October 14th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
(May's POV)
"Lin, May, ah my head hurts," Ash said painfully while grabbing his head.
"Wait, you were May this whole time?!" Leaf asked incredulously.
I looked up giving a sad smile, "Yea, I'm really sorry, but I wanted to come to school to get an education not attention. Plus your boss hates me. That's mainly why I didn't want to tell you guys," I said sadly. "Max you can take off the disguise."
"Heh heh, kinda forgot there for a second," he said sheepishly as he took off his contacts and brown wig.
I saw that Drew was out of it and snapped my fingers in his face, "Your mind blown?" I teased.
He snapped out of it, "So how did you know about our missions?" he asked changing the topic.
I shook my head at his attempt of changing topics, "Big tip, the area is not secure if people are still around," I said with a smirk while taking a sip of water.
"How did you put up with the charade?" Gary asked.
"It was hard, especially the weekend of the two bombs and the gunshot wound. Also getting the wind knocked out of me didn't help either. I was super sore the day after that."
"Oh my Mew May! How could you do that? I would have died in pain," Dawn cried.
I smiled sadly, "You're not far from the dying part," I said quietly while taking a sip of water.
"What are you talking about, you're not gonna die," Leaf said in a matter-of-fact tone.
I shook my head, "Max, can you get the folder?" I asked.
"Sure May," he said and went to my room to get the folder.
"What are you talking about May?" Drew asked.
"Here ya go," Max said sadly as he gave me the folder.
"Thanks Max," I said before giving it to Drew and the others to look at. I watched their facial expressions change meaning they read the prophecy causing tears to fall silently down my face, "That's the other secret," I choked out.
The girls began to get tears in their eyes while the guys remained solemn, "Why didn't you tell us May?" Misty asked.
"I learned about this through Arceus two days ago and then yesterday I spent hours at the Canalave City Library digging everything up about this prophecy. It's all there, the little I could find," I said quietly.
"Wait, two days ago," Dawn said then gasped. "That's when you ran away from Drew."
I nodded, "I was really close to crying my eyes out again and I had to leave before you guys asked questions. I'm really sorry about the depression bit, but I really did hit rock bottom yesterday and today til later," I said with a sad smile.
"You shouldn't need to apologize. Heck you just learned you might die, you have every right to be upset," Misty said sternly.
"So what does the prophecy mean?" Paul asked.
"Basically, the man who killed my parents wants to capture Arceus and this fight is a reincarnation of an incident that somewhat happened thousands of years ago that happened between mine and the bad guy's ancestors. The map to his location is spread all over the world in six pieces. So far pieces have been found in Kanto and Johto hence the robberies by Domino at Professor Elm and your grandfather's lab Gary. There are also six gems associated with the pieces of the map also represent the basic elements. So far the ruby and orange diamond have been found, NOT a Fire Stone grasshead," I said angrily before continuing. "The last important piece is me and the bad guy doesn't know that. Now every time I sing, it makes it easier for him to locate me and gives a whopper headache like the night I fainted hence why I don't sing. That more or less pretty much sums it up."
"So that's why you fainted and had that nightmare," Leaf said.
"Also Arceus contacted me for the first time," I added.
"Talk about an interesting day," Dawn said. "It had its highs and lows I guess."
"I still can't believe you were able to hide this for this long," Misty said in disbelief.
"I could have gone longer, but it would hurt everyone to keep it a secret. Besides, it feels nice to finally say something though," I admitted.
"I don't think you could have done it, you'd explode first," Drew teased while flicking his fringe and smirking as he stood up.
"Excuse me!" I said standing up annoyed.
"You heard me airhead," he grinned and was about to flick his fringe again but I smirked and flipped him over just like before.
"I've been waiting to do that for so long grasshead, thanks," I said happily while sitting back down and taking a drink while everyone else laughed.
"You have got to teach me how to do that," Misty said while recovering from laughing.
"You need to stop doing that, it's painful," Drew complained as he stood up.
"Stop underestimating me then," I teased. "Besides I'll make some milk to help with the pain like last time. I'm not that heartless."
"How could be so heartless less less…..," Dawn started to sing.
"Troublesome, please don't sing," Paul said.
She frowned, "You always ruin my fun," she complained with a pout which turned around after Paul kissed her on the cheek which scared the crap out of me at least.
"Anyone scared?" I asked. Everyone but Dawn and Paul raised their hands while Max just looked confused.
"Paul doesn't really show emotion at all and rarely talks so seeing him do PDA is terrifying," I said filling him in. "Are you staying at the Pokemon Center?"
"Crap, I was supposed to get there a while ago," he said tiredly.
"Why not just crash here for tonight," I said. "If no one minds that is?"
"We don't care. Heck, he can stay as long as he wants if he keeps teaching us those power ups and cheat codes," Gary said.
"I'll get you some blankets," I told him as everyone started dispersing to their rooms. "You can use my bathroom real quick."
"Thanks May," he said and left while I grabbed an extra pillow and a few blankets to put on the couch.
"Night May," he said as he came out and went to the couch.
"Night Max," I said before going into my room and crawling into bed.
October 15th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)
I woke up the next morning feeling better than I did in a long time. I quickly changed and grabbed my backpack before quietly creeping into the kitchen to make breakfast. As soon as everything was starting to cook, Max woke up from the smell.
He yawned, "Morning May," he said sleepily.
I laughed, "Morning sleepy head, did you sleep okay?"
"Yeah, this couch isn't that bad," he said while standing up and stretching.
"Morning May, morning Max," Dawn whispered cheerfully as she came out of our room.
"Mornin' Dawn," we both said. "Max, why don't you use our bathroom to change while Dawn helps with breakfast?"
Max nodded and left while Dawn smelled everything cooking, "It smells so good, what's for breakfast?" she asked.
"Waffles with Mago and Watmel sauce along with sausage. Speaking of food, I better start making grasshead his milk cause he's gonna complain that he's sore again," I said knowingly.
Dawn laughed, "You flipping him yesterday was really funny. Actually, yesterday was surprising on so many levels," she said happily.
"And ya got together with your crush, that's one perfect day for ya," I said happily.
She grinned evilly, "Now that all of us girls are together that means the attention turns to you," she said slyly. "Did you know Drew had a crush on both of your sides?"
I nodded, "I figured as much though I highly doubt he's gonna keep the crush. I have a high chance of dying after all. Who wants to fall in love with a person when they know they won't live long," I said sadly.
"Tsk tsk tsk, stop with the negativity along with wearing black and dull colors. I think Max is upset by that. So you need to get in a better mood missy before I force ya to," she threatened.
I laughed, "Dawn with you around, it's not too hard. You're the bubbly one of the group after all," I said with a smile. "Also you balance out with Paul and his quiet, grumpy attitude. No wonder they say opposites attract."
"May this conversation was on you not me," she whined.
I laughed, "It's the truth though and I'm good at directing attention elsewhere."
"Is breakfast done May?" Max asked as he had changed and put his disguise on as well.
"Just about, should be done in a minute."
"Yay! I missed your waffles," he said.
The timer then went off signaling that the waffles were done, "Since you guys are up, you get dibs first," I said.
Max and Dawn then grabbed a waffle with berry sauce on top along with some sausage and started to eat when Misty and Leaf came out.
"Want some waffles and sausage?" I asked.
"Sure, it smells really good," Misty said.
"It tastes really good too," Dawn said happily. "You sure are an awesome chef May."
I bowed, "Thank you thank you, you are too kind."
The girls grabbed their food and started to eat while I got another batch ready. The guys then came out of their wing with Drew looking at me with slight irritation.
"What did you make today?" Ash asked dreamily.
I laughed, "Waffles with Mago and Watmel sauce along with sausage, though you're gonna have to wait for the next batch since the girls got here first," I said with a smile.
I turned to Drew, "Sore from yesterday?" I teased.
He frowned, "Yea, no thanks to you," he snapped.
"Ooo, someone didn't sleep at all either I take it," I said knowingly while grabbing the milk I made for him. "Drink this, you'll feel better."
He took the glass out of my hand and after taking a sip his face softened slightly as the timer rang. I put the waffles and sausage on a plate for the guys to take what they wanted. I looked at my poketch to see that it was ten minutes til we had to go to homeroom. Since I didn't have enough time to make a waffle for myself and have time to eat it, I cleaned up the kitchen and then came out with a granola bar while everyone else finished up.
"Where's your waffle May?" Max asked.
"I didn't have time to make one and eat it so this will have to do."
"May, you should have made one," Max complained.
"Max, missing one meal is not gonna kill me. Besides, this granola bar will do me just fine," I said firmly.
The gang then put their dishes away and we left to go to homeroom while Max decided to explore the city for the time being. We still had all classes today but instead class got out at 1:00 with lunch being the last class with the school preparing a huge picnic of some sort. After we got to homeroom and sat down, Mr. Thornton called me to the front of the room.
"Miss Mason you are requested to go to the principal's office."
I was shocked, what did they want with me this early? I grabbed my backpack while everyone else looked at me concerned.
"I'll see you later," I said and left for the principal's office.
When I got there, I saw that Solidad was in Mr. Stone's office as well, "You wanted to see me?" I asked.
"Yes, please sit down," Mr. Stone said as he motioned to a chair.
"What did you want to see me about?" I asked confused.
"We have a request that we want to ask you, but first let me explain. Each year on family visiting weekend before the picnic, we hold a battle and contest appeal done by some of the best seniors at the school. Unfortunately, the girl who was to do the contest appeal this year is sick and is not able to do it," Mr. Stone explained.
"So we asked if any of the other senior coordinators could do it and they all said no because they couldn't prepare in time. I figured with all your experience that you could help us out by doing one with music since no one has seen you do it as May. Think you can help?" Solidad asked.
I was shocked, I was picked out of all the students to put on a contest appeal in front of the whole school and I had four and a half hours to prepare, yeesh!
"Are you sure I'm a worthy candidate?" I asked.
"You're one of the best in your grade so far and you've won multiple grand festivals, can you do it?" Mr. Stone asked.
"I'll give it a shot, but am I excused from classes?" I asked.
"Yes and the theme is up to you, you can practice down in the battle arena since no one is down there and it will be locked so no one can get in and ruin your practice," Mr. Stone said.
"Okay, if you don't mind, I've got to run and start getting all this together," I said hurriedly.
"Good luck," Solidad said.
Good luck my ass, I need a miracle. I called Max on my poketch as I made my way down the hallway accidently bumping into Dawn.
"Lin, what's going, why were you called to principal's office?" Dawn asked.
"I can't explain right now, I'll see you later," I said hurriedly and sprinted down the hall while everyone stared at me concerned.
Max finally answered his poketch, "Lin, are you okay?" he asked as he saw my strained face.
"I'm fine, but I need your Kirlia for the next few hours, do you mind?" I asked.
"No, I'll have him teleport herself to you."
I sighed in relief, "Thanks, Max I'll explain later," I said as ended the call and Kirlia appeared.
"Kirlia," he said pleasantly.
"Kirlia can you teleport me to the dorm?" I asked.
"Kirlia," he said as he then teleported the both of us to the dorm.
I rushed to my room with him following, "Thanks Kirlia, you can rest while research what I need," I said gently.
"Kirlia," he said with a smile and sat on the floor ready to watch what I was going to play.
For the next hour, I found the music I wanted to use and began to practice on my piano. I also watched past contest appeal performances at the school. Geez they're good, elegant, and fancy, how am I gonna top that?
"Now I need to find a good dress and it has to fit in a frozen environment?" I said thinking out aloud.
"Kirlia," he said excitedly snapping me out of my train of thought.
"Kirlia," he said again and I found myself teleported in front of dress shop downtown and in the display window there was a light blue flowy floor length blue dress with an asymmetric top to the left with a snow flake pattern on the shoulder strap and another on the right at the waist.
I smiled, "That's perfect Kirlia, hopefully it fits," I said as we walked into the store.
I tried it on and it did, I paid for the dress along with silver heels, a snowflake bracelet, snowflake posts with light blue topaz teardrops, a silver snowflake necklace with small light blue topaz gems all around, and a small silver tiara. Kirlia then teleported us back to the dorm. Now to work on the appeal itself. From what I saw in the videos, it looks like you can use up to three pokemon.
"Kirlia can you teleport to the Petalburg Pokemon Center and switch out Munchlax for Wartortle?" I asked.
"Kirlia," he said while teleporting himself out and in.
"Thanks, please use one last teleport to the battle arena to practice okay?" I asked.
"Kirlia," he said tiredly and teleported me along with the outfit and my piano to the battle arena.
I noticed that he was tired, "Thank you so much Kirlia, eat this and take a rest okay?" I said gently while handing him an Oran Berry.
"Kirlia," he said tiredly as he ate the berry and went to lie down somewhere.
The next two hours were tough, but Altaria, Wartortle, and Glaceon were able to manage along with Blaziken helping with the sound system. Soon I returned everyone and made my way to the contest arena where all students and their families were starting to fill the bleachers. As I arrived, I got a call on my poketch from Max.
"Lin where are you, everyone is worried sick, are you coming?" Max asked.
"I won't be able to join you guys, I'll see you later," I said as I ended the call.
I changed into my outfit, curled my wig and put it in a curly bun at the bottom of my head, put on the tiara, and put on a small bit of makeup.
Soon the battle was taking place where two seniors had two pokemon each. One had an Ursaring and a Donphan and the other had a Nosepass and a Zangoose. From the looks of things, this battle was gonna take a while. As I watched the battle from behind the contest curtain, I couldn't help but feel nervous.
"I hope I don't make a flop out of this," I said nervously.
"You won't," a voice said behind me making me jump a little.
I turned around to see that it was Solidad, "Solidad don't scare me like that."
She laughed, "I'm sorry May, but you'll do fine. You have won four Grand Festivals and you have the experience to guide you through," she said gently.
"But I've never done an appeal like this before. It's never been done except by Nando and he never played his harp through a whole appeal," I said nervously.
"Just lose yourself in the music like you did yesterday, and as I've said before, you'll do fine. You also look really pretty," she said.
"I just hope I'm not over doing it."
"You aren't, you'll do fine. Now get ready, the battle is almost over," she said as she left the room.
I started to take deep breathes and I heard a familiar voice in my head, "You can do it sweetheart," it said softly.
I smiled, it was my mother and that was all I needed to take control of my nerves.
I then called my pokemon out, "You guys ready?" I asked.
They nodded while cheering causing me to smile.
"Get into your positions," I told them as I was listening to Mr. Stone from behind the curtain.
"Thank you Brian and John for that amazing battle, let's give them another round of applause," he said leading the clapping of the audience.
As the clapping died down, Brian and John went to the bleachers before Mr. Stone started to speak again, "Now we end our yearly demonstration with the contest appeal done by a selected student. Please hold the applause until the end of the performance," he said as he walked off the stage back to his seat.
Blaziken turned off the lights in the arena while my pokemon and I got in our places. Kirlia then had three stage lights appear, one in the middle on Altaria and two on either end where Glaceon and Wartortle were. Altaria did Mist to cover the stage gently as I started to play on my piano. As the verse started, Kirlia made a light blue stage light appear on me. I played the first half of the first verse before the stage lights on my three pokemon widened a little bit as Glaceon used Blizzard while slowing walking toward the middle to gently cover the stage in snow while Altaria flew in the air.
I started to play the pre-chorus signaling to my pokemon to start the next part. Altaria and Wartortle used Ice Beam and Glaceon used Blizzard to make a few big snowflakes appear in the air. I then played the first two lines of the chorus signaling Glaceon to gather energy to make a big Shadow Ball while Wartortle used Bubble and Altaria flew around the snowflakes to bring them to the center. The three attacks met in the middle causing a small white explosion to happen while I played the line, "let the storm rage". At "the cold never bothered me anyway", a small snow fall appeared so the stage appeared like a winter wonderland.
Next was the part that got a bit dicey, my pokemon wanted to create this part and I had no clue what they were gonna do so I felt a little nervous. I started to play the next verse and my pokemon took to childlike play and started to play with each other in the snow. While doing so, Glaceon made a middle sized snow ball giving Wartortle an idea because his face showed it. So when I began to play "it's time to see what I can do" Wartortle went around the front of the field to make three ice blocks in the left, middle, and right.
When I began to play "let it go, let it go" Glaceon went to each ice block and used Ice Shard to cut off chunks of ice. She went to the next one while Altaria came up and used Peck to make shape of a sculpture. The first one was me having fun practicing with Glaceon. I played "let it go let it go" again and Glaceon and Altaria did the second statue of me playing my guitar while Altaria sang. When I played, "here I stand and here I'll stay", Glaceon and Altaria made a statue of me playing with Wartortle while practicing. I'm guessing those are each of their favorite memories with me and that made tears start to appear in my eyes, it was so sweet.
Next was the difficult part, I started to play the bridge as my pokemon all used Ice Beam and all sorts of moves to start forming a two story ice castle with a small gated tower on top. They did a beautiful job and Altaria then used Mist to cover the stage before I played the climax line of "the past is in the past". As I played the last bit of the song, Kirlia put a light blue stage light on me as Altaria used gust to gather the mist in the air making a cloud and used Perish Song for an Aurora affect to appear over head with the sound matching the song. As I played the last two lines, Glaceon and Wartortle stood on two balconies they created diagonally down from Altaria while she landed on top of the gated balcony in the middle.
After I played the last few notes, everything was silent. Suddenly everyone in the whole arena stood up and was cheering like crazy. I smiled along with my pokemon as we took a bow. I took a step to the side and gestured with a wave of my hand to my pokemon who bowed again as I began to clap with the audience. Solidad then came up to the stage causing everyone to settle down.
"I believe that that was one of the best appeals I have ever seen and I'm sure you all agree," she said causing the audience to cheer again.
"There is one thing I would like to say. Linnea Mason is actually a junior who took on this task of doing the yearly contest appeal and was able to put this together in four hours. People, this shows that there are students who are able to work under pressure and come up with the most beautiful of appeals. Thank you for joining us and we invite you to the school picnic which will be held outside," she said.
She left the stage to the side door while I went back stage with my pokemon.
"You guys did a beautiful job especially with those ice sculptures, I'm extremely proud to be your trainer," I said with tears in my eyes.
My pokemon gave me a hug, I decided to let them eat in peace so I had Kirlia teleport some Pokeblock I made early and they started to eat while I put my piano away.
"May that was the most beautiful appeal I have ever seen!" Dawn exclaimed as she gave me a hug.
"Thanks, I'm sorry I was rude early, I had to rush all over the place to put this together, but it turned out beautifully," I said with a smile as I stared at my pokemon fondly.
"Of course it was beautiful, I don't think anyone has ever attempted doing what you did except Nando and he didn't even play that much," Leaf said.
"I know, I was nervous that I overdid it," I admitted.
"You didn't overdo it, it was beautiful. Especially those ice sculptures your pokemon made," Misty praised.
"To be honest, that wasn't my idea," I said with a smile.
"What, whose was it then?" Gary asked.
I smiled, "Originally I didn't have a plan for that part of the song and my pokemon wanted to do something fun so I let them and I'm so glad that I did," I said with tears starting to form in my eyes.
"You sure have guts airhead," Drew said as he gave me a red rose.
"How else would I be," I teased.
"Can you just get together already," Dawn complained.
I rolled my eyes, "Well, I'll meet you guys outside after I change."
"Okay, we'll see ya later Lin," Leaf said as everyone left the room.
After they left, I quickly changed back into my early outfit and put Drew's rose in my hair.
"Kirlia, can you teleport this stuff back to the dorm?" I asked.
"Kirlia," he said and teleported everything.
We left the building and headed outside to find everyone eating, I got in line to grab some food and saw that Max was sitting under a tree by himself.
"Whatcha doin here, where's everyone else?" I asked.
"They went with their families, I didn't want to be a third wheel so I decided to come here and eat," he said.
"Well, you have me," I said with a laugh and started to eat.
After both me and Max were done, we decided to walk back to the dorm. When we got there, we saw that everyone including their families were already there.
"Where were ya Lin, we wanted to introduce you to our families," Dawn said.
I smiled, "Sorry, Max and I were still eating lunch, and actually I've already met your families at one point or another," I said as I started to make some tea.
Everyone but Professor Oak was confused, "We haven't met you before?" Lizzy said confused.
I smiled, "Hmm, so how was training in woods with your Electrike. Heard that it caused you quite a bit of trouble," I said knowingly with a sly grin.
"Yeah, it kept shocking me during practice, but wait how did you know…," she started to say, "May?"
I smiled, "Yup!" I said cheerfully.
"I don't believe you, you could be an impersonator?" she said accused.
I laugh, "I swear that you people with light green hair have a tendency to be stubborn," I teased.
"We resent that," Lizzy and Drew said at the same time.
"I rest my case, but since you're doubting me…," I started to say as I took off the contacts and wig. "You believe me now."
"Geez May, what are you doing here at school, I'd thought you'd be doing missions," she said surprised as I put the wig and contacts back on.
"I wanted to take a break from the contest circuit and come to school though I came under a disguise so no one could recognize me. It's hard to go around in public when you're a Top Coordinator as I'm sure you all know," I said speaking for everyone who nodded.
"But how do you know all of us?" Lizzy asked.
"I've meet everyone at some point on my journeys all over the world. Let's see….I met Misty's sisters at their gym when a contest took place in Cerulean City and they wanted my help in doing an appeal with one of their shows. I met Delia when I was passing through Pallet Town and I helped her when thieves came and robbed her flower shop, she also taught me the language of flowers," I said explained happily.
"I met Daisy when I was going through Kanto for contests and I helped her out when Team Rocket stole her pokemon. I met Reggie when I stopped through Veilstone City and I helped heal some of his pokemon that were ill. I met Maylene when I did some martial art training under her. Also Maylene, thanks for the teaching me the flip trick, it's helped me out quite a bit especially with getting back at an annoying grasshead," I teased.
"I meet Johanna when I took a coordinating class of hers and I helped her from an attempted kidnapping. I met Marie and Red when I saved their home from a fire a while back. I met you and your family a few weeks ago after saving you from Mars, and I have met Professor Oak a bunch of times," I told Lizzy after my tea finished brewing.
"So you have met everyone at one point or another," Lizzy said.
"Yup, thought I never met up with their children/siblings til I met the guys on a mission in Sunyshore City when rescuing Volkner and Flint from Team Galactic when they sabotaged the tower. Then I met the girls the first day they got here for the school year," I said before taking a sip of tea.
"It's great to see you've come along far May and I must say your contest appeal was extremely unique and beautiful," Johanna said while everyone else nodded in agreement.
"I take no credit," I said honestly. "It all goes to my pokemon."
"You still put everything together well under pressure," Jennifer said.
"If I can disable a bomb, I'm pretty sure I could handle a huge contest appeal," I said knowingly. "Though I feel two years of my life were stolen from being under pressure."
"Speaking of stolen May, did you ever find that piece of map," Professor Oak asked.
I felt my smile disappear, "No, but I did figure out everything about it," I said as I stood up and went to grab the folder with my prophecy info in it. "All the answers are in here."
"So May, where are you parents," Christopher asked.
Max looked sad and I put a comforting hand on his shoulder, "Our parents were murdered when I was seven," I said softly.
All the families then had sad looks on their faces while Professor Oak looked concerned, "Are you sure this information is correct?" he asked.
I laughed shortly, "I'm pretty sure it is since Arceus told me about it," I said and then gripped my head in pain.
"Beware, tomorrow death may come to many," Arceus said quickly and his voice disappeared.
"May are you okay?" Dawn asked concerned.
"Speak of the devil, I hate when he uses telepathy with me, it gives me the worst headache," I complained.
"What did he say May?" Max asked.
"I'm not sure, ugh, I can't think with this headache," I said as I took a sip of tea hoping it would make the headache go away.
Suddenly a beeping noise went off causing me to sigh, "Alright Max, what have we got today?" I asked.
"A robot is attacking downtown and coming this way," he reported.
"Please tell it's not…..," I groaned.
"It's Team Rocket," Max said bluntly.
I groaned again, "Those idiots, ugh, why can't they stay in jail," I complained.
"Is the actually hero complaining," Drew mocked.
I gave him a glare, "Zip it grasshead, you try to fight a stupid robot every month," I snapped.
"You better get going May, it's making its way to the school," Max said as he typed superfast on his computer.
"Ugh, meaning they're coming her to steal everyone's pokemon," I muttered in annoyance.
"Hurry May, it's a few blocks away," Max said.
"Gotcha," I said as I went into my room and quickly changed while grabbing some gadgets and pokemon.
After I changed, I came back out and Max tossed me something, "It'll help shut the robot down," he said.
Suddenly, a huge crash was heard and soon there was screaming, "I'm gonna take a whack and say it's here," I said bluntly.
Another crash was heard and I sprinted outside to see a four story robot wreaking havoc. Then a small balcony appeared out of the top of the robot.
"Prepare for trouble," Jessie said.
"And make it double," James said as I got closer to the robot.
"If I have to hear your pathetic motto one more time, I'm gonna give you the beating of a life time!" I yelled.
"Shut up twerp, our motto is awesome," Jessie yelled.
I waved her off while rolling my eyes, "That's it twerp, you're gonna get it!" she screamed.
Suddenly a metal arm was coming down on me and I ran to the side as it crashed to the ground. I quickly jumped up and climbed up it to the head. I didn't get that far because the other arm was about to grab me and I had to jump off. I grabbed my grapping gun and shot it a tree to swing myself down.
"Blaziken let's go," I shouted as I tossed his pokeball.
"Time for lift off," I told him as we faced the back of the robot.
"Blaze," he said and lifted me into the air so I could land on the robot's shoulder.
Team Rocket then noticed that I on top and they started to thrash around causing me to tumble backward and fall, but I grabbed a small piece of metal that was sticking out to stay on.
"May, what the heck are you doing?" Max yelled through the earbud communicator.
"Right now, I'm trying to do this while remaining uninjured," I retorted.
"May, get out the device I gave you and stick it on the robot, I'll do the rest."
"You got it," I said as I reached to grab my grappling gun to shoot at the top of the robot and then slid up. I grabbed the device out of my side pocket and stuck it on the robot.
"Okay Max, do your stuff."
Max hacked into the robot and shut it down causing it to collapse. I quickly shot my grappling gun at a nearby tree and swung down before I landed with the robot.
Suddenly a door opened with about twenty-five smaller robots pouring out on the side and started attacking people.
"Oh come on," I groaned as I tossed Altaria, Wartortle, Riolu, Glaceon, and Skitty's pokeballs as Blaziken ran to join me.
"This'll teach you not to mess with us twerp," Meowth said as Team Rocket laughed while all the robots circled around us and Team Rocket got into a flying vehicle to watch from above.
I smirked, "Challenge accepted! Altaria use Draco Meteor, Wartortle use Aqua Tail and Ice Beam, Riolu use Aura Sphere rapid fire, Glaceon use Ice Shard and Shadow Ball, Skitty use Assist, and Blaziken use Fire Spin and Ember," I commanded.
Soon all the attacks hit the robots causing them to stop working, "Blaziken, toss Skitty up to Team Rocket then toss up all the robots into the flying vehicle," I shouted.
Blaziken did what I said, "Skitty use Thunderbolt on Team Rocket now!"
"Nya," she said as she did Thunderbolt causing Team Rocket to blast off again.
Blaziken then filled the vehicle with all the robots, "Altaria use Draco Meteor, Glaceon use a huge Shadow Ball, Wartortle use Bubble, Riolu use Aura Sphere, Skitty use Assist, and Blaziken use Overheat. It's time to end this party with a bang," I said with a smile.
My pokemon did as I said and all the attacks pushed the vehicle into the sky making it explode causing a huge firework display to appear.
"Good job you guys, excellent teamwork," I praised as everyone outside started to gather round and clap.
"Everyone return," I said as I returned everyone to their pokeballs.
I saw that everyone was starting to close in on me so I used my grappling gun to swing away in the trees and sneak my way to the dorm through the window.
I quickly changed out of my mission clothes into my earlier outfit and went to the common area where everyone was.
"That was awesome May, you turned a robot army into a beautiful appeal," Dawn said in awe.
I laughed, "Thanks, it turned out to be a really nice display of color."
"Do you want come with us into town?" Leaf asked.
I shook my head, "I'd love to but I'm tired. Coming up with a huge appeal and taking out a robot army really tires you out. I'm just gonna take it easy for the rest of the day."
"Sounds good May, we'll see you later," Misty said as everyone but Max left the dorm.
"What are ya goin' do May?" Max asked.
"I'm gonna take a short nap and then watch TV. I'm really tired right now from all the stress today," I said.
"Sounds good, I'm gonna do online gaming, have a good nap," he said as I left for my room.
Around 5:00, I woke up from my three hour nap to find Max still gaming on the couch. I made a quick berry salad to eat since I wasn't that hungry and went to watch a marathon of 'Pirates of the Orange Islands' with Max. We stopped after the second movie because I was starting to fall asleep again.
So I said "good night" to Max and went to get ready for bed. While doing so, Arceus' message from earlier plagued my mind "beware, tomorrow death may come to many". As I lay in bed thinking, I zonked out from being tired so my worries would have to wait til tomorrow.