Meanwhile back to Ash and Co,

Ash and May are now finally traveling to Dewford. They had stumbled across Mr. Briney and saved him from a Aqua. Being so grateful, Mr. Briney had decided to ferry our heroes to Dewford for free. And Ash agreed to this with an overwhelming smile.

They have been traveling almost for five hours now and Ash started to feel restless. He kept fidgeting around and one time he stood up so fast that he threw Pikachu overboard, after the little rodent was once again in the safety of the boat, he gave Ash a nice shocking.

Finally, they arrived in Dewford after another hour..or so they thought. It turned out not to be Dewford but some secret island that they stumbled by accident. So, our heroes decided to take a break and May even decided to go swimming and Max joined her.

"Ahhh, this water feels so nice.." May said as she drifted on the surface of the water.

Max bobbed beside her nodding in approval. When suddenly, they felt some sort of movement in the water. Max dismissed it with some explanation of how fronts coming in the weather can change wind directions.

But then after sometime, Max felt something rough brush against his arm.

"Max…I felt something.." May said, obviously spooked by this.

Max gulped audibly and nodded. Suddenly a shrill cry could be heard,

"SHARKPEDO!"

May yelled and trashed in the water, panicking that this shark pokemon might harm her. Max who is more calm and collective than his sister, simply grabbed her arm and paddled to shore. But the shore looked so far away and the sharkpedos were closing in on them. Suddenly two strong arms grabbed May and Max and it turned out to be Ash and Brock.

Brock turned to Ash,

"Ash, you help May and I'll help Max" he said before grabbling Max and starting to swim to shore. Ash followed.

MEANWHILE,

"Ahhh, I love flying on a jetpack. Anyway I better find May and give my apologies." Said Brendan as he flew towards the place where he last saw May.

BACK TO ASH AND CO:

Ash and May finally arrived in shore and saw the sharkpedos swim away. May felt a deep sense of gratitude for Ash as he was the one who saved her life and thus she wrapped her arms around his neck and gave Ash a small peck on his cheeks. Ash merely smiled back and pecked her on the cheek back, as even Ash knew this was a mere friendly kiss. May suddenly heard a sob behind her.

MEANWHILE,

Brendan finally spotted May from above and prepared to land. Oddly, She was swimming pretty close to Ash. Brendan shrugged off this thought and continued his way down, noiselessly. He finally landed and made his way to the group when he saw May swing her arms around Ash's neck and kiss him. Brendan was heart-broken, and that would be the understatement of the century. He was even more crushed when he saw Ash kiss her back, and he could not help but let out a sob.

May turned around and saw Brendan, with tears running down his cheeks. His face was a mixture of sadness, anger and ..Betrayal. Brendan never felt like this, he was heart broken that May did not choose him, but at that same time he felt angry at May for neglecting him and felt mainly betrayed because she did not even tell him about having a boyfriend beforehand.

May seemed shocked,

" Brendan, this…this..this is not what it looks like!" she exclaimed looking flustered.

Brendan took a step backwards and yelled,

"I HATE YOU MAY! HOW COULD YOU BETRAY ME LIKE THIS?! I TRUSTED YOU!!" his face then turned purely into anger.

He pulled the strings on his jetpack and flew off into the horizon, tears flying behind him.

May felt her knees go weak as she watched her only crush fly away, his last words ringing inside her like a thousand bells, "I HATE YOU!"

May shuddered and let her tears fall, making the sandy ground wet from her tears. Ash approached cautiously behind May, so did Brock and Max.

"May, i..i am sorry" Ash said looking crestfallen.

May smiled and shook her head,

"Its not your fault, Ash, you did not cause this…I need sometime on my own.." she said and ran off, leaving a devastated looking trio behind her.

MEANWHILE:

Brendan landed on a lone and desolate island. Just like me…He thought.

He collapsed onto the ground and began to sob. How could she!? She knew I liked her, her friends always teased her about it….i guess love is more complicated….i guess she just fell out of love for me and chose another boy behind my back…

He let his bitter tears fall down, letting all of it out and pounding the floor so hard that a crater had formed. Suddenly he heard his communicator go off..

He opened it and saw his father calling him. He quickly dried his eyes and took the call.

"Hiya, Brendan! How are you?" asked the cheery professor.

Brendan smiled miserably and involuntarily a tear slid out of his eye. He quickly dried it but not before his father seeing it.

"Brendan, ..what is wrong?" he asked.

Brendan knew better than to keep his emotions bottled up so he let everything out.

Birch simply nodded his head and continued,

"I have experienced heart breaks too, Ruby, but the challenge is to pick up the pieces and continue on with life without even once looking back at this, after all you are the commander of rex, and I expect no lesser of you" he said.

Brendan nodded; a new hope dawned inside of him,

So what if May is not there, I can find another TRUSTWORTHY girl later on…

Brendan smiled and continued his conversation with Prof. Birch.

Finally, after half an hour, Brendan decided to go back to his secret base. He took out his jetpack and saw the meter, it read:

AMOUNT OF FUEL LEFT: 10 GALLONS

DISTANCE IT CAN TRAVEL: ABOUT 500 MILES

This was more than enough to make a trip back to Little Root town. He swung it over his back and flew off, leaving nothing but dust in his awake. Suddely as he was flying , he saw some one running down the shore, by the way she was moving, he knew she was in pain. Brendan had before taken psychology lessons and he learnt to read body languages, a vital trait for a police officer. He decided to console her as he descended, he realized it was actually May. He felt anger boil up inside him. Brendan decided to have a little talk with her. Brendan landed behind May, who had her legs drew up to her chest and was sobbing softly. Brendan said quite sternly, "May!"

May jerked a little before noticing Brendan. Her eyes started to fill with tears and she said, "Brendan I am sorry, its was not like that," she stood up and ran to him.

She buried her head into his chest and started sobbing and Brendan simply put an arm around her.

May explained the entire ordeal to him, still in his embrace. Brendan nodded and smiled, he was never so happy and relived. May gave him a teary smile. Brendan returned the smile.

"I am sorry, May, its…its all just a misunderstanding…" said Brendan.

May nodded and rested her head on his shoulder. Brendan tightened his grip around her. Suddenly May looked up and her and Brendan's eyes met.

May felt herself drawing closer to Brendan, just like he did. She laid her palm on his cheek and brought herself closer. Their lips almost touched when,

"BLAZIKEN!" shouted Blaziken popping out of his ball, only to realize his wrong timing and grin sheepishly. May and Brendan blushed crimson.

Brendan returned Blaziken and took May's hand into his own. After giving her a smile and getting one in return, they both ran off into the horizon, hoping to find Ash and the others.

AUTHOR'S NOTES:

So how was it? In my opinion, the ALMOST kissing scene was lame. I just did not know how people get into a kiss..hehe. Anyway, review and thanks for reading. The next chapter would be up in a week or so, depending on my school.

Until next chapter!!