Ash was lying in his room in the Pokémon Centre two days after getting decimated by his rival in the Sinnoh League Competition, thinking *What in the world could I have done differently...* when suddenly Dawn burst into the room and said "right, I've had enough of your bellyaching Ash."
"Go away Dawn, right now I just want to be left alone, alright" Ash said depressed.
"No Ash, the final battle is on in 30 minutes and it's between that trainer with a Darkrai and Paul."
"I'm not interested."
"Ohhhh. Fine then, run away from it then."
"I'm not running away from anything."
"Then why are you still in your room after two days!"
"I'm thinking about what went wrong in my battle... I was winning and then for some reason it all just fell over."
"Is that what this is about?"
"..."
"Well, all you can do is try harder next time."
"I've tried that. I've been a trainer for five years and, even though I've beaten the Orange League and conquered the Kanto Battle Frontier, I've yet to get higher in a Regional League than eighth."
"Well, maybe you need a break from challenging the Leagues for a while."
"I don't think that that is going to help."
"Hmph, fine then... actually..."
"Actually what?"
"No need to worry, I've got an idea but it's going to take a few days to get everything I need, alright?"
"I don't know, tell me what you're thinking of doing."
"You'll find out in no more than 4 days, but first, I want you to watch this final match."
"Okay, sure."
3 days later everybody in the Pokémon centre was asleep after the celebrations of the conclusion of the Sinnoh League, except for one. Dawn was creeping from her room around to the one next to hers that belonged to Ash Ketchum. When she entered the room she crept into his bedroom and quietly, so as he wouldn't wake up, walked over to his bed and injected something into the vein in his arm. Her mission completed, she then went back to her room and went to sleep.
The next day, at 7 o'clock, Ash woke up and immediately knew something was different. He sat up in bed and was surprised when, instead of two locks of hair falling down across his forehead, there were actually two bangs hanging down blocking his peripheral vision. He said to himself "what the...," frowning in confusion, grabbing hold of one of them. He then walked into the bathroom provided by the Pokémon Centre and looked in the mirror, what he saw surprised him enough to cause him to faint.
2 hours later Brock had had enough of waiting around for Ash to get up and decided to get him. When he got in the room he started calling out "Ash, Ash." Having had enough of the silent treatment he decided to go to the bedroom, Ash was not there. So he then went into the bathroom and saw a fainted girl there.
Author's Notes:
I apologise for the short chapter but it is merely an introduction into the story and I could not think of any ways to make it longer.
Ash will start to deal with the changes in the next chapter.
This story is a standalone and has absolutely nothing to do with my other story
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