"Are you sure you wanna come with us, Annabel?" Max asked "I mean you have to manage the Battle Tower"
"I'm sure Max" Annabel said, as Espeon teleported back with a backpack full of supplies and clothes "Ready?" everybody nodded
"Ash, you ready?" May asked, looking at the pikachu twins, Bolt, Nubtup and Gary, who were playing tag, not paying any attencion to the conversation that the humans were having
"Pika pi!" Ash said as he tapped Gary's shoulder and ran off the other way
"Vee!" Gary said, taking off on all fours towards Ashchu, who was looking the other way and tapped on the back
"Hey guys!" Max yelled "We need to get going, you can keep playing later" Ash stopped running and looked confused
"Pikachu ka chu?" he asked
"He asked 'Going, where?'" Annabel translated
"We're going to see Professor Oak, he might be able to help you turn human again" Brock said, Ash nodded and jumped on Max's shoulder, Ashchu then jumped on Max's other shoulder
"Okay, let's get going!" Annabel said, recalling Espeon and turning to everyone else, who nodded and started walking down the route

"Hey Ash" Ashchu said "How are going to explain this to mom?" Ash felt his smile melt clean off his face, and started to scratch his chin
"Well, I guess we'll cross that bridge when we come to it" Ash said, smiling nervosly "Hey, how do you know that Professor Oak can help?" Ash asked Annabel
"Ash asks how Professor Oak can help" Annabel told the others
"Well, when we got split up at Sliph Co. we called Professor Oak and told him what happened to you, he told us to find you and try to go back to him, since he studied it for a while in school"
"They teach this sort of thing in school?" Ash wondered
"Apparently" Bolt said, scratching the back of his ears
"Well" Gary said "It's a theory, nothing more"
"So, do you think there's a way to turn you back?" Nubtup asked
"I don't......" Gary said, his eyes suddenly got big and he started sniffing at the air, Nubtup looked at him, worried
"Hey Gary, whats......." Ash said as his eyes also got big and watery, he started to sniff the air like crazy, same thing with Bolt
"Um, Ash? Bro?" Ashchu asked, shaking his brother's shoulder "Annabel!" Ashchu yelled, trying catching the psychic girl's attencion, Nubtup waved her hand in front of Gary's face when a smell entered her nose
" *Sniff* *Sniff* Yuck! that smell is too sweet!" she choked "Wait, the ways their looking, the way their sniffing the air...... Ashchu! Plug your nose!!" she yelled at the young pikachu, who did it in an instant
"Why? Did you figure out what's wrong with them?" Ashchu asked, his paw over his small black nose
"Yeah" Nubtup said "A pokemon is using Sweet Scent"
"Ash? Gary?" Annabel asked, waving her hand in front in front the pikachu, not getting a response "What's wrong with them?" Ashchu kept
shaking his brother hoping to get a response, but getting nothing, then suddenly they started walking to the woods near the route
"Ash!" Ashchu yelled at Ash, but he was ignored as Bolt and Gary followed to him to the woods, also under the effects of Sweet Scent,
"Guys, stop it" Brock said, nabbing Ash from the ground "We need to OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!" Brock yelled as he got shocked, now the same color as charcoal, he dropped Ash who continued to walk mindlessly to the woods following Bolt and Gary
"What's wrong with them?!" Max asked, Annabel looked at the two remaining pokemon and saw Ashchu covering his nose
"Ashchu, why are you covering your nose?"
"Pika pika chu ka chu!" Ashchu yelled, worried about his brother and friends
"Annabel!" May yelled "This isn't the time to chat with Ashchu!" Annabel turned around and said
"I know whats wrong with them, their being lured by Sweet Scent"

"I still don't understand your choice of ditching the Shadow Pokemon for your normal ones" Doug said via radio
"Simple, their mindless." Lewis responded
"Yeah, that garranties obidience" Doug responded
"And it takes away their instincts and common sense" Lewis said "I trained these pokemon for years, they are thousand times more obident and powerful that any aura-less pokemon the lab-rattatas can cook up!" he said angrily, cutting communications and turning to his Roserade
"I take it Doug didn't understand?" Roserade asked her trainer
"Do you need to ask?" he responded, grabbing another pokeball from his coat pocket "Get ready" as soon as he finished that sentence, a nearby bush rustled and two pikachu and eevee walked out, with a trance like look in their eyes
"Good job Roserade" Lewis said "Now, get ready to stop in three.. two.. one, stop using Sweet Scent!" Roserade nodded put her arm down, stopping the course of the smell. Ash blinked the tears out of his eyes and looked around
"What the? Where are we?" Gary asked as soon as his vision cleared up
"YOU!" Bolt yelled when he saw Lewis
"Hello Bolt, Ash, Gary" he said calmly, despite the fact that Ash and Bolt were growling and sparking electricity "I didn't get the chance to introduce myself, my name is Lewis"
"Who is this guy?" Gary asked
"He's a member of Cipher" Bolt growled, getting down on all fours
"Cipher? Grrrr you're friends are the reason me and Ash were turned into pokemon!" Gary yelled
'Turned?' Ash thought 'Wait, what did I just think?'
"What do you want, to catch us?" Bolt yelled
"Hehehehe, catch you?" Lewis chuckeled "No, this is test of your battle capabilities, I choose you, Dusknoir!" he yelled as the pokeball he tossed opened to reveal the ghost pokemon that resided inside
"Hehehe, so, these are my 'foes'?" the ghost mocked the three tiny pokemon, cracking it's knuckles "Orders, Lewis?"
"More like recommendations, Willow Wisp and Confuse Ray" Lewis said with a smile. Dusknoir laughed as it's hand ignited into purple fire, witch it then tossed in the dirrection of the trio, hitting Gary straight in the face
"Augh!" Gary screamed in pain, the fur on his face burned and covered in soot "Hey! Not cool!" he yelled in anger, reading a shadow ball attack, Dusknoir simply smirked as a ball of multi colored light appeared in it's hand and tossed it at Gary
"Gary! Get out of the way!" Ash yelled, after getting no response, shoved Gary out of the way of the attack and took the light himself
"Ash!" Bolt yelled as his friend started to walk in circles and gibbering nonsense
"Alkdjfihrgb" Ash babeled running into a tree
"Ash! Stop it!" Bolt yelled, grabbing him and turning Ash around to face him, gasping when he saw that Ash's eyes were in the shape of stars, he had gotten zapped with a confuse ray attack
"Ow, thanks Ash" Gary said as he got up
"Dibheuijofn" Ash babled as Bolt tried to snap him out of his confusion
"What's wrong with him?" Gary asked, dodging another ball of fire
"Confuse ray hit him" Bolt said
"Hm, alright, stay here" Gary said as he got down on all fours and took off towards the ghost pokemon at top speed
"Gary, are you insane!?" Bolt asked as Ash started to hit his head against a tree trunk. Gary just jumped at the enemy and screamed
"BITE ATTACK!"
"HAUUUUUGH!" Dusknoir yelled in pain as Gary's Eevee fangs dug into it's arm "Get off my arm!" it screamed and threw him back at the other two, knocking both Ash and Bolt to the ground and snapping Ash out of confusion
"Pathetic" Lewis said, shaking his head "Well now, Dusknoir I want you to"

CLANK!

"What the.....!" Lewis yelled as Ash, Bolt and Gary were carried of by a giant Metagross "Hmm, smart girl, I can see why the order chose her to be the translator. Dusknoir, Roserade return" he said as the beam hit his pokemon, returning them to their pokeballs

"Oww, my head" Ash said as soon as he got his grips together
"Oh good, you stopped hypervetilating"  said Espeon, who floated down from the top of the Metagross "Annabel and everybody else is already at Pallet Town"
"How?" Ash asked
"Alakazam teleported them" Espeon responded
"Can you teleprt us there too?" Ash asked, worried about his friends, but most of all, his brother
"No, too many things to teleport, but at this speed we should be there tomorrow" Espeon said ha"ppily "Give me a minute and I'll bring to the top" Ash smiled as he scratched his head, barley missing the tiny silver and red disk on the bottom of his hat
A tracking device.