[Had to edit this chapter to fix a few conflicts.]

[*Narrator voice* And so… we are once again with Gütter and his new found pikachu who had been abandoned by it's trainer. Now it's time to see how Gütter's mom will react.]

A dodrio was calling out to the sky as soon as the sun rose, waking up not Gütter, but his mom. His mom always loved cooking and was well known in their old town for her smoothies, she always used a battery powered blender and was about to use it to make her famous breakfast smoothie. The blender was what woke Gütter up. He was in the kitchen in 5 seconds flat and was exited to say

"Oh boy! Breakfast smoothie!"

"Oh, good morning Gütter, I'm sorry, but I think I may barely even make a half a cup…"

"Why's that, mom?"

"This poor old blender's acting up again, and I'm afraid we can't get any batteries for it either…"

"Hey I have an idea! Pikachu, I choose you!"

"Pika!"

"Hey there, I know we just met but do you think you could do me a favor?"

"Pika?" The pikachu questioned as it tilted it's head.

"Gimme a sec." Gütter always was a technology geek, he keeps a bag full of random wires on him at all times. "Here they are" Gütter then put two wires on the inside of the blender's casing, and two near the pikachu. "Do you think you could help us out? We just need a small spark to get these smoothies going, I'll even give you some."

The pikachu seemed a little surprised, perhaps it wasn't used to a nice tone, but it enjoyed it and agreed. "Pika!" It said cheerfully.

"Alright, we don't need too much, just a little, okay?"

"Pika. Piikaaachuuu." The pikachu (unusually) didn't shout. The smoothies were made, and the perfect combination of ingredients caused the smell to fill the room and made even the pikachu exited to have a taste.

"Well, I see you have yourself a pikachu as your first pokémon, you're already starting to sound like Ash." His mom happily noted. "Now let's see how these smoothies turned out."

"Here pikachu have a glass." Gütter politely gave the pikachu a cup full of smoothie. Gütter smiled as the pikachu hesitated to smell it. "Go ahead, try it!"

The pikachu picked up the glass and chugged the whole glass without even so much as taking a break, and let out a satisfied (and high pitched) "Cha!"

"Glad you liked it pikachu, I'm about to go to Professor Oak, wanna come?"

The pikachu became comfortable with Gütter astonishingly quick it had a good idea he was trustworthy. So it nodded as it said "Pika, pika!" And the two were off to see the well-known Professor Oak. Once they made it there, Gütter knocked on the door and said "Helooo? Is Professor Oak in?"

The professor himself came to the door and said "Why, hello there. You must be Gütter. Nice to meet you." He turned his glance to the pikachu and asked "Say, where'd you get this pikachu? You haven't even gotten your trainer's license yet."

"Yeah, I know. But just yesterday, this pikachu was abandoned and it's old trainer threw it's pokéball and told me to keep it away from him."

"Hmm… Well either way, it seems to have become quite fond of you and if you show any signs of training it well I may even consider giving you your license a bit early!"

"Wow! You really mean it?!"

"MmHmm. But for now, what did you come here for?"

"I came to ask you some questions."

"Well, I'd be delighted to answer them. Ask away!"

"You know Ash Ketchum, right?"

"Oh yes, very well. In fact he should be back from the Hoenn Region just after the Hoenn League, however, that's still quite a while away…"

"Hmm… Oh well… Also I was wondering…"

"Yes?"

"I was wondering what it looks like inside a pokéball, but more specifically, what it looks like going inside one. I mean, really. What do they see when all of sudden they disappear into a red glow?"

"Hm… Quite an impressive question, I never really thought about it myself. Tell you what right now I have a few things to do, but I will try and ponder upon your question in the meantime. Is there anything else you wanted to ask?"

"One more thing. From what I can see, many pokémon have a similar body structure to a human."

"This is true…"

"And I can even see that the inside of a pikachu's mouth is just about the same. So my question is; is a pokémon physically capable of speaking and if so, why does it choose one word out of any other?"

"Well, it sure seems that you're good at asking great questions, I think Ash himself would be interested in having a conversation with you."

"Muuk. MUUK!"

"Oh, dear!" The professor was then covered from shoulder to toe under a muk's body.

"Would this happen to be Ash's muk?"

The professor chuckled a little and sighed "Yes, and you seem to know a lot about Ash, what made you so interested in him, and how could you know so much?"

"I first saw Ash from the bleachers of the Inigo League, for some reason I felt that he was going to win. Even though he only made the top 16, I still felt the need to root for him ever since, and to this day I'm still a huge fan of his."

"Hm, I see… but where are you getting your information. For example how could you tell that this muk was Ash's?"

"Oh, right. I have a list of girls' photos, names, numbers and addresses, and I give Brock one of their cards for every chapter of information he could tell me about Ash, I got a little carried away and even printed it out into a book and it's kinda like a biography in the making."

"Well, sounds like Brock alright… Doing anything for a girl's number. Hehe." There was a brief silence between the two and all of a sudden they burst into laughter probably imagining the outcomes of Brock meeting all those girls. "Ahh, that Brock. Now, where were we… Oh, yes. That's right. I was hoping you'd do a just a small favor."

"Sure professor, what is it?"

"Well, I've heard about your mom's smoothies, and I was kind of hoping you might ask her to make one for me?" The professor seemed a bit embarrassed asking such a question, think of it this way; how would you feel having to ask someone to get their mom to do something for you.

"Sure, and trust me, I'm used to being asked that question. Is there any one you'd like in specific?"

"Oh I'm sure whatever she whips up will be just fine."

"A usual statement. Well I'll go ask her now, see you in a few minutes."

"Alright then." Professor Oak stood there watching Gütter leave and he then stared jumping around saying "Yay! Hooray I finally get to try one!" You are probably this is a bit unusual, but really, you'd understand if you'd heard the things the professor has heard about these smoothies.

As soon as Gütter got home he told his mom about it and she seemed happy to make one for the professor. As soon as she got the ingredients gathered she asked Gütter if his pikachu could power the blender again, Gütter looked around for pikachu and then forgot it had placed itself on top of his head. I should probably mention, Gütter can be pretty forgetful at times. "Okay pikachu, same as last time okay?"

"Actually, let's see if we can go a little stronger!" His mom suggested.

"Well, in that case, pikachu, a bit stronger this time."

"Pika Pika! PiikaaaCHUuuuU." The pikachu (well, close to) yelled.

"Okay, it looks like it's ready!"

"That's enough for now pikachu."

"Cha!" The pikachu once again said with glee. It seemed to enjoy helping, it was still a mystery to everyone who would abandon a pikachu like this.

"You know what Gütter, I think I should bring this one to the professor myself!"

"Okay, let's go again pikachu."

"PI-KA!"

On the way there, Gütter saw the wind was blowing a bit strong. And then he saw it, a purple hat that had holes in the back flying through the air. Gütter loved the color purple, he only ever wears shoes if they are purple, and that hat flying through the sky would match them perfectly. He went on chasing the hat when all of a sudden the wind stopped and the hat fell out of the sky. It fell down quickly making a small whistling noise due to the holes in the back of it. It then landed on the pikachu's head, and covered it's face. Gütter put down the pikachu, and picked up the hat to examine it. "It's perfect." He then rushed back to the house letting his mom know he'd catch up in a bit. Once he was home he pulled out the hat and a sewing kit. He grabbed some scissors an orange cloth, and a white cloth. He took the white cloth and covered most of the front half of the hat, sewed it in, and cut off the excess. He then took the orange cloth, and caaarefully cut out a styled "L" shape on it, and sewed it in the middle of the white cloth. He then put on the hat, and let pikachu jump on top of it.

Surprisingly, he somehow managed to do this in much less than a couple minutes his pikachu still was in awe of such speed, and it knew quick attack! Gütter pulled out a small notepad with a checklist on it, he pulled out a pencil and said aloud "Get a hat and re-make Pokémon League Expo design… CHECK!" He caught up with his mom in no time, she was almost to the doors when he caught up.

"Oh, you made it just in time!" She then rang the doorbell and met up with Professor Oak "Ah, you must be Professor Oak! Here's that smoothie you wanted."

The professor, trying to stay casual said "Why, thank you! I've always wanted to try one of these." He took a single gulp and it seemed like his eyes even sparkled. "Wow! That tastes amazing! What flavor is it?!"

Gütter's mom giggled and said "I made this one using some of the finest pine sap I could find. I would have used oak sap as a small pun on your name, but it just doesn't seem to be quite edible to us humans."

"Well, then it's a good thing you DIDN'T use oak sap! Thanks a lot for the smoothie, it was a pleasure meeting you!"

"It was nice to meet someone who knows so much about pokémon. Well, I think I'm going to familiarize myself around here, bye professor!"

"Goodbye!" He turned and looked at Gütter and saw his hat. "You really are some fan!"

Gütter laughed a little, and then said in an astonishingly perfect impression of Ash "Well, I only want to be the very best!"

The professor seemed a bit shocked for a second there and said with a curious smile "Well, now how did you manage to do that?"

Gütter then was doing a near-perfect impression of Professor Oak himself "It's quite simple really, I have a natural capability of making almost any sound with my mouth and vocal chords, giving me the ability to reproduce nearly any voice." He then took a deep breath and cleared his throat, letting out the voice of a pikachu saying "But my real specialty are imitating pokémon, and showing off what they would probably sound like if they could talk. People seem to like my squirtle, charmander, bulbasaur, and definitely pikachu the most!"

The entire time Gütter was doing his pikachu voice, the pikachu seemed to have a total combination of respect, awe, and inspiration. "Pika.." It said with stated emotions.

"Well, it seems like you have quite a talent there." The professor looked at the clock and said "Well, it's about time for me to tend to the pokémon, I will probably be seeing you tomorrow."

"Alright professor, I'll just be on my way, see ya!"

"Pi-KA!"

"See you tomorrow, you two!"

Gütter spent the rest of the day doing basically what his mom was doing, and eventually went home to do a little work on the computer. He pulled out a camera and took a picture of his pikachu from each direction, and once he put them all on the computer, he told his pikachu to watch. It jump on his hat again and watched as the computer generated a 3D view of it. It clearly knew that this truly was impressive, but was mostly confused. "Look pikachu, here I can make a few simple chances to- well… I guess 'your' fur." He click on a few things and on the screen made the stripes on the virtual pikachu's back dotted stripes. Another click and the tips of it's ears for some reason reminded Gütter of the curly furs a raichu's ears. The pikachu seemed to like the way it look and almost even seemed desperate too look like it. "You like it? Good! The idea was to give you a little bit of personality from the others, that way I could tell you apart from a crowd." He then pulled out a bag that said "Colorfur" He pulled out a small brush, and a few bottles; one yellow, and one black. And he made sure that the colors matched. "You sure you're okay with this pikachu?"

"Pika pIka!"

"Alright, now this may sting just a little. Just stay still." Gütter carefully used the brush to replicate the image he had created on the computer, and while spending as much time as needed, the pikachu was trying it's best to stay still, as it really did sting as the pikachu's fur pattern was being permanently changed. "Aaand, there! All done!" He looked at a clock and saw he spent so much time, it was already nearing bed time. He looked at the pikachu and saw it was trying to look at it's back and ears, failing, of course. He then held up two mirrors and said "Well, what do you think?"

There was a shimmer in the pikachu's eyes as it said in awe "Pi-kaaaa…"

"Glad you like it, now I'm going to practice my piano skills, come along if you like." He then walked downstairs to start playing piano, playing nice, peaceful, and joyful music. The pikachu was completely calm at that moment and had it's eyes closed for long periods of time. Gütter then was about to fall asleep like the pikachu, and managed to stay awake long enough to carry the pikachu and himself into bed. He gently put the pikachu underneath the blankets and put himself underneath them as well, the two of them went to sleep peacefully for the night.

[*Narrator voice* And so, Gütter and pikachu are asleep again and well… are asleep. What awaits these two in the near future? What is it that pikachu is inspired to do? And why does Gütter's mom's milkshakes taste so good? (except the last one) Find out in the next chapter of… The PikaProject!]