AN: Yayeah, that's right, I'm up still running, and this is the longest one yet in like history so far. Heehe. Oh yes, reviewer repliesiesesss.. ahem.

Yoshizilla: Thank you my friend! Hmm I don't exactly know the Banjo Kazooie characters but I did play the videogame heh.. I'm sorry.. I'll make it up to you I hope.

Ash and May 4ever: Awww you so sweet. Thanks for takin the time to appreciate the story!

Yoshiguru: Yeah I know, I had trouble finding Ash & May humor stories and thought I'd make one. Glad you stumbed onto it!

buttercupcandy: Yay! You liked the native part! I was hoping someone would because I kind of thought I went overboard on that one... THANKS!

And one further thing: This isn't the long-waited Pirates of the Caribbean tribute, it's actually... like a semi-prologue kind of transition phase. Basically I had a day dream I wanted to write down and here it is!

For those of you who haven't seen Jirachi the Wish Maker Movie(tm'd!) I guess you'll figure it out for yourselves what May's device is!

POKEMON(tm) isn't mine.

Without further ado...

Pokemon Side Trip DOS!

Chapter 5!

After a long day's journey, Ash and company decided to sleep off shore and wait until morning before heading to Mossdeep City. As they lay resting, Ash was half in, half out of his sleeping bag restfully asleep, Max was curled up in his purple bag apparently hidden, Brock was face down in a deep slumber, and May was on one side with her eyes open. She looked up at the sky and marvelled at the stars, when she noticed a striking feature. There was a comet!

She sat up quickly, reached for her fanny pack that was next to her bandana, and fished around until she found her old wish-maker device she bought when Jirachi was with the crew. She hugged it and sighed, noticing that still one flap was open while all the others stayed closed. As May got up on top of a nearby rock which was carved by the waves during a higher tide, Ash blinked, sitting up. His eyes focused on the spot which May used to occupy.

May looked up at the stars, then closed her eyes and wished intently. She held the device out in the air and clasped the last flap shut. She then proceeded to hug it, and upon releasing it in her lap, she noticed a bright orange flash on its surface. All the pieces came together and formed a sheet of shimmering glass.

Suddenly, Ash got up and walked over to the rock, climbing it to find May who was on her back, watching the stars, the device in one hand.

"Hey, May," Ash said, climbing up and also laying down next to her. She flinched at his voice, becoming embarrassed, and paused.

"Hi Ash. Just lookin' at the stars," she said, once again regaining composure. He smiled at her, then returned his gaze to the sky.

"Yeah, hey you think that's a comet?" he asked and she let off a wry smile.

"Yep." She looked at the shimmering glass in her hand again.

"Hey, can I see?" he asked, taking the sheet of glass and rubbing his gloveless hand on it.

"Well okay… just don't scratch it," she said, smiling. They both lay down again, then he had an impulsive idea to take the glass and watch the stars shine through its shimmering transparent face. He gasped.

"What!" May asked urgently, sitting up and trying to see through it. "I don't see anything!" He kept watching as the images of himself and May hugging and holding hands flashed through the glass. Soon an image conveyed himself and May about to kiss. He freaked out.

"What…" but before May could say anything else, Ash had accidentally dropped the glass, jumping up with his familiar confused expression.

"I'm sorry May… I…" He trailed off in sincere oblivion. "What did you wish for?" he asked suddenly, scratching his head. Her pupils dilated.

"What did you see?" she demanded, standing, careful not to step on the shards of shimmering glass.

"Hey… I asked you first!" Ash said heatedly.

"Well it was my wish-maker after all! What did you see?" she asked once again, balling her fists while her messy hair became frizzled.

"Would you guys be quiet? Someone's trying to get some sleep!" Max cried, followed by Pikachu's tired and annoyed call. Ash tried to glare back at May's expression of anger but all he could do was sigh. He climbed down the rock, being careful not to slip on the jagged edges, and finally made it to the bottom.

"May!" Ash said in a loud whisper, "do you need help?" She didn't respond, still angry he wouldn't tell her what he saw in her wish device. The next morning they both woke up to the smell of Brock's delicious cooking.

"Hey Ash, glad you're up. Why don't you and Pikachu go look for some more wood? We're almost out and I need to heat up some soup to take with us for lunch later on," Brock said.

"Okay! Maybe we'll see some more pokemon along the way!" Ash said eagerly, grabbing a donut and walking off. May jumped up quickly upon hearing this, also grabbing a pastry.

"I'm going too!" she said through her mouthful. Ash looked back at her warily and she shot him an exasperated look. "So what did you see in my device, huh?"

"I thought we agreed not to talk about this?" Ash said. She clasped her hands behind her head.

"Ash! I just want to know what you saw! Okay fine, I wished for you to like me for who I am and not just some contest-guru wannabe. Happy?" May asked. He cocked an eyebrow and turned around.

"Oh yeah? Well that's not what I saw in the glass thingy!" he said teasingly and she almost exploded.

"Please, Ash, I want to know what you saw!" she begged, clapping her hands together in front of her chest.

"Okay," he said, shutting one eye in a kind of winking look mischeiviously, "I saw me and you and Pikachu defeating Team Rocket." She deflated momentarily in contemplation.

"That's it?" she asked, almost about to sigh, when she caught the look on his face the he was lying. "No it's not!" He shrugged and smiled. She became enraged and then did something he wasn't expecting. She walked off, leaving him to his wood-collecting. He looked saddened too, but then said a very typical statement for his character.

"Wonder what she's all spun up about? Oh well, Pikachu, let's get some firewood!" They cheerily went about it, collecting all sorts of branches.

"Hey May! …Where's Ash?" Max asked, looking behind her in hopes of seeing him. She shrugged angrily.

"Off being himself, I suppose," she said, putting her hands on her hips like she does when she's pissed off. "Some nerve he has. Someone oughtta teach that kid a lesson," she said, stamping her foot.

"Why? Did you two get in another fight again?" Brock asked. May nodded, still angry (with an anime vein). "What happened this time?" Brock asked, stirring the soup on the dwindling fire. She debated on whether or not to tell him, but settled to confess.

"Last night I made my last wish on the wish-maker device and it turned into glass! Of course Ash had to look in it and I couldn't see anything in it! He said he saw something, causing him to be a spaz and drop it!" she said, fuming. Then she snapped her fingers. "I bet he just made that all up anyway! I couldn't see anything when he was holding it."

"So why are you still having the argument? It seems like it should be over by now since there's not really any proof," Brock said trying to keep the remaining flames from burning out.

"Good point but…" she trailed off, then stopped to give Ash the silent treatment as he walked up with some twigs.

"Jeeze, Ash that's a pretty small stack of firewood!" May said. Ash turned to her, sticking his tongue out.

"Why don't you go get some? I got attacked by some rabid zigzagoons, so good luck!" he said.

"Okay. I will!" she said, walking away, her rage turning to hurt. Ash again sensed her mixed up actions.

"So Ash, it seems you're having an argument?" Brock asked, taking the firewood and trying to get the fire to catch.

"Yeah, I don't really get why she's so mad," he said, also expressing hurt.

"Why don't you just confess what you saw? It'll clear everything up, trust me," Brock said.

"Well she won't give me a clear answer on what she wished for either!" Ash said defensively.

"Come on, girls don't want to say what the wish for, besides it'll take all the fun out of it! Just tell her. And you might want to go help her with the rabid zigzagoons while you're at it, just bring more firewood!" Brock said, blowing on the flames to get them to ignite the sticks faster. Ash was off.

As he ran deeper in the forest, he heard calls for help. He became alarmed and ran faster into the forest, Pikachu holding onto his left shoulder.

"May!" he called.

"Pika!" Pikachu chimed in.

"Ash is that you? No! Don't come any closer, you'll…" May warned, but it was too late. Ash fell into the hole she was in right on top of her.

"Ouch…" Ash said, getting off of May and helping her stand in the nearly 15 foot deep ditch. "I can only guess who did this…" he trailed off, only to be responded to right on cue.

"Prepare for trouble!"

"And make it double!"

"To protect the world from devastation!"

"To unite all peoples within our nation!"

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above!"

"Jesse!" a woman with a very strange-shaped red hairstyle appeared above the ditch through the dust.

"James!" a man appeared with blue hair and smirked at them behind Jesse.

"Team Rocket blasts off at the speed of light!" Jesse said, striking a pose.

"Surrender now, or prepare to fight fight fight!" James cried.

"Meowth, dat's right!" a meowth said, brandishing a peace sign.

"Ugh, not them again," May said, backing up with Ash. Jesse cackled evilly.

"That's right, twerps! And this time we'll truly succeed in getting pikachu! HA!" she said, getting out a long pole and net, swiping Pikachu forcefully off of Ash's back. May got out a pokeball, but before she could get Combuskin out, Jesse and James used a weird sifting machine to release gravel into the pit Ash and May were in.

"Pikachu!" Ash screamed as TR they made their getaway

"Um, Ash, this is gonna hurt!" May said, grabbing Ash's arm and pulling him back from the falling gravel. Suddenly an image settled into Ash's mind from the glass device. It was the image illustrating May wrapping his arm around her into a hug. He made a weird face, shaking the image from his mind, and focusing on the falling debris.

"Corphish! Help us out!" Ash said, releasing Corphish in the pit. "Use watergun to push all the gravel back out!" he yelled. It did, and in the process, it jammed the machine and stopped it for good. "Good job, Corphish," Ash said, returning it to its pokeball.

"So now I don't have any firewood and it's almost lunch time and …" May began, when she was interrupted by both of their stomachs growling. They laughed, both embarrassed.

"Well I guess get your Bulbasaur out to help us, then?" Ash suggested. "We need to find Pikachu!" She nodded, then proceeded to get its pokeball out, then stopped. She looked at him expectantly. "What, May?" Ash asked, confused.

"I want to know what you saw," she confronted him, pushing him against the wall of the ditch. He became a little frightened, developing little blush lines on his face. "Well?" she asked.

"Okay.." he said, shifting his gaze at the ground. "I just saw you and me… well… did you wish we were like… together?" Ash asked, this time looking at her hoping it to be the correct answer. She sighed.

"Nope, I wished I will win the Grand Festival!" she said, clenching a fist and backing away from Ash. He looked at her quizically.

"How… Then… the glass…" Ash trailed off.

"I guess it just shows what the person holding it wants to see! Darn, and I could've seen me win the Grand Festival…" she said. Then she looked back at Ash.

"So you wished that…" she said, her mouth shaping into a smirk. He just looked at her without comment. She smacked herself thinking, "He never really shows this kind of thing…ever." She sighed. "I'm sorry for walking off without you Ash, I really mean it."

"It's okay, I was being pretty mean to you… Sorry if I hurt your feelings!" he said hoping to make amends. She smiled her pretty smile, then brought out Bulbasaur.

"Vine whip so we can climb to the surface!" May commanded, and Bulbasaur made one vine up, then picked her up by the waist and gently plopped her at the top to watch Ash climb.

"Hey! What about me? Come on, Bulbasaur, we have to save Pikachu!" Ash said, climbing up the vine. May giggled, then grasped Ash's hand, helping him up. He lightly growled disapprovingly as May turned around to put Bulbasaur away, then looked down at the hand she held in content.

"Come on, May! We've gotta go tell Brock and Max what's up!" Ash said, running ahead.

"But we don't even have any firewood yet!" May said, trying to grab some as she ran.

"Who cares? Pikachu's with Team Rocket!" Ash said, and May let go of her branches to run with Ash for the campsite.