head. Ash then said, "Ouch, all I was going to say was…" Dylan hit him in the same spot. Ash claimed, "Stop it!" Dylan attacked Ash's head again.

Once Ash was silent, Dylan asked, "You finished?"

"Yes," replied Ash as he put up his arms just in case Dylan would attack again.

"Good," claimed Dylan. "Here's your treat." Dylan reached his entire arm into his backpack and pulled out a Pink poffin, a small cake-like snack that Pokemon love to eat. He then handed it to Ash and stated, "Enjoy."

"Hey! Do you think I'm a pokemon?" retorted Ash.

"Those weren't for you," replied Dylan as he walked off. A wild Scyther, a green bug pokemon with two scythe-like arms, came from nowhere and started to charge toward the young trainer holding the poffin.

Ash called, "You wanna battle? I'll give you one." He took his baseball cap and turned it so the bill was in the back. He took a Pokeball from his belt and said, "Go, Blastoise!" He threw the pokeball and a giant blue turtle-like pokemon with a brown shell with a tan front appeared from it. Before Ash could issue a command, a laser appeared out of nowhere and surrounded the Scyther.

A battle cry was heard, "Capture on!" Out of the bushes to Diana's right was a human wearing an orange uniform with white sleeves, a pair of dirty white cleats, and a mechanism with a monitor and laser antennae on his arm. He was about 6'0" tall, had purple hair and blue eyes, and had a Shellder sitting on his shoulder.

Ash called, "A Pokemon Ranger!"

The laser that was surrounding the Scyther disappeared, and the Ranger claimed, "Capture complete." He went up to the green bug, handed it a blue poffin with pink sprinkles and asked, "Are you feeling better?" The Scyther nodded its head as it took a bite of the round cake. Its eyes showed that it enjoyed the Poffin. The stranger said, "Alright, you can go now."

"Henry!" claimed Bill as he ran up to the Ranger, "is that you?"

"Bill? What-What are you doing here?" asked the suited person. "I thought that you were in the future."

"Well…it's kinda a long story," replied Diana as she went up to Henry. She hugged the Pokemon Ranger and gave him a slight kiss on the cheek. "It's been a while since we last saw each other."

"Hold on, time out!" called Brock as he came up to Henry. "Who is this?"

Dylan came up to Brock and said, "This is Henry. He is another one of our friends from the future. As you can clearly see, he's a Pokemon Ranger. Henry used to be a trainer but decided otherwise. He thought that he wouldn't make a good trainer after traveling with us for a while and became a Ranger. But back to the matter at hand." Dylan reached into his backpack and pulled out small rectangular device. He pressed a red button on the left short side of the device. A hologram with a map of the region, Kanto, appeared above the device. Dylan started, "This is the region of Kanto circa 25 years from now, our present, your future." Dylan pressed the button again and a picture of a man with purple, neat, tidy hair, wearing sunglasses and business suit, and had blue eyes. Dylan continued, "This is the leader of Team Rocket, Aster Rocket, son of the ex-leader, whose name I cannot remember right off."

This statement surprised Bill. He told him, "His name is…" Dylan immediately tackled Bill before he could finish his sentence.

Dylan whispered, "They don't need to know that. Besides, there's a reason why I didn't reveal his name."

Brock came up to Bill and asked, "What is his name?"

"Nevermind," replied Dylan. "If we told you, it could distort the space-time continuum, and a few other things."

"Okay," responded Brock, "I understand. May I ask one thing?"

"What is it?" asked Bill as he pushed Dylan off him.

Brock started to get hearts in his eyes and asked, "Who will be the girl that will be lucky enough to marry me?" A purple frog with orange puffed out cheeks, black hands and feet, and bandages wrapped around its waist appeared behind Brock. Its right hand changed to a purple color and stabbed Brock on the lower back. Brock then fell over on his face. The purple frog, Croagunk, pulled Brock into a grove of shrubs.

"I guess Croagunk gave him the answer," laughed Dylan. He turned toward May and asked, "Did he really expect an answer?"

"With Brock who knows?" replied May as she was polishing one of her Pokeballs. She then came up to Dylan and said, "Well, you can tell your mom who your dad is…right?" Her pupils started to enlarge.

Dylan told her, "Sorry, May, but I can't."

"I'm sure that it'll be easy to figure out," replied Drew. "Look how easy it was to figure your mother out."

"Whatever," said Dylan to his future father.

Five minutes later, Erica, Bill, Dylan, Henry, and Diana separated from the rest of the group. Bill asked, "What'll we do if they figure out our parents?"

"Relax," replied Dylan, "all we have to do is make sure that we are careful on how we act. We don't need to erase ourselves that's for sure, but that doesn't mean we can't do much."

"Yeah," said Erica enthusiastically. "I'm sure that we can keep from being caught."

"So says the girl who their dad knows whom she is," teased Dylan.

Erica slapped Dylan upside the head and said, "Shutup."

End of Chapter