Okay, here's my next chapter. I hope you enjoy it. R&R

The next morning, Ash woke up earlier than normal. He went outside to stretch, and as he picked up his poke balls, he noticed one was missing.

"Guys! My Corphish is missing!"

Slowly, May, Brock, and Max got up.

"What are you talking about Ash?"

"My Corphish is missing!"

Brock grabbed his things and checked his pokemon.

"All of mine are here. What about you May?"

May grabbed her poke balls and started to look at them. Then, she frowned.

"My Squirtle's missing too."

Ash said nothing, but stood their and thought. Finally, he looked at the others.

"Do you think maybe Team Aqua stole them? I mean, they have been pretty active around here lately."

As he said this, May let out a small laugh.

"That's the first sensible thing you've ever said Ash."

"Ha ha ha, very funny."

"Ash has a point."

"Well, what are we waiting for? Lets go and get back our pokemon."

Ash turned and ran off, Pikachu and the others right behind him. When they reached Lilycove City, they noticed there were people dressed in Team Aqua clothes walking around. Ash run up to the closest one and grabbed him.

"What did you do with my Corphish?"

"Huh?"

"You people stole two of our pokemon, and we want them back, now!"

"Kid, you better leave me alone. I didn't steal your pokemon, and even if I did, I wouldn't give it back to you."

Ash let him go and stormed off. May and the others followed him. However, not long after that, Ash stopped. May went to ask him what the problem was, but her grabbed her mouth to keep her quite. A second later, they heard voices.

"Okay, we have the tools, now it's time for us to move out to Mt. Pyre."

"Aye Aye sir!"

After they were gone, Ash looked at Max.

"Where is Mt. Pyre?"

"Right outside of the city."

"Well, lets go."

TWO DAYS LATER

Ash and the others stood, looking at Mt. Pyre. The only thing seperating them was a small body of water. However, without their water pokemon, they could not get across to Mt. Pyre.

"We don't have any water pokemon, what do we do now?

"Maybe we can be of some assistence."

Ash turned to see Kenneth walking towards him. This time, however, he wasn't alone. A girl about fifteen years old with blonde hair was walking next to him with his Raichu on his shoulder.

"I guess you had pokemon stolen too, didn't you?"

"How did you know?"

"This is Bridget. Her Swampert was stolen too."

"My Corphish and May's Squirtle were kidnapped too."

"That's wierd."

"What?"

"All three pokemon that went missing are of the water type. Swampert, Corphish, and Squirtle."

"So, what are ya'll doing?"

"Going to Mt. Pyre."

"How, our water pokemon were kidnapped."

"Yeah, but I still have my Gyarados."

As he said this, he pulled a poke ball from his belt and threw it into the water.

"Go Gyarados!"

In a flash of white light, Gyarados splashed into the water. As soon as it popped up out of the water, Kenneth and Bridget jumped onto it's back. Kenneth looked at the others.

"Could you guys use a ride?"

It took around five minutes for Gyarados to get the group over to the base of Mt. Pyre. Once they were there, Kenneth returned Gyarados back to it's poke ball. He then pulled another ball from his belt and threw it.

"Swellow, I choose you!"

Swellow burst from it's poke ball and landed right in front of Kenneth.

"Swellow, I need you to fly up and search the mountain for any signs of Team Aqua. When you find something, come back and let me know."

Swellow nodded and soared off. Not even a minute later, Swellow was back, swaking happily.

"You found them? They're heading for the summit? Swellow, return!"

Once Swellow was back in it's poke ball, Kenneth took off inside Mt. Pyre. Bridget and Ash and the others follwed. They ran into the gravesight area inside Mt. Pyre and then went out a door off to the left and followed the trail up the mountain. True to what Swellow said, Team Aqua was now at the summit.

"Okay old coot, stand aside so we can take the Red Orb."

"But you can't take the Red Orb. If you do, then the results would be catastrophic."

"I don't care old geezer. Now, stand aside."

"No."

"I said stand aside old man."

"And I said no."

"Fine, then my Mightyena will have to move you for me. Do it Mightyena."

"Not so fast Archie. If you want to steal the Red Orb, you have to go through me."

"Yeah, and we want our pokemon back!"

"Oh look, it's a couple of kids that think they can defeat us."

"I don't think I can defeat you." Kenneth said, lloking indeifferent. When Ash and the others looked at him as though he had lost his mind, he smiled.

"I know I can defeat you. After all, I've beat you and your croonies a billion times before, and I can do it again."

"As much as I want a battle with you child, I must take the Red Orb and leave."

After Archie said that, Mightyena chased the old man and Archie grabbed the Red Orb.

"Okay boys, lets go." A minute later, Archie and Team Aqua were gone. However, Kenneth was not detered.

After they were gone, Kenneth pulled a poke ball from his belt.

"Okay Swellow, go!"

When Swellow was out, Kenneth wasted no time.

"Swellow, fly up high above Team Aqua and follow them to their secret hideout. When you find it, come back at get us. We'll be At Lilycove City in the hotel." Can you do that?"

Swellow nodded and flew off. Meanwhile, Kenneth and the others walked back down and used Gyarados to get back to the mainland. A little while later, they were in Lilycove City at the hotel eating supper. It was about nine o' clock that night, and everyone was tired, May had been talking to Max about pokemon when she fell asleep unexpectadly, and her head fell onto Ash's shoulder. When the others saw this, they started laughing. Ash gently shook May awake.

"May, if you're tired, then you need to go up to bed."

"Huh, oh yeah, thanks Ash."

May got up and slowly walked up to her room and fell onto her bed. Meanwhile, Max was teasing Ash relentlessly.

"So Ash, when did you and my sister start going out?"

"She's not my girlfriend. She just fell asleep, after all, she is tired."

"Yeah, but Ash, girls don't fall asleep on just anyone's shoulders."

"What ever."

Ash just got up and walked to his room. However, somewhere deep down, he knew Max and the others were right...

So, how did you like it. I tried to make this as long as I could. I'll update again really soon. R&R