The small figure shuffled through the dark hallways around it. He was afraid, feeling a dark prescence on all sides.

This small rodent cautiously stepped forward, using the electricity from it's cheek pouches to light the way, but not by much, given his lack of experience. Where was his Trainer? His beloved sockheaded friend?

Watt hopped along, until he came to a forked path. "Pi-chu!" It called.

No response.

He stood, shaking in fright. "Ch...chu…" Watt cried.

Having no idea where either led to, he picked one of the two paths and headed down it.

Watt continued to look side to side, looking for a way out. It was cold. VERY cold. The air felt heavy. He turned around to look back at the way he'd gone, but to his extreme terror, the path behind him had become a dead end.

The Pichu had no choice. He had to power forward. "Pichu! Pichu!" He barreled on all fours, down this dark narrow corridor. After about five full minutes, he finally found and opening, and leapt through it.

He looked down. There was no ground or floor beneath him, and so he fell. He fell a very long way down until he landed in some form of green liquid. "P...pi!" Watt gurgled as he tried to swim up to no avail. Then, a tremendous figure alighted before him, huge and threatening.

He could only writhe in fear as the enormous, demonic Pikachu golem closed in on him. "Pika…"

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It was still the middle of a thunderstorm. Watt lie next to Double D and Polter, and was tossing and turning atop the covers.

"Pi...pichu! Pichu!" He cried, letting sparks out of his cheeks. He couldn't help but accidentally shock his friends.

"G-ehhhh!" Double D jolted up, Polter following soon.

"Miku?" The Mimikyu chittered, looking around the human at Watt.

Watt roused, panting in fright.

Double D collected himself, and took the rodent in hands. "Watt, did you know you just electrocuted us!?"

"P...pichu!"

"Did you have a bad dream?" The Pichu nodded, but as he did so, a huge lightning bolt crashed right outside, making all three of them shriek. "Dear lord, how long can a thunderstorm continue!?"

Watt rose up, jaw agape as he leapt over to the windowsill. "Pi...chu?"

Another bolt crashed, striking a nearby tree, blasting branches off of it. But Watt wasn't afraid this time. Instead, he felt a foreign sensation deep inside. It took the form of a sound that he managed to hear.

Giggling. Giggling of all things.

"Pichu!" Watt called, hopping down from the window and making a run for the door.

"Wait! Where are you going?" Double D shouted as he rose up and followed it to the door, and then to the staircase outside his room.

The last he saw of Watt was the rodent's blunt tail running out the door. The human boy was about to follow, but realized he was still in his pajamas. He sprinted back into his room to change, and when he did, he grabbed Watt and Polter's Poke Balls. "Come with me, Polter." He said, recalling the Mimikyu inside.

Edd ran back outside the door, seeing electricity shooting up INTO the sky, realizing Watt must be using that as a signal. "Watt! Please, wait up!"

Roto-Z followed him wearily. "Is it time to get up already?"

Two doors opened in the Cul-De-Sac.

"Do you have any idea what time it is?" Eddy groaned. "Go back to sleep, sockhead!"

Edd took off running into the storm.

"What the-where are you going out in this?" Eddy shouted, taking off and following him.

"Come on, Eddy!" Ed called, giving chase giddily. "Storming free run!"

"Idiot!"

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Watt charged on and on until he reached the edge of town, where surprising the lightning was most frequently falling. Which surprisingly seemed to be the source of the giggling sound.

Double D caught up with him, panting and hacking. His possessed Pokedex and his two friends followed suit. "Watt...would you care to explain...yourself?"

"Pichu! Pi-pi-pi-pichu-pi!" The small Electric-Type replied, waving it's paws at the trees.

"Just grab him and let's go back home, Edd!" Eddy growled.

"I can't, Eddy...it seems something led him here. Why else would he brave a savage storm?"

"Because he's a rat that doesn't know better?"

Watt frowned, giving him a light shock. "Y'OWWWW! What'd I do!?" The Pichu ran through the trees. "Get back here!"

When the Eds reached him again, they found the center of an open field. But the marvel that awaited them was almost to amazing for words.

Within the field were dozens if not hundreds of Pokemon that resembled Watt vaguely, with yellow fur, pointed ears and lightning bolt-shaped tails, red cheek pouches, brown stripes above their tails, and lightly chubby bodies.

"Pika-pika-chu-pika-pika-chu! Pikachu-chu-chu!" They all cried in unison, happily bouncing around in circles and shooting off electricity into the air.

"What...are we witnessing?" Double D asked, a flutter in his heart. It seemed dangerous, but he couldn't help but smile.

His Rotom Dex took a floating step forward. "Pikachu. The Mouse Pokemon. Electric-Type. Pichu's evolved form. Independent, but highly friendly and sociable creatures. Believed to be incredibly intelligent. If it comes across a berry it likes, it will roast it using electricity to make it tender enough to eat. When many of them gathered, electricity will build and can cause lightning storms."

"Aww! They're so cute!" Ed smiled, clasping his hands to his face.

"Man...that's cool…" Eddy said. 'I gotta catch one…'

As he pulled a Poke Ball, the Pikachus all stopped dancing and shooting electricity, taking witness of the boys. The storm ceased.

They all proceeded to run for cover. Eddy put the Ball back in his pocket. "Hey! Where'ya going!?"

Watt approached. "Pi! Pichu!"

A few of them stuck their heads back out. Was this one of their offspring calling them?

Watt crawled up to them on all fours. He approached a female Pikachu, distinguished by the heart-like ending of her tail, and held his paws out. "Pi?"

The larger rodent Pokemon eyed him intently, sniffing and flicking her ear once, but turned him away. "Pika!"

The Pichu backed away, clearly hurt.

"Why'd it do that?" Eddy whispered to Double D.

"It's entirely possible that Watt may think that one of these Pikachus is his mother." Double D replied. "That one must not be, as she rejected him."

"You hit that mark plain and true, Roto-D. Zrrt!" Roto-Z replied, floating close. Watt approached several more females, only for them each to turn him away, one of them even seeming to threaten him, cheek pouches sparking. "Scanning for DNA comparison…Scanning. Scanning. Zrrt. Zrrrrrrt…"

"Anything?" Edd asked.

"Hamburgers?" Ed said.

"No match found. Watt doesn't share any of his DNA with these Pikachus."

"Well that's a shame. And they all seem to reject him as well." Double D added.

Watt backed away, sniffling. "Pi...Chuuuuu! Pichu!" He wailed, electricity sparking from his cheeks. The blue-cheeked white Pichu took off running again.

"Watt! Wait! Come back!" Double D called, giving chase.

"Follow the leader!" Ed added, following him.

Eddy looked back to the group of Pikachu, scowling. "Now look what you did!"

The electric rodents threatened him by arching their backs and raising their tails like a bunch of angry cats, each of their cheek pouches sparking. "Chuuuuuu…"

"Ooohhh man." The three-haired boy squeaked, voice cracking.

"PIKA!" The Pikachus screeched, zapping him.

"YAAAAAAA-A-A-A-A-AA-AAH!" He sprinted away as the lightning they fired at him chased him like a current against the ground.

As he fled, he took note. "That stupid Dex is dead wrong! These things ain't friendly at all!" After he went by, three familiar girls poked their heads out of the bushes.

"Why I outta-!" Lee balled her fist up. "Nobody chases Eddy but me! Those stupid rats!" As she leapt out of the bushes, Marie followed suit, only to drag her back in and return to them.

"Are you nuts, Lee!? Those things are gonna shock you senseless! We gotta see what those Rocket guys think of this!"

"Whatever…" Her older sister grumbled. "But as soon as we come back those things are toast!"

Unbeknownst to them, another figure took note of the Ed's departure. A single Pikachu, with orangish fur looked out from behind a sapling. "Pika?" It vocalized in a concerned tone of voice.

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When the three reached home, the Kanker Sisters pulled out their laptop(which Team Rocket gave them, evidently an untraceable one)and turned on their video-chatting app.

Immediately their talking Meowth appeared on their screen, with an upset face, along with an unusual blue creature with a bulbous body, closed eyes and a scribbly looking mouth. "What's the big idea? We was watchin' a movie!" He spat with a scowl.

"Wabbafett!" The other Pokemon snorted.

"Look, ya little hairball, we don't care what you were doin'!" Lee imposed through the computer cartoonishly, grabbing him by the neck. "Just go get those other two!"

Meowth coughed and staggered away. After a few moments, James approached. The three of them could see Jessie reclining on a couch.

"What happened to Meowth? I haven't seen him gag like that since he got a bundle of Lum Berries stuck in his throat!"

"Listen, we followed the Eds through a field, but we got led to some field where we saw these mouse things. They were everywhere. Dancing around and shooting off electricity!" May said.

"You interrupt our important business fo some rats?" James began. "Don't waste my time." He turned away, but after a moment, a lightbulb went off in his head. "D...did you say mouse things...shooting off electricity!?"

"Uh, yeah! Do you know anything about that?" Lee asked.

"Well it sounds an awful lot like Pikachu, but I don't know why there would be so many of them in one-"

"DID YOU SAY PIKACHU!?" Jessie shrieked in the background. The magenta-haired woman bolted off the couch and sprinted up to the screen.

"-Place?" James finished.

"That's what those zany looking mice are called?" Marie asked. "Heh. Sounds stupid."

"They are, but you should watch out...we've had trouble with Pikachu in the past." Jessie grumbled. "A LOT OF TROUBLE."

"Hey I just got an idea…" Lee grinned evilly. "They must be strong if they can make a lightning storm...so why don't we go back and catch them all!"

Jessie immediately grinned herself. "I've got an idea…"

She reached into a pocket on her miniskirt and produced an ornate Poke Ball. "We'll send you this Pokemon. It has lots of experience battling a particularly strong Pikachu. So if you can round them all up into one place, it can do the rest in catching them!"

"And how are we supposed to do that? We don't have enough cash for more Poke Balls!?"

"Get creative." She retorted. "We find robots work nicely."

The screen went blank.

"Where the heck are we supposed to get robots from!?" May asked. "Do they expect US to build 'em!?"

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Jessie shut the computer screen off, and joined James back on the couch. "Meowth, take this Ball to the delivery room, and tell them to send it to our trainee's address." She chucked the Luxury Ball to the feline, who shuddered.

"D...d'is isn't-!"

"It may want to fill it in before you give it to Delibird."

Meowth shakily marched to the door. "Wobbuffet? Coming?"

"Wabba! W-w-wwabba-fett!" Jessie's Wobbuffet cried, shivering behind a potted plant.

"Jerk." He left, the door shutting behind him.

Jessie and James smiled to each other giddily. The two leapt off the couch and started to dance. "We're gonna pick-a-peck-of Pi-ka-chus! We're gonna pick-a-peck-of Pi-ka-chus! We're gonna-"

"Hey!" A confrontative voice called from nearby, making the two jump back.

On the screen was Red who was still tethered to the wall, face bruised, eyes glaring out from under his cap. "I heard that! What are you thugs going to do with those Pikachus!?"

"That's for us to know, and for you, it's time to buzz off!" James said, sneering at the screen.

"Team Rocket disbanded five years ago! How dare Giovanni turn back on his word!" Red growled.

"Well it seems it didn't take, brat. Or...should I say, 'twerp?' It sounds better." Jessie stuck her tongue out. "Now stay there and watch the paint dry." She shut that monitor off as well.

"I don't know why the boss wanted us to watch him." James groaned. "He's not going anywhere. All he does is yell at us."

"Doesn't he look a bit like the twerp?"

"Yeah, but older...and a bit less annoying. Maybe this is his older brother?"

"Could be."

Red seethed in anger as he struggled against his restraints. He'd been captured by them days earlier, taking his Pokemon away. He couldn't imagine what they might be doing to them.

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The Eds hiked back near town, Watt in Double D's arms, sobbing.

"Don't worry, Watt…" Edd rubbed his head. "I understand. You want to belong. I just recalled that the Professors said that they found you somewhere by yourself, and studied you peacefully. You were scared at first, because you wanted to find your family."

"Pi…"

"Well…" The sockhead began, turning him around to look him in the eyes with a smile. "I'll always be your friend. And even if your own kind doesn't accept you I will."

"Pi...Chu!" Watt vocalized, rubbing against his neck.

"Look!" Ed said, pointing foward and catching their attention.

The three of them turned back around to see the different colored Pikachu behind them, standing on all fours. It had a flat-edge tail, indicating that it was male.

"Pika!" It cried with a smile.

"Ohhhh no. Not again." Eddy grimaced, walking to confront it. "You are NOT gonna shock us this time!"

"Pikachu." It shook it's head before pointing to Watt. "Pika!"

The Pichu recoiled, prompting Edd's trusty Rotom Dex to float out in front of them. "That's interesting...it seems he's here for Watt!"

"Can you understand what it's saying?" Double D asked.

"Well, you forget, I am technically a Pokemon myself! Zrrrt!" Roto-Z replied with a chirp.

The Pikachu hopped over on all fours until it was face to face with the white Pichu. "Pika! Pika-pi!"

"Pi...pichu…"

"Pi-pi-ka-pi-kachu!"

"It said that it wants to be Watt's friend. The other Pikachus didn't accept Watt because he was a different, unnatural color than most Pikachu. And this one says he's been an outsider because of the exact same reason."

"Is that so?"

"Yes. Shiny Pokemon tend to take to themselves."

"What in the heck's a Shiny Pokemon?" Eddy asked.

"One in every four thousand Pokemon or so has a different coloration than the standard for their speciezzzz." Roto-Z continued. "Ssszztudies are being undertaken to determine why this is, and wether or not Shiny Pokemon are naturally stronger than basic-color variants. They are called Shiny because of the way they glimmer when released from a Poke Ball."

"Fascinating…" Double D noted.

"Pi...chu…" Watt sniffled with a light smile.

"Pi-Pikachu!" The Shiny Wild Pikachu said, giving a thumbs up to him.

Eddy grinned and leapt into action. "Well, if you wanna hang with us, then you know what's gonna happen now!" He produced a Ball.

The Pikachu's face contorted into a grin before it hopped back into a combatitive stance, cheeks sparking. "Piiii…"

"Go, Boss!" Eddy threw the Ball and the Alolan Meowth appeared with a snarl.

"Nyarrr!" It growled as it brought out it's claws.

"Fury Swipes, let's go!" Eddy commanded. The Meowth lunged, slashing the Pikachu with it's claws.

As it recoiled, it managed to back up and jump into the air, forming a ball of electricity with it's tail.

"Pi-ka!" It shouted, shooting it at Boss. The ball exploded on impact, but the Meowth recovered quickly.

"Nyarr…" Boss hissed.

"Now's the time, Boss! Use Iron Tail!"

The bluish grey cat metallized it's tail with a glow and lunged again, attempting to strike Pikachu with it, but it was well prepared.

"Chu!" It yelled, as it slammed a glowing blue fist into Boss' chin, sending him flying back.

"Are you alright!?" Eddy asked.

"Nyarth." Boss grunted, standing up shakily.

"That wazz Focus Punch!" Roto-Z declared. "The strongest Fighting-Type Move! To think it knew something so powerful!"

"We ain't so impressed!" Eddy retorted. "Use Shadow Claw!"

Boss' claws gained a dark aura as it charged in again, lashing the Pikachu with them.

The Pikachu flew back, but managed to recover, landing on it's paws. It gained a white glow as it dashed at super speed and landed a headbutt into it's opponent's stomach.

"Come on, kitty cat!" Ed cheered. "You can do it!"

"Stand strong, Boss!" Double D added.

The Meowth managed to get back up again. His whiskers took on what appeared to be electric sparks of their own.

"Is that?" Eddy began.

Boss thrusted his paws out and from his claws shot bolts of blue electricity. The Pikachu gave a cry of shock before the bolts hit their mark, stunning him.

"Sith lord!" Ed whined as he ducked behind Double D.

"Sith lord? What'zzz that?" Roto-Z asked, puzzled.

"It's a long story." His master replied. "A LONG story."

"I don't know about all that, but THAT was Thunderbolt! I didn't think a Meowth could learn it right off the bat though."

"Alright, Boss! Way to go!" Eddy boasted.

"Nyar."

The Shiny Pikachu staggered a bit. Boss had caught him off guard with an electric attack, that should've been no trouble for him to take. But still, he felt to the ground.

"Alright! Now's my chance! Go!" The short trainer called, hurling a black-topped Poke Ball with yellow stripes forming an H at the top.

The Ball hit the Pikachu on the head, drawing him inside.

The Eds, Watt, and Roto-Z leaned in for a closer look as it shook.

Then, as it gave one final shake, it clicked, stars popping out.

Eddy smiled and pumped his fist. "Yeah! I just caught a Pikachu!" He said, swiping the Ball off the ground and raising it up high. "Nice job, Boss! You the cat!"

"Nyar." Boss meowed, grooming his paw.

Eddy sent the Pikachu back out, still exhausted. "Double D, still got some of that medicine?"

"Right." Double D stooped down and patted it's head. "Don't worry. This might sting a bit, but I assure you, it will help." He gave it a spray of Super Potion, causing it t recoil, but soon, it's bruises vanished.

"Pika!" The rodent chimed, standing up on it's hind legs again.

"There! All better!" Watt went over to him.

"Pichu!" Watt cried happily, rubbing his head against it's foreleg.

"Pika!" It reciprocated, giving Watt a hug.

"Volty!" Eddy said, catching the Pikachu's attention. "That's it. You're new name is Volty! Doesn't that sound cool?"

The Pikachu vocalized passively before he started wrestling playfully with it's new Pichu friend. Watt broke free and nudged him on his side and the two started chasing each other around in circles.

Eddy frowned.

"Yeah, ignore your trainer's decision. That'll get ya far."

"Let's sing a song!" Ed cheered.

"NO!" Eddy growled.

"Aww…"

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The Kanker Sisters watched the sky intently. Their delivery should be coming any second now.

"Look, I see something!" Marie said. The three of them turned in the direction she pointed. They could see a faint image of a bird flying uneasily against the clouds.

The red and white bird landed before them, toting a bag.

"Deli! Delibird!" It cried.

"Y...you're the delivery boy?" Lee asked.

"Deli." The Delibird reached into it's bag, and produced Jessie's luxury Ball.

It handed the Ball to Lee, who accepted it. Then, it handed what looked like a set of blueprints to Marie. With a cry, it took off again in the direction it came from.

"I guess this is for the robot they want us to build." Marie said, examining them.

"We'll get to that later. For now, we gotta see what they lent us!" Lee said, hurling the ball. "Come on out!"

In a flash of light, a figure manifested before her. One they all recognized.

"Not again!"

The Mimikyu chittered as it approached them. "M...mkyukyukyu…"

Lee called it back inside it's Ball and sighed. "To think there are more of those things."

Mimikyu immediately burst right back out of it's Ball. "Mikyu!"

"I think it heard you." May said, turning around so as not to look at it.

"So what? You're with us now, so you better do as we say, understand?" Lee growled.

Mimikyu lurched forward, purple mist spilling out from under it's costume.

"Uh...or not?"

The Ghost/Fairy type lunged, making her recoil, but instead of attacking her, it attacked something behind her.

The girls all turned to see the Lickitung from before knocked unconscious and Mimikyu standing on top of it.

"Whoa. Guess they really did lend us a strong one." Lee grinned. She looked over the big-tongued Normal-type. "Ugh...Whatever. I guess you'll work." She threw a Poke Ball, catching it.

"We better hit the junkyard. This thing calls for LOTS of metal and heavy-duty wiring." Marie said.

"Well then, let's get to work." Lee added, taking a step in that direction, retrieving the Lickitung's Poke Ball. "Come on, May!"

May cowered away from Mimikyu in a nearby trash can. The frightening Pokemon leering at her in her hiding place and giving a chuckling-like noise.

"I said, come on!" Lee grabbed the trash can and pulled her along.

"Help me…" May whined.

As they left, another figure observed from behind the trailer's corner. Jonny 2X4 held Plank in tow as he scowled at them. "Know what this means, buddy?" He asked his wooden companion. "That's right."

"It's Melon Time!"

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A short chapter this time. Don't worry, the next one will be longer.

Will the Kankers be able to work together with Jessie's Mimikyu, and catch the Pikachu horde, or will Jonny come to the rescue?