first before the story, in this story Ash is born three years before canon, so he is going to train for three years until his is thirteen and then he is going to do the Kanto Gym circuit with some old and strong Pokemon as well as some new weak Pokemon.

"normal Human speech"

"Human and Pokemon speech"

Pokemon move in a battle

Delia woke from her slumber to hear the loud chanting of her starter Pokemon Mr Mime, she smiled lightly as she got dressed realising it had been a long time since her loyal friend had been as happy as he sounded, as she left her room and entered her little boy's new room Delia realised that if she hadn't have given birth to Ash she would have really regretted stopping battling in the regional tournaments.

When Delia closed the door to her son's room both of the rooms occupants turned to look at her, the smiling happy face of her two year old child immediately made her feel happy, the glowing blue eyes looking at her shocked her slightly

"I have never seen a psychic aura so strong before old friend, comparing him to the other human psychic's we have met is like comparing a camp-fire to the sun" the psychic voice of Mr Mime startled Delia slightly, it had been almost three years since she had last heard it although she was definitely glad she still had a close enough bond with her friend to be able to hear him.

"What about his mental stability? I have spent enough time with my family in Saffron to know that when a psychic has more than a certain amount of raw power that their mental and emotional health is in danger, do we need to return to my old family home or will you be able to help him Mimey?" after repeating her question a second time the ecstatic pokemon turned from the now sleeping form of her child and faced her "I can teach him the psychic powers the my species are good with, telepathy with both the mind and emotions and then in a year or so his brain will have developed enough for him to be able to learn how to create barriers and their is no better Pokemon to learn how to make psychic and non-psychic barriers from than a Mr Mime."

Four years later

Delia was worried "Come on Ash, please just speak to me" "I am almost always speaking, why are you upset mum?" the fact her son truly didn't know what was upsetting her worried her more than the fact he hadn't spoken even one word verbally since Mr Mime had taught him how to harness his powers over the last four years, Delia knew that the only way for her son to get greater control over his power would be for him to go to the Saffron Gym and find a pokemon with a similar psychic wave that could bond with him, but she didn't want her son to have a pokemon too early and also the fact that he couldn't go to school because he couldn't talk aloud annoyed and worried her immensely.

The doorbell going off startled Delia out of her thoughts as she rushed to answer the door, she really hoped it wasn't anybody intending to ask why her son hadn't started school yet, she knew that there was no way her psychic son could go to school with a bunk of non-psychics without risking reading a person's memories, she had heard all of the horror stories growing up as a passive empathic in Saffron city, stories of even slightly psychic children going insane by being around people who didn't know how to shield their emotions and mind from another, but she was leery of allowing her son to grow up in Saffron, the psychics were all quite xenophobic with those who weren't Psychic and she didn't want those tendencies to be taught to her son.

Delia didn't know whether to smile to the man on the other side of the door or slam said door in his face, "Grandpa how are you?" the man on the other side of the door was not only Delia's grandfather on her mothers side but also the eldest psychic in Saffron, meaning he ran the Gym and was mayor of the city.

"It has been too long since you visited the family dear, when your grandma heard I was visiting my old friend Samuel she ordered me to visit you, to make sure you still had at least one psychic type with you at least as well as to tell you that you have been ordered to come over for Yuletide. of course that was before I sensed the massive psychic presence that not even your well known Mr Mime could block, did you know he has ingrained Light Screen and Protect into the outer walls of your house in such a way that it blocks both yours and his psychic signature? it would have been really well done if the third psychic signature in the house couldn't be felt by even a badly trained psychic from route one, I felt it in Viridian."

Delia bowed her head slightly, "that would be my son, he trained under Mr Mime for the last two years and has become as good as Mimey creating barriers but lately we have come across a problem, he has so much psychic energy that he never runs out, in most of their training sessions Mimey would run out of energy before Ash" her grandpa nodded his head looking thoughtful "I presume that Ash is the son you had but didn't tell anybody from your family about for some reason? of course if he had been strong compared to a normal psychic your plan would have worked but he has so much psychic aura that the air around him is infused with it, the forests around Pallet have started to attract Psychic types because the place has so much psychic energy after the last four years, I'm amazed they aren't all living in your back garden. I presume that your Mr Mime still goes to the yearly congregation of his species?"

Delia knew an insult when she heard one "of course! just because I strongly dislike Saffron for the prejudice they imprint on the children and so don't want my son to become tainted by them that doesn't mean you have to insult me in such a way, I know how important Mimey is not only to his own kind because of how strong he is but also how important the yearly meetings are for any psychic type." The old man simply smiled "well not coming to Saffron every year to meet with the family is probably affecting you and your powers no matter how passive they are, it is important to get away from non-psychics for at least once a year so that you don't have to keep your powers locked tight, the fact that your son has as much raw power I can sense know when it is probably behind barriers constructed by your son and Mr Mime is quite shocking, at Yule we will match him with a partner so that he can learn how to control his abilities better, maybe then we can talk about something you might be able to help me with." The old man stood up, kissed Delia on the cheek and left the house.

Ash was excited, Mimey had told him they were going to meet with his mothers family in the psychic city Saffron, Mimey had told him about his mothers fears of him picking up the prejudice that the old psychic families held and while from speaking with Mimey Ash had realised that there was a semblance of truth to it they had just become prejudiced, so while he believed he would like to visit Saffron once or twice a year to spend time around people who had shields on their mind and emotions so he could relax him iron tight grip on his powers he wouldn't like to spend all year there as he really liked Pallet.

All semblance of happiness Ash had about Saffron was lost when he came across the first couple of so called psychic trainers, they had no mental shield at all that he could see or sense! their minds were and open book to him, even their pokemon didn't seem to have any shielding which was considerably stupid in a place full of psychic humans and people, Ash was just happy his great grandpa had decent shields, not that he couldn't break through them or slip around the few gaps he could sense he just didn't want to insult his new relative by telling him his mental shielding had holes in it. "what's the problem child?" Ash's head snapped from the Kadabra he had been watching to his great grandpa, "nothings wrong..." (AN: going call his great grandpa, grandpa and his grandfather, grandfather) His grandpa has turned to face him now "in Saffron we value truth above almost everything due to the fact that usually most of us can simply pick a thought from a persons head or their emotions tell us they are lieing, if you have a problem don't be afraid to insult anyone just tell the truth and then explain, if you at least explain what you are saying most people will at least listen to you" all the bad stuff about Saffron Ash had listed in his head just came tumbling out

"Well most of these so called psychics have almost no mental shielding it looks to me like they are surrounded by a bubble and that wouldn't be hard at all to penetrate without popping it, and then their pokemon are not properly trained in their mental defences either, it looks like they are relying on a person to not be able to read their Pokemon brains but I've spent so much time with Mimey it would be easier than reading a normal person, and then your mental shields have two massive holes in that just stand out due to how strong the rest of your shielding is and its really distracting"

Delia didn't know whether to laugh or cringe but she was already glad that she had brought Ash to Saffron now due to the fact that he seemed to dislike it, "Well Ash, you are considerably stronger than most people and although you believe that they have no shielding to al; but two or three other humans in the world their shields are strong enough as for their Pokemon almost nobody else in the world apart from you has spent enough time in a Pokemon's head for the other Pokemon's thought processes to make sense because even when I enter the head of my own Pokemon they alter their thought processes it resembles the human mind more, Mr Mime probably tried that but it is basically an illusion which due to your raw power you saw through, as for my shielding one of the holes is on purpose, its a mental trap, if anybody enters it they set of a trap that is just inside my outer shields but before my strongest inner shields but if you could show me this second hole I would much appreciate it." Ash did a quick scan of both the holes and realised that indeed one hole actually had much stronger shields inside it and there was what looked like a mental trip-wire, the other holes edges however instead of looking smooth like the other looked torn and scarred, Ash quickly created one of the psychic probe he used to read a persons mind and then attacked one end to he scarred edge of the second hole and the other end of the probe to the mental trip-wire "if you follow the line of the probe you should see the second hole." the old man nodded once an continued walking through the streets of Saffron city.

Ash loved the decor of the Saffron Gym, the warp tiles where just so much fun to stand on, after the three of them had gotten to the Gym leaders room Ash and Delia were led to a small back room that looked like a supply closet, the only thing in the room was a slightly larger than normal warp tile. Ash went second after his mother onto the warp tile, instead of the almost instantaneous appearance on another warp tile the teleportation took roughly two seconds, when Ash appeared at the other end he was shocked at the expensive appearance of the place Ash was disrupted from his staring at the room by his grandpa appearing "come on, most of the family should already be here and already in the family meeting room." The old man walked out of the room and down a corridor, Ash and Delia hurried to catch up with him.

Sabrina sighed in annoyance, she hated these family meeting where all the family gathered together and boasted about how powerful they were or how powerful their pokemon were or how their Alakazam could use barrier better than so-and-so's Mr Mime, in truth most of the other psychics in the room were weak compared to her but due to her only being eleven she was over looked, it was a family rule that nobody could become one of the Gym's trainers before they were thirteen and nobody could become Gym leader until they were eighteen, considering the fact that Sabrina wanted to be a Gym trainer and specialise in Psychic types and so hadn't left on a journey like most of the children her age meant that she was one of the youngest people in the room at the moment, also due to her not having gone on a journey her Abra hadn't been trained at all because the adults wouldn't let her, luckily for her she had at least been allowed to get Abra to teleport a lot, while teleporting didn't do much for most pokemon because her Abra was untrained it helped her focus her power and when necessary her Abra could teleport even further than most of the Gym trainers could.

Sabrina was brought out of her musing by her grandma shouting out and then bustling over to the door where her grandpa had just walked in, she was about to look away when a woman and little boy followed her grandpa into the room, the only reason Sabrina found them at all mildly interesting is that she couldn't sense any psychic energy in them, startled Sabrina stood and made her way over to her father,

"Well my Alakazam was able to stop a Hydro-pump with his Barrier, we are going to try the move that Del used in the league battle combining light screen into barrier but at the moment it just keeps exploding..." that was one thing Sabrina couldn't understand, all her uncles and aunts had an obsession with seeing who's pokemon could make the best Barrier, but they never used a Mr Mime, and considering that they all had Mr Mimes she couldn't find it in herself to respect most of her family members, it just seemed silly to her.

"Father I thought you said that only psychics were allowed to these family meetings..." broken away from his boasting her father turned to her "of course there are only psychics here Sabrina, what made you ask?" Sabrina half turned to face her Grandpa "I can't detect any psychic energy from the woman and boy that grandpa just brought into the room" her father turned to face the woman and boy in question and then started walking towards them, his shout of "Del!" turned many heads around the room and a swarm of people surrounded the two.

Ash loved this big house, it was great and the walls and just about everything in the house seemed to be filled to the brim with psychic energy, Ash could see his mother out the corner of his eye looking over all of the portraits they were walking past, when they finally reached their destination which seemed to be a room absolutely filled with people who he noticed only had weak shielding Ash immediately surrounded himself and his mum in a barrier he had learnt to make with Mimey, it blocked all the psychic energy from going through it, Mimey had said it would be great when fighting against fellow Psychic types but since Ash didn't have any Pokemon yet he didn't believe that it was very important, he was brought out of his musing by a dumpy looking woman bustling over and hugging his mum.

"Why did you stop coming for Yule? you know how important it is to find some time away from non-psychics when you live in a village like Pallet, especially now that you don't journey any more, I'm amazed you still have any of your power left, it always used to be a struggle for you to stop your empathy due to the fact that yours is constantly passive and really hard to control, and how are your Pokemon? Shelly said she had seen your Jynx at their congregation after you released her, said your Jynx told her that you released all but three of your pokemon since you wouldn't be battling any more and didn't want them cooped up at Oak's ranch..." the woman was interrupted from her nagging at his mum by a loud shout of "Del!" before his mum was smothered in people hugging her and telling her it was good to see her.

When the hubbub had finally died down his mum smiled at them all before thanking everyone for the warm welcome "Why are you even here though? I'm the most powerful psychic in the room and I can't sense even an ounce of power from you or the little boy" a girl who looked around eleven or twelve with a haughty look on her face called out from the other side of the room, the adults between Ash his mum, his great grandparents and the girl parted so Ash could see the girl more clearly, Ash heard his grandpa whisper to his mum "she's the problem I would like your help with, she has loads of raw power and has been fawned over so much she has become pretty arrogant."

Just as the girl stopped in front of them Ash burst out laughing, "your mental shields are riddled with holes, if Mimey saw that he'd refuse to even look at you, Mr Mime's hate it when people bluster any type of barrier, I remember once Mimey said that it's better to have a weaker barrier that's solid than a strong barrier with holes in like yours is" Ash continued giggling to himself while the girl bristled in anger, Ash could sense she was about to send her psychic power at him and so dropped the barrier he had held around him and his mother, all the people in the room except the girl stepped back in awe of how much raw power Ash had, Sabrina just launched her psychic attack, as soon as the attacked had solidified and left her mind she sniffed haughtily and turned away, too used to being the strongest psychic in Saffron city that when she felt a torrent of psychic power heading for her she didn't have time to prepare blocking it, as the pure power surrounded her mental shields and then poured into holes that she didn't know was there she wasn't able to resist any of it, she suddenly found herself re-living her life as the boy watched along with her, she saw how harsh she had been and how badly she treated other people.

As they finally finished watching Sabrina's life Ash shook his head, "you are powerful but you should never believe you are the best, everybody can always get better, Mimey said that the only good thing about being the best at something is pushing those not as good as you to be better at it, or teaching people with potential how to harness their power, you're lazy and believe people should help you because you think they aren't as good as you." Ash turned to his mum "can me and Mimey go and practice together, he said that he will teach me how to combine stuff with Barrier soon" Delia smiled slightly before releasing her well known Mr Mime. Mimey upon release realised where they were and stood with his back straight and none of his usual childishness, "come on Ash, I'm going to teach you one of mine and your mum's best kept secrets today" Ash smiled before following Mimey out of the room.

Sabrina stood in shock, shaking slightly, she realistically knew that there would always be a chance someone would be more powerful than her but she had become arrogant and complacent enough to look away after an initial attack, admittedly it was a six year old boy but the fact he had insulted her had caused her to loose her control, and then she had been humiliated, by a six year old boy.

"Are you okay dear?" Sabrina looked at the woman who her father had called Del, now whatever barrier the boy had placed around the was gone Sabrina could sense that the woman's psychic energy was buried deep in her skin like most people with empathy were and even though most psychic's looked down on empaths this woman was really strong "I'm unsure, I see now where I went wrong, how have you kept your son from turning out like I did?" once Sabrina had seen how horrible she was as she watched herself Ash had told her his name and that his mother was also psychic "Well at our house there are no other psychic's than me, Ash and Mimey so Ash simply accepts him being stronger than me and Mimey in his psychic powers as nothing important, also that's why I don't want Ash to grow up in Saffron, because whenever strong psychics appear in Saffron the other psychics get a bit crazy over them, now firstly you should go and apologise to Ash, you attacked him first, and then you should speak to my Mr Mime about learning to make your mental barriers stronger, Ash wasn't lieing about Mr Mime's hating malformed barriers of any type.

Ash and Mr Mime had walked into a room that had a Pokemon battle pitch in the middle, "Now Ash stand in the middle and surround yourself in Light Screen, then cancel Light Screen and surround yourself in Barrier, then switch back to Light-Screen" Ash nodded once before summoning Light Screen, then cancelling the move and summoning Barrier as quickly as possible before doing the opposite, Ash kept doing this until the transition time between the two was less than a second "I don't think I can do it any faster Mimey and I'm pretty tired now, can we take a break?" Mimey nodded once before handing Ash a Oran Berry "it took me almost a month of constant training to not only summon both barriers at one time but also to merge them together but when I did it I got a much better control on the rest of my moves" Sabrina walked into the room shyly,

"I just wanted to say sorry about earlier, I know how wrong I behaved now I've seen it from another persons point of view but I still think it's going to be hard to change the way I am" Ash nodded once "I think grandpa is going to ask our parents if you could come and live with me and mum for a while, just to get you away from all the other psychics in Saffron but maybe then Mimey could help you learn how to make your barriers stronger and how to fix the holes in your mental barriers" although Ash was smiling at her Sabrina was starting to get annoyed again "why don't you just talk normally?" Ash looked truly confused "because of how much raw power Ash has, in my excitement I started training him before he could talk properly, since he had no need to talk Ash stopped talking altogether, now we don't think Ash could talk even if he tried and even if he did try he would still have to learn to talk because he didn't learn when he was younger" Sabrina shook her head in surprise and shock, "can you please teach me how to improve the strength and integrity of my mental barriers?" the Mr Mime nodded once before instructing her to stand next to Ash

Ash was excited and a little bit sad, he was excited because they were going to release all the non-bonded pokemon from the Gym to see if any could bond with Ash and then later they were going home which was why Ash was sad, he really liked Saffron but Pallet was just awesome and also Sabrina was coming to live with them so Ash was happy because now he had someone else to practice and train with, as the pokemon were released Ash was ecstatic, they all looked really awesome and Ash could sense that they all had strong psychic powers, Ash was about to start going through the group of Pokemon until he felt something attach itself to his psychic shields, he then felt a small tendril of energy leave down whatever had attached itself to him, after a quick psychic scan Ash could see that there was a tendril of psychic energy leaving him and going to one of the Pokemon at the back of the room, Ash quickly ran to the Pokemon who was leeching his energy.

Ash could hear his grandpa cursing behind him "I'm sorry Ash I knew there was one thing I forgot to mention, this little guy..."The Pokemon in question was an Abra that unlike the rest of its kin was wide awake "... is an Abra who somehow has gained his fathers ability of Insomnia, which while fine for a Hypno is rather bad for an Abra, since this Abra can't sleep most of the time he has to leech tiny amount of psychic energy from everybody else and he has a pretty good grasp of it and hasn't hurt anybody so far..." Ash noticed that his grandpa was looking at his mum worriedly, Ash turned to the Abra and did a psychics version of knocking on the door, he gently tapped the Abra's surprisingly strong mental shields,

when the Abra opened his shields a tiny amount Ash solidified the connection and then pumped as much energy as he could spare into the Abra, once done Ash cut the connection and took a deep breath feeling quite tired, knowing that the effect would go away soon Ash stroked the Abra between its two bright purple eyes, Ash felt the Abra's psychic aura blend with his own in shock "grandpa I think I did something to the Abra by accident, I meant to just give him some of my psychic energy" while Ash worried that he had hurt the Abra his grandpa did a psychic scan and realised that the Abra had decided to bond with Ash, "The Abra has decided to bond with you Ash, so he's fine now, well probably one of the most powerful Abra's I've ever seen especially if he can use the energy you just gave him"

My first Pokemon story, this will be part of the group of stories I am planning to do for the challenge that should be on my profile,

if any errors are spotted or you have any questions just drop me a PM or review,

*Edit: split the last paragraph apart, will probably edit it myself or ask somebody else to edit this further in the future*

*Edit 2: fixed spelling errors and wording*

* Do not review about my PJO story *

T.B