Our lives had gone astray..( All the crew are screaming and falling into a black abyss)
But Now We've rejoined the fray! (Shows cuts of everyone face with Ash and Pikachu in the middle)
And with Our Strength! (Franklin is shown overlooking the city with a Pink Electivire
We'll Prove You Wrong.. ( Oak and Pine in the background as Justin and Ash train)
We will follow our vows and will stay Strong! (A Figure watches the gang from the building, before jumping out of sight.)
Lets Go! (Lets Go!) ( Max and Bonnie are battling an unknown opponent.)
Prepare to Fight! (Jessie, James, and Meowth are shown at their store with Wobbuffet and Chimeco)
We Know! (We Know!) (Serena is staring at the moon with Ash, an unknown person watches them.)
We'll soar to new Heights! ( A red blur zooms past Ash and Pikachu, who are grinning)
We'll Show! (We'll show!) (Clemont is working on a holograph while Caleb and Justin Battle)
Who's in the right! ( The Gang and Traitors stare each other down)
And when we fight, together as one.. (Shows quick cuts of everyone, Max grinning, Bonnie and Dedenne also grin with their teeth, Clemont waves, before something explodes)
Finish this quest, that's almost done.. (Now Justin showing a peace sign, Serena smiling, and Caleb throwing a fist into the air, and then Abel facing Ash on opposite ends of an arena.)
We will have our comeback, (An unknown Mega Charizard X Shoots a flamethrower at Pikachu, who Ash then yells to use a move and Pikachu attacks with an unknown move.)
Our Ultimate Comeback! ( Pikachu's attack collides with Flamethrower)
Pokemon!
Hey guys!
Oh gosh, its Justin, lets get out of here!
...
well here's the next chapter ya jerks.
All jokes aside, let me explain why this was so far behind in my schedule. well, 1, Coding was a pain and I fell WAY behind, just now got re ahead of myself.
And, uh.. some things happened that I'd rather not go into detail about.
And then this chapter was just awkward in general, but it was my longest chapter ever written, coming in at almost 5000 words! Technically a little over 4000 if you think of the footer and header, but I disgress, so WOOPEE!
Also, POKEMON SUN AND POKEMON MOON HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED FOR HOLIDAY 2016! GEN 7 BABY!
Abel: Thanks Man! Its been a pretty good year, How about yours? I get what you're saying, but I think I want the story to have an ending where they stay the same age. Also, to your question, I'll only tell you that Abel has a 99.999999999% percent chance of attaining it ;)
Unknown Guest: Ask, and you shall receive ;)
The Almighty Yoshi: Thank you very much! Technically, this is all important to the arc, plus I'm not looking forward to Arc 2 for various reasons, but in all defined rights, this is the last Side Chapter
Chapter ~ Jirachi Plays MatchMaker?
"So? Whaddya say? Want me to teach you?" Justin quizzed as Aubree shook the shocked look off of her face, and faced the trainer and legendary Pokemon. She weighed the pros and cons of being taught by a supposed Pokemon killer. If he was supposedly a Pokemon killer, how could his Pokemon mega evolve? They certainly didn't LOOK hurt, but you never truly know.
As Aubree continued to think about her options, the crew continued to watch, and discuss events.
"Huh, that's new. I thought Justin wanted to teach his Brother and Sister first." Caleb commented as he watched the scene, as his shadow nodded in agreement. Anabel faced him with a quizzed look.
"Explain, please." She asked/demanded of Caleb, who sweat dropped at her attitude, while the shadow just snickered.
"Well, you see, Justin has always wanted to teach his brother and sister about battling and Pokemon, but never got the chance to, thanks to Pine... I kind of always thought we still wanted to teach them. Maybe he gave up?" Caleb responded to Anabel, who nodded. As Caleb was about to turn his attention back to the stadium, his shadow grabbed his shoulder to get his attention.
"Hm, what is it Prankster?" Caleb quizzed as the Shadow pointed behind him to Jirachi, who seemed to be hiding something. It whispered into Caleb's ear, before Caleb began to grin evilly, and turned his attention towards Max and Bonnie, who were talking about something random.
"So, what will it be?" Justin asked again as Aubree continued to think to herself, before turning to Justin and nodding.
"Sure! That would be amazing." Aubree answered as Justin and Mew smiled at the girl.
"Ok, the training starts now! Send out your Pokemon, and follow me!" Justin said, before releasing Absol, Glaceon, Aegislash, Charizard, and Shaymin, and taking off into the desert like area with his Pokemon. Aubree stared at him, like he was crazy for a moment, before grabbing her Pokemon, and sending out an Absol, Cryoganal, Sylveon, Talonflame, Umbreon, and a Pacharisu, and followed after Justin, with her pokemon not exactly knowing what was going on.
Max laughed at the group of Pokemon and People as they took off into the desert. He remembered clearly that Justin would do this kind of training with his Pokemon back at the island, running laps around the island until they were all exhausted. Max had once joined him, thinking it was a good idea, and ended up throwing up three times during the run. He ended up having to stay inside for five hours due to the exhaustion he had felt-"Hey, Max! I need to talk to you for a second." Caleb's voice rang out, interrupting Max's train of thought.
"Ya, what is it Caleb?" Max quizzed as he looked towards the senior trainer, who grinned.
"Everyone's been invited to a formal wear party tonight at seven. Let Bonnie know, will ya?" Caleb told Max, before returning back to his original seat, to talk to Anabel. Max was about to ask questions about it, but shrugged it off before turning towards Bonnie.
"Hey, Bonnie." Max said, getting her attention.
"Ya, Max?" Bonnie asked when she turned towards him.
"Apparently there's a formal party tonight at seven. Caleb told me to tell you." Max said. She nodded, and thanked him for letting her know, before turning back towards Abel and Omni. For some reason, Max and Bonnie both had a bad feeling about tonight.
Time Skip; One Hour Later.
"Hey, guys." Caleb said as he and Clemont walked up to the Rocket Emporium Booth. Jessie and Meowth were currently at the booth.
"Hello, Caleb and Clemont, what can we do for you?" Jessie asked as she was shining a glass figurine of a Clefairy.
"We need some info on where to get some formal wear. You see, Jirachi has a plan to get Max and Bonnie together, since they clearly like each other, and we've got it set up were just THEM go-" Caleb responded, before Clemont interrupted.
"Woah woah woah! What? I was told this was everyone!" Clemont protested towards Caleb, who sweat dropped at his friend.
"That was because we needed Bonnie and Max to THINK it was. Don't worry, I'm gonna be watching them to make sure nothing happens." Caleb told his friend, who was about to say something, before Caleb stopped him, "And You aren't allowed to come, because you would be way to strict on Bonnie, since she's your sister." Caleb told him, who thought it over, before sighing in defeat.
"Fine, but you better watch them." Clemont said. Caleb grinned, before turning back to Jessie and Meowth.
"Any idea where we could find some formal wear?" Caleb asked, as Jessie and Meowth looked at each other for a second, and sweatdropped, before pointing behind Caleb and Clemont. They turned around to see a building on the opposite side of the road with formal wear.
"Oh." Caleb said, causing Clemont, Jessie, and Meowth to deadpan.
Time Skip; Seven Hours Later
"This thing looks, actually really good, where did you find this?" Max quizzed as he looked over himself in a mirror. He was currently in a green tuxedo that Caleb had gotten from the Formal wear shop. To keep up the charade, Caleb had also bought an orange tuxedo, and bought one for everyone else, including Ash and Serena, who were still nowhere to be found, having left during Justin and Aubree's battle.
In the next room, Justin was wearing a blue tuxedo with Clemont, in a normal black one. Justin was laughing as Clemont was scolding Bonnie, and telling her to be mature, because she had wanted a different dress. Justin was there to make sure Clemont didn't give away the secret Date that Max and Bonnie had no clue they were going on.
"Eh, just this store across from Rocket Emporium." Caleb answered, before looking at the window again, to see Jirachi fly past the window. It was time.
"Oh crap, I forgot something! Hey, Max, I need to grab Justin and Clemont to help me with something, take Bonnie to the restaurant, OK? We'll meet you there!" Caleb quickly said, not giving Max any time to respond, and causing him to blush as Caleb ran outside the door. Not a minute later, the sound of Caleb talking to Justin and Clemont about needing to leave was heard across the wall, and Bonnie's near shreek after Caleb told her that Max would be taking her to the restaurant, before a door quickly slammed shut and the sound of glass breaking was heard where the slam had come from.
Max just stood there, dumbfounded, before his brain began to process what had just happened. HE had to go get BONNIE and TAKE HER to the restaurant, without the others.
'what do I do, what do I do?' Max panicked as he began to think of possible ways to get out of the situation.
'Ok, Ok, it's fine! We're just friends, so it's fine!' Max said, in attempt to calm himself down, before going towards the door, and walking outside. It was a shame he couldn't bring his pokemon with him, since there was nowhere to put them, but he imagined Jirachi would be around to help him, if need be. He walked over to the door, and, shakily, began to knock on the door. Five seconds later, Bonnie opened the door, looking very nervous, before she smiled.
"Hey B-bonnie! Guess we sh-should go now!" Max stuttered, mentally slapping himself for acting like an idiot.
Bonnie giggled at Max's nervous behavior, signaling that she wasn't the only one surprised by the recent turn of events. Still. It didn't change the fact that she couldn't be more nervous.
As they walked out of the hotel and towards the destination, neither looked anywhere rather than straight, for fear of embarrassing themselves.
From within the trees, Justin and Clemmont were watching the two. Clemmont seemed to be staring down Max for whatever reason.
"Justin to Caleb, they are on their way, with no sidetracks. Granted they look extremely nervous and Mew has predicted a ninety percent chance of failure." Justin said into a walkie talkie with Mew by his side. They waited and watched for ten more seconds before getting a response.
"Caleb to Justin, they'll be fine. They just need to THINK we'll be on our way, and everything will go smoothly." Caleb responded. Justin and Clemmont nodded before continuing to follow the youngest of the group.
Meanwhile, unbeknownst to anyone in the crew; May and Drew were relaxing at a cafe, drinking some tea.
"Where is the waiter with our food? It's been five minutes." May grumbled cruelly as she and Drew waited. Out of everyone who had turned their backs on Ash, May had probably changed the most, having dated Drew for six years. It really changed a person.
"Ya, it's taking them a long time. They better have a good excuse-" Drew began, but never finished as his eyes everted to Max and Bonnie, who were neatly dressed an alone.
"Well well well, what do we have here." Drew said smugly as he watched the two. May followed his line of sight, before nearly gasping at her brother and the girl.
"What the heck is my little brother doing with that loser kid alone?" May nearly shreaked, before Drew signaled for her to keep quiet.
"Look, you want your brother back, don't you?" Drew quizzed, causing may to nod. After the events at Oaks, May had always believed that her brother would come back to rejoin the family. She could always have just said that it was a mistake, and that Max was being mislead. That belief had been partially shattered when she saw Max had registered for the Johto league, forcing her to get Oak to ban him, a task easily tooken care of by said professor. She knew her father and mother missed Max, and was, by this point, determined to get him back at all costs.
"Well, this is how we start. I don't see any pokeballs on them, do you?" Drew asked again, as May looked closer and realized there were no areas to hold any pokeballs. She took the hint and looked back at Drew smirking.
"So.. you wanna show those losers what happens when they try to undo what they deserve AND 'steal' my brother?"
After a rather awkward ten minute walk to their destination, Max and Bonnie walked up to an outdoor restaurant that had lights hanging from street lights, and a well designed table sheet on a somewhat small table.
"Uhh, I don't think that's going to fit seven people." Max said worryingly as they approached the table. Bonnie looked around nervously for her brother and the others.
'Where are they? They said they would meet us here!' Bonnie near panicked in her mind as a butler began to approach them.
"Greetings sir, and ma'am." The butler said in a reformed tone. "The one called Caleb has informed me that he and the others have come across a rather troubling issue, and they will have to arrive late. In the mean time, please take a seat, and enjoy a complimentary berry plate." The butler finished, before swiftly walking away. Max and Bonnie both looked like they were about to have a heart attack from the current array of situations.
'Are you kidding me?! What could have possibly happened?'
"Mmph, mph! Hey, sir, another round please!" Caleb shouted from a diner with Prankster, both eating a large amount of breadsticks and drinking a lot of water.
"Uh, sir, are you every going to actually order something? You've had seven orders of breadsticks already!" The waiter asked, trying his best to not sound aggravated.
"Hey, I'm ordering water, am I not? The sign clearly says unlimited breadsticks for customers! And I'm a customer! He is too!" Caleb countered, pointing towards Prankster, who waved at the waiter. The man grumbled, before going off to fetch an eighth basket of breadsticks. Caleb grabbed some binoculars and began to view what was happening with Bonnie and Max. They were both eating berries, but looked extremely nervous. As if on cue, Jirachi flew up to the window Caleb and Prankster were at and began to speak.
"Hey, they don't look any less nervous! Any ideas?" Jirachi panicked as he looked back and forth between Caleb and the two teens.
"Hmm, try some music, or something! Get them talking!" Caleb suggested as another basket of breadsticks appeared and Caleb and Prankster began to dig in. Jirachi sighed and went to go find some music, hoping that it would work.
Max and Bonnie both quietly stared at each other as they ate, not wanting to speak. After a little while, Max had decided to get rid of the tension.
"So, uh, I guess the others are missing out, huh? All this great food, just for us!" Max said, trying to get Bonnie to laugh. Sure enough, she began to smirk.
"Ya, those guys are gonna be so hungry when they get here, and there's going to be no food!" Bonnie responded, causing both of them to laugh. Suddenly, the butler came back and put on some music, unknowingly making both teenagers freeze, before they looked back over to see the butler shrug, and walk away.
"Uh, so hey, how have you been since we came here?" Max asked as he tried to ignore the oddly timed music.
"Well, the same as everyone else, happy to finally do what I want! After the tournament, I heard from Omni that they have performances here in Genzu! So I'll be able to do that, and Serena too! And they'll have gyms here, who knows? Ash, Justin, Caleb, and Clemmont may get positions as gym leaders!" Bonnie responded cheerfully, causing Max to smile. "What about you?" She asked.
"Well, it's been amazing, it's really a shame Mom and Dad aren't here though.." Max said sadly Bonnie frowned, before he continued.
"But I have a new family now! Serena is like a mom to everyone, Ash is a great friend and taught me the things about battling I didn't know! Justin and Caleb are like Brothers to me, and Clemmont is like a father figure! Granted he always seems testy with me for some reason." Max said happily. Bonnie smiled, before noticing he left someone out.
"And what about me?" She asked. Max instantly became beet red, and was unable to hide it this time. Bonnie gasped, and was about to ask a question, before a giant burst of flames came from the forest and barely missed Bonnie. Both teens stopped, and turned their attention to the forest. Suddenly, the flames shot out again, and began to burn a circle around the teens, blocking off any possible escape.
"W-what's going on?" Bonnie asked frightened as Max held her close and began to search for the attacker. Now would have been an amazing time for aura, but Ash was nowhere to be seen. After the circle had appeared to be complete, a Blaziken and Dusknoir appeared from the shadows, and smirked at the two.
Jirachi began to panic, seeing the two pokemon. He could have done something, but due to his typing and the size of numbers, Jirachi didn't want to take that chance. He had to get Caleb, and qu-"Hey, Look! A Jirachi!" A random person shouted from a distance. As soon as those words were said, pokeball after pokeball began to wizz by Jirachi, the people completely ignoring the fire. Jirachi growled at human greed, before being forced to fly away from the trainers.
Max and Bonnie stared down the two pokemon facing them. 'Talk about bad timing! I don't have any of my pokemon on me!' Max and Bonnie both thought simultaneously. The Dusknoir and Blaziken fired off a shadow ball and flamethrower respectively at the two trainers, who both jumped out of the way, separating the two of them to different sides of a fiery wall.
Bonnie looked over the flame, and back to the Blaziken and Dusknoir who were both slowly approaching her. She looked over, but couldn't see Max, and couldn't hear much either, with the raging flames in the way. When she turned back, there were no longer two pokemon facing her. There were two trainers there also.
Two very hated people.
"Well, look what we have here, a girl who was where she didn't belong." May taunted as she signaled for the Blaziken to get closer to Bonnie, who gulped in response.
"What are you doing?!" Bonnie shrieked at the two, who grinned.
"Isn't it obvious? We're taking my brother back, and sending a message to the rest of you. You can't undo your punishment. May said, dragging those last few words out. Drew just remained silent, watching the scene unfold, with a smirk on his face.
That was it. Bonnie had reached her breaking point. "WHY CAN'T YOU JUST LEAVE US ALONE?! SHOULDN'T EIGHT YEARS BE ENOUGH SATISFACTION FOR YOU?!"Bonnie screeched at the two adults.
"Please, that's not the point. The entire point of this was to make sure you pathetic wimps aren't a competition for us!" May said with an evil grin as the Blaziken edged closer and closer to Bonnie, who was to shocked for words to even understand.
"What do you mean, competiti-" Bonnie began to ask, but was never able to finish as when she looked over, a rapid pulse of flames was charging towards her, giving her zero time to react. Right before the flames hit her, she was shoved out of the way, and the figure who shoved her took the flames head on. After the flames died down, May and Bonnie both almost screamed in horror, to see Max covered in flames, only grinning at May and Drew, who scowled.
"Max, what are you doing?!" Bonnie screamed at Max, only for him to slowly limp over to her and stand in front of her, blocking of the others from him.
"... I... won't.. let you.. hurt her.." Max said through pants as he fell to his knees in pain from the flames. May simply frowned at him.
"tch, you always were a smart idiot. Taking flames for such a loser, why? Do you like her or something?" May asked, noticing him look down towards the ground, to avoid eye contact with her.
"Oh, you have your first crush! How cute! Too bad she has to perish. Maybe next time, you'll do as you're told!" May said with a cruel meaning as the Dusknoir suddenly appeared next to Max, grabbed him, and took him back over to Drew and May. Max began to struggle as hard as he could, to escape the Dusknoir's grasp, before Drew swiftly punched him in the nose, knocking him clean out.
"Max, NO!" Bonnie shouted in horror, watching him fall to the ground.
"Honestly, I would be worrying about your OWN health, what with you, y'know, about to burn to death!" May stated as the Blaziken once again shot a burst of flames at Bonnie. Once again, however, right before the flames hit, a figure appeared in front of Bonnie, and shielded both of them from the flames. After the fire died, down, Bonnie looked closer to see who it was, to see a Gengar.
But not just any Gengar.
Prankster.
"Use a mix of Shadow ball and Thunderbolt on the Dusknoir, now! While it's defense is lowered!" Caleb's voice was heard from an unknown location. As quick as it had came, Prankster disappeared into the shadows, and reappeared right behind Dusknoir, delivering a critical strike to its back with a shadow ball and thunder shock. Dusknoir dropped to the ground, making Drew gasp, before he returned Dusknoir, and went to grab another pokeball, but was then dragged into the shadows with Prankster, and reappeared on a different side of the wall of fire.
When Prankster reappeared in front of Bonnie, all May could do was sit there in shock. "H-how?" May whispered, before Caleb jumped out of hiding, and appeared right next to Prankster. May simply scowled.
"So that's your game, huh? Guess we get to take out two in one go!" May shouted.
"Huh, two in one go eh? Ya, I could always go for knocking a second jerk like you out!" Caleb retaliated, as both faced each other, and each pulled out a mega bracelet.
"Mega Evolve!"
Both Prankster and Blaziken over went mega evolution and transformed.
"Blaze Kick!" May shouted as Blaziken's leg burst into flames, and it shot towards Prankster.
"Dazzling Gleam!" Caleb shouted as Gengar shout multiple fair shots towards Blaziken, knocking it back towards May.
"Don't stop there! Use a combination of Flare Blitz and Flame Kick!" May continued, as Blaziken became enclosed in a fiery ball and Began to spiral towards Prankster, making an elegant flame that would have been perfect for any contest.
This wasn't a contest, however.
This was a battle, and Blaziken just left itself wide open for any experienced trainer.
"Enough of this! Prankster, use Dazzling gleam, FULL POWER!" Caleb shouted as Prankster shot off huge amounts of fairy blasts, smashing into Blaziken, and sending it crashing into May, sending them both through the fire wall.
After all was said and done, Caleb looked for Max, to see him knocked out and critically injured. "Are you ok?" Caleb asked Bonnie, causing her to nod meekly, before he nodded, and ran over to Max, and began to check on him. Max had many severe burn wounds and a broken nose, and he needed to get to a hospital fast.
"Bonnie, call 911, quick!" Caleb shouted, but when he looked over, Bonnie had fainted.
Timeskip: One Day
Max opened his eyes to see he was in a hospital room, he checked his surroundings, and tried to sit up, only to feel an instant shock from it. He groaned in pain, and turned to the left, only to get another shock from seeing Ash laying in a bed as well, looking worse than Max felt. He sat there trying to remember what happened, before he heard a scream, and Bonnie tackle hugged him, making him wince in pain.
"Max! You're ok!" Bonnie said happily as Max grinned back. After she stopped hugging him, Max turned back to see Serena, Caleb, Clemmont, Justin, and Abel there as well.
"Oh, thank goodness! You woke up earlier than expected!" Caleb sighed in relief, only to get punched by Clemmont, Justin, and Abel, and smacked by Serena.
"YOU IDIOT! WHY WEREN'T YOU WATCHING THEM WHEN THIS HAPPENED!?" They all shouted at Caleb.
"I was! I had to run over there, you know!" Caleb shouted back at them.
"Why weren't you closer! That restaurant had an inside building!" Clemmont shouted at him in anger.
"This is why you never have a guy do a girls job." Serena groaned, before walking over to check on Ash.
Max simply laughed at Caleb's predicament, causing Bonnie to shoot him a quizzed look.
"What's so funny?" She asked as Max stopped chuckling, and looked back towards her.
"Isn't it obvious? We were set up! Not for the whole May and Drew fiasco, but it was only supposed to be you and me at the dinner, never anyone else." Max stated. There was silence between the two, before they both broke out laughing.
"What?! Did they honestly think we needed 'help' for something like this?" Bonnie said breaking into tears a long with Max.
"I know right?! I mean, even if we did like each other, we wouldn't need help!" Max said laughing. He looked towards Bonnie and saw that she had stopped laughing, and had a serious face.
"Uh.. is something wrong?" Max asked; somewhat worried.
"It's just... we did need help.." Bonnie said quietly, making Max freeze up. She then leaned down and kissed him on the cheek, making him turn red as a tomoto berry.
"... Thank you for helping me, Max." Bonnie said, smiling at him. But when she looked over, he was blushing too hard to say anything, making her giggle at him.
Chapter End ~
Annnnnnnnd, SCENE! Looks like a job well done to me, and a nice save by Caleb! FourthWheel Shipping has finally sailed on this here story, and Amourshipping will begin to be seen more in Franklin Strikes and Synchro Time.
Feelings on May and Drew attacking Max and Bonnie?
What the heck happened to Ash?
This has nothing to do with the story... yet, but what do you think about Pokemon Sun and Moon? Gen 6.5 or Gen 7?
Side note: If anyone wants to see another Dark Story I'm working on, it's called Operation Red, for all you dark story lovers.
I have 3 stories going on, and here's how they will be uploaded:
Ultimate ComeBack
Pokemon: A New Generation!
Operation Red
Just to give you an idea on when to expect what.
Next time: Clemmont goes towards his first match, and faces against a champion! But which Champion? And will Clemmont be able to defeat them?
Chapter ~ An Electrifying Battle!
Round 1 Arc:
Chapter ~ An Electrifying Battle!
Chapter ~ Franklin Strikes!
Chapter ~ Synchro time! ( Last Arc Chapter!)