AN: Hi guys! I'm back from the Distortion World known as writing block, and ready to give you a new chapter! This has a bit of Ashley in, with more focus on a few certain Pokemon who will look after her, as well as something to do with her parents. I'm sure you want to read this, so I'll leave you here. I don't own Pokemon!

*Timeskip: 2 weeks.*

Ashley Ketchum had arrived at her aunt Delia's house in Kanto a week and a half ago. She had been picked up by Delia from Goldenrod City in Johto, as Saffron's airport was shut down at the time. She had unpacked and organised the room she would be living in, and was now sitting on the bed, reading a book.

"Ashley dear?" Delia called up the stairs. "Would you like to go to Professor Oak's and play with the Pokemon?"

"Ok Aunt Delia!" She called back. Finding a bookmark, she replaced the book on the shelf and rushed downstairs. She was wearing a short sleeved shirt and jeans, a fairly casual attire to some of the things she owned. "What sort of Pokemon does the Professor have?"

"Most of the Pokemon there don't belong to Oak. He looks after the Pokemon that trainers don't have on them."

"Why would a trainer leave their Pokemon?"

"Well, a trainer can only carry six Pokemon at a time, so they send their Pokemon to the ranch for Oak to look after until they need them."

"Oh, ok." The two of them walked towards Professor Oak's ranch, a few of the people who were out waving to Delia as they passed, and asking Ashley how she was, and if she was settling in. She replied quickly, still a little shy around all of the unfamiliar people, in the town she didn't know. At least it was warmer than Sinnoh. Delia knocked on the door to the lab, and the door opened.

"Ah, Delia! It's good to see you!"

"Hello Professor! I've bought Ashley over to play with some of the Pokemon. Is that ok?"

"Hello there Ashley."

"Hello." She replied shyly.

"You can play with some of the smaller Pokemon that are out back. Delia, would you mind if I have a word?" Ashley followed the adults through to the back yard, and a huge ranch spread out in front of them. Ashley walked down the slope, and a curious Growlithe came over to her and started sniffing at her feet. She reached down to pet him, and he yipped quietly.

"Hello little one." She said, patting his head. "Are you one of the Pokemon who stays here when your trainer is busy?" He yapped an affirmative. "Can you introduce me to all of your friends?" He nodded, moving away from her and barking. A few yipps answered, and three other Pokemon rushed up the hill. A Herdier, an Eevee, and a Luxio ran up to meet the Growlithe, answering his bark with their own. The Pokemon had a conversation for a few minutes, then all four of the small Pokemon came over to Ashley. She sat down, letting each of them clamber over for a hug, and she chuckled.

While this was happening, a little outside of Pallet, a blue blur slowed to a stop. Its purple ruff rippled as it caught its breath, and a small pink Pokemon flew out, turning a flip in the air before settling.

'Thanks for the lift!' It said telepathically. 'There's no way I could have flown that fast.'

'Why did you need a lift anyway? Couldn't we just teleport?' The other replied.

'Yeah, but there's no way to know if there would be humans nearby. I'd rather not have been caught by some random trainer. This was safer.'

'If you say so.' The blue one looked around. 'Where is it then?'

'Just through here, I think.' The pink one floated over to the bushes and looked out. 'Yeah. Now, we need to make sure the adults aren't around at first. I want to talk to her first, before explaining to the others.'

'Is she alone then?'

'She is. A few normal Pokemon, but no other humans.'

'Well, let us go. I want to get this done soon, in case the Lady needs me.'

'She has your brothers there, isn't that enough?' Another twirl from the pink Pokemon. 'I get your point though. Come on, let's go. You talk to her first, she should know me.' Both Pokemon broke through the trees, blue in front of the pink, and both ready to attack in an instant. Just in case.

On the other end of the ranch, unaware of what was happening in the trees across, Ashley was playing with the four Pokemon who had came to her. Suddenly, in the middle of their game, Herdier looked up, and barked something to the others. All four went on alert, and she looked to them.

"Is something wrong?"

'I apologize for disturbing you, but this is important.' A cool voice answered her question, and Ashley turned to see a Pokemon, blue, with white spots and a purple mane.

"Hello." She said. "Who are you, and what's so important? For that matter, how do I understand you?"

'My name is Suicune.' She replied. 'And you're able to understand me because of an aura trick I can use. It took a while to learn, but it is very helpful.'

"Suicune…" Ashley trailed off, then brightened. "I think my mom's friend mentioned you once, in a visit."

'I have heard quite a bit about your mother from the Lady in question. In fact, that is most of why we are here.'

"We?" She asked, as Suicune stepped aside. "Who's…?" The smaller Pokemon floating behind Suicune came into her sight, and she froze. "Oh." Mew floated in place, a miserable look on her face, and came forward, hugging Ashley.

'I'm sorry I'm sorry I'm sorry!' She said rapidly, hiding her face from Ashley.

"What for?"

'It's my fault!' She cried. 'Those people were after me, and your parents were there, and they stayed to make sure I could escape, and it's my fault! They should have just turned me over!' Mew was hugging Ashley, still ashamed to show her face. She was worried that Ashley would hate her because of what had happened. She loved Ashley, even though they had only met a few times, and she was too young to remember any of them very clearly except one. The one from around four months ago, where she had appeared to ask both her parents to go back to her mother's home to talk to some people. So she was understandably surprised when Ashley patted her on the head.

"I don't blame you." She said quietly. "I know that my parents wanted you to escape, and they knew what they were doing. They knew they were risking their lives to make sure you were safe, but they didn't care. And anyway," She continued, surprising herself with a chuckle. "I think I'd be more angry if that had happened and you'd still ended up caught."

'Thank you.' Mew said quietly, pulling away for Ashley. 'I was really worried that you would hate me.'

'Moreover, how are you only five?' Suicune asked. 'That was really smart sounding.' All three girls laughed, and the young Pokemon Ashley had been playing with before the legendary's had arrived laughed too.

"What did you do to get away, though?"

'I flew to the top of the tree and out one of the secret paths in the side. From there, I went to the Queen's palace and landed in the garden. I used my human form and found the Queen in there. She's one of the only one's who knows my human form, and when I told her what happened, she sent up a group to take a look.' Mew looked down, not needing to fill in the rest.

"Is this the only reason that you're here?" Ashley asked.

'Not quite.' Suicune replied. 'There's one more thing we need. First, we need to find those two humans that are here.'

"Well…" Ashley began, then stopped. "That shouldn't take long. They're both coming out the lab now."

'Well, this will be interesting.' Suicune moved so she was standing behind and a little to the right of Ashley, and Mew placed herself on her left shoulder.

"Hi Aunt Delia! Hi Professor Oak!" Ashley shouted up to them. She started walking over to them, and Suicune padded behind. Both adults stopped and blinked. Then blinked again.

"Ashley? Why is there a Mew on your shoulder? And why is there a Suicune behind you?" The Professor asked.

"They came to talk to me!" She said brightly.

"That just raises more questions…" Delia said.

"Well, Mew's my friend. She only came over a few times, normally to get Mom, but she's good friend of mine." Ashley explained. "This is the first time I've met Miss Suicune though."

'Please, don't say miss.' She asked. 'It's annoying enough when Pokemon do it.'

"Ok." She replied. "Anyway, they came to see how I was settling in."

'That isn't the only thing though.' Mew said, still on Ashley's shoulder. 'Professor, how many legends do you know of in the Kanto Johto area?'

"Err..." The Professor looked startled at the legendary asking the question, and took a moment to reply. "Well, there's Ho-oh, Lugia, Raikou, Entei and Suicune, you of course Mew, and Celebi. Oh, and the three legendary birds as well." Mew nodded.

'That's right. What you probably don't know is the Lugia and bird trio from the Orange Islands. The trio in Johto is more roaming, like the Beasts,' Here she nodded to Suicune. 'And Lugia is different too. Now, out of those, Ho-oh and the birds are the only one's who can't talk with humans. That's both the bird trio's, by the way. The Johto Lugia can, but she doesn't because of trainers. The one from the Orange Islands can, but he has a full time job keeping the three birds in check. They're almost always fighting. And as for Celebi…' Mew shrugged. 'Good luck finding her when you need her. Even I don't know where she is half the time. Actually, that should be when…' Suicune rolled her eyes.

'Lady Mew, maybe we should get on with it?'

"Actually, why are you telling us this?" Delia asked, getting over her shock at the legends.

'Well, myself, along with the Beasts, were going to be visiting Ashley from time to time.' All of the humans looked at her. Mew kept going like she hadn't noticed. 'Just to act as tutors. We can teach her a lot about Pokemon, considering we know all of them.'

"So, the four of you are able to leave your jobs often enough to be here to talk to me… why?" Ashley asked.

'Well, we don't need to worry about our jobs too much. Ho-oh will still have the other two Beasts to have do jobs, and my home will alert me if it's in danger.' Mew explained.

'And from what we've heard about your line from Lady Mew, I would be interested in talking with you.' Suicune added. 'One of us four will be around to visit when we have time. Lady Mew will probably stay the longest, on the accountability of teleport, but we can spare time if you need us.'

'Anyway, with that over, that's all we needed to do.' Mew broadcast, floating off Ashley's shoulder. 'We'll head back home, and one of us will come and visit in a few weeks to see how you're doing!'

'Indeed.' Suicune said. 'Lady Mew, would you mind teleporting us back to the tower?'

'Ok!' Mew floated over to Suicune and landed on her crest. Targeting her telepathy, she spoke to Ashley. 'Thanks for being so nice to me!' Her eyes went a bright pink, which spread to Suicune and around herself, and they flashed pink before vanishing in the glare.

"What on earth just happened?" Professor Oak blinked.

"Apparently, Mew and the legendary Beasts want to come here every now and then to talk with me?" Ashley said, just as confused. "That's a little odd."

"Actually, how were we understanding Suicune?" Delia asked. "I think Mew was using telepathy to talk, but what about Suicune?"

"She said it was an aura trick she'd learned about a while ago." Ashley explained.

"Right." The Professor still looked a little confused about what had happened, but seemed to shake that off. "Well, do you want to keep playing with the Pokemon?"
"Ok!" Ashley ran back down to where her new Pokepals were sitting. Delia smiled at the retreating figure.

"I have a feeling she'll go far."

*Timeskip: 6 months.*

In the six months since Ashley had arrived in Pallet Town, a lot had happened. She had started at the small school there, and had made a few friends. One of these was a kid named Gary, who was apparently the grandson of Professor Oak. Because of this, he was a very unlikable person most the time, as he kept bragging a lot, thinking he was better than everyone else because of his grandfather. This act had surprised her when they were in school, as she'd first met him outside of the building, when she was visiting the ranch. He'd told her about some of the Pokemon from other regions. So far, she'd only learned about Pokemon in Kanto from Mew and the Beasts when they came to visit. One of the four legends would sometimes be waiting when she got home from school, though not everyday as they sometimes had jobs they had to do. They would visit quite randomly, but the visits were always fun. Suicune and Entei talked about the Kanto Pokemon with her, as well as things like type matchups, even though she would learn that sort of stuff in school. As Suicune had said, it didn't hurt to have an advantage, no matter how small. Raikou wasn't much of a tutor; he tended to just talk with her and let her ride around with him. It was a surprise that he hadn't been seen yet, with how lax he was. Out of all of these though, the one she had been enjoying the most were Mew's visits. Mew could often afford to stay a few days, as she could teleport and her job was looking after her home, which was hardly a problem. So when Mew was around, her lessons were the most extensive, and tended to talk about legendary Pokemon. These lessons fascinated her, as she talked about the different myths surrounding these legendaries, along with the truth behind them. She also talked a lot about the different jobs of some of the legends, like the Orange Islands Lugia keeping the bird trio there under control, or Rayquaza, the guardian of the skies. One of her personal favourites was the Eon duo Latias and Latios, who were guardians of a great city. She loved the special abilities of the duo, and hoped that she could meet them someday. That was unlikely though, as most people never saw a legendary. Then again, how many people could say that they had four legendary Pokemon as tutors? Maybe she would be lucky enough to meet them after all.

AN: That's the second pre journey chapter done! The next one will also be a bit more pre journey stuff, then we'll actually get something done! Although, these chapters have been a little productive… oh well! I'm expecting the others to arrive in time of next chapter, so hopefully you should see them in the next AN. Also, to answer the question I got last time, the twins are OC's, the aunt isn't. Feel free to try and figure out who it is. And before I forget, I now have a Twitter for you all to use if you need to talk to me quickly. I'm Shadow Vulpix, Shadow_Vulpix2. Follow me if you want, I'll post updates when I post a chapter. You'll also see the results of my shiny hunting from in between writing, posting and writer's block. Other than that, I'll see ya'll whenever!