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Chapter 5: Not Team Magma Again!

Another month passed by and Ash was still feeling strange from the pregnancy.

He was surprised to feel his body change the month went on and that he felt his stomach be a little more prominent than before.

He decided that he needed a couple of friends over to help him overcome how he felt about his body changing.

(A Few Hours Later)

Ash had his closest friends over since he needed to understand if he should be feeling the way that he is while he's pregnant.

"Ash, everything is fine. You should feel a little different because your body is adjusting to the pregnancy. You shouldn't worry about this a lot. You stress yourself and the baby out." said Daughter, reassuring him.

"Ok. I guess I should just sit back and enjoy feeling life grow within me." said Ash, placing his hands on his stomach and gently rubbing it.

"You're getting very wise since this happened to you, Ash. There's something wrong with this picture." said Misty, remembering how he was when they were younger.

"Maybe because I'm having a baby, Misty." said Ash, leaving a hand on his stomach.

"What's she saying, Ash, is that you have mature so much since you were younger." said Brock, making sure that his friend didn't have a mood swing.

"Despite you having to go through a lot in the past few months." said Tracey.

Ash just looked at them with tears forming in his eyes and he smiled at them.

"Thanks so much. This means a lot to me." said Ash, wiping the tears out of his eyes.

He got up and went outside to make sure that they didn't see him cry, leaving the others inside.

"I think we got to him." said Daughter, looking at the others.

Then, they heard him scream followed by a maniacal laugh that they all knew too well.

They ran out and found Ash being held captive by Maxie himself.

"Maxie! What do you think you're doing with him?!" yelled Brock, causing Maxie to smirk.

"I'm here for Ketchum to help me with something." said Maxie, holding the raven-haired man by the throat and placing a hand on his stomach.

"No." breathed Daughter.

"Maxie, let him go! He's not going to help you!" yelled Misty, stepping forward.

"Oh, really? I think he will." said Maxie, placing a knife at the man's throat and stomach.

"This is bad. What are we going to do?" asked Tracey as they're surprised by the sudden turn in events.

"Take one wrong step and Ketchum and his baby dies." said Maxie, walking forward towards them.

He stopped just before them to look at the others and thought about something.

"I have a proposition for you. If one of you ladies would like to come be my wife, I will let you have Ketchum back safe and sound." said Maxie.

Daughter and Misty looked at each other as they saw that their friend looked helpless in the man's arms.

Ash looked at them as he had to think of a plan to save himself before they traded with Maxie.

Before either Daughter or Misty walked toward the red-headed man, they watched as the raven-haired man hit the man behind him with his head.

Maxie was shaken up, but didn't let go of their friend.

"Ketchum, I am not pleased with what you just did to me. I don't want you anymore so how about you go ahead and leave my presence." said Maxie, letting go of the raven-haired man.

Ash fell to the ground on his hands and knees as he recovered from his headache after doing that, but didn't notice that Maxie was still behind him.

"DIE, KETCHUM!" screamed Maxie, raising both knives above him.

"No! Ash, get out of there!" yelled Daughter, for fear of losing her friend.

He looked behind him and tried to move, but got nicked in the sides by the two knives.

He fell onto the ground while holding his sides in pain.

Before the others could do anything to protect their friend, Pikachu came running over and Thunderbolted Maxie, sending him flying into the ship and the ship soon flew away.

They rushed towards their friend as they watched the ship fly away.

Daughter had Brock and Tracey help the chocolate-eyed man into the house to examine him.

She made him take off his shirt and looked at how deep the cuts were, which weren't that deep.

She checked to make sure that the baby was alright, which it was, but he needed to rest for a few days before getting back to his normal routine as to make sure that he could heal properly while his belly continued to grow with his unborn child.

(With Maxie)

"I think I know someone who would love to know what Ketchum's been up to since we last saw him." said Maxie, calling someone.

The person picked and talked with Maxie for a while before they hung up.

"Well, well. I think I need to visit Ketchum and see for myself." said the person while looking out the window of their ship.

Hope you enjoyed Chapter 5! I'm back! I'm sorry for the long wait for this chapter! I didn't feel like writing for over a month and I just got this chapter done all within today! I feel really back for leaving you guys for over a month, but I promise that I will try to get this fic done by Easter despite the problems with me updating and college.

Who do you think that was that Maxie was talking to? Also, what would you guys do if I decided to get a YouTube account and put videos up there? Let me know your feedback! See ya later!

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