Ashchu's Instincts (Part 21)

Ashchu, Gary and Bolt ran outside to see Ash trapped in cage and being lifted up onto a balloon
"Wait, Team Rocket?" Bolt asked, confused how they manged to get their balloon so close to the ground due to the trees
"Wow, that was really easy!" Meowth laughed
"Meowth!" Bolt yelled in rage "Let him go!"
"Not a chance pipsqueak!" the cat pokemon yelled "He's Team Rocket's pokemon now!"
"Meowth, who are you talking to?" Jessie asked
"Pikachu!" he said
"There's a colony of pikachu down there!" James said
"Well, that's why I can't be specific!" Meowth screamed
"Hugh, are they always like this?" Gary asked
"No, their usually more annoying" Ashchu said
"Anyway" Meowth said, their argument done "Now we'll leave"
"Really?" Bolt said "Okay, THUNDER!"
"AHHH!" Team Rocket screamed but, the attack didn't connect to their balloon, it stopped in the middle of the air as if it hit an invisible wall
"What the heck!?" Gary yelled
"Umm, we don't know...." Meowth said slowly, moving the chain that lifted the balloon quickly, but it didn't move an inch
"RELEASE HIM!!" a garbled, high pitched voice said in all their heads, causing most of them to cover their ears in pain
"Agh!" Team Rocket winced in pain, grabbing their heads "What was that?"
"Release the pikachu" the voice said, growing angrier
"No way, Jose!" Moewth yelled
"Fine then..." the voice said suddenly Meowth grabbed his throat and coughed
"I... can't... breathe!" he yelled, colapsing onto the console controling the claw, accidentaly releaising Ash
"What was that!?" Ash said, looked up and saw that Team Rocket were breathing slowly
"What... just happened?" James panted, grabbing his chest
"You just sealed your fate fools" the voice said
"What is that voice?" Gary said before a huge spurt of wind came flying from behind him, strong enough to knock him over "Woah!"
"Seal their fate?" Bolt repeated "What does that mean?" suddenly they heard a huge scream "What the heck!?" the Rockets Balloon was on fire
"AHH!" Team Rocket screamed "FIRE! HELP!"
"Oh crud" Bolt said, rushing over to the balloon and started shooting electriciy at it, missing each one
"What are you doing?" Gary asked "Their always trying to steal you, remember?"
"Yeah, but that dosen't mean I want them to get roasted!" Bolt said, shooting more electricity at the balloon
"How is zapping the balloon gonna help?" Gary asked
"If we don't pop it, the whole forest will be lit on fire!" Bolt said, still trying to pop it "I can't hit it! Jump!" Meowth nodded and tried jumping of the side of the basket, but the same invisible wall blocking the attacks hit him back
"We can't!" he yelled
"Keep trying" Bolt said, still attempting to zap the balloon this time with help from Ashchu
"Ash, get out of there!" Bolt yelled at the other pikachu
"I can't!" Ash said, pounding on the invisible wall that sourrunded the balloon
"Try to zap the balloon!" Bolt yelled "It may distract what's doing this" Ash nodded and zapped the balloon with a thunderbolt
"AHHHHH!" Team Rocket screamed as they fell to the ground
"Huh? why didn't we blast off?" Meowth asked
"Blast off?" Ash asked, confused
"We'll explain later Ash, see if the wall's gone!" Bolt said, rushing over
"Okay" Ash said, turning around
"Wait, Ash?" Meowth repeated "Your name's Ash?"
"Yeah" the pikachu responded "Why?"
"Isin't that the name of the twerp?" Jessie asked
 "Yeah, it is...." James said
"Oh good sweet Lugia!" Meowth exclaimed "We've been trying to steal the twerp!"
"What!?" Jessie and James yelled in shock "Why do you think that?"
"Remember that the Sliph Co guy that let us through mentioned a serum that could allow you to talk to pikachu?" Meowth asked
"Yes" Jessie and James replied
"What better way to uderstand pokemon than to be one yourself?" Meowth screamed, as his human companions' eyes widend with understanding "When we knocked him into the table, it must have covered him with it!"
"Wall's gone!" Ash exclaimed, a lot of pikachu and an Eevee rushed over to Ash, exept two, one that looked old and one wearing a blue baseball hat, who walked to the three Rockets
"You three okay?" Ashchu asked
"Y-yeah" Meowth said "But why are you worried about us?"
"You almost got chocked by something invisble and cooked alive" Ruchu said "I think that calls for a little concern"
"Even if you did try to kidnap my brother" Ashchu said staring at them angrily
"Your brother?" Meowth asked "Since when does the twerp have a brother?"
"Don't call my brother a twerp!" Ashchu growled, sparking electricity from his cheeks
"Woah!" Meowth said "Can we just talk?"

"Ash, you okay?" Bolt asked his best friend
"Yeah, I'm fine" Ash said, his ears twitching instictively
"Aw man. I need to get him back to normal" Bolt thought
"You sure?" Gary asked "No brusies? Anything?"
"Well, I feel really weak" Ash said
"I'll take ya inside" Bolt said, grabbing Ash's paw and ran inside the cave
"Ow, you a little bit of a brute you know that?" Ash said, rubbing his arm
"Ash, please try to remember!" Bolt said
"Remember? What do you mean, I- ca.... I can't" Ash said, turning around
"Ash? You okay?" Bolt asked
"Yeah, I'm okay" he said "But, Ruchu said it's permanent..."
"Just try please!" Bolt said
"Alright, just one try" Ash said closing his eyes
"What do you see?" Bolt asked
"Nothing, like before" Ash said
"Focus harder!" Bolt said, Ash nodded and closed his eyes even tighter and saw an image. He was running through a dirt street to a large building with a windmill
"What the..." he said before snapping out of it
"You okay?" Bolt asked
"Yeah, I saw myself running to large building" he said
"That's the day we met!" Bolt said happily
"Really?" Ash asked, Bolt nodded happily
"Cool *YAWN*" Ash yawned
"Hehe, sounds like somebody needs a nap" Bolt said laughing
"Yeah, I'll see you later, okay?" Ash said laying down the bed, Bolt nodded and ran off. Ash nodded of to sleep
"Pikaaaaaaa!" he heard a voice laugh at him
"Whose laughing?!" he asked, looking around and realaising two things. 1: He was in the middle of a dirt road. 2: He was human "What the, why am I human?"
"Pikaaa pikaa!" he heard the laughing again, looking around he saw a pikachu sitting on a tree branch a laughing at him
"Bolt? Why are you so... chubby?" Ash asked, the pikachu stopped laughing and gave an angry look "Sorry!" he said
"SPEAROWW!"
"What was that?!" Ash asked as he turned around to see a huge flock of spearow of spearow flying to them "Aaaah!" he and Bolt started running away, Bolt running ahead of Ash, only to be attacked by the spearow. Pecked, scratched and hit by flying type moves
"Pikachu!" he screamed, running up and grabbing him and taking the hits "Why did I call him Pikachu? His name Bolt" the spearow were not giving up, so Ash took Bolt and ran to the river, while running Ash saw images flash into his head, him catching all his pokemon, his mother, the transformation and his brother, by the time he snapped out of it he was on Misty's bike with Bolt inside the basket
"Hey, give back my bike!" he heard Misty scream
"I promise I'll return it one day!" Ash yelled back, knowing in the back of his head that he wouldn't
"Pi..." Bolt wimpered weakly
"Don't worry, I'll get you out of here!" Ash said, more memories flooding in, beating the gym leaders, competing in the Indigo League, Orange Islands and the Hoenn League "I promise!" he kept on riding, the spearow catching up to them "Aaah!" he screamed as the bike fell to the floor due to a rock
"SPEAROOOW!" the bird pokemon yelled at them
"Pi...ka!" Bolt wimpered in pain, Ash looked at him and saw a pokeball with a lighting symbol, unlike before, Ash simply grabbed it and put it in his pocket, remebering what happened to him with an identical pokeball
"ALRIGHT SPEAROW! BRING IT ON, I'LL BEAT EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU!" Ash yelled as thunder clapped to the right of him, Bolt looked at Ash with big eyes, tears in his eyes, he jumped up into the air and was struck by lightning
"PIIIIIIKACHUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Bolt screamed, zapping every single spearow, causing them to fly away in terror
"Thanks buddy" Ash said, hugging him, Bolt hugged him back.

 Ash rubbed his eyes and got up from the leaf bed
"*YAWN*" Ash yawned "Bolt! Where are you?" he got up and ran outside to see him sitting on a rock staring at a lake "Bolt!"
"Ash!" Bolt yelled, hoping of the rock and giving him a big huge "Did you remember anything?"
"Everything!" Ash said happily, Bolt squeezed him harder "Bolt.... your.... strangleling me!"
"Sorry, sorry!" Bolt said
"Hey buddy, can I ask you something?" Ash asked
"Yeah, what is it?" Bolt asked
"Do you think it's okay that I enjoy being a pokemon more than a human?" Ash asked
"What did you just say?!" Bolt asked in shock "But, what about your dream?"
"Guess I can be the strongest pikachu of all" Ash said shrugging
"But Ash-" Bolt said befpre he was interrupted by his father, Ashchu and Meowth
"Hey guys, Team Rocket said they would help us!" Ashchu said
"WHAT!?" both Ash and Bolt yelled
"Yeah..." Meowth said "It's our way of apologising for turning you into a pikachu and trying to steal you..."
"Well.... thanks Meowth" Ash said, before Bolt shoved Meowth back
"Listen, you try to do anything and you'll get 50 giga-watts of electricity coursing through you, understood?" Bolt thratend
"Yes sir!" Meowth said "Anyway, you have any clue what that thing was that lit the balloon on fire?"
"No, but there's some human ruins nearby that might havae a clue" Ruchu said
"Alright then, that's where were going!" Ash said cheerfully