April 13th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

(May's POV)

"Very good May, practice that routine one more time and we'll call it a day," Jenny called.

I nodded and went back to my position on the mat and waiting for Jenny to start the song clip again. It's been about a week and a half since I finished training with the legendaries and the whole nightmare with Drew getting shot, it all seemed surreal. Like I thought before I passed out after healing Drew, he watched over me until I woke up a few hours later. We left for school and I got hugged like crazy from everyone seeing as how everything turned out okay.

School wasn't that hard to catch up in, gymnastics was another story. Jenny was ready to kill me for not telling her and I was punished for missing a week. Thankfully, since Madame Ashley had important business to attend to for the next few months, it meant my ballet classes finished, training with Jenny did not. Now I practice gymnastics twice as much as I did before break.

"Good job May, you can change and leave," she called as she walked into her office.

"K, see ya tomorrow," I called as I put on my sweatpants and jacket before grabbing my bag.

I walked outside only to find Drew waiting for me, "Hey, what are you doing here? I thought you were working on the English project with Gary," I said after I kissed him and we were walking back to the dorm.

"We were but then we heard a commotion about Leaf freaking out about the project so Gary went to try to calm her down and I decided to walk you back," Drew explained.

I sighed, "Leaf and I finished our project yesterday, why is she freaking out already?" I whined.

Drew shrugged, "Have no clue, Leaf just seems to flip out over English for whatever reason. Maybe it's because you guys are presenting tomorrow."

I slapped my forehead and groaned, "Crap."

Drew looked at me concerned, "What?"

"Jenny is making me perform in the gymnastics competition tomorrow meaning I can't be there. You know how Leaf is about public speaking and since it's English," I started to explain in a slight panic causing Drew eyes to widen as he caught on.

"Leaf will be having a huge attack," he finished.

"Exactly," I said as I started to think. "Jenny says the competition starts at 10:00 and we're flying there…..I got it!"

"Care to clue me in because something tells me I'm involved somehow," Drew teased.

I nodded, "We'll use a holoMay, Steven doesn't know one exists for me and during English, I'll use my aura to mess with it so that I am legitally there for at least when Leaf and I give our presentation. That way, Leaf will never know the difference."

"And you want me to watch your hologram for the whole day," Drew finished.

I kissed his cheek, "Exactly."

"Hmm…nah, I don't think I'm convinced enough to cover for you if you want me to put my butt on the line for Steven to get mad," Drew teased.

I rolled my eyes before I stepped in front of Drew and kissed him passionately for twenty seconds, "Did I change your mind?"

"Nope," Drew teased.

"Seriously," I whined as we continued to walk to the dorm.

Suddenly I founded myself being kissed just like I did to Drew a few seconds ago, "Gotcha," Drew whispered.

"Shut up," I muttered as I punched him on the arm lightly causing him to snicker before we reached the dorm to find everyone in the common area trying to calm Leaf down.

"Leaf for the umpteenth time, you finished your project with May yesterday, now take a chill pill," Misty said with a twinge of annoyance.

Leaf said nothing as she continued to look like a Stantler caught in the headlights. I sighed and walked behind her, "We're gonna have a long night's sleep," I muttered as I pushed a pressure point on her neck causing her to faint.

Everyone stared at me in shock, "Look, I know it wasn't the nicest thing, but how else would we have calmed her down. Gary, you might wanna take her to her room."

Gary nodded and carried her to her room bridal style as I walked into the kitchen to get a glass of water, "How was training?" Dawn called out.

"Tiring, Jenny wants me to compete in the Rustboro City Competition tomorrow," I said as I sat on one of the comfy chairs.

"That's great May, but how are you going to do that, you're in the same boat as us," Ash pointed out.

"That's where I come in," a voice that sounded like me said as the holome came out from my room.

"Steven doesn't know about me so I can slip in just fine," the holome explained.

"And Drew will keep an eye on the holome," I said.

"And no one will tell the difference," we finished at the same time.

"This is creepy, can you stop?" Dawn whined.

"Fine," we both said as the holome disappeared as I pressed a button on my poketch.

"Also, don't tell Leaf, otherwise she'll flip if she thinks she's presenting by herself," I said sternly.

Everyone nodded, "Don't need to tell us twice, she gets incredibly nervous when she has to present by herself. Remember the English project last year," Misty said.

Everyone nodded while I was confused, "It's a long story," Drew explained. "And you can probably image what happened."

I nodded as I felt a power spike and I was too lazy to go outside, guess I'll have to do something small. I decided to give Psychic a try and used it on everyone so that they were floating the air.

"AH! WHAT THE HECK!" Dawn shouted in a panic as she was floating.

"May, seriously," Drew said annoyed.

"I was hit with a power spike and was too lazy to go outside," I whined as I focused for another two minutes before setting them down.

"Not cool May, seriously," Gary muttered.

"Think of it this way, you got to fly for a few minutes," I said with a yawn. "I'm off to bed, see ya later."

"Night May," everyone called.

I quickly showered and got ready for bed before falling asleep from exhaustion and having a dreamless sleep.

April 14th (Lilycove City, Hoenn)

(Drew's POV)

When I walked into the kitchen the next morning, I say May sitting at the table, "Morning," she called cheerfully.

I looked at her and noticed she wasn't eating anything along with not having her backpack, "I take it you're the holoMay?" I asked.

She nodded, "Right on, the real me is currently sleeping. I can't believe she's slept for over twelve hours. Then again, gymnastics training is hard."

Soon everyone came out and had breakfast before we walked to homeroom. At least we didn't have to worry about Brandi since she got suspended until the end of the month. Homeroom and Math were easy enough, the challenge was English and as anyone would have guessed, Leaf was a wreck.

"It'll be okay Leaf, calm down. I'm up there right with ya," May said as she placed her hand on Leaf's shoulder causing me to raise my eyebrow. She looked back and winked at me, guess her small bit of aura made her body whole. Hopefully she wasn't using a lot of her energy. She and Leaf went first for their presentation and they did surprising well, even Leaf.

Once class was done Leaf attacked May in a hug, "Thank you, you're the best friend…ever!"

"I don't know about that," May said sheepishly as Leaf stepped back. "Anyways, I've got to head back to the plane now, we're about to land."

"What?" Leaf asked extremely confused.

"I have a gymnastics competition today so I used a combination of the holome and my aura to literally make me real. I couldn't abandon you to do all the speaking by yourself," she said with a smile.

"Thanks May, best of luck and win that medal," Leaf said excitedly.

May laughed, "Will do, see you guys later tonight," May said before she let leaving the holoMay…...well…..holo.

"That was a pretty neat trick, nice of her to do that for me," Leaf said thoughtfully.

"That's how May rolls, you should know that Leafy," Gary teased as he pecked Leaf's cheek before we went to our next class.

Team Rocket Headquarters

"Giovanni sir," Sebastian said as he showed up on a small monitor.

"What is the status of finding the guardian?"

"The last scan of when they sang skyrocketed to eighty percent sir, the voice lives in Hoenn," he reported.

Giovanni grinned, "Excellent, what is the report of the maps?"

"I'm afraid we can't process much without the gems and we have no clue where the last piece of the map is. Until then, research is halted," Sebastian explained.

Giovanni then frowned, "Continue with researching and searching for the voice."

"Yes sir," Sebastian said sternly before his image disappeared.

Giovanni then rested his head on his hand in a thoughtful gesture before grinning evilly to his Persian, "Looks like those kids will no longer need those gems."

He then pressed a button a special code onto a key pad and a few minutes later a mysterious figure appeared by teleport, "Glad to see that you could come Grave Digger, I have a proposition in mind," Giovanni said with a sly grin.

(May's POV) (Time-5:30 PM)

This competition was a walk in the park, I'm guessing most of the better gymnasts already got their three medals because there wasn't much competition today. I just finished my routine on uneven bars and landed almost perfectly causing applause to appear. I then walked off the mat to walk back to my seat and put on my sweatpants and jacket before sitting down waiting for my score for the event.

"You did really well today despite the little practice you had," Jenny praised as the announcer called my score. I did the math and then smiled.

"May Maple has won the Rustboro City Gymnastics Competition," the announcer said over the loud speaker causing cheers to appear.

I stood up and walked to the judges table to be awarded the medal, two down, one to go.

"Congrats May, I'll let you change and go. No practice for the next few days, consider it a reward," Jenny called as she walked away.

I rolled my eyes while smiling as I made my way to shower and change. After I changed into a red tank top, shorts, sandals, and my disguise, I walked down to the underground parking lot to take a shortcut to the airport. Suddenly I felt myself being hit on the head and my world became black.

(Drew's POV) (Time-7:30 PM)

I was growing a little concerned, it had been two hours since May's competition was finished. I tried to contact Max, but he didn't answer.

"Dude, I'm sure May's fine. Now can you please stop pacing before you put a hole in the floor," Gary complained as we were sitting in the common room watching a replay of May's competition today.

I said nothing but continued to pace causing Dawn to sigh as she stood up and placed a hand on my shoulder to make me stop, "Drew, May probably got held up on a mission. There's nothing to worry about."

I sighed, "I can't help it, I just have a bad feeling."

Suddenly there was a knock at the door causing all of us to stop talking as I opened the door to find Lizzy, "Why are you here?" I asked in annoyance because when Lizzy came, it was never a good sign.

"Talk about being rude, mind if I come in?" she asked.

I still frowned but allowed her to come in, "Again why are you here?"

"Drew stop being rude," Leaf said sternly.

"What, I can't help it? She's a miniature devil!" I exclaimed.

"Well if you want to call me that, you have to be pranked," Lizzy said with a smirk.

My eyes widened, "Can I take back what I said?" I begged.

Lizzy then tapped her cheek in thought, "Hmm…..nah, you're due for a pranking whether you take back what you said or not."

"Great," I said sarcastically.

"What are you guys watching?" Lizzy asked.

"A replay of May's competition from today, we had school when it was originally airing," Misty said.

"Ah, Max and I went to the competition to cheer May on," Lizzy said excitedly. "She did really well, better than her last competition."

Lizzy then looked around the room, "Isn't May back yet?"

We shook our heads, "I tried calling Max, but he didn't pick up. Guess it makes sense that he didn't since he was at the competition," I said aloud in thought.

"We assumed May was on a mission since she hasn't come back yet," Leaf explained.

Lizzy frowned slightly, "Max didn't receive any alerts from anyone needing help. The last time I saw him was when he said he was gonna catch up to May to give her a faster way back here."

We frowned at what Lizzy just said. Suddenly we received an incoming call on the monitor, "Linnea Mason has been buried alive, bring me the six gems and place them in the middle of the Viridan Forest. After acquiring the gems, I will text you the gps coordinates of where Linnea is. As a warning, I will be able to tell if they are fake so bring me the gems or she will suffocate to death. This will be my last communication," a distorted voice said.

The call ended and we were all in shock at what just happened, "What kind of a prank is this?" Misty asked angrily.

"I don't think this is a prank Mist, I think this person is legit," Ash said sternly.

"But we can't give up the gems. Besides, we don't know where they are. Max says he moves them around to keep them safe," Dawn argued.

"It doesn't help that we don't know who this person is," Paul muttered.

"Should we be this concerned, can't May use her powers?" Lizzy asked.

"We can't take that chance," I said angrily before calming down. "We need to find Max."

"Let me get Gardevoir," Dawn said quickly as she ran to her room.

A second later she appeared with Gardevoir, "Teleport us to the Rustboro City arena," Lizzy ordered.

Soon we found ourselves outside of the arena, we tried to go inside but found it locked, "I got it," Dawn said as she pulled out a bobby pin and broke it half before picking the lock.

Thirty seconds later we heard a click, "Since when do you pick locks?" Paul asked with an eyebrow raised.

"Since I asked May to teach me," Dawn replied as we went inside.

"Okay Lizzy, which way did Max go?" I asked.

"He took off in that direction of the underground parking lot," she said after a minute of thought.

We quickly raced down to the lot, "We should split up to see if we can find anything," Leaf suggested.

We nodded and split up, "I got something," Dawn shouted after a minute of searching.

We all reached where Dawn was kneeling as she was scanning a small pool of blood on the ground, "Well, I have good news and bad news," Dawn stated.

"What's the good news?" Misty asked.

"The good news is that this isn't May's blood," Dawn explained. "The bad news is that this is Max's."

(May's POV) (Time-7:45 PM)

Ugh….my head, wher…where am I? I tried to look around but all I saw was pitch black. I then heard a small groan, "Who's there?" I called getting into a defensive position.

"May..," a groggy voice called.

"Max!" I cried as I stumbled to him. "Are you okay?"

"Ugh…my leg," Max said as he grit his teeth in pain.

"Here let me try to heal you," I said as I started to use my aura.

"AH!" I was hit by a burst of lightning. "What the heck?!"

"May, calm down, we need to figure out where we are," Max said as he sat up.

"Alright, what can we figure out," I said aloud in thought as I stood up. "It's pitch black."

I took a few steps forward to run into a wall, I turned to go in a different direction and only walked about ten steps before hitting another wall, "So this thing," I said as I measured the area perimeter by using steps. "Is about ten by nine footsteps big."

"If it's dark, it means there are no windows or doors," Max said painfully.

"There has to be a door though because how else would we get in," I pointed out as I was feeling the walls. "Well there are no doors here and no hatch on the floor."

"Guess that means the opening is up," Max concluded.

I stood on my tiptoes to see if I could reach the top, but I didn't feel anything, "If there is one, I can't reach it."

"Boost me up and let me see if I can reach it," Max said painfully as he stood up.

"You can't stand on your leg, now sit down," I scolded.

He did as I was told, "Let me try to heal it again," I said determined.

I tried only to be shocked again and I felt a few burns on my skin, "What the heck?!" I shouted angrily as I shot a Flamethrower for a second only to be shocked again causing me to shout in pain.

"This is bad May, this place is air tight. If we don't get out of here soon, we'll suffocate to death," Max said in a panic.

"But how do we get out, we both don't have pokemon and I can't use any power unless I want to get shocked," I argued.

"I….I don't know," Max said quietly causing me to simmer down and sit next to him.

"We'll get out of here Max," I said as I pulled him into a side hug, I know we will.

(Drew's POV) (Time-10:45 PM)

After we swept the parking garage only to find nothing else, we teleported to Max's computer central and started to do research like crazy, "I've got nothing," Misty called.

"Same," Ash called.

"Ditto," Leaf shouted.

"Paul, any luck with the PHPA database?" I asked.

He slammed his fist on the desk, "No, our security clearance is too low to access the files," Paul said frustrated.

"Look we need to figure this out differently. We can't just try to research everywhere, we need a plan," Dawn called as she got out a marker as she walked to the huge touch screen and started writing the basic questions, who, what, when, where, why, & how along with all key points of information from the message we got from the grave digger.

"And this is supposed to help how?" Lizzy asked.

"Look, we don't know anything about what's going on so we have to start somewhere," Dawn explained before raising an eyebrow. "Do you have a better idea."

Lizzy stayed silent, "For the who, it's the Grave Digger. The what is the gems. The where is the Viridan Forest and May and Max's unknown location. The when and why we can't answer," Misty said as Dawn filled in the blanks.

"This doesn't make sense though, why would this random person want the gems anyways," Gary said in thought.

"Maybe he knows about the prophecy?" Lizzy suggested.

I shook my head, "I don't think so. Ever since the whole thing last fall, the only bad people who showed interest was Team Rocket, but I don't recall a "Grave Digger" on the list of members," I said in thought.

"Maybe the Grave Digger is an independent hit person and does business alone or is up for hire," Leaf suggested.

"That sounds legit and the good news being that this person doesn't know that Lin is really May so May being the Guardian of Arceus isn't the issue, at least we can relax about that," Misty said with relief.

"But why take May in the first place?" Lizzy asked.

No one spoke as we were all in thought and I slapped myself in the forehead, "Because Lin is my girlfriend, they choose her to force us to hand over the gems," I said angrily.

"But how does the Grave Digger know that we have them?" Dawn asked.

"Maybe Team Rocket told the Grave Digger that we have them and the Grave Digger is the go between," Paul suggested.

Gary nodded, "That works and supports the theory that Team Rocket did hire the Grave Digger."

"So we know that the Grave Digger was hired by Team Rocket," Dawn said as she wrote this on another huge touch screen.

"But how would Team Rocket know that we have the gems?" Misty asked.

Ash hit his fist on the counter, "Because we were their pawns this whole time. They knew that we were finding the gems and let us do the dirty work. That's why we didn't find Domino at the locations of the last four gems," Ash said angrily.

I was mad along with everyone else, "We should have noticed that, we were helping them this whole time," Misty spat angrily.

"You guys didn't know," Lizzy said trying to calm us down. "What's done is done. Anyways, we now know the reason why."

Dawn wrote this on the board, "If that's the case," she said as she finished writing. "This is very bad for May. Team Rocket must be close to figuring out the location of where Arceus resides."

"So we now understand why all of this is happening, but the major question now is to find out who this bastard Grave Digger is," Paul said thoughtfully before making a fist. "We need to read those files."

(May's POV) (Time-12:45 AM)

"May do you have any water?" Max asked tiredly.

I nodded as I reached for my gym bag and gave him some, "Good thing you have the basic essentials," Max said with relief.

"But nothing we can use to escape," I muttered angrily. "Now my question is what the heck is going on?"

"I wish I knew," Max said painfully as he shifted his leg.

"Does anything about this situation spark anything you have read, hacked, researched?" I asked.

"I don't know May, my mind is still scatterbrained from the drug I was pumped with," Max said tiredly.

I sighed, "Well….we can assume that whoever did this is a pro, has done this before, and his identity is a secret."

"How do you come up with that?" Max asked.

"The whole thing has all bases covered like it's been done before. I've never heard of a container that shocks anything that lets loose any form of attack or power meaning that this person wants no one to escape. Also, the person behind this has taken extreme measures to make sure that you don't remember what they looked like. That's why you were pumped with drugs and you can't remember anything," I explained.

"That makes sense," Max agreed before turning quiet. "May….do you think the others know we're in trouble."

I smiled softly, "I know Drew would be going crazy right now," I said with a slight chuckle. "He's very overprotective of me since spring break."

"I noticed that you and Drew have been a lot closer in your relationship after you came back. Did something happen over spring break?" Max asked suspiciously.

"If I'm thinking what you're thinking, nothing like "that" happened," I said while using air quotes before turning quiet. "Did anyone tell you anything when you and Nurse Joy came to look at my feet?"

"No, Dawn told Nurse Joy to look over Roserade and Drew and she said they were fine. Did something happen before we arrived?" he asked suspiciously.

I nodded, "After everyone went back to the Pokemon Center, I was out looking for Celebi while kinda destroying my feet in the process. After I found him and crawled into a log for shelter, I sensed Roserade's aura in the forest. I later learned that Gardevoir's Teleport didn't quite work on everyone. We were then caught by a group of Team Magma members and Tabitha said that I owed him a bullet to the head so as he was able to shoot me, Roserade jumped in the way taking the shot."

Max took my hand and squeezed it gently waiting for me to continue, "As she lay on the ground, Drew ran up to check on her and then took a bullet close to the heart. My world stopped as I heard a thud on the ground. I felt my heart shatter into a tiny million pieces and became full of rage. The shadows then fed off my rage and I then used the move Judgment hurting the Team Magma members pretty badly. During that whole time, I was trapped in darkness and I didn't know what I was doing because I was being controlled. Then Drew brought me back by both of us connecting auras. I then stopped and fell to the ground unconscious before my aura avatar rose up and healed Drew and Roserade from their gunshot wounds," I finished explaining.

"I understand May," Max said quietly.

I nodded, "Then during the rest of my training, I kept having repeated nightmares about that incident while Drew had the same about being shot. Ever since then, we've grown a lot closer and have developed this overprotectiveness of each other," I said softly.

"I can understand that. You both have been through a lot together even to the point of connecting auras in the subconscious, that has to mean something," Max pointed out. "So I'm guessing it's safe to say he's searching for us right now."

I nodded and smiled, "I know he is."

(Drew's POV) (Time-2:30 AM)

I yawned as I kept staring at the screen, Lizzy was finally able to snag a few police files baring a similar description as to what was going on right now, but it didn't give a lot of answers.

"We aren't getting anything out of these, we need those files," Dawn said tiredly.

"But as I told everyone before Troublesome, *yawn* we don't have a high enough security clearance," Paul said tiredly as Dawn laid her head on his shoulder.

I heard a fast typing beside me and I turned to see that it was Lizzy, "What are you doing?" I asked tiredly.

"Max said that he always keeps a secret file with a list of passcodes to hack into a lot of places in case of an emergency," Lizzy quickly explained as she typed some more and growled in frustration.

"And you just remembered this now?" I asked as we all walked up to her awake.

"Give me a break, it was at the back of my mind," she snapped before she pumped a fist in the air. "YES! I found it!,"

She clicked the file and a password box came up, "Crap," she muttered.

"Oh great, how do we figure this out? Max is a super genius, his password could be anything," Leaf groaned.

"Any guesses Lizzy?" I asked.

She shook her head but then blushed as she typed five keys and got access, "So what was the password?" I asked with a smirk. "Must be something interesting if it's making you blush."

"It was your name wasn't it," Leaf said.

Lizzy blushed a little bit more as she started continued to work, "How'd you figure that Leafy?" Gary asked.

"All girls and guys at one point in their lives have their passwords be the name of their crush," she explained.

"Were our names your passwords at one time?" Gary asked slyly with a grin.

"Yeah, but we changed them a couple of months ago since it was obvious and easy for people to figure out and hack into our computers," Dawn explained.

Lizzy then turned around in her chair and smirked, "I bet I know what your new password is," she said slyly.

Misty snorted, "Like you could figure that out."

"I bet I can, what is the one thing a girl does when she's in a tight relationship," Lizzy said causing slight panic to show on the girls faces.

"You wouldn't dare," Dawn said through gritted teeth.

"She daydreams and messes around with a certain name change, oh….I don't know…..like….Misty Ketchum, Leaf Oak, and Dawn Shinji," Lizzy said quickly before turning around in her chair continuing to work.

The guys turned to look at the girls with eyebrows raised, "No comment," the girls said flatly though you could still see a slight blush on their cheeks even if they did keep a straight face.

I smirked and wondered if May did the same, "I'm in," Lizzy said causing all of us to look at the screen.

Lizzy quickly downloaded the files and erased any trance of her being there, "So what's it say about the Grave Digger?" Dawn asked.

"The Grave Digger is an unknown person who has a system of burying people alive for ransom money though they have been known to be hired a time or two. This criminal operates by knocking the person out before kidnapping them. The container the kidnapped person is put into before the box is buried underground gives the kidnapped person twenty four hours of air to breath before dying and shocks anything the box recognizes as a pokemon move that would help the kidnapped escape," Lizzy read.

Our eyes widened at the last part, "Oh my Mew! May can't escape using her powers without getting shocked, she's a sitting duck!" Dawn said in fright.

"We need to read all these files and pull what information we can," Leaf said quickly as we all sat at a computer or touch screen and started reading the files.

About fifteen minutes later I heard Dawn gasp, "Oh my Mew!"

"What is it?" I asked as everyone turned to face her.

"A recent case said that two people were in a box at once, both people died, but people were baffled as to how that happened," Dawn read.

"What's the point Troublesome, nothing out of the ordinary," Paul huffed.

"Yes there is. There were two people in that box, they used up the air in twice the time. Max must have stumbled upon May being taken and was taken away as well. They only have twelve hours of air, not twenty four," Dawn cried leaving horror on our faces.

"How many hours has it been?" Misty asked as Leaf started to type super-fast.

"Oh Mew!" Leaf gasped.

We all gasped, we only had four and a half hours to find May and Max or they would suffocate and die.