Second chapter's up and running so please enjoy. I do not own Pokemon.


Chapter 2: The inadvertent mix-up

Morning soon arrived and everyone was starting to wake up with the exception of Ash, because we all know that he always wakes up late. With tents and sleeping bags put away Brock started making breakfast for everyone and Misty tended to Togepi, Ash meanwhile began to wake up with a somewhat loud yawn. "Waking up late again are we Ash?", joked Brock, Ash rubbed the back of his head in embarrassment knowing the answer to his friend's rhetorical question while Misty and Pikachu both giggled at Ash's antics. Soon breakfast was ready and everyone dug in, with Pikachu sitting close to her beloved if mostly oblivious trainer, enjoying their morning meal.

Pikachu still wondered about the dream she had last night, which depicted her and Ash in his pikachu form having kids together. While Pikachu may undoubtedly love her trainer, she wasn't sure if she wanted to have children due to the fact he was a pikachu in her dream and she knew that the spell that caused his transformation in the first place would wear off soon. Still for some reason, the thought of bearing Ash's offspring seemed to be no issue as she seemed to not object to the idea at all. She figured that one of these days the overbearing feeling of maternal hood would befall her once she found that special someone to call her soul mate, and since Pikachu was in love with Ash, there was little doubt of who her soul mate would be. The problem being if Ash would ever feel the same way about her, so she let the idea go for now as she ate her breakfast.

With breakfast finished and bags packed, the group of friends continued their trek towards Blacktorn City and Ash's next gym battle, but soon something strange happens to Ash. As the group were just walking along, a yellow smoke that was responsible for Ash's transformation suddenly envelopes the pikafied trainer once more, causing his friends to yell out for his safety. When the smoke finally clears, in place of a pikachu was Ash fully human with all his clothes and equipment still on him as if it had never left. "Well that was weird" said the bemused trainer, as his friends shouted, "Ash, you're back to normal!", Ash looked himself over and replied "Yeah, I guess I am".

While Brock and Misty were questioning Ash on what the experience was like, Pikachu felt slightly disappointed that her trainer not only transformed back sooner than she expected, but also the fact that even in his time as one of her kind, could still not understand her language. Despite the so called unfair circumstances, Pikachu reminded herself that it was Ash's human form that showed her the most love and courage he emanated for the longest time, so with that she knew that no matter what form he would take, she wold still love him indefinably. After explaining his unique experience to his friends, Ash looked down at his partner and offered his arm to her as he asked "Hey Pikachu, would you like to ride on my shoulder again now that I'm back to normal?". Pikachu taking up on Ash's offer without any hesitation, climbed up his arm up to his shoulder and began affectionately nuzzling her cheek against his and even curled her tail lovingly around his neck in comfort.

Laughing at his best buddy's antics, Ash and co continued their journey together to Blackthorn city, but not before encountering Zapdos again. After that little fiasco, the group of friends finally made it to their destination, and just in time for Ash's gym battle with Clair, but the gym battle didn't go without a hitch as Team Rocket decided it would fun to interfere in the official gym match with a dragonite that they somehow managed to control. Even after sending the three stooges packing thanks to Charizard, who arrived in the nick of time and freeing the dragonite, Ash still lost his gym battle due to the unwanted interruption at promised to come try again the next day. The next day Ash was ready for his rematch with Clair, and after a long strenuous battle, Ash won the battle with Clair rewarding his with the Rising badge, the eighth and final badge in the Johto Pokemon league.

After learning about the Silver conference that take place in a few month's time, Ash decided head back to the pokemon center to have his team recover and rest before leaving the next day. As Ash got into his assigned room with Pikachu, he could barely contain his excitement over his recent victory. "That was some battle, wasn't it Pikachu?" Ash ask his faithful companion, Pikachu nodded vigorously in agreement as it was one one of her toughest challenges to date, the only solace is that in the end with Charizard's help they emerged victorious. "Well, I going to take a shower, be out in a bit" said Ash as he closed the bathroom door, leaving Pikachu to wait for him.

A few minutes later, Ash arrived the shower in his night clothes as he saw Pikachu on the bed standing next to his pillow. "I take it you sleep next to me tonight" ask Ash with a firm nod from his partner in response, "Okay, move over please" said Ash as he removed the covers and began to lay down in the bed with Pikachu curled next to his head. As Ash turned off the nightstand light, he said to his companion, "Sleep tight buddy" with her responding "Pikachu, pikapi" as they fell fast asleep. Once again, Pikachu found herself dreaming about her potential soul mate, Ash, but things were different this time. Instead of being at the Ketchum household with little pichus running about, she found herself in front of Ash, who was still in pikachu form and wearing an expensive looking suit, while she appeared to wearing a beautiful dress that had a white veil, it took her a few moments to realize that they where at what seem to be a wedding chapel with both of them exchanging their vows and all of their friends and families watching.

Just as the two lovebird finished their vows and were just about to kiss, Pikachu woke up again in the middle of the night. Very irate at the fact that her seemingly perfect dream got interrupted, she began to notice that she was very thirst and needed a drink. That wouldn't be problematic if it weren't for the fact that she too groggy to reach the bathroom door handle, so she decided to rummage through Ash's backpack to see if their was any water left in his canteen. After finding said canteen only to discover that it was empty, she was about to throw in the towel and try to go back to sleep thirsty when she saw a little vial with a yellow liquid inside. Considering the fact that she was still half asleep and thus could not think straight, she popped the cork off the vial and drank the liquid which surprisingly tasted like lemonade. After the refreshing drink of the yellow liquid, Pikachu put the empty vial in the backpack, jumped back into bed, curled up next to her love's head and fell back to sleep without realizing that by drinking the yellow liquid that caused Ash to turn into a pikachu in the first place would inadvertently change both of their lives.


End of chapter two. I've got to be honest, I felt as though I rush this chapter too much, but anyway, I think I going to place a little tidbit of a chapter that will explain Pikachu's origins and how that will come into play in future chapters. I do my best to try to make as much sense as possible. Hope that you've enjoyed the chapter and remember to read and review. Have a good one.