Prologue to Training

As Ash was waking up, he felt a tingle in his cheeks.

Am I going berserk again he thought to himself

He reconsidered when h felt that he wasn't in any pain like before, but that this felt good. It felt like he was getting stronger.

"Chaaa!"

Ash jumped, he looked around the room to find the source of the strange noise, but couldn't find one.

That couldn't have been me. Could it? he pondered

Before he could think about it anymore, Nurse Joy walked in.

"Hi there Pikachu," said Nurse Joy as she checked some monitors. "You must've used up a lot of energy because you have been recharging here for the past two hours," she said

You don't know the half of it Ash thought to himself

Nurse Joy walked up to him

"Here, this pill should help you regulate your electricity," she said while putting a pill in front of Ash.

Ash eyed the pill.

Nurse Joy noticed this and said, "The faster you eat that, the faster you get to go back to your friends."

Hearing this, Ash chucked the pill into his mouth, jumped off the bed, and ran over to the door.

He looked back at Nurse Joy.

She chuckled as she got up, "That' one way to motivate a pokemon," she muttered to herself.

Nurse Joy opened the door and Ash ran off in a blink of an eye.

"Pikachu!" Ash yelled as he ran up to his friend and gave him a big hug.

Pikachu shied away from the contact and studied Ash.

Noticing this, Ash whispered to Pikachu, "I'm soooo sorry I hurt you Pikachu. I promise, I won't ever let it happen again."

"Pikapi," said Pikachu as he returned the hug.

"Can you ever forgive me?" asked Ash

Pikachu didn't say anything back, he was just so happy his friend was back to normal.

Brock crouched down so he could be at Ash's level.

"Ash, I know you just woke up and all, but I have to talk to you about something," he said.

Ash sighed and looked up at Brock

"You see, while you were… errr… having your episode..."

Ash winced

"Team Rocket gave me a message to give you," said Brock

"Does the message concern Dawn?" asked Ash

"Yeah," said Brock

"Kay, let's have it," said Ash

"Well, they said that they are giving thirty days to train before you have to battle with them at the house (where they first confronted them)," said Brock

(Yes, I know this is different from my last chapter, but you see I type everything on MS Word and that doesn't find typos made by the author that still flow with the story, and I don't normally proofread my chapter. I guess I should start now lol.)

"What happens if we don't show up," said Ash

"They said Dawn will die then," Brock said, hanging his head

Ash was silent

Pikachu broke the silence.

"Pikapi pika kachuu Pichu Pikachu!" said Pikachu excitedly

Ash looked stunned

"What! What did he say?" asked Brock

"Well… It's a little ironic but, Pikachu said he wants to train me," said Ash

Brock thought for a second.

"That would be good for you since you do have to battle them, and I doubt they will let us use any other pokemon," said Brock

Ash sighed

"Fine, it's settled then. Pikachu I want you to give me the hardest training session you can think of," said Ash, determination showing in him

A smile crept over Pikachu's face

"Don't worry, I will."