A/N: I have decided not to add Brock to my story. Not because I'm racist, but because Ash and Dawn need to learn how to take care of themselves.
In the beginning, there was one. Three did the first one make. Two did the first one make. And-
The first thing I heard when I woke up were voices. Familiar voices.
"Mhm." I still couldn't move my body very well, but whatever I was lying on, it felt better than the ground.
"Look Ash! It's waking up!" I heard someone say in relief. When I opened my eyes, I found myself staring at the girl I saw before, which startled me a bit.
"Are you OK?" I turned my head and saw the same boy who picked up the berry I wanted. That's when I realized I was on the girl's hand.
"What are you doing?" I shrieked. "Get away from me!" I shouted as I jumped out of her hand.
"Wait! Hold on!" Ash said as he stood up. As I was running toward the forest, the Pikachu I saw earlier got in front of me with it's arms spread out. Then I tried to run around the Pikachu, but then the girl's Piplup got in front of me too. Then I turned around to see the other two approach me.
"D-d-d-don't c-c-c-come a-a-a-any c-c-c-closer." I stammered in fear.
"H-hey! We won't hurt you!" The girl suddenly went toward me, making me curl up into a ball. It's a strange reaction I've developed whenever a human would come close enough, someday I'll have to break that embarrassing habit. I honestly expected the girl would hurt me or something like that because I ran from them, or because I looked like a talking doll, but instead of what I thought would happen, I felt a hand rubbing my head gently.
"Shh. Shh. It's alright." She murmured as she kept rubbing my head as soft as she could. Cautiously, I uncurled myself and faced Dawn with small tears in my eyes. Her expression looked like she was worried about me.
"There there, it's OK." Her voice sounded a little timid, but she still extended her hand toward my face and wiped the droplets from my face.
"You're, *Sniff*, not going to hurt me?" I said, still cautious, but I wasn't as scared as before.
"Of course not." Dawn said. I slowly got up from where I was sitting on the ground.
"Wait! Don't move!" Ash shouted.
"Huh? Why?" All of a sudden, a rushing pain came back to my arm, and I collapsed on my knees because of it.
"Are you OK?" Dawn shouted worriedly.
"Urg. Oh yeah, I haven't done anything about it yet." I mumbled to myself. I slowly stood up and raised my arm up in the air.
"Sunny day!" My body shone brightly and out of the blue, the clouded, orange sky cleared way to the shining, red sun.
"Huh?" Ash and Dawn were both gaping at me, but I wasn't done yet.
"Synthesis!" The glow grew even more intense and the pain soon vanished from my wound, it already began to show signs that I didn't get it in the first place.
"What the?" They were still amazed from what I just did. After a few more seconds, my wound completely disappeared, and I brushed off some of the dust on my shirt.
"There, all better." I muttered.
"What...are you?" Ash said slowly.
"I'm...a monster." I replied sadly.
"A...monster?" Dawn repeated in confusion and surprise. I could tell they were shocked, well of course, everyone that knew of my ability would be surprised at first. Normally they would go from shocked to scared, Which is why I thought it would be dangerous to tell what I'm capable of, but-
"Yeah, I mean, anyone else would think so." I added.
"What are you talking about?" Ash asked, still puzzled about the entire situation.
"Well, just look at me. I'm six inches tall. I have a black wing on my right shoulder. and you just saw my power."
"Your power?" He repeated again.
"Yes. I know the moves of every Pokemon on the entire planet."
"What?" They were now staring at me in awe.
"Although, I have no idea how I got this power in the first place. I just found out when I woke up one time, or at least, that's how far back I can remember."
"Wow, that's so cool!" Ash exclaimed.
"Cool? You're actually one of the first few people to say that." I responded.
"I think it's nice." Dawn added.
"Nice huh?"
"Yeah, and your cute." I felt weird with three compliments thrown at me one after another.
"Great, first cool, then nice, and now I'm being called cute. Are you just trying to gain my trust so you can use my power for yourselves?" I yelled.
"What are you talking about? We're not trying to use you for anything." Ash said calmly.
"Yeah, why are you so cautious?" Dawn asked.
"It's the same with all humans." I said as I created a sphere of fire in my right hand.
"They always want power, and I'm like the jackpot for them." I said as I clenched my hand into a fist, causing the sphere to vanish.
"Trust us, we just want to help you out." I felt Ash's steps getting closer to me. I looked him in the eye as he bent down.
"You promise?" The two kids nodded in response. I still felt wary about the two, but they were just kids, so maybe they were really telling the truth.
"OK, I trust you." I saw a big smile light up on Ash's face.
"My name is Terry by the way."
"My name's Ash."
"And my name is Dawn."
"Pip-piplup!" The penguin Pokemon cried proudly.
"Pi-pikachu!"
"And of course I remember you." I smiled at Pikachu.
"You know Pikachu?" Ash asked.
"Yeah, I saved Pikachu from a group of people who captured him."
"What group of people?" His tone grew a little serious.
"Well, one had red hair and was female; one had blue hair and was male, and they had a Meowth that could talk."
"Wait, that must be-"
"Team Rocket!" Dawn finished.
"Team Rocket? Who's that?" I asked.
"Team rocket is a group of people who steal Pokemon and sell them for money, or at least, that's what they basically do. Those guys are always causing trouble for us and other people." Ash folded his arms.
"I wish they would stop bothering us and leave us alone already, they're motto is really annoying too."
"Motto?"
"If they show up again, you'll know what I mean."
"Really? Well you don't have to worry about them, I took care of them personally with a Fire Punch." I showed my fist and it flared up red, showing Ash that I blasted them off quite easily.
"Cool, thanks."
"Don't mention it." I responded proudly.
"So, what are you going to do now?" Dawn asked; I simply shrugged back in return.
"I'm not sure."
"Are you going to go back to your family?" Ash questioned.
"I...Don't have a family." I replied back miserably.
"What...Happened?" Dawn looked concerned.
"I was always alone. Everywhere I traveled, I was always by myself. Ever since I was a kid, or as far as I recall." I muttered while pressing my two index fingers together, trying to remember as much as I could.
"That's horrible." Dawn said. Then her face lit up.
"Hey, I've got an idea, why don't you come with us?"
"What?"
"Well, if you don't have anyone to take care of you, why not come along with us?" She pressed.
"Wait a minute, are you saying that I can't take care of myself?" I shouted back indignantly.
"No. I was just saying if you want to, you can come with us. If you want to anyway." I think I detected some kind of, 'Wanting', in her voice. Did she really want me to come with them that badly?
"Well, I don't want to impose."
"Oh don't worry about it, it's fine. Right Ash?" She turned to her friend.
"Yeah, I'm fine with it, the more the merrier anyway!" He beamed.
"Give me some time to think about it, alright? It's getting dark after all." I looked up at the dark sky, the sun had already disappeared in the clouds.
"We should have dinner soon." Ash said. Out of the blue, my stomach began to rumble loudly, And I heard Dawn giggle a bit to my, 'slight' annoyance.
"Are you getting hungry?" I nodded in reply; I wouldn't be that hungry if 'someone' took the Oran Berry I was about to wolf down.
"Yeah, I didn't get to eat anything ever since I woke up."
"Nothing?" Ash asked incredulously.
"I was going to eat an Oran Berry, but Pikachu took it before I could even bite it." I heard Pikachu whimper in apology.
"You're forgiven, don't worry about it." I patted the Pokemon on the head.
"Oh wait!" Ash took something out of his pocket.
"Wait, isn't that-"
"I found it where Pikachu was. Is this the berry you were talking about?" He showed the blue berry to me.
"Yeah, it is." I murmured.
"Wait Ash; remember the blood on the berry?"
"Oh yeah." Ash looked at the berry unhappily.
"Don't worry about that, let me see it." Ash gave me the berry and I concentrated my power again.
"Bubble!" Bubbles came out of my mouth, and one of them caught the Oran easily, cleansing the small amount of blood on it.
"Wow!" They both exclaimed in amazement.
"There we go." I proceeded to eat it heartily. But while I was eating I started thinking about my current situation.
"{Why am I still hanging around these kids? I should have left them a long time ago. And why are they being so nice to me? First they try to heal my wound, then they try to comfort me, then they try to befriend me and now they're giving me back the berry I was about to have for breakfast. Maybe I've been away from their world for so long that I've forgotten what their form of kindness is like. Or maybe they saw my name on a wanted poster somewhere, and they just want help me so they can help themselves, by making a quick buck. And even if that's not the case, they just said they wanted to help me, but their aura tells me that they're afraid of me. Every time I've told a human about my power they always become afraid of me. So how can I trust these kids when they're afraid of me? The answer is simple...I can't.}"
"Terry? Are you OK?" I heard a voice snap me back into reality, I looked up and saw Dawn looking at me worriedly.
"You haven't touched your berry for a while now, are you OK?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, I-I'm fine." I went back to eating my berry, but I could still see Dawn looking at me in the corner of my eye. She went back to eating her food after a couple of seconds, but she kept looking at me every now and then. wondering what was on my mind.
"That was pretty good." I said happily after eating the last bits of the Oran.
"You sure that's enough for you? We still have some food left." Ash asked while he was sitting on the ground.
"Nah, it's fine." I replied back with a smile.
"Well, I think I'll hit the hay."
"Yeah, it's getting late." Ash mumbled while stifling a yawn. The two pulled a sleeping bag out of their backpacks, and lay them down on the ground.
"Well, goodnight guys." I muttered as I watched them getting ready to sleep.
"Wait, where are you going to sleep Terry?" Dawn questioned.
"Either on the ground, or a nearby tree branch. That's where I normally sleep anyway." I responded while I yawned.
"Wait, you're just going to sleep on the cold, hard, ground?" She exclaimed with disbelief.
"What? Do you have a better idea?"
"Well, why don't you sleep with me?" As soon as Dawn said that I cringed.
"Come again?"
"I won't let you sleep in the cold when we can sleep nice and warm in our sleeping bags." She muttered with a pout, which was strange, because in normal terms, I should be the one complaining, not her.
"Really, it's fine. I'm OK with lying on the ground." in truth, the thought of sleeping with someone around ten times my height, is quite scary.
"No. I won't take no for an answer." She still pouted. A little surprised by the sudden movement, she picked me up from where I was standing, and placed me beside her in her blue sleeping bag.
"A-are you sure about this?" I stammered; my face growing red.
"Don't worry." She soothed.
"You sure you're sure?" I asked again.
"Of course." Dawn put the blanket over the both of us, which I would say was really comfortable, if I were sleeping alone.
"Goodnight Terry."
"Goodnight Dawn." Soon, we both managed to get to sleep, despite the awkwardness this brought me. But then, Dawn kept tossing and turning, and some time later, I found myself out of her sleeping bag and on the grass.
"I knew this was a bad idea from the start." I sighed. "Actually, me being here, they already know I'm a monster. Nobody understood me, and when I told them about myself, they just threw me away and didn't want anything to do with me. I'm an outcast, on an entirely different level." Sighing sadly once more, I stood up and began to walk away from the campsite.
"No one will ever understand me. No one."
"That's not true." A voice came out.
"Huh?" I turned around and saw Pikachu standing behind me with a worried face.
"Where are you going? It's past midnight you know." He asked.
"I'm leaving." I shot back.
"So, you can understand Pokemon language as well, huh?" A flash of surprise in his eyes.
"Yeah, now can you please leave me alone?" I questioned, irritated by someone stopping me.
"I don't think you're a monster." Pikachu suddenly said.
"Well that's your opinion."
"It's actually pretty cool that you can understand me, even though Ash is one of my closest friends, he can't interpret everything I say correctly though." Pikachu grinned. I faced back to the forest, and began to walk away again.
"Wait! I didn't mean-"
"I know what you just said, because it's always the same as everyone else."
"But, I didn't mean to call you a monster."
"Then what did you mean to call me?"
"Well, you're different, that's for sure."
"Thanks for the news bulletin."
"But that's alright, because everyone is different in their own way."
"If you put it that way, it's like everyone's an equal. But seriously, look at me; I'm not like everyone, in a bad way. I can't fit in with humans or Pokemon-"
"Yes you can."
"What do you mean?"
"It's not about appearances, it's more about what you want to do. I know you don't want to hurt anybody. So in that sense, you and I are just the same."
"Yes. That is also true. But, you don't understand Pikachu. I will hurt your friends, even if I don't want to. It always ends up that way, which is why some people might still be after me. That's the main reason I can't be with anyone anymore."I didn't look back-
"Then, I'll protect you Terry." -Until Pikachu said that statement.
"What?" I glanced at Pikachu with disbelief.
"If someone tries to hurt you, I'll protect you. We'll all protect you, I'm sure Ash and Dawn would say the same thing."
"Are, you serious? If this is a way to cheer me up, it isn't helping." Pikachu frowned slightly. In the flickering light of the fire, both of us stood there for a few moments, before Pikachu responded again.
"I mean it." He smiled. "I'll protect you." His voice was so sure of it, that it felt hard to think that he was lying.
"Thanks Pikachu." Without realizing it, a small tear escaped from my eye, and more followed. I don't really know what happened, but all of a sudden, I ran to Pikachu and hugged him, I felt like he could really protect me, a feeling spread across my body. A feeling of...safety.
"Terry, it's OK." His voice was soothing, like he was really trying to comfort me. After a bit, the tears stopped coming, and soon, I fell asleep in Pikachu's arms.
"I promise, I'll protect you." Pikachu carried me carefully to Ash's side, and he sat down and fell asleep as well. Everything felt peaceful now. And me and Pikachu dreamed good dreams that night.