Hey Nuggies! Well I really shouldn't be doing this, but here I am writing another fanfiction since I have writers block on a few of my other ones, and because this won't leave me alone. Here is your warning this will be SLASH! Not to sure on if it'll be M!Preg or not, but at this current moment I have not thought about it.

Main Pairing: AshxPaul

Side pairing: AshxGary (One sided on Gary's part)

Rating: M (to be safe)

Disclaimer: I do not own pokemon it belongs to Game Freak, Nintendo, Creatures, The Pokemon Company, etc, nor do I write this for profit. This is for entertainment use only.

Enjoy my little nuggies! And please don't forget to leave a review they give me motivation to keep writing!

LyraHollow, correct! It is a Lucarionite!

A/N: I promise this is the end of Ash getting new pokemon... for the moment at least. Feel free to leave suggestions in a review for potential pokemon for Ash for the future!

Ash and his team had been on the road for the last week after leaving Cerulean. During the last week he started training Charmander since the small reptile had gotten himself worked up after seeing the last gym battle. The dark haired teen wasn't sure if he would put Charmander against Surge, but most likely he wouldn't seeing as he was just a baby and he knew Surge was hard to beat.

He had just sat down under a tree for a break when his Xtransceiver rang. Nidorino perked up as he heard the noise but then laid down when he saw it was just his trainers' wrist making noise. Bringing his wrist up as saw that it was his mother calling and he quickly answered it. He knew better than to ignore calls from the Professor.

"Ash!" Oak looked at the dark haired trainer on the line with a wide smile on his face, "How are you doing?"

Ash sent him a smile before saying he was doing good and that his egg was close to hatching if the band around his egg was reading everything right. He had been obsessing over the little monitoring app after the conditions of the egg changed a few days ago. It went from saying the baby inside was moving a small bit to it moving more often. He knew, from learning from said old man on the line, that an egg was really close to hatching when the baby inside the egg moved a lot.

"That's fantastic!" Oak said as he clasped his hands together, "So where are you heading now?"

"I'm about two hours out from Saffron," Ash said as he pulled up the map on his 'dex.

"Great! I need you to do something, but don't worry! It's for you," Oak replied before he began to explain what he needed, "Recently the police in the area as well as a few Ace Trainers had raided a building in the outskirts of the town. When they got there the conditions of the pokémon that were being held there was appalling. They've been calling around for trust worthy trainers to take in the pokémon that were healthy enough to be taken. I was hoping you were open to receiving one of them?"

Ash bit his lip as he listened to Oak. He wasn't so sure he could take another pokémon at the moment. He had just gotten Charmander and his egg was due to hatch any day now, but this was what the professor was paying him for. "Okay," Ash said agreeing to take in one of the pokémon, "Do you know what kind it is?"

Oak shook his head as he replied, "All I know is that it is one of the worse treated pokémon in the bunch and that it is a psychic type. The police chief, Julia Jenny, said that it was very timid and easily frightened."

Ash nodded and asked where he was to get the pokémon before the call ended. Oak told him that he would call ahead and let the police know he was coming to get the pokémon in question. With that he got up and continued on his way to the city.

He kept Nidorino out with him as well as Pikachu, as usual. They didn't rush too much since they were enjoying the nice breeze and sunlight that filtered through the trees. As they walked Ash looked up what he could find about the city they were about to enter.

Saffron City was the largest and busiest city in Kanto, but it wasn't hard to believe since the Metro Train was there. The train connected Kanto and Johto together. Not only was it busy because of the massive center building, Silph Co. From what he learned growing up was that Silph Co. was the main manufacturer of many of the tool they used today. They created the pokéballs, TMs, Silph Scope, and Potions. He knew there were others, but those were the ones he knew of on the top of his head.

From looking at the city map he saw that while Silph Co. had taken over the middle of the city the Pokémon Gyms had dominated in the north east. Only one of the gyms though was the official Indigo League Gym where trainers, like himself, would go and battle for a chance to get a badge for the Indigo League. He knew he wasn't even close to being able to fight Sabrina, if all the rumors are true.

He had just made it into the City by the time he thought he would, and he was a bit overwhelmed. The city was loud and bustling. It was really different than Pallet or the other towns he had been in. Ash took his time getting through crowds and other people that just wanted to get in his way, but instead of yelling at them he stayed quiet. He didn't want to cause any trouble.

Soon enough he was standing in front of the police station and had already recalled Nidorino, who had been pressing himself against Ash to give his trainer a small bit of comfort. He told Pikachu to hop into his bag since it was common sense to not take a released pokémon into a police station. That was just begging for trouble.

Taking a deep breath he walked into the building and greeted to the sight and sounds of a trainer yelling at an officer. The trainer was tall and had wavy blue hair that fell into dark colored eyes. He wore sunglasses in his hair and a bright pink shirt with a brown tasseled vest on it and a red scarf around his neck. He also wore black pants and trainer shoes on his feet. He had his arms crossed over his chest and an enraged, but smug look on his face as he yelled at the officer.

"I told ya! I had nothing to do with it!" he yelled before letting out a huff of air, "It's not mine I tell ya!"

The officer, a kind looking man with dark brown hair and green eyes, simply said, "He is. He's under your registry and so therefore you are to take the blame on his condition and kidnapping."

"And I told you fucker! He's not mine!"

The officer quickly lost his kind look, "I think a night in the cells will do you some good," he said before motioning to a different officer that had handcuffs in her hands to take him back. Ash watched as the older teen was quickly cuffed and taken to the back still screaming at the top of his lungs that his father would hear about this.

"I'm sorry about that," a female voice said behind Ash causing him a jerk a small bit before turning around, "How can I help you?"

The officer had teal colored hair and rather pretty amber eyes, "I'm looking for Officer Jenny," Ash said softly, "Professor Oak called ahead for me."

Bright amber eyes brightened more as he spoke, "I'm Officer Jenny. I have the pokémon in my office if you'll follow me," she said before turning around to lead him to her office. He walked a bit behind her as she led him up the stairs to one of the further offices. As they walked, in silence, he noticed he was just a bit taller than she was and it surprised him a small bit. He must have grown a bit since leaving home.

"Here we are," Jenny said breaking Ash of his thoughts. She opened the door after scanning her card on the reader outside of her door, "Now how much had Oak told you of the pokémon?"

Ash walked in as he spoke, "Just that it was a psychic and rather timid and scared."

Jenny nodded and grabbed the ball which he assumed the pokémon was in. "When we raided the house we found this little girl locked away in a room by herself in a too small of a cage. She was injured and had previous scars on her body from what Nurse Joy says, but other than that she was just really under nourished. She must have been a recent acquisition. I don't really need to question you if what Professor Oak is saying about you is true. All I ask is that you bring her back after a while so we can get an update on her," she said softly before turning her computer on to register the pokémon under Ash.

He nodded and promised the officer that he would bring her back. He was honestly curious to what kind of pokémon she was. She would be his first little girl in the family. It was only after she was done registering his newest family member that he asked what was going on with the trainer downstairs. He wasn't going to press Jenny if she wouldn't tell him because honestly it wasn't his business. He was just being curious.

"Honestly," Jenny said as she leaned back in her chair, "He's a person who shouldn't own any pokémon. This is his second time, at least being caught, that he has treated his pokémon so bad and then just abandoned it just because he deemed it too weak. This time though he actually kidnapped the pokémon three months ago from a shady lab up north. Of course we didn't know it was a shady lab until after trying to return the pokémon. Needless to say it was taken down, the owners fined and jailed, and many pokémon in need to be put down due to what the owner had done."

Ash was silent after she had spoken. He honestly wondered how people could just be so nasty to another being. He couldn't fathom it. "C-Can I have it? If it needs a home?" he asked softly although he knew he had just gotten a pokémon in need of her own attention, but he couldn't stomach just leaving it if it needed help. He did need to be careful though with the amount of pokémon he was getting he only had a few more spots on his team if he gets this one.

He stayed quiet as Jenny looked him over. Her eyes were filled with a calculating look as she determined what his angle was. After a few moments of silence she broke it by saying, "You'll have to talk to Officer De'Galos. He's in charge of the case."

Ash nodded, "The Officer that the blue haired guy was yelling at?" When he got a nod he stood up, ball in hand, and walked out of the room with officer Jenny behind him following until they reached the main floor of the police station. Before he could approach Officer De'Galos, Jenny, approached him and spoke to him in soft tones. He watched as green eyes looked at him a few times as Jenny spoke to him before he opened his mouth.

They conversed for a while before the duo started his way. He felt Pikachu move in his bag a bit before settling down and he guessed the electric was picking up his nervousness. "So Officer Jenny here says you're interested on taking on another pokémon?" De'Galos said as he came to a stop in front of Ash. He was a bit taller than him making Ash peer up as he spoke.

"Yes," he said confidently with a sharp nod.

"If you are to take this one there's a few things you're gonna need to know," the officer said as he crossed his arms over his chest, "it's not a native to Kanto and was abandoned about a week ago chained up and unable to hunt. Ever since we took him in he's shown aggressive tendencies and isn't afraid to take a bite out of someone."

Ash stared at De'Galos in his eyes as he spoke, "I'm sure I'll take him. In my team I've got a male Sandile with Moxie. If I can handle him I can handle a bit of an aggressive and neglected pokémon."

De'Galos and himself starred at each other for a few moments as Jenny watched them, her eyes going back and forth between them like watching a tennis match. Ash didn't look away. He stood his ground as the harsh gaze of the taller officer looked into his own eyes. Ash couldn't really tell what the officer was looking for in him, but he guessed he passed as the officers' gaze softened and a smile graced his lips.

"All right," De'Galos said as his stance relaxed, "The pokémon is currently under Nurse Joys' care at the Center. Give me a few minutes and we'll go together."

Ash nodded as he smiled back. He moved over to the seating area and took a seat to wait for De'Galos to finish what he needed to. As the officer said it didn't take long at all for De'Galos to finish what he needed to do and so they, meaning De'Galos, himself, and Jenny were on the way to the Center. As they walked Ash tried his best to ignore the looks they were given and he guessed it was a site. A small teen walking between two officers.

The walk wasn't a long one, but it was long enough for Pikachu to finally get enough of being in the bag. The small mouse climbed out and got back on his usual perch on Ashs' shoulders. The sudden appearance prompted Jenny to ask what other pokémon he had besides the Sandile he told them about. The conversation about his pokémon lasted long enough for them to enter the Center and for De'Galos to speak with Joy.

It wasn't long after that; that they were taken to one of the back rooms were the wall with the door had a large window of glass in the middle of the wall. As Ash looked through the glass he didn't see anything, but a rather comfortable bed and some torn up toys. The food and water bowls were toppled over and empty while stuffing littered the floor, but nothing gave away what pokémon was in the room.

"Okay," Joy said as she brought her key ring out and turned to look at them, "This is the room. Who's all going in?"

Before the officers could say anything Ash cut in, "If I may," he began, "I want to go in by myself." Ash could see the incredulous looks on their faces and he continued speaking before they could say anything, "If what you've been yelling me about him is true then he's being aggressive because he's scared. The more people in his space the more aggressive he'll be because all of a sudden his safe space is being invaded by what he deems as danger. I want to go in by myself."

He looked at both officers and the nurse as they shared looks between the three of them. A few tense moments passed before they agreed to let him in by himself. He shrugged his bag off his shoulders and told Pikachu to stay there and guard he bag as Nurse Joy unlocked the door with a soft click. She stepped back as he stepped forward and grabbed the knob.

He took a deep breath as he slowly opened the door and then closed it behind himself as he fully stepped into the room. There wasn't any kind of scent to the room that could tell him what kind of pokémon was in there with him so he walked a few steps into the room and sat down on the floor.

Ash sat still as his eyes slowly looked across the room. He kept his body as relaxed as he could. He knew he was being watched and it wasn't only by the trio of humans outside the glass, which he was surprised to note that it like a mirror only showing him the inside of the room instead of outside into the hall.

He sat there for what seemed like a while before a soft shuffling sound reached his ears from behind him. He didn't move though. He wanted the mystery pokémon to get comfortable with him being in the room. He wasn't doing anything to set him off.

Slowly the pokémon appeared in his vision as it walked around him observing Ash. The small four legged creature had slate gray fur covering most of his body and had black and red accents through the gray fur. His ears were triangular with dark insides, and he has a large tuft of fur tipped with red on top of his head.

Bright sky blue eyes peered at him with a cautious look in his eyes. Ash could see that the fox like creature had red fur covered eyelids and two circular red markings above his eyes. Around his neck was a thick covering of black fur and each of his legs were tipped with red giving him red paws. His tail, also tipped red, and short and fluffy looking.

Ash now knew what the mystery pokémon was. He had seen it only once on tv.

Ash made no movement as the tiny fox slowly made his way closer to him. He watched as the little fox stretched as far as he could to catch his scent before jumping back as Ash slowly extended his hand. Ash stopped moving his hand as the pokémon let out a growl. "It's okay," Ash whispered as he looked at him kindly, "I won't hurt you."

Bright blue eyes looked up and looked into his eyes, but Ash didn't look away. "Do you want to come with me?" Ash asked softly, "Want to become part of my family?"

Ash watched as large blue eyes widened at the word family. It was then that Ash knew that was all this little pokémon wanted. He watched as the small fluffy tail moved slightly in a half hearted attempt at a wag before he took a step forward. Ash once again stayed still as the fox like pokémon settled into his lap and it was only when he let out soft purrs that Ash moved his hand to cover the slate grey midsection.

He was horrified to feel his ribs under his hand as he ran his fingers through surprisingly soft fur. "Thank you," Ash said softly catching the pokémons' attention, "For giving me this ounce of trust. I promise I won't break it. Welcome to the family, Zorua."