AdvanceShipping? In movie 9!? ~story time~
To me, the 9th movie is the exact opposite. It shows that Ash was getting fed up of people stealing his precious screentime. He had to deal with May taking up his time with contests, captures and little bits of character development, which could have been filled with all-important fillers starring *Ash*. Out of 468 episodes, about 30 of these episodes did not star Ash. Out of 8 movies, 1 did not star Ash (6th)...Most of this problem was due to May becoming a main character of the show. So, when he found out this was the 2nd movie out of 9 where he was not going to be the star, he was getting angry. He was able to put up with this for 3/4 of the movie, but by the flooding scene, enough was enough. He was not going to stand back and allow to merely be a main character. He must to be a STAR.
May: OK, now to stop the flooding and get back Manaphy! Let's go, Ash!
Ash: No.
May: Uh, what?
Ash: You're not going.
May: Uh...why?
Ash: You might get hurt or...or...urgh. I can't be bothered with this. Fact is: I want you off my show.
May: !?
Ash: I thought it might be fun to hire a new person, but I didn't realise the new person might actually do something.
May: Uh, let's stop the flooding...
Ash: Do you know how long I've been working here!? How hard it is to be a star? A beloved icon around the world? And after 9 years of loyal, hard work, to be shoved to the side? So some new girl can have her 5 minutes of fame!? You are stealing *my* show. I work alone. Well, the directors gave me a personal cook and advisor to follow me around, so occasionally I would let them say a word or two, but my advisor critised me a *little* too much, which was making me look bad so she had to be -
May: ...? We need to stop the flooding!
Ash: We!? WE!? Have you not been listening any ANYTHING I've been saying!? That's it. I'm hijacking this movie. *shoves May into a coffin like thing* Don't worry, there's enough air in there...for about 5 minutes!! *watches May drift off* Oh, by the way, you're fired! Now it's time for some much wanted ASH-ACTION! *sigh* Next series, I'm gonna set off by myself with a big opening episode, all about me...
...OK, I'm not as funny as some other people (actually, I was kind of nervous of posting this XD), but I've had the image of Ash hijacking the 9th movie since the first time I watched the scene where he shoves May, the star of the movie, into a tub thing, and so making himself the hero. Oh, and this is proof against Advanceshipping because you don't hijack your friends movies then fire them XD
Now this is gonna be embarrassing if no one replies for a few days XD