Pikachu's Life Story
By: Becky Carroll (as told to by Pikachu)
All I remember started when my trainer Ash was about 9 or 10. I was living in the forests just a half-mile away from Ash's house in Pallet Town. I was a orphan abandoned by my mother when I started coming home every day after battles usually poisoned, confused, paralyzed, halfway asleep and usually very injured.
She soon got sick of me because I couldn't battle as well my older brother, Raichu who came home everyday with a medal saying he had defeated yet another trainer. So one day she said she was going to sell everything in the house except for my things and told me to wait at home for her. A couple of hours after she left I started to get worried and went to go search for her. I found her in nearby Viridian Forest living in a new house. It was that moment I knew that my mom was ashamed to be around me and had abandoned me for that reason. I also at that moment decided that even though my mom is ashamed of me I would go and find a trainer and become the strongest Pikachu or very close to it. I thought that would show her that it was wrong to abandon me just because I was weak back then. So I worked and I worked to find the trainer who was perfect for me and eventually achieve my dream. Well, about this time Ash was old enough to become a Pokemon trainer so he went into the forests where I lived and naturally I challenged him to a battle not knowing he was not a trainer yet.
Professor Oak came to Ash's rescue and somehow captured me. I was thinking how could this have happened? I've always escaped poke balls thrown at me before. Why not this time? And now because of that feeling on that day I have been extremely scared of being inside a poke ball. When Ash got me I was excited because now I had a trainer but still afraid because I was thinking when I reached enough experience points would Ash evolve me just like I saw this man do to his Poliwhirl right in my forest.
I tried to ask Ash but he just smiled. I clearly knew that if I wanted Ash to understand me I'd have to spend months with him and hopefully not gain enough experience points for Ash to evolve me. So I made a plan. I wouldn't do anything for Ash for one month no matter how much he begged. But my plan failed and I started doing what he said by the time only one week had passed. Now I have been in the Pokemon League and have fulfilled my dream. I will always be Ash's Pikachu and will never lose my friendship in Ash and he won't evolve me either because he promised me that.
My life is complete except for not having a mother when I needed her during my childhood. But that is in my past and is not part of my life anymore because I only remember the good parts in life.