Disclaimer- I do not own Pokémon. It belongs to someone, and that person is not me.
A/N: I will be changing the POV to Ash's in this chapter.
"Ash! Ash, come back!" I had to run. I couldn't face the truth. 'Ash, Pikachu is a robot.' Those words kept spinning around in my head. Why did they have to tell me now? Why didn't they tell me when I first chose Pikachu? I bet since Pikachu is a robot they programed it to be my friend. I don't even know if anything I know about Pikachu is real or fake.
I kept on running through the woods, not turning back. I had to rest sometime, so I stopped in a clearing in the forest I was running in. I sat on a stump and relaxed my muscles, which were straining to even hold me up. I wondered if anyone was following me. Iris may be looking in the trees with Axew, and Cilen might be keeping watch at the lab. I also wondered if anyone was watching me.
"My, my, my, what do we have here? A little boy strolling through the forest, you don't see that often."
I looked around but I couldn't see anyone. I guess this person must be hiding, and well at that too. When I heard rustling behind me, I turned around only to come face to face with a man wearing a suit with a Persian by his side. I didn't know who he could be, but for some reason…he looked familiar.
"Who are you? What do you want with me?" I asked him. The man just did a short laugh and spoke. "Do you think everyone you meet is bad? I'm just here to ask you a favor." "What kind of favor do you mean?" "I mean a you could help me…or if I were you, you could say I was helping you. You could have real friends, real Pokémon…a real life."
I didn't know what to say. What was he asking me? What do I have to do to have a real life? I don't want a mechanical one. As if he read my mind, he started to speak again, "Ash…I'm asking you to join me."
Join him? That's all he wants? For a perfect Pokémon life for me, all he wants is for me to join him? I guess there's no choice…I have to join him. What else am I supposed to do anyway? I guess I have to answer him sooner or later.
"Alright, I guess I'll join you" I replied. I looked at the man once more and realized he had an evil-like grin on his face. "Good, you shall be a part of Team Rocket for now on my son." Team Rocket? His son? I didn't like the sound of that.