[*Narrator voice* Here we're only with Gütter and Bailey this time, as Dillard had decided to stay behind in the boat for a little bit, they are traveling along Meadow Plains Island, looking at all of it's beutiful sights. Peaceful as it may he for everyone, pikachu seems to be sensing something, but what could it be?]

"Wow these flowers are so pretty!" Says Bailey.

"I know, and there's just so many! I don't think I've ever even seen this many flowers in one area!" Gütter says as he turns to look at his pikachu. He just then notices something up. Pikachu's looking around, as if it knows something's there, but doubts it's there. "What's the matter pikachu?"

The pikachu just continues to look around and simply replies with a quiet "Pika..."

Gütter looks in the distance and the only thing he sees are a bunch of flowers, but then he sees in the far distance something... small... and yellow.

[Meanwhile]

A bunch a pichu were playing around having fun, rolling around, accidentally shocking themselves, just everything a pichu could ask for. But one stops, just all of a sudden. This one was the "black sheep" if you must, of the group. It had three spikes on one ear. It seemed to faintly hear something it immediately recognized. The rest of the pichu watched as it ran across the fields in the direction of the sound it heard.

[You know, just saying, if this were a show, this would be a great place to put an intro.]

"C'mon pikachu, what's on your mind?"

"Gütter, didn't you perviously decide to put a pause on it's speech?"

Gütter clearly didn't want to be reminded of this. "Yeah, but I still just want to have some sort of idea of whats on its mind."

"Pika!" it shouted. It then started to run across the fields and fast. Gütter managed to keep up, but once again, Bailey was lagging behind.

"Hey! Wait for me!" She shouted. (I should really consider getting a bike...)

Then, Gutter's pikachu, and the pichu with the three spikes on one ear were face to face, about two feet away from eachother.

"Hey look, it's a pichu!" Bailey said. She then pulled out her pokédex and pointed it at the pichu. The lid flipped open and Dextette began to speak.

"Pichu, the Tiny Mouse Pokémon. Pichu is the pre-evolved form of Pikachu. Despite their size, Pichu release bursts of electricity that can shock even humans."

"Hm, but it looks different then it's image on the pokedex..." She then said.

"Dextette filled you in for the stats, now let Dexter give us the background info." Gütter pulled out his pokédex.

"Spikey-eared pichu, sometimes refered to as notched ear pichu, are an extremely rare variation of pichu. To put it in reasonable terms, the chances of seeing one of these hatching from an egg are the same as seeing another episode of Porygonal."

"What?" Bailey said, confused.

"They only ever made two episodes... The second one had a fireworks display including a bunch of electric pokémon. Without going into any more detail, the show was banned from being televised since. Now that we've got that cleared up, you may continue, Dexter."

"There have been a total a five known sightings, one in Michina Town, three in the Llex Forest, and one person claims to have captured one, but has provided no proof. Also, even though little is known, for some reason, many believe it they are all born female, but this is most likely a complete rumor as there is no proof or evidence to back this up."

"Okay, but what brings these two together?"

"I think we're about to find out."

"Pika?" The pichu said inching forward.

"Pichu?" Pikachu said doing the same.

"Pika!" The pichu said with a glowing smile. It then jumped into pikachu's arms who was also smiling with joy.

"Pichu!" It said.

"Wow. That must mean pikachu has a little sister." Bailey said unknowingly.

Gütter then glared at Bailey.

"What?"

"*sigh* Bailey. You might want to try that again."

She looks at the two chus again and sees them both crying nearly as much as Ash's torcoal out of happiness. "Umm... Daughter?"

"'Brilliant deduction my dear Watson.'" Gutter said in his best british voice. Both he and Bailey chuckled a bit.

[Meanwhile up in a tree.]

"Look Jess, it's the other twerp." Said James.

"You mean the twerpachu tat broke outa dat pokéball?" Said meowth.

"That's the one."

"And look..." Jessie said "There's his pikachu and a pichu there, that pichu seems a little different though."

"Hm, let's see... I believe that's a spikey-eared pichu." Said James, looking through his flash cards.

"A spikey-wha?"

"Here it is, spikey-eared pichu. From what it looks, this is as rare as you can get without going legendary."

"We should give it to the boss!" Said meowth.

"What's the idea this time?" Asked James.

"Imagine the boss, feeling depressed and bored of seeing even some of his most faithful employees come to failure."

"Keep going." James says clearly interested.

"And then, he looks up and sees our adorable little gift we brought for him, and because it's so rare, he'll appreciate even more. Seein' it dance and play around he'll forget all his troubles and be right back on top of his game, and that's when he'll say 'For bringing me such an adorable and rare gift, meowth and friends 'ought to be rewarded for their kindness.'"

"Then what we waiting for?!" The three of them shouted.

"Wobba-wobb!"

" 'Mimemine-mine!' "

[Meanwhile, back with Gütter and Bailey.]

Three figures then walked up to them as they were watching a beautiful reuniting in front of them.

"Hello, we're with the local floral area inspection, and we are here to inspect any and all pokemon within the premises." Says one of them.

"Strange, I've never heard of such a thing, has the been any... trouble- involved?" Gütter said, knowing what was up right away.

One of them seemed a bit nervous "No! But you better prepa-"

"No, don't do it Jess, you'll blow out cover." One of them whispers.

"If there's something we need to do, we'll be sure to do it on the.. double."

The other one seems to start acting the same way as the first one "I- uh- m- make it-..."

"No! Don't!" One of them whispers.

"I mean clearly a job like yours is protecting from devastation, if you needed to, you'd send them to the United Nations. Ain't that right." He said, raising an eyebrow on the last part.

The one that had been whispering then reacted to that last part.

"OH I CANT TAKE IT ANYMORE! Prepare for trouble, our cover's blown!"

"And make it double, it's time to be shown!"

"An evil as old as the galaxy..."

"...sent here to fulfill our destiny!"

"Yeah, there's also me…" Meowth said, a bit annoyed.

"To denounce the evils of truth and love!"

"To extend our reach to the stars above."

The all pull of their disguises "Jessie!"

"And James!"

"Add meowth and then you know our names!"

"Team Rocket's identity revealed to the universe."

"But now that Team Rocket's here…"

"…we'll be here…"

"To make everything worse!"

"Wobbuffet!"

"Mime-mime!"

"Alright, now that that's over, what do you want?" Gutter says, quite annoyed.

"We're here for that rare pichu." Says Jessie.

"Yeah, so hand it over!" Said meowth.

"No way! This is my pikachu's daughter, and I wont let you have it! We took care of you last time, and we'll do it again!" Gütter shouted with anger. He tried to store up some electricity, but all it did was raise the little mini-hairs on his cheeks. "Oh, right... Pikachu, it's up to you, show them what they deserve."

"Pika..." Pikachu said with a furious glare in his eyes.

"Yikes, I think we may have chosen the wrong time to do the motto..." Said meowth with a worried voice.

Pikachu then shouted as loud as it could "PI-KA-CHUUUUUUUUU!" And it launched the most powerful thunderbolt it ever had yet. Determined as it was, it's aim was off by just a little and missed meowth.

"We're blasting off again!" "Wobba!" They shouted clearly still being electrocuted.

"Hey! You forgot me!" Meowth shouted, falling into some branches. "Ack! Yow! Oof! D'ah! Hng! AaaaaAAAAAAAHH! Plah!" Meowth wearily got up and brushed the dirt off his fur. "I mighta been better off blasting off along with dem two."

Pikachu then sat down, exhausted, and made sure it's daughter was still okay.

Gütter was in a bad mood toward Team Rocket at that moment. He decided he wouldn't let this one go. "And here I was thinking meowth always landed on four feet. Oh, that's right! You walk on two feet."

"Grr... You couldn't have just made it nice with us, could ya?!" Meowth said, tending to his sprained tail.

"Hmm... I feel like I've seen you before..." Gütter said as he approached meowth.

"Yeah, well you must be mistaken me fer some other meowth. Us pokémon is all the same wit you humans..."

"Well, despite what I just saw, I don't think this one characteristic about you matches anyone else."

"What? The fact that I can talk?"

"No, I mean the way your eyes are positioned."

"Huh?"

"The distance between your eyes is more comparable to a human's than it is a meowth's. There's only one meowth I've ever seen with those qualities." Gütter pulled out what appeared to be a strange looking glow stick. He held it over meowth's tail a to reveal some text saying '#1 Meowth' "*gasp* I thought we'd meet again one day, but not like this..."

"Hm? Hey, since when was that on my tail?"

"About ever since you were tied up in that tree."

"Wait... You?"

"Whenever I got the chance, I brought you the most food I could bring you without being noticed. I couldn't let myself get caught doing it, or else I'd be the joke of the whole town. I still feel bad for what I did to cover myself…"

"I'm following so far, but what your saying now is a bit a blur."

"That's probably because my cover was that I was tightening the rope for a meowth piñata party."

Meowth then covered his head at the sound of this, remembering all of those bats to the face being so young.

"I knew it was wrong, and when I saw the look on your face when we watched that movie about the city, I knew the best thing to do was to help you. I stood behind the tree as some kids were coming to 'play with the meowth' and we teamed up to scare the other kids away. You mouthed while I said..." Gütter cleared his throat and did a convincing meowth voice "Hey! Why do alls o' you keep treatin' me the way you do?! I'm just hanging here starvin' and alls of you are trying to knock out every bit of lunch I've had! What're you giving me t'at look for? Ain't none of you seen a talking meowth before?"

Meowth then was struck by memory and realized that this kid was his first true friend since the beginning.

"And look at you now! If those kids ever ran into you again… Well… They'd have their pokémon stolen by Team Rocket." Gütter started to have to hold in his irritation at his 'friend'.

Meowth felt conflicted seeing his old friend beginning to turn on him because of Team Rocket.

"Hey meowth, could you do an old buddy a favor?"

"Forget it! I ain't leavin' Team Rocket behind!"

At the back of Gutter's head, he was starting to regret helping that 'poor little' meowth. He managed to shake it off and said "No, I want you to do some translating."

Meowth then felt a little guilty, and decided to take on this simple task. "Oh. Uh, alright. I'll help ya'."

"Hey pikachu, why don't you tell us your story about this adorable little thing here?" Gütter said as he pet the little pichu the same way he does for pikachu.

Pikachu looked over at meowth, and glared.

Meowth looked a little nervous.

"Don't worry, meowth's on our side. He'll be translating word for word."

Pikachu nodded and smiled as it looked up and thought back.

Meowth listened as pikachu began to tell it's tale.

"Okay. So pikachu saying 'I was merely a young pichu, as happy as could be with that bunch way over there. Nowhere near here, though. I traveled though the farther areas of the forest, gathering all different sorts of fruit, giving the rest to my friends. I was basically their leader and gatherer. Most of the others were other pichu we let join our group just because they had no where else to go. One day when they were all waiting on me to come back with some fruit, my best friend came along to check on me. He didn't know which tree I was in, but he tried to climb one anyway. He wasn't to good of a climber, or at much of anything else, he can sing though. We sometimes lead the group to a place me me and him sing along with the radio. Anyway, because of his poor climbing skills, he fell, and tumbled into a trap. I heard his cries, I tried everything to get him out. He even scratched up his paw trying, but it was no use, I went back to everyone to have them help me, but as soon as we all got back, he was gone. Nothing left but some shoe prints too light to even track. We were all very sad, and I was likely the saddest of us all. Suddenly we heard another trap, and there we saw another pichu captured in the trap, I wouldn't dare let any other pichu in this forest suffer the way my friend did ever again, this one was personal. With all of our efforts combined we were able to free the poor little pichu, and that's how I met.. her. She was possibly the most beautiful pichu I've ever met. Her tail even already had small bumps on it, almost like her evolved form. She was the one for me. We let her in to our group and we lived happily together. She always ran by my side closer than my friend ever did, she was good at all the things I was great at all things I was. We were the perfect couple. One day, we put our cheeks together and as a few sparks flew, the two of us evolved right there on the spot. As you may know pichu spark when they're happy or surprised, so they were almost a fire hazard when they saw us. When the two of us said our first word as a pikachu, we both stood upon all the pichu, proud, true leaders. They all congratulated us and were happy for us. Me and that pikachu were even closer now. Our apearences evolved evenly, her tail with two perfect half-circles and my tail as sharp as could be. Many days later there was a huge storm we all took shelter under trees, 5 pichu each, the two of us under one. Then-'... Why're ya stoppin' pikachu?"

Pikachu began to blush. He quickly got up and whispered something to meowth, then went back over to his daughter. He continued his story.

"Eh, hehe, right... So anyway, moving on; 'All the pichu woke up the next morning to see us with a beautiful egg, yellow, and a jagged black all around the bottom edge. There was something different about it, there was a star in the middle of it. We accepted it just meant it was going to be special. Even the pichu went to admire it from time to time. From then on, her and I took turns between gathering fruit, and warming the egg, and after something around 5 weeks of doing this had passed, the egg started glowing, and we had this little bundle of joy and electricity I hold right now. We knew the star on it meant something special, and we got someone special. It was a whole year full of happiness, she even inspired us to go on adventures on the outer regions of the forest all together, fun for everyone. Sadly, the year came and went. On her first birthday, her mom was kidnapped. All our electric attacks combined couldn't stop it. She was gone, and we were all depressed. Luckily, we maintained, just never quite the same.' "

Pikachu held his daughter tightly in his arms remembering her mom. "Pika,
pikachu pi pikapika."

"Wow pikachu, and I would've never known if it weren't for meowth."

Pikachu smiled. He was glad his friend got to know his story. "Pikapika, pika pipikachu. Pikachu pika piKAa!"

"D'aw, it's nothin', really."

"So wait, what separated you from the group?" Bailey asked.

Pikachu stared outward, he made the very same grunt he did when Gütter heard him for the very first time. "Pika... Pichu pikachu pika, pika."

Gütter looked toward meowth.

"Pikachu's sayin' that as much as he'd like to tell that story, his daughter's way too young to know that sorta stuff." Meowth accidentally painted a mental image. He shivered at the thought of it. "Somethin' tells me I wouldn't want to hear it either."

"Well lemme at least get one thing straight, that group of pichu over there was your group?"

"Pika, pikachu pipika pikachu pichu?"

"Pichu! Pichu pika pi-chu pichu pichupichu pika!"

"Pichu said 'Yep. I'm sure they'd be glad to see you again after all this time.' "

"Pikachu, Pikachupika pi Chupika?... Pika- pikapika?"

"Pichu pichu!"

"Pichu's sayin' we can come with him."

"Cool!" Gütter and Bailey cheered.

They all walked with pikachu and his daughter as they walked to the pichu. All the pichu look up when they heard the nearby footsteps and they then all had big smiles when they saw their old leader return. They all jumped on to pikachu and everyone was laughing. Pikachu told everyone about what it was like traveling with Gütter, and what fun adventures he's had. The pichu all sat in awe of his tales.

Suddenly, a mecha robot came in with three screens at the top. "Prepare for a remote controlled pile of trouble from up in the skies!"

"We've gone beyond the stars, so we return a nasty surprise!"

"An evil as old as the galaxy..."

"...sent here to fulfill our destiny!"

"Uh-oh, that includes me!"

"We needed number three, as there was a lack thereof."

"We searched for meowth to the stars above."

"Jessie!"

"And it's James not Jame!"

"Well, Meowth's my name…" (And I thought today that name would be clean...)

"Anywhere there's peace in the universe..."

"...Team Rocket..."

"…we'll be here…"

"To make everything worse!"

The third screen turned on. "Wobbuffet!" " 'Mimemimemime!' "

"Wait, didn't you guys already do the motto about an hour ago?" Gütter asked.

Jessie and James fell back. "Wob-buffet!"

Jessie pressed a button "There we go. Come on up here, meowth."

James looked down "Look Jess, a pack of pichu."

"Ah! They're the most darling little things. Let's catch 'em all!"

"Okay!"

Before Team Rocket could do anything, pikachu stepped in front of all of them and shouted something."Pipikachu! Pika, pikapika! Pikachu pika pika!"

"Hm? Translation, meowth?"

"Pikachu's sayin' he want's us to get out of here, leave the pichu alone, and never come back."

"Sounds a bit longer than what he said to me…"

"Pokémon language is far too complicated for humans like you to understand." (Plus I had to paraphrase to keep this story at a K+10 rating.)

Jessie got angry "Look you pikabrat! We're getting those pichu and there's nothing you can do to stop us! In fact, we might as well catch you now since you're too tuckered out to attack."

Pikachu got really angry, but when he attempted to build up electricity, he fainted.

"Pichu!" His daughter shouted.

Gütter turned around. "Team Rocket, you- AGH!" He was cut short as he ran from the robotic arms heading toward him.

Bailey became more than nervous at that moment. She managed to run faster than Gütter could.

Pikachu's daughter dodged the robotic arms while her friends were being captured. She got angrier and angrier with every jump.

"What about pikachu?!" Jessie shouted.

"Hold on woman! I'm doing what I can!"

Pikachu was grabbed by the robot's arm.

"No! Pikachu!"

"Pichu?!" His daughter cried.

"Hahaha! If only the twerp's pikachu was this easy to capture!"

Pichu shed a few tears, then she turned it all into anger and began to glow yellow.

"Huh? What's she doin'?" Meowth asked.

"PiiiIIIIII-CHUUUUUUU!" Suddenly she let out far more electricity any pichu has let out on record, and she kept at it.

"BLBLBLBLLB! DIDN'T YOU GUYS REMEMBER TO PIKA-PROOF THIS THING?!"

"That was James' job!"

"I thought it was meowth's- oh wait…"

The machine suddenly exploded. Sending pichu flying everywhere, but only leading to them gathering back up. Pikachu landed intriguingly right next to his daughter.

Meowth was up top, so he was launched much farther away. "D'AAHHH! I'm blasting off all alone again!"

"That'll do pichu."

"Pichu!" She said, smiling.

Gütter took off his hat, and watched as the star twinkled where his old friend blasted off. He put his hand through his hair sighed, and put his smile and hat back where they belonged as he watched his buddy wake up, a parent once again.

"Hey pikachu, your daughter just did something I've never seen any other pichu do before."

"Pika?"

"Yep, she blew up the machine."

"Pi ka pika?"

"Yep, you've raised her well." Gütter looked over at pikachu's daughter, who seemed completely unaffected by her own attack.

The other pichu came back to pikachu.

"Don't worry little ones, the bad guys are gone now."

They all seemed to focus on pikachu's daughter.

"Pika?" Pikachu asked.

"Pichu, pichu, pika. Pika." She replied.

"Pika, pikachu pika… Pika… Pika, pichu." Pikachu said, feeling both sad and proud.

"Let me guess… After you left, pichu here followed your footsteps and became leader of the tribe."

Pikachu tilted and nodded his head, a bit unused to Gütter guessing it on the first try. "Pika…"

"Well we've been together a while now, I think it would be more of a surprise if I haven't been catching on with some things."

Pikachu shrugged his shoulders. "Pikachu." He looked over at his daughter. "Pika-chu. Pikachu, pika pi pikachupika." He told her.

"Pichu, pika pichu?" She asked.

"Pika! Pikachu pika, pi pikachu, pipika pikachu!" He explained.

"Pichu!" She agreed.

"Pi-ka-chu." Suddenly pikachu grabbed a pokéball from Gütter's belt. He held it in front of pichu. "Pika, pikapika. Pikachupika pikachu pika." He instructed.

"Pichu." She grabbed it, threw it in the air, and had the button land on her. The pokeball moved a little, back and forth, back and forth, DING!

"Pika pika!" Pikachu said, handing the pokéball to Gütter.

"Huh? Oh right." He picked it up and made a scene. "Alright! I just caught- a spikey-eared pichu!"

"Piipikachu!- Pikapika!"

"You can come on back out now pichu."

Before becoming solid, she manipulated where she appeared and went under Gütter's hat. When Gütter took it off she was eating what looked like a candy bar.

"Hm, experiment 017 seems to attract pichu… I gotta remember to write that down."

Suddenly all the other pichu climbed up to have a taste of their own, but in all the excitement, several of them accidentally let out a little shock.

Dexter came on. "Sorry, I forgot to finish the entry Dextette should have known. However, pichu are unskilled at controlling their electricity, and sometimes release it by accident when surprised, exited, or when laughing and shock themselves."

Gütter, now with his hair sticking up, groaned and said "Gee, thanks Dex…"

" 'Experiment 017' ?' " Bailey said, who had previously walked back after running away from the mecha arms.

"I've been trying to come up with a candy bar full with proper nutrients that are suitable for pokémon, for some reason the part of it actually tasting good was the hardest part."

Pikachu tried a little, he irked and swallowed. He stuck out his tongue an tried to wipe off the taste.

"See what I mean? Now the question is, why does the pre-evolved form prefer it?"

The pichu were all enjoying the bar, sharing and eating one square at a time.

"Pi-ika. Pikapika?" Pikachu asked.

"Pichu… Pichu pika…" His daughter replied.

"Pika?! Pikachu pika pikapika!"

"Pichu… Pichu pichupichu…"

"Pika…"

"Hey, something wrong?"

Pikachu put down his ears. "Pika... Pikachu pikachupika..."

Gütter looked around, no forest anywhere. This was only tree in sight, and the berries were very high up. "Oh I see, since they're no longer in the forest they depend on pichu to get to the top of these trees.

"Pika!" Pikachu said with a nod.

"You and pikachu sure do have a good form of communicating."

"Yeah, I guess we do." Gütter winked at pikachu.

Pikachu winked back.

"Hm?"

Gütter thought for a moment. "Hey, I have an idea!" He whispered something into pikachu's ear.

Pikachu whispered something to his daughter.

"Pichu! Pichupichu pi-ichu pichu! Pika pichu, pichu pika, pichu pichupichu!" She told everyone.

They all cheered.

"Alright, let's go!"

"Why did you need to whisper?"

"It's all part of the plan."

After a while of Gütter complaining at Dexter for leading them the wrong way, they ended up in front of a gate with a wired fence.

"Hey Barney! You here?" Gütter called out.

A guy wearing a striped shirt came in with a munchlax behind him came walking through. "Hey there, Gütter! Good to see ya little buddy! How'd you find me?"

"I knew you were in the develo-dex program. It wasn't that hard."

Dexter broke into the conversation. "Wasn't that HARD?! I'll have you know, that IIIiiiii…" Gütter turned him off.

"So, how's he going to help out these pichu?"

"Easy, pokémon adoption!"

"Pokémon adoption?"

"Yep. You see… sometimes there are some times when trainers live in areas with very little pokemon and they want one to train and raise. Or live in areas where it's dangerous to go alone without any traveling with them, having no labratory to get thier starters."

"Oh, I get it!" She looked around, there were quite a bit of pokémon around. "This looks like the sort of place that would fit that second description."

Barney nodded. "You got it little girl."

"So, Barney, you think you can put these pichu up?"

"Pikapika!" Pikachu pointed to all of them staying near each other in a group.

"Oh, also they can only be given if they can stay near each other as much as they can."

"Hm. As a matter of fact, my client town fits that description perfectly."

"Great! Where?"

"Dextette, send Dexter the location."

"Right away, Barney."

Dexter was silent for a moment "Calculating route."

A while later, they made it to a small town with a bunch of kids that seemed really bored and were staring at their pokéballs. Barney was the first to speak "Hi there kids!"

One kid said "Uh, hi. Who are you?"

"Just someone to bring you some friends."

All the pichu jumped out behind everyone and all said "Pichu?"

"Wow! Look at all the pichu!" One kid said.

"Pichu?" A few of the pichu asked, turning around.

"Pichu. Pika, pichu pichu!" Pikachu's daughter replied.

The pichu smiled and each climbed up one kid. Everyone was happy.

"Pika! Pikapika, pikachu!" Pikachu instructed.

The pichu were all doing the same thing that pikachu's daughter did with Gütter's pokéball.

"So, wait… Now we all have our own pokémon?"

"Yep, now I have an important question for you."

"Yeah? What?"

"These pichu are all special, they're pokemon, and so they have their own feelings just like we do. So I want you all to tell me, can you care for them?"

"Yes! Yes we can!"

"Also they've always lived as a group, I want you all to visit eachother often so tbe pichu wont miss eachother. Can you promise me that?"

"Oh yes!"

"I'm going to have to trust you on this. But first let me and pikachu just have a final word with all of them."

Every kid said all at once. "Okay! Come on out pichu!" They threw their pokeballs in the air and every pichu was out.

Gütter crouched down. "Well little guys, you have a home now. All of these kids will take care of you, feed you, and train you. I know you've missed pikachu for a while now, and I also know pichu will be missing from your group as well, but I promise each and every one of you that it will all be okay. We may even see you again someday."

"Pichu pichu-u?" They asked.

"Pika-chu, pikapika, pikachu pika pi pika. Pikachupika pi pichu pikachu pika. Pikachu pika pika." Pikachu reassured them.

Pikachu's daughter jumped on to her dad's back, and held up a peace sign. "Pichu! Pichupichu!"

All the pichu cheered and waved goodbye.

Gütter stood back up. "It's been nice seeing all of you! Take good care of those pichu, and maybe we'll be back one day!"

"Okay, goodbye!" They all said.

Gütter and his two friends walked on, pikachu giving his daughter a pika-back ride. "So, Barney, I'm guessing you'll be heading back to where you were?"

"Nope, I'm moving base!"

"Why so?"

"I've officially filled all requests for this entire region, now I gotta keep traveling and find some more less fortunate towns. Thanks again for helping me out anyway!"

"I understand. Bailey and I have our own things to do anyway!" They both smiled.

Barney turned the other direction once the path split. "Gütter you lucky dog." He waved his hand before Gütter could say anything.

Gütter and Bailey were confused they looked at each other, and looked back at the path. Pikachu seemed to think something was up, but shook it off and continued making his daughter laugh. After a while they made it back to Dillard, still sitting in the boat, eating a sandwich. He looked up and said "Like the new paint job?"

Gütter and Bailey just now realized that the boat was covered in flames, or so it seemed. The boat was painted to look just like cyndaquil's flame.

"Well are you gonna stare at the boat, or are we heading on?"

Gütter and Bailey got in the boat. Pikachu jumped in, still carrying his daughter. He landed in Gütter's lap and put pichu down. He was exhausted, it's been a long time and a long day. Gütter smiled and pet both of them, Bailey watched the water, and Dillard drove the boat.

[*Narrator voice* After another long and exiting day for Gütter and Bailey (and maybe Dillard…), learning more about pikachu's amazing past, starting off a bunch of new trainers, and reuniting pikachu with his daughter, they drive out to the next island, keeping in mind that they were going to need to call their next stop base, for a number of reasons. What else has pikachu not yet told us? What excitements will their new friend, pichu, bring? We may find out next time on… The PikaProject!]

[Edit: You just read 5,440 words. Can you believe that?]