Return of the defeated (on hold)

/Part 5/

"That's for leaving and saying that, but I will say thank you for bringing us together even if you didn't know it." Brock said with a smirk.

As the day went on everyone began to return to their homes bidding Ash, May Delia, Gary, Zoey and Professor Oak good bye until they met again. Ash promised everyone he'd keep in touch with them and let them know how is journey was going. As Brock, Lucy, Misty, and Tracy (who wanted to spend more time with Misty) went to leave Ash had a request, "Brock, Misty will you two do me a favor?

"Sure Ash anything you need." Said Brock.

"No problem Ash. What do you need?" replied Misty.

"Brock will you tell Forest that I'm coming for my first badge from him and I'd like it to be a full six on six battle, I want his absolute best. Misty I would like the same kind of battle from you, I know you've gotten stronger and I want you to give it your all. I would also ask both you to call the other gym leaders to tell them I'm coming and I want full battles from them all as well. I want to earn my badges the right way this time." Ash finished with a determined smile on his face.

"You got it man I'll make sure Forest brings his a-game to the battle and I'll call up a few of the gyms." Brock said with a chuckle and a hand shake.

"Don't worry about me Ash, you'll have to give it everything you've got to beat me. I'll call up the girls and tell them to put the hurt on you." Misty said jokingly with a friendly hug. She turned to May and gave her a tight hug, "May take good care of him, I can see he is crazy for you, even if he is too dense to know it just yet. Make sure he never leaves again, ok."

"Don't worry Misty I'll keep him in line and never let him out of my sight. He's dense like a rock, but a very handsome rock." May replied with a blush hugging her dear friend.

The next day after everyone had left, Ash and May went to the market place to start gathering supplies for their up coming trip. As they did their shopping Ash thought about what Brock had said, he tried to understand what his heart felt and what his mind was saying. He was deep in his thoughts when he heard May yell "Earth to Ash!! Are you awake?" She said while waving her hand infront if his face.

"Sorry May I kinda zoned out." He said rubbing the back of his head.

"What were you thinking so hard about?" she asked.

"About our new journey, all the places we'll see and people we'll meet." Ash said hoping she'd by his lie.

"It'll be fun, traveling with you is always a blast and you always seem to meet the best people." May said.

'Glad she bought it, trying to figure this out is more difficult then I thought.' he said in his mind as they continued shopping and talking about their up coming travels.

When they got back to the house and put their items away, they decided to go down to the lab. As they walked down the road Ash asked, "What new pokemon do you have May?"

"I'll show you when we get to the lab, I had them transferred here since we all started spend more time in Kanto. It made it easier to train them all for contests and to make sure they're all being well taken care of, I like to be really hands on with my pokemon." May explained to Ash. They knocked on the door and were greeted by Zoey.

"May, Ash whats up guys?" she asked.

"We finished our shopping earlier than we thought, so Ash asked to see all my pokemon." she told the red headed coordinator.

"I never thought I'd here you say you finished shopping early." Zoey teased May, which caused Ash to laugh though he stopped as May shot a glare at him.

"Ok you two I'm gonna go hang out with Gary while he finishes up the last part of his thesis." she said, followed by a whisper only May could hear, "No hanky panky now." With a wink she walked down the hall, while May swatted at her with a bright red blush. Ash was totally oblivious as he was stepping out the door, when May caught up with him she managed to control her blush.

May called out her pokemon and pulled six spheres from her belt and released them. As they stood in front of the two trainers Ash was impressed at all the pokemon she had caught and trained. May's pokemon Blaizeken, Beautifly, Delcatty (May found a moon stone while looking for Ash near Mt. Moon.), Venusaur, Munchlax (who doesn't want to evolve yet), Wartortle (also choose not to evolve.), Glaceon (she skipped to Pikachu and nuzzled him). She caught Altaria (the Swablu she helped with injured wing.), Ninetales, Froslass, Shelder, Ampharos, Sunflora, Swanna, Florges, Sawsbuck, Vivillon, Minccino, Lumineon, and Masquerain.

"Wow May your pokemon look amazing and you've caught some really impressive ones as well." Ash said looking over the pokemon in front of him. "Hey Glaceon, how are you girl?" He asked as he scratched behind her ears. She yipped in response. He watched her again go sit unusually close to Pikachu, who did't seem to mind. 'That's weird I've never seen them sit so close.' he thought to himself but he shrugged it off as they talked about her new pokemon.

Poke speech

"Pikachu its been along time, I've missed you like crazy." Glaceon said rubbing Pikachu's cheek.

"I've missed you too. I'm sorry we were gone for so long but Ash is my brother and I will follow him any where he goes." he replied apologetically.

"I understand, I feel the same about May. I'm just glad you guys are back. May was devastated when Ash left, she cares so deeply for him. This is the happiest I've seen her in a very long time." Glaceon said looking at May's smile.

Pikachu smiled, "I agree, I haven't seen Ash smile like this in a very very long time. I hope he'll start to understand what his feelings mean before too long, he's not as dense as he was but he still has no idea." he said with a chuckle, he gave Glaceon's cheek a quick lick before going to meet the rest of the pokemon.

End poke speech

May looked over just as Pikachu licked Galceon's cheek, she giggled seeing the shocked loom on her pokemon's face. 'Seems those two understand their feelings. I hope Ash can do that too, but no matter what I'm never giving up on him.' she thought with a smile. The duo spent the rest of the day playing with their pokemon and relaxing. As the day drew to an end they went back to the house to eat dinner and continue mapping out their travel plans. Knowing that the next few days would be over before they knew it. After dinner with Delia and watching re-runs of a few past leagues they called it a night and went to bed. uUnbeknownst to Ash and May, they fell asleep dreaming of the other.

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