1.Ash's Story (Part 3: Hoenn)

Chapter 4

Now we are at Route 104, and May asks, "Is there any chance that we stop for lunch soon?"

"But I haven't even seen a Pokemon yet!" Max says.

The siblings start to bicker about what to do next, one pulling me and the other pulling Alice in two directions.

"Stop it, you two!" Alice yells as they stop. "We will take a quick lunch break and then decide which way to go."

"Good idea." I say. "I'll make some Rice Balls."

When I'm making the rice balls, I can hear the siblings arguing. Max says, "While we're waiting..."

May asks, "Hey, what did you have there?"

Then he takes out a pack of chocolate cookies out of the backpack, and says, "Only one. Sorry, it's my emergency stash."

"So if we split it, we'll each get one bite." Well, since it takes some time to cook the rice balls, but I think I'm quite done and besides, what can go wrong with just a cookie?

Just then, we hear yelling, "I finally found a Pokemon!" "It stole our chocolate!"

"Guys, what is going on?" I stop making rice balls and notice that Max and May are chasing after a Taillow. Alice says, "A Taillow."

"Give back that chocolate!" May yells.

"Careful May! When there's a Taillow, there is always a flock of them!" Alice yells.

We chase after the Taillow and we find it perches in a tree and happily scoffs down the chocolate. Alice says, "Looks like the Taillow is really hungry."

"I wonder if my chocolate just filled it up." Max says.

"Guys! Check it out!" I hear Pikachu saying as we notice the fruits on the tree.

"Wow, I mean, our rice balls can have some garnish." I say. "Pikachu, help us knock the fruits down from the trees!"

As Pikachu does so, numerous Taillow appear and snatch it up before it hits the ground. Then more Taillow appear and surround the group, looking angry.

"This is bad... I think they're angry." I say.

"I think they're upset because we might be in their territory." Alice says.

Then we see the Taillow trying to attack us, and I have Pikachu use Thunderbolt, but when the Taillow are knocked down, they just recover quickly. Alice says, "How come they recover so quickly?"

"Taillow are fierce and they won't back down no matter how strong are the opponents." I say.

Pikachu keeps shocking and hits one with the chocolate beak. "You know, I think that one is the leader." May says.

"Well, the chocolate at its beak means that it is he who started this." Max adds and he continues to fight the Taillow. The Taillow shrugs off Pikachu's attack and leads the others in a mass attack on the group.

"Nothing seems to work on them!" Alice yells.

Then as the Taillow are attacking again, I hear a voice, "Lunatone! Use Explosion!"

Much to our surprise, a Lunatone appears in front of us and uses Explosion, sending the Taillow away from us. I can't believe it. In front of us are my siblings, Mark and Minami.

"Mark!" "Minami!" Alice and I gasped in delight. The two of them turn around and we share a hug.

I say, "I can't believe you guys are here!"

"We were trying to meet you at Rustoboro City until we saw a Thunderbolt." Mark says.

"It is so nice to see you again, Pikachu!" Minami says as Pikachu waves his little paws.