Hey there humans! Some of you might be wondering why Gamer of the World is a bit late, depending on when I post this. Well, that's because I'm coming back to this as well! I kinda made myself sick of Pokemon when Sun and Moon came out for a bit, delaying this update even more, so… here it is! I'll still do Gamer of the World, but I'll update this one whenever I can. So for all of you who read that one, don't worry! I'll update that one soon! For now, try to enjoy this!

"Speech/Pokespeech"

'Thought'

"Telepathy"
Pokemon Attacks

"Oh no…."

Ash felt a drop of water hit his hand as he held it out. He looked up and saw the sky was totally blackened by the clouds, with lightning sparking visibly. The sound of an explosion came from behind him. He turned around and saw that there was a small crater in the ground that was filling with molten earth. "Bolt, we have to go. I'm much faster without you on my shoulder, so either you go in your Pokeball, or I'll have to carry you."

Bolt shivered at the thought of being alone in the Pokeball again. "I'll just...stay out here for now."

Ash nodded and started to run as soon as his partner jumped into his arms. He looked behind him to see that a flock of Spearow were chasing him for whatever reason. Maybe he crossed into their territory or something. He had no idea why the flock was still on Route 1 though. The Pokemon League should've taken care of it by now, as it's a threat to new trainers. 'Damn it… why are they so fast?! I should've been able to outrun them by now!' Ash looked forward again and heard a pained cry. He looked at Bolt, who was also looking for the cry, and had better ears.

Bolt looked around rapidly until he heard the cry again. "Ash! Over there!" He pointed past the treeline. "It's a straight shot!"

Ash nodded and he bolted for the edge of the forest, which had an invisible barrier to keep Shadow Pokemon out. Or...was it just to keep wild Pokemon from attacking and eating other trainers? Ash shook away the stray thoughts and he jumped the invisible wall that kept trainers in the safe area and dashed towards the cry.

Bolt felt a surge of power go through him the moment Ash left the safe zone. "Hey! Human! I think that the Routes have limiters on them!"

"That's a stupid decision! Why would the League put actual limiters on the Pokemon in the safe area? Unless….it's a safeguard to keep criminal's Pokemon in check. Or make the wild Pokemon weak enough to battle and catch. It actually explains a lot." Ash sidestepped a tree that was right in front of them and saw a young Froakie being attacked by a Pidgeotto. "Hey!" He unclipped Grace's Pokeball and called her out. "Grace! I won't command you, but that Froakie needs our help. Can you fight it on your terms?"

Grace shook her head. "I'm sorry Ash, but I can't fight. Not until you're strong enough. It's a rule of all Pokemon."

"Fine...can you at least hold it down while I get Froakie?"

Grace nodded and used Psychic to hold the Pidgeotto up against a tree. It squacked in surprise and then pain as it kept struggling against the attack. Ash ran up to the Froakie and saw no real outer damage except for some bruising. He took a Potion out of his backpack and sprayed each one of the bruises. The small ones went away, but the larger ones weren't affected at all. That meant that there was internal damage. Ash rummaged through his pack again and found an empty Pokeball. "I should've prepared better…Froakie, I need you to listen to me, okay? I'm going to catch you so that I can take you to a Pokemon Center. It's a place that will heal you. I'm going to take you there, okay?"

The Froakie nodded, or what counted as a nod from a frog. Ash tapped the Pokeball onto the Bubble Frog pokemon and it dinged instantly. Ash tapped the button and the ball shrank down and activated Stasis Mode. "Grace! Time to go!" Ash started running back towards the safe area holding Grace's ball. As soon as he was far enough away, Grace used Teleport to catch up with him. Ash returned her and then saw that he was almost to Route 1 again. He had to dodge some attacks that would've killed him, but he jumped the invisible wall again and then panted.

"That…..was…..AWESOME!" Bolt started laughing in Ash's arms. "We have to do that again sometime Ash! But...let's not try to die."

Ash nodded and then looked up to see that the storm had passed, and there was a rainbow in the sky. Ash collapsed onto the ground still looking up at the sky. "I...I saved someone." Ash just looked up with a smile. He started to chuckle, which turned into a full blown laugh.

Bolt had to jump off of him because he was acting weird. "Umm…..Ash? You okay? Because you're acting like someone who needs to get over their ego."

"I-I'm fine Bolt. It's just...I actually saved someone! It feels...It feels good." Ash sighed. He knew he had to get up, so he was about to, when he saw another large bird in the sky. He squinted his eyes and saw that it was who he thought it was. "H-Ho-oh…"

"Wait, hold on! Lady Ho-oh is here?! Where?!"

Ash stood up, still staring at the Rainbow Pokemon. He heard it cry out...something. He actually couldn't understand what she said. He kept staring until a feather covered his eyes. "What...What is this?" He took the feather off of his eyes and looked down at it. He nearly dropped it when it shimmered in the light. "This…. This is...a Rainbow Wing….but in the legends, Ho-oh only gives one of her feathers to someone who she deems worthy of greatness...also Mew said that she's really protective about her feathers, so I better take good care of it." Ash pulled a velvety cloth out of his pack that he uses to polish his Pokeballs, or he would have used it to polish them. He carefully wrapped the feather up and placed it in a side pouch that was all on it's own. It was too narrow for anything else to be held in it, almost too narrow and too small that Ash could barely fit the feather inside of the compact pouch. Ash shook his head and resumed his sprint towards Viridian City.

Ash sensed a person rapidly approaching, probably in a car or riding a motorcycle. He immediately started panting to give the appearance that he's a fresh trainer as he saw a woman in a police uniform park right in front of the entrance to Viridian. "H-Help!"

Bolt looked up at Ash, really confused. "Hey, why are you asking for help? There's no point to it."

Ash muttered under his breath to Bolt, which he knew that he could hear him. "I'm not as fast as a motorcycle without using Aura, and I need to get Froakie to a Pokemon Center fast."

Bolt nodded slowly at Ash's logic. It was kinda cool to see a human that wasn't a total idiot.

The police officer got off of her ride and ran over to Ash. "What's the matter?"

Ash looked at the badge pinned to her uniform. "W-Well, Officer Jenny, I found this Froakie trying to get inside of Route 1, but it kept getting shocked… I didn't know why, so I tried to pick it up and I got shocked too… I think there was a wall, so I climbed over it and caught this guy so I could bring him to a Pokemon Center. His ball is in Stasis mode right now, so he should be safe, but I don't want to wait for him to be healed!"

Officer Jenny nodded in understanding. "Alright kid, I believe you, but I'll still need to see some I.D. saying that you are who you say you are. There have been some Pokemon Poachers in the area. I'm just required to ask everyone I see entering the city."

Ash nodded and rummaged in his pockets, trying to find something. "I know that I had it… Oh! Is this good enough?" He pulled out his Jr. Professor Card and handed it to Jenny.

Officer Jenny took the card and read over it quickly. "You're a Jr. Professor at the age of ten?"

Ash nodded as he took his card back. "You can scan it later!" He held the Pokeball that was in stasis to Jenny. "We have to hurry!"

'Even though he's a Professor, he's still a kid. This must be really frightening for him.' Officer Jenny nodded and took Ash's wrist. She led him over to her bike and helped him onto it as she quickly mounted her motorcycle. "Hold on to me kid!" She revved her engine to warm it up a bit before taking off towards the Pokemon Center.

'Good. The act worked. Now I can get this Froakie healed… I have a bad feeling though…' Ash held onto Jenny tightly, quickly beginning to enjoy the rush of being on one of these. "Umm, excuse me? I was just wondering how old I have to be to get a license for one of these."

Jenny smirked. 'Got another one.' "You have to be at least sixteen kid. And even then you won't get to ride one of these puppies until you're at least eighteen."

'Damn.' "Oh… well that's okay. I'll just get a bike." Ash saw the Pokemon Center rapidly approaching. "U-Umm… O-Officer Jenny? You're not slowing down…"

"I know." She grinned as the building came closer.

'She's insane! Unless Pokemon Centers have automatic doors…''

Jenny started laughing as she turned sharply and drifted into the lobby of the Pokemon Center, leaving unsightly skid marks on the white tile floor.

"Jenny! I told you not to do that anymore!" A red haired woman walked out from behind the counter, clearly annoyed.

Officer Jenny chuckled mareepishly. "I know Joy, but I was actually in a hurry this time!"

Ash hopped off of the bike and ran over to Joy. "Are you in charge here?"

Joy nodded. "Yes, I'm Joy, the head nurse here at this Pokemon Center."

Ash held Froakie's pokeball to Nurse Joy. "There's a heavily injured Froakie in here! I put them in Stasis, but I still don't want to risk anything! Please help them!"

Nurse Joy took the pokeball and put it in the scanner*. She saw the Froakie in Stasis and saw large bruising. "Chansey! Get an operating room ready!"

A distant "Okay!" Was heard by Ash in the back.

Nurse Joy took the Pokeball off of the scanner and ran into the back, not saying a word to either of them.

Jenny looked at Ash, then sighed. "She's like that. You should probably just wait out here or in the training fields out back for her to finish with the little guy."

Ash nodded and then hugged Jenny as a sign of thanks. "Thank you so much!" He let go of the officer and then ran out back to let his partners get some fresh air.

Jenny smiled and then shook her head. "He's a good kid." She then sighed as she looked at the skid marks. "She's gonna make me clean this up again tomorrow."

Ash released the remainder of his team and then his face quickly became stone cold. "Fall in line!"

Bolt was shocked at Ash's tone, but hopped out of his arms and stood on his hind feet next to Lucy.

Ash walked in front of them and then he suddenly seemed much older then 10 years old. Well, to the sensors at least. "Alright! Listen up! As I said at the lab to Bolt, my training will be hell for all of us. I will push you harder then you have ever been pushed before, and you will falter at times. I will not blame you for that at all. However, when you falter, I expect that you will get right back up and keep going! Do you understand?!"

The three veterans nodded at once, while Bolt just yawned, barely listening to Ash.

Ash noticed this and then smirked evilly. "Alright then. We're going to do an exercise in… teamwork. Drago, Grace, Luca, over here."

The the veterans had an evil glint in their eyes as they knew what was going to happen. Ash asked them to break in the new recruits.

"We're going to play a little game that my mother introduced me to… It's called 'Rodent Hunt'."

Bolt began to shiver as he saw the three stronger Pokemon look back at him, their eyes shadowed and grinning.

"Here are the rules. The prey gets a ten minute head start. And you can't use psychic or auric powers to locate him. It's not fun if you can just find him yourself. And for the hunters to win, the prey must be totally immobilized." 'I hope that they get what I'm trying to get them to do.' "The game starts… now!" Ash pulled up a timer that was preset to ten minutes on his Pokedex and started it as he watched Bolt run into the forest. He then looked at the three 'Hunters' "Let me specify. You cannot locate his exact location with your powers, but you can still speak to each other with a psychic link."

Drago looked down at Ash. "You know that this is unfair, right?"

Ash nodded immediately. "I know. But this is a test of your abilities, not Bolts. I want to see just how rusty you've all gotten."

Bolt was running on all fours, panting from fear of the much more experienced fighters chasing after him. He was afraid for his life for some odd reason, even though he knew that they wouldn't kill him. "What… What the hell did I sign up for when I joined him?!" He hopped into a tree and checked the burrow to see if there was a large flying type living there. It was totally abandoned, so he hid there to catch his breath. He ran way too fast for his own good. And that was probably really slow compared to the others. Even the Dragonite. He knew that he had no hope of winning, so he just had to hope that they wouldn't find him in the tree.

Ash looked at his Pokedex and then nodded. "Alright, the ten minutes are up. Go get him."

Drago nodded and took to the air.

Lucy dashed into the forest, covering the ground.

Grace's eyes began to glow purple as she lined the minds of the three Hunters together. "Testing. Can you both hear me?"

"This is Drago. I hear you perfectly."

Lucy groaned in her thoughts. "This feels weird…"

"I'll take that as a yes." Grace smirked as she closed her eyes to focus.

Lucy shook off the weird feeling and then sniffed the air, picking up the faint scent of Bolt, glad that it had rained, as the water wiped away all of the other scents in the forest until the other Pokemon marked them again. She slowly followed the trail, both being careful not to alert the Pikachu, and give him a false sense of hope.

Ash whispered into Grace's ear. "You have five minutes to find him."

Grace gasped a tiny bit, still trying to maintain the psychic link. It was actually really difficult to do, as she hasn't done it since she was a Kirlia. "Hey! We have no time to play with our food! We only have five minutes!"

Drago dove down closer to the trees to see if the Electric Mouse was hopping above them.

Lucy nodded. "I'm on it! Little mouse can cover a lot of distance in just ten minutes!" She began to sprint down Bolts trail, making up for whatever time she had lost. Apparently Ash wanted to get this game over with quickly. She skidded to a stop, spraying a bit of mud in front of her. "Where are you…?" Lucy sniffed the air again and turned to her right to see a tree with a hole in it. It had the slightest hint of yellow inside of that hole as well. She smirked and jumped on top of the branch near the hole. She reached into it and pulled Bolt out by his tail. "Got him. Should I head back?"

"No. I'm coming to you." Grace teleported in front of Lucy, floating above the ground so that she wouldn't get her dress dirty. She floated over to Lucy and used Hypnosis on Bolt, who fell 'asleep'. She then grabbed onto Lucy and teleported them back to Ash. Drago was already there. She broke the link, then collapsed onto her knees, panting heavily. So much for keeping her dress clean…

Lucy walked over to Ash and then handed the immobilized mouse to him. "Here you go, one unmoving mouse."

Ash gently held Bolt in his arms and checked the time. "You had ten seconds left. I expect you to be faster. Now that I know what Grace needs to work on, she can rest. Drago, you need to regain your speed that you had when Professor Oak was your Trainer. Lucy, you'll train with Drago, get faster. Grace, once you rest, I want you to find the heaviest boulder you can find and hold it up for as long as you can. You'll improve your mental endurance that way." Ash rummaged in his backpack for a notepad and a thing to write with. He mumbled as he wrote things down. "Drago and Lucy… speed… Grace… Mental… Bolt… everything… Froakie… rehabilitation." He nodded to himself as he put the notepad down and walked to a secluded area of the training ground. "Get to work! And tell me when Bolt wakes up from his little nap!"

Lucy nodded as she poked Bolt's limp, sleeping body with a stick.

Ash sat down in the corner and then closed his eyes, trying to gain a better grasp on his aura. It took an hour or so to do, but he finally was able to find his aura. Which was strange, because he knew exactly where it was. He spent the rest of the time meditating trying to gain more control over his aura.

"Hey!"

Ash tilted his head to the side to see a young boy walking up to him with a cocky smirk on his face.

"Are you a trainer?"

Ash just nodded.

The boy pulled a Pokeball off of his belt and threw it in the air, releasing a Rattata. "Then I challenge you to a battle!"

"Not interested right now." Ash dismissed the boy immediately, really not wanting to bother with him.

"But you have to! Those are the rules!"

Ash groaned and then looked at the Rattata, and made his eyes flash blue.

The Rattata flinched and then cowered a bit. "I-I'm sorry, Chosen…"

Ash smiled and began to pet the Rattata. "No harm done little guy." He then looked up at the boy. "It looks like he doesn't want to fight anymore."

The boy sighed. "Rattata… please, we need to get stronger."

Ash stood up slowly and then picked the Rat Pokemon up gently and handed him to the kid. "Listen kid, there are more ways to get stronger than just battling. Like training for example. Do you see those two Pokemon racing over there?" He pointed at Lucy and Drago, who were competing to see who was the fastest. "They're my partners. I can't command them in Pokemon battles, but I still trust them to protect me if I need it. You need to have a strong bond with your Pokemon before you start training. Get to know him, take care of him, then help him to get stronger." Ash sniffed the air a bit. "For instance, don't use the shampoo that you use on him. It damages Pokemon fur."

The boy looked down at his Rattata. "So… you're saying that I can help him get stronger if I'm friends with him?"

Ash nodded and ruffled the boy's head. "Yeah. It helps if you train yourself along with your Pokemon. It makes it more of a partnership instead of a Trainer/Pokemon relationship."

The boy had a gleam in his eyes as he pulled out a notepad. "Can you teach me?!"

Ash blinked a bit, then chuckled. "Sure. I'm planning on staying here for a bit anyways. How about tomorrow? Your Rattata looks tired."

The boy looked down at the purple rat pokemon and then back up at Ash. "How can you tell?"

"Do you see the way his whiskers are drooping?" Ash gently scratched the Pokemon's cheek. "When they're like that, the Rattata is tired. Their whiskers are supposed to stick straight out."

The boy nodded and was about to return Rattata to his pokeball.

"Also, some Pokemon do not enjoy Pokeballs. I'm not saying that he doesn't, but it might be better if you carry him home."

The boy nodded. "Okay! Thanks!" He began to walk away, but paused. "Hey, I never told you my name!"

Ash waved the boy off. "Tell me tomorrow! Just go get some rest!" He watched the boy walk away, then sighed. "I hate it when people put me on the spot…" He turned to see Lucy and Drago panting a bit in place. "Hey! I know how much stamina you guys have! Quit slacking off!"

Grace looked down at the sleeping Pikachu and then the stick that Lucy was poking him with. She picked up the stick and started poking Bolt in her Lucario friends place.

Nurse Joy walked out to the backyard/training area and saw a Gardevoir holding up a boulder in the air, a Dragonite and a Lucario running around, a Pikachu that was panting heavily on his back, and Ash doing one handed pushups. He seemed to be struggling a lot.

"And… fifty…" Ash collapsed into the mud, panting as hard as Bolt. "Okay… not ready for those yet…" He stood and got as much mud off of his chest as he could. He looked at Nurse Joy and then coughed a bit. "Take five you guys."

The rest of his team that was standing immediately stopped what they were doing, exhausted.

Ash walked over to Nurse Joy. "So, how did it go? Is Froakie going to make it?"

Nurse Joy nodded. "I doubt that you abused that poor Pokemon, but he does show signs of human abuse. You told Jenny you found him in the wilds? Just outside of the normal routes?"

Ash nodded slowly, his aura threatening to flare up from the mere mention of abuse. "Well, I can assure you that the very low chance of injuries happening during training, I will take full responsibility for it, but I would never intentionally abuse a Pokemon. Well, if it was trying to kill me… I don't know then."

Nurse Joy was shocked at the maturity coming from a fresh trainer. Then again, he was a Jr. Professor for a reason. "Well, that's certainly a mature point of view, but I have to advise against training him much or sending him into battle. I doubt that you will actually do that, however, I still have to warn you as part of my responsibilities as a Pokemon Nurse."

Ash nodded a bit. "…Can I see him?"

Nurse Joy shook her head. "I'm sorry, but right now, we have to keep him in a stable environment right now. We can't risk jinxing his recovery."

"I understand… in that case, do you have any free rooms right now?"

Nurse Joy nodded with a smile. "We actually have quite a few. Not many trainers start their journey a day before League season begins. Would you like a room?"

"If you don't mind, that would be great. Thank you." Ash bowed a bit in respect as Mew had taught him to do with healers, human or Pokemon.

Nurse Joy blushed a bit at the flattery. She usually wasn't treated like this, especially during league season. "It's not a problem at all! I'll go get you your key." She quickly went back inside to suppress her embarrassment.

Ash smirked and then looked back at his team. "Alright guys, we're done for today! Rest up in your Pokeballs if you want, but make sure not to laze around in there all the time. Do just enough to keep yourselves in good shape, or you can train while in there." 'The time dilation is going to be perfect for helping rest the team in between battles.' He held up three Pokeballs and watched as his veterans returned themselves. Ash clipped the balls to his belt, gently picked up the still recovering Bolt, and took off his shoes to keep himself from tracking mud into the building.

Nurse Joy walked over to Ash and handed him a room key. "Here you are! We hope that you enjoy yo-"

The all of the lights went out in the Pokemon Center. Not even the emergency lights came on.

Nurse Joy seemed like she wanted to say something, but she was muffled by something.

Ash closed his eyes and activated his Auric Sight. He saw Nurse Joy being dragged away by someone with a dark aura. He also felt someone trying to sneak up behind him. Ash waited until the last possible moment he could to attack his would be kidnapper. He jabbed the person in the stomach and then grabbed them by their arm to flip them onto the ground. Ash gazed into the person's eyes, his own glowing an eerie blue. "Who are you…?"

The person tried to get up, but was suddenly paralyzed by fear when they stared into Ash's eyes.

"Don't want to talk huh…?" Ash groaned and then slammed the person's head onto the floor, rendering them unconscious. He then slowly unzipped his bag to place the recovering Pikachu inside of it. "Don't make a single sound or spark, okay Bolt?" Ash heard a slight ruffling, hoping that it was a nod. He then stealthily went after whoever had taken Nurse Joy. They were still in the building, which made it easier on him. Ash heard Joy yelp slightly, then heard the sound of flesh striking flesh.

"Tell me the code to the computer!"

Nurse Joy shook her head slowly, refusing to let this person get a hold of the Pokemon.

"Well then…" The sound of a blade being unsheathed echoed through the area. "I guess that we'll have to do this the hard way." The person pressed the blade against Nurse Joy's throat hard enough for her to bleed from the contact of the blade. "Now tell me the goddamn code!"

Ash's pupils became dilated in rage as he let his aura spring forth.

"N-No…"

The intruder gritted their teeth as they pressed down harder on Joy's throat. "I will kill you! Do you understand that?!"

"I won't… let you… steal the Pokemon…"

The person groaned. "Fine then. I suppose that I can spare a casualty… or maybe the boss will like to use you as a toy…~"

Ash's eyes became red from that statement. He lost most of his control and dashed behind the person and immediately broke the person's arm that was holding the knife, making the person drop it. Ash then grabbed the person's face and slammed them into the ground, possibly killing them. His eyes became blue again as he calmed down. He looked at Nurse Joy with a serious expression. "Where's the breaker room? There might be a third person in there that is keeping the power off."

Nurse Joy could only see Ash's eyes, as the blue glow darkened whatever bits of his face were visible in the darkness. "U-Umm… It's on the other side of the building… I can show you if y-"

Ash shushed her and closed his eyes as he heard another person walk by. He couldn't release Lucy or Grace to help him find out how many there were. Hell, he didn't even know why he was doing this. Ash slowly stood up and waited for another person to walk by before he opened his eyes and choked them out with their mouth covered. When he was sure that the person was unconscious, he dragged them over to Nurse Joy. "Tie them together and bind their wrists and ankles to each other. I'm going turn the power back on. As soon as I do, you need to get to an alarm. Do you understand? Nod if you do."

Nurse Joy nodded at Ash, shivering quietly. Jenny told her that this could happen, but she was more afraid that it happened with Pokemon on life support. She was glad, however, that the League had the foresight to install separate backup generators in the ICU rooms, even though they pool all of their money into the gyms… She shook away the thoughts and saw that the person with glowing blue eyes was gone. There was a note on the ground next to some rope. 'You can do this. Be strong.' Nurse Joy was barely able to read the note, then nodded as she steeled herself. She quickly tied the obviously criminals up and found something on their faces. She felt them and they seemed to be some form of goggles. She put them on and found that she could see perfectly fine in the dark with them on. '... I'm going to keep these.'

Ash stealthily made his way through the building, barely making any noise as he approached a room with a single person in it. Ash snuck behind them and was about to take them out.

"Why did they make me come here…? I told them that I don't like doing this kind of stuff. I'm an analyst for Mew's sake…"

Ash paused in his assault and looked at the person's aura. It was dark, but more like it was coated that way by others. He nodded to himself and covered the person's mouth. "You're going to listen to me. You're going to turn on the power, then you're going to stay here until I take care of the rest of your group. Do it or I'll kill you right now. Understand?"

The person nodded quickly and began to turn on the power. He had cut a few wires, so he had to tape those back up while Ash watched.

"Close your eyes."

The person nodded again and closed his eyes as they reactivated the power.

Ash tied their hands together just in case. "Remember, stay here or I'll kill you." He then walked out of the room and heard a few people yelling. He looked over to the closest source of the annoying yelling and dashed over to them, his eyes streaking blue. He flipped over them and kicked them in the back twice before hitting them with a spin kick in the back of their head. He wasn't really paying attention to genters at this point. He ran over to the next voice and hit them as hard as he could in their solar plexus, then quickly gave them an uppercut to their jaw, sending them into the air. Ash then grabbed one of their legs and pulled them back onto the ground and hit them in the face, knocking them out.

Ash then ran to the next one and slid under them and hit them in the crotch, incapacitating them immediately. He scoffed and kicked them in their temple, then turned his head slightly to the right, hearing someone open a door. He ran over to them and swept them off their feet, then hit them hard in the stomach, sending them into the ground hard. Ash then ran outside the door and closed his eyes again. 'Three more.' He sensed one of them going near the Intensive Care area of the Pokemon Center and ran over there. He slid around the person and kicked them in the jaw, then in one of their kneecaps, shattering it. 'Two'

"Report! June! What is your status?"

Ash looked down at the paralyzed person and snatched a walkie talkie from their side. He spoke in the most menacing voice that he could. "I'm coming for you." He dropped the wireless device on the head of the person as an insult and then ran towards the next closest person. Ash ran straight towards them and just hit them in the face as hard as he could and kept running. He saw the final person and simply stood behind them, waiting for them to notice him. Ash noticed that the leader was a woman.

"June! This better not be a prank! You know how much I hate your shit!"

"So you're the leader." Ash smirked as he adjusted his hat. "I kinda expected more from your goons. They didn't get a single hit on me." He then dodged out of the way of a gunshot. "And you're the only one who used a gun this whole time. Short on funds or something?"

The woman turned towards Ash and shot at him again.

Ash stepped out of the way of the bullet and analyzed the situation. 'Standard revolver, six chambers, two bullets fired already.' He dodged out of the way of another bullet. 'Make that three. She has a hunting knife on her belt, so she might be proficient in it, oh, and a quick loader. Have to make her next three miss and then charge in for the kill.' He taunted her a bit, then rolled out of the way of another bullet. 'Four'

"Stop moving brat!"

Ash became stationary for a moment, the flipped backwards when he heard the cylinder moving. 'Five' Ash then twisted out of the way of the final bullet. 'Now!' He landed in a crouch and channeled his aura throughout his body, making him glow blue. He dashed towards the woman, leaving a streak of blue and closing the distance between them in mere seconds. Ash struck the woman in her ribs, hearing a loud cracking of bone. He then grabbed her arm and broke it at the elbow, pinned it behind her and kicked the back of her knees, forcing her to the ground. Ash took the revolver and cast it aside, then knocked her out before she could say anything else. "Arceus… her voice was so annoying."

Ash quickly calmed himself, letting his aura settle. He then ran to the back, where he thought Nurse Joy was. "Nurse Joy?! Are you okay?!"

Nurse Joy had just hit the silent alarm before Ash showed up. "Ash? What are you doing?! It's dangerous right now!"

Ash shook his head. "I just ran through the entire building looking for you. There were a bunch of people on the ground though."

Officer Jenny ran into the front of the Pokemon Center with her pistol drawn and her Growlithe ready to burn some people. "Police! Everybody-" She then saw a person unconscious on the floor. He slowly lowered her gun. "…Down…"

Ash had a blanket draped over his shoulders from the paramedics that had responded to Officer Jenny's call. He sipped at his drink and forced himself to swallow it, even if it was absolutely horrid. He had his bag next to him, which was totally silent. "Bolt, you can come out now."

The bag ruffled and then Bolt peeked his head out of the top of it. "So… I don't have to be inside of this thing anymore?"

Ash nodded.

Bolt nodded and hopped into Ash's lap.

Nurse Joy walked over to Ash and sat down next to him. "That person who saved me was you, wasn't it?"

Ash sighed and nodded. "I wanted to keep it a secret. If people found out about a new aura user, who knows what could happen…?"

Joy giggled with a soft smile. "Well, you really are mature for your age. Most people would shout their ability from the rooftops, not caring who heard. But… why not wear a mask?"

Ash shook his head. "I… haven't had the time to make one yet. I was really just focused on my Pokemon journey before today. Guess I have to worry about other things now as well. But I did get to punch people, so, I think that overall, today was a good day." He pulled out his Pokedex and began to fiddle with it. A face appeared on the screen and winked at Ash. Ash groaned and began to shake the device violently.

A Rotom yelped as it fell out of the Pokedex.

"Rotom. Go home right now. You know that you can't come with me."

"But those other three did!" Rotom tried to fire a Thundershock at Ash, but it hit Bolt instead, who shuddered at the sudden burst of energy. "Oh! He has the Lightning Rod ability, as you humans call it, right?"

Ash stared at Bolt and then nodded. "Apparently. I probably should've scanned him before we left Pallet Town." He held the Pokedex over Bolt, while Rotom tried to enter it again. "No! Rotom! Go home! You're a Ghost type, so nothing around here can even hurt you in the first place!"

Rotom stared Ash in the eyes, then sighed. "Okay… but I'll join you on your journey at some point or another!"

"And I hope that you stay home and stay safe. Now go." Ash waved Rotom goodbye as he phased through the wall.

Nurse Joy stared at where Rotom left. "…You have a Rotom?"

Ash chuckled as he rubbed the back of his head. "No, not really. Rotom is my mother's pokemon. Apparently she was my birth mother's rival in her later years as a trainer." He smiled as he pet Bolt. "She's very fond of Electric and Psychic types." 'Because she had them throw me around and shock the living hell out of me…'

Bolt was already asleep, dreaming of ketchup. He had tried it at the lab while the tree wasn't looking and he quickly became addicted to the condiment. In fact, he couldn't stop thinking about it. "That's right… c'mere… baby…~"

Ash took Bolt's murmuring the wrong way and then laughed nervously. "T-Thank you for talking with me, but if you don't mind, may I have my room key now?"

Nurse Joy giggled again. "You're a cute kid Ash. And unfortunately the Pokemon center is being closed off to the general public for the rest of the day to make sure that there are no irreparable damages left from the attack."

"But… I'm already inside the building, aren't I?"

Nurse Joy shifted from giggling to laughing at Ash's seemingly innocent statement. "Then I suppose that it's okay, but you'll have to find a room for yourself. The locks on the rooms are currently offline, so you'll have no problem getting in."

Ash stood with a smile, really nervous about Bolt. "Thank you Nurse Joy, I think that I'll go now!" He ran off quickly, kicking up a small trail of dust.

Nurse Joy giggled again at Ash's antics and then sighed. "If only all trainers were more like him. Maybe the world wouldn't be such a bad place."

Ash quickly found a room and hid himself and Bolt inside of it, barricading them in with a chair. He shook Bolt a bit to wake him up, then set him on a bed.

Bolt groaned from the sudden awakening, slightly dizzy. "Ugh… What…?" He shook away his disorientation and glared at Ash. "Why the HELL did you wake me up?! I was having an amazing dream!"

"Yeah, well I don't need you showing your perverseness around other people Bolt." Ash groaned as he sat down in a chair and pulled the notepad out of his backpack.

Bolt glared at Ash. "Okay, two things. One, other humans probably can't understand me! And two! DREAMING OF KETCHUP IS NOT PERVERSE!"

Ash quickly looked up at Bolt and covered his mouth to keep himself from laughing hysterically.

"What's so funny?!"

"Y-Y-You're…" Ash held his stomach and tried desperately to hide his laughter. "Y-You're…!"

Bolt hopped off of the bed and walked over to Ash. "I'm what?!"

Ash looked down at Bolt with a grin on his face. "You're addicted to ketchup!"

Bolt turned away. "I don't have an addiction. I just need a taste of it every couple of hours or so otherwise I turn feral."

Ash snickered, forcing himself to not laugh. "B-Bolt! That's practically t-the definition of 'addicted'!"

"No it's not!" Bolt frowned and tried to shock Ash as hard as he could.

This just made Ash laugh harder. "S-Stop it! T-T-That tickles!"

Bolt groaned angrily, then walked into the bathroom to stay away from Ash. Also to get a drink from a sink.

Ash slowly stopped laughing as he checked his Pokedex for his party. He selected Bolt and saw his moves. He didn't really care about stats, but they helped for when he wanted to explain what his Pokemon specialized in. "Huh. He's kinda fast for a Pokemon that hasn't gone through any training. And for his moves… He's a pure Electric type, so I'll have to help him overcome his Ground type disadvantage and how to fight Rock types… I suppose that a steel type move could be useful against Rock types and give him a chance against Ground…Maybe I can also teach him Brick Break if he wants to learn it. But I think that I'll start with Toxic for everyone. Now… how do I teach that…?" He wrote down what Bolt needed to work on and then sighed. He was suddenly really tired, probably from nearly slaughtering those F-Grade criminals. Well, that's probably what grade they would be if there was a ranking system besides bounties. There probably is.

Bolt turned on the sink after ten minutes of trial and error and started drinking the water, before spitting it out and trying to wash his tongue. "Gah! How do you humans drink this shit?!"

Ash peered into the bathroom, then chuckled. "We don't. We drink filtered water, or bottle them in springs. We usually use tap water for washing things and bathing."

"Oh. Well… how do humans bathe?"

Ash rummaged through his backpack and tossed some Pokemon shampoo at Bolt. "We use the human equivalent of this."

Bolt barely caught the bottle of soap and then sniffed it. "What's in this?!"

"I don't know. Oatmeal and other things that make soap probably. And seeing as you don't have opposable thumbs, I have to wash all of that dirt off of you."

Bolt blinked a bit. "I'm not going to let you molest me."

Ash laughed again, this time only for a few moments. "I think that you can wash that part of yourself if you want to. You see that bath tub? Well… really large oval thing that sinks down?"

"I don't know what the first thing is, or what an oval is, but there's something that sinks into itself."

Ash stood up and walked over to the tub and turned the water on. He smirked, then suddenly grabbed Bolt and put him under the stream of warm water.

"Gah! Hey! Cut it out!"

Ash quickly began to wash Bolt's fur.

"Ash! Seriously! Stop it or I'll turn you to ash!"

Ash chuckled as he washed Bolt.

"Alright! You asked for it!" Bolt yelled out his species's name as he shocked Ash as hard as he could. Which did nothing to him. "A-Arceus… are you made of rubber…?"

Ash shook his head as he rinsed Bolt off. "Nope. Just been shocked by much stronger Electric moves then a Thundershock."

Bolt groaned as Ash washed him. "Can you please hurry this up…?"

Ash smirked with a nod. "Maybe I'll put a cute bow in your hair…"

"NO!"

So there's a slight revival of this story, and depending on how everyone takes it, I'll rotate in between this story and the other one. That's all for today!

Mew: YAY! You made more of my- I mean my son's story!

Mew, quiet. I'm trying to end this chapter so they don't have to read my voice anymore.

Mew: But I'm booooooored…

Then… Then go force Mewtwo to eat a pot cookie. It's funny.

Mew: Okay! *flies off*

Ugh… anyways! I'll talk to you guys in the next chapter! Later!