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Chapter 6 DAD

Being the youngest and slowest, Max was heavily panting as he chased his other three companions to the Ketchum residence. May was at the front with Ash closing in fast and Brock was a few feet in front of me trying to hold on to all the supplies as he ran.

"Yay! I win!" May jumped for joy.

"That's not fair, you cheated!"

"Ash Ketchum! That is no way to treat a girl!" May taunted.

"Why you!"

"Hey Max, why don't we go inside and let Ash and your sister take this one out."

"I'm with you on that Brock." he followed Brock quietly and entered the house. Pikachu, also annoyed with the arguing, followed them.

"Mrs. Ketchum, you there?" Brock asked as he came into the living room.

"Pika Pi?"

"Why is that you Brock? And Pikachu?" She came out of the kitchen. "Oh how lovely it is to see you again. and how are you Max? I haven't seen you in a while either."

"Oh I'm fine, thanks for asking Mrs. Ketchum."

Delia looked around, "Where's Ash and May?" she said with a curious face.

"They're fighting outside about who got to your house first," Brock replied.

"Well that is no way to treat your guests! I'm gonna have to teach that boy a lesson!" She walked passed the two boys towards the front door.

Max whispered to Brock, "Busted!" as a small grin came across his face.

-Meanwhile-

"I won the race!"

"No, you cheated!" Ash pointed a finger at May.

"Oh please, I could beat you any day." May gave a fake sigh and put one hand on her hip to make him mad.

"That's it!" Ash tackled a surprised May. But just like last time, May used the momentum to roll Ash onto his back and put herself on top.

"Looks like I win again, and since we're at your house, you're gonna let me get whatever I want," she grinned.

"Oh yeah? And how will you do that?"

"I'm a girl Ash, I have my ways."

"Oh really?" someone said standing in the door way. "And might I ask what are these ways?"

Ash and May looked over to see Delia standing in the doorway with her arms crossed. May's face turned bright red, matching her blouse. "I-uh-I mean-I was just-um..."

Delia looks over to his son, "And what were you doing fighting a girl?" From the tone of her voice, Ash and May knew that she had witnessed everything that just happened.

"It's all May's fault!" Ash blamed the girl. "We had a race and she cheated!"

"Is not!" May rose to her defense. "All I said was look down and you fell for it!"

"Really Ash? A Pokemon Master falls for a trick like that?" His mother sighed. Before he could say anything, "Now both of you go inside before I change my mind. I've bee cooking lunch for you guys for the past hour."

May quickly got up and ran inside after a "Yes Ma'am."

Ash got up and walked in grumbling to himself.

At the table no one touched their food. Everyone just stared at Ash and May who seemed like food eating machines. They didn't even stop to breath as they munched the food down. Even Pikachu set down his ketchup bottle only to stare in awe. Ash saw everyone staring at him, "Dis foo ih reehy gooh moh!" he said holdong two chicken legs in his mouth.

"Yeah, hank youh Meh ketchuhh! thih ih da beht raymoh I evah had!"

"I-I'm glad you like it," the mother answered back with a smile.

After everyone was done, they sat at the table giggling at Pikachu, who seemed to be knocked out on the table by the food. He laid on his back, arms at his sides, with a big round belly as he mumbled to himself in his native tongue. After a few minuets of staring, Delia started, "Now Ash, what were you thinking of tackling a young lady like May? Especially after yelling at her?"

"What! It's not like I was-"

She cut him off. "As punishment, May gets to sleep in your bed tonight."

"BUT MO-"

"No buts mr. You can sleep on the floor."

May got up, "Yay! Suits you Ash for not being a gentleman. Now come on. Show me your room!"

"Fine" Ash grumbled as he led the young lady upstairs.

"Is he coming?" A man said into a videophone, petting his Persian in his lap.

On the other side was Cynthia. "H-he's on his way." She said with maddening eyes.

"Good," the man smiled.

"We had a deal! Now give her back!" She clenched her fists.

"Ah yes about that, the deal has changed. You'll get her back as soon as hegets here...assuming either of them lives." he gave an evil laugh as he turned the videophone off.

"Wh-What!...NOO!" Cynthia hit the screen with her fist. Tears rolled down the champion's face as she felt defeated and helpless. No! I-I have to warn him before it's too late! I have to use someone else since he's watching every move of mine. She got up, grabbed her bag and pokeballs, and dashed out the door.

"So this is your room," May took a quick glance around the small room. A bed, T.V. with a Wii connected, some weights, and a desk...DESK! He STUDIES?! May walked over to the desk only to find it filled with badges. Sigh...I should've expected it. She saw Ash lie down on his bed so she walked over and sat next to him. "Get all the pleasure you want now cause I get it at night."

"Whoa May, I didn't know you thought of me that way," he joked.

May's face turned red. "No-I-Ugh! This is war!"

Delia called from downstairs, "Ash, May, Professor Oak would like to meet you guys." She yelled.

Revenge! May thought. "Oh no your mom's coming! Quick, Ash, pull your pants up!" she said sarcastically. Ash's face became so red, that he was in a loss of words.

From downstairs, "Ash Ketchum! You are in a heap of trouble!"

May made a run for it before Ash could do anything. "She's Lying don't listen to her!" Ash chased her downstairs only to see his mother giggling with May.

"Oh Ash, you two truly are something," She laughed. "Professor Oak wants to see you two so you can choose your Pokemon." After a few more giggles from everyone except Ash, they headed down to the lab, including Max and Brock.

"Ash, May, and Brock and Max, it's so nice to see all of you again." An elderly man in a lab coat said.

"Hi professor!" Everyone said in unison except for one-

Max ran towards the professor, hands flying over his head. "Wow it really is an honor to meet you again in person!" He held out a picture of the professor holding one of his poetry books. "Can I have your autograph? PLEASE!?"

"Why sure Max," the professor said with a smile. He took out a pen from his pocket and signed the little picture.

"Yes!" the little boy cried.

Professor Oak turned around and cupped his hands around his mouth. "Alright guys, Ash is here!" he yelled.

The ground started rumbling from what seemed like a stampede, and surely it was a stampede. A stampede of Ash's Pokemon. All the humans cleared away from Ash, not wanted to meet their fate. "AAGH-" was all Ash could say before his Pokemon took him and Pikachu down to the ground. After they managed to get out of the death trap Ash greeted all of his friends. Torkoal started crying from sheer joy. "All right guys, as you know, I have a new tournament that I got invited to so I can only take six of you and so I will have to chose the strongest. But before that, I want you meet someone." He tossed a pokeball into the air and a massive bird appeared.

"Dgeoot!" It said as it spread its wings. Its old friends gathered around to welcome the Pokemon back while the new Pokemon introduced themselves.

"Wow Pidgeot came back!" Samuel Oak said surprised.

Ash skimmed over all of his Pokemon, both evolved and not-evolved. "All right. Pikachu is coming with me for sure, and Sceptile cause he is a pretty strong Pokemon. Let's see...Quilava, would you like to travel with me again?"

A Pokemon with a blue top half and a creamy bottom half let out its flames as it grinned. "Qui Quilava!"

"Ok so that's three...so one more.."

"One more?" Everyone else said in unison.

"Ash you do know that you can carry up to six Pokemon and you have chosen three. So you have three left." May stated.

"I know May but two of my Pokemon are on their way." They heard a loud roar from the sky and looked up to see what had made that loud noise. "And here's one of them!" Ash grinned. As they watched, a large lizard with wings came down into a clearing. As it landed, it let out another loud roar followed by a burst of fire from its mouth straight towards its trainer. Everyone watched in awe as a scorched Ash stood there, "Hey Charzard, thanks for the warm welcome." Charzard spit some fire off to the side as it put on a smile.

Ash shook off the burn and turned towards the crowd of Pokemon. "Only one more, but who?"

Hearing this, all the Pokemon started jumping and putting their paws in the air, hoping for a chance to travel again.

"This is hard, I wish I could take all of you with me." Ash said as a sad expression came across his face.

"Actually Ash, you can." Professor Oak said from behind him. Ash turned around with same surprised expression as everyone else except for Delia.

"I can?" he asked pointing a finger too himself.

"Come I'll explain." Professor Oak led them to a picnic table in the backyard of the lab.

As they sat down, Delia asked the professor, "Do you think he's ready?"

He nodded at her before turning to Ash. "Ash, before your father left on his mission, he left this gift for you hoping you would use to fulfill your dream. This was your first birthday present." He took out a small gift box neatly wrapped in wrapping paper with Pokemon pictures on it. Ash took it from him and opened it to find a Pokedex inside.

"A Pokedex?"

"Yes and no," the professor answered. "You see, this is an Ex-Dex also known as the Expanded Pokedex. This allows you to carry as may Pokemon you wish. It was a gift to your father from the former champion Jack Walker when he became a Pokemon Master. It was the last battle Jack had before he gave up his title to Cynthia to become a Ranger. There was not a single person on this earth who could defeat you father."

"My dad...a Pokemon Master..." Ash couldn't believe what he was hearing, no one around him could either. Ash's memories came back of his dream last night. "But what happened to my dad?" Everyone fell silent. Those who didn't know the answer waited for an answer, and those who did, were too scared to give an answer. "I had a dream last night when I was in a cave with May," Ash started, his eyes locked onto the Ex-Dex. "I saw mom holding a baby, me, in her arms and a man next to her smiling at me. They were talking about what to name me. After they decided, the man said something about stopping someone. Then a Ho-Oh came and he rode it away as Mom stood there crying." Ash looked up to see professor Oak staring at him, his mouth wide open but no words came out. He looked over to his mom and saw tears starting to trickle down her cheeks.

"This is truly extraordinary. But I'm afraid that I can't bring myself to tell you right now what happened to your father. I'm sorry Ash." the professor said still trying to comprehend what he just heard. Everyone else was still gasping.

Ash knew he can't get anymore information from them and so he tried to swing the conversation another way. He looked at his mom and put a smile on his face. "Mom, did you guys really name me after food? I mean like- is that how you came to name me Ash? from cashews?"

Delia couldn't help but giggle and so she wiped her tears and nodded.

"That explains why Ash and food can never stay away from each other," May said trying to swing the mood. Everyone gave a little laugh.

"That still doesn't explain why you can't stay away from being a food monster," Max said quietly.

"What was that!" May got up ready to punch her little brother.

"N-Nothing nothing! I said I love food!" he said scared as May held him by the collar with one hand.

"You better!" She puts him down. Everyone started laughing after watching all this drama.

What do you guys think?

Next ch. will be up hopefully by next week!