Changes

"Ugh… Where am I?" asked Ash as he slowly sat up. "And why does my head hurt?" he asked as he rubbed his head.

"Ash? Is that you?" asked Pikachu as he woke up.

Before Ash could realize what he was saying, he yelled out to Pikachu "Daddy!"

Pikachu went wide-eyed as he heard Ash say that.

"Sorry Pikachu… I don't know why I said that… Wait… HOW IS IT THAT YOU CAN TALK! AND WHY ARE YOU AS TALL AS ME?"

"You mean you don't know?"

"Don't know what?"

"Ash, look down at yourself."

As Ash looked down at himself, he was surprised at what he saw. He saw a small yellow body with four small paws. He immediately looked to his back and saw his small black tail behind him.

"HOW AM I A PICHU!" he screamed then started crying all of a sudden. "Daddy! I'm scared. I'm so weak now, what if someone tries to eat me?"

Pikachu became even more worried about Ash now. "Ash, are you sure that you're all right?"

Ash suddenly stopped crying and was just sniffling now. "Yeah, *sniffle* I don't know why I keep *sniffle* calling you 'Daddy' though."

"I think that I know." a voice from behind them said.

"Ahhh Daddy! He's gonna eat me!" Ash screamed as he ran behind Pikachu and clung onto his fur. Pikachu immediately got into a fighting stance.

"Whoa whoa whoa I am not a foe, but a friend. I was transformed into a Pokémon too."

"Wait! You mean you were human like Ash was?" asked Pikachu.

The Buizel nodded.

Pikachu relaxed and sat down. As the Buizel did also, Pikachu grabbed Ash off of his back and sat him in his lap, trying to calm him down. When Ash fell back asleep, Pikachu started asking questions.

"What's wrong with Ash? Why is he acting like this?"

"Well, this is just a guess, but I think it has to do with the Pokémon he was transformed into. His human mind is trying to adapt to his new body and since Pichu are the baby Pikachu, he acts like a baby at some points."

Ash curled up closer to Pikachu's warm fur

"See what I mean?" the Buizel said. "Now if he were transformed into a different Pokémon at the time, his mind would have had a better chance at adapting with his entire human characteristic. However, that isn't what happened."

Ash stirred a little in Pikachu's lap.

"The only possible solution that I see is to get him to evolve somehow into a Pikachu before he loses all of his humanity. But, that could backfire also as the evolution could rewrite all of his humanity into Pokémon."

"But it's our only shot right?" asked Pikachu.

"Right."

They both became silent as Ash slowly woke up and looked up at them with his big Pichu eyes.

He then looked straight at Pikachu and said:

"Daddy, I'm hungry. Please feed me."