Hello again, I'm actually writing this about two days after the first chapter. That may sound cocky, but it's more of a precaution because I just looked at my schedule for the next two terms of school. In other words, I'm screwed. Anyway I hope you enjoy and here's a shoutout to all who commented, even though I PMed you guys anyway. This is the real first chapter, the last was the prologue.

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Still don't own Pokemon

Chapter 1: New Beginnings

A lone cat trudged along a beaten path in the woods, It was mid afternoon with the sun shining bright in the sky and the Taillow called out there names occasionally, calling to each other. There was a soft breeze that caused fallen leaves to lazily lift off the ground and twirl in the air.

The lone Meowth walked slowly with its head down and had a noticeable trudge that could've been mistaken as a limp as he walked through the forest muttering under his breath.

"Useless, I'll show 'em who's the useless one those assholes. I was the brains behind all we did. They won't last a week without me" he muttered.

"But I still can't believe that afta all we'd been through they'd just throw me away for a Persian. That I had beat in a fight no less!" yelling the last part.

-FLASHBACK-

The Meowth walked towards his partners. He no ordinary Meowth though, he could talk and was a mercenary for hire. He had been for almost his entire life, but he really wanted to settle and start up a bar. He knew he would have to save up a lot of money for that. Which is exactly what he didn't have.

But he was content with his life. He had two partners that, while fairly stupid and annoying sometimes, took care of him. Their names were Jessie and James. Jessie was a hot-headed, long pink haired woman that wore black combat boots lined with fur on the inside and white pants with a belt keeping them around her waist that held various pouches and a knife tucked onto its sheath. She wore a matching low cut shirt that left a small part of her stomach exposed and was meant to make moving around easier and had long black gloves that reached just before elbows. James has short blue hair and could be overly emotional and sporadic at times. He wore a similar outfit consisting of the same boots, pants, and belt, which instead of a knife adorned a short sword also sheathed. He had a loose white shirt on that laid tucked into his belt and thick black gloves.

They talked to each other back and forth like they were arguing about something. As he approached Jessie silenced James by covering his mouth with her hand.

"He guys whatcha arguin' about?" the Meowth asked

Jessie laughed an over the top fake laugh "Whatever are you talking about Meowth we were... having a spirited debate! Yeah that's it."

The Meowth just shrugged, used to the odd behavior of his partners and began to pack up his bag. "So where's the next job takin' us? I here there's plenty of infiltration jobs in Johto." The Meowth says.

The other two just looked at each other. "Listen Meowth it's not that we don't like you or anything, but we found a replacement for you." Jessie says carefully.

The Meowth froze "You what?" he asks. The hurt evident in his voice.

James spoke up saying "Look Meowth it's that the Persian that kicked your ass on that last job. He and his master have offered us a contract. that allows us to get a good share of the pay. Meowth I am really sorry, but this is a harsh world and when an opportunity arises you have to take it."

"You guys are replacing me with that mangy ball of fur!" He roared. "I can't believe this, we have been partners fa years and ya throwing that all away for a fuckin' Persian! Ya know what, you're right James, ya do have ta seize opportunities when they come and I'm takin' this one. I QUIT! Meowth turned and ran grabbing his pack as he sprinted from them, holding back tears.

-END FLASHBACK-

He sighed as he began to walk away from the path and into the less docile part of the forest. That had been three days ago and in that time he had been mugged, kicked out of a tavern, and had things thrown at him when he tried to sleep in the Rapidash stables of said tavern.

It had been a week of hell for him but as he was walking he felt as if he was being watched and he would occasionally see something moving in his peripheral vision, but when he turned to look, nothing was there. he simply ignored and it and assumed it was his nerves after being on his own for the first time in a while.

As he walked around he had his ears perked up, searching for any detectable noise that could be considered prey for him. He walked around as quietly as he could until he heard the faint cry of a Taillow. Normally he wouldn't care, but this call came from a lower elevation than all the other ones, he could tell that this one was on the ground.

He carefully walked towards where the faint call had come from and came to a small area where part of a tree had fallen down making a good six feet of the tree still planted in the ground, but leaving its other fallen half sitting at a ninety degree angle next to it.

Next to that tree was a small Taillow that was pecking at the ground and hopping about.

He smiled to himself, although it had been awhile since he had to hunt, he knew what he had to do. He slowly positioned himself downwind from the bird making sure that he wouldn't be given away due to his scent. Not that the Taillow had the best sense of smell, but better safe than sorry.

He tried to get himself facing into the sun but it opposed the wind in casting his shadow towards the Taillow. He would have to jump at the Taillow when his shadow close enough for the Taillow to realize what was going on. It was a little before midday so his shadow wouldn't reach that far away from him though.

He began to slowly crawl towards the Taillow, just as he was about to reach it his stomach ley out a loud growl. He looked down at his stomach, but then looked back up only to get a mouthful of feathers from the wing attack that just connected with his face. When he picked himself up all he saw was the Taillow flying away. He growled in disappointment and frustration.

His stomach once again growled loudly. "You wouldn't have had to do that if you had waited a few more seconds!" he yelled at his stomach.

With a heavy sigh he began to walk away from the fallen tree until he noticed a shadow that was not the tree's coming from the top of the half still rooted in the ground. He spun around fast only to see that there was nothing there.

"Great, now I'm seeing things" he muttered. He turned and began walking away, but as he did he didn't notice the shadow begin to follow him.

Eventually he came to a small clearing and saw exactly what he was looking for, another chance at food. A small Zigzagoon sat crouched in the clearing eating a small berry. The Meowth unsheathed its claws and carefully crawled towards the distracted Zigzagoon, making sure that he was downwind and facing toward the sun as best he could so he wouldn't make a shadow that his prey could see.

He slowly crawled towards the Zigzagoon and as he was a mere 6 feet from him the Zigzagoon it perked it ears up and suddenly launched a sand-attack at the surprised Meowth and without turning around bolted away into the underbrush while the blinded Meowth attempted to get rid of the sand in its eyes.

When he finally opened his eyes he was greeted with a now empty clearing, he sighed as his stomach rumbled and said "Shud up, or you'll give me away again". He turned around to go search for more prey but came face to face human boy that had only leaves and bits of cloth around his waist.

"Gah!" he yelled as he stumbled back in surprise. "Don't scare me like that ya twerp, you'll give me a heart attack".

The boy simply tilted his head at the Meowth and said "H-hear-heart". The Meowth looked up at him in confusion and said "Yeah, you know? That thing in your chest that keeps you alive. What are ya stupid?". He simply responded with "a-alive".

Now the Meowth was confused, "Uh twerp? Are you okay? Where are your parents? Shouldn't you be with them?"

The boy just looked at him and stuttered out "Par-parents". The Meowth was starting to get frustrated.

"Yeah your parents. Don't play stupid with me twerp and answer my questions". This time the boy didn't say anything and looked at him.

The Meowth sighed and said "Whatever twerp just get outta here" and with that the Meowth began to walk away.

He hadn't taken three steps before he heard the boy following him. He stopped and turned around and looked at the boy and said

"Go away twerp, I don't want you here". With that he trend and walked at faster pace away from the clearing, this time he heard no footsteps following him and so he continued until he thought he heard the cry of the Zigzagoon again.

As he turned towards the noise but he noticed the boy mere two steps behind him. " How did you follow me without me noticing?" he asked. The boy just said "Noticing" and looked at the Meowth expectantly, as if waiting for him to say more words.

"Do even speak proper English twerp?" he asked sarcastically. His response was "Eng-English".

Realization dawned on him at that moment. "Holy shit you don't speak English do you?. All he got for an answer was the boy saying English again, without the stutter this time.

The boy looked proud of himself and said "Heart alive noticing English" and beamed at the Meowth.

The Meowth just gaped at him and finally began to study the boy. He was taller than the average boy for his age by about a few inches, maybe a bit more. He had dark brown eyes with strange lightning bolts under them. as he worked his examination downward he noticed that for a boy who was what? Maybe six, was well built.

Granted that wash't saying much because the boys muscles hadn't fully developed so it's not like you could see a six pack or anything but you could see the noticeably bigger size of his muscles than almost all boys his age. The Meowth took note of the two scars on his chest and the three in a row barley poking out from behind his leg suggesting he been clawed at some point. He had a few bruises and scrapes as well but that was to be expected in the woods.

The Meowth came to the conclusion that the kid lives here and never learned English from where ever it is he ran away from, that was the only logical explanation he could come up with as to why he grew up all alone here.

"Alright twerp come with me and I'll teach ya a fews things that you should know if you're going to survive in the real world. The boy, still smiling, said "Teach" and the Meowth said, "Yes teach. Name's Meowth by the way. Got that? Me-owth". he said while pointing to himself

"Meowth" the boy said after a failed first attempt. Meowth nodded "That's right, now follow me, you got things ta learn and I think it would be bes to start learning ova lunch".

With that he began walking with the boy following behind saying the words he had learned over and over again.

Well there you have it, chapter two. I hope you enjoyed this and if you did please comment. I know there was a huge time skip but I can't show his day to day life as a kid now can I? As for the scars, he lives in the woods with wild pokemon. It just made sense that he would get some cuts and scars from it. On a side note, do you guys want a chapter with how Ash met Pikachu or should Pikachu just be there suddenly? I think I should but it's up to you guys. Just say yes or no in the comments, or PM me. Support, criticism, suggestions, and anything else are always welcome. Although I realize now that any suggestions from the last chapter are basically pointless because I wrote this before the release of the story. Shit, sorry about that. Anyway thanks for reading, until the next time.

-Sincerely,

novaking2832