After picking up Ash, Pikachu and Nubtup, the three humans went to a pokemon center to get then checked
"I wonder..." Max said
"Wonder what?" his sister asked
"Who is that Vileplume?" Max asked "Ash tried to tell me something when we found them." Suddenly the was a PING sound and Nurse Joy called them over
"Good news, your pokemon are healthy, but.." she said
"You want marry m... OWWWWW!" Brock yelped as Max grabbed his nose and yanked him away
"Not this, Brocko" Max said as he walked back to the window, still holding onto Brock's nose pulling him away
"Ummm, well anyways you were saying?" May asked with an akward smile
"Well, your pokemon are gonna have to stay a few days to get properly recovered"
"Ok, thanks" May said to Nurse Joy, meanwhile, in the pokemon resting room, Pikachu was thinking hard.
"Why was Ash talking to himself?" he wondered looking at his friend, who was snoring in the bed next to him "Why did he talk to himself, he didn't do it before he trasnformed"
"What do you mean by trasnformed, Pikachu?" asked a voice
"GAHH!" Pikachu shrieked "Nubtup, you scared the living daylights out of me"
"Sorry" she giggled "What do you mean when you said Ash trasnformed?"
"Huhmmm. Nothing" Pikachu lied, with a big nervous grin on his face, Nubtup looked unimpressed
"Really Pikachu?" Nubtup sighted "You're a terrible liar"
"Yeah, I now" Pikachu admitted, his face getting red "Well, it's a long story.."
"Welp stat yappin" Nubtup told him "I heard the nurse say we're gonna be here for a few days"
"Alright" Pikachu sighted, giving up "Ash is a human" he waited for Nubtup to call him crazy or a liar, but instead she started to laugh
"Hahaha, Pikachu, I figured that out when he first woke up" Pikachu looked at her, in both shock and joy
"How did you..?" he asked
"Well, the way he ate first, also, you kinda gave it away when you said that he dosn't now any attacks. But my question is, how did he turn into a Pikachu?" she asked
"YAWWWN! Man, that was a good sleep." Ash said "Huh? Oh, I'm not awake, am I?" he asked, after realising he was back in the strange white void
"Nope, welcome back!" exclaimed Ashchu, only this time he wasn't a reflection like before, this time there really was another Ash standing there.
"Oh, hey Ashchu." Ash said, already used to Ashchu popping out of nowhere "Hey, can you tell me what this place is anyway?"
"Yeah" Ashchu said "It's your mind!" Ash looked around the vast white nothingness
"THIS is my mind?" he asked, shocked "Then why is it is empty?"
"Well, maybe it's cause you never use this part of your mind" Ashchu suggested "Try imagening something"
"Okay" Ash said, closing his eyes and thinking of a forest, with lots of fruit and plenty of space, he then opened his eyes and gasped, the white void had transformed into a huge, lush, green forest filled with oran, sitrus and pecha berry trees
"Cool" Ashchu said, while sitting on one of the branches, eating a rawst berry "This is great, now I don't have to play with mist to pass the time" he said before tossing the rest of the berry in his mouth.
"Wow, it's really nice here." Ash said, sitting down and leaning his back against a tree "I wish I could stay here for a little while"
"Hehe, it really is nice and quiet ain't it?" Ashchu asked him, getting no answer "Ash?" he asked looking at the human-turned-pokemon, who was sleeping against one of the trees. Suddenly, the forest started to get fuzzy, as did Ash
"What's going on!" Ashchu yelped as he fell from the tree and his vision went white. Pikachu had just finished explaining what happened back at Sliph Co to Nubtup
"Hmmmm, I think it's a little suspicious that just after Ash transformed, Cipher showed up." Nubtup speculated
"What do you mean" Pikachu asked
"Nothing, just speculating" she said with a wink
"Hey Nubtup, how do you now so much about Cipher?" Pikachu asked
"Well... I" Nubtup stamered, but was saved when Ash woke up.
"Huaggh" Ash yawned "Uh, where are we?"
"Oh hey Ash" Pikachu said
"Hi Pikachu" Ash said with a huge smile
"Umm... Ash, whats with the smiling?" he asked
"What do you mean?" Ash asked, turning his head to it's side
"What the heck?" Pikachu thought "Why is he acting like that?" suddenly Ash closed his eyes and his ears started to twitch
"Whats that noise?" he asked Pikachu after opening his eyes back up
"Ok, who taught to use his ears like that!" Pikachu thought, shocked
"Ah you're awake, good" said Nurse Joy, walking in with a big basket of berries and she set them down in front of the three "Eat up, okay" she told them before walking off, then suddenly Ash just jumped straight into the basket and started eating. Pikachu felt a sweatdrop form on his forehead
"Well, whatever happened, his appetite's still the same" he though
After they were done eating, Nurse Joy let Max, May and Brock inside
"Pika" Pikachu greeted them
Ash suddenly hopped to Max's shoulder and rubbed his cheek against his hair
"Ash what are you doing"
BZZZZZZZZ
Suddenly Max's hair was standing up and he was looking at Ash really angry
"What the heck Ash!?" he yelled, causing Ash to jump while giggling and run to the corner of the room
"Ash!" Pikachu yelled "Why did you do that for?!"
"Cause it was funny! Hahahhaha!" he giggled "Oh, and would you please stop calling me that?"
"Calling you Ash!?" Pikachu asked, really confused
Ash nodded "Yeah, call me Ashchu."