2hott4u: …Yea… (hotty: she's speechless) There's not much to say…except…hope you like it!!!

Disclaimer: If I owned Pokemon I'd be filthy rich but do you see me in the news…NO! Most of you don't even know what I look like now do you?

Curses

May's eyes fluttered open. She tried to sit up but her back burned. She lay down as hot white pain roared through her body.

"Look, she's waking up!" It was that voice again. May tried to sort out who it was but her pain clouded her thoughts.

"Hn." That was Marina.

"Could you be a little more emo?" She could almost see Marina's emotionless face with that fake smile.

"Do you want me to Esmer?" 'Esmer?' May raked her memories for the name. Then it hit her like a ton of bricks or Marina's fist which ever hurts worse.

"Esmer…?" May's voice was hoarse and laced with pain. Marina snorted and glared at May. Esmer sent her a nasty glare.

"Are you okay May?"

"I think so, but my back…kills." May's vision cleared and she could clearly see Esmer. To the right Marina was sending her nasty loathing looks. 'What did I do?'

"You're lucky May." Marina's voice was icy. "When you used blast burn it melted your skin where he had cut you and stopped the bleeding." 'Well that's nice to know…' Esmer sighed but ignored her gruesome friend.

"Wh-where's Kin?" Marina's eyes narrowed into thin slits. She snarled and stormed off. "Did I do something?"

"Yes, you did."

"What did I do?"

"You helped when she was determined to kill him on her own. She told us not interfere, or else, so we listened but you weren't here and you did. It almost got you killed!" May looked away.

"It's not like she can blame me though. I didn't know."

"She's not blaming you." Esmer looked at May with sad eyes. "She was extremely worried after the battle. She wouldn't let any of us get near you. Eventually she let me pass but she never took her eyes off me." May looked at her, with a spark of curiosity in her eyes.

"She took care of me?" Esmer nodded. "Why?"

"You are her friend! I thought you'd know that be now." Esmer sighed in exasperation. 'Sometimes she can be so dense…'

"There's more I can tell. Why does she care so much about me when I disobeyed her?"

"Fine, the truth is that she didn't want us to fight is cause she'd kill herself if one of us got hurt. She's had so many bad things happen to her this would have pushed her to the limit. She took it upon herself to make sure you lived." May could still see the horrible visions of Marina's past. She shuddered and thought about how she had the easy life.

"How can she be so emotionless when all those things happened?"

"So you saw it too? She's not emotionless, but she's learned to restrict her emotions to her mind, but as you saw sometimes they overflow and then it sends telepathic images. She didn't want us to get hurt, because she doesn't want us to feel any of the pains that she did. She's always protecting us because she couldn't protect herself."

"How so?"

"Her father was killed in front of her." May's heart lurched in her chest. She felt horrible. Marina seemed so strong but that's because she's been through so much and knew how to control herself. May looked away to where Marina had stormed off. Esmer smiled sadly and got up to leave.

"W-where are you going?" May tried to get up but was again incapable of doing so. Esmer looked back and smiled.

"To go get Marina." May smiled sadly, but let her go. The bushes beside her head rustled and a she looked up to a Feraligatr. It looked down at her and gave her a large toothy grin. Riley came out behind it and noticed his smile. He turned into Dragonite and gave it a smash to the head. It looked back at him and glared. Riley whispered in its ear and it blushed in embarrassment. Riley shook his head and turned into Weavile. He knelt down beside May and smiled sweetly at her.

"How are you feeling today?"

"Fine, I suppose…" She looked past him and at the Feraligatr. "Who's that?"

"Oh, that's Thomas." He looked up at the mention of his name.

"What was all that whispering about?" Riley glared back at him but sighed.

"He was "interested" in you." May was in shock. 'Interested?!' "I told him you were only 12."

"How o-old is he?" May was afraid of the answer.

"43." May gaped at him.

"43?! Why the hell would a 43 year-old be interested in me?"

"He thought you were older than that." Thomas smiled sheepishly. May laid there, stunned. "Don't worry he likes Marina too." May smiled unhappily. 'Great. I want to get Drew to like me but instead I get this old pervert.' May smirked at the thought.

"Sorry, I honestly didn't know. You looked too pretty to be 12." May blushed at the comment. She usually got those from people she knew. Thomas smiled at her sweetly.

"Wait, why is he interested in Marina then, she's only 16."

"No, she's 23." May gaped at him. She looked so much younger than 23. "You didn't know that?" May shook her head. Riley glared back at him. May understood. He was afraid Thomas would take Marina away from him. "You know with your good looks, you'll get a boy in no time." May blushed again and noticed that Drew had appeared at the tree line at the far side of the clearing. He was clearly displeased. To her right Marina and Esmer reappeared. Marina saw May blushing and Thomas grinning. She hissed and looked at him scornfully. He shrunk from her gaze, but did not leave.

"Did they bother you May?" Marina's voice sent chills down her back.

"N-no Marina. They were just checking on me." They nodded vigorously. She growled but let them leave unharmed.

"All of you need to leave." She paused and waited but no one left. "NOW!" They broke in a sprint away from her. Drew watched May but made no move to leave or approach. "You too Drew." He paid no attention to her. Marina got up and stalked over to him, but he wasn't with any of them at the moment. She gave a low guttural growl but it did nothing. She sighed and walked back over to May. "How are you feeling?" Her voice was soft.

"Fine." May didn't really listen to her but was more intrigued at Drew. She could feel both of their stares burn through her head as she closed her eyes.

"That's good." Marina talked to her in a motherly voice. May shivered from the cold as a harsh wind swept through the forest. Marina noticed and curled around her and held a watchful gaze over her. Drew began to walk toward them and Marina hissed. He ignored her. When he got too close she had a fit. She was crouching and hissing and her eyes were blood thirsty. Heather darted into the clearing and dragged him away right before Marina leaped. Heather shook her head disappointedly.

"You should let her be Marina. You're only hurting yourself."

"It's better than her being hurt." Heather sighed and walked up to May and Marina. Although Marina seemed to be menacing she was really weak at the moment.

"Let me take your place."

"No."

"Let Esmer take your place."

"No."

"Let…" she didn't get to finish.

"NO!" Marina rose to her paws and shakily walked over to her. "I will not abandon anyone ever again." She said through clenched teeth.

"You're not abandoning her you're just going to get some rest." Marina looked tempted but still she refused. Heather sighed and gave a sharp whistle. Esmer and Riley came behind her and dragged her away. Heather took the first watch while Riley and Esmer contained Marina. She thrashed around desperately.

"Why don't you trust us?" Esmer hissed into her ear.

"Last time I left someone they…died."

"You know that it was hopeless! They were gonna die anyway."

"YOU DON'T KNOW THAT!" Marina was choking on sobs. She wasn't really all that upset about May, but the memories were horrible.

"You're dad wasn't going to live. It was his time." Marina looked up at Riley. Tears ran down her cheeks and she glared at him.

"No…no…NO!" Marina was on the ground weeping. Her dad's face was burned into her mind. He was smiling and he told her to go find The Dave. She wept harder. He coughed up blood, but continued that smile. His eyes were growing dull and were glazing over. She ran to find The Dave, and she could remember him breathing unevenly when she returned with him. He reached up to his closest friend. The Dave looked away and when I looked back down his eyes were closed and his breathing had ceased. I put my head to his chest and cried. I could hear the internal organs shutting down, and then the last beat of his heart. Either God or the last twitch of his nerves made him wrap his arms around me and smile his beautiful smile. I wept in Riley's arms. "Why…why did he have to go?" her voice was but a whisper. May could hear a soft crying again, and while Marina remembered her past May saw it all happen. Everyone around her did and they to began to cry for her. The memories were so vivid. She could see Marina's father smile and it truly was beautiful.

"Well this is dot dot dot moment." The Matt said when walked into the clearing. Marina glared at him but said nothing, surprisingly. Natalia followed him and was carrying a couple handfuls of berries. Macy followed her and guess what she said?

"…"

"Told you!" The Matt smiled triumphantly. Marina looked away trying to hide her smile. "I see that." Marina laughed at him.

"Was that your plan?"

"Uhhhhhhh…sure…" He looked away confused.

"You know…I'm pretty sure that Destiny is back from her "extreme" training." The Matt looked over at her with a twinkle of hope.

"Are y-you sure?"

"Did you just stutter?"

"N-no…" She laughed at him.

"Yes she's back and I was going to get her when I went to get Macy, but I lost track. You know you could go get her for me." He looked at her and smiled.

"Are you serious?" She nodded. He became jittery and wanted to go soon.

"Why so excited Matt?" DarkJak came up behind him and smirked. Thomas popped his head out curiously with Zenkai.

"No reason." He glared at him. Natalia yawned again. DarkJak smirked.

"Its not gonna work this…" He began to yawn but it got caught again. "NO!" He kept trying to get it out, but it did nothing. Then Zenkai and Thomas caught it. The three of them were on the ground with they're hands over their mouths trying to yawn. "I tries to yawn hate tries again YOU!" Natalia smiled but said nothing.

"Come on Matt. You can tell them OR I can tell them." Marina smirked evilly. She forced him to make a choice. He looked around desperately then sighed in defeat.

"She's my…." He grumbled something incoherently.

"What was that? A little louder please?" Heather and May hobbled over to all the noise. Drew followed closely behind. May sweat-dropped at the sight in front of her: three guys were on the ground covering their mouths, Marina was standing up with her face in The Matt's, and everyone else was closing in on what Marina and Matt had to say.

"I said she's my girlfriend." He covered his mouth and blushed lightly. All the girls cooed at him and the guys snickered except the poor three who were on the ground.

"How long have you been dating?"

"Did you ever kiss?"

"Did you ever have…?" Natalia didn't finish because all the girls slapped their hands over her mouth. Macy shook her head and smiled (for once). They removed their hands when she mumbled in protest. "I was only gonna say…" The girls got ready to do it again. She yelped but continued "Did you ever have any anniversaries?" The girls sighed and laughed but Natalia looked at them hotly. The Matt was taken aback by all the questions.

"Let's leave him alone for awhile." He sighed in thanks to Marina. "He'll leave when I know that the other recruits are available."

"How many more are there?" They looked over at May for the first time.

"Count!" it was one of the guys on the ground. She glared but began to count. 'The Matt, DarkJak, Thomas, Macy, Heather, Zenkai, Natalia, Riley, Marina, Esmer…That was all. There were 10 here.'

"There are ten of you." She didn't know most of them but she heard them being called a lot. The guy on the ground yawned loudly.

"FINALLY!" Then another yawn came and he crouched over again. "No…"

"Shut up DarkJak!" The Matt called to him.

"Hm…I'm gonna need to go into town. Anyone wanna go with?" They all took one HUGE step back leaving poor May and Drew the victims. "Let's go." All the others shook their heads in pity.

"What's wrong?" They continued to shake their heads. She felt her arm being lifted and looked over to Drew. He put her arm around his shoulder and supported her as they set off to town. Marina turned into Sceptile and Drew was Flygon while May was Blaziken. Marina walked over to the pokemon center.

"Go…have fun. I'll get you in a little while." May smiled she was going to see her friends.

"I know where you want to go." Drew sounded the same despite all that happened over the course of 2 days. They followed Marina into the pokemon center and went to search for Ash and co. They were relatively easy to find considering the noise level from the room. Drew let her go and did not follow but went the other way.

"Where are you going?" May looked over her shoulder. He looked at her but said nothing and continued to walk off.

"I'm going for a walk." He raised his hand in goodbye.

"Jeez you make it seem like you're leaving for good." She mumbled under her breath. She opened the door and the room fell silent. She hadn't seen her appearance so she didn't know what she looked like at the moment. Max was wide-eyed but soon saw that it was her. He walked carefully to her side. She looked at him concerned. He took her hand and led her to the bathroom and to its mirror. She was shocked. Her face was bruised and dirty and her body was caked in a thin layer of blood and dirt. She had dull tired eyes and when she saw her back she winced. Skin was melted together creating a ridge along her back. Max gazed at her sadly.

"What happened May?" His voice felt like a whisper. The group was at the door waiting for her response. She began to laugh. It was a low chuckle but still a laugh. Max looked up at her confused. She laughed at how sorry she looked in comparison to before. She was truly "roughing" it.

"Bla blaze Blaziken. Blaze blaze blaze iken." Max called out Gallade and he translated. She'd been training super hard and had done a lot of fighting.

"Where's that girl and her friend?" Ash said with a glare. May laughed harder. She told them Marina was here on business and she tagged along and that The Matt was in the woods with his other friends.

"Others?" Brock spoke up. She told them there were 8 other people there, one being her best friend Esmer. Ash looked shocked at that.

"You know Esmer and she's there?" He smiled brightly when May nodded. Misty glowered at his response. May could understand, she was jealous; May felt that all the time with Drew's little fangirls hanging on him.

"You wanna clean yourself up May?" She blinked and nodded. She stepped into the shower and turned the water on almost burning but still cool. The warm water ran over her body and she almost fell over from how good it felt. She scrubbed the blood and dirt off and then did the "lather, rinse, repeat". She was warm and clean when she stepped out. She dried off and looked a lot better. She got out of the bathroom when a knock was heard at the door to the room. Max answered and glared at the visitor. He obviously didn't know she was out because he was not very nice to whoever it was.

"She doesn't want to come back! She wants to stay here and enjoy her vacation with her friends!" Max glared harder at the visitor. The person obviously wasn't taking it. It pushed past Max and started for the bathroom she relinquished into it quickly. She heard Max struggling to stop it but she heard him grunt and then a large thump followed. Ash followed suit and so did Brock. Misty stayed out of it. The door flew open and May stared wide eyed at the intruder. It was Drew. He was clean just like herself but he had a much more serious look than usual.

"W-what's wrong?"

"Marina left us here. Let's go." He took her hand and led her away from the bathroom. Max stood up in protest.

"No…she's staying here…with us." May glared at him (for once). Gallade translated May before she left. 'Max I'm going. Not you or anyone else is going to stop me. I can make my own choices and YOU don't have any say in them so STOP TRYING TO INTERFERE' Max began tearing up at her harsh words. "May…" She didn't look back and walked away. Max reached his hand out and cried softly in her wake. May was in no mood for this. Was Marina trying to ditch them, was that why everyone pitied them when they left? Ash stomped after her.

"May that was really mean! He cares about you and you just shot him down." Drew answered for her. 'She doesn't need you right now. She has more power than you could imagine and you're holding her back by keeping her here. If you care for her you'll let her go, but if you don't well that's too bad!' Ash glared at him. "Since when do you make her choices? You're talking about how weak we are and that we're holding her back and…" He didn't finish. A tall shadow rose behind May and Drew and roared at Ash. 'They are coming with me and YOU WILL NOT INTERFERE OR YOU WILL DIE! I will make sure of it…' It was Marina. Ash nodded and backed off slowly. Marina snorted and walked off. Max glared at her.

"I hate you…" It was a whisper at first but he said it louder and louder until he screamed it. Marina looked back at him. She charged a slash attack but May slapped her hand away. Marina looked away and continued walking. They followed; Max watched them leave in silence. Once they were long gone he gave chase. He could see them at the edge of the forest. His legs pumped harder tears streamed down his face. May looked at him and smiled before she jumped into the woods. He stood in her spot and looked down at the ground. Tears landed softly on the ground and he felt breath on his neck. It was Marina. She smelled of fruit because of the soap she used earlier. He breathed deeply and she handed him a small note. He looked down at and when he looked back up she was gone. He walked back to go read the strange letter.

Deep in the forest…

May and Drew were walking at a steady pace while Marina stayed good ways ahead of them. They had all forgotten the training until May brought it up.

"Wait…" They all stopped. "Does this mean we can stay here and train with you?" Marina furrowed her brow in thought.

"Well…" May and Drew looked at her hopefully. "I suppose so since you did so well against Kin." May jumped on her. Marina stumbled back in surprise as May squeezed the breath out of her. May released her and Marina swept off "invisible" dust. Drew smiled at her and they continued on.

"Why did we have to go to town again?"

"I had a few calls to make." Marina looked back and smirked. May wasn't getting it but Drew got it fine.

"So you called the rest of the recruits so The Matt could go get his girlfriend." Marina snickered and nodded. Marina pushed through a rather tough patch of brambles and entered their beloved clearing. The Matt practically slammed into Marina but she held her ground.

"Well…?" His eyes were wide in anticipation.

"Well…" She was sucking this up.

"Well?"

"Well… you can go get them." He leaped up and ran for the leaf with the pokeblocks.

"Where is she?"

"In Johto, so are the rest of them except for Colgate."

"Yeah, yeah he's in Sinnoh, I know." He turned into Rayquaza and flew off. Marina shook her head and smiled. They went to go rest while all the elites went to town to go clean up.

With…The Matt…

He soared over Johto and looked down for his recruits. He saw some of them but wanted to find the most important one first. Then he saw her. She had purplish colored hair and was wearing a dark black ninja outfit with some streaks of blue on it. She was jumping clumsily from rock to rock over a river; her rather large boobs weighing her down. He couldn't help but laugh at that. He lowered to the ground when he saw her slip. She was almost in the water when he scooped her up in his arms. She looked up with wide eyes.

"T-thank you." He smirked and gave her a pokeblock with a note he had written just for her. She read the note and blushed. "M-matt?" He nodded. She ate the pokeblock and glowed softly and turned into her Celebi.

"I got to go get the other recruits. You're welcome to join me." She nodded and they flew off to go get another recruit. They flew over a dense forest when The Matt descended. In the thick trees he could make out a small form. The boy was rather short and he had brown hair just like his cousin. The Matt chucked him a pokeblock and hit him square in the face. The boy fumed and glared at the direction from which the pokeblock came from. He looked down and read the note attached to it. The Matt slithered out from the shadow of the trees. The boy was surprised but ate the pokeblock. He glowed and turned into his Mew. The girl with The Matt was surprised; she knew the entire top 15 but this was one of the newer pokemon that the boy had caught. The boy followed The Matt and his girlfriend to their next destination. They didn't have to go far. Before long another recruit was found.

"Hola!" Obviously the guy knew who they were. He was wearing a bleach white shirt with a pocket on it and jean shorts AND a Nazi hat. He was Mexican and was one of The Matt's favorite recruits; he was funny and he wasn't as annoying as the rest of them. The guy ate the pokeblock and turned into his Moltres.

"Man…there's too many recruits!" The Matt complained.

"Stop whining!" Jessie (mew) scolded.

"Let him be!" Destiny (Celebi) snapped.

"Why didn't Marina come get us?" Philip (Moltres) queried.

"Did you want her to?"

"No, but she was the one who called so I had assumed…" The Matt took off before the conversation got any farther. Regei was close by and The Matt couldn't wait to see one of his closet friends again. Regei was black and he wore a baggy black shirt with baggy jeans and a large gold chain that said "Regei" on it. He had a HUGE afro; it was larger than his body and was hard as diamond. The Matt swooped down and scared Regei out of his wits. The Matt chuckled as Regei glared at him. He threw him a pokeblock and Regei refused it. The Matt hovered over to him and glared. He pushed the pokeblock in his face. Regei slapped his hand away. The Matt roared at him, but it did nothing.

"I won't eat it!" The Matt was fuming now. He punched him the stomach and Regei opened his mouth in pain. The Matt stuffed the pokeblock in and made him chew and swallow. Regei growled and glared at The Matt. He turned into his Garchomp and punched The Matt in the face. "I said I didn't want to eat it!" The Matt rubbed his cheek and smirked.

"Well too bad, you have to help now!" Regei fumed but followed The Matt into the air with his Pelipper. The five of them went out to find the last recruit.

"Man, how far away is Colgate?" Jessie whined.

"Stop whining Jessie!" Regei snapped at him.

"Why don't you both, SHUT UP!?" Destiny growled dangerously at them. Jessie shut up and looked away avoiding her dark purple gaze. Regei ignored her and flew up ahead to be beside The Matt.

"Where is he…?" He didn't finish his sentence before The Matt dived down. "Hey, I wasn't finished my question!" The Matt ignored him. He flew down and greeted Colgate. He already knew what he was supposed to do and soon enough they were all on their way to Mt. Silver. Colgate was doing flips as Yanmega and was annoying the hell out of The Matt.

"How much farther?" Jessie was complaining again and both Regei and Destiny were about to kill him. If it wasn't for Philip Jessie would be dead by now.

"Just a little farther…" A black shadow approached from below and The Matt barley dodged it. The black blob split into three and targeted him. One of the shadows was very large and dragon-like, another was large and bird-like, while the third was small and butterfly-like. The smallest shadow used a beautiful silver wind attack and left the six travelers blinded. The largest shadow pelted them with flames. The Matt took all the flames and made sure no one was hit other than himself. The bird-like shadow dived at them and attacked Destiny. The Matt roared in rage when he saw Destiny and the shadow streaking towards the ground. The Matt pelted after them. He ripped them apart but the bird-like shadow changed in his paw. It grew bigger and was now over-powering him. Destiny fought to get them away from each other to no avail. The Matt heard a snort of laughter come from his opponent.

"I can't believe you fell for that!" His opponent fell down in the air and was heading for the ground with no control. He flew down and caught it by the wing. He saw dark sapphire eyes glowing playfully at him. The other shadows began to laugh too. He blushed in embarrassment and let the Charizard go. It stopped itself and flew up to him.

"Marina?" She smiled at him and the silver wind cleared away revealing May and Drew as the other shadows. Destiny squealed and hugged Marina and Marina hugged her back.

"Since when did you have so many friends?" It was Regei. She glared at him but then she smiled.

"Since people like me." Regei scoffed and flew down to the ground. Destiny and Marina stayed in the air and chatted to each other while everyone descended. The others were just coming back from town and a huge reunion took place. At the pokemon center Max and the others were frantically informing the town of the oncoming danger of Team Rocket. The Rocket's were almost ready to attack; they just needed to test their secret weapon. Harley was lying dormant in a tree while he continued his extreme training with the evil Espeon, and two dark orange eyes watched all the top 15 and their two apprentices.

"I will kill you for what you did to him Marina. You will not see the light of day when I'm down with you. The dark orange eyes glowed with happiness at the thought and slunk away into the darkness of a secret hideout.

2hott4u: Sorry it took so long to update! School started Monday and I had to get all these materials for the classes and (hotty: STOP MAKING EXCUSES! I could have updated faster than you and I had to do the same thing cause were in the same school!) SHUT UP!!!! You know you're a little worry-wart and forget that everything is due next week and do it the second day of school. (hotty: and you know your lazy and don't do anything TILL next week.) growls Can any of you guess who Jessie's cousin is and why the thing with orange eyes wants to kill Marina? And Ororo, DON"T GIVE AWAY ANSWERS; especially to Destiny! HAHAHA take that! JK. Love y'all. Hope you enjoyed it!