Hello again everyone! I know at least one or two of you enjoyed the last chapter, I won't say everyone, but I'm trying to be an optimist here. So, if this comes at a different time or seems rushed, I'm sorry. On the other hand, I think that I'm getting better about managing my time, so there's that….Anyways! Onto the next chapter!

"Speech/Pokespeech"

'Thought'

"Telepathy"
Pokemon Attacks

Ash groaned as he slowly woke up from...whatever hit him. He heard a faint beeping off to his right and light snoring on his left. He opened his eyes to see that he was in the hospital. He looked to his left to see his mother asleep, somehow in her human form and with trails of black running down her face. Must be the make-up that she wears whenever she is in her human form. He looked to his right to see a machine hooked up to him. He sat up with a little pain and found a remote hooked up to the machine. He looked at it for a minute and decided to hit the big red button on the bottom of it and then set it down. After a few minutes of...pretty much nothing happening, a nurse walked into the room. The man was about to say something before his breath caught in his throat and he ran to go get a doctor. After another few minutes a woman with her hair tied up behind her walked into the room with a clip board.

"Excuse me...Satoshi?"

Ash shook his head. "Please call me Ash. That name is too long."

The doctor nodded. "Well Ash. I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised. We weren't expecting you to wake up for about another month. And before you ask, no, you have not been in here long. Just 4 days. Honestly this is nothing short of a miracle. Now I'll have to check your vitals to see if any abnormalities have occurred."

Ash nodded at the doctor and watched her walk over to the machine. The doctor simply recorded the readings on the monitor and then compared them to when he got admitted into the hospital. "Well, this is even more surprising. It says here that your vitals are much more stable than when you were brought in here, in fact, even more stable than most people in general. I'll have to check a few more things, but for now I'll just have to check your heart and lungs."

Ash simply nodded again and allowed the doctor to do her tests. "So...can I go once my mom wakes up?"

"Normally, any doctor would say no, as the patient's vital organs are usually weaker once they wake up from any sort of coma. However, it seems that your's are stronger than when you last came here a month ago. Which is an abnormality in itself. But, to answer your question, as soon as your mother is awake, then yes, you can leave." The doctor then walked out of the room, leaving Ash to his thoughts.

"What...was that…? Was it even real?" Ash closed his eyes and tried to find the feeling of whatever it was that helped him survive in that world. Or his dream or...whatever that was. He focused on finding it for a bit and then gasped as he was suddenly hit with a warm, tingly sensation that surrounded his body. He opened his eyes to see that he was surrounded by a blue glow. "So it was real. And I really met Arceus. But...she called me her...Chosen…? Was that what she said? I don't know..." 'But I think that mom can explain.' A loud snore interrupted his thoughts. He sweatdropped as he looked over at his mother. "Honestly mom...you'll wake the dead with that snoring…"

Myuu snorted loudly and woke up with a jolt, almost like she heard him. "W-What's going on?!" She looked up at Ash's bed to see that he was awake. "Oh my Arceus ASHY!" She ran over to the bed and pulled Ash into a tight hug. "I thought that you'd never wake up! I love you so much!"

Ash chuckled nervously as his breath was leaving his body. "M-Mom…? Can't...breathe…."

Mew gasped and let go of Ash. "Oh mommy's sorry Ashy...but do you know how worried I've been?"

"Erm….worried enough to contact Arceus about my status?"

"Yes! I nearly destroyed the entire Hall to get answers! You be surprised at what she worries abo-" She paused and just realized that she had been ranting. "Ashy…..what do you know about that….~?" She asked in a clearly fake sweet tone of voice that sent shivers down Ash's spine.

"W-Well mom, I kinda….woke up in a place that was completely black, I looked down and black bird flew up and almost hit me in the fa-"

Mew put a finger to Ash's lips. "Ashy. I know about that part. I was talking about the part where you know that I would contact Arceus…"

Ash began to sweat nervously. "W-Well, I kinda….talked to her before I woke up."

Mew nodded. "Hmm…Hmm...Okay let's go!" She disconnected all of the medical crap off of Ash.

Ash hopped off of the bed and stretched a bit, before being dragged out of the hospital by Mew. "Umm...mom? I can walk on my o-"

"Ashy, do not talk back to a woman who is ready to castrate anyone who talks right now…."

Ash gulped nervously and nodded his head.

"Good." Mew walked up to the receptionist, dragging Ash behind her. "Hello? I'd like to check my son out of this place. I don't want to keep him out of school any longer than I have to. You understand right~?" She propped up her breasts, causing the man behind the desk to nod dumbly and get the discharge papers without question. She quickly signed the papers and walked out of the hospital holding Ash's hand. "And that, Ashy, is how you can get any pervert to do anything."

Ash groaned at his mother's childishness, then realized that he actually felt annoyed. He never felt that towards his mom. "Mom...please don't do that again…"

Mew looked around and when she saw that no one was looking, she teleported them back to their house. "Okay Ashy. I'll try to be serious here. What can you do with your aura?"

Ash looked down in thought. "Au...ra…? Ummm…...oh! Do you mean that blue stuff that was surrounding me?"

Mew shifted back into her natural form and nodded happily.

"Well…..I can….make it visible….I think. Oh! And when I'm in danger, it's like it takes control of my body to protect me, but...it's REALLY tiring."

Mew floated up to Ash's face with an excited look on her face, and an evil glint in her eyes. "Show me~"

Ash backed up instinctively and nodded. He closed his eyes and found the...Aura, apparently that's what it's called, in the solar plexus. 'How do I know that?' He shook away that stray thought and willed his Aura to flare to life.

Mew spun around in the air while cheering. "Yes! Now I don't have to worry about your safety! ….As much. Oh, that kinda reminds me, I'm pulling you out of school for a month or so."

"What?! But why?!" Ash walked over to Mew with an even more bewildered look on his face.

Mew smiled sweetly at Ash, which caused him to want to run. "Well, besides the fact that you're getting bullied" Ash winced at her tone. "I have to teach you about Aura and how to use it. Honestly the whole bullying thing just gives me an excuse to get you out of there." Mew then snapped and created a projection of herself in her human form and had it go to the school to notify the faculty. "Oh...and when I said month...I meant a month out here. We are going to be training in a pocket dimension that I had Palkia make for us, and I also had Dialga alter the flow of time so that a day out here is a year in there."

Ash paled enough that someone could mistake him for a ghost. "U-Umm...mom? Won't I age to much in there…?"

Mew suddenly started laughing. "Nope! I-I had Arcy and Gira make it to where our bodies wouldn't age! So you are out of excuses young man!" Mew opened a pink, blue, black, and white portal. She then floated behind Ash and pushed him in. "In you go!"

"Wait mom I think thA-" Ash's voice cut out as soon as he fell through the portal.

Mew sighed in pleasure. "Ya know, it's the simple things that make life worth living. Like how much I'm going to enjoy this!" Mew floated through the portal and as soon as it did, it closed behind her.

27 days/years later (February on a leap year)

A portal opened up inside of the living room of the house and Mew dragged Ash through the portal. "Ashy~ That was the most fun that I've had in years! Didn't you like it?"

Ash just groaned unintelligibly.

"I love you too!" Mew had planned out everything in advance. The first year was her beating the knowledge of all things pokemon into his head, even Poffin and Pokeblock creation. They didn't do much physical training, but the mental training was just as excruciating. The next 10 years was basically just getting Ash used to his body, then training it until it he couldn't talk, then she healed him, then they started all over until he collapsed from exhaustion. She had to break the mental restriction that makes people stop by making them feel pain, but that just made it to where her training was bone breaking. Literally. Bone breaking. So Ash's bones were strong enough to not shatter completely by getting hit by a Mega Punch. They tested it. So if Mew had to guess, then she would say that in mere strength alone, he could potentially beat a Machoke if it's a fresh evolution and still getting used to it's body.

The next ten years was all martial training. She trained him in the use of blades, staffs, anything that involved martial arts. Well...she would have if she didn't see his affinity for using a tantō and ko-wakizashi* combo, so she trained him with that on every third day. The other days were used for hand to hand combat, which she had him train with a fake Hitmon trio, a Lucario, a Medicham, and a Primeape. It took him a while, but after about 5 years, he was finally able to hit them. So Mew upped his training, and brought them up to normal Pokemon levels, and set Ash back to square one. It took another five years before he could hit them again. He didn't really have a specific martial art, like Taekwondo, or Jiu jitsu. Mew had him train in every aspect and make his own. His weapon training was...getting somewhere, By the end of the ten years, he was able to at least use them properly without cutting anything that he didn't mean to cut.

The final 6 years was Aura training. This one had the most mental strain and was the most difficult for Ash as it required him to sit still and reinforce his mind. This training was interesting however, because when Mew berated him for straining to much, she noticed that a rock was glowing purple. And floating. The training was hell for him then, as it now required him to focus on his aura while levitating the rocks that Mew set in front of him. He progressed at a snail's pace until Mew was forced to break a mental barrier that was still there because his body hadn't aged. The change was drastic, and immediate, because Mew had to switch to boulders and have him create an Aura sphere to actually make it difficult. He still couldn't do it after 5 years, but it did show that he improved by leaps and bounds once that block was gone. The change in his personality was also noticeable. He was finally maturing after 21 years of training. He still didn't mature much, but it was enough to make him sound much older than he looked, which he was

The final week of training was a review of what he learned, in the form of a week long game that Mew devised. The objective of the game was to get to the portal in a week while Mew assaulted him with every attack she knew. Which was….every single one. So Ash was burned, frozen, electrocuted, poisoned, knocked out, and nearly blown to bits. However, at the last minute of the game, he was barely able to get within range of the portal. As a reward, Mew gave him a gift. Ash could now understand Pokemon flawlessly. She said that it will make his training immensely easier in the real world as she dragged him back through the portal so that he could rest.

"So Ashy! Now that you have the mind of a...what, 32 year old, what are you going to do?"

Ash groaned as he was tossed onto the couch. "Well mom, I was thinking that I would probably go back to school, and just keep appearances up until my Pokemon journey."

"But that's so boooooring! Why don't you show them how much you have improved by requesting to graduate early? And also teaching those bullies a lesson!" Mew punched her open hand, then cracked her knuckles in preparation

Ash nodded. "Only me mom. You can have fun with their dreams if you want. Scare them to never be bullies again."

Mew laughed happily and evilly as she came up with ideas. "Oh thank you Ashy! I'll have so much f-" Mew was interrupted by a light snoring coming from Ash. She giggled and then made him float up into his bed. She was now really glad that their bodies didn't age at all. She didn't have to bother with getting a new bed. She appeared onto her bed after closing the portal and started bouncing on it again like a child before coughing because of the dust. "I should've cleaned around first!"

The next day

Ash sighed as he sat up against a tree, waiting for the bullies to show up. And sure enough, they walked over to him as soon as he pulled out his lunch.

"Hey Ash, you know the drill. Give us your lunch or we'll beat you up."

"...It's Satoshi to you…."

"Huh?"

Ash shook his head. "And to answer you demand, how about no. I actually want to enjoy my lunch like I have been doing for the past month."

The lead bully chuckled and cracked his neck. "Alright. Your choice." He run up to Ash, cocking his arm back for a punch, and as soon as he threw the punch, Ash caught it without looking up.

Ash grabbed onto the bully's fist and slowly began to crush it under his grip. He didn't stop until he heard the bully scream in pain and he tossed him aside. He stood up, then walked forwards and ducked under the two punches the other two lackeys threw at him and he tripped one with a leg sweep and pulled the other's legs out from under him. He dusted himself off and walked back over to his lunch, picked up his stuff, and walked away. He completely ignored the stares of the other kids as he walked towards the faculty office. He stepped into the office without a sound and knocked on the desk. "Excuse me Daisy?"

Daisy Oak looked up from her desk and smiled. "Ash! I haven't seen you in a month! How have you been?"

Ash chuckled. "I'm fine Daisy. But I'm here to take the early graduation test."

Daisy looked shocked. "But Ash! There's no way you can pass it! There's material on that test that you won't cover for years!"

"Daisy, believe me, I've changed a lot in the month that I've been gone. Just trust me. Okay?"

Daisy hummed in thought then sighed. "Okay Ash….but if you fail, then don't come crying to me okay?" She really didn't want to see her little brother's best friend fail the test because he just thought that he could do it. She pulled out the test packet and slid the 10 page test over the counter. "Look Ash, you really have nothing to prove. I know that the teachers kinda look down on you because you don't learn the same way as the other kids, but you really don't need to do this to prove that you're smart. And even if you could do it, you would be leaving Gary behind, and I don't think that he would be happy that his only real friend graduated before him, and he would follow you and most likely fail the test because he'd think that it was easy because his friend that had some of the worst grades in the class passed, even if barely. A-"

"Done." Ash closed the packet and passed it back to Daisy. He then stepped back so that he wouldn't have to cover his ears from the impending shouting.

After a few minutes of checking the answer sheet that just so happened to be under the desk and she saw that he got a perfect score. She gawked at Ash for another few minutes, who was smirking. "...Who are you and what have you done with Ash…?"

Ash slumped over in defeat. "Daisy...Is it really that surprising that I barely passed…? The whole month I was gone, I've been studying for this test and I could only get a barely passing score."

Daisy tossed the packet back at him. "You aced it Ash. If you really did study, then you studied way to hard. Anyways, just go hand that to the principal while I call your mother to pick you up with your diploma."

"What do you mean by diploma Daisy?"

She groaned. "What I'm saying is that is the high school early graduation test. I...may have mixed them up...don't tell the principal. I don't want to lose my job."

Ash nodded and walked back to the Principal's office, knocked on the door, walked in, placed the test down onto the desk and walked out without saying a word, or even looking up. He then sat back down in the waiting room and continued to eat his lunch that was so rudely interrupted by those three children. 'Oh god I'm calling them children now…' Ash smiled as he heard the shout of disbelief and the thud of a person falling out of their chair. And just when he was about to stand up, Mew walked into the room in her human form and smiled at Daisy.

"Hello! I'm here to pick up my Ashy! Did he do something bad…?" She looked back and fake glared at Ash.

Daisy shook her head. "No, quite the opposite actually. Your son here just passed the high school early graduation test in 3rd grade. I can only think of one other person who came close and that was Cynthia Shirona. And even then, she failed the first two times she took it."

Ash's head twitched slightly when he heard the name Cynthia Shirona. 'Why does her name sound so...comforting?'

Mew smiled at that. Her training really does produce amazing results. "Does that mean that we have to worry about the press? Because I really don't want to deal with them. So if you don't mind, I'll just take my son and go before the principal calls the reporters from Goldenrod City to come out here." Mew quickly signed the papers to get Ash out of that place, took his hand, and led him out the door before teleporting to Professor Oak's lab. "Here we are Ashy. You can finally feed the pokemon like you've wanted to do!"

Ash tightly hugged his mother before running over to the lake. He wanted to look cool, so he simply stood there, staring out at the lake, waiting for someone to come by. After about half an hour or so, he groaned and then sat down to train his aura control. As he closed his eyes, he felt the world slowly fade around him. He created a blue aura sphere right in front of him, then had it spin in a vertical circle. He then created a red aura sphere and had it spin as well, completely opposite of the blue aura sphere. They spun faster and faster until he was knocked out of his trance by a Lucario. "Ow…..What the…?"

The Lucario gasped as she realized that she had just disrupted a control exercise. "I-I'm so sorry Master Ash!"

Ash groaned as he sat up again. "It's fine Lucario, I get that you thought that a malevolent aura was on the ranch because of…" Ash then realized what Lucario had said. "...Okay. What's with the whole 'Master Ash' thing?"

Lucario was about to explain before she realized that he responded to her perfectly. "C-Can you understand me Master Ash?"
"Yes. I can. Got that trick from the month I was gone. So can you please explain that whole thing to me?"

Lucario nodded happily. "Of course! Basically, any human that can use aura is already more advanced than most Lucario because it is much more difficult to call on your aura as a human, and you were also demonstrating something that should be impossible, so why wouldn't I call you that Master?"
Ash groaned and facepalmed. "Look...umm...Lucy? Is that your name? I absolutely hate being called any form of formality, so can you at least try to keep that to a minimum?"

Lucy nodded with a smile and then took a deep breath. "HEY EVERYONE! ASH'S BACK!" The reaction was instant, as the entire field of Pokemon came barreling at Ash, who jumped back onto the lake, barely able to use his aura to stay on top of the water. "Guys! Calm down! I'm not going anywhere this time. In fact, I'll be here more often. I don't have to go to school anymore, so I can come here first thing in the morning after my training and spend the whole day with you guys, just….can you guys back up a bit? I'm getting….really tired."

The group instantly took five steps back, allowing Ash to collapse onto the ground in front of them.

"Thanks…." He slowly got up onto his feet and dusted himself off. "Still need to work on that. So, now that I can understand you all, I can actually listen to you instead of just hoping for the best." Ash looked around for his backpack. "Now...where is…." He looked up to see his backpack flying towards his face. He stepped out of the way of it and grabbed it with one arm. He was pulled onto the ground because of just how fast it was thrown at him, but he was able to save the backpack. "Thank you. Now….I think that I have some stuff for all of you…" Ash took out a very large container, which, probably took up half of his backpack space. He pushed the button on the side and watched it grow into a huge crate. "...Arceus, I love this tech." As he was opening the crate, Mew watched with Professor Oak.

"So, why do you think that Ash should work part time at my lab."

Mew sighed. 'Humans…' "Do I really have to say…?"

Oak laughed. "No, you don't. I was just joking. He wouldn't even have to take any test at all. He's already showed his intelligence by technically graduating from high school at the age of five."

Mew snickered when he said 'five' "Yep. That's my Ashy. He really worked hard this past month."

"Speaking of…" Oak turned to Mew with his professor face on. "How is it that Ash was able to improve so quickly…?"

"Oh, well that incident a month ago apparently put him in perfect physical condition, and he also started to remember more and more things, so it may have altered his brain chemistry or something. I'm not a doctor, or a scientist like you, but I do know that something happened. I mean, he just walked on water like it was a flat surface for Arceus's sake! It was amazing!" Mew got all hyper at the fact that her son had been hiding things from her with those mental barriers that she taught him right before the Mew game.

Flashback…

Mew hit Ash with another mental attack. "Ashy...We can't play the game unless you learn how to do this. It's no fun when I know where you are at any given time."

Ash groaned as he closed his eyes again.

"Think of it like this son. You're making walls to keep something out, and a cage to keep your thoughts in."

Ash thought for a moment, then realized after a few hours that he was doing it wrong. He saw himself in a black void, and he then created a cage around the entire void. He then built walls around the cage for the extra defense.

"Very good Ashy! Which means that the game starts now!" Mew hit him in the back of the head with a Focus Punch. "..You weren't ready."

Present time….

Mew sighed happily at the memory. Now that she thought of it, Ash couldn't really move anything with his psychic abilities. He could only make then float in place. He'll need to work on that. Mew then coughed a bit to get Oak's attention. "So...about that job for Ash…"

"Hmm?" Oak was snapped out of his stupor from seeing Ash stand on water. "Oh yes. If he wants it, he can have it, but it will only be part time, and the pay isn't really that good."

"I don't think he cares about the pay. I think he just needed an excuse to be with the pokemon instead of coming here and drawing suspicion." Mew looked over at Ash to see him running after a crowd of pokemon that had his hat.

He vaulted over an Ivysaur as he kept running after his hat, which was taken by Lucy. A Machoke blocked his way, but Ash ran around him to get him dizzy and then knocked him down with a punch to the solar plexus, which actually made the Machoke fly back a bit. He rolled out of the way of Drago's tail and slid under him, still running after Lucy. A Charizard and a Blastoise charged at him and he jumped on top of the living tank and pushed off of it's back to gain more distance. He noticed that Lucy had stopped running. He made a mad dash towards her, forcing his aura into his legs to make him slightly blur out of sight before stopping to lean out of the way of a Force Palm. "Lucy...give me...my hat back." Ash stared into her red eyes, and wasn't threatened in the slightest like she wanted. He blocked a spin kick from her and rolled out of the way of another spin kick. He caught the third one and tossed her to the side.

"Lucy...you know that those kicks only work once at most. Now….give..me...my hat!" Ash let his eyes turn blue before he flipped out of the way of a Double Kick from a Hitmonlee that came from the side. "Honestly…." Ash leaned backwards to dodge a High Jump Kick, and then struck the Hitmonlee in the back as it flew over him. He then backflipped out of the way of a Hitmonchan using a Mach Punch. He saw his hat flying in the air and used the Hitmontop flying at him as leverage to grab the hat. He jumped off of the pokemon and was about to grab his hat, when a Vine Whip hit him in the side, which Ash used to pull the Ivysaur into the air and jump off of it as well, so he could get his hat. He then had to roll out of the way of a Dragon Breath, that still burned him slightly from the heat. He grabbed onto his hat and was then dragged to the ground by the hat due to a Gardevoir using Psychic on the hat. Ash closed his eyes and sent a pulse of psychic energy at the Gardevoir, forcing it to let go of the hat. Ash then flipped around and kicked the Gardevoir in the chest, flipping in the air afterwards and then landing on his feet. He dusted his hat off and put it on like nothing happened.

All Professor Oak saw none of that, and just saw Lucy hand Ash's hat back to him after a few minutes of running, mixed with a little bit of shouting. "Well, that's a surprise."

Mew saw the battleground and snickered. "What is?"

"That Lucario over there. Her name is Lucy. She was abandoned by her previous trainer, and she doesn't like anyone but even then, she only tolerates me because I take care of her. For Ash to have that kind of bond with Pokemon…...it's unheard of." Oak still had his professor face on while Mew laughed.

"Professor, just leave it. If Ash wants to tell us, then he'll tell us! But for now...Oh Ashy! The tree over here wants to talk to you!"

"I'm not a tree…"

"Your last name is Oak. Honestly, I'm surprised that no one jokes about it more."

Ash ran over to the two, panting to keep up an act. "You called Mom?"

Mew nodded with a smile. "Ashy, Professor tree here wants to offer you a job as a lab assistant."

A tic mark appeared on Professor Oak's forehead. "I am not a tree…." He then cleared his throat and took a calming breath. "But yes, Ash. I would like to offer you a part-time job at my lab. Usually my assistants need to take some form of test based on how proficient they are in a certain subject, but I'm sure that you can help with pretty much anything, right Ash?"

Ash nodded happily. This was the first time he had been this happy in years. "Of course Professor!I promise to do my best in anything that you have me working on!"

Oak chuckled slightly. "You say that now, but when you actually start working, then you'll probably regret saying that. No matter. You got the job Ash."

Ash jumped up and down in excitement, and during this, Lucy sneaked up behind Ash and stole his hat. "Thank you Professor! Thankyouthankyoutha-" Ash stopped immediately and put his hand where his hat would be. He then slowly turned around to see Lucy running off playfully with his hat. "LUCY! GET BACK HERE AND GIVE ME BACK MY HAT!" He dashed after her, leaving a trail of dust behind him, as well as two laughing adults.

Five years later…

"LUCY! I TOLD YOU TO NOT MESS WITH MY HAT!" Ash ran after Lucy as fast as he could, which made him close the distance in a minute or so. He jumped over her, grabbed his hat, and held it on his head as he landed on his face and slid about 20 feet, before tumbling around for a bit, flipping in the air, and landing on his back,sliding another 20 feet. He slowly stopped and when that happened, his legs that had pointed straight into the air fell onto the ground, causing even more dirt to be thrown into the air. He groaned as he slowly stood up. "Lucy….What is it with you and my hat?"

Lucy smiled as she walked up to him. "It's funny to see you chase after it. I'm going to have to up my game too. You've gotten faster than me." She closed her eyes. "I'll have to start training again. Have you been training your powers?" She appeared behind Ash and attacked him with a Bone Rush.

Ash dodged every attack with ease. He knew that she wasn't going nearly as fast as she could. "Yeah, I have Lucy, but I still can't launch an Aura Sphere, and I've just been able to use my Aura Sight. The mental bond stuff though, I think that I mastered that." He got hit in the side by an Aura Sphere and he saw Lucy smirking at him while the one using Bone Rush faded. He flipped around in the air and landed on his feet, holding his side. Lucy was about to attack him again, before she was held in place with a Psychic attack from Gardevoir, or Grace, as Ash had learned a while ago.

She walked over to Ash with a gentle smile on her face. "You know that you don't have to put yourself through this everyday Ash. and you don't need a starter. We all agreed that we would be your team. But, if you insist on doing that, at least take us with you...Junior Professor." Grace handed Ash a card. "The tree wanted to give this to you. Fair warning, they are ALL named after trees, so you'll have to make fun of them in another way."

Ash slowly took the card and it was a Junior Professor's license. "Thank you Grace...but do you know why I don't have a full license?"

She nodded. "It's because you're physically ten years old. Mentally, we all know that you're around thirty-seven or thirty-eight in human years. You might be able to fool humans, but you can't fool Psychic types, and you know that the old yellow guy loves to gossip."

Ash sighed and nodded. Alakazam, who insisted on being called by the name of his race, really did love to gossip. Well, now he knew why they pushed him so hard during his Psychic and Aura training. "I should go talk to him. Thank you for bringing this to me Grace. It means a lot." He brought Grace into a hug, then walked towards the lab.

"So…..can you let me down now?"

"No."

"Why not…?"

"Because I don't want to."

Ash entered the lab quietly, but was still noticed by a Pikachu, who tried to shock him as soon as he entered the room. Ash took the hit and just shrugged it off. "Professor! Are you okay?" He called out to Professor Oak as he was shocked again. The shocks actually barely tickled his skin, as Electivires' shocks were much worse, and even those he had gotten used to feeling. He walked into the back room and saw the Professor sleeping. Ash sighed again 'I sigh a lot now…' and walked over to the man, which he saw was actually knocked out and smoking. Ash then looked at the Pikachu behind him with his Auric Sight. 'Hmm…..Compared to Electivire, he's really weak….but compared to the average Pikachu...he's miles ahead of them. And I can see a near unlimited potential in him. He'll go far if he gets the right trainer.'

"Hey! Shithead! Well, the one with the hat!"

Ash looked down to see the Pikachu on the ground. "Yeah? What is it you yellow ball of fluff?"

The Pikachu growled, trying to be menacing. "Do NOT speak to me that way asshole!"
Ash smirked as he crouched down to meet him in the eye. "Quite the moute you got on you. And quite the courage. Or is it stupidity…?"

The Pikachu growled even louder. "I'm not stupid! You're stupid! And if you say that again then I'l-"

"Shut up." Ash started massaging the Pikachu's red cheeks, almost forcibly relaxing him. He then let go once he saw the contentedness on the electric mouses' face. "There. Now that you're relaxed, two things. One, those shocks of yours won't work on me. I get shocked by an Electivire much too often, and I hardly feel it anymore. Two, my name is Ash. Do you have a name, or do I just have to keep calling you 'Fuzzball'?"

The Pikachu huffed. "My name is Bolt. But I want a new one."

"You could always change it."

'Bolt' nodded in thought. His emotional states are...erratic at best. "Yeah….never thought of that….I guess that you can call me...Eh. Whatever. Until I think of a different name, just call me Bolt." He held out his paw.

Ash smiled and shook Bolt's paw, who tried to shock Ash. "Bolt. We'll have to work on that."

"But shocking is fun! And because you can't feel it, then I can test my strength on you!"

Right at the moment where Ash shook Bolt's paw, Professor Oak woke up to see the two conversing. "Well Ash, it seems that you've found your starter."

Ash nodded and picked Bolt up, then put him onto his shoulder. "Yep. Oh..umm...Professor...I was wondering...well, the guys outside were wondering if they could become my team. If...IF that happened, would I have to leave one of them here…?"

Professor Oak laughed. "Of course not Ash! I had Gardevoir deliver your new I.D. because I knew that she wanted to be on your team, along with Lucario, and Drago. As a Junior Professor, you are permitted to carry eight Pokemon with you at all times, and you will be permitted to carry more when the Pokemon League sees that you're ready for it. For me, if I wasn't as old as I am, I would be allowed to carry eighteen with me. But, being a Pokemon Trainer is for the young, like yourself! So...I don't usually do this, but since you already have bonded with your starter, and have your Pokedex already, I will allow you to start a day early. But, you have to ke-" Ash ran out to the Ranch as soon as Oak said early. Oak chuckled and then looked back at his papers. "Oh great….now I have to pick all of these up again…"

Ash brought four Pokeballs to him using his Psychic abilities. That was the best he could do right now. He brought Bolt's, which had a lightning bolt on it, Lucy's, which was in its storage slot, Graces, which was on the Professor's desk, and Drago's, which was in the Professor's back room. He caught all of them as they shot at him from behind and clipped them all onto his belt in one sweep. He then pulled out his Pokedex from his jacket, which had National mode enabled on it, and checked ownership of all of the balls, and he was shocked that they had already been transferred to him. He then smirked as he approached Lucy. He took her Pokeball off of his belt and dashed past her, the ball in her paw. He then saw Grace.

Grace quickly turned to see Ash dashing towards her with a Pikachu on his shoulder. She thought that he was going to attack her, but he just ran right past her, leaving her Pokeball in her hands.

Ash then saw Drago sparring with a Salamence. Ash jumped on top of the Salamence and knocked it out by hitting a pressure point right behind its left fin thing on its head. He then barreled past Drago, leaving his Pokeball in his claws. He then dashed towards the lake, where it all began. He came to a dead stop at the edge of the lake, with Bolt falling off of his shoulder, trying to catch his breath. "Beautiful. Isn't it Bolt?"

Bolt gasped for air on the ground. "W-WARN ME BEFORE YOU DO THAT AGAIN YOU ASSHOLE!"

Ash chuckled at Bolt's reaction to his full speed. "If you want to stay with me, I'll train you so hard that you will think that what you just experienced was in slow motion. It'll be...well, I'll sum it up and say that it'll be hell for all of us." He sat down at the edge of the lake and heard three Pokémon walking towards him. He looked behind him to see Grace, Lucy, and Drago walking for once instead of floating, running, or flying.

Bolt jumped up onto Ash's head as he looked back at the lake. Grace and Lucy sat down left of Ash, glaring at each other before staring back at the lake. Drago sat to the right of Ash, and wrapped his tail around all of them.

"So…..does this mean that you guys want to come with me?" Ash looked at Drago, who nodded at him and handed Ash his Pokeball. Ash took it gently and hooked it onto his belt. He then looked over at Lucy and Grace, who nodded as well, and handed him their Pokeballs. Ash smiled and clipped them back onto his belt. They stayed there staring across the lake for an hour or so. Well, Ash did, Bolt ran around the area, Lucy and Grace started bickering half an hour ago, and Drago just fell asleep.

Ash stood up and began walking away from the lake, which Grace noticed, because she slapped Drago awake and then ran after Ash. Lucy tried to return herself, but Ash kept her out. Drago just walked over, and Bolt hopped onto Ash's shoulder again. "Okay you three. You will not participate in battles until the league. And before you complain, I have two reasons for this. The first is that I need you guys at full strength when you're breaking in the new trainees. And the second one is that you aren't as strong as you were the last time you were out traveling, Draco specifically. You all have obvious weaknesses that can be exploited by even the most rookie trainer. I'm going to hack into the Pokeball system to where you can train in there as well. Mom?"

Mew appeared floating around Ash's head. "What is it sweetie~?"

"Could you get Rotom and Pori-Z to help me hack into the Pokeball software so these guys can train in there?"

Mew snapped and a Rotom and a Porygon-Z appeared with a laptop and a wireless connector. "Just keep that in your bag and it should be done by the end of the day."

Ash nodded and let the Pokemon enter the laptop before he put them into his backpack that Mew had appeared. "Thanks mom."

Mew wiped a tear from her eye before smothering Ash into a bone crushing hug, anime tears pouring down her face. "My little Ashy's all grown up! I wish I could go with you, but you'd have to battle me, and I don't want to kill them. Maybe 20 years ago, Draco might have survived."

Rotom poked up from the backpack. "Their bodies will be technically digital, so do you want us to make a time dilation effect in there?"

Ash nodded. "Slow down time by a factor of four. I don't want them to get too bored. And, if it's possible, could you link them together?"

Porygon-Z laughed using the speakers. "I thought that you would ask us to do something hard. We're already done. I just needed Rotom to power the wireless thingy." He hopped out of the backpack, dragging Rotom with him. Mew then made them disappear.

"All set Ashy?"

Ash nodded. "Yep. I have to go now though. Otherwise we'll be caught in that storm. Actually….we're going to get caught in it regardless, so we might as well get as far as we can, right?"

Mew nodded and started pushing Ash onto Route 1. "Just go already! You're dragging it out!"

Ash started laughing as he was forced to take his first steps as a trainer. When the pushing stopped, he turned around to talk to Mew, but she was gone. "...Well guys, I guess we already took our first steps on our journey….heh. Okay….everyone...Let's go!" Ash then started walking down the path, the three veteran Pokémon returning themselves.

I'm sorry for the late update. I said a week and a half, and it's been almost two weeks. So, I'll answer some questions that I know are going to be asked. Firstly, Ash might be in peak physical form, but he's still only ten. So say that he fought a trained martial artist like Maylene, he could win, but he would lose to Bruno, or Koga, simply because of age. Secondly, the veteran Pokémon will not be used in battle, for three reasons. The first is that they are rusty, and need to get back to training before they can fight again. Secondly, they're too strong, so they'll just be helping with training and occasionally fight in a life or death type of thing. And third, the whole battle thing. They are too strong for Ash to command in battle, as he doesn't have the badges for it. Okay, now that that's out of the way, the next chapter will most likely be late as I'm visiting family, and I won't really have a chance to write. So…
Mew: I'M BACK BITCHES!
Yep...Mew back.
Mew: WOMAN! WHERE IS MY CHOCOLATE?!
I'm a guy...and you ate it all.
Mew: WELL GET ME MORE!
GET IT YOURSELF!