After getting dressed and having something to eat may and pikachu left to look for ash
They had been looking for him for 3 hours now and may was starting to worry that he had left and forgot his pokemon, while she was worrying she had wandered into a forest on the outskirts of town know for having monsterously strong pokemon that even the elite four struggle with.
"i wonder where he could be" may said absent mindedly pikachu had his ears raised in hope he would hear his trainer
"tyranitar" a low growling voice said from inside some bushes to the side of may
"did you hear that pikachu?" may asked in a shakey voice
"pika!" pikachu said jumping off of mays shoulder and getting into a battle stance while growling at a bush
"tyranitar" the growl came again but this time it sounded angry, after the growl finished a tall teal lizard with a orange stomach emerged from behind the bush
"tyranitar!" it shouted this time while stepping forward
"i don't suppose your here to ask for directions" may asked scared out of her whitts "i didn't think so"
"TYRANITAR!" it roared and as it did may screamed for help
A small distance away ash was playing with a larvitar and its mother sat in the door way to the cave
"larvitar" it said as it jumped into ash's hands, as he caught the baby he rolled onto his back and holding it up in the air
"got you" ash said playfully as he began to tickle the baby, which earned him a giggle
When ash was tickling the larvitar a girls scream reached his ear and he stopped tickling the baby
"larvitar got to your mommy i need to go now" ash said as he placed the baby on his feet, the larvitar nodded and quickly walked to his mum
Ash waited till larvitar was safe before running in the direction the scream came from
May was trying her hardest to beat the monster infront of her but she had no such luck, it had already beat her venasaur, wartortle, blaziken, munchlax and beutifly, and came close to defeating her eevee a few times, if it wasn't for Pikachu distracting tyranitar or knocking eevee out of the way every time tyranitar attacked her, eevee would have been a while ago
"I'm sorry pikachu my pokemon aren't used to battling like this there more conest battles" she said while getting frustrated at her weakness, and as she finished the tyranitar aimed a extreemly powerful Rock Smash at eevee
Suddenly a orange blur shot past may and collided with tyranitar causing a dust cloud to accumilate, when it cleared a orange and white ape with fire coming from its head was holding tyranitar off and making sure the lizard couldn't take another move towards the small fox
"great infernape now use Mach Puch" a voice said coming from behind may and as ordered the ape charged his attack then landed it square in its opponent jaw sending it flying into a tree
"don't let up use flare blitz and close combat together" the voice said but this time it was closer, and again the ape did as its trainer told it and collided with the lizard and began kicking and punching
"NOW FINISH IT UP WITH ANOTHER MACH PUNCH!" this time ash burst through a bush right next to may and shouted at the top of his lungs, and now the ape charged up his attack but this time the light that surrounded his fist was alot brighter
"INFERNAPE!" the ape screeched as his fist collided with the lizard sending it flying through 23 trees and stopped when it hit a rock but not before leaving a imprint in the rock
May was gob smacked at what had just happened, her pokemon couldn't hold a candle to this tyranitar but here was ash who's pokemon not only could hold his own against the monster but completely crushed it
Ash knelt down infront of may with a worried look, while ash was taking care of may infernape was checking on pikachu and eevee
"hey may, you ok?" ash asked more worried that this could be troumatic for her "may can you hear me?"
May turned towards ash and tears began to well up in her eyes, she took a swift sniff then lunged at him like the night before
"i was so scared" she said with her grip tightening "no matter what i did it kept whiping my pokemon out"
Ash placed his left hand on her back and his right on her head "its ok to be scared in situations like that, fear isn't bad it keeps you safe and lets you know your boundries" he said trying to console her
"i i i know bu bu but what if you didn't come" she asked trying to bury herself further into his chest
"if i never came Pikachu would of saved you" ash said as he began to rub her back "he's really strong you know"
"th th then why didn't he do it from the st start" she asked not wanting to see the outside world
"well from the look of it he was protecting your pokemon by releasing an electric current through the ground and using the current to disrupt tyranitar's sense of balance and vision ever so slightly so that it didn't notice but enough so your pokemon didn't take a direct hit unless at point blank range" ash explained as he kept rubbing her back
After a minute of silence and ash rubbing mays back her sobbing stopped and her breathing evened out, when ash realised she had fell asleep he picked her up bridle style but made sure her ear was resting over his heart so that his heartbeat would help her have a peaceful sleep and carried her back to the pokemon centre with infernape still out of his ball carrying pikachu and eevee