No one told me the correct word so I didn't change it 0o…Um yeah the rating changed because of the language in this chapter, its'…slightly stronger I guess. I believe K+ is PG13 right? Man this new rating system is confusing…

Disclaimer: I don't own Pokemon

Brendan turned onto his back for the tenth time. He wasn't sure why but he had been very nervous that whole night. He and May had camped in a small clearing surrounded by tall pines. He sighed as he looked up at the stars. They looked so beautiful, twinkling shards of diamonds plastered on a dark purple sky. May moaned next to him and turned on her side. Brendan rolled on his side to look at her face. It had been four months since they had last seen Ash and she had been captured. But the uneasiness had never left him. Black long hair fell onto his face he rolled onto his stomach. She hadn't told him, she didn't have to, he could tell.

'Why?' He growled in his mind. 'Why does she have to like him, why!' he yelled in his mind as he grabbed a rock and tossed it through the air and past the pine trees. He sighed, realizing that there wasn't anything he could do. He had seen the way she had looked at him.

When he came back from his journey he found her gone, worried he had decided to look for her. But after traveling for weeks and hearing from several people that she was with a boy, he had figured she had gone with Max. Then he saw her on TV with that guy, Ash Ketchum from Pallet Town. He had felt so stupid giving up two years with her in those two years she had gone and grown. She grew up and found someone to support her, despite the letters in his first year of traveling when she started her journey they lost touch. He saw a small spindle of drool droop from her mouth and he chuckled. He didn't know when but at some point he lost consciousness and drifted into a dark sleep.

A high pitched scream woke him and as he bolted up he grabbed his white hat and saw May in the air, a rope around her waist hoisting her above the trees.

"May!" Brendan starched his arm towards her as he ran after her.

"Brendan! Brendan help me! I can't, I can't get free!" She yelled struggling. He tried to grab one of his pokeballs when he remembered both he and May had put them in their packs.

"May! May! Maaayyyy!" He yelled at her as the helicopter flew higher and higher out of his reach. He saw a man in a red garment with a Team Magma symbol on his chest peer out of the 'copter door. He kept running after it ignoring the sharp pains shooting up his legs with each barefoot step he took. He tripped and watched Mays' slim figure disappear into the night sky.

Three days later Ash laughed as Misty explained the time Gary tripped and landed face first into Ponyta feces. Brock, Ash and Misty walked into the small pokemon center to find a frantic Nurse Joy.

"Nurse Joy!" Brock floated towards her on a pink heart shaped cloud.

"Oh! Ohmygoodness! Its' you! I've been waiting for you! Thank goodness you're finally here!" Nurse Joy ran arms outstretched. Brock ran towards her but snapped out of it as she went past him and began to shake Ash violently. "They took her! And he was looking for you! For days, man, for days! My cousin said you were on your way here and you did come! Oh man he'll be so relived." Ash, who had been rendered useless by her vigorous shakes, fell onto the ground dizzy. Misty stared at the apparently crazed Nurse Joy.

"Nurse Joy, I can tell you're awfully young and most likely new at this job, please allow me to help," Brock bowed. Now that Misty looked at her more closely she could tell a difference in this Nurse Joy. Her hair was slightly magenta leaning towards purple, she was about Brocks height and more slender that he average Nurse Joy, Brock was right she war really young.

"Get up!" Nurse Joy ordered Ash and pulled him towards a phone. "Listen to this!" She turned it on and went to the menu. She opened up the mailbox and clicked on the saved messages icon. The computer/phone prompted a password that Nurse Joy quickly typed in. A small hour glass turned as a downloading bar grew with each second. Ash, Misty and Brock crowded around the screen as Brendan appeared.

"Ash," Brendan looked scared, he was dirty and his hair was disheveled. "She's gone! They took her, Ash, they took her…" he began to cry. Misty and Brock looked at Ash whose face had not changed; he looked emotionless even as he frowned slightly as Brendan continued to mutter "God…"under his breath. "It wasn't Team Aqua," he said wiping his tears on his sleeves. "I saw the Team Magma symbol. I'm at Granite Caves but I'm going over to Tiny Pine Town to see Professor Redwood, I'm not sure but I think you're close by aren't you? Head over to Tiny Pine Town see you then." The messaged ended with Brendan looking serious and Ash seething.

"That…he just had to watch her, all he had to do was protect her if he couldn't do that, he should have said so!" Nurse Joy, Misty and Brock backed away looking saddened. "Damn it!" Ash threw the chair he had been sitting on across the room, scaring Pikachu off his shoulder and into Misty's arms. "One goddamn fucking thing!" Ash yelled falling onto his knees. Soft sobs echoed through the empty Pokemon center. Nurse Joy opened her mouth and closed it unsure of what to say, "Why?" Ash choked.

"It's not anyone's fault Ash," Brock tried to calm him.

"Why?" He asked louder, they didn't understand his question, why did it affect him so? Why did he feel the way he did, why did it hurt so much? It didn't make any sense. A small tear rolled down Mistys' cheek unnoticed by anyone other than Pikachu, who crooned.

Ash, Misty and Brock arrived breathless at Professor Redwoods' a week and a half later. Brock knocked on the door as the trio tried to catch their breaths. Brendan opened the door and the next thing anyone knew Ash had him against the wall, they glared at each other. Daring one another to make first move with their eyes, Misty, Brock, Pikachu and Professor Redwood tried to separate them.

"He blames me," Brendan said needlessly as he straightened himself out.

"We think we know where they have her," Professor Redwood said, getting straight to business. "Since both teams are originally from Hoenn I've been monitoring the news and they have noticed an increase of Team Magma and Team Aqua activity these last few months around the Lune Plateau."

"Moon Plateau?" Ash asked confused.

"Basically," Brendan grunted rolling his eyes. He didn't see what May could possibly see in this moron. He hadn't really wanted to call Ash, but for Mays' sake he had swallowed his pride he knew he would need all the help he could get.

"So you think they have her there?" Brock asked.

"Yes," Professor Redwood said as he picked up small trinkets and placed them in a gym sack.

"But Professor?" Misty asked, "Why do you think they would take her out of Gantu?" Ash felt this was a good question and stopped his death glare to Brendan to see what the professor would say.

"I don't think they would go through such big productions if this wasn't important. If its' big they would go to headquarters right? And headquarters is in Hoenn, correct?"

"Yeah!" Ash agreed as he pushed himself off the glass table he was leaning up against of. "What are we waiting for? Let's go!" Professor Redwood chuckled.

"Yeah, ok, we were just waiting for you to arrive. I called my other colleagues to confer and Professor Oak and Birch will meet you in Hoenn. Your mother, Ash, will also be there. Of course Mays' parents have also been notified."

"Wait…you won't be coming with us Professor?" Misty asked disappointed.

"No, Misty, I won't be able to join you…hurry now kids, you don't want to miss your plane!"

I'm sorry if anyone was offended by the language Ash used, it's only for this chapter so don't worry. I also apologize for the length the next chapter is even shorter and then chapter thirteen is about this length. But after that the final two chapters might have to broken in half they are so long, so I will make up for the poor length.

CherryShadowZ