"Come on Pikachu! I'll show you my Pokemon!" Grace said, running off the the park. Pikachu smiled, he remembered the days when Ash would act like this, young and carefree...
Thinking of Ash made Pikachu hurt more.
"Come on out girls!" Grace shouted, throwing her Pokeballs into the air. Three Pokemon appeared with a flash of white light.
There was a Tepig, Swablu, and a Azurill. They then ran over to Grace. "Hey girls, I need to introduce you to our new friend."
All three of them turned to Pikachu. Pikachu gave a small wave, the other Pokemon just stared at him. Pikachu stepped back, did he do something wrong?
'That's a boy,' Swablu said, looking at Pikachu.
'Yes I am, what's wrong with that?' Pikachu asked.
'Gracie only catches girls,' The Tepig said.
Pikachu looked over all of the Pokemon, all of them were female. This confused Pikachu, why would someone only catch girls? Ash never cared about gender, he loved all of his Pokemon no matter what.
Or maybe he didn't. Pikachu thought bitterly.
'I am not Grace's Pokemon,' Pikachu explained.
'Then why is she introducing us?' Azurill asked.
"This is Pikachu, this poor Pokemon was abandoned by his Trainer!" Grace told her Pokemon.
'Abandoned?' Tepig said, she stiffened
"Are you okay Amber?" Grace asked the Tepig.
Amber snorted out some sparks, and gave her a nod.
"Great! Okay, so this Pikachu was abandoned, and I found him. He wants to find his trainer, so can I count on you guys to help us out?"
'Of course,' Azurill said coldly.
Swablu nodded, and Amber didn't do anything. Grace beamed at her Pokemon, then got out her Pokedex and scanned Pikachu.
"Pikachu: The Mouse Pokemon, and the evolved form of Pichu. It stores electricity in its cheeks and is very intelligent. Female Pikachus have a notch in their tail, while males don't." The Pokedex quoted.
"Wow, so you're a boy then!" Grace said.
'Took her long enough.' Azurill said, rolling her eyes.
Amber Tackled Azurill, 'Be nice!'
Azurill fired a Water Gun, which Amber dodged and came around for another Tackle.
"Cyan, Amber stop it now! Jade, do something!" Grace yelled.
Swablu leaped into the air and came down with Steel Wing, knocking Amber and Cyan away from each other, then landed on Grace's shoulder. Grace rushed over to the two Pokemon and picked each one up.
"Sorry about that Pikachu, Cyan here," She pointed to Azurill, "Is my newest catch, and she doesn't really get along with Amber. Luckily Jade here," She looked to Swablu, "Knows how to stop them."
"Swablu blu!" Jade cried, flying down to Grace's bag, and pulled out a flyer. Grace picked it up.
"The Clubsplosion! I completely forgot! Oh well, we won't get there on time. Besides, we need to help Pikachu!"
Pikachu scurried over the flyer, looking at it. That looked like just the thing Ash would go to. He pointed to it, "Pika pika!"
"Do you want to go there?"
"Pika!"
"I think it's too late to enter it," She looked at Pikachu, "Wait, do you think your Trainer will be there?"
"Chu!"
'Why do you even want to find the trainer that abandoned you?' Amber asked, wiggling out of Grace's grasp.
'I want to know why he did it.'
She snorted, 'It is just like any other trainer that abandons Pokemon. They only care for strong ones that evolve. Nothing else.'
'Ash wasn't like that!' Pikachu cried, unsure why he was defending him.
'That's what you think,' Amber said, 'But you will know in the end.'
"Wow! Is that a Pikachu?" A new voice cried. Everyone turned to see a boy jogging up, staring at the Pokemon in wonder.
'What's so special about you?' Cyan asked.
'I'm not from this region,' Pikachu said, 'So humans consider me rare around here.'
"Wow, that's so cool you have a Pikachu! Would you please have a battle with me? That would be awesome!"
"Um..." Grace trailed off, glancing at Pikachu.
"Pika!" Pikachu said, standing in front of Grace, ready to battle. He needed to get his mind off of Ash, and a battle was the perfect way to do that.
"Great!" The boy said, sending out a Herdier.
Grace realized that she didn't know any of Pikachu's moves, in fact, she didn't know anything about Pikachus.
"Herdier, Take Down!"
"Dodge!" Grace shouted.
"Do it again!" The Herdier wheeled around with another Take Down.
"Dodge!" Pikachu leapt out of the way faster that before, was that Quick Attack? Only one way to find out.
"Use Quick Attack!" Pikachu charged forward faster than Grace had ever seen, Pikachu was fast! He slammed into Hedier.
"That's fast!" The boy said, surprised, "Now use Ice Fang!"
"Dodge it, then attack!" Grace cried, hoping Pikachu would show her another move. Pikachu leapt into the air and attacked with Thunderbolt.
"Takedown!" Pikachu tripped Herdier with Iron Tail. Now that Grace knew some of his moves she felt more confident.
"Use Quick Attack to get close, then use Iron Tail!" She watched in amazement at how quick and strong Pikachu was, and how at home he was on the battlefield. It must have been very well trained, she had never used a Pokemon that moved like that.
"Now Thunderbolt!" Pikachu launched the attack, defeating the Herdier.
"Pikachu, that was amazing!" She cried.
"Wow, I didn't know you were that strong," The boy said, recalling Herdier. He shook Grace's hand. "Well done." Then he walked off.
"Pikachu, I didn't know that you were that strong. Come on, ready to head to the Clubsplosion?"
a/n: Sorry there wasn't much going on in this chapter. More things will happen in the next one, this was just a transition chapter.