I have nothing to say this time around, except enjoy!

"Ash?" May began tentatively, breaking the silence that had set in ever since they had both crawled into their respective beds.

"Yeah?" Ash answered promptly. It had been about a couple of hours since Chance had left, and even though the two had briefly discussed what he had told them, or rather, what Darkrai had told them, it still wasn't quite sitting well.

"Do you really think what Darkrai was talking about will work?" May asked, her eyes locked on the dark ceiling as she spoke. "I mean...about the two of us being able to show Dialga and Palkia what love is?"

Ash didn't respond right away. The soft sound of Pikachu briefly muttering "Pi...ka..." in it's sleep was heard instead for a moment.

"I dunno...I never really knew what love was, exactly...or at least not that kind of love." Ash began slowly. "That's why, back when we were at your house, after beating Aaron, and you...told me that, I didn't really know what to say at first."

May remained silent, listening intently to Ash, knowing that it was one of those times when he was being really, truly honest with her, regardless of how difficult it was for him.

"But then I thought back to all the times we'd spent together, and how happy it made me feel to see you smiling, or how sad it made me when I saw you get hurt, and...just how awesome it made me feel whenever I was with you. I figured that, hey, if that wasn't love, then what was, you know?"

"Ash..." May said softly, shifting her gaze down from the ceiling and over to where she knew he was laying, though the room's darkness prevented her from seeing him.

"So I guess what I'm trying to say is...if Darkrai says he can make Palkia feel the same way towards Dialga that I do towards you...then I say we go for it!"

May nodded, though she knew Ash couldn't see her. "...Yeah. You're right!"

The next morning, the two of them were already on their way to getting ready to leave when there was another unannounced knock on their door.

"Uh, Chance?" Ash guessed incorrectly as the door swung open, revealing someone that they expected to see even less than their Darkrai-ridden friend.

"No, it's just me...who's Chance?" Trey replied flatly as he stepped into the room, leaving the door wide open behind him.

"Piiika?" Pikachu exclaimed in shock.

May's jaw dropped. "T-Trey?"

"What are you doing all the way out here? I thought you and Lily were still back in Hoenn!" Ash remarked incredulously.

"Yeah, well, we were, but...some stuff's happened, and, well..."

"Hey, speaking of which, where isLily?" May inquired, scanning the hallway behind him. "Or are you guys each going off on your own again?"

"Well...no." Trey answered. "That's actually the reason I'm here. We came here to Sinnoh a couple of weeks ago, following a lead that I'd found about those special bullets that Aaron used when he shot her. You remember, right? In the warehouse?"

Ash's face darkened and May looked away solemnly. "Yeah, we remember." Ash answered.

"Well, when you guys came to see us in the hospital right before you left, remember the condition her shoulder was in? It hasn't really gotten much better. I looked into it after she was finally cleared to leave and it led us to a gang in Sunyshore City, here in Sinnoh."

"Well? Did you find anything out?" May prompted.

Trey's gaze turned grave. "Oh, yeah, we found something out, all right. Those bullets Aaron used? He'd bought them from that gang, and they'd bought them straight from Team Galactic. You guys heard of them?"

When they both nodded, he continued. "Apparently they'd crafted some kind of super-bullet or something from a meteorite they'd stolen from Veilstone City. I think they originally wanted to use it for themselves, but for whatever reason that didn't work out and they ended up selling their stock of them for money to use on the project they're working on now..."

"You mean...the thing with Dialga and Palkia...?" Ash said in surprise.

Trey nodded. "Yeah. But, listen, all that's not actually why I'm here. Me and Lily, we found all of this out...and then we headed to Mount Coronet, where we'd heard their base was. Partly for revenge, but also to find out if there was any way to fix Lily's shoulder. But it didn't work out...on our way through the mountains, they ambushed us. We tried fighting back, but they were too strong...and...they captured her."

"What?" Ash and May exclaimed in unison.

"Yeah. I think they wanted to get us both, find out who told us all our information, maybe even ransom us or get us to join them. I don't know. But I...well, I managed to escape, just barely, and I guess I ended up here. I saw you two come in here the other night, so I figured I'd ask you for help when I got the chance."

"...Wow. Uh..." Ash stuttered, looking back to May for support. They hadn't even fully accepted the info that Chance had given them the night before, and now all of this was in their lap, as well.

Just then, however, Chance stepped into the room behind Trey, awkwardly knocking on the open door as he did so. "Um...hey, guys. Who's this?"

Trey turned to face him as he walked up beside him, Chance eyeing him strangely as he did so.

"Uh, Chance, this is Trey, he's a friend of ours from a while back." May spoke up. "Trey, this is Chance, we met him here in Sinnoh...um..." May stumbled, not knowing if she should reveal that he was also the vessel for a dream-dwelling Pokemon.

The two guys nodded in acknowledgement of each other before Chance turned back to address Ash and May. "Well...are you two ready to go? Or is he coming with us, too?"

"Uh..." May faltered, glancing back and forth between Ash and Trey.

"Well, why not?" Ash spoke up a moment later, shrugging to May before addressing Trey. "Trey, you said Team Galactic's base is near Mount Coronet anyway, didn't you? Chance is headed to Spear Pillar with us, so why don't we all just go together?"

"Spear Pillar?" Trey echoed, though something sounded slightly off in the way he said it. He eyed Chance for a moment, then something seemed to click in his head. "All right, that's fine with me."

Chance nodded back to him, and Ash grinned, Pikachu leaping up on his shoulder as he did. "Okay then - let's get going!"

I realized after I finished that this is possibly the shortest chapter I've ever written. Ugh, I'm no good at making boring events seem interesting or eventful.

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