Ash: Hey! Welcome to Ema-chii's first fanfiction!

Ema-chii: ....

Ash: What's wrong Ema-chii?

Ema-chii: ....it's not my first fanfiction...

Ash: Ah! Correction it's your first good fanfiction.

Ema-chii: (Angry, leaves and comes back with a rope)

Ash: Hey what are you going to do with that?...

Ema-chii: Oh nothing. (Bounds and gags him)

Ash: mmph!

Dawn and Brock: Uh....anyway enjoy the story.

Pikachu: Pika-Pi Pikachu! (She does not own Pokemon or she'd be very rich.)

In the Pokemon Center…(Night Time)

"Mmm…ugh…." mumbled our hero Ash as he slept on the bottom bunk of the bunk beds provided at the center. He was having such a great dream. He had just won his last Sinnoh badge and was on his way to becoming the ultimate pokemon master. It was such a far dream, but each day he came closer and closer. He tried to visualize the pokemon and the attack he used to defeat the last gym leader, but for some reason, he couldn't remember. A face kept intruding his thoughts and for some reason that face seemed familiar to him. It was the face of a girl. Pale as snow with long, wavy, flaming hair that was bright as fire itself even in daylight. Her eyes gold as the bars you see the rich and powerful keep in vaults. Her smile very soft and beautiful but her eyes showed something. Something that Ash had seen long ago. Suddenly the picture fades. "Don't….go…don't.." Ash started to mumble words that he didn't seem to understand why they were finding its way out of his mouth. The picture moved further away and a shadow of a enormous being, a pokemon or person he couldn't tell, appeared before him causing him to wake up and scream, clenching his covers. "Ahhh! Hah….hah…" He breathed heavily as he looked around the room taking in its dark but visible white walls and a logo of a ball, red on top, and white on bottom, the poke ball. He looked down, but felt hands on his shoulder causing him to jump and look to his side. "Wha?…." It was Dawn dressed in one of her gowns her mother had sent her, a monochrome of greens.

"Ash? Are you alright? What's with the screaming?" she asked as she rubbed her eyes gently trying to wipe away the sleep, so she can pay him full attention. Ash never screamed like this…, she thought with concern, but lately this has become a habit. She rubbed his shoulder then slapped his back a little harder. "You know you're making me loose a lot of sleep lately." She was half joking, the way you usually do when your trying to make a point to someone without hurting their feelings. She waited for his response, an arrogant one that she knew will be the start of their fights and teasing, but for some reason that wasn't the case tonight. Ash looked solemn and hanged his head down looking at the sleeping pikachu next to him. He rubbed is back where the 3 brown streak marks had found itself and he smiled when getting a low mumble in reply.

"I'm sorry Dawn. I don't know what's come over me lately…" he said with a sad but almost uncertain expression . Dawn couldn't make out the reason behind it, but she felt a little uneasy. She smiled and put another hand on his shoulder. He looked up questioningly, but then understood her sympathy. She may be a pain in the butt sometimes, but she does care, he thought, Thanks.. He returned her smile as she went back to her bed across the room. "Hey Dawn?…." She looked up at him with concern and what might have been a hint of agitation of not getting enough sleep.

"Hmm? What is it?"

"…..Thanks. For helping me tonight and understanding…." Dawn furrowed her brow, but then smirked with satisfaction and tucked herself into her thin covers that only kept her but so warm. She mumbled a bit before turning over. "Stupid covers…." Ash snickered a little bit and sat up just a little while longer waiting to see if she had fallen into deep sleep. After a little hint from her snoring, he looked up to the ceiling, well the bottom of the top bunk and laid back onto his pillow, carefully trying to avoid his beloved pikachu.

"……Who is that girl?…" he mumbled silently before turning over and heading back asleep.

Pokemon Center (Daytime)

Another morning had arrived as the sun shown through the curtains of their room. The rays hit Ash in the face first, causing him to rub his eyes and jump up out his bed. He turned to pikachu and started to poke him to wake him up. (Bad move Ash) At the first poke, pikachu turned over dozily and scratched it's tummy. Ash snickered and continued to poke at him, enjoying this game.(Ash you fool.) Slowly he moves his index finger for the final poke, the poke that would wake him up, but not the way he wanted him to. "Come on Pikachu…Time to get up…"

"Pi…Pika…Pikachu!" yelled Pikachu as he electrocuted his master for the umpteenth time. Sparks of yellow lighting flew out around the room and engulf Ash into a shocking frenzy. Pikachu having his eyes shut as he bolted out the thunderbolt, didn't realize that he was shocking his master until he heard the loud screams coming from next to him.

"Pi-ka-chu!" Ash yelped as the shock of the thunderbolt coursed through his veins. "Dawn!" Dawn too sleepy to respond, grumbled and pulled the covers over her head and continued to sleep the day away. Ash hoping that Brock could hear him tried to call out to him urgently. "Brock!" There was no sound except of that of his snoring dreaming about Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny. Some help they are, Ash thought as Pikachu realized that he was not an attacker. Pikachu held back his attack as Ash now with burn marks everywhere making his tan skin even tanner, fell back into a half state of consciousness. What did I do to deserve this?…Ash thought as he started to look back on his life and all the things he did wrong, Maybe it's because I let us get attacked by Spearrrows when I first got him. I don't think he's ever quite forgiven me…. Pikachu poked and prodded at his fallen master, feeling a little guilty about what he has done.

"Pika-Pikachu…" pikachu yelled fearing the worst. After a few minutes, Ash sat up in the bed staring at pikachu while scratching the back of his head.

"Heh he..Sorry Pikachu didn't mean to scare ya." he said apologetically. Pikachu nodded and smiled. Ash turned around sensing danger, well as dangerous as it could get in a pokemon center, but an odd feeling nonetheless. He was greeted with a hard slap of a pillow hitting him dead on in the face. The pillow slowly slipped off leaving a noticeably red mark on his face and rogue feathers on his bed. Ash was stunned. "What in the?"

"That's what you get for waking me up twice in one day!" yelled Dawn who stood over him with both her hands on each side of her hip. The lack of sleep had gotten to her and it was very visible from the purple bags under her eyes and messed up dark blue hair that seemed to spike all over the place. Very unattractive for a lady. "Next time keep your voice down! Or this pillow won't be your only problem!" This struck a nerve. Ash jumped up from his bed in his back t-shirt and jeans and stood toe to toe with Dawn, an agitation mark on his forehead. Dawn matched his challenge.. "You wanna do something about it?!"

"Yeah! You're always picking on me when I'm older than you!"

"Only by two years! But I'm more mature than you are!"

"Oh yeah says who?!"

"Says me!"

"Will you guys be quiet?!" yelled a familiar voice from the top bunk bed. Dawn and Ash froze from the sound of the voice, the voice that made them know that they were in trouble. They looked up with stunned faces, eyes wide, to see an agitated Brock leaning over the rail of the bed looking at the two of them. (Although you really couldn't tell because his eyes are nothing but lines) His brown spiky hair still remained intact, but his clothes were wrinkled. He wore his brown and black vest over his green shirt. His eyebrows were sharp and fell into a glare-like look. "You two are acting ridiculous."

"Sorry" Ash and Dawn had said in unison, even Pikachu was embarrassed. A little beeping noise came from Ash's blue vest's pocket. It had the rhythm of the pokemon theme song. Each one of them stood there in shock. Who would call this early and why? Dawn turned to Ash with a hint of curiosity.

"Well are you gonna answer?" Ash pouted his face and stuck his tongue out at her before reaching into his pocket and taking out his red and black Poke Nav that he recently got from Brock with a new feature which allowed him to talk to people. Like their version of a cell phone. Nervous at first, he opened it to see that it was his mother Delia Ketchum. He sighed before answering with Dawn watching from behind.

"Hi mom. What's up?" Delia's face was different than it usually was. Her cheery expression now filled with concern, uncertainty and sadness. All the color had been drained from her face. Ash looked worried as he noticed his mom's tangled red hair. She usually kept it neat in a nice ponytail, but today she didn't care. What she had to say was important. "Mom…are you alright?"

"You need to come home Ash." she said in a stern voice. This was all new to Ash. He had never known his mother to be stern except for when it came to changing his underwear. Something was up and he wanted to know.

"Why?"

"Don't argue! Just do it!"

"But--"

"Ash I'm not kidding!"

"Okay Okay. I'm coming right now!"

"Good. Oh and Ash?…."

"Hmm?"

"Change your underwear before you leave." Ash blushed a little. That's the one line his mother couldn't live without saying. He nodded and she disappeared. The Poke Nav ending the call. Dawn and Brock looked at Ash in suspense, awaiting the news. Ash turned around to look at them with a confused look on his face. Dawn spoke after the long silence.

"Well?" Ash sighed then did a faint smile.

"Pack up cuz we're going back to Pallet Town."

End Chapter