"AAAAAHHHHH!" Bolt screamed in pain, getting zapped by Ash "Ash... Please... Stop"
"Stop?" Ash asked "Sorry, I can't til I'm told to stop or you pass out" he readied his paw as it started to form a small yellow ball "Charge Beam!" Bolt barley dodged the beam and readied himself to attack, but he then remembered the time HE lost is memories and Meowth conviced him he was a member of Team Rocket. He attacked Ash without a second thought, but he didn't attack back, he tried to reason and remind Bolt of his memories
"Okay" Bolt thought "I'll try to remind him of his past, if that fails I'll fight" he got and walked to Ash who was still sparking with electricity, thought he really just had a smile on his face, like he was having fun battleling
"Your back!" Ash said happily, he then started to charge up his electricity
"Ash, wait!" Bolt yelled, causing the pikachu in front of him to stop chariging and look at him
"How do you know my name?" Ash asked
"Because we're best friends" Bolt said
"Hmmm, sorry, dosen't ring a bell" Ash said
"Ash!" Lewis yelled "Get back to the fight!"
"Yes master!" Ash said, he got down on all fours and started running at Bolt full speed "Quick Attack!"
"Ash, please don-OW!" he grunted as he was shoved out the way by Nubtup just before the Quick Attack connected
"You okay Bolt?" she said
"Yeah, I'm okay" Bolt said "Watch out!" they both rolled out of the way of a Thunderbolt
"What's wrong with Ash?" Nubtup asked
"Captured" Bolt said, filled with guilt
"Helooooo?" the heard Ash's voice say "Are you there?" they ducked under a rock and saw Ash walking around, looking very confused about their dissaperance
"Where's Gary?" Nubtup whispered
"I don't know" Bolt whispered back, they both froze when Ash's turned around and smiled to the rock
"There you are!" he said smiling
"Oh crud..." Bolt said, rasing his paws in a vain attempt to defend himself and looked at Ash, just as he was about to release the attack, he was sent flying by a huge stream of water
"What was that!?" Nubtup yelled in surprise
"Alright people!" Bolt heard a familiar voice say "Let's put out this fire! Hydro Pump!"
"Wait... Squirtle?" Bolt said in shock, getting up and looking at the pokemon who was putting out the fire
"Yo Pika!" he yelled, Bolt groaned, remebering the nickname Squirtle gave him "What's going on!?"
"Long story short, Ash is a pikachu, that guy started this fire to lure us and he got caught!" Bolt said, getting up
"Woah, okay then. Where's Ash?" Squirtle asked
"You just knocked him into a tree..." Nubtup said
"Oops" Squirtle said, shrugging before a yellow streak flew past him
"That wasn't cool" Ash grunted "Now you're gonna pay!"
"Ash, please don't do it!" Bolt screamed at the top of his lungs, but his friend didn't even flinch at the plea and released a huge Thunderbolt
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" all three of them screamed in pain
"Good job Ash" Lewis said, walking over to them "Now, take a break" he pointed the pokeball at Ash, a red beam hit him and placed inside
"N-o Ash!" Bolt grunted in pain as Lewis towered over them
"Let's hope that next time I come, you'll do it easier for yourselfs" Lewis said, tossing Ash's pokeball up and down
"Hey!" they heard a voice say "Let go of him!"
"Gary!" Bolt yelled, as soon as Lewis turned he was blasted by five transparent rings hit him and sent Ash's pokeball right out of his hand
"NO!" Bolt screamed in horror as his best friend went flying to the Pallet Forest
"Grrrr" Lewis growled "You three got lucky!" he started running to the forest himself
"You guys okay?" Gary asked, running up to them
"What did you do?!" Bolt asked
"What you mean what did I do?" Gary said defensevily "I stopped him from sending out another pokemon"
"THAT WAS ASH YOU JUST SENT FLYING!" Bolt screamed, before turning around and running to the woods, just to be stopped by Squirtle
"Pika, stop it!" he said
"Let go of me Squirtle! I've gotta find him!" Bolt yelled
"Bolt, it's around 2 in the morning! You'll have no chance to find him in the dark!" Squirtle said "Come on, we still need to check on everybody. Look, Ash has the common sense to find shelter and stay put" Bolt slowly nodded and follow then to the check on the other pokemon and humans
The pikachu was walking back to his bed inside the cave when he heard a sound behind him
"Who's there?" he asked, grumpy due to his lack of sleep, he then saw a pichu sneaking behind him "Gen! Get out here!"
"Sorry Watt" Gen said
"It's okay, just-stop sneaking around"
"Your one to talk" Gen said, gigleing
"Look, I'm just a little hungry, that's it" Watt said, rubbing his eyes "Go back to bed, kay?"
"Okay" Gen said and ran off back to the pichu cave, Watt sighted and walked to the food stores
"Man, why do I get hungry at night all the time?" he asked himself as he grabbed a Sitrus berry from the pile and plopped it in mouth "Ah, that hit the spot!" Watt said as he walked back to his section of the cave, but he then stopped when he heard a crash and the sound of something -metalic by the sound of it- breaking outside the entrance of the cave. Not giving a second thought he ran to the cave's mouth to see what caused the racket, when he got outside he saw another pikachu laying on the floor, sorrounded by red and white metal shards
"What... just hapenned" the pikachu said, before passing out
"Hey, wake up!" Watt said, shaking the other pikachu's shoulders, but to no avail "Okay then..." Watt thought as he grabed the pikachu by the arms and dragged him inside the cave and yelled "Dad! Come out here, it's an emergency!" he knew that shouting wasn't a good idea, but the other pikachu needed help, he had bits of red and white metal on his fur and had nasty looking scratches on his torso, his tail was full of burns, not to mention passed out from exaustion, he soon heard shuffeling as one of the guards, a raichu, walked out of one the cave's pathways
"Watt, it's around 4 in the morning, what's wrong?" the raichu asked
"I found him outside the cave!" Watt explained, pointing at the wounded pikachu "He needs help!" ahter looking at the wounded pokemon next to him, raichu nodded and helped carry him to Watt's chambers, once they got to the back of the cave, Watt walked into the room in the back "Dad, wake up, it's an emergency!"
"Emergency!?" his father asked, getting up "What is it?!"
"I found another pikachu outside, he's in bad shape!" Watt said quickly
"Okay" his father said, nodding "Bring him inside" Watt nodded and went to get the other pikachu
"Here he is, Elder Ruchu" the raichu said, carrying the pikachu on his back
"Thank you Rikchu" Ruchu said, and looked at the pokemon laying on his bed "Hmm"
"Do you think it's bad Dad?" Watt asked
"No, not too bad" Ruchu said, pulling out a few of the shards "These aren't in so deep, as for the burns and cuts, we'll need something to wrap those up"
"I'll get the siutrus and rawst leaves" Watt said, leaving the chamber
"These bits of metal are from a pokeball" Ruchu thought "Poor boy, getting caught so young, looks like the trainer was really cruel to him to boot. He'll have irreverseble amnesia, no doubt about that, I can't just leave him without a family thought, even in the colony..."
"Dad, I got everything!" Watt said, coming back into the room, his arms filled with leaves to bandage to bandage the pikachu up
"Thanks Watt, now please leave me alone, I need to concentrate for this" Ruchu said, Watt nodded and went to his bed "Okay, this is going to be some night" Ruchu pulled out the last one of the shards and started to wrap the tail in leaves from a Rawst berry bush
"Ow..." the pikachu muttered, coming back around "Ouch, my tail..."
"Calm down" Ruchu said "You've got a few nasty cuts and burns, I'm patching them up"
"Thanks..." the pikachu muttered "Where am I?..."
"A pikachu colony in the Pallet Woods" Ruchu said, wraping the last leaf tightly
"Ouch!" the pikachu yelped
"I'm sorry, I had to pull it to make sure it won't fall off" Ruchu said
"It's okay.." the pikachu muttered "By the way, my name's Ash..."
"Good to meet you Ash, I'm Ruchu" he said "Take my paw, I need to bandage your stomach" Ash nodded and grabbed the older pikachu's paw and painfully turned around
"Ow, my belly..." Ash moaned in pain as Ruchu covered his scratched up torso with leaves and tugged them tight
"Done, you'll be as new by tomorrow" Ruchu said smiling
"Thanks" Ash said, and saw what Ruchu was holding out
"Here, you'll need your energy back" Ruchu said with a smile
"Thank you!" Ash said, eating the berry in an instant "What happened to me?"
"You were caught by a human" Ruchu said
"Human?" Ash asked
"Yeah, you got caught by something called a pokeball, a machine that wipes your memory clean, and permantly"
"Permantly? Why would they do something so awful!" Ash said in disgust
"Despite what other pokemon may tell you, humans aren't evil, they just don't know that pokeballs do that"
"How?" Ash asked, confused
"They can't understand us" Ruchu said, "Come on, you need some sleep" Ash nodded and followed Ruchu to the next room, and saw Watt laying on the leaf bed
"Oh, hey dad *YAWN*" Watt said, rubbing his eyes "What's up?"
"You don't mind if Ash sleeps in here, do you?" Ruchu said
"I don't mind, nice to meet you Ash" Watt said smiling
"Same here Watt" Ash said, smiling himself "Were do I sleep?"
"Over there" Watt said, pointing at another bed at the other side of the room
"Thanks, hey why do you have two beds?" Ash asked, Watt's ears drooped
"It... It was my brother's bed..." he said slowly
"Oh, I'm sorry" Ash apologiezed, in case he brought back any painful memories
"It's okay, night Ash" Watt said, turning around
"Night Watt" Ash said as he closed his eyes
Bolt just layed in Ash's old bed, looking at the ceiling unable to even close his eyes, much less sleep, without seeing either an image of Ash curled up in a corner hungry, cold and scared or the image of a random trainer finding his pokeball and make him theirs, he then heard Ashchu mumble something in his sleep and looked at him. Ash's little brother had cried like crazy when he heard what happened, his fur was still wet from the tears
"Please... Come back Ash..." Ashchu mumbeled in his sleep, sniffing, Bolt sighted and closed his eyes to try to get some sleep
"Ash, I promise that I'll find you even if it's the last thing I do"