As they approached the Pokémon center May and Silvia spotted Ash and Gardenia.

"Ash!" May called out before she started running over to him. "Ash how did your gym battle go?"

Ash grumbled and said something to Gardenia before he continued inside.

"Did you manage to beat him?" Silvia asked the gym leader.

Gardenia sighed. "No. I lost, barely. Sceptile got beat up pretty bad in the battle though and he's not happy with himself."

May looked confused. "He only used Sceptile?"

"Kinda." Gardenia said sheepishly. "I imposed a restriction on him saying he could only use Sceptile. He's out cold right now and we carried him half way here before he lost consciousness."

"But why doesn't he seem happy to have won?" Silvia asked. "I've seen news footage and normally he's ecstatic at having won a gym badge."

Gardenia rubbed the back of her head. "He had to do a pretty lowhanded blow to win. Mainly because Sceptile was too tired to even walk at that stage."

May ran in after Ash.

"Ash!" May called out as she looked for him. She spotted him following Nurse Joy down to the OR and followed after. "Ash wait."

"May. Can you… Can you leave me alone for a minute please?" Ash asked. "I'm not in the mood to talk to people at the moment." The trainer added before he sat down on a bench outside the OR.

May nodded. "Okay Ash." May nodded as she started to walk back down the hall. Halfway back to the lobby she stopped, turned around and ran over to Ash and gave him a hug. "If you feel like talking later I'll be in the cafeteria."

"Okay." Ash said. "And May?"

"Hmm?" She asked.

"Thanks. I needed that." He smiled.

"No problem." May smiled back before she headed out to the lobby. "Hey Chansey can you give my Pokémon a good rest please?"

"Chanse. Chansey!" Chansey nodded.

May placed her pokéballs in the tray and watched as Chansey headed off to the put them in one of the healing tanks.

"Yes I know about the quarantine thing. Oh come on they've been in their pokéballs at the Nimbasa gym. Yes I'm sure even ask Leader Kamitsure. Yes I'll be waiting." Silvia huffed before she hung up the phone

"Everything all right Silvia." May asked.

Silvia sat down with a sigh. "No it's not. Those eggheads at Sinnoh Quarantine won't let my Pokémon from Isshu through. Even though they've been in their pokéballs for the past year."

"Isshu? How did you get there? I thought they didn't allow trainers in or out?" May asked.

"If you've got Pokémon on you, you can't leave. If you've got non-native Pokémon or pokéballs on you, you can't enter." Silvia explained. "The transfer system has just been cleared to connect with the other regions so I'm transferring some of my old Pokémon out here. Mainly my old electric team." Silvia sighed again. "But until quarantine is lifted on them I'm stuck with just my Glaceon and Mamoswine."

May was about to say something when an explosion rocked the center. "Wow this place is unlucky. Twice in one day."

"Chaansey! Chaaaaansey!" Chansey screamed as she ran out from the smoke.

May gasped. "My Pokémon!" She yelled as she charged into the smoke.

Ash heard the explosion and ran to its source. "Crap. If it came from the healing tanks then my Pokémon are in for a surprise."

"Ash!" May said as he ran up next to her.

"You left your Pokémon here too huh?" He asked.

"Yeah but look. All the healing tanks are empty. Someone stole all the Pokémon!" May pointed.

"That's the third time this month." Nurse Joy sighed as she walked in. "Team Galactic keeps stealing the Pokémon from here to give to their underlings."

"I'm not gonna let them get away with that!" Ash growled.

"Me neither." May agreed.

Nurse Joy pointed at a building just down the road. "That's their Eterna city headquarters. It's patrolled by guards non-stop so it won't be easy getting in if that's your idea."

"It's all right." May smiled. "You'd be surprised at what a young couple can get away with. I have a couple of ideas…"

Ash pulled on the dress he was wearing. "I don't get how you girls can wear these. They feel so empty under here."

May put her gloved finger to his lips. "Ssh. Don't blow our cover." She whispered as she adjusted her wig. "Besides it was either this the other plan, and I don't do skin tight clothing." She reminded him as she continued pushing the cart.

"I would have preferred that." Ash muttered as he pictured May in a skin tight uniform.

May gave a short giggle as she turned slightly red. "But do you remember the plan?"

Ash waved his hand at the girl. "Yeah yeah. Sneak in, grab the pokéballs and sneak out."

"Halt! You aren't the regular Nurse Joys." A guard called out.

May put on her best Nurse Joy voice and turned to the guard. "Well my sister is back at the Pokémon center answering Officer Jenny's questions and her apprentice Nurse is relaying the bad news to the trainers." She smiled. "So we were called in from Veilstone city."

The guard relaxed a little bit. "The main HQ sent you? Well who am I to question executive decisions? In case you don't know the storage room is underground and the hypnosis room is on the fifth floor."

May waved to the guard and started back towards the building. "Thank you."

Ash waved and followed May. "You lie way to well." He whispered.

May laughed softly. "I've always wanted to do something like this."

Ash waited patiently as May talked with the receptionist. 'It's bad enough they made me wear this dress.' He thought to himself. 'But did they really have to make me wear panties too?' he sighed as he remembered May laughing in the Pokémon center.

"All right. Thanks." May said as she took the keys from the receptionist. "Come on."

Ash sighed and pushed the cart onto the elevator. "So much for a relaxing getaway for two."

May reached into the cart and pulled the fake bottom off. "Don't worry Ash. Saving the world or killing time between battles. As long as we're together it doesn't matter to me." She smiled as she ducked into the cart and placed the fake bottom on a lip above her creating a lid.

Ash smiled at the words as he covered the elevator camera with the nurses cap off his wig. "Once we reach lake Valor I say we take a couple of weeks to ourselves to relax and get some us time."

May peeked out the top and glanced at the camera. "That's a great idea Ash. Just you and me. We could send all our Pokémon to Oak for the weeks after the Wallace cup." She added as she climbed out in her regular clothes. "Ok your turn."

"Sounds like a plan." Ash laughed as the lid moved. "Ow."

May sighed and rolled her eyes. "Just leave the panties on until we get back to the center."

"Hell no!" Ash snapped back. "That thing was giving me a wedgie. Among other discomforts."

May turned red as she tried to picture what the other discomforts might be. "Fine fine. I hope we can pull this off without our Pokémon."

"Don't worry." Ash said as he pumped his fist climbing out of the cart. "It worked last night it'll work tonight." He said confidently. 'I hope.'

May finished stowing their disguises on the elevator cars roof when the elevator dinged. "Basement. Pre-hypnosis pokéball storage." A robotic voice announced.

May clipped her water tribe bracelet on and waited for it to stop glowing before hitting the door open button. "By the way you still haven't told me what 'it' is."

Ash said nothing as he bent down and placed his hand on the floor and closed his eyes. A weak pulse of blue energy left a trail against his vision. "This way." He said as he took off running.

May grabbed the cart and ran after him. "Wait Ash how do you know…" May stopped when she saw the thousands of pokéballs in trays on shelves.

Ash had already repeated the bizarre pattern of actions. "Two guards in front of the room where our pokéballs are. As well as people inside…" Ash trailed off. "Raichu!" Ash gasped as a pulse of energy knocked him on his ass.

May's bracelet began to glow in tune with the pulse.

"What is wrong with you?" May asked the piece of jewelry. "There's nothing to do with the people of the water for kilometers.

Ash picked himself up. "It's reacting to the energy of the red orb. Keep filling the cart. I'm going to rescue our Pokémon." He told her as he raced towards the door.

May watched him run off and nodded. "Be careful."

"Raichu!Rai Raichu!" Raichu yelled as he struggled.

"Quiet down you pathetic little Ratatta." Maxie yelled.

Raichu bit and whipped his captors with his tail and was dropped to the ground where Maxie promptly kicked him to the back wall.

"Stubborn as a Tauros." Maxie scoffed.

The marks of the red orb appeared all over Raichu's body as his eyes glowed red and the electricity crackling from his body changed color from yellow to red.

Ash slammed open the door and took a red thunder bolt that Maxie dodged.

"Ha. The child should not prove any more trouble now that he's dead." Maxie laughed.

Ash pulled himself up as a blue flames flickered into existence around his body.

"I-impossible! No hu-human could survive that!" Maxie stammered.

Ash looked at his hands. They were starting to burn. "So the power of the red orb seems to have unleashed my aura." He said as he noticed the flame slowly shrinking. "At least temporarily."

May's bracelet flared with white light for a split second in response to the waves of power clashing.

"What the?" May yelled as she tilted her cap down to block the light.

Maxie ran past her, taking a quick picture as he did.

May watched as he entered the elevator and went up. "For him to run like that something has to be going down." May said as she put the lid on the cart and hid it behind a pile of supplies.

Inside the room Ash was holding Raichu, shielded from the red lightning by his aura.

"May grab your pokéballs and run. I've got mine." Ash yelled as the ceiling began to fall.

"What about you?" May asked as she slid her pokéballs back into their holster.

"I'll be fine! Go!" Ash yelled.

May shook her head and stood where she was. "I won't leave you Ash!" She yelled as she moved closer.

"Get the Pokémon out of here! I'll be fine!" Ash yelled back.

May ignored him and wrapped her arms around his torso. "I'll never leave you." She whispered in his ear.

The light show in the basement lit up the whole town for half a minute before fading into nothing.

May woke up and looked out the window. The sun's rays shone in. Underneath her was Ash with Raichu beside him. The red orb lay on the ground behind her.

"Ash wake up." May said as she rolled him over. "It's morning. Come on."

Ash groaned and struggled to get to his feet. "It feels like I'm all out of energy. Damn. How much aura did that lightning bolt unleash anyway?"

May was more interested in the red orb and reached out to grab it. An invisible forcefield knocked her hand back though. A second later she held her head and screamed.

'Those with the blood of the water tribe cannot touch the red orb.'

"May are you okay?" Ash asked as he backed her away from the orb.

May just kept screaming until she passed out in his arms.

Ash noted her bracelet was pulsing softly and shifted her to one arm while he grabbed the orb. His hand flared with a blue flame again. "This thing must channel aura." He guessed as he placed it in his pocket. "Hey May wake up." He said as he shook her gently.

May groaned and woke up. "Ugh. Don't let me touch that orb again." She groaned.

"I won't." Ash nodded as he helped May to keep her balance before returning the sleeping electric type. "Now let's get out of here."

"Why won't the elevator stop?" Ash asked no one in particular.

May was about to say something when the elevator dinged and opened. "The roof?"

May walked out onto the roof with Ash pushing the cart behind her before joining her at the edge. "That's some view." He noted as he wrapped his arm around May's shoulder.

May snuggled into his arm. "It sure is."

Ash grabbed May's shoulder and turned her to face him. "It's not just the view that's incredible."

May blushed as Ash kissed her. The two of them letting their tongues explore the others mouth.

Silvia watched from the street below with Sceptile and Gardenia, the morning sun pasting them as black silhouettes against the orange background.

The two trainers broke the kiss and smiled. "About what you said last night May. I'm sure you won't." Ash said as they turned around and headed back to the elevator pausing only because Ash had to chase after Charizards pokéball to stop it from rolling off the building.

"Well I hope you take good care of that egg young man." Nurse Joy smiled as she waved Ash and May out.

"Don't worry Nurse Joy. I will." Ash waved back as he carried the incubator out the door.

"I still don't get why that egg was sitting up there in the first place." May mused.

Ash shrugged and waved to Sceptile and Gardenia as they walked past the gym.

"The time is eleven forty five pm. Next destination is Hearthome city. The journey will take approximately thirty six hours." Ash's pokénav chirped.

"Long bike ride right buddy?" Ash asked Raichu.

"Rai." The electric type nodded his head.

"Ready Pikachu?" May asked as they walked into the cycling road entrance.

"Pika!" The yellow mouse nodded.

"You two are Ash Ketchum and May Takatou?" The attendant asked.

Ash nodded. "Yeah that's us."

"We couldn't get a tandem. They aren't allowed on the cycling road. So these rental bikes are free of charge." The attendant told them.

"Thanks." The couple said as they hopped on the bikes and rode out.

And well here we are. A second part to the story should follow after the time skip. Chapter 1 of part 2 is already under way but I want it to be a big release so I'll work on getting the first five chapters done and then releasing them all on the same day. Until then enjoy everyone!