Chapter
7
"You
grew up FAST, girl!"
"I
hope I bought the right ones," Max panted as he ran across the
field holding a bag.
Brock had given Max some money to run ahead to a store to buy diapers for Ash and May. Luckily for Max, he didn't have to run that far as there was a set of stores next to a beach which was just over the clearing that the lab was situated on. For Brock, this was a chance to watch Ash and May while Max ran out to get diapers, as they didn't want to leave Ash sitting in a wet diaper. For Max however, he considered it a big responsibility. Max was determined to buy the right sized diapers for Ash and May, he knew he couldn't let his little sister and best friend down.
"Almost there…" Max gasped as he pushed a tree branch out of his face.
The sun was still shining along the sea of grass surrounding the lab. The boy had only been gone for less than an hour, but he was running the whole way through. Max ran out of the small forest area and into the clearing. He looked down at the bag he was carrying that contained a pack of diapers inside. He smiled as he ran up to the front doors of the lab.
"Huh…why is the door open?" Max asked himself.
The sliding doors of the lab were pushed wide open, which was very unusual as the Professor made a habit to tell them that he always wanted his doors shut. Max shrugged it off however and shut the doors behind him, there was something far more important on his mind.
Max ran up the stairs and into the guest room on the 2nd floor. As he entered the room he saw Brock playing with Ash and May on the bed. Pikachu was sleeping on the floor. The two infants were playing jovially with Brock's hands as he rubbed their little tummies to make them laugh. Brock leaped off the bed when he saw Max enter the room. Ash and May looked disappointed as they wanted Brock to continue playing with them.
"You got them right?" Brock asked.
"Yep. I bought the diapers, I bought the right size I hope according to the Professor. At least I think I did," Max said as he handed the bag over to Brock.
Brock looked in the bag and picked up the package of diapers inside. He examined the tab on the side as well as the size, but Brock realized something was missing.
"Uh…Max, these are the right size but you forgot something!" Brock said as he held the package of diapers in his hand.
"What? What did I forget?" Max asked astonished.
"You only bought boys diapers! You were supposed to get a package of girls' diaper too!" Brock scolded.
"Oh man, I'm such an idiot!" a distressed Max said.
"Don't feel so bad Max," Brock said as he put his hand on his shoulder, "You simply forgot that's all. Besides, good thing you at least got the right size for, Ash."
"No, I'm so stupid!" Max grunted as he pushed Brock's hand away, "I was in such a rush that I only picked up boys diapers because I had Ash on my mind most of the time. I was thinking about him because he was the one who made in his pants, so I knew I had to hurry up and get diapers for him. I can't believe I was dumb enough not to get a package of girls' diapers for my sister."
"Max…it's OK really," Brock said as he placed the package of diapers on the bed. Brock went over to May and pressed his hands against her shorts. May's face lit up as she thought Brock was going to play with her again. He instead was only checking to see if May was still dry.
"Hmmm, it doesn't seem like May made in her underwear yet…at least that's good news," Brock said as he removed his hand from May.
May looked disappointed as Brock moved away from her. The unhappy infant looked at Brock and Max with watery eyes hoping that one of them would come and play with her. May's eyes continued to water as she looked at Ash, who was too busy trying to knock a lamp off the table.
Max looked disheartened. He felt that he had failed Brock and his sister for not getting the job done as asked. He sat down on a chair as he wiped the lens of his glasses with his shirt.
Brock sighed as he knew what Max was feeling, but decided to give him some alone time to cool down. Brock ripped open the plastic on the pack of diapers as he took out one diaper and left the rest on the dresser which was opposite the bed.
Brock looked aghast at the lamp that was leaning off the edge of the table as Ash was trying to kick it over.
"Ash, stop!" Brock yelled as he ran over to the table.
"Wheee!" Ash giggled as he kicked the lamp off the edge.
"Gah!" Brock screamed as he darted for the lamp and caught it right before it hit the floor.
"Brock…?" Max asked, putting his glasses back on.
"Jeez, Ash, you really are trying to get us into trouble aren't you? Don't you remember how the Professor said he doesn't like his stuff touched or broken?" Brock said in an understanding voice.
Ash shrugged his shoulders as May giggled, watching from afar. Brock placed the lamp back on the table as he lifted Ash up and placed his back on the bed.
"Well this is going to be a new experience," Brock said reluctantly, taking off Ash's pants and boxers.
Max turned his head away on purpose as he didn't want to see Ash's bottom naked. May however gazed naively trying to understand what Brock was doing. Ash was in his own little world as he just stared up smiling at Brock.
"The….re…good as new!" Brock said as he connected the velcro of the diaper.
"Ooh," Ash motioned as he touched his nice new diaper.
May gazed in awe as if Brock gave Ash some kind of special present.
"Might as well put these in the hamper," Brock said as he held Ash's wet boxers with two fingers and dropped them in the hamper next to the bathroom door.
Brock then went back toward Ash and put his sweatpants back on over his diaper. May was completely bewildered and more confused than anything. Ash smiled playfully as Brock sat him back up on the bed.
Max got off the chair and walked up toward Brock and the two infants, "Brock, do you want me to go run out again and get a pair of girl diapers for May?"
Brock checked the clock up on the wall, "It's 4:00pm. Running out now would be more trouble than it's worth. The Professor still wants us to get our work done remember? Don't worry, I'll go get a pack tomorrow. Besides May is still dry now, I just hope she doesn't do a #2 over night," Brock sighed, wiping his forehead.
Suddenly, a loud explosion caught their attention from downstairs.
"What the heck was that?" Max shouted.
"It…sounds like one of the machines downstairs must have blown up!" Brock shouted.
"WHAT THE HELL!" the Professor's voice could be heard from downstairs.
"C'mon," Brock motioned as he picked up both Ash and May and carried them under his arms. Max followed Brock out of the room. Pikachu was still sound asleep, not noticing the ruckus.
The Professor was coughing, trying to blow away the smoke on the first level of the lab.
"Professor!" Brock shouted, holding the two infants with Max running behind.
"Oh, so you guys were upstairs? I was about to tear your heads off for destroying another one of my machines!" The Professor said furiously.
"It wasn't us, we heard the noise and came running down here," Max said.
"Then who?" the Professor pondered as he walked through the smoke.
A pair of broken machine parts were on the floor, with a bunch of metal cylinders scattered all over the ground.
"Will someone get this thing off me!" a familiar voice yelled.
"Huh…somebody else is in my lab!" The Professor shouted as he ran toward the voice.
Brock and Max followed with the two infants being carried like suitcases. The two of them had to wade through the smoke and dust in order to see what was going on.
"Woodle doo?" Ash asked May as they were carried through the smoke.
"Me nono," May shrugged.
As the smoke cleared the gang saw Meowth being stretched by a pair of mechanical arms. The left arm pulled on Meowths' front paws while the right was pulling on his legs. Jessie and James were frantically pulling on Meowth's body to get him free.
"Let him go you bucket of bolts!" James shouted.
"What is with this nuthouse? Who in the world makes a pair of robot arms that reach for you as you walk by?" Jessie asked while pulling on Meowth.
"A…ctually….I ran up to the arms to get a closer look at them and they must have thought I was part of the experiment! Gaaaaaah….I'm being pulled from all directions," Meowth shouted.
"Team Rocket?" Max wondered as he suddenly realized something, "That must have been why the front doors was open! These three must have broken in somehow!"
"What are you lunatics doing in my lab?!" the Professor demanded.
Jessie and James turned their heads to see the four of them standing there but didn't stop their motion.
"Don't you see we don't have time for you at the moment?" James yelled back while still pulling on Meowth.
"Yeah, hey old geyser if you want to make yourself useful why don't you just shut these arms down!" Jessie yelled.
"Will somebody do SOMETHING! My body isn't made for such cruel punishment!" Meowth sniveled as his body continued to stretch in opposite directions.
The Professor grinded his teeth as he walked alongside the wall and opened a panel. He furiously pressed down on the "OFF" button inside the panel. The mechanical arms stopped pulling on Meowth and loosened their grip on him. Meowth looked relieved as the arms let go of him…until he was dropped hard on the floor.
"Aargh, what kind of landing was dat!" Meowth said out of breath, lifting himself up.
Jessie and James folded their arms as they looked at the group standing before them.
"Now, who the hell are you people? What the hell are you doing in my lab? And you're lucky I don't make you work 22 hour shifts for the damage you caused!" The Professor said enraged.
"He's not kidding either, he makes you work off the damage you cause him," Max said, grinning at Team Rocket.
Meowth stood up between Jessie and James. The three of them nodded at each other as they prepared for their dynamic entrance.
"Prepare for trouble!" Jessie declared.
"And you can make it double!" James added.
"To pro-" Jessie started before she was interrupted by Meowth.
"Hey wait a second! Isn't there something different about the twerps this time? Look at what the big twerp is holding!" Meowth said, pointing at Brock.
"Huh?" Jessie and James said in unison as they looked at Brock carrying infant Ash and May.
"Hiiii!" Ash smiled and waved.
"Blaaargh!" May teased as she stuck out her tongue to mock Team Rocket.
"Heh, looks like Ash and May have some faint memory of Team Rocket also." an amused Max said.
"Hey! The twerps are…bite-sized!" a shocked Jessie exclaimed.
"And here I thought that the fountain of youth was just a myth!" James said astonished as he slapped his forehead.
Brock stepped forward and said nonchalantly, "Ash and May got de-aged and turned back into infants by some crazy gun, that's about the gist of it. Now what are you guys doing here?"
"Wow…there's something that has the power to do that?" Meowth asked.
"Interesting, maybe Team Rocket could use that gun for something? After all, we deserve to get a little reward for smashing through all this ungrateful machinery," Jessie pondered.
The Professor was getting more and more irritated the more Team Rocket stood there. He reached into his pants pocket as his rage was building.
"THAT'S IT. Nobody breaks into my lab, destroys my machines and tries to steal my inventions. GET THE HELL OUT OF HERE!" the Professor yelled as he picked a Pokeball out of his pocket.
"Oh want to fight for it? We can do that," Jessie said.
"Go Seviper!" she commanded
"Go Cacnea!" James added.
In a blinding light the flash formed into the bodies of the poisonous snake Seviper and the small cactus Pokemon, Cacnea.
"This could get ugly. I'm holding Ash and May and I left Foretress' ball back at the room," Brock muttered.
Brock realized they were in trouble if they had no Pokemon to defend themselves from Team Rocket's attack. Pikachu was still sleeping upstairs, and Brock felt that he couldn't risk running up to the 2nd floor without Team Rocket causing more damage. His eye then caught a glimmer of the small Pokeball the Professor held in his right hand.
"So…what's it going to be, old timer?" James asked.
"THIS!" The Professor shouted as he threw his Pokeball.
The flash of light formed into the giant Pokemon known as Tyranitar. The seven foot tall Pokemon towered over them. It's face was enraged as the spikes on it's back hardened into an attack position. Tyranitar roared as it stood ready for battle before them.
"Whoa, I didn't know the Professor had any Pokemon," Max was surprised.
"A Tyranitar?!" Jessie and James shouted in unison as they grabbed each others arms.
"Uh-oh," Ash grinned happily as he pointed to Team Rocket.
"Go go go!" May shouted happily as she started throwing punches with her little infant hands.
"That's good news," A relieved Brock said to himself.
"Tyranitar, Mega Punch!" the Professor commanded, "Please obey me without hesitation!"
"Seviper/Cacnea do anything!" Jessie and James shouted.
Seviper and Cacnea reluctantly launched themselves at Tyranitar. Tyranitar lifted back it's burly arm and smashed it into the ground as Seviper and Cacnea leaped into the air. The floor of the lab cracked as the impact of the punch broke the tiles and shook the room around it.
"Seviper, bite attack!" Jessie commanded.
"Cacnea take it from the side and use Pin missile!" James yelled.
"Nicely done, don't forget who you are, my old friend. Tyranitar, use Hyper Beam on the snake!" The Professor commanded.
The Pokemon opened it's mouth and shot out a beam of orange light that completely enveloped the snake Pokemon and brought it to the ground.
"Viiiiper?" Seviper said in pain.
"Use Flamethrower on Cacnea!" The Professor shouted.
"Cac…nea!" Cacnea launched it's Pin Missile attack at Tyranitar.
Tyranitar jumped out of the way and leaped onto one of the machines, which ended up breaking a bit due to it's heavy weight.
"Cac?" Cacnea looked scared as Tyranitar was building an attack right behind it.
"Zzzaaar!" Tyranitar shouted as red flames shot out from its mouth and made contact with the small cactus Pokemon.
"Cacnea no!" James shouted as the force of the flamethrower pushed Cacnea all the way back toward Team Rocket.
The flames from Cacnea spread onto Jessie, James, Meowth and Seviper as it stood in front of them. Jessie, James and Meowth started to frantically jump around as the flames spread over their entire bodies.
"Aaaargh I can't stand the heat!" Jessie shouted.
"Is this even a fair fight?" Meowth yelled as it held it's head.
"Ha, it's fair to do to intruders who break into my lab," The Professor said boastfully as he stood next to his Pokemon. "Now, Tyranitar, send them flying with Dynamic Punch!"
Tyranitar pulled back it's arm as the shockwave of its punch sent Team Rocket and their Pokemon through the wall and sent them flying outside.
"This has to be the most humiliating defeat we ever had!" James shouted as they were flying in the air.
"There were worse!" Jessie snapped, "Besides, you saw how those twerps were turned into babies, we have to get a hold of such a device!"
"I ain't going back in there if you paid me!" Meowth said.
"Both of you are so utterly useless!" Jessie complained as the three of them and their Pokemon were sent into the sky beyond.
"Taaaar," Tyranitar roared triumphantly.
"That's enough now big fellah, I know its been awhile." The Professor said happily as he recalled his Pokemon in his Pokeball, "I'm pleased that you were able to hold onto who you were this time, thank you."
"Yaaaaaaaaaaayy!" Ash and May shouted, clapping their hands while still being held in mid-air.
"Wow, that was pretty good. I thought I would have to step in before you let out your Tyranitar," Brock complimented.
"Yeah, your Tyranitar looks so strong. I didn't even know you had Pokemon!" Max gushed with praise.
The Professor placed the Pokeball back in his pocket, "I rarely battle anymore, and Tyranitar is the only Pokemon I have left. I've had him for many, many years, and I use him to fend off robbers like those three."
The Professor looked at the front of his lab and sighed. The doorway was completely destroyed, and the machines in the surrounding area were completely totaled from the attacks and Team Rockets' initial break-in.
"Oh well, you can't win them all I guess," The Professor sighed.
"Sorry about all the damage they caused," Brock said softly as he brought Ash and May closer to his chest.
"Don't worry, I'll just add another day of work to your schedule. After all, somebody has to work hard to clean up the place," The Professor grinned.
"Gee, thanks a lot," Max said sarcastically.
"Hmmm…anyway, on the bright side I have some good news for our little friends here," The Professor said as he turned around.
Ash and May gripped onto Brock's shirt and looked at the Professor cautiously.
"I have finished one batch of my #69 formula, I was going to tell you before those three busted into my lab. Anyway, this means I can reverse the process on one of your friends and turn them back into the age they once were," he said cheerfully.
"Wow you're finished already? That's incredible, we can turn them both back?" Brock asked.
"No, didn't you hear me the first time? ONE batch. I only have enough to reverse the process on one of them. The other will have to wait another day or so before I can whip up another batch," The Professor responded.
"So who should we turn back first?" Max said looking at Ash and May.
"Let's not discuss it out here, come to my small experiment room. I have a table which you can place the babies on. When they grow bigger they will simply fill out on the wide open table. That way they'll have enough space to get back to their current height and weight," he stated as he motioned the gang to follow him.
"Can't you just turn them back while Brock is holding them?" Max asked curiously.
"Uh noooo…unless you want your friend here to topple over as the baby he's carrying suddenly multiplies in weight and height," The Professor said slyly.
"Gee, I didn't think of that," Max said.
The Professor walked toward a small room on the left side of the main entrance. He opened the door as Max and Brock walked in. The Professor shut the door behind him as he watched the two infants staring back at him over Brock's shoulder.
"Boogie booggie!" Ash said as he pulled his ears at the Professor who was walking behind him.
May pulled down her right eye lid at the Professor in order to tease him, "Hee hee!"
The Professor rolled his eyes at the two infants and told Brock and Max to gather around the wide open silver table. Brock placed both infants on the table as the Professor went to his desk to pull out what he needed for the experiment. Ash and May sat at the edges of the table while Brock watched that they didn't fall off.
The Professor pulled out the metallic gun as he examined the antenna dish at the edge of it. He then pulled out a small capsule filled with orange liquid and injected it into an open panel on the gun.
"Hmm…that's formula 69 right?" Max asked.
"Yep, and if I still remember how to do this then this SHOULD work," he said as he held up the gun, looking at it from all sides.
"You mean you've done this before? Have other people been turned into infants before Ash and May?" Brock asked.
"Well…you can say that," The Professor said as he walked toward the table.
"But I thought you said you never told anyone about your invention," Brock asked curiously.
"Yeah that's right, how do you know how to make that formula anyway? When did you discover a way to reverse the de-aging?" Max asked.
"What is this, some kind of interrogation? I think you kids ask too many questions," The Professor remarked.
"Well sorry," Brock said. Ash and May tried to push his hands away so they could move and get off the table. "It's just really interesting that's all."
"I wish you kids put as much effort into your work as you do asking me about every little thing," The Professor wiped the side of his face, staring at the two infants on the table, "Now then, which one of you tykes are going back to their normal age first?"
Ash and May naively pointed to each other as if they thought the Professor was assigning a punishment on them.
"Well what do you think Max? Should it be Ash or May?" Brock asked.
"I dunno, I kind of like it that I'm the older sibling for once. At least as a baby May can't boss me around like she used to. But then again she is my sister, and I really want to be normal again. I…kind of miss my older sister. But…Ash is my best friend, and I want him to be back to normal too," a shy Max said.
"I think the little runt should be turned back first. He was the one who threw that frisbee through my window in the first place wasn't he?" The Professor glanced at Brock and Max, "Not to mention being responsible for destroying my first set of mechanical arms? Besides, at least the girl isn't as annoying as a baby since she can barely talk."
May crossed her arms and muttered something under her breath as she heard the Professor's last comment.
"The boy will do. What do you think bucko?" the Professor asked Brock.
"Well Ash has been causing the most mischief as a baby," Brock said grinning, watching Ash nibble on May's fingers.
"Heiayah!" May cried as she pulled her fingers out of Ash's mouth.
Ash's lips puckered as an angry May turned her body away from him.
"He has been a bit more wild than May to take care of," Brock confessed.
"Then it's unanimous! The boy gets turned back first, simply because he is a rotten little brat!" The Professor declared.
"But…I didn't really make a decision…that means it's not really unanimous isn't it?" Max said timidly.
"Boy, what did I tell you about asking so many questions?" The Professor snapped.
Max jumped nervously, "OH! Sorry about that! Guess I wouldn't mind having my sister as a baby for another day or so."
"Take the girl off the table, for this to work only the boy has to absorb all of the rays from the gun," The Professor instructed.
"Got it," Brock said as he lifted May off the table.
Brock and Max stepped to the back of the room while Brock placed May on the floor. Ash looked up curiously as to why everyone suddenly moved away from him.
The Professor looked at the gun one last time to make sure everything was set. Brock and Max were too preoccupied with making sure that Ash didn't fall off the table to notice that May was crawling away.
May crawled toward the big table in the middle. She noticed the top of the table was too high to reach, so the frustrated baby tried to look for another method to get back on top to play with her friend. May then glanced at the right of the table as she saw a small plastic chair.
"Aha!" May said to herself.
Ash began to whimper on the table as he was wondering why everyone was suddenly avoiding him. The Professor began to aim with the gun toward the little infant. Max and Brock watched carefully as they had never seen the ray gun work before.
"Now then, the infant must absorb ALL of the formula in order to reverse the process. The antenna dish at the end of this gun with transmit the formula into air waves which will come into contact with the baby. If all the waves are absorbed, he should return to his previous height and weight," The Professor stated.
"Interesting," Brock noted.
Unbeknownst to everyone in the room, May managed to lift herself up on the small plastic chair that was to the right of the table. The infant then stood on the chair as she spotted Ash whimpering on the middle of the table. May was determined to get back to her friend so she could play with him again.
"Wait…what happens if not all the waves are absorbed?" Max asked.
"Then nothing will happen. The formula will have been wasted and I'll have to spend another full day making another batch," The Professor said.
"Phew, that's a relief," Max said, wiping the sweat off his face. "I thought that maybe Ash would turn into some kind of mutant or something if the experiment didn't work correctly. Maybe even grow younger or get really old…hehe."
"You read too many comic books, kid," the Professor said.
"Huh…where's May?" Brock wondered as he noticed May was no longer on the floor next to him.
"Here goes!" The Professor shouted as his finger pressed the red button on the gun.
"Wheeeeeeee!" May shouted as she leaped from the chair and landed face first on the table.
Yellow light started to form from the antenna dish of the gun. Unfortunately for May, she started sliding across the table stomach first and slid right into Ash.
"May!" Max shouted.
"GAAAAAH!" Ash shouted as the force from May sliding into him knocked him off the other edge of the table.
"Huh?" The Professor looked up as the yellow light began to engulf the only infant still on the table, May.
"Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!" Ash cried hysterically as he bumped his head on the floor.
"Wuh?" May said, trying to shield her eyes from the yellow light that completely engulfed her.
The blinding light began to brighten the whole room, as every person in the room began to cover their eyes from the intense brightness.
Brock kneeled down on the floor and picked Ash up who was hysterically crying. "I can't believe May jumped on the table like that and accidentally knocked you over," he said.
"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Ash continued to cry as Brock held him in his right arm while shielding his eyes with his left.
"Well…" the Professor gasped while covering his eyes, "At least the air waves have managed to get one baby after all!"
May's eyes twitched as she felt something changing. May suddenly began to grow on the table. Her arms began to stretch. Her legs started to grow longer. Her facial features started to look older. Most of the baby fat that was on her body began to disappear. Her hair began to grow and accumulate. Her hips began to widen into an hourglass figure. Her chest broadened and her breasts started to develop. Curves began to form on her backside, and her clothes grew with her. Her voice deepened and started to get less squeaky. May was quickly returning to the age and weight she used to be.
The light surrounding the room started to disappear. Everyone in the room took their hands away from their eyes. Ash even stopped crying as he tried to look as to what was going on. The Professor started to lower the gun as he noticed the rays started to stop.
As the light cleared, the small infant baby that took up only a few inches in the middle of the table was gone. In its place, was a young teen girl that sat in the middle, with her arms stretched out behind her and her legs hanging over the edge of the other side.
May blinked hard as she realized she was back to normal.
"Eh…hi guys?" May said in an exhausted voice.
"It WORKED!" Brock shouted in glee.
"Ha!" The Professor smiled as his experiment was a success.
"May!" Max cried as he ran over to the table and grabbed his sister around the torso.
"Max…you don't have to cry," May said softly, patting his hair.
"I'm…I'm not sad. I'm just crying because I'm so happy to see you as yourself again, big sister!" Max said emotionally as his eyes wobbled, looking up at his sister.
"Oooooh," Ash smiled, admiring the teenage May on the table.
May lifted herself off the table and brought her feet to the ground as she moved her brother from her torso.
"OK now, Max?" May asked.
"Y-yes," Max said, wiping a few tears from his eyes.
"May, you'll never believe what happened to you!" Brock said.
"Oh I know," May replied, "I was turned into an infant and caused you guys a lot of trouble didn't I?"
"Oh, so you remember?" Max asked.
"I remember everything! And I…..oh….ASH!" May said suddenly as she leaped toward Ash who was being held in Brock's arms.
May placed her hand on top of Ash's black spikey hair and rubbed his scalp. "I'm so sorry you bumped your head when I knocked you off the table before, Ash. I didn't mean to hurt you like that," May said smiling at the little infant.
"Heehee!" Ash giggled as he let May rub his head.
"Interesting, so you have memory of everything you did as an infant right?" the Professor asked her.
May moved her hand away from Ash and looked at the Professor. "Sure do, Mr. Lenient! My memory seemed only faint when I was an infant, but I still kinda had an inkling as to who everyone was. Once you turned me back to normal, all my old memories became clear and I even still remember everything I did as a baby. You did a great job getting rid of Team Rocket before!" May said happily.
"Heh. Looks like this experiment was a complete success then. One baby down, only one more to go!" The Professor squealed as he leaped into the air and kicked his heels.
May became the center of attention as Brock and Max asked her many questions. May answered each of their questions happily as the Professor started putting the ray gun away.
Ash did nothing but stare in awe while May was talking. His eyes wobbled as he thought May was the best thing he ever saw in his entire life. He didn't quite realize that this teenage May was the same infant he was playing with all along, but whoever she was, he felt completely enamored with her.
Ash blushed every time May glanced at him while talking to Brock and Max. The little infant was completely infatuated with her presence, and knew he had to get her attention.