I came up with the general plot on the way to school one day, listening to Pinball Wizard, by The Who. This is an alternate universe, so everything you know about May and Ash won't apply here. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I do not own Pokemon, Pokemon belongs to Game Freak and Nintendo. This is merely a parody.
(I know it's a Rock Band 2 video, but this is a rather good quality version of the song if you have never heard it before.) .com/watch?v=sf-7Hsi8cO0
Ever since I was a young boy
I've played the silver ball
May Maple is this hot-headed, attention loving girl that thinks she is the best trainer ever... Nobody could beat her in a 6 v 6 battle. Never.
From Soho down to Brighton
I must have played them all
People came all the way from Sinnoh and remote parts of Hoenn to find her and challenge her.
One day, on her journey through the eastern part of Kanto, she comes across this somewhat shy and passive boy named Ash Ketchum.
He gets the courage to ask her to battle. May softens up, noting that he probably just started his own journey and is rather weak, and agrees. They find a clearing in a field nearby and set up the rules.
But I ain't seen nothing like him
In any amusement hall
May sends out Espeon, while Ash releases his Gabite. After just a few rounds of attacks go by, it is clear that Ash has the lead. He happens to out-manuever every trick May knows. How can this be?
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
He stands like a statue
Becomes part of the machine
As the battles continue, Ash has completely changed from the inside out. He is just as fired up and excited as May had been her whole life, something she's never seen before in a rival. Usually, people cower in fear when the duel her.
Feeling all the bumpers
Always playing clean
Espeon falls, not being able to take another Dragon Rush.
"What? How!?" May shrieks. "Ugh! This isn't close to being over! Milotic, take the field and use Surf!"
As soon as the beautiful sea serpent is out of her ball, a gushing wave of water is sent to Gabite, threatening to drown him.
He plays by intuition
The digit counters fall
"Gabite, you know what to do!" Ash commanded. Gabite just nodded. Suddenly he opened up his arms, and bellowed up into the sky. Just as the wave is about to hit him, all the water magically evaporates and turns into a thin mist. May is dumbfounded. That was brilliant... He just used a Sunny Day to completely negate the wave. That must have been one strong attack.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
He's a pinball wizard
There's got to be a twist
A pinball wizard
He's got such a supple wrist
Eventually May is comepletely bewildered. Ash clearly has the lead now.
How do you think he does it?
(I don't know)
What makes him so good?
"How is this kid beating me? He has tricks that I didn't know were even possible! How did he learn all this!? He looks so... so small and weak!"
He ain't got no distractions
Can't hear those buzzers and bells
Don't see no lights a flashin'
Plays by sense of smell
Eventually, a crowd of trainers and passers-by stop to watch what seems to be a heated battle. May is used to the attention, and hopes Ash will shrink back into the shy, timid nature that she saw earlier.
He doesn't even notice there are others around, because he is totally focused on the battle.
Always gets a replay
Never tilts at all
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball
The battles go on for hours. By the end of the day, trainer and Pokemon alike are exhausted from having to work and be so focused on the enemy's next move.
I thought I was
The Bally table king
But I just handed
My pinball crown to him
May has been defeated, 0-2. She is heartbroken, confused, and ashamed. How could she have possibly losed to this dumb kid!?
That's when she looks up and studies him again. Ash's spirit and vigor have left him, and he's back to his shy, withdrawn self. He tries to ignore all the questions and cheers from the crowd of trainers and walks off back to the route, headed south.
May chases him, and eventually catches up. At first she is mad, and demands to know how he won. He just shrugs and keeps going.
May's anger vents off though, and as she follows him down the road, she realizes that he might be a good mentor and teacher...
"Hey, Ash... I'm sorry I blew up on you. You're an amazing battler. Would you mind teaching me how you got so good at battling?"
To which he happily answers yes, and they forge a friendship and decide to travel together.
By now it is sunset, and as the two walk off down the road, towards their dreams of being the greatest Pokemon Masters ever...
Even on my usual table
He can beat my best
His disciples lead him in
And he just does the rest
He's got crazy flipper fingers
Never seen him fall
Within a few years, Ash and May are famous world-wide for being the strongest and most dangerous tag team battlers around.
Even farther in the future, they both decide to live together and open a Trainers School, which they run until reach old age.
That deaf, dumb and blind kid
Sure plays a mean pinball...
The End.