A/N: Thank you for all the incredible reviews.
So, I couldn't help myself and decided to release the second chapter I wrote today, well, today.
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1
Before moving towards the human town, and completely ignoring Pikachu's earlier thoughts - Mew could learn the moves on the way there, and he was here to protect her anyway - he had to solve a huge issue that sat slowly on his mind: is the Mew male or female?!
Because god damn it, Pikachu had had enough! Every time that he thinks about her is like, 'Is Mew a boy or a girl? Can Mew even be a male? Or is she both? I thought there were only female Mews, but that was clearly a male human boy, so is this Mew male, or is she female? What am I supposed to call you?!'
While it was true that Pikachu decided to refer to Mew as a female, it was mainly to maintain his peace of mind - the only problem was that it clearly didn't work as well as he'd hoped. Those thoughts wouldn't leave his mind, and Pikachu had to know, or he was going to explode!
Really.
'Mostly because whenever I look at Mew, I can't see her as a guy...'
So, like the sweet and thoughtful Pokémon that he was, Pikachu decided to make sure once and for all. He was convinced that the kid would like to find out as well. After all, it was the kids' body - and if those thoughts drove Pikachu crazy, it bound to be worse for Mew.
"Hey, kid," Pikachu looked up to the floating Mew. The kid was ready as a bullet. She clearly wanted to go, go, go!
Mew turned her blue eyes towards Pikachu, and her tail swayed behind her happily. "Humm?"
"Well," Pikachu started slowly, "you said that you were human before, right?"
Mew nodded, looking decidedly pleased with herself. She was probably happy that Pikachu finally believes her story.
"And you were fe- I mean, you were male before, right?" Pikachu asked. He almost said female, but he was smart enough to switch it in the last second.
Mew's eye twitched. "Yes, why?"
"I asked because I'm going absolutely mad here!" Pikachu turned to face Mew, disregarding her twitching eye, "You said those mad humans took a female Mew's DNA to remake your DNA, right? Which resulted in you becoming a Mew, right? So, by this logic, shouldn't you be, well, you know, female?"
Ash felt his fur (is it called fur now?) bristling at Pikachu's suggestion. He didn't want to admit it, but Pikachu's reasoning seemed pretty legit.
"So," Pikachu asked while moving closer to the other, "do you want to find out the truth?"
Ash looked into the black eyes of the electric rodent and nodded.
2
"We're not talking about this. Ever. Do you get me?" Ash asked Pikachu with a dangerous tilth to his voice. Pikachu laughed nervously and nodded. It wasn't like he wanted to remember that any more than Ash did.
"Sure, kid. Never, ever. Not in a million years. Not even if Arceus himself asked me. I promise!" Pikachu hurridly added at Ash's disgruntled look. "I still can't believe that we still couldn't figure it out," Pikachu muttered.
"Not one word!" Ash covered his face with both his hands and wanted to forget all of it happened.
Pikachu nodded silently and made to lock his mouth with one hand, twisting the imaginary key and tossing it away. Ash rolled his eyes, but couldn't stay mad at the other.
"So, this town of yours, remind me what's it called again?" Pikachu asked.
"Pallet town, I live there with my mom."
Pikachu nodded happily. Thankfully his masterful diversion tactic worked like a charm, and the fire passed. "What about your dad?"
"I don't know," Ash said regrettably, "we don't talk about him much. Mom says that he's a trainer, but I'm not really sure. We don't have a single picture of him in the house."
'Wow... heavy.'
"Tough luck, kid," Pikachu said softly, "growing without a father must have been hard."
"We made do," Ash shrugged, "Mom is awesome, she took care of me all on her own. Professor Oak helped from time to time, but it was mostly her."
"Sorry for bringing up such a topic," Pikachu said regretfully.
Ash sniffed a little before saying softly, "it's fine."
3
Magikarp is a fish Pokémon with large, heavy reddish-orange scales. It has large, vacant eyes and pink lips.
Its pectoral and tail fins are white. On its back is stiff, three-peaked yellowfin. There's an identical fin on its underside, and it also has long barbels. The barbels on this particular Magikarp are tan, which can only be seen on a male.
A long-lived Magikarp can utilize its immense splashing power to leap high enough to scale mountains. It also has a healthy, enough immune system to survive in the most polluted waters.
However, this Magikarp is young and stupid. All it can do is flop around uselessly and play dead.
In truth, if you were to ask this young Magikarp, it would tell you, "this Magikarp is the strongest Pokémon of all! Strongest. Of. Them. All!" Trying to convince the Magikarp otherwise is more useless than it is.
This Magikarp loves his large rivers. However, due to its weak swimming ability, it usually lives downstream of the water's flow.
This is why when it saw the Mew flying by, this Magikarp decided to get her attention. She must be here for this almighty, Magikarp!
Magikarp then used his signature move, Splash, to leap out of the water, which makes totally made it an easy target for predators such as Pidgeotto and Pidgeot, and started shouting like a maniac.
"Mew! Legendary Mew! I'm here, the one you're here-for is right here!"
It was ecstatic when Mew looked in its' way. What a wonderful moment! This is a mythical moment - one that's only seen in a thousand years! - when a master Pokémon such as Mew and the almighty Magikarp face each other for the first time!
What a wonderful day! What a fruitful life!
Magikarp kept flopping around on the ground, "here! Here! Mew, look this way!"
This beautiful meeting was directed by fate, so of course, there are skeptical bastards that are jealous of this Magikarp's talent and wanted to sabotage his story!
The villain - an evil looking demon - looked towards Magikarp in the eye, snorted, and started ridiculing the almighty Magikarp in the adorable, beautiful Mew's ears - Pikachu took one look at the flopping Magikarp and snorted, "ignore the idiot. Clearly, the guy's delusional."
However, the beautiful Mew, the merciful goddess, didn't fall into the villain's trap! Instead, she approached this almighty Magikarp and took a long, careful look.
This Magikarp was sure of what was about to happen. The great Mew would look at the powerful Pokémon presenting itself before her, and she would understand how great it is! Next, she would take this Magikarp with her, turning him even better!
What a great future! What a perfect life this Magikarp was going to lead!
Flop, flop...
"We can't leave him," the merciful, wonderful Mew said softly. Clearly, Mew is such an excellent existence, only Magikarp can appreciate her!
"What?! Why not?!" Asked the yellow devil.
The smart Mew didn't let his words deter her will!
"Just look at him..." Mew said, and Magikarp's heart started beating faster and faster. This is it! This is the moment it'd been waiting for its' whole life!
"I'm looking..." the yellow devil said. The beast was looking down on Magikarp, but it knew that Mew saw. Mew knew Magikarp's true worth!
"He just looks so..." Mew started, and her eyes grew softer still, "so..."
"So...?" Magikarp asked with shining eyes.
Mew moved closer and Magikarp started flopping even faster in anticipation, "weak. I mean, if we left this little Magikarp here, it could get eaten."
What...?
'NO! This isn't how it was supposed to go!' The stupid little Magikarp cried in his heart.
"I guess you're right," the yellow devil agreed.
Mew moved to pick Magikarp and helped him back to the river. Magikarp left immediately.
'It isn't over! It isn't over yet!' Magikarp cried internally, 'I'll grow stronger and make you notice me!'
5
"Ok, we're almost at that human town of yours," Pikachu said, "it's time to Transform."
Ash nodded and concentrated on turning back into a human. Just like that time with the berries (ho no! He forgot the berries at Pikachu's den! He'll have to go take them later.)
Ash blinked as the forest shrunk rapidly. He'd successful Transformed into a human.
Ash took a deep breath and picked Pikachu from the ground - much to the mouse Pokémon 's delight, before he continued towards his house.
6
Delia Ketchum is a relatively reserved woman. She is usually quiet and cheerful, but when angered, she knows how to make it known.
In fact, she once shouted at Professor Oak when he tried to teach little Ashy about the birds and the bees.
At the moment, the one she's cursing is the person talking on the other side of the phone, "What do you mean you can't find my little Ashy?! Isn't that your job?!"
The person on the other side of the phone said something, but that didn't make Delia feels any better.
"I don't care. And if you won't do your job, then I will."
Delia really meant it. She was prepared to go search for her boy all on her own if she had to.
Delia cares for Ash deeply. He is her only child. She does reprimand him sometimes, but it's only because she loves him, and now the best thing in her life has gone missing.
Delia closed the phone angrily, and hot tears started falling down her cheeks.
'I want my baby...!'
A knock on her door interrupted her crying, and Delia ran as fast as her legs could carry her, "Ash, Ash, is that you?!"
She opened the door to see her son standing there with a Pikachu in his arms.
Delia started crying in earnest, but not before taking her boy in her arms and hugging him closer.
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