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'– This will be Pokémon Speaking (People cannot understand it unless I say otherwise. Ash can get the gist of it due to his close bond with his Pokémon.)

Italics – This will be telepathy

"– Is of course regular speech.

Let the chapter begin!

Once everything had calmed down it had gotten dark, Professor Juniper offered Ash a room for the night and despite wanting to get going Ash accepted the offer. After checking on his Pokémon to see how they were he sat down on the sofa in Professor Juniper's living room and sighed as he wondered whether he would ever have a normal first day in a region. Ash was just thankful that he hadn't destroyed a girls' bike…. yet. He was brought out of his thoughts as Cynthia sat down beside him and handed him a cup of tea.

"Thanks."

"It's alright Ash, I thought that you could use it after this crazy day." she said.

"Actually, this is kind of the norm for me now to be honest."

The pair chuckled as they both thought about Ash's statement and how true it was for both of them. Ash had been battling against evil forces and having legendary encounters since his adventure started and Cynthia well she was a Champion and she had so many duties now, duties that she hadn't known would be hers when she became a champion. Despite all the problems they had encountered both of them knew they wouldn't change a thing about their journeys as trainers. The pair spent a little while talking about their past adventures both laughing at some of the events that had transpired like Ash's problems with the Quagsire and Cynthia's search to find a cure for some Psyduck. After a while Cynthia let out a yawn and stood up, she stretched and then started walking out of the room.

"I'll see you tomorrow Ash."

"See you in the morning Cynthia."

The Sinnoh champion smiled at Ash and then went upstairs leaving Ash alone with Pikachu in the living room. After a few moments Ash decided to follow Cynthia's lead and go up and get some sleep too but he noticed that the light in Professor Juniper's office was still on. He knew that while most of the Pokémon had been sent to other evaluation centres a few had been kept at Professor Juniper's lab, so she could study some of the Pokémon herself and see the physical and mental condition of the Pokémon. The thought of doing something like that alone sounded terrible so Ash decided to go and give the professor some company while she examined the Pokémon.

Just as he entered there was a brief flash of light cause by a Pokémon being released from a Pokéball, it was a Golbat that looked in awful condition. The bat spotted Professor Juniper and let out an enraged screech as it flew at her with evil intentions. Knowing that she had no way of stopping the angered Pokémon Professor Juniper shield herself with her arms and waited for the attack.

"Pikachu use Thunder Wave."

Pikachu released a paralysing bolt of electricity at the Golbat who screeched again, this time in pain as the paralysis wracked his body. With a thud the paralysed bat fell to the floor and twitched as it tried weakly to fight against the paralysis. Ash looked down sadly at the Golbat and then turned his attention to Professor Juniper who looked a little shook up from what had just happened.

"Are you okay Professor?"

"Oh, thank you Ash, yes I'm fine thanks to you and Pikachu. I hadn't expected one of them to react so violently."

"It's okay but I think we should stay here while you see to the other Pokémon."

"I'd appreciate that Ash, it's sad to say this but I'm sure that we may need to subdue the others."

The next eight Pokémon were all the same as the first leaving Ash, Pikachu and Professor Juniper feeling sorry for the poor Pokémon and guilty that they had to paralyse them with Thunder Wave. As Professor Juniper took out the last Pokéball out of the bag they all considered not sending out the Pokémon to save it the pain of paralysing it. However, they all knew that they couldn't do that, they had an obligation to see the state of every Pokémon.

With a sigh Professor Juniper sent out the last Pokémon and Pikachu immediately got ready to unleash a Thunder Wave on the Pokémon if and in all likelihood when it turned out to be aggressive. Once the flash of light faded the trio were surprised to see an Eevee appear, the other Pokémon had been generic Team Rocket Pokémon so finding a rarer Pokémon like this was odd. The Eevee saw Pikachu's cheeks crackling and quickly shot into the corner of the room and curled into a ball while it shook violently.

Seeing that the Eevee was clearly not a threat Ash gave Pikachu a signal to get him to stop charging a Thunder Wave and he slowly walked towards the frightened Pokémon. when he got close Ash sat down next to the Eevee and tentatively reached out and gently ran his hand along the Eevee's fur. The Eevee stiffened at the contact and tried to move away obviously expecting Ash to strike it. Not at all surprised by the reaction Ash merely kept tenderly stroking the Eevee's fur hoping that it would realise that he meant no harm.

After a few minutes of Ash stroking its back the Eevee uncurled itself and looked up at Ash, their eyes met, and Ash felt incredibly sorry for the Eevee as it was clear that it had clearly been through a lot. Deciding to take a chance Ash gently picked up the Eevee and pulled it to his chest hugging it tightly. Eevee's eyes momentarily widened in shock as it had never had a hug since being ripped away from its parents. The situation quickly overwhelmed Eevee and it started to cry in Ash's arms.

"It's okay Eevee, it's okay, no one is going to hurt you anymore."

Ash kept his hold on Eevee tight until the sounds of crying where replaced by soft snores, considering the condition it was in it didn't take long for Eevee to cry itself to sleep. Once she was sure the Eevee was asleep Professor Juniper carefully took it from Ash and started to do as many tests as she could do. Ash and Pikachu watched over Eevee while they waited for Professor Juniper to finish running all the tests. Eventually the last of the Professors test came through revealing rather obvious facts, the Eevee was female, malnourished and had a series of minor injuries due to the severe punishment she had been through. The trio were in a way relieved at the reports as there were no broken bones and no deadly infections however they were still incredibly worried for the Eevee.

Professor Juniper took Eevee into the part of her lab with healing equipment and placed the small Pokémon on a small bed, she attached a few machines to keep her posted on Eevee's condition through the night just in case anything happened. Ash and Pikachu watched on saddened that a Pokémon had to go through this because of Team Rocket, both of them promising to make the evil organisation pay for their transgressions. When Professor Juniper was sure that Eevee would be okay he left she side and approached Ash and Pikachu.

"She should be fine; the machines are just a precaution to be safe. It's strange, usually the Pokémon are completely docile, almost emotionless or extremely violent as you have seen. I can only assume that this Eevee was recently taken and thus has not been broken by the ones who captured her. The malnutrition is another indicator of that, they've been starving her for a while now to try and break her."

There was a silence as the trio once again wondered what the little Eevee had suffered through at the hands of Team Rocket. Professor Juniper then saw the time and was about to mention how late it was getting and that Ash should head to bed if he intended to leave tomorrow. However, before she could say anything Ash and Pikachu were dragging on of the other beds across the room next to Eevee's bed. The pair put the bed as close as they could to Eevee's and then laid down on the bed looking at Eevee which confused Professor Juniper who also had to stifle a laugh as she saw Ash's legs dangling off the end of the small bed.

"What are you doing Ash?"

"I'm not leaving her alone, if she wakes up alone and attached to a bunch of machines she'll panic which could end up harming her. I won't let that happen, I'll sleep here."

Ash's response made Professor Juniper smile softly at Ash, it seemed that he was just as compassionate and dedicated to Pokémon as Samuel had said. Knowing that she wouldn't be able to sway the young man Professor Juniper got an extra pillow and blanket for Ash, so he could sleep a little more comfortably on the rather small bed. Ash grateful took the offered bedding and placed them on the bed.

"Thanks Professor."

"It's alright Ash, now if anything happens press the button and I'll come and help."

After a quick nod from Ash to show he understood, Professor Juniper left the room switching the light off as she went. Pikachu quickly fell to sleep in Ash's arms leaving the young trainer staring at Eevee, after a while he felt himself getting drowsy, so he reached out and gently stroked Eevee's back one last time before falling to sleep.

Authors Notes

Well there's chapter 10, I hope you enjoyed it. Please tell me what you liked/disliked and how I can improve future chapters.

Next time Ash will catch his first Pokémon and probably meet a familiar face from Unova.

Thank you all for reading and I hope you continue to stick with this story.