AN: All righty, this chapter is for one of my wicked cool reviewers, Yoshizilla. Happy Birthday, pal, and a special note to you:

Yoshizilla: Yeah I was thinking about May and her eating habit problem thing with the tummy growls but thanks for reminding me! I'll be sure to use it in the next chapter. Oh and about the Nintendo Bash... LUCKY! I wish I could have one of those...

And without further ado, the end of the beginning side-adventure!

Side-Adventure One

Chapter 4

"Impossible! The extinct volcano's erupted!" Max screamed, throwing down his plastic shovel. "Let me go get my binoculars, Brock, this is history!" Max said, running up the beach to his pack. On the other side of the island, a few natives had been interrupted in their sacred tribal dance to look at the "smoking" volcano.

"Ahhh! The volcano god Crapponurvillagedie is angry! Run!" a native screamed in native language, throwing down their native face paint and running natively out of the native tribal counsil. Native.

"Awesome, Absol! Wow, I can't believe I got the one pokemon you wanted, Ash," May said happily, hugging Absol. Ash got on his knees and begged May.

"Please, May, I'll do anything if you'll let me have absol for my next gym battle!" Ash said, looking up at May.

"All right, but only to train. Is that okay, Absol?" May asked, scratching under Absol's chin. "You were a good boy back there, yes you were!" Pikachu looked annoyed that Absol was stealing all the attention and decided to ride Absol back to the beach. As they walked back to the beach, May heard her stomach grumble.

"Hungry?" Ash asked. She nodded and grabbed her stomach. "It is dinnertime… at least I got what I came for," Ash said, shrugging.

"Hey Ash? Um… I was wondering…" May trailed off, "what exactly were you about to say when you thought we were gonna die back there?"

"Oh, uh… I was about to say… I think you're weird," Ash said, smiling at her. She looked at the ground as Absol looked up and saw her expression. It growled.

"Shut up," she said angrily. Ash stopped.

"You're not possessed by that sableye again are you?" he asked.

"You said 'at least I got what I came for'," she repeated, "and you didn't. I got what you came for," May said.

"No, I did," Ash said. May looked up with a confused expression.

"How can you say that when Absol…" May trailed off but stopped when Ash came closer.

"I don't know how to say it so…" Ash looked away in thought.

"So?" May said still mad. He turned quickly at her undecisively, then finally did it. He kissed her.

"Oh, I get it now," May said after a pause. After a while, May realized they were staring at each other and turned away red-faced.

"Come on, we have to get back to Brock and Max! They're probably worried!" Ash said, grabbing her hand and taking her with Absol and Pikachu in tow.

"Look, it's Ash and May!" Max said.

"Finally, I was getting hungry!" Brock said. "What the… is that a new pokemon?" he asked.

"It's an Absol!" Max said, running up to it.

"Yeah, I caught it," May said. She stooped to pet it.

"YOU did?" both Max and Brock said together.

"Yeah, she did," Ash said, letting Pikachu back on his shoulder.

"How!" Max and Brock said in unison once again.

"Same way she caught the Bulbasaur," Ash said and Max and Brock understood immediately.

"That's just unfair," Max said.

"I know, that's what I said!" Ash exclaimed.

"Well, I'm sure you guys are hungry so here's some stew made with delicious noodles," Brock said, bringing out the pot of stew. Everyone ate heartily as Max began describing the micropokemon he found in the water.

"Oh, and did you guys see the volcano? And Max said it was long extinct!" Brock said.

"Oh about that," Ash began, "Um, we ran into Team Rocket but they were tired so even May could defeat them. Well, Absol did and they hit the top of the volcano making it look like an eruption. Anyway," Ash said.

"We defeated them and also! Before that, I was possessed by a sableye and trapped us in a psychic beam box thingie," May continued, shoving another mouthful of noodles in.

"Which made us say weird things… And then Absol saved us and got rid of the sableye and then immediately loved May," Ash said, shoving food in his mouth.

"Who could resist that?" May asked as Max sweatdropped, Brock made a face, and Ash turned red for some reason.

"So now I'm letting Ash borrow Absol for the Mossdeep gym battle because he begged me. After all that we… fought… all the way back here and then we met up with you guys and you fed us dinner and then we told you all about how…"

"We get it already!" everyone said. Meanwhile, after the dust from the caldera explosion settled, the natives put on their native face paint and danced around natively around their native-like totem poles and native-looking bonfires with their native sacrafice spoink on a native stick over the native-looking bonfire smelling natively delicious all native-y.

TO BE CONTINUED!

Native.

Next Side-Adventure PREVIEW!

The next side-trip will be a tribute to the new Pirates of the Caribbean 2 movie that I saw yesterday! Of course there won't be any characters from it (oh boo hoo) but there will be some movie lines and humor of the sort. And of course, the pirate theme. Ash and friends find an abandoned ship and come across some evil pirates. I can't tell you any more cuz I don't wanna give it away! (And I kind of don't know either...)

Ideas are still welcome!

Review!