NA: Yeah I wrote this entire side-trip at around 2 to 4 AM. Anyway thanks for the first review!

XAirAngelX: Omg really, you like it? Awesome! And definitely, I prefer AAMAYL over everything. I might post a rant about how some people think the age difference makes them incompatible... all I gotta say about that is think of the TARGET AUDIENCE! Then look at their actual appearances!

Anyway, this should be a better chapter than the last one. It's not exactly advanceshippy yet, but hold on. And it'll become more funny I think/hope.

Disclaimer: Since my last name is Norris and my ancestors are from England and Scotland, I can say I don't own pokemon(tm). But if my last name were Japanese, then maybe I could be like "Yeah, I'm a pokemon game programmer, so step off, this is the real shiz." Except I would have a Japanese accent and cool stuff like that.

R&R

Side-Trip One

Chapter 2

"Hey, Max, did you hear that? It sounded like it came from the forest!" Brock said, sitting up and taking off his sunglasses.

"Nah, it's probably just a volcano erupting on one of the neighboring islands," Max said, digging with a plastic shovel for pokemon in the sand. His shovel and pail resembled the equipment that five-year-olds used when on vacation. It contrasted quite embarrassingly with the other more scientific equipment he had laying on the beach.

"Really? Sounded more like a dynamite or gas tank explosion. Are you sure volcanic eruptions are that loud?" Brock asked, unconvinced.

"Yeah, and the reason why there isn't any smoke is because it hasn't reached the caldera yet," Max said reassuringly. "And besides, it can't be this island, since the volcano on this one's been long extinct," he said, pointing to the massive pointed remains of it behind the forest.

"Oh, okay," Brock said, sighing and rolling over on his stomach. Meanwhile, Ash lay on his stomach with his hands on his head.

"May? How did you," Ash began, then trailed off as he saw her floating with an aura of black around her. "Uh oh." She dropped to the ground and lay where she fell.

"May!" Ash said, getting up and running over. He got out her pokedex with her head still resting in his lap and pointed it at her. Of course, nothing came up. Pikachu shot him a look as if saying, "What did you expect?" He shoved her pokedex in his pocket and picked her up, walking back out the way they came, when he ran straight into what felt like a wall.

"Ash, something possessed me! Some weird pokemon with jewels for eyes!" May said faintly. Suddenly a purple figure appeared behind the invisible wall. Ash whipped out the pokedex.

"Sableye, a psychic pokemon. It can possess humans and create forcefields to obtain its desires. These pokemon enjoy dark forests and become stronger when angry." Ash's expression changed from confused to pissed. His thoughts immediately shouted "I want to KO this mofo!"

"Ash, don't make it mad, I'm sure it has friends," May said in her high-pitched fearful voice. The sableye ran back from the forcefield into the cave, then turned around and did a weird hand motion. Four bright, transparent blue walls appeared around all sides of May and Ash while the sableye turned around and began digging its claws into the walls of the cave.

"Oh wow, look, it found gold!" Ash exclaimed, watching the sableye gather the metal.

"That's real nice Ash, but um… we're gonna be squished!" May said, poking Ash's arm while looking nervously at the back wall closing in.

"This reminds me of a movie I once saw…" Ash said thoughfully while May tried to stop the wall from moving. "Uh oh," was all Ash could say for the front wall began to move closer as well. May started to squeal.

"Pushing's no use!" she said, collapsing to the ground. Ash gulped and grabbed May's hand. "Ash? We'll be all okay, right? Ash!" she said, being pushed closer to him.

"May, if this is it, then I just want you to know…" Ash said, bringing May into a hug as the walls forced them tightly, "I…"

NA: Yep, that's right. Another cliffy. Review I beg you.