Because I'm bored and this fanfic is really going to be one of my shorter ones, here's the second chapter!

Here, we continue on with Ash, Pikachu, and Charizard after they had got away from the big storm, albeit, not in the way they expected.

Hope you all enjoy!

"Why does my head feel so weird?" Charizard thought to himself with half-closed eyes as he rubbed what he thought what was his right claw all over the top of his head, feeling something thick and hairy.

Charizard's mind started to hurt again, causing him to hold his head still for a moment until all of his consciousness began to return. With his mind all straight now, Charizard was able to now feel the rest of his body, and something instantly did not feel right.

"Why do I feel so small and skinny?"

Feeling suspicious, Charizard took his "claw" off his head to look at. Much to his surprise, it wasn't the scaly orange three-clawed limb he was used to. Instead, it was an arm made of flesh along with a five-fingered hand covered by a black finger-less glove.

"What the..."

Charizard then looked down to the rest of his body, seeing a figure a lot more slender than the one he knew, including much longer legs and feet that had toes. Not only that, he also saw some familiar-looking clothes he appeared to be wearing. It didn't take long for Charizard to realize that these clothes were his trainer's clothes, hoodies, jeans and all.

"Why am I so skinny? And why am I wearing Ash's clothes?!"

Charizard then noticed that, besides some other things, we was missing certain appendages. Looking back, Charizard saw both of his wings and flame-lit tail missing, only seeing the back of his trainer's clothes that he was wearing.

"This has gotta be a dream..."

Charizard brought out his new arms in front of him again and looked straight at them. Moving the fingers around, he saw he was in complete control of them, same with the legs as he moved them up and down. Charizard then grabbed the bottom of the hoodie and pulled it up, seeing even more flesh, along with a naval, and he brought the hoodie back down, creeped out. It was now completely clear that this wasn't his naturally body.

"What's going on?!" Charizard spoke before instantly clasping his mouth shut with his hands. What came out wasn't the usually grunt or roar, instead, it was a clear speaking human voice that belonged to his trainer.

"Am I a human now?" Charizard dreadfully whispered.

He soon took notice of the lake nearby, quickly crawling up the edge to look at his reflection. What he saw was not the orange scaled snout that came along with a fanged mouth, blue eyes, and two blunt horns on the top. It was a human head with a regular mouth, a small puny nose, brown eyes with dark eyebrows above, z-shaped marks on his cheeks, and the raven-dark hair that he had felt a while ago. This wasn't just any human body. It was Ash's.

"No. No, no! This can't be real! This just HAS to be a dream! It has to!"

Charizard then noticed Pikachu starting to wake up. The mouse stood up, rubbed his eyes, and looked around for his trainer and teammate, quickly noticing the technical latter running up to him and bending down to his level with a horrified face.

"Pikachu! You gotta use Thunderbolt on me right now! Please! Wake me up from this nightmare!"

Pikachu looked confused at first, but he obediently complied, giving Charizard a Thunderbolt that was effective, but not too powerful due to all the energy Pikachu had used up for the storm. Charizard collapsed to the ground once again with his eyes closed.

"Pika Pi?"

Pikachu approached the body of his trainer, a little unsure at the moment. He was happy that he was okay from the storm, but he was really weirded out right now, considering his trainer immediately demanded the mouse to attack him when he woke up.

Charizard opened his eyes and looked down, seeing that he was still in the body of his trainer.

"No! It's not a dream, this is real!"

"Pikachu?"

"Pikachu, I'm not Ash, I'm Charizard, stuck in Ash's body!"

The mouse tilted his head. Perhaps his trainer landed to hard on his head.

"I'm serious! And also-"

Before Charizard could finish, he noticed his original body lying on its side not too far from him and Pikachu.

"If I'm in Ash's body, then that means Ash is in my body."

Charizard got off the ground and walked towards the large orange body that was once his. Pikachu ran ahead and stood in front of the lizard's sleeping snout. The electric mouse was still unsure of the current situation, especially if it was even real or not, but it was probably best to check on the lizard right now.

"Pika Pi?" Pikachu said as he lightly tapped the lizard's face with his tail.

Ash woke up and after blinking a few times, he saw Pikachu right in front of him.

"Rawr! Rawrr!" Ash unawarely roared as he happily hugged Pikachu and pulled him close.

Pikachu knew what Ash was saying, in that he was relieved he was alright from the fall.

"Looks like he doesn't know," Charizard whispered to himself. "Should I just tell him or wait til' he finds out himself?"

"Rawr rawr rawr?" Ash questioned Pikachu, asking him if Charizard was alright. This made Pikachu ultimately see that his trainer and Charizard really were in each others' bodies. After all, why would Charizard ask for the whereabouts of his own self? However, the poor mouse had no idea on how to reply Ash's question.

After a brief moment of though, Pikachu replied to Ash, "Pika pika," telling him to look down.

Ash got surprised for a moment. For a minute, it seemed like he perfectly understood Pikachu, but he digressed that for now as he did what Pikachu told him to do. Needless to say, Ash was speechless. From the way bottom were two giant feet tipped with three razor sharp fangs each, and going up, was a large torso with a cream-colored underside starting at his chest. Ash's eyes widened and he let go of Pikachu to look at his arms, seeing not his regular human humans with finger-less gloves, but two skinny arms with three claws on each limb. And like the rest of his new body, they were all covered in orange scales.

"Rawr?!"

Ash quickly jumped to his feet and he placed his claws on his neck, feeling how long it is. He then turned his head around to see two giant wings and a long tail with a burning flame at the end. Still in disbelief, Ash tried to move the tail on his own to see if it really was his, and much to his horror, it was as shown by the movements. Ash turned back around and saw the lack, quickling rushing over to it to stare at his reflection. In the lake's crystal clear, Ash saw Charizard's head; fangs, snout, blue eyes, and blunt horns. The lizard was absolutely terrified and he slowly stepped away from the lake and fell to his knees. Poor Ash didn't know what to do.

"Hey Ash..."

Ash looked back and saw his own body walking up to him. He felt a little scared inside, hoping that this was all a dream, but he knew deep down that it wasn't.

"How do you think this all happened?"

Ash thought about that, and then the realization came to him in no time.

"Rawr rawr. Rawr ra rawrr rawr."

Unfortunately for Charizard, since he was now a human, could no longer understand Pokémon. This was especially irritating for him right now as he couldn't understand his own distinct speech.

Charizard sighed and said, "Ash, do you think you could abbreviate more on what you're saying? As much as I hate saying this, I can't understand you."

Ash nodded and he repeated what he said, this time pointing to the clouds above, then to Pikachu, and lastly to both his and Charizard's heads.

"Alright, I think I get what you're saying now. So in that storm, when we both got struck by that lightning bolt, we crashed our heads into each other and that's what made our minds switch bodies."

"Rawr." said Ash with a nod.

"I guess that makes sense, but now how are we going to get back to normal?"

When that came to mind, both Ash and Charizard became worried as neither could think of a way on getting to their regular bodies. Pikachu, who has now accepted that everything that's been happening is for real, stepped between them and gave a sympathetic look for them, while also feeling the situation was his fault, seeing that he had failed to block the bolt that caused their mind swap.

"Rawrrr ra rar." Ash softly grunted as he picked up Pikachu and petted his head, telling him it wasn't his fault and thanking him for doing his best back at the storm.

Charizard, while he couldn't understand their Pokéspeech, he still knew what Ash was telling Pikachu.

"Ash is right, Pikachu."

The mouse sighed for a bit and he jumped to Charizard's shoulder.

"Well, I guess the best thing to do right is to get back to your friends at the Battle Factory, Ash."

Ash nodded in agreement.

"Think you could fly us there?" Charizard asked grudgingly, feeling that it would be embarrassing to be riding on his own body, even though it was the best option right now.

Ash though, hadn't thought about this. He obviously has never flown before as he... never had wings, but it wouldn't hurt to give it a try. He faced away from Charizard and Pikachu, lowered his back, and pointed to it, signaling them to get on. Charizard reluctantly got on Ash's back and he held Pikachu the same way his trainer did before the storm. Ash jumped from the ground and tried to flap his wings, but for some reason, he just couldn't. No matter how hard he tried, the wings didn't move an inch, and after much later, Ash gave up, having grown tired from the exertion. Seeing this, Charizard and Pikachu jumped off of Ash's back.

"You can't fly, can you Ash?"

Panting a little, Ash shook his head.

Charizard, while a little frustrated, also understood this. The power of flight was natural to Charizard as soon they evolve from Charmeleon, but Ash was not a natural Charizard, so it would take time for him to learn how to fly.

"We can just go by foot then." Charizard said with a little discontent. Even though he no longer had his natural-Charizard hotheadedness, he still had a small temper within him.

Ash, on the other hand, sighed. He felt a little ashamed and pathetic of himself for not being able to fly on the spot. Before he joined Charizard, he saw his hat lying near the lake, so he went over there and picked it up, putting it on his head. It was, of course, a lot more loose on Ash's new head, but he didn't let that bother him for the time being. With his hat back on, Ash turned back to Charizard with Pikachu on his shoulder.

"You ready, Ash?"

"Rawr."

"Good. Let's go."

The three began their way through the forest to make it back to the Battle Factory, all with particular thoughts in their minds.

Charizard wanted nothing but to switch back to his regular body already. He felt pathetic and weak in Ash's human body and it was incredibly annoying to him seeing his trainer unable to succeed his power inside his body.

Ash wanted the same thing. While he was normally optimistic and confident, his current predicament halted all of that. He felt disappointed in himself for not being able to fly and he was also scared over the thought of possibly being trapped in Charizard's body forever. This would force Ash to give up his dream of being a Pokémon Master, and thus, making him and Charizard switch lives. Charizard would be the trainer and Ash would be the Pokémon.

Pikachu was just exhausted, from both the storm and the situation. It was all going by so fast, he just wanted to sleep, though he knew if Ash and Charizard were going to fight each other, he was the one who would have to stop them.

It was still morning, yet they all knew it was going to be a long day.

Oh boy...

Ash is Charizard and Charizard is Ash now! How are they going to get out of this mess?

Thank you all for reading and please, have a nice day!