September 7th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

(May's POV)

"You can't be serious!" Dawn screeched.

I winced at her high pitch and braced myself for what was to come. It was technically my first day as a senior and when I came downstairs to get something to eat, Dawn asked for my school schedule.

"We don't have any classes with you at all, you're not even in coordinating," she complained loudly causing everyone to come downstairs and investigate as to what Dawn was screeching about.

"Dawn, what are you freaking out about now? Did you stain your jacket?" Leaf asked tiredly.

Dawn glared at her for the jab, "No, I'm looking at May's schedule and we don't have any classes with her."

This caused everyone to look at my schedule, "Looks like you have Physics and Calc. with me though," Drew commented.

"Figures the only person May does have a few classes with is you. Steven frickin' rigged this," Dawn huffed as she crossed her arms and plopped down into a chair.

I rolled my eyes at her behavior, "Calm down Dawn, it's just for the first half of the year."

"But come on, its senior year. We're supposed to all share classes and hang out, not be in separate classes and barely see you," Dawn retorted.

I sighed, "Look, Steven asked me to help in the Pokemon Center since Brock has taken time off so he can stay with Lucy and his newborn son. Besides, it'll be a good experience for me."

Dawn still pouted but stayed quiet as she ate her breakfast. We then left for the school causing me to feel a little anxious. Drew looked at me with concern and grabbed my hand to stop us from walking.

"We'll catch up with you guys," Drew hollered.

Everyone nodded and continued to head toward the school, "You okay?" Drew asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "I'm okay, just a little nervous."

Drew raised an eyebrow, "What are you nervous about?"

I sighed, "You know what, it's nothing. Come on, we should get to homeroom."

I took a step forward only to be stopped by Drew grabbing my arm, "May, I can sense that you're agitated. Just tell me what's bothering you."

I paused a moment, "I guess I'm just a bit nervous about today. You know…..being me and all and then with what happened in May. I'm just worried I'll get a lot of unwanted attention."

Drew walked up to me and pulled me into a hug, "You'll be fine. Besides, you've handled tougher situations than this. It'll be a piece of cake for you," he teased.

I gave a small laugh, "I guess you're right, I'm probably worrying for nothing," I said with a small smile as I kissed his cheek. "Thanks."

Drew smirked playfully, "You need to do it right," he said before he kissed me.

I rolled my eyes as we broke apart, "Annoying smirking grasshead," I muttered.

Drew flicked his hair fringe, "You still love me anyways."

"You're lucky that I do," I teased.

We both laughed and continued making our way to homeroom making it just as the bell rang.

"Finally, we thought you'd never make it," Misty teased.

I rolled my eyes as the teacher started to take attendance. I then noticed that my poketch was blinking with a text message from Max asking if we could hang out later today. I smiled softly to myself, it's been a long time since we've done a brother-sister outing of sorts and I haven't seen the geek in almost two months.

I quickly sent back a reply asking where he wanted to meet up and I felt Drew looking over my shoulder, "Who texted you?"

"Max, he wants to hang out later today," I explained. "He probably also wants to show me this new gadget of sorts that he's been working recently."

"Do you know what it is?" Misty asked.

I shook my head, "It's impossible to know what Max will invent, you've seen his gadgets."

Dawn nodded in agreement, "They've helped me out quite a bit the past few days. I wonder what he's invented over the summer?"

"A lot, I should know, he made me test them all out," I said tiredly.

The bell rang and we split for our next class. Thankfully, the first day was turning out quite easier than I thought. I guess I was really overreacting in thinking I would get a lot of unwanted attention. When it was time for lunch, Nurse Joy said that I could take a twenty minute break to go to the cafeteria and eat.

I grabbed my food and decided to sit in the courtyard. As I started munching on my sandwich, I saw the drama queens talking to the boys. They looked really uncomfortable and peeved. I sighed as I set my lunch down and decided to help them out.

"So Drewy, do you want to see a movie tonight?" Brandi asked sweetly as I walked up to them.

"I'm pretty sure he doesn't," I answered as I jutted out a hip and crossed my arms.

"Who are you newbie?" Francesca asked bored.

I raised an eyebrow and smirked, "Did your IQ drop 20 over the summer or you just this dumb?"

"Listen here bitch, you stay away from my Drewy," Brandi snapped.

I chuckled, "Oh really, now I would want to stay away from my own boyfriend."

Brandi giggled with a few snorts, "And you call me dumb, Drew is single right now after Linnea Mason dumped him."

"Who said she dumped him?" I said cryptically. "Do mash potatoes and salad dressing ring a bell?"

Melina eyes widened, "Uh Brandi, we might have a problem."

The rest of the girls' eyes widened as I grinned smugly, "You're Linnea Mason?" Veronica asked suspiciously.

"It's the other way around, Linnea Mason was me. Now if you don't mind, leave the guys alone or I'll report to my friends you were pestering them," I said curtly.

"You don't scare me," Brandi snapped.

I raised an eyebrow and started to walk towards her, "I know eight forms of martial arts. I know every possible way to kill someone and hide their body so that they are never found and I can make your life miserable for the rest of the year without being caught," I threatened darkly causing the girls to squirm. "Now don't you dare pester them during their free period or you'll wind up being tortured by me for the rest of the year."

"You can't threaten us," Francesca snapped.

I chuckled, "Can't I, as you may notice, there is no way you can prove that I did and no one would believe you even if you told them," I pointed out. "Now are you gonna leave the easy way or the hard way?"

Veronica, Melina, and Francesca looked at me nervously while Brandi glared before she stomped off and the girls ran after her.

"Don't you think that was a little bit harsh?" Ash asked.

I shrugged my shoulders, "Sometimes a girl has to act like a bitch to get her point across. Hopefully they'll leave you alone now."

"Multiple ways to kill someone and hide their bodies, seriously May," Drew asked.

"You learn things when you're a spy of sorts. You learn multiple forms of torture more or less by experience and you also see death and murder," I said with a sigh.

"So out of curiosity, how would you commit a murder?" Ash asked causing the guys to stare at him incredulously. "What? I'm curious?"

"It's fine Ash, it is a point that everyone is capable of murder, but it is how strong your will and humanity are that determine whether you will do it or not. As for how I would murder someone, definitely untraceable poison, then burn the body and spread the ashes into the ocean. As the bad guy in Murders Unwritten said, 'no body, no murder'," I said thoughtfully.

The guys just stared at me, "What, every person tries to come up with the perfect murder. That doesn't mean it'll be carried out," I said exasperated.

"True I guess, I figured that the perfect murder would be poisoning food," Ash said thoughtfully.

"You would involve food with murder Ashy-boy," Gary said tiredly.

My poketch then beeped signaling my lunch break was over causing me to groan, "Great, I didn't even get to finish my lunch," I whined as I walked back to my bench to toss my lunch in the garbage and started to head back to the Pokemon Center. "See ya later guys."

Thankfully the rest of the day flew by quickly and soon school was over. I quickly ran back to the house to drop off my stuff and then grabbed Gardevoir's pokeball to have her teleport me to Mauville City. I returned her to her pokeball and spotted Max on a park bench.

"Hey Max," I called as I walked up and hugged him.

"Hey May, long time no see," Max said cheerfully.

"I'll say, it's almost been two months since I've seen you," I said amazed. "So whatcha wanna do?"

Max then grabbed a box next to him which revealed to a chess set, "Seriously Max, you want to play chess?" I asked surprised.

Max then looked at me seriously, "I need to talk to you about a few things first and we need privacy."

I nodded in understanding as we walked to a table a little bit a ways into the park, "What do you have to tell me?" I asked as I put pieces at their starting positions.

Max sighed, "Hunter J escaped from prison two days ago."

I looked at him in surprise as I moved a pawn forward, "Okay, has PHPA tracked her down yet?"

"May, no one knows she's escaped," Max said bluntly as he studied the board before making his move.

I looked at him confused, "How do you know she's escaped, but no one else does? That doesn't make any sense."

Max frowned, "From what I could figure out, she has someone impersonating her probably under threat."

I placed my hand on Max's clenched fist, "Max, did she contact you?" I asked gently.

He relaxed slightly at my touch and sighed, "She contacted me this morning, she ordered me to get the Ropex formula or she'll kill Drew and them."

I froze, "She's insane…..she can't be serious?!"

"But she is," Max said sadly as he pulled out a small tablet and turned it on to show live feed of the gang.

"Wait, she said not to tell anyone right. So if I'm not there and with you, doesn't that compromise things?" I asked.

Max grinned, "I planted holograms of us doing stuff around the city," he said proudly before looking serious. "But it won't last long, you will be killed as well if I don't come through."

I sighed, "I guess this is another Maple duo mission, but why did she pick you to do it?"

"Because I have an idea of where the formula is," Max said sadly.

I stared at him wide eyed, "How….but that's impossible, we've never seen it, we've only heard rumors of it."

Max sighed, "Sometimes for a few companies, I do work in helping with stabilizing formulas and doing technological research. The formula came with a note from a think tank asking that it needed to solved, I didn't know what it was at the time," he explained.

"So how does the formula work?" I asked as I took one of Max's pawns.

"The formula, before I cracked it a year or so ago, was the start of a gene of sorts, a mutation so-to-speak. After finally stabilizing it, I discovered that if this gene infects pokemon, it will fill them with a killer instinct and attack anyone or anything. Eventually the gene will overtake the pokemon and kill it from too much stress," Max sighed.

I stared at him with worry, "Please tell me you didn't infect a pokemon with it."

Max frowned at me, "I'm not stupid May, the only way I discovered this was by taking cells from some pokemon and then did the implanting of the gene under a microscope. Anyway, to get back to the point, the results were not pretty and after discovering this, I told the company to destroy it, but I guess they didn't."

"But why would Hunter J want this, it doesn't make sense," I said tiredly. "She deals in stealing pokemon for money, not viruses."

"My guess is that a client of hers wants it, she just wants us to do the dirty work," Max said bitterly as he took one of my bishop's.

"Where is the formula now?" I asked.

Max gave me a stern glare, "You're not getting it May, you have to stay out of this."

"Then why tell me in the first place, you can't expect me to know and do nothing," I retorted angrily.

"It's too risky, Hunter J could catch on and kill anyone of you," Max snapped.

"Max, how are you going to get it? You aren't someone who can sneak into a building and steal something, you need help," I pointed out.

"You know what, I never should have told you," Max muttered bitterly.

"But you did and I'm going to do something about it," I snapped. "Tell me where it is."

"May…I can't, I don't want you to risk you being killed," Max said sadly trying to not cry.

I walked over and sat next to him before pulling him into a hug, "We'll figure this out and this time, we aren't alone, we have back up."

"But May….," Max sobbed.

"No buts, I've risked my life too many times to count before, this will be no different," I said firmly.

Max hugged me back tightly, "I hope this ends okay."

"Don't worry it will," I said determined. No way is she gonna get away with this.

"Now that the bad news has been given, how about some good news for a change?" Max chirped as he handed me what looked like a compact.

I took it and looked confused, "Meet the gadget that will make your life that much easier," Max grinned.

I looked at him weirdly as I opened it up, it looked like a tiny computer, "You gave me a tiny computer?" I asked.

"Yes, one that can change your appearance with disguises, help identify any crime scene clues, hooks up to my computer data base, and a bunch of other handy features," Max explained proudly.

I went through the disguises and saw my mission outfit, I clicked a button and soon was dressed in it.

I raised an eyebrow, "I'm impressed," I said as I changed back. "This'll make changing a whole lot easier."

"Also, I installed a gadget cabinet of sorts in the house. Basically, it's a place where gadgets can appear to help you guys out," Max explained. "Dawn's already discovered it."

I nodded, "Well, let's finish our game and then go eat so that Hunter J doesn't catch on."

In the end, Max won. Then again, it's hard to win against a genius. We then walked into the bathroom and took over for our holograms before going out to eat.

We just finished when my 'compowder', as Max called it, beeped. I opened it to see that it was an alert of someone wreaking havoc at Lilycove City's Mall.

"Well Dawn's not gonna be happy," I said tiredly as I switched appearances, man I love this feature.

"What's up?" Max asked.

"Apparently someone is attacking the Lilycove Mall," I said as I stood up and put money on the table before hugging Max. "See you later."

I then ran outside and called out Gardevoir telling her to teleport me to the mall. She did so and I arrived on the roof. I ran to the skyline and looked down to see five foot robots wreaking havoc and the gang trying to take control of the situation.

I then swung myself down and kicked a robot over, "About time you showed up," Leaf called as she dodged a swinging arm.

"I take it you're peeved," I asked Dawn as I dodged a limb.

"I'm pissed, no one destroys a mall and gets away with it!" Dawn screeched as she jabbed a knife into a robot causing sparks to appear.

"No need to get violent Troublesome," Paul muttered.

"I have every right," Dawn retorted as she kept throwing knifes hoping that they would penetrate the armor.

I ran up to the one Dawn stabbed and metal-bent a hole to peer inside. I hooked my compowder to it so I could investigate how this hunk of junk worked. After a minute, the compowder showed that these things were being controlled by a signal that was nearby.

"What are you doing?" Misty asked.

"Trying to figure out where the robot's command signal is coming from," I said as I raised my compowder up and the beeping became more frequent.

I lowered it to see that the signal was coming from the roof, "Are you kidding me, I was just up there," I muttered in annoyance as I quickly slid up there from the grappling feature on my poketch.

After landing, I continued to trace the signal and it appeared to be coming from one of the panels. I walked up to it and saw that it wasn't as transparent as the others.

Time to override this thing, I summoned a streak of lightning and fried the circuits. Sparks appeared and I heard someone groan behind me. I turned around to see a guy in a trench coat trying to run away. I quickly cut him off and delivered a few short jabs to his legs to paralyze him.

"Any particular reason you have it out against malls?" I asked as I dragged him to the hole in the skylight and prepared to lower us down.

"Malls need to be shut down, they are a waste of money and bad for business," he muttered in annoyance.

I rolled my eyes as I lowered us down, I looked around to see robots keeled over and shut off.

"Who's the creep?" Leaf asked.

"The bad guy du jour," I said as I let him slump on the floor. "Something about malls being evil, a waste of money, and bad for business."

"It's true, malls are u…," the guy started to argue, but shut up when a knife appeared in his face.

"You say one more word and you'll wind up slashed," Dawn threatened.

The guy 'eeped' and then fainted causing Dawn to sigh, "Good riddance," she muttered as she put her knife away causing the rest of us to sweat drop.

Officer Jenny then arrived and took over the situation allowing us to head back to the house, "So how was hanging out with Max?" Misty asked.

"It was good, he's been busy lately," I said not lying though Drew gave a funny look.

He opened his mouth to say something, but was cut off by my compowder going off. I pulled it out to see that a kidnapping was in progress.

"So much as for doing homework," I muttered tiredly. "I'll catch you guys later."

Before they could say anything, I activated my rocket skates and zoomed to the area of interest. When I arrived, I saw that men with masks were carrying the body of Professor Cozmo. I quickly ran up to one of the kidnappers and kicked him in the face causing him to stumble back in pain. The other guy then placed Professor Cozmo on the ground before throwing a fist. I dodged and retorted with a roundhouse kick to his face causing him to back up in pain.

Suddenly I was grabbed from behind and lifted off the ground, "I don't think so," I snapped as I kicked him hard in the shin with my heel causing him to let me go.

I then pressed a pressure point on the side of his neck causing him to slump down unconscious. I suddenly felt the other guys' presence as he tried to sneak up on me, but I elbowed him in the gut and also pressed on a pressure point for him to keel over.

I then ran over to Professor Cozmo and took off the sack on his head, "Professor, are you alright?"

"I am now, thanks May," he said greatly as he stood up and brushed off any dirt from his clothes.

"Any particular reason why they wanted to kidnap you?" I asked.

He shook his head, "But then again, when you have a lot of knowledge in a certain field, you become a target for someone."

"True," I agreed as Officer Jenny arrived.

"If I get one more call of a problem, I might just scream," Officer Jenny sighed.

"I'm with ya Jenny, both are unconscious and ready to be arrested," I said with a smile.

She smiled back, "At least you make things easier for me to just do pickups."

I then said goodbye to both and decided to skate to the park. I needed time to figure out what the game plan should be for the current situation Max was in and I couldn't necessarily do that with the gang asking questions. After contemplating for an hour, I had a plan in mind that was going to be rather difficult and painful to execute, but we have no choice. I then reverted back to my clothes from earlier and walked back to the dorm.

Suddenly I heard a pokemon scream and I ran over to investigate. When I got there, I covered my mouth in shock to see that it was Glaceon. She was battered, bloody, and bruised whimpering in pain.

I then saw a recorder next to her and played it, "We're not as stupid as you and your brother perceive. This is a warning that you play by our rules or more suffering will occur."

I gently gathered Glaceon in my arms and comforted her, "Don't worry, they'll pay for what they did to you."

I quickly put her inside her pokeball and changed into my mission outfit to avoid explaining to everyone why I had blood on my clothes.

When I got back, I saw that everyone was watching a movie, "Hey, we're watching the first Jerry Votter movie, you wanna watch?" Misty asked.

"I wish, but I still have a lot of homework to make up," I said truthfully trying to remain as calm as I could. "You guys want popcorn, I was gonna make some."

"Sure, better make two," Leaf called.

I nodded in acknowledgement and went into the kitchen. I popped up butter lovers and then made some cinnamon sugar popcorn. As I added the cinnamon, I discreetly added sleep powder into it so that the gang would fall asleep sooner than usual.

"Here ya go," I announced as I handed over the two bowls of popcorn.

"Thanks May, have fun doing homework," Leaf called.

I nodded and quickly went back into the kitchen to grab everything I would need to heal Glaceon. I slowly went to my room before I started to run around grabbing towels and hot water. I then called out Glaceon who started to whimper.

"Ssshhhh, I know you're in pain, but try to stay quiet," I begged her feeling extremely guilty in 'shushing' her.

I then grabbed a vile of sleeping powder and dusted a little on her so that she fell asleep before I started to clean her up. After a couple stitches and healing sessions, she was looking a lot better. I then left her to rest as I tiptoed downstairs to see if everyone was asleep. I peeked into the room to see that everyone was sleeping soundly. I then walked back upstairs to get my plan in motion. After everything was prepped, I left the house invisible while a recording hologram of me was doing homework.

After running off school grounds, the invisibility wore off, "Time to visit the Mole."

September 8th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

(Drew's POV)

I woke up refreshed and noticed that I feel asleep on the couch. I then looked around and noticed that everyone had fallin' asleep from sitting here last night.

"Guess we all must have been more tired than we thought," I said groggily as I stretched.

I then saw the bowl of cinnamon sugar popcorn, I grabbed a handful to eat, but then noticed that there was a slight blue tinge to the popcorn causing me frown, did May drug us?

I noticed that everyone else was starting to wake up so I quickly threw away the remaining popcorn. I looked at the clock to see that it was 6:45 giving everyone enough time to get ready for classes.

"Guess we were all more tired than we thought," Ash yawned as I walked back into the living room. "Is there any more of that cinnamon sugar popcorn?"

"You would eat that for breakfast," Gary muttered sleepily.

I went upstairs and decided to talk to May and see if she was still asleep. I knocked and when I heard nothing, I slowly peeked in to see her slumped over her desk still sleeping.

"Hey airhead, it's time to wake up," I whispered as I gently shook her awake.

"Wha….what?" she muttered sleepily as she looked around and then looked at me.

"It's 6:50," I said gesturing to her beside alarm clock.

She looked and then slumped back over the desk, "I don't want to get up," she whined.

"May….," I said hesitantly. "About the popcorn…..?"

She looked at me still slouching, but her eyes were alert and worried, "Oh the cinnamon sugar popcorn, it's a recipe that my mom used to make," she said cheerfully.

"You noticed didn't you," she said in my mind as she said the previous comment aloud.

"Well it's really good," I said with a smirk. "What's with talking with telepathy?"

"I'll give you the recipe later," she said with a grin. "We have to, they're watching our every move."

"Did you have any trouble with the calculus homework last night?" I asked. "May, what is going on?"

Her eyes started to water, "Yeah, I couldn't figure out how to do questions 19 and 27," she said gesturing to the open book on her desk.

I nodded and pretended to help her while we still communicated telepathically, "I can't go into details because even talking like this isn't safe, I shouldn't even be near you guys for your safety."

I kept a straight face, "May…."

"They beat up Glaceon because Max told me what was going on and I think doing 'this' raises suspicion," she said tiredly.

"May, what did you do last night, who's behind this?" I asked bluntly.

She mentally sighed, "I'll explain later in one way or another," she said with a nod.

She then turned to face me and smile, "Thanks for the help, I get it now."

"No problem," I said as I leaned down to kiss her.

I could sense that she needed to lean on someone because she felt slightly better after I kissed her, what trouble could she and Max be in?

(May's POV)

I watched as Drew left my room so that I could get ready for classes. I then got a beep on my compowder to see a text from Nurse Joy saying that I would be helping in the Lilycove City Pokemon Center all day due to overflow.

"Thank you Arceus," I sighed in relief.

This helped immensely because it would keep my distance from the gang and cause fewer problems.

Suddenly Gardevoir appeared out of her pokeball, "Max needs to talk to you," she said.

I nodded and smiled, "You're right Gardevoir, I should be getting ready," I said aloud to avoid suspicion.

I quickly grabbed some clothes and a few towels before recalling her and walked to one of the bathrooms on the girl's end. I put my stuff down and started the shower before calling out Gardevoir. Then Max and Kirlia appeared and we held our hands in a circle to create a telepathic link.

"May do you know what you did?" Max asked nervously.

I nodded, "We have no choice, now we both know the formula and they aren't going to get it from us since I took it away and destroyed," I stated firmly.

"How though, they have leverage, the only way to avoid this is if we died," Max said exasperatedly.

"Well, we can't pull a fake death. We already put the gang through that once, we can't do it again. We'll just have to go for the next best thing," I said with a sigh.

"We don't have any choice do we?" Max asked sadly.

I shook my head, "We don't, I'll have it arranged by this afternoon, come to my room when you get a message from me."

"What about Drew and them?" Max asked.

I mentally sighed, "It'll be up to them to save us and take down Hunter J."

"We went along with this because we know you two needed the secrecy. Now tell us what you're planning to do," Gardevoir said angrily.

I looked at Max before looking at her, "It's best that you don't know."

"May…..," she argued.

"You're just gonna have to just trust me," I said tiredly before looking at Max. "You should go before Hunter J gets suspicious."

Max nodded and then teleported out with Kirlia while I returned Gardevoir to her pokeball. I then got ready and grabbed my doctors' coat before going downstairs.

"You finally decide to emerge," Leaf commented. "What's with looking like you belong in a lab?"

"Dress code policy," I said quickly as I popped a bagel in the toaster oven.

"For what, working the Pokemon Center?" Misty asked.

I nodded, "I don't make the rules, I just follow them."

Drew smirked, "Since when do you follow rules?"

I raised an eyebrow gave him a 'you-really-want-to-challenge-me-right-now' look causing him to smirk bigger.

"Annoying grasshead," I muttered under my breath as my bagel popped up.

"Are you gonna wear that to class?" Dawn asked suspiciously.

I shook my head, "I'm not actually going to class today, the Pokemon Center is really busy today and they need my help," I explained as I put cream cheese on my bagel.

"Which center?" Drew asked.

I snuck a glare at him at him for him to reciprocate it, "I'm not letting off the hook that easily," he said annoyed.

"The city one," I said with a slight snap.

"Well, have fun with that, we'll see ya later," Leaf said as everyone gathered their stuff.

We then left and Drew stayed by my side as we walked to campus, "When I said that me keeping my distance from you guys was a life or death matter, I wasn't joking," I snapped.

"Well too bad May because I care about you too much in order to let you be by yourself, you have a tendency to get into life threatening situations," Drew retorted.

I sighed, "Look, if I say one thing as to what this is about, will you keep your distance til later?"

"Yes," Drew said as we continued to walk.

"Ropex Formula," I said bluntly.

I felt Drew's aura jolt, but he kept a straight face, "That's what this is about? Who wants it, May, who is threatening you?"

"Ah ah ah, you said you would keep your distance," I pointed out.

"Damn it May, who is threatening you, this is serious," Drew snapped.

"Someone who is there but isn't," I said as we entered the main campus.

"Try to avoid trouble," I said sweetly as I kissed his cheek before I started walking toward downtown.

(Drew's POV)

I stood there and watched her leave the school. May, why aren't you saying anything?

I shook my head in frustration as I started walking toward homeroom. I sat down and must have looked upset because everyone was looking at me in concern.

"Dude, what's up with you?" Gary asked.

"Nothing, just wishing it was the weekend already," I lied.

I knew they didn't believe me, but dropped it til the bell rang and we were walking down the hall.

"Drew, what's going on? Does it have to do with May?" Dawn asked as she grabbed my arm to stop me.

I nodded, "People are watching us so act natural," I said as I started typing buttons on my poketch.

They stared at me like I was crazy as I walked to a point where there was a blind spot between security cameras. I then quickly typed an abbreviated a message telling them what May told me and showed it to them.

"We have to help her," Leaf said determined.

"But how though, she's worried that if she'll tell us, she'll put us in danger," Misty said frustrated.

"She said she'd tell me later as to what was going on, one way or another," I said causing Dawn to look concerned.

"Are those her exact words?" she asked.

I nodded, "What's the deal Troublesome?" Paul grunted.

"I don't like those words, 'one way or another', she's gonna do something drastic," Dawn said worriedly.

We looked at her with frowns, "How do you know that?" I asked her.

"I have a gut feeling," Dawn said determined. "Think about it, whenever a threat comes around, May does the most drastic thing she can do with the chance she'll come out unscathed. This situation is no different than the one where she faked her death."

"Since when do you go on a gut feeling, we never do that," Leaf pointed out.

"You do have a point, but someone once said, 'if you have a gut feeling about something, follow it because in the end, you could save someone's life'," Dawn stated.

This caused us to pause knowing that May was the one who said that and her words had been proven true before.

"We'll check on her when we have lunch period. In the meantime, we should get to class before the bell rings," Misty said as the warning bell signaled.

We nodded and then broke off to go to class. Throughout the whole time, I couldn't stop thinking about May. From what she said and what Dawn pointed out, it caused me to worry greatly. Finally the bell rang ending fourth period and the guys and I were waiting for the girls at the front of the school.

"As anyone heard anything from May?" Dawn asked as we began walking to the Pokemon Center.

We shook our heads, "I tried texting her a few times, but she hasn't responded," she said worried.

"Troublesome, she said that the Pokemon Center was super busy, she probably didn't have time to respond," Paul said gruffly.

"Still though….," Dawn said quietly.

We finally made it and saw Nurse Joy sitting at the front desk, "Hi Nurse Joy is May around?" Misty asked.

Nurse Joy shook her head, "Since she helped so much to help with the overflow, I let her go early after she finished up patching two badly beaten up pokemon," she said sadly. "That Lucario and Blaziken were beaten up badly."

We stared at her in concern, "Can we see them?" I asked urgently.

She nodded and motioned for us to follow her before she motioned us to a viewing window.

Dawn covered her mouth and gasped at the sight, "Oh my Mew!"

We all stared in shock, both looked in terrible condition in spite of being patched up. I then looked to the side to notice that Glaceon was also in the room.

We walked in causing the pokemon to wake up, "What happened?" I asked as I walked to Lucario.

"We were taken without warning and our captors beat us saying that May would give in to their commands if she saw us beaten up," Lucario strained to say.

"Do you know who's behind this?" I asked.

They shook their heads, "We were beaten by henchmen…..while the leader…..ordered it," Blaziken said before falling back asleep.

"Do you know where May is?" I asked quickly.

Lucario gave me a pained look, "She left to….."

He then fell asleep leaving us worried. Suddenly Nurse Joy came into the room, "You guys have a video call from Lance."

We nodded and left for the video phone in a backroom, "How'd you find us?" Gary asked.

"We tracked you through your poketches," Lance said quickly. "There's been a break in at a pharmaceutical research facility that we need you to investigate."

"What was taken?" Leaf asked.

"A vial of XSC39," Lance reported.

"Oh my!" Nurse Joy said surprised.

We turned around to see her looked unnerved, "What's wrong Nurse Joy?" Dawn asked.

"I've heard of that, it's an anesthesia drug in the works, but it hasn't passed government standards due to the high risk of anyone being put into a coma when injected with it," she explained looking worried. "But why would she…?"

I froze and had a very bad feeling about this, "Nurse Joy, what are you talking about?" Misty asked concerned.

"I don't understand, she asked me of all the anesthesia drugs that were used in medical emergencies because she needed to do research for a project of hers, but why would she steal a coma inducing drug," Nurse Joy muttered nervously.

"Nurse Joy, who?" I asked loudly.

"May, she said she wanted to know the effects of anesthesia on humans for future medical purposes in case of emergencies, but I told her the risks were too great for the drug to be safe to use," Nurse said sadly.

I then felt a jab in my heart causing me to clutch it from the sudden pain. I then knew that something bad had happened to May. I tried to call her on her poketch but got no response. I then started tapping buttons to get her poketch id code to track it by GPS, it showed that she was at the house. I then ran out of the room and booked it toward the house.

"Drew, what's going on?" Paul shouted as everyone ran behind me.

"I have a really bad feeling that May is in trouble," I said quickly as we continued to run.

"How do you know that?" Dawn panted.

"You could say we have some sort of special emotional connection," I explained as we got to school.

We continued to run as we got to the house, I then took a look at my poketch to see that May's signal was coming from her room. I then sprinted upstairs taking two steps at a time and opened the door to her room. May was lying on the floor as if she fell with a syringe a couple inches away from her hand. I then noticed that Max was also there lying face down on her bed.

"Oh my Mew!" Dawn cried in a whisper. "What is going on?!"