Hello all, another chapter! I know I was a bit late updating last chapter, but real life is more important than fanfiction, to be honest. Sorry for that. I'll probably update more, but less longer chapters. I hope you'll understand.

That aside, let's move on with the story. And hints, tips, critiques, or other stuff can be PM'ed or left in a review!

And I recently got another email asking where I would keep the transformation stuff: Do not worry, it WILL come. But just not yet. I think the newer chapters are gonna span more time than the first 18 altogether.

Since I have to keep track of the time in this story (otherwise my other storyline, Life OF a Pikachu, won't fit in) I have some trouble placing everything on it's right place.

Anyway, I hope you like this chapter. Again: If you got idea's, questions, or requests, don't feel shy to email me!

It was hard to believe that I just was with the pikachu for just one month and a week, it looked so much longer. Since I joined the pikachu at spring, temperatures were rising. Although they were still low at night, over day it was a very pleasant temperature and ideal for daily activities. Along with Lukas I had started to train the pichu in hiding themselves in case of any danger. Not only the pichu trained in hiding, I also tried to train with them. But since I was much bigger than a average pikachu and huge compared to a pichu, I couldn't hide myself that quick in a bush or in the grass like they could. Instead I was training my movement across the forest, making myself able to move across forest much quicker than I could or than a average human could. I was now able to jump branches within arm reach by running into them, grab them, swinging upwards and stand on the branch and then keep still (after a lot of training all day and a lot of falling down, which amused the pichu since they showed off that they actually COULD climb trees and stay up there).

Running through the forest went a lot better for me now after Lukas' help. Hiding went quite good after some pikachu helped me quickly finding locations for me to hide. And then you had the pichu which were getting better and better at hiding themselves. I trained them in finding places where they could hide quickly. This worked out quite well, so good in fact, that sometimes I had trouble finding them. I learned them to hide themselves as soon I would shout "HIDE!" which I regularly did.

While we were training, Lukas and I had seen the two hunters again. They were searching around the colony, but they didn't go the right way just yet. I hoped they would never reach the colony but as soon they were out of sight we headed back to the colony and told the guards to be careful and to be extra alert for those guys. Volt wasn't guard anymore now he couldn't use his paw properly. It would need some time before it would be fully healed.

So, a couple of days later, I was playing around a bit with the pichu when there was rumor at the other side of the colony.

"We found it!" I heard someone shouting. I recognised the voice. Multiple pikachu looked in the direction of the voice. They were here, and the pichu were outside, clear to shoot! Happy I did that training with them!

"Hide!" I shouted whispering, making sure the pichu could hear me but other people couldn't. Some pikachu looked at me. Why was I hiding...? What was happening? After making sure all pichu were gone I got myself out of sight using the knowledge I had gathered the last couple of days. I wasn't a moment too soon. I heard a gunshot followed by some pika-screams when all pikachu suddenly ran everywhere, some scattering in all directions and some quickly diving into the nest. I suddenly saw Lukas coming right my way with some other pikachu, he saw me (damnit, I'm not hidden good enough) and hid himself right next to me. Another gunshot and more screams, but almost all pikachu were gone by now.

"How could you miss that one?" I heard.

"What about you, you had a complete herd to hit and you still manage to miss..." I heard another voice.

"Whatever, let's head back and try again in a couple of minutes. I think they'll be back pretty soon. And where were their pichu? I can't believe they're underground on a day like this just after spring start. There should be tons and tons of pichu right now..."

"Pichu aren't profitable enough, just focus on those damn pikachu." the other said.

"You only think about money, don't you?" he said.

"Oh shut up." the other replied before they stepped out of the colony and moved away. We got up and looked at the place where the males disappeared.

"Alright, come on out guys..." I said. Most pichu emerged from everywhere. Even one that was right next to me which I didn't even spot.

"All pichu inside now!" I said before pushing them into the direction of the nest. After they were all inside, I looked around. Most pikachu were coming back to the colony and most were immediately fleeing inside the nest (mainly females checking on their pichu). I looked around to check for some strong males. Maybe we could outsmart those one way or another... But then again, they had guns. But on the other hand, I had an entire pikachu colony. Maybe I had to use my gun for the first time... It seems Jenny was right about the hunting. I moved to my backpack and got the gun out. I never used a gun and suddenly I wondered why Jenny would be so stupid to give me one without even training me in using one.

"The heck..." I thought aloud while I got the gun out. Using all my movie experience I managed to load it. I took it in my hand and enabled the safety trigger (or what I believed was the safety trigger). I then aimed at the nearby tree and tried to shoot. It wouldn't shoot. Apparently it was the safety and I practised enabling and disabling the trigger just in case. Lukas suddenly popped up and jumped my shoulder. He watched the gun I was holding and tilted his head. He sniffed the gun before giving me a dark glare.

"Pika-piKACHU!" he said before pointing at it.

"Yes, I know. Don't worry, I won't use it to kill one of you... Officer Jenny wanted me to have one just in case, and I think this is such a case." I said. "Lukas, I need at least eight strong males that aren't afraid for those guys and that want to try to chase them away with me."

"Pika...? Pika-pikachu?" he asked.

"Just do as I say, I got a plan." I said. Lukas looked at me one more time before running off towards the nest. I moved towards the place where the men had disappeared into the woods. I could clearly see that they weren't very smart. You could easily follow a path where they had been walking, so finding them wouldn't be a problem. I suddenly remembered that I should call Jenny. Hunting these pikachu was illegal after all and Jenny would be more than happy to come and get them if my plan worked. I checked the numbers list and it appeared that Oak had placed the number of Jenny inside my phone already. I dialed the number.

"This is Viridian Police, how can I help you?" I heard. After explaining the situation Jenny said she would be on her way immediately. I looked at the colony and saw Lukas returning with about twelve pikachu.

"Perfect..." I thought. They stopped before me.

"Pikachu...?"

"Pika-pi?"

"I'll explain, one second." I said before getting on my knees.

"These men -" I said while pointing at the forest "- are dangerous. They want to kill you. If you listen to what I say, I don't think anyone will get hurt." I said. After explaining my plan to them we moved into the forest. It didn't take long before we saw the males. They were sitting in a clearing and smoking some cigarettes. I sat down.

"You know what to do." I said before all pikachu quietly went away. I moved into the clearing. Both men looked at me.

"Oh hello there! I thought I heard someone here!" I said as surprised as I could.

"Well well, if that isn't the pikachu boy from the other day! Are you still looking for pikachu?" he asked.

"Yup, I am. Or rather, I'm again. I stopped for a couple of weeks but now I'm back since I have some free time." I lied.

"That's great, because we're looking for them too." he said. "It appears that raichu I was talking about earlier - do you remember? (I nodded) - has been accepted into their group, or at least, so we believe."

"Is there a pikachu colony around here?!" I said.

"Yes, you just came from it. That big clearing is a colony." he said, pointing at the colony.

"Are...! Are you serious?! I just walked there and I didn't see a thing! Maybe one pikachu, but it fled this way..." I lied as best as I could before looking back at the forest and turning back to the poachers again.

"So, who is that?" I asked friendly, offering my hand. He shook it.

"He's a friend of mine, not very talkative. He is a hunter - legal-" he said when I gave him a death glare "- and he said he wanted to have the raichu if we need to kill it. I haven't been searching for a couple of days now but some people reported that the raichu was about here. And they probably were right, because I saw some raichu marks a while back.

"Raichu marks?" I thought. "Hmmm, we should be more careful when going out of the colony..."

"But what about the shooting? I heard two shots just right now, did you do another test shot?"

"Ehm..." he said. "Ye-Yes yes, we both had to clear our guns from dirt." he said, clearly lying. I hoped they didn't know I was lying right now.

"Oh, because I thought you might be on the hunt... I hope you aren't..." I said while glaring at them.

"No we are not." the man said, clearly annoyed.

"So that shot that barely missed that pikachu back there was a test shot?" I said, now looking at both men. "And that other shot, that 'could-hit-all-the-pikachu-in-the-colony-but-still-missed' shot?!" I said, now with a more angry tone.

"What the - how do you know that?" he said before both stood up and grabbed their guns.

"Get your noses out of our business, now go away." he said. But I didn't move. I looked right behind them and saw Lukas looking at me. He raised his paw and gave me a sign.

"Why? Just so you can continue your killing among this pikachu colony?" I said.

"You're getting really annoying. Now go away or I'll have to force you to go away." he said, pointing his gun at me. I took a step back.

"You can't shoot me...!" I said, a bit afraid and walking backwards.

"Yes we can, if you don't fuck off right now...!" he said. He grabbed something in his coat. It were bullets. That would mean...

"NOW!" I shouted.

"What do you mean 'NOW' and... WHAT THE HECK!" he shouted when suddenly twelve pikachu surrounded us and sparked their cheeks dangerously. A couple of them growled angrily at the men, just as I had instructed. He quickly wanted to load his gun, but before they could I warned them.

"Drop your weapons!" I said to both men. They stopped loading, looked around but then decided it was smarter to stop loading and to do as I said.

"What is this?!" he said.

"These..." I said while moving a bit forward. "...are the pikachu from the colony you just tried to attack."

"How do you... What the fuck, why do they listen to you?!" he said looking around at the pikachu.

"Because I joined their colony a while back." I said. "And because I don't try to kill them, unlike you."

"What the hell, I'm just gonna shoot these guys..." he said quickly and getting his gun and starting to load.

"Thundershock!" I said. Twelve pikachu charged thundershock and hit both men. Even though they were wearing rubber boots, they screamed and dropped their weapons and collapsed to the ground. I quickly moved closer and threw their weapons away behind me so they couldn't reach them.

"You're as annoying as hell..." the man said.

"And you're trying to kill pikachu from my colony!" I said before looking at him from above.

"We don't like people like you, so you'd better listen well or you'll be fried." I said.

"You'll stop hunting, understood?" I said while taking a picture of them and their faces with my phone.

"That means: You won't hunt these pikachu." I said. "Officer Jenny will be interested in these pictures, I believe."

"You won't hunt and other pokémon either!" I said louder.

"AND YOU'RE GETTING THE FUCK OUT OF HERE BEFORE I ORDER THESE PIKACHU TO KILL YOU!" I said. The men looked at me.

"Don't think we're afraid of you!" he said. But he quickly flinched when Lukas came from the ring of pikachu and used Iron Tail to bash the man against the ground. He stood on his chest and growled angrily.

"I don't think you're afraid of me." I said while I smirked.

"Pika! PIKACHU!" he said before growling again and sparking his cheeks dangerously. He got really close to the mans neck and was still giving him a glare that would make you shit yourself if you would see it. It even made me a bit afraid of Lukas. The man got scared of the pokémon that close to probably killing him and tried to hit Lukas with his hands but Lukas easily jumped out of the way and walked back towards me and climbed my shoulder, still watching the men, who watched me astonished of the fact that I tamed such an aggressive pikachu.

"Give them a soft thunderbolt..." I said to Lukas before he send out a small thunderbolt. The men jumped up.

"Now fuck off before he gets pissed-" I said looking at Lukas "-or you'll regret that you didn't. He ain't the colony leader for nothing!" I lied. Lukas growled again and the men quickly walked away. The circle of pikachu allowed them to move out of it. One looked at his gun, but quickly walked further when I looked at him with a glare that said 'don't-even-think-about-it'. After they were gone I waited ten more seconds to make sure that they were really gone before I turned to the pikachu and smiled brightly.

"You guys were absolutely awesome!" I said before I tried to cuddle all of them.

"I was really scared they would blow me to pieces but you did a great job. I don't think we'll see them back anywhere soon!" I said before heading towards the guns.

"I'll take care of these..." I said while fetching their shotguns from the ground. Jenny would like to see these as evidence. I hope they learned their lesson. Maybe we had to give them one more thundershock to tell them we're serious..." I mentioned.

Meanwhile the other pikachu were talking. Lukas seemed a bit excited.

"Pika-pika-pikachu!" he exclaimed. "Pika-pikachu-pi!"

"Not so quick Lukas, I cannot understand you!" I said to the pikachu. "Let's head back to the colony first, then Espeon can translate it for me."

Lukas didn't seem too happy about that but he took it and jumped my shoulder and started to rub his cheek with mine heavily.

"You're in a good mood today, aren't you?" I said. Lukas just continued and purred. We went back to the colony and I dropped the guns back at my bag and backpack and I made sure that a curious pikachu couldn't activate them.

Then life went on as it usually did. Except that Lukas was in a very good mood and that other pikachu seemed to be a lot more interested in him and that included females. The whole day more and more females came to... Seduce him? I don't really know what happened but Lukas seemed to be popular in just one day. The answer came at the end of the day when Espeon was able to translate it for me.

"So, what did you want to tell me Lukas?" I asked as soon I understood that I could understand him while I plucked a pichu from a nearby tree. Lukas looked at me. He was still excited and he couldn't help, but he shouted the answer.

"THEY WANT TO MAKE ME THE COLONY LEADER!" he shouted. I looked at him for a moment before I understood what he exactly said.

"They want to do WHAT?" I said, completely overwhelmed by hearing this.

"They want to make me leader of our colony!" he said again.

"That's... Great!" I said while Lukas hugged my belly while I looked at Espeon.

"How the hell can he be a leader?!" I spoke to Espeon through my mind. "Not that I think he will be a bad leader, but I think he's a bit young, isn't he?"

"I don't know, I never interfere with that kind of stuff!" she spoke back to me, smiling.

"Well, uhm... Congratulations!" I said smiling while I returned the hug to Lukas. He purred and looked incredible happy.

"You know what that means eh?" I said. "Being leader is a very responsible task."

"I know!" Lukas said before he left my lap and turned around.

"They said they'll make me leader tonight..." he said.

"Tonight? Is there some kind of ritual before you become leader?" I asked.

"Ritual? What's a ritual?" he said to me with a questionable face.

"A ritual is something you do before you make someone do something... Like let him say he will do anything for the colony before he becomes the actual leader." I said.

"Really? You humans are sure hard to understand..." he said. "I don't know what will happen. I never seen a leader change since I was born..."

"Really? Is Tommy your leader that long?" I asked.

"Yes... Most of the times, the children from the leader become the new leader except when the leader is beaten by another pikachu when he challenges him for the colony leadership..." he said.

"Or she." I added.

"She? I don't know if females can become leader..." he said.

"If you would say that in a place with humans all females would try to rape you." I said laying down on my back and looking at the sky while I gently scratched two pichu behind their ears while I placed them just under my chin. Lukas gently stepped on my belly and walked over to my face so he could watch me.

"Rape you?" he said while he tilted his head.

"Not rape, I mean that they would be mad at you because they cannot be chosen." I said.

"But..." he said.

"Forget it." I laughed at the pikachu, laughing because he was unable to understand the metaphor. Then there was another male coming right my way.

"Maurice?" he asked. Both Lukas and Espeon looked at him. It was one of the stronger males of the colony.

"Yes?" I replied.

"Can... Can I talk to you for a second...?" he asked.

"Sure, I said while getting up. Lukas wanted to follow, but the pikachu looked at him and me.

"Alone?" he continued.

"Uhm... Sure, why not. Espeon will go with us, otherwise I can't understand you." I said.

"Uhm, that's alright I suppose..." he said. We moved away from the colony, Lukas looked a bit surprised but didn't really care. He took care of the pichu while I was gone. When we were far enough (pikachu ears are much better than human ears so we moved much further than I thought we would go) he stopped.

"Alright, what's the deal?" I asked.

"Well, it is..." he said. "I wanted to become colony leader too. After Lukas did that to that guy you said was dangerous some of the other pikachu thought it would be a good idea to make him leader because of his attitude towards 'bad' humans. But we think he's too young to be leader of the colony." he said, hesitating.

"So...?" I asked expectantly.

"Well, we wanted you as our leader first..." he said.

"ME?" I said. "I'm here just a month and you already want me as leader?!"

"It doesn't matter that you're here just a month..." he said. "By the way, what is a month...?"

"Thirty suns." Espeon chuckled.

"Oh..." he said. "Lukas told me something about that..."

"Never mind that." I said.

"It doesn't matter that you're here a short time. It's about your work for our colony and your place in it. You did so much since you got here and you're able of doing so much things we don't understand..." he said.

"Such as...?" I asked gently.

"You can communicate with humans..." he said. "Even if we try our best humans just won't understand us..."

"Don't worry, different humans speak different languages and sometimes we don't understand each other either." I said, smiling.

"Well, the pichu love you, you are a great warrior... that... 'strategy' or whatever you called it worked very good and you managed to chase those men with blast sticks away. They were here before, before you were with us, and we never knew what to do about them. They killed some of us so we always tried to scare them off with attacks but most of the times they were unaffected..." he said while sparking his cheeks and looking around rather uncomfortable.

"Because they wear rubber boots..." I said softly.

"Rubber what...?" he asked.

"Boots. Those things they wear around their feet." I said. "They don't conduct electricity."

"Conduct? What the hell is that?" he asked, giving me a surprising glare.

"Never mind. I'll tell you later." I said. "You were talking about me and Lukas, please continue."

"Uhm... Yeah, and I wanted to ask you... Making Lukas leader wasn't because of Lukas or something, but because we know Lukas and you are very close..." he said. "Could you try to help him when he becomes leader?"

"So... You're just using him?" I said. The pikachu looked at me before he looked sideways, very typical for pokémon to show they were guilty as charged. Then he looked at me again with asking eyes, almost begging.

"Well, I already thought that. I heard your little conversation back there." Espeon said.

"Conversation?" I asked.

"Yes, they were talking about Lukas." she said. I noticed the pikachu got a little nervous.

"Are you nervous?" I asked him with a vague smile, indicating that I knew that he was nervous I would probably find out about that conversation. The pikachu just looked at me.

"I hope it was nice?" I asked Espeon through my mind.

"Kind of. Let's say it was fair." she replied.

"What are you doing?" the pikachu asked. I looked at him. Me and Espeon were looking at eachother with our eyes to make the communication easier.

"We're having a little telepathic talk..." I said while smiling at the pikachu who didn't understand the telepathic part of my words.

"What do you think? Shall I do it?" I asked.

"Oh, I think you and Lukas would do fine. Lukas may be young but he's more mature than he looks." she replied.

"Alright, I'll help him. I was also having doubts of making him leader, to be honest..." I said after looking to Espeon one more time. "If this was what you guys were planning I'll agree with it. Just promise me that if I'm gone for whatever reason you won't be harsh on Lukas or that you won't tell him he isn't leader anymore because I'm gone."

The pikachu looked at me for a second and then nodded. Then he suddenly jumped forward and hugged my belly and purred.

"You would really make a great leader!" he said.

"Are all you guys like this, hugging each other all the time?" I said while I gently stroked the pikachu. "Lukas does it all the time."

"Do you humans don't hug then?" he asked.

"Uhm, no. Only friends and family." I replied.

"Well I'm your friend aren't I?" he asked, looking at me with a happy and smiling face. Damn. Beaten by pure pika-logic.

"Seriously, you guys are so dumb and so smart at the same time..." I said while I returned the hug by stroking the pikachu.

"Dumb?" he asked questionable.

"Never mind, I can't explain that to you. It's something humans only understand." I laughed while I got up and moved back to the colony. When we came back Lukas immediately came towards us.

"What did you talk about?" he asked happily.

"Oh, nothing." I said with a smile while the pikachu smiled back at me. Colony leader... I couldn't believe it really. But apparently they thought I would do good. And now I've heard that pikachu, I think me and Lukas will do great. We will, for real.

"Oh, you will be leader tonight, Lukas. We will make you one." the pikachu said before running off. I looked at Lukas. He looked a little nervous, but all right.

"Nervous?" I said with a smile.

"A bit..." he said.

"You'll do fine." I said. "Let's go back to the pichu, I think they missed us."

Lukas nodded and Espeon and I followed him to the playground.