The young girl struggled as she attempted to lift her body up enough to see what was going on inside the building

The young girl struggled as she attempted to lift her whole body up onto the ledge by the window, using only her arms. She must be careful not to be seen – she could be in very deep trouble. Her eyes searched the room, and finally she caught sight of a strange looking machine. She quickly gasped and ducked as she noticed a person standing by it, dressed in a white lab coat. A scientist! She slowly poked her head back up through the window, as she noticed he was facing the opposite direction, and was busy in what he was doing. She noticed something lying down by the machine, and struggled to see what it was. But just then, another scientist walked in and blocked her view of it. She could hear voices, and smiled when she noticed that another window; this one closer to them, was open a crack. Just enough so she could hear what they were saying. She quickly hopped down from the ledge and ran over to the other window.

"When this man wakes up-" one of the man began saying.

"He will have extreme powers." The other grinned. "But are you sure this will work?

This girl noticed a human strapped to a chair, and something else strapped on top of it. Was that… a Pokémon?

"I'm positive this will work! I've been experimenting with this formula for years - and with the help of this machine, there's no doubt it'll work."

"Alright then, are we ready? We must do this quick, I think Raichu may be about to wake up…"

"So it's a Raichu" The girl whispered to herself.

"Yes, begin the procedure!" The second scientist slowly pressed a red button on the machine. A strange cover dropped down over top of the man and the Raichu, and it began to flash multicolored for a few seconds. Everyone, including the girl, had to shield their eyes from the blinding light. Finally it ended.

The girl quickly opened her eyes, anxious to see what the results were. The machine lifted the cover up to reveal the man and the Pokémon still strapped to the chair! She blinked, wondering why nothing had appeared to happen.

"Oh no! It can't be…" The main scientist cried unhappily. He looked so confused and upset at the failure.

"What did we do wrong? It must have been just a tiny error in the – wha? Oh no!" The human began to twitch. The second scientist quickly unstrapped the human, hoping he wouldn't figure out what they had done… ertried to do to him. He unstrapped the Raichu, too.

"ChuWhere… Dave? What? WHAT? I speak human? Wai – I am human! What's going on? Dream? Dream! Must be!" The man was saying. The scientists looked at each other, confused, and horrified.

"Are you OK sir?" they asked, worriedly.  The man looked up at them and then shook his head. He then looked on top of himself, noticing the Raichu.

"But that's… that's me! What's going on?" Tears started forming in his eyes. The scientists began to back away.

"We've… we've done something very, very wrong."

The girl hopped down from the window, trying to take everything in. Then suddenly, she lifted up a small Pokéball from her pocket, and began to grin.

***

"Says here that the next town isn't too far away. Should take less then a half hour to get there." Tracey said, looking down at a map as he, Ash, and Misty walked along the dirt path.

"Great! I can't wait until we reach it! I'm starving!" Ash said, holding his stomach, which was beginning to make loud noises.

"We just had lunch an hour ago, Ash!" Misty complained. Ash had a bottomless pit for a stomach. But then again, she could feel herself getting a bit hungry, too. Three  small sandwiches were all they had for lunch, and breakfast they had skipped completely. They were running very low on food.

"Pika – " Pikachu, who was leading the way, suddenly stopped in his tracks. His ears twitched a little. "Pi…"

"What's wrong Pikachu?" Ash asked, running up to him. As soon as he took a step near Pikachu, the ground completely collapsed from under them.

"Waaa!"

"PIKA!"

"Ash!" Misty cried, rushing over to the hole.

"Ash! Pikachu! You guys OK?" Tracey and Misty looked down into the hole, where Ash was rubbing his leg.

"Chuuuu…" Pikachu murmured, clinging onto Ash's head.

"We're fine, it wasn't that big a fall… but who did this? Don't tell me it was Team Rocket again!" Misty sighed.

"Well who else would do something like this? Come on, you'd better try and get out before they come!" Ash and Pikachu nodded, and then began trying to climb out, but the sides were very steep and they couldn't quite make it, even with Ash and Tracey helping.

Meanwhile, three familiar faces were peaking out from behind a nearby bush.

"Shouldn't we be stealing Pikachu about now?" James turned to his red-haired partner.

"Well, they do think we dug it!" Jesse replied.

"Yeah, but we didn't!" Meowth pointed out.

"Then who did?" Jesse and James asked, in unison. Meowth shrugged.

Ash was still struggling to get out. He figured Team Rocket would appear at any minute, and he wanted to make sure Pikachu was safe, and they were out of the hole. Finally, with a little more help from Misty and Tracey, Ash began to pull himself all the way out of the pit. But before he could make it fully, he heard a voice in the distance.

"Ivysaur, Sleep Powder!" After hearing this, Ash struggled even more to get out of the hole, but less then a second later, he felt a strange powder touch his eyes, and he let go of the ledge of the hole, and began drifting into a deep sleep.  

"Hey! What's going on over there?" James looked at Jesse and Meowth, with a very confused look. "Why are the twerps falling asleep?" Jesse began to stand up.

"I don't care why they're falling asleep, but I do know that this is the perfect opportunity to snatch Pikachu!" She smiled, and quickly began to run over to where the twerps had fallen asleep. James and Meowth quickly agreed and followed. But suddenly, Jesse stopped in her tracks.

"Oh.. no…" She collapsed onto the ground.

"Jesse, what… is…" James also collapsed onto the ground, Meowth soon after. There was still plenty of sleep powder floating around.

***

"Nice nap…" Ash murmured to himself, as he opened his eyes. "Where am I?" He began to stand up, but tripped, and fell over. "Waa!" he cried, and attempted to get up once more. He fell again. What was wrong with him? He must be still dreaming! But it couldn't be, he had felt the pain from tripping, and there was no pain during his dreams…

"Hello? Anyone here?" That's when he noticed he was laying on a dirt road. He remembered falling into a trap and trying to get out, then he remembered the little voice calling "Ivysaur, Sleep Powder!" in the distance. But he couldn't remember any more then that. He glanced around to see if either Misty or Tracey were nearby. He didn't see either of them. But he heard a small whimper.

"Misty?" He jumped up onto his feet, and this time didn't trip. But now there was something very wrong… why was he on all fours? He tried stepping onto two legs, but tripped again. While trying to sit up, he glanced down at his hand… it was no longer there! It has been replaced by a red, fury paw. He gasped. There was something very, terribly wrong. Very wrong. He then remembered the whimper, got up, and dashed over to it.

"Misty? Pikachu?" He looked around, and then looked down at the ditch. It was a blue colored feline-like Pokémon. It took a minute for him to recall the name. Vaporeon! A rare Pokemon, an Eevee evolution!

"Bulbasaur, I choose you!" He was about to yell, but then he remembered, he was in some weird body, and all his clothes and Pokéballs were gone. He slowly walked up to the Vaporeon.

"Erm… hi?" He said to it.

"What's going on?" The Vaporeon replied. There was a hint of sadness and confusion in her voice.  That's when Ash realized he was talking to a Pokemon! That must mean… he had somehow transformed into one too! That would explain the paws.

"I um… I was just passing by and uh, saw you here. By the way, do you by any chance know what species of Pokemon I am?" Ash asked her. The Vaporeon sweatdropped.

"Are all Pokemon like this?" She murmured to herself, then looked back up at Ash. "Uh… aren't you a Flareon?" She replied.

"Oh right!" Ash glanced at his red paw again. Then he looked back at Vaporeon. There was something about her…

"Wait a sec… Misty?!?"

"Ash?!?"

"What's going on?!?" The two cried.

***

OK, that's all for Part 1.  The first few parts won't have much AAML, but I'll try and include more later. I don't expect you guys to understand this part at all, but don't worry, everything will be explained by the end. But I'll only continue this if I get good reviews! Oh, and btw, can anyone think of a better name for a fanfic? Because this name sucks.

-_-'

~Venus