Seeing the girl lying on the ground Brock squatted down next to her and shook her shoulder, saying "hey, hey, wake up."

The girl started to stir and Brock, thinking that seeing him standing over her might shock her into fainting again. When the girl started to wake up she rolled over and murmured "Brock...is that you?"

Brock, confused at the girl knowing his name, said "uh, I'm sorry, but I've never seen you before."

"What do you mean never seen me before? It's me."

"It's you...I'm sorry, I still don't know what you mean miss."

"Miss...what are you talking about?"

"Well, the term does seem to apply to you. Other than that, what are you doing in my friends' room?"

"What are you talking about? It's me, Ash."

"Eh?"

"What do you mean eh..." Ash trailed off remembering what he, now she, had seen in the mirror. Ash then continued "wait...I remember now. I went into the bathroom when I saw that my hair was longer than it should have been and then I saw that..."

"That...?"

"What you see before you happened...wait a minute, Dawn must have something to do with this" Ash said, remembering the conversation that he, now she, had with dawn.

"Now Ash, if that's really who you are, how can Dawn possibly have anything to do with you being a girl?"

"I know it sounds crazy but she said that she knew of a way that would let me have a break from Pokémon League competitions for a while."

"Well, I guess that this could do it...still though, how would she be able to do it?"

"I don't know, all I know is that now I'm a girl and she did it to me."

"Why don't we talk to Dawn first and then decide what to do from there."

"Yes, I suppose that that is a good starting point."

"Okay, first things first though..."

"What do you mean?"

"You're still in your pyjamas, you need to get dressed."

"Ah, right, there is that."

5 minutes later, after Ash was dressed, Ash and Brock headed to the main area of the Pokémon Centre looking for Dawn. When they got there they couldn't see dawn anywhere, so they went to the check in desk. When they got there Brock said "oh beauteous maiden, have you seen our friend?"

The Nurse Joy had a sweat drop appear on the side of her head and said "I think that she left about 20 minutes ago, why?"

"Well, you see Nurse Joy we think that she might have had something to do with my friends current predicament."

"What predicament is that?"

"I used to be a guy yesterday" Ash said.

"That's nice dear. I think that I need to make a phone call to get you some help."

"I'm not crazy."

"I still think I need to call someo..."

"She's telling the truth I'm afraid" Brock said.

"What do you mean?"

"He means that I'm Ash Ketchum."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that I am the trainer that came in the top eight in the tournament just held."

"Okay, say I believe you, what do you expect me to be able to do about it?"

"I don't know, I guess I thought that because you're a doctor you would've heard something about something that could do...well...this."

"I'm sorry but I haven't."

Ash sighed and said "Then I guess that I'll be stuck like this for the foreseeable future then."

"I suppose so...well, that being the case you're going to be needing some new clothes."

"What! Why?"

Nurse Joy looked at Ash as though he was delirious and said "because, now that you're a girl, your going to be needing clothes that are designed for girls."

Ash sighed and said "I guess you're right."

"I know I am...now, I'll call my mother and ask her if she can take over for today."

"What? What do you mean your mother, how old are you?"

"I'm 19; why?"

"Oh, no reason really."

"There's always a reason that someone says something."

Ash sighed and said "I guess that it's just that it's the first time that I've come across a Nurse Joy as young as you are."

"I guess I'll take that as a compliment. Okay, now...shopping."

"Oh dear god NOOOOO!" Ash screamed.

3 hours later, when Ash and the kind Nurse Joy returned to the Pokémon centre, Ash had everything he, now she, needed to travel as a girl. She was now wearing a black maxi-skirt and a red tank top with and black sandals. When they entered the centre Brock ran up to Ash and fell to one knee and said "please tell me your name so that I may emblazon it upon my heart."

Ash turned to Pikachu that was perched upon her shoulder and said "Pikachu, Thunderbolt his ass."

Pikachu, at his masters command said "Pi-i-i-i-k-a-a-a-a-chu-u-u-u-u-u!" gathering enough electricity for an extremely powerful electric attack.

Brock, seeing that the stunningly beautiful woman that he had just hit on was with a Nurse Joy, connected the dots and started backing away saying "A-A-A-A-Ash..." before he got hit by the Thunderbolt that Pikachu had been charging. After the attack stopped there was a charred Brock twitching on the ground stuttering "that was shocking..." and then fainted.

Nurse Joy turned to Ash and asked "was that strictly necessary?"

"Yes" Ash replied.

Nurse Joy sighed and said "well, now that you're set for clothes we really need to do something about your name."

"What's wrong with my name?"

"Well, you can hardly walk around calling yourself Ash now can you?"

"I guess not."

"So, any thoughts?"

"It's not something that you really think about, you know?"

"No, I suppose not...well, what about Ashley?"

"Well, it's not too different, I guess Ashley will be fine...after all, it'll only be for a short time after all, heh, heh, heh heh."

"Yes, well we can always hope."

Ash, now Ashley sighed and said "I'm trying not to think about the other possibility right now."

"I suppose that's fine."

"Well, by now your friend, if you can really call someone that would do something like this a friend, is probably long-gone."

"Yeah, if I were Dawn I would have high-tailed it as soon as I did this..." Ashley said, indicating herself.

"Yes, well, what are you going to do now?"

Ashley sighed and said "well, first of all, I need to contact Professor Oak to tell him of what's happened..."

"You know Professor Oak?"

"Yeah, his grandson and I used to play together growing up."

"So, what'll he be able to do about your situation?"

"Probably nothing, however, if I'm going to keep on travelling I'm going to have to have my Pokémon trainer information updated."

"I suppose so."

"Also, this time I think I'll send Pikachu back to the Professors Lab."

"Really?"

"Yeah, Pikachu..." Ashley indicated her starter Pokémon "...will automatically identify me as Ash Ketchum."

"I suppose so."

"Especially if I'm going to go to Johto again."

"You're challenging the Johto league again?"

"Yeah, I think that I heard that they've started up a Pokémon contest league too so I might give that a try as well, well, I'll know when I get there."

"Well, I'll let you go and contact the professor and I'll get changed back into my uniform."

"Alright."

2 minutes later Ashley arrived at the Pokémon centres phone room and then went over to one of the phones. She dialled the number of Professor Oaks lab and, when the Professor answered the phone he said "hi...uh, I'm sorry, do I know you?"

"Professor, it's me, Ash."

"What?"

Ashley said "I said it's me, Ash Ketchum."

"Yeah, pull the other one."

Ashley sighed and said "I know it doesn't really look like me, but I really am Ash Ketchum."

"Prove it."

"You gave me this Pikachu..." Ashley indicated Pikachu, who had just jumped on top of Ashley's head "...when I was late getting to your lab."

"Okay, what were you wearing?"

"My pyjamas."

The Professor said "okay, say I believe you, how did this happen?"

I don't really know, all I know is that I was a guy last night, I went to sleep and I wake up and this has happened" Ashley said running both of her hands through the air indicating herself.

"Okay, so has anything else happened?"

"Yeah, Dawn, my supposed friend, disappeared."

"Okay, I've heard of something like this before..."

"Really, what is it?"

"Hmmmm,..." Professor Oak said resting his chin on his fist "I'm sorry Ash, I can't remember right now."

"Well, I suppose that's alright for now, just when you do..."

"I'll contact you right away."

"Thanks."

"So, what are you going to do in the meantime?"

"I was thinking go through Johto again."

"Hmm, a new person, a new journey, is that it?"

"Pretty much."

"Okay then, I'll have to change the information on your trainer license then."

"Yeah, that's why I called you."

"Okay, just give me a second..." Professor Oak said as he typed on his computer "...ah, here we are; Ash Ketchum...Now let's see here..."

"Uh professor" Ashley interrupted.

"Yes."

"I was wondering..."

"What?"

"Can you make a new trainer license for me?"

"Why certainly."

"Thanks."

"Why?"

"Well, I think that it would just be easier, ya know?"

"Well, that's alright I suppose."

"Thanks."

"I'm just going to need some information from you."

"That's fine."

"What will be the name on the license?"

"Ashley Ketchum."

"Alright, date of birth?"

"Same as before."

"Gender, obviously female."

"Obviously" Ashley said in a dry tone.

"Date of issue...well today will do. Starter...Pikach..."

"Uh, about that."

"Yes?"

"I'm actually going to send Pikachu back to you professor."

"Really?"

"Yeah, it kind of gives me away don't you think?"

"I suppose so, you have travelled Johto before after all. So, who should I put as your starter then?"

"Gible."

"Gible, but that's not a starter from any region."

"I know, but during my travels here I met a lady who told me that she was from a village of dragon trainers and that they all receive a dragon type as their starter...so-o-o-o..."

"I suppose that should be alright then. Now, last but not least 'home region.'"

"Sinnoh."

"I suppose it would have to be, wouldn't it."

"Yeah."

"Alright, all done. Go to the Pokémon transfer device and put your pokedex in the slot provided and when you send your Pokémon over I'll send you Gible and your new trainer license."

"Thanks professor, I'll do that now." After saying that Ashley went over to the Pokémon transfer device and put five pokeballs into the pokeball indentations provided and then turned to Pikachu holding a sixth pokeball. She crouched down so that she was closer to Pikachu's height and said "I know you don't like this but I have to put you in a pokeball so that I can send you to Professor Oaks lab." Pikachu shook it's head from side to side with a, quite frankly, pathetic look on its face. Ashley continued on "look, I don't want to do it either but it's the only way."

Pikachu continued to shake its head when Brock, who had come around just in time to hear the last bit of the conversation between Ashley and Pikachu, said "I could take him to the Professors lab if you want?"

"Thanks Brock, is that okay with you Pikachu?"

Pikachu nodded its head extravagantly saying "pika pika."

"Well, that's settled then" Ashley said getting up, turning around and pressing the transfer button on the machine. When the transfer was complete Ashley said "well then, that's that, I'm off to the Johto region."

"Well, I'll see you around then."

"Yeah, sure thing Brock."

"Well, not without saying goodbye to me I hope" the Nurse Joy that had been helping Ashley since the transformation.

"Of course not, how could I forget you?"

"Well, that's alright then" Nurse Joy said, blushing.

Ashley smiled went over and said "thank you for all you've done for me, really. I don't know how I could ever repay you."

"Well, I can think of one way."

"Really, what's that?"

"Come back here once you're done in Johto."

"I'd love to."

Brock said "Ehhhh, how'd this happen?" backing up in amazement.

"How'd what happen, Brock?"

"How in the world did you get a Nurse Joy to fall in love with you before me?" Brock said sobbing.

"Well, that's easy ..." the Nurse Joy said "...She was just herself."

"Eh, it's really that easy?"

"No."

"Well, we really have to be on our way."

"Yeah, I know" Nurse Joy said sombrely.

"Don't worry, I'll be back as soon as I can, alright?" Ashley said, lifting the Nurse Joy's face up by her chin.

Nurse Joy stood on her toes and, throwing her arms over Ashley's shoulders, leaned in and kissed her, which Ashley eagerly returned. She said "you'd better be."

"I will, have no worries about that, right now though, my boat is going to leave in a little over half an hour."

"Goodbye."

"See you soon."

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Authors Notes

In this story Ashley is 17 so her being taller than the Nurse Joy is possible

Brock has been asked to take over the Pewter City gym full time while Forrest goes on his journey

Please message me with possible OC's.

OC's along the lines of Takuto will not be accepted. I am quite capable of coming up with such characters on my own.