Sorry this is a bit late...haha, that's an understatement. Okay, sorry this is REALLY late, but hey, laziness is a virtue! Anyway, hope all of you aren't too mad that you'd boycott the story! Really, I think this is one of the better chapters, I enjoyed writing it! Hope you enjoy reading it! Have fun! And, I'm too lazy to check my grammer, so...please ignore any mistakes or typos that you see below! Again, have fun!

Chapter 16: On the Way

Roselia was jumping around excitedly, and was very hyper. It was cured, but it did have a choking fit a while back after it's helpings of soup, because of the 'pinecone incident'. Torchic had to perform CPR on it. After that, Drew let Roselia have fresh air, so that it could be at top form for the following day.

"We should go to the main hall to meet with Captain Mona now." said May, looking completely serious.

Drew gasped. May's face fell for a minute and she began to look flustered. "What?" she asked.

"You-you remembered…and I didn't!" said Drew. He began to undergo stages of shock. He gasped and took a few deep breaths. After five minutes, he signaled to May that he was okay, and they made their way to the Captain.

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Captain Mona looked around, satisfied that everyone arrived on time and took their respective seats. There was a man with wearing a chef's hat standing next to her, and a boy who was holding a tray with odd-looking food on it. Someone else was handing out papers. When that was done, Mona began to speak.

"Hello everyone. I'm glad you're all here. Anyway, let's get down to business." Mona coughed when she noticed that no one was listening. They were all helping themselves to the plates of brownies that were on each table.

"The papers that were just handed out are schedules. They'll help you get around Sootopolis since there's so much going on. Tomorrow, in the morning is the contest. That will last until noon. There will be a large gathering for lunch at the Breeding Convention, and the convention lasts till 4:00. Then, someone unimportant named…" Mona paused, and had to look at the schedule again to remember the person's name. "…named Ash, will be challenging the gym leader. They're giving out free ice-cream, so I think we should all go and cheer for the gym leader!"

There was a round of applause.

"The last event for the day is the wedding between The Boss…sorry, old habits die hard…Maxie, and Officer Jenny from Cerulean city. I know everyone here will be there! That's at 6:00 P.M., so there's plenty of time to find wedding gifts."

Mona motioned to the boy standing near her. She moved back, and he began to speak.

He looked a little nervous. "Hello…My name is…Ted. I'm…just here to introduce Lasagna-on-a-stick!" Ted took a few sticks that had lasagna on it and showed it to the crowd. Then he put the sticks down.

May jumped off her seat and ran up to Ted. She took the tray from Ted without saying a word, and walked calmly back to her seat next to Drew.

There was an awkward silence.

May and Drew quickly took the sticks and began to pig out before anyone else in the crowd had a chance to take any.

Mona coughed again, as the crowd began to grow loud. Everyone gave her their attention except May and Drew, who were eating to their heart's content.

The man who was next to Mona stepped forward. This was the one wearing the chef's hat. For some reason, he looked positively frightened when he saw Drew and May. He kept muttering to himself, "They're here…why…" over and over.

"This here is the new cook, Lance. He used to be on another ship, but his captain decided to give him today off while he himself took a plane to Sootopolis. Isn't it great? Well, that's it! There's a few training rooms that you can use to practice moves before the Grand Festival, and anytime you feel like it you can ask Lance to cook for you. Have a nice time on this beautiful blimp!"

Mona walked away, and into her own room. Everyone else filed out of the room when the brownies were all done. Only May, Drew, Lance, and Ted were still in the Main Hall.

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"1000 bottles of beer on the wall, 1000 bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, 999 bottles of beer on the wall!" sang Max. His singing was very off-key.

"You're…joking right?" asked Ash. He glared at Max. Max didn't seem to notice.

Ash thought that the plane ride couldn't get any worse when Pikachu started to sing along. Off-key shouts of "Pika!" and Max's own off-key singing annoyed Ash so much that he ordered the new Lasagna-on-a-stick from a flight attendant.

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"We're so lucky that there were some available seats left!" said Mrs. Ketchum. She and Professor Oak were in the same plane as Ash, but they didn't know that. They were completely oblivious to the loud singing.

Little did they know, but Gary was on his way to Sootopolis as well. He was also on the same plane. He heard about Ash's gym battle on TV, and the free ice-cream, that he just had to take some time off from his job to watch.

Misty also happened to be on the same plane. She did that on purpose, however. Her strange Ash-senses made her know exactly which plane he was on, and she threatened to sue the plane-company if she couldn't have a seat on that plane. In the end, the plane company had to boot off an elderly couple to make room for Misty. In the future, but sadly not in this story, the elderly couple will sue the plane company.

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"Hi Lance!" said Drew.

"Hi Lance!" said May.

"Hello. Do I know you two?" asked Lance. His therapy was fading away fast, but he sincerely hoped that maybe they would think that he's a different Lance.

May laughed. "Of course you do! I'm May!"

"And I'm Drew!" put in Drew.

"And I'm Ted!" said Ted.

"Hi Ted!" said Drew.

"Hi Ted!" said May.

Lance tried to sneak away.

"Hi Lance!" said Ted.

Lance nearly cursed, but May gave him a look.

"So…Lance. Now that you're a cook…" started May.

Lance tried to back away.

"I want mozzarella sticks!" ordered May.

"And I want a soufflé!" said Drew, saying the first food that came to his head.

"I want a hockey puck…my parents would never get me one…" said Ted, with tears streaming down.

"I'm a cook! What do you expect of me? I hate hockey!" snapped Lance.

"That was rude Lance." said May. She began to lecture Lance.

Meanwhile, Drew was speaking to Ted. "I have a hockey puck. But how about we play a game of…cards for it? No, let's raise the stakes. If I win, I'll sell the hockey puck to you for $200. If you win, you'll get it for free. Just so that you know I'm not lying…" Drew took out a hockey puck from his bag. (author's note: he does have a bag, right?)

Drew prepared to take out the cards, when he saw a pool table nearby. "We'll play pool for it." he said.

Ted looked at the pool table warily. He was bad at gambling, but agreed to Drew only for the need of the hockey puck.

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Let's take this moment to describe Ted.

Ted is…interesting.

Ted has purple hair.

Ted wears yellow sweat clothes.

The author thinks that those are contrasting colors, but it's been a few months since she's seen a color wheel, so she MAY be wrong.

Ted also has orange eyes.

Ted is hard to imagine.

Ted is also a cool name.

Ted is probably twelve years old, but the author was never good at telling ages.

We are now done describing Ted.

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May and Lance gathered around the pool table. May cheered on Drew, while Lance booed Drew. No one was paying attention to poor Ted.

Surprise, Drew won an exciting game of pool. He was an expert at the game. Ted handed him the money, and Drew gave him the hockey puck. Ted was truly happy, his life goal complete.

"Lance, now how about that soufflé?" asked Drew.

Ted was busy fingering the hockey puck, so May and Drew bugged Lance until he went into the kitchen. They supervised his work.

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"936 bottles of beer on the wall! 936 bottles of beer! Oh wait, or was it 934? 935?" Max was confused.

"Pika, pika, pii!" I think it's 938! said Pikachu.

"It's 925!" said Ash hurriedly.

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"How romantic!" cooed Officer Jenny. Maxie had just given her a piece of gum.

"It's the same brand of gum that you stole when we first met!" she continued.

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While they were eating, Drew and May discussed what Drew should use in the Grand Festival. Lance had left and Ted forced him into a game of hockey. There was a room that was conveniently laid out for ice-hockey in the blimp, that they went to so that they could play.

"I think you should use the Absol in the beginning." said May, dipping a mozzarella stick into marinara sauce.

"Sure. I taught it a new attack by the way."

"Cool! Which one?"

"You'll see." Drew took a bite of his delicious soufflé.

"I bet you taught it 'Hydro Pump'!" said May. Suddenly, May changed the subject. "Let's play a game!"

"Which one?"

"Let's name foods with cheese in it until one of us gives up!"

"Fine. I'll go first. Baked Ziti."

"Lasagna!"

"Pizza."

"Eggplant Parmesan!"

"mozzarella sticks"

"Pizza sticks!"

And so on…(author's note: Besides making me hungry, I can't think of anymore for some odd reason…you'd think I'd be full of them!)

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Misty was coming from the bathroom at the plane when she bumped into Gary who was coming from the bathroom at the other end of the plane that had three bathrooms in it.

"Sorry." said Misty. Then she realized who she bumped into.

"G-Gary?" she gasped. "What are you doing here?"

"Hmph, how rude. Who are you again? Oh, I think you traveled with that loser, Ashy-boy. Uh…Misty was it?"

Misty glared at him. "Yes, I'm Misty. Ash is not a loser, thank you very much!"

"You're very welcome. Is he on the plane too?"

"Yes he is, as a matter of fact! I just don't know where…"

"Okay, M-Misty." Gary smirked. "Let's both look for that loser."

"I thought you stopped being rivals." said Misty, ignoring the fact that he was mocking her.

"What gave you that idea?" Gary didn't expect an answer, and walked past Misty. "Let's go find him."

"917 bottles of beer on the wall! 917 bottles of beer! Take one down, pass it around, 916 bottles of beer on the wall!" screamed Max from his seat.

"That sounds like Max…Ash must be with him. They're this way!" said Misty, and dragged Gary with her.

"Who?" asked Gary. "And was that…singing?"

"Pika Pika pika pii! Pika pika pika pii! Pika pi, pika pi, chuuu!" screamed Pikachu.

Misty and Gary covered their ears.