Chapter 3 (Finale)

Ash couldn't bear seeing May in the state she was in. Her face was red and puffy from crying. Her eyes seemed to boil with indecision. Worry seemed to control her body, because her arms hung limp, her back slightly slouched.

Iris seemed to still be in a state of shock. Her face showed that she didn't understand the issues boiling between them. He could tell that from the way she looked at them, a confused face with jittery hands.

Drew, was sitting on his bed, staring seemingly unemotional, as if he didn't care the results. He knew it was too late to redeem himself. Ash could see that Drew ultimately knew he had failed. His fingers were wiggling around and his legs were shaking in fear.

May walked forward and asked Drew a fairly simple question. "Drew, what have you learned from crossing behind my back?"

Drew stuttered slowly, "Umm… Well… I have learned that next time, I… should hide my pride a bit better instead of umm… revealing the truth before you leave." He smiled lightly hoping he had gotten it right. May just looked at him and shook her head. She seemed to want to laugh and instead quickly slapped him. He lifted a hand to his cheek in disbelief.

He stood up and back handed her so quickly, she fell on her back. Iris held her hand to her mouth, while May started to tear up on the floor. As she cried onto the floor, Cilan walked back into the room. He looked around and saw the situation. He glared at Ash, who scooted back in his seat. He then noticed Drew, standing over May, smiling down at her triumphantly.

Drew then realized what he had done and dropped his hand, his smile dropping into a gaping mouth of self-induced shock. He fell back onto the floor, worried out of his mind. Ash decided to take the chance to get up and pull her up from the floor. Cilan was speechless and just decided to lead Iris from the room. Ash helped May over to the bunk across from the one Drew scrambled to.

His hands were over his ears and he was curled up in a ball on the bed. Ash had his right arm around May and his left hand holding her left hand on her left thigh. She looked up and smiled slightly. "You always did know how to perk me up. Have you learned anything from this?"

"Yes," Ash said solemnly, "I have learned that you have to be able to see past one's lies and push through the obstacles and hatred to reach the ultimate goal. You need to see to the future and learned the consequences of your actions. Until you can see into your future and through inference of actions, you can't live like a real person."

"It seems that you've learned something of value." May stated, "I never expected you come up with something like that." Drew only began to cry louder from his failure. "Drew, it's over between us. You might as well get a ship heading for Johto."

"But we had love between us." Drew managed to whine out.

"You tore that love apart by hurting me, both physically and emotionally, Drew." May said.

"You know what? I'm already famous, so I don't need you!" Drew screamed as he got on his crutches and headed for the door. "For all I care, you can go die!" He limped out the door.

Ash and May walked out to see Drew limping for the entrance and stepping on a little Stunfisk, which smiled and sent a jolt of power up his good leg. He proceeded to jump off of it and cuss out both the Pokémon and the small child that owned it. While the kid was crying, Drew crutched out of the building with Nurse Joy yelling at him. He reached the port and got a ticket for any other region.

May and Ash both walked out to the dock and watched as Drew limped with his luggage up onto the boat and got his room. He then approached the side for departure. As the ship headed out, May waved him out of her life for good. She received the finger. As the ship sailed from view, May gave Ash a long kiss and a silent thank you.

"So where's that ship headed anyway?" Ash asked, "I was never good with directions."

"Based on trajectory, I'd say he's going to meet my other rival Harley over in the Sinnoh region, so that's not the last we're going to hear of him." May explained this while she twirled some of her own hair. She gave Ash a tight hug while he kissed her cheek.

"I can only imagine what's going on with Drew right now." May said.

OOOOO

Meanwhile, Drew was getting ready to have a meal on the ship. As one butler approached his room, he resembled someone he knew. Then, with a smirk, "I'm Cilan and I while be cooking and serving you on this trip."

"Oh no." Drew said under his breathe. "So what's this meal's cuisine?" Drew asked politely.

"Oh, I think you'll love it. It is a slab of rib eye slathered in sautéed mushrooms and onions served with a house salad and loaded baked potato." Cilan droned out calmly. Drew cautiously removed the cover to see his steak rare and bleeding, the salad to be wilting away and the loaded potato was stuffed with ants.

"Disgusting!" Drew said.

"Rule number one about being having your cook as a butler, don't insult the food, because it can always come back worse." Cilan said. He left and returned a while later. The steak was now well overdone, the mushrooms hard like rocks with the sauté sauce just gone, the onions rubbery, the salad probably completely killed off, and the potato looked like it barely survived the potato famine of Ireland.

After that horrible experience, his personal activities director approached him. This was Iris, and she looked ready for revenge. "Nooooo!" Drew screamed out as he stuck one fist into the sky.