All of May's pokemon charged. It was 5 vs 4. The Gyarados focused their thunderbolts on Lapras, but she counteracted them with her own. The lightning clashed and neither were hurt.

Arcanine jumped on one of the Gyarados and bit him hard. The Gyarados roared and tried to shake him off. But a surprise attack by Miltank knocked over Gyarados. Arcanine hung on and the other Gyarados went to help, but Grumpig stepped in front of them. Without warning, one of the Gyarados saw a flash of light.

The Gyarados shook his head and saw his friends as enemies. That Gyarados saw the other Gyarados on the ground trying to shake Arcanine off. Well... more like he saw Lapras trying to hurt his ally. The confused Gyarados shot a thunderbolt at "Lapras".

Arcanine and Miltank jumped out of the way as the electric attack struck Gyarados. The Gyarados was knocked out instantly. Now only 3 remained. One confused, the other two trying to dodge their comrade's attacks.

(Confuse Ray's effect will fade soon. Grumpig! Tell Arcanine to use Extreme speed. And tell Lapras to follow him.) May told Grumpig in her mind.

Grumpig nodded and relayed the orders. Arcanine used speed that no one could believe and disappeared. One Gyarados had just dodged another attack by his confused friend. Only to be hit by a great force. Gyarados almost fell over from the hit. The dust settled and he spotted Arcanine. Gyarados used Hydro pump. Arcanine used extreme speed again, but only to dodge. The attack hit Lapra's instead. Her ability making that water helpful, rather than cause damage.

The confused Gyarados smacked his comrade with his tail at that moment. The seriously injured Gyarados was no match for Flygon. Flygon used his Dragon breath to finish him off. 2 remain.

But the confused one regained his senses. He and the other Gyarados used a combined Thunderbolt on Lapras. She barely managed to hang on. Miltank ran forward and shoved one of the Gyarados. Due to how big Gyarados was, that didn't send him far. He charged up a Hyper beam, Grumpig used Psychic to blast the Gyarados away.

Miltank looked at him in admiration. Grumpig shook his head. Great. Now she'll like him even more. The other Gyarados whacked them with his tail and sent them flying. They were in the middle of a battle! Did they really think he'd wait for their little comical moment to pass? Grumpig and Miltank looked a little dazed. May guessed that she probably couldn't communicate with Grumpig while he was a little confused. The battle raged on.

Meanwhile... Ruby was very angry she had been taken out of the picture. She couldn't even see May at a distance! "Slaking... You had better not try to stop me again."

She started walking towards the battle scene, when Slaking's big hand on her shoulder stopped her.

"Okay! That's it!"

She tackled him and put a fist in front of his face. Slaking cowered and waited for the blow. It's pretty sad when a human could scare a pokemon like that. But Slaking was saved!

"Ruby!"

Ruby got off of Slaking and saw Norman, Wattson and Prof. Birch run up.

Norman started to yell. "What did you think you were doing?! You could have hurt yourself and-"

"Norman..."

"What?"

"He's here."

Norman was about to ask who, but the look on her face gave him the answer. Her fear... "He's behind this? ....He kidnaped May?! I'll kill him! Where is he?!"

"I don't know. Slaking took me away." Ruby said.

"Then I'll find him myself! I'll make him pay for everything!" Norman started storming off.

Ruby went after him. "I'm coming too."

"But-"

"But nothing! He's going to kill May if we don't hurry! Now lets go!"

The two of them quickly left. Prof. Birch and Wattson looked at each other in confusion.

"Seems like they have a connection to the kidnaper." Wattson said.

"Yes, but now isn't the time to try to figure that out. I need to find my son." Birch said.

Wattson agreed and he, Birch and Slaking went to go after Norman and Ruby.

Back at the battle, victory was in sight! Flygon hit Gyarados from behind to finish him off. That left one more. The one that was already weakened from Grumpig's attack. All of May's pokemon circled the weakened Gyarados. They were all tired, but readied themselves for one last attack.

The Gyarados looked around, he knew he was surrounded. It wasn't looking good. Gyarados used one more Earthquake to strike at all of them. But it didn't stop May's pokemon.

Lapras took the hit and used one last Thunderbolt.

Arcanine jumped over the fissures made to use Take down.

Grumpig bounced up high and was ready to fall down on Gyarados.

Miltank also took the hit, but it didn't stop her charge.

Flygon flew at his opponent at a high speed.

And all their attacks hit Gyarados at the same time. To be honest, it was an overkill. The Gyarados went down with no problem. The pokemon cheered.

But something wasn't right. Arcanine took a quick sniff to smell that May was afraid. He and the others rushed over to her.

May thought everything was perfect. But the sudden appearance of Joel ruined that. (He must have gone around the fissure while I was distracted...)

Joel held his arm for a moment before speaking. "This has gone on too long."

"What are you talking about? Your pokemon have been beaten. Just give up already." May told him.

Alice stepped closer with her Miltank. "So you're the one causing trouble. I suggest you leave, before my Miltank attacks."

Joel reached in his pocked and pulled out a.... gun?! He pointed it at Alice. "And I suggest you shut up and back away before I shoot you."

(Whoa! Since when does he have a gun?!) May thought.

Alice put her hands up and reluctantly backed away with Mama Miltank. Joel smiled and then pointed the gun at May.

(Drat... there isn't anything I can do.) Alice thought.

(I knew hiding my gun until now would work to my favor. Like they always say, don't show them all your cards.) Joel thought.

May put Wynaut down and stared at the gun pointed at her.

Arcanine suddenly jumped in front of May. He growled at Joel. Miltank and Grumpig followed his example and stood in his way. Lapras came as well. She provided a shield as too. Flygon came up behind May and put his claws on her shoulders. May felt a tiny bit of comfort from that. But the fact was a crazy man was holding a gun pointed at her made it hard to completely relax. May was glad she wasn't alone though.

They were at a standstill. The pokemon knew that any sudden movement would spook Joel into shooting. So they stayed in front of May.

Joel hesitated. He wasn't sure he had enough bullets to shoot through the pokemon to get to May. Joel just had to hit her once. Just once, in a vital spot. (Perhaps her heart. My heart was carved out. I want the same for her.)

May's pokemon were very tired, but they would never abandon May. They waited for an opportunity.

Joel made his decision. His arm was killing him, and he just wanted this all to end. Even if he ran out of bullets, those pokemon would be out of the way, and it wouldn't take too much to kill May. He looked more determined.

Flygon took action. He tossed May on his back and flew up. Leading to a chain of events.

Seeing the sudden movement, the other pokemon charged forward, knowing Joel would certainly fire.

Joel raised the gun and took quick aim before shooting....

...and missed. He was rammed to the ground, courtesy of May's pokemon. The gun flew out of his hand and he hit the ground hard. Knocking him unconscious.

It was finally over.

Lapras made sure of it when she used Ice Beam to trap his arms. Now being restrained and unconscious, everyone could relax.

Well... not really relax. May sighed and whispered something to Flygon. He nodded and started to fly somewhere. The rest of the pokemon slowly started to follow.

Alice stopped Miltank. "Everything here is pretty much covered, so we'll be leaving. Want to say goodbye to your mom?"

Miltank nodded and Mama Miltank gave her a side hug. The mother and daughter separated and waved bye to each other.

(How nice. My Miltank has such a good daughter. You'd never think that she used to be a Shadow Pokemon. I guess good things can happen to anyone.) Alice thought.

Alice and Mama Miltank left to go find Swampert and then leave. Miltank watched her mother leave and wished she could see her again soon. Under normal circumstances. Miltank went to carry Wynaut and leave with the others.

Far away... Golbat woke up. He looked around and realized he was all alone. Joel wasn't standing over him threatening to kill him... Did that mean Joel was gone? Was Golbat finally free? Golbat really hoped so. He casually walked away. It looked like things were finally going his way. No more having to do someone's dirty work!

Meanwhile... Flygon landed and let May off. He kept his distance as she reached her destination.

A tragic reunion with Brendan.

May knelt down by his body. His arms and legs were twisted at odd angles and he was face down to the ground. It broke May's heart to see him like that. She couldn't help a few tears from falling.

" ...Brendan... why did he have to die? He was the first friend I had when I came to Hoenn. He helped me become a strong trainer. He didn't deserve this... He's gone... and I never got to tell him I love him."

A sudden pained gasp scared the mess out of May!

"What the- Brendan? Was that you?"

"Ugh... yeah... I just woke up..."

(Holy Miltank! He's alive! Uh-oh... did he just hear that little confession?) "Are you okay?" May asked.

Brendan slowly turned his head towards May. "I can't really move... but I'm not in a lot of pain."

"Good." (Poor guy's probably in shock.) "Um... did you hear what I was saying earlier?"

"What? That you love me?" Brendan asked.

(He did! Whoa I gotta fix this!) "Uh well.. You see... the last few days have been so dramatic so I sort of went to extremes because I thought you were dead."

Yeah... Love is a strong word. May knew that.

" ...But... I do like you." May admitted.

Brendan gave her a small smile. "...I like you too, May."

That was both comforting and awkward for May. She stood up, not really knowing what else to say.

Out of nowhere, May's mom ran up and gave May a very tight hug. "Oh May! I was so worried!"

"Hey Mom... I'm okay. Really." May said.

"I'm so glad. But don't you EVER get kidnaped again!"

May had to smile at that. "I'll try not to."

Ruby released May. "Good. I almost had a heart attack."

Norman and the others finally caught up to them. Ruby sure ran fast.

"May! I'm so glad you're okay!" Norman went to give May a hug too. But he was annoyed by the fact she had shackles with chains strapped to her. How dare that man do that to her!

"Brendan! Are you alright?!" Prof. Birch went to check on his son.

"I'm okay." (I think...) Brendan thought.

"It's a good thing we called the Orre police. They should be here soon. They'll be able to help Brendan and arrest that creep." Norman said.

Wattson watched the little scene play out. He was glad everyone was alive.

May's pokemon came up to her. They smiled at the reunion. It looked like everything was going to be alright.

A/N: And now the "movie" is finally over. I'm exhausted. When I first wrote this it took me four months. Editing it for this site in a week took a lot out of me. This is the length of 7 chapters. Well anyway, I'm sure you have questions. I couldn't fit EVERYTHING in this so the next chapter will hold some answers you are looking for. Oh and I am mad that I missed a few mistakes. Why is it that I only notice AFTER I already post it? Oh well... I need a break. Give me at least two weeks. Editing and updating every day was tiring. Until then here is the epilogue to the "movie."

The next day...

May was sitting next to her mother on the plane ride home. No, not Wattson's borrowed plane. That had run out of fuel. Anyway, May was glad. Her wrists and ankles were covered by a wrap. When the shackles were removed, she was shocked to see her skin red and swollen. It was worse then she thought. Her ankles weren't too bad, but she actually feared she might lose her wrists. They were horrible looking.

But she was currently at peace. They were going home. Brendan had to be transferred over to the hospital in Hoenn. So here they were. Brendan couldn't sit with them though. Not that he could sit anyway.

"Ah... isn't it wonderful to be on our way back home?" Ruby asked her daughter.

"Yep, It's been a while for me." May said.

"And Brendan will be okay. He'll be taken to Rustboro hospital." Ruby said.

May was quiet at the mention of that.

Her mother continued, "You know... you still don't have a doctor there. We should do that and get your wrists checked again."

May almost jumped out of her seat. "Whoa! Hey! The doctors in Orre said I'll recover as long as I don't move too much! I don't need to go to Rustboro hospital."

"But you do need a doctor. We might as well-"

"Please... can we not do that?"

"What's your problem?" Ruby asked.

"....You feel sorry for me from what's happened right? So you wouldn't get angry at me?" May asked.

"....Yeah... I do. I doubt I could possibly get mad at you at this point." Her mother said.

May sighed and decided to tell her the truth. "I can't go there. Remember when I came home and told you I had a cold?"

3 minutes later...

"WHAT?!"

The end..... of the movie. Not the story.

Preview: There was a woman that thought she was in love. However, her knight in shining armor turns out to be her greatest enemy. Is there even a knight for her? Next chapter... Chapter 31 That's no fairy tale.