I really busy so sorry this came late, but onlistly I was held up by school and work I thought I would never get to this. But now I'm back so plz stay tuned.

Disclaimer-I don't own pokemon.

Chapter 2

Familiar Grounds and The Unknown

Ash started to wake up at his usual time at dawn, looking around he saw that he still had a good two hours before he came to the nearest city. He went in his bag and took out a device that allowed him to check current events from around the known world.

"Let's see weather, stocks, wait what's this? "he exclaimed as he scrolled down the list, "unidentified fighter over Hoenn and Sinnoh, Recently sightings of this strange craft have been reported around dawn and dusk according to police reports, also the say that the fighter doesn't attack civilians but has only been seen in engagements with Team Rocket in the Sinnoh region, said the head of Hoenn defense. One month ago members of Team Rocket were found near destroyed helicopters and were taken into custody. During the time they were interrogated, they revealed a short glance of its attack.

[Officer] we were armed with some pokemon with long range attacks and rapid fire, and some bolt action rifles. We flew during the day hoping that we would not be attacked like the other convoys, we were at the half mark when our radar started to mess up and then we heard it, it's like an old saying you hear death come before it gets you. Well the copter next to us exploded and we could see the men fall out with their cloths on fire, the men on the last copter saw it and started to fire but they were forced to crash land. I knew we were next and ordered the men to open fire in every direction, then I saw it and fired my gun, it didn't matter though we were hit and crashed, we had nothing to do but wait.

The Sinnoh region has started to work with the Hoenn region in order to track and determine the motive of this unknown, but in till further notice everyone should practice extreme caution." Ash sighed and started to packing up his stuff, taking his time he checked to make sure he had everything he brought and woke Pikachu up.

"Pikaa?"Pikachu stretched out and looked at Ash who motioned to him that it was time to go, standing up he followed him. The walk to Oldale city was nearly uneventful and Ash and Pikachu were relaxing and enjoying the scenery (some thing he did more often) and started to look at a small lake that they were about to pass, Ash started to remember the days when May traveled with him, but it accord to him that he was only thinking about May, no Max or Brock, just the times the two of them spent together. He started to wonder if the events on the hill that faithful night didn't take place, would they be together or would they settle down for a while and enjoy each other's company? What would of changed, Then he started to feel a strange feeling and when he turned to face Pikachu, he saw that he was in a defensive position, having a idea what was going to happen he tried to call out to Pikachu but the words never came out. Coming at high speeds from the north was a unknown fighter-jet flying at low attitude at their direction and everything flashed before his eyes, before it passed over them Pikachu fired a thunderbolt and it hit the jet harmlessly, then as it passed the force of the wind caused them to fly backwards. Pikachu was lucky and landed in some grass, but Ash wasn't, he was thrown into the lake.

"Pika-Pika!"

Ash felt disoriented and after having the air knocked out of his lungs, he wasn't feeling well, plus he was thrown in the lake and was drenched. Feeling his chest starting to tighten he finally opened his eyes and saw that he was not injured other than for a few bruises but a small Dratini that was getting comfortable on his chest. "so you getting in a comfortable position?" his only response was that the young dragon looked at him and started to coo happily. Noticing that he was still in the water he walked to shore to meet a confused Pikachu. Pikachu was confused and before he could ask Ash held up his hands, "Three things. One, you know what happens when the people see thunder fly into the sky, meaning that we have to move in 4minutes or we will be swarmed. Second I'm wet. Last is that I think this tiny Dratini thinks I'm its parent" once again it tightened its hold on ash and cooed.

"Pika-pikachu chu." (Sorry about that I wasn't thinking.) he put his head down in shame.

"Come on, don't worry about it, just be careful next time. Ok." Ash said to reassure Pikachu, "Now let's get out of here so that I can put on a dry set of cloths" Pikachu nodded and jumped on his shoulder, turning around Ash started for the hidden path he found the past night that would hid him from view. Before entering the path he turned around to make sure that any traces of his presence was gone, he headed off once again. After that incident time felt slower and Ash only looked at the cloudy blue sky, and allowed his mind wandered off.

"Pika?"(are you alright)

"Hu? Oh, ya I'm fine buddy" Ash replied as he snapped out of his trance, "I have a lot a things on my mind."

"Chuuu." (oh really.) Pikachu responded

"Hahahaha- your really funny, why is it that everyone except May put me d-" before he could finish his sentence a voice interrupted him.

"Come on Ash, I gave you credit too!" Ash slowly turned half expecting a crowed and half expecting a ghost, finally he turned and saw who it was.

Before him stood a young boy with black hair(i think) and glasses. "Come on Ash, you DO remember me, I mean you are close to my sister!"

The last comment caught him off guard, "Max is that you?" he said after his mind finally registered what was said.

"Well, it took you long anoth" he continued,"I bet if I didn't say anything it would of taking you all day to find out my name."

"At least you sense of sarcasm is still in that head of yours." he replied. Ash looked at the young boy in front of him and started to wonder how he found him. "Oh and to answer your question, Pikachu's thunder is like a signal that can be seen miles away."

"Oh" pikachu only looked down in shame and started to shuffle his feet. Ash came to his senses and grabbed Max and ran deep into the forest.

"Ash! Were are you off too?"

"Well, if you saw the thunder from Pikachu then everyone saw it." shivers started to run up his spine bring back a few unpleasant memories back, "and I don't that to go through that again!"

Somewhere in Sinnoh

?,"There it is, the unknown fighter-jet destroying all of the shipment and helicopters!"

?, "Hmm, its not as fast as I thought."

?, "Wats dat, didn't you read the reports, it was flying at supersonic speeds!"

?, "Well whatever the case lets follow it "

?, "maybe we can give it to the boss"

?, "I have a bad feeling about this."

Well thats it for this chapter, I ended the talk with max early so I could make a chapter just about them hanging out so I hope you don't mind. Oh and the confrontation is up next chapter so ya that it.

Until next Time,

Senor-Luigi