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Pokemon Legends: Sidestories
Chapter Ten
It Will Be My Secret Base!
Date: 10 days after the Sanctuary's completion.
While Ashley had set out across Hoenn to get pictures of the gym leaders alongside her pokemon, May had set out for Lilycove with Flygon. After setting down on the roof of the department store, which gave her a great view of the surrounding city, May contemplated her next move.
"Maybe I should try going to Kanto?" May thought, flopping back onto the warm concrete. "I bet I could get at least some peace there. Come to think of it, they definitely couldn't get to the island either..."
The past few days had been rough for May. She thought she would be left alone if she stayed in Littleroot, but the media soon caught wind of this. Soon she had reporters trying to interview her about her night in Fortree, as well as trying to get her to talk about her journey across Hoenn challenging the gyms. They weren't the real problem, though. May quickly discovered there wasn't a thing they could do if she simply declined, she'd talk when she was ready to talk.
What she wasn't expecting, though, was another problem that soon followed: stalkers. Ever since word got out that she was back in Littleroot she's had people trying to follow her and take pictures. Specifically, they'd be peeking in through her windows and trying to get pictures of her either sleeping or in various states of undress. Curtains and blinds didn't seem to help any either as they just used their pokemon to move them out of the way. What made her finally decide to try to escape, though, was when she was woken up late last night by the sound of someone trying to drill through her bedroom wall.
"If I went to Kanto, they'd probably find me eventually, but they definitely couldn't get past the barrier if I went to the island." May mumbled to herself.
"Miss! I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to move!" An older man's voice yelled at her. May slowly sat up and turned to face him. He was a bit chubby looking and wearing an apron, the same one May remembered seeing shopkeepers wear the last time she had actually been in the department store.
"We're about to set up for our rooftop sale and...oh..." The man blinked a few times, finally realizing who he was talking to. "Err...nevermind! You can relax on any rooftop you want, miss May! We...we'll just work around you!"
May quickly stood up, grinning sheepishly. "Oh, no! That's ok! I'll leave!" She grabbed a pokeball from her belt, Flygon's again, and released her green skinned dragon pokemon. It immediately crouched down and waited for May to get on, already suspecting she wanted to get off the roof now. May quickly hopped on his back and the two flew away from the building.
The shopkeeper scratched his head as he watched May fly away. "I wonder what she was doing up here in the first place?"
"Great, I was hoping no one would be up there this time of morning." May said with a sigh. "Flygon, just keep going toward the ocean and set down on the beach." Flygon nodded and continued eastward toward the beach. As the water came into view down below, May could make out four figures on the beach wearing a uniform that May remembered all too well.
"Is that...Team Aqua?!" May uttered in disbelief. The four individuals, two male and two female, were wearing blue bandanas, pants, and white and black striped shirts. They were standing near the edge of the water, directly south of where May remembered their old hideout being. "What could they be doing here?" She wondered. "Didn't they disband after the incident at Sootopolis?"
May watched the group as Flygon flew closer, but was too high up to make out what they were saying. She did, however, notice that the one doing all the talking had his left arm in a splint, the left side of his shirt almost completely torn off, and bandages around his shoulder.
"If they're here...are they back in their old base again?" May wondered, then sighed. "Well, I could have hidden there easily enough, but if that's the case I'll have to chase them out first." May looked northward toward the large rock formation that hid Team Aqua's old base. The front entrance was still open to the sea, just how May remembered it being when she spent some time there. Remembering the hideout had a dock around the back, she motioned toward the rock.
"Flygon, take us around the back of that rock but stay out of sight of Team Aqua." May said to it. Flygon nodded and proceded toward the back of the rock formation, where another entrance was hidden. Flygon flew down inside and landed in what had once been Team Aqua's submarine dock. She couldn't see anyone immediately inside, though, and the dock looked like no one had been using it recently.
May jumped down from Flygon's back and then motioned for the dragon pokemon to follow her. She wanted to be ready incase she had to battle any of Team Aqua. She wasn't too worried, of course. The grunts in Team Aqua usually had pokemon so weak that any of her's could beat them, even at a type disadvantage. As she left the dock and wandered through the corridors of the old hideout, though, she didn't see any sign that anyone was there aside from her.
"That's strange...maybe they're just getting ready to move in?" May thought. There didn't seem to be any power to the building as none of the lights were on. In the corridors of the old hideout, without any light, May couldn't see a thing and was counting on Flygon to alert her to any obstacles or danger. She could still remember the layout pretty well, though, and made her way to the main entrance to see if the men and women she saw would come for the base.
She could finally see again when she made it to the main entrance, which was set up like an indoor harbour. There were about six inlets where a small boat could be parked and equipment for unloading boats was still there, slowly wearing away from the lack of maintenance. As she came out into the entrance with Flygon she spotted someone sitting near the edge of the harbour. She quickly ducked behind an operating panel for one of the cranes and motioned for Flygon to move back into the hall.
"Was that one of them?" May wondered. Cautiously, she peeked out from behind the machinery to get another look. She could just barely make out what looked like a young, blonde-haired girl in a blue one-piece swimsuit and two eel-like pokemon laid out next to her. They were all facing toward the water and didn't see May.
"Just a kid and her pokemon..." May breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the girl again. "She looks a bit young to be a licensed trainer though...and those pokemon with her don't look very tough either. She could be in trouble if Team Aqua comes here..."
The two pokemon accompanying the girl were a Gorebyss and a Huntail. Both deep sea pokemon evolved from Clamperl. May didn't recognize either pokemon as she never came across them in her pokemon journey. They were both about two feet long, about a third of the length of a typical Gorebyss or Huntail.
"Come to think of it...what's a girl like her even doing here?" May wondered, blinking. The girl didn't seem to be doing anything, aside from drinking from a small juice carton. While May wondered this, she would soon find out what Team Aqua was up to.
"We're back, little girl! And this time we'll be retaking our hideout!" May could hear a man's voice announcing. Further ahead, in the water, she could see the four Team Aqua members from before. They were crowded in a little dingy, floating in the water only a dozen feet away from the girl.
"So that's what they were up to!" May thought, staring at them intently. After realizing what was meant by the man's words, May looked at the girl and blinked in disbelief. "Wait...do they know her?"
"You guys again?" The girl tilted her head to the side as she looked at them. "Weren't there eleven of you last time?"
"Your little stunt last time shattered their confidence!" One of the Aqua's, the one with the ripped shirt and bandaged shoulder, yelled at the girl. "The rest fled after we..."
"Got your butts handed to you by a girl and two hatchlings!" The girl said, giggling to herself. "You guys were crying like babies when Bitey and Gorey got at you!"
"They...they can't be THAT pathetic...can they?" May said under her breath, blinking in disbelief. Remembering she still had Flygon waiting nearby, she looked over her shoulder at him while rubbing her neck. "Umm...Flygon, I want to see how this turns out but if they try anything..." May ended her sentence there, but Flygon still understood and nodded to her in agreement.
"Grr...you were just lucky you caught us off guard! We're ready for you with our pokemon this time!" A pair of Carvanha then emerged from the water in front of Team Aqua's boat. "Even our Carvanha can beat those evolved hatchlings!"
"Wow...'even' your Carvanha?" The girl giggled. "It's pretty bad when you already know your pokemon suck! You should just give up and go home!"
"The more I think about it...this girl seems kinda familiar, but I just can't put my finger on it!" May thought.
"Ha! And just what are you going to do about it?!" The leader of the group shot back. "Our Carvanha will still chew up those wimpy pokemon of your's!"
"-Lemme at 'em! I'll bite 'em!-" The miniature Huntail growled.
"-I want their blood!-" The Gorebyss added, stabbing at the air with her thin mouth.
"But I'm definitely not battling you with these two." The girl replied, sucking noisily on her nearly empty juice box. "I'm still learning, I definitely couldn't beat your Carvanha with them..."
"Come to think about it...how many blonde-haired girls do I even know?" May thought, her attention slowly slipping away from the situation at hand while she wracked her mind over why the girl seemed so familiar to her. "I've definitely seen her somewhere before, I know I did!"
"Ha! So you admit defeat!"
"Nope." The girl replied calmly. "'Cause my dad's Sharpedo isn't going to like it if you guys threaten me."
"Sharpedo? What Sharpedo?" The four of them scanned the water around their boat for any sign of the shark pokemon, but saw nothing. Including their Carvanha. "What the!? Where did our pokemon go!?" They all searched the water again, more frantically this time. After a few moments, two unconscious Carvanha floated to the surface from the murky depths, both bearing bite marks.
"Sh-shit!" The group's leader said in shock. He quickly turned to his other members. "Recall your Carvanha! We're retreating!"
"Aye aye, sir!" The two grunts, one male and one female, replied. They each recalled one of the Carvanha while the remaining female grunt turned to start the motor they had attached to the boat only to find the propeller had been bitten clean off.
"S-sir! Our propeller is gone!" The female Aqua reported nervously.
"THEN START PADDLING!" The leader yelled. The three grunts immediately moved to the sides of the boat and started paddling with their hands, inching backwards out of the harbour.
"Looks like she really does have a parent's pokemon with her, but do her parents know she's been fighting Team Aqua?" May thought to herself, then shrugged. "Well, I guess it doesn't matter if she's beating them, for now at least. Who knows when they could manage to get the upperhand on her?" May thought for a moment. "Kid's supposedly look up to me, right? I wonder if she'd listen to me if I told her to leave them alone?"
"You're retreating now? After everything you said?" The girl taunted them, smiling from ear to ear.
"You...you shut up!" The group's leader shot back, clenching a fist. "This isn't over, you! We'll get stronger pokemon! Then we'll take back our base for sure!"
"But...will Sharpedo really let you leave?" As the girl said this, the attacking Sharpedo finally surfaced from the water behind them to finally reveal itself. The four Team Aqua grunts screamed and started paddling faster, but still weren't getting anywhere fast.
"PADDLE FASTER, YOU FOOLS!" Their bandaged leader shrieked.
"We're trying!"
Sharpedo lined itself up with the boat and shot forward, diving below the water again so only it's fin remained visible. The Sharpedo's fin sliced through the boat as the pokemon moved under it, cutting the boat clean in half. The two halves dropped in the water, leaving the Team Aqua grunts floating helplessly at the surface. With only one good arm, the leader struggled to stay above water until he remembered to use his feet. The Sharpedo moved behind them again, prompting the four grunts to start frantically swimming for shore. Sharpedo showed no interest in pursuing them, but the young girl wasn't going to let them off that easily.
"Ok, Bitey, your turn now!" The girl said to her miniscule Huntail, grinning widely. The Huntail, Bitey, immediately jumped into the water and swam toward the one-armed grunt. The man looked back in horror when he saw the Huntail moving toward him.
"No! NO! STAY AWAY!" The man screamed. Naturally, the Huntail paid no attention. It was swimming quickly toward it's intended target - the man's remaining shoulder and arm. The Aqua grunt kicked out his legs, trying to swim backwards and away from Bitey, but Bitey was too quick for him in the water. Bitey moved in, opened its mouth, and clamped down on his shoulder. The man's blood curdling scream filled the air.
"AHHHHH!!! HELP! HELP! GET IT OFF, SOMEBODY!" The man screamed, trying to pull Bitey off himself with the same arm Bitey was latched onto. Eventually, the Huntail let go of his shoulder only to clamp down on his elbow instead. He had no way to try to pull Bitey off now and the sudden bite to his arm caused him to let go.
"What...just what am I watching?" May wondered aloud, staring unblinking at the scene in the water. "That...that little girl just ordered her pokemon to attack that guy! And she didn't even hesitate! It's like she's some kind of creepy hell child or..." May blinked as she found herself staring at the girl again. It was finally starting to dawn on her who the child was. "That...that couldn't be her, could it? Angela?"
With the man screaming in pain from the two bites the Huntail had delivered, Bitey finally let go. One of the other grunts had finally reached him and grabbed him from behind, swimming away from the hideout with him while Bitey returned to Angela's side.
"You might want to hurry up! All that blood might attract wild Sharpedos!" Angela called out after them, then giggled to herself. After a few minutes, the Aqua grunts were out of the hideout and swimming for the shore. "That guy sure screamed a lot this time. I wonder if he's afraid of Huntails now?"
"-Ohh...why can't I be feared?-" Gorey the Gorebyss said sadly. "-I never get to have any fun...-"
"-That's because they're a withered, dried-up husk when you're finished with them.-" Bitey said to it, rolling it's eyes. "-If we wanted them dead I'd be tearing out their throats.-"
Angela took a sip from her juice box, but found it to be empty. "Hmm...out of juice. Guess that means it's time to go home." Angela took a quick look around the dock. "Umm...where did I leave my stuff anyway?" She pondered, folding her arms in front of her.
"-Back in the sleep room.-" Bitey said to her, pointing toward the darkened corridor at the other end of the room with it's vaguely fish-shaped tail.
"Oh, right, back in the place with the beds." Angela nodded. "Ok, I'll go get my stuff and you three can wait here!" She picked up a waterproof flashlight that was sitting on the floor next to her and made her way toward the corridor.
"Wait...if it's just Angela, then why am I still hiding?" May wondered, blinking. She remained hidden behind the control panel as Angela walked by without noticing her, heading toward the dark corridor where Flygon was hidden. She stopped just before it to turn her flashlight on and then aimed it down the corridor. Flygon hissed as Angela's flashlight shone in its eyes. Angela shrieked and dropped her flashlight.
"G-g-g-g-g-GHOST POKEMON!"
"Angela! Relax, it's just my Flygon!" May said in an effort to calm Angela down while also revealing her presence. Angela turned around with a start when she heard May's voice.
"M-May!?" Angela stammered in disbelief.
"-Damn it...do you have any idea how much that hurts when you have eyes as big as mine?!-" Flygon hissed in anger, restraining himself only because of May's presence. The fact that he still couldn't see Angela because the light had left him blinded helped too.
"Yeah...hi..." May replied, grinning sheepishly and waving her hand slightly.
"Whaaaaaa! I can't believe it! May's in my secret base!" Angela shouted excitedly. She lunged forward, wrapping her arms tightly around May's waist and giggling. "I can't believe it! You're really here! You'rehereyou'rehereyou'rehere!"
"Now I know why I stayed hidden..." May thought. If there was anyone else around, she would have felt embarrassed by Angela's clinginess. Even so, she was still noticeably uncomfortable.
"Oh no! I can't be seen like this in front of you!" Angela cried out, suddenly letting go of May and patting her hair. "I forgot my bandana!"
"Bandana?" May repeated in disbelief. "Don't tell me...you got a bandana just like mine?" She then asked. Angela nodded enthusiastically.
"Yep! I have an entire outfit just like your's at home!" Angela replied, grinning widely.
"Being a fan of mine is one thing...but Angela takes it to an entirely different level." May thought. "Though, come to think of it, Angela has a different reason than most..."
"Oh! But there's no time to be talking about my clothes!" Angela said, grabbing May's arm and dragging her back toward the water. "Come on! Come on! I have to introduce you to my pokemon!"
"But I've already seen what your pokemon can do!" May thought nervously, though she said nothing as the girl pulled her along. Angela let go only when they were a few feet away from her two pokemon, at which point Angela picked up one of them in each arm and brought them back to May to show her.
"What do you think?" Angela asked her, smiling widely. "The blue one is a Huntail, I named her Bitey because she bites the people I don't like."
"Yeah...I saw that..." May said, feeling nervous having the very pokemon she witnessed tear up a man's shoulder being less than a foot from her face.
"And the pink one is Gorebyss, I named him Gorey because he stabs people I don't like with his mouth and then sucks out their bodily fluids." Angela then said, still wearing the same smile as she said this.
"That really does sound...gory..." May replied nervously, slowly backing away.
"Don't worry! They wouldn't hurt you, May!" Angela said to her. "Beside that, any pokemon could beat these two! They only hatched as Clamperl's a few days ago and my parents made them evolve shortly after and gave them to me, that's why they're so small too."
"-Hey now...-" "-That wasn't very nice...-" Bitey and Gorey said respectively.
"Oh, and there's my dad's Sharpedo too." Angela added, glancing back at the water. "He'll protect me, but only 'cause my dad told him to. He won't obey me at all except when I tell him to take me home..."
"How long have you been here anyway?" May asked her.
"I just spent the night here, actually!" Angela replied, grinning. "Don't tell my parents, though! They thought I was spending the night with a friend in Lilycove!"
"So her parents don't actually know what she's been up to, that explains it then..."
"Oh...but I should be leaving now actually..." Angela said, frowning. "I just wanted to make sure Team Aqua didn't try to move into my secret base again, and I'm out of juice too..."
"That's right...you were going somewhere when you shined that flashlight on my Flygon, weren't you?" May said to her.
"Oh yeah! My stuff!" Angela dropped her two pokemon as she suddenly remembered, then dashed off toward the darkened corridor again with her flashlight in hand. "I'll be right back!" She called back, then moved past Flygon and disappeared into the corridor.
"-At least she didn't shine it in my eyes this time.-" Flygon muttered to himself, glancing back at her.
"Your trainer seems kinda...eccentric." May said to Bitey and Gorey, smiling nervously. The two pokemon narrowed their eyes at her.
"-'Seems'?-"
"-'Kinda'?-"
After a few minutes, Angela emerged from the dark corridor carrying a blue waterproof bag. The bag was tied closed at the top and contained the items she brought for her 'sleepover'. "Ok! Now I'm ready to go!" She announced. "I don't really want to leave now but I have to get home before my parents call my friend's place and find out I wasn't there..."
"You shouldn't be lying to your parents about where you're going." May said to her. "What if something happened and Team Aqua was able to get their hands on you?"
"Then you'll just have to be here to protect me!" Angela said, grinning widely.
"Ehhh?!" May blinked in disbelief. "But...that's not what I meant at all!"
Before May could muster a more thought out response, Angela grabbed her two pokemon and ran to the water's edge where her father's Sharpedo was waiting for her. "Bye, May! See you later!" Angela called back, then hopped on Sharpedo and sped away.
May sighed. "Why do I get the feeling I've just been played for a fool by a seven year old girl?" She wondered aloud.
"-Probably because she just tricked you into becoming the 'friend' she's having sleepovers with.-" Flygon said to her. "-I don't know whether the child is foolish or crafty, but either way I can most definitely catch up to that pokemon she was riding. I am sure you realize this.-"
"Though...come to think of it..." May turned, looking around the interior of the hideout. "I bet this place has no rent..."
It was Flygon's turn to sigh. "-Or just dive head first into her trap.-"
"It's secludded, Team Aqua isn't using it anymore, and definitely free." A grin began to spread across May's face. "With the prize money I got from beating the Elite Four that time I could definitely afford one of those generators that are charged by an electric pokemon, and maybe some furniture if I need it. I could just live out here and never have to worry about stalkers again!"
"On the other hand, maybe that WOULD be for the best." Flygon thought, shrugging. "Not that I could actually give her my opinion either way."
"Right next to Lilycove too, which is much more like home than Littleroot is!" May said excitedly. Her enthusiastic smile then quickly faded into a contemplative expression. "Come to think of it...they're having a sale today on the roof. Maybe I can find some furniture there for my new hideout."
May looked back at Flygon and nodded to him. "Ok, I've decided! I'm going to live here, but right now we're going to head back into Lilycove to check out that rooftop sale!"
May left the hideout, once again riding Flygon. She passed over the heads of the four Aqua grunts that Angela beat along the way, the leader of the group having his shirt removed and being used for a bandage. It already looked like it was damp with his blood. The other three grunts were helping him along.
"If that's what Angela did to him last time then I can see why they'd give up in a hurry." May thought, shuddering. "That's a side of her I could have done without seeing I think."
She and Flygon then continued into town, heading back toward the Lilycove Department Store and landing on the roof. One of the shopkeepers there gave her an angry look when he heard her land.
"Damn kids! You can't just land up..." The shopkeeper stopped himself when he realized who he was talking to. "Oh! My apologies, May! You can land here whenever you want!"
"This job comes with odd perks." May said under her breath. Flygon nodded in agreement.
"May! Over here!" May heard a familiar voice calling out to her. Looking around the rooftop she spotted the young Lilycove idol, Suzy, waving at her. She was wearing a yellow t-shirt and a pair of black bike shorts, her clothing matching one of her pokemon as usual. May quickly recalled Flygon and went over to greet her.
"I don't think I've made a trip to Lilycove yet without running into you, Suzy!" May said, smiling.
"Well of course! I'm the Lilycove idol for a reason, you know!" Suzy replied with a wide grin. "So what brings you here anyway?"
"Err...well..." May rubbed the back of her neck. "A couple reasons really...but right now I'm here to see if there's any furniture or anything like that at this sale."
"Oh, there's plenty of that." Suzy assured her, pointing to a nearby salesman. "They didn't take any of that stuff up here, but if you talk to him he'll show you the stuff they have and sell it to you. What are you looking for furniture for anyway?" Suzy peered at her curiously. "You didn't get an apartment around here or something, did you?"
"Something like that, actually." May replied, smiling sheepishly. "They wouldn't happen to have power generators on sale, would they?"
"Umm..." Suzy blinked. "I...don't think they have them here at all. You'd probably have to order something like that out of a catalog or something. I come here pretty much everyday and I've never seen any sort of power generator being sold."
"Guess I'll have to ask Melany where she got one from then." May thought.
"Where are you staying that you'd need something like that for anyway?" Suzy asked her, then smirked. "Or are you just trying to use your pokemon to avoid paying an electric bill?"
"Umm...let's go with that." May replied nervously. She didn't want to tell Suzy she was staying in Team Aqua's old hideout. "By the way, Suzy, you're...pretty popular around here, right?"
Suzy rolled her eyes and placed her hands on her hips. "Well duh!"
"Have you ever had to deal with...stalkers?"
"Hmm...I used to." Suzy replied with a shrug. "Then I started using Vigoroth to chase them away. And then it evolved into Slaking and haven't had an issue since. Apparently the threat of having their arms ripped out of their sockets works well."
"That...isn't that going overboard a bit?!" May asked nervously.
"Of course not!" Suzy shot back. "Anyone stalking young girls like that deserves to be beat to within an inch of their life!"
"I don't know...using pokemon to attack another person doesn't seem right somehow."
"May, you're the champion!" Suzy said indignantly. "If you're having trouble with stalkers then just roast them with that flaming, kick-boxing bird thing you have!"
"You mean Blaziken?"
"Yeah, that!" Suzy said. "Anyway, if you're thinking of moving to Lilycove because of stalkers, then that's not solving your problem! That's just running away! You need to beat up those perverts and teach them not to mess with you!"
"...Yeah, I guess you're right. I'll do that!" May nodded. "Ok then, I'll just have Blaziken beat up a stalker or two. However many it takes for them to get the message!"
"That's more like it!" Suzy said with a smug grin.
"Now that I think about it, I tend to hit Melany a lot, don't I?" May thought to herself. "I used to hit her anytime things got a bit...awkward, even though it's usually accidental, but I didn't think about causing bodily harm to actual perverts until Suzy mentioned it." May blinked. "Wait...was I really just hitting her, when I thought she was Alex, because I liked her?!" She quickly shook her head. "No way! I'm not that childish!"
"You ok, May?" Suzy asked her when she suddenly shook her head.
"I'm...I'm fine, really! I was just thinking about something!" May replied, blushing slightly in embarassment.
Suzy shrugged. "If you say so. Anyway, you still moving to Lilycove?"
May nodded. "I think so. I like Lilycove a lot better than Littleroot. I mean, I'm used to living in a city like Goldenrod where you can find pretty much anything but there's nothing at all in Littleroot."
"Well in that case, we can still go shopping together!"
"I guess so." May replied, nodding. "By the way...whatever happened between you and Wally? Last I saw you two, you were still clinging to him..."
"Oh yeah..." Suzy looked deep in thought for a moment. "It's the strangest thing but...he disappears whenever I mention shopping."
"That wasn't quite what I was asking but I think that still answers my question." May thought.
May spent the rest of the morning shopping, buying several dolls, a slide, and a tv for her recently 'acquired' hideout. She was also able to find a phone number for a company she could order a power generator from, but would have to wait a few days before it'd be delivered. In the meantime, after getting a tour around Lilycove from Suzy to get to know her new neighbourhood, May went home to wait for her delivery.
Later that night, after May had returned home and went to bed, one of the very stalkers that had been causing her trouble was waiting just below her window. The stranger wore a black trenchcoat and a mask to conceal his identity but, from his build, was clearly several years older than May.
Raising his hand up, his Swellow grabbed it in its talons and flew straight up, hoisting the man into the air until he was level with May's bedroom window. The lights were out and the curtains drawn, so he couldn't actually see in. But he had more pokemon with him, so that wouldn't be a problem. The window was even open.
"Heh heh heh, with this mask on no one will recognize my face even if I'm caught!" The man said, snickering to himself. Suddenly, the curtains were drawn out of the way and May was standing in the window with a pokeball in her hand. "Wh-what?!"
"Oh, no one will recognize your face alright." May said to him, grinning as she held out the pokeball. "Not when my Blaziken is through with it."
Moments later, the entire neighbourhood would be awakened by the stalker's screams of agony.
Author's Notes: No one important was harmed in the writing of this chapter.
I played with ideas in my mind a few times for how this chapter would go, with the main thing being "May goes to Lilycove to take a break, runs into Suzy". Then I remembered Team Aqua's hideout as I was getting ready to write the chapter and it became more focused on that instead, resulting in Suzy getting a short bit at the end and Wally getting a brief mention. Of course, Wally will get his own showing in Chapter 12 anyway.
I think this was the most violent chapter yet. The most blatant of which resulted from a specific character. I'd hate to think what she'd do to someone who was blocking her path for no apparent reason.