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Lightning struck behind the tiny bike, as it wobbled and weaved along the muddy path with little grip to the ground. Trying her hardest to steer, Misty was still looking at the injured Pikachu in the basket out of the corner of her eye. Worry built up in, would she be too late to save the innocent Pokemon that she unintentionally injured without even getting chance to apologize. No, she would never let that happen! "Ash, Eve. Hold on tight!" she yelled, pushing all her body weight forward in the desperate attempt to speed the bike up.

"P..."

A tiny cry came from the injured creature, it opened it's brown eyes and looked directly into Misty's soft green ones for a few minutes. "P...ika?" it whispered, looking around with mild confusion and worry. Every moment it made was wince-inducing on its tiny body. Eventually, its eyes burst wide at the sight of the lightning. Even in its weakened state, it wouldn't let the lightning hurt the people that was protecting it. Lunging up, using its remaining energy, the Pikachu leaped onto Misty's shoulder and took a direct hit from an oncoming lightning bolt. Yet, no more damage was done to its weakened body as it seemed to absorb the energy and glow brightly at the same time.

Awestruck, Eve whispered. "Is that...Lightning Rod?" But she wasn't answered, as the Pikachu began to fall from the sky and landed safely in her arms still unconscious. "Misty, the storm seems to be clearing - we should be alright from here on in, but we still need to get Pikachu to the Pokemon Center."

"Alright, I'm on it," the girl nodded, as she drove her bike towards the entrance of the nearby city. Unluckily, they were stopped by Officer Jenny the second after they entered the city. "But officer!" Misty tried to complain, now having hold of Pikachu. "We're not doing anything suspicious, we just want to get this Pikachu to the hospital right away."

"Show me your ID and you can go," Jenny nodded, looking down at the condition that the electric type was in. Feeling sorry for it, she had decided to let the children off the hook despite her constant worry of Team Rocket showing up in the city.

Ash nodded, lifting up his pokedex. It soon chirped about its trainer, giving the details required. At the same time, Misty held up a teardrop-shaped badge that many Pokemon trainers, including Ash, recognized as the Cascade Badge for Cerulean City's gym. Did that mean? He'd ask later as he got a little worried as Jenny eyed his little 'sister' suspiciously. "Officer, she's only 4...she's too young to have an ID, but my mom wanted me to bring her out on my journey."

It seemed to work, allowing the group to continued to the Pokemon Center to get the injured Pokemon looked at. Jumping to action immediately upon seeing the injured Pokemon, Joy ran over to them and took Pikachu into her hands. "What happened to this poor dear?"

Looking down for guilt, Misty whispered. "...I...accidentally ran it over when trying to get me and my friends out of the storm, it later jumped into action and saved us from a lightning bolt with it's Lightning Rod..."

Noticing the girl's evident guilt, Nurse Joy gave a look of sympathy and immediately turned to to her Chansey. "Go get a stretcher for the poor Pokemon," moment later, the normal type was back and pushing the stretcher. Resting the Pokemon down, Nurse Joy then said. "Take good care of the poor dear, I want its trainer to be able to make her apologizes as soon as possible."

"But...I'm no-" she paused, thinking about the Pokemon's beautiful brown eyes and began to think; what if she was Pikachu's trainer, how would it respond to her asking that? Would it even forgive her for running it over? Taking a look at the Pikachu as it went into the next room, she nearly reached her hand out as tears whelmed up within her green eyes. "..Please be okay, Pikachu..."

Turning her vision back to the 'siblings', she was surprised to see little Eve missing and Ash now handing a poke ball to Nurse Joy. He was requesting a simple healing for his Eevee, since she had taken some damage during a battle earlier that day. Walking over, the orange haired girl gently asked. "You have an Eevee, Ash? I thought you said that you had just started your journey...yet Eevee seems to be your only Pokemon, I thought beginning trainers got the choice of a trio of starters from the nearby professor."

"Well, normally. However, I ended up with Eevee a few years before coming a trainer when I discovered her unique abiltiy to change into her evolved forms and then change back again. Apparently, she had ran away from a group of scientists and had been injured in the process. I brought her to Professor Oak after discovering her injured body and captured her the day after," the boy explained, taking his poke ball back and letting Eve out in the process. Obviously, Misty just thought that she was a regular Pokemon with the unique ability to evolve and devolve.

"So...is she the electric type that saved me from Gyarados earlier?"

Giving a small grin, Ash nodded. "Yeah, she evolved into Jolteon straight after seeing you in danger and used a quick Thunder Shock to scare it away. She's very caring and hates seeing anyone in trouble, often evolving without command to save them. Like how she did with you, she just stole the stone and changed forms within mere seconds of finding you."

Remembering something, the water trainer turned to Ash and questioned. "Where did Eve go, she was just here a few moments ago and I thought she'd want to know about Pikachu's condition."

Fear etched onto Eve's face, though she tried to hide it greatly. Looking carefully at Ash, she wanted to see what his response would be. They couldn't keep the charade up forever, especially since she had to change forms frequently. Peering into her best friend's eyes, she gave a reluctant smile that told him that he could say the truth. "Well, truth is...that evolution isn't the only thing that Eevee is unique with. Come on, you two. We need to go outside," he said, leading the pair, one understanding and the other confused, out of the building and into the lonely street. "Alright, time for show and tell...Eve."

"Alright," came the gentle whisper, that took Misty a few minutes to realize where it came from and she looked absolutely shocked. But that was a understatement to how she looked after Eve shape-shifted back into her human form, with a worried and scared expression etched onto her mildly tanned skin. "...I'm sorry for lying to you, Misty...but I don't like everybody knowing about this, it's kinda hard to explain after all. Plus, it's like a scaring thing that I'm both Pokemon and human...not knowing my birth place, whether I was born human or Pokemon. I don't even know why those people decided to experiment on me in particular, but what I do know is this: I'm not normal and I've learnt to accept that, I hope you can as well."

Smiling gently, Misty walked over and took the much smaller girl in for a hug. Running her fingers through Eve's hair, she said. "Don't worry, Eve. I don't mind this at all, especially since I've been keeping a less-then-hidden secret from you two about being the substitute of the Cerulean Gym," the mild smile that etched onto her face told them not to question why she wasn't in Cerulean City. Instead she changed the question as she released Eve from her hug, taking the Eevee-girl's tiny hands into her own and saying. "Just be careful when your battling as I won't think of you like the rest of the Pokemon since you have a human body like mine and like your 'brother'."

"You're still considering Ash to be my brother?"

"Well, you have that type of relationship with him. Despite it being a little weird, I do see you as his younger sister regardless of your origin or anything on that line of thought."

Watching this, Ash just smiled. "She is correct, Eve. So don't worry about that," he then turned to look at the entrance to the Pokemon Center. "We should go back inside to see how Pikachu is doing. I'm sure that your worried about it, Misty."

A grimace worked its way onto the girl's lips, causing her to freeze for a second before nodding her head and following the 'siblings' inside. Indeed, Nurse Joy was smiling down at the sleeping Pikachu. It looked quite better, but still very unconscious as it rested on the stretcher. "Well, good news. Your Pikachu is going to be just fine, the exposure to the electrical voltage managed to heal some the wounds as Lightning Rod has the ability to do just that. Had it not tried to save you, it might have been too late for it," she said before turning to focus on her other patients, she had a job to do after all.

Misty was stunned, but she looked down at Pikachu and gently petted its yellow fur. "Thank you for that, wake up soon."

As if to answer her statement, the Pikachu's brown eyes cracked open and looked up at her weakly. A smile made its way onto its face, as it tried to stand to hug her to tell her that it forgave her for the accident. "Pika..." but it wasn't able to get to its feet, falling back down after getting half the way and panted weakly. "Pika..." it looked at Misty, seeming apologizing for not being able to get up.

"It's alright, little one," came the whispered response from the orange haired girl, picking up the Pikachu and nuzzling it in her arms. "I know you forgive me, I'm still really sorry for all this. You should be roaming free, not injured in a Pokemon Center."

"Pika-pikachu," it whispered, shaking its head despite the clear struggle it had. Suddenly, it motioned to Ash and seemed to indicate 'poke dex'. The boy nodded, handing Misty his poke dex.

"I think it wants you to scan it," Ash responded when he noticed her confused expression. Even Eve nodded in confirmation, having understood everything the Pikachu had said.

"It wants to be your Pokemon, I'd say," the young Eevee-girl smiled, earning a delighted nod from Pikachu. It was clear that it was glad to have someone, who could understand and translate its words.

Shaking with surprise, Misty slowly nodded and gently scanned the Pikachu. It took a while for the device to pick up the signal, due to her shaking hand. But eventually, Ash stopped her quivering fingers and let the pokedex do its job.

Pikachu, the Mouse Pokemon. While sleeping, it generates electriciy in the sacs in its cheeks. If it's not getting enough sleep, it will be able to use only weak electricity. This Pikachu is Male with the ability Lightning Rod, his moves are Tail Whip, Thunder Shock, Growl, Play Nice, Quick Attack, Signal Beam, Charm, Sweet Kiss and Nasty Plot. His egg moves include Volt Tackle, Wish and Fake Out.

Blinking, Misty's mouth nearly dropped wide open. "That's quite a list of moves, and having Volt Tackle is just amazing since its so rare for wild Pokemon to have the move..."

"Misty," Eve commented, having been listening closely. "I don't believe this Pikachu is truly wild, I think he may have had a trainer once. He has moves that only Pichu can learn out of the line, but Pichu can only evolve with max friendship from a trainer. Plus, Volt Tackle would then make sense for him to process. As for why he was out in the wild when we discovered him, I don't know...but I would say that he may have been abandoned or ran away from his trainer."

As if on cue, Pikachu nodded at the suggestion. Though he didn't clarify which concept was correct, but he did agree that he had a trainer. "Pika," he said gently, smiling up at Misty. He then gently poked at her bag, indicating for her to get a poke ball and captured him. "Pika, Pikachupi."

"Alright, little one..." she nodded, getting out the poke ball. With care, she tapped the ball on Pikachu's head and took him in. Two clicks later and the red light that emitted from the poke ball faded away to indicate the successful capture. She then let the electric type back out, noticing the mild grimace that he had on his face all of a sudden. "What's wrong?"

"Pikachu pika pika pi," he tried to communicate, despite the language difference. As Misty's expression fell from worry to confusion, he knew that he needed help from the one person that had the ability to communicate with him. "Pi!"

Giving a small nod, Eve gently translated from Pikachu's speech. "He doesn't like his poke ball and only agreed to go in to be caught, so I'd recommend leaving him out of his poke ball from now on," she paused as the mouse continued, nodding and then resuming her translation. "But you can put him into the ball if required, like when he is injure din battle as every Pokemon knows that its easier to rest when within the poke ball then on cold grounds."

"I see, alright. Pikachu, nice to have you on the team," she said, holding out a hand for Pikachu's to meet. As they held hand to paw, both Ash and Eve smiled at the connection that formed between the trainer and Pokemon. Moments after letting go, the electric rodent climbed up Misty's leg and perched himself on her shoulder with a cat-like smile imprinted on his face. "So you like it up there," the water trainer giggled, petting the Pokemon's head with a smile.

Suddenly a crack brought their attention to the ceiling, as two poke balls had crashed through the ceiling's window and were now plummeted to the floor. Seconds after hitting the ground, they burst open to reveal a Ekans and Koffing. Mere seconds after they appeared, Koffing released a Smokescreen. As soon as the smoke screen began to disappear, a rather stupidly dramatic entrance occurred with a pair of teenagers and their Meowth. A female voice came from one of the two trainers as she spoke. "Prepare for trouble."

"And make it double," a masculine voice came second.

"To protect the world from devastation."

"To unite all peoples within our nation."

"Jessie," the feminine voice called, as she dramatically appeared from the smoke screen. Her long magenta hair seemingly waving in the non-existent wind, as she looked deviously at the group.

"James," like his partner, the male also appeared and threw a black rose off into the distance. His blue hair made a nice contrast with his counterpart.

"Team Rocket, blast off at the speed of light."

"Surrender now or prepare to fight."

"Meowth, that's right," a third voice joined the group, seemingly from the Meowth that was in between the pair. Despite having a voice of her own in Pokemon form, Eve was surprised to hear another Pokemon speak in human tongue. Maybe it was possible for Pokemon to speak, but only after they make the commitment to learn the language. With that she decided then and there to teach the rest of Ash's Pokemon when he caught them.

"What do you want," Ash yelled, looking back at the still injured Pikachu for a few moments and making his mind up. "Don't you know that this is a place for injured or sick Pokemon, what are you thinking by smashing a window and releasing a potentially poisonous Smokescreen."

"What we're doing is none of your business, kid," Jessie commented, before turning her glance to Ekans. "Ekans, use Wrap! Tie them up!"

Showing his extreme loyalty, Ekans dove forward and wrapped his purple body around the two trainers and Eve. "Ekans, ekans ekans..." he trilled, looking up at his trainer with a near smile on his face.

Struggling against the Wrap, Ash gently whispered to his best friend. "Eve, try to talk to Ekans...find out what he knows."

Not answering verbally, Eve nodded and turned to Ekans before speaking in Pokemon tongue with Ekans replying to every single statement she made. "Eevee-vee-ee...vee eevee!" Eventually she stopped the gibberish to the humans and turned her head. "He says that his trainer and her friend want to steal Pokemon for their boss, the leader of Team Rocket. And its his job to obey, since he loves Jessie a lot."

"I see, well. We're not going to let them get away with this, change forms...Eve. Nobody's around, Team Rocket scared them off."

Earning a nod before she actually changed, Ash watched his friend become small enough to escape the Wrap made for people. Now as the pint-sized fox, she growled out loudly and earned the attention of the Team Rocket trio. Thinking based on her own devices, she decided quickly on what to do. Charging forward, she Tackle'd the back of Meowth and elicited surprise from the Cat Scratch Pokemon. He turned and soon attacked back with Fury Swipes.

Dodging every single swipe, Eve just grinned and used Double Team. Whilst her copies seemed to attack with Tackle, she actually opted to try something else and jumped up onto the counter. She yipped at Pikachu, seemingly telling him something. Seconds later, a Thunder Shock went towards Meowth in distraction as her copies faded away from the Fury Swipes. Moving in with the intention to do a Tackle, her speed increased and change the move into a Quick Attack that slammed into Meowth and knocked him back. This finally earned the attention of Team Rocket, who were understandably shocked by the fact that their Pokemon was now out cold with a Eevee glaring at them.

Jessie was the first to think, yelling at Ekans to get over to them. "Ekans, use Bite!" with loyalty on his mind, the snake charged forward with his fangs prepared to take a large bite into the Eevee's tiny body.

As if on cue, Eve's from changed into her evolution of Sylveon. The effective of the Bite decreased, allowing her to just smirk and Shadow Ball. Glancing outside, she saw that she had a narrow window to change into Espeon to have the full type advantage. No time to change back into Eevee and then evolve, so she focused and changed into Espeon with the full intent to win using Confusion. Lucky, mere seconds before the sun faded below the horizon, the form change worked and now she was an Espeon in the glow of Twilight.

Watching his friend worriedly, Ash felt like he didn't even need to command the young Pokemon. It was clear she knew what to do, he was just worried about her issue with the energy sapped by the two forms that she had just used and changing between them instantly only made that energy issue worse. But seconds after she changed, her ruby gem glowed and levitated the two poison types with Confusion. The move sapped at their energy, until they fainted in a heap at their trainer's ankles.

Smiling, Eve changed back into a Eevee and let her body recover before turning to Ash and yipping out in the tongue of a Pokemon as it was too tiring to try and speak human. "Vee-ee vee!"

Thunder stone, Ash's brain told him as he got the stone out and threw it across the room. Lunging up, Eve's paw touched in and evolved her into a Jolteon. Facing Pikachu for a second, nodding their heads at one another before they unleashed a dual Thunder Shock at their target and effectively sent them blasting through the broken window in the ceiling. As they flew away, James commented. "That Eevee sure is special, the boss would love a Pokemon like that. Next time, we should focus on stealing it!"

"Yep, but for now. We're blasting off again!"

Watching the pair blast off, Misty blinked and said. "That was certainly interesting," she then turned back and saw that Eve was back to normal, with the Thunder Stone next to her. But she didn't look alright, she was near unconscious and panting. "What happened, she was barely even touched in the battle?"

"Taking on the form of Espeon and Sylveon takes her energy," Ash explained, picking up his beloved partner. "And well...changing between forms without becoming Eevee takes even more of her energy," he carried the young normal type over to the desk and asked for Nurse Joy, before handing Eve over. Turning back to Misty and her Pikachu. "I'm sorry for not explaining that bit, but I'm glad that we were able to help the Pokemon before they were stolen."

Misty nodded, picking up Pikachu. "I hope that Eve turns out alright. I was quite shocked by the fact she battled alone, without your commands. But I suppose that with her unique abilities, she has more self-independence and knowledge to battle against those poison types and still know the type effectiveness and ineffectiveness against those Pokemon's moves and natural typing."

Suddenly, a gently tap on the back and a gentle 'Vee' caught Ash's attention and he turned to see Nurse Joy holding his beloved partner. "Your Eevee will be just fine, she's just a little exhausted. With a good night's rest, she'll be completely recovered and fighting fit."

With a smile, Ash nodded and took Eve off the nurse. "Is it alright if I, my younger sister and Misty stay the night before we continue on our journey," which earned a polite nod from the nurse, before she left to sort out the checking in. "I assumed that your also staying, Misty."

The smile that appeared on Misty's face said it all, but she still spoke. "I am, it's a long way home for me so it'd be easier for me to stay the night. Now, I have a question to ask you. I-is it alright if I join you on your journey, I want to learn more about Eve and I've been looking for some entertainment ever since I left the gym to my sisters."

Returning the smile, Ash then turned to head upstairs to the dorms after collecting his and Misty's room numbers. Lucky for him, Joy had worked out by 'my younger sister' that the little girl had to stay in the same room as him and thus there was two beds with a on-suite bathroom. Focusing slightly, Eve switched back into her human form and sat on one of the beds. "Ah, there so soft..." she whispered, looking up at her older 'brother' with a smile.

Grinning, Ash nodded after he took off his jacket and laid down on his own bed. "We should get some sleep, tomorrow we're going through Viridian Forest and that could take a day or two to get through with its sheer size."

"I know, I bet you'll meet a few new Pokemon on the way as well. The forest is full of bug types and since I can't evolve into a bug type, it'd be a great typing for coverage on your team."

"Your right there," the trainer nodded his head, closing his eyes and resting his head. "Well, time to go to sleep. Night, Eve. Sleep tight."

"Good night..., big brother," she whispered the last part, closing her eyes and soon let herself go into the world of sleep.

Alright, mild surprise that I gave Pikachu to Misty...I can't exactly leave the little electric type out. He'll be her main Pokemon, despite not being of her typing.

Pokemon list:

Ash

Eevee (Female)(Nickname:Eve)(Unique condition)

Misty

Staryu

Goldeen (Male)

Pikachu (Male)