A/N that's right! I'm back and I'm a bloody animal!
May, Brendan, and Wally had just returned to Mauville and we're on their way to the pokemon centre when they heard two voices arguing rather loudly.
Actually loudly was under stating it. The two men were practically screaming at each other.
"What do you guys think is going on?" Wally asked.
"I don't know but it looks like there's a crowd surrounding Wattson's gym." Brendan said.
"We should go have a look and make sure he's ok." May said and ran towards the crowd.
"Excuse me. Pardon me. Oh I'm sorry." May apologized to one man after stepping on his foot in an attempt to get to the front of the group.
When she got there she saw Wattson with his Raikou robot and it looked like he was in a pretty heated argument with another man.
The man that was arguing with Wattson had spikey blond hair, wore a blue jacket with three yellow gems sewn into the left arm, had black pants with a chain and was standing next to a Zapdos.
"Just accept defeat Wattson. A blind deaf coma patient could tell that my Zapdos mech is better then your Raikou." the spikey blond said.
"That's always been your problem Volkner. You just don't know when to admit defeat." Wattson said and turned his attention to the beautiful young woman who was standing next to Volkner with an annoyed expression on her face and a Raichu in her arms.
"What exactly do you see in him again Jasmine?" Wattson asked and rubbed the Raichu's head.
"The longer this stupid argument goes on the more I ask myself that." the woman, Jasmine said and glared at Volkner.
"Rai Raichu Rai." the Raichu said from the woman's arms.
"Hey Wattson!" May shouted.
Wattson turned away from Volkner and Jasmine and turned to see May and his scowl turned into his regular grin "May! So good to see you again child."
"You too Wattson. Looks like you've gotten yourself into some trouble." May said and gazed over to Volkner.
"Trouble?" Wattson repeated and then let out a loud laugh and said "no Volkner is a lot of things but he's not trouble. More of an annoyance really."
"Hey we're not done yet Wattson! Just admit my Zapdos is better then we can get on with our lives." Volkner said.
"Wattson can you just do it so Volkner and I can get on with our vacation." the woman, Jasmine said.
Wattson sighed and said "ok Volkner I'll admit that your Zapdos is better then my Raikou."
"Thank you." Volkner said with a proud look on his face.
"But it's got nothing on my newest mech." Wattson said.
Suddenly the doors to Wattson's gym opened and out shot a pokemon that May didn't recognize.
It was floating on what looked like a cloud, was light blue with purple spots and had a long dark blue tail with balls on it.
"Volkner, say hello to Thundurus." Wattson said and let out a loud laugh.
Thundurus shot a large blue bolt of lightning straight up into the sky.
Wattson took one look at Volkners face and let out another huge laugh and said "keep trying Volkner. Maybe one of these days you'll actually beat me."
"Your Thundurus is impressive but it's still got nothing on my Zapdos." Volkner said.
"Well looks like there's only one way to settle this." Wattson said.
"Looks like it." Volkner said and grabbed a pokeball.
"How will a pokemon battle decide who's machine is better?" May asked.
"It won't. One of them will win and then a month later they'll start this up again." Jasmine said.
"OK Manectric let's go!" Wattson said and released his blue and yellow electric type.
"Raichu let's go." Volkner said.
Raichu sighed and leapt out of Jasmine's arms and landed in front of Volkner.
"Rai!" Raichu said.
"Volkner, next we go on vacation I'm picking where we go." Jasmine said with an annoyed frown.
"Manectric let's try and make this quick. Use flamethrower!" Wattson said.
"Raichu use thunderbolt!" Volkner said.
Raichu launched a bolt of electricity while Manectric launched a jet of flames from its mouth and both fire and electricity collided in a huge explosion.
"Now use volt tackle!" Volkner said.
"Wild charge!" Wattson said.
Both electric pokemon rushed towards each other while surrounded in an electric aura and collided in another explosion but Manectric was thrown back.
"Follow up with focus blast!" Volkner said.
"Double team then use signal beam!" Wattson said.
Manectric created several copies of itself that surrounded Raichu who had formed a blue sphere between its paws and was turning it's head back and forth trying to decide which Manectric to attack.
The real Manectric then launched a green beam from its mouth that hit Raichu' back and knocked the electric type to the ground.
"Rai!" Raichu growled.
"Go Raichu use volt tackle!" Volkner said.
"Flamethrower!" Wattson said.
Raichu shot forward while surrounded with electricity but was stopped short by a jet of flames.
"Raichu use iron tail!" Volkner said.
"Dodge!" Wattson said.
Raichu's tail turned metallic silver and it swung it's tail at Manectric who quickly leapt over and then jumped to the left to avoid another hit before opening it's mouth and launching a jet of flames that hit Raichu point blank.
"Jump away and use thunderbolt!" Volkner said.
Raichu quickly shook off the flames and jumped away before launching a huge bolt of lightning at Manectric who grunted in pain.
"Shake it off and use signal beam!" Wattson said.
"And we'll use focus blast!" Volkner said.
Raichu formed a blue sphere and hurled it at Manectric who had fired a green beam from its mouth.
Neither attack won and the force of the two attacks exploded.
"Volt tackle!" Volkner said.
"Double team then flamethrower!" Wattson said.
Raichu charged Manectric but unfortunately the electrifying tackle only hit one of the many copies that Manectric.
The real Manectric then launched a strong jet of flames that hit Raichu and caused the small electric type to cry out.
"Wow their really giving it their all." Wally said.
"Yeah. I actually forgot how tough that Manectric was." May said.
"Didn't you just barely manage to beat it?" Wally asked.
"Yeah. I only won because Torchic evolved into Combusken and even then we needed blaze." May said.
"OK I've been patient enough." Jasmine said and pulled out a pokeball and released a huge Steelix.
"Steelix break them up with a hyper beam please?" Jasmine asked.
Steelix roared and then launched a dark purple beam from its mouth that hit both Raichu and Manectric and sent them flying.
"Jasmine! Why did you do that?" Volkner asked angrily.
"Because if I wanted to watch you battle I'd just watch your gym battles. Now we're here on vacation that means relaxing. It doesn't mean get into an argument with your old teacher over something as stupid like who can build the better mech. Jasmine said angrily.
"It's no stupid." Volkner said.
Steelix roared at Volkner which caused the young man to flinch
"You were saying?" Jasmine asked with her hands on her hips.
Volkner sighed and walked over and put his arms around Jasmine's waist and said "your right. I'm sorry."
"So am I." Wattson said before returning his Manectric.
May stopped listening after she felt something land on her shoulder.
"Gull! Gull!" a Wingull said.
"Wow. That's strange. Wingull are usually very shy." Brendan said.
May however smiled and rubbed Wingull's head. She had a sneaking suspicion she knew this Wingull.
"Peeko! Peeko! Where are you you silly pokemon!" the group heard a voice yell.
"Gull!" Wingull said and flew off of May's shoulder and landed on an old man's shoulder.
"There you are. What's gotten into you? You never fly off like that."
"Mr. Briney!" May said and walked over to the old man.
"Ah well that explains why you ran off." Mr. Briney said to his Wingull.
"Gull! Gull!" Wingull cawed happily.
"What are you doing here?" May asked.
"Well Peeko and I dropped anchor just outside of town. It had been a while since we'd been in Mauville City and I wanted to try my luck at the Game Corner." Mr. Briney said.
"And? Did you win big?" May asked.
Mr. Briney actually looked embarrassed and said "no. We lost big time."
"Gull!" Wingull squawked and swatted his head with her wing which made May, Brendan, and Wally laugh.
"Fine fine. I lost." Mr. Briney and finally his eyes drifted to Brendan and Wally "and who are these two?"
"Oh sorry. Brendan, Wally, this is Mr. Briney. I saved his Peeko from some Team Aqua punk and to thank me he gave me a lift to Dewford Town and to Slateport after that." May said.
"I wondered how you managed to get to Dewford Town." Brendan said.
"So May, where are you heading now?" Mr. Briney asked.
"Back to Petalburg. It's time for me to take on my Dad." May said.
"Really? Well then in that case would you like a ride back?" Mr. Briney offered.
"I don't want you to go out of your way." May said.
"May, you rescued my darling Peeko so I don't mind one bit. Besides it's time for us to head back to the cottage anyway." Mr. Briney said.
"Gull! Wingull!" Peeko cawed and fluttered over to May's shoulder and nuzzled her head.
"Then it that case I'd be honored." May said with a giggle.
"Excellent. Now I just have to get my ship ready. Just head outside town and you'll see my ship. Now come along Peeko." Mr. Briney said.
Peeko leapt off of May's shoulder and fluttered over to Mr. Briney's shoulder.
"Well this is great. Now we'll be back in Petalburg in no time." May said.
"Yeah." Brendan said.
"Are you ready to fight your dad?" Wally asked.
"Yeah. And don't worry. I have no intention of believing that it'll be easy but I intend to get my next badge." May said.
"You said he's a normal type trainer? What pokemon does he use?" Brendan asked.
"His strongest pokemon is his Slacking but he has a lot of pokemon from Kanto and Johto too." May said.
"Well this should be an interesting match then." Brendan said.
The three trainers made their out outside of town and sure enough they saw Mr. Briney's ship anchored there.
"No Peeko I said a crescent wrench." they heard Mr. Briney say.
"Hello!" May said.
"Ow!" the elderly sailor said and jumped up and hit his head on his ships engine.
"Oh, sorry." May said sheepishly.
"It's fine child. You've arrived just in time as usual. We just finished so we can set sail as soon as your ready." Mr. Briney said.
"I've never been on a ship before. This should be fun." Wally said.
Not forty five minutes later Wally was hanging over the edge of the ship and looked as green as his hair.
"So Wally, having fun yet?" Brendan asked with a gigantic grin.
"Go.. jump...in...the...ocean." Wally said before throwing up what was left of his breakfast.
May and Brendan both burst out laughing at that.
"Oh Brendan look! Luvdisc!" May said and pointed down at the water.
"The most loveliest pokemon in the world." Brendan said.
Hearing that caused the Luvdisc to fire a water gun at Brendan's face.
May burst out laughing and in between gasps she she said "it looks like the Luvdisc didn't like that terrible pun you made."
Brendan took his headband off and ran his fingers through his white hair and said "apparently not."
Peeko flew over with a towel in her beak and landed on the railing and offered it to Brendan.
"Thank you." Brendan said and took the towel and dried his hair.
May tried not to stare but her eyes eventually fell on Brendan's scars that went from just above his eye and ran up into his hair.
Brendan noticed May's staring and quickly put his wet headband back on.
"I'm I'm sorry." May said.
"It's fine." Brendan said.
"Um, Brendan, if you don't mind my asking." May started to say.
"I do." Brendan snapped.
"Oh ok. Sorry." May said and felt bad.
A/N I know I've been gone for a while and I'm sorry about that and I know that this chapter isn't that great but I had to set the stage for the next gym battle.
Just bare with me for a little longer and I'll get to the gym battle we've all been waiting for.
Now that's all I have to say so until we meet again.
Jaffa3 out.
