"Hey, Mewtwo.." Ash looked at the small clone pokemon who walked beside him.
The small light purple pokemon turned to him, the young different colored Pikachu on his head. "Yes Ash?"
"Let's do some training so that I can see the moves you guys know."
Pikachu nodded, jumping off of Mewtwo's head.
"Papa taught me Psychic and Calm Mind. I'm learning how to use Iron Tail." Mewtwo said, opening up a mental link to the three of them could communicate.
Ash smiled. "That's good. What moes do you know, Pika-pal?"
Pikachu's tail twitched. "I know Volt Tackle, Thunder Punch and Growl. Mama said that I know Volt Tackle because of a special stone she found and kept as a necklace before she met papa. When we were chased away, she lost it. I learned Thunder Punch from my papa 'fore he and mama got caught so I could get away."
"I'm sorry to hear that, Pikachu."
Pikachu nodded. "That's okay. I know I'll see them again, one day."
Ash took out his pokedex. "Hmm. Says here that Volt Tackle is an egg move that can only be passed to the baby when a female Pikachu is in possession of a Light Ball at the time the egg is laid." Ash said, reading the entry from the Pokedex and showing the picture of the stone to his Pokemon.
Pikachu nodded. "Yeah. That's what she had on her."
Ash nodded again. "Alright. Well, let's try out some training and then break for lunch."
"Yeah!" Thus the training began. As Mewtwo and Pikachu were training, Ash looked at the Teachy TV he obtained as a birthday gift from his grandfather, calling Pikachu and Mewtwo over when he found the video he had been looking for.
"This is Iron Tail." He pointed to the glowing tail on the screen. "It's a Steel type move. Mewtwo is on his way to learning the move, but I want you guys to keep watching this and practicing the move, okay?"
Mewtwo and Pikachu nodded. They went to work, going through the motions of using their tails to attack a large tree. Ash decided to do some training of his own, jogging around the area where they were training. When he was tired from that, but Mewtwo and Pikachu were still practicing, Ash decided to stop running and sit down.
"Guys, come on, let's take a break." Ash said, watching the two pokemon.
"I'm close to getting it!" Pikachu called, running over to him.
Mewtwo floated over to them. "I'm not. Calm Mind surely helped because I started to get frustrated the first few times."
Ash nodded. "Good job, guys. Let's take a lunch break and keep on trekking."
"Yeah!" The Pokemon cheered.
Soon after lunch, the three of them packed everything up and continued walking to Viridian City. After a while, they heard creek water. In the distance, they saw a girl fishing.
"Sorry, Mewtwo," Ash began. "Into the Pokeball for now." Ash said, pulling out Mewtwo's Pokeball.
Mewtwo nodded. "Alright." He said sadly before he was sucked in.
Ash looked at the Pokeball. "It's okay pal, you'll be out again soon." He put the ball back on his belt as Pikachu jumped onto his shoulder.
Ash walked by where the girl was fishing. Not wanting to bother her, he just kept walking. That is, until thunder was heard in the distance.
"Uh oh." Ash ducked into the trees and found a large one to duck into.
He set a blanket in the opening and went back out to get some firewood that wasn't too wet to light a small and tame fire to keep warm.
"Well, we're stuck here for the time being." Ash said, poking the fire. He released Mewtwo from his Pokeball. "Who wants to watch some Teachy TV to pass the time?"
"Sure." Mewtwo said.
"I guess." Pikachu said from his place on Ash's sleeping bag beside the boy.
".. This is Pokedude signing off!"
The small TV turned off as Ash opened up some Pokefood for Pikachu and Mewtwo. He handed them the cans of food and pulled a sandwich from his packback for himself.
"What's that?" Pikachu asked, spying a small ketchup bottle.
"Oh." Ash looked at the bottle. "It's ketchup. Do you want to try some?"
Pikachu nodded, holding out a piece of Pokefood. "Please?"
Ash took the small bottle and squeezed it lightly to make a small dallop fall onto the Pokefood.
Pikachu ate it, and looked up at Ash. "More?"
Ash blinked, and then the bottle was out of his hand. "Huh.." He said, watching Pikachu begin to drink it. "I guess he likes ketchup. But that's fine. I never really liked it much anyway."
Mewtwo shook his head, eating his food. "I don't really like it much either. Maybe because Sam would mix it with tofu and hot sauce." The small clone winced, remembering the taste. It haunted the small clone.
Ash laughed. "I guess that would make it so you don't like it."
Mewtwo laughed as well. "I guess."
Soon the three of them were sleeping peacefully.
Ash soon woke up to a familiar feeling. "Bluew!"
The blue cat Pokemon looked over to Ash. "Hey Ash."
"What is this?" Asked a familiar voice. It was Pikachu, Mewtwo at his side.
"Welcome little brother, new friend, Ash." Bluew greeted them.
"Hey big brother." Mewtwo said to the other cat.
"Holy Arceus! Your Mew!" Pikachu said.
Bluew laughed softly. "Yes, new friend. I am a Mew. I've been watching this region for many years." He looked to Ash and Mewtwo. "So, I see your journey has started off well." He chuckled. "Let's see.. You didn't make Pikachu mad, didn't fail at catching a Pidgey, granted you didn't try to catch one anyway, didn't make a Spearow angry enough to call it's entire flock leading to a wipeout of Pikachu's energy. Good, very good."
Ash smiled. "Thanks Bluew."
Bluew nodded. "So, new friend," he looked to Pikachu. "Do you have a name. Other than your species name, I mean."
Pikachu nodded. "Yeah. My mama and papa named me Lightning."
Ash tilted his head. "You could have mentioned that."
Lightning looked at Ash. "To be fair, you didn't ask."
Ash shrugged. True, they didn't. He looked at Bluew. "Why did you come to see us?"
Bluew hummed. "I can't tell you everything, because that won't be any fun," he chuckled. "But, I will say that I'm just seeing everything as innocent as it is now before you guys start making headway."
"Okay.." Ash said. "Whatever that means, I guess."
"Well, that's all for this visit, I'm afraid. You guys better wake up, the storm's over!"
Ash woke up, in the real world, first. "Wow. That was a crazy message.." He said, looking at Mewtwo and Pika- Lightning.
AN: I know, short chapter. But there's a reason; I lost track of time because of work and this was all I had time to type up. Story will NOT be updated during December. I will be writing a Christmas themed one shot instead that will be posted sometime during December. Don't worry, I have plans for this story. I'm not abandoning it, it's just on hiatus for now.
