What do you know!? I'm actually continuing this story!
To be honest I wasn't sure if I would, I mainly wrote the first chapter to get the idea written down before I either lost interest in it, or I forgot about it.
Never fear though! Because now I'm back with a burning desire to continue this story! Also to figure out which way I want to take it! But that's basically all my stories.
I'll have a longer note at the bottom where I'll bring up a few important things but until then, enjoy this chapter!
Pallet Town, Professor Oak's Lab…
It didn't take Delia and the Professor to long to pull apart the two Pokémon. The two had been so focused on each other they hadn't even noticed the humans entering the room. They did, however, notice when they each felt themselves being picked up gently, but firmly.
Ash, upon realizing who it was holding him, stopped struggling and calmed down and took the brief time before any scolding could begin to look around the lab and wince. He really had made quite bit of a mess here while fighting that annoying little electric type. But he was justified! The little yellow mouse had started it! He was only defending himself and had in no way enjoyed having the opportunity to get back at the other Pokémon!
Okay, maybe he had enjoyed it just a little.
Of course, the tussle had hardly been a proper battle, he hadn't used any proper moves and neither had the other guy. Really, the best name for what they had been doing was wrestling, which had apparently been more than enough to mess up the lab. If he could he would've apologized to the professor but the point was mostly moot considering said human would not be able to understand him if he did.
Actually, the professor seemed to be too preoccupied to really notice even if he could understand what Ash said to him. He was far too busy attempting to calm the rather outraged electric type in his hands. The little guy would have been ferocious if he were… well… large enough to pose a threat.
"Now calm down Pichu, I'm sure we can work out whatever your problems with Ash are, right?" The professor chuckled good naturedly in what was surely an attempt to hide the concern at how the Pokémon he was holding was acting.
Pichu, as Ash now knew he was called, was clearly unhappy with the current predicament. "Let go of me human or I'll blast you with all my might!"
"Blast?" Ash muttered wondering what the smaller Pokémon could possibly do that could qualify as a "blast."
"Professor Oak, do you need any help with Pichu?" Delia offered and Ash barely resisted growling at the idea of that rodent anywhere near his trainer! That was not allowed to happen and he would make sure it didn't happen! Fortunately, before he could do more than briefly growl and start to wiggle himself out of Delia's grip and into a better leaping position, Professor Oak spoke up.
"There's no need for that, I have him perfectly under control." Oak announced as he managed to get a firm grip on Pichu's torso, keeping him from wiggling around or escaping and running off to cause more problems. Unfortunately for the professor, that put him in perfect range of what Pichu was planning to do.
Out of the other three occupants of the room, it was Ash who got the most warning, and that warning consisted of the only other Pokémon present muttering, "Alright, take this then!"
The only warning the Professor and Delia had was the small Pokémon clenching his small paws and growling "Pi-chu!"
The rodent-like Pokémon's body was surrounded in a yellow electric glow that momentarily acted as the primary light source in the lab, seemingly darkening everything else. It was difficult for the labs occupants to notice this though. Mainly because the electric type attack had quickly targeted made contact with the targets of his ire.
Eyes bulged and limbs splayed as the uncomfortable efforts of the electric attack coursed through the two humans and one Zorua's bodies. After the pain had passed all three of them collapsed, lightly seared but overall very much alive.
Pichi stood triumphantly atop his victims for a moment looking very pleased with himself. It barely lasted a moment however as he start tottering dangerously before collapsing unconscious.
Oak managed to recover first despite his age, this was hardly the first time that Pichu had unleashed an electric blast at him and he was starting to become used to it, he had already made the joke that he was just getting his batteries recharged a bit and made a few lab assistants chuckle awkwardly.
"Sorry about that Delia." Oak said and helped her to her feet. Ash was no longer in her arms and was instead watching Pichu and making sure he didn't get back up and shock them. "Pichu's not exactly the biggest fan of humans for some reason."
"I'm okay professor, I've been shocked by electric types before." Delia waved off his concern. "Now Ash, what did I tell you about behaving." The Zorua stiffened, he had been hoping that Pichu's attack would have kept the attention off of him, unfortunately that did not seem to be the case.
In a last ditch effort to avoid retribution he transformed into a Pichu again and collapsed on the ground next to the original! They would never know which one was the original now!
Delia stared for a moment at her Pokémon before sighing and crouching down. "Oh what am I going to do with you?" She asked rhetorically before lightly flicking him in the forehead, forcing him to drop his illusion and appear his regular form again. Ash had the decency to look sheepish at his failed (and poorly thought out) plan.
"Come on, at least help us clean up the mess you two made?"
Ash POV, One Hour Later…
The mess had been cleaned up without too much effort, most of the time had been spent trying to resist attacking that annoying little electric rodent again. Or in the case of Delia and Professor Oak, keeping them from fighting each other.
It was so hard not to try starting anything with that annoying Pichu, not only did he refuse to help once he woke back up but he also kept making fun of Ash for helping to clean up and saying a bunch of rude things about him listening to humans all the while.
Honestly he didn't get what the big deal was, Delia had raised him and while he did go off and do his own thing occasionally he generally listened to her. Not to mention she was his trainer it was kind of her job to make sure he learned right from wrong and took responsibility for what he did.
They had done a bit of battle training too, but since Delia didn't travel much anymore so most of it was really just a form of exercise for him rather than preparations for an actual battle against other trainers or gym leaders or something. Although the idea of going around on an adventure of his own did sound pretty cool, maybe once he got his human illusion perfected he could look into it more.
But for the time being he was sitting in the now clean lab on Delia's lap, occasionally shooting dirty looks at the electric type who thought himself too good to sit with everybody else and had perched himself at the top of a nearby shelf.
So distracted by his deeply despised foe that he ended up missing most of the conversation between Delia and Professor Oak. Fortunately for him it seemed like thus far they had been discussing more mundane things rather than anything too interesting, at least in his opinion anyway. Most of it sounded like boring human stuff anyway like something called taxes, those sounded horrible.
Ash began to lose focus on the conversation again and simply laid down and decided to rest, he was a bit tired out at this point after that whole struggle with the Pichu and then cleaning up the mess afterwards.
However, the conversation soon turned to a topic that regained his interests. That topic being the very same Pichu that Ash hoped he wouldn't have to see again after he left the lab today, maybe some poor trainer will end up taking him. It seemed a bit unlikely but Ash could rest easy with that image in his head.
Despite his own personal thoughts on how the menace should be dealt with, he allowed himself to listen into the conversation between the two humans.
"Where did Pichu come from anyway? I don't remember ever hearing about a Pichu's being in the Kanto region." Delia asked conversationally.
"Well considering there are wild Pikachu living here, I'm sure there are a few Pichu out in the wild." Professor Oak explained. "They probably are just good at keeping themselves hidden from prying eyes. That or the older Pikachu do everything in there power to keep them hidden, they are the youngest after all. It would make sense for the older one to want to help keep them safe"
"Well you have a good point, but where did you get this one then?" Delia asked glancing over at Pichu where the electric type seemed to be ignoring the rest of the room. Ash followed her look and glared for a moment but it was clear Pichu wasn't even paying attention to them at this point.
"Pichu was sent to me by a colleague of mine from Johto, Professor Elm, apparently he found him chewing on his electrical wires in between the walls." The professor laughed heartily and Ash failed to contain his own snicker. Hah! What kind of dummy got himself caught while chewing on electrical wires? "But since Professor Elm was having so much trouble with him, he sent him over to me to see if I would have better look." Oak's laugh turned a bit awkward now and both Delia and Ash picked up on it.
"You haven't been having much success with him have you?" Delia asked somewhat dryly, shooting the professor a knowing look. Ash tried his best to replicate it so as to help her get the point across.
"Unfortunately... No." Professor Oak coughed into his hand and tried not to meet Delia's gaze. "He's got a difficult personality to deal with and acts out most of the time, this isn't the first time I've found a mess he created, albeit with a bit of help this time." Ash resisted doing anything to bring more attention to himself.
Professor Oak continued on unhindered, "To be honest, I was actually hoping being around another Pokémon like Ash there might help him calm down a bit, most of the ones I have at the lab are a bit too mature to make the kind of connection that Pichu needs right now." The professor sighed. "To tell you the truth, I'm nearing my wits end."
The conversation lapsed into silence for a few moments and Ash knew that Delia was thinking and for some reason he had the feeling that he wasn't going to like whatever her idea was.
"Well we could try to help out with Pichu!" She suggested and Ash turned and stared at her aghast. She noticed his look and directed her next words at him. "Oh don't give me that look, you're the one who messed up the lab and both of you clearly need to learn to get along." Ash pouted, it wasn't his fault, that annoying Pichu had been the one who started it.
Ash quickly glanced at Pichu, he still didn't seem to be paying attention to them but his ears were twitching a bit so maybe he was listening in on their conversation, it was hard to tell and Ash didn't feel like going over to ask him.
"What is it you're suggesting?" Professor Oak asked looking interested in whatever Delia was offering.
Delia smiled, not her usual one but one that Ash hadn't seen before, one that he might even call dangerous. "Well Pichu clearly has a lot of pent up energy and I've given Ash battle training, but I haven't been able to give him too much actual experience."
"So what do you Professor?" Delia asked, "Let's have a Pokemon battle!"
And that's the end of this chapter! I probably could have made it a bit longer but I've had a lot going on and haven't been able to completely put my focus into this so hopefully when we get to the next chapter it will be able to contain my focus better.
It will be a battle after all and perhaps the start of a legendary friendship!
Sorry for lack of update last week and yesterday, I was busy with school stuff, especially considering I'm graduating this year so focus is required to make sure I look good to colleges.
Anyway, I have a couple of questions I would like opinions on.
Firstly, and most importantly, how should Ash communicate once he gets his human illusion down. I have a few ideas about how he could speak to people, they are:
Telepathy (like in the movies)
Learn to Talk (Meowth could do it, why not him?)
Aura (like Lucario or something)
Or he could just learn sign language or pretend to be mute but I feel like those will get old quick in the long run.
Second question, Pichu/Pikachu getting a nickname, yay or nay? I was just going to reference the Electric Tale of Pikachu and call him Jean-Luc Pikachu but if nobody wants that then we'll just leave him with his name.
Anyway, reviews!
Rickymon Gaming: Thanks!
Guest: Glad to hear it, hopefully I can meet your expectations.
Ultima-owner: I did it more for humor and plot related purposes but if it's cute, it's cute.
Jakeroo123: He hasn't been raised (much) by Professor Oak and I hopefully have a believable reason for his problem with humans that will come up in the next few chapters. And thank you for your opinion on the nickname I have taken it into consideration as you are not the only one with this concern.
Battlesny: Yeah but Team Rocket are kinda idiots so the obvious idea hasn't occurred to them, or Meowth specifically.
Loki921: Happy to hear you like it and I have continued it indeed!
That's all for now folks, see you either next time I update this story or in one of my other works!
See ya!
~FriTik
R&R
