CH 47: Some things never change

Ash and May were on Young island a small island in between Sootopolis city and Ever Grande city. The island was called Young island because it had only been discovered three years ago and many scientist discovered that the island was much younger than most of the islands in the area.

The island was made of light jungles and a few rivers. "Lucario use metal claw" Ash said. "Blaziken sky uppercut" May said. Lucario and Blaziken both ran at each other and clashed with Lucario knocking blaziken back.

"Nice Lucario" Ash said. Lucario extended his hand down and helped blaziken up. "I guess lucario is ready for the pokemon league" May said. "Ready isn't enough for us" Ash said. "Well If you want to be that prepared I'm not sure my pokemon are challenging yours enough" May said.

"Ok then Gliscor, Tauros you two lets go" Ash said. Ash's gliscor got up and flew directly in front of Ash. "Gliscor" He said while Tauros ran to where May was standing. Ash walked over to the side and stood where the ref normally would.

"Alright time for a scrimage Tauros use mega horn, gliscor use bulldoze" Ash said. Gliscor flew at tauros with incredible speed and impacted him with bulldoze. The two clashed but tauros was more powerful. Gliscor got knocked back but used his wings to stay off the ground. Gliscore quickly flew back around and at Tauros unleashing bulldoze again.

The two went at eachother for another fifteen minutes before Ash called them back. "Alright Pikachu your up" Ash said. Pikachu let sparks of electricity out of his cheeks and jumped to the ground. "Bulbasaur you and Pikachu" Ash said.

Bulbasaur was sitting beside Lucario when Ash told him it was his turn. Bulbasaur eagerly got up and ran until he was directly across from pikachu. "Ok Bulbasaur use razor leaf , pikachu use doubleteam" Ash said. Bulbasaur unleashed dozens of sharp leaves at Pikachu with great speed.

Pikachu created a dozen copies of himself that took the blows for him while he avoided the remaining leaves. "Good Pikachu use iron tail, bulbasaur use double edge" Ash said. Ash and Pikachu clashed , neither able to overpower the other. "Again" Ash said.

The two came at eachother and PIkachu's irontail managed to overpower the double edge knocking bulbasaur back. "Nice work Pikachu" Ash said. Bulbasaur and Pikachu went at each other for a half an hour when Ash and May gave all of their pokemon lunch.

"Well your pokemon are looking pretty good ; I'd even say they have a shot at winning the pokemon league" May said. "We still have a few weeks until the pokemon league begins but the sooner we get to Ever Grand city the better" Ash said. "Anxious are we, though I shouldn't talk, we were in Sootopolis city long before the grand festival began" May said.

"I'm just so pumped for my second shot at the Hoenn league. For five years i've trained for another pokemon league and now I've got my shot to prove what i'm made of" Ash said. "I can't wait to see you win the pokemon league. To be honest I kind off miss watching the pokemon league" May said.

"Well we're gonna make you proud this time May. Me and my pokemon are ready for this" Ash said. May smiled , "I love you. Wow it feels so good saying that" May said. May and Ash kissed each other while Pikachu and the others watched smiling.

"Woah! Bad timing on my part" A familiar voice said. Ash and May turned while still holding each others to see a young woman behind them. She was dark-skinned with excessively long purple hair and brown eyes. "Iris?" Ash said. "Hello Ash was I interrupting you" Iris said. "So your Iris. Ash told me about you, if I'm right you're a dragon type trainer" May said.

"That's right I'm a future dragon master. So are you May?" Iris asked. "Yeah did Ash tell you about me?" May said. "Yeah and I figured it was you when I saw you making out with him considering the way he talked about you" Iris said.

"How did you talk about me?" May said. Ash blushed, "Well I" He stared. "Yeah I remember it perfectly Ash was always going on about how pretty you were and how you were the most amazing girl he ever knew" Iris said. " Aww how sweet of you and that was before we were even dating" May said.

"So Iris what are you doing here in Hoenn?" Ash said. "I'm here because of Lance. I'm one of his students" Iris said. "i didn't know Lance was taking students" Ash said. "Well he occasionally does take in students who aspire to be dragon masters like me" Iris said.

"That makes sense since he is a dragon master" May said. "He's the best dragon trainer in the world, and he's so handsome" Iris said starting to blush. "So wait if you're learning under Lance is he here?" Ash asked. "No he sent me here because a group of flygon are nesting here this time of year and he wants me to catch one. Say have you guys seen any?" Iris asked.

"No sorry" May said. "Hey Iris how's Axew doing?" Ash asked. "He's doing great, his dream has finally come true" Iris said. "His dream?" May asked. Iris took out a pokeball and released the pokemon inside. A massive haxerous came out and stood beside Iris. "Woah he evolved" Ash said.

PIkachu saw haxerous and ran over to him "Pika" he said. Haxerous looked down at pikachu and smiled. Haxerous let out a growl saying something back to pikachu. "Well I'd better get moving I still need to find and catch a flygon. Let's go Flygon" Iris said.

Iris and Haxerous walked off deeper into the jungle. "Never thought I'd meet her here" Ash said. After their pokemon finished lunch Ash and May found a small lagoon near a waterfall to rest. "This place is so beautiful it's a shame they only discovered it a few years ago" May said.

"Keep in mind if too many people know about this someone might try and turn this place into a city and industrialize it" Ash said. "Good point I'd hate to see this place turned into a polluted wasteland" May said.

May's wartorle was swimming around in the water with Pikachu and bulbasaur at the edge of the water. "You have your bathing suit the water looks nice" Ash said. "Sure but we'll have to change out here since there's no pokemon center" May said.

Ash and May both looked at each other and blushed. "Uh well I guess we better both go in opposite directions" Ash said. "Right" May said. The two were about to go when they both heard a familiar voice in the distance.

"Help!" The voice said. "Did you hear that?" Ash said. "Help!" "Yes someone's calling for help" May said. Ash and May returned all of their pokemon except pikachu who got onto Ash's shoulder. The two then rushed through the jungle toward the call for help. As they got closer Ash and May realized it was not one but two voices.

Soon they were able to clearly hear who it was. Max and Red were calling for help. "Max, Red!" Ash said back. Red and Max both came into sight ahead of them. "Ash , May!" Red said. Ash noticed that Red's pikachu wasn't on his shoulder like he usually was. "Red, Max is everything alright?" May said. "Red where's your pikachu?" Ash said.

"Guys Rocket X stole Red's pikachu" Max said. "They what!?" Ash and May said at the same time. "Max and I were both training in the jungle when they ambushed us there had to be seven of them" Max said. "We fought them off as best we could but they cut off pikachu from me and overwhelmed him" Red said.

"Then they grabbed him and ran off before we could get to them" Max said. "There's no pokemon center here that means we have no way of calling team aqua" May said. "PIkachu no" Red said. "Hold up!" Another voice said from above. All five of them looked up to see Iris riding a flygon.

"Who is that?" Max asked. The flygon landed and Iris stepped off "My name is Iris, future dragon master and this is my new Flygon" Iris said. "She's a friend of Ash's" May said. "So team rocket is back. Those jerks won't get away with stealing pokemon on my watch" Iris said.

"Well thanks for offering to help but I still don't see how we're going to find them this jungle is thick and those guys are long gone" Max said. "Wait dam it I'm so stupid why didn't I think of this before" Ash said. "Think of what?" May said.

"Jessie and James, they're in charge of rocket X and if those operatives are here then maybe Jessie and James are nearby" Ash said. "So what?" Red said. "So I've been working on using aura and we were around those two enough times I know their aura well" Ash said. "So you can just track them through their aura" May said.

"OK let me concentrate" Ash said. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath and felt the aura around him. It was a little more difficult to hone in on a single aura with so many wild pokemon and other life around him. After a few minutes Ash found a few familiar auras. All of them were in the same general location.

"I think I know where they are follow me" Ash said. Ash started running through the jungle with the others close behind him and Iris above them on flygon. After twenty minutes they reached the edge of the jungle and were at a lagoon.

"A lagoon?" Red said. "I don't get it I thought you knew where they were" Max said. "They're very close I think" Ash started. He looked closer at the aura and realized where they were. "Guys I think they're underwater" Ash said.

"They must have submarine then" May said. "Well that's just great what do we do know?" Max asked. "I know what we can do" Red said. Red took out a pair of pokeballs and threw them. A blastoise and a kingler came out in front of Red.

"Guys see if you can find a submarine" Red said. The blastoise and kingler both jumped into the water and swam towards the bottom. After a minute they both came up and blastoise let out a growl while nodding.

"So they are here" Max said. "Ok but how do we get aboard that submarine?" Iris said. "Kingler and Blastois can get us onboard" Red said. Ash,Red and May all grabbed onto Blastois's shell while Iris and Max grabbed onto kingler. Kingler and blastoise swam under the water with the others holding onto them.

After a minute a massive black submarine with a large red R with a white X through it on the side. When kingler reached a door on the outside of the submarine he used crabhammer to knock it open. Water rushed inside the submarines hallways and the two water pokemon quickly swam inside.

A water tight door shut just after kingler got in stopping the flow of water. A series of drainage pumps drained the water from the hallways. Ash and May got off blastoise with Red. "Well that was fun" May said. "Are you crazy I was afraid we were going to drownd!" Max said.

"Ok we're inside which means that pikachu has to be here somewhere" Red said. "He's not the only one being held prisoner by rocket X. Dr. Marrs is being held here we have to save him to" Ash said. "OK then we split up. Ash you and I will find pikachu" Red said. "PIka!" Pikachu said with determination.

"Alright Iris and I will try and find doctor Marrs" May said. "What about me?" Max said. "Max I want you to try and contact team aqua for help" Red said. Red turned to blastoise and said "Stay with Max and keep him safe". "Great I've got a pokemon babysitter" Max said.

Max walked down a hallway with blastoise and his nuzleaf beside him. "Ok we just need to find a radio room" Max said. A pair of rocket X crewmen walking down the hallway saw Max. The two crewmen had small machine guns and a pokeball on each of their belts.

"Hey look!" One said. "Uh oh" Max said. The two crewmen aimed their guns at Max and the pokemon. "Alright kid get over here and don't try anything" One sad. "We won't lose any sleep even if we shoot a kid" The other one said.

Max and nuzleaf both started shaking but Blastoise got inbetween them and the two rocket X crewmen. Blastoise aimed his cannons at the two crewmen and they opened fire. Blastoise quickly used iron defense and the bullets bounced off him . Blastoise smiled and unleashed hydro pump on the two crewmen hurling them into the wall.

Max saw as their guns rode in the water past him. "Geeze" He said as he picked them up. Max took out the magazines and then tossed the guns into the air. "Nuzleaf use razor leaf" He said. Nuzleaf launched several sharp leaves that cut the guns into pieces. The two rocket X crewmen got up and took out their pokeballs. "Staryu lets go" They both said.

"Staryu use rapid spin" One of the crewmen said. "Use swift" The other one said. Blastoise used iron defense and the swift stars bounced off his shell. When the second one got close enough Blastoise unleashed dragon tail sending staryu flying back into the crewmen.

Max began checking each of the doors in the hallway while blastoise battled the two staryu. eventually he found a room with a radio in it. Inside there was a rocket X crewmen on the radio transmitter with a pair of magnamite beside him. "Yes we have a security breach on level B-5 send a security team immediatly" The crewman said.

The crewmen heard the door open and turned around to see Max and nuzleaf standing there. "What the? Magnamite get them" He said. The two magnamite began to move toward Max. "Nuzleaf quick use razor leaf" Max said. "Nuzleaf!" Nuzleaf said as he launched several leaves knocking the two magnimite to the ground.

"Dam kid" The crewmen said as he reached for his pistol. "Nuzleaf quick razor leaf again" Max said. Nuzleaf launched another razorleaf cutting the pistol into three pieces. "Pound!" Max said. Nuzleaf ran over and bashed the crewman across the head knocking him unconscious.

"OK nice work buddy, now to call for help" Max said. He walked over to the radio and put in the frequency for team aqua. A few miles from Ever Grande city a team aqua warship the Gyrados was on patrol. Inside the communications room the crewmen operating the radio heard someone over the emergency response line.

"This is the destroyer Gyrados what is your situation?" The crewman said. "Hello , my name is Max and I'm onboard rocket X's submarine" Max said over the radio. "Listen kid this radio is for emergencies only don't call us for some joke" The crewman said.

"No really I'm onboard their submarine and we need help" Max said. The crewmen called in the an officer. "Lieutenant I got a kid here who says he's onboard rocket X's submarine" The crewmen said. "Wait what are his coordinates?" The officer said.

"They're at Young island sir" The crewman said. "We traced a few of their operatives last known coordinates near that area" The officer said. The team aqua officer ran to the helm and informed the captain. "Alright we'll head to Young island and see if rocket X is really there" The captain said.

"Well all we can do now is wait" Max said. He walked back into the hallway to see blastoise was now fighting four staryu and another two rocket X crewmen. "I really hope team aqua gets here soon. Nuzleaf help blastoise , use razor leaf" Max said.