After Ash, Davis, and Ross earned their third badge our heroes continue their journey to Verdenturf Town where May and Kari plan to enter the contest.

"I got to say Exveemon I can't get over the fact that you evolved." Davis said.

"I know it feels weird knowing you can't change back." Exveemon said.

"That's right you told us that you change back after you digivolve. Is that right?" May said.

"That's right." Kari said.

"I can't seem to wait to when I evolve." Gatomon said.

"It is pretty cool. I mean just look at me now." Exveemon said as he shook around hitting a few trees.

"Take it easy will you." Ash said. Then there was a buzzing sound and Beedrill came out.

"Bedrill!" Ash, May, and Ross said.

Pokémon

Every trainer has a choice

To listen to that voice inside

I know the battles may be long

Winners may have come and gone

I will carry on

Yeah this dream will last forever

This dream will never die

We will rise beneath the challenge every time

Advance challenge

Yeah this dream keeps us together

It's always you and I

We'll be the best that the world's ever seen

Because we will always will follow our dream

Pokémon

(May's voice) Good Old Friend

"Beedrill?" Davis said.

"Trust me these are pokemon you don't want to mess with especially in a swarm." Ross said.

"Wait are you saying they're dangerous?" Kari said.

"Do you want to have those stingers strike you?" May said and they all charged in.

"Swampert Mud Shot!" Someone cried out and a Swampert came out shooting down the Beedrill. Then Swampert's trainer came out.

"Brendan is that you?" May said.

"Well I'll be May." The trainer named Brendan said.

"You know him?" Ash said.

"We'll talk later let's go." Brendan said as they all ran away from the Beedrill. When they were all safe Brendan and May kept talking.

"Brendan I can't believe it's you." May said.

"I know May I haven't seen you since you moved to Petalburg City when we were kids." Brendan said.

"Hey May you mine introducing us." Kari said.

"Oh I'm sorry guys. This is Brendan he's an old childhood friend of mine." May said.

"Hi Brendan I'm Ash." Ash said.

"Pikachu!"

"I'm Ross." Ross said.

"Squirtle!"

"I'm Davis." Davis said.

"I'm Kari." Kari said.

"The name's Exveemon." Exveemon said.

"I'm Gatomon." Gatomon said.

"It's nice to meet all of you." Brendan said.

"Believe it or not Ash Brendan happens to be Professor Birch's son." May said.

"You're his son?" Ash said.

"That's right. By the way this is Swampert my partner." Brendan said.

"Swampert!"

"Swampert?" Davis said and got his pokedex.

"Swampert, the Mud Fish pokemon and the final evolve form of Mudkip. Swampert uses its arms to swat foes and can tow a ship."

"I never got to see you choose your first pokemon May." Brendan said.

"I chose a Torchic and it's a Blaziken now." May said. "So what have you been up to?"

"Well I'm trying to get into the Hoenn league and maybe join the elite four." Brendan said.

"You're entering the Hoenn league! So are Ash, Davis, and me." Ross said.

"That's great." Brendan said. "So May what have you been up to? You told me you didn't really like pokemon."

"May you didn't like pokemon." Kari said.

"Not at first, my parents would only let me travel around if I was a trainer, but that changed when I traveled with Ash." May said. "In fact Brendan Kari and I are entering contest to be top coordinator."

"That sounds great." Brendan said. "Listen there's a pokemon center near here so do you mind if we talk there."

"Not at all." May said and they headed to the pokemon center.

…

The Pokemon Center

When they arrived May and Brendan kept on talking, but Ash was starting to feel uncomfortable.

"I don't get it why do they keep talking?" Ash said.

"They're childhood friends and haven't seen each other in a while. They're just catching up." Ross said.

"Yeah well May does need to look like she's so happy that they're dating." Ash said.

"Pika?"

"Ash wait you're not jealous are you?" Ross said with a grin on the face.

"Boy do I know the feeling." Davis said.

"What do you mean?" Kari said.

"Oh nothing." Davis said.

"I'm not jealous." Ash said. "But there is something I want to do." He walked up to Brendan.

"So May what's the deal with you and those fellows of yours. Are you dating one of them?" Brendan said and May's face turned red.

"I'm not dating at all." May said.

"I just assumed. I haven't seen you in years. You can't blame me for being curious on what's going on with you." Brendan said.

"Hey Brendan." Ash said gaining his attention.

"Ash what is it?" Brendan said.

"I was wondering since you're going for the Hoenn league like me if you like to battle." Ash said.

"Ash you can't just go up and ask someone to battle when you just met." May said.

"No it's okay I never back down from a battle." Brendan said and they headed out to the battle field.

"Ash if you're going through with this better not use Pikachu. Swampert is part ground type." Ross said.

"Right Torterra I choose you." Ash said.

"Torterra!"

"So that's a Torterra. Swampert let's go." Brendan said.

"Swampert!"

"Why is he using a water and ground type against a grass type?" Gatomon said.

"For a son of a professor he's not that smart." Exveemon said.

"I don't even know who to root for." May said.

"Alright Torterra use Energy Ball." Ash said.

"Torterra!" Torterra launched the energy orb.

"Swampert use Protect." Brendan said.

"Swampert!" Swampert was able to protect itself.

"Now Swampert use Ice Beam." Brendan said and Swampert launched a blue beam and it hit.

"So that's his strategy. He uses Protect and strike with Ice Beam that's super affective." Ross said.

"Now Swampert use Mud Shot." Brendans said and Swampert launched some mud hitting Torterra.

"Torterra use Synthesis." Ash said and Torterra was healing. "Now use Rock Climb." Torterra raised the rocks and Swampert went up. Torterra charged at Swampert and it hit.

"Swampert use Water Gun." Brendan said and Swampert launched some water hitting Torterra.

"That does average damage since Torterra is a ground type, but a grass type too." Ross said.

"Pika Pika!"

"You're full of energy." May said then saw a net heading straight for Pikachu. "Pikachu look out." May covered him, but got caught in it.

"May!" Kari said.

"Hey who did that?" Brendan said.

"Listen is that a voice I hear."

"It speaks to me loud and clear."

"On the wind."

"Pass the stars."

"In your ears."

"Bringing evil at an electrifying pace."

"Dashing hope putting a ray of fear in its place."

"A rose by any other name just as sweet."

"When everything's worse our work is complete."

"Jessie."

"James."

"Meowth, what a name."

"Zapping the do gooders in their place."

"We're Team Rocket."

"And we're in your face."

"Wobba"

"Mime, Mime"

"Team Rocket!" The gang said.

"Who's Team Rocket?" Brendan said.

"They're bad guys who steal other people's pokemon." Ash said.

"And today we finally captured Pikachu." Jessie said.

"So don't try to stop us." James said.

"This time we will have victory." Meowth said.

"Let go of Pikachu." Ash said.

"While you're at it let go of May." Brendan said.

"Who?" All three said and saw they got May.

"Hey let us out of here." May said.

"You were suppose to grab just Pikachu." Jessie said.

"I didn't mean to grab the twerpet." James said.

"It doesn't matter we'll give her pokemon to the boss." Meowth said as they flew off.

"Hey get back here." Ash said as they went after them. "You're not going anywhere." Ash jumped and grabbed the net.

"Ash!" May said.

"Pika!"

"Hold on I'll get you out of there." Ash said as he was climbing it.

"Torterra!" Torterra launched a Leaf Storm.

"No Torterra don't." Brendan said, but it was too late. The balloon exploded.

"You said we finally had victory." Jessie said.

"I think we're cursed or something." Meowth said.

"In Hine's sight a net probably isn't enough." James said.

"We're blasting off again!" They said as they were blasted off. Pikachu landed in front of the others, but Ash and May were blown deeper in the forest.

"Pikachu are you okay?" Kari said as they checked on him.

"Pika."

"I got some super potion." Brendan said and started spraying. "Right now we need to worry about Ash and May they could be anywhere."

…

Ash And May

Ash was holding onto a branch and May was holding onto him while he held onto her.

"May are you okay?" Ash said.

"I'll be better once we get out of here." May said.

"May listen use Venusaur to get us down." Ash said.

"Right Venusaur come out." May said.

"Venusaur!"

"Use Vine Whip and get us down." May said.

"Venusaur!" Venusaur grabbed them and was able to get them down.

"Thanks Venusuar." Ash said, but held his leg.

"Ash are you okay?" May said.

"That blast must have hurt my leg." Ash said. "We better get back to the center."

…..

The Others

They were looking through the forest to find Ash and May.

"Hey Torterra are you okay back there?" Davis said.

"I think Torterra feels guilty." Ross said.

"It's okay Torterra you didn't mean this." Kari said.

"The forest is too big they could be anywhere. Maybe this guy can help." Brendan said. "Shiftry come on out."

"Shiftry!"

"A Shiftry." Ross said.

"Shiftry look for Ash and May through the forest." Brendan said and Shiftry started jumping through the trees.

"Are you sure about this?" Davis said.

"When it comes to searching through the forest Shiftry is number one." Brendan said.

…..

Ash And May

May was holding onto Ash with his injured leg and trying to get through the forest.

"It shouldn't be that much further." May said.

"So what's going on between you and Brendan?" Ash said.

"Brendan, he's a good friend. We've known each other since we were kids." May said. "I use to live in Littleroot Town, but when my Dad became gym leader we had to move." Then Ash kicked something. It was a Vileplume and it looked angry.

"Uh Oh." Ash said.

"Vileplume" Vileplume launched a poison powder.

"Ash look out." May said and pushed him out of the way, but got hit and fell.

"Oh no May." Ash said. Then he looked and saw Beedrill. "Not Beedrill again, we must have wondered into their territory."

"Tree!" All the Beedrill were coming at them.

"Shiftry use Gust." Shiftry came and blew the Beedrill back. Ash saw the others come by.

"Ash are you okay?" Ross said.

"Shiftry use Fake Out to scare the Beedrill away." Brendan said. Shiftry slapped his arms together and scared the Beedrill away. "There that does it, are you okay?"

"Not really May got hit by a Vileplume's poison powder." Ash said.

"Oh no." Brendan said. "We got to get her to the pokemon center. There might be something's I can use there to make an antidote."

"I got her." Ash said as he lifted her, but felt the pain in his leg.

"Ash you're hurt." Kari said.

"That doesn't matter." Ash said and carried May back to the center.

…

The Pokemon Center

Brendan began to work on an antidote to cure May of her poison. He mixed something's together with some berries to make a liquid.

"Okay down the hatch." Brendan said as he had May drink it. "She should be fine by morning."

"I hope so." Ash said. It got late and Brendan just woke up.

"In the meantime Ash you better get off that leg." Ross said.

"I better check on May." Brendan said. When he looked her room he saw Ash asleep right by her bed. "Ash must have been up the whole night. Oh so that's what's going on." Then May began to wake up and so did Ash.

"May you're alright." Ash said.

"Yeah I feel better." May said.

"Hey May are you okay?" Brendan said as he entered.

"Yeah, what happened?" May said.

"I whipped up an antidote and Ash carried you all the way here." Brendan said.

"Really?" May said with Ash blushing. They were about to part ways.

"So where are you guys heading?" Brendan said.

"We're heading to Verdenturf City for me and May to enter the pokemon contest." Kari said.

"Good luck to both of you." Brendan said.

"I hope we see you again." Ross said.

"I can't wait since you're heading for the Hoenn league." Davis said.

"Count on it. May I hope to see you again too." Brendan said. "Oh Ash I know what's going on between you and her."

"What?" Ash said.

"Just remember she's a childhood friend of mine so if you hurt her I'll hunt you down." Brendan said.

"Wait Brendan nothing's going on between me and Ash." May said.

"So long guys." Brendan said as they waved goodbye.

After meeting May's old friend Brendan our heroes continue their journey knowing there is a new rival. As the journey continues.

To Be Continue…

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