Ash's Secret

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon

An: The inspiration for this fic comes from Saphroneth's Pokemon Fanfiction Master, Pokemon? I have gotten permission to use this story in case I would have unknowingly broke any plagerisum laws if i didn't since i do not fully understand them, I will try not to, and It will end up different. Also I highly recommend you go read Saphroneth's pokemon fanfiction Master, Pokemon? as well as Ashes of the Past by the same author, both in my opinion are excellent. I hope I can do as good even though this is my first story and therefore doubtful.

Summary: Ash Ketchum has a secret. He is actually a female Zorua pretending to be a human male, how does this change the journey. Fem Ash, Pokemon Ash, Strong Ash and team, Ash will win leagues, and have more pokemon then canon, secret will eventually be revealed, no move limit, strength increases over time.

Current votes for pairing 3 Poll Votes combined 2 Review votes for a total of:

Ash/Pikachu: 2

Ash/Latias: 1

Ash/Male Zorua: 2

Keep on voting and thanks for those who reviewed and/or voted so far

I will be using Pronouns, and names based on the gender of the form Ashley is currently in.

Chapter 1: Bad start, and Team Rocket

A young boy was asleep when the sun shone on his face waking him up. He looked at the clock only to see that it was broken and from the sun he realized that he was late. He quickly got out of bed and ran to Professor Oak's lab, when he got there he saw Gary Oak outside the door. He used to be friends with him, althjough that changed as Gary became a bit of a jerk, though he never learned Ash's secret, that Ash Ketchum is actually a female zorua. Ash didn't want to deal with him, but knew he couldn't avoid it without giving away his secret, and knowing Gar's attitude of being the best, he might just try to catch Ash. Even though he knew he could handle it, (Her mother and Profesor Oak had wanted her able to defend herself, without giving away what she is by training, she still leveled up some naturally, but it was not as much as she would have with training, since that would of had her evolve. She was still level 15 though and had a total of 32 moves: Leer, Scratch, Pursuit, Fake Tears, Fury Swipes*, Captivate, Copycat, Counter, Detect, Extrasensory, Memento, Sucker Punch**, Bounce, Covet, Endure, Hypervoice, Knockoff, Snatch, Snore, Spite, Trick, Uproar***, Hone Claws, Calm Mind, Protect, Frustration, Return, Shadow Ball, Double Team, Dig, Rest, Attract, Snarl, and Dark Pulse,**** and a starter pokemon is only level five, and except for Squirtle she hasa move that is super effective against each: Dig for Charmander, and Extrasensory for Bulbasaur) he did not want to put up with it, so he ran up hoping to get in without trouble.

"Hey Ashy Boy." Gary said as he spotted Ash. "You snooze you lose. I already got the best pokemon." He gloated holding up a pokeball.

"Which one?" Ash asked curous.

"The best one of course." Gary said, "Smell ya later, Ashy boy." With that he got in a ar full of cheerleaders and drove away as the crowd dispersed.

Ash ran into the building, shouting "Professor Oak, I'm here."

"Slow down Ash." Professor Oak said, grabbing his shoulders.

"Sorry professor," Ash said looking at the man who had helped him and his mom so much, "My alarm broke and I overslept,"

"You still look like you're ready for bed not a journey," Professor Oak said chuckling, while looking at Ash.

"What?" Ash said looking down and blushing when he realized he was still in his pajamas. He then quickly looked around before changing into her true form before changing back into a male human again, this time in regular clothes.

"I still don't understand why you take the form of a male when you are female." Professor Oak said shaking his head.

"I use a male form," Ash said "and go by the nickname Ash instead of Ashley, for the simple reason, that while I was learning how to make illusions I heard a passing human girl complain that boys get more freedom then girls, and I wanted to have that freedom, and I do have a female form that I use Ashley Ketchum for without a nickname, I just don't use it much where others can see."

"If that is true," Professor Oak said, "Then I will need to see it, so I can add it to your pokedex and make it so that you can switch it between names depending on what form you are in. This way if you ever want to use your female form you can. Also as to the freedom, that depends on the parents, and I'm pretty sure your mom, would give you the same freedom anyway."

"I figured that out a whild ago." Ash admitted, "but everyone knew me as Ash by then and it would have been to suspicous to change. As for the form my female form looks like this." and with that Ash changed back into her Zorua form before changing into a female human form.*****

She was the same height, but had longer hair down to the middle of her back, though it wa still the same black as her fur, her eyes remained the same, she had a smaller nos, fuller lips, longer eyelashes, and a more feminine facial and body structure, like smaller hands and feet, slimmer arms and legs, a more hourglass waist and beginning to develop breasts. For clothing she had red tennis shoes and pink socks, a blacdk skirt and red blouse, designed for both travel and comfort, and pink fingerless gloves. For accessories she had a red purse with a pink pokeball latch. She opened it up and removed a pair of pink crystal earrings and put them on, before removing a small silver chain and threading it through the charm that helps strengthen her illusions to make it into a necklace, just the right size where it cannot come off unless removed by hand. Next she removes two pink chains with three sockets for pokeballs each and put them around her thighs just under the skirt, before placing her hat in the purse and replacing it with a female version of the same hat.

"Thats a good look for you." Professor Oak said as he took the picture, "but what happens if you need to set the bag down, won't people notice it's an illusion."

"Nope," Ashley said, "The purse is my held item so it is real. It is a Storage Purse, the female version of a Storage Bag, and the inside has differnet compartments, including the one with the accessories I just put on. The earings, silver chain for the charm, a female version of my hat, and the two pink chains I put around my thighs with socets for three pokeball each, all of them are real, that I bought during various princess days, except the silver chain, that came with the charm to make it a necklace. I just removed it for my male form."

"Well that's done." Professor Oak said, "a simple press of the button will switch identities."

"Thanks."Ashley said removing the accessories, and changing back into her male form.

"Now," Professor Oak said, "Unfortunately all the ordinary starters have been picked already, and there is only one reserve starter, but he is a bit troublesome."

"I don't care." Ash said "I'll take him."

"Very well." Professor Oak said. "It is a male Pikachu, level 5 with 13 of the 15 egg moves, Though he rarely uses them. Endure and Thunder Punch are the only ones he doesn't have, he has all four preevolution moves again rarely used, and Tailwhip, Thundershock, Growl, and suprisingly Thunderbolt. However he does not like trainers, and Thunderbolts anyone who tries to pick him up."

"Then I'll just have to befriend him." Ash said as Professor Oak released Pikachu.

"Hi there." Ash said holding out his hand before Pikachu shocked him.

"Stupid trainer." Pikachu said.

A couple hours later the two were running for their lives from a spearow flock after Ash accidently hit one in the head with a rock when Pikachu was still refusing to help and even though he knew Ash could understand him he kept insulting him. They had already jumped off a waterfall and been fished out by a red haired girl.

"Are you okay?" she aske

"Yeah, I'm fine." Ash replied.

"Not you," the girl said, "Pikachu."

"He will be," Ash said, "I just need to get him to a pokemon center. Where is the nearest one."

"There's one in Viridian City." The girl said pointing, "It's just down that path."

"Thanks." Ash said picking Pikachu up beore paling when the sound of the spearow flock approaching was heard. He looked around and saw a bike.

"I'm burrowing this." he said as he placed Pikachu in the basket and took off to the girl's angry yelling. As he was pedaling it started storming, and Ash lost control of the bike and crashed allowing the spearow flock to catch up.

"I know you don't like it in there," Ash said putting Pikachu's pokeball next to him, "but you'll be safer if you inside, please."

He then stood up and faced the spearow flock with arms outstretched, and shouted "Hear me spearow flock, you will not harm Pikachu."

Seeing this Pikachu had a change of heart and jumped on Ash's shoulder before jumping in the air and using a lightning bolt to increas his Thunderbolts power to force the spearow flock to retreat. Although the multi target use of a single target attacked allowed all of them to get away as well as fried the burrowed bike. Afterwards both Ash and Pikachu collapsed on the ground smiling at each other before looking up and seeing Ho-oh.

They got up and started walking the rest of the way to Viridian City. When they got there, they were stopped by an Officer Jenny that accused Ash of being a thief until he showed his pokedex, which caused her to apologize and give Ash and Pikachu a ride to the Pokemon Center, bursting through the door, and stopping in front of a startled Nurse Joy.

"We have a driveway you know." She scolded Officer Jenny.

"Sorry." Officer Jenny said, pointing at Ash and Pikachu, "but it is an emergency."

"Oh my." she gasped. "Chansey one strether for electric type."

"Help the pokemon. Help the pokemon," a couple Chansey chanted as they ran in with the stretcher as Nurse Joy placed Pikachu on it, before turning her attention to Ash.

"How could you be so reckless." she scolded. "How could you make it battle to that condition."

"I didn't." Ash said morosely, "He saved my life from a flock of spearow, is he going to be okay?"

"Oh, I didn't know." Nurse Joy said as she turned back to follow the Chansey and Pikachu to the backroom, "and I'll do my best."

After Ash sat down to wait after calling Professor Oak and telling him what happened so far, and Officer Jenny left, the girl from before came in holding her fried bike.

"You fried my bike!" she shouted, "You better pay for me to get a new one."

"Please," Ash said staring at the backroom door, "Can we talk about it later, I need to know Pikachu will be alright."

"Is he?" The girl asked sounding worried.

"I don't know." Ash replied as the light went off and Nurse Joy came out and looking at Ash and the girl, Misty Waterflower, as they ran up, smiled and said, "He'll be fine."

Suddenly two pokeballs crashed through the skylight before opening to reveal an Ekans and Koffing that created a smokescreen.******

"What's going on!" Misty screamed when they suddenly heard what sounded like a motto.

"Prepare for trouble!" A girl voice said

"Make it double!" A boy said

"To protect the world with devastation!" (girl)

"To unite all people within our nation!" (boy)

"To denounce the evil of truth and love!" (girl)

"To extend our reach to the stars above!" (boy)

"Jessie!" The girl said.

"James!" The boy said

"Team Rocket blast off at the speed of light!" (Jessie)

"Surrender onow or prepare to fight!" (James)

"Meowth, That's right!" A third voice joined in as the smoke cleared to reveal two humans, a male and female, and a talking Meowth that belonged to Team Rocket.

"This is a center for weak and injured pokemon." Nurse Joy said. "Thee are no strong or rare pokemon here."

"That may be." The boy, that according to the motto was James, said.

"But we wouldn't be suprised to find a couple of rare gems among all those weaklings." The girl, that according to the Motto was named Jessie finished.

"After Team Rocket was sent blasting off from the supercharged Thunderbolt, Ash was about to set off to Viridian Forest, planning on catching some pokemon on his way to Pewter and after both the spearow flock incident, and Team Rocket incident, Ash realized that he would need to get stronger, so he was going to train Pikachu as well, and after everyone was asleep work on getting his true form stronger just in case by increasing the effectiveness of his moves, and doing some of his own training.

"WAIT!" A loud voice yelled.

Ash turned around and saw that it was Misty, when she caught up she continued, "I'm coming with you until you payback my bike."

"Very well." Ash said. "But I just started my journey. So it could be awhile." Before heading into the forest before Misty could say anything.

*Level up moves

**egg moves

***move tutor moves

****Tm/Hm moves

*****This is just what I think when I think of Fem Ash, yours may be different, and you are welcomed to imagine the female form as you wish. Also does anyone know what the chains around her thighs are called, I know what they look like, but not their name.

******I will be glossing over a lot of Team Rocket interactions unless it is absolutely vital, due to the fact that I am not a big fan of going over them every single time.

AN: I have plans for this especiall;y since this would be a way to have Ashley involved while she is spending most of her time as Ash, as well as a way to capture six pokemon far earlier then otherwise, or in somecases at all, however I want your opinion: In order to help keep her secret should Ashley have a team of non canon pokemon that also do not know her secret that she uses as a female. After the reveal the teams would be merged together , but before then she would only have six: Eevee, a special Vulpix (not from canon), Dratini, Porygon, Feebas (Trade), and one decided by reviews from any region, with the exception of legendaries, However if people do not want this It will take far longer to get these pokemon, and some of them she won't at all. Eevee would be her primary for female form and Pikachu for male form until the merger when they are both used equally, and if Ash and Pikachu are not paired together then Pikachu and Eevee will be. Please send a review with what you think, and after one week the reviews will be used to finalise the rest of the story, since this is one of the major changes Ash being a female Zorua will cause that I have planned as it is right now. Please send a review with what you think as well as votes for Ash's pairing.