"Ash, we have to get out of here," Dawn said. Ash looked around for some way to escape. He saw a storage garage and walked over to it. He kicked open the door and found snowmobiles everywhere. He decided to set a bomb for 30 seconds, just to distract the enemy. "You drive, I'll shoot." Dawn nodded and got into the driver's seat while Ash climbed to the machine gun seat. Dawn cranked the ignition but found that it wasn't wanting to start.

"Ash," she said. still trying to start it.

"Hurry, Dawn," he replied. Just then, the garage opened. Ash guessed that people may have heard the snowmobile started. Men were everywhere and shooting at the pair. Ash shot at the two cars that were parked there, causing an explosion of each which sent the men who were using it for cover to fly off, dead. Ash then shot a huge gas tank, causing a massive explosion and killing several more. Dawn finally got the snowmobile to start, and Ash looked at the bomb to see it was already at 3.

"Hurry!" He shouted. The snowmobile than sped away and Ash watched as the building exploded. Dawn was on a road, but she decided to take an alternative route and drove through a fence off the road. Ahead there was a ranger station with two men shooting from the top of it. Ash noticed gas tanks surrounding the station and shot them, causing the men to go flying and the station to be destroyed.

There was a water tower with a little house after that and conveniently, there were barrels of gas surrounding the tower. Once again, Ash shot the barrels, causing the tower to fall onto the men who were trying to kill them.

Dawn then went through another fence to find herself on the road again. This time there was a truck behind them with men inside shooting at them. Dawn looked ahead to notice two cars about to pass each other. She sped up and went perfectly before she would have hit either car. She looked back to see the truck collide into both of the cars and explode. While going down the hill, enemies in snowmobiles started to chase the two friends. Ash thought this was very fun. He shot the man in fronts snowmobile, which exploded and crashed into the other man's snowmobile.

"Look out Ash, they're up ahead!" Dawn shouted. Ash turned the gun around to see a bridge with a small tunnel underneath. On the bridge, there was a truck goign by with men shooting out of the left side. Ash shot the truck until it exploded and flew off the bridge.

"Through that tunnel!" Ash ordered. Dawn did as she was told and broke through the grates of the tunnel and went through. At the other end there was a dropoff onto a soft pile of snow. Dawn was amazed they hadn't gotten stuck in the snow. Then Dawn spotted something.

"Up ahead, Ash!" She shouted and pointed. Ash saw a snowmobile that looked like it wanted to play chicken.

"You wanna play?" He asked. "Let's play. Come on Dawn." They continued and Ash shot as many times as he could at the snowmobile and it had the same demise that the others had all endured. Dawn kept going, ramping over small hills often.

"To the left," Dawn said. Ash shot the oncoming snowmobile, which pieces of it nearly missed Ash's head when the explosion occured.

"That was a close one," Ash said to himself.

"Yeah," Dawn agreed. After he had killed off a few more snowmobilers they got to another road. She looked ahead to see that the gate was being closed. "Ash, can you blast the gate?"

"I don't think so," but Ash didn't have to wait much longer. A helicopter, which seemed to be shooting rockets at Ash and Dawn, had accidentally destroyed the huge gate with a rocket. "Well, that was nice," Ash said sarcastically. Dawn moved ahead and then saw the helicopter swoop to the right of them, going just to the right of the bridge up ahead.

"Ash!" she shouted as the helicopter sent rockets, destroying the bridge. She then notices a snowy path to the side of where the bridge had been. She veered left to it. "Hang on. It's gonna be a bumpy ride."

"Okay," Ash said. He shot at the helicopter as it followed them and shot rockets at them, only giving them small smounts of damage if hitting them. He shot as much as he could and then he looked ahead to see that Dawn was about to go through a lodge. She went through the glass front doors, shattering them into pieces. People inside started running and screaming. "Sorry, we didn't have a reservation." Ash smirked when he said this, although the lodge people were not very amused. Dawn drove througe a perfect path and then she drove through a giant glass window in the back of the lodge, sending them flying to the snowy ground. She kept driving and Ash looked back and saw the helicopter destroy the lodge with rockets.

Then something hit him again. Innocent people had just died for Ash and Dawn's sake of escaping. He felt terribly for those lost, and hoped that no more innocents would be lost.

Dawn started going slower because the snow was getting heavier. Ash took out a couple of the snowmobilers who were pursuing them at about the same speed. Ash looked up to see that the helicopter was once again over their heads and shooting rockets at them.

"Ash!" Dawn shouted. "Look in front of us!" Ash looked ahead to see a snowmobiler, but this time shooting rockets nonstop. Ash shot as many bullets as he could at the man, an rockets seemed to fly by Ash's head. Ash was growing nervous and then he shot again. This time the bullet hit a rocket that the snowmobiler had just shot, causing his death in a huge explosion.

"To the left," Ash said. Dawn did as she was told and veered left, past the helicopter. Ash tried to shoot the helicopter down, but no luck prevailed. Then Dawn ramped the snowmobile over a large ravine and into a cave. The helicopter had been flying overhead and at the other side of the cave was another entrance. The cave was on a cliff, though, and the helicopter got sideways against the cliff. The wide doors on both sides of the helicopter were open. The shooter inside never stopped shooting. Time seemed to slow down as Dawn got closer to the helicopter. She knew what she was about to do might be crazy, and it just might not work out. She put all these thoughts aside and went faster. They finally got to the end of the cave. They ramped off a little bump and now time seemed to be going as slowly as possible when the snowmobile flew through the helicopter. The shooter had jumped out of the helicopter to avoid being hit, and the snowmobile flew perfectly through the other side. When forever had seemed to have went by, the snowmobile finally landed on a soft patch of snow. Ash and Dawn both looked back to see the helicopter hit the side of the cliff and crash into the ground. This caused yet another explosion. Dawn kept going until they got to a cabin that Ash had his car at. It was in a place where no one could find it.

"Well, this is cool," Dawn said, walking up to the front door. "Ash?"

"Yes?" Ash answered.

"Do you like Misty?" she asked. Ash put the key in the lock, not answering but thinking. "Well?"

"It's complicated," he answered as he opened the door, letting Dawn walk into the cabin first. She didn't bother him anymore with the questions, but he still thought about it. He thought about how May had been at that secret meeting with Drew. Could May possibly have joined the enemy? Did May know of his new career? He wondered if Drew had turned her bad. She was so easily influenced, Ash thought. It seemed like many years since Max had been killed by Team Rocket. Ash remembered that terrible day as if it was yesterday, though.

5 years ago

"Ash, you and your Pikachu seem really happy now," Max stated. Ash nodded.

"Well," he started explaining, "Now that we have lost all of the Pokemon Leagues, I guess we need to find another way to become Pokemon Masters. It excites me and him to be able to go on new adventures."

Ash, May, and Max had been having lunch at a nice spot in a field of grass. It was a lovely day, and everyone was happy as they could be. It was lovely, at least until they arrived.

"What's that?" Max said. It was obviously a helicopter, and it seemed to be coming towards them. It had the Team Rocket logo on it.

"Prepare for trouble!" a familiar voice said over the speaker of the helicopter.

"Make it double!"

"To protect the world..." The familiar pair of villains had kept their same motto through all those years. Finally the helicopter landed on the ground and Jessie and James and their pal Meowth stepped out of it.

"Give us your Pikachu!" Meowth commanded.

"If I haven't given you Pikachu for all these years, what would make me change my mind now?" Ash asked. The three villains smiled.

"This," James said, pulling out a pistol from his pocket. He then grabbed Max and put the gun to his head. "Haha, you guys have to give us Pikachu now."

"Max!" May shouted. "Beautifly, help us!" The Pokemon came out of its ball and started sending paralysis waves at the villains.

"Oh, no!" Jessie shouted. "Get in the helicopter."

The three and Max ran to the helicopter, which they had left running. The drivers side back door remained open as the helicopter lifted off. Max felt helpless, but he then knew he had his own Pokemon.

"Go, Electabuzz!" Max shouted but before he could send the Pokemon out, Jessie screamed.

"No, you little twirp!" She then high kicked him out of the door that had been open and Max flew out, screaming as he fell towards the ground.

"Max!" Ash and May shouted as they watched him fall to the ground. There was not enough time to send help to him, and May screamed as Max hit the ground.

Present

Ash remembered that as the day Max died. It was also the day May started talking about how short life can be. Shortly after that, May broke up with Ash and left to pursue her dream of becoming a Contest Master. And now May was dealing with the enemy? Ash could not sleep for most of the night, as he could not stop wondering about all these things.

In the morning Ash left Dawn sleeping to go meet Professor Oak at the extraction point he'd been assigned to. It was an exciting drive, with many explosions occuring on the way there. Ash finally got to the point where they were supposed to meet.

"Ash, there are too many enemies down there, we need you to get rid of them." Ash smiled and looked on his radar to see three helicopters patrolling the area. He sent missiles at all three of them, blowing them into pieces.

Ash drove his car into the onramp of the plane. Once inside, the ramp closed up and he walked to the luxurious passenger part of the plane. There sat M and Professor Oak.

"Ash," M said. "We have a new mission for you."

"Where's Misty?"

"She's on her mission."